Chapter 147 144. Red Paper
The night before Qingming, it rained heavily in Xinchang.

The precipitation in spring is not heavy, but it lasts for a long time.

When Yu Cang opened the window of the room in the morning, he could still clearly feel the dampness in the air.

He stood silently by the window for a while until the cell phone beside his pillow vibrated.

Turning around to the bed and picking up the phone.

Looking at the name on the phone screen, Yu Cang raised his eyebrows.

It was a rare time that I didn't call her to wake her up.
After a brief wash, Yu Cang changed his clothes, went out with an umbrella and entered the elevator.

Because sweeping the tomb today has nothing to do with work and is his own personal business, so Xiao Jiang was not called.

The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, and Lu Yuan'er came in quickly.

"Good morning!"

"Good morning." Yu Cang nodded with a smile on his lips.

Lu Yuan'er secretly took a look at him, making sure that he was in a good mood.

So he raised his face and asked Yu Cang with a little "show off", "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Yu Cang looked down at her, as if thinking about something, until the elevator stopped on the first floor, he asked aloud,

"Staying in bed at work works the hardest, and waking up during the holidays is the most active? Is it supposed to be such an exaggeration?"

"What does it mean to stay in bed and work the hardest?!" Lu Yuan'er opened her eyes wide, with an expression of disbelief, "I'm never late, okay?"

Yu Cang walked outside the hotel with her and asked, "Aren't you late?"

"Yes!"

"Then why did you come to my office for the first time?"

Yu Cang looked reminiscent.

Glancing at Lu Yuan'er's silence, he secretly smiled inwardly.

When he arrived at the breakfast shop, he was ordering soy milk, fried dough sticks and eggs, while listening to someone mumbling beside him.

For a while it was "Scholar's business, can that be called being late", and for a while it was "College life without skipping classes is not worth living".
Yu Cang knocked on the table, "Let's eat first, student Lu."

"Oh~"

A peaceful breakfast.

Before taking the car to the cemetery on the outskirts of the city, Yu Cang and Lu Yuan'er went to a nearby flower shop.

"Hello," Yu Cang nodded slightly to the clerk, "I'm here to pick up the bouquet I ordered last night. My phone number is 8743."

The clerk flipped through the record book and asked politely, "Is that Mr. Yu?"

"Yes, it's been hard work..."

"You should be polite." The clerk nodded and gave him a handful of yellow and white chrysanthemums.

At this time, Lu Yuan'er, who was behind Yu Cang, pursed her lips, and suddenly asked, "If you don't make a reservation, is there any extra you can sell?"

Yu Cang looked back at her in surprise.

But Lu Yuan'er only looked at the clerk.

The clerk looked suspiciously at the two people who came here together.

Brother and sister?They don't look alike either.

It's posted so close, is the young couple going to sweep the elder's grave?But why are flowers ordered separately?
Although she didn't want to understand, she still smiled and said, "Yes."

"Yeah, then help me get a bunch~ Thank you."

Yu Cang smiled, didn't say anything more, and paid the money together.

After picking up the flowers, Yu Cang and Lu Yuan'er left the flower shop.

He stopped a taxi on the side of the road and drove towards the cemetery on the outskirts of the city.

On the back seat of the taxi, Yu Cang looked at the flowers in his hand, thinking about something.

Lu Yuan'er didn't bother him anymore, but just sat quietly beside him.

Speechless all the way.

The taxi stopped near the cemetery.

The two got out of the car and entered the cemetery.

This cemetery is built on the side of a hill in the outskirts of the city, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a serene view.

There are already many people in it.

It's just that these extra people didn't make the cemetery any more lively.

Although it has been several years since he came here, Yu Cang has not forgotten any memory of this place.

His pace was a little slower than usual.

It wasn't until somewhere that he stopped and squatted down.

Yu Cang stretched out his hand and gently stroked the engraving on the screen.

Black background, a line of pale gold.

A person's life is engraved here.

He put the flowers in front of the tombstone, opened his mouth to say something, but was unable to speak for a while.

After calming down, Yu Cang took out a package of things wrapped in red paper from his arms.

Lu Yuan'er imitated him, put the flowers away, and asked him softly, "What is this, did grandma leave it to you?"

Yu Cang gave a soft "hmm", "a bag of soil."

Before he went to the capital to study, his grandmother was already dying.

Next to the bed, the old man left this bag of soil to him.

Grandma told him that if he went outside in the future and was not acclimatized to the environment and was always homesick, he could cook some soup with the things wrapped in red paper and drink it.

This is a bag of soil from the stove, the last bit of warmth left by his grandmother.

What is hidden in this dry soil is probably the hometown and family affection of the Chinese people.

Later, whether it was four years in Beijing or three years in Europe, Yu Cang always carried it in his suitcase.

And now, he returned to the old man's grave with this small portion of soil from the stove at home.

Standing beside Yu Cang, Lu Yuan'er reached out and stroked his hair, "Don't be too sad."

Yu Cang smiled slightly and said softly, "Thank you."

He is no longer a young man, and the passage of time has taught him to accept encounters and partings in the world.

Family affection, love, it's all like this.

The elders will always grow old and leave, just like an old tree will always decay one day.

And like a seed blown out by the wind from an old tree, he will grow up little by little.

All thoughts and memories of the past fall on the words "sad but not sad".

Yu Cang stroked the tombstone and was silent for a long time.

Until a little raindrop fell on his face, he looked up at the sky and said in a low voice, "Grandma, everything is fine with me."

Immediately got up, and said to Lu Yuan'er who was busy taking out her umbrella, "Let's go, it's raining."

"Hey, I can hold an umbrella for you, don't worry."

Yu Cang smiled, stretched out his hand to rub her hair, and half grabbed the umbrella in her hand, "Later you will charge another meal as wages, I won't take such a loss."

"Ah, who do you think I am! Am I so dishonest?!"

Lu Yuan'er expressed serious dissatisfaction with someone's words.

Although I will take advantage of him a little bit from time to time, but it is not so "bad".

Yu Cang didn't answer, but just propped up the big black umbrella to isolate the gradually thinning rain from the two of them.

Spring in the south is like this, the arrival of rain is always inadvertent.

The two walked towards the bottom of the cemetery.

All the way to the half-slope of the cemetery, Lu Yuan'er glanced back by chance, and let out a small sigh.

She pulled the corner of Yu Cang's clothes, "Yu Cang, Yu Cang, look"

(End of this chapter)

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