Why is that little girl here?
Mr. Xu quickly ran to the door, and sure enough, a little girl in a blue and pink cake skirt held the hand of a maid, raised her face and smiled: "Good morning, grandpa."
Seeing this smile, the gloom in Mr. Xu's heart was swept away: "Good morning, Ning Ning."
Ning Ning noticed that the frame above his grandfather's head was light gray. Her mother told him that this meant that his grandfather was in a bad mood and state.
Frame: I have insomnia... still can't sleep peacefully... I think of their faces... sad...
Ning Ning let go of her beautiful sister's hand, ran to her grandfather, and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa, are you not sleeping?"
Mr. Xu touched the dark circles under his eyes and smiled bitterly: "Is it obvious?"
The little girl nodded: "Why can't grandpa sleep?"
Mr. Xu was silent for a moment, then looked back at the ancestral hall and said calmly: "Because... I'm afraid of seeing them... seeing them covered in blood... but I also want to see them..."
"But grandpa." An innocent voice was like the sound of nature that broke through Mr. Xu's fog: "If you want to see them, shouldn't you go to bed? Ningning's mother was seen in her dream. Grandpa, do you want to see them? You can only see people when they are asleep."
Mr. Xu opened his mouth to say something, but he choked and his lips trembled: Yes, he was afraid to see them covered in blood, but he wanted to see them... didn't he just want to meet in a dream?
Why should he be afraid of sleeping?
Being able to meet each other in a dream is a very happy thing in itself!
Even though they were covered in blood and bruises, they were the people he wanted to see.
The fear retreated silently, leaving only full of expectation and happiness.
Mr. Xu touched Ning Ning's head with his old hands: "Good boy, come in and offer incense to the grandpas."
This is the first time that Mr. Xu has allowed others to enter the incense room next to the ancestral hall.
On weekdays, during the New Year and festivals, all the Xu family members, including the young and old, as well as the side houses, can only worship their ancestors. Everyone regards Mr. Xu's words as an imperial edict, and naturally they dare not enter Mr. Xu's forbidden area without authorization.
But everyone was talking about it privately.
Some people speculated that it contained the old man’s White Moonlight.
Some people speculate that it is a memorial tablet to support the rich and powerful.
But they are not qualified to set foot.
And today, the old man gave Ning Ning this qualification.
He glanced lightly at the maid who wanted to follow him, his eyes were indifferent and majestic, as if there was invisible pressure heading towards the maid.
The maid had a stiff smile on her delicately made-up face: "Old man, the little lady is still too young, I can hold her..."
Mr. Xu said calmly: "From the fourth family?"
The woman's face twitched, her eyes widened in disbelief, and her eyes were horrified: He, how did he know?
He was about to quibble when he was interrupted by the old man's wave: "I know what those bastards are thinking. They are old and it's normal to have other small thoughts. But there are some things...don't reach out randomly if you shouldn't interfere. Otherwise, it is easy to lose this hand."
This is already a clear warning.
If she hadn't been sent here specially by the old man's son, she might have been feeding the fish at the foot of the mountain by now.
The maid was silent for a moment, then said "yes" obediently.
Waiting at the door, not daring to look up or have other thoughts.
Mr. Xu led Ning Ning to the incense room, personally lit three sticks of incense and handed it to Ning Ning: "Be careful of getting burnt."
"This is your Grandpa Zhou Dawa."
After Ningning took the incense, Mr. Xu told her the names on the tablets one by one: "This is your grandpa Li Sangouzi. Oh, the one next to him is also Sangouzi, but his surname is not Li, and he doesn't know what his surname is. "In the past, when there was a famine, my parents sold me to a man to pay for rice. Later I worked as a coolie in the landlord's house. Then when the war broke out, I joined the army in order to fight for food."
There was a trace of tenderness on that serious and unsmiling face: "The most literate thing your Grandpa Sangouzi said in his life is: We want our descendants to stand upright and have enough to eat."
"Then...he fell on the battlefield..."
"Come, Ning Ning, offer some incense."
Ning Ning followed the instructions and put the incense in the incense burner. She listened carefully to her grandfather telling her about the origins of these "silent" grandfathers one by one. She clasped her little hands together and said seriously: "Grandpas, I hope you can live far, far away. Have a good time.”
At the moment of earnest worship, a light invisible to the naked eye floated out from Ning Ning and fell on these tablets.
Tongzi: If the heart is sincere, the magic charm effect will be activated.
Mr. Xu opened his eyes wide. Is it his imagination?
In the quiet incense room, warm sunlight seemed to shine down, and the black wooden signs seemed to glow in an instant.
But when he rubbed his eyes, everything seemed to be his imagination.
Mr. Xu looked at Ning Ning's serious face, this child...
He smiled happily: "Ning Ning, if grandpa is no longer here in the future, you can help grandpa burn incense for these grandpas, okay?"
Ning Ning nodded: "Ning Ning will definitely do it."
"Good boy." Mr. Xu felt a stone fall in his heart, his eyes flashed with perseverance: "From now on, grandpa will not let anyone bully Ning Ning. Grandpa, this old bone, should also move to protect Ning Ning. The wind and rain are out.”
That night, Mr. Xu slept particularly soundly.
In his dream, he heard the sound of a loud horn.
He saw his comrades returning to his side one after another. The scars on their faces and bodies had faded away, revealing simple and honest smiles: "Old Xu, do you want a wife or not?"
Mr. Xu was so angry that he picked up the guy and chased these joking bastards all over the place.
"Lao Xu is angry."
"Old Xu is shy."
The group of young guys of similar age laughed and ran happily.
Mr. Xu's body also became light and free. He scolded and laughed at the same time: "You bastards, why don't you run away from me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was patted on the back.
Mr. Xu turned around and saw a gentle figure smiling at him: "Hey, Mr. Xu."
"Uh-huh."
Mr. Xu's tears suddenly fell down: "O-Old monitor..."
The man smiled with crooked eyebrows and a bit of wanton romance. He had a cigarette in his mouth. He was obviously from a scholarly family and had a high degree of education, but he devoted himself to the battlefield to serve the motherland at the most precarious time. He said His greatest wish in this life is not to have children and grandchildren, beautiful wives and concubines, nor to be rich and wealthy, but to see no more invaders in this desolate land, and to drive them all out so that no one dares to Come and offend me, Dahua!
