After signing the power of attorney, Professor Shi forgot to sleep and eat, and made phone calls every day in order to find Hachiling's information, and sometimes had to go to schools or research institutes in other places to find corresponding materials to verify his ideas. The students didn't understand and thought that the professor was working so hard for this matter. The Yi family didn't pay a lot of money.

Only Professor Shi's wife understood him, and after receiving a call from the student advising him to rest more and not be too anxious, she comforted the student: "Your professor is like this, he is always afraid of owing favors." ”

After that era passed, Professor Shi seemed to have found no value in himself. It wasn't until the school asked him to come back to teach that he had a purpose in life and his life had meaning again. So when others asked him, he did it with gratitude. If it weren't for the school's rules, he wouldn't even want to take the money. But he doesn't charge money, and other professors are even more difficult to collect money, so they "force" him to collect money for research.

However, he will also spend all the money he collects on the students, and he has to take the students out of his own pocket every year.

Professor Shi's wife never got mad at him for such a thing, because she knew that by doing so, he would be happy.

Professor Shi's little grandson looked at the table curiously, "Grandpa, is this the clock?" ”

"It's called Hachizu." Professor Shi turned the eight bells around, pointed to the two traditional characters on it, and said, "Look, this is it." ”

"It still has a name." The little grandson said.

"Yes." Professor Shi wrote down these two words and handed them to his little grandson.

"Does it have siblings?" The little grandson asked curiously.

"Yes, but its brothers and sisters are gone." Professor Shi touched his little grandson's head and sighed.

During this time, he had already found Hachizu's "hometown".

Baling comes from Foxi Taishan, Foxi was called "Fuxi" before the Republic of China, and changed its name after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is said that thousands of years ago, there was a river with nine bends and eighteen bends in the place of Fosi, and this place was just west of the river, hence the name. Over the years, the mountains and rivers have changed, and the rivers of that year have disappeared, but the local legends are still there.

It is said that the river with nine bends and eighteen bends is Lethe. The twists and turns of the river are so that the people who cross the river forget the way they came, and when they cross the river, they will never find their way back.

So the local people built a temple near the river, and the temple was full of wall clocks, large and small, under every eaves. When the mountain wind blows, the bells echo all over the mountain, so that the dead ancestors can find their way home.

The eight bells are a bell in the local wild temple. Later, someone may have stolen it out, or the temple was torn down, and the temple property was left behind.

Professor Shi handed over the conclusions of the current research to Yi Huang, who confirmed this statement after asking his grandfather.

"It's true that our family used to live in that neighborhood and then moved out." Grandpa Yi said, he fell into memory: "It turns out that this is the case......"

Grandpa Yi has no impression of his hometown, and the Yi family took root in Tongshan when he remembered. "My grandfather mentioned to me that where our family used to live, it was not easy to live."

Yi Huang didn't ask what Grandpa Gao meant by restlessness, and he knew that it wouldn't be a good thing. He immediately told Professor Sù Shi what he said at home, "Professor, my family said that this is indeed the case, and my great-grandfather's hometown is Foxi's. It's just that after coming out, our family never went back. ”

Professor Shi said, "Good, good. Shall I proceed then? ”

Yi Huang said: "Professor Shi, I heard that you have been busy with this matter, you have to pay attention to your body, I am not in a hurry at home, you can just do it slowly, it doesn't matter if you study for a few years." ”

Professor Shi said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm not idle." Hehe, don't take it to heart, I like to be busy, I like it! ”

Baling was placed in Professor Shi's bedroom, and when he was researching, Professor Shi's wife lived in the next room, otherwise there were too many papers and books in his room, and she was disorganized, and he didn't let him clean up, so he had to wait for him to stop studying and clean up, and then she would go back.

Late that night, Professor Shi's wife woke up and went to the toilet, and when she saw that he hadn't slept yet, she knocked on the door and said, "Are you planning to study with Seventeen or Eighteen?" Stay up late too? Let's take your blood pressure tomorrow morning and see if your blood pressure is good? ”

Professor Shi hurriedly begged for mercy, "Okay, okay, I won't watch it, I'll sleep." With that, he turned off the lamp.

Professor Shi's wife couldn't help the darkness of the room and said, "You can do it! I don't care. ”

Professor Shi listened cautiously to his wife's movements, and when she returned to the house and closed the door, he secretly turned on the light and watched for another half an hour before putting things away.

Before going to bed, he held Hachiling in his hand. The surface of Hachizu's surface glows with a warm light, which shows that it is often played with.

"Can you really let the people who left hear you and find their way back?" He sighed and said, "If it's true, I don't need to let them come back, let me go and see me and I'll be satisfied......"

Professor Shi slept well that night, lying down and falling asleep, and when he woke up again, there was just a glimmer of light through the crack in the window. He guessed it was around four or five o'clock. It's been a long time since he's slept until four or five o'clock in the morning, and he has to wake up at two or three o'clock, and it's hard to fall asleep again.

He was in a good mood, turned over and wanted to squint for a while, and remembered to tell his wife that although he stayed up late last night, he rested well.

As a result, after turning over, he fell asleep again.

He stood beside the path in his hometown, and the sun was piercing the sky in the distance, and a thin golden light was sprinkled on the ground and reflected in the paddy fields. The seedlings in the field are thin, and he remembers that the harvest in his hometown has always been bad, and the seeds are not good. He had thought that when he returned from his studies, he would definitely study the seeds and plant them for everyone.

But then he didn't learn how to farm, but learned something that didn't make sense.

This is probably a regret in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, he came to Sugiyu University, where he was studying at that time! Familiar campus, neat and beautiful! The students who come and go are full of energy! Young schoolgirls walk in groups of twos and threes, wearing big skirts, and striding forward; The male students imitated the husband who had returned from studying abroad and wore horse clips and pens.

He remembered how excited he was to go to school here! At that time, he didn't care about what he wanted to learn, as long as he could stay, as long as the school accepted him, he could learn anything!

And he met Mr. Dai, if he can learn a little bit of Mr. Dai's ability, he will die without regrets in this life. It's a pity that he ...... Not a good student...... Failed Mr. Dai's teachings......

Professor Shi...... Shi Wuwei stood in front of the beautiful red brick western-style building, the green ivy grew very luxuriantly, and he remembered that Mr. Dai also joked: "These flowers are all planted alive, which shows that foreign things are not so unsuitable in China." ”

Shi Wuwei walked up the steps, his heart was beating very fast, he slowly walked to the door, and saw a very familiar figure inside preparing for class, his hands propped up on the lectern, looked at the things on the lesson plan, turned around and wrote a few words on the blackboard.

Shi Wuwei walked in and said in a trembling voice, "...... first Mr. ......"

Dai Yushu raised his head and looked at Shi Wuwei in surprise, "Stone? ”

Shi Wuwei's original name was Shi Datou, and after entering the school, he was nicknamed Datou and Stone. Wuwei is the word that Dai Yushu chose for him, and he also took the initiative to call him among the students, so as not to make the student feel inferior because the name is too earthy.

But in private, Dai Yushu also likes to jokingly call him a stone or a big head. Because when Shi Wuwei first came to study, although he was already an adult, he was very thin, with a thin neck supporting a big head, looking malnourished, and he only gained weight by drinking milk and eating cheese bread at school.

Shi Wuwei burst into tears in an instant, he threw himself at the feet of Dai Yushu, kowtowed a few times, tears choked his throat, and the wailing made him have no way to pour out the words in his heart, so he could only keep kowtowing.

Dai Yushu looked at the student who was crying at his feet silently and blankly.

Shi Wuwei didn't know how long he cried, crying until his throat was dry and his tears ran out. He raised his head and looked at Dai Yushu, "Sir, sir...... I'm sorry for you! I'm a bastard! I'm sorry for you!! ”

Back then, he watched them arrest Mr., □□ Mr., torture Mr., he knew that those charges were wrong, they were all false, but he didn't stand up! He didn't stand up! He didn't protect Mr. He didn't even say a word for Mr.! He knows! That's because he's so cowardly!

How ambitious he was he was, how much he despised himself! What to save China and save the people, he is a coward! If he really goes to the battlefield, he is a deserter! It's a traitor! It's a traitor! He didn't even dare to say a word for the gentleman who was close at hand, why did he think he could pick up a gun to defend the country?

He's a vile villain!

Shi Wuwei no longer dared to call himself a scholar and a professor, and he did not think that he deserved any praise. The students who loved him didn't know what kind of person he was.

And he didn't dare to sue them......

He wanted to repent to Mr. Dai and didn't ask for his forgiveness, but just wanted to stand in front of him and say in person: I'm sorry.

Shi Wuwei didn't dare to raise his head.

Dai Yushu stretched out his hand and pressed it on his shoulder, Shi Wuwei didn't dare to look at Mr. anymore, he shrunk into a ball and lay on the ground, "Sir, sir......"

"Alas......" Dai Yushu smiled bitterly with relief, "Get up, you can come and see me, I'm already very happy." ”

When these words entered Shi Wuwei's ears, it seemed to wake him up.

He straightened up blankly, and Dai Yushu's voice became far and loud: "Go back, I don't blame you." Don't blame yourself anymore for inaction. ”

Professor Shi heard his wife coming in, and she quietly looked into the bed, wondering if he was awake. But he closed his eyes tightly and pretended that he was still asleep. After his wife went out lightly, he relaxed and wanted to continue sleeping.

Dream again, see Mr. Dai again, he wants to see Mr. Dai again!

But after working hard for a long time, even the little grandson got up, and he didn't fall asleep again.

He woke up in vain, and the little grandson jumped on his bed and said, "Grandpa sleeps!" Grandpa didn't go to bed on time! ”

Professor Shi hugged his little grandson, "Grandpa didn't do it right, don't learn from grandpa." ”

He hugged his little grandson and looked at Hachiling on the bedside table.

He put his hand on the eight bells.

Thank you.