Grandpa asked me to take a leave of absence tomorrow, saying that my aunt was going to the mountain for sacrifice, and the mountain road was slippery.
It was about my aunt, so I naturally agreed to let my grandpa rest assured and hand over the errand to me, promising to complete the task well.
At eight o'clock in the night, I knocked on the door of Yankongshan's house on time, and when I entered the house, I hesitantly told the story.
When I was going to the bookstore to help, he once said that he could not ask for leave. Recently, I have repeatedly read the breach of contract, and I feel really sorry for it.
"…That's it."
Yan Kongshan was blowing Yan Wanqiu's hair, the little girl was sitting on a chair, wearing a white cotton nightdress, biting a lollipop in her mouth, and playing with a third-order Rubik's cube in her hand.
She played the Rubik's Cube very fast, although it was not amazing, but as a kindergarten child, she was very good. It can be seen that she is not playing blindly, but is trying to find a way to group the same colors together in a very orderly manner.
I don't have much contact with children, and I don't know if all children are like Yan Wanqiu now. Sometimes I think she doesn't look like a five-year-old child. She is too smart and too precocious.
"Sacrificial sweep?"
Yan Kongshan's style of blowing her daughter's hair is exactly the same as when he rubbed my head. I saw Yan Wanqiu's head was swayed by his rubbing, and I felt dizzy for her.
"I heard from Grandpa that the aunt's hall is like this. The girl who grooms herself will never marry and has no partner or child. Once she dies, the living person will take care of her funeral and pay homage to her every year." The sound of the hair dryer was a little loud. , I stood close, raised my head slightly and said to Yankong Mountain, "Auntie is the last self-dressing girl on the island, so she will have a lot of things tomorrow."
Yankongshan stopped blowing the hair and picked up a comb to comb Yan Wanqiu's rough hair.
"Want to help?" He looked up at me.
Yankongshan's lips, the corners of his lips are pressed down when he's not smiling, and he looks a bit fierce, but his eyes are especially beautiful when he's in a good mood, as if there are little hooks hidden, always hooking the softest part of your heart.
Although I really want to get along with him more, increase understanding, and cultivate feelings, it is too strange to ask him to help with such things. And he probably only asked this out of politeness, and it couldn't be true.
The most important thing is that tomorrow will be a day off, and the number of people in the bookstore will definitely increase. There is already one less person, and if there is one less, Wen Ying will be angry.
"No, no, just be busy, I can do it alone." I waved to Yankong Mountain again and again.
Yan Kongshan didn't insist any longer, lowered his head and continued to comb Yan Wanqiu's hair.
"I succeeded!" She held the Rubik's cube aloft, like the Statue of Liberty holding a torch.
"Awesome!" I clapped my hands in great face.
The little girl turned to look at Yankong Mountain and said excitedly, "Can I play games with my brother?"
Before I could react, I saw Yankongshan pick up the Rubik's Cube to observe, and after looking at it, he said to me helplessly: "I told her that if she can restore the Rubik's Cube, I will let her play a game with you for an hour. He suddenly leaned closer to my ear and whispered, "I didn't expect her to be able to recover." After saying this very lightly, he straightened up quickly and said in a normal voice, "Excuse me."
How can this be trouble? This is an opportunity for me to show my strength!
I hurriedly said: "No trouble, I also like to play games."
Taking advantage of the gap between Yankongshan bending over and picking up his daughter, I vigorously rubbed the earlobe that was hot from his breath.
I always feel that Yankongshan has a bit of a "natural flirting" attribute, but when it comes to girls, she is very measured. Could it be that because I am a boy, he has no scruples at all and liberates his nature towards me
I played games with Yan Wanqiu until more than nine o'clock. Since I had to get up early the next day, it was almost the same time, so I got up and prepared to go back after playing.
Yankongshan seemed to have something to say to me, asking me to wait for him downstairs for a while. He carried Yan Wanqiu back to his room, and walked down quickly after only two minutes.
"I'll take you off." He walked up to me.
The two of us were less than twenty meters apart. He used to take me to the gate of the courtyard at most, but today he actually wants to take me home.
I was a little unsure of what he meant. I always felt that this kind of behavior that couples would have in a similar relationship was rather ambiguous, but seeing that his head was clean and innocent, neither pink nor pornographic, and I was afraid that he was being self-motivated and misunderstood.
He took me to the door of the house, I took out the key and hesitated whether to open the door, whether to invite him in, and how to avoid Grandpa's eyes and eyes and lead him into the room...
"Although I said you can't ask for leave, you don't get paid after all. If you're tired and want to rest, it's okay to ask for two days off." Yan Kongshan's words interrupted my more and more excessive imagination, "Every day you work, You can borrow two books from me. The rest of the vacation is long enough to save up enough books for you to read in the next few months. So don't be embarrassed to ask me for time off."
Hey, I still think too much. To send me home, it turned out to be to talk to me about the salary and treatment in the future.
I try to suppress my disappointment: "Well, if I'm tired, I'll take time off."
After saying goodbye to him, I turned back into the house.
The door closed slowly, the gap became narrower and narrower, and the figure of Yankong Mountain gradually walked away in the moonlight.
The next morning, before seven o'clock, I went out to pick up my aunt.
The place where my aunt lives is not far from Grandpa's house, and it takes only ten minutes to walk. Sometimes she comes here with her dog walking, and then walks back after watching two episodes of TV series with Grandpa.
"Mianmian, thank you so much for today." My aunt was waiting by the side of the road early in the morning. She didn't wear a cheongsam today, she changed into a pair of black trousers, her silver hair was caught in a hairpin, and there were several bags of things piled up under her feet. It looks like they are some kind of white candle offerings for sacrificial sweeps.
"It's alright, auntie, what are you polite to me?" I helped her put the bag into the huge storage basket on the front of the little turtle king's car. After she was seated firmly, I asked her to hold me tightly, and then I twisted the accelerator and moved towards the mountain. go.
Qingmeiyu is surrounded by mountains and sea, and half of the island is composed of mountains. People say that relying on mountains to eat mountains, and relying on water to drink water, Qingmeiyu occupies both, so they are used to being rich.
Originally, there was no cemetery on the island. The old man believed in being buried in the ground. Ten years ago, the government built a brand-new cemetery on the island to promote cremation. In order to encourage everyone to accept the new funeral method, the broadcast was broadcast loudly throughout the island for twelve hours a day, with a resounding slogan - dust to dust, dust. Return to the earth, cremation accumulates fortune for generations.
These are all interesting things Sun Rui told me in her spare time. She said that this slogan was in her dreams for two months, and she suffered what she should not bear at a young age.
I asked her who came up with this slogan, and why it was so familiar. She said that all islanders can submit articles to the government mailbox, and whoever is better can use it. Weiwei told me very proudly that because of Sun's father's brilliant writing skills, in the end everyone unanimously decided to adopt the slogan he came up with.
So this slogan was thought by Sun Rui's father.
No wonder it's so kind...
Riding on the little turtle king, about half an hour, my aunt and I came to the foot of a small mountain in the south of Qingmeiyu.
This mountain used to have a serious name, and it was quite nice, it was called "Fengjia Mountain", but because of the many graves on the mountain, it was gradually called "Baobao Mountain" by everyone.
Good cool guy, if you say cute, you are cute.
I parked the car, I carried things in the back, and my aunt walked lightly in front.
"The air in the mountains is still good. My lungs seem to be much more comfortable."
The mountain is not high, but there are a lot of things, and I am a little out of breath when I climb.
"The air on the island... the air is really good. There is a lot of dust in the city, and the leaves feel dirty."
My aunt ran to the top of the mountain in twos and threes, turned around and shouted at me: "Mianmian, you are not physically strong, how can a boy breathe so hard?"
As soon as I gritted my teeth, I burst into three and two steps, sprinting towards the top of the mountain. After finally reaching the top, the knees are a little weak.
My aunt slapped me on the body, causing me to stagger: "You have to learn more from your neighbor. You must be exercising regularly because of his height and physique."
You don't have to guess to know that she is talking about Yankong Mountain.
I put down the bag in my hand and sat down on the stone to rest, very self-aware: "I'm afraid I won't be as tall as him."
My aunt comforted me: "It's okay, the ideal must be fuller in order to cope with the skinny reality."
I:"…"
It doesn't seem to be comforted.
The tombs of the self-combed girls are scattered in the mountains, but my aunt remembers the way, and can clearly call out their names, even the birthday and death taboo.
She said it was a responsibility. Those who live to the end have the responsibility to do this for those who came before.
We worshiped from one tomb after another, and the number on the top of my aunt’s head always glowed a faint blue. I know that she is cherishing the memory of her deceased, and has been very quiet and does not disturb her.
At the end of the worship, when going down the mountain, my aunt was still walking in front, with a straight back and vigorous steps, not like an old man at all.
I walked a few steps quickly, followed her, and couldn't help asking, "Auntie, will anyone regret it?"
"Regret? Are you talking about grooming yourself?" Auntie returned to me as she walked.
"Um."
"I don't know if others don't regret it later. I don't regret it anyway." The corner of my aunt's lips smiled, as if all the sadness just now was left on the mountain.
In my aunt's day, it took a lot of courage to decide not to marry. Not to mention the past, even now, women who want to be single and not get married may not be understood by the world. And my situation is actually the same as theirs, or even worse.
Fu Wei is just the first hurdle I encountered on the road as a homosexual. I know that there are many such hurdles in the future.
I was a little scared and a little dazed: "Will it be hard to stand on the opposite side of the world?"
Will my future life... be very hard
My aunt naturally didn't know about my troubles. All she could tell me was her own life experience.
"Occasionally get angry at meddling people, but it's hard work?" Auntie gave a sneering smile, "I don't work hard. Poor people will work hard. If you have money, you don't work hard at all, and you're very happy."
I:"…"
It feels contained.
My grandfather explained in advance that he wanted my aunt to come to the house for lunch. On the way back, I rode the little turtle king and drove my aunt directly to the house. Just as he stopped at the gate of the courtyard, he heard fierce quarrels coming from inside.
A somewhat familiar male voice said: "I told you that I am her father, my father, really not a bad person. If you let me see her, I promise to see her and do nothing else..."
Grandpa didn't give in half, and his attitude was firm: "I also said that it is impossible for me to let you mess with other people's children when they are with me. You are breaking into the house without permission. If you do this again, I will call the police!"