Chapter 198: The Tree in the Picture
"Forget it, forget it. "My great-grandmother pulled me up, her expression was pity, love, and resentment, and many years had passed, but her resentment towards my grandfather had never been completely dispelled.
My great-grandmother told me something, after all, I was not born when it happened, I was innocent, she was resentful, but she was always a sensible person. At that time, my grandmother followed my grandfather, and my great-grandmother searched for her everywhere, and finally found out a little about the situation, but when she quietly arrived at Xiaopanhe, my grandmother had passed away.
"If it weren't for the dead old man who kept blocking it, Chen Liujin would have looked good at that time!" My great-grandmother leaned over and sat on the side of the small wooden cart and said, "But I see that he is still carrying a child, and I can't bear it, it is all the flesh and blood of Rulian."
As I thought, my great-grandfather was an honest man, and he dragged my great-grandmother away, and never disturbed the Chen family in Xiaopanhe again.
"That's it," the great-grandmother sighed, "People live for a lifetime, what do you think about the end of your life?" The older you get, the more afraid you are of death, you always feel that once you die, you will never see the people around you again, the dead old man has never been far away in his life, in the early years he always wanted to wait for his body to be better, so he took him around, but a year is not as good as a year, now the road can not walk, and then if it drags down, I will pull the car, take the dead old man out to see, turn around, he is in a better mood, his body is better, I am also happy. ”
My maternal great-grandmother is from the Holy Domain, the demon tail of the Holy Domain, and she has been proficient in the secret method of rejuvenating her face and prolonging her life since ancient times, although her maternal great-grandfather is an ordinary river beach person, but he has been taken care of by his maternal great-grandmother for so many years, and has lived until he is so old. But human fate is destined, he can't escape the ravages of time, and his body is getting worse and worse, his great-grandmother took him to look around the big river beach, and by the way, he looked for those old medicines that had the effect of hanging his life, and it was good for him to live one more day.
"The child went back and told your grandfather," the great-grandfather lay in the car and said, "Tell him to rest assured that he is also old, and we will no longer blame him for living a lotus."
"A dead old man has been such an indiscriminate good man all his life." The maternal great-grandmother smiled helplessly, her eyes became distant, and she squinted her eyes and said: "You are my grandson, there are some words, pull and pull, I won't hide it from you, child, you are young, remember my words, in this life, everything is empty, and you will know when you are old, nothing is more important than the people around you." It is also my blessing to meet this dead old man, in the early years, I also ate blood, and the dead old man accidentally found out, at that time I felt that he was afraid to die, and wanted to look at me like a monster, but this old man was really joking, he knelt in front of me at that time, begging me not to eat blood food anymore, I said that if I don't eat blood food, I will slowly grow old, the old man said that he was not afraid, and when I was too old to move, he cooked for me, washed my clothes for me, and waited for me to meet such a man, what else did I have to say, listened to his words, and since then, I never ate blood food again. ”
The two old people have been through ups and downs all their lives, and their lives are a little harder, but I can see that my great-grandmother's life is actually happy, and my heart is sour and sweet.
I chatted with them for a long time, and when my great-grandmother left the Holy Realm, she was a little older than Grandma Seven's parents, and she knew a little more about it. As I chatted, I remembered the secret picture that the old ghost had tattooed on his chest when he came back from the extreme west, and that picture might have been of great importance, and I had silently memorized it after reading it at the time. Now the opportunity is rare, so I tentatively took it out and asked my great-grandmother. At first, she was a little hesitant because she had been away from the Sanctuary for so long that she could not recall many details clearly, but when I drew the most conspicuous tree in the picture, my great-grandmother was a little surprised.
"Who told you these things?" The maternal great-grandmother said: "This is the mountain of life and death in the holy realm, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you will definitely not know about it." ”
According to the legend, there are a total of seventy-two people in the Holy Land, each with its own unique vision, and the statement of seventy-two may be a bit exaggerated, but my maternal great-grandmother is a person from the Holy Land, and she said that there are no seventy-two people, but there are definitely twenty or thirty people. These people are scattered in a vast deep valley and snow-capped mountains in the far west, and every five or ten years, all the people of the Holy Land will gather together to perform a grand ancestor worship. When my maternal great-grandmother was a child, she had witnessed such a solemn sacrifice, which lasted for several days, and finally, all the sacrificial instruments used for the sacrifice were thrown into a place called the Mountain of Life and Death, which was two adjacent mountains with a canyon in between. That canyon is forbidden because it is rumored to be the last place where the ancestors of the Sanctuary last rode cranes on their knees. The tree between the mountains of life and death was the tree planted by the ancestor of the Holy Land.
"That tree, is it some kind of sacred tree?" I said that in such a cold and snowy place, almost nothing grows, let alone a large tree with lush foliage.
"It's not one, it's two." My great-grandmother said, "At that time, I was still young, and I saw the two trees of the Mountain of Life and Death, but I never got close. ”
I suddenly fell into confusion again, the old ghost desperately brought this picture back, probably to point us to the specific location of the two snow-capped mountain trees, what is the meaning of doing this? What do those two trees really mean?
Chatting and chatting, the sky was already bright, and the golden kiln had cleaned up the mess. The maternal great-grandmother said, "Son, let's go." ”
"I'll give you a ride."
"No need, good boy, I discussed with the dead old man when he was young, and when he gets old, he will live by himself, and he will not drag down the children under his head, I see the sky pulling him, in fact, the old man is also happy in his heart, you go, do what you should do."
I think, after so many years, my great-grandmother may have really been open-minded, the Seven Gates, the Holy Domain, was originally a sworn enemy, she knew that I was a descendant of the Seven Gates, but she didn't stop anything.
I couldn't disobey my great-grandmother's wishes, so I quickly asked Maitreya for some of the old medicine I usually looked for, and the top medicine had been sent back to the old ghost for use. I kowtowed to the two old men again, for my grandfather, for my grandmother, for my father, and for myself.
Squeak, squeak, squeak
My great-grandmother pulled a small wooden cart on the road, I watched their backs, and walked out twenty or thirty meters, my great-grandmother stopped, looked back at me, hesitated, and said: "Children, the women of the Qimen family, are all hard-working, if you become a family in the future, treat other girls well, parents pull children, it is not easy, people are willing to marry their own girls to you, not to ask her to endure hardships"
"I remember."
The two old men walked away slowly, until they were out of sight, and the people next to them had already prepared everything. I retracted my mind and looked at the river, the situation was too tense to think about anything before, but now that I was calm, I was full of curiosity about the whirlpool at the bottom of the river. That must be what King Yu wants to suppress when he dies, what will it be? I want to go down to the river again to see what happened.
Jin Yao's Jin Zong's face was very unsightly, and this time he turned his face with the side door, and the future trading of Jin Yao may be blocked everywhere, but Jin Dashao touched his father's temper very much, and persuaded him with a hippie smile next to him, more than 20 people, and even dragged his father's sleeve to be coquettish, and it can be seen that Jin Zongzhi is very doting on this only son, and hangs his face for a long time, and finally soothes his face.
"Dad, that's it, I want to open a little, our golden kiln, we can't always be trapped in this river beach to find the corpse place, take a long-term view, what's the big deal about offending the side door?" Jin Dashao said: "The world outside the river beach is more exciting, the world is broader, you rest, Dad, I will send two friends." ”
Jin Dashao ran over and pushed me and Maitreya along the river beach to walk forward, Jin was very uneasy, and sent someone to follow behind ∵ dozens of meters away, it was a dangerous place on the side of the river beach, Jin Dashao was talking with a smile, and he pushed me and Maitreya into the water with a force with both hands. The two of us were defenseless and fell into the river together, followed by Jin Dashao and jumped down.
The three of them immediately floated down the river, and the people who followed behind were panicked, Jin Dashao floated in the water, poked his head back and shouted: "Dad! I'll go out to play for a few days, don't worry, when you go home, you will kowtow to my mother for me, tell her not to worry about me, and I will go home in a while."
While talking, the three of them had drifted away, and I saw Mr. Jin jumping in place like thunder, he didn't know how many times he had been deceived by his son in his life, and he was bored after jumping for a while, and sat on the river beach.
"What are you doing here? Your father loves you so much, do you still want to provoke him? Maitreya swam in the water and said, "People like us, it is an extravagant hope to say a few more words to our father, and you kid really don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings." ”
"Pull it down, do you think I'm doing something careless?" Jin Dashao wiped the water on his face, and the cynical expression in his expression suddenly froze, and said: "Turning my face with the side door is completely my reason, I just need to go back, the following unscrupulous turtle grandchildren don't know how to embarrass my old man, I don't show up, it's okay to say, the old man can bear it with a reason, brother, our days are not easy to mix." ”
The three of them drifted a long way down the river and then went ashore. I told Maitreya about the whirlpool at the bottom of the river, the secret of the Seven Gates, which has not yet been passed on to our descendants, and now is an opportunity, at least work hard, at least to know what is in the town at the bottom of the river.