Interesting story of returning home to sweep graves

My name is Feng Li, and I will tell you something from my personal experience in the third person.

It was April 5th, 1998, Quantang Town, Shaodong County, and Lijiadafen Mountain. During the Qingming Festival, it rained a lot, and pedestrians on the road wanted to die.

It is the season when spring returns to the earth. The countryside roadside is shaded by willows, which is a vibrant natural scene. Occasionally, a few children are laughing and playing.

It is drizzling in the sky. At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, after breakfast, the nearby villagers look solemn and solemn, carrying hoes and carrying baskets, and they all go to the grave mountain to worship their ancestors.

Feng Li stood in front of an unknown tomb, looking at the overgrown graves, crouched down, and felt a marked stone in front of the tomb, lost in thought, with hidden tears in his eyes. Next to him stood his imperial cousin Li Yinhua, who was only in his forties. The hardships of life had carved traces of years on his face early, with wrinkles, turbid eyes and a little rickety figure.

Cousin told Feng Li that he had been helping to sweep the graves and hang green in Tomb-Sweeping Day all these years since he left, and handed a hoe to Feng Li. "You personally swept your parents' graves this year," he said, and when you are free, you will come back to give a monument to your parents.

Feng Li's parents died when he was a child. After graduating from primary school, he went to work outside to support himself. At that time, the countryside was very poor, and ordinary people lived a tight life.

Cousin looked at the younger brother who had grown up in front of him, and he was also sincerely happy. The young boy with yellow hair left his hometown to make a living, but now he has become a young man with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes.

Feng Li waved a hoe, carefully cleaned all the weeds on the grave, and compacted the loess. ..... After a dry lap, the shoes on my feet were covered with mud. I don't know if it was sweat or rain on the beige shirt, but it was a little sticky. My hands brushed my short hair, and my sweat splashed. My lazy smile seemed muddy and indifferent.

Put three animals, light incense sticks, hang green, set off firecrackers and burn paper money. After finishing a set of procedures, I went to the graves of several other ancestors to pay a sacrifice. It was almost eleven o'clock, and I rented a tricycle to go home.

Cousin works as a handyman in Lianqiao Town People's Hospital. The two brothers haven't seen each other for many years. Although they are quite different in age, they are also affectionate along the way and tell each other about their living conditions in these years.

After lunch, I didn't take a nap. My cousin accompanied Feng Li around the street. Although I haven't been home for many years, many buildings haven't changed. Listening to the familiar local accent, I feel strangely cordial.

After playing all afternoon, I plan to catch a bus back to Guangxi tomorrow. At dinner time, my cousin smilingly said to Feng Li, "Feng Li, you are twenty years old this year, shouldn't you find a marriage? Today, a colleague saw you say he would match you up.

when Feng Li heard this, he was caught off guard. He stuck a mouthful of rice in his throat, stretched out his neck, and blushed. Brother Yin, I don't want to get married so early. Besides, I just started a job and started a small business myself. It can be said that I have nothing. Who cares about me?

My cousin taught me as an experienced person: "Ah, you don't understand this. If you get married and start a family, you must get married before you start a family." As for the disdain, marriage is about fate, so don't be afraid of ugliness.

"No, no, this age group is really too early. My shirt got wet in the morning, and when I came back, I washed it and hung it outside. Feng Li wore an elastic black vest, which may be the reason for exercising all the year round. Although people look very thin, they are in good shape and have no extra fat.

the first time I heard that someone was going to match me, I blushed with shame and my neck was thick, which matched the black vest.

Cousin laughs: It doesn't matter, don't be afraid of ugliness. It's up to you. Everyone has a first time. Go and see it tomorrow and learn some experience. Maybe you don't have to date for the rest of your life? Give me face, I promised the matchmaker. Looking at my cousin's pleading eyes, Feng Li had to reluctantly agreed.

At dawn the next day, Feng Li ran around the hospital playground for several times. After returning to the dormitory to wash, my cousin had already called for breakfast and steamed stuffed bun porridge. After breakfast, it is naturally a reminder of various taboos on blind date. "For example, if you want to be polite and see people's mouths sweet, if you eat at each other's home, you can only take food in front of yourself, and the woman will offer you tea, so you can't help drinking. If the other elder calls you not to play cards, if the woman gives you a gift, you can accept it if you like it, and don't accept it if you don't like it ................................................................................................................................

it's a bit big to watch my cousin ramble on like a Tang priest chanting scriptures.

Just then, the matchmaker came.

The matchmaker is a woman in her fifties. She works as a cleaning worker in which hospital. She earns a little money as a matchmaker in her spare time. She is dressed neatly and looks very capable. Laugh before you say anything,

: Wow, what a handsome young man. Today, my aunt will be your matchmaker, okay? The woman is tall, strong, with a good family, her parents are very young, and she has a younger brother. It's really predestined to get married. The matchmaker talks like a gun.

Cousin said with a smile, if it's done, there will definitely be a thank-you banquet from Sister Zhang.

Feng Li smiled awkwardly, touched her nose and took a deep breath. Fortunately, she didn't blush. She said,

Aunt Zhang led the way and conveniently took out a red envelope in her pocket and stuffed it into the matchmaker's hand. (Generally, twenty-two yuan is enclosed in a red envelope, which is usually given after the arrival of the destination, and this order is confused by nervousness). The matchmaker didn't mind, but took the red envelope with a cool face and said, then let's go. It will take about twenty minutes to travel.

Walking on the country road, the air is fresh. While chatting with the matchmaker, I appreciate the beautiful scenery of the country. I have been growing up in the city. When I come back, I will see the rural scenery again. From the matchmaker's mouth, I know that the woman is 18 years old and works in the county town to make clothes. Her father is a country teacher, surnamed Qiu, and her mother works at home and feeds many pigs.

I walked for almost thirty minutes. It rained yesterday, and the road was a little muddy. Looking at the dirty shoes,

Feng Li looked up and asked, Aunt Zhang, how far is it?

Aunt Zhang's voice is crisp and crisp: "It's not far, it's not far, there are still ten minutes to go".

oh, my god, it took another half hour to get to that house. Fortunately, it's cool, or you'll break out in a sweat. It's almost eleven o'clock at noon when you get there.

Two red brick tile houses with two floors. Perhaps the parents of the woman have already got the call from the matchmaker and have been waiting at home. After seeing them coming, they were all very polite and enthusiastic, handing out cigarettes, pouring tea and giving towels to wipe their faces.

Feng Li had never experienced such an occasion, and was at a loss for a moment. Mr. Qiu was tall, with a visual observation of 1.75 meters, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a Chinese face, and smiled and handed Feng Li a cigarette, only then did he realize that he hadn't handed it. Hurriedly took out the white smoke bought in Lianqiao Street, took out one in a hurry, and respectfully handed in "Uncle Qiu, please smoke"

Aunt Qiu is a kind-looking person. After handing a towel to Feng Li to wipe her face, she asked him to take off his shoes and help him wash the mud outside the pond. Feng Li resolutely refused, and finally, accompanied by her, she took a shoe brush and brushed it outside the pond.

At the big table in the main room, Mr. Qiu is a very talkative person, with astronomical geography, ancient and modern folk customs and strange things. When he heard that Feng Li was doing business in Guangxi, he smiled, saying that he had also done business in Yunnan when he was young, and he didn't make any money. Later, he went home and became a teacher. He talked about the 18 strange customs in Yunnan and talked endlessly. Feng Li's restrained heart naturally relaxed and echoed.

After listening to Mr. Qiu's wonderful talk, he interposed a few words from time to time, which also attracted Mr. Qiu's clapping and admiration, and the host and the guest enjoyed themselves for a while.

How time flies! Aunt Qiu cooked the meal at once, and told Feng Li that Yue E had just called back and said that the bus broke down on the way, so she might be late and asked us to eat first.

Miss Qiu muttered, "What's the matter? I called early in the morning and got to this time. "

Six dishes, four meats and two vegetarian dishes, chicken, fish, meat and eggs and jiaozi vermicelli soup. During dinner, Aunt Qiu called back a teenage boy who was as thin as a monkey, with strange eyes and secretly looked at Feng Li from time to time.

Li Feng changed her sense of constraint when she first entered the door, and Aunt Qiu frequently picked up food. All the people came to her, thanking her and laughing. She had already forgotten her cousin's advice, opened her appetite, gulped down her food, drank the sweet wine from her hometown and answered Miss Qiu's questions. How old are they? Where is the home? How are your parents? How many brothers and sisters? What are you doing for a living?

Feng Li talked about his future life planning while answering questions, and ate a meal for nearly an hour.

After drinking tea and chatting, Feng Li felt quite speechless. He came to kiss me, but no one saw him. Instead, he ate a big meal, chatted for a long time, and took the bus back to Guangxi at six o'clock in the afternoon. I don't know if he would make it.

He stood up, strolled across the street and looked at the old awards plastered on the wall.

In a certain year, a certain month, when the primary school was a few years old, Qiu Yuee won the first place in the class to give this award as encouragement ... What kind of three-good student, the all-round development award of moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education, ...

Alas, reading is quite impressive, Feng Li muttered slowly in his heart.

Xiao Li, can you play chess? Miss Qiu greeted Feng Li softly and brought a chess set from the back room.

"A little," said Feng Li.

"Then come and play chess with me.".

I've long heard from my cousin that in the blind date custom here, some people will use typing cards to test the brand of the future son-in-law.

This family may be a little different. They like to test their future son-in-law's chess products and personality with chess, but it is not surprising. At that time, the popularity of chess was similar to that of young people playing online games now.

Feng Li has no stage fright when playing chess. Just some time ago, I got a great progress in chess, the secret of orange.

The two sides of the Chu River and the Han Dynasty chatted about gossip while setting up chess pieces and giving each other some humility. Naturally, he took the lead and ran to other people's homes, so he was embarrassed. It was rude to use the fierce and fierce artillery bureau.

Starting with flying, this array is steady and changeable, which tests the level of the middle endgame. Teacher Qiu should cross the river with the left middle gun. This array is fierce and easy to win the first hand.

in the layout stage, both sides are step by step, and all the big players are dispatched slowly, so they dare not take risks easily. Feng Li has no intention of killing his heart. Naturally, he is mainly defensive, and he sees the following instead of the following. At first, everyone had something to do and chatted about. With the change of chess situation, Mr. Qiu was definitely a temperament middleman. As soon as he played chess, he completely became another person, without saying a word. After more than twenty steps, Mr. Qiu got the absolute first hand in the middle game, and Feng Li held his chest and frowned. Although he didn't want to win, he didn't want to be relaxed and freehand.

jumping on the horse and hitting the horse, Mr. Qiu smiled: "When this move comes out, you are doomed to lose."

Feng Li took a look at it, but he really didn't pay attention to this cold move. Oh, dear! I was in trouble. I thought about it slowly for five minutes, but I still couldn't find a good countermeasure. I was restless and my whole body began to sweat. < P > Xiao Li, don't worry, think slowly. Teacher Qiu advised with a smile.

After another ten minutes, the chess game was still motionless. At this moment, there was a big broadcast singing in the yard, and Mr. Qiu was humming softly in Suizhou's broadcast rhythm mouth: "Forward! Forward! Our team moved forward ... "

Feng Li slowly took off his shirt and put it on the chair behind him. The steaming on the black elastic vest was all sweaty.

Feng Li muttered softly: Return the car to protect the horse, and exchange a son with the horse that entered the car. Although the eldest son won't lose money, the situation has been lost. It is only a matter of time before the defeat, so I am not willing to give up my son and surrender.

is there another way? it suddenly occurred to him that there is a saying in chess: it is better to lose one son than one first.

My mind is suddenly enlightened, not because I am entangled in the gains and losses of one city and one place. There is no way out for conservatism, so let's fight, and the two sides will duel on the edge of the cliff.

Pay close attention and quietly calculate the changes of the other way to kill chess. After 2 minutes, the calculation is clear.

Gently pinch the son and take a step, and the gun will retreat, killing the pawn!

you can have either of the two eldest sons, the chariot and the horse. Teacher Qiu saw that he had taken a step inexplicably! Maybe he was impatient, because he thought about this move for more than forty minutes.

it is also possible to hold the chess proverb that it is a fool not to eat a child, and reach out and prepare to push the horse!

Feng Li hummed softly, and the revolutionary song came from the broadcast:

"The red star shone brightly, and I went to fight as I did, and the revolutionary generation after generation was like a tidal wave, marching forward and following the party ..."

Miss Qiu was surprised, and looked at his determined expression with a full face of surprise. She slowly put down her outstretched hand and tapped it gently with her fingers on the table.

It has already been calculated clearly. If you dare to step on the horse and pedal the car, you can get a horse back by hanging the golden hook upside down after killing the pawn. Although you still lose a big sum, you can make the car over there smooth and full of life, and you can kill the king within ten moves step by step.

if you dare to shoot a horse, the chess situation is similar. If you give up first, then take it. If you get a horse back, you will take the lead.

In this way, Mr. Qiu's previous cold move seems to be a clever move, but now, on the other hand, it has become a stupid move.

when Mr. Qiu strikes the table, let's have a light drink, ok! Good chess!

Feng Li completely forgot where he was sitting. In his wandering chess game, all he could see was the variety of chess.

With a lazy smile on his mouth, he looked up and replied faintly, dare not, dare not. The words are quite modest, so it sounds like arrogance.

When I looked up, I saw a 17-year-old girl at the entrance of the opposite back room. She had an oval face and white skin, and her hair on her forehead was pinned to one side with a ponytail tied behind her, and she wore a white coat casually.

I don't know how long she had been peeking. Feng Li looked up for a moment, just to see her eyes, suddenly flushed with shame, even red in the ears.

Feng Li was immersed in the game of chess, but he didn't fully wake up. At this moment, three words trickled through his mind ... Qiu Yuee!

With a whoosh, she suddenly shrank behind the door. Although it was only a short glimpse, her beautiful face

still made people feel glad you came.

With a bang, the chess piece fell, and the opposite teacher Qiu was unwilling to endure it. He chose a fierce chess game.

He didn't choose a horse to step on the car, nor did he choose a gun to hit the horse, but a horse. The surface is quiet.

according to the early chess path, Mr. Qiu is still so easy, and after careful consideration, he will slowly respond (interesting things in the chess world, singing, smoking, the upper court, the pace of playing chess is fast and slow, in fact,