Chapter 12: Journey to Yunnan II
The next day, Xiaoyan and Xiaozhuang went to pay homage to their common father. When they were burning incense, Wu Fangge was waiting for a distance of 10 or 20 steps. After the commemoration, he noticed that both children were crying.
In the evening, Xiaoyan set up a few tables to entertain her neighbors, and also invited her stepmother, but she didn't invite the meat seller. Xiaozhuang didn't speak, which means that it was neither your father nor my father. Why do you invite him? But since he was a couple and a shameless man, how could he not come? After drinking a few cups, he always praised Wu Fangge for being handsome, capable and rich. It would be fine if he usually said this. But Wu Fangge appeared as Xiao Yan's adoptive father at this time, and these lyrics were not lyrics to praise her adoptive father. There was a little more ambiguousness, which made people think a lot, but Xiaoyan didn't care. Instead, she said with great fanfare: "Yes, the father in the world is not as good as my father, anyway."
Wu Fangge was a little miserable, so he had to tell Wei Yan's story over and over again at any time. However, he had always been very eloquent, and he kept the old women crying. Later, he became his voluntary propagandist banquet, so he naturally returned to the hotel. The meat seller smiled exaggeratedly and said, "Oh, the child is grown up, and the family can't be kept anymore." But no one paid attention to him
After another night, Wu Fangge didn't go out and watched TV in the hotel for a day. Xiaoyan took Xiaozhuang to go shopping. The three new ones inside and outside were changed. She reunited with her old classmates in the evening. She came back very late. When she thought she was about to leave the next day, she felt so sad. So she chatted with Xiaozhuang for half a night and finally Xiaozhuang said emotionally: "Sister, I'm sorry for you."
Xiaoyan smiled and said, "What are you sorry for me?"
Xiaozhuang said: "When I was a child, I always bullied you and sued you for a slander. Now I put myself in my shoes and understand it."
Xiaoyan sighed, "Didn't we all agree not to mention the past? You can stay for a few more years and wait until my sister graduates from college and works, and I will take care of you." As she said that, both of them had red eyes.
But at the end of the time of separation, the stepmother, the meat seller and several neighbors came to see him off, but Xiaozhuang hid beside him and squatted without saying a word. No matter how others called him to come and say goodbye, Xiaoyan had to go over and coax him, and took five hundred from her pocket money and stuffed it into his hand. After he said that, he rubbed his eyes and got into the taxi. But at the moment the taxi started, Xiaozhuang suddenly ran after the car and cried, "Sister, don't leave, sister, don't leave me alone here, sister..."
In the car, Xiaoyan was also in tears. Wu Fangge asked, "Do you want to park? I'm going to have one more person to eat."
"No!" Although Xiaoyan was crying, she said firmly: "No need to stop, he is my responsibility."
After listening to it, Wu Fangge said with relief: "You have grown up."
Xiaoyan felt soft and weak all over at this time, and she tilted her body and leaned against Wu Fangge's shoulder.
After returning to Kunming, Wu Fangge suggested: "Or we'll have a few days to play in Kunming."
Xiaoyan pouted and said, "What are you doing? Don't you miss my mother?"
Wu Fangge smiled and said, "Why don't you think? You've come back to your hometown and cry all day long. When you go to see your mother again, you must have tears in your eyes, so I want to calm down and let you go happily."
Xiaoyan smiled and said, "I'm fine, my dad just needs to leave the place, I'll be fine."
Seeing that she looked like she was really fine, Wu Fangge only stayed in Kunming for one day, and went to Cuihu Park to play during the day. He remembered that he was looking for Xia Bing and Wang Juan to sign his autographs here. He laughed secretly, and then felt regretful. Because he moved home a few times, the signature could no longer be found (of course, I couldn't find it, because I didn't sign it in the notebook at that time). When I was having a flower banquet, the dishes were made of all kinds of edible flowers, Wu Fangge felt that the taste was average, but it was very novel. At night, he slept in the hotel overnight. Then the next day, he took a long-distance bus to the Martyrs Cemetery on the border.
The small inn not far from the cemetery has been repaired again in recent years. The scale and decoration are incomparable to the past. Moreover, Zheng Changren, who is nicknamed "Madman", is now basically recovering from health. He knows that he is the manager, not the director of the Lawshizi. However, he still builds the inn like a military camp. All employees wear uniforms (imitation military uniforms). Generally, there are bars on the shoulders of employees, and the middle-level leaders have stars on the shoulders. There are flags raised in the morning and lights off at night. There are even a small military band. In short, Zheng Changren lives in this small world now, as if he has never left the army, sometimes there are tourists or fewer martyrs who come and have no idea what the inside story is. He really thinks this is a branch of the army.
The old comrades are naturally very happy to meet again, but the banquet is slow and you have to go to the memorial service first. This is also the rule for many years.
Wu Fangge is a big deal every time he comes to pay tribute, and this time is no exception. He only used two pickup trucks to barely load the sacrifice. The scene is as grand as a "public memorial". Of course, the biggest focus is Wei Yan's place.
After the lively scene was over, Wu Fangge took Xiao Yan to Wei Yan's tomb. Looking at the photos on the tombstone, he felt heartbroken and didn't say anything for a long time. Finally, Xiao Yan said first: "Mom, my dad and I are here to see you..." But after half of the time, he couldn't continue to say anything. Suddenly, he hugged Wu Fangge and cried, "Dad, I want my mom to go home with us..."
Wu Fangge gently patted her back, comforted her, and then held back her tears and said, "Sister Yan, I'm here, I'm here with Xiaoyan. She has lived well in my place in the past few years. Now she's in college and treats her the same way as her biological daughter. In fact, this is also unnecessary. Isn't your daughter mine? Look, she is a big girl now, beautiful, smart, and responsible. You can feel at ease here. I promise she will be happier day by day." After saying that, she looked at the photos on the tombstone and felt that Wei Yan smiled better.
In the evening, Zheng Changren put a drink to greet the father and daughter, and it was so dark. And judging from the attitude, it seemed that he was better to Xiaoyan than Wu Fangge treated Xiaoyan. Although he was a little crazy, he could tell that it was definitely from the bottom of his heart. However, Wu Fangge did not drink Zheng Changren when drinking. He wanted to leave the table, but Zheng Changren was not willing to let him go. Xiaoyan felt sorry for him and thought Zheng Changren was fun, so she said, "Uncle Crazy, I'll drink with you. You want my dad to go to bed. Our family depends on him."
Zheng Changren smiled and said, "I said to sing, your daughter is really not raised in vain, it really loves you."
So Wu Fangge was able to escape, while Xiao Yan stayed to drink with Zheng Changren. In fact, she was drinking wherever she was drinking, just using white wine to dip her lips. However, Zheng Changren drank one cup after another, but after drinking too much, he said more and more. The words that could not be said were also said, and suddenly his eyes lowered, "Xiao Yan, I'm sorry for you, uncle."
Xiaoyan smiled and said, "What's going on? Someone has said sorry to me these days."
Zheng Changren drank another half of a glass of wine before saying, "Uncle, I'm really sorry for you."
Xiaoyan said: "Impossible, I'm the first time I've seen you."
Zheng Changren said: "I really have something to do with you, but I just don't dare to say it. If you say it, you will definitely hate me."
Xiaoyan said: "Then you might as well tell me, why are you sorry for me?"
Zheng Changren's Adam's apple moved up and down several times, looking very hard, and finally slapped the table and said, "Oh, I really can't say it."
Xiaoyan suddenly laughed and said, "Uncle, you are so funny, nothing is going on."
Zheng Changren drank the remaining wine in the glass again. This time he was full of courage, but before opening his mouth, he became less and less: "I...%*&...%*"
Xiaoyan didn't hear it clearly and asked, "Uncle, what did you say?"
Zheng Changren said again: "I&………%%¥"
Xiaoyan laughed and said, "Uncle, what are you doing? Why are you drinking too much? Why is your tongue short?"
Zheng Changren was anxious and his voice suddenly became louder: "I've peeked at your mother taking a shower!"
Xiaoyan was stunned for a moment and said, "You, what did you say?"
Zheng Changren's voice suddenly became weaker: "I've peeked at your mother taking a bath..."
Xiaoyan stopped talking, staring at Zheng Changren with a pair of almond eyes. Now he couldn't stand it anymore. Finally, he said with regret: "Xiao Yan'er, it's not good for uncle, that's uncle... What do you say now? It's water in your head... Xiaoyan, although your mother forgives me, I can't let it go. Just scold me for your mother, and hit me twice."
Xiaoyan stood up and continued to stare at Zheng Changren, and suddenly asked, "Is my mother good-looking?"
"What?" Although Zheng Changren heard it clearly, he couldn't believe what his ears heard
"I'm asking if I have a good figure?" Xiao Yan said, and suddenly burst into laughter, which made Zheng Changren at a loss. Xiao Yan said again: "My mother must be a charming woman, otherwise you guys who are not changing their faces in the rain of bullets, why are they all bowing under her pomegranate skirt?" He paused and said: "I would have half of my mother's charm."
Although Wu Fangge drank a little too much, it was considered a condition. After all, the place was special, so he got up early the next day and attended the flag-raising ceremony with the employees. Zheng Changren, as the boss, was exceptionally missing. Wu Fangge thought it was related to drinking last night, but in a blink of an eye, he saw him squatting alone in the wall of the flower bed, and walked over and asked with a smile: "What are you doing? I'm going to draw circles here, and curse who are you cursing?"
Zheng Changren looked up and saw that it was him, then lowered his head and said, "No one has cursed it." After waiting for a while, he said, "I told Xiaoyan all of them."
Wu Fangge asked: "What did you say?"
Zheng Changren said: "I told me about my peeking at his mother's bath back then."
Wu Fangge smiled and said, "You have a water in your mind, what are you talking about?"
Zheng Changren said: "I also think I'm in my brain."
Wu Fangge asked again: "Did Xiaoyan scold you?"
Zheng Changren said: "No, she just asked me if her mother is good..."
Wu Fangge sighed: "Oh... Nowadays, the child is thinking differently from us. It doesn't matter. Anyway, she doesn't blame you. If you pay attention in the future, you are also an uncle, don't talk nonsense."
Zheng Changren said again: "I'm not afraid that Xiaoyan will blame me, I'm afraid that you will blame me."
Chapter completed!