Chapter 142: The Choice (1st Update)
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Because of Chen Yan's health, Shao Jiahua's body was transported back to Shangyang the next day. (Free download of the full-character e-book)
According to the local customs of Shangyang and the discussion between Li Yan and Chen Yan and her parents, Chen Qiaosheng and Chang Meiru, Shao Jiahua's body will be cremated on the first day after his death and buried on the seventh day, and a few days before that, Shao Jiahua's body will be parked in the Shangyang City Funeral Home to receive condolences from relatives and friends.
In a mourning hall of the funeral parlor in Shangyang City, there were many "flower" wreaths, Shao Jiahua lay quietly in a cold coffin, surrounded by fresh "flowers", Chen Yan sat next to the cold coffin in a plain seat, looking haggard, wearing a white "color" trumpet filial piety clothes, and wearing a white "flower" on her head to accompany her mother to burn paper money for her father.
Chang Meiru walked over from a lounge on the side, glanced at Shao Jiahua who was lying peacefully inside through the transparent glass cover on the cold coffin, sighed secretly, squatted beside Chen Yan, and pulled the few strands of hair floating on her face to the back of her head for the "girl".
"Yanyan, listen to your mother after the funeral, can you go home with your mother?"
"Mom, can we talk about these things when we send Jiahua away, I don't want to think about these things now. Chen Yan lowered her head and threw a few pieces of paper money into the brazier and said softly.
"My wretched child. Chang Meiru's eyes turned red, and she whispered softly, stopped persuading Chen Yan, stood up and left.
Li Yan and Lin Jing walked in from outside, led Zhang Xingsong and Hao Huili in, and after Li Yan helped them place the "flower" wreath, he took them to the cold coffin and bowed three times to Shao Jiahua's body.
"Yanyan, you want to mourn!" Zhang Xingsong pulled up Chen Yan, who was kneeling on the ground with Xiao Nannan, to thank them and persuaded him.
"Yanyan, people can't be resurrected after death, you have to think about it, look at what you are haggard into. Hao Huili took Chen Yan's hand and persuaded her, seeing her haggard look, she persuaded distressedly.
"I'm fine, thank you for coming to visit Jiahua. Chen Yan said with a reluctant smile on her face.
"Huili, let's go see Jiahua. Zhang Xingsong said on the side, and then came to the cold coffin with Hao Huili, looked at Shao Jiahua lying inside, and saw his peaceful remains, and couldn't help but sigh again.
"Yanyan, Huili and I will stay here for the next few days, if there is anything we need to do, just say it, we will definitely try our best to help you. When he returned to Chen Yan's side again, Zhang Xingsong said to Chen Yan.
"Thank you, and I'll say it if needed. Chen Yan said excitedly.
"By the way, Yanyan, Hu Xiaojiao went to the United States and couldn't come to mourn Jiahua, she asked me to say sorry to you on her behalf. Hao Huili said.
"Went to the United States? She can really toss, what is she going to do in the United States? By the way, Xing Song, you invited her to join Times Media at that time, didn't she promise to think about it?" Chen Yan asked in surprise.
It's a pity that Times Media is not as attractive as the New York Philharmonic, at that time she helped Zhang Tianqi persuade you to attend the class reunion, and Zhang Tianqi's condition was to help her arrange for the New York Philharmonic. Zhang Xingsong said with a wry smile.
"Yanyan, you came to Shangyang for Jiahua at that time, and now that he is gone, should you consider changing places, such as me and Li Yan's Times Media, do you want to think about it, how about I arrange a classical musician for you when you get to Times Media?" Zhang Xingsong suggested hopefully, Shao Jiahua's death made him deeply overwhelm the deepest part of his heart The admiration for Chen Yan came out.
"I don't want to think about this now, let's wait until I send Jiahua away. Chen Yan shook her head and said, she had already told her mother who asked her to go back to Chaoxiang City just now.
"Okay, I won't leave these days anyway, so let's talk about it after we send Jiahua away. Zhang Xingsong didn't care either, shrugged and said.
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Four days later, in the cemetery in the south of Shangyang City, a gust of wind blew, blowing some of the ashes in front of the tombstone into the sky, like some gray-black "colored" butterflies fluttering, and disappeared in an instant.
Chen Yan stood in front of Shao Jiahua's grave with Xiao Nannan in her arms, looking at the tombstone in front of her in a daze, and couldn't bear to leave for a long time.
"Teacher, let's go. Li Yan came to Chen Yan's side and whispered to her.
"Hmm. Chen Yan answered, hugged the 'girl' and walked towards Zhang Xingsong and Hao Huili, who were waiting for them not far away.
Shao Jiahua's relatives because of Shangyang are only Chen Yan and Xiao Nannan, his funeral is very simple, and the two of them came to the funeral, only her two students Li Yan, Lin Jing and her two classmates Zhang Xingsong and Hao Huili, although there are also many classmates 66 who came to mourn, but when it came to the funeral, only Zhang Xingsong and Hao Huili, who came the earliest, stayed.
On the way back, because Chen Yan was depressed, the atmosphere in the car was very dull, almost everyone lost the ability to speak, and the short distance from Chen Yan's house in the urban area of Cemetery Road also seemed very long.
When Li Yan drove the car to Chen Yan's family home, Hao Huili broke the dullness in the car: "Yanyan, we are going back today, you have to take care of yourself alone in Shangyang, Jiahua has gone, you have to look forward, don't be too sad." ”
"I see, thank you for being with me all these days. Chen Yan shook Hao Huili's hand and said softly, and said to Zhang Xingsong after speaking: "Thank you Xingsong too." ”
"We're all old classmates, no thanks. Zhang Xingsong said with a smile, and then said: "Actually, what you should be most grateful for is Li Yan, almost everything in the past few days is Zhang Luo, and among all of them, he is the busiest." ”
"I am a student of the teacher, and I am most familiar with the situation in Shangyang, and it is my duty to do these things for the teacher. Li Yan, who was in charge of driving, said with a smile.
"Yes, as the saying goes, change the rules in three miles, your funeral customs here are very different from those there, and I want to help sometimes I'm afraid that I won't be able to help, so I can only do some things like running errands. Zhang Xingsong said.
"These things are also very important, otherwise I would not be able to do so many things if I have a doppelganger technique. Li Yan said.
"Yanyan, what did you think about what I said a few days ago?" Zhang Xingsong asked as soon as he turned his words, he had been thinking about this matter for the past few days, but Chen Yan said that he would talk about this matter after the funeral was over, and at this time he finally brought it up again.
"I've seriously thought about what you said in the past two days, and I think my 'sex' is more suitable to be a teacher, and Times Media is really not suitable for me, I'm sorry. Chen Yan said with a smile to Zhang Xingsong.
Chen Yan's refusal made Zhang Xingsong a little depressed, but he was quickly relieved, he waved his hand and said: "No matter what you do, just be happy, if you don't want to be a teacher one day, just tell me, Times Media will always open a big 'door' for you." ”
"Thank you, and if there is a day, I'll go back to you. Chen Yan said to Zhang Xingsong.
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Zhang Xingsong and Hao Huili left the Shangyang Huidu in the evening, and after seeing their car drive away, Li Yan and Lin Jing accompanied Chen Yan to their home.
"Teacher, things have passed, if you want to open some, people always have to look forward. Li Yan saw that Chen Yan was not very interested, so he persuaded him.
"Li Yan, Jing'er, thank you, I'm fine, you have also taken a few days off, let's go back to school in a while." Chen Yan said.
"Well, we'll be back in a minute. Li Yan nodded and said, up to now, the matter has basically been dealt with, although Chen Yan's mood has not fully recovered, but Li Yan knows that this is not an overnight thing, he has not gone to class for a week, and it is time to go back.
After sending Chen Yan home, Li Yan and Lin Jing did not stay any longer, but comforted her a few words and left, leaving only Chen Yan, Xiao Nannan and Chen Yan's mother Chang Meiru at home, Chen Yan's father Chen Qiaosheng had left early a few days ago because of something at school.
"Nan, let grandma hug you. In the living room, after Li Yan and Lin Jing left, Chang Meiru took the little girl from Chen Yan's arms and said, saying that she sat on the sand with the little girl in her arms, and Chen Yan also followed.
After the two sat down, Chang Meiru sighed: "Yanyan, my mother is a little envious of you, my mother has been a teacher for more than 20 years than you, why haven't I met good students like Xiang Li Yan and Lin Jing, especially Li Yan, thanks to this child everywhere these days." ”
Mother's praise of Li Yan made Chen Yan feel inexplicably happy, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up in a wonderful arc.
"I also feel very lucky. Chen Yan said softly beside her mother.
"Yanyan, Jiahua is no longer here, you go back to Chaoxiang with your mother, that is your home. Chang Meiru looked at the haggard "girl" with pity and said.
Chen Yan lowered her head, the slender and slender fingers of her two hands were tightly twisted together, but she didn't speak, she was reluctant to leave here, only here, she could feel Shao Jiahua's existence, and feel the days and nights that she experienced with him that were poor but happy and sweet, although all this would make her feel sad and sad, but she didn't want to lose these things that seemed to her to be the most important thing in her life.
She wanted to escape from here, because she knew that if she stayed here, she would definitely not refuse Li Yan's meticulous care for her, and even a little "obsessed" with this kind of care that in her opinion had already been out of the ordinary teacher-student relationship, she was not hard-hearted, she was worried that if she stayed in Shangyang any longer, sooner or later she would fall like Wang Li, who was also Li Yan's teacher, and this kind of fall made her have a deep sense of guilt for moral degradation, which would make her feel sorry for Shao Jiahua......
"Yanyan, what are you still hesitating about, is there anything else in Shangyang that you can't give up that is worthy of your nostalgia?" Chang Meiru asked when she could see that her 'daughter' was doing a fierce ideological struggle because of her words.
"Mom, are you letting me think about it for a while while and make a decision?" Chen Yan begged, but she still didn't make up her mind to leave here.
ps: It's really hard to write a complex emotional description, it's not good to write too thoroughly, it's not good to write too vaguely, it's not good to write, delete and write, revise and rewrite for five hours to write like this, although I'm still not satisfied, but it's only like this.
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