Liu Mei's colleagues have been chatting about the strange things that happened in the company for several days, Li Fa went crazy for no reason and was sent to a psychiatric treatment center, and then Kaiming became the general manager, things reversed too quickly, and Liu Mei still hasn't figured out what's going on.

She looked at Kaiming, who was sitting in the manager's office, and felt that after he returned from Egypt, he had become more aggressive, but this was not a bad thing, at least she had also borrowed the light to become the assistant general manager.

Sitting in a larger office than before, Kaiming put his feet directly on the table and experienced what it was like to be a general manager.

He also called as soon as possible and told An Yi and An Qi about it.

When he opened the door, he was pleasantly surprised to find his wife and sister-in-law preparing a sumptuous dinner to celebrate his promotion.

"A few days ago, you were depressed that you couldn't be promoted, why did you suddenly get promoted?" Anqi stared at him curiously.

He straightened his tie and replied with a look of vigour: "I am the best trader, and it is a matter of minutes to get promoted." ”

His triumphant appearance attracted the unanimous contempt of the two sisters. It was the first time that An Yi heard about her husband's failure in promotion, and she was very surprised, it seemed that these two guys had hidden a lot of things.

That night, Kaiming drank wine and ate a sumptuous meal, with a beautiful wife and sister-in-law next to him, if he really had a perfect life, it must be like this.

Thanks to the bottle containing the deformation liquid, it seems that this trip to Egypt was not in vain.

Approaching the winter solstice, the death of his father was unexpected, I heard the neighbor say that in the evening because the music was too loud, noisy to the father who was drinking tea in the yard, and was scolded, the neighbor turned off the music, the house was quiet, and when I looked out the window, my father sat on the chair and was motionless.

He died with a peaceful face, and it is estimated that he went without even noticing it.

When Kai Ming thought of his father, there was no warm picture in his mind, more fear. Dad is a serious guy who never laughs with anyone, and doesn't expect him to talk to you or anything, and Keming grew up under his stick.

When he was eight years old, after his parents divorced, he followed his mother to Guangzhou, and his father stayed alone in his hometown, which Kaiming thought was a wise decision.

A girl born in a big city, married to a man from the countryside, and is also the kind of guy with a withdrawn personality, do you think she can be happy?

However, the father's funeral still has to be taken care of by the family, Kaiming and An Yi packed a few simple luggage and hurried back in the car.

My hometown is in a remote mountainous area, and the car doesn't know how many turns it has made in the winding mountain road, and it will be surrounded by mountains surrounded by clouds and mist.

When it was dark, Kai Ming finally saw the lights in the mountains, this village is called Guardian Village, it sounds like there is a treasure under the village, but Kai Ming lived in the village as a child, and is very familiar with this place, it is actually an ordinary poor country.

And the people here are particularly fond of bragging, Kai Ming once heard the old man say that the village was built in the Shang Dynasty, and there were inscriptions to testify to it before, and then I don't know who got the stone tablet as a building material. If you're willing to spend a small amount of money to buy him a bottle of beer and some peanuts, he'll be happy to tell you that somewhere in the village is buried the tyrant of the Shang Dynasty, the King of Zhou.

Cumming had spent all his money on it, and when he ran home and told his father the shocking news, he was immediately beaten with a stick on the buttocks. His father dragged him to find other people's theories, you must know that in the nineties, a few cents a dollar was very precious, let alone in this poor country.

The old man didn't pay it back, Kai Ming knew that this old man who lived alone was a drunkard, and he must have a dime on his body, and he wanted him to pay for it, like asking the sun to rise in the west.

The money was not available, and the villagers saw the jokes again, and when he returned home, Kaiming's ass was beaten with another stick.

Later, I learned that the real tomb of King Su was in Henan Province, and I understood when I thought about it, how could people set up the cemetery in the south, which is a big joke. But the young Kaiming didn't understand this, he hated the people here and the village so much, so he was very happy the day his mother took him away.

During the summer vacation, his mother had brought Kaiming back twice, but each time she would take him away with a angry face, and Kaiming never saw his father again, perhaps his mother, like him, had completely lost her heart to this man.

On the day of his and An Yi's wedding, his father was not present.

"Do you want to go in from here?" An Yi saw an intersection in front of the road, and because it was getting dark, she couldn't see what the road sign was writing clearly, so she asked her husband, who had been in a daze.

Kaiming came back to his senses, pointed to the intersection and said, "Where to get in." "Although he hasn't been back for years, he is very familiar with the area.

In contrast to his wife's eagerness, he put on a poker face.

Kai Ming knew that An Yi had always felt sorry because he had never met his father, but it might be a good thing for her, if they did meet and be under the same roof, even the only beautiful conjecture might be shattered.

There are many good things in the world, but there are just as many things that are not good.

The car turned onto the country road, and there was only a street lamp far away, and when the evening breeze blew, the shadows of the trees on the side of the road rustled strangely.

The surrounding area is still deep mountains and dense forests, but the dirt road has been replaced by a smooth concrete road. As far as the eye can see, there are a dozen houses in the col, which are lit up in the dark night, and one of the courtyards is particularly brightly lit, and many people gather.

"That's it. Kemin pointed his wife in the right direction.

An Yi slowed down the car and twisted the steering wheel to let the car stop steadily on the side of the road.

Through the car window, Kaiming saw an old house, the exterior walls were peeling off some mud bricks, the eaves were devoid of tiles in several places, the rain-eroded wooden beams had turned black, and the tomato tree in front of the door had only a few pitiful leaves.

The childhood home is still the same, only more dilapidated than before. It's hard to imagine that the towns outside don't know how much they have changed, almost every ten years, and this small village has hardly changed, like a desert island in the age of civilization.

As soon as Kai Ming and An Yi stepped into the courtyard, everyone cast strange glances, like two passers-by who strayed into someone's house.

After an awkward look at each other, an aunt about forty years old was squeezed out of the crowd, she was wearing mourning clothes and a white hat with sharp horns, and greeted the two, "Is it Ming Zai?"

Kai Ming nodded blankly, he hadn't heard anyone call him like this for a long time, and he felt a little kind, but he didn't have the slightest impression of the aunt in his mind.

Seeing him frowning, the aunt explained, "I'm your aunt." ”

After she said it, Kaiming remembered that his father had a younger brother, he settled on the opposite hill, the road was not easy to walk and separated by a river, so he rarely visited, if he didn't mention it today, Kaiming probably couldn't remember this relative for the rest of his life.

"I'm sorry, I didn't recognize it. He said.

"It's not your fault. When you left the village, I wasn't married to your uncle. The aunt seemed to be a very open person, and she didn't care about these details, and led the two into the house.

There was a brazier in the center of the living room, and paper money was burning in it, which filled the room with a strong smell of fireworks, and several men gathered around the brazier to talk about something, and when they saw Kai Ming and An Yi coming in, their eyes were the same as those outside.

One of the old men with a hemp belt threw paper money into the brazier, looking a little like his father, and Keming believed him to be his uncle.

When the aunt whispered a few words in his ear, the man's eyes immediately focused on Kaiming, and his eyebrows seemed to reveal unfriendliness.

Kai Ming didn't think about it, and took An Yi straight into the inner room.

The couple finally saw the silhouette of the bed covered with a white cloth, and each of them put incense in front of a makeshift incense burner.

Kaiming slowly lifted the corner of the white cloth, and his father lay quietly in it, although his temples were gray, but his physique was still strong, and it was hard to believe that he had died if he had not been lying there motionless.

After watching silently for a while, Kaiming noticed that his wife was full of tears, so he took her back to the living room.

If it was a strangeness just now, now except for the aunt, all the people in the house have strained their faces, obviously knowing who the couple is. Kai Mingcai ignored these unfriendly glances, tied a hemp belt, and came to the brazier alone to burn paper money, and An Yi followed his aunt into another room to change into mourning clothes.

"I didn't come back before I was alive, but now I'm back and it's a fart. I don't know who muttered behind his back, in normal times, Kaiming would definitely turn around and finish with him, but today's occasion is not suitable, endure it.

Hmph, other people's family affairs, what are you yelling about?

He deliberately threw a pile of paper money into the brazier and went outside to get some air. A large amount of paper money was not fully burned, and billowing black smoke came out, making the people in the house uncomfortable, and they also ran out.

Kai Ming clasped his hands and watched coldly at these guys who kept coughing, they deserved it!

When the two women came out of the room and saw that the room was full of smoke and miasma, the aunt immediately ran to her husband and asked, "Dead old man, things are not good to burn, look at what you make the house look like." ”

"I ......" her man was so aggrieved that he couldn't speak.

An Yi noticed that everyone was looking at Kaiming, and this guy had been watching other people's jokes, and she guessed that he was responsible for everything, so her eyes slanted to her husband, and he immediately obediently returned to the house to deal with the smoking brazier.

The villagers who come to mourn will make a short stay in the living room, offer incense, bow down, and then drop the silk gold to chat in the courtyard, where two tables of food have been set up to wait for them, vegetarian vegetables and white noodles, which are basically eaten for funerals in this area.

Kaiming looked at these people carefully, and not many came with sadness, they just came to walk in form. I believe that when this kind of ritual first appeared, people came from the heart, but thousands of years of evolution have made it a custom and etiquette, everyone must abide by it, even if you are not sincere in attending, if you want to live in a group for a long time, you have to bury your conscience.