Chapter 50: Elements

Yun Jiuge sent a message: Senior, do you have any custom of following the elements?

Zhou Tianle replied: This custom should be available all over the country.

Yun Jiuge replied: I have a Taiwanese friend, and their village has a banquet every month.

Zhou Tianle replied: Every month? This is too often.

Yun Jiu Ge replied: I especially don't like this custom. If you do a big thing, you will do wine, and then a group of people will go to give money, in my eyes, everything is a trivial matter except for the dead.

Zhou Tianle replied: Your point of view is very unique.

Yun Jiuge replied: Now that the divorce rate is so high, marriage is not so important. At what age his child is admitted to what school and what does it matter to me? There is also a small book in every household to record, as if holding a grudge.

Zhou Tianle replied: This is called sophistication, and it is also a cultural tradition in China for thousands of years.

Yun Jiu Ge replied: I hate this culture, I don't want to do alcohol when I get married in the future, and I don't want to have children. If you want others to return the favor, then why not work hard to make money yourself. Isn't it just thinking about taking back what was sent out before, and when is it time to retribution?

Zhou Tianle replied: Ask you, have you gone too far.

Yun Jiu Ge replied: Follow

Zhou Tianle replied: You don't want to get the money back?

Yun Jiu Ge replied: I never thought that I was going to take it back, thinking about why I didn't want to think about how I should make money.

Zhou Tianle replied: It's really good, I will definitely inform you of the entourage in the future.

After a few days, the amount of food my grandmother ate was getting less and less, and she almost didn't have the strength to walk, only lying on the bed, dying, which made Shu Xin extremely heartbroken.

Grandma called Shu Xin to the bed and said, "Xin'er, you go to the street to buy some yellow paper and red wax for grandma."

Shu Xin knew that the yellow paper was used to burn it to the deceased, and who did her grandmother want the yellow paper to burn now. Shu Xin borrowed a bicycle from the village and rode on the street, but he didn't expect to meet the oncoming uncle halfway. The uncle's face was in a hurry, and he shouted "uncle" comfortably, but the uncle did not agree, and went straight to the village.

Shu Xin sped up the intensity of pedaling, she wanted to rush back as soon as possible after buying yellow paper and red wax, I don't know how the uncle is going to be angry with grandma. When Shu Xin came back, he passed by the uncle again, and Shu Xin still shouted "uncle". Uncle still looked hurried on his face, but nodded.

Back in the house, grandma was still lying on the bed, but grandma's tears flowed out, seeing comfort, grandma wiped away her tears with her hand and said, "Xin'er is back."

Shu Xin said, "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"

Grandma said: "It's nothing, Xin'er, you fold the yellow paper, and you will go to the grave later." Yellow paper is a rough square yellow, folded in half to burn to the deceased, this kind of paper is also called "dark coin", Qingming and white things to use this kind of yellow paper.

Shu Xin folded the yellow paper while thinking about who to go to the grave, today is neither grandpa's death day nor parents' death day, and what did the uncle do just now?

Grandma is now on crutches, comfortably holding grandma in one hand and carrying a basket of yellow paper in the other, walking towards her parents' grave. In the grave of his parents, he knelt and burned paper for his parents according to the village custom. Grandma stood aside and said: "Congwen, Ah Xiu, mom is sorry for you, I gave the compensation to the boss, Xiangzi had a car accident today, and he urgently needs money to save his life." Xin'er, the money...... You're going to have to live on your own. ”

Shu Xin said: "I don't care about money, I just want my grandmother to live well."

Grandma said, "Don't blame me, no matter how bad your uncle is, he won't take care of his own children."

Shu Xin still cares about money, she listened to what her grandmother said today, it was like a dying word. She didn't want to be lonely. Grandma and Shuxin came to grandpa's grave again, this time Shuxin and grandma both knelt in front of grandpa's grave to burn paper, and grandma burned paper while lighting red wax. Shu Xin watched her grandmother slowly put the yellow paper into the fire, without saying a word, until the fire was extinguished, and the grandmother said, "Old man, I'm coming to you." ”

My grandmother died five days later, and when she came home after going to the grave, she couldn't even take any medicine. Shu Xin was very scared, and she really didn't know what to do except cry. Three days later, when the grandmother couldn't even speak, Shu Xin had no choice but to call the uncle. Uncle didn't have a good face after he came, his child's bag had just been in a car accident, and his mother died at this juncture, so his temper was also bad, and he yelled at her when he saw Shu Xin crying: "Cry... If you cry, you know how to cry, what else can you do but cry."

Grandma's white affair lasted for three days, after which it was sent to the crematorium, and the ashes were buried on the hillside behind the village. Shu Xin really felt that he was helpless, lonely, and had no financial resources, and he didn't want to go to his uncle's house. At night, when the lights are not turned on, I sit in a chair in a daze, I don't know what to do, or I don't have to do anything, just wait for time to drain my life. The people who are close to me are no longer in this world, and it seems that my life is superfluous, and I don't know where to put it. I should have walked with my grandmother, there are no nostalgic people in this world.

Once a person enters the tip of the horns, it is not easy to get out. Because of the death of my grandmother, my comfortable thoughts entered a narrow horn, and the deeper I thought, the deeper I sank. The word "death" also came to mind.

Zhou Tianle's phone was like a hand pulling Shu Xin out of the narrow horns, and after picking up the phone, Shu Xin's words did not stop, crying and talking, Zhou Tianle listened quietly on the other end of the phone. When Shu Xin told Zhou Tianle the news of his grandmother's death, Zhou Tianle was very worried about Shu Xin, Zhou Tianle knew her family situation, but he was afraid that Shu Xin would feel lonely and helpless before he called, and what he needed at this time was to confide, comfort, and accompany.

Zhou Tianle said: "You come to Wuhan, I will accompany you."

Shu Xin said: "Why do you have to let me go to Wuhan to accompany me." Can't you come to Suizhou to accompany me? ”

Zhou Tianle said: "Come tomorrow."

Hung up the phone, Shu Xin thought about what Zhou Tianle said just now, why, why did you accompany me when I went to Wuhan, why didn't you say that I came to Suizhou to accompany you. You only take it when you give it a hug, and you never take the initiative to come to me, to see my world, and think about it from my point of view.

One night, Shu Xin tortured himself repeatedly between her grandmother and Zhou Tianle, and even wanted to beat Zhou Tianle, wanted to lose her temper, wanted to yell, and wanted to go crazy hysterically. However, when I saw Zhou Tianle at Suizhou Railway Station, what she thought about last night disappeared in an instant, and what I felt was a kind of spiritual comfort, and my heart was placed on him.

Shu Xin hugged Zhou Tianle tightly and felt his body temperature and cried bitterly. People coming and going at the train station looked at them, and Zhou Tianle felt a little uncomfortable. Comfortable but indifferent, the tighter you hug it, the more you cry, the harder you cry. There is still one person in this world who is worthy of my stay, and at this moment I am in his arms, acting recklessly.

After crying, Shu Xin thought of her grandmother again, and only took Zhou Tianle's hand and leaned on his shoulder on the bus. The two found a hotel to live in, and Zhou Tianle's original plan was to stay with Shuxin in Suizhou for a few days, because they were all students who didn't have much money and could only live in the cheapest small hotel.

Shu Xin didn't want to stay alone in her hometown, she was afraid of the feeling of loneliness, the thought of being helpless, or even dying, would suddenly appear again. Now I just want to be there for my lover. Just sit together quietly.

Looking at Shu Xin, she has been thinking about her grandmother. Zhou Tianle felt that she should be allowed to change her environment and mood. Zhou Tianle said: "The first time I came to Suizhou, if you don't take me around, will you let me be locked in this small room for a few days."

Shu Xin said, "I'll take you out tomorrow."

The next day, Shu Xin took Zhou Tianle to Baiyun Park, rowed on the Baiyun River, and then went to the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery opposite Baiyun AD. When the temperature was high, the two sat on a bench in the shade of the park to rest and talk.

Seeing that Shu Xin's face was still gloomy, Zhou Tianle said: "Summer vacation is coming soon, let's go to Beijing to watch the Olympics then."

Shu Xin smiled and said, "Just the two of us, let's not talk about money first." Even if you go, you can't get into the nest. ”

Zhou Tianle said: "If you can't get in, you can also go to Beijing to feel the atmosphere."

Shu Xin said: "The atmosphere of ghosts is better than watching it on TV, it's the same."

After that, Shu Xin took Zhou Tianle to the Suizhou Museum and looked at the tomb and bell of Zeng Hou Yi unearthed at the Suizhou drum pier. In the afternoon, when the weather was cooler, he took Zhou Tianle to Shennong Park to play, and said that Suizhou was about to build a new cultural and ecological park.