Chapter 282 Chapter Forty-eighth Love the world of mortals

"Do you still have pins at home? If not, I have to go to someone else's house to borrow them." Grandpa asked me instead of answering my question.I know what's going on in Grandpa's house, even better than Grandma.When I was young, I often rummaged through the cabinets at my grandfather's house, because I could always find some weird things in the old pull-tab cabinets and red-painted sandalwood boxes, so I never got tired of it.The things I found included ancient books that my grandfather had read, copper coins from the Qing Dynasty, bronze locks with rust spots, and so on.Often when my grandparents came back from their farm work, and saw the things I dug out all over the floor, my grandma couldn't help shouting: "Oh, there are thieves in my house!"

Grandpa immediately picked up me, who weighed dozens of pounds, and said with a laugh: "It's hard to guard against a thief! There is a thief in our house!" This is the same as urinating at home. Not only did my grandfather never get angry because I "urinated everywhere" when I was naughty when I was young, but he laughed and said: "It's good for the boy to urinate at home! Good!" This sentence is very powerful. It inspired me, who was still wearing crotch pants at the time, to urinate with my legs apart.The bright silver water line poured the grandfather's house everywhere, and there was a faint smell of urea.

I thought about it and said, "It seems that there are some pins in my uncle's drawer. But I don't know if they are still there." Grandpa nodded: "Then let's go back and have a look. If we don't have any, we can borrow them from someone who has children studying at home." When I got home, I opened my uncle's drawer and found the pin.Grandpa wrapped it in a red cloth and put it in his trouser pocket, and then took me back to Laohe along the road. We stopped at the place where Grandpa suddenly yelled before he came.This was already in my expectation.Grandpa pointed to the field ridge and said, "Let's walk along this road. There must be a new grave there."

"New grave? Isn't it Xu Yi's?" Tian Ridge was indeed facing the direction of Master Yi's house. "No, the mountain behind Master Yi's house is a cemetery. It's not just Xu Yi and his people who built their tombs here. Several surrounding villages have built their tombs here. On the way I just came, I met a new dead After I scolded it, it turned around and went back there." Grandpa pointed to the other side of the ridge and said, "So I think its grave should be in that direction." "Oh." I followed my grandfather onto the narrow field ridge.When I first stepped on the field ridge, several frogs were startled and jumped into the paddy field.In the summer night, there will be a lot of frogs jumping around on the roads in the fields, especially on the ridges.At first you didn’t know there were frogs on the road, but when you got there, the frog jumped up and realized that there were so many frogs hiding in the shade.

It was already getting dark, but I could still barely see the road under my feet. After walking along this uneven ridge for a few minutes, I saw a new grave.The location of this tomb was not chosen well, it was almost built next to a paddy field. Grandpa said: "Look, the front of this tomb is next to paddy fields, and the back is against the hillside. There is only a field ridge on the side as a road. No wonder it found me along the field ridge." When Grandpa commented on the location of this tomb, It's as natural as commenting on the direction of other people's houses.It made me feel vaguely that the person living in that small dirt bag was not a corpse, but a family.Maybe if grandpa gets closer, someone will come out to welcome grandpa and me.

Grandpa sighed: "Why fight too much when you're alive, and it's only an inch of land after death." I know that grandpa is talking about the stingy Uncle Jin. I didn't say a word, I just felt a little cold all over. Grandpa walked to the tomb, looked at the words on the tombstone, and said, "You really didn't die long ago. You died young. No wonder you miss the things in the world. Did you not eat enough, or should you eat enough?" Didn’t you drink enough? However, after eating delicacies from mountains and seas and drinking fine nectar and jade liquid, is it still a handful of loess in the end? Or is it just missing the children at home and the old mother in the hall? Don’t worry, everyone has their own destiny, Zhu Yuanzhang His father and brother starved to death very early, didn’t he also become the emperor?”

Grandpa seemed to be comforting an old friend who was unbalanced.While persuading, he took out the brooch wrapped in red cloth, and then picked up a stone and pressed it on the tombstone. "Pin, pin, it's really parting. Now that we have parted, don't miss it anymore! Young man, you chased me for a while just now, and you want me to help you. But I'm not the king of Yama, so I can't modify it in the fate book Your Yangshou. How can I help you? I can only advise you to go there with peace of mind and resolve the depression in your heart. No one wants to leave this world, but when it comes time to say goodbye to relatives and friends, don’t worry too much , go with peace of mind." Grandpa patted the tombstone, just like he usually pats the shoulder of an acquaintance.

Grandpa stood silently in front of the grave for a while, and then said to me: "Okay, let's go." We walked two steps on the field ridge, and grandpa turned his head to look at the grave, sighed and said, "Don't cry. Go with peace of mind, ah!" I tugged at the corner of my grandfather's clothes and asked timidly, "Grandpa, is that person still crying?" Grandpa just said: "Hey..." It was getting really late.The mountains and trees not far away gradually lost their three-dimensionality, as if they were silhouettes.Some of the frogs started croaking.The grasshopper at the foot of the mountain also sang the harmony.My grandfather and I walked back along the field ridge, chatting some gossips while walking.

As soon as we returned home from Laohe, Uncle Jin came to find us right away. "Oh, oh, it's terrible!" Uncle Jin exaggeratedly shouted as soon as he entered the door. "What happened again?" Hearing his yell, I immediately became nervous, thinking that something serious had happened. "Fortunately, your grandpa is amazing!" He praised with a thumbs up.I let out a sigh of relief.Grandma hurriedly moved a chair for Uncle Jin to sit down. Uncle Jin said that after he came back with Master Yi, Master Yi dismantled his new wooden bed.Sure enough, as grandpa had guessed, there were actually two big turtles carved on the inside of the baffle of the bed.It turned out that the thing that woke them up at night was the sound of the turtle crawling.The two tortoises are carved so vividly that it seems that if they are disturbed, they will immediately crawl away from the baffle.The tortoise's neck was twisted, and when Uncle Jin opened the shutter, he jumped in fright, thinking that the four tortoise eyes were staring at him.