porridge for two

On April 4th, Monday, Xie Xiuping, as usual, together with Su Zeyu, first ran in the community, had breakfast, and then took the bus for more than an hour to go back to school alone.When he returned to school after nine o'clock, he used to go back to the dormitory first, and go to the ten o'clock class with the four fires.

"Jin Zi, come down soon! Today's class is to identify plants. The teacher took us around the campus, so we have to go out a few minutes earlier to gather." Xiao Guoqing was urging Xie Xiuping who was sitting on the bed.

"Okay!" Xie Xiuping took the botany book, took a pen from the small table on the bed, and was about to get out of bed.

"Dingling! Jingling..." The phone rang.

"Hello!" Seeing the number clearly, Xie Xiuping felt a pain in his heart for no reason when he picked up the phone.

Seeing that Xiao Guoqing and the others were still waiting for him to answer the phone, Xie Xiuping covered the phone and said to them, "Go first!"

The three left first, Xie Xiuping listened carefully to his uncle's phone call, but felt anxious!

"Your husband is so hot! Are you coming back?" Xie Xiuping felt very bad when he heard this sentence.

"Mr. Zhou, I have something to do at home. I want to ask for leave to go back." Xie Xiuping was stunned for a while, then came back to call the counselor to ask for leave.

"Didn't you just come back from vacation yesterday? Why did you ask for leave today?" The counselor obviously couldn't figure it out.

"It's a matter of urgency!" Xie Xiuping was also in a hurry, no matter what happened, it was over this hurdle.

"Then you write the leave note and wait for me in my office. I'll be there in half an hour." The counselor said and hung up the phone. The voice should be outside, not at school.

Xie Xiuping hurriedly packed her things, carried her sports bag, and waited outside the counselor's office with the written request for leave.Xie Xiuping walked back and forth in the corridor of the office several times. It was half an hour after the call was made, and the counselor hadn't come back, and after another 10 minutes, he still hadn't come back.

Xie Xiuping hurried downstairs, there happened to be a student supermarket downstairs, and there was a public phone there.Xie Xiuping dialed a number, only to hear "the phone you dialed has been turned off", and after dialing twice, the same sentence made Xie Xiuping cry in anxiety.He dialed another number.

"National Day, my grandfather is critically ill, I have to go back! I can't get through to the counselor, please help me ask for leave."

Xie Xiuping hung up after saying this to National Day, took a taxi to the bus station in the city, and drove home.When we arrived at the bus station, there was no direct train to Qingnan during this time period. Fortunately, seeing that he was in a hurry, a passing car that was about to leave was willing to take him.Back in Qingnan, he took another motorcycle to drive home.

When I got home, I saw that everyone in the village was in the yard of his house. Everyone's eyes were a little red, suppressing their sadness.

"Jin Zi, you're back!" A cousin greeted him.

"En!" The atmosphere was very depressing, and Xie Xiuping's voice was a little hoarse.

He saw the scraps of paper where firecrackers had been burned in the yard, and also saw the candlesticks at the gate. He walked up the steps of the gate and looked into the main room. He saw grandpa lying on a door panel, covered with a white cloth, in the main room. In the center is a coffin and a square table with incense sticks in the rice liters on the table. On the ground is a brazier for burning paper. Yao Niang is kneeling by the brazier to burn paper money.

"Yao Niang!" Xie Xiuping called out to the middle-aged woman who was burning paper money by the brazier when she raised her foot and stepped into the gate.

"Ok!"

The middle-aged woman was Xie Xiuping's aunt. She looked up at Xie Xiuping, answered with a sob, and lowered her head to wipe her tears.

"male!"

Xie Xiuping knelt in front of the door and called out.Xie Xiuping's heart ached as the hand exposed by Bai Buli was skinny and skinny.

It's only been a month since he started school, why is he so popular?Didn't you say it was okay when you called Uncle on Ching Ming Festival?Didn't you say Lao Huo on the phone?Why did I hurry so fast, I still haven't had time to see the last side!Xie Xiuping's tears flowed down unconsciously.

"Jin Zi, take a good look at your father-in-law!" When he was sad, Tang Shu walked in and lifted the white cloth off his grandfather.

Xie Xiuping took a closer look now, the clothes on the father's body were changed into old clothes, and his face should have been taken care of.The whole person is still the appearance in Xie Xiuping's impression, but skinny.Xie Xiuping watched, choked up, and kept hiccupping.

"Come here and offer incense sticks to your father, and burn some money paper!" Seeing him crying sadly, Yao Niang worried that she would break her body from crying.

Listening to Yaoniang's voice, Uncle Tang covered the white cloth again and went out.

Xie Xiuping walked to the brazier, took three sticks of incense from the table, lit them, bowed three times, put them in the Mi Sheng, and knelt by the brazier to burn paper money with Yaoniang.

"Your father's health is getting worse and worse! Especially in the past half a month, it has been repeated repeatedly, and it may disappear one day. That's why your cigarette didn't let you come back. It's not a problem to say that you stay here. I'll call you again if I can't, I'm afraid it will delay your class." Yao Niang said while burning paper money.

"Your father-in-law walked very quietly in the morning! At first he probably worried about you, missed you, and refused to give up. Later, you called you and said you were coming back, so he closed his eyes and went quietly!"

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After 9 o'clock in the evening, Su Zeyu called the dormitory and no one answered, so he called Xiao Guoqing.

"Where is Jin Zi? No one in your dormitory answers the phone!" Su Zeyu's anxious voice came from Xiao Guoqing as soon as he answered the phone.

"Self-study was delayed tonight. Well, Jin Zi's grandfather is critically ill, so he went back and left in a hurry!" Xiao Guoqing said.

"Okay! I see! I'll ask his uncle!" Su Zeyu responded.

"Tell me what you found out!" Xiao Guoqing said, and Su Zeyu hung up the phone.

At night, the yard of Xie Xiuping's house was brightly lit, and there was a fire burning beside the yard. Everyone gathered around the fire, talking in twos and threes.Xie Xiuping just lit the candles, now he will sit by the fire and rest for a while.

"Jin Zi! Your phone!" Xie Xiuping was about to talk to his cousin sitting next to him when he heard his uncle's voice.

Xie Xiuping stood up and walked over. His uncle handed him the phone and said, "Say it's your classmate!"

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"Hey! Dog!" Xie Xiuping took the phone to a relatively quiet corner.

"How's the family going?" Su Zeyu asked eagerly when he heard the voice was not very good.

"My father-in-law is gone!" Xie Xiuping couldn't help sobbing after finishing speaking!

"Didn't you say it was fine before, why is it gone!" Su Zeyu paused for a while, not knowing what to say, everything seemed powerless.

"Then I'll come over tomorrow!" Su Zeyu said.

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"You don't want to come! The day is already looking good! Hang paper tomorrow and go up the mountain the day after tomorrow. I will go back to school after going up the mountain the day after tomorrow. Just come and pick me up when you arrive." Xie Xiuping refused Su Zeyu's coming, and did as he came. Nothing.

"Okay! Then take care of yourself! Call me after buying a ticket, and I'll pick you up!"