The negligible pockets of rural parents have quietly achieved some high-profile industries around the school. In order to attract business, most of the commercial houses near the school district have student accommodation, student meals, and many signboards for renting single rooms for accompanying students, and most of their income comes from the blood and sweat of rural parents. These open and secret trades spread all over every school, almost sucking up the bone marrow oil of every parent.

Due to the influx of rural students, one-third of the students in every ordinary primary school in the city must come from boarding and accompanying parents. Despite this, the villagers did not care whether their children could become talents or not, and still blindly sent students to the city one after another. However, some students do not understand the good intentions of their parents, they often avoid heavy schoolwork, take their parents' hard-earned money, and fool around in Internet cafes and song halls. As a result, the book was not read, but the vices of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling became habitual, and there was no social morality.

Sun Xiaohong entered the city to apply for the adult recruitment examination, and when she passed through the street at the gate of a key middle school, she walked a few steps forward, and then turned around and slowly stopped. When she looked back at the large gilded letters hanging from the gate above the high steps, her heart could not calm down for a long time. However, at this time, at that time, it was not her own decision to do so.

When she thought of her classmates and friends, who were all waiting for her life inside, she was afraid again. This place, the threshold is too high, it doesn't belong to her at all, and she can't get in if she wants to. Inside and outside the door, only a few steps away, but there are thousands of different fates, but no one gave her a pass, and she can't step into this high threshold, so she can only pass by and see.

After Sun Xiaohong came back from the city, she immediately cut off all contact and sat at home all day to retreat and study her homework. There were still more than two months left before the exam, and there were often people at home who disturbed her, so she simply hid in the two empty rooms in the west courtyard and worked hard.

The second uncle and the second mother have been moving away for almost half a year, and sometimes the second uncle also returns to the village to see Xiaohong's grandparents. He came to the house and said that his son and daughter-in-law over there were very filial, but they were busy with work, and sometimes they couldn't take care of them. After the old couple went, when they came home from work, they also had a ready-made meal. The days in the city are not exposed to wind and sun, which is a good thing for them, they have changed their way of life, and when Xiaohong sees them again, she feels that the second uncle is also more energetic than before.

During the Qingming season, it is difficult to see a sunny day again. The sky was gray, the cold wind was blowing, and the courtyard was bitterly cold. It was raining outside the door, ticking and ringing, like an ominous omen hovering around the rooftop, penetrating the heart.

Sun Xiaohong sat in the room reading quietly, she turned her back to the window, a cold wind came in through the gap in the glass, she couldn't help but shudder, and quickly put a coat on her body.

There was a sound of panicked footsteps, staggering from outside the courtyard. With a "bang", the door opened, and my sister put on a raincoat and walked in from outside the door with a panicked expression. Strings of water flowed down her cheeks, and she couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain. Seeing her pale face, Sun Xiaohong asked in astonishment: "Sister, it's raining so hard outside, why do you come back when you say it?" ”

"In the past few days, my aunt's unit has a holiday, and we came back in the rain. Xiaohong, go back to the East Courtyard and have a look, our grandfather is no good! Hearing this, Sun Xiaohong's face froze, and her eyes widened wider than copper bells.

"When I came from the east courtyard in the morning, my grandfather was fine sitting on the kang, why can't he do it now?" Although birth, old age, sickness and death are a hurdle in life, Sun Xiaohong would rather be confused to the end, she couldn't believe this fact, she followed her sister and quickly ran back home.

Grandpa is old, he closes his eyes tightly, sits cross-legged on the kang, his bent spine is like a bent and hovering tree, no longer vibrant. He sat quietly, like a statue, like a bodhisattva, and in that noon without sunlight he silently left this silent world. Grandpa died in a sitting, he walked so peacefully, like an old man in his sleep, his face was not terrible at all.

The eldest aunt knelt in the room and hid her face and wept, she held her grandfather's hand tightly with both hands, and read it in pieces. Someone came in and made a simple bed of corpses out of planks in the middle of the room. The fourth aunt came over and slowly parted her aunt's hands, helped her aside, watched a few women come over, and after laying a thin quilt on it, they slowly lifted Grandpa's body to it, and covered his body with a blue quilt.

I heard my sister say that he was talking to his eldest aunt at the time, and he didn't get a mouthful of phlegm, he held it for a long time, and he didn't take this breath, so he left them forever. Grandpa is over 90 years old this year, and he has always been in good health except for eye problems. Unexpectedly, a mouthful of phlegm killed him, and after Xiaohong entered the door, she suddenly knelt at her grandfather's feet, and suddenly cried silently.

The whole family burst into tears, and the mournful sound drifted from the house into the alley, along with the ashes in the pot, and echoed over the village for a long time. When the neighbors heard this, they hurried over to help with the funeral.

The eldest aunt is 42 years old this year, she was arrogant when she was young, she was very beautiful, and she was very picky when it came and went. A few days ago, the eldest aunt introduced her to a divorced old man who was fifteen or sixteen years older than her, this person was not amazing, his clothes were not overwhelming, and he seemed to be loyal and honest.

By the time Grandpa found out, they had been together for a long time. During the Chinese New Year, the eldest aunt wanted to talk to her grandfather about it. But there are too many people in the family, so she is embarrassed to open this mouth. This morning, she came home and told her grandfather about it before she could sit down on her ass.

Grandpa listened to it and thought for a long time before he said slowly: "Guiqing, you are so old, you have to have a home sooner or later." We have also heard about the object that your sister-in-law introduced to you, but we don't know what the character is, and we should know more about it. It stands to reason that your sister-in-law will be your introducer, and your mother and I have nothing to worry about, if you really think about it, your mother and I will rest assured! ”

After Grandpa finished speaking, he looked down and listened to the sound of rain outside, was silent for a while, and then said: "This year's rain is very good, it seems that it is another harvest year, Guodong and they will be able to live a good life next year!" After Grandpa finished speaking, he kept coughing. Because he coughed very badly, he covered his chest with his hands, and he still didn't catch this breath, and just like that, his grandfather died. My aunt felt ashamed, so she kept crying. Her heart-rending cries of pain became more painful than the last.

Grandma came over to persuade her: "Guiqing, don't cry, crying will break your body and you will suffer a crime." In this life, people can't help themselves in birth, old age, sickness and death. Life sometimes, there is a place to die, the well should die, the river can't die, your father lived for more than ninety years, and he is also considered to be long! He can't breathe, and he doesn't blame you! But the more my grandmother said that, the more she cried. She has always complained to herself, if she didn't say that, her grandfather might not have died so early, and he might have lived another ten or eight years without a problem.

"Since she wants to cry, let her cry enough!" When grandma saw that she was crying, she stopped persuading her.

Grandpa's coffin was parked in the courtyard. It was a good coffin specially selected by his father to the coffin shop in the village, and after he found someone to transport the coffin home, he and they built a cold shed in the yard in the rain, and the grandfather's body was buried with peace of mind.

After the grandfather was buried, there were many mourners in the courtyard. Because Sun Xiaohong's uncle has not returned, his grandfather's coffin has been parked in the yard for two days, but it still can't be buried. Sun Guodong was so anxious in the yard that he was so angry and anxious that his eyes were about to pop up, helpless, he was the eldest brother, he had to endure it if he was the eldest brother, and if he was the eldest brother, he had to endure three points from him.

I heard that he went to South Korea to discuss business, and by this time he had already taken a plane to catch up. It wasn't until ten ten minutes the next day that the eldest uncle walked in from outside the courtyard alone. His car was parked outside the hospital, and after he entered the hospital, he waved his hand at the driver, and the car went backwards out of the alley, and then drove away to the city to pick up his aunt.

The eldest uncle strode to his grandfather's coffin, he took off the glasses on his head, handed them to the fourth aunt next to him, and then knelt down. Everyone saw the eldest uncle kowtowing, hulala knelt down more than 20 late-born juniors, out of politeness, they accompanied the eldest uncle to kowtow, and kept kneeling in front of the coffin without getting up.

I saw the eldest uncle holding his hands on the ground and knocking his head down, and his hoarse voice became indistinct: "Dad, I'm late to come back!" My son hasn't come back to see you for so many years, my son is not filial! Dad, I'm back to kowtow to you! After kowtowing three times in front of Grandpa's coffin, the eldest uncle got up again to burn paper for Grandpa. Sun Xiaohong knelt aside, cast a disdainful glance at him, and said in her heart: "I can really pretend, I am not filial when I am alive, and I scream when I die." Hypocrisy, who to show it! ”

When everyone heard him say this, they all got up and walked away, leaving him alone in front of the coffin, and no one paid any more attention.

Xiaohong's mother took a piece of white filial piety cloth, walked over, and was about to put it on for her uncle, when Sun Guodong snatched it up and said: "He is also a son, it is his business that he does not have filial piety, this filial piety cloth cannot be given to him!" He doesn't care for the elderly, he doesn't visit relatives, just drop a few tears, even if he is filial, how simple, fake filial piety, who to see! Since he doesn't have anyone, why should he still wear filial piety? Sun Xiaohong's mother listened, and took back the filial piety cloth in her hand.

By the time the driver picked up my aunt from home, it was already close to midnight. When she got out of the car, she didn't even look at the coffin, and swaggered into the house.

The rain stopped, the yard was shaking, the eldest aunt came back this time, and she didn't pretend again, maybe everyone was busy with the funeral and didn't have time to entertain her. She stood by the wall, like a person watching the excitement, and fought hard into the room, watching coldly as everyone was busy and unable to intervene in anything.

The funeral was very simple, before the funeral, Mr. Yin and Yang in the village helped to find a slope in the mass grave in the east of the village, dug a square tomb, and then everyone carried the coffin to the cemetery, under the command of Mr. Yin and Yang, the grandfather's coffin was buried at an auspicious time. When his coffin was buried with a spade of loess, the eldest aunt fell to the ground, and everyone rushed up, picked her up, and helped her back to the house.

It has been said that "the rain pours new graves, and the mules and horses are in herds." "It seems that the old Sun family is going to get rich. Some people also say that when the grandfather died, he died while sitting, and the later generations will definitely have people who are officials, even if they are not officials, they will be literati. He should be put in a coffin, but unfortunately, putting his body in a coffin may not work.

When Sun Guodong heard this, he just smiled bitterly silently, he didn't believe these sideways. Whoever sees the dead carrying the yoke, and the death of a man is like a lamp extinguished, if there is a soul and a spirit, then no one needs to be troubled.

After the funeral, the eldest uncle and the others walked away.

After my grandfather died, there seemed to be a lot of people in the house, and it suddenly became empty and cold. Sun Guodong has added a lot of gray hair on his head, his grandmother is also a lot older, and his mother is still so busy. The eldest aunt came home less and less, and I didn't know what ecstasy soup the eldest aunt poured into her, and when she married the old man, she didn't even have a message, which caused her father to have a great prejudice against her.

After the eldest aunt got married, she lived in two places with the old man. At this time, Sun Xiaohong's sister also began to talk about the object, her object was introduced by a close relative, the man is a physical education teacher, very tall, and the family conditions are not bad, my sister thinks he is not bad to herself, the two have talked for a long time, and my sister has been hesitating and not deciding.