On August 18th, Qiao Lin and her friends gathered in front of the TV, nervously waiting for Liu Xiang to appear. They all hope that the super flyer who shouted "China has me, Asia has me" in 2004 can create miracles at their doorstep.

On the TV screen, the Bird's Nest Stadium was also full, and there must have been 100,000 people at the scene, right? There were hundreds of millions of spectators in front of the TV, and when Liu Xiang came out to warm up, they all cheered.

The Chinese team won the gold medal in that Olympic Games, but there was no event that could attract so much attention. The audience has every reason to believe that we have created so many miracles this year, and Liu Xiang has created miracles again, is that still a problem?

As the game approached, Jolene involuntarily shook her legs, and the other friends reacted in the same way. They were very excited, but there was an incredible scene on TV - Liu Xiang actually retired!

How is this possible? Wait, this is not a dream?

It was an era in which defeat was not allowed, and defeat without a fight was allowed. At that time, in the thinking and consciousness of the Chinese people, even if the leg was broken, they had to run with crutches. Back then, Liu Xiang was a superhero on the same level as Yao Ming, how could he be worthy of the title of "hero" if he gave up the game like this?

Liu Xiang's withdrawal caused a sensation in the whole world, and the Chinese audience showed zero tolerance, and the overwhelming abuse swept every portal, and there was a P picture that was widely circulated - Liu Xiang held a copy of "Actor's Self-cultivation" and watched it with relish.

Qiao Lin was also extremely disappointed, but she didn't follow the trend and scold Liu Xiang. Grandma said, don't scold a person you don't know, gratuitous abuse is likely to cause irreparable damage.

So, even though Jolene was also angry, she just lowered her head and muttered, "It's only one step away from a miracle, why quit?"

She didn't mumble long before her mother interrupted her. Mom came to discuss things with Dad, and she said that the fourth aunt was gone.

The fourth aunt in her mother's mouth is the fourth aunt in Qiao Lin's mouth.

The bad news was like a bolt from the blue, and it completely calmed Jolene. Just a few days ago, she also helped the fourth grandmother sell apricots, and the fourth grandmother made an appointment with her to wait for the peaches to come down in a few days, and then come back to eat the peaches. Qiao Lin wanted to wait for her sister to come back and go back to her hometown with her, but she didn't expect the fourth grandmother to pass away.

Qiao Jianjun hurriedly took off his apron and said, "I'll go home and change my clothes, and I'll go back with you—little boy, sell the rest of the wontons, and you can get off work." ”

The boy agreed, and Jolene took her father's hand and cried, "I'm going back too!"

"Then you go home and change your clothes, and wear white. ”

When Jolene got out of the car, she saw a miniature land temple stacked with three bricks next to the village monument. According to the customs of Dalijia Village, after a person dies, he will use three pieces of turning his head to build a "land temple" at the entrance of the village to offer the tablet of the deceased, and within three days, he must keep burning paper and incense to introduce the dead into the "land temple".

When she spent her childhood here, Jolene was very afraid of these "land temples", but this time the name of the fourth grandmother was written on the tablet, and in a trance, Jolene finally believed that she was really gone.

The good sisters are gone, and the grandmother is the saddest. The drummer was not far away, but Grandma was unmoved, and she sat in her yard, oblivious to everything outside.

Yesterday was the five-day market in the neighboring village, she called the fourth grandmother to go to the market, the fourth grandmother agreed, and the grandmother went home and waited for her. waited and waited, the fourth grandmother did not appear, the grandmother was not relieved, and went to her house again, only to find that the fourth grandmother fell down

In his own yard, the smell was already faint.

Grandma hurriedly called the emergency number and summoned the children of the fourth grandmother, but after a day of rescue, the fourth grandmother still left.

When describing the death of an elderly person, people often say, "Ouch, that person who planted his head on the ground and never got up", and this is the case with the fourth grandmother. There are many old people in the countryside who say that people who accumulate virtue can walk like this, because there is no pain and no fear.

However, her grandmother couldn't accept the sudden death of her good sister, she wiped her tears and said, "If I hadn't called her, she wouldn't have come out in a panic, and if she hadn't panicked, she wouldn't have ......wrestled."

All the children persuaded her: "Even if you don't call her, she will have to go out, and she will be tripped up, what does it have to do with you?"

Qiao Lin thought that grandma always said that birth, old age, sickness and death are fate, and there is no need to take it too seriously. However, it was her turn, and she was confused again.

In fact, who is not like this? When persuading others, there are a bunch of big truths, and when it is their turn, they have no idea.

The adults went to help at the funeral, and Jolene stayed at home with her grandmother. After a little dinner, she lay down on the bungalow and watched the sky get darker and darker. Grandma understands that she has something on her mind again. This little girl, every time she encounters something, she will want to break the sky.

So grandma sat beside her with a puff fan and asked, "Are you thinking that grandma also has such a day?"

Qiao Lin sat up straight all of a sudden, and covered her grandmother's mouth: "Don't say that!

There was a joke on his mouth, but the tears had already rolled down. In "birth, old age, sickness and death", there is nothing more frightening than "death".

Jolene twitched, "You guessed wrong. Listen, those mourners outside are about to shout loudly, you have the best relationship with the fourth grandmother, why don't you send her?"

"Wait, when they're all gone, I'll go see her off and talk to her. Grandma slapped the pu fan and said, "Your four grandmothers are so quiet, those people don't even know this, and they made such a big move, so that the neighboring villages can come to see the excitement." ”

In the past, when the old people in the countryside died, the children and grandchildren had to hire a large group of drummers. The drummers played music with suona, erhu, gongs and drums, and the women cried and sang a series of stories related to "filial piety", and the old man wiped his tears.

Drummers are expensive, so whether the old man is filial or not, after their death, most of the children will hire a group of drummers to make a good name for their filial piety. The fourth grandmother is still lucky, her children were very filial during her lifetime, and after her death, she invited the most famous drummers in ten miles and eight towns for her.

But Jolene never liked this kind of funeral rites, and they completely turned the funeral into a place of entertainment, bringing a raucous show to the lonely village. She understood why Grandma didn't go, no one missed Grandma Four more than her, and no one hoped more than her - let Grandma Si go quietly.

Listening to grandma, she and the fourth grandma are good sisters for life. In the adult world, especially in the world of the elderly, "friends" are hardly mentioned, and the concept of "friendship" is rarely even seriously considered. But in Jolene's opinion, she prefers to define the relationship between her grandmother and the fourth grandmother as friendship, and it is a precious friendship.

Da Lijia Village is not a beautiful paradise, and there are many bad-hearted people here. Grandma is unwilling to bask in the sun in the corner and chew the root of her tongue, nor is she willing to go to other people's houses to sow discord, but just live her life with peace of mind. Her integrity and fairness are recognized in the village, but even so, Grandma is still lonely

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Fortunately, there are four grandmothers, she and her grandmother are concubines and good sisters. After the death of her wife, she asked her grandmother to help her with ideas for everything. Qiao Lin guessed that the fourth grandmother must have been a quiet and elegant girl when she was young, never discussing right and wrong, but she lacked assertiveness and relied on her grandmother for everything, so the same is true when she is old.

On the third day of the fourth grandmother's departure, the drummers left, and the children of the fourth grandmother also left, but the grandmother remained in the cemetery. She made a beautiful little wreath of flowers at home and placed them on the grave. She took out a small snack from the small basket and placed it in front of the grave of the fourth grandmother.

"You like the moon flowers, I will send you flowers every year in the future, you love to eat the peach crisp sold in the Wangzhuang market, if you want to eat, just give me a dream, I will send you a ......"

Grandma endured it for a long time, and finally fell on the monument and sobbed silently. Although Qiao Lin is sad, she also envies the fourth grandmother, who has a good friend like her grandmother for a lifetime, and her grandmother will always miss her after her death.

At dinner, Jolene was distracted again, and when her grandmother asked her, she told her the truth: "I was wondering, what is a good friend for life?" When I was a child, I saw many aunts and aunts who were very affectionate, and my classmates, who used to laugh loudly together and go together for everything. But will they be good friends? Will they be like you and Grandma Si, or will they be like Mom and Aunt Chen Yun, will they support each other for the rest of their lives?"

Grandma smiled and said, "You little brain, you think so much! No wonder your mother always says that you should be allowed to study philosophy, you just have to think all day long." ”

"Grandma, good friends are very important, I must think about it!"

"Then tell grandma, what good friends do you have?"

"Me...... There are a lot of good friends, but there are only two of the best. There's a chubby guy who likes to draw and has a personality...... A little withdrawn, and a little cautious - either she's stingy or angry, and sometimes she gets angry when I accidentally say the wrong thing, and there's one with short hair, which is very cool, and she gets the best grades in our class. She's just very strong, and she doesn't want to tell us anything on her mind, so many times I suspect that she doesn't treat me as a good friend...... But it's weird, we often quarrel, but in the past few years of knowing each other, no matter what big things happen, the three of us are always together. ”

"The family is still quarrelling, what's so terrible about quarreling? I have also quarreled with your fourth grandmother, but when something big happens, we can think about it together. ”

As if remembering something, Jolene suddenly became excited: "Grandma, I want to understand why I like my friend." The chubby friend, who is usually very timid, but when she hit someone else's car, she did not run away, but kept waiting there for the owner of the car to come and pay for the money, and the cool friend, who seemed to be indifferent to anything, but when she saw the thief on the bus, she did not hesitate to subdue him. Grandma, when I think of this, I like them very much! Even if I quarrel, I like them! I want to be good friends with them for the rest of my life!"

"Only people who are the same in their bones can become good friends with each other. Linlin understands this truth, so she can find such a good friend!"

"Is it okay to quarrel?"

"Of course it doesn't matter!"

In an English reading question, Jolene had seen a sentence along the lines of "A life without friends is a desert." How lonely is the road of life, and how lucky it is to have friends who will accompany you for a lifetime. Jolene is glad that before she leaves her hometown again, she realizes another amazing truth.

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