Gu Mu's mother was buried on a hillside, and cremation was not mandatory in the village at that time.

This hillside is a cemetery, depressed and full of graves, generally that is, when someone goes up the mountain to sweep the tomb, other times will feel unlucky, rarely come up the mountain.

It's summer, and this cemetery is overgrown with weeds, and if you want to get there, you have to use a firewood knife to open the way.

On a hot day, it's a lot of work.

Of course, Xiaoxiao, the little Dao aunt, did not do such hard work, but Gu Mu and Wang Qiang were opening the way, and she followed behind with a hoe.

Sweeping his mother's grave, no matter how lazy Gu Mu is, it is not good to stand by and watch, so he only lets Wang Qiang work alone.

The two of them worked together, and it took about half an hour to open a road to Gu Mu's mother's grave.

In the past ten years, no one has swept the graves and cultivated the soil, and the graves that were originally piled up high are about to collapse.

Seeing this, Gu Mu stood stunned for a while, feeling a wave of sadness and guilt.

No matter what the reason is, he hasn't come to sweep the tomb for so many years, which is his unfilial piety.

In particular, many times there is only one reason - reluctant to pay.

"Fortunately, now that I have money, I must come to visit the grave every year in the future......"

He thought so.

The mound was overgrown with weeds and a few small trees.

If he didn't come in a few years, when those little trees had grown, the tomb would be gone, and the traces of his mother's existence would be forever gone in this world.

Cut off a few small trees with a firewood knife, dig out the roots, and then hoe off all the grass on them, and then take soil from the side, and pile up the mounds that have collapsed a lot, and press them tightly.

A shallow drainage ditch was cut around the side of the mound.

These were all done by Gu Mu alone.

After doing this, his clothes were soaked with sweat.

The grass in the vicinity had been removed, and the incense candles were lit and inserted in front of the grave, and then he knelt down and kowtowed a few times.

After kowtowing, he knelt there for a while, and said to Wang Qiang and Xiaoxiao behind him: "You guys go down first, I want to say a few words to my mother." ”

After the two of them left, he whispered:

"Mom, I've come to see you. I used to be poor and didn't have the face to come to see you, for fear that you would be angry when you saw my unproductive son, but now that I have money, although it is not my ability, at least I will not lose your people outside. ”

Speaking of which, recalling the difficult days when he was with his mother before, his eyes were a little moist, he smiled, and said:

"I also want to thank you for making me suddenly have a rich father, otherwise, your son is still the son who has no future, he is almost 30 years old, he can't even marry a daughter-in-law, and he will be looked down upon everywhere he goes. When I went out to work, I was looked down upon by people outside, and when I returned home, I was looked down upon by my girlfriend, and finally I was thrown away like garbage. ”

"But not now, now I'm the second generation of rich, I'm a rich man, only I will dump others in the future, and no one else will dump me. Only I look down on others, and no one else looks down on me. ”

"In the future, I will find a lot of girlfriends, have a lot of children, and let those who have laughed at your son in front of you before are destined to be single in this life, your son is not that kind of person! I will have children in the future, and I will not let them be looked down upon because they have no money, I will only let them be envied by others!"

After saying these impassioned words, he lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and his voice was a little choked: "Mom, how good it would be if you were still alive and could see all this? ”

After a pause, he laughed at himself again: "Maybe you are alive, and you will scold me again, you shouldn't admit such an irresponsible father." That's an old brute who hurt you back then, ran away without taking any responsibility, and left you here to suffer for nearly twenty years, ruining your life. I shouldn't have recognized him. ”

"But your son is so useless, just so useless. Because he has money, his money can allow me to live a good life, can allow me to have a family of my own, can give me a bright future. If I had a tomorrow to look forward to, I wouldn't do that, but I didn't, I didn't recognize him as a father, I didn't know where my tomorrow was, and I didn't know how long I would struggle in this sea of suffering. Mom, I'm really useless, I'm really not growing, and I'm embarrassing you again. ”

"It doesn't matter if he is my father or not, as long as he gives me money, don't call him his father, call him his grandfather. If you don't have a face, you don't have a face, although you can't be ashamed in front of one person, but you can have a face in front of many people, so be it. ”

"But, Mom, don't worry, whether he is my father or not, I will not treat him as my father, he is in my heart, he is an irresponsible old beast who has harmed you all your life!"

"Mom, you can rest here for the past few years, don't look at anything, don't think about anything, because in the next few years, I may do something that makes you feel very ashamed. But you have to believe me, it's only a few years, and when that old beast dies, I won't do anything to shame you again. ”

After saying these words, Gu Mu let out a long breath, covered his face with his hands, and after a long time, watching the incense candles burn out, he got up from the ground, patted the dust on his knees, and finally took a look at the newly piled grave, turned his head and left.

Wang Qiang and Xiaoxiao were waiting for him under a big tree under the hillside with a firewood knife and hoe, where there was shade and it was cooler.

Seeing Gu Mu coming down, Wang Qiang asked, "Young Master, are we going back to Pengcheng now?"

"Let's go back," Gu Mu said with some interest, "It's not interesting to stay in this place." ”

Even the doors and windows of my house have been ripped off by others, and there is really no point in staying, and there is no way to stay—do you want to live in a house without doors and windows?

The yard and doors and windows have been pulled out, and the furniture inside, including the long kneeling pots and pans, is still a big problem.

Gu Mu didn't think that people who did such things as picking doors, windows, and yards would leave him furniture.

The tiles on the walls and roofs at home are probably still there, and in a few years, they will still be there, which is also a big question mark.

There is really no nostalgia left.

Xiaoxiao asked suspiciously: "Husband, didn't you say that you want to build a road in this village?"