soul resonance

The dead branches sprouted new buds, and after growing for a period of time, the mid-spring gradually came to the late spring.

During the Ching Ming Festival, the school gave the third party a day and a half off, so that the students could go home to sweep the tomb and worship in their busy schedule.

Mother Xu packed her things early in the morning and took Xu Heqi back to her hometown to visit the grave.

As for Zhou Duo, although Xu Heqi wanted to take him back to his hometown, he was picked up by Song Zhiyi as early as last night.

The two had to separate.

"Yo, it's Miss Nian who came back with the child."

Xu Heqi carried the things used for worship and walked with Xu's mother on the path to the ancestral grave. When they met an acquaintance from their hometown, they greeted each other with a smile, so they had no choice but to stop.

"It's Aunt He, long time no see." Mother Xu responded with a smile, and found a face that was almost becoming unfamiliar from her memory, and it overlapped with the person in front of her.

"This is your son? He looks so good, how old is he, and he's in high school?" the old man named Aunt He praised with a smile. The villagers are warm and simple, and they don't feel too far away.

"I'll graduate from high school in two months." Xu's mother poked Xu Heqi and asked him to call someone, Xu Heqi only looked at Xu's mother in confusion.

He didn't know who this was, a relative or a friend from his hometown?What seniority, how to call it?

"Call grandma." Xu's mother reminded him in a low voice.

Xu Heqi smiled immediately, "Grandma!"

"Hello, hello! The doll is so good." Aunt He smiled more and more happily, and said, "After you burn incense at home, come to my house for a light meal."

Although Xu's mother knew Aunt He, after so many years, she was actually not familiar with her, so she refused because of embarrassment.

After chatting for a few words, they continued to walk towards the ancestral grave.

Xu's mother's real name is He Nian, and Hejia Village is her hometown. It is not far from N City, and it takes more than two hours to drive back and forth. Xu Heqi came to his hometown first.

Xu Heqi asked as he walked, "Mom, are you still familiar with the people in the village?"

Mother Xu sighed, "Actually, I don't know you very well. I have been living in N City since I married your father. When your grandparents were still there, we used to come back to get together during the holidays. Later, your grandparents left. , I haven’t been back for many years.”

Speaking of her parents, Xu's mother was a little sad. The two elders of the He family left early, one died of illness, and the other died of depression.

Xu Heqi only had sporadic memories of them, and he only remembered that they were very kind to him and doted on him.

In the past, when I lived in the city, I could receive things from the countryside from time to time, such as native pork, native eggs, and home-grown rice.

It is good for children to eat these things.

Later, these things suddenly disappeared, and then there was an extra blank in his memory.

He was wearing cotton and linen clothes and a white hat, and the white hanger was fluttering with the wind. He kowtowed one head after another amidst the loud suona and crying. At that time, he didn't understand anything. is death.

He only heard that he would never see his grandparents who loved him again, so he shed tears all over his face.Mom was also always unhappy for a long time.

"I will accompany you back every year to visit grandma and grandpa." Xu Heqi said, holding his mother's hand.

He has grown up, knows what death is, and experienced it again a year ago.

He understood what it means to be heartbroken.

But life is still going on, and it doesn't stop because of someone's departure. The living can only move forward with nostalgia to comfort their spirits in heaven.

What's more, as long as they are remembered in their hearts, they will live forever. The real death of a person is when the last person forgets himself.

"Okay, you grow up well, grandma and grandpa will be happy when they see it." Mother Xu calmed down and said with a smile.

She also understands that ignorant sadness cannot bring the dead back to life, and living well is the best gift for the dead relatives.

The ashes of the burned paper money are waving in the spring breeze, death and new life are under the same sky.

Their worship was not grand. After burning paper money and placing some fruits and joss sticks, Xu Heqi and his mother knelt in front of the grave and stared at it, thinking what they wanted to say.

Because they were busy going back to Xu's house to worship, they couldn't stay longer, so they left after waiting for a long time.

Walking to the village, the Aunt He I met when she came was holding a jar of things, hunched over, as if she was waiting for them.

"Grandma is good, why are you here?" Xu Heqi greeted first with a smile.

Aunt He smiled and said: "The baby is so good!" Then she gave the jar she was holding to Mother Xu's arms.

"Aunt He, this is..." Mother Xu didn't know what it was, thought it was something given to her by the old man, and was a little embarrassed to accept it.

She came back in a hurry and didn't bring gifts to visit these uncles and aunts. How could she accept other people's gifts.

"Take it, I didn't give it to you." The old man's smile remained the same, and he was still cheerful, "You also know that my family has been making wine for a living since my ancestors, and I can barely make ends meet in my generation, so just continue. Let's do it."

"This jar of wine is called Zhuangyuanhong. Your father and your husband came to my house to buy it the year the baby was born. After buying it, they buried it in my yard. They said they would pick it up when the baby grew up. It's a pity..."

It's a pity that neither of them waited for the day when Xu Heqi really grew up.

"I'm old and don't remember much. If I hadn't met you today, I would have forgotten about it." Aunt He continued, and by the way, she stuffed the wine jar into Mother Xu's arms, and the jar was cleaned very well.

"You just came back today, so I wanted to hand over this jar of wine to you, so as not to forget again, we pay attention to integrity in business." She said with a bit of complacency in her tone.

Mother Xu took the wine jar, and she couldn't help hugging it tightly to prevent it from falling and breaking due to its heavy weight.

There was light in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth were puckered. In the end, she didn't say anything, but thanked her.

Aunt He left after delivering the wine. Xu Heqi looked at the wine in his mother's arms, and his eyes were red for a while. He reached out and touched the red seal on the mouth of the altar, and touched the love bestowed by his parents 19 years ago. meaning.

This love was buried in the ground, wandering alone in the long river of time for 19 years, and came to him.

"Go back." Mother Xu said softly, her tone a bit erratic, "Tell your father later that we have received the wine he sent, so he can rest assured."

"En." Xu Heqi nodded heavily, and a tear fell on the wine jar.

As night fell, when Xu Heqi and Xu's mother returned home again, Zhou Duo had already prepared meals and was waiting for them.

He doesn't know much, just those two dishes, for example: scrambled eggs with tomatoes and so on.

Seeing the two of them came back with a jug of wine in their arms, fearing that the jug would be heavy, he hastily stepped forward to take it.

"Why did you still buy wine? What's the matter?" He asked.

"Grandpa and Dad bought it before, and it's stored in the house of the wine-making grandma in the village. When I go back today, she dug it up and gave it to us." Xu Heqi sniffed as he said.

Zhou Duo heard what Xu Heqi said, and then looked at the words "Zhuangyuanhong" on the wine jar, and instantly understood the meaning of the wine.

He had only heard before that in ancient times, families would bury a jar of wine on the day a child was born, hoping that one day he would be the number one scholar in high school and return to his hometown to announce the good news, so he dug out the wine to entertain relatives and friends.

"Then... shall we drink this after you get the No. [-] in the college entrance examination?" Zhou Duo carefully put the wine on the table like holding a bomb, and then asked stupidly.

He has never seen such a solemn and precious thing. This is the first time he has seen the "Zhuangyuanhong" that has been buried in the ground for more than ten years. It is full of expectations and love, so he has to be careful and careful treated.

Mother Xu smiled and said, "How can it be so easy to be the number one scholar? This number one scholar's red is mostly used as wine for wedding banquets."

Zhou Duo took a sneak peek and thought: Compared with the wedding banquet between him and Xiao Xianhe, it would be easier for Xiao Xianhe to take the first prize.

"Let's put the wine away for now, and drink it when you finish your college entrance examination and go to college."

The number one scholar and the wedding banquet were not easy for Xu Heqi, Xu's mother thought it would be a ceremony to wait until the day she went to college.

"Okay!" Zhou Duo and Xu Heqi carefully put the wine in the house to hide it.

At night, when he was sleeping, Zhou Duo tossed and baked pancakes again, perhaps because he was a little tired after running around all day, Xu Heqi didn't wake up.

Zhou Duo couldn't fall asleep after thinking about it, so he simply got up.

He stood by the window, saw the osmanthus trees in the yard swaying through the hazy moonlight, and somehow thought of Father Xu, whom he had never met before.

Then I thought of the altar "No. [-] Red".

Perhaps Father Xu wanted to bury the altar of wine under the osmanthus tree in the courtyard, and then dig it out with his own hands when Xu Heqi grows up.

He guessed, and walked into the yard unknowingly.

In fact, he guessed right. Xu's father really wanted to bring the wine back. Unfortunately, when ordering the wine, the one they wanted was sold out, and the new one hadn't been brewed yet. In their own house, the two of them talked and talked, and then simply buried them in Aunt He's yard in a fit of anger.

Xu Heqi dazedly touched the other side of the bed in the middle of the night, but woke up suddenly without touching Zhou Duo.

He heard a slight sound in the yard, walked to the window and looked out in a daze, and saw a figure squatting under the osmanthus tree. He took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight to take a picture, and found that Zhou Duo was holding a small hoe at the bottom. Know what to dig.

"Brother, what are you doing?" He asked in a daze.

"Did it bother you?" Zhou Duo turned around.

"No." Xu Heqi flipped out of the window, "What are you digging?"

Zhou Duo scratched his head embarrassingly, "The 'Zhuangyuanhong' brought back by you and auntie, I thought that uncle wanted to bury it under this tree, but he couldn't sleep at night, so he wanted to bury it here."

"Thank you, you have a heart." Xu Heqi knelt down to dig with him, and he didn't think about it himself.

"What's the matter, it should be." Zhou Duo smiled and thought to himself: I should have thought of what you thought.

It took more than ten minutes to dig the hole, then carefully put the wine in, filled it with soil and buried it, before Zhou Duo and Xu Heqi went back to their room and continued to sleep.

The wind gently shakes the laurel tree, and love has arrived where it should have arrived.