12. Complex and lonely

Old man Li came back at noon and didn't ask for much food. However, he had to come back because he had to bury the king. Many times, when the beggar dies, the body is exposed to the wilderness, and no one will bury him. Now it's different, the three of them have been dependent on each other for so long, and they can't bear to let Wang Da expose his body to the wilderness. Lu Yuexian and Old Man Li chose a place not far away for Wang Dajia, and then spent the whole afternoon to make him settle down.

At night, Old Man Li didn't go out to beg, and now his cough is getting worse and worse. At Lu Yuexian's strong request, Old Man Li promised Lu Yuexian not to go. But food was always a problem, and Lu Yuexian put on all the clothes he could wear and went out to beg. Maybe it's luck, or maybe it's a little special today, "Ernet" came and went quickly, and this winter, the temperature finally rose for a short time. Lu Yue wandered around the streets and alleys of the city for a long time, and after begging for a long time, he finally met a few well-wishers and gave him a little food.

With this little bit of food in her arms, Lu Yuexian walked back excitedly. Before entering the door, I heard Old Man Li's violent coughing. In the small hut, the old man had already set up the pot, and the water was already boiling. After Lu Yuexian put the food he was going to put in the pot, he asked about Old Man Li's physical condition.

"Grandpa, doesn't matter to your body, right?" Lu Yuexian knew that he couldn't ask any questions if he asked like this, but he had no other way, and his heart also needed comfort, even a little.

"Grandpa is fine, but when he is old, he is useless after all. Yuexi, if your grandfather leaves, you can bury me next to your uncle. This kid is not happy, and he may often get hurt when he gets there, so I have to take care of him. The old man remembered the big pit he had dug there today, and remembered the scene when he dug a pit for himself, and said in his heart that this is really good, and he can measure the size of the pit by himself, dig a suitable grave, and be a beggar to do it, which can be regarded as promising. But no matter how you think about it, you can't hide the loss in your heart.

"Grandpa won't die, Yuexiao must work hard to let grandpa live a good life. Hearing Old Man Li say this, Lu Yuexian said a little anxiously.

"Silly boy, grandpa is also old, and when I leave in the future, you must know how to take good care of yourself. We don't have anything left for you, you have to work hard alone in the future. Remember, no matter how hard it is, be sure to keep attending the lectures, and when you're almost done, use what you've learned to go out on a decent errand so that you can slowly get out of the life of people like us. Old man Li said earnestly. Watching Wang Da leave today, he actually felt that his limit was approaching. When he coughed last night, he coughed up a lot of blood. And in the process of begging in the morning, I almost fainted several times. However, he also wanted to open it, mixed with this, he was content to have a good grandson when he was old, but the only thing that disturbed him was actually his grandson, a ten-year-old child, how difficult it was to survive in such a cold world. Thinking of this, Old Man Li sighed helplessly.

"Grandpa......" Lu Yuexian didn't know what to say, just lowered his head and looked at the little food that kept churning in the pot.

"Ahem...... cough ......" Old man Li coughed again, and it became more and more violent.

Lu Yuexian immediately helped Old Man Li sit down, then took a broken bowl, scooped up some hot soup, and fed it to Old Man Li to drink.

They slept very early tonight, but Lu Yuexian couldn't sleep at all. In the past, they all fell asleep with the snoring of Wang Da, but now the snoring is no longer sound, so that the tide of four years instantly drowned him, and after saying a few words "Uncle Wang" in a daze, he finally fell asleep. Old man Li never slept, listening to Lu Yuexian's few "Uncle Wang", he smiled unconsciously with bared teeth, and then coughed violently. However, he immediately covered his mouth with his hand and forced patience, he didn't want to wake up Lu Yuexian because of this. The cough became more and more intense, and then blood continued to come out of his mouth, and then his eyes bulged forward, and the hand covering his mouth finally let go, and Old Man Li fell asleep forever.

Early the next morning, Lu Yuexian got up early, and after taking a look at his grandfather, he wanted to go out. But just when he was about to go out, he noticed that something was wrong, so he came to Old Man Li's side. When he saw a large pool of blood next to him, Lu Yuexian immediately squatted down, his hand trembling and probing to Old Man Li's nose, and when he found that there was no breath, he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark. His last loved one was gone. Lu Yue kept screaming, but Old Man Li didn't react at all. I don't know how long it took to scream, but in the end, Lu Yuexian sat next to Old Man Li's corpse like that.

Thinking about his grandfather, who was still talking to him last night, he became a cold corpse this morning. It seems that all the warmth is shattered again at this moment. Ever since he left the village, especially after the incident that almost became the food of the homeless, he felt that there was no warmth in the world anymore, and he did not dare to trust anyone, even refusing to trust anyone. But since he was rescued by his grandfather and Uncle Wang, he began to believe in people and the warmth of the world. It's just that at this moment, everything is shattered again. Because the last person he was willing to believe, the person who gave him warmth, had already left him at this moment.

Remembering what the old man had said last night, Lu Yue stood up silently and tried to turn the old man's body to that place. After putting the old man into the pit, he quietly looked at the loving face for a long time, and finally, gritting his teeth, slowly covered the old man with dirt. Soon, there was another tomb next to the new tomb, Lu Yuexian found two wooden planks around, and found some charcoal from the small thatched hut, and carved on the wooden boards: "Grandpa Li's Tomb" and "Uncle Wang's Tomb" After inscribed the stele "Lu Yuexian", they were inserted in front of the two tombs. Looking at these two simple tombstones, Lu Yue sat silently for a long time. When the sky was getting dark, Lu Yue stood up obliquely, rubbed her hungry and somewhat sore stomach, and said to the tombstone, "Grandpa, uncle, I will definitely live up to your expectations." Lu Yue pondered for a while, and then said silently to Wang Da'an's grave: "Uncle, I will definitely avenge your revenge, I will definitely make them suffer millions of times." After saying that, Lu Yuexian walked towards the block, and the sky gradually began to fall with snowflakes at this time. Just like the heart of Lu Yuexian, whose heart is getting cold because of the departure of his relatives.

Because of the snow, there were more people in the neighborhood. Flamboyantly dressed young men frolicked and laughed constantly, and from time to time a snowball was rolled out of the ground and thrown at each other. Snow doesn't wet people's clothes, except for the occasional cold, people especially like it. Adults therefore do not stop their little ones from running out into the streets to play in the snow. In the eyes of children, snow is used to throw people, except for a few friends, and the most thrown are of course those beggars. In their eyes, the beggar is the one who lets them scold, and throwing snowballs at the beggar is the best goal for them to be happy at this time.

Lu Yuexie, who was begging on the street, didn't know how many snowballs had been thrown, although he was wearing some clothes, but the snowballs were thrown on him, and after being melted by body temperature, they continued to seep into his clothes. It was cold, it was biting cold, but he didn't say anything, and let those people throw it. He just kept asking for food from the people around him. Maybe God opened his eyes, and a middle-aged man holding a little girl actually threw a silver coin to him for some reason. It is impossible for beggars in this world to get coins, for the simple reason that in the eyes of people in this world, coins can only be owned by real people, and beggars, who do not belong to real people in their eyes, are not eligible for coins at all. Lu Yue looked at the silver coin obliquely, although the children around him kept throwing snowballs at him, he just looked at the silver coin quietly. Lu Yuexian has been begging in this place for some years, and the beggars in this place have also received some favors from Old Man Li, so after seeing that Lu Yuexian asked for a silver coin, he didn't grab it, except for sighing that Lu Yuexian's luck was good, he was just envious. I never looked at them as human beings, but I didn't expect that today another person would really treat him as human beings and give him a silver coin. Maybe this silver coin is nothing to that person, but to Lu Yuexian, it means a lot.

"Little brother, go buy something to eat!" The man holding the child was a middle-aged man dressed elegantly, but although he was dressed elegantly, his eyebrows revealed a compelling heroic spirit. It feels like a battle-hardened general. He said to Lu Yuexian with a smile.

"Dad, you see, people's clothes are wet, give a little more, so that people can buy some clothes!" said the little girl next to the middle-aged man.

Lu Yue slanted at the little girl, the little girl was not very old, about seven years old, her little head was almost completely covered by the fur clothes she was wearing, and only a pair of dark and translucent eyes were outside.

"Well, my baby is so good. The middle-aged man squatted down, patted the snow piled up on the little girl's body, and then took out a silver coin and gave it to Lu Yuexian.

"Daddy is so stingy, you should give more to others!" the little girl seemed to dislike her father's lessness.

But the middle-aged man didn't do that this time, he picked up the little girl with both hands, and said with a smile: "Child, with his current situation, if you give him too much money, it will hurt others." It will make some people rob him or even beat him. At that time, you are not helping him, but harming him. You know what?"

"Oh, isn't this what Dad often says, 'Relaxation'?" The little girl seemed to understand, but she didn't seem to understand, but she just understood that if you give Lu Yuexian too much money, it is not necessarily a good thing. But he asked, according to his understanding.

The middle-aged man didn't expect his daughter to ask this, but while praising the little girl, he walked forward and gradually disappeared from Lu Yue's field of vision.