After eating the dumplings of the winter solstice, the uncle and the aunt left in a hurry, Aunt Yun stayed to play with me for a while, and when it was close to evening, she also packed up her things, and walked out of the yard in three steps.

Grandpa made a rule that everyone who came to the back of Mt. Tsukasa, except for our grandparents, had to leave before nightfall.

It wasn't until Aunt Yun's figure disappeared from the end of sight that Grandpa breathed a sigh of air, but after that, he fell into a long silence.

In the past, my grandfather would be silent occasionally, and every time he looked like this, he would frown and smoke sullenly, and from time to time he would look at me twice and sigh.

This time the silence lasted for half a month, grandpa frowned every day and night, smoked very hard, often heard him patting his chest and coughing, in this half month, he rarely looked at me, but sighed a lot more often than before.

Half a month later, on the morning of the second uncle, the fiery figure appeared in front of the courtyard gate.

As soon as he saw the second uncle, the grandfather stood up from the horse and shouted at the gate of the courtyard from afar: "How is it, have you been invited?" ”

The second uncle's face was happy: "Please, please, Mr. Chai will be here in a while." ”

Hearing the second uncle say this, the grandfather let out a long, long breath and slowly sat down again.

The second uncle walked towards his grandfather, and said, "But Mr. Chai said that he didn't see the doll." ”

"Why don't you see it?"

"It is said that you can't be contaminated with a fate that shouldn't be touched by him."

What do you mean by that? Does he help? ”

"Mr. Chai said, I still have to help."

Grandpa frowned slightly, and then said to the second uncle, "You take Dongzi back to the house." ”

At that time, the second uncle happened to walk to my side, without saying a word, picked me up and walked towards the house, when I was about to enter the door, my grandfather seemed to suddenly think of something, and hurriedly said: "Make a pot of tea and bring it out!" ”

At this moment, a deep voice came from the mountain pass: "There is no need for tea, I will leave as soon as I finish my errands." ”

The sound sounds a bit stiff at first glance, but when you taste it carefully, you can find that there is a mild and indifferent taste hidden in the stiffness.

Hearing this voice, Grandpa's brows, which had been frowning for half a month, finally relaxed completely, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

The second uncle didn't dare to be relaxed at all, so he quickly pushed me into the house and closed the door with his backhand.

"You stay here, don't go out." The second uncle hurriedly said this, and then put his ear on the door panel to listen to the movement outside.

In fact, even if you don't put your ear on the door, you can hear the movement outside.

I heard two kinds of footsteps outside the door, the former was from my grandfather, and I knew all too well what movement he was making as he walked, and his steps were fast and the sound was getting farther and farther away, while the other footsteps were getting closer and closer to the door.

It didn't take long for me to hear my grandfather's voice speak: "Mr. Chai, you make me think so much." ”

When Grandpa spoke, his tone was very cheerful.

I heard the deep voice respond: "You haven't contacted me for many years, and as soon as you meet, you say you want to, and you know how to fool." ”

That being said, there is no hint of anger in the tone.

Before my grandfather could pick up the conversation, the deep voice said again: "I know all about Gaidong's situation, and this time I came to send you something." ”

"Mr. Chai, our family's Dongzi, can we still be saved?"

Mr. Chai's tone was a little helpless: "According to your method, sooner or later you will be hopeless." How can you let a child live in this kind of place, you don't look at the weight of the yin qi in the area of Tsukayama, let alone a child, even an adult can't stand it. ”

"Isn't there no way, how dare he see the sun with that fate!"

"Of course, you have to see the yang, how can a living person not see the yang? The boy could no longer stay in the village, and someone had to take him out...... Don't look at me with that kind of look, my apprentice is not here, forcibly taking him away will not do him any good, only his master can take him away. ”

"If Dongzi leaves the village, can his life be changed?"

"Nonsense! He is the life of a fallen boy, it is the life of a corpse, and no one can change this life except himself. ”

"But the doll is still so small, how can he change it himself!"

"Of course, he can't change it now, so he can only let his master take him out, slowly save merit for him, renew his longevity, and wait until he is twenty-four years old, and come back to change his life. Don't make a bitter face, he is a landing boy, and he is worried that he can't find a master? If he hadn't had such a personality, I wouldn't have dared to see him. ”

"What if we meet? We'll just see you. ”

"Don't set me up, I'm really afraid, once I see him, I can't help but accept him, but my apprentice is really not here, forcibly accepting him to get started, it won't benefit me or him at all."

"Yes...... But he has already spoken, if the person who can be his master does not appear, I am afraid that this child will not be able to survive. ”

"You take this, go back and let the child put it on."

"What's this?"

"The peach bone I raised is not worth a few dollars, and it can give the child two more years of life. Don't let him leave Tsukayama for the past two years, after all, he has been in the yin qi for too long, and he is now weak and weak, and it will not be good for him to suddenly let him see the yang. ”

Speaking of this, Mr. Chai paused, and after a moment, he said in a very stiff tone: "Old hijab, tell me the truth, how did this child come from?" ”

After waiting for a long time, my grandfather replied hesitantly: "Sheng...... His mother gave birth to him, how else can he come? ”

I don't know why, Mr. Chai suddenly became angry: "Nonsense, I didn't know he was born from his mother's womb?" I'm asking you, how did this kid survive, corpse, corpse, what is corpse, he shouldn't be a living person in the first place! Old hijab, those things you have done will be damned! ”

"I can't help it, if I don't save this child, the whole village will be robbed, if there is no one in the village, the things under the mound mountain will really be uncontrollable!"

Then there was a long silence.

Lately, I've been seeing the adults around me suddenly become silent, and I don't know why they're like this.

Accompanied by Mr. Chai's helpless sigh: "You can do it yourself." Footsteps came from outside the door again, my grandfather didn't move, it was Mr. Chai who came out of the yard.

It wasn't until Mr. Chai's footsteps could no longer be heard that the second uncle opened the door with a blank face.

Grandpa was still standing in the courtyard stunned, even though he couldn't see Mr. Chai's figure at this time, he still stared straight at the mountain pass, as if Mr. Chai would turn back.

He stood like this from morning to noon, but Mr. Chai never returned.