26. The monument of the son of the Crossing Gate

Ji Chengyu slept until the next day when the sun was about to set before getting up, and when he woke up, the lights of the palace were already on, and the lights were blurry and dazzling.

The palace is beautiful, tall and majestic, magnificent, and any item in it is a priceless treasure, and it is beautiful. But Ji Chengyu didn't want to appreciate it, he didn't even want to look at it, and he didn't want to leave a little memory of this place.

For he can only stay here for a hundred days, and a hundred days is a very small part of forty years of life, and a hundred days of wealth and glory can not offset forty years of poverty and desolation. Remembering will make him nostalgic, and nostalgia will fill him with fearful and painful memories of death and the first forty years of his life.

Ji Chengyu's inner emotions are incompatible with the environment here, and he even prefers to sleep in a dilapidated house without a roof and ventilation everywhere, where he can't find a sense of belonging at all. So he told himself that he was not the master of the place, but just a passerby.

Dozens of stunning girls were still standing in different positions as they were yesterday, ready to wait for him at any time. Ji Chengyu stretched his waist and looked at his body, those damn abscesses had all disappeared overnight, and his whole body was now full of strength, and his body and mind were extremely refreshing.

A young girl led him to a restaurant where there was a long, boxy table with a beautiful tablecloth, on which were dozens of plates of all kinds of snacks, meats, fruits and vegetables. Ji Chengyu was sure that he had never eaten so much delicious food in his life.

Ji Chengyu said to the girl closest to him, "Call all the beggars outside in and let them eat together." ”

The girl hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, this is specially prepared for you." ”

Ji Chengyu grabbed a large piece of dim sum and walked towards the hall. The halls of the palace were littered with poorly dressed beggars, who did not seem to be treated like him at all. The only difference was that, at least for a hundred days, they would not have to go hungry again, and although the food provided to them by the palace was not much different from that fed by the ministers to feed their livestock, it was much stronger than tree bark, grass roots, and even sandy soil.

"There's something delicious in there, you all come in and eat!" Ji Chengyu shouted at the beggars. As soon as the beggars heard that there was something delicious, they all crawled together, rushed into his dormitory, squeezed him aside, and went straight to the table full of food, huddled around the table, and stuffed the snatched food into their mouths like crazy, and when Ji Chengyu finally squeezed in, there were only food residues left on the table.

After eating the food, the beggars all went out, and Ji Chengyu climbed onto the table, collected the food scraps on it, piled them all into small piles, ate them all, and then went to sleep on the big bed.

When I woke up again, it was just dawn.

The maidens finished their service and washed. Ji Chengyu ate breakfast and went to the conference hall.

Dozens of ministers were already standing there neatly waiting for him.

Ji Chengyu sat on the soft dragon chair covered with gold velvet, shook his buttocks on it, and said with emotion: "Comfortable, it's much better than sitting on the stone under the dead tree." After a pause, he looked at the ministers and said, "In a hundred days, you will do three things for me." ”

Doctor Mo Li stood at the front of the group of ministers on the left, and when he heard Ji Chengyu say this, he bowed down and said, "Master, please command, the ministers must do their best." ”

Ji Chengyu's face was expressionless, and he said: "The first thing is to let the seedlings grow in the ground, and the grain harvested must be enough for everyone here, including the children they will have in the future." ”

Mo Li said: "This matter is handled by Sikong. ”

Sikong knelt down and said in a loud voice: "Weichen takes the order." ”

Ji Chengyu nodded, and then said: "The second thing is to build some impermeable houses so that everyone has a place to live." ”

Mo Li said: "This matter is handled by Situ. ”

Situ also knelt down and said in a loud voice: "Weichen takes the order." ”

Ji Chengyu said: "The third thing is to run a school and build a medical center, so that everyone here can read and see a doctor. ”

Mo Li turned around and knelt down and said, "Weichen Mo Li took the order." ”

Ji Chengyu said again: "I'll give you a hundred days, and you can finish these things." The old man once said that I have the power of life and death, so I will say ugly things in front, and if anyone fails to complete the work, after a hundred days, they will follow me. ”

All the ministers hurriedly knelt down in unison and said in unison: "Please rest assured, the ministers should do it correctly." ”

Ji Chengyu stood up, looked at everyone, and said, "You guys go and do it, I have my own things to do." With that, he turned and left. For the dignity of the royal family above these 10,000 people, it seems that he has no nostalgia at all.

Mo Li hurriedly followed and said, "I don't know what else the lord has to do? ”

Ji Chengyu sighed and said, "No one can do this for me. He looked back at Mo Li and said, "But I still want to thank you, if you really want to help me, you can help me find a stonemason, and the rest will not be taken care of." ”

Mo Li said: "Serving the Lord is a matter of Mo Li's duty, how can the Lord talk about thanks! Looking for a stonemason, Mo Li will do it now." With that, he turned around and went.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Mo Li came with a middle-aged stonemason, who was strong and hard-working, and carried a large box on his shoulder, presumably full of tools.

Mo Li bowed to Ji Chengyu and said, "Lord, this person's name is Yun Xi, a capable craftsman within a radius of 100 miles, although the master is sending." ”

Ji Chengyu said: "Mo Li, concentrate on your business! ”

Seeing him say this, Mo Li said yes and left.

Ji Chengyu bowed to Xi Shi and said, "There is Mr. Lao Yun, you need to help me carve a stone tablet to commemorate my wife." ”

Seeing Ji Chengyu like this, Yun Xi was so frightened that he quickly knelt down, touched his head to the ground, and said, "The lord is like this, he has tormented the villain." The lord has a place where the villain is useful, but please instruct the villain to go to the soup and fire, and he will not hesitate to do so. ”

Ji Chengyu pulled Yun Xi up with one hand and said, "I'm just not a beggar who wants to die, I can't help you with anything, but I still have to ask you, of course I want to thank you." ”

Yun Xi still did not get up, and said, "The lord let the seedlings grow in the field, so that we can have food to eat." Build airtight houses so that we may have a house to live in. The construction of schools and medical halls, so that we can read and heal, this kindness, the villain will never forget. ”

The beggars lying in the hall all got up at this time, knelt down towards Ji Chengyu, touched their heads to the ground, and shouted loudly: "The lord is very kind, and the villain will never be forgotten." The master is very gracious, and the villain will never forget..."

Ji Chengyu no longer paid attention to them, and he didn't like the sound of kneeling and praising them. Ling Yunxi went to fetch some food, walked out of the palace gate together, and went straight to the mountain.

The two of them climbed to a very high mountain, searched everywhere, and spent ten whole days digging out a cyan stone, this stone has a uniform color, fine texture, and a strange body, like a black jade gem, and the color is by no means an ordinary stone. Yun Xi said that he had been a stonemason for decades, and he had never seen such a beautiful stone.

Ji Chengyu patted the dirt on his hands, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said, "That's it." ”

Next, Ji Chengyu and the stonemason Yun Xi carved the stone together, and after thirty days, the carving was basically formed. During this period, Ji Chengyu never returned to the palace, and the food he needed was sent by Moli to send servants.

It took another ten days to polish the stone smooth, and the stonemason Yun Xi began to carve words on it.

Ji Chengyu has already written the words to be engraved on paper, and only seven big characters are engraved in front of the stele: "Ji Chengyu, the tomb of Zi Niang." "Do not leave the name of the person who erected the monument below, nor the time of birth and death of the deceased.

There are more words engraved on the back of the stele, which completely records the entire process of Yun Niang's rescue of Ji Chengyu, as well as his gratitude and love for Yun Niang, with hundreds of words.

It took Yun Xi a full thirty days to finally engrave all the words on the stone tablet. After the completion of the carving, the stele appears to be atmospheric and solemn, look at the stele and read the words, the things recorded in it, make people feel awe-inspiring, worry and cry.

Ji Chengyu was very satisfied. He found more than a dozen people, tied the stele with a rope, carried it with four thick wooden sticks, and spent ten days walking a hundred miles to find the hut where Yun Niang was buried.

The hut was still there, but it was even more dilapidated, the roof had completely collapsed, and the thatch on it had fallen to the ground, rotting to the point of turning to dirt. The walls were mottled all around, and when the wind blew, it looked like it was about to fall. Yun Niang's grave in the house is very small. At that time, Ji Chengyu didn't have much strength, so he couldn't build a larger grave for her. A few grasses grew on the mound, I don't know the name, and they don't bloom, such grass will never be paid attention to, just like his and Yun Niang's lives.

Ji Chengyu took everyone to demolish the house and clean up the surrounding area of the grave, Ji Chengyu remembered Yun Niang and said that her husband was walking in the direction of due south, and it was when she looked towards the south that she found that he suddenly fell to the ground from a distance... So Ji Chengyu buried the stele directly south of the tomb, so that Yun Niang had enough time to look south.

After burying the stele, Ji Chengyu built a stone wall around the mound to prevent the water from coming down from the mountain from washing away the mound. After doing these things, Ji Chengyu bowed deeply towards Yun Niang's grave and towards the stone tablet engraved with Yun Niang and his name, and only said one sentence: "Yun Niang, I have my place to die, and I can't accompany you here." You should believe that wherever my flesh rots, my heart is here. ”

After finishing speaking, he left, and left with the craftsman, to say that he listened to Yun Niang with a thousand thoughts and love, Ji Chengyu had said it dozens of times on the day he left after burying Yun Niang, and he was afraid that Yun Niang would be tired of listening, so he stopped talking.

A variety of crops have grown in the loess, ready to be harvested soon. The beggars were all dressed in fresh clothes, and their faces were full of happiness and joy. The houses are all built, with stone walls and thatched roofs, which are very strong and impermeable. Children are reading in the school. People are healthy, and there are very few people in the hospital who come to see a doctor.

Ji Chengyu looked at it, and suddenly laughed, looked up to the sky and smiled, laughing desperately, laughing heartily. After laughing, he began to cry again, crying loudly, crying desperately, crying earth-shatteringly. After laughing and crying, he suddenly knelt on his knees, faced the sky, raised his hands high, and said loudly: "Yun Niang, I once made a vow in my heart, if I am given a chance, I will definitely give you a field that grows crops, an impermeable house, a school that can read, and a hospital that can cure diseases. Although you are not there, but the people of the world have it, you have it. Then there was another burst of laughter.

After laughing and crying, Ji Chengyu walked towards the big tree that had died a hundred days ago and had now grown into dense branches and leaves.

When the hundred days were up, he was going to die under that big tree.

The group of beggars, dressed in beautiful clothes, tried to send him away, but he stopped them with a firm wave of his hand.

The tree is covered with beautiful flowers and gives off an intoxicating fragrance. Ji Chengyu lay down in a bush of flowers. There were no more dead people around him, which made him a little lonely. But his heart was full of relief, he erected a monument for Yun Niang, he made the beggar not be starved to death again, this is enough, he has done what he should do in life, it is time to go to Yun Niang. Even if this death was a hundred or a thousand times more painful than the last one, he didn't care.

The old man suddenly appeared in front of him again, still as kind and smiling as before. Ask him, "If I give you another hundred days of life, will you still want it?"

Ji Chengyu smiled and shook his head, and said, "Don't do it, don't want it for a day." ”

The old man asked, "Why?"

Ji Chengyu closed his eyes and said with a happy face: "I saw Yun Niang, she was waiting for me there." If I stay for a day, she will miss for a day, if I stay for a hundred days, she will be lonely for a hundred days, and I have done what I want to do, and I have to leave quickly..."

After speaking, his eyes were closed, and there was no more sound.