"It's really nothing, they'll come back later, you don't have to worry about it, Mom will make you something to eat, and then go back to the mountains when you're full." Seeing that my brows were furrowed and my face was full of doubts, my mother smiled again.

It was at this time that the sound of talking was faintly heard on the road outside.

I was slightly stunned, listened intently for two seconds, then turned around and strode outside.

Although the voice was still a little far away, it was completely audible who Grandpa was talking to.

When I came to the road, I saw my grandfather with two hands behind his back, walking from Lijiaao to his home, just crossing the stream next to Lijiazhai, while walking, he was talking to Li Yixing, a distant cousin who was herding ducks in the dam below the road.

And the person walking next to his grandfather, who else is carrying two hands behind his back, except for the old man, can it be?

I couldn't help but be completely stunned, looking at the two old men walking home, full of confusion, I really couldn't figure out what medicine was being sold in this family's gourd.

Since the old man really didn't have anything to do, why did he hide it from me? I don't even want to answer the phone!

Seeing that I looked confused, I followed out of the yard, and I also saw the two old men's mothers, who couldn't say whether they were weak or embarrassed, and then comforted: "See? Now you should believe that your mother didn't lie to you, seeing that you are in a hurry, you don't want to believe it. ”

"Mom, what the hell is going on? What exactly are you thinking? Why is it that my master is at home, but you refuse to explain anything to me? As he confirmed that the old man really had nothing to do, he completely relieved himself, and the faint grievances that he had pressed in his heart before, such as not being understood by his family and hiding everything, were suddenly much richer.

Again, I really can't understand what they mean by doing this.

"Mom doesn't know how to make it clear to you, so let's wait for you to ask your master directly, but he is an old man, I'm afraid he will be a little unhappy, if he says anything to you, just follow his old man's family a little bit, don't talk back." The mother naturally knew what her son was feeling at this time, so she smiled softly and apologetically, and said that she reached out to help me tidy it up, because I was in a hurry to come back, and I didn't care about tidying up, and some of it rolled into the collar of the clothes.

Will the old man be upset? I couldn't help but be stunned, still unable to understand what it meant.

While talking, the two old men had already come to the bottom of the small intersection of Shanglijiazhai and saw our mother and son standing on the side of the road outside the gate.

Sure enough, as my mother said, the moment she saw me, the old man, who had a very normal face, sank his face. I don't know if it's an illusion or what, but I seem to have faintly heard a cold snort.

"Something that doesn't make a living!" I was about to go up and take the two old men home, and find out what kind of mystery it was, when I heard the old man glaring at me from a distance angrily, and scolded, so that my feet that had just taken half a step settled down.

Although I didn't know what was in the clouds, with my mother's preventive injection just now, I wouldn't be reprimanded, so I still stubbornly leaned forward, scratched the back of my head and smiled: "Grandpa, Master, are you back?" Master, when did you come back? ”

"It's up to you when you come back, you can't live without Lao Tzu, right?" As soon as the words fell, I saw that the old man said angrily again, and his tone was a little colder than the previous sentence.

I hurriedly said no, it's Master, you go to the general's grave, and there is no news for three or four days, and the disciple is a little ...... I'm worried.

"Lao Tzu, I see that you are either worried, or you haven't broken it yet...... You can't live without Lao Tzu! The old man snorted again, his tone became a little colder again, and he didn't know how to do it, where did such a big and inexplicable fire come from.

Seeing that the grandson was reprimanded so much that he didn't dare to talk anymore, since the old man came home, he was obviously much more sober than before, and he didn't make any more mistakes with his grandfather, and he suddenly laughed, and his father and mother were also smiling beside him, and he didn't dare to talk at all.

"That's right, that's right, now these dolls are going to be trained well, there are too many peaceful days, and there is no bloody ruthlessness at all, they should have been thrown out a long time ago to boil it up, fight a dozen, otherwise it won't be a weapon, hehe~"

It turned out that the old man had come back on the morning of the second day of the General's Day, that is, the third day of the second lunar month, but he didn't go back to the mountain, and he didn't want me to know.

And the old man doesn't go back to the mountain, and he doesn't want me to know the reason why he has returned, in fact, it is not difficult to guess, as long as you are sure that nothing happened to him, and then consider the motives of the abnormal behavior of his parents and parents, it is easy to think of it. The reason why they, including the old village chief Pan Changhong, unanimously kept silent about me was not because the old man had clearly told them anything, but because they all knew the old man's intentions in doing so.

The old man wanted to leave me alone on the mountain, to make me think that he had gone to the general's grave and never returned, and had gone away without saying a word, so that he would no longer have any dependence on him.

It can't be said that he was careless and poorly arranged, because I really came over like this before. When the old man will leave and when he will return, he will rarely tell me in advance, so that I can be mentally prepared to come and go without a trace. The last time I left, or I graduated, the day I moved my luggage back to the small courtyard from school, I made a big meal and had a good meal with my apprentice, I just said that I wanted to honor and honor his old man, but he gave him a blank look, and when I cleaned up a bowl, it was gone, and I left for more than a year, until my relationship with Luo Wenxin fell to the freezing point, and I didn't come back until I was about to explode.

So over the years, although I have become more and more uneasy as the old man gets older, I have become completely accustomed to it, and he always leaves without saying a word. The only difference is that he didn't really leave this time, and I don't know how to do it, when I went back to my hometown to pass the year, I actually forgot about the most distinctive character traits, and I didn't think if he had left again as before, and my mind was full of thoughts that something had happened.

I wanted him to think that he had left, so that he would stay honestly in the mountains, but I did not do this, but began to ask the next day, and now I am running to the house to look for him, which is completely different from what he thought, and you can imagine what the old man will feel when he sees me at home.

You know, after I was asked to go back to the mountain on the second day of February, he didn't let me come back.

But in my opinion, the old man is still a little taken for granted, in the past, I didn't look for it after he left, it was because there was nowhere to look for it, and no one could inquire, so I had no way to accept the facts. Now there are so many people in my hometown, don't say that I didn't think of this, even if I thought of him saying goodbye, how could I not find a word at all.

If I don't ask at all, even if I don't feel anything, my parents will say that I have no conscience.

Of course, I didn't know until a long time later, and the old man didn't want me to know the deeper reason why he was at home, but that's all for later.

Anyway, the old man was very upset to see me running home with a frightened look on his face, and even though he knew that I was completely worried about him, he still didn't appreciate it at all. Not only did he not appreciate it, but he seemed to be even more angry because of it. With the understanding of our master and apprentice for more than ten years, if it weren't for the fact that in my hometown, I have to take into account my family's feelings, I am afraid it would not be as simple as reprimanding him with a calm face.

In this way, the situation could not be clearer - my good days are completely over for some time to come. When you comprehend it for yourself and find the breath that the old man said, when it will be over and move on to the next stage.

Before that, I needed to be alone in the mountains, I couldn't go anywhere, and I couldn't keep in touch with the outside world as often.

This is the request that the old man clearly put forward after he reprimanded me, and it is also one of the few direct hard demands since I became an adult. Before that, the old man most of the time just expressed his meaning clearly, let me watch and do it myself, and I didn't know if it was a long time ago, or a punishment made in anger after seeing me return home "without interest".

The little yellow dog stayed at home, can no longer follow me in the mountains, the mobile phone has also been handed over, and the next week can only contact Zhang Xiaoweiyun sister in the provincial capital once, the firewood, rice, oil and salt on the mountain and the emergency lamp, as well as my pen, ink, paper, inkstone, drawing materials and other irrelevant things, also have to be taken home, can no longer use the pen to paint, the grass house can no longer have the breath of life, the meal by the father or mother, every day at noon to the outside of the mountain bay, come out to eat, and accompany me in the future, only grandpa went to the old house to rummage out, An old kerosene lamp older than me, and a bronze statue of my grandfather.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

It's no different from going to jail.

Even if you think about it, it's not as good as going to jail. At least I can see a lot of people in prison, and no matter how bad it is, I can still eat three meals a day, and I only have one meal a day, and I can only talk to my father or mother during meals, and I can only stay by myself at other times.

Besides, I still live in such an out-and-out "ghost place".

Although I had roughly guessed the next result from the old man's calm face and unusually serious attitude, my face still changed slightly when I heard him say these demands.

Fortunately, although the old man's attitude was tough this time, and there was no room for negotiation at all, he still gave me the last afternoon, the last night to enjoy, or the time to buffer, and did not send me back to the grass hut immediately.

So while it was still early, I went back to the grass hut with my father, took back all the things that the old man said, and told Zhang Xiaowei and Sister Yun about the old man's decision, and asked the latter to help take care of it, and after sleeping at home for the last night, I ate all the things that my mother got up early for me early the next morning, supported my bulging belly, carried a quilt added to the bed, and carried the black lacquer, touching the sticky oil lamp and oil bottle up the mountain.

Although he did not raise the slightest doubt from beginning to end, and expressed his support for all the arrangements of the old man, when I was sent out, I still saw that my mother had some red eyes. I don't know if I cried after I turned away.

Compared with my mother's distress, and my father hid better deeply, I don't have any negative psychology such as pessimism, and even feel a little optimistic inexplicably, although I have a round belly, I feel that what I eat is in my throat, and I will spit it out when I move a little bigger, but I still can't stop the brisk pace, or frivolous.

Humming a messy song, I came to the middle of the mountain, and along the canal to the bay where the thatched hut was, and I clearly felt that after another night of gathering, the eerie degree of this place had indeed gone up another level.

And the thatched hut in the deepest part, perhaps because it was empty for a night and no one lived, and everything related to life in it was taken back, at this time there was no longer any breath of life, and it looked extremely cold and gloomy in the faint morning light, looking like a big tomb.

This is the place where I will be alone day and night from now on, and I don't know how long I will stay.

But no matter how eerie it is, it's all completely expected, nothing to make a fuss about, and after a night of buffer adjustment, and the little daughter-in-law and Sister Yun, especially Yuan Jinzhu's slut comfort, I think I've completely changed my mood, so don't say it's just like a grave, even if I really make a grave now for me to lie in, I don't have any psychological pressure at all.

"I knew it would be like this, why did I work so hard to build a house at that time, and it was much more convenient to put a coffin directly? I also lay in peacefully and comfortably, saving myself any more effort to pneumatic bullets. ”

With a feeling that I myself couldn't describe, I showed a faint, somewhat empty smile, looked at the lonely grass hut and laughed at myself, and then carried the black and sticky oil lamp oil bottle, and walked over slowly.

Because some of them can't let go of their hands, so they don't bother to use their hands anymore, so they directly use their feet to cover the entrance of the tomb three or two times, phew, open the curtain covering the door, to be precise, directly break the rope above, after falling, step into the grass house, and don't bother to think about the door curtain falling, whether to re-do it, anyway, it's such a gloomy, the house is heavier than the outside of the cold broken place, to a curtain has no effect, it is better to directly not, it is more convenient to enter and exit.

I didn't rush to incense my grandfather and start meditating, because I ate a little too much when I came, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to sit down for a while.

Ah! Why do you lie down and suddenly feel a little sleepy?

Fuck it, go to sleep when you're sleepy, anyway, I've made it clear to my mother, I don't have to bring me food today, even if I sleep, it's nothing.