My Weird Life

  1258. Return to reality! (12)

 At dusk.

Green smoke billows from the roof chimneys of every household in Jinliu Village, and the aroma of food wafts on the streets. At this time, there were absolutely no people on the streets in the village. Even the children who were playing in the streets and alleys had been taken back home by their parents. The dogs running around and having fun did not need their owners. When he came to call, he had already run back to the dining table by himself.

The brocade-like sunset glow floating in the western sky is now also tainted by the black sky and gradually darkens.

An old woman with silver hair and an apron was sitting against a small square table. Her apron was dyed white by some flour. At this time, a pair of wrinkled palms were pressing the two ends of a rolling pin. The chopping board on the square table was moving.

She rolled the dough into thin sheets, then used a knife to cut the stacked dough into finger-width noodles, sprinkled some flour on them, scattered the noodles, and carried the chopping board. Woodshed.

In the woodshed, several women's voices rang out: "Ah! Auntie, are these noodles prepared for Fei Xiong?"

“How can he still think about eating noodles after showing off such a big bear paw today?”

"Xiong Biao went to pick them up. He should have picked them up by now and should be back..."

The women in the woodshed were talking for a while.

Afterwards, Heihu's mother sidled out of the woodshed carrying a steaming big basin filled with the aroma of meat. She placed the big basin on the large square table in the yard, and her body was covered by the steaming water vapor. She was submerged, and she could only vaguely see her turning her face and looking towards the aisle - she saw a large group of people pouring into the aisle at once.

The courtyard, which was not clean at first, suddenly became more lively as more than ten people came in and cheered.

 “It smells so good!”

 “Is bear meat so delicious?!”

“It must be my mother and the others who are good at their craftsmanship. Have you forgotten the wild boar we hunted before? If we didn’t use heavy seasoning, it would be so **** that I couldn’t even eat it…”

 “Grandma, mother, aunt!

 We are back! "

 “Brother Black Tiger and Brother Flying Bear are back too!”

The steaming water vapor met the cold wind and turned into water droplets that stuck to the big wooden basin held by the black tiger mother. The red meat pieces in the big wooden basin were cut into pieces and soaked in the red meat. In the blackened sauce, there are some green chopped green onions sprinkled on top, which looks very appetizing. Mother Heihu saw the group of people huffing and puffing out of the aisle. Among the group of people, she saw Li Heihu at a glance. A joyful smile suddenly appeared on her face, and she turned to look towards the woodshed. The aunt who was cooking noodles in the woodshed called out—

She just turned her head, and her aunt was already standing at the door of the woodshed.

The old woman with her hair covered in silver hair held the door edge with one hand, stood on tiptoes, and looked up at the large group of people.

The candle outside the firewood door flickered slightly, and dim light spots seemed to fall in her eyes. The smoke billowed behind her, and the billowing smoke made her figure hazy.

Su Wu turned around and saw her figure.

He suddenly felt that grandma was very far away from him, but at the same time she seemed very close.

“Grandma.” He tried to call the old figure.

The old woman pursed her lips and responded softly: "Eh..."

 So all the unreal feelings fell back to the ground and became solid.

Grandma stretched out her hand to wipe her eyes. She held on to the wall and walked towards Su Wu shakily. Su Wu stepped forward to meet her and supported her figure. She raised her hand and gestured to Su Wu's head. Then he turned to look at the rammed earth wall of the woodshed next to him. On that loess wall mixed with straw stalks, there were horizontal lines left by some charcoal ash.

Her eyes were looking at the horizontal lines, as if looking at the stairs going up.

When she saw that the highest horizontal line was much shorter than Su Wu's figure, grandma showed a satisfied smile: "It's much taller than I thought. My pig is already For such a tall young man, grandma no longer has to worry about you being outside and others daring to bully you..."

“How could someone bully me?

 Grandma, don’t worry. "Su Wu replied with a smile.

Grandma shook her head, took his hand, and brought him to the table to sit down. She also had a smile on her face: "You sit down first. There are still noodles in the pot. Grandma has cooked the noodles. Let's Let’s have dinner.”

"Okay. I'll help you from the side, grandma." Su Wu nodded and was about to stand up.

But grandma stretched out her hand to hold him down, and said with a smile: "Just sit here and wait, and talk to your aunt, uncle, and your younger brothers and sisters for a while!"

Grandma straightened up and looked at Li Heihu, Hong Renkun, Miss Xiaohe and others. She first greeted Hong Renkun and Miss Xiaohe and invited them to take their seats, then she exchanged a few words with Li Heihu, and finally she met the two aunts Su Wu. Surrounded by others, he turned back to the woodshed.

Not long after, grandma brought another bowl of noodles to Su Wu. Everyone took their seats, and the dinner started lively.

At the dinner table, grandma often asked Su Wu what kind of work he did outside. She was relieved after learning that Su Wu's work outside was quite decent and he would not suffer hardship.

Grandfather and grandson talked a lot, but they had a tacit understanding. Neither of them mentioned how long Su Wu would stay at home or when he would leave for his return trip.

 After dinner, the two uncles, Xiongzhu and Xiongbiao, led their respective families and other young people to leave Su Wu's home.

Grandma settled the rooms for the two guests, Miss Xiaohe and Hong Renkun, and then took the oil lamp and led Su Wu to the main room. Hehe also followed them.

 There used to be a small bed on the west side of the main room.

 The former ‘pig’ slept on that bed.

Now the small bed has been moved to Hehe's room, and grandma asked someone to build a big kang in its original position.

 The bedding on the bed was neat and tidy, and the satin surface of the bedding was embroidered with beautiful flowers and patterns, giving it a clean smell of soap and soap. Grandma squatted on the stove near the bedside with the oil lamp, and looked at the furnishings in the main room with the light. She looked at the bedding on the bed, with a kind smile in her eyes: "Grandma still left several A good quilt top, a good mattress top, and the flowers on it are very beautiful. When you get married, take out a few pairs of quilt tops and make two wedding quilts for you and your wife...

 There is something left for Hehe, so Hehe doesn’t have to fight..."

"I'm not arguing. Give it all to your brother. I'll stay with grandma from now on." Li Linghe shook her grandma's arm and acted coquettishly.

Grandma patted her shoulder, smiled and sat on the edge of the bed, and said with a smile: "When you reach the age, if grandma doesn't marry you off and forces you to stay at home...then grandma shouldn't be poked in the back?"

 When children grow up, they always have to fly far away..."

She turned to look at Su Wu who was standing next to her, patted the bed, and said to Su Wu: "Zhuzi, come and sit. We will light the charcoal fire later, and the kang will be hot very quickly, and it won't be cold at all."

Su Wu responded and sat next to grandma. He wanted to say something, but grandma asked him first: "Zhuzi, how many days will you stay home this time?"

“I will stay at home for a few more days, maybe three to five days, and then go out.” Su Wu met her grandma’s gaze and suddenly changed her mind about her previous plan to stay one night and then leave, so she told her grandma.

When grandma heard his reply, a smile suddenly broke out on her face. She nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay, stay a few more days. It won't delay your work outside. It shouldn't be delayed. When you come, You should have made an agreement with your shopkeeper - I haven't been home for several years, so if I come back now, what can he say if I stay a few more days?

He is a reasonable person and won’t say much! "

“No one will say anything, just don’t worry, grandma.” “That’s good, that’s good.

There is a charcoal fire in the corner. Zhuzi, you can light it yourself. You have been busy all day today and you are tired. You should rest early. Hehe, let’s go back to bed with grandma. "

Grandma pulled Linghe out of the main room.

Su Wu stood up from the bed and looked at the furnishings in the room.

 The furnishings have not changed much from those a few years ago.

He walked to the wall facing the door. On that wall hung a large painting of "Songs and Cranes Prolong the Year". A square table was placed in front of the scroll.

The tablet of "Li Wenjuan, the birth mother of the pig" is placed on the square table. Her ashes have been allowed to be buried in the Li family's ancestral grave. In the incense burner in front of the tablet, there is a red burning head of incense sticks.

 In the incense burner, the ashes have accumulated to the point.

Grandma has never stopped sacrificing her beloved daughter.

This thick incense ashes also represent a kind of longing that cannot be expressed through words, nor can it be weakened at all.

Su Wu held up a stick of incense from the side and bowed respectfully three times to the memorial tablet. He lit the incense stick and put it into the incense burner. Green smoke curled up in the darkness, as if he was going to the unknown world. , connect to the unnamed location.

 …

For the next few days, Su Wu stayed in Jinliu Village, visiting relatives and friends, and also looking at Liu Feiyan's former residence.

When she left the village, she had sold her family's land and house. Now the Liu family's house was already owned by a family named Sun. When Su Wu chatted with that family, she also heard some difficult things from their mouths. Distinguish true and false rumors.

The host of the Sun family said: "A few days ago, several trees died in my field, so I cut them down and dragged them home to prepare some benches. When I was working at home that day, I saw something A red figure appeared in the yard - dressed in red, it almost scared me to the point of losing my breath!

It was floating around the house and yard, turning around in a circle, and then disappeared!

 I saw that the figure was thin and seemed to be a woman.

 Perhaps it’s the former Liu Feiyan? "

“Could it be that the daughter of the Liu family met with something bad outside and died? If so, then the figure I saw a few days ago might be Liu Feiyan’s soul..."

It is true that Liu Feiyan often appears in front of people now, wearing a phoenix crown and a halo, but Su Wu has no trace of whether she has ever returned to Jinliu Village.

 …

 “This simulation is over…”

Su Wu stood at the embankment and waved goodbye to her grandma at the foot of the gentle slope.

An old simulator prompt sounded in his ears. The moment the prompt sounded, everything around him gradually became dim. The scenery on the embankment and the figures of relatives and friends under the gentle **** gradually faded, and eventually everything was swallowed up by darkness.

Su Wu was already in the simulator world with a huge dial hovering.

Beside him, Hong Renkun stood there lifelessly with the red sun above his head, temporarily losing consciousness.

Su Wu raised his eyes and glanced at the huge dial hanging between heaven and earth. The various exchangeable things listed on the dial, as well as the time and space of the relics emerging around him, remained unchanged.

The simulator prompts in my ears kept ringing.

 In this simulation, he also did a lot of things.

However, in the judgment of the simulator, these things rarely brought him the benefit of "real gold on this shore", nor could they improve his evaluation. In the end, he only got one hundred taels of real gold on this shore, and there was no evaluation at all.

“Your wallet balance is 8730+100=8830 real gold from both sides of the Taiwan Strait!”

The simulator prompt sounds suddenly.

Su Wu's thoughts changed, and the darkness that covered his surroundings suddenly dispersed.

He was in a dilapidated car with the left and right front doors removed and the engine running. Hong Renkun's figure appeared in the passenger seat of the car.

The red dots of light like chicken eggs on Hong Renkun's head slowly 'melted' and flowed onto the back seat of the car, turning into Tao Zu sitting carefree on the back seat of the car.

Tao Zu was dressed in sinewy flesh, and his white hair was tied into a bun on top of his head. He pressed his hands on the backrest of the rear seat, crossed his legs, and said with emotion: "I'm finally back. There's nothing interesting about this place, but I've been delayed for so long!"

As he spoke, without stopping, he took out a pair of dark things from the storage box on the car door.

"Glasses?!"

Tao Zu seemed to recognize this object, opened it, and placed it on his ears.

Tao Zu, with his hair tied in a bun, shirtless, and a pair of snow-white trousers, seemed to have changed his temperament when he put on these sunglasses. He, who was already quite eye-catching, became even more eye-catching now. It even makes people feel that he has a "profound and vicissitudes of life" feeling. Even Hong Renkun couldn't move his eyes away when he saw Tao Zu's appearance in the rearview mirror.

Hong Renkun pulled Su Wu, who was starting the car next to him, and said repeatedly: "Is there more? Is there more?!"

 “What?”

Su Wu glanced at the rearview mirror and saw Tao Zu wearing sunglasses with his head held high. He immediately understood. He nodded and said: "It's a big place here and there are many optical shops, so you should be able to find it.

 Be calm and don’t be impatient, I will take you everywhere to look for it. "

 “Okay, okay!”

Hong Renkun was overjoyed when he heard this.

Su Wu drove the car a few streets away and soon found an optical shop.

There are clothing stores everywhere around the optical shop, and there are also maternal and child supplies stores, toy stores, etc. at the corner intersection. Su Wu led Tao Zu and others to unload the door of the optical shop and asked the two to help open the doors of the optical shop. Several rotten corpses recited the rebirth mantra several times, and then danced around with a few pairs of sunglasses in the store. Then, the two went around to change their clothes and each picked out their own clothes - except for the pair of glasses, Tao Zu, The way Hong Renkun chooses clothes is truly unflattering.

Su Wu took off all the women's clothes and underwear they were wearing, and the two of them looked a little more pleasing to the eye.

 The two finally went into a toy store.

　　Once I plunged in, I didn’t come out for a long time.

 (End of this chapter)