Text: Mary Gao
Figure: From the network
A week has passed, but the fact that my high school classmate Chang Yanlian has passed away, I am still in an instinctive repulsion, she is only 32 years old, and her only son is only five and a half years old.
Chang Yanlian was my table mate in my sophomore and junior years of high school, she has a somewhat outgoing personality, and she is also very open-minded, in short, with her, I am happy.
In the year of the college entrance examination, I was admitted to Xuzhou Normal College, she was admitted to Jiangsu Ocean University, and occasionally, she would stop by the school to see me. Every time I came, she would give me a few boxes of honey bee cakes, she said, Quanfeng County is making two, she brought me, especially authentic.
After graduation, I stayed in Xuzhou and she went to Nanjing. Somehow, the Internet has developed, but our contact has become less and less. However, that record, in the hearts of the two of us, did not diminish.
In the days to come, our lives are like following the track, dangling by, everyone has gone to different lives and work, leaving a distinct footprint on their respective life paths. Time flies, and it has been almost 13 years since I graduated from high school.
During the May Day period last year, the students held a rare gathering in Feng County, in a day's time, everyone spoke freely and left an unforgettable experience with each other, however, Chang Yanlian did not come, I asked her the reason in WeChat, she just said lightly: "Recently the work is busy, the child also has some colds, really can't go!" ”
But in fact, she was already hospitalized at that time, and it was a pity for me that she could not come and meet with everyone.
Chang Yanlian is a relatively strong person, her parents gave birth to four girls and a man, she is the eldest in the family, in the countryside, she suffered far more than us, but during the school, I read on her face, is endless simplicity and happiness.
In June 2014, when she got married, I participated, and my husband is from the suburbs of Feng County and also works in Nanjing, but the family conditions are not good, and I have not bought a house so far. After giving birth to a son, I can hardly see what content Chang Yanlian posted in the QQ and WeChat circle of friends, and I didn't know what her life was like.
But, I could feel her misery and loneliness. I sometimes indirectly exhort, but everyone needs to walk the road under their feet.
In January of last year, she went to the hospital for examination due to physical discomfort and found cervical cancer, and she did not tell anyone until I received the news of her death.
I attended her funeral with four classmates, and she was buried in her husband's own field, where she was accompanied by the corn seedlings that our rural grown-up children were most familiar with, and her five-and-a-half-year-old child, with a wooden expression and a small age, practiced all kinds of etiquette that adults understood under the arrangement of the village's elders, but forgot to cry.
I am also a mother, looking at Chang Yanlian's poor little appearance, I can't help but tears ripple.
She went, and now, when I look at the high school graduation photos, it's a thing. She left this world in such a hurry, which is really unfair. "I still vividly remember talking to me secretly in class, that little, sleepy face, very cute...".
I couldn't believe that she, who was kind, kind, and always had a big smile on her face, left us in such a hurry.
Man, never know what will happen next second or tomorrow. Just with this short text to mourn Chang Yanlian, I hope that the good people will have a peaceful life!