Chapter 117: Burial
As Tianyuan City gets closer and closer. Li Xiao's mood became more and more complicated, when he left a few months ago, who would have thought that he would set foot in Tianyuan again.
It can be said that Tianyuan has carried too much grief for him, this place, if it is possible, this time, he will never set foot again.
Gradually driving into Tianyuan, Li Xiao's expression became more and more silent, and when he caught a glimpse of the flower shop on the side of the road, he said: "Stop first, I want to buy a bouquet of flowers!" ”
When Du Sheng, who was driving, heard it, he didn't ask much, he directly slowed down and parked the car on the side of the road.
When I got out of the car and entered the flower shop, I saw a large number of flowers and plants of various colors still planted in pots, and in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, there were also some pruned and packaged bouquets on a row of shelves.
A little further in the middle flower shop, in front of a long table, there was a girl who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, holding scissors in one hand, trimming the freshly cut flowers in her hand.
Hearing the footsteps, the black woman looked up and saw someone entering the store, so she put down the scissors and bouquet in her hand, met her and asked, "Sir, what flowers do you want to buy?" ”
"White roses, thirty-six." Li Xiao said.
When he returned to Tianyuan this time, Li Xiao wanted to remove his mother's ashes and move them back to Linshan to be buried in the Taoist temple, and this white rose was his mother's favorite flower.
"Yes, sir, please wait a minute." The girl said with a smile, then turned back to the table where she had pruned the bouquet before, picked up the scissors and picked out the white roses with a better appearance in the dazzling sea of flowers that were in full bloom.
Not much. Thirty-six white roses were chosen, and the girl returned to the table with the flowers, and began to carefully trim the somewhat messy and lush branches and leaves, and the thorns on the branches.
After pruning all the flower branches, the girl picked up a plain wrapping paper from the side, carefully wrapped the bouquet, and finally tied the bow with a ribbon and held it in front of Li Xiao.
After taking the flower, Li Xiao asked, "How much?" ”
"This one costs five dollars a piece, and you want thirty-six. That's one hundred and eighty pieces. The florist girl said.
Take out two hundred dollars. After handing it to the girl, without waiting for her to find money, Li Xiao held the flowers in his hand and walked out of the flower shop.
Take the money. The girl looked at the authenticity. It was then put in the pocket of the apron. As soon as he took out twenty change, he saw that Li Xiao had already walked out of the flower shop, so he hurriedly ran out and shouted, "Sir." Find your change! ”
Turning his head and glancing at the girl calmly, Li Xiao didn't say anything, just took the money and walked back to the car.
"Turn left at the front intersection and go to the suburban cemetery." After getting into the car, Li Xiao spoke.
After hearing Li Xiao's words, Du Sheng started the car and left the street.
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Located in the suburbs of the suburbs at the edge of the urban area of Nancheng District, Tianyuan City, it is the only state-owned cemetery in Tianyuan, compared to another cemetery in Tianyuan City, it is indeed much cheaper here, and most of the people buried here choose the cheap wall burial lattice to worship the spirit card.
Walking into the cemetery, after walking through a tomb lined with stone tablets, Li Xiao came to a house that was repaired like a temple, except for the direction of the door, the other three walls of the house were small lattices, on which the portrait of the deceased and the name of the person were pasted.
And Li Xiao's mother's wall burial lattice is in the innermost corner, and it is the bottom.
This kind of wall burial lattice with a bad location is the cheapest, and it only costs 2,000 yuan to have the right to use it for ten years.
However, Li Xiao was also sad to enshrine his mother's ashes here, just because the Wang family at that time refused to buy even a cemetery, and it was such a seemingly simple wall burial lattice, which was still begged for by the young Li Xiao at that time.
Slowly kneeling on the ground, placing the flowers in his hand next to the grid, Li Xiao reached out and gently touched the photo on the grid, only to see that it was a beautiful and moving photo of a woman who looked only in her twenties.
His nose was a little sour, and Li Xiao whispered softly: "Mom, I've come to see you with a smile!" Are you okay in heaven? Did you miss me? As he spoke, silent tears quietly flowed.
"In the past, Xiaoxiao was still young, and I didn't have the ability, so I still have to live in such a small place when my mother leaves, so that you will be wronged." Let the tears fall, Li Xiao didn't wipe them, and still muttered.
"Now that it's all over, Xiaoxiao doesn't want you to be wronged anymore, I'll take you back to Linshan, build a big house for my mother, and guard you for the rest of my life."
After talking intermittently for a long time, Li Xiao seemed to fall into all the sadness, and finally got up to wipe away the tears on his face, turned back to Du Sheng behind him and said, "Help me find the person in charge here, I want to remove my mother's urn." ”
Nodding, Du Sheng walked out, and after a while, he led a cemetery staff member over.
"Hello, sir, how can I help you?" The staff asked.
"I want to take my mother's ashes and take them to another city for burial." Li Xiao said.
"That's it~ Then you only need to bring the key to the wall burial lattice, as well as the ashes storage certificate, and show your own identity documents, and go to register for the record first, and that's it." The staff explained to Li Xiao.
"Can I do it now?" Li Xiao asked.
"Please follow me." As he spoke, the cemetery staff led Li Xiao outside.
took Li to the archives of the cemetery, and saw that there was an old man with glasses inside, sitting at the table and sorting out some files, so the staff member stepped forward and said, "Lao He, this gentleman wants to get back the ashes and help him register for the record." ”
The old man raised his head, pushed the reading glasses on his nose, then looked back and forth on the table a few times, then took out a form, handed it to Li Xiao, and said, "Fill out this form first, and by the way, take out your documents, I want to find out the file at that time." ”
Silently took out a worn-out cloth bag from his pocket, and after opening the cloth bag, he saw a small green book and a key that looked a little gray inside.
After putting the small notebook on the table, Li Xiao took out his ID card again. They were all placed on the table and began to fill out the form.
And Lao He, who was in charge of registration, first picked up his ID card, compared Li Xiao's appearance back and forth, then put it back on the table, then took the ashes storage card, and got up to rummage in the file cabinet behind.
After a short time, Li Xiao filled out the form, then handed it to the old man, and said, "Is it okay?" ”
I carefully read the table in my hand. The old man said, "Sign your name here." Then you can go and pick up the ashes, just give the key to the staff in a moment. ”
signed his name under the form, and then Li Xiao and the others came to the place of the burial again under the leadership of the previous staff.
Open the grid. One of them is placed in front of the urn. It's a spirit card. It is engraved with "Mother Li Rou's Spiritual Position", which is actually a wooden board, and the font on it is also crooked. It's very untidy, this is because he didn't have the money to pay for carving the spirit card, Li Xiao carved it himself.
took out the spirit card, saw the urn wrapped in a white cloth inside, and carefully took out the urn, Li Xiao just walked out with the urn in his arms.
And at this moment, a middle-aged man was standing at the door, staring at Li Xiao with some frowns.
It's just that at this time, Li Xiao's whole heart was immersed in memories, but he didn't notice this gaze looking at him. However, Du Sheng and Baihua, who were following behind Li Xiao, noticed it instantly, and directly set their eyes on that person.
As soon as the middle-aged man felt a man and a woman behind Li Xiao looking at him, he didn't hesitate at all, turned around in an instant, and began to leave the cemetery.
Since the other party has left, Baihua didn't pay attention to it anymore, but Du Sheng frowned at this time, and was puzzled in his heart, the middle-aged man looked about the same age as himself, and Xiuwei also had the middle and late stages of the Xuan Rank, it is said that Du Sheng should know a person like this.
Just rummaged through his brain, and Du Sheng couldn't find any information that matched this middle-aged man, which made him wonder, could it be a hermitage? But why did he frown as if he was thinking when he looked at Li Xiao?
Walking all the way to the parking lot, after Li Xiao got into the car, he saw that Du Sheng was a little distracted, so he asked, "Du Sheng, what's wrong?" Any questions? ”
"Master, there was a middle-aged man just now, his eyes looked at you a little strange, and that person should have the cultivation of the middle and late stages of the Xuan Rank, and he is not even familiar to me, I always feel that there is something wrong here." Du Sheng frowned and said what he was thinking.
"Leave him alone, if there is a real problem, he will definitely look for us again, and if it is an enemy at that time, it will be overtaken directly." Li Xiao couldn't figure out why, but it thought more that it was sent by the Wang family.
And this means that as soon as he entered the range of Tianyuan, he was already known by the Wang family, but Li Xiao couldn't figure out about the sudden retreat of that person, but he was not afraid of anything.
When he returned to Tianyuan this time, Li Xiao didn't think about avoiding the Wang family's sight, even if he sent someone to keep an eye on him, what could he do?
Sitting in the driver's seat, Du Sheng thought about it, so he didn't mention it anymore, immediately started the car, and then asked, "Lord, where are we going now?" ”
"Go to Xicheng District and stay directly in the Yuanxi Hotel." Li Xiao thought about it and said.
Yuanxi Hotel is a five-star hotel, the whole hotel has 18 floors, except for the lower six floors are restaurants, and the upper 12 floors are guest rooms.
And tomorrow night, the engagement banquet of Wang Lin's two marriages will be held in the six-story banquet hall of the Yuanxi Hotel, and Li Xiao chose to live here in order to save him from running errands tomorrow.
Hearing Li Xiao's words, Du Sheng drove out of the cemetery directly and drove in the direction of Xicheng District.
After coming to the Yuanxi Hotel, he parked the car in the underground parking lot, and Li Xiao held the urn and led Du Sheng and Baihua to the door of the hotel.
However, when the hotel doorman saw the spirit card and urn that Li Xiao was holding in his hand, he immediately stopped him and said, "This gentleman, you can't enter the hotel with these. ”
"Who prescribed it?" Li Xiao said.
"There are no rules, but this is a hotel after all, and if you enter with the urn spirit card, it will affect other guests, so ......." The doorman explained.
"I don't want to embarrass you, go and call your manager! Maybe he'll let me stay. Li Xiao said.
"This ...... Well, you wait! The doorman hesitated, but thinking that this matter would not be easy to solve by himself, he said to Li Xiao, turned around and entered the lobby.
A short time later, the doorman came over with a woman in a suit and leather shoes.
"You are?" Liang Xue looked Li Xiao up and down, a little uncertain in her heart, this young man was wearing a Taoist robe, and he was still holding an urn in his hand, and he didn't feel like he had come to eat and stay; And he didn't know this eccentric boy at all, so how could he be sure that he would let him move in? (To be continued......)