Volume 1: Apprentice Onmyoji Chapter 33: Grandpa
"Where is this?"
There was a touch of darkness in front of Xu Shiying, and he couldn't see the darkness of his five fingers, and he didn't dare to walk forward when he raised his feet, for fear that there was a big river in front of him.
Some people say that after the night is the day, Xu Shiying waited for a long time, and there was not the slightest light, which made him feel a little familiar, as if he had seen such a scene somewhere.
He remembered!
When he went to the underground black market, on the way back with Wang Sen, what kind of dream did he fall into, did he accidentally fall into the road again?
But this time it made him feel strange, isn't it generally unself-aware to enter a dream?
will be in the dream according to everyone's heart needs, do a variety of dreams one after another, he remembers the first time he did this, came to a peach blossom paradise, so what awaits him this time?
Xu Shiying settled down and walked forward, this time no matter what happened, he would strengthen his heart.
As he walked forward, stars appeared in the sky, illuminating the entire darkness, and Xu Shiying noticed that where he was now was a pedestrian street, which happened to be a traffic light intersection.
It's a red light, pedestrians on both sides of the road are waiting, cool young people with their mobile phones swiping Weibo, skateboarding and listening to songs, young couples hugging and hugging, and grandmothers picking up their grandchildren from school.
Xu Shiying found himself standing in the middle of the road, this is not good, it is about to turn green, as soon as his front feet move, the traffic light changes color mischievously, and the pedestrians who come and go surround him in the middle, strangely enough, he does not feel crowded, and the pedestrians pass through his body.
In the eyes of pedestrians, he was a non-existent person, and this intersection gave him a very familiar feeling, Xu Shiying walked across the road in the direction of his heart with doubts, and stopped at the bend twice.
Looking ahead, this is a community, the houses in the community are all built by themselves, there is a yard, you can hear the dog barking when you are closer, seeing this community, Xu Shiying has some eyebrows in his heart.
But his feet seemed to have roots, and he couldn't take a step forward, and at this moment his heart was extremely entangled, there was his most important person, and he could see it immediately, and he was both excited and afraid.
"Grandpa, is that you......"
He almost forgot how many years he hadn't seen his grandfather, when he was three or four years old, his grandfather was gone, he only remembered that his grandfather was very good to him, and whenever he had good things, he kept them for him, and said that this child would become a great thing.
He likes to talk to his grandfather the most, once he went to his grandfather's house, his grandfather was not there, Xu Shiying asked his father, and his father told him that his grandfather had traveled far, far away.
At that time, I was young, and I didn't understand what my father meant by traveling, so I just felt that my grandfather didn't take him with me when he went out to play, and he would definitely pull out his beard when his grandfather came back.
It wasn't until he grew up and became sensible that he understood that his grandfather went to heaven, and that day he knelt in front of his grandfather's grave and cried for a long time, and not being able to see his grandfather's last face was the biggest regret in his life, and more than ten years have passed.
Xu Shiying is not an indecisive person, maybe this time he saw his grandfather and fulfilled one of his wishes, and said sorry to his grandfather, which made his grandfather angry at that time.
After making up his mind, Xu Shiying counted the intersections, counted to the seventh road caliber and walked straight over, turned in, the street lights on both sides of the intersection were originally not lit, and when he walked over, the street lights lit up with yellowish lights, illuminating the entire intersection.
Keep walking forward, walk to the end and turn back, the second family is grandpa's house, grandpa's house is only ninety square meters, but there is a small courtyard, looking at it from a distance feels like a villa.
The lights in the house were still on, grandpa and grandma hadn't slept yet, Xu Shiying stood in front of the gate and didn't dare to enter, he wanted to see it, but he was afraid to see it.
He hesitated in front of the door, and on the left came a silver-haired grandmother holding a boy about three and a half years old, with a flat head and a pacifier in his mouth, singing songs as she went, and making faces at the boy from time to time.
Xu Shiying's eyes instantly turned red, and he opened his mouth and shouted; "Grandma!"
After shouting, he remembered that he was just a bystander here, he could only see but not touch, and sure enough, the grandmother pushed the door into the house with the little boy in her arms, and closed the door with a click.
Xu Shiying lowered his head in frustration and walked in, and saw that the courtyard was full of things he remembered, with sun-dried hairtail fish and artificial meat hanging on the wall, and plants such as violets on the small steps piled up with red bricks on the left.
The ground was littered with toys he had played with as a young man, a merry-go-round, a rattle, wooden guns, and a copper bullet casing in a chalk box, several of which had fallen to the ground, filled with candle oil.
At that time, I wanted to make a different candle, but at that time, I was very curious, and I wanted to think about everything.
The door of the house opened, and the little boy pushed the door and walked out, picked up the copper bullet casings on the ground and carried them into the house, shouting: "Grandpa, I want a plane, make it for me!" ”
"Okay, grandpa, after writing this, how about making a beautiful big plane for you?"
"No, I want it now!"
"But ......"
"I ...... Right now...... Is!!! ”
The little boy almost roared, his voice was very loud, and Xu Shiying outside the door frowned when he heard it.
"Okay, good, don't be angry, grandpa will make it for you right away!"
Xu Shiying walked into the house and saw the little boy crawling in the study, pouting and staring wide-eyed, looking at the old man in army green clothes and a little hunched waist.
The old man put down the brush in his hand, carefully put the half-written letter paper into the middle drawer, and saw that the little boy was not angry, but squatted down with a smile on his face and pinched the little boy's round face.
The little boy struggled to get rid of the clutches of an old man, unceremoniously handed over the copper bullet casing in his hand and puffed up: "I want a plane now, the dead fat man in Chang'an next door has it, and I want to have it too, and it will be better and more atmospheric than his plane." ”
"Don't worry, don't you know your grandfather's craftsmanship? As soon as grandpa came out, he topped them! "The old man, though slightly hunchbacked, spoke in a deep voice, not at all like an old man of seventy-seven.
The old man took the copper bullet casing from the little boy's hand and was worried, because many of the shells in it had been filled with a lot of wax and oil by the little boy, and this box of shells was not enough to make an airplane, not even a wing.
If you want to make an airplane, you need more shells, but where to find these things in peacetime, I was worried for a while, and the old man regretted it very much, why did he be impulsive and agree to come down.
Isn't this digging a pit by yourself, jumping into it by yourself, wanting to scold people, but seeing the little boy's innocent eyes, his heart softened, and after thinking about it, he smiled and said, "Tenth Battalion, how about grandpa take you to a fun place to explore?" ”
Boys have a strong interest in the topic of adventure, which confirms the saying that men spend most of their time talking about adventure stories, and women most of the time talking about gold, silver, jewelry, and how to conquer men.
"Where are you going?" A small flame of fire bubbled in the little boy's pupils.
"You'll know when you go!" The old man put on his military fur coat and smiled mysteriously.
An old man and a young man walked out of the house and ran towards the back mountain to the west, Xu Shiying followed silently, probably complaining that he couldn't remember things at that time, but in his current memory, this incident had not happened, which made him very curious, what did the two of them do in the back mountain.
To be honest, he also went to the back mountain many times to play after going to school, and he didn't find anything there, and if there was, he would have found it a long time ago.
He was really curious about what the two of them were doing in the back mountain, and followed the old and the young to find out.
The back mountain is not very far from home, about a distance of one or two miles, the old man took the little boy's hand and turned left and right to come to the back mountain, saying that the mountain is actually a small mound, and it is about sixty centimeters under the visual inspection.
The old man came to the small mound in the back mountain without a trace of disrespect, bent down ninety degrees, bowed three times, and at the same time asked the little boy next to him to do the same, the little boy didn't want to, the old man stared, the little boy saw the good-tempered grandfather angry for the first time, Nunuzui had to reluctantly do so.
After bowing, the old man pulled the little boy to a locust tree and stopped, drew the axe pinned to his waist, let the little boy stay away, and began to cut down the tree with force.
The locust tree is not big, only as thick as an adult's thighs, it looks quite relaxed, it didn't take long to cut the locust tree, and the old man picked up a blood jade from the fracture, which makes you feel a smooth feeling of blood flowing in your hands.
The old man held the blood jade in his hand, thought about it, squatted down and said to the little boy with a smile: "Ten camps, see what grandpa found?" ”
The little boy's eyes lit up when he saw the blood jade in his grandfather's hand, although he didn't know the value of this blood jade, but the child's preferences told him that this blood jade was very beautiful.
There are no extra patterns on the blood jade, it is plain, only two or three centimeters in size, and the little boy is scrambling to ask for the piece of blood jade in his grandfather's hand: "Give it to me, grandpa show me, what is this, it's so beautiful!" ”
"This is blood jade, which was given to grandpa by a master, and it can be called a life talisman."
The old man paused and continued: "Good grandson, grandpa can give you the blood jade, but you have to promise grandpa one thing, no matter what, you must wear this blood jade on your body, don't lose it, this is equally important to grandpa and to you."
You are too young to understand the value of this blood jade, but when you grow up, you will know that the value of blood jade is not comparable to money. “
"Got it, that's verbose!"
The little boy snatched the blood jade from his grandfather's hand, held it in his hand and kept playing with it, and with the new toy, he no longer thought about making bullet shell airplane toys.