Ri Bang is my uncle, four years younger than Mr. Ri Sheng, is the youngest child in the family. Day bang since childhood do not love reading, but play up than who are fine, ruthless, crazy. Down the river to touch the fish, on the tree to pick fruit, slingshot birds, cricket fighting, playing marbles, jumping wooden horse, spinning top... I had a great time. Every day after school, calling friends around, not until dark do not go home. My mother groaned over his "red" grade book: "You are a great sweet potato. How can you get into middle school by playing so much?" There was nothing she could do about this naughty little boy. However, everyone did not think, the mother of the mouth of the "big sweet potato", actually is not a "fuel-saving lamp". As the entrance examination approached, he refused the temptation of his friends and companions and studied hard behind closed doors. When his results were announced, he stratted into Yinghua Secondary School in Ipoh, much to the surprise of his teachers and friends. When he entered middle school, he was still funny. Several elder brother, all is the best in the school, partial play around him, every year is in the case of "dangerous" reluctantly go up. His doting mother agreed, "A big sweet potato is always blessed with a big sweet potato. Let him go!" "Big sweet potato" in the high school entrance examination, not chaos, overcome the difficulties, with impressive results graduation. After that, I went to New Zealand and successfully took the Chartered accountant degree. When I married Sun Sheng, he flew back to Ipoh from New Zealand for the wedding reception. He was a big man of a mountain, cheerful, talkative, and witty, faintly a shadow of the urchin of his day. We hit it off immediately and have endless stories to share with each other. After we got familiar with each other, he and I, together with my humorous sister-in-law Huiqin, often joked with each other and exchanged verbal quarrels. The time we spent together was always inlaid with a string of laughter. A few years later, he left New Zealand and settled in Johor. The former "Big Sweet potato" transformed into a corporate warrior with a reputation as a "hard man" and was briefly promoted before being sent to Sarawak as a supervisor. Every time I go home to visit relatives, bags of local products are always filled with luggage. Once, before the Lunar New Year, he even brought back 10 kilograms of rice. I laughed and said jokingly, "Oh, are you fleeing?" He glared at me. "You think pearls are fish eyes! This is the famous Baleo Plateau rice, grown by the Ulu tribe on a mountain about 3,500 feet above sea level. It is produced in very small quantities, sold at very high prices and in short supply. I asked for leave for two days and went up the mountain to buy it." After a pause, he said, "The rice, when cooked, shines brightly. It seems that fireflies gather in the bowl. When the entrance, soft as silk, light as the wind, fragrance is not good! Even if there is no dish to go with it, you will not get tired of eating several bowls in a row!" On New Year's Eve, everyone looks forward to it. But the rice on the table was dull. When the sun saw this, he asked his mother-in-law urgently, "Mom, why don't you cook Barry rice?" Her mother said, "Yes!" The sun banged: "No, it's definitely not..." Her mother stammered: "This rice is too expensive, so I mixed it with ordinary rice and cooked it. It is more durable!" Day bang shocked to ask: "10 kg, you all mixed?" Mother nodded, day bang almost fainted on the ground. My mother-in-law used to farm on Hainan Island, and although she lived comfortably in her later years, she was used to being thrifty, so she could not afford to eat Barrio rice, which was much more expensive than ordinary rice. We laughed for a long time at my mother's cooking of Barrio rice with cheap rice. "Children must learn to tell white lies to make mom's life colorful," she said afterward. From then on, whatever he bought to honor his mother, he always deliberately hid the true price. My mother-in-law enjoyed herself with peace of mind. In the age of no doubt, Ribang was hired by a multinational company, sent to China, in the Shenzhen branch of the independent. Educated solely in English, he studied in Malaysia as a second language in Bahasa Malaysia. After graduating from college, his living and working language is English. For him, Chinese is like a language in the sky. After taking office in China, he carried forward the spirit of "desperate Sanlang", study hard, speak boldly, the pronunciation of the wild dialect made people laugh. He shrugged and said, "As long as I don't laugh at myself!" Within a few months, he learned to speak fluent Mandarin and even exported it. When he goes to a restaurant, he orders in Mandarin, effortlessly reciting the names of a list of dishes. I praised him, he smiled happily replied: "The horse is dead on the ground, live in China, do not know Mandarin can be OK?" "Life is a jar of water. If you put sugar in the water, you will be sweet. If you put salt in the water, you'll be salty. The point is you have to immerse yourself in it. Some people, walking around the water tank all the time, of course, neither salty nor sweet, nothing!" A few words can give you the secret of learning a language. I do know one person who "walks around the water tank", a British-born Chinese who has worked for multinationals in Beijing for many years, and who stutters and stumbles in Mandarin - a problem not of ability but of attitude. A colleague who has worked with him for many years said of him, "In his official work, he is like a guarantee to the public. If someone wants to use the back door, he can't even find a crack in it. Financially, he was a man who had to know exactly where every penny went. He was incorruptible and almost obstinate. In life, he is like Song Jiang, generous and generous, full of personality charm!" When he was half a century old, he told me he wanted to quit his job and live a better life. Naturally, I do not believe him. He is in a high position, how can he throw away such a generous salary for no reason? Besides, he was strong and sharp, and it was a good time to "go to the next level." He sighed and said, "Money is like chains! I have been in China for many years, busy with business. I have always wanted to climb the Great Wall, but I have never had time to do so. Even the big cities and towns near me have no time to visit! Not only regrettable, but also absurd!" I knew that the "urchin" was calling him. Sure enough, it wasn't long before he handed in his resignation and stayed on for two more years, despite repeated requests from the company. After that, no matter who said it, he could not shake his determination to seek freedom. After getting rid of the bondage of work, day bang and his wife went to the ends of the earth. He sent messages and photos from all over the world, and laughter rolled out of my phone. He had no children, and for many years he had paid for any of his relatives who could not afford to send their children to school until they graduated from college. These children have become his brothers and sisters, he often spoil them with big meals and drinks, the family is lively all year round, life is very enjoyable. Twenty years of this pleasant life passed. During the pandemic, he stayed at home and got a round belly from beer. In early December 2021, bad news came out of the blue -- he had been sitting for a long time, his nerve was compressed by a disc, causing severe pain, mobility difficulties, and he had to rely on crutches to get in and out. It's hard to imagine such a vigorous man stumbling. The doctor advised him to have an operation, and he agreed without hesitation. "When the quality of life can be saved by surgery, it's worth the risk," he said. The operation had not yet taken place, but there was another thunderbolt: he had colorectal cancer and had to be surgically removed. Which of the two major surgeries came first? Doctors and friends urged him to stop the cancer first. He calmly considered all possible outcomes and decided to have the disc operation first. "If the disc operation fails and I'm paralyzed and my life is over, why would I bother to have my rectum removed? If the operation is successful, I can safely have another operation and resume my normal life." It is not easy to see your crisis so thoroughly and to handle it so calmly in the dark tunnel of life. As if by miracle, two major operations were carried out without a hitch. He took out the "desperate Sanlang" spirit again, desperately take medicine, desperately do physical therapy, desperately adjust the diet. The success kept coming, and by March 2022, his life was back to normal. In the photo, he waved his golf club high and smiled triumphantly as he chased away the disease. On June 15, 2022, he suddenly drove from Johor to visit us in Singapore and stayed for two days. We are ecstatic because the outbreak has been stopped. We haven't seen each other for more than two years. He laughed as before, but the spirit and appetite are obviously not as good as before, even his favorite roast Suckling pig, also only eat two pieces of chopsticks. Before parting, he said lightly, "The cancer has spread in my body." His voice was so peaceful, as if he were talking about someone else. I didn't realize that death was waiting for me, let alone that he had come to say his last words to us. His wife later told us that the drive between Singapore and Johor was full throttle. Once inside, he was so distracted that he never got up. On July 18, the news came that he was gone. I didn't use the word "bad news" because he was so peaceful. When the quality of life is lost, he does not cling, never. After the funeral, friends and family gathered at his favorite restaurant, ordered his favorite dish, raised their glasses, and said in unison, "Sun bang, cheers!" At this moment, I saw him smile and raise the glass...