Chapter 255 Chapter 22 Wrinkle annual rings

At that time, there were no such things as hand cream and mask, and my wife applied cream on her hands every day, applying a thick layer.I have also invited countless doctors, and I have taken a lot of medicine.But the skin of her hands became harder day by day, until it was like snakeskin.The habit of grabbing haystacks is getting worse and worse, and even when eating, I can't hold the chopsticks with my hands, so I use my hands to grab rice and vegetables. The wife fell ill in the panic, and died shortly thereafter.On the day of his wife's death, Seventh Girl's child just grew up to be the same age as Seventh Girl's back then.

When collecting the funeral, the person who put on the wife's shroud found that the wife's hands had become indistinguishable from chicken feet.Her thumb and index finger couldn't get together, and the coffin workers tried their best to break her thumb and index finger together.When entering the coffin, I had to let my wife's fingers lie open like chicken feet. After Grandpa finished talking about Miss Seven's life, Wen Sazi, I, and the young woman were silent for a long time.Suddenly, the room was filled with a different atmosphere.Not just horror, not just sympathy. "Unexpectedly, Seventh Miss came back after so many years." The old lady sighed.She rubbed her hands together, her curled body was like a question mark.

"Hey, Miss Seven has raised chickens and ducks all her life, but she has never tasted the taste of chicken and duck meat. When she gave birth, she didn't have a sip of chicken soup to drink. No wonder she still misses the taste of chicken so much after she dies." Wen Sazi shook his head. Said in a low voice. The young woman's emotions were aroused by Wen Sazi: "Yes. If it were me, I would die with regret. Although it is said that it is for a bite of food, it is worth understanding. There is an old man in our natal family, and the situation is similar to this seven Girls are somewhat similar."

"Oh? There was also chicken stealing in your natal family?" Wen Sazi asked curiously, turning his head to the side. The young woman smiled and said: "It's funny to say, and it's because of greed, but it's not about stealing chickens. There is an old man in our place. Before he died, he couldn't close his eyes for a long time, and his breath was stuck in his throat. His sons and daughters were all around the bed. They were very filial and did not want their father to die, but when they saw that their father was holding his breath, they said a lot of comforting words and advised him to leave with peace of mind."

The grandfather said in a low voice: "Before the old man dies, it's not good to have children crying beside him. It would be good to say something comforting and let the old man go away with peace of mind." The old lady nodded and agreed with Grandpa's words. The young woman also nodded and said, "But the old man still refused to die. The children around the bed saw that the father's eyes seemed to be asking, so they asked, what is your concern, and the children will definitely take care of it. That The old man opened his mouth to speak with great effort, and his son put his ear close to the old man’s mouth to hear clearly. The old man said, I’m afraid you will make fun of me if I say it. The son whispered in the old man’s ear, “Father, how much have you raised us?” Ten years, why do we children dare to laugh at you? But if the children do not satisfy your wishes, the children will feel uneasy and will feel guilty for the rest of their lives. Just say what you have. "

A few of us listened attentively. The young woman went on to say: "The old man told the children around the bed, I think, I want to drink some foreign water." "Yangshui?" Wen Sazi touched the back of his head, "What is Yangshui? Is it a kind of water?" Grandpa smiled and said: "When you talk about matches, you know they are matches; when you talk about foreign nails, you know they are big iron nails; when you talk about foreign water, you don't know much about them, right? Foreign water is the soda you young people like to drink. " The old lady also laughed: "That old man is really greedy, and he is dying to drink foreign water."

I am very taboo to mention words such as "death" and "death" in front of my grandfather, because my grandfather will become very lonely every time someone of his generation leaves.I am afraid that grandpa will think of me when he hears these words.However, he and the old lady didn't seem to care about these words. Perhaps, what they are afraid of is not the end of their lives, but the loneliness that their peers will gradually disappear before the end of their lives. What they fear is that the things they have worked so hard for in their lives will disappear with the death of their bodies.It's like the old man in the spiritual house who wanted to recruit apprentices before he died, just like the monk in Xiangyan Mountain cared about the golden powder remains in the Gongde Hall before his death.After them, there is no follower.Their legendary life disappeared with the disappearance of life, leaving no trace in this world.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at my grandfather more, and inadvertently found that my grandfather had a few more wrinkles.The wrinkles seem to be the annual rings of the big tree, which increase with the years. So, are the wrinkles on Grandpa's face his annual rings? Spring returns to the earth, everything is renewed, and the cells next to the bark begin to divide; the cells after division are large, thick in wall, and fresh in color, which is called early wood; later, the cell growth slows down, the wall becomes thicker, and the volume shrinks , the color becomes darker, which is called late wood, and the dark annual rings in the trunk are formed by late wood.After that, the tree enters the winter dormancy period again, and the cycle is endless.In this way, rings of alternate shades and rings are formed in the trunks of many kinds of trees, and each ring is the growth part of a year.

So, do the wrinkles on Grandpa's face also imply the scenes he has gone through in his life? Through tree rings, people can not only determine the age of many things, detect earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and climate changes that occurred in the past, but also infer the future. Trees are living records, and the annual rings in their trunks are records.Not only does it tell the age of the trees themselves, but also how much precipitation and temperature changes from year to year.The rings may also record forest fires, early frosts, and chemicals drawn from the surrounding environment.Therefore, as long as we know how to reveal the tree's secrets, it will tell us a lot of things that have happened around it since its birth.Trees can tell us about things that happened in the written past, and they can also tell us about the future.Records of weather in trees can help us understand the natural forces that cause them, which in turn can help us predict the future.

So, when grandpa calculates the horoscope for someone, will he carefully look at the wrinkles on that person's face?Is everyone's face like annual rings, recording the past and heralding the future at the same time?Does grandpa know the secret of wrinkles? My thoughts have already drifted to the sky. Suddenly, I really wanted to ask these questions and ask Grandpa if he could give me all the answers.