Chapter Seventy-One: Reduced to Ashes
"What's the matter?" the old woman shuddered and scrambled her steps, but her tone was as if nothing had happened.
"I have a friend who asked me to deliver a letter to him. Lingnan said truthfully.
"Deliver the letter?" muttered the old woman, looking at him suspiciously, "who is that friend of yours?"
"Mother-in-law, do you mean that you know Tong Xiuran?" Ling Nan said tentatively, raising his voice a little, he was happy for the other side.
"Is it the other side?" the old woman's tone looked very sad, but the fierce appearance before was now sad.
"Do you know the other side?" Ling Nan excitedly said, how he hoped that the old woman's answer would be as he thought.
"I don't know, I've heard Xiu Ran mention it. The old woman spoke calmly, and as she spoke, she walked on, and the crutch sank into the dirt and pierced the hole, and after a few seconds, it slowly returned to its original state.
"Then where is he now?" Lingnan asked again, since the old woman knew Tong Xiuran, then this letter would definitely be returned to the original owner, and he could be regarded as repaying the other side.
"He's probably not seeing the letter. The old woman looked up to the sky and said, as if she was signaling something, Ling Nan seemed to understand her words, a little incredulous, but he still hoped that the other side could be happy, so how could he think that the person was dead.
"Mother-in-law... The other side said that one day she would leave the small fishing village, and she might come to the White Sea. Ling Nan pursed her lips, didn't know how to speak, paused for a long time before swallowing her throat: "But, she really wants to see him!"
"Two years ago, Xiu Ran died of illness in the White Sea, at that time, he came here alone, saying that he was waiting for a person, but he died of illness in this sea of flowers within a year. The old woman's tone was flat, not in the waves, as if she was talking about an ordinary thing.
Ling Nan opened his mouth, but he still closed his mouth, the old woman was also very sad at the moment, he was asking, it was inappropriate.
Unexpectedly, the old woman herself spoke, and she said quietly: " There are very few people in the white sea who will come, there is nothing else here except a large sky full of stars, who will be rare, I have lived here for more than a hundred years, and I can't see a few living people in circles, three years ago, Xiu Ran came here, and praised this is a rare pure beauty in the world, he swore that he would wait here for the other side, but he never expected that he had been infected with poison, and there was no cure for it, and later I learned that he was infected there, so the other side would never come, and he couldn't wait for her. ”
That's why the other side will order the pigeons to kick over their food, so they will send them away in the middle of the night, so they will return to the fishing village regardless of it, but she doesn't know that Tong Xiuran was infected with poison at that time, and he will be punished in the end, so...
Lingnan suddenly panicked, they fled there this time because the other side saved them, so will the other side still be punished.
The more Ling Nan thought about it, the more scared he became, he didn't know what he should do for her at the moment, he suddenly turned back and ran, he firmly believed that he had to go back to the fishing village, he had to save the other side.
"Do you want to live up to the wishes of the other side? Even if you go, she can't escape from there, she is already firmly rooted, and if you go again, you will only harm her!" The old woman's voice came from behind her, every word was like an ice pick piercing his heart, every word was so accurate, yes, how could he go back.
Ling Nan couldn't hold on any longer, she knelt on the ground, her hands soaked into the dirt, her eyes were closed, and the face of the other side would appear in his mind, her smile was like bright sunshine, and every time she smiled, her sickness would disperse.
His whole body trembled, as if he had been subjected to the cold of winter, and he did not stop all the time. Maybe it was because her smile was so beautiful in his heart, and the part of his heart couldn't help but hurt his heart, the pain made him breathe, and the pain made him regret that he shouldn't be selfish about the other side.
After a long time, the old woman stood beside Lingnan with this back, he and she did not have any words of comfort, but provided him with time to adjust, Lingnan only took out the letter in his arms at this time, his hand was still trembling, he handed the letter to the old woman, and said in a low voice: "I don't know if the other side can get out, I want to go and see that person for her." ”
"Let's go!" said the old woman without thinking, and then turned and walked to the north, stepping on one star after another, and muttering to herself: "Only a cheap life will not be able to step on it." ”
A tomb that has been almost covered by the stars, only the word Tong is revealed, and the rest has been entangled in the stars, people who don't know think that this is a century-old tomb, in fact, it was just two years ago, but the stars here are growing too fast, and the tomb has been destroyed, until today, the stars have taken root and solidified, and if you want to pull it out, you have to demolish the grave.
"That's it. The old woman's tone was flat, she hadn't seen this tomb for a long time, and the old woman looked at the tomb with an indescribable taste in her eyes.
Tong Xiuran's grave was buried by her own hands, at that time she was digging this pit trembling and trembling, and she was also immobile at that time, but before he left, he was most concerned about the other side.
Lingnan squatted beside the grave, breaking the blocked stars with his bare hands, the tombstone has been buried by the rhizomes of flowers and plants, obviously these stars have been fused with him, Lingnan said calmly: "The other side asked me to send you a letter, now you can't see it, and I can't read it to you." ”
So saying, he groped for his coat again, took out the fold of fire from it, opened it, blew on it, and then it kindled a fire, which burned the envelope and turned into ashes, and swayed in the wind, until it was all burned, and then he continued: "Keep this letter for yourself, read it slowly, and keep it well." ”
After doing all this, Lingnan got up and bowed deeply to the old woman, also silently thanking her.
The old woman did not want to linger long, and when she saw that he had finished burning the letter, she said, "I am going to pick some vegetables and go back, so you can go with me!"
Ling Nanmu nodded, now his heart was guilty of the other side, and his heart was like pressing a boulder, which made him feel deeply tired.
He walked with the old woman for more than two hours, not half a step away from the sea of flowers, from a distance, the opposite side is still a white expanse, as if the distance is endless, finally, the old woman stopped in a green vegetable field, the old woman is very serious to build a shed for it, at a glance, only here is the open space, is the only place where the stars have not offended, the stars surround a circle, as if guarding something.
Before reaching the White Sea, the area was a desert, and there was no grass, but the White Sea just became a contrast, what a magical place, this is also a curious thing for the world, as if a magician was performing a magic trick.