That evening, as soon as I got off work, I hurriedly ran to the bank counter and took out all the money from the bank card. Two thousand yuan might be a drop in the bucket for the middle-aged man, but for me and my family, it was a drop in the bucket.
It is undoubtedly a timely help!
When I handed the two thousand yuan to my mother, I clearly saw a look of shock in my mother's eyes. When I told her that I worked in a crematorium, my mother directly took the money.
She cried and said no, after all, who is a mother willing to let her son go to that kind of place to make a living?
But when I looked at my father who was still lying in the hospital bed and the debt collection phone call, my mother finally had to say sorry to me again and again.
I said, "Mom, it's okay. I have grown up and can earn money to support you even without going to college. When Dad is discharged from the hospital, I will go to the debtors to ask for mercy and ask them to slow down the deadline for me."
Return slowly."
"Xiao Feng, Mom is sorry for you. If it weren't for your gambling dad, you wouldn't..."
"Mom, everything has passed. As long as Dad can change, everything will be fine for us." I said with conviction.
At this moment, I actually felt that for the first time I was like a man, able to support a family...
After I said a few words of comfort to my mother, soon, there was a vibrating sound from my phone. (On the first day of work, at the request of the field director, my phone must be set to vibrate without any ringtone. As for the
Everyone should know why.)
I walked outside and picked up my phone and took a look and found that the caller was none other than Shen Xiaoqin, the class sweetheart of my school and fellow student. As for why the class sweetheart had my phone number, I’m not afraid of making people laugh if I tell you. This Shen Xiaoqin was me in the beginning.
After chatting with her online for several months, it slowly developed. If things like my dad hadn't happened, maybe this Shen Xiaoqin would have been my first love on campus.
But now, let alone first love, I am afraid that we will have no chance of being friends in the future. After all, although Shen Xiaoqin and I are fellow villagers, their family is one of the largest in Lu County.
As soon as the call was connected, Shen Xiaoqin's very pleasant female voice came from the other end: "Ling Feng, I just heard from the counselor today that you have applied to drop out of school. Is this true?"
"Well, it's true." Listening to this pleasant voice, I was speechless for a moment.
"Why? Then you won't come to Guangzhou?"
I said: "I should go there if I have the opportunity in the future. Now I am already working here in my hometown..."
"Going to work? How old are you and what class do you work in? You haven't finished reading the book yet. Do you plan to be a waiter or a dishwasher?" Shen Xiaoqin's tone was obviously unhappy. After all, before this, she was pretty good to me and often ate with me.
Go shopping, but she pays most of the bills.
"Don't worry about what I do. Just study hard and I'll be fine here." I suppressed the disappointment in my heart and replied. One was a young lady from a wealthy family, and the other was from a family that owed loan sharks.
So what if I have a little good impression?
"Hmph, Zhou Lingfeng, I misjudged you. I thought you were a progressive person. Then you should develop well in your hometown. I look down on you from the bottom of my heart!"
Shen Xiaoqin hung up the phone right away. Listening to that tone, it seemed that the last trace of goodwill she had for me had been thrown away...
I looked at my phone and couldn't help but shake my head, with a hint of bitterness in my heart; my first love died like this before it really started, damn it!!
I couldn't sleep that night. In the first half of the night, I was melancholy about the failure of my first love. In the second half of the night, I unconsciously thought of the corpse I saw when I was working at the crematorium during the day.
Finally, I waited until daybreak before I fell asleep in a daze. When I woke up again, I found that I was already covered in cold sweat.
I quickly checked the time, and it was already past nine in the morning. I didn’t bother to have breakfast right now, so I just grabbed my coat and rushed to the crematorium...
More than half an hour later, when I arrived at the crematorium, I saw a hearse converted from a van shining its lights on me at the entrance of the crematorium.
I looked up and saw that Uncle Quan was sitting in the passenger seat. Uncle Quan glared at me angrily and said, "Get in the car and pick up the coffin!"
Due to customs and concepts, burial is popular here. With the promotion and requirements from the authorities in recent years, more and more people have gradually accepted cremation. However, in some relatively remote villages and towns, cremation is actually not accepted.
It's quite exclusive, so sometimes, the crematorium can only send a hearse to pick up the coffin to prevent the family of the deceased from secretly burying the body...
As soon as I saw Uncle Quan there, I didn't care why Uncle Quan asked me to pick up the coffin, and got in the car straight away.
As soon as I got in the car, I saw a middle-aged man sitting in the driver's seat. He was skinny, his face was extremely dark, and he was wearing a pair of sunglasses.
"This is the hearse driver Li Qiang, just call him Brother Qiang." Uncle Quan said without raising his head.
"Hello, Brother Qiang!" I shouted quickly.
Li Qiang did not raise his head, but nodded at me with the back of his head in response...
At this time, I couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Quan, where should we pick up the coffin?"
Uncle Quan said without raising his head: "Hedong Zhenlin Village."
"What, Hedong Town?"
When I heard Uncle Quan's words, my heart skipped a beat, and then the legend of Hedong Town quickly came to mind.
There are many towns and villages in Lu County, but some of them are famous in Lu County. Among them, Hedong Town is famous because the folk customs there are the most fierce, and Lu County TV Station always reports on them every month.
There are several news about Hedong Town, and these news are basically about fights and fights...
I thought to myself that I would go there to pick up the coffin today. The folk customs in Hedong Town are so tough and tough. It would be easy to go back lying down!
And just when I was secretly complaining, Uncle Quan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, said calmly: "Silly boy, please give me a hard time later. We are here to pick up the coffin, not to be upset."
"I understand, Uncle Quan." I replied with a wry smile.
Soon, after driving for more than half an hour, we finally drove to the entrance of Lin Village, Hedong Town. As soon as we arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw at a glance a large group of people wearing sackcloth and mourning standing at the entrance of the village.
young man.
The car stopped, and the driver Li Qiang said without raising his head: "We're here. Go hurry and hurry. I'll wait for you in the car."
Uncle Quan nodded, then glanced at me, then opened the car door and walked out.
When I saw this, I hurriedly ran out with some trepidation. Uncle Quan was still calm, but when I saw the dozens of young men with unkind expressions, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous in my heart.
Under the gaze of dozens of young men, Uncle Quan led me into the village calmly. It seemed that Uncle Quan was already familiar with this village.
Soon, when we came to the door of the ancestral hall that specializes in funerals (in our side, funerals are usually held in front of ancestral halls and ancestral temples), and as Uncle Quan and I approached, I saw that there
On both sides of the coffin were many weeping women kneeling.
At this time, Uncle Quan glanced at the coffin, and then said calmly: "It's almost time, it's time to send the old man on his way."
After Uncle Quan finished speaking, the crying suddenly stopped, and as the many family members of the deceased looked at me, I soon heard an extremely impatient voice.
"If you dare to drag my dad to be burned today, I won't let you two rotten corpse cremators have an easy time!"