Chapter 23: The July Festival

On July 14, dusk was dying, and he finished his day's study, holding a glass of white water, and sitting next to the boss who was mending up books by the window. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Grandpa, how long does it take to make up a book?" Wanwan can't drink tea recently, the day before yesterday she secretly drank a sip of the clouds and mountain mist soaked in Baisang, vomited in the middle of the night, the boss punished Baisang back to the body to reflect, and Wanwan was not allowed to drink any drinks for three days, only white water.

"It depends on the degree of damage to the book, like this one, the pages are eaten too much by insects, and it takes a month to make up for it." The boss looked at the ruddy bend of his face, couldn't help but get angry, pinched her nose and said, "Do you want to be obedient?" ”

"Uh-huh, listen, listen!" Bending to pull away the boss's hand, he took his hand and leaned on his arms, and asked him, "Why does grandpa want to make up the book?" It's good to buy a new one! ”

"These books have existed for a long, long time, and they are different from the current books, and if you don't make them up, they will disappear."

"But what is said in the book has not changed!"

"Wanwan, do you know the difference between reincarnation and reincarnation?" The boss took her in his arms and fed her a piece of chestnut cake.

Wanwan swallowed the chestnut cake before saying, "Master Shuangjian also asked me that day." ”

"And what do you say?"

"I don't know!" Wanwan has grown taller lately, and her toes can already touch the ground, and now she likes to straighten her feet and tap the ground with her toes.

"Did the double scissors tell you?"

"No, he didn't say when I asked him, and he told me to go with him when I would know. Grandpa, what's the difference? ”

"Do you remember what I told you about the Living Buddha?"

"Remember, they didn't really die, but a different person and continued to live."

"That's right, that's samsara. But reincarnation, that is, this person no longer exists, and his name before and after his death has nothing to do with him. What about these books, the rebinding is reincarnation, although the content of the book has not changed, but it is no longer this book, and it is likely that some of the things in it will be deleted, but what about this supplementary book, it is reincarnation, let them live again, whether the content is good, the appearance is good, there will be no change. The boss's words were a bit profound, and she didn't understand much, she thought about it for a while, and then said, "Grandpa, I don't understand!" ”

"Then you have to remember this sentence, maybe you will understand it later."

"Hmm!" Wanwan thought about Bai Sang a little, so he stuffed on his chest and said aggrievedly: "Grandpa, Wanwan won't eat indiscriminately in the future, Wanwan misses his brother." ”

"He'll be back tomorrow, can you go out for a walk with grandpa now?" The boss put her down, got up and brought her a pair of small sandals, told her to put them on, saying that it was given to her by an aunt in Nanshan.

When the sky was full of sunshine, the boss led the bend to climb into the Tongzi forest outside the city.

"Grandpa, a lot of people are burning paper today!" Holding a handful of white chrysanthemums in his hand, he walked in front.

"Yes, because the people who have left their families, those who have been away for many, many years, are coming home today. Their families are to light lamps for them so that they don't find their way home. ”

"Wanwan also has to light the lamp for grandma, okay?" The voice of the bend was a little choked for a moment, and her eyes were red, but she lowered her head and held it for a while, and then she held back.

"Okay." The boss took the flower in her hand, picked her up with one hand, and said to her, "You are still a little girl, you can cry if you want to, you can't make yourself uncomfortable, and this will make the people who love you uncomfortable." ”

"Grandpa......" Wanwan cried out all of a sudden, sobbing and choking, "but Mom and Dad don't want me because I cry!" ”

How can he say the comforting words of "bent ......"? It's true that her adoptive parents don't want her anymore, but it's because her birth is unknown, because she behaves strangely......

"Bend, I'm sorry!" The boss gritted his teeth and apologized gently, "It's because we're too selfish, we like Wanwan too much, and we want to live with us. ”

"Then why didn't they come to see me? I miss them so much! The more she cried, the more sad she became, hugging her boss's neck and crying with her eyes closed.

"Aren't you happy to live with us?" The boss looked at the more and more coaxing the more sad Bend, so he stopped, put her on the ground, squatted down and gently pinched her little face that was red from crying, "Don't you like Grandpa and Brother Baisang?" The boss didn't dare to say that if she was unhappy, she would call her parents to pick her up, and he couldn't change it.

"Hello...... Like. Wanwan nodded, and threw himself into the boss's arms again, "Grandpa, I'm sorry, Wanwan only cried this time, Wanwan won't cry in the future, and I don't want my parents anymore, I just miss my grandmother." She sobbed and wiped her eyes, but the tears flowed more and more.

The boss was speechless and could only hold her quietly.

Since then, Wanwan has cried many times, but she has never cried because of this incident, and at that time she has vaguely understood something in her heart, but she seems to understand nothing.

"Let's go, bend, go forward."

There were tears in her big crooked eyes, but she hugged Bai Ju again, and was led forward by the boss with one hand.

"Grandpa, I heard the singing!" When he was about to reach the grave in the depths of the Tongzi Forest, Wanwan suddenly said.

"Lala, la......" Wanwan hummed along, the boss didn't speak, quietly listened to her humming a tune, and by the time they went down, it was already dark.

The boss took Wanwan to the river beach, took out two lotus lanterns, lit them, and told Wanwan to put them into the river.

"Grandpa, is this a way for grandma?" Bend carefully held the lamp to the water, and as soon as he put his little hand down, the lamp floated steadily on the water, and after a whirl, it floated away with the river.

"yes."

When Wanwan and the boss returned to the bookstore, it was already nine o'clock at night, the boss patted his head and scolded himself, while preparing dinner for Wanwan, and after she finished eating, he called a goblin, helped Wanwan wash up, and put her to bed.

When "Mom ......" ugly, Bai Sang came back, and when he went into the back room to look at the bend, he heard her murmuring.

The back room has long been changed into a crooked bedroom, clean but very warm, it is according to the ancient women's boudoir to clean up and decorate, and the crook likes it very much.

The boss had already told Bai Sang about tonight's incident, and Bai Sang felt a little guilty, but he couldn't tell the reason for this, and he was very upset.

He sat on the edge of the bed and watched for a while, then turned and went out.

Tomorrow in the Midyear Festival, there is a sacrifice, and he wants to ask the boss how to arrange it.