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The next day, the two slept until noon. After getting up, they washed up in a hurry. Yao Lu called his mother first, explained the situation, and comforted him. Then Lin Shen drove him back to the Tuanjie community.

"How about I go up with you?" Lin Shen said, "I want to apologize for my family and aunt, for the harm I caused to your family back then."

"Don't do it now." Yao Lu said, "My mother is emotionally unstable right now. I don't want to tell her about our affairs for the time being. When my father gets better, I will confess when I find a suitable opportunity, okay?" Lin Shen Oh let out a cry.

Yao Lu observed Lin Shen carefully, and found that he had no expression. He couldn't help feeling worried, so he held his hand and said seriously: "I will definitely say, I promise! I won't keep sneaking around with you, don't be angry, okay?"

Lin Shen smiled handsomely, and said, "How can I be so narrow-minded, I won't be angry even if you don't tell me all the time, those are just formalities, as long as you belong to me."

Yao Lu blushed immediately, and whispered, "Isn't it already?"

"Totally!" Lin Shen emphasized, and immediately warned: "Don't talk to me, you know what I'm talking about."

Yao Lu's ears were red, and he didn't know how to respond, so he could only say: "I really have to go, I don't feel relieved that my mother is alone at home."

Lin Shen nodded and said, "Hurry up and call."

Yao Lu hummed, opened the door to get out of the car, and walked away step by step.

Lin Shen kept watching Yao Lu until he disappeared from his sight. At this moment, he seemed to return to the old time eight years ago. The young Yao Lu was pushing a bicycle with two red walnut eyes on his head. As now, he entered the community step by step and turned around three times.

He said silently in his heart: Lulu, it is the greatest luck in my life that you can come back.

That afternoon, Yao Lu took his mother to the ICU to visit his father. Although Yao's father was unconscious, the mother and son stood by, crying and talking to him.

Twenty-three days later, less than two weeks before the Spring Festival, Yao Lu's father died in a coma, unable to fight against death, and did not survive this year.

Lin Shen participated in the whole process of organizing the funeral as a friend.

In fact, most of the things were arranged by him. Yao Lu had been away from home for many years and was completely unfamiliar with the burial customs in his hometown. Lin Shen arranged the funeral in every detail without any mistakes.

Two days later, Yao's father's body was sent from the mortuary to the funeral home for relatives and friends to pay their respects to and then cremated immediately.

At the final farewell moment, all the relatives and friends present gathered in a circle and passed by Father Yao’s body one by one, saying goodbye to him one by one. Some of them sighed, some sobbed softly, and some wept bitterly.

According to the local funeral customs, the operation is simple and simple. Yao Lu did not criticize filial piety. He only wore a white filial piety belt on his head, was dressed in black, wore filial piety on his arms, and stood aside with red eyes.

Yao's mother was supported and sat aside, her tears had already dried up, she stared at her husband numbly, lying quietly in the crystal coffin of the funeral parlor.

At the end of the visit, the staff of the funeral home began to perform the last ceremony, opening the five senses of the deceased, and then the deceased will be sent to cremation.

The staff opened the crystal coffin, Yao's mother got up, and Yao Lu's mood fluctuated, and he took a step forward tremblingly, watching his father lying peacefully in the crystal coffin.

"Open your eyes! May the deceased see Huangquan Road clearly, and don't look back on Huangquan Road!"

The staff chanted aloud, and at the same time wiped Yao's father's closed eyes with a clean cloth dipped in wine.

"Two open your ears! May the deceased hear Po Meng's words, and enter reincarnation through the bridge of Naihe!"

When the staff read this, Yao Lu collapsed instantly.

From the day Yao's father left, Yao Lu lived every day like a dream. On the surface, he had accepted the fact that his father had gone, but subconsciously, he still felt that his father was by his side, and everything was just a dream.

In the past few days, Yao Lu has been in a trance, sometimes sober and sometimes confused, but at this moment, the staff's unreal voice and unreal operation suddenly made him realize clearly that his father, Yao Gang, had died forever. The land left him, and he would never see his father again.

Thinking of this, Yao Lu burst into tears, his legs suddenly went limp, and he was about to collapse on the ground. Lin Shen kept staring at him, and when he saw this, he stepped forward, dragged his waist, and said in a low voice: "Hold on, don't do this!"

Yao Lu's mind was buzzing. He couldn't hear what the staff shouted afterward. He could only vaguely see the staff wipe his father's nose, mouth, and forehead again, and then Yao's father's body was taken away for cremation.

The crematorium is the front line of facing death. Here you can truly feel the force majeure of death and the natural law that everything in the world has its end. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

After the funeral, Yao Lu and Xu Ze took a few days off to stay with their mother at home.

Yao's mother's mood has stabilized, perhaps because Yao's father has been in a coma for more than 20 days in the ICU. The mother and son have already prepared themselves. Except for the collapse of the funeral home that day, they have calmly accepted the fact that their loved one passed away.

Yao Lu is going to work tomorrow, he has already taken too many days off, Xu Ze not only did not complain or dissatisfaction, but also encouraged him to spend more time with his mother, and comforted him that the company was supported by accountant Oda, so that he could rest assured.

Yao Lu felt very guilty. He knew that Lin Shen was a big factor here, but the brotherhood between Lin Shen and Xu Ze was their business. He had Xu Ze's salary, so he naturally had to do his best, so he decided Be sure to return to work tomorrow.

"Lu Lu, Mom asked you something." During lunch, Yao's mother asked.

Yao Lu: "What's the matter?"

Yao's mother put down the bowls and chopsticks, thought for a while, and said, "Xiao Lin, who helped us organize your father's funeral, you said he was your friend. What's his... full name?"

Holding up his chopsticks, Yao Lu stopped in the air when he heard the words, hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "Full name, Lin Shen."

"He is Lin Shen?" Yao's mother had already doubted it, so she asked tactfully, "Have you regained contact with him?"

"Yes, Mom." Yao Lu simply put down his chopsticks, and said in a deep voice, "We met by chance at the class reunion last year, and we have kept in touch since then."

"You..." Mother Yao said with difficulty, "The relationship is very good now? Are you good friends?"

"The relationship is pretty good." Yao Lu replied, then lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Not just good friends."

"Lulu, you..." Yao's mother paused briefly, and then said, "Do you not like girls?"

Yao Lu looked up at his mother, pursed his lips, not knowing how to answer, but Yao's mother comforted him calmly, and to be honest, he didn't blame him.

Yao Lu didn't make a sound, and after a long time, he nodded slightly.

"Actually, your dad and I knew about it early on, but we didn't want to accept it, so we pretended not to know." Mother Yao said, "Your dad...he mentioned it to me a few times before and wanted me to let go, but I refused. , Thinking about it now, he still loves you more than me."

"Mom, don't say that!" Yao Lu's eyes turned red suddenly, and he choked up, "You and Dad love me very much."

"It hurts in a different way. I was too harsh on you." Mother Yao sighed, "After your father left, I wanted to understand a lot of things, especially when I saw those who died at the crematorium that day. It became a handful of ashes, and I was thinking, this person, being alive is the greatest, being able to live happily is the best."

"You have been unhappy all these years, and Mom knows." Yao's mother also blushed, and said, "You are not interested in anything except work. Mom knows why, but I still can't get over this hurdle, so I just let you go." And your dad has been dragging you."

"It's not what it used to be now." Yao's mother wiped away her tears and said, "Your father is gone, I have become a person, and I don't want my only son to be alone forever, do you understand what I mean?"

"Well, I understand." Yao Lu replied crying.

"Don't cry!" Mother Yao said softly, "How many times have you cried these days, your eyes will be broken."

Yao Lu wiped away his tears and hummed.

"That little Lin is Lin Shen!" Yao's mother sighed heavily, and said with emotion, "I came back after going around for a lifetime!"

"Mom doesn't know him well, but if you two can meet again and make friends again, it means that the fate is not over. You can figure it out. If you think the other person is okay, you... decide for yourself. Don't worry about what mom thinks, mom actually has no idea either."

When Yao Lu heard this, he could no longer control himself, hugged his mother, and burst into tears.

Eight years!He has walked this road for eight years!

At that time, he was ignorant for a while, he and Lin Shen fell in love when they were young classmates, Yao Lu never imagined that this road would be so bumpy!so hard!Fortunately, he finally survived until he saw the sun through the clouds and mists, but he didn't know how many people were on this road, overcoming thorns and thorns, with many scars.

"Huh? What?"

The next day when Yao Lu resumed work, Lin Shen immediately came to Xu Ze's company to grab a work meal. After hearing Yao Lu's words, his jaw dropped immediately.

"Ah shit!" Xu Ze mocked, "Your little Lu Lu said that his mother asked you to come to his house for dinner on Friday, don't you understand Chinese?"

Lin Shen was so excited that he spoke incoherently. He couldn't believe it for a while, so he kept asking why?what to eatHe was even worried that his future mother-in-law would scare him into the house and beat him up to relieve his anger.

"Why cut you?" Yao Lu said with a smile, "I just told you to eat, literally, don't think too much about it."

"Why—?" Lin Shen asked in a long voice, as if mentally handicapped.

"I think you're the one with no brains!" Xu Ze scolded, "The zombie didn't even want to open the lid when he saw you, so he just left, but you've got no brains! What the fuck, agree, you idiot! "

"Really—?" Lin Shen asked again with a long voice.

Yao Lu replied: "Really! My mother said to let me decide for myself, and also said that if I think you are okay, I can follow you, um..."

"Of course I can!"

After Lin Shen finished speaking, he immediately asked again: "What can I do with you? Is it the right person? Then will you stay with me? Will you stay with me?"

Yao Lu glanced at Xu Ze, his face flushed, and he whispered, "Aren't you still here?"

Lin Shen was immediately elated, and immediately hugged Yao Lu, and kissed him on the cheek.

"I love you to death, my wife!"

"Fuck! Pay attention to the influence! This is in the company!" Xu Ze almost petrified, and shouted: "Also, can you consider the feelings of a straight man like me?"

"Who cares about your feelings!" Lin Shen mocked.

Yao Lu wished he could find a crack in the ground to get in, and only said to throw out the trash, then rolled up his lunch box and fled in a hurry. Lin Shen, like a nympho, stared at his leaving back with a bewildered expression.

"Oh, don't look at it, I'm asking you something!" Xu Ze whispered.

Lin Shen: "What's the matter?"

After a short hesitation, Xu Ze asked, "You call him wife, are you on home plate? Are you a husband? Is he a wife?"

Lin Shen blushed when he heard the words, and replied: "No! You don't know what the other day was? Also, isn't what you are asking nonsense? You have known me for so many years, how pure am I? have no idea?"

Xu Ze laughed immediately, said in a hurry that he knew it, and then commented obscenely, it was really interesting that he had to divide up the basics, and was disgusted by Lin Shen.

Xu Ze thought for a while, then asked curiously: "Would you be the other way around? If your little Lulu thinks about it, you understand?"

"Absolutely impossible! Don't even think about it!" Lin Shen said coldly.

Xu Ze snorted and nodded thoughtfully.

At this moment, Yao Lu came back, and at a glance, he saw the two of them face to face, whispering next to each other. He was immediately taken aback, and instantly filled his brain with at least [-] words of gossip, and then decisively deleted it in the next second—— It's my overthinking.

He coughed and asked, "Do you have something to say? Then I'll go out first?"

Lin Shen hurriedly got up, yelling Lulu don't go, I haven't finished yet, and then chased Yao Lu out the door, Xu Ze looked at the direction the two were leaving, smiled, and lazily leaned on the sofa, His expression fluttered, and he didn't know what was going on in his mind.