Ode to

Zhang Zhan and Zhang Qiling were clearly beside each other, but they didn't dare to approach each other.It has been ten years, they are so close, yet so far away.

Zhang Qiling looked at Zhang Zhan, who had grown into fifteen or sixteen years old, and suddenly felt that she had become very beautiful. It was the outline in his memory, but it was not the face he was familiar with. Only the white skirt with black border made him feel beautiful. I miss you so much.

"Brother, is that you?"

Zhang Zhan caressed Zhang Qiling's face with trembling hands.She had been looking at this face for ten years, but it was so unfamiliar. She was so familiar with every part of this face. Only now did she realize that those ten years hadn't erased the slightest impression of Zhang Qiling in her heart.

Zhang Qiling's hand was attached to Zhang Zhan's. The ten years of separation made Zhang Qiling more introverted. Compared with Zhang Zhan's agitation, he seemed much calmer. Only Zhang Zhan knew that Zhang Qiling was betraying her by hugging her hands tightly. over him.

It seemed like a century had passed before the two calmed down a little.

"Where are we now?"

"In the cave you just came in."

At this time, the two people discovered that the passage they had walked in was gone, and only the 55 dark caves were still there.In front of the direction of the original passage, there is a stone wall, where a skeleton appeared, and the skeleton was in a calm sitting posture.

One hand of the skeleton rested on the black clay pot beside it, and the other hand was placed on the wooden box between the legs.

Zhang Qiling suddenly and quickly came to the skeleton, and raised the index finger and middle finger of the skeleton's right hand.

"Is he from the Zhang family?"

The corpse has become a skeleton, and the length of the index finger and middle finger of the right hand alone is not enough to judge that this is the Zhang family.

"This person has been dead for more than 30 years. I was still young at that time. I don't know if anyone from the Zhang family came here."

"Let's look at these two things, and we should be able to know who he is."

At this time, Zhang Zhan was already squatting in front of the black clay pot. At first, he just wanted to remove his hand resting on the pot, but unfortunately he couldn't. hand.

"It seems that this clay pot is very important to him. I will open it."

Tibetan black clay pots are covered.

"Is this, ashes?"

Zhang Zhan looked up at Zhang Qiling, not sure.

"It's ashes."

"Sin of sin."

Zhang Zhan fixed the clay pot, put it back in place, and began to recite scriptures silently in front of the pot.

At this time, Zhang Qiling had already opened the wooden box. There was no mechanism in this box. Zhang Qiling was puzzled at first, but after opening it, he saw the bronze branches inside.

"Is this a bronze branch?"

"Ah."

"So are you hallucinating?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head, this was where he was most vigilant, one must know that such a small branch back then almost got the two of them folded in it.

"There are two notebooks underneath."

Most of the Zhang family have the habit of taking notes, which is not only due to their displaced ethnic group, but also because of the family's unique soul-loss disease.

The first is a diary.

July [-], [-]

This is the first summer that my wife and I lived in the snow mountain.

This is the hinterland of the snow-capped mountains, with snow all year round. There is actually no big difference between summer and winter.But my beautiful wife is by my side, and my wife is pregnant with our beloved son. Although there is only one small wooden house, I only feel happy.

It is probably the wish of all members of the Zhang family to live a stable life without being displaced.

Recently, I need to store more food, so that when the mountains are closed by heavy snow in autumn, the husband and wife can survive the winter.

……

August 27, [-]

When I went down the mountain to buy necessities for the last time, I ran into my brother Ruiyi who had been looking for me for many days.The two of us exchanged the recent situation of each other. We knew that besides looking for me this time, my younger brother also came to look for the great lama of Charang Tudeng Sharudakalin Temple, because the great lama had the bronze main branch that was lost in the past.

It's just that the great lama has been wandering for many years, and my younger brother inquired many ways before finding any traces. The great lama once appeared here.

I took my younger brother up the mountain and asked him to live here temporarily in order to find the Great Lama.

……

February [-], [-]

The coldest winter in the Himalayas is drawing to a close.

Today, I am happy to have Liner. Thanks to the help of the Great Lama, my wife and children are safe and sound.Therefore, after discussing with my younger brother, I decided that my younger brother would take my son back to the Zhang family first, and after the great lama finished the Buddha mural, I would return to the Zhang family with my beloved wife and the main branch of Qingtong.

The bronze main branch is a branch of the bronze trunk.

The great lama told me that this was entrusted by the Patriarch of the Lei family back then, and he hoped that it would be handed over to the Zhang family. He traveled around all these years just to find the Zhang family.

When he was wandering, he was inadvertently confused by the bronze main branch, and found that the Buddha's record that he had been looking for all his life, whether it was true or not, the great lama hoped to find a suitable place and draw it completely.

So the great lama spent nearly a year painting in a cave not far from here.

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April 23, [-]

It has been nearly a year since my wife left. When my wife was seriously injured to avoid the family's pursuit, she met me.Although she had lived a comfortable life in the deep mountains for several years, her deteriorating body still caused her to pass away prematurely.

My wife is the love of my life. The painting of the Buddha murals has come to an end. My wife, go slowly, and I will come to accompany you soon.

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