Chapter 35: Bless My Son
The yellow flowers and grasses are interspersed, and the catkins are flying all over the sky,
When you meet Lao Su in the forest, you can pick up firewood and go back.
Seeing that I was in a hurry, he smiled and asked who I was looking for,
I said Huayang Town, and my mother looked forward to the return of her son.
One hopes for good health, and the other hopes for all things to come true,
Three hopes for good wishes, four hopes for bearded eyebrows,
Five hopes are high, six are beautiful,
Seven hope for the splendid road, eight look forward to flying thousands of miles,
Nine hope to find a lover, ten hope that the woman can follow.
Thousands of longings and nights, when will the child return?
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Jingzhou, Huayang Town.
A man in a green shirt stood on a bluestone avenue in the town and looked around, sometimes pondering, sometimes searching, it was a good day that came all the way.
When I returned to the place after thirty years, I found that the town had changed and was several times larger than before. A dirt road in the former advanced town has been turned into a wide bluestone road. The only street in the town is also transformed into a hollow-shaped street consisting of four streets connected from end to end.
There are many new houses and shops on both sides of the street, and people come and go.
Liangchen looked for his memory and walked towards the general direction of the old house, but found that the original small courtyards had disappeared and turned into high-gate courtyards with blue bricks and glazed tiles.
Seeing that the hometown in his memory became unrecognizable, Liangchen shook his head with some embarrassment.
"Presumably my mother has also built a new house, but I don't know which one?" he guessed as he continued to move forward, crossing several compounds, and suddenly found a familiar small courtyard in the middle of the two compounds.
The courtyard is a little dilapidated, but clean and tidy, but compared with the surrounding mansions with new bricks and colored tiles, it is as shabby as a black chicken seeing a phoenix.
"Mother shouldn't be short of money, why are the neighbors around her building new buildings, and she still lives in the old house?"
"Is something wrong?" Liangchen guessed in his heart, and suddenly felt a little uneasy, he rushed to the door in three steps and two steps, and knocked heavily on the door with a copper ring in his hand!
"Bang ββ! bang ββ!"
After a long time, but there was no response, and he sighed in his heart!
"Bangββ! bangββ!" he knocked twice!
The last time I came to see my mother, she was already in her forties, and now she has been separated for 30 years, and she is already an old age, so there won't be any three long and two short, right?
Thinking about it, he was about to break in directly, when suddenly a voice sounded:
"Who?"
The voice was kind and slightly unfamiliar, and Liangchen looked out and saw a middle-aged woman walking out of the room.
The woman was dressed in a blue shirt with her hair pulled up in a high bun, and although she was dressed modestly, she had a hint of a rich family.
"It's me, Liangchen. Seeing that someone answered, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and replied loudly.
"Who?" repeated the woman, as if she had not heard clearly.
"Good day!!!" he replied aloud again.
The woman's brisk steps paused suddenly, and then a hint of hesitation appeared on her face, and she didn't know what she was struggling with.
After about three or two breaths, the woman finally walked to the door, pulled the bolt across the wood, and opened the door with a "squeak."
When she saw Liangchen's appearance, she was stunned at first, but then her face changed to a pretended calm expression.
Liangchen looked at the woman in front of him, reminisced about it, and finally remembered the clever maid many years ago.
"Peach blossom?" he asked tentatively.
When the woman heard this, her eyes flickered, and then she gritted her teeth and said:
"Immortal Master, I already said it last time, don't come again in the future, so that my wife will be angry when she sees you!"
"What?" Liangchen heard this, and a few doubts appeared in his heart, and he was a little confused.
"Peach Blossom knows that the immortal master has great powers, but no matter how much you become like my young master, even if your wife's eyes can't see anything, you can't fool her old man!" The woman finally admitted that she was Peach Blossom, but she was still blocking the door, without the slightest intention of letting him enter the house, and it seemed that someone had come here as if someone had turned into a good day!
And also... She said that his wife couldn't see?
"What are you talking about, what's wrong with my mother's eyes?"
"Last time... When you came: Wait, my wife will not be able to see. You... Have you forgotten?" Peach Blossom was grabbed by him, and suddenly turned pale, and replied hesitantly.
She knew in her heart that an immortal master like him regarded human life like an ant, and since the moment when the long-term worker in the family was casually turned into ashes, she realized that the kind old man who only went home once a year and a half was actually an immortal master!
But what is in front of her is definitely not the young master, it must be those tricks, she seems to have not flinched.
When Liangchen heard the news, he couldn't control the anxiety in his heart anymore, and his figure turned into a gust of wind and flew into the room.
When I got to the bedroom, I saw an emaciated old man lying on the bed.
The old man was full of silver threads, wrinkled like a net, her eyes stared at nothingness, although it was already a thick spring, she still wrapped a thick cotton robe, and stretched her legs into the quilt.
Holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand and slowly fiddling, he was muttering to himself, his voice was low and inaudible.
With just one glance, Liangchen knew that the drooping old man in front of him was his mother who had been missing for a long time, and his heart moved, and a subtle voice came into his ears:
"Bless my son, Amitabha ....."
"Mother!" Liangchen's eyes turned red when he heard this, and two lines of tears burst out of his eyes in an instant!
He slammed down on the bed, got down on his knees, and clutched his mother's withered hands.
"Chen'er is back! It's all because Chen'er is unfilial!" Liangchen said with a sob.
The person who suddenly appeared interrupted her prayer, but she was still expressionless as if there was no wave in the ancient well, but she slowly withdrew her hand, held Liangchen's hand and rubbed it gently, and then turned her head to face the direction of Liangchen, and sucked hard twice as if she was smelling something, and suddenly trembled, as if she was smashed into the well by a boulder, her mouth suddenly opened, and then she closed it tremblingly, but did not send out a word, and at the same time, two lines of tears meandered down her cheeks like a ravine!
Seeing his mother crying, Liangchen couldn't help but feel sad anymore, and cried loudly, as if he wanted to shout out the grievances he had suffered in the past few decades!
For a while, the old man on the bed in the room cried silently, and the kneeling man on the ground cried heartbreakingly.