Orvilles and his mother wandered the streets, and at night, they slept by the corner wall of a cold street where the wind rarely frequented them.

According to their mother's plan, in order to find a new place to live in place of the demolished ancient temple, until the middle of the night the next day, the three of them were still wandering aimlessly on the streets.

Inadvertently, she passed by the tower where her grandfather had lived, and even though she knew that her father was no longer here, her mother walked forward, hoping to find a little solace in her soul through it, after all, this was also her former home.

However, by accident, my mother noticed that the number on the tower was my grandfather's, and my mother looked at it again and again, and the result was the same, my grandfather's name was clearly engraved on the long wooden plate.

"Was it wrong then?" thought the mother, "no, my father must have come back from home." "This is undoubtedly a huge surprise for the mother.

It was very cold at night, a crescent moon hung on the spire of the Naga Dragon, and the two cold tower doors were tightly closed, and through the thick walls, it seemed that she could see the room and bed where she had slept before, and the mother hesitated for a moment, walked forward quickly, and knocked on the tower door.

Dangdangdang......

"Anyone?" The silent cold night, although the mother's voice was low, in this atmosphere, it seemed unusually crisp and powerful.

For a long time, a middle-aged man with a limp leg, long unkempt hair and a thick beard walked down from the tower with difficulty. He was wearing a thick purple fur coat, wearing a large string of eye-catching brown wood earth spirit beads around his neck, and holding a two-inch-tall earth spirit sculpture in his hand. This man was my grandfather, and now he was a mad believer in the worship of earth spirits.

When my grandfather walked down the tower, he did not go directly to open the door, but knelt on the ground, blew away the dust seriously, stretched out his sleeve and wiped it left and right, and then carefully placed the earth spirit sculpture in his hand on the wiped clean ground, bowed twice reverently, pouted his buttocks, pressed his head to the ground, and said softly: "Great earth spirit! bless me must not be a robber, no," he said in a panic, "It should not be the hateful old man Luo, who sold his soul and cheated money and harmed people." His voice was full of piety, and when he had finished praying, he got up, pushed open the tower door, and walked towards it.

With a squeak, the door opened, and Orvilles, his mother, and Daria stood outside, and his grandfather could see it, and his mother smiled at him, while his grandfather glared at her viciously.

"Alas, it turned out to be you, a life-urging ghost! Didn't you say that you would break off the relationship after leaving and never come back?, why did you come back here today to beg me!" the man scolded angrily.

The mother shed tears of grief and fell to her knees begging: "Please, father, I know that I am not good, I already know that I am wrong, I have been wandering outside for nearly ten years, and these ten years are not enough to clear my sin and get your forgiveness? ”

Orvilles and Daria also knelt on the ground, and the grandfather glanced at them, "These two must be your bastards! Anyone can beg me, but these two lowly bastards can't!" he scolded angrily, pointing at Orvilles and Daria.

"The children are innocent, please don't hurt them!" the mother stood up.

My grandfather was even more excited, trembling and slapping his mother heavily, shouting: "Linna, you brute! Forget how your mother died? Or have you forgotten how the demons tortured us before! There is no room for mongrels and **** who are regarded as filthy things by the great earth spirits, and they will stain the Diyirota and pollute the earth spirits, so get out of here! There is no place for you here!"

The mother was helpless about her situation, and knelt on the ground again, "We have worked hard to get here, no matter what, you must pity us, now we are the only relatives, aren't we?"

My grandfather had a violent temper, and he was panting and trembling as if he were about to explode.

But he has his own way of solving it. He had a string of round black beads on each of his left and right wrists, of unknown material, and it was full of blotchy and convex lines. These two strings and the ornaments hanging around his neck, plus the small earth spirit sculpture, cost my grandfather more than half of his family property to get from an unscrupulous trader in the dark city, for my grandfather, it was his everything, even more precious than life.

But he saw him take a string of black beads, close his eyes, twist them and say silently: "O great earth spirit, forgive me for my mistakes, how can I let these little beasts be angry and ruin my body!"

It took a long time for my grandfather to calm down a little, "Whether you can stay here or not is not up to me, nor is it up to the people of Diirota to decide, in this world, I don't believe in anyone, only in the sacred and great spirits. With that, he limped into the room, carefully placed the earth spirit sculpture on the platform, knelt on the ground, his heart trembled, glanced back at a few people, and thought: "These few life-urging ghosts, they should have left since they saw me change the door number, why are they still here?"

After that, he turned his head several times and said, "Great earth spirit, would you like to leave these three people who are so despicable that the whole world spurns them?" He kept his head on and on, and kept repeating, as if he was crazy to others.

Orvilles realized the clue, he picked up a small pebble from the ground, took advantage of the moment when his grandfather buckled his head, and threw it lightly, and the stone happened to scratch the earth spirit sculpture. His grandfather's ears were very bad, and he didn't hear the sound of the stone falling to the ground, but when he looked up again, he saw the earth spirit "nodding" incessantly, he froze, turned his head in surprise, looked at his mother Orvilles and Daria, hurriedly and continuously buckled his head, and said softly: "Okay! In order to prove my loyalty to you, I will accept any kind of person." ”

My grandfather put away the sculpture of the earth spirit, limped to his mother's side, and put on an unwilling look, "You can stay here, but there is no place for you to live in the tower, it is a place to worship the earth spirit, there is a horse shed in the backyard, the environment is not very good, but it is enough for you, if you want to stay, just live there and feed me the horses, if you want to leave, I will not keep you, but the important one, as long as you stay here, you can't go out casually, others see it, it is not good for us." ”

Mother nodded excitedly, "Thank you, Father, may the spirit of the earth always be by your side, Orvilles, Daria, come quickly, thank you for your kind grandfather......"

The stable, which was made of large black stones, was quite spacious, and a sturdy black horse and two long-tailed horses were chained to a stake buried deep in the ground.

Mother shook her head: "No, this is our unique war horse of Diilrota, it is called the Black Hussar, it is much larger than Bosse's, it can carry three adults, the best black hussar war horse can run for four thousand miles in a row day and night if one person travels, if we ride it and return to our original residence, it is only a matter of one day." ”

Orvilles stared at the horse and nodded in amazement.

Mother tidied up the stable, cleared a place to sleep in a patch of weeds, and late, Daria had already fallen asleep, and Mother called to Orvilles to go to bed quickly.

Orvilles sat on a rock outside the stable, staring at the scimitar-like moon.

Mother called again, and he only replied, "But, Mother, I really care about what happened today."

"Why did my grandfather call me a bastard? and insult you like that, who the hell was my father? Why did you never mention him to me?" Orvilles couldn't take it anymore, he asked, "and why was someone bullying you when you first came here?"

The mother, who was tidying up the stables, froze, and after a moment of silence, she smiled and said, "Your father is as simple as a normal man, and there is nothing worth mentioning. ”

Orwells was expressionless and continued: "But I am really sad to see you being bullied, every time I ask you this kind of question, you will perfunctory me, mother! I am your son, what can you not say to me directly?"

Daria sat on the grass bed and watched her mother's reaction, she really didn't expect the little carpenter to say these words suddenly.

Mother slowly walked to Orvilles's side, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke, "A long, long time ago, everyone was a cow and a horse doing things for others, and it was Lord Agurts who led us to migrate to a civilized and rich country, take away the power of the **, and establish the Emperor Irota. Because of our looks, strengths, or beliefs, we have always been looked down upon by the natives here, who call us 'eccentric savages', who always make up lies to ridicule us, and it is not surprising that we are insulted as commonplace, and at some point my father also converted, and he believed in the spirits of the natives, and he was mad and unrestrained, so that he looked down on us people day by day, and always followed the natives to ridicule us, and was proud of it......"

"I see, so why didn't you tell me earlier? I thought I was a bastard. Relieved, Orvilles asked eagerly, "What about my father, what kind of man is he?"

"He's a man as capable as Agurts!" said his mother's eyes, "and when he left, he told me that as long as the brightest star in the sky didn't fall, he would come back to me!"

"Is he still alive?"

"No one can kill him!"

"Then why didn't he come back to see us? Maybe it's because he's too busy to take care of his wife and children. Orvilles pouted and said aggrievedly.

"Yes, he must have a lot of important things to do. Mother nodded.

In the middle of the night, Orvilles was asleep, and her mother was lying on the hay, tears were dripping down, and she had been crying for most of the night, but no one knew it. Maybe the pain was too much for her, maybe she shouldn't have let Orvilles come into the world, because there was so much crying here.

"Open the door, old fellow, and see what good things I've brought you!" The next day it was just dawn, and before the first bell had even rang, a rough voice came from outside the tower, and when Orvilles and Daria were awakened, their mother had already prepared forage and special fodder for the horses. Orvilles excitedly recounted the dream he had had last night.

He dreamed that his father was fighting with the Posei, and it was his father who had the upper hand! As he spoke, he gestured with his fists and feet, and his mother looked at him and smiled slightly.

It was much later that they heard the door creak open, and my grandfather leaned against it with sleepy eyes, and asked listlessly, "Why are you here again?" ”

In front of the tower is a two-seater cart pulled up by a loose colt, filled with all kinds of handicrafts. A middle-aged man with a long beard and a hemp gray-black shoulder hood jumped out of the car and approached his grandfather, "How about I brought you a better quality earth spirit sculpture and all kinds of things you want?" and whispered, "These things can't be bought anywhere else." ”

This man was the "Old Man Luo" mentioned by his grandfather last night, and everything that his grandfather wore and the sculpture of the earth spirit that he was most proud of were obtained from his hands. He made a weekly trip from the Dark City of the North, bringing with him a large number of fine goods in exchange for money.

Every time he came here, he always liked to visit his grandfather's house, because his grandfather had always been a great lover of his goods. He likes to sell his goods in a way that criticizes other people's existing things for being bad, just like the last time he came here, his grandfather thought that the irreplaceable earth spirit sculpture was criticized by him as useless. As a result, his grandfather, who has always loved face, has an inexplicable fear of him.

Despite this, my grandfather was still moved when he heard the words Earth Spirit Sculpture, but when he thought that he had no money left, he hesitated for a while and said, "I already have a good Earth Spirit Sculpture, don't bother me again." ”

Old man Luo is a shrewd person, from his grandfather's expression, it is enough to see his thoughts, I saw him take down the exquisite earth spirit sculpture from the car, hand it to his grandfather, put his arm on his shoulder, and said softly: "You take a look at this thing first, money is not a problem, if you like it, you can discuss it again!"

Grandfather took over the sculpture, and at first, he pretended not to care, but after playing with it carefully for a while, he almost forgot that it was not his. He walked into the house, took out his earth spirit sculpture and compared it carefully, and felt that his earth spirit sculpture was too old-fashioned and shabby.

"Alas!" he sighed, and sat feebly in the big mahogany rocking chair in the tower.

"If you want to take it, I will give you two less prices based on our friendship. Old man Luo took the earth spirit sculpture from his grandfather's hand, patted his grandfather on the shoulder and said.

"But what money do you think I'm a bare-bones old man? Look at my house, I've sold everything to buy your things, and now it's hard to eat. Grandfather complained as he stared at the Earth Spirit Sculpture that Old Man Luo was holding behind him.

Old man Luo was inspired and said with a smile: "If you are willing, I am very willing to recycle your old Earth Spirit Sculpture and give you less money, so that you can afford to buy a new Earth Spirit Sculpture." ”

My grandfather was startled and immediately got up from his chair, "Really, how much does that need?"

Old man Luo gestured and said with a smile: "In this way, how can you take it." ”

My grandfather thought for a moment, then went into the inner room, only to hear a crackling sound, and he turned over the large and small boxes, but he had not found enough money, and my grandfather was so anxious that he sweated profusely.

"Grandfather, the hay in the stables is running out, what should I do?"

Grandfather was frightened, and the coins he had just found were all scattered on the ground, and the hot sweat turned into cold sweat, he quickly glanced at the old man Luo who was standing in the outhouse, dragged his lame leg and hurriedly walked forward, pushed Orwells out of the door, locked the door deadly, and scolded: "You madman, don't hide in my backyard and steal things in the future." Then he thought to himself, "This bastard, if I let others know that I adopted you, I will definitely die a miserable death, old man." ”

Although his grandfather covered it up well, he was still seen by Old Man Luo.

"Is that your grandson?" asked Old Man Luo.

"No! No!" my grandfather replied resolutely: "You also know, I have always been alone, not even a mother-in-law, where to go to have a grandson, just now that child is a madman, hiding in my backyard all day long, stealing my belongings, but, there is no way, who called me a kind person who believes in the spirit of the earth." After saying that, he took a long breath and thought, "It's good that the bastard didn't knock on the door again." ”

When Old Man Luo heard this, his eyes rolled, and he didn't know what he thought of, so he dragged his grandfather to the back room and said in a low voice: "What you said is true? He is really a madman?

My grandfather had to reluctantly nod his head in order to round up the panic in front of him.

Old man Luo hurriedly closed the front door sneakily, lowered his voice and said, "I have a way for you to get the earth spirit sculpture without taking any money, it's up to you to do it." ”

My grandfather's eyes lit up, "Is there such a good thing? What is that?"

Old man Luo approached his grandfather, and both of them lowered their voices......

It wasn't until noon that Old Man Luo left here, he left the brand-new Earth Spirit Sculpture to his grandfather, and didn't ask for any money, and when he left, he told his grandfather that he must be ready, and it will take a week to come back next time.

Grandfather had eaten in a hurry, and he was in a trance, "Should I do this?" The question repeated over and over again in his mind, but when he saw the glittering earth spirit sculpture on the platform, he suddenly stopped hesitating.

"I don't blame me, it's providence!" he said confidently.