Chapter 8: The Boy on the Grave
The people in the village are buried on the hill behind the village after their deaths, and the mother is also buried on that hillside, but the location is a bit to the right, and the location of the aborigines of the village is relatively far away, after all, they are outsiders.
Looking at his mother's grave, he quickened his pace, and every day after eating, he would come and stay with his mother for a while, and he never stopped from the day of his mother's death, which gradually became a habit in his life.
When he came to the grave, and then in the moonlight, he could see that the tombstone in front of the grave said, "The tomb of his mother, I don't know what his mother's name is, and the words on the tablet are also carved by the village chief's grandfather for him."
There was no grass growing on the top of the grave, and every day he would lie on it for a while, and for so many years, the soil on the top had been flattened, and as always, he climbed up to the top of the grave and lay on the back of the grave.
He didn't know that it was disrespectful to the deceased, he just wanted his mother to be able to hold him, and he felt that in this way he would be able to let his mother hold him, just like when he was a child.
Although it was cold to lie on it, he knew that this was the temperature of his mother's embrace, and in his memory, his mother's arms were this temperature.
"Mother, I will be seven years old in a few days, that is to say, you have been sleeping here for more than four years, I don't know if you are tired of sleeping, when you will be able to get up, although the village chief grandfather said that you will not get up again after you fall asleep, but I still hope that you can get up one day, look at me, see me grow up, and can hug me as when I was a child." Looking at the bright moon in the sky, it was like talking to an ordinary person, he didn't cry, he didn't feel sad, he shed too many tears here, from the age of three to the present.
"Mother, the village chief's grandfather said that in a few days I will be able to study in the Nine Heavens Tower, and when I come out of the tower, I will be able to go out from here and go out to find my father, although I will be reluctant to you, but I must go to find him and bring it here, so that he can see you again." Looking at the bright moon in the sky, he raised his fist and squeezed it against the sky, as if to grab something.
"In the future, I may not be able to come to see you every night like now, because when I go to the Nine Heavens Tower, I may not have so much time, I hope you can understand, I hope to finish learning quickly, Grandpa Murakami said that only by completely learning the things of the Nine Heavens Tower can I be qualified to go out of the village." As he spoke, he bent down and looked at the shadow of his mother's tombstone with his head.
"I miss you very much, mother, although I can't remember your face clearly, I hope you can forgive me, I want you to hug me again, let me see your face again, I promise that this time I will not let your face blur in my memory again, I promise." He lay on the grave and stretched out his arms to hold the grave hard, hugging his mother, just as his mother was holding her, he pressed his face hard against the grave, and tears flowed down and seeped directly into the soil.
After sorting out his emotions, he turned over, pillowed his head, still looked at the moon in the sky and said: "Mother, I don't know where my father is now, I don't know how to find him, and I don't know if he knows that he has my son." Even if he knew that he had a son like me, when I met my father, I didn't know if he would know me, if I could know him. ”
"Oh, I have this, maybe my dad should know me when he sees this." As he spoke, he took out the jade pendant he had been wearing on his chest, which was the only relic left to him by his mother, and there was a word engraved on it, which was his name.
"This father should know me, but where am I going to find him? The village chief's grandfather said, we are from Qinmu Country, so I will go to Qin Muguo first, but I don't even know where Qin Muguo is, mother, can you help me? He sat up from the grave, looked back at his mother and asked.
"Forget it, I'll look for it myself slowly, but mother, please believe me, I will definitely find my father, I will beat him and bring it to you, I will go back, so I won't disturb your rest." He jumped out of the grave, smiled mischievously at his mother in the grave, and ran towards the village.
"Village chief, grandpa, I'm back." As soon as he ran to the door, he shouted.
"Why did you come back a little earlier today, didn't you spend more time with your mother?" The village chief smiled and looked at the people who ran in.
"Let me guess, you want me to tell you about the Nine Heavens Tower, right?" Without waiting for an answer, the village chief said, "Then I'll talk to you and come and sit down." ”
According to his grandfather's words, he sat opposite his grandfather, and listened to his grandfather start to talk about the Nine Heavens Tower, although he had known that there was such a tower in the village for so many years, but about the role of the tower, the tower was victorious.
After listening to the village chief's grandfather, he knew that the Nine Heavens Tower existed when the village was established, as for when the village was established, who built it, no one said clearly, the village chief's grandfather told him that the tower may have been built by a Taoist priest, and he said that on the first floor of the tower and the portrait of the Taoist priest, he decided to go and see it in the future.
The Nine Heavens Tower, divided into nine layers, I don't think there is any need for grandpa to say, idiots should know, otherwise how to call the Nine Heavens Tower.
There is an old teacher in each floor of the Nine Heavens Tower, usually served by the old people in the village, who is responsible for helping the young people who enter the tower to learn the knowledge of each floor, and if you have any questions, you can also go to them to solve them, and the old people on each floor will only change until they don't want to do it, or the old man dies.
The first layer of the tower is used for literacy, when you recognize all the words in it and pass the assessment, you can enter the next layer, of course, the assessment is nothing more than to randomly find a few words for you to recognize.
The second layer is the knowledge layer, which has the names and introductions of various animals and plants, of course, the village chief's grandfather has not been to the outside world, and the animals and plants he has seen are limited to those in the village, so there is no mandatory requirement to complete the study in the village at this level, but for those who are ready to go out, he must finish learning.
The third layer is the martial arts layer, which has all kinds of martial arts, but the people in the village do not have a hobby of fighting and fighting, they have only learned a kind of physical fitness, and the strength will become greater after learning, as for the others, some people have practiced, but they have not practiced one, so they are gradually given up by people.
The fourth layer is the medicine layer, which requires the completion of the second layer of plant knowledge, and the doctors in the village have studied it carefully.
The fifth layer is the weapon layer, which has all kinds of weapons, and the people in the village don't like to fight, most of them are curious to take it out and play for a while, so they all go back, thinking that he wants to find a handy weapon, after all, he wants to go out.
The sixth layer is the information layer, as for why it is called the word information, the village can't say clearly, maybe only the Taoist priest knows, the village chief said that there is a record of Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin Mu, Zhao Jinguo's information, this is the outside world, they don't care, but for the up, this is a must go to see.
The village chief on the seventh floor said that there are a lot of wooden people inside, and once someone goes in, they will come and beat you, and if you don't beat you, your nose is blue and your face is swollen and you will never stop, so people who are generally okay in the village will not go in, except for those who make mistakes and need to be punished, and this place will be punished as a punishment in the village.
As for the door of the eighth and ninth floors, no one has ever opened it, and no one has seen or said anything inside clearly.