"Do you still have pins at home? If not, I'll have to borrow it from someone else's house. "Grandpa didn't answer the question I asked, but asked me. I know best what is in my grandfather's house, even better than my grandmother. When I was a kid, I used to rummage through cabinets at my grandfather's house, because I always found some weird things in the old pull-ring cabinets and the red sandalwood boxes, so I never tired of it. The things I found included ancient books that my grandfather had read, copper coins from the Qing Dynasty, bronze locks with rusty spots, and so on. I often waited until my grandparents came back from farm work and saw that the floor was full of things I had turned over, and my grandmother couldn't help but shout: "Oh, my house has entered a thief!" ”

Grandpa immediately picked up dozens of pounds of me, and laughed: "It's hard to prevent thieves!" We're a thief! ”

This is the same as peeing at home, grandpa not only never got angry because of my naughty childhood "urinating everywhere", but hehe smiled: "It's good to pee at home!" Good! This sentence greatly encouraged me, who was still wearing open crotch pants at the time, to pee on my legs casually. The silver and shiny water line poured Grandpa's house to the faint smell of urea.

I thought for a moment and said, "It seems that my uncle has a few pins in his drawer." But I don't know if it's still there. ”

Grandpa nodded: "Then let's go back and have a look, if there is no more, then find someone who has a child at home to borrow." ”

When I got home, I opened my uncle's drawer and found a pin. Grandpa wrapped it in a red cloth, put it in his trouser pocket, and then led me along the road back to Laohe.

Walking to the place where Grandpa had suddenly drunk before he came, we stopped. This was expected by me. Grandpa pointed to the ridge and said, "Let's go along this road." There must be a new grave there. ”

"A new grave? Isn't it Xu Yi's? "The ridge is indeed facing the direction of Master Yi's house.

"No, the mountain behind Master Yi's house is a tomb mountain, and not only Xu Yi and their people have made the grave here. Several surrounding villages have built tombs here. On the way here, I ran into a newly dead ghost. After I scolded it, it turned around and went back over there. Grandpa pointed to the other end of the ridge and said, "So I think its grave should be in that direction." ”

"Oh." I followed my grandfather up the narrow ridge. As soon as they stepped on the ridge, several frogs were startled and jumped into the paddy field. In the evenings of summer, there are a lot of frogs bouncing around on the road in the fields, especially on the ridges. At first, I didn't know that there were frogs on the road, but when you got there, the frogs jumped up and realized that there were so many frogs hiding from the shade.

It was already dark, but I could barely see the road under my feet.

After walking along this uneven ridge for a few minutes, I saw a new grave. The location of this tomb was not well chosen, and it was almost built next to a paddy field.

Grandpa said, "You see, this tomb is next to a paddy field in front of it, and it is against a hillside in the back, and there is only a ridge on the side as a road. No wonder it came to me along the ridges. "When Grandpa commented on the location of the tomb, it was as natural as commenting on the direction of someone's house. I vaguely felt that the little dirt bag was not inhabited by a corpse, but by a family. Maybe Grandpa gets closer, and someone will come out to greet him and me.

Grandpa sighed: "Why fight too much before you die, it's just an inch of land after death." "I know grandpa is talking about the Uncle Jin who came home from the door.

I didn't say a word, I just felt a little cold.

Grandpa walked to the grave, looked at the words on the tombstone, and said, "You have only recently died." Or died young, no wonder you miss the things in the world. Did you not eat enough when you should have eaten, or did you not drink enough when you should have drunk? However, after eating the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, and drinking the elixir and jade liquid, in the end, it is not a handful of loess? Or is it just that I miss the children at home and the old mother in the hall? Don't worry, everyone has their own fate, Zhu Yuanzhang's father and brother starved to death very early, didn't he become an emperor the same? ”

Grandpa is like comforting an old friend who is unbalanced. As he persuaded him, he pulled out the pin wrapped in red cloth, then picked up a stone and pressed it against the tombstone.

"Pins, pins, really separate. Now that we've separated, don't be nostalgic! Young man, you just chased me some distance and wanted me to help you. But I'm not the king of Yama, so I can't change your longevity in the book of life. How can I help you? I can only advise you to go with peace of mind and resolve the bitterness in your heart. No one wants to leave this world, but when it comes time to be separated from relatives and friends, you don't have to worry too much about it, go in peace. Grandpa patted the tombstone on the shoulder, just like he usually patted someone he knew on the shoulder.

Grandpa stood silently in front of the grave for a while, and then said to me, "All right, let's go." ”

We took two steps up the ridge, and Grandpa looked back at the grave, sighed, and said, "Don't cry." Go in peace, ah! ”

I pulled the corner of my grandfather's clothes and asked timidly, "Grandpa, is that person still crying?" ”

Grandpa just said, "Hey......"

It's getting late. The mountains and trees not far away gradually lose their three-dimensionality, as thin as silhouettes. Some of the frogs began to croak. At the foot of the mountain, the grasshoppers also sang the concordance. My grandfather and I walked back along the ridge, gossiping as we went.

We had just returned home from Laohe, and Uncle Jin immediately came to find us.

"Oops, oops, terrible!" Uncle Jin shouted exaggeratedly as soon as he entered the door.

"What's going on?" Hearing him shout like this, I immediately became nervous, thinking that something big had happened.

"Thankfully, your grandfather is amazing!" He gave a thumbs up. I let out a sigh of relief. Grandma hurriedly moved a chair for Uncle Jin to sit down.

Uncle Jin said that after he came back with Master Yi, Master Yi dismantled his new wooden bed. Sure enough, as grandpa guessed, there were two big turtles carved on the inside of the baffle of the bed. It turned out that what woke them up at night was the sound of turtles crawling. The two tortoises were carved so vividly that it was as if they were about to crawl off the baffle as soon as they were alarmed. The tortoise's neck was twisted, and Uncle Jin was startled when he opened the baffle, thinking that the four tortoise eyes were staring at him.

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