I went back to my hometown today to sweep the family graves, so I'm taking a day off.
Let me vent a little. I hadn't been back home to sweep the graves in three years, and the place had changed beyond recognition. The old dirt roads had become asphalt roads, the old houses had been rebuilt as lovely country villas, and even my grandparents' ancestral home had been completely torn down.
I woke up early to bad weather, and sure enough, a torrential downpour left everyone soaked through. Sigh, my parents had grown old. I still remembered going back home with them to sweep the graves over a decade ago, with a whole crowd of more than a dozen people. Even my eldest uncle's two-story house couldn't fit us all. Now the old house had been renovated into a large four-story villa, and my cousin had taken over from my uncle as the head of the household. There were more rooms, but only a handful of us had come back-not nearly enough to fill them.
Here, Tianzi wishes everyone a good rest over the adjusted Qingming Festival holiday. Keep working hard, and life will grow sweeter and sweeter.
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