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Mi Yang stood there not daring to move. He looked at the flower pot, thinking that this was what Mi Hong cared about, and quickly explained: "Grandpa, I just wanted to go home quickly, I didn't bump into it on purpose."

Mi Hong's face was ugly, and he walked over with big strides, picked up Mi Yang with both hands and hurriedly took him out, and said sternly as he walked: "You are not allowed to go here in the future, do you hear me?"

Mi Yang said: "But..."

Mi Hong raised his voice and said, "It's nothing!"

Mi Yang fell silent, and was taken out by Mi Hong, who was half hugged and half held by his arms, all the way to the small courtyard of the house, but Mi Hong didn't let him go, and let him sit on the small stool beside the stone pool outside, and took it out himself. He took off the little shoes on his feet, took a ladle to scoop up water, washed his feet a few times, and said with a frown: "Sit here and don't move, and your father will take you back to the house later." After finishing speaking, he took the rice The pair of shoes that Yang had worn just now were gone.

Mi Yang sat and waited for a while, and when he heard footsteps, he thought it was Mi Zehai who had returned, so he quickly looked up, but it turned out that it was Mi Hong who had gone and returned.The old man came over and gave Mi Yang a grass-woven grasshopper cage, saying, "Take this to play with, and don't go down the path in the future."

When Mi Yang took it, he was taken aback for a moment, there was something shaking inside, and Mi Yang was startled, thinking that there were really insects inside, he lifted it up and saw that it was a grass grasshopper, green and green, with long hair. The tentacles are exactly the same as the living ones.When Mi Yang raised his head to look again, Mi Hong had already put on his clothes and gone back to the main room in silence.

Mi Yang looked down at the grasshopper cage. He was afraid of insects. He thought only his parents knew about it, but he didn't expect his grandpa to know about it. He still remembered it.

Mi Yang played with the grasshopper cage, and waited obediently for Yone Zehai to come to pick him up. After a while, Yone Zehai came over. He already knew what happened from Mi Hong, and he rubbed his son when he came over. Her hair comforted him, and she said to him: "Yangyang, from now on, you can't go to the path behind our house where there are flowerpots, you know?"

Mi Yang didn't quite understand, and said: "But grandpa went too, I saw it, he usually takes this path on purpose."

Yonezawa Kai said: "Well, he is the only one who can leave the house."

Mi Yang looked up at Yone Zehai, frowning slightly.

Yonezawa said: "Your grandfather doesn't let you go to that place, it's for your own good, because the medicine dregs are buried on the road there. There is a saying in the older generation that if you step on the sick people and drink the leftover medicine dregs, you will get sick." , the disease is transferred from the original person to the person who stepped on the dregs of the medicine.”

"Then grandpa..." Mi Yang paused, looked up at the main room with a complicated expression, and suddenly realized that the eccentric old man did it on purpose, and stepped on it by himself on purpose. On himself, use his life to make up for her.

Yone Zehai patted his head, and sighed: "But this is not allowed, your grandfather has been stepping on it for many years, and he has been doing it since I can remember."

Mi Yang picked the grasshopper's cage with his hands, feeling a little uncomfortable: "Grandpa took my shoes."

Yone Zehai sat down, hugged him and said, "Yes, it's for your own good. You'll know after getting along for a long time. In fact, your grandpa and grandma are good people. They are both good people." He coaxed his son, Probably because these words were too sentimental, Yone Zehai looked down at the grasshopper cage in his hand in order to divert his attention, and asked, "Your grandfather gave this to you, right? I used to play with this when I was young."

Mi Yang said: "Did grandpa make it for you too?"

Yonezawa said: "Yes, there is one every summer, and they envy me so much when I take it out to play. Your grandfather's hands are very dexterous, and your whole family is like him in this respect. By the way, don't you want to learn to practice? Books, you can ask your grandpa in the future, he will know everything, and he will definitely help you."

Mi Yang found it very novel.

Yone Zehai smiled and said: "Not only that, your grandfather also took me to cook something to eat. The roasted corn at that time was not as clean as it is now, but I also like to eat the tender corn that has just come off. It’s just ashamed, and your grandma won’t let it, saying that it’s easy to get sick, so we hid and ate it secretly.” Mi Zehai looked at the little grasshopper cage and missed it very much, and talked a lot more than usual.

Mi Yang had never heard of these things before, and wanted to ask again, when he suddenly heard the sound of a sanxian.He glanced back and asked curiously, "Who is playing the piano?"

Yonezawa Kai said: "Your grandfather."

Mi Yang was even more surprised: "Can grandpa know how to play the piano? I thought our piano was placed there for display."

Mi Zehai smiled and said: "Of course it will. Your grandma used to sing operas. No matter how many people spent money to listen to them, they would have to wait in line. Your grandpa, just play the piano for her. As long as your grandma sings, what will he get?" Knowing how to play any musical instrument, the best is this Sanxian. When I was young, I could still hear your grandma singing opera, and she sang very beautifully." Yone Zehai said, then shook his head and sighed, "It's a pity that she Then I got sick and stopped singing for many years."

The sound of the three-stringed lute came from the small courtyard, and Yone Zehai hugged his son and whispered, and then looked back at the courtyard he was most familiar with when he was young, full of nostalgia.

In the room, Mi Hong was playing the sanxian with a serious expression, but he would habitually look up at his wife.

The old lady smiled and said, "It's wrong again, it's too high here, I struggle to sing it every time, you should play it lower next time."

Mi Hong also laughed, nodded and said, "Okay."

Mi Hong took the piano to cheer the old lady up, and the old lady hummed a few words when she was in a good mood, but soon coughed, and Mi Hong didn't allow her to sing again, so she played the sanxian for her, and then hummed by herself.

Surprisingly, he sang well.

"In an instant, all the emotions are completely ignorant, and the clothes are soaked in tears." Mi Hong lowered his head and plucked the strings. His fierce face was not too sharp and angular in the dim light, with lowered eyebrows and downcast eyes. Seeing a bit of vicissitudes, he continued to sing: "I only know that iron wealth is cast in one's life, but who knows the number of lives will be clear in an instant. I think I used to be coquettish and domineering back then, even if I don't believe in the past! This is what God said. Lesson, he taught me to put away remaining hatred, avoid coquettish anger, and renew, change love, stop falling in love with passing water, turn around in bitter sea, and realize Lan Yin early."

The strings of the qin plucked his hand and made a sound of "clank". Mi Hong felt bitter in his heart and smiled reluctantly: "Let's not sing "Suolin Pouch", it's not good."

The old lady nodded and said casually, "Okay."

Mi Hongqin's tune slowed down, and quickly changed to other words and sang: "The ice wheel is far away from the island, and the universe is extremely bright. The bright moon is in the sky, just like Chang'e leaving the Moon Palace. It's cold and cold, and I want to win the laurels..."

The old lady glanced at him and said with a smile: "What are you singing nonsense, where is this sentence?"

Mi Hong stopped the piano to look at her, and said: "At the beginning, the best songs you sang were "Suo Lin Nang" and "The Drunken Concubine". The person next to me woke me up. The person asked me a question. He asked me, do you know what is the meaning of "Moon Palace folding osmanthus branches"? After I went back, I thought about it for a long time before I realized that he was hurting me. He and Jingui are both too high to climb, he is trying to tell me that Xiao Guizhi in the theater is an 'unattainable' character. But who would know that I will win the laurel in the toad palace..."

He hummed a few more lines, wrinkles appeared in the corners of his eyes, he stopped playing the strings and slowly put his hand on his wife's hand, and whispered the old lady's name, "Guizhi, please stay with me, I Just enjoy the blessing for two more days, okay?"

The old lady leaned on the wooden bed and laughed, and said softly, "Hey, I heard that."

The old lady was in good spirits, with a soft expression. She listened attentively to Mihong's playing and singing, occasionally humming in a low voice to echo, and most of the time she looked at her wife with a smile on her lips.

She talked to Mi Hong every time, but after so many years, her body was like a candle in the wind. The wind flickered a few times, and the bean-sized flame persisted again and again. , she lived with difficulty to the best of her ability.

But no matter what, she still inevitably weakened.

Mi Hong was anxious, so he took on the task of decocting the medicine all by himself, but he was also getting old, and once he accidentally fell asleep on his stomach while decocting the medicine, and then woke up to find that the medicine juice in the medicine pot was almost dry , with a pungent smell, Mi Hong hurriedly brought it down, barely made half a bowl, and it was so black that he couldn't drink it.

His own eye circles were red, and he wiped his tears in the kitchen, poured out the medicine and boiled it again.

It is unlucky to dry out the traditional Chinese medicine. Mi Hong seemed to have a premonition and took care of it more carefully, and he refused to leave the small courtyard and the old lady again.

During this period, the old lady kept laughing, but Mi Hong was often frightened. Sometimes he squatted in the kitchen boiling medicine and choked up a few times.Mi Yang once saw that he was coming in to get things, and seeing that Mi Hong didn't dodge, he got bolder and went up to comfort him: "Grandpa, are you worried about what the medicine boils? The ones that are fine, the bad ones that don’t work and the good ones, that’s the one.”

Mi Hong shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice: "No, I feel sorry for her life's suffering."

After finishing speaking, he guarded his gurgling medicine casserole, brewed the medicine himself, and took it to the old lady.

But the old lady didn't drink this bowl of medicine.

She drank medicine for most of her life, and she has never had such a good day, her face is rosy, and she looks much younger, and she has a lot of energy.She sat there by herself and had already changed into a new dress. When she saw Mi Hong bringing in the medicine, she smiled and said to him: "Put the medicine down, I won't drink it, you sit down, I want to talk to you. "

Mi Hong's tears were already rolling down, he shook his head and refused: "Gui Zhi, let's take the medicine first, when I beg you, I beg you..."

The old lady said to him: "I'm leaving, please help me look after the children."

She had a soft voice, sighed when she spoke, and looked at her wife with reluctance in her eyes: "You wanted to adopt a child and come to our house because of me, so why not me?"

"You, you have been as stubborn as a bull all your life, and you don't listen to anyone. If it wasn't for me... Well, it's all in the past, don't mention it, I have always been in poor health, and I can't leave you My child, I just thought, when I have to leave one day, how can I keep you? There must be a 'home', where generations of children and grandchildren will grow up and leave, and go to other places to grow branches Germinate, bloom and bear fruit, I can’t see it, so you can watch it for me.”

"A burden? How can such a good son and such a good grandson become a burden?"

"I don't care, Mi Hong, you promise me."

"Promise me, live."

"Otherwise I won't wait for you when I get there..."

……

The old lady told him a lot, her eyes were too pleading, Mi Hong had only been soft-hearted to her in her life, and never refused her a thing, she sat there holding his hand, begging him to live—— No matter how unwilling he was, he forced a word out of his throat: "Hey."

The old lady got his promise, her expression relaxed, she said with a smile: "I'm a little tired, I want to sleep for a while."

Mi Hong helped her to lie down, knelt on the side of the bed and held her hand tightly, calling her name in a low voice, one by one, from small to large, from urgent to slow, but the temperature in his hand still passed away little by little.

Kneeling there, Mi Hong was crying, coughing up a mouthful of blood, his eyes were red, and he said hoarsely: "Guizhi—ah—"

In the past, the Toad Palace lost gold and osmanthus.

Jin Gui passed away.

Can not be chased.