【正确答案】 It is more than two years since I last saw my father, and what I can never forget is the sight of his back. Misfortunes never come singly. In the winter of more than two years ago, my grandma passed away and my father's official appointment was terminated. I left Beijing for Xuzhou to join father in hastening home to attend the funeral. When I joined him in Xuzhou, the sight of the disorderly mess in his courtyard and the thought of my grandma started tears tricking down my cheeks. "What's past is gone," said my father. "It's no use grieving. Heaven always leaves us some way out."
After arriving home, he sold or mortgaged all the fortune to clear our debts, and he also borrowed money to cover the funeral expenses. Those were gloomy days for our family, due to the funeral and my father's unemployment. After the funeral, my father was to go to Nanjing to look for a position, and I was to return to Beijing to study, so we started out together.

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