Chapter 30: The Home Three Hundred Years Ago
Looking at Bian Gui, who was silent, Xu Feng didn't urge, and waited quietly,
Just turned his head and looked at Ah Meng again.
Xu Feng looked at her, and Ah Meng also looked at Xu Feng, still sitting quietly beside Xu Feng.
Turning his head, Xu Feng looked at Bian Gui again.
Bian Gui held the teacup in his hand, lowered his head, and paused for a long time before picking up the teacup again and sipping his saliva again.
“…… Then, I turned into a soul in a daze, and finally arrived in the underworld. ”
"Your Excellency, when I was found by a passing errand, I was still on the road."
"Your Excellency saw that I was pitiful, and I still had some brave martial arts, so he sealed me as a yin. It's been 300 years now. ”
"Hmm."
Seeing Bian Gui talking, he stopped again, and Xu Feng answered.
Ask again,
"You said earlier that you've already been back?"
"Yes, some time after being canonized as a shadow. When I was on vacation, I rushed back to my hometown...... But I didn't see my mother, wife and children, and the village was basically gone. ”
"Under normal circumstances, Yin Cha can't interfere in the affairs of the yang world, I just wandered there, heard the words of some people, and knew what was happening in the village."
"Original...... The river on the edge of the village is really a big river. Not long after I left that year, there was a torrential rain, flooding, and the river in the village broke out in a flash flood, and at night, it flooded and washed away the houses in the village.
Some ran fast and ran to the mountainside, and some survived, and some were in their sleep, and they were swept into the torrent with the collapsed houses...... When I returned, my house was long gone...... There was only a little silt left after the flash flood had receded, and only a few people who still lived nearby, feeling that the land was fertile, were cultivating their crops. ”
It seemed to bring back memories, and Bian Gui's face was a little painful and his eyes were red.
At the beginning, he went back with full expectations, but when he saw this scene, he was really close to collapse.
It's just that the obsession when he was caught walking out of the door was the last thing he thought about before he died, and it was the direction that turned into a ghost and was still heading.
But a flash flood and nothing was gone.
He couldn't even find much trace of what his house once was.
“…… You haven't been back since then? ”
"Hmm...... I'm scared...... I'm scared to go back and see that again......"
His face couldn't stop being painful, and Bian Gui clenched the teacup in his hand, trembling a little.
"Have you asked about the old bag?"
“……”
Bian Gui just lowered his head and was silent.
"I just want to...... I waited in the underworld, waiting for my mother, wife and children to arrive. One day they will pass by the underworld. ”
But now three hundred years have passed.
Even if the wife and children of Bian Gui had not died in that flood, they would have returned to the underworld a long time ago.
But Xu Feng didn't say this.
Bian Gui must have known it himself, but he still waited like this for three hundred years.
Don't ask, don't think.
He wanted to go home, to the home he couldn't go back to.
"Adult ......"
Bian Gui raised his head again and looked at Xu Feng.
"What do you think your obsession is?"
"I want to go home, sir."
Bian Gui looked at Xu Feng, his eyes were red, and tears were already in his eyes.
Xu Feng looked at Bian Gui and didn't speak.
The obsession of returning to the side is not the place where I want to go home,
He wanted to go back to the home where his mother, wife and children were still there three hundred years ago, before he left.
And if you want to resolve the obsession of returning to the side, you may need to take the return home.
"Ameng, okay?"
Xu Feng was ready to take this guest back and go out to the world from the back door of the inn.
But I don't know if I can bring someone.
Turning his head, Xu Feng looked at Ah Meng and asked.
"If Xu Feng is willing, he can take people to the world."
"Hmm."
Xu Feng heard Ah Meng's affirmative answer and stood up.
"Bian Gui, you want to go home, right? I can take you home. ”
"I ......"
Bian Gui raised his head, looked at Xu Feng, moved his lips, and wanted to say something,
There was some anticipation and nervousness in his eyes.
He looked forward to seeing his home again,
I am afraid that if I return to the world, I can only see the vicissitudes of life, three hundred years later.
But Bian Gui still stood up in antication and fear.
A little at a loss, standing aside, looking at Xu Feng.
"Let's go, go out the back door and see if we can get to your house."
Xu Feng took Ah Meng to walk in front, and hurriedly followed.
From the back door of the inn, I went out to the outside of the inn.
Standing on the bank of the Lechuan River, Xu Feng stopped and looked at Ah Meng,
Ah Meng said one more thing,
"Think about where you're going."
"Good ......"
Bian Gui's voice trembled a little, and when he raised his head, his eyes were already a little trance.
Xu Feng glanced at him again, and took another step forward,
Bian Gui, who was tense all over, also trembled slightly, and followed.
Immediately after, it was like changing time and space, spanning a long distance.
……
"Tweet ......"
There were a few sparrows on the ground, pecking at the grass seeds on the edge of the yard.
In the yard, a few hens that had just been released from the pen were pecking at the fresh straw scattered on the ground.
A child who was only three or four years old, standing under the eaves of the courtyard, wearing a tiger head hat, perhaps looking at the sparrows at the edge of the courtyard, or at a few chickens in the yard, rolling his eyes curiously, standing in place.
Under the eaves of the next roof, a low stool was moved, and an old woman was sitting, repairing a hoe that had been taken off, and from time to time shouting a few sparrows that wanted to steal the hen's food.
Outside the courtyard, a woman dressed in coarse linen was carrying a large wooden basin, which had just been washed and wrung out, and walked back with some difficulty.
He put the wooden basin under the clothesline on the edge of the courtyard and gasped for breath a few times.
“…… Go, go, go, ......."
“…… Guizhi, but I'm sorry for you...... Go and rest, I'll hang these clothes. ”
Seeing that the woman had returned, the old woman put down her work, stood up, and hurried over.
"It's okay......"
"I'll hang it, I'll hang it...... Since Ah Gui left, the family has relied on you to be busy...... I'm old garbage here, and I can't help you much...... I'll dry the clothes here......"
“……”
Listening to the old woman's words, the woman was silent for a while, and then nodded,
"Then mother, you can dry your clothes...... I'm going to sew up the tear in Xiao Pan's clothes a few days ago......"
"Okay, don't get tired."
From time to time, the old woman lowered her body, picked up the clothes that had been washed in the wooden basin on the ground, shook off some of them, and hung them one by one.
The woman went back to the house and went to find a needle and thread to mend her clothes.
At this time, the child who was standing by the yard seemed to see something.
The two little eyes looked curiously, and then they ran to the sparrow on the edge of the yard.
A few sparrows, scattered a little, but there are still three sparrows, still in place.
"Mother...... Grandmother...... This sparrow is crying! ”
The child crouched down and looked at one of the sparrows,
And I saw that the sparrow's eyes were red, and tears were pouring out of its eyes.
Watching this scene, the child shouted loudly at his mother and grandmother.
The old woman who was drying her clothes by the yard turned her head a little puzzled,
The woman in the house, who was listening to her child's shouting, also hurriedly walked out.
"The sparrows are crying?"
"Mother, grandma...... Come and see......"
Listening to the child's shout, both the woman and the old woman came over.
The child shouted in amazement.
The woman and the old woman looked at the weeping sparrow, but there was some silence.
"All things have spirits......
It's probably a bit touching.
There was already a sad thing at home, and then it was such a coincidence to see other creatures crying in front of their house,
Inevitably there is some throbbing.
The old woman sighed as she spoke, and the woman looked at the sparrow,
There was silence for a while, then he turned around and walked back into the house.
The child didn't understand the reaction of his grandmother and mother, and looked at his grandmother and mother in confusion.
Then he looked back at the crying sparrow.
“…… Sparrow, can't you find a home? Why are you crying? ”
The child crouched down and said to the sparrow.
But I saw that the sparrow's tears rolled down more in an instant.
These three sparrows that didn't fly away,
Naturally, it is the incarnation of Xu Feng and the three of them coming here,
The weeping sparrow is naturally the side return.
And here...... It's a reflection of history.
Bian returned to his home 300 years ago.
It's just a place that's all too familiar here,
Tears rolled out of Bian Gui's eyes instantly, and he couldn't hold back any longer, trembling all over, and tears flowed down his face.
But he is not willing to lower his head for a moment, close his eyes, and only want to be able to take a more look at his home.
“…… Sparrow, sparrow...... Don't cry. ”
Looking at the crying sparrow, the child was a little flustered and at a loss,
Stretching out his little hand to soothe the crying sparrow, his hand gently caressing the feathers of the sparrow,
"Sparrow...... Don't cry, are you lost? Can't find a home? It's okay, you look for it, you will always be able to go home...... You see, there is a bird's nest under the eaves of our house, and every year, birds come back. ”
The child lowered his body a little lower, and lowered his head, and was already about to touch the sparrow.
"Or is there anyone in your family who is missing...... My dad is gone...... My mother and my grandmother cried a lot...... I've seen it all. ”
The trembling body of the sparrow had calmed down, but when she heard the child's words, she couldn't hold back her tears.
Bian Gui looked at his child, looking at this familiar face,
The emotions that have been accumulated for three hundred years can no longer be stopped,
He went home...... He finally came home.
"Hmm...... Woohoo......"
He opened his mouth and burst into tears, and he was crying and trembling all over.
"Why are you crying more and more......"
The child felt a little puzzled about the sparrows here.
And at this time, I saw the crying sparrow, and approached his lowered face,
"Hee-hee...... Don't rub it, it's so itchy......"
The sparrow rubbed the child's face, and the child was a little afraid of itching, and said about his neck.
When I looked down at the sparrow again, I saw the sparrow, still looking straight at him, and then tears rolled down.
Can a sparrow shed so many tears?
The child was a little confused.
looked back at his grandmother and mother, but saw that his grandmother was still drying clothes, and his mother had sewed the clothes and was under the eaves, and then repaired the hoe that his grandmother had just repaired.
“…… Xiao Pan, don't play there, let's drive these chickens back to the circle with grandma. ”
When the grandmother finished drying her clothes, she turned around and saw the child still there facing the sparrow, and shouted,
"Good...... Grandma ......"
The child stood up at once, and then looked down at the sparrow on the ground.
"Go back, go home too......"
The boy said another word, and ran to his grandmother to help.
The old woman chased the chicken, glanced at the sparrow again, was silent, and then withdrew her gaze.
“…… Want to go inside and have a look? ”
Xu Feng and Ah Meng were on the side, looking at the weeping Bian Gui, waiting quietly for a while, then turning their heads and asking out loud.
"Hmm...... Thank you, sir, thank you, sir......"
Bian Gui's voice was a little hoarse, he answered, and then kept thanking Xu Feng.
Xu Feng shook his head.
Then the avatars of the three rose from the ground and circled, but turned into gray-white pink butterflies again,
And he flew into the house where he was returning, and landed on the beams of the house.
The old woman and woman who drove the chickens back into the pen and repaired the hoes,
I had already returned to the house from outside, and I was busy with dinner in the kitchen.
The child followed the two adults and turned around.
The scene in the kitchen can also be seen by Xu Feng and the three of them on the beam.
Bian Gui looked at the three figures in the kitchen stupidly.
“…… Mother, it's been raining heavily these days, and this morning I see that the roof in your sleeping room seems to be leaking, so I'll climb up and turn over the roof tiles for you tomorrow morning. ”
The old woman was burning the fire in the stove, and the woman was cooking and talking.
“…… Will it work? Why don't you ask someone else in the village to help you...... Forget it, it's just a little leaky, I'll move the bed this way, just grab a bowl and pick it up,"
“…… Don't bother the rest of the village...... I'll do it. Mother, you just help me down the ladder. ”
"Good...... It's really hard for you, and Agui is not here......"
As she spoke, the old woman sighed.
The woman didn't speak.
But the child next to him heard his mother's words, and answered,
"I'm going to help you with the ladder too......"
"Good...... Good...... You also help your mother to hold on. ”
The woman turned her head, smiled a little, and touched her child's face.
"Hee-hee-hee......"
Probably feeling complimented, the child grinned.
“…… Tomorrow the neighbor's house is going to fight osmanthus flowers, do you want to help Xiao Pan too, wait for the osmanthus to be beaten, grandma will make you osmanthus cake ......"
"Good ......"
The child answered loudly, but the woman paused,
“…… Mother, forget it, don't let him get involved, little one...... Don't fall in a moment. ”
"Hmm...... I forgot, we're still young......"
Looking at the child, the old woman said with a smile, her eyes were a little dazed, and then the smile gradually retracted.
The woman also stood silent, but she covered the pot with the lid on the rice that was about to be cooked, and stood aside.
The child was a little puzzled, raised his head, and looked back and forth at his grandmother and mother.
The old woman just forgot that her son was no longer at home.
……
“…… Grandmother...... Butterfly moths! ”
In the kitchen, the family made dinner,
Bring it out to the house and eat,
Looking around at the child who couldn't sit still, he sat on the stool and moved his buttocks, and when he looked up, he saw three gray-white moths on the beams of the house.
Some shouted in surprise, and wanted to reach for it.
"Don't ......"
Although the child's hand was far from reaching the beam, the old woman saw it and pulled the child's hand a little nervously.
The child looked at the old woman suspiciously.
The old woman just tilted her head and looked at the moths.
The woman who came out with the meal also raised her head and looked, and then was silent for a while, and just said to the child,
"Don't catch the moths that come into the house, don't catch them, you know?"
"Got it......"
The child didn't understand, but he still responded, put down the count, but still raised his head, looking at it with some novelty.
The old woman paused and looked at her for a long time before bowing her head again.
Folklore.
Those who have passed away will turn into reptilian moths in the first seven and come back with the shadows.
The old woman did not know what happened to the son she had left and who had been taken to the battlefield, and whether he was still alive.
If her child is gone, maybe the moth that enters the house is her child.
So, after her son is gone.
She was afraid that any flying worm would come into the house.
When I saw flying insects coming in, I didn't want to catch them.
I was afraid that my child would die, and I was afraid that my child would be stopped outside the house.
She raised her head again and again, and looked at it several times, before the old woman withdrew her gaze,
The three of them ate dinner.
“…… Mother, I'm going to the town tomorrow to get some clothes to wash, and by the way, I'll send the clothes that I washed before. In the afternoon, I will go to Sister Zhang's house in the neighboring village, help her plant the land, change the work, and wait for us to come and help us plant when we are busy farming......
The woman was eating her dinner and talking.
The old woman looked at her daughter-in-law, who still had some tiredness on her face, and opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end she could only say,
"Good...... But I'll go to the neighboring village. You might not be able to finish the laundry in the afternoon. ”
"Mother, you go, who takes care of Xiaopan, I'll go, go to town early, come back early, it should be too late to ......"
"I'll take him and let him be on the ridge, there are so many people watching."
“…… Well, that'...... Good. ”
"Mother, can I follow you to town?"
The kid is very interested in going to the town, and he wants to go to the lively town.
"No, my mother has something to do. In the morning, you will be at home with your grandmother, okay? ”
"Good...... Mother, I want to eat rock sugar gourd...... My dad used to buy me ...... when he went to town."
“……”
The woman listened, paused as she ate her dinner,
Then he barely smiled on his face, reached out and touched his child's hair,
"Okay, when I come back, my mother will buy it for you."
"Thank you, mother!"
The child was a little happy.
The woman smiled and went on to dinner.
The old woman was looking at the child with a smile on her face.
After a pause, he said again,
“…… Then tomorrow morning, I'll make some osmanthus cakes, and there are still some noodles at home. ”
"Good ......"
The woman just responded and didn't say anything.
"Xiao Pan, do you want to eat osmanthus cake?"
"Yes!"
"Then grandma made you ......"
On the beam above the dining table,
Three moths landed silently there.
Bian Gui listened to the words of his mother, wife and children, looked at the scene at home, and his eyes were red again,
I couldn't stop shaking.