Shi Dazhuang asked Chen Changshou to borrow a car, and rushed back to Yuziba with Yu Meiren that night. When they climbed the slope of the back mountain, the sky above them was already full of stars.

There is the place where Yu Gang was buried, and the ashes of Yu Gang and his wife were moved to the martyrs' cemetery, but the grave is still preserved. The people of Yuziba found some things that the couple used before their lives from their home, buried them in the mound, and set up a monument engraved with the words "Tomb of the Hero Yu Gang and his wife", and the person who erected the monument was "all the foolish people of Yuziba".

Now there is another tomb on the side of the clothed mound, and there is also a monument, which is engraved with the words "Tomb of Enkun Gong". Old Enkun's black natural dragon head ebony crutch was not buried in the soil with his ashes, so he was stunned and inserted on the ground in front of the monument, as if it had grown roots in the soil.

The two stone tablets glowed white under the starlight, like two land and mountain gods dressed in plain white clothes, one of them still on crutches. They will always stand here watching, watching, and guarding the small dam in the mountain col for generations to come.

There is also a small mound at the back of the tombs of Enkun Gong and Yu Gang, which is slightly raised and there is no monument. It was Lemao's grave. Old Enkun hesitated for a long time after Lemao died, and finally decided to bury him behind Yu Gang's grave, saying that there was righteousness here, so that he could be reincarnated in the next life and be an upright and good person. The villagers wanted to make a stone monument for Lemao, but old Enkun said that he was not qualified to erect a monument, and only deserved to cover a little thin soil.

On the day he was put into the ground, old Enkun kept watch on the mountain all night. The people in the dam were worried about him and took turns to see him, but they saw him sitting in front of Yu Gang's grave. He pointed to the people and said, "When I die, I will bury me here, do not erect a monument, just stick my crutches in the ground." ”

In accordance with his will, the dam man inserted the ebony dragon head on the grave, but still erected a monument for him. Ebony cane replaced the longevity of the grave.

Shi Dazhuang took out the incense, candles, paper money, fruits, wine and dishes that Yusang temporarily prepared for him, and Yu Meiren didn't cry again this time, but obediently lit three sticks of incense and knelt down to kowtow to the grave of old Enkun.

A fire lit by paper money illuminates the tombstone. The flames swooped into the sky, as if they could become stars forever if they were high, but soon they turned into black ash and dust foam flying in the wind.

The poppy did not understand why Enkun Gong had put the crutch in front of the grave, she touched the unpolished natural dragon head on the top of the crutch with her hand, where it was the perennial slurry, smooth and greasy, shiny, reflecting the ghostly light in the firelight, like the eyes of a real dragon.

She felt a coldness in her hand, it was the dew of the night seeping into her skin, and then this coldness was dissolved by the hidden spring-like wandering thoughts, and something warm rose from the bottom of her heart, quickly spread to her whole body, and fused with the power from the ground through her hands and the ebony crutch.

Dead wood springs in the dark, and the green spores break through the blockade of dead skin and pulp, and bloom green leaves.

Shi Dazhuang's eyes widened in disbelief, watching the ebony dragon head crutch inserted in the ground turn into an evergreen tree in front of the grave.

The power of life is spreading in the darkness of the night, as weeds grow, petals crackle open, vines creep up the treetops, and awaken the birds perched on the trees. The sound of the birds, the sudden awakening of everything that had been sleeping in the night, and the music of life was played on the hillside, as if Beethoven's Second Symphony, everything was full of life, everything was full of hope!

It wasn't until Old Enkun quietly appeared at the grave that Shi Dazhuang was sure that this was not reality. However, he did not wake up from his dream, but watched old Enkun walk towards the beauty with a smile, stroked the beauty's hair and said, "Grow tall, grow tall!" ”

The flame of the paper money was still flickering and extinguishing, and old Enkun stepped on the fire, and his body flew up with the flames, until it reached the zenith, turning into a star.

Every star in the sky turned into a human face, Shi Dazhuang saw Yu Gang, saw Meng Yan, and saw those comrades-in-arms who had died, they all looked at him in the sky and smiled at him.

At this time, he heard Yu Meiren suddenly say a word: "Daddy, I won't go back to Wuzhong." ”

Shi Dazhuang was suddenly frightened, and a cold sweat soaked through the clothes on his body. He didn't respond to Beauty's question, but looked around the dark mountain forest, and after making sure that there was no one around, he asked, "When did you learn to control your dreams?" ”

Yu Meiren said, "Sister Xing and Jingjing have both taught me, but it is Aoki Yaya who really taught me. When he rescued me from Masuba, I picked eighty-one poppies. It was much later that I realized that Yaya Aoki was already teaching me skills at that time. ”

Shi Dazhuang breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was taught by Aoki, it would be fine. Although he is not an awakened person, since he met Aoki, he also knows a little about spiritual power, but he didn't expect that Yu Meiren's spiritual power is already so strong.

"What did you just say?" Shi Dazhuang wasn't sure if that sentence was a hallucination in his dream or a beauty.

Yu Meiren slowly removed her hand on the dragon's head crutch and said seriously: "Daddy, I won't go back to Wuzhong, I want to stay in Yuziba, this is my home." ”

Shi Dazhuang was very surprised, and deeply blamed herself for not taking good care of the girl because she was busy with work in the past three years, otherwise why would she have such an idea!

When he looked at the poppy again by the faint light of the fire and the starlight, and saw the outline of her face, he realized that the girl had grown up unconsciously, and was no longer the skinny little girl who refused to call herself big daddy in the courtyard of Enkun's house three years ago.

He heard her stubbornness, which had been in her bones since she was a child, deeply ingrained, just like Yu Gang back then.

"But ......" Shi Dazhuang still tried to persuade her, "You still have to study, you have to go to university, you have to be successful in the future, your father, your mother, and Enkun Ah Gong are all watching you from the sky!" What's more, there are so many people in Wuzhong who like you and care about you, as well as your classmates and friends......"

"I'll go see them." The poppy looked up at the sky, as if communicating with the stars in the sky, and muttered to herself, "This is my home!" ”

Shi Dazhuang wanted to persuade again, but the poppy suddenly pulled up the ebony crutch of the old Enkun, and the earthquake trembled in a trance, as if the vitality all over the ground was held in the hands of the poppy.

……

Bi Shenghua sat on the bar counter of the new Ruhua bar on Changjiang Road, sipping the cocktail made by Xiao Qi that still did not grow much, looking at the intoxicated guests under the flickering lights, as if returning to the days of opening a bar in Liuying Lane.

She saw the log pestle under the old tree like a log, and a hungry crow lying on the head of the chicken coop. But suddenly a strong wind blew, and the giant in the wind stretched out his hand and uprooted the tree.

The glass hits the ground with a crisp sound. Bi Shenghua didn't care about the strange stares from others, rushed out of the door of the bar, stopped a taxi, and went straight to Liuying Lane.