Chapter 928: The Dusty Past
Wen Cube's coffee is very good, it is the kind that is hand-ground, and the coffee is poured from the beautiful coffee pot into the white coffee cup, and the air is filled with a rich aroma.
There was a sugar jar on the side, and a small pot with milk, the silver spoon was small and exquisite, Wen Lifang raised his hand and motioned for Song Yuanchao to add sugar and milk by himself, but he didn't add anything, took a sip of the coffee in front of him, and nodded slightly.
"You like black coffee?"
"Yes, when I'm older, I don't like to add sugar and milk, so I feel more appetizing when I drink it this way." Wen Lifang replied with a smile.
Song Yuanchao put a sugar cube in his coffee, then poured some milk, stirred a few times with a spoon, took a sip, nodded and praised: "The coffee is very good, very fragrant." ”
"If you like it, drink more, and ask someone to get coffee beans from Southeast Asia, and I roast it myself."
"Then your craftsmanship is really good, it's rare to know these now."
"Hehe, personal hobby, I'm a person who can't be high or low in this life, and I like to get these things, and I used to be a complete little bourgeoisie." Wen Lifang replied with a smile, this term, which is rarely mentioned now, made Song Yuanchao slightly stunned, and then laughed as well.
With coffee, the two chatted for a few words, and Song Yuanchao asked about the purpose of coming today.
"I know what you mean, in fact, as soon as you came, I knew why you came." Wen Lifang put down the coffee cup in his hand, picked up the cigarette case on the side and signaled to Song Chaoyuan, then took out a cigarette and lit it: "Actually, I don't know your parents, so going to visit your parents' graves can be regarded as being entrusted by others."
"Entrusted?" Song Yuanchao was stunned, he had guessed what the relationship between Wen Lifang and his parents was, judging from his age, he was more than ten years older than himself, and he was still half a generation away from his parents.
Song Yuanchao's mother, Wang Sufen, was just an ordinary cotton mill worker, and she didn't have much contact, and she knew either colleagues or neighbors, or relatives.
After the death of his parents, some old colleagues basically stopped interacting, and Song Yuanchao was still young before he went to the countryside, so he was also very unfamiliar with them. As for the neighbors, except for Zhang Jianguo's family, which is close to his own family, the rest of the neighbors are also very normal neighbors.
And relatives, because of the death of his parents and some later events, Song Yuanchao has long had no contact with them, this was the case in the previous life, and the same is true in this life, not to mention that Song Yuanchao's relatives do not have the surname Wen.
And on his father's side, according to Song Chaoyuan's knowledge, he has no relatives, and his father's old colleague Song Chaoyuan basically knows him, after all, he went to work in the school-run factory after he came back. So when he learned that the person who swept the grave of his parents was called Wen Lifang, Song Chaoyuan also thought about the relationship between Wen Lifang and his parents, and after thinking about it, the most likely thing may be that this Wen Lifang was his father's former student?
After all, Song Guangzeng has been a teacher for so many years and has taught so many students. Although many years have passed, his father's students have been thinking of him, and it is possible for him to sweep the tomb, but who wants to show Wen Lifang told that he did not know his parents, and he was only entrusted to sweep the tomb, which made Song Chaoyuan very surprised.
"You mean to be trusted...... Is this the commission of the One? Song Yuanchao couldn't help but ask.
Wen Lifang said a little wait, got up and went out of the living room to the bedroom on the third floor, and after a while, he came back from the third floor with an old photo in his hand.
"Look at this."
When Song Chaoyuan looked at the photo carefully, he saw that this was a very old photo, at least a few decades old, the photo was yellowed, and the portrait on it was also a little ambiguous, plus the photographic technology of the year was compared with the present, and the pixels seemed a little low.
But even so, Song Chaoyuan still recognized who the man on the left in the photo was. Isn't this polite young man in a white shirt and glasses his father Song Guangsheng?
Song Guangsheng in the photo looks very young, and in terms of age, he is at most eighteen or nineteen years old. Standing on Song Guangzeng's right and holding his arm was a young and beautiful girl, this girl was wearing a beautiful dress, snuggling up to Song Guangzeng, with a bright smile on her face.
"This girl is my aunt." Wen Lifang said calmly: "My aunt and your father, Mr. Song, were classmates of St. John back then, and they were also a pair of lovers
"Lovers?" Song Yuanchao was stunned, this answer surprised him too much, in Song Yuanchao's memory, he had never heard of this, and his parents had always been very good.
"Yes!" Wen Lifang nodded, seeing that Song Yuanchao was very surprised, he slowly talked about the past of his aunt Wen Lei and Song Yuanchao's father Song Guangzeng.
Wen Lifang v. Song Yuanchao, Song Guangzeng and Wen Lei are indeed a pair of lovers, they are classmates of St. John, Wen Lei, who was in love at the beginning of school, fell in love with Song Guangzeng, who was polite and talented, and Song Guangzeng also had a good impression of the youthful, beautiful and empathetic Wen Lei, and the two young people fell in love like this.
This photo was taken that year, and the background is the French Park, which is now the Revival Park.
If there are no accidents, the young lovers will come together in the future, and then get married, have children, and live a happy life. It's a pity that life is full of accidents, the situation changed very quickly, and the Wen family also had some background at the beginning, with the change of the situation, Wen Lei's father, that is, Wen Lifang's grandfather, decided to leave Shanghai and go overseas.
Because he was in too much of a hurry, Old Man Wen was worried that there would be an accident in the army, so he restricted Wen Lei's freedom, and he didn't have time to meet Song Guangzeng until the day Wen Lei left the country.
In this way, a pair of lovers were separated by life, and since then they have never had the opportunity to meet again. Wen Lifang's father is the eldest of the Wen family, as the eldest because he has to deal with the domestic industry temporarily, and later Wen Lifang's father and sister Wen Lei left to find Song Guang to tell him about it, and gave him a letter Wen Lei left to Song Guangzeng.
No one knows what is written in the letter, maybe only the two parties know, and now that so much time has passed, Song Guangsheng has passed away a long time ago, and Wen Lei also passed away due to illness a few years ago, which has become an eternal secret.
Wen Lifang's parents did not leave, and then they stayed in Huhai, and then some changes occurred in the family, Wen Lifang's parents died, Wen Lifang lived alone, and many years passed in a blink of an eye.
After the reform and opening up, Wen Lifang had the opportunity to contact relatives overseas, at that time Wen Lei's age was not young, and her health was very bad, Wen Lei had not started a family for so many years because she was worried about Song Guangsheng, and she had always been single.
After resuming contact, Wen Lei asked her nephew to find out Song Guangzeng's whereabouts, but unfortunately, Song Guangzeng had already passed away many years ago when she learned the news. The two former lovers didn't even see each other for the last time, leaving only this yellowed photo and melancholy memories of the past.
Knowing that Song Guangzeng had passed away, Wen Lei's only remaining expectations were completely shattered, and her health was getting worse day by day in grief.
Although she has always wanted to come back to see, go to Song Guangsheng's grave to talk to him in her heart, and pour out those buried thoughts in her heart. It's a pity that Wen Lei didn't have this opportunity until she finally passed away, and after she passed away, all the property according to her will was left to Wen Lifang, but Wen Lifang was required to do two things.
One thing was to bring her ashes back from overseas and bury them in the cemetery of Song Guangzeng. Although you can't be together in life, it's good to be next to your loved ones after death.
And the second thing is to ask Wen Lifang to sweep the graves of himself and Song Guangsheng and his wife during the Qingming Festival every year.
These two things are Wen Lei's requirements for Wen Lifang, if he can fulfill his promise, then Wen Lei's inheritance will be inherited by Wen Lifang.
Wen Lifang signed his name under the witness of lawyer Wen Lifang, so Wen Lifang inherited all the inheritance of his aunt Wen Lei, and brought her ashes back to China according to Wen Lei's last wish before her death, and buried Song Guangsheng and his wife in the cemetery, and at the same time, Wen Lifang would go to the cemetery to sweep the graves of Wen Lei and Song Guangsheng every year during the Qingming Festival.
After listening to Wen Lifang's narration, Song Yuanchao felt all kinds of feelings in his heart, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
Before coming, Song Yuanchao had many guesses, but the truth was far beyond his imagination.
He didn't know that his father had such a past, and he was afraid that even his mother didn't know about this past.
If it weren't for the fact that he noticed that someone had been sweeping the graves of his parents, maybe he would never have known about it, just like in his previous life, Song Yuanchao had never heard of this story, let alone knew the past of his father Song Guangzeng and Wen Lei.
"I'm sorry, it's a bit of a gaffe, this incident made me a little stunned for a long time, and Song Chaoyuan came back to his senses, sighed and apologized to Wen Lifang.
"It's okay, I understand." Wen Lifang nodded, as a child learning about his father's past, such a reaction is normal.
"Mr. Wen, has your aunt never been married?"
Wen Lifang nodded slowly: "Maybe she has been waiting for Mr. Song, but unfortunately she still couldn't wait in the end." However, she didn't blame Mr. Song before she died, my aunt is a very kind person, and in her heart, maybe in this way, she often accompanies the person she loves all her life, which can be regarded as a good ending. ”
I don't know why, Song Yuanchao suddenly felt sour, he thought of his experience in his previous life. Wen Lei understands his father's thoughts better than anyone else, because he has experienced this, and at the same time, he can't help but feel emotional.
This past was once again turned out from Feng Chen's memory, Song Yuanchao's eyes looked at the photo again, looking at the young and high-spirited father and the young and beautiful Wen Lei with a happy smile on the corner of his mouth, after a long time, Song Yuanchao couldn't help but sigh again.