Chapter 20: The Man of a Few Years Ago

For the next three days, everything was calm again.

The old smoker stayed with me all the time.

Every now and then, a wild dog is caught from outside.

The reason he gave me was always the same, it was an eyesore.

I didn't demolish him when I knew it, and every time I ate the meat with him, I felt a lot more happy.

The previous depression gradually disappeared.

And so three days passed.

On the fourth day, Niang'er Village suddenly became lively.

It wasn't that the village in front of me had changed so much, but that there were a lot of outsiders who had suddenly arrived, and one of them was a man I knew very well, and when I saw him, I knew who the old smoker was talking about first.

That man was the first person to come to the village a few years ago.

He is also the only one who may have really married a girl from Niang'er Village and left.

His name is Liu Shan.

It was Liu Ming's uncle.

He didn't seem to know that Liu Ming was dead, or that there was something I couldn't see that was affecting something, and the first thing he found after he came to Niang'er Village was to find the iron lump that was opened to the ancestral hall of Niang'er Village at some point, and chatted for a long time with the air in the iron lump.

It's just that when I saw it, I didn't think he was a fool like I used to be.

Rather, there is one more hope in my heart.

I hope Liu Ming and Zhuang Yue are not actually dead.

Hopefully, what I saw before is false.

However, I didn't bother him, but after confirming with the old smoker that he was the one I was waiting for, I returned to the village with the old smoker.

And the old smoker was not surprised by the arrival of these outsiders.

I was the only one who was shocked.

Because even after the old smoker told me about the three conditions for replenishing my life, I was a little skeptical about the first condition.

After all, no one has come to Niang'er Village for so many years.

It was already very surprising that Liu Mingzhuang came more and more before.

How could the old smoker, or rather, be sure that someone would come?

This also made me more convinced of what the old smoker said about replenishing his life.

But this time, the old smoker did not stay with me at the entrance of the village, but joined the group of people who followed Liu Shan to Niang'er Village, and soon mixed with that group of people.

I also heard some clues in their conversations.

The reason why they came was because of Zhuang Yue and Liu Ming.

The two of them seem to have told the public something about Niang'er Village before, so they are also full of interest here, and the old smoker joins them, in the words of the old smoker, it is also to save them.

As for the rest, the old smoker said it had nothing to do with me.

I don't have to worry about it anymore.

As for Liu Shan, I just have to wait.

In short, Niang'er Village suddenly became lively.

Even in my eyes, it's a little weird.

But I still did what the old smoker said, stayed quietly at the entrance of the village and continued to play the role of my fool.

It's that the wild dogs have become less and less in the last three days.

The remaining one or two also hid away when they saw me, which made me much less fun.

No one paid any attention to me until nightfall, and those who entered Niang'er Village were immersed in it as if they had come to something that fascinated them.

I don't want to follow them.

He went straight home.

I finally saw Liu Shan again, and he was kneeling in front of a room, his face full of tears, and I don't know when there was a child who looked like he was three or four years old.

It's a boy.

I looked at him for a while.

I can't help but think of the night Liu Shan came to Niang'er Village a few years ago, when I was burning paper money, I heard a woman talking in my ear.

She said that her sister was getting married.

She told me to burn more.

At that time, I was scared, but I also burned some more, and then Liu Shan left with a bag of paper money, now think about it, maybe Liu Shan took that sister away at that time.

It's just that I can't see it.

Just like it is now.

I couldn't tell what was true.

After thinking about it for a while, I walked to Liu Shan's side.

Liu Shan noticed me at this time, his face was a little puzzled at first, and then he soon seemed to think of me, and subconsciously wiped away his tears and stood up from the ground with an embarrassed face.

"Fool, you've grown so big, huh?"

I smiled and didn't answer him, but my eyes fell on the jar next to Liu Shan.

Liu Shan also noticed that I was looking at the altar, and subconsciously protected the altar on my body, but soon he seemed to remember something, and his face was a little guilty.

"Fool, your sister is gone."

"She told me she wanted to go home when she left."

"So I brought her here."

Liu Shan couldn't stop crying as he spoke.

I suddenly felt a sour in the corners of my eyes, and I didn't know why, but I felt panicked.

But I didn't speak, but looked at Liu Shan quietly, and I didn't stop him until Liu Shan stood up with the jar in his arms and was about to walk towards the house.

Liu Shan was stunned for a moment, and then said bitterly: "Fool, I know that people who have left Niang'er Village will never be able to return here in this life." ”

"But she was homesick."

"I just want to ......"

Before he could finish speaking, I snatched the jar.

I don't know what's in the jar, I can only be sure that this jar should be like a coffin, and inside is the traces of Liu Shan's wife's existence in this world, and I just need to bury her here with my own hands.

It's just that in Liu Shan's eyes, I'm a fool.

Since he is a fool, there is no need to say anything to Liu Shan, he should do what a fool should do.

Seeing that I grabbed the jar, Liu Shan was also anxious, and he was about to snatch it back, so I naturally wouldn't give him a chance, so I ran home with the jar.

Liu Shan couldn't catch up with me at all because he still had a child, and he was soon left behind by me, and when I returned home, Liu Shan didn't know where he was.

To my surprise, the old smoker seemed to know what I was going to do, and was already waiting for me in the house.

Seeing that I came back with the jar, the old smoker smiled and said, "Do you know that I robbed it?" ”

I rolled my eyes and said angrily, "What can I do if I don't grab it?" ”

"You didn't tell me if you want to continue to play a fool in front of them, since I am pretending to be a fool, then I can't do what a fool should do?"

"Just say, what should I do now?"

The old smoker took a puff and threw the brazier to me.

"Get to work!"

I was stunned for a moment, but I already saw that the old smoker was already sitting at the door where I had burned paper money before, and I immediately understood, and came to the door with the jar, and after putting it away, I went to get some paper money.

After getting ready, the old smoker continued: "People who have left Niang'er Village are generally not qualified to come back, let alone be buried here. ”

"But as a village keeper, you will not have these taboos if you are buried with your own hands."

"And you can make a good relationship with it."

"This is also the key to your life!"

"That is......"

"Replenish the soul!"