Chapter 6
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I stayed in Yangzhou until the autumn of the second year.
The leaves turned yellow one by one and fell to the ground one by one. Father was awake less and less, unconscious more and more.
His room was always filled with the smell of medicine. When he was awake, he gripped my hand tightly and looked at me with a gray and sorrowful gaze.
"Daiyu, Daiyu …" He could only call out twice before he fainted again.
Tears were the only language I could speak at my father's bedside.
I started to fear walking around the house.
Because most of the time, everyone looked at me with pity.
At last, at last, as they pitied him, the father lay there like that.
Lying on the bed where my grandmother, grandfather, brother, and mother used to lie.
This time, I didn't fall sick and faint again. I followed my cousin, Jia Lian, to send my father back to his hometown, Suzhou.
When we arrived in Suzhou, my uncle didn't come back. Probably because it was too far overseas, he left immediately after he received the news that my father was seriously ill. But until now, there had been no news.
When my father's coffin entered the Lin family's ancestral land, I followed.
It was raining that day.
I walked past each grave and counted. One, two, three, four, five …
There used to be seven people in my family. Now, there were five graves.
On the third day of my father's burial, news suddenly came.
The person who sent the message was a western friend of my uncle. He brought my uncle's belongings. He said that my uncle had been shipwrecked when he came.
The western man with a big beard and a high nose wailed.
But I didn't cry.
I just thought, so it wasn't one, two, three, four, five.
It was one, two, three, four, five, six.
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