145, "Xu Lao Tomb" (essay version)

Tranquility turns into decay, decay turns into old traces, old traces turn into disappearing, and disappearing turns into no interest. In the ancient river of history, the momentum of the longitudinal rainbow, the thousands of graces, even for the country and the people, even if it has the ambition of Lingyun, it can not withstand the grinding of the years, and it has turned into a pinch of loess in the tomb. Time is magnificent, how many loves, hatreds, hatreds, and obsessiveness, thinking about the past; Time changes, how many suns, moons and stars are replaced, and the moment of beauty; Time is deep, burying how many hardships, ordinary and ordinary, and brilliant experiences. It is known that the body is like a lamp going out, the bones are gradually exposed, the tombstone will also be mottled, and the sacrificial wood offerings in front of the cave will also wither away, and will not be evergreen forever, endlessly, so that future generations often think that everything is no match for the magic of time.

Of course, if it weren't for the occasional farm work with my mother, I am afraid I would not have known that in the west of the village, in the three-point cultivated land belonging to my family, in the depths of the muddy forest, there was a legend that was no longer known by the young peers of today, because it was a little old, so it gradually fell into dust and was gradually sealed. But this legend has turned into a code name, calling in the mouths of our younger generations and the older generation, "Xu Laofen".

Perhaps in this world, the most outstanding embodiment of a person is that the people in the countryside have made a bronze statue for him, and also named a specific place with his surname, so that people can not only keep it as a commemoration, but also inherit the pride, just like the new landmark buildings in the city today, after people have passed on from generation to generation, it has become the most common synonym for the local area.

And the same is true of "Xu Lao's Tomb". According to my mother, "Xu Lao's Tomb" used to be the resting place of the historical celebrity "Xu Lao Er" (probably "Xu Guangjin") in Daxin Town. Although this place is long gone, there is not even the slightest support, although this place has long since changed from a barren and dilapidated land many years ago to the most fertile and most fertile land today, for farmers to grow crops for generations, to raise generations of farm children. But this hidden anecdote that was once buried in the sand of time is still circulating in this land, continuing to brew and treasure in the memories of the ancestors, and also fermenting into an anecdote and fun in the imagination of the new generation.

In the version of the story told by my mother, it is said that the descendants of the Xu family wanted to find the ancestral tomb and move back to the sect, and because it happened to be busy with farming at that time, on a summer afternoon without knowing a specific date, somehow, several villagers who were doing farm work accidentally discovered the mystery of "Xu Lao's Tomb", that is, the real grave of "Xu Laoer" was discovered.

Because in order to avoid being discovered by thieves, the ancients usually engaged in "suspicious graves" to confuse sentient beings, and as a local historical celebrity in Daxin Town, "Xu Lao Er" naturally became vulgar. As a result, it has been able to escape the destruction of countless ill-intentioned people for hundreds of years. But even so, it will come out one day, and it will naturally be discovered by people, so the secrets of the world have a shelf life.

And those villagers who are doing farm work, the first time they discover this ancient tomb, there will naturally be timid people who will run to the village to report the news, and there will naturally be bold people who will stay and continue to explore the secrets, after all, the poor people at that time finally caught a chance to make a fortune. At that time, it was not like now, after people found rare treasures, there would be no experts to reward the discoverer with 500 yuan and a pennant, at that time, basically the seeers had a share, so no one would go to the whistleblower.

In this way, in this ancient tomb, the bold villagers successively found the "Night Pearl", "Jade Bracelet" and some other burial goods, although they are not luxurious treasures, but they are also difficult to see. Subsequently, as expected, everyone present, about a dozen people, divided up this batch of treasures, and they were all ready to pass them on as family heirlooms. Subsequently, this not glamorous thing, just after the descendants of the Xu family moved back to the ancestral tomb, and the smoke disappeared, and no one came to investigate, perhaps because the original intention of the descendants of the Xu family was to find their ancestors at that time, and they did not care about the flow of treasures in the tomb, so it became the private collection of the seekers.

But later, perhaps because the houses of each family were in disrepair at that time, in the homes of those villagers who privately divided the treasures, either a fire broke out and burned clean, or encountered a thief, was stolen cleanly, or rudely smashed the treasure, in short, almost all of them disappeared with time, leaving only a thought, a bitter memory. Perhaps, it really responded to the sentence "It's not yours, you can't keep it after all". And this is the origin of the name of "Xu Lao Tomb", it is also the dream story of "Xu Lao Tomb", and it is the origin of the surrounding villages and "Xu Lao Tomb", which has been closely related to people's lives "Xu Lao Tomb"...