Night crept in.

Li Hai knelt beside Li Yong's coffin and threw money papers into the brazier one by one. Li Lan stood aside and looked at Li Yong lying in the coffin, a tear flowed from the corner of her eye from time to time, but she quietly wiped it away with her hand.

The villagers of the village held incense in their hands and came forward to worship one by one.

Time passed imperceptibly in the worship of the villagers.

After the villagers left after worshipping, looking at the empty mourning hall, Li Lan's eyes turned red.

Li Lan behaved very strong in front of the villagers, and Li Lan wanted to set an example for Li Hai in front of Li Hai, but no one knew how deep the pain in Li Lan's heart was. Quietly wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, Li Lan said softly to Li Hai: "Xiaohai, my mother is tired, my mother will go back to the house to rest first." ”

"Mother, go and rest. Dad, I'll just keep it here. Lehi looked at Li Lan and nodded.

"Xiaohai, you have grown up, you have to learn to be strong in the future. Don't be so desperate in the future, pay attention to safety, take care of yourself, and live well. Walking to the door, Li Lan seemed to think of something, turned around and said to Li Hai again.

Looking at the back of Li Lan returning to the house, Li Hai felt that something seemed wrong, but looking at the flame in the brazier that was about to be extinguished, he hurriedly added paper money to it, not thinking too much.

......

Early morning.

Li Hai made breakfast and walked to Li Lan's door with lean ginseng porridge.

Thinking that his mother had lost a lot of weight, Li Hai deliberately cooked a bowl of lean ginseng porridge to make up for Li Lan.

"Well, why is there no sound?" Lehi knocked on Li Lan's door, but there was no response. "Knock, knock, knock" Li Hai estimated that his mother had worked too hard yesterday and increased the force of knocking on the door.

"Squeak."

Lehi, who had been knocking for a while and had not moved, sensed that something was wrong and pushed the door open with force.

"Bang dang."

Lehi, who pushed open the door, saw his mother lying quietly on the bed in neat new clothes, motionless, and Lehi, who had expected something, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and the bowl fell down all at once.

Li Hai rushed to Li Lan's bedside and shook Li Lan vigorously, "Mother, what's wrong with you?" Wake up! Wake up! ”

Grabbing Li Lan's hand, he felt that Li Lan's body was a little cold, and Li Hai trembled and stretched out a finger and put it under Li Lan's nose, "It's gone, it's no breathing!" ”

Li Hai, who didn't believe it, immediately grabbed Li Lan's hand and put it on his wrist to measure his pulse, "It's gone, it's gone!" ”

"It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's impossible, it's impossible!" Unbelievable, Lehi kept babbling in his mouth. Suddenly, Lehi shook Li Lan frantically, "Mother! Mother! Mother, get up! Get up! You said, you said that you wanted to see Xiaohai take her daughter-in-law, and you wanted to help Xiaohai take care of the child! You...... You, how can you talk without words! ”

"Smack."

Li Hai, who shook Li Lan, touched the bowl next to the pillow and fell to the ground.

Lehi, who was awakened by the sound of the bowl falling to the ground, picked up the fragments and looked at the residue in the bowl, "This is dead leaf grass!" ”

Withered leaf grass is a poisonous weed that grows in the mountains and forests, and it is highly poisonous, and the villagers usually mix it into food to poison the rats in the village.

Staring at the scraps in the bowl, Lehi knew that his mother was not saved and had already gone.

A gust of wind blew into the house, and a page of paper at the head of Li Lan's bed was blown up by the wind and fell in front of Li Hai.

Lehi trembled his hands, picked up the paper that had fallen to the ground, and looked at it:

My dear child, mother is sorry for you. My mother said that in the future, it will be up to you to marry a daughter-in-law, to help you take care of your grandchildren, and to see you become a headhunter in the village......

My mother has said a lot, but my mother can't do it, don't blame my mother.

Mother has no way to live, your father is gone, and your mother's heart is dead. Mother and your father have known each other since childhood and have never been separated. My mother never thought about it and didn't dare to think about what she would do if Li Yong was gone one day. Without your father, my mother really doesn't know what to do. Forgive me!

Xiaohai, my mother knows that you have grown up, and you can even hunt back the hundred-year-old bear Xiaohai, and my mother knows that Xiaohai is already the most powerful hunter in the village, you can take care of yourself, and your mother can go with peace of mind.

Xiaohai, my mother knows that you have been strong since you were a child and have a stubborn personality. In the future, your father and mother are gone, and your temperament will have to change.

Xiaohai, you are a real man now, be strong, don't cry, don't do such risky things in the future, live well.

Mother and father will always look at you and bless you in another world.

In the end, my mother just wants you to do one last thing for my mother and bury me with your father.

"Mother, Xiaohai doesn't cry, the child listens to his mother, Xiaohai is a man, Xiaohai will definitely live well" After reading the letter in his hand, Li Hai wiped the tears on his face, folded the paper and put it in his arms.

Li Hai, who picked up Li Lan and walked towards the mourning hall, couldn't help but recall the scene of separation last night, it was clear that his mother was saying goodbye to him, but he didn't see it, maybe he saw it last night and stopped his mother, maybe the situation would be different.

Put Li Lan into Li Yong's coffin and gently close the lid coffin.

Lehi, who had been silent in front of the coffin for a long time, carried the coffin and walked to the village cemetery alone.

"Boom."

Lehi in front of the cemetery, put down the coffin, and began to dig the pit with his hands, digging out little by little, the sand and stone grinded away Lehi's hand, and the blood dripped out drop by drop along Lehi's fingers, but Lehi kept digging as if he had no feeling, as if he had lost his soul.

Looking at the deep pit dug in front of him, Lehi turned to look at the coffin, silent, the two people he loved the most, the two people who loved him the most, just lay quietly in it, never to be seen again.

Li Lan carried the rice bowl and ran after her all over the yard......

Li Yong hugged himself and told himself a story......

The family sat together, talking, laughing, eating......

Lehi closed his eyes, and the scenes with his father and mother crossed in his mind, but they would not be there now, never again.

Lehi's face crossed two lines of tears, his eyes were closed, and he hugged his father's coffin with both hands, as if he wanted to feel his father's temperature one last time.

"Dad, Mom, goodbye. Xiao Hai will definitely be strong, Xiao Hai will definitely live well" Li Hai, who was holding the coffin, muttered to himself.

Wiping the tears from his face, Lehi let go of his arms and pushed the coffin into the deep pit, burying it little by little.

Looking at the little mountain bag where his father and mother would sleep in the future, Li Hai knelt down and kowtowed three times, got up and left.

Lehi walked aimlessly......

"Huh, home?" Lehi, who was walking aimlessly, walked back home unconsciously. Looking at the familiar scene, Lehi seemed to be able to see his mother drying dried turnips in the yard, and his father watching his mother work and smiling.

Lehi, who shook his head vigorously, drove the memories out of his mind.

Subconsciously walked into my father's room, lying on my father's bed, it seemed that I could still smell my father's smell, and in a trance, I could still feel that my father and mother were still there, and I was still lying in their arms.

In a daze, Lehi fell into a deep sleep.