He staggered to his feet, but after not taking a few steps he had exhausted the strength he had left, and fell to his knees paralyzed, and then climbed up the hill with a line of winding footprints, looking at the long mountain forest, but he could not find the figure he was familiar with! He left a trail of meandering crawling trails behind him, his wet body covered with sand and blades of grass, and his two shoes were lost in the river.

He sat there weeping helplessly, muttering, "Come back, I—I forgive you!" ”

He knew that his once kind and kind father was no longer there, and that life would never go back to the way it used to be!

He didn't know how long he had been sitting there, or how long he had been crying, but in a trance he could realize that he had lost a significant part of his life!

"Qisheng, why did you go to the other side of the river?"

It wasn't until a voice floated across the river dozens of meters wide that he woke up his idiot-like addiction.

He looked back blankly, and saw the petite Iren standing on the other side of the Fairy River. He stood up blankly, and stood for a moment in the face of the rolling mountains and forests, and then walked along the river bank in despair.

"Come back soon!"

It sounded like a faint call of urgency, as if it was going to penetrate his eardrums.

He was barefoot, because his shoes were also lost in the river. I got into the river in a shallow place, and slowly and tentatively walked back. In a pothole, he stumbled, and the water immediately reached his neck.

"Be careful!"

When he stood up, he saw Qiu Lanzhi quickly take off his shoes on the shore, pull down his trouser legs, and then also go down to the river on the opposite side, wading towards him.

He stood numbly in the middle of the river, until Qiu Lanzhi, who was halfway up in the water, came to him and helped him.

"What are you doing crossing the river?" Qiu Lanzhi looked panicked and puzzled.

He didn't speak, just stared blankly at her, at the beautiful woman he had once been obsessed with.

"Why don't you speak, Dad?"

"He- he went out to work."

"How could this-this-be, I hadn't heard him say it. He went out alone, the road was very dangerous, didn't you stop him? ”

"I-I'm in the way, but he's going to go!" As soon as he said this, he suddenly felt guilty.

"How so?!"

He shook his head.

"What happened?"

He still shook his head.

"What's wrong with you?" Qiu Lanzhi looked at him suspiciously.

"I-I don't know why!" He suddenly hugged Qiu Lanzhi into his arms, choked and cried. At this moment, he clearly realized that he could not lose her again, or he would have nothing in his life—

From that day on, he went into the mountains and forests many times with that shotgun, not to hunt, but to search. He had not found the bones of a man left behind after being eaten by a wild beast, nor had he heard of anyone being eaten in the hunter's mouth. After a few days, he had little hope that the search would be found. In his heart, he was extremely remorseful, and did not mobilize the masses into the mountains to look for him in time, with his father's usual stubborn and arrogant personality, that is, he was still alive, and encountered difficulties in survival, and under his dignity and repentance, he would not step into the house again!

Could it be that he is no longer in the mountains? Did you really go to work outside the mountains? Or is it another short-sightedness?

Perhaps, the emperor lived up to his hard work, once he really saw his father, and only a few dozen days later, his father became a savage, he tried hard to persuade him to go back, but his father insisted on refusing, saying that it was to punish himself for the sins he had committed!

So it became a secret that should not be told to anyone!

It's okay if Dad doesn't go back, can he return to the former harmony and tacit understanding when he goes back to the home where his complete image has been damaged? When such selfish thoughts arise in his heart, it will be doubly painful!

Qiu Lanzhi is pregnant, but he has no joy, because he suspects that she doesn't know whose child she is pregnant!

Later, he gave birth to Zhenkun, and as Zhenkun grew up, he couldn't recognize who he looked like in him! However, he didn't disdain him, no matter what, Zhenkun was bleeding the blood of the Tao family in his body after all, so he shouldered the responsibility of a "father".

After that, after his father was not at home, he insisted on building the house, and at that time the Tao family only had three broken houses, and also made furniture, in order to put aside the shadow of his father's existence. However, the familiar shadow that appears in front of you can be replaced by something else, and what about the shadow hidden in your heart?! It's been more than 20 years, and in the past 20 years, he has to go into the mountains to see his father a few times every year, which has become a secret between father and son.

The door of history is always open to everyone, but once you come out, it is difficult to go back and enter. Momentary time, eternal memory!

Moreover, in the past twenty years, he has become a pure ascetic, and he will never touch Qiu Lanzhi's body again, how can the father and son enjoy the same woman's body? Being hit by a sheep and injuring your private parts has become the best excuse to refuse, and incest is not advisable!

In this way, being hit by a sheep and breaking his genitals is his effective shield. For young couples, they suffer and sorrow for each other!

Memories are the fairest right for everyone, but there is more or less happiness and pain in memories!

Now that he's terminally ill, he's speculating that he'll soon be following his father.

Perhaps, only by reuniting in the underworld can we reconcile the contradictions in the world and relive the relationship between father and son!

At ten o'clock in the evening, Tao Qisheng's coma improved, and he ordered: "Zhenkun, you go get some burning paper!" ”

"Dad, this is not the New Year's holiday, nor is it the time to go to the grave to burn paper, what do you want that thing to do?"

"Dad—you'——?"

"Why, didn't you hear me?"

"Don't go quickly, what's the effort, if Dad is useful!"

In this way, Tao Qisheng was helped out of the house.

Although the three of them were full of suspicion, none of them dared to ask him what he was going to do, not even Liu Xingmei, who was usually outspoken, did not ask what he was going to do.

At the crossroads, Tao Qisheng drew a circle on the ground with the crutch he held in his hand again, but there was still a gap. Then he knelt down tremblingly, took a bundle of burning paper from Tao Zhenkun's hand, put it in the circle and shook it and scattered.

"Dad, if you want to burn paper money, you should only ——? it before you go to the grave."

"You know what!"

"W-who do you want to burn this paper to?" Qiu Lanzhi asked.

"Burn it to the one who deserves it!"

Tao Zhenkun wanted to help light it with a foreign fire (match), but was stopped by the silent Tao Qisheng, who wanted to light it himself. He trembled and drew three sticks before he lit the paper.

The three of them also knelt down next to each other in silence.

The paper burned rapidly under Tao Qisheng's flipping with a cane, allowing Liu Xingmei to experience a feeling of being burned on her face, but fortunately, the rising smoke did not smoke her eyes.

Then she heard something start to be muttered in her father-in-law's mouth, so she moved her knees closer to her, and listened intently, but it was difficult to catch the full words in the muttering, only vaguely as if she heard "daddy" or something. She was still shocked by this, could it be that this paper money was burned to Zhenkun's grandfather? Is his grandfather dead? If he is dead, why is this news not made public? Haven't you heard anyone reply to a message? I didn't see the corpse - could it be that my father-in-law was sick and confused? Will burn paper for the living? Even if you die outside, you have to have a quasi-letter, right?

As for the gap left in that circle, the superstition says that ghosts can go in and withdraw money, and if they don't stay, they can't get it. If you don't draw a circle, there will be other lonely ghosts to rob you.

Liu Xingmei secretly looked at her father-in-law, and saw that tears were raining down on his face, looking very sad. Then there was kowtowing, and the three of them also kowtowed.

After the completion of this memorial ceremony, when he was supporting Tao Qisheng and walking back, Tao Zhenkun asked Liu Xingmei in a low voice: "What are you listening to?" ”

Liu Xingmei shook her head and was silent, there was no fact, she didn't dare to talk more, lest something happen.

Tao Qisheng's inexplicable and strange behavior is as speculative as a mystery.

But how could they guess the tangled pain hidden in Tao Qisheng's heart? Once a big man who was both a father and a mother, in order to pull the three children into adults, he learned what a woman should do, sewing and mending, washing and washing, brushing pots and stoves, but he failed to control the festival in the seven emotions and six desires, and crossed the thunder pool half a step in the face of the world's disapproval, which caused a human tragedy and was buried under the concept of morality!

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