Chapter 39: Offerings

Xiaolian and I hugged Xiaoque's ashes altar, hurried back to my grandfather's old house, didn't want to say anything, didn't even wash his face, the two of them worked all night, tired and had a sore back, especially me, put the ashes altar in the West House, and didn't see how Xiaolian was? I went straight into the house, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, but my affairs in my hometown were finally finished, and when I thought about it, I really couldn't cry or laugh, and it was only ten days later, and my whole world view had changed, and it had become shocking and frightened, but also curious.

When I got up, I didn't see Xiaolian, my phone was out of battery, so I didn't call her, but cleaned up the dirty clothes I changed last night and the quilt on the sheets, washed them all in the washing machine, and dried them in the yard, and I was ready to go back to the city tomorrow.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiaolian came in from outside and called me to her house for dinner, I hummed, and went to the village chief's house, at the dinner table, I told them that I was going to go back to the city tomorrow, and the village chief Li didn't say anything, just drank some wine with me, which was practiced.

The next morning, Village Chief Li drove his three-wheeled motorcycle to the gate of the yard, honked the horn, I answered, and put Grandpa Xiaoque's ashes altar, brass box, blood beads, "Yin and Yang Secret Art" and the small compass left by my grandfather into a backpack in the house, and carried it on my back, and the bone sword was placed in my trouser pocket, and the doors of the old house were locked one by one, and I took a look in the yard, and sighed slightly, I don't know when I will be able to come back?

When I got to the door, I saw Village Chief Li carrying Xiaolian and sitting in front, and I had to sit in the back of the tricycle, and saw a pink leather box on the faΓ§ade of the carriage, shrugged my shoulders slightly, I knew it was Xiaolian's, I didn't say anything?

Village Chief Li immediately drove us to the town, first found a restaurant, had breakfast, and then arrived at the bus station.

Village Chief Li was very reluctant to Xiaolian, so he pulled her and said a lot of words, I was a little annoyed to listen to it next to me, but I pity the parents of the world, Xiaolian is very sensible, so I listened carefully and nodded, if I had been annoyed.

Subsequently, Village Chief Li pulled me and gave me some orders, which was nothing more than asking me to take good care of Xiaolian and not let her suffer in the county.

I knew that this was an old man's bad idea, so he naturally nodded and said, "Don't worry, Xiaolian is my cousin, and I will never let her suffer!" ”

Village Chief Li stopped talking, his face didn't seem to be very good, I could see that he was worried that Xiaolian's yin female physique would attract some unclean things, so he said: "Don't worry, Uncle Li, if Xiaolian has any situation, I am here, and she will never have an accident!" ”

Village Chief Li was relieved and sent us to the car, and when he saw that the buses were all driving, he waved at us reluctantly. Xiaolian was also a little reluctant, so I comforted: "Xiaolian, it's just to work in the county, can you use it like this to make it seem like you don't see each other?" If you have time, you'll be back, it's only a little more than two hours away. However, you should also go out and have a look, what is the benefit of staying in the countryside? Feel relieved! I promised your dad that I would definitely find you a good husband! ”

Xiaolian frowned when she heard this, and pinched the soft flesh of my arm: "Did you leave the village, without my father by your side, your lustful nature was revealed, let's say, did you hook up with that little girl in the county, let me show you?" ”

I saw Xiaolian joking with me, so I was naturally happy, so I talked nonsense with her all the way, and then, my mother called again, saying that Xiaolian and I had returned to the county. Village Chief Li had already communicated with my parents, and I don't know how to explain my father, but my mother was still very happy to hear it, and asked me to pay attention to safety all the way.

At ten o'clock, we arrived at the county seat, and then took a taxi to the warm community, but I didn't expect my mother to pick us up at the door, but it seemed that Xiaolian was welcome.

When I got to the house, my mother was going to clean up the study and make room for Xiaolian to live, but I knew that there were a lot of things in the study, so I said that I lived, and I had to read at night anyway. Mom didn't bother to pay attention to me, seeing that the time was not early, she let us clean up by ourselves, and she went out to buy groceries.

Xiaolian was very diligent, after cleaning up the house, she went to help my mother pick vegetables and cook, and I sorted things out in the study and took out Grandpa Xiaoque's ashes, but I didn't know where to put it, and in the end, I decided to discuss it with my parents.

At noon, when Dad came back from work, I pulled Dad into the study, pointed to the urn of Grandpa Xiaoque, and told Dad what happened in his hometown, but his face still changed, Dad did not inherit Grandpa's mantle, but he still knew a lot about the netherworld, and knew that I was afraid of inheriting Grandpa's mantle, so he told me, in this case, in the afternoon, I went to buy a better urn and put it in the shrine in the living room to worship.

I hugged my father's neck violently, and I was very grateful to my father for understanding me, he patted me on the shoulder and sighed: "Xiaoyang, in fact, I don't want to put the urn at home, but I also avoid the netherworld." Your grandfather said that the cycle of cause and effect, there must be a cause and effect, you have such a mind, I believe that you will get good results! ”

After the meal, Dad pulled Mom and went into the house, probably telling Mom about Grandpa Xiaoque, so as not to scare Mom when he got it. And Xiaolian and I went out and bought a small urn, which cost hundreds, but fortunately I have saved some money over the years, which are all red envelopes for the New Year from childhood to adulthood.

When I returned home, my mother sat on the sofa in the living room, her face was not good, especially when she saw the small square box I was holding in my arms, her face was whiter, I hurriedly handed the urn to Xiaolian, and asked her to go into the study to pour the ashes of the columbarium into the box, and came to my mother, and explained to my mother that if it wasn't for Grandpa Xiaoque, I am afraid I would not be able to come back.

My mother actually understood my feelings, but she was afraid that there was an urn at home, and she didn't mean anything else. I said to my mother, "Grandpa Xiaoque, he will never harass us!" He was our elder, and although he died as a child, I believe in the blood relationship between us. He loves us! ”

Mom finally had to sigh, saw Xiaolian bring out the urn, I immediately went over, made a stool, put it on the side of the wall to stand on the stool, put the urn on the shrine on the front wall, in fact, the shrine is not very high, but there is an incense burner, I was worried that I accidentally touched it, so I stood a little higher, put the urn against the wall, and the incense burner was placed in front of the urn.

After it was put away, my mother took out some incense candles, I lit the incense candles, inserted them in the incense burner, but did not burn paper money, there was no need, and when the green smoke of Nana floated up, I immediately saw the incense of the incense candles slowly drifting to the urn, fortunately it was not very obvious, otherwise it really frightened my mother.

There is the breath of incense into the urn, and it is sucked by the soul of Grandpa Xiaoque, and his recovery speed is faster, but it should not be too much, and the incense candle can be offered once a day.

Mom saw me Shinto in front of the shrine, worshiping Grandpa Xiaoque, shaking her head with a wry smile, Xiaolian seemed to see my mother's face, and went over to comfort her a few times, so that Mom finally accepted the facts.