Dalin's grandmother is already in the advanced stage of lung cancer and has just been brought home from the county hospital the day before yesterday. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 According to local customs, when the sick person has no hope of being cured, he must spend the last days of his life at home, and it is unlucky to die outside.

Grandma Dalin had an oxygen tube in her nose and an infusion bottle hanging next to the bed, and she was so thin that she had lost her human shape, lying on the bed like a skeleton. Zhuzi, a young doctor who runs a private clinic in the village, is Da Lin's uncle and younger brother, and he attached himself to Da Lin's ear and told him to talk to his grandmother as little as possible.

When Dalin's grandmother saw her eldest grandson, a few cloudy tears could still flow out of her dry well-like eyes. She muttered to Dalin: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, I thought I wouldn't see you in this life!" Go over there and talk to your master, let him not go by himself, wait for me to go together. ”

Dalin comforted his grandmother softly with tears in his eyes.

Cui Changxing, who was following Da Lin, heard Da Lin's mother calling him in the east room again, and knew that there was a situation on the old father's side, so he quietly touched Da Lin's arm and gestured for him to go back to his grandfather as well.

When Dalin returned to the East House, he saw that his grandfather had already inhaled less and exhaled more, and his income could not be covered by his expenses, and his life was hanging by a thread.

The pillar also followed from the West House to the East House, he put his finger on Grandpa Dalin's nostrils, and after a while, said to Cui Changxing sadly: "Uncle, my grandfather is gone!" ”

Erlin cried first with a "wow".

The woman in the house cried and exited the room, and Cui Changxing and a few male neighbors hurriedly changed the old man's shroud.

The old man's clothes were put on in a short time, and Dalin's mother, who had just arrived in the West House, was on the side where Dalin's grandmother lived, and she also cried "wow" and shouted to this side: "Dalin's father is coming here, our mother is also leaving!" ”

Cui Changxing hurriedly ran over with Da Lin and Er Lin, and he saw that the old mother had passed away, and she was still holding the oxygen tube that had just been pulled out of her body------

Two coffins were placed side by side in the house in the middle of the hall.

Cui Dalin felt as if he was dreaming, and grandpa and grandma were gone like this? The old couple have been in love all their lives, and the people in the village have a good reputation, and their love story is like a bowl of sticky syrup, which has been pulled into a sweet silk thread by the years. If you are a resident of the city, your grandparents will definitely be rated as a "model couple" on the street. However, Dalin didn't feel that there was anything special about his grandparents in their love life, they were just living a normal life. Later, he slowly realized that his experience and age before going to college could not really grasp the true meaning of the traditional married life of the peasants. The last time I came back to visit the house, my grandparents were not in good health, and my grandmother told my grandfather that if she left first, she would wait for her grandfather underground, but grandpa couldn't leave her alone. Grandpa said that if he couldn't stand it, he would go first, because it was too cold underground, and he would warm up the tomb and wait for his grandmother to come over. Grandma said that the old thing is a deception, and after death, there is no residual warmth on the body, and you can still warm the tomb, if you want to go, we will go together. Dalin thought that his grandparents were telling a joke at the time, but he didn't expect that today it has become a reality.

There is a mass organization in the village that undertakes red and white ceremonies, and the owner only has to pay money and make demands, and other things are handled by the people of the mass organization. The people who went to the homes of relatives and friends to report the funeral have already set off, and there is still a group of people in the courtyard who are building a funeral shed and a stove, Cui Changxing has been really tired recently, kneeling on the straw mat in front of his parents' coffin, his head hanging on his chest and falling asleep. Dalin looked at his father, who was almost mentally broken and his body was about to collapse, and he felt a little heartache and guilt. In recent years, my grandparents have been sick and need to be taken care of, and the family's economic situation is not good, my father has been worried about his livelihood all the year round, and he has not seen him for more than half a year, and his father, who is just in his sixties, seems to be much older. For him, people are like the four seasons in late autumn, gray hair is like reeds in the glacier, unkempt beard is like thatch under cold frost, and his forehead is covered with rut marks that have been rolled over by the heavy car of life. There is a saying in the countryside called "a man is eighteen, he does not rely on his parents", he is already twenty-eight years old, a few years ago, let his parents run around for his tuition and living expenses, and in recent years, let his parents worry about finding a girlfriend in their own lives, and so on. Beijing is not a thousand mountains away, thousands of rivers away, during the illness of my grandparents, I began to concentrate on studying, after graduation to find a job, and then busy with work, not only did not share the worries of my parents, but became another burden on their minds, I owe too much to this family!

Grandpa and Grandma were buried together in a grave, and they worked hard all their lives, and in the end they only left a small, round mound on the earth, like the end of their lives. Next to them is buried Cui Qianqing, the father of Cui Shuanglai, the director of the village committee, Cui Qianqing has looked down on Cui Dalin's grandfather all his life, and always relies on the many brothers in his family to bully Cui Dalin's grandfather. Cui Qianqing should have known before his death that people eventually have a common destination, that is, the cemetery, where you fight for each other during your lifetime and live next to each other after your death.

Grandpa and grandma are gone, the course of life is finally over, and Dalin's apology and nostalgia for the old man have just begun.

After Dalin's grandparents died, it was not long before the "first seventh".

Most of Dalin's ten-day holiday has passed, Cui Changxing called the Dalin brothers and their mother together to discuss things in the empty hall, some people call this way of discussing things "holding a family meeting", of course, this kind of "family meeting" has no complicated procedures, no need to eat meeting stoves, no service personnel and support vehicles, and no communication and implementation requirements, let alone spend a penny of public money.

Dalin's father married his mother with a disabled leg when he was almost 30 years old because of the poor living conditions in the family. In the eyes of the neighbors, Cui Changxing lived a little bit in other places except for cultivating a college student, and he was lucky to have been caught and hidden with him for a lifetime, and he made friends for a lifetime. However, in the eyes of Dalin's mother, her husband is the hero of the family, he knows the weather and the harvest when he looks at the clouds, he can do any hard work when he works, and he can pass any ditch and ditch in life. Of course, when life is the most difficult, such as not being able to borrow money for medical treatment for her in-laws, and Dalin can't make up enough tuition fees to go to school, she will also carry her parents-in-law, Cui Changxing and the children behind her back, tears like an endless source, making Qinglianghe, who is often cut off, envious, jealous and hateful.

Dalin studied in Beijing for four years, after graduation, once thought about returning to his hometown to develop, he also knew that the development space of his hometown is limited, and he plans to return to his hometown mainly to take on some family responsibilities, but Cui Changxing resolutely opposed his son's opinion, he hopes that Dalin can gain a firm foothold in the big city, only by standing tall, can he see far, in order to have a good future. He also wanted some people in the village to look down on him, especially Cui Qianqing's son Cui Shuang, who not only went to college, but also found a job in a big city.

Dalin understands his father's hard work, and he also complains a little in his heart that his father does not understand the outside world and puts pressure on himself, and it will be very difficult to survive with dignity in a big city with conditions like himself.

When he was about to graduate in one semester of the four years of college, Cui Changxing told Dalin, who was about to return to school after the winter vacation in his hometown, that he and Erlin would deal with the affairs of the family, and asked Dalin not to worry about it, and to seize the time to contact and work in Beijing after graduation.

When Dalin left the house, Cui Changxing handed him a worn-out brown paper envelope that had already been prepared and asked him to open it again when it was most difficult outside.

Dalin took his father's envelope, he didn't believe that his father, who had been digging in the soil all his life, would have any tricks in his most difficult time, but just took the envelope as the concern and longing of the elders for his children, and carefully stored it.

Cui Changxing knew that Dalin had found a job in Beijing and received his first month's salary, so he told his eldest son on the phone that the envelope he gave him half a year ago was of little use, and asked Dalin to open it and deal with it later. (To be continued.) )