"Mom, this is Mei Fang, I didn't tell you before, he is my best friend besides Xia Yuan, and he accompanied me to visit you today. You have to protect him well and don't let the nearby youkai bully him. ”

“……”

Lin Youxi pushed Mei Fang on the shoulder, "I've finished introducing it, what are you doing stupidly, say hello to my mother!" ”

"Ah, Auntie! My name is Mei Fang...... I...... is a good friend of Lin Youxi. ”

Mei Fang looked at the photo of Lin Youxi's mother on the tombstone, she smiled so brightly that Mei Fang suddenly didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, Lin Youxi suddenly closed his eyes and whispered something that Mei Fang could hear clearly.

"Mom, I'll tell you. I had a fight with Mei Fang today...... It was me who lost my temper first, but Mei Fang apologized to me and comforted me. I feel very guilty now, so I hope you can help me tell Mei Fang, I want to tell him I'm sorry, I hope he can forgive me. ”

After Lin Youxi finished speaking, he opened his eyes and asked Mei Fang, "Did you hear my mother talking to you?" ”

Mei Fang nodded, "She told me that although her daughter Lin Youxi is a very naughty and violent bad girl, she still hopes that I can bear with her and take good care of her......"

Lin Youxi blushed and punched Mei Fang, "It's impossible for my mother to say such a thing, you listen to me again!" ”

Mei Fang and Lin Youxi frolicked and completed the worship of Youxi's mother.

While Mei Fang was busy packing up her things and preparing to leave, Lin Youxi stopped at the tombstone next to her mother.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Youxi stared at the tombstone on the side.

"The grandmother next door seems to have no one to worship for a long time...... I haven't seen any new yellow paper and offerings on the tombstones here this year. ”

"Maybe the family is too busy to come over...... Or maybe they've moved. ”

"This grandma is so pitiful."

As he spoke, Lin Youxi took a small apple from his mother's offering table and respectfully placed it in front of the incense burner on the tombstone next door.

"Aren't you afraid that your mother will be angry?"

"Mom and this grandmother are neighbors, and they should talk a lot, but it shouldn't matter if they just share an apple."

Lin Youxi pointed to the photo and said, "You see my mother smiling so happily, she must not be a stingy person." ”

"yes."

Mei Fang agreed with Lin Youxi's statement, and when he was about to leave, Lin Youxi pulled Mei Fang's arm.

"Are you in a hurry to leave? I'm finally going to see my mom and stay here for a while. ”

Mei Fang looked up, the weather was gloomy now, and he was actually a little worried that it would rain.

"Okay...... It's up to you. ”

Lin Youxi and Mei Fang sat on the small stone steps opposite their mother's tombstone, chatting about some trivial topics.

But it's also for my mother.

At the end, Lin Youxi suddenly asked Mei Fang, "Mei Fang, are you afraid of death?" ”

"Hmm...... I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid. ”

Mei Fang nodded seriously, "That's a very painful thing, especially sudden death. ”

"Say it as if you've been there."

"Not really."

Lin Youxi took Mei Fang's sincere words as ridicule and did not continue the topic.

"I think that after a person dies, there are descendants or relatives and friends to worship, and at this time it is not completely dead, just like my mother, she is still alive in the hearts of me and my father."

"Hmm...... That's right. ”

"But if my dad and I die, we may have someone else who will remember it, but no one else will remember my mom."

Lin Youxi's voice sounded sad.

"When that happens, my mother will be like the grandmother next door, no one will come to worship again, no one will remember it again."

It is a common saying that there are three deaths.

But Lin Youxi can understand this truth at a young age, which is indeed very remarkable.

"But that's no way around it......"

"No, I don't want that."

Lin Youxi seemed to have strengthened his determination, "When I grow up in the future, I will definitely bring my children to see my mother." I'm going to tell my child that this is his grandmother, his mother's mother. If I leave later, he will not only remember to worship me, but also remember to worship my mother. ”

Listening to Lin Youxi's firm words, Mei Fang felt a little inexplicable.

In the culture of the Celestial Empire, we have an almost god-like reverence for our ancestors, and the custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent in this land, and the emphasis is on passing the torch from generation to generation, and the incense is eternal.

However, as the times have progressed, these inheritances have been slowly forgotten, with the older generation remaining in their hometowns continuing the traditions of the past, and most of the new generation struggling in rental houses in big cities.

As the older generation also gradually passes away, there are some customs and habits that seem to be inevitable.

Of course, this is not a question of good or bad, it is a nihilistic concept. The ancestors and the ancestors are on top, life is not brought and death is not brought away, do they really care if they are remembered or not?

waited for Mei Fang to come back to his senses, and then Lin Youxi's words: "However, wouldn't it be too early to think about things so far now?" ”

"No, not at all."

Lin Youxi quietly stared at his mother's tombstone on the other side and muttered openly.

Looking at her melancholy appearance, Mei Fang couldn't help but ask softly:

"Lin Youxi, you say...... When do you miss mom the most? ”

Lin Youxi sat on the stone steps with his knees crossed, looking at the green grass and moss on the ground.

She was lost in thought.

"I don't usually think much about it, after all, you and Xia Yuan are always by my side."

"Xia Yuan is willing to be friends with me, share her toys with me, give me all kinds of small gifts, and always play my mother to take care of me...... I really like her, I like her so much. ”

When Lin Youxi talked about Xia Yuan, he always admired her and liked her so much.

"That's it...... What about me? ”

Mei Fang smiled with an expectant expression.

"Your words—"

Lin Youxi thought for a while, and then said seriously, "You are also very good, after all, you will play games with me." ”

"After all these years, you remember this?"

This heartless dead girl!

Mei Fang had a aggrieved expression of conscience being eaten by a dog.

But at the same time, Lin Youxi suddenly became silent as he spoke.

After a long time, she looked up at the sky.

Paper money is sent in the evening breeze, and the slanting sun is hidden in the green pine.

At the same time that the sky was shrouded in dark clouds, Lin Youxi also opened his mouth.

"But except for these times......"

On Lin Youxi's cheek, a tear gently slid down.

"I've always missed my mom."

"I think about it every day."

Mei Fang silently watched Lin Youxi cry about his feelings.

"Everyone I know has a mother, but I'm the only one who doesn't have a mother."

"I want to be spoiled in front of my mother......"

"...... like Xia Yuan did to Teacher Yu"

"...... like Xiaoya did to Aunt Mei"

"But I'm the only one who doesn't have a mother......"

Lin Youxi hugged his knees and cried aggrievedly.

Probably because he was confused by the little crying Bao Xia Yuan, he had been together for so many years, and Mei Fang noticed -

It turned out that this was the first time he had seen Lin Youxi cry like this.

He moved his body and leaned in, touching Lin Youxi's head like he did Xia Yuan to comfort her.

Lin Youxi didn't react to Mei Fang's actions obviously, just crying there.

But Mei Fang could feel it slightly, and she leaned closer to her arm.

There are many times when a friend encounters something sad, and she doesn't need to say anything big to comfort her.

You don't have to tell her, "You've done a great job." ”

You don't have to tell her, "It's everyone else who is wrong, you're not wrong." ”

It's all painless care, and sad people don't care about it at all.

You want to be by her side.

You're by her side now.

When she needs you most.

That is worth a thousand words.

At that moment, a muffled thunder rang out in the cloudy sky, and then a light rain began to fall.