Chapter 18: Return to the Heart Like an Arrow
Walking on the road, looking back on all kinds of hardships, Da Kui is embarrassed. Until it was about to get dark, there was no one in the four fields. Da Kui wanted to try how fast he could run now that the burden was gone, and he couldn't help but run at a gallop.
This time I felt the wind in my ears, and the scenery on both sides seemed to fly backwards. I saw a figure on the road like an arrow from the string, and disappeared in an instant. Da Kui didn't want to mention how happy he was, at this speed. You don't need half a moon to get home. Unknowingly, Da Kui ran straight from evening to dawn, and Da Kui had already run to the Lin'an realm. There were already farmers working in the fields beside the road, and Da Kui stopped. With a long sigh, I felt extremely comfortable. After running so far, I don't feel tired.
Da Kui didn't know that he had taken the fairy grass elixir as a meal during the art period of Tiantai Mountain Middle School, and he had eaten it for five years. Today's Da Kui is no longer what it used to be, not only has long strength, but also has great eyesight and ear power. At this moment, it doesn't matter if you run for another day and night. I don't know how far I walked that night, but Da Kui looked for a farmer and asked, "Uncle, what kind of place is this? ”
The farmer said: "This is Qingshan Pass, and then to the north is Huangpoling, all of which are Lin'an boundaries." ”
When Da Kui heard this, he was full of joy. hurriedly thanked him, and thought of Huang Poling to visit the kind Uncle Liu's family. Thinking of this, Da Kui quickened his pace and walked north, even if he walked, he was much faster than ordinary people. The farmer looked back and wondered, "How did this man go so fast?" ”
Da Kui walked nearly twenty miles and found Xiaoling Village according to his memory. Da Kui entered the village and came to the door of Liu Laohan, but there was a lock on the door. Da Kui looked around, trying to find someone to ask, and it happened that a shepherd boy of twelve or thirteen years old led a ox from a distance. Da Kui walked over and asked, "Kid, do you know where the old uncle's family surnamed Liu has gone?" ”
The shepherd boy looked Da Kui up and down and said, "You are from other places, this family's Liu Ye and Grandma Liu died of illness a few years ago." After speaking, the shepherd boy took the ox and left by himself.
Da Kui's heart was full of pain, and he turned around and stood in front of the door for a long time. I thought, 'The two good Samaritans have died, and I should go to the grave to worship.' Thinking of this, he found a villager to inquire about the burial place of the two old men, and asked where he could buy incense, candles, and paper money. The villager said that there was no one in the village, and that if he wanted to buy it, he would need to go to 'Huangling Town', which was fifty miles to the west.
Da Kui turned around and left, and the villager shouted, "Little brother, the town is far from here." ”
Da Kui said: "Thank you, big brother." With that, Da Kui walked out of the village.
Da Kui went out of the village and saw that there was no one around, so he took the road and ran westward. When I went to the town, I found a restaurant to eat and was full, and found a coffin to buy incense, candles, paper money and a few cakes and tributes. Da Kui carried a flat shoulder in one hand, and carried incense, candles, paper money and tribute in the other hand and rushed back, less than half an hour before and after.
It just so happened that the villager was chatting with a few fellow villagers at the entrance of the village, and Da Kui stepped forward and said, "This eldest brother, I want to trouble you to take me to Uncle Liu's grave to worship." The villager was stupid at first, and at first he just wanted to play tricks on the outsider. Incense, candles, and paper money are sold in the village, and he thinks that this stranger actually believes it.
The villager asked in disbelief: "You went to Huangling Town to buy it?"
Da Kui nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't come back until I had a meal."
The villager laughed and said: "You don't want to trick me, Huangling Town is more than fifty miles away from here, how can you go back in a moment." ”
Da Kui remembered that Wujie had said that wealth is not exposed, and art is not revealed, but he will not lie. I had to say: "You don't care how I go back and forth, you don't tell me, I'll go to someone else." ”
When the person next to him saw it, he persuaded: "Hey, sixth son." Take him with you. ”
The six sons thought that they had nothing to do anyway, so they said, "Then let's go." After speaking, he led Da Kui to the back mountain, and said all the way: "Hey, Lao Liu Tou and his wife are also pitiful, childless and daughterless." A few years ago, there was a famine here and many people died of starvation, and then there was a plague, and the old couple died of illness. The sixth son lamented all the way: "If there is chaos today, the life of the common people can be miserable." ”
Da Kui listened, and he didn't feel extremely sentimental in his heart. When the two of them arrived at a lonely grave on the mountain, they saw that the grave was full of wild grass and a bleak appearance.
Liuzi said: "That's it, at that time, the village fled from the famine. The old man didn't leave when he was old, but when everyone came back, they found that the old couple had died of illness at home. This is still the village people who jointly buried the two old men here. When the sixth son saw that someone had also brought it, he said, "Okay, I'll leave if there's nothing to do." After saying that, he turned around and went down the mountain.
Da Kui's heart was sad at this moment, and he started to pull out the wild grass on the grave and cultivate some soil. Then he knelt down in front of the grave and silently found a gray homespun cloth garment from his baggage and wrapped it around his head. Offering incense and candles in front of the grave, and taking a fire to turn paper money into a sickle. Only then did he cry: "Uncle Liu, I Dakui came back late, and I didn't have time to send you to the end." If I hadn't been taken in by my uncle, I would have starved to death on the road. Today I came back, but you and the eldest mother are gone...... "The old man has gone, only to cry to the emperor's heartfelt heart, and finally Da Kui lay on the grave and let out a lot of sorrow. The more I cried, the more sad I became, the more I cried, and finally I fainted in front of the grave.
When Da Kui woke up, it was already evening, and he kowtowed three times to the lonely grave. Da Kui took off the clothes on his head and stuffed them into the baggage, grabbed the burden on his back, grabbed the flat burden and went back down the mountain. Da Kui did not stop in the village, but went directly to the main road and walked north, and when there was no one around, he ran again.
After that, Da Kui went to the inn or found someone to sleep in during the day, and hurried at night. On the morning of the fourth day, we arrived at the south bank of the Yangtze River. But there was only one merchant ship unloading on the wharf, and Da Kui waited until the end of the day before boarding the ship to cross the river. Seeing the magnificence of the Yangtze River again, Da Kui couldn't help but sigh again: "The Yangtze River is really wide and long......."
When it was nearly noon when the merchant ship docked, Da Kui found a restaurant and called for a stewed chicken, a few pig's trotters, and four large bowls of meat and egg noodles, and had a beautiful meal. These days, I have been eating only one meal a day. In addition to sleeping and hurrying, Da Kui galloped with all his strength every night to hurry, and Da Kui was really hungry. Da Kui was in a hurry to go home early to visit his mother, and his mother didn't know what was going on at home. I don't know who carried water and chopping wood for her, who didn't have livestock at home, and who pulled the plough for her when she was plowing.
After eating, Da Kui paid the bill, picked up the burden and left. As long as there is no one around, they will spread their legs and run wildly, and at night they are even more unscrupulous. After three days, he finally arrived at the Jeju border, and Dae-kyu looked forward to seeing his mother sooner. I didn't stop on the way, and rushed straight home.
Twilight is coming, and the wind is yellow.
Da Kui was about to arrive at the entrance of the village and saw an old woman standing at the entrance of the village from a distance, and now Da Kui's eyesight is so sharp. At a glance, I saw that it was my mother. Da Kui quickened his pace, and kept shouting: "Mother, Da Kui is back." In the end, he ran as hard as he could, until he stopped in front of his mother. Putong knelt in front of his mother, hugging his mother's legs, and couldn't cry anymore.
Da Kui's mother was stunned, and only said in a half-loud voice: "I'm not dreaming, right?"
Da Kui cried: "Mother, your son Da Kui is back."
Only then did my mother believe it, and hugged Da Kui and cried: "You said that you will come back in three years, and I look forward to it every day." Every day, as soon as it gets dark, I wait at the entrance of the village, and this wait is five years. My son, you are back. ”