The first blind date encountered Waterloo, defeated without an inch, unforgettable, although I pretended to be nothing on the surface, but in my heart I once sank, the misfortune of the family, the injustice of fate...... And so on in my heart all the time, I can't solve it!

Behind the sinking, I have developed a habit, that is, to get up early like the master, sometimes as soon as the sky is slightly bright, I will get up and run to the master's house, sinking is not the last resort of the teenager after all, although I admit that I am a complete pessimist.

In the early morning of midsummer, it was already unbearable, so I simply got up, thinking that it would be good to go to Master's house to accompany him to play Tai Chi.

The quiet mountain village in the early morning, in fact, is still quite pleasant, the lazy rooster pulls his throat and cries in the evening, the earth dog barks, every household reflects the mist of the autumn mountain and the smoke curls up, every house and every yard, the big trees in front of the door and behind the door cover the sky and the sun, the wild flowers bloom everywhere, the breeze blows, smell the fragrance, I walk in the dirt street where the old man walks, and count the life of this mountain village is also beautiful.

When I was about to walk to Master's house, I was surprised to hear a cry, I stopped and opened my eyes, an old lady in black sat on the stone bench in front of the Master's courtyard and cried, my heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I suddenly remembered how the black clothes she was wearing were the same color as the drowned teacher wearing black robes.

That's not right, according to common sense, Master opened the door early at this time, why is the door still closed? It won't be that the master is afraid to open the door, I look at it from afar, the more I look at this old lady, the more she looks like a living person, I take a closer look at the clothes on her body, and there is nothing unusual, the old lady who is old in our countryside, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, is a cyan robe and gown on her upper body, and a gray and white cloth handkerchief is tied on her chest, which is the poor tradition left by the poor family in the pastI'd better go ahead and take a look!

"Grandma, why are you sitting here crying?" I nervously asked with my eyes half-closed.

The old lady slowly raised her head, and I looked at it, but it was kind, I should be nearly eighty years old! Look at her withered and yellow face, like autumn leaves, and her face covered by deep wrinkles seems to be crawling with earthworms...... It makes people feel distressed, this must be the result of perennial hard work and malnutrition, but looking at the old man's gray haircut, there is a strong air of hard bones, but it seems that it is not easy for an old man to cry in front of the master's door, if he is not desperate, he will not find the master's house.

"Child, this is Yamane...... Shao, Xing, Ze, the master's house? The old man put down the wet handkerchief in his hand and asked expectantly, although I couldn't hear her words clearly, but I knew that he must have come to find the master.

"Yes, it's Master's family, grandma, are you from that village?" I responded.

"I belong to Shimo Mountain, and I have climbed several mountains to come here"

"Grandma, your home is so far away, and your old man is so old and still going over the mountains and mountains, what's the matter, you ask the strong man in the family to bring a letter, and the master and I will come to solve it for you."

"How can this kid be kind-hearted, but there is no one in my family who understands! My eldest son, who is in his sixties this year and has not become a family, has no mother-in-law, is crazy all day long, my second son has been away from home for several years, and now he can't find anyone whether he is dead or alive, and their father died early, and they all blame me for being a mother, I didn't give my children a daughter-in-law, I didn't live a good life with me, I did something wrong in my last life." The old lady couldn't stop sobbing as she spoke.

"Grandma, don't say that, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, rich and poor have to create their own self-cultivation and work hard for themselves, how can they rely on their parents for everything"

"Erdan, who is this old man?" Master opened the door at some point.

"Grandma, this is my master Shao Xingze"

"Auntie, where are you from?" Master looked at the old man who was not familiar with him and asked.

The old lady was so excited that she couldn't speak, but kept wiping away tears.

"Master, grandma is from Shimo Mountain"

"Auntie" Master picked up the old man's three-inch golden lotus wrapped in a white cloth with both hands, and actually cried.

"Auntie, Shimo Mountain is far away from the high mountain road here, how did you get to the rugged mountain road for dozens of miles, your feet are worn out, and you can see that you are blistered with blood."

Shimo Mountain, is a mountain like a pole stone mill, is located in a place in other provinces and cities, is not connected with our Yimeng Mountain, separated by layers of mountains, dozens of miles of mountain roads, a middle-aged person has to walk for a day or two, you can imagine, how did this eighty-year-old man come here, how many sins he suffered!

"I've been walking and walking in the mountains since I finished cooking lunch for the children yesterday at noon, and I thought I was lost! Fortunately, God opened his eyes and brought me here, and I also wanted to come early, so I wanted to be auspicious."

"Let's talk about the old man's house, let's talk about it, let's help the old man into the hospital."

As soon as I entered the courtyard gate, the old lady stared at a few coffins that had not yet been formed and painted, and I looked at her originally dirty eyes suddenly brightened, and a smile flashed on her haggard face!

"This coffin is so good, it's a hundred times when you lie inside, it's quiet, every time I see the village mourning, I envy it."

"Old man, you should be enjoying Qingfu at this age, you can't say such unlucky words"

Let the old lady go to the eaves of the hall, the master told the master to make some noodles for the old man to eat, and when the master was ready to serve it to the old man, the old man said that he would not eat anything, and he looked like he did not eat the food, it can be seen that the old lady is also a stubborn and arrogant person, otherwise she would not have supported the incomplete home to live to this age, she just barely drank a few sips of tea made by the master, I stood aside without speaking but felt very uncomfortable, I know that a family has the suffering of several single sons, I can say that I empathize, just like when my own grandmother died many years later, I was still worried about my second and fourth uncles, who didn't know how to know cold and hot, didn't close their eyes when they breathed, and finally passed away with a grudge!

"Old man, have you encountered any difficulties? No matter what, old, big, difficult, Xingze will definitely help you solve it"

When the old lady heard this, she cried sadly, and the tea she had just drunk in her mouth flowed down the corners of her mouth.

"Old man, don't be sad, you speak slowly"

"Where do you start?" The old lady seemed to ask herself, she stared at the master, and then:

"This starts with my hard-working daughter"

"She is an old girl for me, I was born in my forties, and she is also an old girl, I and the old man are very happy, I and the old man have a total of three children, I am not afraid of your jokes, I am not a child, I have not become a family to marry a daughter-in-law, the big one is over sixty years old crazy and crazy, the second has been missing for several years, just this one girl, this girl is better than there, I can be filial to serve my old body for a few days, right"

"I didn't expect that!" The old lady cried uncontrollably.

"Unexpectedly, when my daughter grew up to be nine years old, my old man died inexplicably, and the people in the village paid someone to come and didn't find any disease, so they were hastily buried! At that time, our orphans and widows lived a very hard life, but I still didn't starve my three children to death to feed them well."

"I don't have a good life, seeing that my daughter has grown up, I asked the matchmaker to find a good family for her to marry, I also want my daughter to follow me to my mother-in-law's house to enjoy a few days of happiness, my daughter is also angry, married to that family gave birth to a big fat boy, happy that people can't close their mouths, my aunt is also righteous, the life of the little couple is also prosperous, but when my little grandson grows up to nine years old, my aunt was hit to death by a tractor pulling bricks at a young age, How fast do you say the brick-pulling tractor can run on our mountain road? ”

"We thought at the time, natural disasters and man-made disasters, there is no way to stand up, how to live the rest of the orphan and widow's future life, I asked someone to find her a bachelor who is not too old, her original in-laws do not stop, and the child does not want it, so things are much easier to do, so that my hard-working daughter can live in the family's house, my daughter married into the second aunt's house in the second year and gave birth to a boy, last year the little grandson just turned nine years old, my second aunt went to the well to fetch water for some reason fell into the well and drowned"

Master and I looked at each other, we both gasped a breath of steaming heat, spicy throat pain, the woman in the old lady's mouth, as if she was cursed, first, I grew up to nine years old, my father died, the first child grew to nine years old, the first husband died, the second child grew to nine years old, the second husband died, a sentence that is well known to women and children in the countryside, that is, 'first to the parents, then to the husband' killed three dear men, what does this death number nine mean to this woman? Why did she commit such a fateful offense, what secrets were hidden behind her tragic experience, and why was numerology so incomplete, Master and I understood the old lady's intention.

The old lady wept so much that she had no more tears, and then continued:

"During the Chinese New Year this year, my daughter threw her two children to me, and went to the south with someone to work to earn money, saying that the south could earn more money and come back to set up a family affair for my eldest grandson first, and then support this little one."

"However, I'm more than 80 years old and have buried the loess here to my neck, how many days can I live? Maybe I won't be able to wake up as soon as I go to bed that night, and who will take care of my two hard-working grandsons."

"A few days ago, I went to the town and asked someone to call her, lied to her and said that I was sick and paralyzed, and I couldn't move in bed, and asked her to come back quickly to take care of the two children, and she was deceived by me to come back, and she should be able to get home tomorrow"

"I came today to ask Master Shao to crack and persuade her, so that she can find another man to marry, at least help feed and feed the children, I am from here, this orphan and widow have a hard time! During the Chinese New Year, she asked a lot of people to introduce her in-laws, and she didn't want to remarry, for fear that people would gossip and poke her backbone, saying that if she married that man and that man died, she was forced to go so far to work"

"Auntie, Xingze knows, you should eat some food first, don't be hungry"

"I still have the heart to eat, my two grandsons are still hungry at home, I have to hurry back and I can't leave me for a while."

The old lady got up from the small wooden bench, put her calloused right hand into her arms, took out something, slowly lifted it, took out a dozen yuan, and insisted on giving it to the master.

"Auntie, you are slapping Xingze in the face, how can I collect your old man's money, Xingze is also a child of the poor, he only does things to help the poor in his life, and he doesn't love money, you are going to ruin Xingze's truth of being a man and doing things."

"I heard before I came, the master is a good person, today I saw the old body seriously, there are still poor old people in this world, hey, there are still many good people in this world!

"Hey, master, forgive the old man for taking the liberty of saying it, you don't want to go if you don't take money."

"Auntie, you misunderstood, I will not only go but also send you back in person"

"Master, no, I can walk back by myself, you guys get busy first, I'll wait for you at home tomorrow, besides, if you go today, my hard-working girl may not be able to come back."

"Auntie, since you have found Xingze, you will listen to my arrangement, okay?"

"This"

"Erdan, take the tarpaulin of the car, let's send the old lady back to Shimo Mountain"