Ye Chan

It's already the 30th New Year, and the road is full of travelers returning home. Fortunately, Ye Can and Lin Zixi set off early, so there was no traffic jam.

Lin Zixi followed the navigation and drove on the highway for about half an hour before finally reaching the town where he was home.

Xu Shi hasn't returned for a long time. The small towns of the past have undergone earth-shaking changes. Looking up, there are many tall buildings everywhere. Looking through the crowd, lively shopping streets can be seen everywhere.

This prosperous small city is far from what it looked like in the past. Only one thing has not changed, that is, every New Year’s Eve, people living in this place will still worship their ancestors.

Looking at the villagers carrying firecrackers and candles everywhere, Lin Zixi has experienced a kind of intimacy after a long absence. She took Ye Can to a firecracker and incense candle shop, bought some things needed to worship the immortals, and drove along the path to a deeper place.

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

Lin Zixi was obviously in a good mood, and smiled and nodded: "Yes, during Chinese New Year, my mother always took me to worship grandpa and grandma, saying that it was New Year's Eve and called them to come back for dinner."

Ye Can muttered in his heart, "Everyone is dead, how could it be possible to come back to eat with future generations?" Is it turned into a ghost, or popped out of the coffin? This is too ridiculous.

Of course, it is impossible for Ye Can to tell Lin Zixi these words.

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

Lin Zixi looked ahead intently, and said to Ye Can: "I was old at that time, so I still have some memories."

Having said this, Lin Zixi turned her head and smiled at Ye Can: "Of course, recently, I have always dreamed and remembered a lot of things that I had forgotten before."

Ye Can gave a cry, and the corner of his eyes glanced at the oncoming van, and loudly reminded: "Lin Zixi, you drive and focus!"

Lin Zixi couldn't help but laughed at her nervous appearance. Ye Can looked at the van that had just passed by and said angrily: "You are still laughing, you are not afraid of accidents!"

Lin Zixi smiled and bent her eyes, and said softly to Ye Can: "Ye Can, you have really changed a lot. You didn't care about such things before."

Ye Can curled his lips and said angrily, "What has changed in me? What do you care about?"

Lin Zixi said softly: "It's these safety issues, you didn't seem to care about it before." Ye Can at that time seemed to give up his life anytime and anywhere, where there would be such a strong desire to survive.

Ye Can glanced at her in surprise and raised the volume and said, "Lin Zixi, did you not wake up? That's because you are in the car? You have to think about it for yourself."

Lin Zixi didn't want to talk to her for a moment. I'm so angry, what kind of brain circuit is this person, and a word that cares about people can be so angry.

She's so stupid, really. It's definitely a love brain, so it's so hypocritical.

Lin Zixi glared at Ye Can softly, and said, "Just because you talk a lot, shut up."

Ye occasionally didn't understand people's heart to criticize Can. He didn't know why Lin Zixi was suddenly angry, but he closed his mouth 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 sacrifices, incense candles, paper money and other things, and went up the mountain together.

Lin Zixi was born in a small city. When her mother died, there was no concept of a cemetery in this place. Under the management of her aunt, her mother was buried on a hillside in the country.

When Lin Zixi came back to worship a few years earlier, he actually thought about moving his mother's grave away. But when he saw her grandpa and grandma buried next to her mother, Lin Zixi instantly dismissed the idea. Rather than going to a new place that is completely unfamiliar, she thinks her mother should prefer to stay next to her relatives.

The hillside is not high, but for people like Lin Zixi who have not climbed the mountain for many years, it is still a bit difficult to walk. In addition, the road is slightly barren, making it more difficult to walk.

Ye Can, who was originally behind her, had to walk ahead, step on the weeds for her, cut through the thorns, and lead her all the way to the top of the mountain.

After a lot of work, Lin Zixi and Ye Can finally came to the grave on the top of the hillside. At this time, the morning sun in the early spring was pushing away the dense mist, letting through a ray of sky, and hitting the top of the mountain.

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

Hearing the words, Ye Can leaned over to the tombstone with his hands back and looked at it, looking at the newly repaired tombstone inlaid with photos, and said sincerely: "Your mother is a beauty!"

She touched her chin, looked at the beauty in the photo, and made a very pertinent comment: "You look alike."

"Brows and eyes, nose and lips are all similar."

Ye Can turned his head, looked at Lin Zixi and said, "You feel like it was carved out of a mold."

Lin Zixi smiled. While she took out the fruit and placed it, she turned her head and said to Ye Can, "Really? I think I'm not as pretty as my mother."

Ye Can ran over, set up sacrifices with her, and helped her light candles.

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

Lin Zixi squatted on the head of the grave and carefully pulled out the weeds from the head of the grave. Looking up at Ye Can, he said very softly: "Because this is my mother's hair. After covering it, my mother will have no hair."

Ye Can really showed a very suspicious expression, Lin Zixi was amused by her expression of "Don't lie to me where this happened".

Ye Can said, "What kind of custom is this? When people are gone, they are gone. Why is there such a saying that there is still hair?"

Ye Can continued to mutter: "After all, it seems that the tomb is unnecessary. Because you see, a person is dead when he is dead. Even if there are descendants to worship, after a hundred years, the descendants are gone. This tomb is gone. It will be deserted."

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

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

Ye Can looked at her with her cheeks in her hands, "Isn't that the case? Just like your mother, after you leave, who can 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 be preserved in my heart. Maybe after a hundred years, no one will I remember her."

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

She put down the weeds in her hand, looked at Ye Can earnestly, 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 this world After that, she slept here. The earth knew it, and I knew it."

"This is the meaning of the tomb."

The tomb is the resting place of the soul, and the place of thoughts of loved ones.

Ye Can put his cheek on his cheek and fell silent.

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

The little things that used to be insignificant have now become spikes that pierce people's hearts.

Ye Can pondered for a while, looked at Lin Zixi and said, "What you said made me think about a problem seriously."

Lin Zixi smiled and asked her curiously: "What's the problem? Come and listen?"

Ye Can looked at her with his head tilted and said seriously: "I'm wondering if I have to build a grave after I die. Just write six words on it--"

"Ye Can is here for a trip."

Lin Zixi chuckled out: "What are you thinking about every day, your little head. Come here for a tour..."

"Wait for you to build a grave, how many years will it take. There is nothing like this. Why do you want so much?"

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

Lin Zixi was too lazy to take care of her. After pulling out the grass on the grave, he took Ye Can and pulled out all the corners of the grave once more. After it was set, the two sat beside the tomb together, lazily basking in the sun.

Ye Can put her arms around Lin Zixi, let her lean on her shoulders, sit next to her mother’s grave, look at the candles that are about to burn out, and ask Lin Zixi suspiciously: "You said you put these things, your mother can eat them. ?"

She was really funny asking this question. Lin Zixi pinched her and said, "What do you think?"

Ye Can can't help but think of the days when he wandered in the dark, and whispered: "How do I know that no one has burned it for me." A person like her, died without a tomb, and no one to worship, how did he know? What is the treatment of normal people after death.

Lin Zixi didn't bother to care about her, but after a while, Ye Can asked again if he could eat the things he worshiped. Would you like to set off firecrackers later? Is it time to burn paper money?

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

Ye Can answered dryly, "Oh, good."

They said goodbye to Lin Zixi's mother, followed two apples and went down the mountain.

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

The car stopped beside them, and a middle-aged man with a vicissitudes face got out of the car. Lin Zixi saw the man's appearance in the rear-view mirror, and he felt a bit of a heart, thinking that it was really Yuanjia Luzhai.

However, she didn't plan to get off the car and admit her relatives, so she started the car and set off. It was Ye Can, who was rare to lie in front of the car window, frowning as he watched the man's further and further back.

Lin Zixi looked at her small appearance and felt 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: "The person behind? Why do you want to look at him?"

Ye Can frowned, and his expression looked very tangled: "I always feel that that person has a very nasty breath on his body. I always feel that I should just get out of the car and beat him up."

Although Ye Can's reaction surprised Lin Zixi, she succeeded in pleasing her.

Lin Zixi laughed loudly: "Ye Can, you are right, I also think he owes him a lot, so I should let you go and beat him just now!"

Along with Lin Zixi's cheerful laughter, they drove the car, facing the sun all the way from the lively small town back to the bustling city.