my high math teacher

Seeing the news from her sister, Liu Yifeng sat up suddenly. Although she had been mentally prepared for this day, she never imagined that such a time would come.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifeng's expression was a little serious, and Shang Yiluan guessed that something bad might have happened.

"My sister told me that my grandpa's condition is not very good. I'll call my grandma and ask about it."

"Oh, hurry up then."

With that said, Liu Yifeng found grandma's number in the address book, and clicked to dial.

"How about it?"

"It's not optimistic. Anyway, I'll go back tomorrow morning and have a look."

"Well, then you will drive my car back tomorrow, and your car may not have enough battery life for a long distance."

"Well, good." Although she didn't grow up with her grandparents and didn't have deep feelings for her grandparents, she was the only one left in her family, and she should be there for everything.

Waking up early in the morning, Liu Yifeng was driving Shang Yiluan's car and running opposite to Shang Yiluan's. Fortunately, her driving skills had been mastered by Shang Yiluan T in just a few months. Otherwise, she might not have dared to drive. Run long distances alone.

"How is it?" After class, Shang Yiluan called Liu Yifeng to inquire about the situation there.

"I didn't catch up. My grandfather left at two o'clock this morning."

"Then are you okay?" Liu Yifeng's voice sounded a little tired, and Shang Yiluan was a little worried.

"It's all right, don't worry, even my grandma is fine, let alone me. My grandpa has been bedridden for several years, and his departure is not sudden. Everyone has made preparations in advance, and even bought the cemetery in advance."

"Oh, all right."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to go back these few days. I have to see my grandfather here for the last time, so I will report to you."

"Otherwise, I'll go over after my afternoon class and go to accompany you." No matter what, Liu Yifeng must feel uncomfortable when a relative passes away. Shang Yiluan hopes that she can accompany Liu Yifeng to share the burden with her at this time, just The promise she made to Liu Yifeng.

"No, no, this matter has nothing to do with you. Now the family is all relatives in the country. Except for the close relatives like aunts and uncles, the others don't even know me. There is no need for you to come. You should go to class. Eat and eat, okay? After my grandfather is cremated and buried, I'll go back." Liu Yifeng didn't want to involve Shang Yiluan, and it's almost the end of the semester, and school affairs will be busy.

"Then, wait for you to come back."

"Well, take care of yourself." After hanging up the phone, Liu Yifeng got into the car. It was still useful for her to drive Shang Yiluan's big car back, saving a lot of taxi fares.When others asked about the car, she only said it was borrowed.

: I have arrived in City C, and now I have a room in ** Hotel, I guess your grandma’s house can’t accommodate so many people tonight, so come here at night, I’ll wait for you, 202.

Seeing the message from Shang Yiluan, Liu Yifeng was taken aback. He had said a few hours ago that she was not needed, but the woman still came.But what Shang Yiluan said was right, anyway, so many people would not be able to accommodate her, so it would be better to have Shang Yiluan to accompany her than to stay in a hotel by herself.

After dinner, Liu Yifeng drove to look for Shang Yiluan after sending the person who should be sent back to grandma's house, and she told grandma to live at a classmate's house.

"I'm downstairs, have you eaten yet?"

"Not yet, it's my first time here, and I don't know what to eat."

"Then, come down, I'll take you to eat something delicious."

"Ah."

Leaning on the car door and waiting for the woman, Liu Yifeng felt that it would be more perfect to pair it with a cigarette and slowly exhale the smoke from his mouth.

"Hi~handsome guy~"

"Hi~ Pretty girl~ Is there anyone for a date?"

"Sorry~ I already have an appointment~"

"Really? Then I wonder if that person will take you to eat delicious food?" With a wicked smile, Liu Yifeng suddenly pulled Shang Yiluan into his arms, really feeling a little naughty.

"I don't know what the handsome guy wants to take me to eat?" Shang Yiluan wrapped his arms around Liu Yifeng's waist, and the two of them danced lightly to the night.

"You'll know when you go~"

It takes only 5 minutes to drive to the Halal restaurant that Liu Yifeng mentioned. She has stayed in this small place for 7 years, and there has been no change in the 7 years, but it has changed a lot in the 6 years since she left.

"One serving of siu mai, one serving of lamb haggis soup, one serving of pot-wrapped meat, one serving of mixed tendon, that's all." Qingcheshulu finished ordering, Liu Yifeng smiled and looked at Shang Yiluan opposite.

"Okay, I can see that I eat here a lot."

"This store was originally opened on the side of the small road. There were only two large round tables and two small square tables. The floor was untreated concrete and the walls were peeling white. The current scale has two floors."

"That means the food at their house is delicious, but can you finish eating so much?"

"I thought I'd have dinner with you later, so I didn't eat much just now, so I said it~"

"Being so nice to me?"

"That's not right, by the way, I didn't see my little car in front of the hotel just now, how did you get here?"

"I, I called a car to come here. I have already given the students leave for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so I will accompany you until the end."

"It's almost the end of the term, can you give it a fake?"

"It's because it's almost the end of the semester and everything is covered, so I can give the leave generously. Anyway, they don't like to go to class~"

"Oh, your reason..."

"I'm here to accompany you~"

"Okay, okay, isn't everyone here to invite you to dinner~"

"Send me for a meal?"

"Isn't there still tomorrow's meal, the day after tomorrow's meal~"

"Humph~"

"Eh? Wait, will your mother come back?" Suddenly realizing this, Shang Yiluan's expression immediately became serious.

"She, she doesn't even know about it."

"Huh? Even if there is a four-hour time difference, she should know about it."

"Isn't my mother's identity invalid now? Once she comes back, she can never go back, so my father won't let her know. Now the whole family is hiding it from her."

"Huh? My own father is gone, but I don't even have the right to know?"

"Even if you know, so what, even if you get the last trip, won't you be able to see the last time? Now you know, which is more important to them, family or business?"

Looking at Liu Yifeng's calm face, Shang Yiluan had no choice but to calm down. For a family like Liu Yifeng, indifference is the inevitable result.

After drinking and eating, Liu Yifeng drove Shang Yiluan around for a drive.

"Here, this is my junior high school~"

"It looks pretty good~"

"This playground was renovated later. We used to be a sandy field, so it's not as clean and beautiful as it is now."

"Oh, so~"

"However, the three years in junior high school can be regarded as the most fulfilling three years in my schooling. At that time, my grades were good, and the teachers liked me, especially our head teacher, who was very kind and took special care of me. The whole class loved me. like her."

"Hey~ You have been controlled by a teacher since then?"

"Hey, what are you thinking? My homeroom teacher is a few years older than my mother. I feel like I have a mother towards her, not like you~ I want to sleep with you all day long..."

Liu Yifeng's whispered complaint made Shang Yiluan instantly shy, and she could only pretend to beat Liu Yifeng's chest with her small fist.

"Then have you seen her after graduation?"

"I met her on Teacher's Day in the first year of high school, but I didn't see her again. In fact, I really want to see her again to see how she is doing now. After all, she is the best head teacher I have ever met, and she is the best teacher besides you. The teacher I am most grateful to. But even though she liked me very much back then, after so many years, so many new faces appeared in her life, I can only be regarded as a student she once taught in her heart. , so I want to see it, but I dare not see it.”

"It can be seen that she holds a lot of weight in your heart."

"The teachers that a student can meet are limited, and the teachers who are responsible and deeply rooted in the lectures are even more limited. After all, she is the head teacher who has taken care of me for three years. Treating her like a mother will naturally be different. "

"Then, such a good opportunity, really don't want to see her? I will accompany you."

"It's better not to, even if I see you, wait for me to get along better."

"Well, that's fine." Knowing that Liu Yifeng cares about saving face, Shang Yiluan understands her concerns.

"Okay, let's go, and I'll take you around my high school."

"Okay, let'go!" With a kick of the gas pedal, Liu Yifeng's driving posture is quite a bit like Teacher Shang's.

"This place is very small, and it doesn't take long to walk on two legs, so that's about it. Those newly built buildings over there are not in my memory, so I can't take you around." Liu Yifeng took Shang Yiluan successively visited her high school, elementary school and several residences where she lived, and the one-day tour of City C also came to an end.

"Okay, then let's go back, I guess you are tired today, take a shower early and go to bed."

"Ah."

Back at the hotel where they stayed, Liu Yifeng successfully checked in, and then followed Shang Yiluan back to their room.

"I pass by here often, but never come in. I think the conditions are okay."

"Well, it's better than I expected. Here's what I asked the driver."

"Sorry~ I caused you to ride in a stranger's car."

"Just don't see me out, honestly, getting that car back helped a lot, didn't it?"

"Yeah, I can only lie to others that this car is borrowed, and many people have been in it, which makes me mentally clean. Anyway, when we go back, I will wipe it carefully from the inside to the outside with alcohol. once."

"Okay, go take a shower, you smell like cigarettes."

"Yeah, a lot of paper has been burned here, so you don't have to smell like smoke on your body."

"I brought you a change of clothes and pajamas. The towels and facial cleanser are already in there. Go quickly."

"Huh? You even brought your slippers?"

"Yeah, aren't you hypocritical~"

"Cut~Thank you~" Liu Yifeng took off his clothes and stepped on the slippers at home to take a shower.Shang Yiluan was not idle either, he folded the clothes that Liu Yifeng had taken off and put them back into the bag.

"Phew~ I'm refreshed~" Walking out of the bathroom with moisture, Liu Yifeng lay down on the bed in a large font, while Shang Yiluan took a towel and gently dried Liu Yifeng's wet hair.

After finishing her work, Shang Yiluan hugged her pajamas and went to take a bath too.

The sound of water stopped, Liu Yifeng squinted at Shang Yiluan coming out of the bathroom, and suddenly recalled the days spent in Dalian.

"Don't tell me, staying in a hotel reminds me of my time in Dalian."

"Huh? That's right, this is the second hotel we've stayed in together." Shang Yiluan kicked off his shoes and climbed onto the bed, sitting side by side with Liu Yifeng.

"Time flies so fast, it's been half a year."

"Yeah, we hadn't established a relationship at that time, and I didn't know why I invited you to live with me in a daze."

"Lonely, I leave my hometown and live in a strange room for a month, how can I not need someone to accompany me?"

"Yeah." Shang Yiluan nodded, "You were the one who appeared when I needed company the most, and silently accompanied me while I was studying, and when I was tired, you would massage my shoulders considerately... "

"Fortunately, my impulsiveness gave me this opportunity."

"Well, fortunately..."

Two people who originally thought that their lives would never intersect, just because of this impulse, they fulfilled each other.The two looked at each other with gratitude in their eyes.

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Waking up early in the morning to go to the crematorium to burn paper, Liu Yifeng was extremely reluctant in his heart.Although the country, provinces and regions have expressly prohibited the burning of paper, how can the ideas of the older generation be easily changed?

Looking at the yellow smoke all over the sky, Liu Yifeng only sighed in his heart.Isn't it a big joke that an old man who worked diligently and never spent much money during his lifetime has so many so-called filial children busy giving money after his death?

People are dead, is there any point in doing these superficial articles?

On the third day, after all relatives saw the remains of the old man in the farewell room, the cold body was finally pushed into the cremation furnace on the first floor.Standing outside the door and looking at the several cremation furnaces that were continuously operating inside, Liu Yifeng had to think of her two previous experiences standing here.

In the first year of junior high, grandma passed away; in freshman year, grandpa passed away; now in senior year, grandpa is gone too.On the side of the parents, only grandma is left, and the saddest thing is that her mother is still kept in the dark about the fact that grandpa passed away.

A group of people walked out of the hall to the open space outside, waiting for the body to burn and collect the ashes.Cars to deliver the corpses came one after another, and soon the open space outside was full of relatives seeing them off.

I don’t know whose relatives passed away and asked the monks and nuns in the temple to see them off, so dozens of relatives put on cassocks neatly and chanted scriptures together.Although there were only two sentences repeated in the scriptures, everyone present was quiet, and some people even discussed that after his death, people from the temple should be invited to see him off for the last time.

Liu Yifeng squatted in the shadow of the car, looked at the rows of relatives in cassocks who saw them off, and listened to the calming scriptures. At that moment, she was in awe of Buddhism.

After putting the ashes into a delicate urn, the group drove to Anning Garden, a place Liu Yifeng was no stranger to because her grandparents were all buried here.

The [-] cemetery has aroused discussion among these relatives in the countryside. A cement box less than one square meter square sold for [-], almost comparable to Beijing's housing prices.Liu Yifeng knew that the [-] yuan was taken by her father, but from her outlook on life, she felt that this move was completely unnecessary.

Human beings, as a member of nature, take from nature and return to nature.For Liu Yifeng, the urn is redundant, and the cemetery is even more redundant. The handful of white ashes left after high-temperature burning are just the essence of nature. Kowtowing to the ashes is really stupid in her eyes.Therefore, she rejected the last opportunity to speak to the mausoleum as the only junior present.

After eating the last lunch, Liu Yifeng finally completed his mission.Sending several close relatives back to grandma's house, Liu Yifeng got up to say goodbye.

On the way home, Shang Yiluan was driving, while Liu Yifeng remained silent.

"What's wrong? Still feeling uncomfortable?"

"That's not true, but when I buried my grandfather today, I saw the rows of concrete cemeteries and felt very sad. The thinking of the older generation would emphasize geomantic treasures, and they would emphasize that it is safe to put in the soil, but that handful of white ash is just a handful of white ash Well, wouldn't it be ridiculous to bury a box filled with white ashes?"

"So, what are your thoughts?"

"I can't make decisions about other people's affairs. In short, I just hope that my final destination is the Pacific Ocean. I hope that everything I absorb from this earth can be returned to the earth in the most direct way."

"Okay, then we will continue our next life in the sea." Shang Yiluan's free right hand tightly grasped Liu Yifeng's hand. Although her thoughts were not as advanced as Liu Yifeng's, she only hoped that she could be with Liu Yifeng forever, In whatever form.

"Okay, when the time comes, we will bury the Pacific Ocean together, and in the next life, we will be a dolphin couple."

"Ah."