During the Qingming Festival, there are many rains.
Tomb-sweeping Day is a school holiday and a grave-sweeping day.
Although there is a custom of sweeping graves without women, Qin Guanglin didn't care at all. Can't he bring his daughter-in-law to his father
I drove my family to Beishan Cemetery. I didn’t just bring some food as usual. Why not pick a few bouquets of flowers from the nearby flower shop, turn left and right after Qin Guanglin, and come to the remote cemetery to clean up the surroundings. The dead branches and leaves, and then incense.
"Dad, I'm here to see you again."
Looking at the photo on the tombstone, Qin Guanglin felt a little emotional.
"In a blink of an eye, I'm about the same age as you. Tsk... well, it's a necessary journey. I don't know if you looked at the little me in the same mood as I do now."
"Your granddaughter is four years old. She can run and jump. She's healthy. She's fine. You don't have to worry about anything. My daughter-in-law and daughter are complete. Wait for another two years to avoid that, and you'll be truly happy." Dzogchen is complete, you have to bless me..."
He Wu, who was holding an umbrella, poked him lightly, talking nonsense about everything.
"This is my daughter-in-law, why not, we are destined to meet from thousands of miles away, we are blessed by the ancestors of our old Qin family to marry her, my mother likes her...I like her very much too, haha, I lived in the house I burned for you last time." No, I brought you a car this time, a Maybach, much better than the broken car I drove..."
The drizzle did not affect the raging fireworks in the brazier at all. The flames danced and danced, reflecting light and shadow on Qin Guanglin's face. He whispered about the recent events. Since he became a father, he understood the difficulty of his father.
"Dad, I don't want to be like you. I want to watch Anya grow up, watch her get married, watch her grow up step by step, and accompany her through what I have experienced..."
As the time for He Wu said approached, a sense of panic rose in his heart inexplicably. Regarding the future and the unknown—the world is impermanent, no one knows which will come first, the accident or tomorrow.
As long as there is a little accident, those who have had, are having, and have never experienced, whether laughter or sadness, are all gone.
Gone is really gone.
He was not afraid of leaving too early, but he was afraid that He Wei and his daughter would be left alone.
…
Chen Rui is also in Beishan Cemetery.
It's just that in the other corner, holding an umbrella, I bent down and put the baby's breath on my hand in front of the tombstone.
On the stele is a girl with a smile like a flower, a beautiful oval face, with curved eyebrows, the photo has faded, and she looks old.
Looking at her for a long time, a gentle smile appeared on Chen Rui's face, and he sat aside, ignoring the grass wetted by the drizzle, put his hands on his knees, and pursed his lips while looking at the sky.
"I'm going to be forty." After a long time, he sighed, "You are still twenty-nine."
"You have to call me uncle."
The fine raindrops hit the umbrella surface, and after accumulating too much, they slowly trickled along the arc to the edge and dripped down.
Chen Rui, who was nearly forty years old, had already turned gray on his temples. Sitting on the side of the tombstone, his temperament was different from the energetic look in the past, and he felt lethargic.
He straightened his back, exhaled forcefully, and turned sideways to touch the photo on the stele with his finger.
"It's really difficult to really do things... You are lucky, you haven't seen the dark side of the industry."
"You and I were too naive before."
"I thought that after Sun Wen survived the incident, we would soar into the sky... Indeed, the prospects are very bright. Qin Guanglin and I... As I mentioned to you that time, the two of us only took a few years to put the company together. It’s doing well, and the development has always been accelerating. During that time, the speed of the company’s development made me a little scared, and I tried to slow down to stabilize.”
"But thinking about it now, it doesn't matter if it's fast or not, as long as it doesn't reach a certain level, it's fine."
Chen Rui smiled, with emotion, "I understand now, to be honest, it's a bit late, I should have quietly accumulated strength back then, and shouldn't be so high-profile—although it will always be noticed, at least there is a preparation time, It won’t be suppressed and beaten by others, and almost squeezed out of this industry.”
"The shopping mall is like a battlefield. I now understand that not only do we have no channels, but our people have been poached all the time, our search rankings have been suppressed, and our website has been hacked several times... It is not easy to make high-quality products with heart."
"Fortunately, there are a group of partners..."
The photos on the monument listened quietly to his chanting, the rain fluctuated, Chen Rui didn’t move, he just sat there, his pants were wet, he just took out his mobile phone and put it in his jacket pocket, leaning against the side of the tombstone to hold his umbrella Stand tall and hide under a small umbrella with the monument.
"I'm really envious of that kid, really, really envious." Chen Rui looked at the rain screen and shook his head, "Oh... Unfortunately, it's useless to be envious."
"One family is happy and the other family is sad. I have seen through it a long time ago. Blessings are enough. In fact, there is no need to bless. It doesn't matter whether you wish or not. As long as there are no accidents, people like him will definitely be able to get along well. Do you know why? "
He asked with a smile, and paused, as if waiting for an answer, but there was no other response except for the pattering rain.
"Guess you don't know. When he left the job, we had a meal together and drank some wine... Beer, I won't drink too much. I wanted to keep it for a while. In the first place, it doesn't matter whether you resign or not. Overtime is so important." Not much, he can take it home to do it occasionally when he needs to work overtime, without spending time in the company, wouldn't it be good to get more director's salary?"
"That's what I asked, do you know how he answered?... He said that he remembered his original intention, the original intention of making money-earning so much money is for the well-being of his wife and children, for the happiness of his family, and for his wife Happy. When making money conflicts with the original intention, he doesn’t want to chase the end.”
Chen Rui sighed deeply, paused for a while, and wiped the raindrops splashed on the tombstone with his sleeve.
"I miss you."
"I can also give up the company and go home to accompany you."
"I'm so envious..."
As his voice faded, he leaned his head against the stele, looking at the sky, with a look of loneliness on his face.
After a long time, the rain gradually subsided. He stood up with great effort, slipped and staggered, supported the stele to stand firm, and smiled at the photo, "Don't you want me?"
"I'll see you next time."
"Wife."
(end of this chapter)