Life 1984

On January 1988, 1, the solar terms were extremely cold.

When Li Yunhai woke up, he felt that the window outside the window was extremely white. When he got out of bed and opened the curtains, he saw that it was completely white.

The first snow in Xizhou is here.

Li Yunhai looked at the white sky and earth, and his right eyelid suddenly jumped a few times for no reason.

Ding Miao shouted from downstairs: "Mr. Li, Mr. Li, call!"

Li Yunhai put on his clothes and went downstairs, picked up the microphone, and just after he said something, he heard his father's hoarse voice: "Yunhai, your grandpa is gone. He just left."

"Dad, I'll be right back!" Li Yunhai hung up the phone without saying anything more.

Grandpa is old and has many underlying diseases. He also died during this time in his previous life.

It’s not that Li Yunhai doesn’t have money to treat his grandfather, but he understands the truth that medical treatment does not save life, and it is not what the old man wants to have his elderly grandfather undergo surgery and chemotherapy and leave him in pain.

After putting down the phone, Li Yunhai burst into tears thinking about the time when he was in school when it suddenly snowed heavily and his grandfather braved the snow to deliver a firebox to school.

Lin Zhi came downstairs and asked, "Yunhai, what's wrong?"

Li Yunhai held Lin Zhi's shoulders and said choked: "Grandpa is gone, I will go home immediately. You are pregnant, so don't go back, right?"

Lin Zhi groaned and said, "I definitely want to go back! I'm not in confinement!"

Li Yunhai's biggest regret is not taking little An'an home to meet his grandfather.

He thought that his life was better now and that his grandfather might be able to survive this winter. He thought that during the Chinese New Year, he would ask Guo Wanhua to take An An home again. Unexpectedly, his grandfather died today, 20 days before the Chinese New Year.

Lin Zhi went upstairs to pack her things.

Li Yunhai called Guo Wanhua and wanted her to bring the child back to give his grandfather a ride, but he thought there was so much snow outside that there was no need to put them through trouble.

Just as he was hesitating, the call was connected.

Guo Wanhua answered the phone.

Li Yunhai then told the story of his grandfather's death, and did not mention bringing their mother and son back.

Guo Wanhua understood Li Yunhai's intentions and said regretfully: "If I had known, I would have taken An An back earlier! Alas! An An and I will be back today."

Li Yunhai told her: "It snowed heavily just now in Xizhou."

Guo Wanhua said: "It's okay. Even if I can't charter a plane, I still have to drive home."

Li Yunhai felt warm in his heart and said, "Pay attention to safety on the road."

He put down the phone and called Peng Dianzi in.

Peng Dianzi heard that the old man passed away and said, "Mr. Li, take me home! I will be a wife and give the old man a ride. I even ate candies given by the old man when I was a child!"

Li Yunhai patted Peng Dianzi's arm hard and said, "Okay!"

Lin Zhi also wants to go home, and Lin Xiaofeng is still in New York.

Li Yunhai could only hand over the company's affairs to Shen Xiulan.

He looked at the time and knew that Shen Xiulan was still at home, so he came to find her.

Shen Xiulan was about to go out for breakfast. She opened the door and saw him. Seeing that he was actually holding a cigarette in his mouth for the first time, she couldn't help but ask, "Why are you here?"

Li Yunhai took off his cigarette butt and said: "Xiulan, Lin Zhi and I are going back to our hometown soon. It may take three or four days to come back. Please manage the company's affairs. If there is anything you can't decide, just call me and ask me."

"You all want to go home? It's snowing so hard and Lin Zhi is still pregnant. Are you relieved?"

"My grandpa is gone."

"Ah! Yunhai, then, you can go back, I'm watching over the company!"

Only then did Shen Xiulan understand why Li Yunhai smoked.

She was also in such pain when her grandfather passed away.

"Yun Hai, my condolences." Shen Xiulan walked up to him and hugged him.

Li Yunhai nodded, turned and left.

Shen Xiulan looked at his lonely back, and felt an unspeakable feeling in her heart.

She also wanted to follow Li Yunhai back to her hometown, and she also wanted to be by his side to comfort him and take care of him.

But she doesn't have the qualifications.

Li Yunhai first sent Zhuang Yong to Xijiang University and picked up his eldest sister Li Yunfang.

Li Yunfang has a very deep affection for her grandfather, and she burst into tears when she saw her eldest brother.

More than three hours later, Li Yunhai, Lin Zhi and others returned to Shiban Village.

The roads in the village have been repaired, and the smooth cement roads are covered with a thick layer of snow.

Zhuang Yong drove the car carefully. In such weather, he did not dare to drive too fast.

After an elderly person leaves the family, someone from every household in the village will come to help.

Li Yunhai's house was already crowded with villagers, all of whom came to help with the funeral.

The old man's coffin has been repaired a long time ago. Elderly people in rural areas are not taboo about this. When they get older, they will use their own money to find a local coffin maker to build their own small wooden house in the future. They usually put it in the main hall of their home.

At this moment, someone in the main room was decorating the mourning hall.

But the old man was not placed in the coffin. He was still placed on the bed, waiting for his relatives to come back and see him for the last time.

Li Yunfang threw herself in front of her grandfather's bed and burst into tears.

Li Yunhai glanced at the person kneeling in front of the bed and asked his mother, "Mom, where is the third child? Didn't he come back from school?"

Zhang Shuwen said: "I'm back. I picked him up. He ran out to play cards."

Li Yunhai sneered: "What a filial grandson! I still have free time to play cards today! Mom, I just saw that the old house next to it collapsed?"

When the brothers separated, the third child insisted on keeping his own piece of homestead, and Li Yunhai agreed.

Zhang Shuwen said: "How can the third child have time to take care of that old house? It leaked earlier. Your father repaired it once. This time, the heavy snowfall caused a corner of the roof to collapse. The third child still blamed us and said that we Don't watch it! Yunhai, he is your brother after all, and he has no ability to make money now, so let him live here for the time being? Do you agree? "

Li Yunhai said in a deep voice: "Okay. Anyway, he will graduate from high school in half term. He probably won't be able to go to college. After graduating from high school, let him go out to work to make money."

Zhang Shuwen stopped talking.

Li Yunhai came out, met with uncles and brothers, and spread cigarettes for everyone.

He called his fifth sister Li Yunying over and asked, "Yingzi, do you know where the third brother is playing cards?"

Li Yunying said: "I know."

Li Yunhai said: "Go call him and tell him I'm back!"

Li Yunying agreed and ran out.

After a while, Li Yunshan walked in the door with his hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth.

Li Yunhai couldn't help but get angry when he saw his careless look.

When Li Yunshan saw his elder brother staring at him, he was startled. He quickly took the cigarette out of his mouth, threw it to the ground, crushed the cigarette butt with his foot, and shouted cowardly: "Brother!"

Li Yunhai pointed to his grandfather's bedroom: "Go in and kneel for two hours! If you don't kneel enough, you won't have food to eat at night."

Li Yunshan wanted to protest, but he didn't dare to go against his elder brother's words. He walked in with an unconvinced look on his face and muttered: "Why? When grandpa was still alive, he always looked after you guys for whatever delicious food he had. Now that he is gone, he asked me to kowtow!"

Li Yunhai grabbed a chair at home, slammed it on his back, and shouted, "What did you say?"

Li Yunshan was so frightened that he quickly ran into the room and knelt in front of his grandfather's bed.

This kid is not afraid of anyone but his eldest brother, because his eldest brother beat him really hard!
Li Deming waved to the eldest son and said, "Yunhai, let's discuss grandpa's funeral."

Li Yunhai said: "Dad, for such a big matter, I should call my uncle and uncle over to discuss it together."

Li Deming murmured: "Yunhai, when the homestead was divided, your grandfather left the old homestead to our family, and your uncle and uncle all divided it up."

Li Yunhai said: "So, our family will take charge of grandpa's funeral?"

Li Deming nodded and said, "That's what I mean."

Li Yunhai waved his hand: "Okay, no problem, our family can pay for it, but we have to share the work, right? They were also raised by my grandfather!"

Li Deming said: "That's natural. What do you think of the specifications of this funeral?"

Li Yunhai said: "We use the best for banquets, cigarettes and wine, and don't worry about money. No matter how much money is spent, it belongs to me alone. I brought the money back. Dad, I will give you 10 first. If it’s less, I’ll come out again.”

Li Deming said: "There is no need to use so much, and there is no need to use so much. There is just one thing. Your grandfather loved to watch the Flower Drum Opera most when he was alive. Every year, if there was a wedding or wedding in the village, and the Flower Drum Opera was performed, he would go to see it. Before he died, I also have a last wish, which is to invite a theater troupe to entertain the audience."

There is indeed such a custom in Meishan countryside. The whiter the wedding, the more lively it is.

Li Yunhai said: "Then invite the troupe! Invite the best!"

Li Deming said: "No troupe in the county is available, and it's snowing heavily today. I can't find a suitable troupe for a while. What do you think this is going to do? Should we go to the city to hire one?"

Li Yunhai said: "Okay, wait, let me ask someone."

He used his home phone to call the company office and found Su Hong.

"Mr. Li!" Su Hong shouted respectfully when she knew that Li Yunhai had returned to the countryside.

Li Yunhai said: "Su Hong, do you know the Flower Drum Opera troupe in Meishan City?"

When Su Hong heard this, she knew that the old man of the Li family was gone and wanted to invite the opera troupe to sing a big opera. She said: "Mr. Li, there is no need to invite others. My former colleagues are all ready-made. I will tell them and they will definitely be willing." "

Li Yunhai thought to himself, Su Hong's troupe was the provincial Huagu Drama Troupe, and it was also the best troupe in the province!This is a traditional drama troupe, and the provincial cultural department will provide financial support.

Su Hong said: "Mr. Li, do you think it's okay? Didn't the old man like to listen to "Liu Hai Chopping Wood" when he was alive? I can also go to the countryside and sing it to his old man."

Li Yunhai said: "Of course, Su Hong, thank you. Then please help me contact the theater troupe in the province. The remuneration is good. If you sing for three days in a row, whether you are an instrument teacher or an actor, each person will be paid 1000 yuan. Red envelope. The company has a car, you just have to make arrangements."

Su Hong said: "Mr. Li, you don't need so much, just cover our food and accommodation. Don't worry, I will bring the best team in the group down."

Li Yunhai hummed, put down the phone, and called Shen Xiulan again, asking her to coordinate the company's cars and give Su Hong tens of thousands of dollars as expenses.

Shen Xiulan said hello and then said: "Yunhai, when is the funeral? I want to see grandpa off."

Li Yunhai said: "In three days, if you are not free, don't come."

Shen Xiulan said: "I will definitely come."

Li Yunhai put down the phone and said to his father: "The Huagu Drama Troupe in the province has sent people, so we don't have to go to the city to hire people. We have to build a stage."

Li Deming said: "The stage is easy to build. It is made of wood and bamboo, with benches underneath as support. Just lay the wooden boards. Leave this matter to me. I will ask the carpenters to do it. It can be erected today."

There are master masters and earth masters in the village who specialize in presiding over rituals. They are usually farmers. When someone dies, they will be invited over. They wear Taoist priest clothes, and they are also responsible for the decoration of the mourning hall.They decide when to bury the deceased, when to offer sacrifices, and when to burn paper houses and hold funerals.

The "distribution" given to them by the bereaved family was also extremely generous.

Zhang Shuwen brought the mourning clothes and gave each child a set, then asked Li Yunhai: "Ling Zhi hasn't married yet, do you want to wear mourning clothes?"

Li Yunhai said: "Of course Lin Zhi must wear a mourning hat!"

Zhang Shuwen also sent a set to Lin Zhi.

Li Yunhai helped Lin Zhi put on mourning clothes and tie straw ropes.

If you want to be pretty, be filial.

Lin Zhi put on a plain white mourning dress, which made her even more charming.With the efforts of carpenters and young people in the village, a stage was erected.

The stage was set up on the front lawn of Li Yunhai's house, with one end close to the side door of his house. A room on this side happened to be used as a dressing room for the theater troupe.

Li Yunhai walked up to the stage, jumped hard, checked the firmness and flatness, and found that it was pretty good.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Hong and members of the Provincial Huagu Drama Troupe arrived at Shiban Village.

The props, costumes, and strength of the provincial troupe are countless times higher than those at the city and county levels, let alone those of the grass-stage troupes.

There are more than a dozen large wooden boxes, each with the name of the Provincial Flower Drum Troupe written on it.

The villagers looked at it and all praised it. They said they were regular troops. To watch their performance at the provincial capital grand theater, not only did they have to buy tickets, but they also had to queue up!If it weren't for Li Yunhai's face, no one in the village would be able to invite them to the countryside.

For a time, the news spread to tens and hundreds. Not only people in this village, but also people from other villages came to watch the show after hearing the news.

In the evening, the provincial drama troupe performed on stage, attracting people from all over the country.

Li Yunhai lit a bonfire in Pingli. Even on a snowy day, with such a big bonfire, everyone in Pingli was warm.

The members of the Provincial Drama Troupe are all elite Huagu Opera talents in the province. Many of them have participated in galas of provincial and municipal TV stations, and some of them have appeared on CCTV programs.But on TV, you can only see highlights of their performances.Today they performed the entire Huagu Opera repertoire.

The plays performed today include three traditional Flower Drum Opera pieces: "Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter", "Breaking the Gong" and "Mending the Pot".

Such a performance camp is rare for villagers to see.

The front of Li Yunhai's house was crowded with people, and even the rice fields and roads next to it were full of people.

Some young students simply climbed up the tree and sat and watched.

After the performance, Li Yunhai invited all the comrades from the theater troupe to live in his home, with two or three people living together in each room.

The next day, more relatives and friends came to express their condolences.

Mr. Li's funeral was officially held.

The funeral documents were all made of white paper. On the door of the trough, there was a white paper and ink inscription "It's a big event." The house was busy and solemn with rituals and Confucian etiquette.The sound of firecrackers outside the house made the atmosphere solemn.

In the afternoon, a car drove over.

Li Yunhai calculated the time and knew who the visitor was, so he went to the door to greet him.

Lin Zhi asked: "Who is here?"

Li Yunhai said: "Sister Gong and Sister Zhu are both here."

Lin Zhi asked in surprise: "How did they know? Did you inform them?"

Li Yunhai hummed: "I told Sister Zhu yesterday, and Sister Zhu called Sister Gong over."

Lin Zhi said, "What did you tell Zhu Lin to do?"

Li Yunhai said: "Isn't she a big star? I want to invite her to come over and sing a song for grandpa."

Lin Zhi said no more.

What is the relationship between Zhu Lin and Li Yunhai now?Of course she would like to come.It seemed very abrupt for her to come alone, so she pulled Gong Jie over with her.

The car stopped in front of the door, and the people who came were indeed Zhu Lin and Gong Jie.

The villagers pointed at Zhu Lin and shouted: "The King of the Girl Country! The King of the Girl Country in Journey to the West!"

Zhu Lin's face is really charming and unforgettable.

Almost everyone who has read Journey to the West will remember this face.

Gong Jie is actually more well-known, but she stars in movies, and the villagers watch her movies less often, but some people recognize her.

Li Yunhai and Lin Zhi came forward and shook hands with them.

In the small stone village, two beautiful beauties from Bei Zhu and Nan Gong gathered together!

Although the two beauties only wore simple black clothes and black pants, they could not conceal their unparalleled beauty.

Zhu and Gong went to the mourning hall to salute and offer incense.

Li Yunhai invited them to sit down in the living room.

Li Yunfang is a college student, so of course she knows them. If it weren't for her grandfather's funeral, she would definitely jump for joy.

Li Yunhai arranged for his eldest sister to accompany him.

Zhang Guifen and several women in the village are responsible for tea.

Refined people brew not just tea, but ginger and red date tea, which is nourishing and cold-repelling.

After a while, another car drove over.

Li Yunhai knew that it was Guo Wanhua and Guo Zhian's mother and son who came this time.

Sure enough, Guo Wanhua came with little An'an!
Even Zhu Lin and Gong Jie were here. Now that Lin Zhi saw Guo Wanhua coming, it was no longer surprising.

Lin Zhi saw little An'an for the first time. She didn't dare to hold the child because she was pregnant. Looking at little An'an's cute appearance, she couldn't help but hug and kiss the child gently.

An An has a round head, big black eyes, and a small mouth. She is very cute.

Guo Wanhua said: "Ling Zhi, An'an became Yunhai's adoptive father. Did he tell you?"

Lin Zhi exclaimed, "Really? Yun Hai was very careless, and he was too busy, so he forgot to tell me! But it's really good! I like An An!"

This was entirely Guo Wanhua's impromptu decision and she said it deliberately.

Otherwise, how could An An pay filial piety to her great-grandfather?
When Li Yunhai heard this, he immediately understood Guo Wanhua's intention, looked at her gratefully, praised her cleverness, and said, "It's my fault, I forgot to tell Lin Zhi about this."

Lin Zhi said: "You, you can forget such a big thing! Then I am An An's godmother! I have to give An An a big red envelope."

Guo Wanhua said: "An'an is grandpa's great-grandson, right? He can bear red mourning for his great-grandfather."

The red filial piety cloth can only be worn by great-grandsons, great-great-grandsons and people of the lower generation, that is, at least four generations must live under the same roof.

Li Deming and Zhang Shuwen listened and of course agreed.

The family had not prepared red mourning clothes before, but Zhang Shuwen found out a piece of red cloth from home and used it as a red mourning clothes.

Guo Wanhua first dressed her son in red mourning clothes, and then took An An to kneel down in front of the mourning hall.

Lin Zhi whispered to Li Yunhai: "Sister Guo is so kind, bringing An An over to see grandpa off in such a cold weather."

Li Yunhai hummed, feeling a little more respect and love for Guo Wanhua in his heart.

The opera was sung for three consecutive days, and the Li family was full of people.

The day before the funeral, Zhu Lin and Gong Jie also performed several songs on stage.

Li Yunfang said to her eldest brother: "Brother, this is more lively and beautiful than the Spring Festival Gala. If grandpa has a spirit under Jiuquan, he will definitely be very happy. It's a pity that he can't see it with his own eyes - "

Then she began to cry again.

Li Yunhai touched his sister's head.

On the morning of the funeral, the Li family held a banquet with more than 100 tables.

Li Yunhai specially bought more than 100 briquette stoves and placed one under each table.

There were 18 dishes in the banquet. The Li family killed two pigs, a cow, five sheep, and dozens of chickens, ducks and geese. All kinds of delicacies were available.

The tobacco and wine are the best in the province, and the rewards are also the most generous.

No matter how much money the villagers brought, Li Yunhai always gave each of them a gift bag worth 50 yuan.

Many cars continued to drive on the road.

Shao Yuqing from the countryside, Commissioner Zhao from the city and others all came.

Lin Zhi's parents also came to see him off.

Mrs. Li's funeral was the most luxurious and dignified one in the area.

The snow had melted that day and it was a sunny day.

Peng Dianzi and seven other strong men in the village acted as the Eight King Kongs and carried Old Mrs. Li up the mountain.

The funeral procession was huge and stretched for several miles.

After arriving at the tomb mountain, lower the coffin and cover the tomb.

All the guests left separately.

Li Yunhai and Lin Zhi stayed at home for another two days to spend time with their families.

On this day, Li Yunhai and the others left their hometown and headed to Xizhou.

The children are drifting apart, and the parents are filled with sadness.

But no matter how far he goes, his hometown will always be the bright moon in Li Yunhai's heart.

Guo Wanhua took An An and moved into the best suite in Tianhua Hotel.

There are still more than ten days before the Chinese New Year. Because Sihai Group has received a large number of orders at CES, there will be no holidays for the Chinese New Year this year. In order to rush into production, the company promised to give everyone three times the salary.

Zhu Lin and Gong Jie also stayed in Xizhou temporarily and reported to Li Yunhai.

At the same time, they will also participate in the dealer conference to be held by Sihai Group.

That night, Li Yunhai came to Guo Wanhua's room to discuss the overseas dealer conference with her.

He hugged An An and kept teasing him: "Call daddy!"

An An shouted crisply and loudly on the phone, but when she saw Li Yunhai, she shut up.

Li Yunhai teased him for a long time, but he refused to speak.

Guo Wanhua patted An An's butt, made a phone call gesture, and said with a smile: "An An, this is Dabi! You called Dabi when you called!"

An An stared at Li Yunhai with her big, clear eyes, and shouted: "Daddy!"

Li Yunhai responded, hugged the child tightly, and kissed him on the forehead.

Guo Wanhua said quietly: "If you have a child, you won't want me anymore, right?"

Li Yunhai put his arm around her shoulders and said, "It's only because of you that I can have children!"

Guo Wanhua smiled sweetly. She knew that Li Yunhai could not stay here overnight and said, "Give me the child and I will coax him to sleep. If he doesn't fall asleep, how can we have a chance to play?"

Li Yunhai hummed and handed the child to Guo Wanhua.

"Sister Guo, how are the preparations for the overseas dealer conference going?"

"I have sent out all the invitations via email."

“How many people responded?”

"Before I came to Xizhou, I only received replies from a dozen foreign businessmen saying they would definitely come."

Li Yunhai's heart skipped a beat!

A dozen foreign businessmen?Are you kidding me?
Can this also be called a dealer conference?
Wouldn’t it make people laugh out loud? (End of chapter)