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In all fairness, the taste of this homemade dumpling banquet is still very good.The stuffing made by the teacher's mother is just right no matter which taste it is.Served with homemade hot and sour sauce, a few side dishes and a light dumpling soup, it will be satisfying and satisfying.

Of course, Shen Xingze must have eaten more delicious dumplings than this one, but he still judged them seriously, flattering his wife's skill in making small dishes, and chatting with Professor Gu about his recent work.

Unable to take it easy like him, Lu Li had no choice but to bury his head in his mouth, and occasionally chimed in with a few witty auspicious words.He pretended to be well-behaved on the surface, but every time he ate a dumpling made by Shen Xing, it was like swallowing a wordless reproach, and his heart would feel heavy.

After finally finishing the dumplings, Lu Li rushed to help his wife clean up the dishes, and used this as an excuse to hide in the kitchen, carefully washing each bowl three times.In the end, she was kicked out of the kitchen by the teacher's wife, only then did she realize that Shen Xingze had left quietly.

Only old man Gu was sitting on the sofa in the living room, driving his new car slowly.

When Lu Li bid farewell to him, the old man nodded, took a puff of smoke, and asked another question.

"Just now, did Xiao Shen tell you something?"

"...Yes, you asked me something about my studies."

Lu Li naturally chose to lie, as if he had been tremblingly hiding his relationship with Shen Xingxuan back then.Bitterness and sweetness—these two very different things have such similar external manifestations.

"Don't pay attention to his harassment."

Old man Gu's answer seemed to penetrate this superficial layer and reach the essence of the problem: "Everything else is false. Remember you still have two years, work hard."

Lu Li nodded, expressing that he must remember his teacher's teachings.However, half an hour later, he had just returned to the dormitory when he received an invitation from Shen Xingze that he had to accept.

The day after tomorrow is Saturday, Ching Ming Festival, Shen Xing made an appointment with Lu Li to visit Lu Li's grave - to visit Lu Li's grave.

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Lu Li was a little confused: because of his father's obstruction, his ashes were not buried, but were actually placed in the bedroom of the apartment he rented back then.But now Shen Xingze asked him to visit the tomb, where did this tomb come from?

The answer might be twists and turns, but no matter what, with Lu Li's current status, it would be ungrateful if he refused to visit the grave—so although he was stunned, Lu Li still agreed.

After two days of restlessness, it finally arrived on Saturday morning.There was a rare spring rain in the city of Beijing, and a black Mercedes-Benz, which could be regarded as low-key, parked on the side of the road a few hundred meters away from the West Gate of China Film Group Corporation.

Lu Li hesitated and opened the rear door.The driver immediately let out a groan.

"I'm not your coachman."

"……sorry."

Lu Li instinctively apologized, and then reopened the door of the passenger compartment.

There was a large bouquet of bright yellow roses on the seat.For a moment, Lu Li even had the illusion that this bouquet of flowers was for him.

"What are you still doing?" The man reminded him to move the bouquet to the back row in a slightly impatient tone, "Also, fasten your seat belt."

After Lu Li did everything, Shen Xingze finally started the car.

The journey to the cemetery in the suburbs of Beijing is long, especially during the Qingming Festival, when traffic jams are almost inevitable.Although Shen Xingze was the only one on weekdays, the quality of the car was good. Although he stopped and walked along the way and occasionally encountered rubbish with solid lines, he drove calmly from the beginning to the end without even complaining.

After all, this wasn't the first time Shen Xingxuan accompanied Lu Li to sweep the grave.Although it wasn't like this every year, there were indeed a few times when they went to Lu Li's mother's grave to burn incense and clean up, and "confess" to the parents about the true relationship between the two.

For Lu Li, this has always been a very strange journey: before setting off to visit the grave, he and Shen Xingze were often having conflicts over work matters, and sometimes even had a heated quarrel just now.But when they arrived at the grave, the two of them were always able to switch to a peaceful state tacitly.After the return journey, the contradictions will naturally disappear and dissolve, and they will become more loving and sweet than before, until the next wave of irreconcilable contradictions breaks out and they fall into the cold war again.

Only this time, there should be no way to reconcile the conflict between the two of them.

After a long two-hour drive, the vehicle finally drove into the parking lot in the east area of ​​the cemetery.This is a large-scale cemetery on the outskirts of Beijing.There are four districts in east, west, south, north, among which the east district is the most high-end and expensive.In addition to taking over the shadow of the Ming Tombs in Fengshui, the supporting services are also quite complete.Therefore, many celebrities who could not enter Babaoshan chose this place as their shelter for a hundred years later.

Lu Li followed Shen Xing to get out of the car, and put on sunglasses and a mask just in case.Shen Xing chose to hold the bouquet, while Lu Li carried the bucket and other grave-sweeping tools. The two headed up the hillside along an inconspicuous white stone path.

After all, the East District is a high-end cemetery area with a unit price of one million, and there are sufficient and spacious distances between tombs.It is precisely because of this that the people who came to visit the grave were scattered in the maze of hedges lined with pines and cypresses. Even if they occasionally met on the road, they were all in a hurry and did not care about each other's stories.

As Lu Li expected, Shen Xing took him all the way to his mother's cemetery.

This cemetery was bought by Lu Li a few years ago after he paid off his foreign debts and had a little more money.At that time, he not only moved in his mother's remains, but also reserved a place for himself.

But now, a small white marble stele was erected on that spot. The roughness of the original stone remained on the left half, and half of a face was delicately carved on the right—the face that Lu Li used to have.

Below the stone carving is a small sarcophagus, engraved with a few lines of gold lacquer.It was Lu Li's name and the dates of his birth and death, nothing else.

Lu Li took off his sunglasses and mask, and stood firmly in front of the tomb.He stared at the tomb that belonged to him but was not his own, until Shen Xingze bowed in front of him and placed the large bouquet of yellow roses in front of the tomb.

"I have a question."

He asked Shen Xingze: "I read news reports before, Brother Lu's father said that he would wait for him to return to China before holding a funeral for Brother Lu. So this is..."

"That's his own business. Anyone who wants to make money certainly doesn't mind finding an empty box and re-doing the funeral."

Shen Xingze squatted in front of the tomb, took out a pair of white candles from the items he brought, lit them and placed them in front of the tomb.

That's right... Lu Li silently nodded in his heart.

Father never knew the cemetery existed.And even if he knew, given his resentment towards the Lu family and his wife, he would never advocate burying Lu Li here.

Perhaps Shen Xingxuan had indeed violated a father's rights, but at least Lu Li agreed with this decision - he didn't want to see his urn appear on TV, and have a ridiculous live broadcast funeral.

While speaking, Shen Xingze had already lit the joss sticks, and took out some fruits and snacks that Lu Li liked, and put them on small paper plates on the tomb.

At the beginning, Lu Li was a little surprised: how could Shen Xingcho know what to do as a returnee; but he soon came to his senses - in fact, Shen Xingxuan's procedures were all imitating himself back then.

Back then, we visited the grave together; now, you come for me.

Suddenly, an indescribable sadness gripped Lu Li's heart, making his eyes moist.

Before Shen Xingze turned around, he quickly wiped away his tears, coughed dryly, adjusted his voice, and asked calmly, "This tombstone looks very new. It must have been erected recently, right?"

"It was at the beginning of the year." Shen Xingze's answer was somewhat unexpected, "It took almost half a year to design and sculpt."

The beginning of the year, half a year... Lu Li quickly moved forward.Shen Xingze decided to send the urn here in August last year, and that happened to be the time when the relationship between the two of them was ups and downs.

That's right, Shen Xingze did have a short vacation at that time.And it is very likely that it will be more than ten days between "Leaving Xiangshan Lanxiu City" and "Wang Ruoqiu kicking the car accident", and this means...

Lu Li's heart seemed to be flirting with feathers again.He stared at Shen Xingze's back in a daze, as if he could always see what Shen Xingze was thinking in this way.

Shen Xingxuan threw a few pieces of paper money into the fire, then looked up at the white ash slowly rising to the sky.

"Before this, I kept the urn in the house where Lu Li lived. In the first few months, I went to see it every day, and sometimes I even stayed with it overnight. I wiped the cold box again and again, even Holding it in my arms... But no matter how long I hold it, it is still a stone, cold and hard, and it will never return to the flesh and blood and warmth it once was."

Lu Li didn't miss a single word Shen Xingze said.He felt that this seemed to be something that should not be said to him; but he also felt that these words should only be said to him.

Anyway, it was too late to avoid it now, so Lu Li simply chose to remain silent.Even if he will be murdered and silenced in the next second, he must listen to all of Shen Xingxuan's heartfelt wishes.

And Shen Xingxuan seemed to have fallen into his own emotional vortex.

"Have you ever had it? When you finally made up your mind and were willing to give up a part of yourself in exchange for someone important, and seeing that it was about to succeed... Suddenly, that person disappeared in front of you. He fell on your back In the wreckage of an inaccessible car, when someone carried it out, it was already packed in a black body bag... You can no longer tell him how much you love him and how much you are willing to sacrifice for him. Because he It's gone, not in that bag, nor in any corner of this world...From that moment on, only you are left in this world."

Lu Li didn't speak, and couldn't speak.If Shen Xing chose to turn around at this time, he would find that Lu Li was already in tears.

But Shen Xing chose not to turn around, maybe he felt that there was no need to turn around.

"It only takes a few days to find an insider; it only takes a few months to bring down an opponent; then, how long does it take to completely let go of a person? One year, two years? Actually, it's not - if you want to let go of a person, you need another person." A person to fill that person's place in your heart... This is probably the most difficult but also the easiest thing in the world."