Chapter 25: Departure
In fact, Old Man Youyun and Brother Zhengchuan lived at home very well, at least their savings diluted most of my sadness of losing my little scum.
Brother Zhengchuan will often accompany me, he seems to know everything, very powerful, and I also inexplicably exhibited two hobbies with him, one is calligraphy, and the other is chess.
Old man Yun doesn't spend a lot of time at home, he is always busy, but I can feel that he loves me very sincerely, he really likes my children are very sensitive in this regard, and sometimes I even think that he cares about me more than Brother Zhengchuan.
But Brother Zhengchuan is not annoyed or cared, he is still very good to me.
Their appearance was a little inexplicable and sudden to me, but I was so used to their days that I thought I could live like this for a long time.
But the child's thoughts are simple, but the reality is not.
As Old Man Yun became busier and busier, and when he had gone to the abandoned factory area without concealment, I already smelled a smell of parting.
On the evening of this day, Old Man Yun called out to me alone, holding something covered with a black cloth in his hand, taking my hand and walking to the suburbs.
Brother Zhengchuan didn't come, my parents seemed to be very relieved, but I felt very strange in my heart, there was an indescribable peace of mind, the little hand was held in his hand for the first time, feeling the roughness of his big hand, I felt very safe inexplicably.
At that time, the suburbs were really suburbs, and there was no farmland, just a barren grassland.
The crescent moon is like a hook, the cold moonlight is sprinkled down, and on the cool days that have entered the late autumn, I and Old Man Yun are standing in the wasteland, feeling a little cold.
He put down what he was holding, turned his head to look at me kindly, the corners of his mouth were still smiling, and asked me, "Is it cold?" β
I nodded, and he took off his gray fur vest, wrapped it around me, and didn't say anything, just rubbed my head.
The wool vest smelled of him, and I was very relieved to stand aside, and it wasn't cold, but I just watched him take out the wood one by one from the yellow cloth bag behind him, and piled it up on the ground from time to time to grab a few handfuls of dry weeds and add them to it.
"What are you doing here?" I asked curiously.
He turned his head to look at me and asked me in a funny tone: "Everyone has a name, your parents call me Master Yun, and your Brother Zhengchuan calls me Master, can you always call Grandpa Yun no matter how bad you are?" It's always you, yours."
I was silent, and I didn't know why, I always felt in my heart that I wanted to call him Master like Brother Zhengchuan, but other titles were always inappropriate, and I didn't want to call him.
He didn't argue with me, he just rubbed my head again, and then uncovered the thing covered by the black cloth, and it was the paper man, a paper man who looked like me.
I felt an inexplicable strange feeling in my heart, and unconsciously took a step back, he smiled at me and asked me, "Are you afraid?" β
"I'm not afraid." I shook my head, I was really not afraid, I just looked at the paper figure looking like myself, a little inexplicable.
He didn't speak, but he skillfully lit a fire, and then watched the pile of wood start to burn, pulled me over, sat down beside him, and said to me, "It's right not to be afraid." You kid shouldn't be afraid of this temperament, it's the same, it's not easy to get close to people, stubborn, but there is a fire burning in his heart, and there is a sense of righteousness and no turning back. For thousands of years, it can't be changed, you are still you. β
Although at this time, I don't have much time with him, but I have somehow become a little accustomed to the old man's style of speaking, no matter who the object is, whether he can understand it or not, he always thinks of what to say and what he says, and he may say this to you in the last second, and think of something and say that to you in the next second, but this is a habit that I only understand after getting along for a long time in the future.
But at this time, this little bit of habit also made me react correctly, and when I couldn't understand what he was saying, I didn't ask or answer, and he didn't mind anyway.
The wood burned by the jumping firelight 'crackled', and Old Man Yun really didn't care about my reaction, so he stood up and glanced at the fire, nodded, and felt that it was almost over, so he threw the paper figure into the fire.
The blazing light of the fire soon licked the already somewhat gray paper figure, and it only encircled the paper figure for a short time.
"Why burn it?" I leaned on Old Man Yun's body, and I took it for granted.
He took out a small paper bag, which was a whole tobacco leaf, he was very skillful in rolling a dry tobacco, holding it in his mouth, playing with a very delicate lighter in his hand, 'snap' lit the lighter, lit the dry tobacco, took a deep breath before saying to me: "It must be burned, it is full of yin qi, this time is busy, I forgot to deal with this matter." But these yin qi are too powerful, and they must be burned with peach wood, otherwise they will not be burned cleanly, but they will harm people. β
"What is that yin qi? Is that the monster I met that day? "The heat of the fire, the strange aroma of the dry smoke, and the warmth of the wool vest made me sleepy.
Leaning on Old Man Yun's side, the inexplicable sense of security reminded me that the monster that day was not very afraid, so I asked this question in a daze.
The problem is very naΓ―ve, causing the old man Yun to let out a chuckle, his yellow cloth bag is like a treasure bag, I don't know how, he took out a piece of toffee, stuffed into my mouth, the toffee is sweet and silky, very delicious, but his voice seems very distant, and said to me: "Of course the yin qi is not that monster, but the more powerful the guy, the heavier the yin qi." You are still young, these things, when you grow up, you will meet a lot of people that you will inevitably meet, face a lot of things that you will inevitably face, and you will understand a lot by that time. β
"Which one will I meet?" I always feel that growing up is a very distant thing, and it is as far away as the crooked moon in the sky, which seems to be a little untouchable.
"You will meet a lot, those grievances and grievances that are good for you and bad for you, God has his own wonderful arrangements, sometimes it is the people around you, sometimes it is fate, distant, but it will suddenly appear in your life." Old Man Yun's words seemed to be difficult to understand.
My eyes were blurred, this comfortable feeling seems to have never been thought about since I was a child, since I was sensible, the whole person has an inexplicable sense of alienation and defensiveness from anyone and everything, in the end it is a deep inner uneasiness.
Chen Chong and Zhou are the two people who broke into my heart in addition to their parents, but whether they are with them or with their parents, they don't have the sense of security that Old Man Yun brought me.
This feeling is so comfortable, there is a feeling of being down-to-earth and at ease, so my vision is blurry, I just want to sleep, and subconsciously grabbed the sleeve of the old man Yun and asked, "Then when can I meet them?" Do you have to grow up? β
"Maybe there are people you have to grow up to meet. And some people, or will soon appear in your life, all depend on fate. Old man Yun may have felt my hand pull his sleeve, and his eyes showed a kind of distress that I couldn't understand, and he gently touched my head.
"Hmm." I said yes in a daze, will it be in my life soon? Thinking like this, I still have some expectations inexplicably, but I really fall asleep.
That night, I was carried home by Old Man Yun, that is, that night, my parents seemed to have figured out some problems and promised Old Man Yun to be his apprentice, but I hope that as much as possible, I will not delay my studies.
I don't know how Old Man Yun and my parents discussed, anyway, the final arrangement is that after I turn ten years old, he will come to pick me up, and he will also find me a school in the local area.
After the age of 15, you can come back and finish high school and follow him.
Then, that night for the first time, I felt that there was something called stability in my life, and then I slept very sweetly, but I didn't know that Old Man Yun went out with Brother Zhengchuan and didn't return all night!
That night, everyone in the factory and mine area slept restlessly, and always heard some inexplicable, seemingly unreasonable big movements, and in the middle of the night, some people felt that they even had to get up and run for their lives.
It's these more sensitive people who see the lights on the side of the waste factory and don't know what they're doing? Because the abandoned factory area has long been cordoned off by people who wear uniforms, but do not have numbers and no rank insignia, and the more they come later, the stricter the blockade becomes, even within a hundred meters.
But in the second half of the night, the movement gradually decreased, and people gradually fell asleep with peace of mind until dawn.
My parents also slept unsteadily, about 6 o'clock in the morning, the obviously tired old man Yun came back with Brother Zhengchuan, at that time I was still asleep, people were unstable all night, only I slept very peacefully.
They didn't wake me up, they said goodbye to me, but Old Man Yun left me something, a white, metal and bone-like thing, carved into a strange symbol, for me to wear with me, and I could only take it off after I was taken up the mountain.
Brother Zhengchuan left a pair of his beloved little chess pieces to me, each exquisite, my father later saw it, and told me that it was carved from the best Hetian jade, because of the long-term play, a warm and gratifying.
They just left, and the gray fog that shrouded the factory area also inexplicably dispersed with that night.
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