Chapter 173 Grandson
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There was a small village in the edge of the Loess Plateau. There were less than one hundred simple and mellow farmers living in the village. People in the small village grew up drinking the Wei River water that often appears in the Book of Songs. There were several powerful families in the village, which seemed to be descendants of the former state-owned and Shaanxi businessmen. Later, after the civil war of the Anti-Japanese War and ten years of catastrophe, the small village became ordinary. In the early 1990s, a once glorious family, a 70-year-old man from the Li family suddenly came back. The small village suddenly became lively. What makes people feel even more incredible is that the seventy-year-old man was holding a baby in his hand. Everyone knows that the baby turned out to be the grandson of the Li family.
Time flies, the baby gradually grows into little boys, and the old man gradually grows older. However, every day, two or three figures always appear on the Tushan Mountain, the commanding heights behind the old house of Li. When villagers go to work every morning, they will hear the sound of the thunder and thunder, one vicissitudes and the other messy. Later, the sound of the vicissitudes is gone, and the messy sound of the piano becomes round.
In the blink of an eye, the little boy grew up from leaving the small village to leaving the town, and later from leaving the small county town, and the old man sat under the old locust tree day after day and looked at it.
But today, the little boy came back, but the old man left. This is the separation of yin and yang.
Lao Geng is the village chief of a small village. He has been very busy since last night. Because after twelve o'clock last night, the oldest and most prestigious Li family in the small village returned home. When the villagers informed him of this news, the village elder Geng was shocked and said that why did Mr. Li not play the erhu under the old locust tree and sing the Qin Opera last afternoon. He said that as soon as the night ended last night, the owls kept screaming. In Guanzhong area, it was a sign of mourning.
It turned out that something big happened. Lao Geng quickly put on his clothes and went to the Li family. But what scared Lao Geng even more was that more than ten cars were parked in front of the door of Lao Li's house. After Lao Geng arrived at Lao Li's house with the villagers in fear, he saw dozens of people kneeling in the hall of the Li family. There were actually soldiers in military uniforms. At this moment, Lao Geng and the villagers finally knew how beautiful Mr. Li, who had guessed countless times in the fields, had been.
After seeing the man who Sansheng and Erlong often called Uncle Long, Lao Geng dared to enter the hall because this man often came to the village, as if he was Mr. Li's adopted son, and everyone was familiar with him. After seeing Lao Geng, the man discussed with Lao Geng for a while and told him that everything was done according to the customs and customs of Guanzhong, he discussed with him all the things, and sent a few people and cars for him to do whatever he wanted. Lao Geng had never experienced this before, and said a little tremblingly, he had to call the child of Sansheng back. The man nodded faintly.
At this moment, Sansheng finally came back. When Lao Geng saw Sansheng, he heard the sad and joyful delight and turned red. This child was too miserable. He had no father or mother since he was a child. Now even the only grandfather who depended on each other has left. No one feels pitiful.
Lao Geng walked to the front of the car and patted Li Sansheng on the shoulder and said, "Child, it's good to come back, it's good to come back."
"Uncle Geng, thank you for your hard work," Li Sansheng said in a very plain manner, without crying, nor jealousy, because his grandfather said that the man from the old Li family was not allowed to cry, and he didn't want his grandfather to see him cry.
I saw more than ten cars parked opposite the old house, mostly off-road, with only three or four cars. With the red flag, a total of three were equipped with military signs. I guess it was brought by these people.
A large tent had already been set up in front of the Li family's old house. The villagers were busy coming and going. As long as the rural people had something to do with their family, the whole village would help. This was the most primitive and simple relationship.
Li Sansheng entered the old house in a heavy mood. The old house had been cleaned up. Grandpa's mourning hall was built in the hall. The portrait hanging in the middle was taken by Uncle Long when he was the only time before his death. There were many people who were wearing mourning clothes when he came and went to and from the old house of Li's family. Li Sansheng didn't know him. Only relatives in Guanzhong can wear mourning, but these people are obviously not.
When Li Sansheng walked to the mourning hall, he finally saw the person he wanted to see, Uncle Long and Uncle Long were kneeling beside the mourning hall in a mourning dress, guarding the spirit. There were three or four men next to him, and the rest stood in the hall to greet the villagers who came to worship.
Uncle Long, who was kneeling in front of the spirit and whispering to the men beside him, saw Li Sansheng, slowly stood up, walked to Li Sansheng, grabbed Li Sansheng's shoulders with both hands, and said with firm eyes, "Miss Sansheng, don't be afraid, the sky cannot fall, and Uncle Long will hold you back after falling."
"Well" Li Sansheng nodded heavily. He knew that he was not alone, he still had Uncle Long, he also had Little Situ, and he had to wait for Erlong to wake up and fight back to Xi'an together.
"Pour grandpa first and tell him that you are back," Uncle Long said indifferently.
Li Sansheng nodded, walked to the front of the spirit step by step, knelt down calmly, and kowtowed three loud noises. The sound made the whole hall feel distressed. They knew that the child was very sad, but he kept it in his heart and didn't want others to see it.
After Li Sansheng kowtowed, the major general and lieutenant colonel man who brought him back from Xi'an also kowtowed three times. Behind was the extremely dangerous and dark man, and finally Xiao Situ. After kowtowed, Xiao Situ started crying and cried and shouted, "Grandpa, Situ hasn't finished reciting the Tripitaka for you yet."
No one can pull it up, and the child's feelings are so direct. Li Sansheng shook his head at the person who asked for Situ. After Situ cried enough, he stopped crying. However, the sound was as if the sad listener was crying, which made many people in the hall sigh.
Li Sansheng took the filial piety clothes and filial piety that the old lady in the village gave him. After putting it on, he knelt quietly next to Uncle Long. Li Situ cried enough and also wore filial piety clothes and filial piety kneeled beside him. Li Sansheng looked at his grandfather who was lying on the spiritual bed with his face covered, and said to himself, "Grandpa, why are you leaving? You also said you want to hold the child for Sansheng."
After hearing this, Uncle Long shook his head. After so many years, the child had suffered so much. He also looked at the adoptive father who gave him glory and wealth on the spiritual bed, but he never let him call him adoptive father. Thinking of the adoptive father, if he doesn't die, he will die if he stands out. Isn't he a little cruel to Sansheng?
I looked at the Liu family man who followed the old house of Li family that I arrived at last evening. If anyone saw two powerful men from this military boss, Liu family, kneeling in front of the spirit of an ordinary old man in a small village on the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi Province, would it feel a bit shocking and fantasy?
Others think it will, but he doesn't think it is, why, not why, because the glory and glory of the Liu family today were forged by this old man, not to mention that another man from the Li family died for him, and the Liu family will never be able to pay back this debt in his entire life.
Not only can the Liu family not afford it, but they also knelt next to the two men of the Liu family. They can't afford it either. They looked at the people who were kneeling beside them thoughtfully. From today on, it will be the day for you to pay off your debts. Smile bitterly, and it will be the day for you to pay off your debts.
When Li Sansheng turned his head and looked at Uncle Long and said in disappointment, "Uncle Long, I didn't bring Erlong back."
"Your grandfather said that the second dragon has a great life, and he will wake up if he is not rich, noble, glorious, or domineering," Uncle Long said comfortingly.
"Uncle Long, do you know?" Li Sansheng said in shock. Uncle Long must not know about these things, but now Uncle Long actually told him that he knew these things, why is Li Sansheng not shocked?
"I will tell you something later." Uncle Long shook his head with a wry smile and sighed.
Li Sansheng stopped talking and knelt quietly in front of his grandfather's spirit for two hours before he began to follow the village chief Geng to see his grandfather's funeral preparations. The custom of Guanzhong is that the elderly who died of dying had to be buried for three to five days at home. Li Sansheng felt that five days were a bit too long. After all, the people he just met were obviously not ordinary people, including Uncle Long, Li Sansheng was increasingly suspicious of Uncle Long's identity. This was obviously not an ordinary person, so he thought that he could not delay their time for too long, so he discussed with Uncle Geng to get buried in three days.
Originally, Li Sansheng was worried that he would not bring money when he came back in a hurry. After all, many things were used for money. Uncle Geng told him that Uncle Long had sent someone to follow him, and he would find that person as long as he used the money, and he also gave him several cars to control him, inviting a funeral band, a opera troupe, and someone who specialized in funeral services.
In the afternoon, Li Sansheng and Xiao Situ went to the public tomb south of the village. He chose his grandfather's grave tomb early. In a relatively remote place in the public tomb, his grandfather once smiled and told him that the feng shui of this grave is good and he can still be your grandfather in the next life. I remember that at that time, Li Sansheng smiled very happily, and now things have changed.
Li Sansheng and Little Situ came to the public grave with a few bottles of Du Kang's old wine. The person who dug the grave was a professional person found by Geng Bo, and there were two subordinates of Uncle Long. Li Sansheng poured a glass of wine for these people, chatted for a few more words, and then jumped down to see the situation inside. He returned to the Li family's old house with Situ in the evening.
At night, the people who came to help in the village went home one after another. There were fewer things on the first day, and the most things on the second day were because they had to have funerals and let people help the villagers to have dinner, especially when they were buried on the last day, many people would come to help the burial. People in Guanzhong believed that the more people came during the burial, the higher the prestige of this person. And the older generation like grandfather, naturally there were a lot of people coming, but Geng was responsible for these things, so Li Sansheng didn't have to worry.
When Li Sansheng came back in the evening, he saw the man who was already wearing mourning clothes and wearing mourning clothes, with a dark look. He was only a little more emotional when he saw him, and the few people who were kneeling next to him were gone at noon.
"My Master, there's something going on outside"
"Second, do I need to teach you these things? The land in Guanzhong is used to bury people," Uncle Long said lightly, obviously already angry.
"Master, I understand, Lao Ba and I will do it." Lao Er nodded viciously.
Li Sansheng naturally didn't know about these things. After a busy day, he just wanted to stay alone quietly for a while, and wait for a while to talk to his grandfather and accompany his grandfather for the last time. He became more and more suspicious of Uncle Long's identity. He just saw that the license plates of the cars outside were mostly Northeast license plates. Li Sansheng thought of the words Erlong joked with him before, but shook his head, which was a bit fantasy.
Li Sansheng came to the study room. The study room was where grandpa stayed alone for the longest time, and it also kept too many secrets of grandpa's life. When he entered the study room, he saw someone touching the pen on grandpa's desk. He was a little angry because grandpa had not written words for many years, so it was obvious that someone was moving. When Li Sansheng walked to the front of the desk, he suddenly became stunned after seeing the black and white words on the desk. Li Sansheng instantly felt mixed emotions. It was grandpa's handwriting, with two big words written in regular script on it: grandson
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Chapter completed!