Ye Can

It's New Year's Eve, and the road is full of travelers returning home.Fortunately, Ye Can and Lin Zixi set off early, so they didn't encounter traffic jams.

According to the navigation, Lin Zixi drove on the highway for about half an hour, and finally arrived at the small town where his hometown is located.

Xu Shi hasn't come back for a long time. The small town in the past has undergone earth-shaking changes.Looking up, there are tall buildings everywhere.Looking through the crowd, you can see lively commercial streets everywhere.

This bustling small town is far from the dilapidated small town of the past.Only one thing has not changed, that is, before New Year's Eve, people who live in this place will still go to worship their ancestors.

Looking at fellow villagers carrying firecrackers and candles everywhere, Lin Zixi felt a sense of intimacy for a long time.She drove Ye Can to a firecracker and candle shop, bought some things needed to worship the immortals, and then drove further along the path.

Ye Can was a little puzzled: "Do you still have this custom of worship here?"

Lin Zixi was obviously in a good mood, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, during Chinese New Year, my mother would always bring me here to pay respects to my grandpa and grandma. She said it was New Year's Eve, and she would call them back for dinner."

Ye Can murmured in his heart, everyone is dead, how could he come back to eat with the descendants?Could it be that he turned into a ghost, or jumped out of a coffin?This is really too outrageous.

Of course, if you complain, it's impossible for Ye Can to tell Lin Zixi what he said.

She turned her head, looked at Lin Zixi's smiling face, and asked suspiciously: "When you were a child? Didn't your mother die when you were very young? How do you remember it so clearly?"

Lin Zixi looked ahead intently, and said to Ye Can, "I will be [-] years old at that time, and I will still have some memories."

Speaking of this, Lin Zixi turned his head and smiled at Ye Can: "Of course, recently, I have been dreaming, and I remembered many things that I had forgotten before."

Ye Can snorted, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the oncoming van, and reminded him loudly, "Lin Zixi, focus on driving!"

Seeing her nervous appearance, Lin Zixi couldn't help but chuckle.Ye Can looked at the van that whizzed past them just now, and said angrily, "You're still laughing, you're not afraid of accidents!"

Lin Zixi rolled his eyes with a smile, and said softly to Ye Can, "Ye Can, you really have changed a lot. You didn't care about such things before."

Ye Can curled her lips and said angrily, "What have I changed? What don't you care about?"

Lin Zixi said softly, "It's just these safety issues, you didn't seem to care about them before." At that time, Ye Can seemed to give up his life anytime and anywhere, how could he have such a strong desire to survive.

Ye Can glanced at her in surprise, and raised her voice, "Lin Zixi, are you awake? That's because you're in the car, okay? You have to think about yourself."

Lin Zixi didn't want to talk to her for a moment.So angry, what kind of brain circuit is this person, a word of concern for others can make people so angry.

She's so silly, really.It's definitely because of love, that's why it's so hypocritical.

Lin Zixi gave Ye Can a gentle look, and said, "You're the one who talks too much, shut up."

Ye Occasionally, he didn't understand people's hearts, and he was so silly that he didn't know why Lin Zixi got angry all of a sudden, but he still kept his mouth shut obediently, and didn't say a word of useless nonsense.

The two drove to the foot of a small hill and could no longer go up.Lin Zixi had no choice but to park the car on the side of the road, carrying the offerings, incense sticks, paper money, etc., and went up the mountain together.

Lin Zixi was born in a small city. When her mother passed away, there was no concept of a cemetery in this place.Under the arrangement of her aunt, her mother was buried on a hillside in the countryside.

A few years ago, when Lin Zixi came back to worship, he actually thought about moving his mother's grave.But when he saw his grandparents buried next to his mother, Lin Zixi instantly dismissed the idea.She thought her mother would prefer to be with her loved ones than to go to a completely new place.

This small hill is not high, but for someone like Lin Zixi who hasn't climbed the mountain for many years, it is still a bit difficult to walk.Coupled with the fact that the road is slightly deserted, it becomes more and more difficult to walk.

Ye Can, who was originally following her, had no choice but to walk ahead, stepping on the weeds for her, overcoming thorns and thorns, and leading her all the way to the top of the mountain.

After a lot of effort, Lin Zixi and Ye Can finally came to the tomb on the top of the hillside.At this time, the early spring sun was pushing through the thick mist, and a ray of skylight was shining on the top of the mountain.

Lin Zixi put down the sacrifice in his hand, looked at the beautifully repaired tomb with tiles in front of him, and introduced to Ye Can with a smile, "No, Ye Can, this is my mother."

When Ye Can heard this, she leaned over to the tombstone with her hands behind her back and took a look. Looking at the newly repaired tombstone with the photos inlaid on it, she said sincerely, "Your mother is a beauty!"

She rubbed her chin, looked at the beauty with black hair like clouds in the photo, and made a very pertinent evaluation: "You two look alike."

"The eyebrows, nose, and lips are all similar."

Ye Can turned her head, looked at Lin Zixi and said, "You feel like they were carved out of the same mold."

Lin Zixi smiled. While she was taking out the fruits and arranging them, she turned her head and said to Ye Can, "Really? I don't think I'm as beautiful as my mother."

Ye Can ran over, arranged the sacrifices with her, and helped her light the candles.

After doing all this, Ye Can sat beside the tomb, staring at Lin Zixi in a daze.Seeing that Lin Zixi was busy pulling up the dense weeds on the grave, she couldn't help asking: "Since we know that weeds will grow, why didn't the grave be covered with cement when it was built?"

Lin Zixi squatted at the grave, carefully pulling out the weeds from the grave.Looking up at Ye Can, she said softly, "Because this is my mother's hair. If it is covered, my mother will have no hair."

Ye Can really showed a very puzzled expression, and Lin Zixi was amused by her expression of "Don't lie to me, how could such a thing happen?"

Ye Can said: "What kind of customs are these? When people are gone, they are gone. How can there be such a thing as hair?"

Ye Can continued to murmur: "In the end, things like graves don't seem to be necessary. Because you see, when a person dies, he is dead. Even if there are descendants to worship, after a hundred years, the descendants will be gone. This tomb And it's deserted."

"When the last person in the world who remembers you no longer exists, the grave will have no meaning."

Lin Zixi paused, looked at Ye Can and said, "No, it's not like this."

Ye Can looked at her with his cheeks on his hands: "Isn't it like this? Just like your mother, after you leave, who can still remember her?"

Lin Zixi smiled: "Yes, you are right. My mother will always live in my heart. Even if she dies, her voice and smile will always be preserved in my heart. Maybe after a hundred years of me, no one will Remember her."

Lin Zixi looked at Ye Can and said word by word, "But it doesn't matter, the earth will remember."

She put down the weeds in her hands, looked at Ye Can seriously, and said to her: "Her flesh and blood, her bones, and her soul will all return to the earth and rest in peace. After a long journey in the world After that, she died here forever. The earth knows it, and I know it too."

"This is the meaning of the existence of the tomb."

The grave is the resting place of the soul and the memory of loved ones.

Ye Can rested her cheeks in silence.

She thought that after she left, Lin Zixi also forgot her, so no one in this world would remember her anymore.She could not rest in the depths of Lin Zixi's heart, nor could she rest in any other place.

These insignificant little things in the past have now turned into sharp thorns that directly pierce people's hearts.

Ye Can pondered for a while, looked at Lin Zixi and said, "Your words made me seriously think about a question."

Lin Zixi smiled and asked her curiously: "What's the problem? Let me hear it?"

Ye Can tilted his head to look at her, and said seriously: "I'm wondering if I have to build a grave after I die. There are only six characters written on it—"

"Ye Can is here for a visit."

Lin Zixi let out a chuckle: "You little head, what are you thinking about every day. You still come here for a visit..."

"When you want to build a grave, it will be many years later. It's nothing to worry about. Why do you think so much?"

But Ye Can sighed, and pretended to say: "You don't understand, I call it a rainy day."

Lin Zixi didn't bother to pay attention to her, and after pulling out the weeds on the grave, he took Ye Can to pull up all the corners of the grave once again.When it was done, the two sat together by the grave, basking lazily in the sun.

Ye Can hugged Lin Zixi, let her lean on his shoulders, sat next to her mother's grave, looked at the burning candles, and asked Lin Zixi suspiciously: "You said you put these things, your mother can eat them. ?"

It was really funny that she asked this question, Lin Zixi pinched her and said, "What do you think?"

Ye Can couldn't help thinking of the days when she was wandering in the dark, and murmured softly, "How do I know? No one has ever burned me." A person like her died without a grave, and no one worshiped her. How could she know? What is the treatment of a normal person after death?

Lin Zixi didn't bother to talk to her, but after a while Ye Can asked again if the worshiped food could be eaten?Shall we set off firecrackers later?Is it time to burn paper money?

Lin Zixi felt that she was just a noisy villain, chattering endlessly in her ears.She sighed, and said to Ye Can: "My mother is timid, and she will be afraid of setting off firecrackers. After burning the paper money, let's go down the mountain and have lunch together."

Ye Can replied dryly: "Oh, good."

The two bid farewell to Lin Zixi's mother, followed by two apples and went down the mountain.

After returning to the parking place, Ye Can and Lin Zixi got into the car, and when they fastened their seat belts and were about to set off, a small car drove up in the distance.

The car stopped beside them, and a middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life stepped out of the car.Lin Zixi saw the appearance of the man from the rearview mirror, and his heart skipped a beat, thinking that the road to the enemy is really narrow.

But she didn't intend to get out of the car to recognize her relatives, so she started the car and started to set off.Ye Can, on the other hand, was lying in front of the car window, frowning as he watched the man's back getting further and further away.

Lin Zixi looked at her small appearance and thought it was a little funny, so he asked her, "Ye Can, what are you looking at?"

Ye Can turned around and said to her, "I'm looking at the person behind."

Lin Zixi knowingly asked: "That person behind? Why do you want to look at him?"

Ye Can frowned, looking very conflicted: "I always feel that that person has a very unbeatable aura. I always feel that I should get out of the car and beat him up just now."

Ye Can's reaction surprised Lin Zixi, but it succeeded in pleasing her.

Lin Zixi laughed loudly: "Ye Can, you're right, I also think he deserves a beating, and I should have let you beat him just now!"

Accompanied by Lin Zixi's cheerful laughter, they drove a small car and faced the sun all the way from the bustling town back to the bustling city.