Xu Dashao followed Lin Yi to this remote village, there was no one around, only the grave, and couldn't help but ask Lin Yi: "Why did you bring me to this kind of place, wouldn't it be to go to the grave?" ”

Lin Yi smiled and said, "You are half right. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" then pointed to one of the graves and said: "That is the grave of my second grandfather, who used to be an intellectual, but during the Cultural Revolution, he was framed for hooliganism, so he hanged himself, and after his death, he was buried here." ”

Xu Dashao was stunned: "Dizzy, do you still have this kind of story in your family?" I thought your ancestors were farming. Seeing Lin Yi glaring at him, he hurriedly said, "I'm not discriminating...... If you want to discriminate, you discriminate against me, and my father always scolds me for being inferior to you. ”

Lin Yi didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said: "We rural people, there are only two things that are the most precious in this life, one is the family's land, and the other is the ancestral grave. According to the meaning of our family, the second master has stayed here long enough, if he can, he will be moved back to the ancestral grave after the New Year, and let him be with my grandfather and father. ”

"Ahem, I understand. The old man stayed here alone, and he was lonely. Xu Dashao looked at the grave, finally said a human word, and then looked around, "But it looks chaotic here, and it looks like someone is taking care of it, you see, this grass has been pulled out." ”

It was rare for Xu Dashao to be careful, so Lin Yi said: "Yes, if no one takes care of the graves here, they will be buried by weeds, so we will have to see someone later." While speaking, Lin Yi walked to the grave of his second master, put some worship items in place, swept the grave again, took out a firecracker, lit a string, and simply made a sacrifice, and finally poured a bottle of good wine he bought in front of the grave, saying: "Second master, Xiaoyi has come to see you, you always drink some wine." ”

Xu Da rarely saw him like this, so he rarely stood aside quietly and watched, and did not step forward to disturb Lin Yi.

Speaking of which, Lin Yi didn't have much impression of this "second master" who died prematurely, but he had only heard his story from his father's mouth. I used to be one of the best scholars in the village, and I did my homework well and studied very hard. At that time, the whole country was very poor, let alone such a small remote village, the education system was backward, and if you wanted to study, you had to travel far away. The second master is the kind of good seedling who would rather walk four or five miles in order to study, and he can't afford to buy homework books and pencils, so he uses other people's used ones, or simply uses the carbon bar of the pot to write on the ground...... In the end, he finally came out and became the first rural person in the whole village to be admitted to high school.

Later, when the state advocated the construction of rural areas, he returned. At first, I worked as a teacher in a rural primary school, teaching people to read and understand, but then after two or three years of the Cultural Revolution, people stopped reading, and began to make revolutions, and they talked blindly all day long. The second master is a sensible reader and has a straight temperament, but because he can't see what some people do, he is hated by some people. So some people falsely accused him of using his hands and feet on female students and playing hooliganism when he was teaching.

At that time, people didn't understand the Fa, and as long as someone said it, some people believed it. What's more, those bad guys were secretly making trouble, and they didn't give the second master a chance to defend themselves at all, and went directly to the labor camp. The second master has a high heart, and when he was admitted to high school, the whole village beat gongs and drums to see him off, how could he stand this kind of slander, so he hanged himself on a winter night. He was not yet forty years old.

Due to the impact of the second master incident, Lin Yi's grandfather was also affected, so that he had to come down from the original good unit, while Lin Yi's father entrusted people to take the relationship, and finally finally entered the refrigeration factory as a worker. It can be said that the stain of "second master" hit the Lin family too hard in that era. As for the grandfather, he had to declare that he had cut off relations with the dead second master, and he didn't go to the second master's grave to worship all year round--- of course, even if he went to worship, it was sneaky.

Now, time has passed, and the original unjust and wrongful cases have been decided, and those who once wronged Lin Yi's second master have also come forward to apologize and admit their mistakes. But people can't be resurrected after death, and the second master is still lying here silently, unable to enter the ancestral grave of the Lin family.

Wanting to play these, Lin Yi sighed.

Xu Dashao seemed to be able to understand his mood, and sighed along.

"Alright, let's go, let's go see the guy who takes care of this place regularly." Lin Yi said.

Xu Dashao is also very curious, in this place where birds don't, who is willing to live here and help take care of these ancient tombs, very curious.

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Bringing up the gifts such as grain and oil again, Xu Dashao followed Lin Yi towards the village. It's still desolate, but compared to the uninhabited outside, it seems to be really inhabited.

On the way, Lin Yi told Xu Dashao that the person who lives here is called "Xue Laosan", which can be said to be a hard-working person.

The Xue family originally had a total of five people, and Xue Laosan's mother gave birth to four of their brothers, three of whom had serious intellectual problems, only Xue Laosan was slightly better. After the death of his mother, Xue Laosan began to take care of the other three brothers. It is also very troublesome to take care of two older brothers and one younger brother.

Among them, the eldest brother can only herd sheep, but he doesn't know how to count, and sometimes he doesn't know if he loses the sheep. The second brother can only stay at home, he can't even say everything when he speaks, he babbles as soon as he opens his mouth, and he has to be fed when he eats. The third brother is a little better than the two, but he is not in good health and often gets sick.

Originally, when my mother was there, I could still take care of them. When my mother died, I was afraid that they would starve to death, so I saved for five years and saved three large jars of rice before she died. But if you sit and eat empty, even if you have more rice, it is useless. Helpless, Xue Laosan had to pick up all the heavy burdens alone, helping others farm in his spare time, doing some odd jobs, earning some money to buy clothes and food for his brother and younger brother, and when he was busy, he went to the field to plant vegetables, and went to the river to dig loaches and sell them for money. It was also his job to take care of the graves, so that they could give him something to eat and drink, and that would be counted as a reward.

Now, the two mentally handicapped elder brothers and younger brothers have passed away, and Xue Laosan can be regarded as relieved. People persuaded him to move to a good village to live, but he did not agree, saying that the graves of his mother and brother were here, and his own home was also here, and he was used to it and could not leave it, so he lived alone in the abandoned village.

It is a spacious but somewhat dilapidated courtyard with an abandoned playground about 30 meters square in the middle. Two rows of brick houses are located on the east and west sides of the playground. The one in the southwest corner is Xue Laosan's residence.

This 20-square-meter cottage is divided into two sections, with the outer one used as a stove house. The wall to the left of the entrance door has been blackened, and a yellow copper rice spoon hangs in the air against the wall. Or because it has been used for too long, there is a large defect near the edge of the spoon, which is hollowed out, and there are still a few rice grains stuck on it. There was some dry firewood scattered in the corner under the wall. Two blackened pots, one high and one low, hung in the air. Beneath the lower hanging pot is an arc-shaped fire pit. Xue Laosan squatted in front of this pit every day to cook on the fire.

At the back of the cottage is a bedroom, with a bed, two desks, and a cupboard. A bamboo pole was erected in the middle of the house, which was covered with Xue Laosan's clothes.

Xue Laosan lives and eats here every day. In the early morning, he would release the two chickens in the cage in the old house, and every few days he would go up the mountain to change the position of his cattle in the mountains. In the evening, he would pick up a piece of firewood on time to call the chicken back to the cage, or bring the ploughing cow back. When he met acquaintances, he would occasionally smile at each other, but he never spoke much.

His only entertainment is to wash the pots and dishes every day after dinner, wash his face, change into a relatively clean clothes, and go to a shop in a distant village to watch TV. The TV was placed in the commissary, and he squatted outside the commissary, not going in, for fear of soiling other people's places.

When Lin Yi took Xu Dashao to Xue Laosan's house, he happened to be feeding chickens in the yard, and when he saw someone coming in, he first shook it for a moment, and then saw that it was Lin Yi, so he was excited, and he smiled in his mouth.

Xu Dashao was puzzled, how could this Xue Laosan be so happy to see Lin Yi. didn't know that not long ago, Lin Yi personally sent Xue Laosan a TV, and now Xue Laosan no longer has to go to the commissary to watch TV. For a simple-minded person like him, Lin Yi is undoubtedly the biggest and biggest good person. (To be continued.) )