Listening to Uncle Lin's words, the other party was also stunned, it was obvious that the person didn't expect him to ask such a thing, but after a short period of stunned, the old man became relieved. He took out a bag of dry tobacco in his pocket, Tiantian rolled it with a piece of paper, and then asked Uncle Lin with a smile, counting how many years he hadn't come back.

When Uncle Lin heard this, he was slightly stunned, then smiled a little embarrassedly, and said softly: "Count it, no more, no less, almost thirty years." ”

As soon as these words came out, I was completely blinded, thirty years is half a lifetime, I haven't been back for so many years, it is not easy to make the old guys from my hometown recognize him, I was thinking about it, but suddenly heard the boss of the Jiang family say to him: "Yes, it's been almost thirty years, no wonder you asked such a thing." This river usually has a lot of water, and it is the first time in more than ten years that it is like this. As he spoke, he pointed to the location of the river, and then lit a fire for himself.

The tricycle was running at full speed, and the noise was very loud, and I saw the old man smoking while chatting with Uncle Lin about the past, and the more he talked, the more unsightly Uncle Lin's face became, and he looked haggard as if he remembered something from the past that he didn't want to remember.

"Uncle Chen, did you live here before?" Leaning on the side and bored, I interjected a little curiously, and after the other party listened, he suddenly turned his head and said to me with a smile: "My hometown is on this side, I grew up here when I was a child, but when I was eleven years old, I became seriously ill, and I couldn't see it well when I looked for a doctor everywhere, and then a fortune teller pointed out that a person like me was born with a child's life, either I would become a Taoist priest and never marry, or I would simply not live to be twelve years old, and I was just in time for your master Jin Daoqing to travel all over the world and live in my house. When my parents saw that he was an old man of high morality and respect, they discussed whether they could entrust me to him. Your master is kind-hearted, calculated how bumpy my life is, so he took me under the door as an apprentice, since then for more than ten years, I have been with your master to learn skills, these ten years, I have not been in contact with the family, and when I came back again, the parents of the family have passed away, only a half-sister is still there, our relationship is not very good, she has a grudge against me, after that, I left all the things to go back and never came back. ”

Uncle Lin said, with a thick bitterness on his face, at this time, the third elder of the Jiang family, who was listening to the side, said with a smile: "Brother Lin, what you said is not right, when you left, nothing should be true, but your ancestral hall is still your family, no matter what your sister says, she can take everything else, but this ancestral ancestral hall is not hers." ”

"Hehe, too." Uncle Lin said, smiling more bitterly, looking at his expression, as if he was ashamed of his unfilial piety, listening to the meaning of this, in fact, I can understand a rough idea, people who have experienced the seventies and eighties know that there are very few people who can keep the ancestral hall in the family of people who came from that time, and even if there is, it is also the treatment that has been passed down for several generations of big families.

For such a big family, there is a vivid image of a sentence: "unfilial piety has three, no queen is great", maybe, no children and no daughters alone Uncle Lin has long accepted his fate, since ancient Maoshan Taoist priests have "five disadvantages and three deficiencies" said, cut off children and grandchildren, it is not uncommon, combined with his consistent attitude of words and deeds, it can be generally seen that this old man believes that he is guilty of the word "lonely", there will be no heirs in this life, think about it, people fortune tellers have said, he is born with a child, can not marry a daughter-in-law, If you don't have a daughter-in-law, what about the descendants from there? If the descendants are gone, won't this incense be broken? Besides, according to the boss of the Jiang family, their Lin family should only have a son and a daughter, and if this incense can't be passed on, it must be Uncle Lin's responsibility.

Thinking of this, I also feel a little depressed, in all fairness, Uncle Lin is a very kind person, such an old man, he has ended up in such a situation, I have to make people feel a little sorry, but on the other hand, this is all fate, it is all cause and effect, some things you feel unfair because you can't see the cause and effect before and after, see through, you understand, understand and don't feel that anything is wrong.

Since ancient times, people who peep into the way of heaven, borrow divine power, and change their lives against the sky will not have a very good ending, to put it bluntly, for a balance, if you don't suffer a little, why should you have more ability than others? When Lao Tzu founded the Taoist school, the most admired "Tao" was "Wu Wei", what is "Wu Wei"? Wuwei does not mean that you do nothing, but that we learn to go with the flow.

The ancients said that wherever there is nowhere to focus on, it is "life", and this seemingly negative attitude is actually the obedience and reverence for karma. Some things, born like this, you can't see through why, just because you don't see really enough, don't think far enough, instead of chirping and complaining there all day long, it's better to do something good and accumulate virtue in a down-to-earth way, I like a sentence: "But do good deeds, don't ask about the future", this sentence is very simple, think about it is the same thing, I remember, in the underground palace of the general altar, there are also two sentences in front of the Yama Palace: "Yang III, do evil for you; Yin Cao Difu, who has been let go throughout the ages", sometimes, do something to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, give others a way to live, but also give yourself a way to live.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and when I turned my head to look, I saw the ghost blinking big eyes and looking at me curiously, I asked this little girl what she was laughing at, she shook her head and didn't speak, but the little appearance of smiling and groaning always made people feel that there was some ghost idea in her arms.

In a blink of an eye, the sun is setting, when it is almost dark, we arrived at the hometown of Mr. Chen, this is a very ordinary village, connected with three natural villages before and after, the residence of the boss of the Jiang family is in the east of the village, a large courtyard is very spacious, facing five large tile houses in the south and back, the glass in the house is very clean, and there is a mule and two cows in the cowshed, it can be seen that this family is doing well, and the driver will drive the tricycle to the yard, and several people will come out like the stars holding the moon.

"Oh mom, you're back, how are things going?" The car didn't turn off, and a woman in her fifties came over first, and without saying a word, she patted her trouser pocket and asked Lao Jiang with an earnest face.