Chapter Forty-Eight: Ru Can's Diary—A New Name

June 7, 1993 was sunny

I began to sympathize with the man in front of me. I never thought that Aunt Hong would be so aggressive, so vitriol, and like a grumpy woman, she would point at the nose of the man in front of her and scold. So much so that I'm a little embarrassed to watch the excitement.

I've been in the fugue since the beginning, after all, there is always something mysterious in the cemetery, and you can't help but think about it. When I came back to my senses, I only heard the man say:

"How do you ask me to explain to Tang Yan?"

"How to explain it? How do you want to explain to Tang Yan now? Have you ever thought of explaining to us, hopeless brothers who you have put to death? Have you ever thought that those who died also need an explanation, have you ever thought about those orphans, widows, who will give them an explanation? Do you think you're demoted, transferred, and that's the end of the matter? Even if you apologize? What are you when we are people? We put our lives in your hands, and you ask me how to explain it to a woman? Shouldn't you give me an explanation?

Look at my face, do you know who I am? You go and flip through the calendar, do you know how many years I have lost when I believe you? And those who have lost their lives, what do you say? You're embarrassed to ask me how to explain it?

You're a bastard, you're a coward, you're a coward, you're a gambler who cares about your own selfish desires and bullying you with a gun.

Have I said anything over the years? Have I begged you for anything? I'm just going to let you be a father now, take this child back, and give her a complete home. Even if you owe me so many years of youth and so many lives to my brothers, do you think it's too much? Do you still need to explain? ”

Aunt Hong stood in front of her tombstone, staring at the man in front of her viciously, clenching her hands with one hand, loosening them, and clenching them again. It seems that he is trying to adjust his emotions, but it is obviously not very effective.

It was really the first time I had entered a cemetery in China, and it was the first time I had seen so many tombstones lined up on the hillside, very neatly and like terraces. Even the shape, size, color, and inscription of the tombstones are extremely similar. It is estimated that they are all unified supporting services provided by the cemetery. When people are alive, they don't pay attention to these things, and they don't really care about them after they die, only those who face death every day, corpses and ashes, will come up with these many details, and then feel that there is no need to innovate, so they will be uniform. Naturally, this is also a traditional ritual.

Aunt Hong's tombstone is pasted with a photo of her wearing a police uniform, the photo should have been taken a few years ago, at that time Aunt Hong was still a young girl in the flower season. The inscription on the tombstone should have been written by a colleague from the police force, and the beginning is "My best friend Qin Hongling was born and died from July 8, 1965 to June 10, 1992" There is a square black marble stone platform in front of the tombstone, on which there is an incense burner, two fruit bowls, a stone lion on each side of the stone platform, a treasure vase, and a fake flower with faded color in the bottle. There is no incense in the incense burner, which is probably just an ornament, because there is a huge sign on the side of the road that just came up that reads "It is strictly forbidden to worship with open fire". The fruit bowl was also empty, and there was some old rain in the plate, and the traces of water stains around the edges were quite dirty.

Some people say that it is fair for people to die, and no one can escape death, but in fact, some people die when they die, and no one cares about it anymore, and there is not even a person who sweeps the tomb, and some people are dead but there is still a bond with the world. Of course, there are those who are genuinely remembrance, but this nostalgia will become less and less, and eventually it will become a specific procedure. Just as the Lantern Festival is to eat Lantern Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is to enjoy the lanterns, and the Qingming Festival is also to sweep the tombs.

Looking at Aunt Hong's dusty tombstone and empty cups and plates, you know that she belongs to the first type. If you die, you die, and no one cares about it. This is something I didn't expect, judging from the signature of the tombstone, it seems that she has no family. But it's no wonder that if she had other family members, she wouldn't have forced me to the so-called coward in front of her.

I squatted down and took out my handkerchief, dipped the rain from the plate, symbolically wiped Aunt Hong's tombstone, and the stone slab, and then washed the fruit plate with the dirty water. Finally, I took out two apples from the hotel from my backpack and put one on a plate, which is better than nothing.

"You don't have to be so excited, I didn't say I disagreed, you have to let me think about it."

"Think about it now." Aunt Hong actually took out a gun from behind her and pointed at the man head-on, this transition was a bit abrupt. I looked around, but fortunately it was not an important day to pay tribute, and there were only three of us standing on this side of the hillside of the cemetery.

That's what I just said, that the sacrificial sweep will eventually become a regular procedure on a given day, and at other times, the lonely ghosts and ghosts that are all over the mountain will be bothered by few people. Of course, this is the habit of the Chinese.

There is another habit in foreign countries, people will repair the tombstone and coffin in different shapes, fully showing the personality or great achievements of the tomb owner during his lifetime, and even the epitaph will be humorous and witty. Although that kind of cemetery also has the solemnity that a cemetery should have, it is full of such a kind of jumping activity. I've heard that there will be people reading books, going for walks, and even dating inside. I also like it there because there are so many secrets to hide in it.

I sat on the cleaned stone platform and looked at the man in front of me who was coerced by Aunt Hong. He didn't seem to be scared at all, Aunt Hong's pistol didn't pose a threat to him, at most it had a bit of a persecutive effect. He looks like he is 40 years old, with a square face, thick eyebrows, slender eyes, and thin crow's feet at the corners of his eyes. Sure enough, no one should be disgraced.

"What's her name?" When the man looked at me, he should be thinking about how to explain the problem and how to call it.

"What do you want to call it?" Aunt Hong also looked at me, and she didn't mind letting me make up my own mind about this kind of thing.

"Then it depends, what do I call you in the future?" I looked at the man. He doesn't seem to have thought about this question yet.

"Naturally, it's called Dad." Aunt Hong didn't wait for the man to answer, and grabbed the front to gag his mouth. That's what she insisted on from the beginning, she wanted to give me a complete home.

"If I could, I'd like to call Ru Canter." I stared at the man's face, Aunt Hong had already introduced, when I first met, let me call him Uncle Ru, now when it comes to the key link, I want to change my name to Dad, then I naturally want to be surnamed Ru, as for Ru Confectionery, I like these two words, Ru Confectionery, if ......

"Then Ru Cana." The man nodded, acknowledging acceptance of his title and my name.

"Then Ru Jing will go back with you today, I have already brought the luggage, and it is in the car." Aunt Hong was simply and didn't leave him a chance to ease up.

"What are you doing in such a hurry?"

"Do what I didn't finish." Aunt Hong put down the gun, pulled me up from the ground, and pushed me in front of the man. The man grabbed my shoulder, looked down at me, and smiled at me. I smiled back at him.

"What do you need me to do?"

"Take care of Ru Canteen, keep a low profile, and wait for me to inform."

"Aren't you going to go home?"

"Any help?"

"And what are you going to do?"

"You don't need to know this for the time being, I'll contact you if there's something. It's okay, you're going to be dead. Ru Jing's due fee, in this card, you take it, I hope you don't treat her badly, otherwise the consequences are far more serious than you think. Aunt Hong handed Uncle Ru a bank card to Father Ru, and looked at me deeply. I knew her last sentence was meant for me, with a hint of a warning.

"Will you come to see her?" Father Ru seems to be a little reluctant and uneasy.

"That's me and her. You don't need to know. "I understand that Aunt Hong is preparing to disappear for a while, one is to change her identity and role, and the other is to verify the reliability of this Ru father. The so-called once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope, is her state. I'm just a litmus test she threw out now, if Uncle Ru tracks down my identity and reveals Aunt Hong's whereabouts, then it is estimated that she will secretly pick me up, and then find a better person to take care of. At the same time, there is one more person in her death list.

"Then how do you contact me, and how do I contact you?"

"Call or other means, I'll call you, if you look for me, you can let Ru Jing find me."

"Well, just do as you say. You pay attention to your own safety, this time there is no cover and cooperation, it is all up to you. ”

"Humph! Which time is not? Aunt Hong snorted coldly, turned around and walked down the mountain, walked to the staircase, and looked back at me again. I hurriedly followed, and Father Ru followed me, and it seemed that there was only one last step left for the handover of luggage.

So, from today on, my name is Ru Jing, Ru Yuangao's daughter, 13 years old, because of the death of my biological mother, I was raised by my aunt since I was a child, for various reasons, I have been living abroad, and then my aunt had to send me back to my father because of work and personal reasons. Since then, she has changed from an orphan to an illegitimate daughter.

I can't say I'm satisfied with this new identity, after all, according to the plot, I still have a stepmother to meet. With my unjust background, it is estimated that there will be a quarrel and criticism. What's more, I heard that there is also a half-brother who is 4 years older than me. It's been a long time since I've been a daughter or a sister, and I'm a little confused.

I didn't expect Aunt Hong to be able to throw the bag so smoothly, but in vain I prepared a plan for myself in advance, that is, the orphanage. If Aunt Hong must let me stay where she can see and find, then the orphanage is not impossible, there is also ordinary education and ordinary school-age life. The main thing is that there is no need to explain it to any woman, and it does not provoke any family conflicts.

Naturally, this is a step that I need to complete independently when I haven't cleared the customs, and the key is to watch the game at night, poor man, wrong poor dad......