Zhao Yinglan said: "Time flies so fast, your little ones can run away all over the ground." ”

Li Xuan'er said bitterly: "Don't mention it, take a few of them, I almost didn't tire me to death." By the way, when are you going to have a baby? ”

Zhao Yinglan shook her head and said: "I don't want children, and my career with him doesn't allow us to stop and have children." Most importantly, we don't like children. We love each other, and that's it, child...... Forget it. ”

Li Xuan'er persuaded: "No children, why are you working hard for such a big career?" In the future, if you are gone, will you not be able to give them away? Isn't that a waste of effort? ”

Zhao Yinglan smiled: "I'm dead, why do you care about this?" Besides, this is my happiness, and if I have it, I will be content. ”

Li Xuan'er said: "That...... Then you haven't thought about it, what to do after death? If nothing else, there must be a place to put the rankings, right? During the New Year's holidays, someone has to take care of the grave, right? Burning incense or something is indispensable, right? ”

Zhao Yinglan smiled again: "I'm all dead, what else do I care?" Not to mention the ranking, I don't bother to care where I bury it. Death is death, it's time to be reincarnated. ”

Li Xuan'er said with a smile and a smile: "You really don't care about anything?" ”

……

Ten years have passed.

This year, Zhao Yinglan's grandfather passed away, and Zhao Yinglan rushed back overnight to hold a beautiful funeral for the old man.

Back then, Zhao Yinglan's grandmother also followed, and Zhao Yinglan held another funeral.

With the death of the two old people, Zhao Yinglan felt the most deeply that there were fewer people during the Chinese New Year.

In the past, a large family surrounded the grandparents, and there were several tables of people sitting at one table......

Now, the grandparents are gone, the fathers have become grandparents, and their children have begun to eat Chinese New Year's Eve around them. There is no way to come over and celebrate the New Year with Zhao Yinglan's family.

Zhao Yinglan is the only daughter in the family, and her parents' thinking is that they don't want children, and their own lives are better than anything else.

Zhao Yinglan was also an accident for them.

It is precisely because the two old men have such thoughts that Zhao Yinglan does not want children.

Zhao Yinglan's husband Song Jin's family is in a better situation than Zhao Yinglan's family, and Song Jin also has a younger sister in the family. Although Jingguo emphasizes the supremacy of male power, he always has to spend the New Year with an old man.

After Zhao Jinlan and Song Jin discussed, they decided to spend one year in the Song family and one year in the Zhao family, and the two families did not object, but there was no conflict.

Ten years have passed.

Zhao Jinlan is in her forties, and she has not had a good time this year, while her business is going downhill, her parents have bad news, and the two old people died on the same day.

Zhao Jinlan was at home at the time, watching the second elder leave.

Before Zhao Jinlan's father left, he took Zhao Jinlan's hand, used his last strength, and said, "I'm sorry." ”

Zhao Jinlan didn't understand why her father said sorry, and she couldn't figure it out.

On the same day, Zhao Jinlan gave the second elder a beautiful funeral, and the relatives who had not seen her for a long time also sent representatives of each family, and the money was not spent, but she could no longer find the feeling when her grandfather passed away.

When her grandfather passed away, there were dozens of filial sons and grandchildren, plus their wives and husbands, and there were more than 100 people in her family alone. More than 100 people wear linen and hang filial piety, and it is very spectacular to go out in a row.

Coupled with their relatives and friends, as well as the gong and drum team hired with money, there are thousands of people, and one stop there, pulling out a long queue of nearly a kilometer.

That kind of momentum really shook the whole village.

But not now, with the death of my grandfather, my father's generation has supported their own families. With the passing of the older generation one after another, the younger generation has few contacts, or even no contacts.

In this way, when Zhao Jinlan's father went to the funeral, there were only a dozen relatives who could come.

More than a dozen people wore linen and filial piety, and the rest were hired, although the pomp was still large, but it always looked thin.

This year's autumn was exceptionally cold.

In the same year, Li Xuan'er's father passed away, and Li Xuan'er almost helped Zhao Jinlan finish the funeral, so she ran back to be busy with her own funeral.

Zhao Jinlan also went, and unlike the Zhao family, the Li family Ding Xingwang, Li Xuan'er has seven brothers and sisters! After they got married, almost each of them had three or four, and many had seven or eight.

After so many years, the children have all grown up, married and married, and had children.

Although the scale of Li Xuan'er's family's funeral is not as large as that of the Zhao family, there are too many children and grandchildren of the Li family.

The filial sons and grandsons of nearly 100 people are dressed in linen and filial piety all the way, even if there are not so many blowers and singers, just relatives and friends, there are hundreds of people!

When the old man was buried, hundreds of people cried bitterly, and Zhao Jinlan, who watched the scene, was stunned.

This night, Zhao Jinlan accompanied Li Xuan'er, and the two held a jar of wine and chatted while drinking.

"Time flies." Zhao Jinlan said.

Li Xuan'er nodded: "Well, it's too fast." We're all getting old...... I vaguely remember that we seemed to be in your new house yesterday watching those bastards running around the ground. As a result, today the grandchildren are all running all over the ground. ”

Zhao Jinlan nodded: "Yes, time flies so fast." ”

Li Xuan'er took a sip of wine, looked at the moon in the sky and said, "I really envy you, you traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers when you were young." It's not like me, I've been pulled by a bunch of oil bottles, and I've never been anywhere. ”

If it were Zhao Jinlan before, she would definitely pull Li Xuan'er to talk eloquently and tell about the beauty of the outside world, but today, Zhao Jinlan didn't say it, for some reason, she didn't want to say it.

At the same time, she had always had a doubt in her mind as to why her father was telling her that he was sorry.

Three years have passed in a flash.

In the past three years, Song Jin's parents have also passed away one after another.

Just like back then, when the older generation dies, the younger generation is also separated.

Song Jin and Zhao Jinlan almost never return to their hometown.

This year's New Year, the two had nowhere to go, listening to the sound of firecrackers outside, the laughter of children, the barking of dogs, and the shouting of adults, the two sat alone in the big courtyard, looking at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the table in front of them, and the red lanterns all over the yard.

Zhao Jinlan only felt that the light was still not bright enough, and this year's winter was even colder.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Jinlan and Song Jin went to the Lu family with New Year's gifts.

Before he entered the door, he heard Li Xuan'er's angry voice: "Stinky boy, you come over to me!" You beat my grandson for the Chinese New Year, see if I can pump you! ”

"Mother, don't blame me. That stinky boy hit the bowl, oops, light, it hurts! ”

"Why don't you just break a bowl? Money is important, people are important? Break my grandson, see if I don't kill you! ”

Zhao Jinlan and Song Jin stood at the door of Lu's house, and saw a man in his twenties and thirties who was being beaten by Li Xuan'er screaming, and a group of children laughing on the side......