Today is the day of Xianglian's departure. (Dispatch, a dialect in the north, mostly spread in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei and other regions, the official name is also called the funeral, the funeral comes from the "Water Margin", in fact, it is also mentioned in the "Confucian History", which refers to the removal of the coffin to the burial cemetery or funeral home after death.) ）

My father got up in the dark early in the morning, and he had 500 yuan with him.

My father went to Zhongguan to pay the gift money, and then went to the table to eat. (Zhongguan: people who sit at the door to receive gifts for happy events or funerals)

Xianglian's banquet is very good, chicken, duck and fish, lion's head, and more than a dozen hot dishes, a few cold dishes, adding up to more than 20 dishes.

At this time, his father was also holding back his anger, thinking that this Liu Laizi was really not a thing, his wife died, but he didn't show up.

Before and after, it was all up to the two children and relatives and friends to take care of them inside and out.

As the ancient generals beat gongs and drums, burned incense to open the way, and the relatives knelt down and wept and mourned, this can be regarded as burying the fragrant lotus. (Gu Jiang: Northern dialect, referring to the people who play suona during funerals)

Xianglian is buried at the foot of the mountain not far from their town, there is a big sunflower, in summer, the yellow can bloom very well, Zhao Xun has been very fond of the flowers there since she was a child, but she has no habit of picking flowers, every time she goes there to enjoy the flowers, she is at most to go there to take a look.

When my father and Xianglian looked at each other before, I heard Xianglian say that she was the second in line at home, the eldest was an older brother, she also had a younger sister, the family had been poor since she was a child, she was just sandwiched in the middle, and she was the most unfavored one in the family, so she didn't go to school, from the time she was just sensible, she had to follow her parents to the farmland, go down to the manure pit, and have to suffer anything, and later because the family had no money, the family promised people to Liu Laizi.

But this does not prevent her from liking those flowers and plants since she was a child, although there are no conditions at home, but it is always okay to pick those wild ones without money.

Liu Laizi said that although he is also a ruffian, but the basic life can still protect Xianglian, the two gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the life is okay, but she did those unseemly things before, and now she thinks about it, maybe she is also forced to do it.

She had always said that she liked the sunflowers all over the mountains, and she thought it was a color of hope, but after marriage, she didn't have much opportunity to go over to see them often, and it has always been her own heart disease.

Now that her wish was over, they buried her under the sunflower at the foot of the mountain, and kept her company day and night.

After returning home, my father cleaned up, made a few simple dishes, and asked Zhao for the first time:

"Are you going to go out and look for a job, and you haven't been admitted to the civil service?"

"Well, I'm going to go out and have a look in the next two days." Zhao Xun was particularly surprised, she thought that her father would not let her go out to find a job because she was not admitted to the civil service, and even scolded her.

"Okay, you're so old, I won't say anything about you, you have a balance ruler in your heart for what to do, just don't be fooled."

But her father was not angry because Zhao Xun was not admitted to the civil service, but settled her there to find a job and not be deceived, so Zhao Xun felt very strange.

The next day, Zhao Xun also put on a beautiful makeup after dressing up, she went to what mobile hall, insurance company, advertising decoration, but she always ran into walls everywhere, no company wanted her, some said that there were enough people, and some said that the profession was not right.

So Zhao Xun returned home sadly.

When her father saw Zhao Xun's bewildered look, he asked her if she hadn't found a job.

"Dad, I plan to go back in two days, and I plan to go to the Internet bar tomorrow to submit my resume."

"Okay, then you can do it yourself."

It was almost the end of October, and the weather was slowly getting colder, and suddenly my brother came back with a lot of delicious food.

She also has a blonde hair, blue eyes, and tall foreign girl.

Seeing that my brother brought home such a girl who was different from other families, my father pulled my brother over, carried a foreign girl, and asked my brother:

"What do you have to do with this blonde girl?" Father asked, glaring, obviously a little scared.

The younger brother pulled his father out.

"Come, let me introduce you, Lisa, this is my dad, this is my sister."

"Dad, sister, this is Lisa, the new good friend I made in Beijing."

"Hello uncle! Hello sister! "The seemingly perfect Mandarin surprised my father and Zhao Xun, two people who had never seen the world, that a foreign woman could speak Chinese so nicely and fluently.

"Well, hello Lisa."

"Oh, it's Lisa, isn't it? Come on, come in and sit down, and find you to take Lisa around our house. ”

Zhao Xun took Lisa out just now.

The father immediately followed up and asked the younger brother:

"What is your relationship with this foreign girl?"

"Dad, we haven't known each other for a long time, and it's just an ordinary relationship."

"Ordinary relationships? You are your dad and I have never eaten pork, and I have never seen a pig run? Can a foreigner come home with you? ”

"Oh, Dad, it's not the relationship you think, we're in a very simple relationship now."

"I don't care what you think, anyway, I tell you, you and her quickly dispersed for me, and our ancestors didn't say that they were looking for a foreign daughter-in-law to come back!"

"Dad, your thinking is too old-fashioned, besides, what age is it now, why do you still have regional discrimination?"

"You little bunny, I think you have hard wings, right? If Lao Tzu hadn't given you a penny for you to go to college, would you be where you are today? After drinking two Tianyang inks, you don't even know your Lao Tzu, do you? ”

"Dad, you know I didn't mean that!"

"Knowing that I am your father, hurry up and explain to me that Lisa, you have a meal at home at noon, and leave in the afternoon!"

"Dad, I finally came back from vacation, you just let me stay for two more days, besides, Lisa also wants to play here for two days before leaving."

"Shut up for me, your dad and I are this old-fashioned thinking, don't think you can do such a shameful thing for me all day long."

When the younger brother saw this, he knew that it would definitely be no fun to be with Lisa, and his father was a typical traditional thinker who only supported "domestic production." ”

But it's understandable, my father has read little since he was a child, and he hasn't been in the school for a few days, so he can't read a few big characters, and he can know a few commonly used words on the street.