Chapter 7 end

Everyone returned to Yu Guangcai's home. It was a rare free day, and they fell asleep on the bed.When Grandpa woke up, it was already noon the next day. When he came out of the bedroom, he saw Yu Guangcai sitting in the courtyard with a chair reading a book. At this time, the weather had turned cold, and the leaves of the two peach trees beside the dam began to fall one after another. "Are you awake?" Seeing his grandfather coming out of the room, Yu Guangcai greeted him with a smile and squinted eyes. Grandpa smiled slightly and asked, "Where did they all go?" "Except for Zhang Qi who is still sleeping, everyone else has gone home. After so many days, they must be a little homesick." Yu Guangcai said, putting down the old book in his hand.

Grandpa smiled and gestured, and sat down beside Yu Guangcai.The book in Yu Guangcai's hand was lying on the small square table beside it. The book was very old, and the words on it didn't seem to be printed, but were written one by one with a brush. "You still don't understand this book. When the time is right, I will let you read it." Grandpa shook his head: "I'm not in a hurry. After seeing so many things these days, I feel a little..." "What's the matter? When I first entered the industry, I was similar to you. I always didn't believe that this person's life and death were fixed. Seeing the dead people around me, and strange things happening one after another, I felt very uncomfortable. But later, I Gradually I came to believe that this matter of life and death cannot be changed, even if you know how to decipher life and death, if you do so, then you will lose more." Yu Guangcai said, seeing that his grandfather was silent, he stretched out his hand to pat Pat him on the shoulder, "So, it's good to be able to walk through life happily and unrestrainedly. If you can't, remember not to do immoral things. Your compassion and virtue will protect you for the rest of your life. "

"Master's admonition, this apprentice has memorized it." Grandpa bowed his head slightly towards him. "You don't need to be so polite. Being polite will make you learn a lot less." Yu Guangcai smiled. These words did not seem to be a warning, but more like a warning. Grandpa listened, nodded, and fell silent looking at the two peach trees at the door. Yu Guangcai lay back on the chair again, holding the yellow and old book and continued to read.After being quiet for a long time, Yu Guangcai said, "If you are homesick, go back and have a look. I still remember the look on your mother's face the day you left with me."

"Well, when Zhang Qi gets up, I'll go with him." Grandpa replied very casually, but his heart was full of thoughts, and the faces of his parents changed in his mind.After thinking for a while, he said, "I've been out for so long, but I'm really worried about my mother's health. She has been in poor health." Yu Guangcai glanced at his grandfather and said, "It's easy, you go to the kitchen and fetch an egg." Grandpa was a little confused, but he still took an egg as Yu Guangcai ordered. "Write down your mother's name and birthday." Yu Guangcai ordered, and when Grandpa finished, Yu Guangcai added, "Take it into the stove and light it for a while."

Grandpa came to the stove, lit the fire for about five minutes, and heard Yu Guangcai shouting from the courtyard: "It's all right, take out the eggs." Grandpa was full of doubts, and handed the burnt egg to Yu Guangcai.Yu Guangcai peeled the egg, turned it in his hand for a while, and said with a smile: "It seems that your mother is not only in excellent health, but also has good luck recently." "Oh? What good luck?" Grandpa was very happy. Yu Guangcai said: "If I'm not mistaken, your mother is about to have a daughter-in-law." "Daughter-in-law? This..." Grandpa was about to continue, when he suddenly understood the meaning of Yu Guangcai's mouth, he restrained his smile, "Master, you... just kidding, how is it possible, how old am I?"

"I didn't say it will happen soon, but the person you destined is with your mother at the moment." Yu Guangcai said, with a smile on his face. Grandpa didn't make a sound, he was extremely curious. In the afternoon, Zhang Qi was still lying on the bed and refused to get up.Grandpa didn't care so much, and dragged him from the bed abruptly. Seeing his grandpa flustered, Yu Guangcai knew it well, and kept smiling maliciously.Zhang Qi was usually careless, but at this time he was very good at observing words and expressions. Under his questioning, Yu Guangcai told him the truth.

Along the way, Grandpa was laughed at by Zhang Qi.Although the two were chatting and joking, the schedule was not delayed for a moment. Zhang Qi seemed to be more anxious than his grandfather to meet the so-called destined person. When I got home, it was already night.Great-grandmother didn't know that grandpa would come home beforehand. Seeing grandpa stepping through the door, great-grandmother was stunned for a while before calling out his name: "Junzhi... why are you back?" For some reason, grandpa's excitement along the way disappeared as soon as he entered the door. He calmly exchanged a few words with his great-grandmother, and buried all the warm words he had prepared in his heart.

In the evening, great-grandfather came home, saw grandpa, put down his hoe, and asked him about being in the mourning band. Grandpa told his parents all the strange things he encountered during this period, but omitted many scary scenes from it.Great-grandfather and great-grandmother heard the danger, sighed and told grandpa to be more careful in doing things in the future, and must obey the words of his master Yu Guangcai.Grandpa kept saying yes. During the whole process, only the third grandpa kept clapping his hands and applauding, one after another weird questions, so grandpa was confused.Grandpa hasn't seen Third Grandpa's younger brother for several months. His two front teeth have grown out, and he is much taller.After hearing so many exciting experiences of his grandfather, the third grandfather said that when he grows up, he will also join the funeral band and learn from Yu Guangcai.Grandpa patted his head and persuaded him: "When you grow up a bit, you should go to school. Knowing a few words is good after all. It's disgraceful to go to the rivers and lakes to eat the dead."

The third grandfather was too young to understand at all, he just opened his mouth and laughed, and he said after laughing: "A sister came to our house in the morning and said she wanted to find you, and told us that you were in the Li family's compound." People like you very much!" Hearing this, Grandpa let out a long sigh, and as expected, it was Mo Wan who came. The words of the third grandpa reminded the great-grandmother, she said: "I forgot about it, the girl is very handsome, she said she was leaving here, and she didn't know where she was going, and whether she could come back, so I found this place after asking all the way, I wanted to see you, but you were not here."

After hearing this, Grandpa lowered his head and pondered for a while, then asked, "Didn't she say when to leave?" Great-grandmother frowned and thought about it for a while, then said, "It seems to mean tomorrow morning." "Where are you going from?" Grandpa asked anxiously. "Where else can I come from, isn't it the station in the town." The great-grandmother said, she got up from the stool and walked to grandpa, and patted his shoulder, "My boy, this girl is really nice." The great-grandfather sat on the side without making a sound. Hearing what the mother and daughter said, he sighed on the stool, stood up, and walked towards the bedroom while saying, "If it were me, I would go to the station early tomorrow morning, anyway. This is the last time I can see you."

Grandpa looked at his great-grandfather's back, feeling like he was in a mess. That night, he didn't know how long he tossed and turned on the bed before he gradually fell asleep.The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, he woke up, put on his clothes, didn't even wash up, and rushed towards the station in the town. There are not many vehicles at the station in the small town, and there are no long-distance buses. The only few vehicles are bound for the county seat and surrounding towns.Grandpa has been squatting on the slope at the entrance of the station, waiting until noon without waiting for Mo Wan. That day was the day for the town to go to the market. At noon, the people who went to the market gradually dispersed, leaving only the drunks in the street taverns in twos and threes. Grandpa walked down the main street from the station in disappointment. When passing by a tavern named "Xiangyuan", Grandpa was attracted by the laughter inside. Grandpa stepped forward and saw a lot of people gathered in the lobby of the tavern, and everyone inside gave out bursts of intense applause.Grandpa was suddenly curious, and stepped forward to push aside the crowd, and unexpectedly saw a familiar face in the crowd - Lin Zi. Looking at Lin Zi's appearance at the moment, he was already a little drunk.He sat in front of a square table, with two sheets of paper and a brush in front of him.Grandpa didn't know before that Lin Zi actually had the ability to paint.A man with long hair was drawn on those two pieces of paper. Judging from his strong nose bridge and neat suit, he was just a foreigner.The other pictured a man wearing a military cap and long military boots on his feet, holding a gun with a bayonet in his hand. A military flag was hung on the bayonet, which was the national flag of the Japanese.Both the Japanese and the foreigners knelt under the guillotine, waiting for the knife that would fall from the top of their heads at any time. After Lin Zi finished painting, he put down his pen and asked, "Everyone said that it's not fun enough?" "It's better to kill these foreigners and little Japanese devils." All the people around were discussing. As soon as Lin Zi stood up from the stool, he saw the grandfather in the crowd.He hurriedly greeted him: "Junzhi, why are you here, come, let us have a drink." When Grandpa sat down, Lin Zi turned around and asked the shopkeeper for a jug of wine. In Grandpa's memory, that was the first time he drank alcohol.Before this, he never expected that when he was invited to toast, he would actually feel a little fond of the Lin Zi who had always hated him in front of him. "Junzhi, do you know how aggrieved I was in that French navy barracks." Lin Zi said, pouring a full glass of wine for his grandfather, "Thinking of my forty million Chinese compatriots, To be ravaged by a group of yellow-haired monsters, and now even the Japanese devils are stalking the Northeast, as a Chinese, as a seven-foot man, can you not hate it?" Grandpa was also able to drink, so he raised his glass and touched him, and said: "This country is weak and humble, which has been a law since ancient times. A few years ago, the emperor Lao Tzu was still there, and the country was closed. The Chinese are not knowledgeable, so naturally they will be beaten. , Later, the warlords fought in a melee, and each of them held up guns and was instructed by foreigners to beat their own people." "In this way, it is slightly different now. Warlords with courage and vision are all under the banner of the national army. It's just that the Japanese devils have repeatedly provoked us in the northeast of our country, but we have not responded. We are really useless." Lin Zi sighed, He raised his head and drank the spirit in the glass. "Then what effect can you draw here?" Grandpa sneered. After the grandfather's words fell, Lin Zi was stunned for a long time, and did not speak. When he came back to his senses, he said, "Don't say such hurtful things, come on, let's have another pot!" That afternoon, Grandpa and Lin Zi drank until evening.The sky that day was a little weird, the summer was over, but the sun appeared in the evening, and it was blood red. "Jun Zhi." Lin Zi called out to his grandfather, and in a daze, reached out and knocked over the jug on the table. "I'm here." Grandpa was already drunk. Lin Zi used all his strength to support himself up, his face was flushed red from alcohol, he muttered for a long time, and said, "Do you know why I followed Yu Guangcai around here and there?" "Oh? I heard that your father passed away unfortunately. He had a very good relationship with the master, so he took you with him." Grandpa said. Unexpectedly, when Lin Zi heard this, he shook his head and said, "You think too simply, so what do you think of Yu Guangcai's behavior?" "Master is an upright man with a compassionate heart and high morals. After these days, I respect him very much." Grandpa nodded his head, speaking very earnestly. Lin Zi smiled crookedly, and said, "You're making a big mistake if you think so." "Oh? Why do you say that?" Lin Zi smiled, but didn't answer Grandpa's question directly.He hummed a little tune, stood up from the stool, and reached out to pat Grandpa on the shoulder. "Junzhi, from now on you have to follow him and take care of yourself. Some things are really not as simple as you see." He stopped after taking two steps away, turned around and said, "By the way, I also thank you for your reminder today, goodbye .” As he said that, Lin Zi hummed a little song and staggered towards the end of the dilapidated street.Grandpa stood behind him, and the sunset that slanted over from the side that day gilded his whole body with gold.