At noon the next day, Pan Tianyi took Ah Jiu to the intersection of Panlong Village. They saw that the Guandi Temple had been eroded by time and was dilapidated. The surrounding wasteland was also covered with reeds and some palm trees.
As soon as Pan Tian passed through the collapsed outer wall and stepped into the overgrown courtyard, he came to the damp and dim statues of the gods and knelt down with a plop towards Old Guan Ye.
At this time, scenes of childhood memories seemed to emerge before his eyes: praying for rain when he was six years old, meeting the princess when he was nine years old, and losing his mother again when he was twelve years old...
Strong sunlight passed through the window lattice and shone into the dusty temple. Ah Jiu covered her nose with her hands and walked to the incense burner:
"It looks like no one has come to burn incense for a long time."
"The temple is still the same as when I was a child, but the people are not the same people who went to the theater back then!"
Pan Tian stood up, patted the dust on his legs, and sighed: "I really want to renovate the Guandi Temple and fulfill my long-cherished wish, but..."
"It's just that we don't have enough manpower now, right?" Ah Jiu looked at Pan Tianyi's lonely look and gave a slight smile.
"We have to hurry, Ah Jiu, what can you do?" Pan Tianyi looked around at the messy scene in the temple.
"Let the Red Supervisor bring the prosthetics to renovate the Guandi Temple. Let's go back to our hometown first and take a look!" Ah Jiu's beautiful eyes gradually brightened, and she began to scan the Guandi Temple that needed to be repaired. place, and then sent the location of Guandi Temple to Chi.
"Thank you, Ah Jiu!"
Pan Tianyi looked at his girlfriend with a strange look, feeling indescribably familiar. The fortune-telling girl in his childhood memories seemed to be back again.
"Let's go, Brother Yi, don't look at me like this!" Ah Jiu blinked her eyes, her cheeks instantly turned red with embarrassment, and she returned to her normal appearance from the computing state just now.
"Everything is fate. When I was nine years old, a fortune teller came to the village, accompanied by a girl who was dressed in retro yet fashionable clothes."
Pan Tianyi held Ajiu's hand, slowly walked out of the temple, and walked toward his hometown along the woods in his memory.
"Humph, there is no such thing as fate, it's just that Princess Liya chose you earlier!" Ah Jiu broke free from Pan Tianyi's hand and ran forward happily.
Pan Tianyi looked at her figure silently, and saw Ah Jiu in the shade of green trees like a white fairy, so holy and beautiful.
After a while, Pan Tianyi came to a rusty gate, with faded door paintings still remaining on both sides of the gate.
The iron gate was opened, and an old man wearing a gray shirt with a wrinkled face stood behind the door. He was stunned for a long time, and then he finally reacted and said cautiously: "You...you are Pan Tianyi, right?" "
"Well, it's me. Let's come back and take a look before leaving!" Pan Tianyi stood at the door and nodded, as if he didn't want to disturb the old man.
"It's good to come back. You must stay at home for a few more days!"
The old man looked extremely excited. He led Pantian and the two of them into the farmhouse. Then his voice became extremely hoarse and he couldn't help but shed old tears. He said sadly: "Since you are all back, then I will too." It’s time to leave this home to you with confidence. Now the young people in the village have moved to the big cities, and I am the only old person I know, but it’s time for me to move too.”
"Thank you, Pan Xiaoliang, for making things difficult for you all these years!" Pan Tianyi walked up to the old man and gently gave him a hug. "We will only stay in this home for two days. If you still want to stay, Panlong Village, this house is still for you to live in!"
"Okay, okay!" Pan Xiaoliang's wrinkled face returned to joy, and he hurriedly shouted his granddaughter's name into the room:
"Ruixia, hurry up and bring some stools for this grandpa...grandma...to sit on!" The old man moved his eyes to the girlish Ah Jiu, and his words were slow for a moment.
Once this person reaches his age, he no longer looks forward to the future and just wants to stay in a familiar place and silently reminisce.
In fact, Pan Xiaoliang was unwilling to leave Panlong Village and move to a big city.
"Brother, sister, please sit down!" The little girl picked up two small wooden stools and shyly came to Pan Tianyi and Ah Jiu.
Said timidly.
"Little sister, your name is Ruixia, right? Your voice is so nice, gentle and clear, very nice!" Ah Jiu knelt down, looked at the little girl with a sweet smile, and kept praising her.
"Silly granddaughter, you should...should call them grandparents!"
The old man standing aside saw his granddaughter shouting the wrong seniority, his face became hot and cold, and then he said with envy: "The medical technology in the city is becoming more and more advanced, and your appearance is also becoming more and more beautiful. You are so young that you can’t tell your age at all!”
"There is nothing wrong with the child now. When she grows up, she will also pursue youth and beauty!"
Pantian looked at the little girl and didn't mind. Instead, he understood the little girl's politeness and innocence. This also reminded him of himself as a child. Sometimes he would judge people's age based on their appearance, and would often call the wrong person. Be taught a lesson by them.
"Liang, can you tell me about the changes in Panlong Village over the past few decades? How did it evolve into a group of islands now?" Pan Tianyi motioned to Pan Xiaoliang to sit down, and they gathered around the wooden table in the center of the courtyard and began to grow. Talk about it.
"More than 20 years ago, the glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic melted rapidly, causing global sea levels to rise. The eastern coastal areas of our country were submerged by sea water, and eastern Henan in the Central Plains was gradually submerged by sea water. Panlong Village was once submerged by sea water. After that, all the residents in the village moved westward." The old man fell into memories, his old face full of sadness and reluctance.
"Then what happened next? Why are the houses in the village so dilapidated and decayed?"
On the way back, Pan Tianyi noticed the appearance of Panlong Village. The streets were lined with ruins and broken walls. The scattered bricks and stones were covered with thick moss. When he looked around, he could hardly see the smell of human fireworks.
"The village was once submerged by sea water. More than ten years ago, a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred here. The land within a radius of dozens of miles around Panlong Village suddenly rose again. This formed today's Panlong Village. Covered with shallow water and scattered islands."
The old man stretched his brows and showed a little joy. He looked at the mottled courtyard and continued: "Later, Panlong Village became habitable again, and many people were unwilling to come back. When I came back, everything in my home was gone, only There were piles of gravel and bricks. When I was desperate, I met a girl in red. She looked very similar to the girl next to you. It was she who asked me to move to your old house, saying that she wanted me to Let me live here first and help you take care of the house!"...
"Well, she is the Red Supervisor. In fact, she is also Ah Jiu!" Pan Tianyi turned around and looked at Ah Jiu, whose beautiful eyes were shining. She was having fun with the little girl.
"Before she left, the girl in red asked me, "Please help my master renovate his parents' graves!" I nodded and agreed. Every three years, I will go to the cemetery in the south of the village to renovate it. grave! Pan Xiaoliang continued.
"Thank you for helping me look after my parents' graves!" Pan Tianyi looked at the old man solemnly, showing unspeakable gratitude.
"Speaking of gratitude, I should be grateful to you, especially Ah Jiu by your side!" Pan Xiaoliang's eyes moved to Ah Jiu.
"Well, I just want to visit my parents when I come back this time. Now I have to go out!" Pan Tian stood up and prepared to go out.
"Wait a minute, I have already prepared tributes and paper money. You can burn them for your parents!" Pan Xiaoliang hurriedly took out a bamboo basket from the hall, which was filled with thick yellow paper and paper money.
"okay!"
Pan Tianyi took the bamboo basket, looked at the old man silently, turned and left without saying a word. He took Ajiu across a shallow river and walked slowly towards the south of Panlong Village.
Looking around, the wasteland at the south end of the village is covered with patches of sand, with shallow puddles dotted here and there. Low weeds grow around the pits, and there are more than a dozen large and small puddles scattered in the woods not far away. Different grave bags. Three of the burial mounds are particularly huge. They are lined up in a line, like the "Orion's Belt" in the sky.
"No one has visited this cemetery for a long time." Pan Tian sighed as soon as he came to the edge of the cemetery and looked at the collapsed low wall and broken bricks on the ground.
At this moment, the surrounding woods seemed very quiet, and the clear puddles passed through the fast-swimming schools of fish.
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"Godmother, we are here to visit you." Ah Jiu held Pan Tianyi's wrist and came to a tomb that had been repaired with bricks and stones. She lowered her voice very low and clear.
"Mom, my child is unfilial. I came to visit you after so many years!"
Pan Tianyi stopped in front of his mother's grave and looked at the scattered green bricks and the weeds growing on the grave. His heart felt as if he had been pricked by needles. He began to remove the weeds and shrubs on his mother's grave with his hands. Take out the light.
Ah Jiu stood in front of the grave and looked at Pan Tianyi quietly, frowning slightly and said, "Brother Yi, what can I do for you?"
"I don't need your help for this dirty work. I can clean up the weeds quickly. You can wait under the tree next to me for a while." Pan Tianyi gently wiped the sweat on his face and looked at Jiao Zhiruo. Immortal Ah Jiu didn't want her to do such rough work.
"Okay." Ah Jiu walked under the tree and began to pack his small backpack, which contained a bottle of water and Hua Xiaoyan's wife cake.
After a while, Pan Tianyi brought a bunch of clean weeds, spread them out in front of the grave, and motioned to Ah Jiu to come over and burn paper for his mother.
Yitada paper money was lit in front of the grave, and the firelight illuminated their moist eyes. Pantianyi knelt in front of his mother's grave, constantly recalling the childhood scene.
One cold winter, on an endless dirt road, my mother always carried a big plastic box on her back and walked silently to the lively market alone. She began to string red lanterns on sorghum poles and sell them. To the folks who come...
The evening sun gradually sets, and the night sky south of the village is gradually filled with Milky Way stars.
"I want to stay here with my mother all night. Are you afraid at night?" Pan Tian stood up, wiped the dried tears on his face, and said to Ah Jiu beside him.
"Hmph! I'm a simulation robot, what's there to be afraid of!" Ah Jiu snorted, and helped Pan Tianyi, who was in pain, and saw him rubbing his knees hard:
"Besides, having my mother by my side makes me feel very at ease!"
"Haha, that's right!" Pan Tianyi looked at Ah Jiu and rolled his eyes at him, smiled stupidly, and then asked: "I wonder how Princess Liya is doing in the four-dimensional world, can you Tell me?"
"Humph - far away in the horizon, yet so close in front of you!"
Ah Jiu let go of Pan Tianyi's arm, and they walked to the beach not far away together. The ground exuded a faint warmth.
"Come on, let's sit on the beach and tell me!" Pantian happily dragged a dry tree trunk from the side and motioned for Ah Jiu to sit on it together.
"Huh!" Ah Jiu's expression became elegant and cold. She sat upright on the tree trunk, keeping a distance from Pan Tianyi, looking at the starry sky in the distance, and slowly said:
"At this moment, I am on the Tower of Babel in Mount Buzhou, with my back to the Square of the Gods, sitting on the colorful stones meditating, and at the same time watching the night sky in my hometown with you. Normally, I would not have time to spend time with you. Let’s experience human life together in three dimensions of time and space!”
"Mauliya, thank you for telling me this!"
A warm current surged into Pan Tianyi's heart. Although Princess Liya often acted coldly towards him, he was content with having her by his side at this moment.
Then, Pan Tian raised his head to the sky and sighed, turned to look at Ah Jiu beside him, and said: "Mo Liya, my mother lived too hard in her life, and she was not able to be buried with my father until she died. They are like the Milky Way. The Cowherd and the Vega on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, one is buried on the east side of the road, the other is buried on the west side of the road, far apart in between, forever separated..."
"Oh, I hope their souls can stay together!" Ah Jiu looked at the Summer Triangle in the southwest, where the three brightest stars shone.
Pan Tianyi raised his head and looked at the bright Milky Way, his deep eyes reflecting a long feeling of nostalgia.
In the Summer Triangle, the bright star on the upper left is Deneb, located in the direction of Cygnus; the other two bright stars are Vega in Lyra and Altair in Aquila.
"Let's go across the asphalt road and visit my father's grave!" Pantian held Ah Jiu's hand and walked towards the wilderness in the west of the village by the starlight.
Under the stars, there is nostalgia.
At this moment, an unprecedented and massive interstellar war is taking place in the Cygnus starry sky three thousand light years away...
