Chapter 43: The Wonders of Snow Lotus
The old horse took Ruyi step by step towards the highest place of Shuzhuang Garden, this scene seems to be a cycle of time, but at that time he was still young, and the tall old man next to him was his grandfather, although the grandfather at that time was old, but the body was straight, the voice was loud, and the eyes were like electricity. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
I never saw my father when I was born, and my childhood impression of men came entirely from my grandfather.
At that time, his grandfather was still an old soldier, and he always took Ma Weiguo's small wooden gun to explain to him the structure of the gun, and taught Ma Weiguo how to aim at devils......
It's just that when he looks at the other side of the strait, his grandfather's torch-like gaze will dim, Ma Weiguo knows that there are his comrades-in-arms who share life and death, and it is a pity that they will not see each other again for the rest of their lives.
On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, his grandfather died at No. 135 Jishan Road, and before he died, his eyes kept looking out the window, and the window could look out of the window to the distant Kinmen Island......
After his grandfather passed away, Ma Weiguo followed his mother back to Shanghai.
No. 135 Jishan Road is completely deserted, just like the hundreds of deep mansions built with heavy money on Gulangyu Island, the vines have climbed into the finely carved wooden windows on the four edges, the weeds have covered the garden full of flowers, people go to empty buildings instead of the once prosperous and wealthy, an era has finally withered, and Ma Weiguo followed his mother to the big Shanghai is surging with the wave of splitting mountains and destroying the island......
Lao Ma told Ruyi the story of his grandfather, the hero who defended his family and defended the country in World War II, and the old man who never left his homeland in his life.
Ruyi listened quietly, he seemed to see his father listening quietly when he was a child, and the two boys who had traveled through time and space were listening to the stories of the men of the Ma family quietly, at this time the sun was slowly approaching the horizon, and Ma Weiguo was shrouded in a layer of gold.
Ruyi looked at his father: "What about my grandfather?" That is, your father......"
"Your grandfather...... My father ......" Lao Ma paused and continued, "At that time he was still very young, and he had just had a new wife, and the Ma family was no longer a decent family. At that time, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea had been fought for two or three years, and at the time of the last batch of conscriptions, your grandfather left only one sentence for his elderly father and newlywed wife and resolutely went to the battlefield......"
"What?" Ruyi looked at his tall father shrouded in gold.
"Since you can't be born glorious, then die great!" Ma Weiguo said affectionately, just like watching his father go to the battlefield in the distance.
"Since you can't be born glorious, then die great!" Ruyi repeated this sentence softly, and her heart suddenly felt awe.
In the end, his old father also gave him a word......
"So what?"
"Defeat yourself! You are your worst enemy! ”
In the golden light of the setting sun, Ma Weiguo's father and son didn't speak anymore, letting the evening breeze of Gulangyu Island make the hundred-year-old oak trees sound non-stop, and let the evening breeze of Gulangyu Lake gently blow their eyes full of tears.
Ma Weiguo's father and son enjoyed the joy of family to the fullest.
Soon on the weekend, Lao Ma told Ruyi that he was going to the hospital to see an aunt.
Yes, since Ruyi came back, Lao Ma has no time to go to the hospital, and I don't know how "Xiaoya" has been doing these days?
"Dad, you always go to stay with that injured aunt, don't you?"
"Oh...... Wishful...... Do you know that it is pitiful for a person who has lost her memory, she does not know where her home is? Where are your relatives and friends? In this world, in the vast sea of people, do you think how lonely she will be? What's more, she was so seriously injured, it can be said that she is already a disabled person, and it just so happened that this incident was encountered by her father again, who can help her if I don't help her? ”
"Well, Dad, you're doing the right thing, and I've got your back!" Ruyi nodded approvingly like a little adult.
"Dad, can I go with you to the hospital to see that auntie? Maybe I can help too! ”
Lao Ma smiled and touched his son's head: "Good boy, that aunt will be very grateful when she knows it, but now that her operation has not been completed, I am afraid that you will be frightened, and besides, children are not allowed to enter her ward." ”
"Then Dad, I won't go in, I'm waiting for you outside, which also shows my support for you!"
"Alright then, Ruyi, then we'll leave in a while!" Lao Ma looked at his son's angelic and sincere little face and said happily.
Ruyi obediently waited for her father in the reception room of the hospital, and a nurse sister came in several times, and asked Ruyi with a smile if she wanted to drink water, was she hungry? Ruyi shook his head and sat up straight like a gentleman.
Later, she said that the patient needed to be rescued, and the nurse's sister never came.
Ruyi waited, waited, and I don't know when Dad will be able to come out of the ward?
At this moment, the curtains of the reception room were puffed up by a gust of wind, and the radio in my father's car just now said that the typhoon would make landfall in two days, so it could not be caused by meteorological reasons, right?
The curtains were blown up and down, and the lights in the reception room flickered on and off, as if a storm was coming.
But when I went out just now, it was still breezy and light!?
Ruyi was about to close the wide open window in the past, but he was stunned by something, his hand was just stretched out to make a gesture to close the window, and the person was fixed in front of the window!
The wind brought snowflakes, yes, Ruyi was not mistaken, one by one white snowflakes drifted in Xiamen in summer.
And it wasn't just any snowflake, it was a flawless white snowdrop, and those snowdrops were flying freely in the wind.
Ruyi stretched out his hand out of the window, and a few snow lotus flowers fell lightly in his palm, and he was about to take a closer look, but the few small flowers disappeared in the palm of his hand, leaving only a faint faint fragrance.
Just as Ruyi was stunned, a big golden bird wearing a beautiful crown flew from the rain of flowers, and this unusual big bird stopped in front of the window.
It was shrouded in a mysterious layer of golden light, which was so bright that it couldn't open its eyes.
Ruyi didn't notice how it suddenly came to the window from the rain of flowers, he just looked at the big bird in front of him in a daze.
The big bird stood on the window lattice, flapping its golden wings gently, and Ruyi saw a bright red gem shining in the center of its gentle and translucent eyes.