Chapter 21: Burying the Grief
It has been six days since Gan Suo killed the five members of the Flower Ghost Gang.
The mountain village garden belonged to the Bazhong City Administrator, and Bazhong City sent a team of twenty soldiers to help build the houses destroyed by the flower ghosts before. All this money is paid by the government.
Gansuo was no longer a lieutenant in the government army, he and Xing Zeyuan sat in the guest room where Xing Zeyuan lived before, and the two chatted while looking at the people coming and going outside the window.
"How's your recovery?"
"It's almost right, the stitches can be removed tomorrow, and in about four or five days, it'll be completely fine!"
Gansuo, who can summon two large star clusters, has a stronger recovery power than Xing Zeyuan, but Xing Zeyuan has no external injuries, so he has recovered.
"Okay, Brother Ganso, I want to ask you something. ”
Gan Suo fell asleep for a few days, and then hid in his room alone to rest, and just when he woke up, Xing Zeyuan came to him. Xing Zeyuan heard a lot about Ganso's past from Arias, and Xing Zeyuan probably knew what kind of person he was, so he could talk to Ganso.
"Say it!"
"Are you really going to Blackwater with me?"
"Aren't you going to be a mercenary?"
"Well, my destination is Blackwater State, I want to defeat someone, only if I occupy more than one 'superstar' place in the big mercenary city of Blackwater State in four years, can I fight her from the mercenary's point of view. ”
"Who?"
"Henai, I...... She is in the Blue Shield Martial Arts Academy in our state. ”
Xing Zeyuan often says this name, and his heart will be full of yearning. The girl who ran in the wind and swung a knife under the flowers, stretched out her hand to him in the dark. That touch of warmth is now in the palm of his hand.
"Martial Arts Hall...... She's older than you, isn't she?"
On the face of the clean Xuejia, a pair of eyes are bright, even if the death of a loved one has brought him a blow, but Emma in the dream gives him the strength to live. He stood in front of the window, his back straight, and the temperament of a standard soldier had been integrated into his bones.
"She is two years older than me, but I like her. ”
"Does she know?"
"Yes, she said she would wait until I beat her to talk about it. She's very strong, she already has two big star clusters, just like you with Brother Ganso!"
"It seems that the person you like is still a genius! Not to mention entering the Blue Shield Martial Arts Academy, he still has such a strong strength. ”
looked at Xing Zeyuan in disbelief, Xing Zeyuan was sixteen years old, and the person she liked was about eighteen years old. Eighteen years old, two large star clusters? This kind of strength is definitely a miracle.
"That's right, so I have to form a mercenary group to defeat her. Otherwise, I won't even have a chance to fight him, I want to beat her on the day she graduates, and then let her team win the championship!"
"Don't you want a champion?"
Ganso's tone was cold, but he still maintained basic politeness, only to make the air a little sad because of the uncomfortable things in Ganso's heart.
"Of course not, otherwise he won't be a champion, she's very strong. ”
Xing Zeyuan's every word was an understanding of He Nai, which made Gansuo's heart tingle. But Xing Zeyuan didn't know how he should answer, so he answered whatever Gan Suo asked.
After being silent for a long time, Xing Zeyuan felt that Ganso was a little different from Ganso in the story told by Arias, perhaps, because of this disaster, this man had changed.
"Brother Ganso, you haven't answered me yet. ”
"I'll go with you. ”
Ganso said flatly, he was not afraid of what was ahead, his beloved was dead, of course there was no need to be afraid.
"Okay, when you're well, let's go?"
"No need, we'll leave tomorrow! I'm going to Sanshan Village and then to Bazhong City, and it's estimated that it will be delayed for two or three days. ”
"It's okay, just stay a few more days!"
Ganso didn't speak, and there was a deathly silence again.
"Brother Ganso, don't be sad!"
The palm of his hand touched Gansuo's shoulder, and Xing Zeyuan felt a little strange, because the touch of the body was a kind of language in itself. Ganso still didn't speak, his calm eyes like a tenacious stone.
"My parents abandoned me, I was never born to see them, and it was Honai's parents who brought me up. ”
Xing Zeyuan looked at the starry sky like a sea and imagined the beautiful life he once had. As soon as he went out and left Arbor City, he felt that he was growing rapidly, and what he saw and heard every day could make him stronger. Today is May 31st, the last day of May, and his birthday, and after tonight, he will be seventeen years old.
Six years ago, it was He Nai who brought him home. Six years later, he left the warm cherry blossoms.
"It's all poor people!"
sighed, Xing Zeyuan never believed in growing old overnight, but now he believes it. As Ganso came out of the coffin, a lot of black hair was gray on the back of his head, and a single gray hair that was rare before would be plucked out by her lovely Annie. But now, he had too many gray hairs for Anne to pull out, and she was gone.
"But we still have to face tomorrow, who knows who we will meet in the future? As long as we live, we can create the value of our own life. ”
Clenching his fists, Xing Zeyuan's blood boiled a little, but Gansuo was not excited at all, but calmly like the sea surface frozen into ice in the Arctic Ocean.
Ganso's age was no longer fit to say such exciting words, but he had made up his mind that he was going to leave this place.
Although the man had not yet left, his heart had completely taken off his military uniform, put on soft armor, and left in the light of dusk on the hillside. After this time, there will be no turning back, because Emma told him in a dream to let him go far away.
"Let's rest, we'll leave early tomorrow morning!"
Xing Zeyuan rested in the guest room, and Gan Suo went back to his home.
"Leaving tomorrow?"
The old fat woman came in with a one-meter-high backpack, Xing Zeyuan hurriedly went to pick it up, she prepared a lot of utensils for Xing Zeyuan, but there was very little to eat. No matter how good the food is, it will be too good, but knives and pots are not the same.
"Where's the vault?"
The backpack was much lighter, and the vault that could be used to shelter from the wind and rain was gone.
"You can't pack so many things, just put the dome in Ganso's backpack, put pots and pans in your backpack, and put clothes in his backpack, isn't it good to put the dome in his backpack?"
"Of course!"
Ganso, who has personal experience, knows what kind of desperation it is for a person to carry such a big bag, and now that someone is helping him to share it, it is too late for him to be happy!
While Xing Zeyuan was sleeping peacefully, Ganso returned to his home, which was not so much his home as the home where Emma grew up. It's a small villa on the second floor, and although it's not particularly luxurious, it has everything it should have. The arrival of the Flower Ghost Gang did not destroy it, touching everything inside, and Ganso's face had an obsessive smile on his face that he hadn't seen for a long time.
Everything in the house, every corner has their shadows.
"Blue, Red, help me take care of this house, and I'll take care of the house in the city. ”
"Good!"
The two men hiding in the corner of the house stepped forward, unable to escape Ganso's gaze.
"Are you really going?"
"yes! I'm getting out of here. ”
"Why? You've been here for thirty-six years, and when you're at your end, it's the lord of the city who gives you the opportunity to become a soldier in the government army. ”
Blue patted Rhett's head, and the latter's tears were about to fall, he really didn't want Ganso to go, but he couldn't help it.
"I will personally go to the old city lord to say goodbye, and I will sell the house in the city, and you will take over the money. ”
"I don't want bullshit money, if you insist on leaving, just take the money and roll, don't you have money to drink the northwest wind?"
"Good night, brothers!"
Ganso didn't answer, and he went back to the big bed that could sleep three people peacefully. The most poignant feeling may be on the quilt and her smell.
On the second day, when everyone walked to the entrance of the mountain village to say goodbye, Xing Zeyuan and Gan Suo left without looking back.
"Don't get excited, old man!
Looking at the back of Gan Suo's departure, the elderly village chief sighed and beckoned everyone to gather together.
"Don't worry, everyone, although Ganso has encountered such a thing, he will still live well. But what do we look like when we are so sorrowful? Go, go home!"
"yes!
"The days will pass, and the land will be planted. ”
The villagers pretended to be happy, but in the depths of their eyes, there was a lot of reluctance and pity. I don't know if it is because the good people have a hard life, or if God wants to see them sooner so that they can get a hundred times the happiness they deserve.
Walking all the way to Sanshan Village, Ganso's warm fingers touched the three tombstones. From left to right, he places his mother's urn, who has been dead for many years, on his father's tombstone, and then kneels down with a loud kowtow. He prayed with both hands in front of Emma's tombstone, gently hugged the tombstone, and walked to Anne's tomb and gently touched the top of the tombstone.
Walking to his coffin at the end, he erected a black tombstone with his name on it, and together with Xing Zeyuan, he covered it with soil.
"I bury this pain, and I will live well in the future. ”
Xing Zeyuan stopped holding his hand and looked at Gansuo, not knowing if he said this to himself, or to the four relatives who had died.
Burying his empty coffin, Ganso looked around, and then said:
"Let's go!"
"Just gone?"
"Hmm!"
Ganso said, picking up his gray backpack, stepping his machete, and walking towards Bazhong City. Xing Zeyuan followed behind, side by side with him.
The breeze stirred the grass and the short hair, and the two took steps under the rising sun, as if they were about to ride the wind.
"Ganso, take care!"
The small house behind and the green mountains behind them all seemed to be talking to Ganso. Too much of his childhood, and too many memories, are here, and the white clouds in the sky turn into Emma's appearance, and it watches Ganso leave, gently turning into the wind, accompanying him on a long journey......
"I'm going to the Bazhong City government to get my identity card, and I'm going to sell that house, you wait for me for a while. ”
"It's okay, don't worry, do you need me to accompany you?"
"No need, you look at the backpack, I'll be back soon. ”