I remember that when I wrote essays in elementary school, the words that were commonly used were that a few days had passed in the blink of an eye.

At that time, I always felt that this word was the best word to describe time.

now

A few more days passed in the blink of an eye (hahaha!)

The 19th day of the first month is the day of the father-in-law's sacrifice.

Zhou Shujie got up early.

A pot of dry food to be used for worship was steamed, and a whole pheasant was cooked, which was also used for worship.

Today, my mother-in-law got up very early, she silently cleaned herself, washed her hair anew, and changed into clean clothes.

When his hair stopped dripping, he put himself in a bun again.

By the time Zhou Shujie made breakfast, her mother-in-law had already finished cleaning up and was sitting there in a daze.

Zhou Shujie called her mother-in-law over for breakfast.

watched her move her chopsticks twice and put them down, and she didn't persuade her to use them more, and she knew in her heart that she was not in the mood to eat more today.

After eating, clean up.

Zhou Shujie hurriedly cleaned himself up again.

When everything was packed up and about to leave, Zhou Shujie hesitated a little again.

It stands to reason that on the day of grandpa's death, the two children who are grandchildren's daughters should go, but Zhou Shujie has memories of her previous life, and what she is most afraid of is that the two children will get sick. Now in this cold day, she really didn't want to take the child away, but she couldn't say no, so she looked at her mother-in-law a little bit and stopped, and didn't know how to tell her mother-in-law.

Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law is an understanding person, she can understand when she looks at Zhou Shujie's performance like this, what she wants to say but can't say.

So, the mother-in-law said: "The two children are still young, don't be in a hurry at this time, take them to your Aunt Guo'er's house first, and wait for us to come back to pick them up." ”

"Hey!" Hearing her mother-in-law say this, Zhou Shujie responded happily.

Hurriedly wrapped the two children in the quilt, hugged one child at a time, and ran back and forth twice, before even the child with milk powder was sent to Aunt Guo'er's house, and asked her to help bring it all morning.

When she returned home, she found the military coat that the pillar had mailed back to her, and asked her mother-in-law to wear it.

Zhou Shujie himself put on a fat old cotton jacket on top of the padded jacket.

He also wore a scarf on his head, and carried a frame on his arm, in which were a stack of prepared "yellow fairy paper", a bottle of wine, a whole chicken, and two large dry foods.

Zhou Shujie locked the door with a basket and went to Xishan with her mother-in-law.

Zhou Shujie's family itself lives in the westernmost part, and further west is the barren grassland.

So she went out with her mother-in-law and didn't meet anyone.

Except for Aunt Guo's family and Zhou Shujie's uncle's family, no one in the village knew the news that her mother-in-law was cured.

The two of them didn't say anything all the way, and walked through the snow one foot deep and one foot shallow.

When he arrived in Xishan, Zhou Shujie led his mother-in-law to find his father-in-law's tomb according to his last memory.

When my father-in-law died, my mother-in-law also fell ill, and her illness didn't get better until a few days ago, so my father-in-law's grave was there, and my mother-in-law really didn't know where my father-in-law's grave was.

Found the tomb and cleared the snow from it.

Zhou Shujie squatted in front of the tombstone and took out the contents of the big basket and put them away.

When I looked up, I saw my mother-in-law who was alone there in a daze.

Ever since she got here, her mother-in-law rubbed her hand against the tombstone and stayed there in a daze.

I don't know what she is recalling, or is she whispering something to her father-in-law in her heart?

Zhou Shujie put everything in place, and called her mother-in-law: "Mother, it's done." ”

"Hmm," the mother-in-law came to her senses, answered, took a few steps back, and stood at the sacrifice to look twice.

Only then did she squat down, took out a match and blocked it with her hand, lit the "Yellow Fairy Paper", and threw it into the fire two by two, until she didn't say anything after burning, and gave her father-in-law a glass of wine in silence.

When he poured the wine on the ground, he stood up and said, "Gather up all the things on the ground, it's not cheap to put it here, that wild dog." With that, he walked forward.

I saw her walk to the grave of her parents-in-law by herself, kneel there and kowtow three times.

After kowtowing, he got up and walked out of Xishan with Zhou Shujie.

On the way back, my mother-in-law didn't say a word, and walked home in silence.

When she got home and picked up the child, Zhou Shujie took her eyes and glanced at her mother-in-law for a while to see if there was any change in her expression, for fear that she would be too sad and confused.

After she took another look, her mother-in-law suddenly smiled, put a smile on her face, and said to Zhou Shujie: "Daughter-in-law, don't worry, I'm fine." ”

Zhou Shujie was caught peeking at her mother-in-law, touched her nose a little embarrassed, and before she could say anything, she heard her mother-in-law speak again.

She said: "I finally have a clear head now, and I can see such a lovely two grandchildren." I'm going to wait to see my son, and I won't be thinking about suffocating myself like I was before. ”

"The reason why I didn't speak was just because I remembered some things today, which were the credentials of our family's houses and shops in Hacheng, and some jewelry that I used with your grandmother when I was young, and there was a pair of jade bracelets in it, which our family had passed down to our daughter-in-law. In fact, she also thought a lot about the experience of her and her husband in this half of her life. She didn't want to tell anyone about this, because it was a memory that belonged to them, and she wanted to keep it in her heart and remember it alone.

Turned his head and asked Zhou Shujie again: "Daughter-in-law, do you want to turn it out and bring that pair of bracelets to you." ”

Zhou Shujie shook his head and said: "It's so secret, don't look for it, it's too eye-catching to take it out now, let's talk about it later." ”

When the mother-in-law thought about it, she nodded and said, "It's okay if you don't take it out, then I'll tell you where it is, and take it out if you want to bring it in the future." ”

The mother-in-law leaned in front of Zhou Shujie and whispered a few words in her ear.

Zhou Shujie nodded after hearing this, and his eyes unconsciously glanced under the quilt.

That night, my mother-in-law cried a few more times in her sleep.

Zhou Shujie, who was awakened, understood that her mother-in-law's heart did not let go as she said, but buried it in her heart and didn't mention it to herself.

After that, Zhou Shujie didn't sleep well all night, and he didn't feel relieved until he got up the next morning to see that his mother-in-law was in a good mood.

They didn't know that there was also a person who held a unique sacrifice in a distant foreign land.