My home is over the three peach trees at the west end..." The yellow-haired old man murmured, repeating Su Wu's words several times, and then raised his eyes to look at Su Wu.
Su Wu looked calm, and after being stared at for a while, his expression remained as usual.
The crutch that the old man was leaning on paused on the ground a few times, and a smile appeared on his face: "I remembered it - a child in Zhang Hu's family did get lost a few years ago -
His name is Zhang Wazi!
Are you Zhang Wazi?!
Zhang Wazi is quite handsome..."
It seemed that the more the old man looked at the 'Zhang Wazi' in front of him, the more he liked him. He said to Su Wu with a smile on his face: "You lost your footing and fell into the water. It is really a great blessing for your family that you were able to drift along the current and be rescued.
After staying outside for so many years, what have you learned?
I'll go to the old man's house later, and he will entertain you well. You can also tell me about your experience outside. Our village has not seen anyone who can leave the village and come back for many years..."
The yellow-haired old man spoke, touched the heads of the two children next to him, lowered his head and smiled with the two children: "Go and inform Sister Han and ask her to prepare a table of good meals. I want to entertain guests..."
Before the old man finished speaking, Su Wu hurriedly saluted the old man and said to him: "I have been away from home for a long time, and I am homesick.
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Now I want to go home and see my father and mother first.
When the day comes, I will invite Mr. Han to invite us all from the village to come to my house, so that I can tell you in detail what I have experienced outside in the past few years.
Please also ask Mr. Han to let me go home now and meet my parents!"
The Central Patriarch once told him not to stay in Taoyuan Village for more than seven days.
Once it exceeds seven days, there is no possibility of returning to the human world.
If he accepts the invitation of "Old Master Han" to have a banquet now, other villagers will come to invite Su Wu to a banquet tomorrow. If Su Wu refuses to go, he will be hated by other villagers, and it will be difficult to move around in the village.
Even though he has the identity of a ‘villager’,
It is no different than not having this identity.
Su Wu's words were sincere and affectionate. His reasons for declining the banquet were reasonable and reasonable. Mr. Han couldn't refuse, especially when he took the initiative to hold a banquet in the future and invite everyone in the village to his house. , he will tell everyone what he has seen and heard in the outside world in recent years, so that Mr. Han will have no reason to refuse.
So he stroked his beard, nodded and said, "It's true. You just returned to the village. You should first meet your parents. They thought you had drowned. Now I don't know how happy I am to see you return home alive." !
Forget it, we can talk about other things after you are reunited with your parents and family!"
The old man gave Su Wu an approving look,
Then he lowered his head and said to the children beside him: "Go to Uncle Zhang's house in the west of the village, invite Uncle Zhang and Auntie Zhang to come here, and tell them that Zhang Wazi is not dead, and is back to the village alive and well!" "
Several children responded noisily, holding kites, windmills and other toys, and ran away quickly.
Mr. Han and Su Wu stood at the entrance of the village.
The old man frequently asked Su Wu questions, and Su Wu answered them fluently.
Not long after, other villagers greeted Mr. Han. Seeing that Su Wu was a new face here, they also came over to talk. When they learned that Su Wu was 'Zhang Wazi', they were all surprised.
The Taoyuan villagers were chattering away.
Someone asked Su Wu about what he saw outside;
Someone asked Su Wu if he still remembered who he was;
Someone invited Su Wu to their home.
The villagers here are indeed extremely simple and kind to others. Any outsider who steps into this place will be fascinated by the simple human kindness and pure scenery, and will never want to leave.
But when Su Wu was surrounded by so many "simple villagers", his thoughts were running at high frequency and his mind was highly concentrated.
Warning, walking on thin ice.
On the surface, he seems casual, but in fact he takes every question raised by the surrounding villagers seriously.
Based on the textual records on many tombstones on both sides of the river that I 'rubbed' with my own thoughts, combined with each other, I responded to some of the villagers' questions about the customs and customs of Taoyuan Village,
He couldn't answer some questions, so he excused himself by saying that he was still young when he left and had no memory.
When someone asked him about what he had seen outside Taoyuan Village, he suggested that he would invite everyone to his home for a banquet the next day, where he would talk in detail about his experiences outside in recent years.
Such various appropriate responses made him quickly accepted by the Taoyuan villagers.
I really thought of him as ‘Zhang Wazi’ who once fell into the water and disappeared.
"My son, my son!"
"My son!"
At this time, bursts of shouting came from outside the crowd.
Many villagers surrounding Su Wu heard the shouts and turned their heads to look back. From the outside to the inside, the villagers made way for a couple one by one. The couple had a look on their faces. With an anxious look on his face, he hurriedly ran into the crowd, and when he suddenly saw Su Wu, whose appearance and height were far different from theirs, tears instantly came to his eyes.
The woman stretched out her hand and caressed Su Wu's face, looking directly at Su Wu with her eyes, as if she wanted to imprint Su Wu's facial features into the depths of her mind.
She murmured: "Really, truly my son..."
It’s my Zhang Wazi!
My son!"
“Ancestors bless, ancestors bless!
Our old Zhang family will not be extinct, there are successors to the old Zhang family!" The half-hundred old people next to him were also howling.
The three members of the "Old Zhang Family" gathered together and cried,
The onlookers were all happy for them when they saw this.
Some women even secretly had red eyes.
Su Wu also had a mixture of sadness and joy as she finally saw her parents, only to find that their hair had turned gray. With red eyes, she hugged the two half-centenarians tightly and cried silently.
His sincere look moved the onlookers the most.
A girl who had not yet left the court felt affection for him when she saw him, and handed her handkerchief to him to wipe his tears.
After holding each other's arms and crying for a while, the three members of Lao Zhang's family finally calmed down with the comfort of the onlookers, and the three of them walked together to their home where there were three peach trees at the west end of the village.
The villagers were also filled with emotion when they saw the three people walking together.
Following Lao Zhang and his wife, Su Wu gradually stopped feeling sad and happy, and dealt with the nagging of Zhang's mother next to him - his appearance was very different from Zhang's mother and Zhang's father, but the other party recognized him at a glance. Their son,
There are reasons for this.
The reason is that his greetings with the onlookers at the village head have already convinced many villagers to accept him and recognize him as a "Taoyuan Villager".
In this way, a certain pattern of circulation under the "Taoyuan Village" was quietly triggered.
This made Zhang's father and Zhang's mother recognize his son without any doubt!
This is already a convenience that being a ‘villager’ brings to oneself!
Follow the Zhangs back to their 'home',
His parents asked him to sit quietly at home. They said they wanted to prepare a good meal for their son. After they left the main room, they did not go to the woodshed, but walked out of the yard together.
Su Wu was sitting in the main room. When he saw the two people walking out of the courtyard, he moved his palm and a yellow talisman appeared in his palm.
He wrote the word "eye" on the yellow talisman paper, then stood up and looked at the furnishings in the main room.
Just walked to a loess wall,
Stick the yellow talisman paper on that wall.
The word 'eye' on the yellow talisman instantly turned into the 'Eye of Six Heavenly Ghosts' with three heavy children. Children's eyes gathered in the eyes, and Su Wu's eyes followed the words of Six Heavenly Ghosts posted on the wall.
The eyes gathered together, penetrated the wall, and saw the scene behind the hall outside the wall.
Outside the main hall, there are three peach trees planted.
The Zhangs walked to the third peach tree from the left, knelt down in front of it and kowtowed a few times, then groped under the peach tree for a while, and pulled out a hairless, burned skin with water.
A half-cooked chicken, a half-cooked pig head, and a few dry and hard steamed buns that were burnt by fire.
Half-cooked chicken, half-cooked pig's head, and flaming steamed buns are all common offerings at the graves of the dead.
Su Wu noted the location of the peach tree where Zhang and his wife had knelt down and worshipped.
At this time, Zhang's mother opened and closed her lips, as if she was saying something to Zhang's father.
Father Zhang also moved his lips and said a few words.
Su Wu, who was observing secretly, then read the two people's lip reading.
The mother Zhang looked puzzled and first said: "My son has returned home. Why didn't the 'Peach God' give him the clothes and food he deserved?"
Father Zhang looked under the peach tree, and sure enough he didn't see his son's clothes. Food appeared under the peach tree. He hesitated for a while and replied: "It must be early, our son just came back, so
The Peach God was not prepared.
Come and see again tomorrow morning, come and see again tomorrow morning."
"Is it just because it's too early for my son to come back?" Mother Zhang frowned, "I just bowed sincerely and thanked the Peach God for sending my son back. The Peach God should have responded.
But there was no response at all..."
"Then what do you think is the reason?" Father Zhang became a little anxious and glared, "Do you think that our son is not our son?!"
He lowered his voice in the second half of the sentence and spoke with his back to the peach tree.
His words may be difficult for others to understand.
But when Mother Zhang heard this, she reacted instantly, shook her head and said, "How is that possible?
That kid looks just like you did when you were young!
That is our son!"
"Then what are you still worried about?!
Go, go, go!
It’s such a happy day today, don’t say those spoiling things. Let’s see tomorrow. Tomorrow the Peach God should have sent his son’s clothes and food!” Father Zhang dragged Mother Zhang and walked around the back wall of the hall carrying various foods.
, walked towards the main courtyard gate.
Su Wu took one last look at the peach tree that provided food and clothing for the Zhang family, took off the charm on the wall of the main room, and walked around the main room, still looking like he was looking at the various furnishings in his house.
Father Zhang and mother Zhang also walked back from the back of the house carrying pig heads, fat chickens, and steamed buns. After greeting the "son" in the main room, they chatted and laughed and went to the woodshed to prepare meals.