I was dealing with things in the company that day, and as soon as I received a call from Jiang Xi, I heard her say in a heavy voice, "Jiangdong, you want to ask the company for leave, and you and Jiangxi want to go back to the Northeast with me." ”

I was stunned for a moment, "What...... "There is a project in the company that is quite important, not a particularly serious matter, and I don't want to take a leave of absence."

Jiang Xi's voice was very heavy, as if he had lost his strength, and said, "My dad...... Because of long-term drinking, I was hospitalized last night with a sudden stroke that caused a cerebral hemorrhage, my cousin said, it may be ...... I can't survive for a few days, let me hurry back to see the last side, I thought about it, when my uncle died, I didn't see the last side, my father died, I must see one, otherwise I have another regret."

As soon as I heard this, I hurried to stop talking nonsense and immediately asked the leader for leave.

The leader was reluctant to give a holiday, but when he heard that my father-in-law was going to die, the leader immediately approved it.

I didn't delay, I hurried home, I discussed with Jiang Xi on the way, and bought the train ticket to the Northeast that day.

On the east and west side of the river, Jiang Xi also asked the head teacher for leave.

Our family of three brought simple clothes and went to a place called the abalone circle district of Yingkou City in the northeast overnight.

Jiang Xi's hometown is rural, her cousin's family is in Bayuquan District, and her father now lives in the district hospital.

When the family of three arrived at 9 o'clock in the evening, his father had just woken up from a coma.

As soon as my cousin saw us, she was so excited that she burst into tears, took Jiang Xi's hand and said, "Oh, Xixi, you finally rushed back, your father woke up twice, and fell into a coma twice, the doctor said, the third time he was in a coma, maybe he won't wake up, you go and see him, talk to him, no matter how bad he is, he is still ...... Your dad!"

The last few words of my cousin were very heavy, and Jiang Xi's eyes turned red and wet.

She pulled me and Jiang Dongxi to the hospital bed, as if she wanted to say something first, but before she could say it, tears flowed out before the words.

"Hiss!" Jiang Xi snorted vigorously, trying to hold back the tears, but no, it still flowed down in large pieces.

His father seemed to be stunned and saw her, and his father laughed, and then tears welled up in his eyes, as if he was breathing heavily, and said, "Yes, no, get up...... Yes, no, ...... Yes, no, ......".

He seemed to know that he was running out of time, so he wanted to fight hard for the last bit of strength, and kept saying the three words "I'm sorry", as if he wanted to say all the sorry he owed Jiang Xi in this life at the last moment.

Jiang Xi's tears were like bursting embankments, probably struggling in her heart whether she should forgive her father for the unforgivable mistakes he made in his life at the last moment.

When Jiang Xi insisted on his father's fifth shout of "yes, no, get up", Jiang Xi stepped forward and grabbed his father's hand, her voice was deep to the extreme, but she shouted with heart-rending energy, "Dad, Dad, I brought my husband and children to see you!"

She waved with tears streaming down her face, and I immediately pulled Jiang Dongxi to stand in front of my father-in-law's eyes.

My father-in-law glanced at me, didn't seem to react, rolled his eyes, when he saw Jiang Dongxi, his eyes were moist again, and then the corners of his lips showed a weak smile, I saw that his hand seemed to try to move, as if he wanted to touch Jiang Shi, but unfortunately, he didn't have the strength to raise his hand.

Jiang Xi reached out and sent Jiang Shi's little hand to her father's hand.

Jiang Dongxi's face showed a look of fear, she looked at me stunned, I shook my head at her, signaling that she should not be afraid, she stood up straight, and looked at the ...... on the bed motionlessly She grew so big, the grandfather she met for the first time.

"It's called Grandpa!" Jiang Xi said in a low voice.

"Grandpa!" Jiang Dongxi's voice was delicate and weak, and she looked at me after calling, as if she wasn't sure if she could call me or not!

"Heh!" a faint pant laughed with all his strength, and after that, Jiang Xi's father slowly closed his eyes.

I saw that his eyes were still squirming a few times, as if he was trying to open them, but he didn't have the strength to open them.

My cousin said, "I guess I'm in a coma again, and the doctor said that this time I shouldn't be able to wake up, so you should go back to your house to have a look, and then think about it and prepare for the funeral." ”

Jiang Xi said, "Cousin, I don't understand this matter, you can help me simplify the arrangement!"

"That's fine!" said my cousin with tears in her eyes.

Jiang Xi took me and Jiang Dongxi out of the hospital, then took a taxi and took a half-hour ride to Jiang Xi's hometown.

It is a somewhat quaint northeast mountain village, and when you get off the main road and enter the Mao Road, it is still a dirt road.

Jiang Xi's eyes were full of crystals, but he said to me with a smile, "After so many years, there has not been much development in the Northeast, and there is no change here, it is still Tumao Road." ”

I took his hand with one hand and Jiang Shi with the other.

Jiang Dongxi frowned and muttered, "My shoes are dirty." ”

"Shhhh

She blinked, pouted, puffed out her bun face, squinted at me, and then stuck out her tongue and grimaced in protest, saying she didn't like it here.

When I passed by a factory at the entrance of the village, Jiang Xi told me, "This is a textile factory, and at that time, many of our classmates graduated from primary school and went to work in this factory as twisters and car stoppers! ”

"Isn't that child labor?" I asked in shock.

Jiang Xi said, "At that time, no one cared about child labor, and everyone was especially grateful to the owner of this factory, who was willing to accept these children who graduated from primary school to work, and the twister earned 240 yuan a month, and the car stopper could earn 400 yuan a month, so that he could subsidize the family." ”

"Have you done it?" I asked.

Jiang Xi glanced at me, probably old, she needed to think about it, and then said, "I remember that after half a semester of junior high school, I also applied for a job in this factory, because I was short-sighted, and because of the smell and beauty, I didn't have glasses, so I couldn't be a car stopper, and the car stopper sometimes needed to distinguish the dense silk threads, if the eyes were not good, and I couldn't see the woven cloth jumper, then the whole cloth would be a defective product that could not be sold at a price." ”

"Why didn't you wear contact lenses then?" I asked with a chuckle.

She also smiled and said, "At that time, I didn't even know that there were contact lenses, and even if I knew, I was reluctant to buy them, and contact lenses were too fashionable at that time, and they didn't match my identity!"

"Hehehe!" I laughed again, always feeling that I wanted to laugh at anything I said with her.

She continued, "So, after the factory director interviewed me, he asked me to be a twister, the twister is a twelve-hour shift a day, two shifts! Fifty large spools, one person to take care of four machines, in this way, one night, almost no possibility to sit down, is to keep walking around looking for broken and finished small spools, all the time in the process of wiring and changing spools......".

"What if someone is lazy?" I interjected.

She said, "If someone is lazy and runs to the side to rest, there will be relatives of the factory director's family who will be overseers, get up and inspect more than a dozen times a night, and find that there are too many broken threads, they will be fined...... Hahaha! Do you have the feeling of a rooster crowing in the middle of the night? I stopped doing this job for a week. ”

I laughed and didn't ask her why she didn't do it, but I knew that a child who graduated from elementary school worked a twelve-hour shift every day, and two shifts were day shifts a week, and evening shifts a week, eight in the morning to eight in the evening were considered the day shift, and from eight in the evening to eight in the morning the next day, it was considered a night shift.

"I don't know if I'm not in good health, seeing other peers are persevering, I feel very tired, I feel so sleepy that I will fall on the machine at any time, so, one day, I finished a twelve-hour night shift, slept a whole day, and after waking up, I lay on the kang in my house for a long time without moving, looking at the roof of the shed and began to think about my life ......."

"What do you think about?"

"I think when I was in elementary school, I followed my mother to the farmland to pull weeds and insects, sometimes the food can't be sprayed, that is, the insects are pinched to death by hand, and the weeds are pulled under the fruit trees, all by hand, I see my mother is so hard, my father is not working, my mother is very tired and will lose her temper with me and say, can't you help me pull some points? So I also helped my mother pull it, I pulled it for less than ten minutes, I felt that I was squatting under the low tree, my legs were so sore, my hands were sore and sore, my hands were shaving so much, and then I thought of the hard work in the textile factory, and then I thought of the girls in our village who were older than me, they worked in this textile factory all their lives, and then married a farmer, and could marry the small owner of the small store delivery, all of which were considered to be well-married, I felt that my life in Jiangxi should not be such a ......."

She took a deep breath, "Whoever wants to accept his fate will accept his fate, but I don't accept my fate! At that moment, I swore fiercely in my heart, I must leave this poor and remote mountain village, I must change my fate!"

"And then?" I listened to her, and my heart became more and more passionate, as if I saw a teenage girl, struggling with her primitive gears of fate, and she, full of fighting spirit, wanted to change the direction of the gears of fate.

Jiang Xi smiled again, "Sometimes I am also quite willful, I went to resign that night, and the factory director's lover asked me at the time, why did I resign so quickly, I said, I want to go to the city to find a job to do, I don't want to do this kind of work in the factory." The factory director's lover smiled disdainfully at the time and said, Jiang Xi, you have to think clearly, you resigned today, and if you want to come back to work, it's not so easy, the girls in the whole village don't study and work here, why is it that all of a sudden the water of this river is shallow, and you can't raise this big fish?"

I wanted to laugh even more when I heard this, imagine that most of those rural girls live according to the arrangement of fate, and suddenly there is such a Jiang Xi, probably she is an outlier in everyone's eyes.

"I said to the factory director's lover, don't worry, I won't come back! The factory director's lover was so angry with me that he was displeased, but probably he also disdained to bully me as a child, and still settled the salary that should be given to me, because the salary was pressed for a month, so this time, I got four hundred yuan, and the four hundred yuan at that time was quite a lot, my mother wanted to take my four hundred yuan away, take it to live, I gave her two hundred, she also scolded me for being a bad calf, but she scolded her, I still kept two hundred, I went to the city to buy a beautiful dress and earrings and other small accessories, I dressed myself up beautifully, and then went to the city to apply for a clothing salesman。 ”

"At that time, what kind of job could I apply for in the city except for a clothing salesman?"

I'm very curious, because Jiang Xi has no such experience, I have been living on campus since I was a child, living in high school, staying in school, usually not going out, going home once a week;

"There are a lot of applicants, for example, at that time, song halls were more popular, and the job of a hotel waiter was also very easy to find, but except for the job of a clothing salesman, I was not interested in anything else, because I was interested in the clothing industry, and my eldest cousin didn't they all make a fortune in the clothing business? At first, I wanted to go to them, but I didn't expect that they let me live in their house for two days, but they didn't arrange for me to go to work, so I understood that they disliked my soil, so I stayed at their house for a few days at night, and during the day I went to the clothing store on the street to ask door-to-door, and then asked two or three ...... recruiters."

"I was asked about two or three recruiters at once?"

She said, "It's because my body looks better, my facial features are not bad, the general clothing store, as long as there is a shortage of people, are willing to give me a chance to try, but the first one tried me for a day, or didn't hire me, because I lacked experience in selling clothing, the second one tried me, I learned a little better, a little experience played, and then I was hired, I was very happy, because I was tall, I dressed up and painted a dress, and I couldn't see that it was child labor, just a young and beautiful girl!"

It can be seen that from that time, her mind was very clear, she knew what she wanted, and she would not be a headless fly, even if she failed, she could sum up her experience, make persistent efforts, and finally win her goal.

This is really Jiang Xi, it turns out that the character is really natural, and the little Jiang Xi is already that kind of character.

"I have been working in that store for three years, and my salary has slowly risen from 300 yuan to 600 yuan a month, and I have a great sense of accomplishment and happiness at that time, and I also thought that I might find a husband in the future and take him to do a clothing business with me. ”

I squinted at Jiang Xi, "I don't want to hear about the idea of my future husband besides me, it will be uncomfortable to hear." ”

"Poof! Well, not long after, my mother said that I got in touch with my uncle in Beijing, and at that time it was also the time when my father was the happiest, so I wrote a letter to my uncle, and took the initiative to say that I wanted to take my mother to Beijing to break through, and my uncle agreed, so I didn't hesitate to take my mother to Beijing, I thought at the time, I can sell clothes to support my mother at worst, so I want to take her out of the fire pit, of course, as soon as I hear the word Beijing, I actually secretly beat chicken blood in my heart, and countless voices tell me that I must seize this opportunity to go to Beijing to break throughI want to see what this world looks like that I have never seen! And then I want to stand firm at the feet of such a son of heaven and live happily and happily!"

"You did it! You did what you thought!" I looked at her and praised her!

I felt that if it were me, in an environment like hers, I would not be able to do anything, I would not have the courage, nor the brain, nor the ability.

Jiang Xi smiled again and said, "But looking back now, I realize that there is only one thing that I am proud of!"

"What's the matter?"

She suddenly looked at me very deeply and said, "Married to you!"

I pursed my lips and smiled! I bowed my head and said nothing, at this time, it is better not to speak to spoil the atmosphere.

Chatting all the way, we walked from the entrance of the village to the old house of Jiang Xi's family.

It's an old adobe house, and it's still a kitchen shared with someone else's house.

The kitchen in the rural areas of Northeast China is different from the building, it is a whole room, half of the location is the kitchen, the other half is someone else's kitchen, a big iron pot, a large pot stove, I saw some dried corn stalks at the mouth of the stove, some of them were burned in half, and they were thrown there, thinking that their father used them when cooking.

Jiang Xi took out a very ordinary key from her backpack, because the lock on the house was a very ordinary little lock, and she opened the door.

At this moment, I think, she can still keep the key to this home for so long, and her heart is actually very nostalgic for this home, right?

There is a saying, "The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennel", if a person's family is warm, who wants to abandon the house and leave?

The dust in the house had fallen a thick layer, but there was no dust only in the place where a person slept on the long kang, because there was a set of cover rolls there, which seemed to be where his father usually slept, and the quilt and mattress were so dark that they could not see the patterns on the cloth clearly.

I remember when I was a child, I often listened to the elders chatting about most of the widowers and singles, because there were no women to take care of them, their lives were so messy and dirty.

When I think of Jiang Xi's father, I feel a little hateful, obviously he can have a happy family, a lovely and self-reliant daughter, but unfortunately he just doesn't know how to cherish it, and he has to get himself to the point of betraying his relatives, what is he trying to do?

In today's real society, there are still such people, who don't cherish a good and happy family, and like to toss blindly when they have nothing to do, and finally toss others are not happy, and they are not good themselves!

But I also sighed at the wonder of fate, if it weren't for Jiang Xi's father's blind toss, Jiang Xi's mother would definitely not abandon her father to go to Beijing, and Jiang Xi might not be willing to let her mother go to Beijing alone, then Jiang Xi and I, one south of the world and one north of the earth, it is really impossible to meet......

Perhaps, in the dark, she is my destiny! Thank you for God's arrangement!

Despite the fact that there was a lot of dust on the kang, Jiang Xi took off his shoes, climbed on the kang, and went to open the window to let some fresh air circulate in the house.

Jiang Dongxi and I looked casually, and the two of us saw a photo album on the old-fashioned hall box together, and we both went to reach for it, Jiang Dongxi glanced at me, smiled, and then took advantage of my defenselessness, she snatched it, and grabbed a hand of dust, but she didn't care, and hurriedly opened the photo album.

As soon as he saw the photos inside, Jiang Dongxi smiled and said, "This is my mother, this is my mother's childhood, my mother was so beautiful when she was a child, only a little worse than me!"

Me, "......". I don't know who this kid looks like!

Jiang Xi smiled and walked over to look at the photo with us.

I saw that there were countless black finger prints left on the album, thinking that Jiang Xi's father left them.

Jiang Xi obviously saw those finger prints, as well as the album that was almost torn, so at this moment, no matter how hard Jiang Xi's emotions were controlled, he couldn't control them......

"Woo......".

I immediately let go of the hand that was holding the album with Jiang Dongxi, and hugged Jiang Xi in my arms.

"Wife, if you want to cry, just cry happily!"

"Uh......h Husband, I didn't want to cry, I don't think he deserves my crying, it's not worth my sadness, but ...... I can't control myself anymore, woo...... He is a very bad father, but he is dead, and there is one less relative of mine in this world, woo ......."

Her crying this time was not as heartbreaking as her uncle's death, this time she was crying depressedly, crying blankly, not knowing whether she should cry or not, but she was crying uncontrollably......

Each of us has a life like the sun rises and falls, and one day, we will slowly sink like the sunset.

Think about when you started to feel old? Probably when our parents left us, our parents were a wall between us and death, and when our parents were gone, we faced death.

Cross talk actor Xiao Yueyue delayed seeing his father for the last time because of the performance, and he cried so much that he broke down on the stage, and later he wrote a song, just to express his remorse:

"If there was an elevator to heaven, I would be desperate to see you, and let you see my children, who look like me and like you......"

When people reach middle age, what they are most afraid of is parting, saying goodbye and never seeing each other again, and this side may become the last side......

When Jiang Xi cried suppressed for fifteen minutes and had no strength to cry, I heard the sound of two people talking outside the door.

"I heard that Jiang Xi came back to see her father, Mom, you said that Jiang Xi is living a good life in the big city, will you still want this half-dilapidated house?"

"I don't know, if you see her tomorrow, you can ask her hard, and you will say that she has not been with her father all these years, and we have taken care of her father, maybe she will give it to us. ”

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