Chapter 13 Things are people, not everything
Tian Jiu, who was like an arrow, finally returned to the provincial capital and returned to this city after many years of absence. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoWhen his feet just stepped on this hot land, like a wanderer who had left his hometown and returned to his hometown, he couldn't help but feel excited and burst into tears.
He looked around, looked at the familiar street scene, smelled the breath of the city, and couldn't help but whisper affectionately: "I'm back." Hot tears burst out of my eyes, and I choked up.
Stepping out of the station just in time for the city's rush hour is a common problem in every city. Whenever the commute time comes, several major arterial roads in the city are occupied by people and traffic. The scene was like a colony of bees unpacking the box and releasing honey, pouring out of the nest, surging like a tide, quite spectacular.
Fortunately, with the vigorous maintenance of order by the traffic police department, the traffic can finally be orderly, but the speed of flow is very slow.
Tian Jiu stood at the intersection and waited for half an hour, but he couldn't stop a taxi. Looking at the cars hurrying by, Tian Jiu was anxious and helpless, so he had to walk for more than 20 minutes to the bus stop opposite the station and squeeze into a bus bound for home.
The passengers on the bus are like popsicles stuck vertically in the freezer, one after the other, and it is difficult to find even the space for people to move their bodies.
Tian Jiu, who finally got out of the car, hurried home with his backpack as usual when he came back from a business trip. Standing downstairs in his own community, looking at the familiar window and the soft light that came out, Tian Jiu couldn't help but burst into tears.
Tian Jiu couldn't wait to stride up to the third floor and knock on the door of his house. It happened to be Ou Jianping who came to open the door, dressed in homely casual clothes and holding a handful of playing cards in his hand.
In the past, every time after dinner, Ou Jianping would accompany his son to play poker for a while, and Ou Jianping still kept the habit he developed many years ago. Tian Jiu was excited for a while, and just wanted to rush forward into Ou Jianping's arms, take a good time, and tell his parting heartfelt feelings.
Who knows, Ou Jianping asked coldly: "Who are you looking for?" "Knock him straight from the high clouds into the ice cave at once. Tian Jiu woke up suddenly, and the pestle was in front of the door, stunned.
Under the excitement, he forgot his identity, and changed from Su Ling to Tian Jiu's identity, which really means that the world is ever-changing, and creation makes people.
The son Ou Ge walked out of the living room, stood beside his father, and looked at Tian Jiu curiously. Ou Ge has grown a lot taller, and Su Ling's shadow flashes between his eyebrows.
Tian Jiu was excited again, and tears almost burst out of his eyes. He instinctively bent down and wanted to touch his son's face, but Ou Ge flashed back and hid behind Ou Jianping's back. Ou Jianping stretched out his hand to block Tian Jiu's movements, and his face showed a trace of unhappiness.
Tian Jiu smiled awkwardly and hurriedly adjusted his emotions, he understood Ou Jianping's indifference and indifference. This can't be blamed on him, just with Ou Jianping's naked eyes, how can he see that the man standing in front of him is actually his lover who he longs for and thinks about day and night-Su Ling.
Tian Jiugang wanted to explain, but inside the house, the voice of Ou Jianping's current wife Li Xiaotong rang out: "Who, why are you standing at the door and not coming in?" As soon as the words fell, her face immediately appeared behind Ou Jianping.
This is the face of an ordinary and ordinary woman, and it was like a thunderbolt from the sky that shattered Tian Jiu's three souls and seven spirits, and all hopes turned into bubbles in an instant.
Tian Jiu was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to his senses. Ou Jianping is married, and this woman is his current wife. Then his son has a new mother, this is no longer his home, their family of three is happy, he is a superfluous outsider, everything here has long been different.
When all the conclusions rolled through Tian Jiu's mind like lightning, Tian Jiu almost suffocated, he only felt that his hands and feet were cold, his mind was blank, and his heart twitched spasmally.
Ou Jianping stared at the strange man in front of him, and he was very unhappy. He glared at Tian Jiu, his face full of unhappiness: It's really inexplicable, knocking on someone else's door, and slamming without saying a word, what the hell is going on? He asked impatiently, "Who are you looking for?" His cold words finally brought Tian Jiu back to reality completely.
Tian Jiuqiang endured his grief, squeezed out a smile at the corner of his mouth, and said to Ou Jianping: "I'm sorry, I knocked on the wrong door." He took a deep look at Ou Ge, as if he wanted to imprint the image of his son into his heart forever at this moment, and then he turned around sharply, gritted his teeth and hurried downstairs.
Tian Jiu didn't dare to look back, and he didn't even have the courage to stay for a minute longer, because he knew that at this time, he had already burst into tears. If you can't go back to your home, you can't recognize your relatives, and there is nothing more painful than this.
The noisy city is slowly starting to quiet down, and the dazzling neon lights are still flashing. Tian Jiu sat in the street park not far from his home, and his mood couldn't calm down for a long time.
Looking at the familiar city, the familiar streets, and the home he had built with his own hands, he was overwhelmed with grief, and his body and mind seemed to be violently torn apart and exposed to the scorching sun, and the pain was unbearable.
Tian Jiu is very familiar with this street park. In the past, every weekend, he would bring Ou Ge here to play, and Ou Ge's laughter and running figure while playing seemed to be just yesterday.
The more he recalled the good times in the past, the more Tian Jiu's heart ached, and the tears fell down one by one like pearls with broken threads.
He buried his head in the crook of his arm, his body twitching downward, and the man who was strong on the outside was secretly a weak woman. At this moment, who can lend him an arm and give him comfort, even if it is only for a moment.
Time passed like this, second by second, Tian Jiu's heart was like a knife, and everything in the past rolled through his mind like a light piece. As Su Ling, she is dead, and no matter how good the times are, they can only become memories, like a tree flower blooming and falling, and it is already in the past in the rings of time. There is always a lot of helplessness in life, and only after suffering can we know sweetness; After the pain, you know how to be strong.
At this time, Tian Jiu had to face the reality and re-examine himself, he had to accept all this calmly, and he had to learn to be relieved. All this has become a thing of the past, but after all, he has lived, come, loved, and owned as Su Ling, and this is enough.
Once a person is relieved, it is easy to let go of all the burdens in his heart. Tian Jiu's whole person was a lot more relaxed all of a sudden, and a breeze blew, and Tian Jiu realized that his clothes were already soaked because he was too excited.
A full moon hung high overhead, and a few stars were scattered far away in the dark gray night sky, and the night was getting deeper, and the city went into a dormant state.
Tian Jiu lifted the backpack beside him, and planned to find an express hotel to live in first, freshen up well, and then make the next step. Since black and white impermanence has given him a new life, how can he not cherish it, the dead are gone, and the living should be fearless, so as not to be reborn as a human being in vain.
Tian Jiu walked out of the street park with his backpack, and saw an old man walking slowly in front of him from a distance, with a young man on one side and an old woman on the other.
Tian Jiu's eyes were sharp, and he saw at a glance that the old woman was a ghost, and her yin qi was not heavy, and it was estimated that she had just died, and she reluctantly followed the old man and was reluctant to leave. Tian Jiu sighed: It is another pain of life and death of a beloved family.
Tian Jiu lost his previous impulses tonight, and wanted to drive the ghost back to the underworld when he saw it. He pitied the old woman's love for her beloved relatives, and besides, it wouldn't be long before black and white impermanence would come and take her away, and she didn't have to bother at all.
When he hurriedly passed past them, he subconsciously squinted at the ghost, and the ghost seemed to be aware of it, raising his head and staring at him back, Tian Jiu didn't want to pay attention to her, and left by himself.
Unexpectedly, the ghost actually followed, blocking Tian Jiu's way, and cautiously tested Tian Jiu: "Can you see me?" ā
Tian Jiu stopped, nodded, and couldn't help but turn his head and look around, for fear that his abnormal behavior would attract the attention of others. Fortunately, it was late at night, and there were not many tourists left in the street park, and no one seemed to visit him.
The ghost danced and cried out with joy, "Great, can you really see me and hear me?" ā
Tian Jiu smiled bitterly: "Yes, you can see it, you can hear it." Now I can go. "In this world, it is not necessarily a good thing to be able to see ghosts, but if you let the world know, sooner or later you will be rejected like a freak.
After Tian Jiu finished speaking, he wanted to bypass the ghost and walk away, after tossing for a day, he was already very tired, and he really wanted to find a place to stay and wash and lie down on the bed to rest.
The old woman couldn't help but stop him from leaving, and pleaded: "I have been following the old man of my family all these days, and there is something I must tell him. I just can't talk. Now, you can hear what I'm saying, can you help me pass a message to him. ā
"I'll help you get the word out?" Tian Jiu pointed to his nose and shook his head again and again to refuse: "No, old lady, if a living person has never seen this, your family will not believe me." No, absolutely not. ā
The old lady finally ran into a mortal who could hear her, how could she let him go easily.
The old lady grinded hard and hard, grabbed Tian Jiu and didn't let him leave, and didn't care whether Tian Jiu wanted to listen to it or not, she chattered and told her regrets that she couldn't let go.
When the old lady was alive, she saved a sum of money by frugality, and the deposit slip was not at ease in the drawer, so she secretly sewed it into the lining of the cotton jacket, which even the old man did not tell. How do you know, if the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes, she will suddenly have a myocardial infarction and go west, and she will not even be given a chance to leave her last words.
Tomorrow, the family will take her relics and burn them, including this padded jacket, which is not forced to make her die without turning a blind eye. The old lady was anxious, and she had been following the old man these days, hoping to find an opportunity for him to understand. Helpless, how could the old man understand these things with his naked eyes, fortunately he met Tian Jiu tonight, and he finally got his wish. You must know that for an ordinary family, how can a sum of money that has been saved easily be lost in vain!
Tian Jiu was soft-hearted, and when she heard the old lady's explanation, she couldn't bear it, so she had to nod and agree, and she would go to her family tomorrow to help her fulfill her wish. The old lady was afraid that Tian Jiu would regret it tomorrow, so she pulled Tian Jiu and asked him to go tonight.
Tian Jiu explained: "It's the middle of the night on the third watch, if you suddenly appear in front of your family at this time, and tell your family that your soul has been following them for the past few days, it will definitely frighten them, so it's better to go in broad daylight." ā
The old lady thought that this was indeed the case, so she gave up. For a while, he was afraid that Tian Jiu would ignore it as soon as he left, so he followed Tian Jiu all the way to the express hotel and stayed before returning home, and when he left, he repeatedly told him that he would take Tian Jiu to the funeral home tomorrow to meet her family.
The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Tian Jiu was woken up by the old lady, Tian Jiu couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to get up and freshen up. Out of the hotel gate, the old lady refused to let Tian Jiu sit down for breakfast, saying that it would delay things if she was late. Tian Jiu couldn't resist the old lady, so he had to buy a steamed bun and soy milk at the breakfast point and eat it while walking.
The funeral home is located in the western suburbs, about 20 kilometers away from the city, Tian Jiu went out very early today, avoiding the rush hour of going to work in the morning, so the bus arrived at the funeral home quickly.