Zi Feiyu

"this is for you."

Almost every morning, the grandmother would take a box of pastries to sit on a bench in a suburban park.

The old lady lives in the alley next to the back gate of the park.There are not many people passing by in the small alley, the road is not wide, the trees are tall and green, and the houses are mostly two-story, most of which are waiting to be rented.Nothingness and deserted.

The grandma brought red bean cake today, which is delicious and springy.

"this is for you."

No one answered.

One-eared monsters came to Feiyu before dawn.When Lao Xie opened the door, he was startled by a monster with bloodshot eyes. Fortunately, he didn't have to follow Lele back today, otherwise Lele would be woken up.He clutched his chest, let out two breaths, let the one-eared monster come in and wait, and called Gu Chen by himself.

Gu Chen went downstairs with sleepy eyes, scratching at his messy hair: "What's the matter?"

"she left."

Ye Qiao was dragged by Gu Chen to attend the grandma's funeral.The grandmother's husband left very early, and she had a son and a daughter. The son lived in another place and came back once a year. The daughter married far away and came back every two years. This time they brought their significant other and their son and daughter. Grandchildren attended the funeral.The entire funeral is organized by the funeral company, and the money spent by the son and daughter together, they only need to attend.

Everyone stood in the farewell hall wearing black clothes and black gauze and white flowers—the family members stood vertically on the side, and the farewell guests stood horizontally in front of the coffin.The black-and-white photo of the grandmother looked at everyone kindly, but the family members and guests did not know each other. Under the announcement of the host, the audience stood in silence and bowed their heads in silence.

Gu Chen and Ye Qiao came late, so it doesn't matter if they don't know each other anyway.They stood in the last row of the line and followed in silence.

The final process of cremation was the old woman's body. One of her ears was given to her by the one-eared monster. The one-eared monster stood beside the old woman's coffin, looking sadly at the old woman inside.

Gu Chen raised his head slightly, glanced at the monster with one ear, and it was up to him whether he wanted to take his ears back or not.The farewell ceremony was carried out every minute and every second. He chanted the mantra lightly, and time stayed at this moment.

Ye Qiao glanced sideways at Gu Chen, Gu Chen nodded, and the two went out together.

The two stood in the open space outside the funeral parlor, neither asking nor saying anything.

The one-eared monster is small in size, brown all over, has hands and feet, and wears human clothes.It has big ears on its head, and there is only one, but it was given to the old lady, and I applied some medicine given by Gu Chen, so I can hear it, but not clearly.

The one-eared monster met the old lady in the summer five years ago. That year, Gu Chen had just come to this place, and the old lady went to the park alone every day.

The one-eared monster is very bored every day, and will wander around from places where there are few people. One day, it came to the suburban park.It walked around the park and sat down on a bench under a row of big trees at the back door.

"It's so boring." It sighed in its heart.

A white bird flapped its wings, flew down from the tree, stopped on the bench, pecked at the wooden chair, and was accompanied by a monster with ears.The one-eared monster raised its head and looked up at the sky, white clouds covering the blue sky—swallow lightly, spit slowly.

"this is for you."

When the one-eared monster was about to fall asleep, it heard the old and gentle voice of the old lady. It opened its eyes and saw a box from the side. It was startled, moved its buttocks to the left vigorously, and looked at the old lady blankly.The grandma opened the lid of the food box and handed it a box of red bean cakes with a smile. It was at a loss.The little white bird flew down from the back of the chair and stood on it, pecking at the pastry.So it wasn't for me, so she couldn't see me.The one-eared monster smiled.

Since then, the one-eared monster will go to sit on the bench in the suburban park every day.The old grandma would bring a box of pastries every day, and the pastries she brought were different each time.Sometimes the birds come to eat, and sometimes they don't.

Today, the little bird didn't come, the old lady smiled: "Will it come tomorrow?"

The one-eared monster looked at the old lady, and the old lady said to herself: "I haven't been with me for a long time. I want to hear their voices."

"What do you want to hear?" the one-eared monster asked carefully.

"I used to be able to hear the children calling me when I was by my side, but now I'm far away, and I can't hear them anymore." The old woman was still talking to herself.

"Can you hear me?"

"Can't hear you."

After the question and answer between the two worlds, the grandma finished speaking, thumped her bowed back, leaned on her knees, stood up and went home.

The one-eared monster looked at the back of the old grandmother walking alone, thumped his back, picked up the food box, and ate it for the bird, "It's delicious."

Later, the one-eared monster accidentally found Gu Chen who looked exactly like a human, and asked Gu Chen, "Do you know how to give your ears to a human. I want her to hear what she wants to hear."

Gu Chen sat on the window sill with his legs crossed, a grass in his mouth: "Do you think you have too many ears?"

The one-eared monster downstairs shook his head: "I only have one ear. I want to give it to her."

"Okay. Who do you want to give it to?"

"A granny."

"Okay."

Gu Chen cut off a monster's ear, chanted a spell, squeezed it into the shape of a human ear, and buried it under the stalk grass in the backyard for a year. During this year, the demon power was eliminated.He also gave the one-eared monster some crushed stalk grass ground medicine, but because the one-eared monster has only one ear, the hearing will be slightly impaired.

This year, the one-eared monster has been with the old lady, the silent world, the separated world, sitting on a bench, a box of pastries, it is not boring.

A year later, the old woman's right ear recovered to normal hearing, but she rarely went to the park.The one-eared monster sits on the bench every day waiting for the old lady and pastries, hey, it's still so boring.

After waiting for a year, the number of times I saw the old lady was less than [-] times. Every time, the old lady left without saying anything, just put down the food box.Why is this so.The one-eared monster sighed and never went to the suburban park again.

The one-eared monster once reminded the one-eyed monster: After changing eyes, you have to leave human beings, otherwise, you will get hurt.

...Hey, I got hurt.

Gu Chen pursed his lips and looked at Ye Qiao.Ye Qiao lowered her head and looked at the shadow.Gu Chen reached out his hand under Ye Qiao's eyelids, palm up, with clear lines: "Does it look good?"

Ye Qiao remembered the first time he went to Feiyu, the first time he saw Gu Chen in broad daylight, his eyebrows twitched, and the corners of his mouth twitched, showing an ugly smile.He himself does not know.

Gu Chen smiled, pinching Ye Qiao's cheeks with both hands: "Oh, my little idiot can laugh."

Ye Qiao took a step back and slapped Gu Chen's hand away.Am I smiling?Am I smiling?Ah, my face is red again.

The one-eared monster came out of the funeral home and stood behind Gu Chen to apologize: "Mr. Gu, I'm sorry."

Gu Chen and Ye Qiao turned to look at the monster at the same time.The one-eared monster said again: "Let that ear go with her."

Gu Chen said: "Have you figured it out?"

The one-eared monster nodded.

Gu Chen didn't say anything, and together with Ye Qiao, accompanied by a monster with one ear, he entered the farewell hall again, chanted a mantra softly, the time began, the silence ended, step by step down, finally the floor under the coffin suddenly moved to both sides, the coffin slid down, cremation.

The moment the old grandma left, Gu Chen and Ye Qiao heard the monster whispering farewell: "Goodbye. It won't be boring anymore."

The one-eared monster heard the grandmother's last words to it in the farewell hall.Its ears told it that the grandmother would wait for it on the park bench with a box of pastries every day.

In the year when the old grandma's ears returned to normal, she was waiting for calls from her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren every day. They called her: mother, grandma, grandma, grandma.She just had a happy day from ear to ear.I heard it, I heard everything.

Because I look forward to their calls every day, I go to the park less often. Although I live nearby, I am still afraid of missing it.She has been living alone, no one speaks, and she can't hear the sound, so she can hear the sound suddenly, and she wants to tell every relative she loves.

After that year, she was just like before, taking a box of pastries to the park bench every day.

"This is for you. Glutinous rice cake."

"This is for you. Purple potato glutinous rice cake."

"This is for you. Cold cake."

"This is for you. Carrot cake."

"This is for you. Red bean cake."

"this is for you."

No one answered.

"Aren't you here today?" The old lady smiled. "I will come tomorrow. I can hear you. Thank you!"

The little bird pecked at the wooden chair on the bench, flapped its wings, and flew away.

The one-eared monster sat on the bench in the suburban park.Actually, it's not boring.