Liu Xingmei was a little anxious, so she asked: "What is the cause of the master's death, was he killed because of a feud with someone?" Or—"

Tao Qisheng then continued: "It is guessed that it is not a vendetta. ”

"Why is that?" Liu Xingmei asked again.

"Because you can judge by the two words he uttered before he died."

"Dad, what two words did grandpa say?" Tao Zhenkun also asked.

"Treasure!"

"Treasure?" The word "treasure" directly shocked Tao Zhenkun because it was connected with "treasure", which made his eyes light up in shock.

"Did the murderer finally find him?" Liu Xingmei doesn't care about treasure.

Tao Qisheng shook his head.

"Dad, what kind of treasure?"

"Your grandfather doesn't even know where I know where to go, it's become a mystery!"

The instant brilliance in Tao Zhenkun's eyes quickly dimmed.

"So—have you ever heard from my grandfather about a close friend or a frequent relative from my grandfather?" Liu Xingmei tried to use her cleverness to guess the truth from the clues.

Tao Qisheng shook his head and said, "I don't know, I-my father talked about it, I was still young at that time, and I can't remember it now!" ”

Qiu Lanzhi interjected lightly: "It's all old yellow calendars, what's the use of mentioning it!" ”

Tao Qisheng sighed lightly and said, "This can let the children know a little bit about family history." We originally lived in a mountain col about forty or fifty miles from here, where there were only a few families, but then we moved here with your grandparents because of famine and war, and brought the bones from the ancestral grave and buried them on this keel mountain. There is your uncle's family of three who came here together, not to mention Zhenkun at that time, but I don't know Zhenkun and his mother! Indeed, it would be too far to talk about this now, so let's not talk about it! You two listen well, if I don't come in one breath, you have to take good care of your mother, your mother has not enjoyed any happiness with me in this life! Remember, all evil and fornication are the first, and all good and filial piety are the head. ”

"Dad, I remember, you can rest assured!" Tao Zhenkun shed tears. Isn't his fornication with Wu He "lewd"? He was ashamed of it!

"Dad, we all know it in our hearts, and we can't forget it." Liu Xingmei also burst into tears.

Tao Qisheng smiled and said, "Dad knows, you are all good children. In these turbulent war years, I don't know when the smoke of war will be spread here, and I will face a fugitive life of being separated from my wife here! If Dad dies early, maybe it's a lucky thing. I'm thinking, such a stable day won't last long, just live one day at a time! That's good, Mingren doesn't need to talk about it in detail, I won't be a mother-in-law's grinding. However, what I said should be considered a will. You put it away, let's go and stick the money on the pair, and celebrate the New Year happily. ”

Liu Xingmei asked, "Dad, how many generations has this tiger skin been handed down?" ”

Tao Qisheng said: "It was passed down from your grandfather, he ran home after being shot, but he was holding this tiger skin, and I don't know who shot him, he bled to death due to excessive bleeding!" ”

Liu Xingmei said: "In this way, it is probably because this tiger skin was stolen by the grandfather!" Dad, I heard when I was at my mother's house that my grandmother was killed by lightning, and my grandfather went out to work and never came back, is that true? ”

When Tao Qisheng and Qiu Lanzhi heard her ask, they couldn't help but be stunned.

Tao Zhenkun said: "Of course it is, I told you, why bother asking." ”

Liu Xingmei saw that her in-laws didn't speak, so she and Tao Zhenkun folded the tiger skin, put it in the cabinet and locked it, and handed the key to her mother-in-law again.

Qiu Lanzhi barely had a smile on her face at this time, and she said to Tao Qisheng: "Everything is up to you." Wait, I haven't made the rice yet. ”

Liu Xingmei said: "Mother, I have already done it." ”

"Okay, let's take advantage of the good weather, let's go." Tao Qisheng is about to go to the ground.

"Dad, I don't need you, I'll just do it with Meizi." Tao Zhenkun helped his father.

"Then I'm going to watch from the sidelines, I haven't seen the sun in a few days!"

Qiu Lanzhi picked up glasses from the windowsill and put them on for him.

Liu Xingmei handed a bent wooden stick into Tao Qisheng's hand.

"It's good to go out and have a look, it's not too cold this day." Qiu Lanzhi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said.

"Oh, there's one more thing I almost forgot!" Tao Qisheng said.

"What else?" Qiu Lanzhi asked.

"Let the two of them put the futon that I prepared for me in the coffin."

"Why do you ——! want to play a play?" Qiu Lanzhi was stunned.

"People are afraid of the cold when they die, so they will burn it first, and it will save trouble when they use it." Tao Qisheng said calmly.

Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei, who didn't speak, both looked at their mothers. Both of them were very puzzled, how could Dad clean up this incredible strange thing?!

"Do as your father wants!" When Qiu Lanzhi said this, tears fell again.

So, the two of them had to take out a set of bedding and a pillow from the cupboard, go to the side building outside, open the lid of the coffin, and sweep out the whole grains that were placed in it.

Facing the coffin, Liu Xingmei's heart was worried and she felt a little panicked. When laying the futon in the coffin, she still couldn't help but say: "Dad, what's wrong with him today, it's really something new that I've never heard of?!"

"Not a good sign!" The wilting Tao Zhenkun choked up and said.

When they were done, they went back to the house.

Then the three of them walked out with Tao Qisheng on their hands-

Standing in the sunlight outside, Tao Qisheng sighed, as if he was in a different world, he was really full of emotion, just like a death row prisoner was released and walked out of prison, but there was no joy of escaping death. He clearly knew that there was not much light left in his life, and the end of the road waiting for him would be endless gloomy and dark! Dozens of days of groggy lying sick in the kang, sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes can't take care of themselves, to the point of eating wola, I wouldn't think that there would be a day to see the light of day!

His body was very weak and weak, and he couldn't help but sway in the wind, holding a wooden stick in his hand, and Qiu Lanzhi guarded him and supported him.

He first walked around the yard, looked east and west, looked at the donkey, looked at the chicken, and then watched in front of the black tiger for a long time. When he came to that remote building, he stared at the kind of carpenter furniture that had accompanied him for more than 20 years, as if he was reluctant to be in love.

Qiu Lanzhi knew that her husband was looking at the home he had lived in for many years with affectionate eyes, and those familiar things were embedded in his eyes like nails, to take away eternal memories!

In the end, Tao Qisheng stood in front of the king-sized coffin for a while, then reached out and stroked the coffin covered by dry grain straw, and said meaningfully:

"What people stutter in this life, only it is the property earned for themselves!"

When he looked at his wife beside him, he saw that Qiu Lanzhi was already in tears. A very loving couple can't grow old together, how sad should this kind of imminent life and death be to part? !

He smiled and said: "I'm crying again, I don't know how many tears you have, you've been a tearful beauty since the day you married me, so that the children are still in a good mood for the New Year?!" ”

Qiu Lanzhi wiped the tears on her face very hard, and reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "If you leave me alone, I'll go to you when I dry my tears!" ”

"Your tears can't bury me! But I know that every tear of your is a show of affection for me, and it is my blessing and satisfaction to be able to marry you virtuous in this life. But if you want to live well, you have to watch your children live! ”

"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have much energy to live this life with!"

"In the face of death, even the best husband and wife will break up, this has been the case since ancient times, don't let me go without worry!"

Tao Qisheng said, picked up an old-fashioned foreign cannon (earthen gun) in the middle of the building, and wiped the dust on it in his hand. He groaned softly, because this discarded foreign cannon had left fond memories of his childhood.

Her father-in-law's actions made Liu Xingmei, who was at the gate, look at her, and she asked Tao Zhenkun: "What is your father holding in his hand?" ”

Tao Zhenkun said: "It's a foreign cannon, it was used by my grandfather back then, and it has long been broken!" ”

Regarding her father-in-law's actions, Liu Xingmei is understandable. Because everything in the family has a familiar memory of my father-in-law!

Tao Qisheng put down the cannon and said, "Okay, let's go." ”

The couple left the side house and came to the apricot tree, Tao Qisheng looked up at the apricot tree with no leaves and dense branches, he reached out and patted the thick tree, sighed lightly, and said nothing.

"You like to eat apricots, and I hope you can eat them again next year." Qiu Lanzhi said softly, that was her heartfelt words and urgent expectations.

Tao Qisheng said: "In this life, there is a fixed number of how much to eat and how much to wear, and you can't force it!" ”

At this time, Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei walked back from the gate.

"Dad, mother, the gate has been posted." Tao Zhenkun said that he was holding a stack of money in his hand.

"Then stick it on the door and window." Tao Qisheng said.

"Mother, can you help your father go out to see if it's close to the ground?" Liu Xingmei said, holding a small bowl of paste in her hand. She has more ink than Tao Zhenkun's, so she doesn't need to ask her father-in-law for the nod of where to post the couplet, it's up to her to make her own opinion.

"Are you tired?" Qiu Lanzhi looked at her husband and asked.

"It's okay, let's take a look."

"Whoever sees your clothes will be mad?"

"I can't care so much!

The couple walked towards the gate.

Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei were busy pasting money on the windows.

Tao Zhenkun stomped on a bench that Liu Xingmei had moved out, and Liu Xingmei handed him the money that had been smeared with the rice.

At this time, as soon as the door in the east courtyard opened, Li Yanping walked out, and through a wall made of stones, she saw Tao Zhenkun, and asked curiously: "This is just after the New Year, I was busy pasting money, what kind of wind are you pumping?" ”

"My father let me." Tao Zhenkun replied.

Meng Wanpeng also heard the sound and walked out, so he asked, "Is my uncle better?" ”

"I'll see you better today, and I'll be able to come out for a walk."

"That's great, I'll just say, it's not a big deal, just take some medicine to nourish it, it's going to be better!" Li Yanping sighed.

"Brother! Sister-in-law, you two can come over when you have time! ”

Tao Zhenkun talked to his neighbors in the east courtyard while doing the work in his hands.

As soon as they spoke, they alarmed the neighbors of the western family, Ruan Qingfang's family. Ruan Qingfang also opened the door and came out, he was in his fifties, and he looked this way. He and his wife Feng Sijiao only gave birth to two girls, they have already married, and there are only two husbands and wives in the family, and the couple are also kind. Ruan Qingfang was also puzzled, so he asked:

"Zhenkun, it's not the New Year yet, why are you in a hurry to put it on?"

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