A woman cannot go to the grave
Text/Cranberry
A woman is not allowed to go to the grave.
Today, my mother said, tomorrow I will go to the grave of your grandfather, and I am happy. My mother asked me, "Shall I go buy tribute?" I said, "I'll go." She said, OK. When I went out, I felt so spirited, and I was given such a glorious and sacred mission by this old woman who had never been the master at home, and I suddenly felt that I had become a man who stood up to the sky. I drove and deliberately missed the cheapest tribute stall that my mother said. Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, and today the streets must be selling these things, and what began to appear in my mind was how to arrange tomorrow's tribute to my grandfather, but after a few seconds, the sadness swelled up, and I restrained myself several times, and tears still slipped down......
Let's buy dim sum first, four kinds of finished products, and then buy some waterless cake (I think this is the most delicious), and the old-fashioned cake recommended by the store, that is, the trough cake (the past continues to rise, grandpa buys a few trough cakes, always reluctant to eat, to us, to mother). Buy fruit again, or four things, tell the store to go to the grave, he introduced the cheapest, I said, I want the most expensive, he smiled: people go to the grave to the cheapest, just blame you (the past continues to rise: in the summer, grandpa walked three or four kilometers to catch the market, carried a bag, walked back sweaty, the bag of melons, peaches and plums, he took them out to us one by one, to him almost can't eat anything, fortunately, our three sisters and brothers still know how to let him taste it). I bought four things, apples and pingan, bananas, grapes, and baba oranges, all three of which my grandfather can bite, but his teeth are not very good......
The point is here, buy paper money, anyway, you can't sacrifice with open fire, I bought more expensive money stacks, and buy a stack of loose money, grandpa has always been thrifty, these are enough, and I saw that the silk flowers are very fresh, the girl said buy a handful, only five yuan, I said, two, not lonely. The girl smiled, women don't go to the grave, you are, I said, grandpa loves me, she said, take another bar, a dollar, I said, okay.
Grandpa can't drink much alcohol, love to smoke, hey, maybe it's smoking and more sick, grandpa grows tobacco leaves by himself, picks the leaves in autumn, I take the lady needle to thread the white thread, help him sew up the leaves, hang under the eaves to dry, winter, grandpa crumples the dried tobacco leaves, I then used the homework book, tear it into two finger-wide strips, under the guidance of grandpa, roll into cigarettes, and then red all over the sky, occasionally also official hall, welcome guests, etc., and then I high school, tutoring, I don't know if grandpa smoked Shanhaiguan, I really don't remember, after the college entrance examination, take grandpa to see a doctor, the doctor asked me, do you know these three lettersI panicked and didn't know how to answer, so the doctor said, hide it, prescribe some placebo medicine...... Later, the college entrance examination results came out, my name fell Sun Shan, stubborn I don't know where the courage came from to tutor, before the tutoring also bought a mustard pimple for grandpa to eat, grandpa said, too delicious, tender and fragrant, 89 New Year's Day eve I came home from cram school and saw my mother wearing a black armband...... , I collapsed, the person who regarded me as the pearl of the palm left, and the family chose not to tell me, because they were afraid that I would affect my studies, and my grandfather was only 69 years old when he left...... When I was six years old, my father teased me, saying that I picked it up, and I said that I was originally my grandfather's child, not yours! He said, then you still wear my clothes to eat my food, I took off my fine light, threw my clothes to my father, and ran to my grandfather's house, and my grandfather was stunned and said: How old is it, I am ashamed to death. I cried and said, I'm not their child, I'm yours. Grandpa hurriedly took his tattered blanket and wrapped me around me...... Later, all the dreams related to my grandfather had that cotton and soft broken blanket......
There is Yuxi at home, as well as Zhonghua, and I will bring it to my grandfather tomorrow.
Women can't go to the grave, but once my mother (my aunt walked before my grandfather, who had no children) took me to my grandfather's grave, so I remember the graveyard.
Before getting married, I dreamed of my grandfather one night, and I had nothing to eat and wear, only the broken blanket. I told my parents that I wanted to go to my grandfather's grave, but I was prevented from doing so, and the reason was: women don't go to the grave, and they don't have festivals from time to time, what is your surname...... I'm silent, okay.
The next day, I bought enough things that I thought I should buy, rode a bicycle, whether it was thirty-seven twenty-eight or twenty-nine, went to my grandfather's grave and chatted with him for a while, cried for a while, and went home to report, I went to the grave, from time to time, I don't know what my surname is, my grandfather's surname is Wang, I know. The family was silent in astonishment, and I triumphed in silence. Later, I got married and gave birth to a baby, so that I became a member of someone else's family, and I couldn't go to the grave, I missed my grandfather every day and every night, and I was not afraid of any ghost festivals, I think my grandfather was always thinking about me and protecting me. Later, I divorced, the divorced woman, how unlucky, let alone go to the grave, grandparents didn't let me go to the funeral, the Zheng family man Ding is prosperous, and the unlucky single woman is behind, I understand very well. But today it was my mother who made the decision to send my grandfather to the grave, and again, my grandfather had no children, and my mother had been out of the house where she could not be the master for four years. In previous years, the second uncle (the son of the second grandfather) went to the grave, and this year, whether the mother is reasonable or helpless or misses her father, I think this is the most correct thing!
A woman can go to the grave, a woman can do anything, whether you are willing to let her do it or not, as long as she wants to do it, she can do anything! Women can do it better than men, they don't compete with others for their interests, and when they pay for their parents, they don't care about anyone, and nothing else.
Grandpa, tomorrow, I will go to the grave for you.
About the Author:
Zheng Xiuying, pen name Manjing, Jing'an, was born in 70. English teacher of Xuanhua District No. 2 Experimental Middle School, amateur likes to travel, ride, write some small words, and his works are scattered in "Edelweiss Literature Platform", "Zhangjiakou Evening News", "Shanggu Literature and Art", "Yuntian Society, Hebei Branch", etc.