The next morning, smoke rose from the outside of the tomb.
With Grandma Sun cooking and Xiao Longnu helping, the stone table was soon filled with freshly cooked rice and a few side dishes.
The rice was this year's new rice. The water used to cook and wash the rice was from the underground spring, so every grain of rice was fragrant and full. The side dishes were light in taste. There were three delicacies mixed with sesame oil, cabbage with golden rim, prawn balls in silver soup, and salt meat stewed with winter bamboo shoots. When Grandma Sun saw Run Yu walking over, she beamed with joy and hurriedly invited him to take a seat. Yang Guo, who had been sitting at the table for a long time, was already craving for food.
In the end, he was still a teenager. Yesterday, he was beaten black and blue and was picked up by Grandma Sun for treatment. Only a day had passed, and his injuries were not completely healed yet, but he had already regained his original temperament. Yang Guo waved his hand and said, "Come, brother, sit here!"
Grandma Sun patted Yang Guo's hand that could not wait to reach for the chopsticks. "Child, you call him 'brother', but you call our family's lady 'aunt'. Don't you think our lady is old?"
"That's good, sister Xiao Longnu." Yang Guo stuck out his tongue. At first, it was Grandma Sun who saved him from the Daoist priest who bullied him and brought him to the tomb to meet Xiao Longnu. How could he not respect the tomb owner that Grandma Sun served? Therefore, he was 70% respectful and 30% afraid of Xiao Longnu, which was why he called her "aunt". When Yang Guo first met Run Yu, he saw that Run Yu was elegant and gentlemanly, and that Run Run Yu had helped him out. In his heart, he had already wanted to get close to him. Only now did he remember that he did not even know Run Yu's name. At this moment, Xiao Longnu called out, "Run Yu, you don't have to wait for me to sit down. There's no need for those empty formalities here."
Yang Guo thought, "So my brother's name is Run Yu. When I was young, Auntie Huang taught me the '300 Poems'. There is a saying in the book, 'Speaking of a gentleman is as gentle as jade.'" My brother really lives up to his name. Sure enough, it was Elder Sister Xiao Longnu who asked her brother's name first. When they stood together, they looked like celestial immortals descending to the mortal world.
A small gap in the roof allowed the sunlight from outside to slip in and shine on the dining table. Under the warm sunlight, the white became whiter and the green became greener, just like the artistic conception in Dongpo's poem: Snow foam and milk flowers float in the midday cup, Polygonum velvet and wormwood shoots test the spring plate. The taste of the mortal world is pure joy.
Little Yang Guo was happy and sad at the same time. He was happy because the four of them met by chance, and it was fate that brought them together for a meal. He was sad because of the strict rules of the Ancient Tomb Sect. After this meal, he would be 'driven' out of the Ancient Tomb Sect. He would have to say goodbye to Grandma Sun, Xiao Longnu and Run Yu. During the meal, except for Yang Guo, the other three followed the principle of 'don't talk while eating'. Yang Guo excitedly started one topic after another, and only Run Yu paid attention to him.
"Run Yu gege, where are you going after leaving the mountain?"
Run Yu shook his head, "I don't know."
Yang Guo sighed, "I don't know. I wanted to go back to Uncle Guo's place. But Uncle Guo is the only one who treats me well. Everyone else looks down on me … It was Uncle Guo who sent me to the Quanzhen Sect. Now that I've disobeyed his intentions, he's bound to be angry. He might even send me back … "
Run Yu said, "If the atmosphere there makes you uncomfortable, don't go back."
Yang Guo was a little surprised. Most people valued family. When they heard him say that, they would probably advise him to go home. But Run Yu advised him to leave. "Then Run Yu gege, do you plan to go home in the future?"
"Run Yu doesn't have a home." After thinking about it, he felt that this statement was not accurate. "The world is Run Yu's home." He had never felt the warmth of an ordinary family. From enduring blindly, to not being able to bear it anymore, to taking revenge with his own hands, to ascending to the position of Celestial Ruler, his state of mind had changed several times, and he had already let go of his obsession. The world was his home, and his home was the world.
Yang Guo did not know the inside story, and said sympathetically, "So gege is homeless too!" Perhaps thinking of his parents who died young, the young boy's eyes reddened, and he sniffled.
Run Yu heard him call him "gege" and suddenly returned to the time when he first went to the Celestial Palace as a child. He thought about it and said gently, "Yang Guo, I was wrong. You are still young, and it's not appropriate for you to wander the Jianghu alone. When you go back, tell your uncle what you really think. People who really care about you will understand. After a few years, when your wings are full, you will be able to do what you want. "
Guo Jing of course treated Yang Guo kindly, but Guo Jing's mouth was clumsy, he didn't know how to express himself, and he definitely wouldn't say something like "Wait until you're fully grown, then you can do whatever you want" or something like that. For a moment, Yang Guo only felt that Run Yu was a teacher and a friend, a brother and a father, so he said sincerely, "Gege, if you really have no place to go, why don't you ask sister Xiao Longnu to let you stay in the Ancient Tomb? Gege is too smart, but you don't have any martial arts to defend yourself, and Jianghu is full of people who bully the weak and fear the strong, it is not safe for you to walk Jianghu alone. Actually, actually, I think it is good for you to be with sister. If you don't believe me, if you don't believe me, you can try changing into white clothes, and say that you are from the Ancient Tomb sect, people will believe you! "
Run Yu's fingers were originally rubbing the cup, but when he heard Yang Guo's childish words, his fingers suddenly froze.
Grandma Sun glared at Yang Guo, "The child is not obedient, go eat your food." Yang Guo looked as if he was betrayed by his ally.
Out of everyone's expectations, Run Yu's mouth curved into a smile, "That is good."
Yang Guo covered his mouth, and laughed through the gaps between his fingers. Grandma Sun's gaze wandered between the two, and then she said to Xiao Longnu, "Miss, Young Master Run Yu's body is cold, his movements are nimble, and he is proficient in the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. It can be seen that his comprehension is also good …"
Xiao Longnu frowned, and said angrily, "Grandma Sun!" Grandma Sun was siding with an outsider, how could she pull someone into the sect like this?
Grandma Sun was after all a servant, and did not really want to make Xiao Longnu angry, so she immediately kept quiet. But, angry? Grandma Sun reacted, she had served Xiao Longnu for eighteen years, and had never seen Xiao Longnu get angry, so why did she have such a big reaction to this unfamiliar man today? Subtle, subtle.
Run Yu said, "Miss Long, don't be angry, Run Yu will not force you. To be honest, last night I found out that the person I am looking for is from the Ancient Tomb sect, and also the original owner of the Wild Silk Gloves. "
Xiao Longnu bluntly said, "I've already told you that this glove has been passed down from my grandmaster's generation. I'm its current owner. If you insist on seeing the original owner, then there will only be a corpse. "
Yang Guo asked, "Brother, why are you so concerned about a pair of gloves?"
Run Yu said, "Run Yu and the original owner of the gloves came from the same place, a place where very few people can go. Only by finding that person, can Run Yu hope to go back earlier. "
Yang Guo let out an "Oh" sound, and with a look of sudden realization, he said, "Big brother, are you the descendant of the Ancient Tomb Sect's Ancestral Grandma? Ouch — "
That "ouch" was because in the next moment, Xiao Longnu had hit him in the mouth with a prawn ball. His teeth hurt from the impact.
"Ancestor never married, how can she have a descendant?" Xiao Longnu said sternly, "Grandma Sun, take Yang Guo and Run Yu and leave."
Yang Guo was very reluctant, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Xiao Longnu and Grandma Sun, after thanking them, his eyes were slightly red, "Sister Xiao Longnu, Grandma Sun, after today, I don't know if we can meet again. When I grow up, when I grow up, can I come to the tomb to see you? "
Xiao Longnu practiced martial arts that cut off all emotions, she believed that everything had its own laws, so she was never sad about parting. "What's there to see about me? As for Grandma Sun, you don't have to miss her, because she will go with you. "
Grandma Sun was stunned, she asked with a trembling voice, "Miss, what are you talking about? I've been a servant of the Tomb of the Living Dead for my whole life, taking care of your master. After your master dies, I'll have to take care of you for the rest of my life! "
Xiao Longnu firmly shook her head and said, "Grandma Sun, I'm very grateful to you. But I've grown up now, and you're old, so you can't work anymore. " Although Xiao Longnu was simple, it didn't mean that she was stupid and couldn't feel people's feelings and likes. From the moment Grandma Sun kindly saved Yang Guo outside the tomb, and indignantly went to the Quanzhen Sect to ask for an explanation for Yang Guo, she knew that this loyal old woman's heart had always yearned for the outside world.
How could she bear to let an old woman who hadn't truly cut off all emotions be trapped in the tomb for the rest of her life, grow old here, and die here? She wished that she could understand Grandma Sun's thoughts earlier, so that she could set Grandma Sun free earlier.
Grandma Sun's wrinkled face squeezed all the muscles together, and she suddenly burst into tears.
In fact, everyone would turn back into a child when they were old. Children needed to be cared for, but how could the elderly not?
Xiao Longnu turned her back, her long hair trailing on the ground, aloof from the world.
Grandma Sun's fat body knelt heavily on the ground. Even though Xiao Longnu didn't see it, she still stubbornly kowtowed to Xiao Longnu. She kowtowed more than ten times until Run Yu and Yang Guo both supported her at the same time, and she stood up again.
"Miss is the best girl in the world …" Grandma Sun turned around and led the two of them into the secret passage out of the tomb. She sighed softly and said, "This old woman is leaving, we won't see each other again in this life."
After a while, the old woman's vicissitudes of life could be heard from the dark tomb. As she sang, the voice didn't sound vicissitudes of life at all. Instead, it was very moving, very moving, and could arouse the soft side of everyone's heart.
On the third and fourth of the lunar month, the moon on the eyebrows, on the fifteenth and sixteenth of the lunar month, the reunion.
On the seventeenth and eighteenth of the lunar month, sitting at home, on the tenth of the lunar month, sitting at home to guard.
The top twenty, the first night of the lunar month. On the twenty-first of the lunar month, the first night of the lunar month.
On the twenty-second and twenty-third of the lunar month, the moon on the mountain, half a load. On the twenty-sixth of the lunar month, the moon on the mountain cooked rice.
On the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of the lunar month, the moon on the mountain to kill a duck. On the thirtieth of the lunar month, the granny came out to ask for the moon …
The local accent was probably the nursery rhyme that Grandma Sun used to coax the young Xiao Longnu to sleep.
Run Yu listened, and a strong sense of envy rose in his heart. In this world, family members could become enemies, but between two people who were not related to each other, there could be such familial affection.
Yang Guo pulled Run Yu's sleeve and whispered, "Brother, why didn't you say goodbye to Sister Long just now?"
Run Yu said, "We can still see each other in the future."
Yang Guo doubtfully said, "But just now, didn't Sister Long say …"
At this time, Run Yu just took the last step to leave the ancient tomb. He was used to the darkness of the ancient tomb, and the sunlight outside was particularly dazzling. Run Yu narrowed his eyes and said unquestionably, "I said we can see each other, so there will be a day when we meet again."
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