Till death let us meet

The box is not big, but it is quite heavy, and the key is also the key to open the old copper lock.

After the box was opened, there was no stale smell as expected, perhaps it was not necessarily because the box was often opened.Impressively, what caught the eye was a certificate of three good students in Xicheng Central Primary School, on which Shen Le, Class [-], Grade [-], was handwritten in black pen.

Below are the certificates of the same three-good students, participation certificates for science and technology competitions, third prize certificates for the 100-meter run in the sports meeting, and certificates for excellent composition competitions...Primary school graduation photos, junior high school graduation photos, high school graduation photos...record here With a child's growth process.

"This is the transcript of my last mock exam before the college entrance examination..." Shen Le picked up a yellowed, wrinkled, oily piece of paper, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

"This should have been put away by your parents. The key was put in a book." Shen Feng explained.

"My father and I have been arguing since I was a child. He thinks I am playful, and I think he is too strict. Why can other children play those games, but I can't. I always don't understand him. My mother sometimes helps me , help him sometimes, life is still going on..." Without answering Shen Feng's words, Shen Le started to confide in himself, maybe he just wanted to speak out and didn't care who the listener was.

"When I was in high school, I went to an Internet cafe with my classmates to play games. In the end, a good friend of mine took money from my father and betrayed me. That was my best friend! My father made me see the world too early. Ugly, and lost my best friend... When I was young, I really felt that betrayal was a heart-piercing feeling... I cried all night... I couldn't figure out how much money I gave... Let him betray me... Later, my classmates At the party... I didn't know it was 100 yuan, and he was short of 100 yuan to buy equipment during the game... Our friendship is only worth 100 yuan..."

"I hate my father very much. After the college entrance examination, I secretly changed my choice behind their backs and chose a university that was too far away. My father beat me hard, and my mother hugged me and cried. I only had resentment in my heart. Think Stay away from them, work to earn tuition fees, no longer be controlled by them, and get real freedom..."

"Then did you get it?" Shen Feng asked softly, he seemed to have seen the young man take a gamble, not wanting to rely on his parents, and his determination to go out and make a living.

"I don't know. The professional employment is very good, and the stipend was paid back quickly. I didn't go home for two years, but my mother had a stroke... I only came back twice..." Shen Le's fair cheeks sunken, looking It looks even thinner, the lines from the chin to the ears are distinct, and even a little depression on the bones is very obvious, it's almost skinny to the bone.

"Come back during the Chinese New Year?" Shen Feng, who didn't know what to say, could only answer subconsciously.

Shen Le nodded, he was silent for a moment, then spoke again, with a floating voice: "Father is very old, very haggard, dark and thin, the shop at home is closed, but mother is well-raised, in vain Fat, but she doesn't recognize people anymore...but she recognizes me...she still recognizes me...she said that Xiao Le came back from school, and she wanted to make supper for me..."

Shen Le's voice was crying, her eyes were red, and tears were rolling in her eye sockets.

"Every time I called my father, I would quarrel. He asked me to go back and see more, and I never listened to him. I don't know why, maybe it was the continuation of the rebellious period. What he said, I always wanted to do the opposite... ...Later my cousin called me...saying that my father had undergone surgery...need my signature...I came back only once...I realized at that time that he was no longer the strong father I remembered, he had all his hair To put it bluntly, I am very old... I don't know why... We quarreled again..."

"This February was the last time I saw them. Afterwards, I called them once a month. The project was very busy this month, so I didn't call...why didn't I call...why...why...why! "

The repeated questioning made Shen Le's emotions collapse, he couldn't help crying, he covered his face and wept and wailed.Like a wounded little animal, he leaned his forehead against the table, tears dripped down his fingers, and splashed little water stains on the light orange stone bricks.

Shen Feng also clenched his lips, he couldn't imagine how Shen Le's mother starved to death beside his father bit by bit, that must be a very terrible scene.He couldn't comfort Shen Le like this, he lost his closest parents, the two people who loved him the most in this world.

From now on, no one will ever love and care for him unconditionally.What exactly he lost will be taught to him slowly in the days to come.

"I couldn't sleep all night, my hair fell out in a lot, and all my relatives scolded me for being unfilial. I have nowhere to go...I resigned and planned to go on a trip to relax." Shen Le choked up for a while, and finally calmed down.A disposable cup was handed to him.

"Drink some water." Shen Feng felt sorry for him, and felt that there was indeed something wrong with him.

"Thank you, I want to ask..." Shen Le pursed her lips, and put the water glass on the table, "Which book did you find the key in?"

"It fell out of a book on the history of tofu. It's an old thread-bound book." Shen Feng thought about it for a while and replied. He stood up, went to the disinfection cabinet, found the book, and handed it to Shen Le.

"It really is this book..." Shen Le's tone was full of emotion and sadness, "This is my father's favorite book..."

Shen Feng raised his head and looked at the old man inside the old couple, the same expression as Shen Le appeared on his face, feeling sad and desolate, as well as some kind of nostalgia.

"My family runs a tofu shop. My parents have to soak the beans at night, and then get up very early to grind the beans with a stone mill, filter the soy milk, and make marinade... When I was still in bed, they would get up Work...every day is the same, repeating itself, I really hate this kind of day. I don't like to drink soy milk, and I don't want to eat tofu." Shen Le's eyes looked out of the window, his eyes wandered, as if he saw through the window His busy parents.

"Now, do you still not like it?" Shen Feng asked, seeing the old couple looking at their son in surprise.

"It's very strange. After leaving them, I don't know why. I bought a soymilk machine. I grind soymilk by myself every morning. It turns out that I don't like to drink soymilk, I just like to drink soymilk with added sugar... It's obviously the same soy milk, but with a little sugar added, it becomes more delicious... If..." Shen Le's teeth began to chatter when he spoke, and his voice was a bit scary, "At that time, my attitude If you can soften up and communicate with your father, they won't go away so miserably..."

"It's not all your fault, don't blame yourself too much..." Shen Feng thought for a long time before he came up with such a sentence, he was really clumsy at words.The old couple on one side looked at their son crying sadly, perhaps this was the first time the child had grown up crying so sadly and intensely.

"...I've decided," Shen Le raised his head suddenly, with tears and snot all over his face, but his expression became resolute, "When I come back from my trip, I will reopen the shop at home, although it will be difficult at first. , but as long as I am willing to do it, it will definitely be possible.”

"Then do you want to give up your major in university? What major are you in?" Shen Feng vaguely remembered that Shen Le seemed to be studying a popular major, and the salary was quite high.

"I studied economics, but I have watched my father make tofu since I was a child, and all the things at home are still there. It is not that difficult to start again. People always need to look forward. Giving up is also a new beginning." The tears were still wet, but Shen Le's eyes began to have vitality and hope.

Not far away, the expressions of the old couple also began to become relieved. They obviously had a deep relationship before they were alive, so even in the state of souls, they still held hands.The eyes of the two were kind and gentle, their figures gradually faded, and finally disappeared gradually.

Shen Feng let out a long sigh of relief, the old couple had finally left, and they would not suddenly appear around him anymore.The young man in front of him, Shen Le, also cheered up again, and Shen Feng was also relieved for a while.

"Let me pack all the sterilized things for you." Shen Feng repacked the sterilized belongings, and then carried them into the van.

"Don't you like drinking water from a disposable cup?" Shen Feng asked suddenly when he saw the cup that hadn't taken a sip of water.

"Well, um." Shen Le blushed a little, and nodded embarrassedly.

"You should tell me that there are still glass cups in the store, but some customers don't like to use glass cups. In fact, they are all sterilized. There is a separate sterilizer for tableware, not a sterilizer for relics." Shen Feng explained. In the past, customers were afraid to drink water from their glasses, fearing that the glasses would be sterilized with a disinfection cabinet for relics.

"Oh..." Shen Le gave the man a strange look, explaining what he was doing, he was not interested in what kind of cup to drink water here.

"Ahem, well, let's go, where do you live now?" Shen Feng also saw the embarrassment of the other party, and handed over a tissue.

"Dongliyuan, my cousin's house, but things can't be put there, after all, they are relics, so let's put them in my garage." Shen Le wiped her face indiscriminately, then stood up.

"Well, let's go." Shen Feng picked up the van key, with a kitten decoration dangling on it.

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It has been a few years since the family-style interactive homemade tofu "tofu workshop" opened all over the country.Freshly ground tofu, freshly ground soy milk, tofu culture, tofu cuisine, and a one-stop tofu industry have made this uniquely creative "tofu workshop" gradually become a popular phenomenon.

Originally thought that this new thing could not last at all, but when other imitators fell down one after another, "Tofu Workshop" stood up tenaciously and persisted until the end.The young founder Shen Le was originally just the owner of a tofu shop, but he inherited his father's will and developed the tofu culture to the extreme.

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It's a pity that Shen Feng has no interest in tofu, and he doesn't like to drink soy milk, so after finishing this business, what the other party does has nothing to do with him.

What troubled him more was the white ghost in front of him that seemed to still be glowing.

"Why haven't you left yet?" Shen Feng didn't remember when he provoked such a thing.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." the dead soul covered his face in a crying state, as if he could shed tears too.

"He's a powerful guy this time, but he can still talk?" Shen Feng was inexplicably surprised, "Hey, where did you come from? Hey..."

The dead soul took down his hand covering his face, his face looked a little naive, about seventeen or eighteen years old, he pointed to Shen Feng's kitten keychain.

"Fuck, if I knew it earlier, I shouldn't have let the fat man pick things up randomly!" Shen Feng cursed secretly, reached out and tore off the keychain, and threw it directly out of the window. The keychain made a parabolic shape in the air, and then disappeared.

"Oh? Why did you throw it away..." The dead soul's mouth grew, as if it could fit an egg in, "But it's useless, it will come back."

As if confirming the words of the dead soul, the key chain appeared on the table next to Shen Feng again.

"Your sister! What the hell did the fat man pick up!" Shen Feng cursed helplessly, staring at the innocent soul in front of him.The dead soul seemed a little unaccustomed to being watched by others, and was a little awkward.

"Hey, what's your name, what unfulfilled wish do you have?" Shen Feng asked resignedly.

"Uh, I don't remember..."

"what!?"