73. Old steles

Sheng Shiyao really knows how to pour cold water, from the time I learned that I could go out to this time I was walking on the street, my mood was up and down, he really walked out of the door with me, and he was walking beside me at this time.

No matter which angle you look at his expression, it is relaxed and pleasant, and he seems to enjoy this old age walk. And all around us, there were really clusters of old people exercising, because just five minutes after we went out, he proposed to go somewhere with him. I thought he would have some constructive good attractions to go, but he took me around the road to the most famous old people's park in this small city.

Of course, the Park for the Elderly was certainly not originally called that, it also had a rather elegant name: Yunyuan. According to the local people's inquiry, this Yunyuan was originally a martyr's park, which was later rebuilt, and in the depths of the park, there are still some martyrs' and heroes' monuments. At this time, Sheng Shiyao and I came here, the stele stands like a stone forest, some of the inscriptions are carved in red, some are in black, most of them are epitaph sentences.

Sheng Shiyao seemed to be very interested in these, looking over one by one, circling around among the stone monuments. I was bored, so I told him to sit down next to him and rest for a while, and then come out and walk together when he was done. He had no objection, leaving me and walking in a row inside, I found a stone step and sat down, looked left and right, and found that there were fewer people here, but it was very quiet.

In a misguided moment, he looked back at Sheng Shiyao and found that he was gone. Surprised, he moved a little to the side, and saw his small figure behind a stone tablet. I think he is really weird, and he is actually interested in the inscription engraved there, which is usually found in the martyr's cemetery in the city.

I was very bored, I didn't pay attention to him anymore, and leaned back on the steps, lying uncomfortable, the edges and corners of the steps against the back of my head and back, but I didn't care, I just wanted to look up at the sky like this. I suddenly remembered Tagore's famous saying: "There is no trace of a bird in the sky, but I have flown over." People always use many examples to prove their existence, but what is the real existence? The continuation of life? Inheritance of faith?

I couldn't help laughing, and I was sentimental in this. Sit up with your hands propped up, look at the stone stele forest, you can't see Sheng Shiyao's figure, you should have gone to the deepest part. I patted the dust off my ass and went inside, intending to go in and call him, I was hungry and it was time to find a place to eat. With him as the boss, it is unreasonable to not let him have a good meal.

But surprisingly, I went all the way to the innermost and didn't see Sheng Shiyao. When I walked in, I looked very carefully, and I found him in a row, and he was wearing a dark casual suit today, which was clear at a glance. Behind the stele forest is a dense forest, didn't he enter the forest? After a moment's hesitation, I stepped in, and it was clear that no one had entered the woods for a long time, not even the gardener, and the paved gravel path was almost covered with weeds on both sides.

After walking for a while, I found that the weeds under my feet had traces of being stepped on, which confirmed my previous thoughts, and Sheng Shiyao entered here. I didn't think that the forest was quite big, and after walking for five minutes, I saw a dark figure standing under a rich tree, it was Sheng Shiyao. He walked up quickly and asked, "How did you get here?" But when I approached him, I found in front of him an old stone tablet, on which moss had grown, and the inscription was blurred.

A strange feeling came out of his heart, and seeing Sheng Shiyao's eyes silent, he asked wonderingly, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? He raised his hand and pointed at the stone tablet and said, "Look at the inscription, it is not a modern text. "Hearing him say this, I looked carefully, although the handwriting has been blurred, but it really does not look like Chinese characters, generally our Chinese characters are angular and angular, hooks are sharp, but the words on this stone tablet are round at the edges and corners." Could it be that this is an ancient Chinese character? I guessed.

But Sheng Shiyao shook his head and said with certainty: "No." ”

Based on his experience and knowledge much wider than mine, I immediately trusted his judgment. But this is not an ancient Chinese character, so what kind of script is it? Judging from the degree of wear and tear of the stele, there should be a lot of age, and the inscription on it looks more like a symbol than a word. I thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's the old stone tablet with markings." ”

Sheng Shiyao didn't speak, his eyes were always fixed on the stone, I looked around, except for this place, there was no other stone tablet in the rest of the place. Maybe the leaves of the forest are too lush for sunlight to enter, so the mud on the ground is wet, and some of the leaves that have fallen on the ground have also rotted, and the smell is not good.

I frowned and urged him: "Let's go, this kind of stone tablet is common in the mountains and forests, and it is very old, even if you ask the person in charge of the park, you may not know." Sheng Shiyao finally raised his gaze to look at me, and found that there was confusion in his eyes, this is a strange thing, is a stone tablet worth him so entangled?

When I came out of the forest, I proposed to find a place to eat, he walked forward as if he hadn't heard, and when he walked out of the Yun Garden, I grabbed him and said again, he looked down at my hand, and said lightly: "You go eat by yourself, I'll go back first." After saying that, he broke away from my hand and turned around, and walked away quickly, leaving me alone in stunned place.

It wasn't until his back was just a black dot that I came to my senses, and he wasn't joking. Think about it, when did Sheng Shiyao joke with someone? Fortunately, there are two red tickets in my pocket, and there is still solace left.

In the evening, I returned to Liu Yufang in a happy mood, and as soon as I stepped into the door, I was blocked by Liu Yue, and asked with a cold face: "Where is Brother Yao?" Why did you come back alone? ”

Yes? I was stunned, he said he would come back first. He looked inward and replied with an innocent face: "Hasn't he come back yet?" ”

Liu Yue's suspicious gaze was repeatedly confirmed on my face, and he snorted coldly and ignored me, and walked to the back room. I followed and walked in, and saw Zhou Tong walking back and forth in the courtyard, and when he saw me, he also asked Liu Yue the question just now. This time I couldn't be more sure, Sheng Shiyao didn't go back to Liu Yufang after he separated from me at noon.

I muttered, "Won't you just call and ask?" ”

The two eyes shot at the same time, Liu Yue's I didn't want to analyze the meaning, but Zhou Tong's was surprised, he asked: "Little sister, don't you know that Brother Yao doesn't use a mobile phone now?" It's us, unless necessary, under normal circumstances, the mobile phone is turned off, and we rarely use the mobile phone to communicate. ”

I was stunned, why is this?

Zhou Tong explained to me an incomprehensible paradox, he said that although mobile phones are a technological necessity in this era, they can also become obstacles, especially if the mobile phone has a positioning function, it will be the best tracker. I asked him how he usually communicated. It's like the current situation, I can't find Sheng Shiyao, so what should I do? He replied to me and said wait, I want to vomit blood when I hear this answer, if Sheng Shiyao suddenly leaves, or something happens, then wait until what year and month?

Liu Yue was very disdainful of my question, and turned back to the front room directly and continued to look at the store. Zhou Tong pulled me to sit down, saying that he was waiting while chatting. He said that several of them, the first to follow Sheng Shiyao was Liu Yue, so this Liu Yufang became their gathering place, which is also equivalent to home. Counting the number of years, he has followed Sheng Shiyao for five years and his sixth son for three years, so Liu Yue is longer than them, which shows the depth of his feelings.

Zhou Tong mentioned that there will be such a month in the year when Sheng Shiyao goes out alone to run errands. The rest of the time, he was with them, and he was in a hurry before, mainly because he had something to say to Sheng Shiyao.

I pondered and calculated, Zhou Tong looked like he was about thirty years old, Liu Yue was twenty-eight at most, and his six sons were twenty-four or five, and the three of them were pushed by age, and they all followed Sheng Shiyao in their twenties, what is the power that makes them so convinced of a person? Liu Yuena can also be explained as a woman's love for a man, Zhou Tong and Liuzi can't also like Sheng Shiyao.

Zhou Tong listened to my question, smiled, covered his mouth and whispered: "Little sister, brother, I'll be honest with you, Liu Yue's mother-in-law is a little fierce, but for my dish, that girl's dedication to Brother Yao is fruitless, sooner or later I will take her down." I was stunned for five seconds, and finally burst out laughing, I see, the power of love.

But Zhou Tong turned around again and said: "Of course, the more reason is that our Brother Yao is amazing, it's not that I'm bragging, but if you can think of it, there's nothing that Brother Yao doesn't know." Take what we experienced in Horijo this time, you can tell me, if Brother Yao is not here, he will definitely have to fall in. Those evil names, little sister, you must have never heard of them, I'm used to it, I've been with Brother Yao for all these years, and I've seen everything strange and weird. ”

I have to admit that Zhou Tong's words are very sincere and reasonable. I believe that the reason why the sixth son is convinced by Sheng Shiyao is similar to him, but here in Zhou Tong, there is another factor of Liu Yue. Thinking of Liu Yue's pungency, I couldn't help but show sympathy when I looked at Zhou Tong's eyes, and he also pretended to be bitter and said: "Okay, little sister, you don't have to look at me like this, the revolution has not yet succeeded, Lao Zhou still needs to work hard, and the road is long." ”

It's very pleasant to chat with Zhou Tong, he speaks humorously, and always has a smile on his face, which is much better than Liu Yue's cold noodles. At nearly eight o'clock in the evening, we heard the voice of people in the front room, and we followed the sound inside, and saw that Sheng Shiyao was really back. I found that everyone wanted to ask him where he had gone, but Zhou Tong and Liu Yue couldn't help but ask after seeing him.

I didn't think too much about it, and since they didn't ask, I asked, "Didn't you say you were going to come back first at noon?" How did it get to this point? Where have you been? ”

Sheng Shiyao gave me two words very simply: "Chengxi." And then there was no more follow-up.