Chapter 16 chestnut four

After burning the incense, Shingo stood by the gate of the temple. He thought he would meet his college classmates at the farewell ceremony for Toriyama's body, but he didn't see any of them. There was no guest as old as Shingo at the venue. Maybe Shingo was late. Peeping inside, I saw the queue standing at the entrance of the main hall began to move, and the people dispersed. The family members are all in the main hall. Just as Shingo imagined, Toriyama's wife was still alive, and the thin woman standing in front of the coffin was probably her. She dyed her hair.However, it seems that it has not been dyed for a long time, and the roots of the hair are showing gray.

When Shingo bowed his head to salute the old woman, he suddenly thought: Probably because Toriyama has been ill for a long time, and she came to take care of her, so she didn't have time to dye her hair.When he turned to the coffin to burn incense, he couldn't help muttering: Who knows what the actual situation is. That is to say, when Shingo ascended the steps of the main shrine and saluted the bereaved family, he completely forgot that Toriyama's wife abused her husband.However, when he turned around to salute the dead, he remembered this incident again.Shingo was secretly surprised.

Shingo walked out of the main hall without looking at Mrs. Toriyama at the survivor's table. What surprised Shingo was not Toriyama and his wife, but his own strange forgetfulness.With a bit of boredom, he turned back from the paving road. Shingo felt a sense of forgetfulness and loss. There are very few people who understand the situation between the Toriyama couple.Even if there are still a few people who understand it alive, they have lost their memories.For the rest, I can only let Toriyama's wife recall casually.Probably no third party will seriously recall these things. Shingo also participated in a gathering of six or seven classmates, and when it came to Toriyama's past, no one was willing to seriously recall it.Just laugh it off.One of the men talked about some past events, and was only interested in irony and exaggeration, that's all.

At that time, two people who attended the party passed away before Toriyama. Now Shingo thought to himself: Why did Toriyama's wife abuse Toriyama?Why was Toriyama abused by his wife again? I'm afraid even the person Toriyama and his wife don't know much about it. Toriyama went to Huangquan with some unknown reasons.The remaining wife will also feel that these things are a thing of the past, and become the past of the death of the rival Toriyama.Toriyama's wife would also bid farewell to the world with some ambiguity. It is said that the home of the man who talked about Toriyama's past at the class reunion had four or five old Noh masks handed down from generation to generation. When Toriyama came to his house, he showed it to Toriyama to admire. Time watched motionless.According to this man, Toriyama was not very interested in Noh masks when he watched it for the first time, probably because he couldn't go home and came to see it to pass the time.Because he couldn't get home until his wife was asleep.

Right now, Xinwu is thinking: the head of a family who is over half a century old, wandering the streets like this every night, must be meditating on something. The photo of Toriyama displayed at the farewell ceremony for the body may have been taken during the New Year or some other festival when he was an official. He is wearing a formal dress and has a gentle round face.May have been retouched by a photo studio, no shadows visible. Toriyama's gentle features looked very young, and it didn't match his wife standing in front of the coffin.It can only be considered that his wife has been tortured by Toriyama to become old.

Toriyama's wife was short, and Shingo looked down at her graying hair roots.She drooped one shoulder slightly, her face was very haggard. Toriyama's children and possibly their lovers stand side by side with Toriyama's wife.Shingo didn't pay attention to them. Shingo was waiting at the gate of the temple, planning to meet an old friend, so he asked, "How is your family?" My family and my son’s family can’t settle down.” Even if they confess their feelings to each other, there is nothing they can do.Also don't want to meddle.At most, we just walked and talked, and we broke up at the tram stop.

That's what Shingo wanted too. "Let's just talk about Toriyama. He's dead. Isn't everything like being abused by his wife gone without a trace?" "The family of Toriyama's children is happy and harmonious. This must be the success of the Toriyama couple." "To what extent should parents be responsible for their children's married life today?" Shingo muttered to himself, and wanted to tell his old classmates, but for some reason, the moment kept reappearing in his mind. Flocks of sparrows chirped on the roof of the temple gate. They drew a bow and flew up to the roof, and then drew another bow and flew away.