Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Wanderer Returns Home (Part 2)
It is a mountain road carved out of the edge of the cliff, and the cliff face is craggy and high, and the road is uneven.
Wang Shaoyi looked at this familiar scene, the scene when his father was critically ill, and the scene of the ghost chasing in the dream all overlapped in front of him, and he was in a trance for a while, forgetting where he was.
"Shaoyi, what's wrong?" Mr. Liao saw Wang Shaoyi suddenly stop, patted him on the shoulder and said.
Wang Shaoyi turned around, smiled awkwardly, and said, "It's okay, it's okay" and continued to walk.
As soon as they reached the top of the mountain, a deafening roar came from not far away, and a white spot appeared a hundred meters away.
Wang Shaoyi showed a happy smile on his face, pointed to a short distance and said, "That's the waterfall I told you, go around there, and then turn around and you'll come to my house." ”
"Wowhaha, this bathing place has arrived~" Mr. Liao said with a smile on his face, completely ignoring the black lines on Wang Shaoyi and Wang Mengmeng's faces.
At a distance of 100 meters, they quickly walked to the waterfall, and after finding a place to place the ghost dumplings, they went directly around the waterfall.
As soon as they made a detour, they looked up and saw a mountain village with smoke curling in the air, and the paved stone roads were intertwined, which must have an ethereal atmosphere with the narcissus village.
Along the mountain road, they arrived at the entrance of the village, met some villagers, saw Wang Shaoyi are all loudly greeting, some even stopped to talk a few words, dozens of meters away for more than ten minutes before it came to an end, causing Wang Mengmeng and Mr. Liao to envy.
The two of them have not experienced this kind of rural enthusiasm, this is home, not a family, but the whole village is home, and the wanderer returns home.
As they walked, they came to a stream and crossed the river along a paved stone path, and before them they were a mud house with neat roof tiles and clean doorways.
As soon as Wang Shaoyi arrived, he couldn't help but shout loudly: "Mom, I'm back." There was a hint of choking in his words, and he couldn't help but have a hint of pantothenic acid at the corners of his eyes.
After a while, a woman poked her head out of the gate, still holding a sieve with grain in it.
She first had a puzzled expression, and then saw that it was Wang Shaoyi, as soon as her hand was released, her eyes turned red, and the sieve fell to the ground with a "bang", and the millet popped out of it and scattered all over the ground.
"Mom." Wang Shaoyi threw the bag on the ground, hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the sieve on the ground, and then began to pick up the grain.
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back..."The woman looked at Wang Shaoyi's figure and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hand.
Wang Mengmeng and Mr. Liao took the bag off their backs, and the two of them watched Wang Shaoyi's mother and son reunite, and they didn't know why the corners of their eyes were a little sour.
Wang Shaoyi had already picked up all the grains, picked up the sieve and put it on the stone ridge of the gate, hurriedly pulled the women out, pointed to Wang Mengmeng and Mr. Liao and said: "Mom, this is my classmate, this is called Wang Mengmeng, this is called Liao Zhoulin, they came to play for a few days during the summer vacation this time." ”
The woman looked up after listening to Wang Mengmeng's words, and when she saw Wang Mengmeng, her face suddenly burst into a smile, and she said with a smile: "Okay, okay, come, Xiao Liao, Xiao Wang, you come in with me and put down the things first." As he spoke, he reached out and took the bag in Wang Mengmeng's hand, turned around and walked into the house.
"Thank you, auntie." Wang Mengmeng followed with a red face.
Mr. Liao also smiled, walked over and picked up Wang Shaoyi's bag, and followed him into the house.
The Queen Mother was very hospitable, and when they had put down their things, they went to borrow some meat from other houses, and then went to the vegetable field to pick vegetables, and took the beans and grinded a stack of tofu.
The four of them were sitting around the table eating.
"Come on, Xiao Wang eat more, this green vegetable is very sweet, girls should eat more." The queen mother kept putting vegetables into Wang Mengmeng's bowl, and the joy of smiling blossomed.
Looking at Wang Mengmeng again, her face has turned red into a ripe apple, how shy she is.
"Mom, Meng Meng will eat fat." Wang Shaoyi looked at the rice piled up in Wang Mengmeng's bowl and couldn't help but remind.
"Go, you eat yours, don't you see Xiao Wang is thin, you have to eat more." The Queen Mother said and put another piece of meat into Wang Mengmeng's bowl.
The queen mother then sandwiched some greens to Mr. Liao, and said sweetly: "Xiao Liao, you are sturdy, you have to eat more vegetarian dishes." ”
This time, Mr. Liao, who was thick-skinned enough, also had a flush on his face.
Wang Shaoyi glanced at the queen mother helplessly, rural people are hospitable to everyone because of this problem.
At the end of the late meal, the queen mother suddenly put down the chopsticks, and said to Wang Shaoyi with some melancholy: "Shaoyi, today is your father's fiftieth birthday, and you will go with me to worship and worship, I have already taken care of the things." ”
"yes, I see." Wang Shaoyi buried his head and said, "It's good for me to go, your body is weak, and the mountain is not easy to climb." ”
"Auntie, let's go with Shaoyi." Wang Mengmeng suddenly spoke.
When the queen mother heard this, her originally sad face softened a little, looked at Wang Mengmeng and said with a smile: "Okay, good." There was love in his eyes.
After eating, Wang Shaoyi helped wash the dishes, and the three of them took the vegetable basket full of sacrificial offerings, and then went to summon the ghost zongzi, and the group went up the mountain along the mountain road at the entrance of the village.
The road is very long, but Wang Mengmeng and Mr. Liao have basically gotten used to it after two days of walking, and they also have a ghost zongzi by their side, so they can walk on their backs for a while when they are tired, but they are not tired at all.
Speaking of the last trip to Xiaohe Mountain, the wolf dog "Little Cutie" that Mr. Liao originally brought was checked back by him, and this time this zongzi made him suddenly find the feeling of being the owner again.
After walking for more than half an hour, they arrived at Wang Shaoyi's father's grave.
The tomb is made of stone, built on the mountain, forming a semi-circular arc from the middle to both sides, a large tombstone stands in the center, there are two stone platforms on both sides of the tombstone, there is a lot of rain in the south, and some weeds have grown on the top and both sides of the tombstone.
After Wang Shaoyi arrived, he took out the firewood knife on his waist and began to clean up the weeds along the grave, Wang Mengmeng and Mr. Liao also helped pick up the dead branches and weeds around the grave, and after a while, they cleaned up the grave.
Wang Shaoyi took out a bunch of candles from the vegetable basket and lit them, inserted them into the iron nails exposed by the stone platforms on both sides, followed by three incense sticks, and then took out the tin foil and yellow paper in the vegetable basket, as well as a paper house, and burned them in the open space in front of the grave with the help of Wang Mengmeng and Mr. Liao.
After doing all this, Wang Shaoyi suddenly looked at the big tombstone, his knees weakened, and he knelt in front of the grave with a "poof", choked up and said, "Dad, my son is back to see you again." ”