Chapter 52: Helping relatives and not helping
The statutory holiday of Qingming Festival is April 5th, which is exactly Friday and Friday. Including Saturday and Sunday, you can rest for a total of three days, which is a perfect holiday.
The weather is neither hot nor hot, and small buses are free of charge. People in big cities have long been looking forward to this moment and take advantage of this rare opportunity to travel. Those who drive nearby, take the high-speed train from a long distance, and those who are not short of money will even take a few more days off and go abroad to freely.
But in Anhai, Taitung, and even Gaoru in the south, Yanjiang in the west, people in county-level cities or districts such as Yanjiang in the west, Qingming is the day to go to the grave to burn paper to pay homage to their ancestors. No matter how capable you are, how far away from home or how busy you are in your work, as long as you can come back, you have to go back to your hometown to kowtow to your ancestors. It is not impossible to use this holiday to go out for fun, you have to pay your respects to your ancestors first and then go out for a trip.
Some young people may think this is a bit feudal superstition or even old customs.
Han Xiaowu doesn't think so. His ideas are more traditional, and he even thinks that saving energy in Qingming Festival is a very happy thing to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors. Unlike some people who live in big cities, they have no place to burn paper money to fulfill their filial piety, and they don't know where the grave is when they want to visit their ancestors.
Because of this, he got up very early, and even deliberately made the noise very loud when washing, packing up and answering the phone.
"I'm a little confused today, right? No hurry, I'll go downstairs in another fifteen minutes, I'll go to the south gate to wait..."
"The uncle and the aunt have already arrived home! OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK Xiao Mi, I don't know... She works in the mall, and it is the busiest time during the holidays. "
Han Xiaowu hung up the phone call from his mother and raised his arm to knock on the door: "Xiaomi, your second grandma asked me to ask if you want to go back, saying that your grandma and your uncle and aunt had gone back early in the morning and asked your second grandma and second grandma and your parents to respect their ancestors and go to their house for dinner after going to the grave."
Han Sumi woke up very early and hesitated to go back, and hesitated. He answered hesitantly: "I...I haven't asked the boss's wife for leave yet. Besides, you know my dad, I...I..."
"Grandpa, grandma, uncle and aunt are all back. Besides, aren't I still there? With so many people, your parents will not talk about you, and they will definitely save face for you."
"I'll think about it..."
"There is no time, the car will arrive soon."
"But I haven't asked the boss for leave yet!"
"Is it time to invite me now?"
"It should be too late." Han Sumi muttered.
"What are you waiting for? The countdown is ten minutes, hurry up and put on your clothes and wash up!"
At the last moment, the niece decided to go back to her hometown with her. Han Xiaowu smiled with gratitude, thinking that these days were not in vain. Just as he stared at his phone like a track and field coach, constantly urging Han Sumi to hurry up, Zhang Yumin, who was on duty today, was videotaping with Xu Dongmei in the office area.
"You've arrived home?"
"It's not far away. The old man and the old lady called early in the morning, so we came back early. But if there is anything to do when we come back, we have to wait until noon to burn our ancestors. When is the time to burn our house?" Xu Dongmei sat at the entrance of a two-story western-style building, bored.
Zhang Yumin couldn't help laughing: "What's the matter of burning ancestors? Our family is called Jingxian."
"Okay, okay, what time will your family respect?"
"Our family has been polite early in the morning. I came here to work after tribute to me in my hometown."
"Just respectfully, don't go to the grave?"
"The grave was visited yesterday afternoon, and it's okay to visit the graves one day later." Zhang Yumin didn't want to talk about these things, so he changed the topic: "Dongmei, why are you the only one, my daughter-in-law?"
"Doing homework upstairs, don't mention her, I'll get angry when I mention it."
"So what's wrong?"
Xu Dongmei said with a smile and cry: "Isn't this a Qingming Festival? The teacher asked to write an essay, just write it. As a result, after she finished writing, she added: I wish the teacher a happy Qingming Festival!"
"Hahahaha, my daughter-in-law is so funny. Did the teacher cause trouble for you?"
"I found her homework and sent her in the group, which made me quickly apologize to the teacher." Xu Dongmei sighed and complained again: "What do the child know? Even if it is strange, I can only blame the teacher for not teaching it well. The homework was assigned in the group and asked us to go home to print it. After it is done, we have to check and sign it. We will push everything to our parents. I really don't know what they are doing!"
Zhang Yumin felt deeply the same, and then condemned for a while, suddenly changed the subject: "Dongmei, on the way back from her hometown in the morning, he talked to her husband, and he said something."
"What's up?"
"He said that Liu Zhiwei from their Investment Promotion Agency is talking to Chu Chanjuan of the United Front Work Department!"
"So Chu Chanjuan is not Han Xiaowu's girlfriend?"
"I don't know this. Anyway, that Liu Zhiwei is chasing Chu Chanjuan to death. A few days ago, he and my husband went to Dongguang Investment Promotion with him. My husband said that he would send a WeChat message to Chu Chanjuan when he had time, and when he came back, he bought a lot of gifts for Chu Chanjuan!"
Gossip is a woman's nature, and Xu Dongmei couldn't help asking: "Yu Min, how old is your husband's colleague this year? Is he handsome?"
"This year, he is 27 years taller than Han Xiaowu, and he looks... he is handsome than Han Xiaowu. He has similar education. He seems to be a graduate student at Jiangcheng University." Zhang Yumin thought about it and smiled, "If the image is not good, if he doesn't know how to do it, the bureau will not let him go out to invest in investment. My husband said that the bureau leader is planning to let him stay in Donghai and become the investment director in Donghai."
"More than Han Xiaowu?"
"I have a photo of him. I'll send you a few photos and you'll know it at a glance."
"Why didn't you say it earlier? Send it here and let me see it."
If you don’t look at it, you won’t know. Xu Dongmei’s opinion is that what Zhang Yumin said is not false.
I invited Zhang Yumin again to video, and once it was connected, I said with some gloating pleasure: "It seems that Han Xiaowu is completely out of the blue. Your husband, a colleague, is not only better at work than him, but younger than him, and looks taller and more handsome than him. I am really not afraid of not knowing the goods, but I am afraid of comparing goods."
Zhang Yumin smiled bitterly and said, "I also think Han Xiaowu is going to be in a state of chaos."
"Does Han Xiaowu know?"
"Shouldn't know, Dongmei, do you think we should remind him?"
Xu Dongmei weighed the pros and said with a smile: "No matter what, it's a colleague, it doesn't matter. Since I know, I think I should remind him. If I still have a chance, I will chase him quickly. If there is really no hope, I can let him die as soon as possible. After all, he is thirty-one, and it's even harder to find him if he drags on it."
"You are right, I'll send a WeChat message to Han Xiaowu." Zhang Yumin felt that Xu Dongmei's words made sense.
"Wait, do your husband know that Han Xiaowu is also chasing Chu Chanjuan?"
"Know."
"Then is he helping that Liu Zhiwei or Han Xiaowu?"
"He...of course he will only help his colleagues," Zhang Yumin thought for a while, looked at Xu Dongmei in the video with a smile, and said with confidence: "No matter, he is him, I am me, he is willing to help Liu Zhiwei as he pleases. Anyway, I will only help my colleagues. We are called helping each other or not!"
Chapter completed!