Shanghai Culture Publishing House published in December 2021 Cover illustration: Luo Yimeng Window lattice Author | Ding Xuguang 74, Quli Baguai and Houli In my eyes, my father who does not touch smoking and drinking has a nearly perfect personality. Just when he was 80 years old

Shanghai Culture Publishing House published in December 2021 Cover illustration: Luo Yi

Dream Window lattice

Author｜Ding Xuguang

74, Quli Baguai and Houli

In my eyes, my father who does not touch smoking and drinking has a nearly perfect personality.

When he was 80 years old, he was hospitalized for his intensive care and was also considering his children. The cost of a high-risk ward is 1,000 yuan a day. In front of my father's bed, the doctor said to my elder brother: "Your father can't leave for a while, you must consider it carefully..." The implication is that there is no need to go to the high-cost intensive care unit. At that time, the eldest brother, who was the boss of a private enterprise, said: "I'm just staying in the intensive care unit. Please use the best medicine, and don't consider the money."

The father, who had been frugal all his life, still had a sense of understanding even though he was already in a coma. On the night he was admitted to the intensive care unit, he did not delay for a while, and at 11:55, he drove away. After the patient enters the intensive care unit, if it does not exceed twelve o'clock in the evening, it will be calculated based on half a day, which is 500 yuan in half a day. The father is unwilling to drag down his children, and he is always considering his children.

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That morning, if my father hadn't urged my wife and I to get up in my dream, the consequences would be serious. The least consequence is that the daughter is late for entering the examination room, which affects her performance and leads to a mock exam. The serious thing is that I cannot enter the classroom because I am late for too long. If that were the case, it would be a huge news.

I stood on the balcony, looking at the path outside the community, feeling my father's spirit in heaven.

Men Erye has been following this path for decades.

Strictly speaking, that is not a way.

The Quli Bagua Road, which is in the direction of several "一" characters, has neither stone slab nor cement. On both sides of the road, there are terrible earthen houses with oil felt roofs.

The five-story public housing where Meng Erye lives is now called "old-style public housing". It is an old house that is on the verge of elimination and someone takes over after depreciation. But it is this old house that stands out on the side of Quli Baguai and Houli.

Watercolor Street scene of Hengshan Road, Yongjia Road Wang Jiqing

Every afternoon, Meng Erye must dress neatly. After going down the fifth floor, he walked through the small road in Hehouli Quli, through the small well in Hehouli, and walked towards Rihui East Road amid the barking of the dogs at the female postman's house. The unknown dog was a grass dog, and he liked to bark at strangers from a high place on the roof. Although there are three thousand nails on the broken ship, the family definitely did not have three thousand nails. Because that family is a real family that is barely barely, the old couple lives by making scallion oil pancakes every day, while the son sets up a scallion oil pancake stall less than 100 meters away from his parents' stall. His daughter is busy wearing green clothes every day. In my memory, she was the same green body. She is not old, she is only in her thirties. Together with Cao Dog, she is the master of the dirt house and the old well of Hehouli dirt road, and is also a scenery.

Ding Xuguang Shanghai writer and master of the Chinese Chess Association.

published the novel collection "Blue Confusion" (1991 Southwest Jiaotong University Press), the novel "Fishing alone in the Cold River" (1995 Changchun Press ), the short and medium-stories "Dark Green Cheongsam" (1999 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing ), the novel "Brown Wooden Door" (2013 China Literature and History Press), and the novel "Misty Rain Qinhuai" (waiting for release).

short story "White Marble Jade" was included in the "Complete Works of Contemporary Chinese Novelists" by the Chinese Novelists Society. The novel "Brown Wooden Door" won the "Second Prize for the 2012 Pen and Novels" and was selected into the award series. The "Symposium on Works of Ding Xuguang" held by the Novel Professional Committee of the Shanghai Writers Association in 2004 was included in the "2005 Shanghai Cultural Yearbook". His personal terms were included in the "Division of Contemporary Chinese Novelists" by the Chinese Novelists Society.

Luo Ying planner of the novel "Dream Dissolve Window Layers", deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, vice president of Shanghai Female Photographers Association, and director of Shanghai Yanhuang Culture Research Association.

Luo Ying has been paying attention to Shanghai culture for a long time. His essay "Under the Cherry Blossom Tree at No. 457" was forwarded by the Xinhua News Agency client, and the number of views exceeded one million in one week.

Wang Jiqing Born in Shanghai in 1958, Senior Arts and Crafts Artist , associate professor, member of Chinese Arts and Crafts Artists Association, painter of Shanghai Huangpu Painting Academy, and member of Jiusan Society.