"Gone now!"
A pergola was set up by the river, and the old man was still sitting in the bamboo chair, his eyes fixed on Liu Jin and Xiao Fu'er.
"Let's meet again when they are all here!" The old man's lips moved, revealing a bit of a smile, "What I want to say is the same for them. Tell them one by one, we will be exhausted!"
As he said that, the old man looked at Zhu Yunxi and said, "I think so, but we don't have much to say to them, but I feel like we have endless things to say to you!"
Zhu Yunxi always held the old man's hand and said with a smile, "Then slowly tell your grandson that the days will be long..."
"We are able to live to this day only because of your words!" The old man laughed, "He keeps saying that we will live a long life, and he also said that we should wait until Liu Jin gets married and live and die while watching Xiao Fu'er get married, haha! You
Yeah, you have a clever mouth, and you talk about your grandpa as if he is in the clouds all day long, fooling around!"
"Then let your grandson continue to fool you!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
"We feel... very calm and at ease now!" The old man sighed, "I was really a little timid the past two days, but now I have looked away. There is nothing we can do about it. Who can stop me from dying?
?" As he said that, the old man looked at Zhu Yunxi kindly, "Grandson, we have to thank you!"
"My grandson didn't do anything!"
"You know we miss your uncles so much that we specially asked them to come back!" The old man squeezed Zhu Yunxi's hand, "When you are born, you have parents to support you, and when you die, you have children and grandchildren to support you. This is a great blessing!"
Zhu Yunxi felt extremely sad.
"Hey!" The old man sighed again, "Actually, we hope now that we really can't get up as soon as we close our eyes. It will save trouble! It will save you the trouble of staying up all day long, and it will save others the hope..."
"Grandpa Huang, don't talk nonsense!" Zhu Yunxi said anxiously, "Everyone hopes you will be well, who wants you to..."
"There are indeed people who are expecting us to leave as soon as possible!" The old man said with a smile, "We only have this breath. Once we swallow it, they will be relieved. If you can't swallow it, you have to pretend to be a filial son and a virtuous grandson. Death is just a formality. In fact, it is just a formality.
The dead cannot be let go, but the living will be gone after crying twice!"
Speaking of this, the old man suddenly smiled again, "Have you ever heard of a poem?"
"Tell me!" Zhu Yunxi rubbed the old man's arm. He did not dare to use too much force, because the old man's originally strong arm was now just a layer of skin outside the bones, and the skin was still very loose and soft.
"The fox sleeps on the grave at sunset, and the children return home at night in front of the laughing lamp!" the old man whispered, "When a person dies, he is dead, he is gone, he is forgotten!"
Zhu Yunxi felt sour in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Grandpa Huang, this poem of yours is not suitable for the occasion!" He continued to rub the old man's legs, "The meaning of this poem is that in life, there is a wine in the mouth, how can a drop of it ever reach the nine springs?
I am lamenting life, but I am not saying that children are heartless..."
"What a bird!" The old man smiled, then smacked his lips, "When you mentioned wine, we got really hungry!"
"It's still early at noon!" Zhu Yunxi looked at the sky, "I'm waiting for the Thousand Layer Sesame Sesame Pancakes you want..."
"Well, let's cut a plate of fat pig head meat, steam a bowl of duck blood for us, and add pickles mixed with sesame oil and old vinegar!" The old man squinted his eyes, "The last meal your grandmother cooked for us before she left was
These dishes!”
Zhu Yunxi lowered his head, tears welling up in his eyes.
"You go and stay for a while first!" The old man moved his arms and squeezed Zhu Yunxi's shoulders, "We have something to say to the fourth child!" Then, he said towards the distance, "The fourth child!"
Guo Ying stood not far away, with his back straight, as if he was guarding the coach's tent for an old man when he was young.
Zhu Yunxi stood up and walked back step by step.
Guo Ying quickly walked to the old man's side and squatted down.
"Fourth brother!"
"Brother, what's the matter?" Guo Ying looked into the old man's eyes and asked.
The sound of brother made the old man laugh, "It's been years since anyone called me brother!"
"In my heart, you have always been my eldest brother!" Guo Ying said in thick Fengyang dialect, "Even if you are not the emperor, you are still my eldest brother! I, Guo Laosi, will only have you as my eldest brother in this life!"
The old man nodded, "Fourth brother, I have something to ask of you!"
"In wind and rain, mountains of swords and seas of fire!" Guo Ying patted his chest, "Do you want my brother's life? Take it!"
Snapped!
The old man gave Guo Ying a gentle slap in the face and scolded him with a smile, "Don't you dare do this, you know it in your heart. Whoever's life we take will not take your Guo Xiaosi's life!" He scolded and laughed again,
"We still remember what you and your third brother said when you came to us on the first day!"
"My third brother and I knelt in front of you." Guo Ying choked with sobs. "We called you big brother and kowtowed. We said that this life will be yours from now on!"
The old man said slowly, "Let me tell you, I don't want your dog's life. Not only do I not want it, but I will also take you to glory and wealth and do great things!"
"Brother, we did it, you did it!" Guo Ying couldn't help but held the old man's hand, almost crying, "Outsiders say you..."
"What are you talking about?" the old man asked with a smile.
"I say you are mean, but I know, I know in my heart that you are not bad to many people." Guo Ying held back tears, "I know you have difficulties..."
The old man waved his hands and smiled helplessly, "If we are really like what outsiders say, who can follow us wholeheartedly? We are not the emperor from the beginning! Brothers have followed us and survived hunger and bullying.
"How many times." As he spoke, the old man coughed twice, "The reason? Hey, it's hard to choose between people sharing adversity and wealth."
"Brother, tell me, what's going on?" Guo Ying's eyes were bright, "Who to kill? I'll go!"
The old man shook his head, "Enough has been killed. If we don't kill anymore, we can't use the knife in this matter!" As he said that, he raised his upper body slightly and looked into Guo Ying's eyes, "We are entrusting you with our sons.
!”
Guo Ying's heart sank, and hesitation flashed in his eyes.
"Other than you, we can't trust anyone else in this matter. Apart from you, no one else has that prestige!" The old man directly saw through Guo Ying's heart and said every word without doubt.
"Your third daughter is married to our fifteenth daughter, and your fifth daughter has already been married to our twenty-fourth son!" The old man coughed twice more, "To our sons, you are the elder. To the emperor,
Say, you are a relative he can trust!"
"We know our sons, some are smart, and some... are stupid!" The old man said forcefully and in a serious tone, "You also know that they are coming back soon, and we are just holding on and waiting.
They! If after we die, I mean if... they have a quarrel with the emperor, you have to persuade them!"
Guo Ying lowered his head and remained silent.
"Fourth brother, you also know that the emperor has been using his people in the past few years! When our sons quarrel with him, they don't need to talk to him. Naturally, some people come out to shout and kill, especially those who
The plagued scholar!"
"Ahem, when the big charges are brought down one after another, those idiots can't bear it and are unwilling to suffer such grievances, so they will definitely make trouble! Those idiots won't make trouble with the scholars, but with the emperor!
"
"As a result, the emperor, who was already depressed, would get angry!"
As he said that, the old man took Guo Ying's arm and said, "You have to persuade, you have enough status and prestige. You have to suppress those scholars who are suffering from the plague and don't let them come forward. You have to persuade the emperor, and you have to persuade ours."
Sons!"
Guo Ying raised her head, met the old man's gaze, and didn't know what to say.
"Can you stop this matter? You, the children and grandchildren of the Zhu family, are going to fight, and I am an outsider...? What I can do is to protect Old Fifteen and Twenty-Four as much as possible. But they are not causing trouble.
Children! They both wear the same pants as the emperor!"
Guo Ying's mind turned over and over again, hesitating.
"Please, please!" The old man patted Guo Ying's arm, "Since you call us big brother, our business is also your business..." As he said that, the old man looked at the floating clouds in the sky,
"Don't you know that we don't ask for help in our life, but when we ask for help, whoever we ask for is...right, fourth child!"
This chapter has been completed!