Just after New Year’s Day 2015, I returned from work to the rental house, just sitting down on the edge of the bed, the phone rang sharply.
The call was from a neighbor who had a good relationship with me back home, and came up and said, “You sit tight, don’t fall off the bench when you hear the news from down there.”
“What’s wrong?” My nerves couldn’t help but tense up.
Her next words did make me suck in a cold breath and my mind went blank: “What? The ship exploded? How can that be! When did this happen?”
“It was the night of the 31st, the ship blew up and sank, Zhou Qiang was blown away into the water, only to be fished out the next day ……”
My heartbeat paused for a moment, to come back to my senses, the first thing that came to mind, is the new Ju who had just contacted me around Christmas.
1
The new Ju is my best friend, I knew her husband Zhou Qiang a little earlier.
Zhou Qiang graduated in 1990 and was assigned to work in a feed factory under our grain bureau, one year later than me. He is tall, calm and steady, not much to say, others joking, he will also show a sincere smile.
Zhou Qiang practiced sports in high school, good basketball, although he stayed for several years, but was specially recruited to the provincial grain school, later became the captain of the school basketball team, often lead the team competition, for the school to win glory at the same time, but also reaped the love – girlfriend Xin Ju is his classmate, 5 years younger than him, delicate features, slender body.
The two of them are the envy of everyone, but there is a huge difference in their family conditions – Zhou Qiang’s family is an ordinary citizen of the county, his parents do not have a formal job, the family burden is not small; Xin Ju’s family is in a city near the provincial capital, the family is good. When graduating, Xin Ju’s parents strongly objected to their daughter following a poor boy to a small county, so they both had to go back home first.
However, 1 year has passed, the seemingly weak Xin Ju, firm will, still not Zhou Qiang will not marry. Her family couldn’t help her stubborn temper, so they had to use their connections to transfer her to our unit, reminding her: “People go higher, water flows lower, but you are willing to marry from a big place to a small place. There will be plenty of hardship for you in the future.”
In 1992, the unit built a new family building, and we became neighbors in the same courtyard. At that time, the situation of the Grain Bureau was very good, Zhou Qiang outstanding ability, from the mechanic class leader to the production plant director, and finally was promoted to the sales department manager, became a small head of the company. They are a couple of double workers, the days are considered to be good.
However, after 2000, the change of policy and the impact of the market, so that our unit slowly fell into a predicament, the business of the factory are in a state of shrinkage, barely sustained until 2005, the factory completely shut down, the workers are in a state of unemployment. The unit had nothing to say, and we all did not even have a living wage. Colleagues said, “If we are dragging on like this, we might as well buy out and be laid off.
In the unit, Xin Ju and I were not in the same department, but only nodding acquaintances. After the factory shutdown, we were both idle at home, because the children are similar in age, often play together, we also gradually get acquainted.
In those days, I had nothing to do and was addicted to stock trading every day, trying to make a lot of money. Xin Ju, on the other hand, was down-to-earth and took up some handmade jobs that she could do at home, sometimes threading beads, stringing necklaces, and sometimes soldering small light bulbs. She is very handy, beating sweaters, hooking shoes, hooking all kinds of clothes, and hooking a small shawl for me. In her words, “these bits and pieces of silver, meal money, food money is no problem”.
I admire Xin Ju’s good mentality to find breakthroughs in adversity. But also no thing to do Zhou Qiang, is often frowning in smoking, occasionally encountered in the family courtyard downstairs, he has always been kind, just nodding, not a word.
Of course, this state of Zhou Qiang we can understand, both have no income, there are children to feed, the head of the family, must be more anxious. Xin Ju occasionally complained to me about her husband: “People will take the initiative to find a way, he will not, and not to find a way, to find people, to see what opportunities. He’s just too proud to face it, and he’s not willing to ask for help.”
“It’s not easy to find a suitable job for a while, look at those people in our factory, either pushing a tricycle or working as a loader on the street, do you want him to do this too?” I said soothingly.
Xin Ju did not say anything, and after a while said: “Hey, but then again, Zhou Qiang is a really good person, very good to me. Over the years, as long as he is at home, three meals a day is his cooking. Sometimes I want to make a hand he does not allow, are the rice is served, set up the dishes, my son and I eat ready-made. After eating, he cleaned up the pots and pans and washed the dishes. He is sympathetic to the fact that I am far away from my parents and came here with him, so he takes extra care of me.”
Speaking of this, Xin Ju’s eyes shone with happiness. We all know that Xin Ju is a beautiful person, Zhou Qiang used to spend money on her clothing without stint, and would buy her beautiful clothes and jewelry when she returned from a business trip. It is because Zhou Qiang is good to her, even when they got married, the in-laws did not pay the bride price, she did not care.
After the marriage, as the youngest son of Zhou Qiang, from time to time, without principle to subsidize his brother and sister, but also below the market price of 20,000 yuan to sell the home base to his brother, although Xin Ju is not happy in the heart, but also turned a blind eye: “I really do not want him to be difficult. It’s just that we used to work and he subsidized it, but now that we are like this, his brother and sister’s children are working and earning money, and I haven’t seen any of them being considerate of us. That day I bought my son a handful of bananas and milk, but I didn’t expect him to give it to his sister as soon as he turned his hand to her, so I was furious.”
After spending most of the year at home, Zhou Qiang was introduced by his food school classmates and went to work in a feed mill in the field at the end of 2005, still responsible for farming and recycling. Some time after that, Xin Ju looked a lot more relaxed. “A month can easily earn five or six thousand”, this income, at that time in a small place like us is considered very high.
In the summer of 2006, Xin Ju took her son to visit the place where Zhou Qiang worked, and came back more than a week later, I saw that her legs were all red spots from insect bites.
“That place is surrounded by farmland, mosquitoes are particularly large. The money is quite a lot, but people can just work hard.” Xin Ju said.
After that, Xin Ju, who was home alone, took care of her son’s food and living, in addition to taking on more manual work. I sometimes advise her to take rest and take care of her eyes, but she laughs and agrees, but her hands can’t be idle.
2
Three years passed, and Xin Ju’s son was in junior high school. Zhou Qiang has a distant relative who owns a small company and is short of a cashier. Xin Ju had never been in contact with financial work before, but thinking of reducing the pressure on Zhou Qiang, she applied herself and learned while doing it. Although the work is hard, but she always said, can share the economic pressure of the family, is also happy.
In this year, the developer bought the land of our factory that had been idle for several years to develop commercial housing. Overnight, all the factories and warehouses were demolished, and the factory area, which was separated from our family home by a wall, was turned into a dusty construction site.
The authorities of the unit took out a little bit of the money from the land sale and gave us more than 100 employees a “buyout”, with only about 20,000 compensation for 20 years of service, which we all felt was too unfair: “The land was sold for tens of millions of dollars, and this little compensation was given to us, which only cost us a total of more than two million, where did the rest of the money go? Where did all the money go?”
The workers discussed privately, but no one had any idea for a while. Over the past few years, everyone has been struggling to make ends meet. Men are under pressure to go out to work like Zhou Qiang, and women are also trying to earn money by various means. Although we want to fight for their own interests a little more, but no one is willing to take the lead for this slim, unknown results.
On the contrary, Xin Ju, who always looked gentle and soft, gathered the laid-off female workers in the family home and said, “We have to go to the top and ask, we got so much money from the land sale, our living expenses in these years must be given, right? The money of compensation is the money of buying out the service, according to the regulations, the living expenses of these years should also be given.”
“Want to get back the living expenses? That’s a bit difficult, isn’t it?”
“How exactly? We listen to you.”
The female workers chattered, but Xin Ju decisively suppressed their arguments: “The key is that people’s hearts are not united, we have to notify every worker in the factory, one person from each family must come out. If people are out, let the elderly at home come to one. If someone neither contributes nor contributes, there is absolutely no part for him in the final fight!”
“That’s the best.” Everyone praised.
“We have to be reasonable and justified, act according to laws and regulations, and never be overly aggressive, that’s the bottom line.” Xin Ju added.
Everyone nodded their heads.
Xin Ju double-pronged approach, she took the developer’s construction to disturb the normal life of the family area, arranged for people to block the gate in three shifts to prevent construction vehicles from entering and leaving, and then took people to the Food Bureau to find the relevant leaders, told the workers to stay at home for several years of hard life, laid out the policy – the living expenses during the shutdown period should also be paid when the buyout.
She spoke eloquently and reasonably to the bureau leaders: “In the past, there was no money for the plant shutdown, and none of us made any demands. Today, the sale of land sold more than 70 million, this living expenses are not given, it is not justified. Our factory workers are the most honest, like other factories, has long been a disturbance of the chicken and dogs.”
The leader said, “It is illegal to gather a crowd to make trouble, and in the future, if there is any demand, the number of people is strictly limited to no more than five.”
“Then, we will follow the regulations, and we are not making trouble, we just want to get our due benefits.”
After the doors of the site were blocked for a few days, the developers got anxious, and delayed the construction for a day, they lost a lot of money and immediately put pressure on the top. Subsequently, Xin Ju led several negotiations with the bureau leaders, and finally, the bureau agreed to pay compensation for the workers’ living expenses in the past few years, and each employee received nearly 10,000 yuan.
Everyone thanked Xin Ju for being the “leader”, and she did not take credit for it at all, and returned to her usual gentle appearance.
3
In the two years after the “buyout”, Xin Ju’s family had a good time. However, things are unpredictable, in 2011, Zhou Qiang’s company was defeated in the industry downturn, and he was laid off once again.
At this time, Zhou Qiang is already 45 years old, and then back to work in the system is no longer possible. Once the skills learned, in the industry situation at the time, it is also impossible to have any great development. This time the blow was even harder than a few years ago, Zhou Qiang once again fell into anxiety and depression.
Xin Ju is much more pragmatic than her husband, she thought of friends and relatives, and finally thought of her sister in the Yangtze River in those years to drive a cargo ship, from the shore of some cement plants, sand and gravel plants to pull goods, to some along the river or tributary side of the site to transport sand and cement, but also to some bridge construction side supply, income is considerable.
Xin Ju and Zhou Qiang discussed, wanting to join hands with her mother’s brother to buy a boat, so that her sister to take together in the Yangtze River to engage in shipping, following her sister’s source of goods also have, sales also have, “is the work of labor, but at least to earn money, right.
Doing this business, it means that Zhou Qiang completely out of the previous industry. In addition, the cargo ship in the water to transport sand and cement, how a little dangerous. Xin Ju was a little hesitant at first, but once she thought of her family’s situation, she said to Zhou Qiang: “What is there no risk? Either stay at home and suffer from poverty, or struggle a little.”
East and west borrowing, the two families together spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a cargo ship throughput is not too big, but the business is still good, two years later, they sold the old ship, add money to buy a larger ship.
At this time, the price of housing in the small town has also gone up to more than 3000. Xin Ju and Zhou Qiang plan: “so many years, people have bought a new house, we still live in the old house 20 years ago, it is embarrassing to say, why not buy a new house.” So, they borrowed money again, paid 120,000 yuan down payment, bought a new house of 120 square feet. The income from running the boat is enough to pay off the mortgage after taking out the family’s daily expenses.
Xin Ju’s brother has a job, and does not always follow the boat. Most of the time is Zhou Qiang stay on board alone, in addition to the ship’s boss responsible for driving the couple, the rest of things, basically by him alone on board, from following Xin Ju’s sister to contact the source of goods, contact the site delivery, to the final intake, unloading, all by themselves. He often does not go home for two or three months, home once, but also can not stay a few days. When we chatted in a piece, Xin Ju’s words were full of heartache and understanding for Zhou Qiang.
Cargo ship transport, seems to be a very simple thing, but the trouble is unknown to outsiders, from the beginning of loading, will encounter layers of barriers. Once, Zhou Qiang’s ship encountered trouble in the area of Anqing. He has a grain school classmate Xiaoming, in a county there as deputy director of the real power department. Zhou Qiang wanted to ask him for help, but thinking of the disparity in status between the two, not the same as in the past, they began to dilly-dally, dragging on for a month, the matter remained unresolved. Finally, under the urging of Xin Ju, Zhou Qiang went to his old classmate with a hard head. When Xiao Ming learned of the situation, he complained: “It’s been more than a month, and you just want to find me? Do you still take me as a friend?” With Xiaoming’s help, the matter was quickly resolved.
In the autumn of 2013, the new house was delivered, and they then renovated the house and moved into their new home. Life seemed to open up a sunny road to the couple, however, they only walked on this road for a year, the nightmare came.
4
I learned over the phone that Zhou Qiang had suffered such a tragedy, and I felt the same way about Xin Ju’s grief. However, I was working in a small town in the north, thousands of miles away, and I could not go back immediately to help her in her grief.
When I returned home for the Spring Festival, I went to visit Xin Ju first. As soon as I entered the house, I saw Zhou Qiang’s posthumous photo on the TV cabinet, which was particularly shocking.
When Xin Ju saw me, she couldn’t stop crying, her delicate face had lost a circle and turned into a cone face, and her body, which had never been fat, was even thinner. I don’t know what to say, only silently accompanied by tears, when the new Ju calmed down, she told me about what happened.
On December 31, 2014, the weather was cold, and Xin Ju knew that Zhou Qiang’s boat was loading bulk cement at a ferry port in a neighboring county. The next day was New Year’s Day, which was also their 22nd wedding anniversary, but Zhou Qiang was not able to come back. Anyway, it is an old married couple, and do not pay attention to those, for many years, Zhou Qiang are on the move, and rarely spend this anniversary.
However, Xin Ju somehow, but always feel hard in the heart, but also counted out the number of days from their marriage to that day, ghostly sent a circle of friends –
“8030 days strung together into a song? A few paintings? Or cut into a wisp of smoke? A few lines of tears?”
Xin Ju’s circle of friends (Photo by the author) Xin Ju’s circle of friends (Photo by the author)
Beforehand, I saw this paragraph, is to feel baffled. After all, the two of them are in love and have a good life, so why “a few lines of tears”? After reading it again, I thought, is there some divine inspiration?
“Why should I count this date? It was just a few hours before the accident!” The new Ju pointed to the friend circle paragraph, shaking his head and sighing, “Is there really some kind of premonition?”
Just a few hours after the friend circle was sent, her phone rang. The sad news came, more than a few lines of tears? It was a river of tears.
That night, the ship’s husband and wife two people ashore something, Zhou Qiang a person to cement factory loading. The bulk of the cement kept coming into the hold, and suddenly there was a loud bang that went through the night, causing the ship to explode, capsizing and half tilting into the water. A thick layer of blown cement lay on the shore and Zhou qiang was blown off and into the water.
Shinju couldn’t recall how she arrived at the scene from her home. “I was totally overwhelmed,” she said. She shivered in the face of the dark river. It took a night and a half to find Zhou’s body far away from the ship. New chrysanthemum see shape, nearly faint, talk with me, is also several sobs: “I’m sorry Zhou Qiang, he is only 49 years old, so suddenly left…”
“How can you blame it on you? Don’t beat yourself up about it.”
“In my 40s, I’ve never had anything to worry about. How my husband and I behaved, you know best. Why are we in this mess?” Xinju wailed, but then dried her eyes and said firmly, “I will fight them to the end. What should be grasped, what should be compensated! There must be some explanation!”
“What on earth caused the ship to explode?” “I asked, puzzled.
“It was the pressure valve that failed and the cement just kept going in, and eventually the pressure got too high and it exploded.” In the view of the new chrysanthemum, the first to take responsibility is the cement factory, how much cement, how long should be a number of, such unconscious to the ship filled with cement, will certainly cause a tragedy.
“The local maritime security department is also responsible. Why not take the ship’s security inspection seriously? Why not replace the pressure valve on time? The associated shipping company is also involved!” Xinju said, that stubborn strength came back.
After the incident, none of the three departments that Xinju was supposed to be responsible for took the initiative to contact her to negotiate compensation, which made Xinju feel very cold. “Are their hearts stone long?”
When I heard that she wanted to fight these three departments on her own, I felt that she was beating her head off. When I came home, it had been nearly a month since the accident, and Zhou Qiang had not been laid to rest. She was lying in the funeral home at the site of the accident, because “the accident has not been dealt with, so we cannot stop now”. Xinju said that Zhou Qiang’s body was recovered from the water and placed on the shore, thinking that he had spent so much time in the water in such a cold day, her heart was cut. But she insisted that zhou Qiang would not move until she had dealt with the accident. She just kept it on the shore.
Zhou Qiang a large family, no one is willing to come forward to solve the problem, even the new chrysanthemum let them go with their own people, they are not active. Xinju said to them, “How did Zhou Qiang treat you before? And now that he’s dead, you’re not willing to help find anyone. Don’t look at the dead look at the living, you and nephew is going to college, the accident is not clear, after we orphans widow mother how to live? What do you do when you owe so much money for the boat? You must go if you don’t. You are brothers and sisters. You must go!”
Zhou Qiang’s brothers and sisters felt wronged and had to follow suit. The relevant departments of the carrot and stick, asked the family to take the body to the funeral home temporarily put away, saying that the aftermath of the matter can not be handled in a short time. Zhou Qiang’s relatives are timid, frightened by the attitude of others, want to take the initiative to send the body to the funeral home, also advised the new chrysanthemum not to act recklessly. Xinju resolutely prevented the way: “The accident really can not be dealt with in a hurry, but, do not give an explanation, we resolutely can not remove Zhou Qiang, can not take the initiative to send. Storage in the funeral home, is also a long-term thing, is a very large fee, we volunteered to send, also need me to pay this money. The relevant departments to deal with the matter, to eliminate the impact, let the relevant departments send it!”
At Xinju’s insistence, the relevant departments finally come forward and send Zhou Qiang’s body to the local funeral home for storage, with the cost paid by the government. The next step is to set up an accident investigation team to deal with the relevant issues.
“Ah, this is the first step in the long March.” Xinju told me as firecrackers sounded outside the window, the growing atmosphere of the Spring Festival added to the sadness of the family, which is destined to be a year of sorrow and sorrow.
After the year, I still went out to work. Before leaving to visit the new chrysanthemum again, only asked her to pay attention to the body, everything careful. I went to a city thousands of miles away and thought of The difficult situation of Xinju. I was afraid of her annoyance, so I contacted her more actively than before. She would also talk to me about the situation at any time to relieve my own pressure.
5
At the end of February, the year was over. Shinju was eager to ask about the situation, but his promise to “set up an accident investigation team” was far from assured. Xinju felt that she could not wait any longer. The cause of the accident was clear. It was just a matter of dividing responsibilities among several departments.
She went to the cement plant several times, but could not find the person in charge — the leaders were either in a meeting or on a business trip. She had waited in the office for two days, eating only one pancake at a time, and had never seen the person in charge.
Then she went to the Maritime Bureau. The other side does not think that they are responsible, said the security owner signed. Xinju asked them to show the signed materials, but they couldn’t. “This matter waits for the investigation result to come out, what responsibility should we have, we accept.” They threw down this hard sentence and turned their backs on her.
Then she went to the company where the freighter was attached, and the head of the company said, “For a small fee, it is too much to bear the liability” and would not pay any compensation. The new chrysanthemum say that want to ask a lawyer to Sue him, that person play rascal directly: “Sue to Sue, big deal jail, anyway I don’t compensate.”
After several twists and turns, the accident treatment is still not clear. New chrysanthemum helpless, once confused and even desperate. She recalled xiao Ming, who had visited her immediately after the accident, telling her to rely on the local government. She didn’t listen then, and now she thinks it’s the only way. After all, the responsible party is afraid of losing money families are not finished, if there is the coordination of government departments, all parties will rest assured?
So Xinju returned to pushing the local government department to set up an accident investigation team as soon as possible. She summoned Mr. Zhou’s friends, brothers, sisters and family members to the local government to press for answers, hoping to build pressure on authorities to resolve the problem.
B: Once. It’s a four – or five-hour round trip. Zhou Qiang friends have their own things, and her relatives are far away, several times down, the new chrysanthemum is not much trouble them. Zhou qiang’s brothers and sisters are even more chilling, even on the way to dinner, waiting for their nephew who has not yet graduated to pay their bills, driving out, also asked Xinju to give them gas. Each to a department, New Chrysanthemum voice and tears to argue, they are just crouching in the back, not a word. Xinju let his son holding the portrait of Zhou Qiang kneeling in front of the relevant departments, someone came to frighten them: “Don’t hold the photo here, the impact is not good, or you will all be arrested!”
“Why can’t you hold the picture? That’s his father, who died so tragically, and now that there’s no justice, he’s going to avenge him! ‘ Xinju was not afraid of them. “Please arrest us all. We are orphans and widowed, and we cannot live at this point!”
As she spoke, she took the man by the sleeve, tore all his clothes, and the man fled.
“It’s not easy for the civil servants.” Talking about that scene with me, Xinju also smiled.
However, none of the three responsible parties is willing to make a promise to take responsibility easily. They all look on and try every means to shirk the responsibility and try to minimize the responsibility. They can delay the compensation and hide the responsibility.
After a while, friends and family stopped helping, and Xinju let him go to school. She herself kept going back and forth to the government departments of the incident, running, pushing the relevant departments to deal with it in a timely manner, and the difficulties and suffering among them, no one else can understand.
Finally, Xinju wore out the sole of his shoe, and finally, five months later, forced the government to set up a special accident investigation and handling team to coordinate matters, with the local county magistrate as the team leader.
6
Even at this point, things are not going as smoothly as Xinju imagined.
The first is the division of responsibility – cement plants assume 60% of the responsibility, the other 30% of the responsibility by the maritime inspection department and affiliated companies to bear. But no one paid up, maritime security insisted it was not responsible and the head of the affiliate ran away.
“What about the 10%? Why doesn’t anyone take it?” Xinju asked the county magistrate confusedly.
“The other 10 percent is borne by the owners themselves.” The magistrate’s tone was flat.
“We’ve lost our family, and we have to take responsibility?” Xinju couldn’t figure it out.
“The processing team, we can do is to bring together the coordination problem, as for the legal issues, you have to find a lawyer, can negotiate good better, negotiation is not good, or legal process to walk, to Sue the ways to achieve – after all, it is the rule of law, not a man, I said the county also cannot catch whoever is caught, or by the law.”
Subsequently, the county magistrate recommended a lawyer to Xinju, And Xinju submitted a petition through the lawyer.
The lawyer gave her a detailed analysis of the situation: the cement plant is not a problem, 60% of the responsibility, they do not have much objection; Maritime security inspection departments and affiliated companies insist that they are not responsible and do not want to take responsibility; As for the economic and legal responsibility of the ship owner, Xinju can issue a letter of understanding to her brother, which can exempt him from criminal responsibility. As for Zhou Qiang’s legal responsibility, “The other person is no longer in the boat, so the ship owner should bear 10% of the economic responsibility by himself”.
So far, the problem on the law new chrysanthemum was clearer, had this direction, also had a basis in the future.
In August, I went home on business and sat down with Xinju. Her face was tired. “Really,” she said, “My shoes are almost worn out.”
“If it were me, I would give it up. It’s too hard to imagine.”
“That’s what I’m fighting for.” ‘she said wearily.
Running for a long time, let new chrysanthemum feel physical discomfort, waist pain, she went to the hospital for examination, was diagnosed as serious hydronephrosis. From the time of the operation to the time of the hospital discharge, not a single member of Zhou’s family visited Xinju for more than a month. She knew the family through and through. Their indifference made her more determined to get justice.
At the beginning of September, the body recovered a little, Xinju went to the county magistrate again — the county magistrate is not said to find can find, even if the telephone contact in advance, to the county government, sometimes he has meetings, sometimes he is on business, sometimes he is busy with other things, often went to a few times also can not find people. Xinju had to wait outside the office, from morning to evening, casually deal with a few bites of rice, eat a few cold steamed buns, drink a few cold water, find a shabby hotel to live, and then wait.
When she saw the county magistrate, she said tearfully: “Since the responsibility for the accident has been clearly divided, when will the compensation be in place? So much money was borrowed to buy the ship, and the creditor came to demand the money. I can’t work for this either. My son hasn’t got a job, he’s got problems, he’s waiting for this compensation…”
After listening to her cry for a long time, the county magistrate was sympathetic: “I sympathize with what you are going through. I arranged for someone to urge the cement factory to pay as soon as possible.”
She went to the lawyer again. “Can’t people run away from their responsibilities? Shall we run away and be all right?”
The lawyer told her that the court had set up a compensation account and that the first payments from the cement plant would soon be in place; The maritime security inspection department is still in communication and negotiation; “As for the person in charge of the affiliated shipping company, the public security department is also making arrests.”
Thanks to the efforts of all parties, the maritime security department also took responsibility and paid the compensation to the designated account. The person in charge of the company who escaped was eventually arrested by the public security bureau.
At the beginning of 2016, Xinju’s saying “what should be compensated, what should be grasped” finally came true. As to compensate how much money, new chrysanthemum did not say – property compensation according to actual loss, compensation by insurance company, in addition to the principal of the ship, neighbors guess that there are probably more than 1 million.
At this point, in the funeral home to lie in zhou Qiang for a year, finally can feel at ease. new chrysanthemum for Zhou Qiang back to the argument, in order to comfort her husband in the spirit of heaven, she did a very grand funeral.
At the funeral, Xinju looked tired, but with more stubbornness in his eyes and eyes: “Anyway, this page is over. My son and I will get on with our lives.”
Hearing her say this, as a friend, also much relieved.
7
After xinju’s son graduated from college, he found a good job in a southern city. She also continued to be diligent and diligent in her post as a cashier. Sometimes we talk about family gossip on WeChat, and occasionally we can see the video of her square dancing in her circle of friends.
To my surprise, she got the Junior Accounting Certificate in 2018.
“A lot of young people didn’t get it, but I got it. Because of this certificate, the salary also increased a lot, even in the future, it is easier to find a job.” She smiled a happy smile. By this time, she was 48.
This year, Xinju sold the house she had lived in for just a few years and got more than 500,000 yuan. She also used part of the compensation money to make a down payment of more than 1 million yuan for her son in the city where he worked.
She did not want to go back to the old house in our family courtyard. She rented a house in the bustling area of the old city and lived alone. She went to work regularly every day and danced in the nearby square in the evening.
At the end of 2018, she told me that her classmates at the food school were going to set her up with someone.
“The rest of your life is long, and you deserve to have your own happiness.” I was happy for her. “What kind of person?”
Unexpectedly, that “object” is Xiaoming. Zhou Qiang in those days, although he is not convenient to do everything himself, but always give advice in the key time, the new chrysanthemum is very thank him. In the matter of Zhou Qiang solved before long, the wife of Xiaoming detects cancer, passed away quickly.
Later opened the reunion, a classmate of the new chrysanthemum half serious half ridicule: “this is a few years, the somebody else old Zhou may have someone there long ago, you should also consider their own things. “Since his wife died, many people have introduced him to women of all trades and unmarried women, but he has refused.”
Under the classmate’s matchmaking, two people also slowly chat up. There is a good person to new chrysanthemum new love said to Zhou Qiang’s elder sister to listen to, Zhou Qiang elder sister angry, “don’t tell me these, I don’t want to hear”. Xinju doesn’t mind. After all, Zhou has been gone for more than three years, so it’s time to think about what’s next for him.
Xinju is officially married to Xiao Ming before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019.
Many years of friends are about to leave. I have mixed feelings, happy for her to find a new happiness, but also sad for her friends gone. The day before she left, I took a day off to see her off at her parents’ house. In the morning of the wedding, I and the guests who went to see her off went from the hotel to the downstairs of her house. Surrounded by her family, Xinju walked into the groom’s car in a red umbrella and a fuchsia lace dress. At the age of 49, she was still graceful.
Looking at the distant car shadow, I thought of this stubborn woman experienced the ups and downs.
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