It has been more than two years since the last time I saw my father,and the memory that has stayed with me the longest is the silhouette of his back.
It was during the winter of that year;Grandmother had just died,and Father's temporary appoitment with the government had been terminated.Truely those were days when "calamities never come in ones." I travelled from Beijing to Xuzhou,planning to return home with my father for the funeral.When I reached Xuzhou I met my father,and I noticed that his garden was in complete disarray. I thought again of Grandmother and was unable to hold back the follow of tears.Father said,"Things are as they are;you shouldn't be sad,for happily there is nothing under Heaven that is hopeless."