Chapter 30: Ancestor Worship
On the morning of the 29th day of the lunar month, the winter sky in the north was early, and just after 5 o'clock in the morning, a grayish light came in through the window, reflecting the house. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Su You was so tired last night that he forgot to draw the curtains, only to be woken up by this annoying light.
Su You got up, stood in pajamas and stood in front of the window, even though there was heating in the room, looking at the haze on the glass, he couldn't help but shiver.
Outside, it's snowing.
Stretching his waist and looking at the snow scene outside the window, Su You couldn't remember how long he hadn't enjoyed the snow scene so quietly, and how much he loved snow days in the past.
Looking out the window, I didn't notice the sound behind me.
Su Zuo also woke up when Su You got up, and he was used to sleeping lightly, and he would wake up at the slightest movement, which was the root of the disease from the day he left the Su family.
Su Zuoyi walked to the window and stood beside Su You, the bulky pajamas finally stopped making him look so thin, "I haven't looked at the snow like this for a long time", Su Zuoyi said quietly.
"En", Su You was not surprised, "Today is a good weather, suitable for gloomy and nostalgic weather." Su You still looked at the flying snow outside the window, piece by piece, like goose feathers, sprinkled and submerged in the sky.
"I remember when I was a child, my favorite thing to eat was sugar gourd, especially in such ice and snow weather, the hawthorn was frozen, I couldn't bite it, I still wanted to eat it, and in the end I could only lick it slowly..." showed it in front of Su Zuoyi, telling how much its owner had endured.
Su Zuo also gently cared Su You's hair, just like when he was a child, every time Su You was bullied, or when he cried because he was scolded, Su Zuo always comforted him like this and said to him: "Don't be afraid, Uncle is here." ”
"Don't be afraid, Uncle is here." Su Zuoyi's voice was also a little choked, and a hot teardrop overflowed from his eyes, this was the first time he had cried, and the tears crossed the corners of his mouth and flowed into his mouth, it turned out that the tears were salty.
This move is the same as before, Su You stopped his tears, raised his head and looked at the uncle, who was looking at him with a smile on his face, but there was an extra tearful scratch on his face.
After breakfast, Su You took the paper money and fake flowers, and was about to go out.
"Ayou, why don't you let your brother go with you?" The cousin looked at Su You, who was putting on shoes, and asked, because she knew that this child was not as strong as she looked on the outside, I remember that in the winter when Su You first entered high school, and it was also today, Su You went to worship his parents, and he didn't come back all day, they were very worried, so they went to his parents' grave to look for him, but they didn't expect the child to cry and faint in front of the grave, the winter in the north, minus ten or twenty degrees, almost killed the child, and he became seriously ill after coming back.
"No need aunt, don't worry, besides, it's not me, but I have my uncle with me this year." Sensing his cousin's worry, Su You pulled out a bright smile.
My cousin looked at Su Zuoyi, and it was hard to say anything, "It's cold outside today, and it's snowing heavily, you two wear more clothes, remember to come back early." ”
"Got it, aunt, by the way, Yi Shui bothered you to take care of her, she is a big lady, she won't do anything, so you can take care of it more." Su You did not forget to explain the "aftermath".
"Don't worry, what else can your aunt and I do to my niece and daughter-in-law?"
Su You snorted, and then pulled Su Zuoyi out of the door.
The two of them came to a remote ravine in a car, which was the address of Grandpa Su before his death, and of course, the deep mountain forest not far from Grandpa Su's house was the ancestral tomb of the Su family.
As soon as he got out of the car, Su You breathed a sigh of relief and took the burning paper out of his arms. Their family explicitly forbids burning paper money on the grave, and violators are directly detained. Su You had no choice but to hide the paper money in his clothes, but fortunately, the clothes in winter were thick and not particularly obvious.
"Let's go". Su You cleared his throat, feeling a little excited.
Since that winter, he was found crying and fainting here by his aunt, he began to reject this place, there are too many memories here, which he wants to forget, the beauty of the past has long been turned into a sharp knife, cutting into Su You's young heart one by one, until he has no skin. Even so, as the only bloodline of the Su family, he couldn't help but come, so he chose to escape and fled to Yunnan and did not return for two years.
But now it's different, the uncle will be with him, and he is no longer an orphan.
As a son of the Su family, this place is also very familiar to Su Zuoyi, when he was young, he would also follow Grandpa Su here, at first I couldn't understand why Grandpa Su would lie on the mounds and cry, just watch quietly on the side, and then he became sensible, and he came less often.
Su You walked to a large grave and knelt down.
"Dad, Mom, my son is not filial, I haven't come back to see you for two years, are you okay? You see, I've grown as tall as my father, and my aunt says that my face looks like my mother, especially my eyes, do you see? My son is no longer the young boy he is, and I can now support myself..."
Su You's hand was replaced with the tombstone in front of the grave, and there was a cold temperature from above, the colder it was, the tighter his hands became, even if it was biting cold, at this moment, Su You could feel the warmth from his parents, just like his mother holding him in her arms, warm.
Tears blurred his eyes and blurred the handwriting on the stone tablet, and the hot tears dripped on the tombstone, instantly condensing into ice crystals.
"Su You, don't cry." Su Zuo also looked at Su You like this, and he was too distressed.
Su You obediently wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve, and burst into laughter, "Mom and Dad, who do you think this is?" That's right, I've found my uncle, I won't be an orphan anymore, are you happy for me? As he spoke, his little face, which had been crying, was pasted with a cold tombstone again.
What child in the world doesn't love his parents, it's just that God is unfair and deprived Su You of his due rights as a child early, and now, his attachment can only turn to a few handfuls of loess here, who can bear to bother?
Su Zuoyi stood behind Su You, watching Su You cry heartbreakingly, his heart was like a knife, facing the tombstone full of Su You's tears and ice crystals, and said in his heart: "Brother, sister-in-law, if you really have a spirit in the sky, bless Su You and let him turn evil into good fortune, you can rest assured, I will take care of him, my wish is very simple, as long as he lives, it will be fine." ”
The heart-rending cry was replaced by a low sob, because Su You's tears had dried up at this moment.
Picking up Su You, who had been kneeling in the snow for a long time, rubbing his hands that had been frozen purple, Su Zuo also said, "Let's go see your grandfather again." Su You nodded.
As a son, Su Zuo also knelt down in front of the grave like Su You.
"Grandpa, I got my uncle back." Su You was in a very uncomfortable mood at the moment when he wanted to cry without tears.
"Dad, I'm sorry, you gave me a second life back then, but because of my selfishness, the Su family fell to this, don't worry, I will definitely protect Su You, the last bloodline of the Su family, and won't let him be hurt in the slightest, you, rest in peace." After speaking, Su Zuo also kowtowed heavily on the snow. Get up and pat the snow off your body.
Su You also got up, kneeling in the snow for a long time, the cool air had penetrated the cotton pants, and the pain from his knees made Su You limp.
The mountain road was very rugged, and Su Zuo also carried Su You and walked silently.
When they walked out of the mountains and passed by the door of their grandfather's house, the two stopped in unison.
"I'd like to go in and have a look, okay?" Su You asked the person beside him, who nodded.
Grandpa's house is the kind of old earthen house, because no one has lived in it for a long time, coupled with the wind and rain for a long time and no one has repaired it, some parts of the house have collapsed slightly, and it has become a dangerous house, and the yard is overgrown with wild grass, and the dry weeds are covered with snow, swaying in the wind.
This is where Su You and Su Zuo also grew up, every corner has good memories, the scenes of the past floated in front of him, and it was indeed not what it used to be, Su You couldn't help but sour his nose again.
Noticing Su You's strangeness, Su Zuo also patted him on the shoulder to show comfort, "Do you want to continue?" ”
Su You sniffed hard, and the cold wind like a knife drilled into his brain from his nostrils, Su You shivered, and suddenly sobered up a lot, "It's all here, let's go in and have a look." ”
Since my grandfather left, I was taken home by my parents, and I have never been here again, and it has been twelve years.
Su You effortlessly pushed open the wooden door, making a "squeak" sound, and the heavy snow shell on the door fell in large chunks, and Su You gently kicked the bottom of the door with his foot, so that all the snow on it fell. This door used to be so difficult for him to open, but now, it is effortless.
"It's so deserted here, let's get some grass!" Looking at the barren grass all over the yard, Su You said to the uncle behind him.
The uncle didn't speak, silently stepped aside, took out the broken wind, and began to mow the grass.
"It's really a man of action," Su You thought, and then he also took out his own water cut, followed the example of his uncle, and began to mow the grass.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, falling on the down jackets of the two and sliding down again.
The two of them worked for almost an hour before the entire courtyard returned to its former appearance.
Su You straightened up his waist that was about to break, and sighed: "This yard doesn't look big, how can there be so much grass, but I'm so tired that my waist is about to break." ”
Su Zuo also cut off the last grass, threw it aside, and glanced at Su You, "You lack exercise." ”
"! I'm an athlete! Su You retorted.
"That's still tired of this virtue!" Uncle didn't give Su You face at all.
Su You said that he couldn't say that he was uncle, rolled his eyes, and set his eyes on the door.
"Let's go, uncle, let's go in and have a look." With that, Su You went to open the door.
The door is a long time ago, and the frame has been slightly deformed, making it difficult to open the door. Su You tugged hard a few times, but the door did not move at all.
"Athlete, let me do it!" The uncle pulled Su You aside and said sarcastically, then grabbed the doorknob with one hand, and with a little force, the door was opened, and Su You rubbed his eyes in disbelief on the side.
As soon as they entered, there was the kitchen where they used to eat when they were children, and in the corner, there was still scattered firewood, but it had long since rotted into something like dirt, emitting a rancid smell. There is a room on the left and right, and they talk about "big east and small west", so the east house is where the grandfather lives, and the west house is where he and his uncle live.
Su You immediately rushed into his former "nest", and the furnishings inside were still the same as before, a fire kang was laid, and there were two ground tables on the ground, on which there were distorted characters he had carved with a knife, and two wooden chairs, which were covered with dust; The three large plastic jars of bubble gum from the shopkeeper on the windowsill were filled with all the toys they had when they were young.
Su You ignored the dust on the kang, climbed up, took the jar to the uncle, and poured out the contents one by one, including the glass balls that he played with when he was a child, the cards of the Digimon he collected, the backgammon that he didn't know how many people he lost, and the checkers, as well as the broken playing cards, etc.
"Let's take all of this back, after all, this is a memory of our childhood." Su You looked at the gadgets in front of him and said with satisfaction.
"You take it yourself." Su Zuoyi said while putting these things up.