Chapter 70: The Red Stone Lion

The old principal learned through others that the man in this family happened to work in our urban area, and when he heard that his child's bones were in the campus thousands of miles away from his hometown, he cried at that time, saying that he didn't take good care of the child and was sorry for the child. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

But every family also needs financial resources, so over the years, he came out to work again, but he didn't bring his wife out, they later had their second child, so he let his wife take good care of the children and the elderly at home, I have passed a few years, and he is afraid to think of what happened at home in a foreign land, so when he got the news, it took a long time for this big man to relieve his breath.

The principal said that the child's father came to the school three days later, that is, on Saturday, to take away the child's bones, so he hoped that we could give some help and cooperation.

As soon as the old principal finished speaking, before I could speak, the fat man said, of course we have to help, we all come, he said, the old principal praised him and said: "He Dazhuang's ideological consciousness is very high, I hope you can all have this sympathy, after all, the structure of the word 'people' is that you need to support each other." The old principal remembered the theme song in "The Story of the Editorial Department" at some point, and it was also a set of stories.

As soon as we saw that someone had taken the lead and we couldn't be left behind, we all said that we could participate, so this meal was set for an important Saturday.

For the rest of the two days, we slept with the lights on, because the rattle was so weird, and every time we turned off the lights, it would go to the glasses' bed, and the glasses would talk nonsense.

Finally, on Saturday, we could have gone home to improve our food, but in order to help this man and fulfill our promise to the old principal, we all stayed.

The weather was still good this week, and who knew that it was cloudy on Saturday morning, and we were all afraid of rain, because when it rained, the soil was not easy to dig, and it was not easy to operate when lighting a fire.

It took more than an hour to drive from the city to us, but at about seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the old principal and Mr. Li came to our boys' dormitory with a middle-aged man, which showed that this person came in time for the first bus.

After meeting us, Mr. Li introduced us that this is the child's father, and we can see from the face of this middle-aged man how he has spent all these years, and his haggard face is full of that sad and self-blaming expression, which makes us have no way to accuse him of not fulfilling his duty of caregiving, maybe this is fate.

The man said that he came here to bring the child back, and no matter how busy he was, he would let the child return to his own home. As he spoke, he burst into tears again. We also became sad, especially those girls, and the tears couldn't be stopped.

I said, "Don't think about sad things here, it's a bad day today, it may be raining, let's get down to business first." ā€

Everyone agreed with my decision, and we led the bamboo forest path. When we got to the place, we had the father of the child at the front, with the rattle in his hand, and dangled as he went, to the little mound of dirt.

Yu Qun and Glasses carefully dug up with shovels, because we had already dug before, so the location would not be wrong. So when they put down a dozen shovels, they said they had found it, so the two of them carefully took out the clay pot.

When the child's father saw the bones in the clay pot, he cried excitedly, because he had not dared to go to the bamboo forest in his hometown for several years, let alone that his child's bones had been thousands of miles away.

I asked Yu Qun and the glasses to pull red ropes around them again, and asked the fat man to light candles in four directions, and then asked the father of the child to put the clay pot on the ground, and let him burn the paper while asking him to say a few words to the child's infant spirit in the clay pot.

This kind of thing is like this, even if we have great ability, it can't compare to the deep nostalgia and this kind of intimate affection for his relatives. While the candle was lit, I asked the father of the child to light the three pillars of incense with his own hands, and then asked him to say something that a father should say at this time.

The child's father nodded vigorously, and at this moment he was not good, let the child suffer, and take him back to his hometown now. As he said one by one, the three pillars of incense were also extinguished little by little, and soon they were about to burn to the end, so I asked the father to find a bag of the incense ashes and put them away, and when he returned to his hometown, he buried them with the rattle and the clay pot.

After saying goodbye to the child's father, it began to rain in the sky, and if it was too late, I am afraid that everything would not have gone as smoothly as before. Later, there were no rattles in our dormitory, and the glasses no longer had nightmares, just like Yu Qun said, this time it was really over.

Later, through the old principal, we learned that the man took the train back to his hometown on the same day, and when they got home, people still didn't know what was going on, or the child's grandfather said, "It's the child who came back, right?" ā€

Everyone was stunned, and the child's grandfather said that he would always have a dream these days, that is, he dreamed that the child said that he wanted to go home, and he wanted to go home. It seems that the power of this obsession can really transcend all barriers.

Soon after this incident, we had a final exam, and Glasses took the first grade again, which made us have to look at him even more, I really didn't expect that in the same dormitory, he also played this and that with us, how could he do so well, or the principal was right, Glasses is very focused on what he does, and he loves to ask questions, he learns with questions, and he takes the initiative to learn, so his grades can be so outstanding.

A few of us, except for the fat man who did not do very well in the exam, is basically good, thinking of the upcoming summer vacation, we are still very happy, but the teacher said that it will be the third year of junior high school soon, and from the last half month of this summer vacation, we will have to go to class in advance to lay the foundation for the third year of junior high school and make time for more time to review the third year of junior high school.

Hearing such news, we can't help but feel that time is running out again. After the parent-teacher meeting, it was officially on holiday, everyone went home, of course, after arriving home, we had to make up for the lack of mouths, several of us have gained a lot in this half a month, and when we returned to school for the first time, we let the fat man have something to say, he said that we are about to catch up with him, we looked at each other, and we all smiled.

The day of returning to school is usually the day when the teacher pays his salary, and Mr. Li asks us all to come to his place at noon, and he wants to make food for us. There is still very little homework this summer, mainly for us to do a good job of review and preview by ourselves, so this return to school is basically for the teacher to talk about how to prepare for the next semester's homework.

When we got to Mr. Li's place, Mr. Li was already cooking something in the pot, but as soon as the taste came out, I knew that it was our local sea red, which was a kind of crab, especially the two big pincers were extraordinarily large and had a lot of meat, which tasted even more delicious than sea crabs.

Mr. Li had already poured the Sanhe oil, a small dish for one person, and finally we found that there was a lack of vanilla, we asked Luo Haiwei why the vanilla didn't come, and Luo Haiwei said that the vanilla was in some trouble.

At this time, Mr. Li had already opened the pot, and when he heard Luo Haiwei say that there was something wrong with the vanilla, he learned about the situation while eating. According to Luo Haiwei, it turned out that Vanilla had returned home for the summer vacation, but just two days ago, her father's unit came to the news that her father suddenly couldn't sleep well, and he didn't find anything after looking for a doctor, and this construction site needs people, everyone has to take care of their own work, if her father can't get better, they will have to be replaced, so Vanilla went to the construction site to take care of her father, and she didn't even come back to school.

When Mr. Li heard this, he said, "Why don't we go and see Vanilla's father in the afternoon to see if we can help anything." We are all unanimous.

Not to mention how satisfying this meal is, it may be that everyone hasn't seen each other for many days, and the feeling of being together makes us even more sublimated the value of this meal.

After eating, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and after we helped Mr. Li clean up, we went to the bus station collectively, there were not too many buses at that time, only this way to the construction site of Vanilla's father, this address was still obtained by the fat man through his father.

When we came all the way to the construction site, we found that this construction site is really not small, it is building a large shopping mall, so the stage of laying the foundation is particularly troublesome, our city is a coastal city, there are many saline-alkali land, so the foundation has to be laid very deep, although now the overall framework has a prototype, but there is still a period of time before the official start of the main body, and now it is in the shape of building two floors.

There is a stone lion at the gate of the construction site, which is very interesting, under normal circumstances, only in front of the large courtyard or large unit has this stone lion, and it is generally a pair, but here is one, and on the side of the gate, the lion is also draped in red cloth, which looks quite mighty.

Because it was noon, there may have been migrant workers on the construction site to buy food outside, so there was no one at the gate, after we went in, we inquired, I heard that it was looking for a person who was sick and couldn't sleep, everyone seemed to know, so they pointed us to that place.

This is a row of temporary houses, in the last room I found Vanilla and her father, Vanilla cried excitedly when she saw everyone, Luo Haiwei and Xiaomeng were busy comforting her.

After she got better, we asked what was going on, Vanilla said she didn't know, after coming, I saw that my father had been sleeping like this, according to the workers, after that night, his father had not woken up, at first thought he was too tired, so he let him sleep more, but after sleeping for several days in a row, everyone panicked, so they asked the doctor again, and called the family, until now it is still like this.

It was a two-room hut, and Vanilla's father was on the bed in the back room, and we were led into the back room by Vanilla. I subconsciously took out the compass, in fact, I also wanted to see if the direction of the construction site was facing north and south, but when I took out the compass, I found that the compass was abnormal after entering the house.

I took a look at Vanilla's father, and saw a middle-aged man lying on the bed, with a long beard, breathing very weakly, but not looking like he was sick, but really like he was asleep. This posture suddenly reminded me of my former second son, who was like this after he was evil, could it be that Vanilla's father was also evil?

But what does this compass mean all the time, I brought it close to the bed, but I didn't expect the compass to move, which is strange, the room moves, the bed does not move, that is to say, there is no evil on the body of Vanilla's father, and there seems to be something wrong with this house.

I called Vanilla out and asked her who was with him that night before his father's illness, and Vanilla said it was an uncle named Chen Jun, and now that she came, the uncle had moved to another room.

I asked Vanilla to take me to the uncle named Chen Jun, first, to find out the situation, and secondly, to know how there was a red stone lion at the gate. Vanilla asked everyone to sit in the house, so she took me and Teacher Li to the front room of this row of houses.

Because it was the lunch break, so everyone was sleeping, after we entered the house, Uncle Chen Jun was sleeping, seeing that Vanilla brought us to the house, he enthusiastically let us into the house, Vanilla introduced us separately, Teacher Li said: "I am the teacher of Vanilla, this child is not easy, her father is a pillar of the family, we also want to help Vanilla, you can tell us about the situation of the day, there are many people, see what is the cause." ā€

Uncle Chen smiled and said, "At first, I thought that the eldest brother was tired and asleep, so I didn't call him, and when I came back at noon, he was still sleeping, so I was frightened. Who knew that this break would be a few days, and we were hairy, and the boss asked the family to pick it up, so he called the vanilla. ā€

"Didn't anything happen that night? I'm referring to that, you know. When I opened my mouth, Uncle Chen was stunned for a moment, and then looked at me carefully for a long time before he said slowly: "If you want to say that there is something, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, if you want to say that it's okay, I also heard that our construction site is really a little strange." ā€

I heard what he was saying, so I asked him to tell him about the strangeness in it. According to Uncle Chen, this construction site is to build a large shopping mall, there are underground parts, there are also above-ground parts, before the foundation was just laid, the boss of Party A specially selected the day to put the whip and do the law, under normal circumstances, this is the old rules of the industry, not to mention superstition, is to be auspicious.

That is, the next day after the start of construction, at night, there was a small worker to go to the toilet, at the gate of the construction site to see a fluffy thing, scared did not dare to pee outside, so he went back to the house, and later told the boss about it, the boss asked if it was dazzling, or it was a monkey that escaped from the zoo? Xiaogong said that he could see clearly, that thing was much bigger than a monkey, and some people joked that it wouldn't be Sun Wukong, but a few days later, someone saw this thing at the gate at night, which attracted everyone's attention and made the boss very annoyed, so he looked for someone to see, saying that it was a stone lion to avoid evil, so he asked people to get this stone lion to come to the town, not to mention that since then, everyone has never seen that thing.

"Did Vanilla's father see anything the night before?" I asked again and again.

"I didn't care if he said such a thing, could it have anything to do with it?" As he spoke, Uncle Chen looked out the window at the exterior wall of the construction site under construction.

(To be continued)