Chapter Eighty-Six: The Death of the Old Man

When night fell in the village, Mrs. Liu brought a pot of stewed roe deer meat, a pot of white rice, a bowl of wild jam, and a pot of lychees, and said with a smile: "Brother Shi, eat as you like, this roe deer is the young men in the village, I heard that you are here, and I specially sent it." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Xu Weiran said with a smile: "In order to prevent being targeted by wild beasts, in our village, except for the working cattle, we do not raise domestic animals, and if we want to eat meat, we will fight in the valley." This wild jam was invented by women, and it is boiled with wild fruits in the mountains, and it tastes sweet and sour," he squeezed his eyes at Shi Wen'er, "Defeat the fire." ”

Shi Wen'er glanced at him with a smile, Xu Weiran pretended not to see it, peeled a white and tender lychee, and smiled at Shi Wen'er casually: "We have lychees in Lingnan, which are definitely better than pears, you can also taste them." ”

Shi Wen'er glanced at him, and felt a pain in his heart. Although Liu Yixiu didn't know what the two of them were talking about, he could also see that Shi Wen'er seemed to be unhappy, put a bowl of rice in front of Shi Wen'er, and said with a smile: "Brother Shi came from afar, he must be hungry, and eating meat is the right thing." ”

Shi Wen'er smiled at Mrs. Chongliu gratefully, and thanked her again and again, Xu Weiran also realized that Shi Wen'er had something in her heart, so she didn't continue to make fun of her, and everyone happily ate without mentioning it.

Shi Wen'er, who had a dinner with Wei Jingyu and Xu Weiran, stood in front of the lookout window of her treehouse, looking at the dark mountain village in front of her.

Almost no one lights up at night, and the main purpose of the oil is to fill the stomach. There was only one window, and it seemed to float out of the light.

Xu Weiran said: "That is the home of Old Man Bai. ”

Shi Wen'er nodded, Old Man Bai would rather go hungry than study. He asked, "How are the old man's bones?" ”

Xu Weiran shook his head and sighed: "It's not good, last year's big plague, most of the children survived, but he, obviously his body is not well, but he refuses to say it clearly, Shi Niangzi has left the island again, Qingyun is not a doctor after all......"

Shi Wen'er was silent, looked at the dim light floating out of the window, and said to Xu Weiran: "Go over and see the old man." ”

Xu Weiran nodded, and the two walked out of the tree house, along the village path, to the Bai family's stone house. The mosquito repellent grass along the way exudes a strange aroma. There was no one on the road, and occasionally a few children were laughing outside.

Walking to the front of the Bai family's stone house, Shi Wen'er knocked on the door, but there was no sound inside, Shi Wen'er used some more force, but there was still no sound. He had a sense of foreboding, and with all his strength, he slammed the door open.

Under the dim oil lamp, the old man Bai leaned on the kang, as if asleep. His sparse white hair was a little messy at the back of his head, and his equally sparse white goatee seemed to have some saliva on it, and his cheeks and hands were like dry bark.

Shi Wen'er looked at the respected teacher with sadness, he slowly walked to Bai Guangzhi's side, as if he had already known the result, and calmly tried his snort.

Large tears slipped from his eyes, and Shi Wen'er silently straightened Bai Guangzhi, took out a handkerchief, and wiped the saliva from his beard for him.

Xu Weiran went out silently, and after a while, Wei Jingyu ran in and looked at Bai Guangzhi in a daze. He fell to his knees and wept silently.

For a while, everyone ran this way, everyone didn't speak, and fell to their knees in unison. Gradually, someone began to cry. The voice gradually increased, and slowly, the cry shook the sky.

Four days later, all the children in Jishitang in Guangzhou returned to Pearl Island, and Nian Qingyun also brought back Wei Youqing.

King Yun didn't know that Shi Wen'er was on Pearl Island, and Bai Guangzhi was his teacher, although it was inconvenient for him to come to the island to pay respects, but when Qingyun proposed to take Wei Youqing to the island to worship, he agreed without saying a word.

Bai Jiashu looked at his grandfather's remains blankly, he never thought about what he should do if his grandfather was gone.

Pearl Island held a funeral for Mr. Bai, and Wei Jingyu held a filial piety ceremony and took Bai Jiashu to keep a vigil for three days and three nights. Wei Jingyu accepted Bai Jiashu as his righteous son, and promised his niece Wei Fanghua. The whole village is vegetarian, and even the salt works and fishing boats in the distance are hung with white flags. Old Man Bai was buried in a forest overlooking the village, so that he could watch the village where he had exhausted his efforts day and night, and let him rest assured and at ease in the ground.

In a crowd of people who knelt down and cried, Shi Wen'er saw a familiar and unfamiliar face. He had dark skin, but his eyebrows and eyes were very delicate. Beside him, kneeling was a fair-skinned woman. This woman's big eyes, sunken eye sockets, high nose bridge, and long eyelashes make her eyes look deep and mysterious.

Shi Wen'er frowned slightly, this woman is clearly an Indian beauty, and she is an Indian beauty with a high status, but she is a native woman like Ji Ashui. No matter how you look at it, it feels very strange. She followed Ji Ashui silently, not crying or making trouble. Ji Ashui wept with everyone in the village, like mourning.

Shi Wen'er silently walked up to Ji Ashui and patted him on the shoulder. Ah Shui raised his head, and when he saw Shi Wen'er, his crying face suddenly changed to a flattering smile: "The leader is back." ”

Shi Wen'er nodded, glanced at the woman next to him who turned her head with Ji Ashui, and said to Ji Ashui: "Call the eldest brother in the future, let's go out and talk." ”

Ji Ashui made a fierce expression at the woman, and the woman hurriedly lowered her head, covered her cheeks with the white linen cloth on her head, and continued to kneel with her eyebrows lowered.

The sky outside was bright, Shi Wen'er covered his forehead with his hands, and sighed: "This place should be called Sun Island, is the sun so good in the south?" ”

Ji Ashui shook his head and said, "No, it is often windy and rainy in the south. ”

Shi Wen'er glanced at him, and saw that he followed him with his head down, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, he was amused in his heart, and asked casually: "Have you gone to the sea to dig pearls recently?" So what good price did Susatsuma give you? ”

Ji Ashui looked around at no one and said to Shi Wen'er: "Chief, oh, big brother, it's not easy to dig pearls!" Susamo's deception to me, my eldest brother will definitely not deceive me. ”

Shi Wen'er laughed and said, "Take me to see the goods." If it's good, I won't let you suffer. ”

Ji Ashui nodded, and led Shi Wen'er along the seaside tunnel towards the silver sand beach outside the cliff. When it got closer, Shi Wen'er saw that on the leeward side of the cliff covered with reefs, there was a stream that flowed down the cliff, I don't know if it was caused by years of erosion, forming a small waterhole below, the water in the waterhole was very clear, along a dug ditch, introduced into a small courtyard next to it, the ditch was equipped with several stones as sluices, which were opened when used and blocked when not in use, so as to facilitate the waterhole to continue to store water.