Hearing this, everyone looked up at the place where the voice came from behind them, and Tong Ziru looked outside, it turned out to be his mother, she burst into tears, and rushed over in the dust.

"Aren't you not coming?" asked Tong Ziru as he walked over in a low voice.

The mother, dressed in a black dress with a low ponytail, shook off Tong Ziru's arm and quickly ran to the coffin, wiping her tears with one hand to avoid falling onto the corpse, while muttering, "Why don't I come to see it, my brother, why are you just leaving!"

She repeated the phrase and began to cry, and the others helped her to the side and comforted her that she could not be resurrected.

Tong Ziru also stepped forward to hold her, and they stood quietly together in the corner next to them, watching them settle their uncle's body, and then followed together to the boiler room, waiting for the cremation to receive the ashes.

Mother was a little chattering along the way, Tong Ziru had never seen her so fragile, her eyes were very loose, and her eyes were bloodshot.

"Your uncle has suffered all his life, and he has not enjoyed happiness in his life. You don't know, he also likes to believe in Buddhism, and he still has Guanyin Bodhisattva in his small home. When the festival arrives, burn incense and worship the Buddha. How many times have I told him not to be superstitious, this is just the spiritual sustenance of people, your grandfather also believes in these, in the end it is still early to disappear, your uncle left before he was 60, those Buddhas did not bless him, the gods do not open their eyes, good people die early, and bad people live for thousands of years. ”

Tong Ziru wiped her tears with a tissue, "From another point of view, it can be regarded as 'blessing' him for half a year, I heard that some of this disease will leave in a month or two." ”

Tong Ling didn't respond, she still kept crying, at this time, the second aunt on the side finally spoke, she glared at their mother and daughter, and then walked up to Tong Ling, grabbed her collar with wide eyes and began to criticize, "What face do you have to cry on? Didn't you be arrogant and never come back! What are you doing when you came back, you tell me what you came back for! Big brother is not angry with you! You have been running abroad alone all these years, have you ever come back to care about your eldest brother? You are a murderer!"

Tong Ling shouted at her, "Do you think I want to do this!" The two women were in pain at this moment, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

The other relatives couldn't stand it anymore, so they broke free and said, "Okay! This is not a place for you to splash! Let him go quietly! Your brother doesn't want to see you quarrel in the heavenly spirit!"

Afterwards, the mother and the second aunt stood on either side of the hall and ignored each other.

After waiting for nearly an hour, they took out the urn and placed the ashes in the funeral home, and the rest of the ceremony was over. Tong Ling and Tong Ziru returned to their uncle's house with them, and Tong Ling came to greet her sister-in-law.

When I returned home, I saw that Da Yan was still standing calmly on the balcony, and she was watering the flowers. I haven't seen her cry today, and Tong Ziru knows that maybe in the dead of night, or when she is usually alone, she will secretly cry. Or maybe she, like her, keeps her tears in her heart.

The adult world is all about muting the bell, and that's true.

Seeing everyone enter the door, Da Yan put down the kettle and took the initiative to stand in the living room to greet everyone, Tong Ling stepped forward and took her hand and said to her that she was also here, Da Yan smiled, and pulled her to the back room to say a few words.

If the children's words have not passed, she knows that their sister-in-law must reminisce more.

After that day, Tong Ling didn't stay in Linxi because he was busy with work and went back to Auckland directly. Tong Ziru also said that she would come to see Da Yan regularly if needed.

Tong Zi is a person who is not good at expressing herself, they don't know that they have heard about her uncle and mother's past today, and she also feels pity for her uncle in her heart, and even feels a little sentimental. For the first time, she felt the meaning of the phrase "blood is thicker than water".

Today she and her uncle made a "goodbye" at the funeral, and when she left, she also said goodbye to the eldest concubine, and she suddenly felt that she was not good at and did not like to say goodbye.

When she picked up her phone, she saw Yu Chengyi asking her, "Where are you?"

"Hmm. ”

"How are you today?"

"It's fine. ”

After a pause for a few minutes, she received another WeChat message from him, "Do you have time to come out now, I just happened to run some errands and passed by your house." ”

Tong Ziru thought that he had something important, so he promised him to meet in five minutes.

Five minutes later, the two met downstairs at Tong Ziru's house, and as soon as they met, she asked him what he had to do, and she helped him do it first.

"I'm done, it's nothing, let's go for a walk. ”

She went to the nearby park with him for a walk, Tong Ziru kept waiting for him to speak, and Yu Chengyi kept frowning, he rubbed his hair from time to time, or walked with his hands in his pockets, and inadvertently bit his lower lip. It seems to look a little nervous.

Tong Ziru sensed that he wanted to say something, and she asked him to stop and ask him what was wrong.

He looked at her blue eyes, his face returned to his usual paralyzed face, and his voice became deeper and lower, "If, I mean if, I'm going to study abroad, what do you think?"

"Aren't you going to learn calligraphy when you go abroad?"

"It should be. ”

She turned around and took two steps forward, and Yu Chengyi followed her.

"I don't know if you see calligraphy as a dream like I do, or if you're a realist or an idealist. If it were me, even if I had a better career out of other industries, I would still choose calligraphy. Because I like it, I love it, if you think the same as I think, I personally think you should not go, you can choose to take the postgraduate calligraphy major to continue to study this aspect in China. ”

Yu Chengyi smiled a little intoxicated, he pursed his lips and teased the bangs on his forehead, "Actually, I also like calligraphy very much, so I want to go this way." A few days ago, my family suggested that I go abroad to study first, and I am also a one-year graduate student abroad anyway. They wanted to open my eyes. When you come back, you can continue your calligraphy studies. ”

Tong Ziru smiled slightly, "Well, this is also a good idea, it depends on how you choose." ”

He decided, "Do you want me to go, then?"

"Huh?"

Tong Ziru was stunned, and the air seemed to be suddenly quiet.

"I made a mistake, I mean if I leave, Zhao Yang and they will also graduate and not be in school, will you not be very comfortable?"

Tong Ziru smiled angrily and patted his arm, "It's okay, I can't let you go because of my selfishness, right?" Don't worry, I'm very independent, it mainly depends on how you think about your future." ”

"Okay, if I decide to go, I'll be leaving in the middle of next month. ”

"Okay," she continued, her eyes staring ahead, "then let your brother and Cen Jing send you off." Through today I found out that I am not good at saying goodbye. ”

Yu Chengyi spoke a little slurred, "Today...... Are you sad?"

Tong Ziru kept talking and laughing, "Fortunately, I happened to see a sentence on the Internet today, except for life and death in this world, it is a trivial matter." I feel a lot of things now, but I don't feel sad when I think about it. ”

Yu Chengyi is not a comforting person, he just smiled awkwardly, and then went to relax with Tong Ziru.

After chatting, Yu Chengyi went home alone. When he went back, he received a call from Cen Jing asking him what he planned to do recently.

"I think I'd better go abroad first, she didn't mean to keep me, I followed my mother's idea. ”

"Cheng Yi, you have to think about it, if you go abroad, do you want to give up this opportunity to study for a master's degree and a doctorate in China? Don't you want to learn calligraphy the most, and become a calligraphy and painting appraiser in the future, do you think it makes a lot of sense for you to stay abroad for a year and come back? And your family is not as rich as your cousin's family, and you are not wasting money for a trip. ”

Yu Chengyi has not thought about these problems, he said that his mother will also be sent to work in the UK this year, and his mother hopes that she will go with him. His mother is also very strong and quick-tempered, and he wants to take one step at a time. Even his mother was against him taking up the calligraphy profession, and now he just wanted to take it one step at a time.

"I'll think about it again. ”

"Cheng Yi, as a brother, I want to talk to you about my thoughts. Although you have been in love, I think that since you like Tong Ziru, you have to tell her what you think. You can't wait for a girl to confess to you like you used to. Tong Ziru is different from those girls. You don't have to be afraid of rejection, you have to lose face, boys have to learn to take the initiative. ”

Yu Chengyi shook his head, he took a deep breath, and there was a smile in his tone, "You are just a bystander and have no personal feelings. Confession: Whether it is a boy or a girl, it should be a clarion call for victory, not a clarion call for charging. I've known her for over a year, and I can feel that she's not interesting to me at all. Since you don't have an idea, it's too embarrassing to poke through this layer of window paper. It's better to be each other's friends, and let me protect her silently. ”

"Okay, but I still have to remind you, if you leave, maybe she will meet a better boy this year, and when you come back, you see that she is getting along with someone else, aren't you angry?"

The more Cen Jing spoke, the more Yu Chengyi was bald, he scratched his head, and threw the remote control in his hand on the sofa irritably.

"I hope you think about it carefully, I won't tell you yet, I'm going on a date with my partner. Be quiet by yourself. ”

Yu Chengyi put down the phone and swiped Weibo and WeChat, although he kept looking at his phone, he was absent-minded.

He swiped Weibo, and inadvertently saw that there was an extra name in the Weibo attention of Tong Ziru called "Flyless Fiona," click on it to see that most of the Weibo in it are text editors, and there is no place to belong, but there is a photo that looks like an Auckland park.

Could it be that this is her trumpet?

Yu Chengyi was a little happy as if he had discovered a new continent, he wanted to see what she was thinking.

"November 2, 2017, today is my birthday, but no one remembers it, not even my mother. On my birthday, I suddenly missed Taylor, I hadn't seen him for four years, and I didn't know how he was doing. I will never forget his words of encouragement, his voice and smile will always be in my memory, I respect him, he was the first person who really cared about me. If we meet one day, I just want to thank him. ”

Yu Chengyi was upset, threw down his phone and began to get angry, "Who is this Taylor? Certainly not a relative, she doesn't like her biological father stepfather. Could it be...... Someone she likes?"