The Spring of Prince Syndrome

There are only two impressions of Yuanyuan's grandmother. One is that when she was a child, she wiped his face so hard that it hurt his face.The second is that when he came back last time, his grandmother mended his clothes with a smile and said, "It's far away, I have a girlfriend, take me home and have a look."

Standing in front of his grandma's portrait, he felt very strange. Death was too far away from him, either it happened to someone he was not so close to, or it happened when he was not sensible.Someone beside him spoke to him, Yuan Yuan just nodded unconsciously, knowing that grandma walked away peacefully.

A few friends of Tan Ruikang's father came to see her that day and brought her something. Grandma sat under the eaves picking beans, prepared fried beans to entertain guests, chatted about Tan Ruikang's father, lowered her head lower and lower as she talked, Leaning against the door frame, without answering, he passed away peacefully with a smile.

Euthanasia without disease and pain, still at the age of 87, can be called Baixi.

The coffin was sent to the funeral parlor in the county to be refrigerated. It was impossible to keep the coffin at home in hot weather. Several friends of Tan Ruikang's father were helping. They hired someone to cover the coffin on the day my grandmother died.

The shroud, the coffin, the funeral expenses, and the cemetery were all prepared by my grandmother before she was alive. When she asked someone to make the shroud, she would try it on with a smile. Said: "Let's add another belt, and I will be able to dress up nicely to see old man Tan in the future."

At that time, many people in the village laughed and said that the old lady was open-minded and optimistic.Yuanyuan couldn't help laughing when he heard it.

Tan Ruikang's eyes were red. After busy work, he invited people to build a coffin shed, rented a few electric fans, invited people to drink tea in front of the coffin shed, and entertained the villagers who came to express their condolences.Grandma and grandpa helped many people during their lifetime, and many people came from all over the neighborhood for a while.

When no one was around, Tan Ruikang sat in the coffin, staring blankly with red eyes.

Yuanyuan knew that he was feeling uncomfortable, and didn't know what to do, so he went to Tan Ruikang after a long time and said, "Hello."

Tan Ruikang: "?"

Yuan Yuan pressed the PSONE handheld and said, "I'll show you this."

Tan Ruikang leaned over to look, Yuanyuan pressed a few times, and the supersonic mouse on it hugged into a ball, rushed over the cliff, spewed fire with a buzzing sound, and crushed the monster into a piece of paper.

Yuanyuan said: "You can make it dance, you see."

The supersonic mouse on the screen ate an apple, jumped around, and Yuanyuan frowned and said: "But I can't get through here. I can't get through after playing for a week, it's so annoying."

Tan Ruikang took over the PSONE, and he couldn't pass the places that were too far away. The two of them got together and pressed the beep beep. After a while, the guest came, and Yuanyuan got up to receive it. Tan Ruikang was still sitting in the corner playing the supersonic mouse battle .

After a full hour, Tan Ruikang breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's over!"

It's good after that, Yuanyuan took the game console, he was very happy, and motioned for him to pick up the guests, Tan Ruikang washed his face, came over and sat down to pour tea.

The next day there were even more people, and Yuanyuan sent one wave away and another came again, saying, "Why are there so many people?"

Tan Ruikang said: "When the great grandfather passed away, there were many talents."

Yuan Yuan said, "Why didn't you call me back then?"

Tan Ruikang went to place a wreath again and said, "You were in Xiaoshengchu at that time, so I can't let you be distracted."

Seeing Tan Ruikang working hard from a distance, but he couldn't help him, he kept saying, "Come on, what do I want to do?"

"I'll come." Yuan Yuan said.

Tan Ruikang said: "I'm thankful that you don't suffer from heat stroke."

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Tan Ruikang smiled, asked him to sit down and collect the funeral, and said, "You come to remember the funeral."

Yuanyuan couldn't speak the local dialect, so he faced a notebook and accepted the funeral ceremony from others.Tan Ruikang went to pull the black cloth again, prepared a filial belt, made a hemp ring, put it on his arm, and said seriously: "Xiao Yuan, grandpa and grandma have no grandchildren. I am the second wife, and you are the grandson. We are separated from each other." On the first floor, it doesn't matter who is who, everyone should be grandchildren, let's wear mourning together."

Yuanyuan hummed, collected all the money, and turned to Tan Ruikang to wear hemp. Tan Ruikang taught him that the funeral ceremony should be written clearly, and that it will be returned in the future. It is all human favors.

The two of them worked until midnight, when the lights outside were turned off, and the sky was full of stars, Tan Ruikang packed up the square tables and stools, set up a wire bed in the corner of the coffin shed, spread straw mats, and counted the funeral ceremony together with Yuan Yuan. , Keeping the accounts in order, each other was relieved, and the calculation was over for this day.

In the quiet coffin, the two lit a cigarette each, leaned on Tan Ruikang's shoulder from a distance, looked at the portrait of grandma in the middle, and murmured: "How do you do this?"

Tan Ruikang looked intently at the cigarette in his hand and asked, "Which ones?"

Yuanyuan said: "Please ask someone to handle the funeral, contact us to set up a coffin, collect funerals and so on."

Tan Ruikang laughed, looked at him sideways, and whispered, "It's amazing? You will too in the future."

Yuanyuan said: "I..."

Yuanyuan thought about it, maybe one day he will face such a problem, after Zhao Guogang died, he will come to contact these, and organize the funeral by himself, but he doesn't know anything, not even the phone number of the funeral parlor.

Tan Ruikang said in a daze: "The year my dad died, I thought the same way as you did. What should I do? I had to send him away and hold a funeral for him, but no one taught me before, never. I I had to ask around about what to do, ask grandma, ask neighbors, and then gradually understand, and it will be over."

Yuanyuan understood that Tan Ruikang was not sad about her grandmother's death, after all, she walked away peacefully and satisfied, and went to another world to find her grandfather.She left behind these two little grandsons who wanted to be raised but would not be loved, snuggled up in front of the empty coffin, filled with melancholy.

Tan Ruikang felt sad, probably because he thought of his father.

Yuanyuan stretched out his arms, put his arms around Tan Ruikang, and let him lie in his arms. The two of them saw the star-studded night sky through a hole in the ceiling of the coffin.

"Family, parents." Tan Ruikang said in a low voice: "They will all leave you one day, Xiaoyuan, and we have to walk the rest of the way alone."

Yuanyuan said: "Yes."

At that moment, something seemed to touch his heart.

"You too." Yuanyuan whispered: "You won't leave, right?"

Tan Ruikang said: "I probably won't, um, I promise you, I won't."

The night at the end of summer was very cool, they leaned against each other, Yuanyuan hugged Tan Ruikang, Tan Ruikang lay in Yuanyuan's arms, one foot stepped on the bench, and the two fell asleep deeply.

The next day, he touched Yuanyuan's head with one hand, and Zhao Guogang's voice sounded, "Go to sleep in the back room."

Yuanyuan got up sleepily, went into the back room and fell asleep on the bed, while Tan Ruikang went to brush his teeth and wash his face, set up tables and chairs, and prepared to entertain the guests who came to express their condolences today.

After waking up in the morning, the village became lively. As soon as Zhao Guo arrived, Yuanyuan felt that the real head of the family had arrived. He didn't need to support Tan Ruikang anymore. After all, a funeral is very tiring.Zhao Guogang knew many distant relatives, and he also knew how to socialize. He drank with the guests, paid for the water table, and contacted them in return.

"We only charge two yuan for funeral ceremonies." Zhao Guogang said, "If there is too much, we will return it. We have no shortage of funeral expenses. We can't ask for money from folks."

There were also people from my grandmother's natal home, and Zhao Guogang entertained them wholeheartedly, and gave each of them a high-end four-piece suit brought from the city.

At the first six o'clock, the whole village is full of vitality, fighting wine in the coffin, playing boxing games, and sending the old man to die with heroic laughter.

On the first seven days, the green hills are capped, and the young people go up the hill against the coffin. Zhao Guogang and his two children kowtow in front of the grave, light incense, and start spreading the cakes after they get down.They went back to tidy up the coffin, like a must-play, finally started smoothly and ended successfully.

Standing outside the yard, Yuan Yuan hugged the chicken and sent it to the neighbors, smiling and thanking them for their help.After sending everything that could be delivered, I stood on the road in front of my house and realized one thing—this is the end of a memory. There are no long-term relatives in my hometown, and they don’t have to come back every summer.

Tan Ruikang's former home also closed the door completely with the death of the last relative.Tan Ruikang's uncle's family is few and far away, and from now on, only the two of them have the blood of a real family flowing in their bodies.

Even Zhao Guogang can't be regarded as Tan Ruikang's relatives. There is only one distant person in this world who has blood relationship with Tan Ruikang.

The village chief came over with the document to sign for Tan Ruikang. He and Yuan Yuan were both heirs. Grandma left a will before her death. The old house and fields that Tan Ruikang’s parents lived in belonged to him. to remote.

In addition to some trivial things, there are also [-] grams of gold jewelry that my grandfather bought for my grandmother back then, ten grams for my distant daughter-in-law, and ten grams for Tan Ruikang's daughter-in-law.

The old man had disliked Tan Ruikang's father all his life, and finally he was at peace at the last moment.

Zhao Guogang said to Yuanyuan: "Your mother also said before she was alive that she wanted to go back to her hometown to farm and raise chickens when she was old. In the future, when you are all working, bring your mother's ashes back. Dad will also be buried here. You It’s convenient for the two of them to go home and visit the grave every Ching Ming Festival.”

"It's not bad here." Yuan Yuan said, "Brother, I'll give you the house and the land, I can't take it."

He can't share Tan Ruikang's inheritance, he already has too much, and Tan Ruikang only has this.

Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "How can I not want the old man's wishes?"

Yuanyuan said: "Who among us is not the same as the other?"

"Yes." Tan Ruikang nodded. He pursed his lips, wiped the red mud on his thumb, held Yuan's hand, gently rubbed Yuan's thumb with his thumb, hooked his fingers, and pressed on the land deed.

"You know, isn't it the same?" Tan Ruikang said softly.

The two fingerprints were pressed side by side at the bottom of the paper, regardless of whose house or field, the four documents were contracted by all the fingerprints of Tan Ruikang and Yuan Yuan.

"Don't worry." Tan Ruikang sat down to sign and said with a smile: "We can make a lot of money in the future, this is just a souvenir. You can come back when you are not busy."

Before leaving, Yuanyuan and Tan Ruikang kowtowed three times outside the yard. Tan Ruikang stepped forward and locked the door of the big house with his own hands.