"Hey, Senior Sister!"

"Little junior brother, are you coming back today?" The woman on the other end of the phone was a little tired from listening to the voice.

Xue Baoyi is a whole round older than me, although I and Teacher Xue have not formally worshiped the master, but we have always been masters and apprentices, and the title of senior sister was also called at that time.

She is Lao Xue's only daughter, and she is also cultivated by Lao Xue's painstaking efforts, more than me, graduated from Gyeonggi University of Posts and Telecommunications with a bachelor's degree, and then studied for a master's degree and a doctorate, and then stayed in Shendu, and she was 30 years old when she graduated, and she got married at the age of 34, and she had a three-year-old daughter, probably because Lao Xue had no son, so she looked at me differently at the beginning.

Fate is such a thing sometimes.

"Aang, how do you know?"

"Auntie told me, she said that you want to come back to attend my father's funeral, I thought about it for a while, then you may come back today, help my sister bring something back, just bring it over tomorrow morning, you don't have enough, you also know at home, there are few people, and I am not here all the year round, people are not familiar, it is not good to call people."

"Understood, what do you want me to bring? Get a screenshot of the memo for me, I'm afraid I'll make a mistake. ”

"Okay, I'll send you WeChat later, don't forget."

"Don't worry, senior sister, I can't forget the teacher's things if I forget myself."

"You've got a heart!"

"By the way, what about my brother-in-law?"

"I'm divorced from your brother-in-law, he is having an affair, I mentioned it, how about it? Senior sister, be tough. ”

I was silent for a while, "Senior sister, this hard gas is hard air, but you are 39 years old, I'm afraid it's not easy to find, you're not looking for a husband, but looking for a wife, what about your niece?" ”

"Xue'er belongs to me, and, little junior brother, you don't have to remind your sister to pay attention to her age at all times, my sister is 50, and she is also a, and the charm still exists, and a lot of little fresh meat is willing to worship under my sister's pomegranate skirt."

Xue Baoyi doesn't like to wear any skirts, but likes to wear bell bottoms.

"Flared pants, huh? What a pomegranate skirt. ”

"Don't be poor, that's it, sister will send you WeChat later."

"Okay, bye-bye!"

After hanging up the phone, my father had already continued to get the pig's feet, and my mother glanced at me.

"Do you want to help? Let's go, Baoyi is also difficult, when this kind of thing happens, orphans and widows, people from other regions are unreliable, the emperor is far away, once divorced, there is something to count on. ”

"No, let me bring something over, I haven't sent it yet, I'll take a sip of tea and she'll send it over, I'll just go to town again, don't worry."

"Then I'll be back just in time for dinner."

There are not many things, they are all for sacrifice, and there is everything in the town, so a round trip can be done.

In the past few years, burials are no longer carried out, and under the implementation of the policy of changing customs and customs, funerals and other things are relatively simplified compared with before.

Although there is no burial, the jar still has to be buried.

Early the next morning, I took my motorcycle and pulled a large bag of things to Xue's house.

The senior sister was wearing filial piety, and under the arrangement of the village gentleman, everything was ready at this time.

The old gentleman glanced at me, "Uncle, do you want to wear filial piety?" ”

"He doesn't need it, there are many taboos and taboos when he wears filial piety, it's inconvenient, just when people arrive, my father will understand."

The only ones who wore filial piety were the senior sister Xue Baoyi and her daughter, who held the teacher's ashes in her arms and handed Xue'er to me.

In fact, I have only met her twice, but I don't recognize her life at all, but the little girl seems to be precocious, and on such occasions, the three-year-old child does not make any trouble at all, and obediently lies in my arms.

She was carrying a cute little crossbody bag with her baby bottle inside.

The funeral is to take the ashes altar and send it to the cemetery to be buried, and there is a lot of paper money missing, so I put three sticks of incense on the teacher and kowtow solemnly.

There were many people who came to help, such as cooks, dishwashers, feasters, and bookkeepers.

In the hometown, when people die, they also give gifts!

In the main hall, there was a black-and-white photo of Lao Xue, candles were lit and incense was lit.

On this day, it was busy until more than six o'clock, and it was over, the people in the village were simple, and then an old Xue had a high reputation before his death, everyone dealt with what should be handled, borrowed a stool, table, pots and pans, and took it away by himself, and if one person can't take it away, someone will help.

The rest of the meal, I packed it and took it away by myself, and it was a messy floor, and someone helped clean it up.

There was no trouble left for the orphan and widow.

The bookkeeper handed over the book, counted the numbers, and left.

The only orphans and widows and I were left in the old courtyard, and Cher was probably too tired to fall asleep.

I set up a brazier in the courtyard, put four stools, put a kettle on the stove, made a cup of tea, and set up some clay burning, some people from the same village, may not be very close to the Xue family, or delayed because of other things, but they will always come at night, which are all for hospitality.

It wasn't until twelve o'clock in the night.

Xue Baoyitong walked out of the inner hall with red eyes.

Slowly came to the courtyard, and Shi Shiran sat next to me.

"It's not early, if you want to go back, go back."

I looked up at her, "Cry if you want to, I'm alone here, and no one will come." ”

"Lend your shoulder to Senior Sister!" As he spoke, he buried himself in my chest, and the whimper soon came.

Her back twitched, and she seemed to be trying to restrain her crying, afraid of startling the child.

I could feel it wet on my chest.

In such an atmosphere, I couldn't help but have tears in the corners of my eyes and a little sour nose.

His right hand gently patted her on the back.

No one spoke, and after about half an hour, Xue Baoyi got up, wiped the corners of his eyes, and put his hands on the edge of the brazier to roast the fire.

"I feel sorry for him, I was young at that time, I was a girl, my father was strict, I felt that he was old and feudal, I didn't want to go home, I was angry to study for a master's degree and a doctorate, and a few years of time with my mentor had passed, standing on the land of Shendu, I thought that I had paid so much, and I was unwilling to come back here."

"Then it's work, marriage, and having children, thinking about all these years, I really want to start graduating from elementary school, and I haven't lived with him much, and the summer vacation of junior high school and high school has also blocked him."

"He was gone suddenly, like a dream."

I listened with peace of mind.

"I didn't pay much attention, I'm 39, I'm going to be 40 soon, junior brother, you know, 40 years old, I feel terrible when I think about it, Xue'er is only 3 years old, what is wrong with my life, I used to think that my life was successful, but now it seems that what I have lived all these years."

"Cher 18, do you know how old I am? I'm 54 years old, I'm an old lady, and I divorced her, making her a fatherless child, and I can't even imagine my life now. ”

I pulled out a tissue and handed it to her, "Wipe it!" ”

"Aren't you annoyed to listen to me nag?"

"I can't hear it a few times a year anyway."

"You've managed to ruin my confiding mood, oh, by the way, Daddy left something for you, I'll get it for you!"

After a while, Xue Baoyi walked over with a vermilion box in his hand.

The box is about the size of a keyboard, and slightly longer than a keyboard.

"What's that?"

"I don't know, I haven't opened it either, he said to leave it for you, I guess it's his treasures."

Teacher Xue's baby, then there are only a few flutes, that's really his baby, when we were studying, it was different from now, often the head teacher of a class, who also served as a teacher of Chinese, mathematics, physical education, art, ideology and morality, oh yes, and music.

Because there is a shortage of teachers, it is normal to wear multiple hats. Ms. Xue was our homeroom teacher and math teacher and music teacher at that time.

Occasionally teach us to sing, but I don't like it too much, except for a few songs that must be learned, I simply didn't teach us anything else, and when it came to class time, the students strongly asked to listen to him play the flute, which was basically his personal show.

He once taught me, to be exact, intentionally to give me flute skills, but I was a rotten wood in music, and I had no talent, just a few tunes.

Later, it was gone, and I didn't touch it, after all, blowing two tigers can't soak a girl.

On the wooden box is a lock of a small spring device, which opens with a single click.

Inside are the four flutes that are cushioned with handkerchiefs.

Crystal and jade, Lao Xue has spent most of his life discarding it, not the kind of tung oil he just bought.

"It's so beautiful, if I can blow it, I definitely don't want to take it with you." Xue Baoyi sighed.

"Neither will I!"

"At least you'll have two tigers and Penghu Bay."

I was a little embarrassed, "How do you remember so clearly?" ”

"During that time, you were scolded every day at home, and I was very impressed by learning these two tunes."

"Let's go, it's not too early, no one will come, I won't leave you to stay, I'm an orphan and a widow, so as not to make people gossip."

I looked at Xue Baoyi, thirty-nine years old, but that face was the same as Yang Yun's, the fine pores were evenly distributed, and her face gradually changed from white to red to white, she was not a melon seed face, but a goose egg, with a moderate mouth, bright eyes and bright teeth, and thin lips.

A decent upper body outfit, plus a pair of slim jeans, looks a little exaggerated below the waist, and then the curve is then cinches.

I hadn't paid attention to this before, and when she said this, it made people subconsciously look at her.

"Don't look at it, your eyes are going to fall out, hurry back!"

Xue Baoyi pushed me and walked out of the door.

"Senior sister, goodbye, you can call me again tomorrow morning."

"Got it!"

The door slammed shut.

Xue Baoyi leaned against the door, and her face turned red.

"The little ghost head has also grown up, and the eyes just now are so hot that he wants to eat people."