At twelve o'clock in the evening, the remote Yangqiao Village is rarely lively.

A mourning booth was erected in front of a dilapidated red brick house near the end of the village, and hung in a speaker on the plane tree on the left, with mournful music.

Li Shi knelt in front of the coffin in the hall, a little confused.

He struggled to his feet, to see the people in the coffin.

"Stone, don't be too sad, my sister-in-law has been suffering from illness all these years, and it may be a good thing for her to be gone, a relief." Li Qiaona next to him helped him and comforted him softly.

Li Shi walked forward as if he hadn't heard it.

According to the custom of the old family, the lid of the coffin should be closed virtually, and it will not be opened until the day of the funeral, so that the filial son and grandson and other relatives and friends can see each other for the last time.

But when he walked over, he found that the lid of the coffin was not closed, and when he was strange, he saw his mother lying inside, and his brain buzzed, and the person was stunned.

After at least half a minute, no matter how Li Qiaona next to him persuaded him, he stood there stupidly, without any expression at all, but at some point, strings of tears flowed silently all over his face.

Suddenly, there was the sound of firecrackers outside, and after a while, there was a noise.

Li Hao anxiously ran over to report: "Sister-in-law, someone from Grandma Xiaocui's mother's house is here, and she is ...... with her relatives."

"What's wrong? Is there a quarrel? Li Qiaona turned her head to look at her nephew and hurriedly asked.

"No, it's just that the uncles over there first said that Grandma Xiaocui had a hard life, and she married into our Li family and suffered a lifetime of sin, and she lost her husband early, and she worked hard to pull her son alone, and then she began to scold Li Shi, saying that he was not filial, and he didn't find a wife at the age of thirty-five or sixteen, so that my Xiaocui grandmother didn't have a grandson to see her off, and ......"

Li Qiaona looked at Li Hao, who wanted to speak and stopped, and was anxious: "What else, say it quickly!" ”

Li Hao glanced at Li Shi: "They say that the scenery of white things to be done, they want to invite bands and opera troupes, they want eighteen dragons to open the way, they want to send hibiscus king smoke on the table, and they want two packs of golden white sand for one person to go to the tomb mountain......"

Li Qiaona frowned: "Isn't that the standard of at least 200,000?" ”

As she spoke, she subconsciously looked at Li Shi next to her.

After a while, Li Shiren was called to the next room, in addition to a few elders in charge of the village, those uncles were also there, and when they saw him, they immediately said the words that Li Hao had relayed before in front of him.

"Li Shi, your mother suffered so much during her lifetime, and the people in our mother's house have no other requirements, and we won't talk about anything else, just one, you must send her on her last journey in a beautiful way!"

Li Shi was silent, thinking of the hardships his mother endured before her death, and thinking that she was still suffering from the spread of illness before leaving, his heart was full of grief, and the tears that had just stopped couldn't help but flow down.

It's just that he didn't speak in the end, he was physically and mentally weak, his throat was blocked, and his mouth seemed to be heavy and couldn't be opened, so he silently turned around and came to the back room alone, closed the door, and transferred all his money to an account with his mobile phone, and after calculating, it was more than 53,000.

He is in his thirties, has no house, no car, no marriage, and no children.

Originally, there was still a little bit of savings, but in the past few years of my mother's illness, the money has been spent like flowing water.

In the end, it seems that the clan relatives helped settle the account, in addition to the favors of relatives and friends, they also borrowed money from Nagu.

Time passed suddenly, Li Shi was too sad, and it seemed that his sense of time was confused, and it seemed that many things had passed in a trance.

On the second day, the elder who sang the sacrifice stood next to the coffin with the prayer letter, and he knelt on the ground in front of him, only to hear this person chant in his unique tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, fellow villagers, guests......

After singing the sacrificial text, the village master of ceremonies said: "The hour has come, fire the cannon!" ”

Immediately afterwards, in a burst of Xuantian firecrackers, the coffin was lifted by the strong laborers of the village, and in the relatives and friends who wore linen and filial piety knelt down, they went up the mountain step by step.

Li Shi walked in front with a spirit flag, knelt down in three steps, and when he met a person with a cannon on the side of the road, he also knelt down and thanked him.

In that way, I went up the mountain in chaos, and went down the mountain in chaos.

When he came to his senses completely, he had already sent the spirit up the mountain in the evening, as if a long time had passed, and on the death day of the second year, he was alone at home, looking at the empty house, and walked around, only to hear the sound of the branches of the trees blown by the wind outside.

The rest didn't have any vocals.

Gradually, the five senses seemed to finally regain consciousness.

Walking to the door where my mother usually sits and picks vegetables, a thick sadness welled up from the bottom of my heart, my nose was sore, and the whole person lay on the door frame, crying loudly.

He knew that in his life, he would never have a mother again.

……

"Stones! Stone! Wake up, are you having a nightmare? ”

Li Shi woke up suddenly and found himself lying in the guest bedroom of the Xinyu Community, Chen Qiuye and Wang Yuelan were both looking at him anxiously by the bedside.

"I'm having a nightmare?"

He subconsciously reached out and touched his eyes and face, which were wet, obviously just crying in a dream.

As soon as I thought of the dream, the scene of the white thing flashed back, and the whole person was stunned on the spot.

"Stone, are you alright?"

Chen Qiuye looked at the sad look on the face of the man he loved, his heart was distressed, and his tone was unprecedentedly gentle.

Gripping his hand tightly, trying to make him feel his presence.

The same is true for Wang Yuelan next to her, although she didn't speak, she leaned on the side of the bed, stretched out her hand to hold his legs, and her face was full of concern.

Li Shi already knew what was going on, and knew that he had just had a terrible dream.

Can......

"Where's my phone?"

He rolled over and sat up, looked at the bedside table on the left, and went to find his phone, he was going to call his mother immediately!

"This, here!"

Chen Qiuye hurriedly handed him the phone.

Li Shi took it, quickly found the familiar number, and dialed it.

At the same time, I looked at the time on the screen, and I had slept for far more than five hours, it would be half past ten in the morning.

Over there, Wang Yuelan saw Li Shi sit up, went over and opened the curtains, and immediately a bright light shone in through the window.

Outside, the sun is shining.

The phone rang four times, and it was connected, and the mother's voice came from the other side: "Son, why did you call me so early today?" Aren't you with Akiba in Yangcheng? ”

As soon as Li Shi heard this voice, his nose was sour, he held back his emotions, and hurriedly said, "Yes, Autumn Leaves are next to me now." ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly handed the phone to Chen Qiuye and opened it at the same time.

Chen Qiuye looked at him, took the mobile phone, and shouted affectionately: "Mom, what are you doing, didn't you go to play mahjong today?" ”

"Not yet, but I'm going to open a table in the afternoon, and when Nana comes, I'll go to the village with her to watch the excitement first."

"Ah, there's a lot of activity in the village again?"

"Yes, the matchmaker brought a little girl to our village and went on a blind date with the young man from the sister-in-law's family at the head of the village, in fact, the two young people have already met, and both parties think it's okay, so this time the matchmaker took the woman and her family to see the place......

Li Shi listened to his mother chatting with Akiba next to him, and his heart gradually calmed down.

Yes, my mother is still alive, it was just a dream.

If you think about it carefully, there are actually many irrational things about that dream.

But, well, why did I have such a dream?

Li Shi summoned the study panel, "stared" at it for a while, and then sighed softly in his heart.

Yes.

I just got the learning panel before, and although I knew that I had embarked on a unique path of evolution, I didn't really think it could be, and I always felt that immortality was too far away from me, and the probability was not certain.

Although I am looking forward to it, the more practical idea is to get more money and have a strong body to live to be more than 100 years old.

Can...... It's different now.

The integration of the personal space has made my own path to immortality truly hopeful.

Because of this, I have subconsciously realized that I will definitely face a situation that I am most afraid of in the future - now I can live for a long time, and I can even say that the journey of life has just begun, but my mother is just an ordinary person, no matter how good her health is, after the age of eighty or ninety...... There will always be a day when life and death will be separated.

Li Shi sighed.

But he soon cheered up again, and he didn't let his emotions get caught up in it.

"It's useless to think too much, even if we use money, we will definitely let my mother live a long and healthy life."

In that case, at least forty years away. Instead of being sad here, it is better to accompany your mother more in the future, and completely put an end to the situation of 'the son wants to raise but does not wait'! ”

He struggled to adjust his emotions and smiled and mingled into the chat.

"Mom, when you play mahjong, you have to get up often to move, sitting for a long time is not good for your health."

"You know, Nana has told us many times, and she has set an alarm clock for us, as soon as the alarm goes off, we will get up and do a square dance, and then we will continue to play."

After a few more conversations, he hung up the phone.

Chen Qiuye smiled and said to Li Shi: "Fortunately, there is Nagu at home, let us worry a lot less, you said that this year's New Year, should we give her something?" ”

She also followed Li Shi and called Li Qiaona "Nagu".

Li Shi raised his hand, took her right hand, held it, and played with it.

Her skin is snow-white and smooth, and her jade hands are not tired of playing.

Then, he also took Wang Yuelan's left hand next to him, held it, and said softly: "Nagu's generation is my cousin's aunt, but in fact, she is more like a sister, she has had a good relationship with my mother since she was a child, and when she grows up, she treats my mother better than some daughters." In the future, you can treat her as half a sister, and it doesn't matter if you send something valuable...... However, she is very measured, and she is too precious to accept it. ”

"Then didn't you say last time that you wanted to take your mother out on a trip, and then we will invite Nagu to join her parents."

"That's fine, I've thought so."

"Hmm." Chen Qiuye, a woman who is extremely smart, through the fact that Li Shi called his mother for the first time, she already thought of what kind of nightmare he had, moved her ass closer, stretched out her hand to hug Li Shi's, and said softly, "I will resign after the National Day, and I will live in Tanzhou in the future, close to my hometown, we can often go back to my hometown to accompany my mother, and we can also take my mother to live in the city more...... If you don't like to drive, Sister Lan and I can switch drives, with us, you can chat with her, play cards and go shopping with her, she will definitely prefer to come. ”

Li Shi listened, hooked her chin with his backhand, and kissed her.

He raised his head and glanced at Wang Yuelan again.

Suddenly he thought of something, and looked down at the quilt covering him below.

Although it is not very flat, it is a bump formed by the natural folds of the quilt, which is normal.

He secretly said: "It seems that the extreme sadness in the dream has suppressed the 'sequelae'. ”

But he'd rather have 'after-effects' every morning than have this nightmare again.

got up, under the tacit care of the two women, got dressed, and the three of them came out to the living room together, Wang Yuelan immediately went to the kitchen: "It's still hot, I'll get it." ”

Looking at Wang Yuelan's back, Chen Qiuye took his arm and said softly: "Little brother, is something happening, are you okay?" ”

Li Shi hugged her again and said seriously: "It's okay, I'm very good in all aspects, but I just had a bad dream related to my mother." ”

As long as he said it seriously, Chen Qiuye believed it unconditionally.

She put her foot on Li Shi and kissed her face: "Then I'll be relieved." ”

Wang Yuelan made pork and cabbage buns and beef buns in soup in the morning, and Li Shi came to the study after eating five of them.

He first plugged in the electronic balance and turned it on to warm up.

This kind of balance actually needs to be warmed up for half an hour, and I was in a hurry to test it last night, so I only warmed it up for a while and used it directly.

I looked left and right, and unhurriedly tidied up the desktop.

After this nightmare, his mind was completely relaxed.

After setting an alarm for half an hour with his mobile phone, the person walked to the window and opened the curtains.

Looking up, the sky outside was blue and the sun was just right. The neighborhood is very quiet, and occasionally a child downstairs is running around in the open space between the flower beds, and he will also hear the faint scolding of adults, he opens the window and waves his hand in the warm light, which seems to be playing with the beam, but in fact it is driving away the dust brought up by the window.

Then I stretched out in the sun, my muscles stretched, relaxed, and I just felt comfortable all over.

"It was just a dream, but it wasn't just a dream."

"Life is so good, I want to cherish it."

Li Shi looked at the scenery outside the window for a while, and after retracting his gaze, his heart moved, and he called out the learning panel-

Name: Li Shi

Mental power: 17+1 [Fusion]

Wealth: 27.331 [Redeem]

Space: 7 cubic meters

Learning:Swordsmanship (proficient-)

Learning to complete the library: omitted.

……

"The mental power is 17 points, and the limit value is 2 points."

Li Shi found that he was more "normal" than yesterday when facing the learning panel, and yesterday he was stimulated by the portable space and the ability to resist things, and he had a sense of impatience that he couldn't wait to evolve into an "immortal" immediately.

"I can indeed evolve to that extent in the future, but that's a far, far away thing. Why am I in such a hurry? This kind of thing is not in a hurry, and there is no need to rush. ”

He thought back to the dream he had last night.

"The dream is so real, if you don't get the learning panel, maybe that's the future of your original life trajectory?"

Li Shi felt an emotion in his heart, as if he had seen another possible timeline in the universe.

Suddenly stood up, took the pen and ink, spread out a piece of white rice paper, lifted the pen and moistened the point, followed the vague emotion, as if substituted for the self in the dream, and wrote:

The wind passes through the leaves of the small garden like weeping, and the eyebrows are remembered without relatives.

Fifteen does not see the shadow of the moon, and the year is like tonight.

The length of the hair is long and the play is followed, and the general horn is also practiced by his side.

Only hate to tie up his hair and leave home for a long time, and the queen of the crown always leans on the door.

After writing, I mentioned the name of "Acacia by the Long River" and put down my pen.

Looking at the poems on the paper in front of him, the text is very plain, but the ink is strong and affectionate, at least it is a wonderful work.

I miss my mother even more in my heart.

Although he had called before, he immediately decided to go back to his hometown in the afternoon!

At that moment, there was a sudden commotion outside.

If you listen carefully, it's not home, and the movement seems to be coming from the corridor outside the house.

(End of chapter)