Chapter 12: The Night of Reunion
Six people slept by the fire pit for the night. The next day, I didn't catch a cold, but they complained of backache.
Eating breakfast around the fire, the six of them only felt cold to the bone.
The evil spirit opened the door and exclaimed, "It's snowing!"
Wang Luojie rushed out, shrank back after a glance, and said, "Surprise me! If it's as big as the north, let's go home as soon as possible!"
Li Han rubbed his hands and said, "There can't be such a big snow here." ”
Wang Luojie muttered, put the cooked food in his hand on the fire and roasted it.
"What are you muttering?" asked Long Guan, crouching beside him.
"Nothing. Wang Luojie said casually.
He was full of thoughts, but he didn't know where to start.
Li Han went out after eating enough, fetched a basin of cold water and put it on the side of the fire pit, and said, "Let's go down directly, don't go up." Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, let's go down for the New Year. ”
Long Guan said: "It's all here, let's go for a trip." The year is also a symbol, but it is not the same. ”
Li Han thumped his calf and said helplessly: "I really can't walk." ”
The evil spirit said: "Don't talk about that pretentious nonsense, let's go for a trip! Picture peace of mind. ”
The monk picked up the fire pit, Yi Shui kept watching him from the side, and the monk's scalp was numb by Yi Shui's staring, and said: "You can't let us have no way back, you can retreat yourself." ”
Li Han no longer refuted, simply washed his face, and the six of them cleaned up and set off again.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and a thin layer had accumulated on the road, and the clothes of the six people had been soaked with snow. The sky was overcast, and it seemed that the snow would not stop for a while.
On the winding mountain road, six teenagers gasped and hurried away, sketching a freehand landscape painting in the deep mountains of the southern country.
Three hours of non-stop rushing, six people are really exhausted, and there is no one on the mountain road on Chinese New Year's Eve. Seeing a small mountain village trapped in the embrace of the mountains from a distance, Li Han stopped.
"What?" Yi Shui asked.
Li Han took off his backpack and said, "Our family does not have an ancestral grave, it is divided into three places. And it's too close to people's homes. I can't go over. ”
"I'll go!" said Wang Luojie, "I'll go to their graves." ”
"I'll be with you. Yi Shui smiled, "Just look at his home." ”
Li Han nodded, pointed them in the direction, and found a place to rest.
Wang Luojie and Yi Shui carried their backpacks and walked in the direction pointed by Li Han. There is no road leading directly to the destination.
After the two left, the monk called Li Han aside alone, and Long Guan was about to join in the fun when he saw this, but the monk glared at him and returned. The evil spirit smiled: "Did you say that you asked for it, that monk guy may be holding some bad water to do something unseemly, and he can still let you hear it?"
Wang Luojie and the two looked at the tomb Ying, which was close at hand, but they couldn't pass through a paddy field. had to go along the ridge, Yi Shui fell behind Wang Luojie, Wang Luojie said: "Did Li Han explain anything to you?"
"What do you want to know?"
Wang Luojie was silent for a moment, he didn't know what Li Han thought, so he didn't dare to break it rashly, so he had to say: "Forget it, you didn't say anything to me." ”
Finally approached, the two of them took out their things, and someone behind them asked, "Where did you two babies come from?"
When the two turned around, they were farmers in their fifties, and Wang Luojie was happy, so he preemptively said: "Ah! We are friends of Li Han, and we have come to go to the grave for him." ”
He was straightforward, he was afraid that others would misunderstand their purpose, but he forgot that Li Han had been 'dead' for almost four years.
The peasant's face changed and he asked, "Li Han, isn't he dead?"
Wang Luojie's mind turned sharply, and he said sadly: "Yes, we just want to come and see him, he..."
Wang Luojie looked around and said, "He... Where?"
The old man sighed and said, "He has friends like you, and he doesn't lose it... He's not buried here..."
He paused again and again, and still couldn't say that Li Han's body had not been found.
Wang Luojie didn't know what he was thinking, he said, "It's okay, let's just take a look at his grandparents on his behalf." ”
After speaking, he motioned for Yi Shui to start ignition. The two stood in front of the tomb with solemn expressions. The old man leaned on the hoe and watched, Wang Luojie cried out in his heart, but his face did not show it at all.
After the two burned the paper, Wang Luojie took out the firecrackers and said to the old man: "You are away from the original point! This firecracker is not very powerful." ”
The old man took two or three steps back as he was told, but he didn't leave. Wang Luojie crooked his mouth, and firecrackers rang out. The dogs in the whole village started barking.
Wang Luojie sighed and looked around, this firecracker is really powerful, and many mountain people are shocked to look here.
Seeing that the smoke had cleared, the old man took a few steps forward and said to Wang Luojie, "Let's go! ”
Wang Luojie was taken aback, a little unclear.
The old man smiled and said, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, you come from afar, just rest at my house for one night and then leave." ”
Wang Luojie excused himself: "No, no, no trouble." ”
The old man took Wang Luojie's hand and said, "It's nothing troublesome, Li Han often brings his friends back." Now that he's gone, we're not used to it, so you should talk to us and have a chat. ”
Wang Luojie had a wit in his heart and asked, "You are his...?"
The old man laughed, coughed twice, and said, "I'm his uncle." ”
Wang Luojie looked at Yi Shui, and Yi Shui nodded. Li Han became an orphan at a very young age, and it was his uncle and aunt who brought him up, which Li Han once told Wang Luojie.
Wang Luojie said: "Then bother." ”
The old man was overjoyed, carrying the hoe and laughing: "Don't bother, don't bother." Rural people don't have anything to eat. ”
The three of them talked as they walked, and after a while they returned to the old man's house.
A peasant woman under the eaves was cleaning the chickens and ducks, and she didn't ask when she saw that the old man had brought two people back. The old man casually said a few words about Wang Luojie's origin, and the peasant woman immediately got up and welcomed them into the house.
Wang Luojie and Yi Shui were not very enthusiastic, so they had to stay honestly by the fire pit to roast the fire. A unique tin can hangs on the fire, giving off a rich smell of meat.
Yi Shui didn't speak in tongues, and everything was communicated between Wang Luojie and the old man. The old man coughed twice from time to time, apparently suffering from a hidden disease.
Wang Luojie picked out some things about Li Han and told the old man, and the old man was extremely happy.
After chatting for more than two hours, the peasant woman had already arranged a table of dishes.
Local rules, before eating, you must respect your ancestors, Wang Luojie thought that Li Han and the others were still waiting outside, and couldn't help but say: "Uncle, then our remaining paper money firecrackers will be left with you, you can help us do our best when you are free." ”
The old man answered, and Wang Luojie put all the paper money and firecrackers in the bag under the eaves.
At the beginning of the meal, Wang Luojie and Yi Shui both grew up in the north, how could they have eaten authentic local food? The peasant woman's craftsmanship is average, but the bacon unique to the south does have a unique flavor, and the rice stewed in the iron can is extraordinarily fragrant, and the two of them can't stop eating it, and the two of them have eaten up the whole jar of rice together.
The farmers are simple, and it is Chinese New Year's Eve, and all kinds of special delicacies are piled up on the table. Wang Luojie hated his stomach so much that he couldn't stand it anymore, and in the end, Yi Shui couldn't stand it, and almost pulled Wang Luojie off the table.
Wang Luojie was still unsatisfied, smacking his lips and exhaling! Yi Shui pulled him under the eaves, glared at him hatefully, and said, "Lord Wang, can we not lose Li Han's people?"
Wang Luojie rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know, just like that, it seems that we don't see each other and have a close relationship with Li Han!"
Yi Shui said speechlessly: "It's still close, what do you make people think? What kind of friends did Li Han make?
Wang Luojie patted his belly, swallowed and foamed again, and said, "You tell the truth, is it delicious or not!"
Yi Shui nodded and said, "It's really good!"
"That's the end of it!" Wang Luojie rolled his eyes.
At this time, the old man walked up to them with two red envelopes and said, "I know you are leaving soon, and there is nothing else, so let's accept the New Year's money." ”
This time Wang Luojie was unexpected, he and Yi Shuimian looked at each other, are they still short of money?
Wang Luojie himself won't say it, the monk guy did everything without leaking and left behind in the first place, not to mention that they were already doing the most lucrative profession in human history.
When he was thinking about it, the old man had already sunk his face and said, "What?
Wang Luojie put on a smiling face and said busily: "No, no, it's just that we came empty-handed and didn't buy anything, so how embarrassed to take the red envelope." ”
The old man stuffed the money into the hands of the two of them, and said with a smile: "Li Han is a good boy, and the friends he has made are all good boys, he is not wrong." If only you could come and see me more in the future, this old man!"
Wang Luojie and Yi Shui looked at each other silently. Yi Shui is fine, but Wang Luojie thinks of his parents who are thousands of miles away, and they probably think now...
Wang Luojie said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, Li Han is our friend." You treat us like him. ”
The old man smiled and said, "A friend with a good relationship is like being born to a mother." That's right!"
Wang Luojie nodded heavily. Yi Shui looked at the sky and signaled with his eyes that Wang Luojie should go.
Wang Luojie stood up and said to the old man: "Uncle, we have something to do when we go back, so we won't accompany you for the New Year." ”
The old man said open-mindedly: "It's the New Year! I'm going back for a reunion, let's go back early!"
The tip of Wang Luojie's nose was sour, and he smiled forcefully: "Then we'll go first." ”
The two said that they would go, and walked along the path, and Wang Luojie turned around and saw the old man standing on the edge of the courtyard looking at him.
Wang Luojie took a deep breath and shook his head inexplicably.
"What?" Yi Shui asked.
Wang Luojie didn't answer, his eyes were confused.
"Do you regret it?" Yi Shui looked away, "Do you regret your original impulse?"
Wang Luojie's head tilted and he didn't speak.
Yi Shui smiled and didn't speak.
Li Han looked at Wang Luojie with a strange expression, Wang Luojie told him about meeting his uncle, and at the end he couldn't help smacking his lips and said, "It's so delicious!"
Li Han shuddered and said with a cruel smile: "Good news for you, we are going to celebrate the New Year in the mountains! I can't go back in the afternoon!"
He waved his hand and shouted, "Brothers, beat him!"
At night, the stars are shining.
Six people cleared a flat field and gathered around the campfire to look up at the starry sky.
There was no noise in the quiet of the night, only the crackling of firewood.
Wang Luojie sighed: "Such a brilliant starry sky can only be seen in this kind of place!"
Li Han shook the bonfire and smiled silently.
The evil spirit rummaged through his bag for a long time, took out six cans of drinks, and raised them with a grin.
One person took a can, and six people stood up and hooked the shoulders of the people around them with one hand, and all raised their drinks with the other hand and touched them together, shouting: "Friendship lasts forever!"
Wang Luojie finished pouring it in one go, and laughed: "New year, for our dreams!"
Li Han was on his left hand side, and he also laughed wildly: "This is the happiest year I've ever had!"
Yi Shui continued: "The blood moon is invincible!"
Longguan shouted: "The sky has no eyes, my generation disdains it!"
The evil spirit said loudly: "All wishes come true!
The monk glanced at the five people with disdain, and said loudly: "The poor monk is willing to go to the eighteenth layer of hell to survive these lost people!"
"Cut!" all five people made disdainful voices at the same time!
The winter snow has not melted, and the last snow of the year is witnessed by the stars and moon in the sky.