Someone was knocking on the door of his room. Li Susheng glanced at the Shanghai brand watch he was wearing. It was almost seven o'clock in the evening, which was the time for him to give him dinner. In order to avoid contact with outsiders, three meals were delivered to the room at regular intervals. Li Susheng smiled and said, "Come in."
When the door opened, a 30-year-old male staff member of the relevant department stood at the door. Li Susheng did not ask the man exactly what his name was. The man did not introduce himself to him in detail, but just knew His surname is Wang, and he is responsible for serving him three meals a day. Li Susheng smiled and said, "Thank you, Xiao Wang, I have to send me food every day."
Xiao Wang smiled: "You're welcome, Mr. Li, where do you put the return?"
"You put it on the coffee table," Li Susheng said with a smile, "I am also a little hungry, and I will go over to eat soon."
Xiao Wang put the food on the coffee table, the routine four dishes and one soup, although there are no delicacies of the sea, but it pays attention to the nutritional match, meat and vegetables are available, the taste is lighter, not inferior to the taste of Li Su when he was born at home. Many, anyway, Li Su is still used to eating raw.
Xiao Wang put the same kinds of dishes on the coffee table, and the dishes and chopsticks were also arranged for Li Susheng. Then he retreated to the door and said to Li Susheng with a smile, "Mr. Li, please take your time."
Li Susheng nodded at Xiao Wang, smiled and said, "Thank you, I'll eat it soon."
Xiao Wang left the room. Li Susheng went to the sofa and sat down. He looked at the four dishes and one soup. He couldn't help but smiled. Is his heart okay? One stir-fried cabbage heart, one fried clam with pepper, one plate Stir-fried meat with celery and a sting in old vinegar. After smelling the soup, there was a strong mutton taste. It should be the hot and sour mutton soup he likes to drink. The combination of these four dishes and one soup made him very appetizing. So I picked up the chopsticks and started to eat.
Although he liked all these four dishes and one soup, Li Susheng did not eat a lot of special food. He believed in the health regimen of Chinese medicine. He knew that dinner should be better and less, and when he was 70% full, he put down his chopsticks.
After a while, Xiao Wang came in and took away the dishes. Li Susheng now lives in a small courtyard with a small garden. After dinner, he went for a walk in the garden. This small courtyard seems to be the private residence of an official in the late Qing Dynasty. The gardens in the courtyard are all well-built. There are many common northern garden plants such as pomegranate trees and rose flowers. The environment is quite good, if not Knowing that his current situation is embarrassing, Li Susheng feels that it is actually quite good to provide him with such a small hospital for the elderly.
After strolling alone in the garden for more than half an hour, Li Susheng felt that the effect of digesting food could basically be achieved, so he returned to the room. After returning to the room, he did not immediately wash and rest. He was used to reading some books before going to bed at night, so he picked up a book on the bedside and looked at it.
The book was prepared by the relevant department for him. It was a memoir of an old general. There are probably only similar books that can be provided to him or allow him to read it. Li Susheng chose to read this book only because the old general was an old subordinate of his father Li Yisu. He wanted to see how his father spent his career in those years.
Although it is a memoir, it may not necessarily be a true record. The person who recalled some things in it may have some deviations due to the loss of memory, or the person who recalled may deliberately in order to beautify or conceal himself. The record deviates from the truth of the facts. But this is also good as a reading to kill time.
Looking at it, Li Susheng was amused by a record in the book. It turned out that the old general recalled his experience of being surrounded by enemy forces, embarrassed on all sides, and exhausted. The old general said that he thought of many sacrificed martyrs and greatness. The leader of, remembered that the Chinese revolution had not yet succeeded... In short, he remembered everything that could inspire him to live. Inspired by these affairs, he insisted on waiting to save the soldiers instead of giving up his life.
The reason why Li Susheng thinks this record is funny is that he knows that at this critical moment of life and death, only his strong desire to survive is the only thing that can make a person stick to it. As for those useless things at the moment, even if they think of it, they are useless at all. of. Li Susheng dare to be 100% sure that the experience in this section of the memoirs of the old general must have been copied by others. Or the memoir itself was ghostwritten by the old general's secretary team.
In the early days of liberation, there were still many ghostwriters. Most of the warriors of the military and horses had little ink in their stomachs. They dictated some things and asked the secretarial team to sort them out, so it became like this.
After reading this interesting memoir, Li Susheng looked at the Shanghai watch on his wrist. It was almost ten o'clock in the evening. It should be time to rest. He simply washed up, went to bed and lay down soon afterwards. Fell asleep.
At 7:30 the next morning, Xiao Wang noticed that Li Susheng did not leave the room for morning exercises. This made Xiao Wang feel a bit abnormal. Li Susheng is a person with an extremely regular life and has a certain schedule and rest. According to the schedule, Li Susheng would go back to the yard to walk around and kick his legs, usually just after seven o'clock, to exercise. It's half past seven today, why he hasn't come out of the room yet, is he sick
Xiao Wang knocked on the door of the room: "Mr. Li, it's half past seven, would you like to come out for some activities?"
There was no response in the room. It seemed that Li Susheng was still asleep, and Xiao Wang increased his knock on the door: "Wake up, Mr. Li, it's half past seven. It's time to come out and move around."
The room was still very quiet. Li Susheng didn’t react at all to his knock on the door. This was a situation that he had never seen since Li Susheng took care of him. Xiao Wang was a little uncomfortable, and he didn’t care if he hadn’t asked. Li Susheng would be upset when he had to agree to open the door, so he opened the door of the room directly with the key.
Everything in the room is in order, basically the same as when he left last night. There was an open book on the bedside table, while Li Susheng was lying quietly on the bed, simply covered with a towel. , And did not react at all to him opening the door and breaking in without consent. Xiao Wang had a bad premonition: "Mr. Li, why haven't you gotten up today? Are you sick?"
Li Susheng still lay there and didn’t respond. Xiao Wang went over and looked at Li Susheng’s situation. Li Susheng closed his eyes and lay calmly. He didn’t react at all to his appearance, so Xiao Wang courageously stretched out his hand. I went to Li Susheng's nose to try Li Susheng's breath. Li Susheng had no breath, and a generation of heroes passed away peacefully.
The situation was quickly reported. Because of Li Susheng's identity, the relevant departments did not dare to conduct any examinations on his body easily, so they asked the higher-level departments how to do it. In view of Li Susheng’s contribution to the land and the influence of the Li family, the higher-level department did not want to do any inspection on Li Susheng’s body. Just go through the advice.
Li Susheng's wife and children did not make any extraordinary demands, but said that they couldn't see what happened to Li Susheng. Since he left so peacefully, then don't disturb him any more. That's it all. The people of the Chinese are always the deceased. When this happened to Li Susheng, it was impossible for many things to be traced. The superiors also agreed to the request of Li Susheng's family.
Fu Hua saw the obituary issued by the family of Li Susheng in the morning news. The obituary said that Li Susheng left peacefully in his sleep last night. According to his will, the family decided to keep everything simple in the funeral and not hold any farewell ceremony. , After cremation, all the ashes will be scattered into the sea in accordance with Li Su's environmental protection concept during his lifetime.
When he saw this news, Fu Hua didn't feel joy or lightness at all. On the contrary, there was still a trace of sorrow in his heart. A powerful opponent like Li Susheng was gone so easily. Isn't the life of a person so easy? Is it too fragile? At this moment he thought of the old saying that people die like a lamp.
In ancient times, people used oil lamps, and oil lamps could be blown out with a single breath, which means that a dead person is as easy as taking a breath. And once a person is gone, the traces he left in this world will soon disappear. Some people will leave their ashes to future generations to pay tribute to them, and Li Susheng, who scatters all his ashes into the sea, is even more reluctant to leave any sustenance.
Fu Hua felt that Li Susheng’s actions were more thorough. There is no business that can prove the existence of souls after death. Therefore, after death, people’s consciousness will disappear, and they will lose all perception of the world. Later generations will not perceive the dead without hanging them. To some extent, the ashes are left for the living. The living wants to commemorate the dead with the ashes.
Since these have no meaning to the deceased, it is better to be free and easy, throw the ashes into the sea, and wipe out all the traces left in the world. In fact, if you do something meaningful to others, even if you leave nothing, others will remember you.
Fu Hua feels that at this moment, many people will remember Li Susheng in their hearts. Because of his death, he has brought many things into another world, and many people will no longer be because of Li Susheng. But sleep and food are troublesome, just like Li Susheng left peacefully, many people can sleep peacefully tonight.