Chapter Ninety-Six: The Cemetery
Jin Mier followed Meng Buping and rode in the old-fashioned van together and bumped all the way to the Lotus Cemetery.
Here is the ancient town of Huanglongxi on the left, the Muma Mountain in the west, and the tomb of Liu Bei, the tomb of Peng Zu, and the tomb of Hanya in Jiangkou.
When I met my old man in another country, the old man and the young man held hands and said a lot. Jin Mier never expected to meet Li Tianci's mother in this orphanage in the suburbs. Meng Buping and Jin Mier said that she has lived here all these years and often goes to the orphanage to take care of the children there.
Jin Mi'er looked at Meng Buping, her face looking happy and sad. In her impression, Meng Buping is a dignified intellectual woman, but the old woman in front of her is kind and peaceful, and there is a look of despair between her eyebrows, and she is completely a monk.
Jin Mier couldn't help but feel that the world was impermanent, as if she was in another world. The car slowly drove into the cemetery, and what greeted me was a wide Shinto road with a length of 99 meters, and 24 stone statues like 24 loyal guards, standing majestically on both sides, welcoming auspicious blessings.
Getting out of the car, Meng Buping took Jin Mier's hand and walked to a cemetery. In front of the tomb is an urn with a photo pasted on it, with a few big characters reflected on it, "Beloved Son Li Tianci", and the photo is the six-year-old Li Tianci.
Jin Mier's heart was sour, but the knot in her heart for many years was finally opened. She bowed deeply to Li Tianci's photograph and said with tears in her eyes: "Prodigy, I came to see you, do you still remember me? I have found your mother! In the future, your mother will be my mother, and I will take good care of her!"
In a trance, Jin Mier felt a gust of breeze blowing, she wiped her tears, and the sadness in her heart gradually calmed down a little. It's just that she always had a question in her heart along the way, and finally couldn't help it, so she turned her head and asked: "Auntie, I haven't seen Li Tianci's father, is he okay?"
Meng Buping's eyelids drooped slightly, and she couldn't see her emotions at all, but she suddenly took Jin Mi'er's hand and whispered, "Follow me." ”
Kim Miel followed her, turning around and coming to another tombstone. When she looked up, she was stunned, screamed in shock, and immediately fell to her knees, knocking her head three times in succession.
I saw a photo of an old man on the tombstone, and it was engraved with a few big characters, "The Tomb of the Late Husband Li Yuan".
Meng Buping held a worn-out rag, gently wiped the tombstone, and muttered: "Li Yuan, who do you see coming to see us, it's Jin Mi'er, Tiantian's classmate, do you remember her?"
Her expression was in a trance, sad but not sad, as if her husband was always by her side.
Jin Mi'er slowly stood up, her heart was extremely heavy, and she asked softly, "Auntie, uncle, when did he happen?"
Meng Buping said slowly: "His father has been gone for two years. ”
Jin Mier thought to herself, Li Tianci's father should be in his sixties, is there any disease?
I only heard Meng Buping continue: "After Tian Tian left, his father was depressed, his temperament changed greatly, and the buckle that he couldn't untie in his heart was the cause of Tian Tian's death." ”
Jin Mier lowered her head and couldn't help but feel guilty: "It's all my fault...... I'm not sensible...... If I had listened to Li Tianci that day, but I didn't have to go to the road, he wouldn't have died. ”
Meng Buping touched Jin Mi'er's head and said softly: "Silly boy, don't feel guilty, you are kind every day, so he wants to save you." Death every day has nothing to do with you. A small wound will not lead to death. Have you ever wondered how he knew you were in danger of crossing the street?"
Jin Mier was stunned, and couldn't help but secretly suspect that this incident was indeed a puzzle in her heart for many years, but she was still young that year, and she didn't have the ability to think critically as an adult.
She muttered, "He...... He seems to be able to foresee the future....."
Meng Buping said: "His father is also trying to solve this mystery. Why does a small wound bleed incessantly? Over the years, his father searched the world's medical experts, but he could not find any answers. In the past, his father and I were both materialists and did not believe in any ghosts, snakes, and gods. But there are many things in the world that cannot be explained by science. ”
"We're all lost. Until one day, I dreamed of a monk, and he told me that I had done sin, and I was supposed to die, but he came every day to ward off the disaster for me. The monk also said, "I have known Tian Tian for a long time, and he has a history." ”
Speaking of this, Jin Mi'er's heart chuckled, and she suddenly thought of the monk in a white robe. Her mind was in a mess for a while, although she felt that what Meng Buping said was crazy and too bizarre, but she couldn't help but believe it faintly.
She paused and said, "Auntie, don't think about it, I understand your feelings very well...... In the future, I will be your biological child, just like Li Tianci. ”
Meng Buping smiled and shook her head, and said, "There is one thing you may not know, Li Yuan and I have never had children, and we have never been able to find out the reason. We went to Putuo Mountain to ask for a son. Unexpectedly, in the mountains and woods behind the temple, I picked up a baby, that is, every day! Do you say this is a coincidence, or is it destined in the dark?"
Jin Mi'er was shocked in her heart: "It turns out that Li Tianci is not their own!"
Meng Buping saw her surprise, and then said: "Although this child is not our own, for us, he is closer than our own. He only followed us for six years, and those six years were our happiest years. Then she asked, "Do you feel that Tian Tian is not like other children?"
Jin Mi'er nodded thoughtfully and said, "Yes, yes...... I felt like I was talking to him, like ......" She couldn't find a precise adjective for a while.
Meng Buping said: "Like an old man who has been through the world. ”
Jin Mier's heart trembled, but she agreed with Meng Buping's statement in her heart.
"Do you remember what you say every day in the hospital?"
Kim Mill suddenly fell into the memory and thought about it carefully. Because so much time had passed, she was too young to think of anything for a while.
I only heard Meng Buping say: "He told us that the road of reincarnation, the basin, there are mountains, trees, and bamboos, isn't this the place?"
Jin Mi'er couldn't help but wonder, that six-year-old Li Tianci was too different to make her unforgettable. In the middle of the separation, Li Tianci's heart couldn't help but echo what Li Tianci had said to her in the ward: "In the future, don't fight with your brother...... No matter what happens, peace, tranquility, contentment, gratitude, life will be happy......"
When she was in a fugue, she only heard Meng Buping say: "In the past, my husband and I both believed that death is like a lamp going out, and matter determines consciousness. However, it is not until after the departure of our beloved relatives that we realize that people still have the good in the afterlife, at least, the good people will have good rewards, the wicked will be punished, and the destined people can meet again. I think that the last words that Tian Tian said must have a meaning, that he would be reincarnated here.
So, my husband and I moved to Tianfu City and placed Tiantian's ashes in this Lotus Cemetery. We searched all the orphanages here and took care of the poor children, firstly, to accumulate virtue and do good, and secondly, to find the reincarnation every day. ”
"Until one day, my husband and I swept the tomb every day on the Qingming Festival, and overheard the nearby villagers say that there is an imperial tomb mountain not far from here, which is rumored to be the ancient tomb of Liu Bei. My husband was interested in history, so he chatted with the villagers. The villagers secretly told him that the Imperial Tomb was often haunted, and every night there would be the cry of a child, all the while shouting a person's name. ”
Jin Mi'er asked, "Whose name?" What came to her mind was Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang.
Meng Buping suddenly looked frightened, and she said tremblingly: "That ghost cry, shouting my name!
"Ah?" said Kimmier, who was shocked and unbelievable, "how is this possible?
Meng Buping said: "My husband thinks so too, but we are not locals, and we don't know anyone here. The husband did not believe in evil, so he took a few young men and went to the ancient tomb to find out. Who knows, he did not come back all night, until the next morning, when he was ...... by those lads Carried back on a stretcher. ”
Kim Miel asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with my uncle?"
Meng Buping said: "He was a materialist, but that day he was overly frightened and emotionally disturbed, he said that he saw something unclean, and he said that he finally knew the cause of death every day!"
The more Jin Mi'er listened, the more bizarre she became, what did this Liu Bei Ancient Tomb have to do with Li Tianci's death? She couldn't help but feel a chill in her back, and she couldn't help but wonder: "What did my uncle see?"
Meng Buping sighed and said, "I wanted to ask him again, but he was overly frightened and exhausted, so he fell asleep." Who knows, for the next few days, he has been sleeping, no matter how much he screams, he can't wake up, and he is always groggy, as if he has fallen into an evil spirit. At last...... In the end, I never expected it...... He's dead. The doctor found out that it was a cerebral hemorrhage. ”
Speaking of this, Meng Buping was scattered, slumped on the ground, looking up at the sky, and her expression was full of discouragement.
Jin Mi'er hurriedly helped her up and said, "Auntie, what's going on?"
Meng Buping clasped his hands together and said: "If it is really a sin I did, whether it is in the past life or this life, he wants to ask for my life, and I will return my life to him." But why did he hurt my husband? How did he die every day? Life is so short that I don't have anything to worry about in this world. A person lives for a lifetime, and there is nothing left but karma. I don't have a few years to live, so I can only take refuge in my Buddha, chant sutras and pray for their father and son every day, and accompany them here. ”
Jin Mi'er looked at Meng Buping's appearance in the last years, cold and sad, but she couldn't help but have ten thousand questions in her heart, she had no clue, and silently recited in her mouth: "The ...... of the Emperor's Tomb Mountain"
Back at the orphanage, Jin Mier settled Meng Buping, and then proposed to the director that she wanted to stay in the orphanage to take care of Meng Buping.
The dean's reaction was surprised: "You are so young and a college student, will you be wronged by us?"
At this time, Wu Ming was gobbling up his meal, he saw Jin Mi'er smiled and said, "Beauty, I found someone, how can you thank me?"
I saw Jin Mier put the luggage bag on the ground and said, "Boy, I have decided to live here permanently, find me a bed." ”
Wu Ming opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Ah, do you want to live with us permanently?"
"Well, I decided to stay here to take care of the monks and be a teacher for you. ”
"We're in tough conditions here!"
Jin Mi'er smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, just have a place to take a bath." ”
Wu Ming couldn't help but think of the scene of peeking at Jin Mi'er taking a bath, and couldn't help but think about it, looking intoxicated.
"Hey, what do you want?" Kim Mi'er patted him on the head and suddenly asked, "Let me ask you, are you bold?"
The second monk Wu Mingzhang was puzzled, and thought to himself, is she still entangled in the matter of me peeking at her bathing? He paused and said, "I am a very timid person, and I am also an honest person, so I dare not look at anything. ”
Kim Miel shrugged and said, "You can't help it if you're timid." There is no suitable person other than you. You're the only one here. ”
Wu Ming was confused and asked, "What are you asking me to do?"
Jin Mi'er said cautiously: "Accompany me to explore the emperor's tomb!"
Wu Ming was stunned, "Ah? tomb robber?...... Is there any money to be made?"