Chapter Twenty-Nine: Farewell to Wu Tian
Today is the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and I must go and see Wu Tian again, otherwise the New Year will be soon. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After breakfast, I said to Lu Tao: "You look at Dianyangyang today, I want to go to the hospital to see Liu Jia again." β
"Didn't you watch it that day? Still going to see it? Lu Tao was a little unhappy.
"Look at what you said, you can't watch it anymore if you see it? Liu Jia helped me a lot before, but now that there is such a big thing in her family, can I stand by and watch? "Seeing Lu Tao's attitude, I was immediately unhappy.
"You don't want Liu Jia on the left and Liu Jia on the right, you clearly care about Wu Tian, my father is also in the hospital, so I haven't seen you worry about it like this."
"Can I get involved in your father's business? Your mother doesn't welcome me. β
"Okay, Wu Tian welcomes you, you go to see him!"
"Boring!"
"Yes, I'm bored, whoever isn't bored, you can find whoever you want!"
I don't have time to quarrel with Lu Tao anymore, and I can't argue anymore, it's really boring to always quarrel like this. Thinking of this, I didn't answer Lu Tao anymore, took my satchel and put on my shoes and walked out, but as soon as I pushed the door open, Yang Yang followed, holding my leg and insisting on following me.
"Mom go out, are you and Dad at home?" I bent down and said to Yangyang.
"No, I want Mom." Yang Yang pouted and said.
"Mom has something to do, you are here with Dad, Mom will buy you something delicious and come back in a while, okay?" I continued to coax Yangyang.
"No, I'm going to talk to my mother." Yangyang still didn't let go, and Lu Tao, who was still angry on the side, didn't help at all, so I had no choice but to take Yangyang out.
The streets and alleys in the city have already kicked off the prelude to the Spring Festival: the trees on both sides of the street are full of hand-made lanterns of various shapes, the corners of high-rise buildings are inlaid with changing neon lights, the merchants and vendors selling New Year's goods are piled up to the full, and the people who have stopped working have a year's harvest on their faces, and they are full of confidence to select various items for the New Year. And I couldn't be happy when I walked in this peaceful and festive atmosphere, but my face showed a melancholy that was completely out of tune with the surroundings.
My feet weren't quite healed and I was still feeling a little pain when I walked, so I pulled Yang Yang and looked around, looking for a taxi.
"Mom, balloons, buy!" Yang Yang pointed to a balloon stall not far away, and insisted on pulling me over.
I walked over and bought Yang Yang a hydrogen balloon that could float, wrapped the balloon string around Yang Yang's wrist, and specifically told him not to throw it away. Yang Yang was very excited, and nodded in agreement.
I saw a taxi and was about to wave it to stop it, but I heard Yangyang say, "Mom, the balloon has run away!" "I turned my head to look, isn't it, the balloon that I bought less than a minute ago has already broken free from Yang Yang's hand and escaped! And Yang Yang had let go of his hand and ran to chase the hydrogen balloon that had risen into the air.
I was in a hurry, chased after a few steps, grabbed Yangyang, and said to him angrily: "Don't you run around, okay?" The car is dangerous, what should I do if I hit you? β
"Mom, my balloons!" Yang Yang completely ignored my words, and looked up at the balloon that had already flown over the roof of the building, and tears were about to fall.
"Okay, mom will buy you another one." In order not to delay the time, I quickly bought another balloon for Yangyang, pulled him up and left.
"Swift!"
Someone called me, and when I looked back, it was Sister Wang, a colleague from the unit.
"Swift, are your feet alright? This time you've rested, you've been resting for more than a month! Sister Wang said.
"Okayβyes, it's better, but it still hurts." I said with a smile.
"Really? I can't see it, I saw you running quite happily just now. "Sister Wang didn't seem to believe what I said.
"I was chasing this little thing just now, and I can take care of my feet with him there." I defended myself, for fear that Sister Wang would not believe me and mistakenly think that I was pretending to be sick.
"So your feet aren't good, are they? Then you have to pay attention, it's better to go home and rest, don't get hurt again. Sister Wang said again.
"I want to rest, but this little thing doesn't let people rest, what can I do?" I pointed at Yang Yang and made a helpless look.
"Yes, but you still have to pay attention to maintenance, and if you don't recover well from a foot injury, you will have sequelae."
"yes, yes, I'll take notice."
"Alright then, I still have something to do, let's go first, goodbye!"
"Goodbye!"
After separating from Sister Wang, I quickly took a taxi and got into the car with Yangyang in my arms. On the way to the hospital, I thought about what Sister Wang had just said, and I always felt unsteady in my heart. Coincidentally, Sister Wang just saw me running, if she went back to the unit and told my colleagues, would it make my colleagues think that I was pretending to be sick? It would be even worse if the director knew that I was running all over the street, but I didn't go to work at the unit! Alas, it's really unlucky, why did you meet Sister Wang?!
After a while, the taxi arrived at the hospital, and after getting out of the car, I pulled Yang Yang into the internal medicine inpatient building and went straight to Wu Tian's ward. But when I came to the ICU ward, although I saw a patient lying in it with tubes all over his body, he didn't look like Wu Tian at all, and he was much older than Wu Tian. I asked the nurse if it was Wu Tian, the nurse said no, I asked Wu Tian again where he lived in the ward, and the nurse said casually that Wu Tian had passed away yesterday.
"Passed away?!" I yelled at the nurse.
"Yes." The nurse still had a flat expression when she said this, probably the nurse had seen too many people die and was no longer impressed.
I was stunned for a while, and suddenly took Yangyang out of the hospital, took a taxi, and came to the door of Liu Jia's house. I rang the doorbell for a long time, but no one answered, and the door didn't open. Liu Jia is not at home? Did you go to the funeral home? I found a payphone and called another classmate who got along well with Wu Tian, and I think he must know about Wu Tian's situation.
"Wu Tian is at his hometown today, and I am about to go, aren't you going to give Wu Tian a ride?" The classmate said on the phone.
"Funeral?" I always felt like I was in a trance, because I couldn't believe that Wu Tian was really gone, really left this world.
"Go? You're going to go and I'll pick you up in my car. The classmate said again on the phone.
"Go! Go! β
"Where are you?"
"Near the Drum Tower, I'm waiting for you here."
More than ten minutes later, my classmate's car arrived, and I hugged Yangyang and followed my classmate to Wu Tian's hometown, which was more than 40 miles away.
Wu Tian's hometown is located in the mountainous area, a small village with only 100 households. As soon as I entered the village, I heard the sound of suona for the funeral. We walked a little further and met the funeral procession. My classmate reversed the car into an alley, got out of the car and walked with me to follow the funeral procession. In the funeral procession, I didn't see Liu Jia, I only saw her and Wu Tian's son, who were dressed in heavy filial piety, being carried in front of the coffin.
I followed the funeral procession for a while, and I felt so tired that I couldn't do it, and the foot I had injured hurt so badly, not to mention holding Yangyang!
"Why don't you go back, just give him a ride, you don't have to send it to the cemetery, the cemetery is far away, I heard that it is in the mountains." When the funeral procession first left the village, my classmates saw that I was tired and persuaded me to go back.
"Okay, then I'll take the child back." I also think I've done my best and want to take Yangyang back, Yangyang is also tired, it's easy to fall asleep?
I left the funeral procession and went to Wu Tian's parents' house again, I thought Liu Jia must be there, and I wanted to comfort her again. But when I arrived at Wu Tian's house, I didn't see Liu Jia, so I had to take Yangyang back to the city. But there are no taxis or buses in this small village, so how can I get there? No way, I called Lu Tao.
When Lu Tao took a taxi to this small village, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Lu Tao had a black face all the way and didn't say anything. I knew I would have to count him down when I got home. And Yang Yang fell asleep hungry in my arms halfway through.
In fact, after returning home, Lu Tao still didn't say anything, cooked me a pot of noodles, and went to his mother's.
I ate a bite of food and went to bed with Yangyang, I was really tired!.
I don't know what time I slept until I slept, it was the sound of the door opening that woke me up, I got up to look, and saw Lu Tao coming back, but he was not alone, and he was still with his mother and an old man behind him!
"Come, get up, and let the gentleman do the work for you!" As soon as my mother-in-law came in, she told me without discussion.
"Doing something? What ritual? Why? I asked, puzzled.
"You have followed the dead, and I am afraid that you have brought back something unclean, and you can do it without doing things? Besides, Yang Yang is so small, you take him too, the ghost is the easiest to come back with the child. β
No wonder after returning from the village, Lu Tao didn't say a word, maybe he felt that his own words were not powerful enough for me, so he needed to move his empress-like mother to suppress me, and his mother brought a more heavyweight figure - mage! It turns out that the old man who is not good-looking is not an ordinary person, but a god who can subdue demons and eliminate demons!
"Is there a ghost in the world? You can talk about superstition! "I don't want to cooperate with them, I'm an atheist.
"You're not afraid of ghosts, we're still afraid, my little grandson is also afraid, we must drive the ghosts out, otherwise what if there is anything bad in the future? What's more, that person died in a car accident, which is even more unlucky! β
It seems that I can't carry so many of them alone, so let them go. Besides, if I resist any longer, my mother-in-law doesn't know what to say.
Seeing that I was no longer talking, my mother-in-law asked the mage to start subduing demons and eliminating demons. I saw that the mage first burned a large handful of incense, held the incense and walked around the room in a big circle, and then burned a few yellow pieces of paper with characters written on them, and then he put his hands together and chanted words in his mouth, then burned a few more yellow papers, and finally suddenly threw the burning paper into a basin with water on the ground, and after the flame was extinguished, the mage said that the ghost had been caught by him, and he wanted to send it back to the underworld!
Lu Tao paid 200 yuan for this ceremony! (To be continued.) )