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In the summer when the baby came out of kindergarten, Mr. Xia passed away.

That summer was unexpectedly hot, and the sun was shining brightly throughout China.

Xia Chen has been staying in Beijing since May. Mr. Xia was injured when he was young. When he got old, his old injuries resurfaced and his organs failed. After spending the New Year in City C, he returned to Beijing for half a year. It was delayed until the beginning of June, and it really couldn't work.

The successor of the Xia family is Xia Chen. This has been decided long ago. The baby is like Xia Chen's son. When Mr. Xia goes to the funeral, he must be present.

On June [-]th, a tall and thin young man followed Jin Yun to Lu's house to pick Lu Zhixu and Lu Jiaming to Beijing.

Lu Zhixu looked at that person, startled for a moment, and then realized that this is the so-called confidant.

Jin Yun is Xia Zhifei's confidant, Yuan Hai is Li Zhurong's confidant, and now, Xia Chen also has a confidant.

At such an important juncture, Li Zhurong has always stood behind Xia Chen to support him, and the previous quarrels can be put aside.

Lu Baobao was going to Beijing, Li Xiaoyan heard the news, and quickly asked Li Zhurong to get a plane over, and asked the Lu family to go with him.

Although Xiao Yan Wang is small, he is very good at planning these things. He first discussed with Xia Chen for a while, and asked Xia Chen to entrust him with the important task of accompanying Lu's family to Beijing.He skipped over his father and made a phone call with his great-grandpa. After playing around arbitrarily for a while, he asked for a plane to come, and the matter was settled.

The plane flew in the morning, Jin Yun and that person drove to Lu's house to pick him up, Xia Chen was not at home, Lu Zhixu had to sleep until ten o'clock in the morning every day, and ended up going out early in the morning, and took the Li's car The car, the interior of the car is very spacious, he sleeps on the seat, and Li Xiu sits cross-legged, teaching the baby to play Landlords, but the baby can't learn it anyway, so he weakly asks him: "Xiuxiu, how about we play Solitaire... ..."

-The situation in Beijing is not as chaotic as imagined.

When we arrived at Xia's house, it was almost dark, and Xia's family was attending a funeral. As an in-law, Xia Chen's grandfather, Mr. Li, was highly respected, and also the grandfather of the head of the family, Xia Chen, was invited to preside over the funeral and live in the Xia's mansion.Xia Chen asked Lu Zhixu and Baobao to live with him in Yilou to the west.Li Xiu's house is close to Xia's house, and everyone in the Li family lives in his own home. Li Xiu originally wanted the baby to live in his own house, but Li Zhurong arrested him as soon as he arrived in Beijing. It is said that he gave him a severe lesson.

After all, the Xia family is a big family, and the funeral ceremony is also grand, with white everywhere. The Xia family's ancestral home is in the south, and Mr. Xia is an old man with traditional thinking.When I died, I said that the funeral was done according to the southern customs, not the Western ones.

In Xia's garden, they were all replaced with white chrysanthemums.The mourning hall is located in the main hall, with golden nanmu coffins, pale funeral banners hanging in it, and wreaths piled up on the walls.The filial sons of the Xia family all wore white filial piety and filial clothing with hemp around their waists. They stood on both sides of the mourning hall to receive the guests who came to express their condolences. Several sons and grandsons and daughters-in-law all wore filial clothing and knelt in front of the mourning table to mourn.The grandchildren all knelt in front of the mourning hall.For the guests who came, the elders were received by Mr. Li, and incense was placed in front of the spirit. Please go to the back hall for tea.The younger generation was received by Xia Chen, and after kowtowing, they all went upstairs to stay in the living room.

The baby is very obedient, he is young, wearing a white cloth on his head, and hemp rope on the buttons of his clothes, he stands obediently by Xia Chen's right side, neither crying nor fussing.The mourning hall is full of people, mourning, chanting, mourning, and yelling.Among the people coming and going, there was a guest who didn't know who this child with cat eyes was. Asking about Xia Chen, Xia Chen said, "My son."

Xia Chen was wearing a black suit, with a thread of hemp in the buttonhole, standing upright in the mourning hall, pursing his lips, because his eyes were a little red because he had guarded the old man for two nights when he was dying, but he didn't look embarrassed at all.On the contrary, it showed a vicissitudes of heroism.

Zheng Yehu came early. After all, it was a big funeral for a family friend. He finally dressed properly. He played cards with the female guests in the upstairs living room for a while. He came down to find Xia Chen, and saw Baby Lu Jiaming holding Xia Chen's trouser legs. , Immediately shouted: "Hey! Isn't this the child bride-in-law of the Li family's little Hades!"

He had just smoked, his fingers were slender, and he touched the baby's face with the smell of smoke. The baby hid behind Xia Chen's trouser legs, looking at him warily.

Zheng Yehu's personality is very weird, the more the baby hides, the more interested he is, took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, squatted down to tease the baby: "Tell uncle, are you Xia Chen's son?"

The baby glanced at him, knowing that this question was very important, so he looked at Xia Chen questioningly.

"Stop playing, my brother just arrived and is now in Yilou, you go over to play cards." Xia Chen patted the baby's head and sent Zheng Yehu away for him.

-When Xia Zhifei arrived with Lu Feixia, the Xia family was almost ready for dinner.

The entire Xia family was brightly lit, and the Peking Opera troupe was babbling and singing in the back hall. In the mourning hall, the masters invited from the south were holding books and shouting mourning numbers with a long tail. The heavy black lacquered coffin , placed on a high bench.Kneeling women mourning in front of the coffin added folded burnt paper to the brazier.Grandpa Xia who died crying.

Xia Chen stood straight on the side of the mourning hall, like a brand new but tall beam, quietly watching all this.

He is so young, but he has already taken the position of the Patriarch of the Xia family.This grand funeral was his first meeting on the intrigue stage.The dead Patriarch was lying in the mourning hall.And he stood here, as the successor of Mr. Xia, accepting the scrutiny of all the visitors.From now on, he will be Liang Dong of the Xia family.What he did was no longer in the identity of Xia Chen, but in the identity of the Xia family.He and his family are both prosperous, and both are lost.

Most of these guests were faces he knew, and most of them knew him.But today, they looked at him differently.

Born as a man, he will be the head of the family when he is young, protecting his wife and children.The big one is to be the head of the clan and bear the rise and fall of the entire clan.

Xia Zhifei brought Lu Feixia over. He was wearing a black suit, and he burned incense before the coffin. He glanced at Xia Chen who was handing him the incense, took the hemp from Xia Chen's hand, and tied it on the buttonhole.

He rushed back from Hong Kong overnight.The two Xia families are actually of the same clan, and Mr. Xia is attending the funeral, so he also wants to wear mourning as the head of the Xia family.

"Grandpa, you go to eat. Xiaochen and I will stay here." He said to Mr. Li.

Although he is young, his seniority is very high, and his position is also high, he is qualified to receive those elders.

Grandpa Li nodded to him, and stretched out his hand to hold Lu Jiaming: "Little baby, go have dinner with grandpa."

The baby glanced at Xia Chen, and after getting his consent, he followed Mr. Li and left.

- The baby is a little confused.

Xia Chen was afraid that he would scare him, so when Mr. Xia died, he didn't let him by his side.Therefore, the baby only vaguely knows from his father that his brother's grandfather is dead, and he must listen to his brother, and he will kowtow when his brother asks him to kowtow, and he can't talk nonsense, and he can't doze off.

However, in his somewhat confused mind, he didn't connect the dead old man in the coffin with the grandfather who touched his head and told him war stories during Chinese New Year.

It wasn't until he went to dinner with Mr. Li and was led by Mr. Li to find his father that he suddenly realized.

"Grandpa," he held one of Mr. Li's fingers, raised his face and asked him, "Did Grandpa die?"

He is cute, white and soft, and his eyes are like a kitten who just opened his eyes, which makes people's hearts soften.

Mr. Li, wearing a white double-breasted dress, stopped.

"Yes."

A faint mist gradually gathered in the baby's eyes. He was still young and didn't know the weight of the word "death".But he watched the movie and knew that the dead will never appear again, and will only appear in memories.

He is young, and his speech is not clear.Grandpa Li asked him to call himself "Grandpa", but he couldn't remember clearly, so he could only call him "Grandpa". Although he only got along with him for one night, he knew that this grandpa, who was also elder brother's elder, would feed him, I will take myself to find my father.

He pursed his lips, squeezed Mr. Li's fingers and asked, "Did Grandpa go to war..."

He was too young to know that people die when they get old.I can only find the reason from what Mr. Xia said before.

Mr. Li squatted down.

He is getting old and not in good health.It was a bit reluctant to squat down, but he still told Baobao Lu with his eyes level: "Grandpa died of old age. When he was born, he would grow up. When he grew up, he would grow old. When he grew old, he would die."

"Will I die too?" The baby looked at him innocently.

"Yes. But that will be a long time later." Mr. Li squeezed the baby's hand and stood up slowly.

"Then, grandpa, will you die too?" Bao Bao asked blankly, holding his fingers.

"Yes, I will die too." Mr. Li replied frankly.

"Is that also a long time later?"

"It won't be a long time, maybe this year, or next year." Mr. Li replied lightly.

The baby let out an "oh", depressed, and hung his head.

"Lu Jiaming, when grandpa dies, will you come to see me? Just like visiting your grandpa today, keep a vigil for grandpa."

"I...I'll go." Baobao said, clenching Mr. Li's hand even tighter.Mr. Li glanced at him with a smile.

"Then it's settled, you must come when the time comes."

"Well, I will definitely come!"