Dream Guide

Shi Dazhuang asked Chen Changshou to borrow a car, and took the poppy back to Wanziba that night. When they climbed up the hillside of the back mountain, the sky above them was already filled with stars.

That is the place where Yu Gang was originally buried. The ashes of Yu Gang and his wife were moved to the Martyrs Cemetery, but the graves are still preserved. The people from Qianziba found some things that the couple had used during their lifetimes, buried them in the mound, and erected a monument with the words "Tomb of the Heroic Yu Gang and his wife" engraved on it. The person who erected the monument was " All the people in Kanziba are stupid."

Now there is another tomb next to the tomb, and there is also a monument with the words "Tomb of Duke Enkun" engraved on it. Old Enkun's black natural dragon-headed ebony stick was not buried in the soil with his ashes. It was stuck on the ground in front of the monument, as if it had roots in the soil.

The two stone tablets glowed white under the starlight, like two earth and mountain gods in plain white clothes, one of whom was walking on a crutch. They will always stand here watching, watching and guarding the small dam in the mountain col for generations to come.

Behind the tombs of Enkun Gong and Yu Gang there is a small hillock, which is slightly raised and has no monument. That's Le Mao's grave. After Lao Enkun hesitated for a long time after Le Mao died, he finally decided to bury him behind Yu Gang's grave, saying that there was righteousness here and that he could be reincarnated as a good and upright person in the next life. The villagers wanted to build a stone monument for Le Maoye, but old Enkun said that he was not qualified to erect a monument and was only qualified to cover it with a little soil.

On the day Le Mao was buried, old Enkun stayed on the mountain all night. People in the Bazi were worried about him and took turns to see him, only to see him sitting in front of Yu Gang's grave. He pointed to the person next to him and said: "When I die, I will bury it here. Don't build a monument, just stick my crutch in the ground."

The people of Bashang followed his will and stuck the ebony dragon head on the grave, but they still erected a monument for him. Ebony sticks replaced the evergreen on the grave.

Shi Dazhuang took out the incense candles, paper money, fruits, wine and food that Mrs. Yusang had temporarily prepared for him. The poppy did not cry again this time, but obediently lit three incense sticks and knelt down to kowtow to old Enkun's grave.

The fire started by the paper money illuminated the tombstone. The flames roared toward the sky, as if they would become immortal stars if they shot higher, but soon they turned into black and gray dust leaves flying randomly in the wind.

The poppy didn't understand why Mr. Enkun put the crutch in front of the grave. She touched the uncarved natural faucet on the top of the crutch. There was the paste that had been held out for many years. It was smooth and shiny. The dim light reflected in the fire looked like the eyes of a real dragon opening.

She felt a coldness on her hands, which was the late night dew seeping into her skin. Then the coldness was melted away by the hidden thoughts of spring, and something warm rose from the bottom of her heart and quickly spread to her body. The whole body, through her hands and the power from the earth coming from the ebony crutches, merged together.

Dead trees bloom in the dark, green spores break through the blockage of dead skin and pulp, and bloom into green leaves.

Shi Dazhuang opened his eyes in disbelief as he watched the ebony dragon head stuck in the ground turn into an evergreen tree in front of the grave.

The power of life is spreading in the dark night, the weeds are growing rustling, the petals are popping open, and the vines are quietly climbing up the treetops, waking up the birds perched on the trees. Birds chirped and crickets chirped, and everything sleeping in the dark night suddenly woke up and played the movement of life on the hillside, like Beethoven's Second Symphony. Everything was full of vitality and full of hope!

It wasn't until old Enkun quietly appeared on the grave that Shi Dazhuang was sure that this was not reality. However, he did not wake up from his dream. Instead, he watched old Enkun walking towards the beauty with a smile, stroking her hair and saying, "Grow taller, grow up!"

The flames of the paper money were still flickering on and off. Old Enkun stepped onto the fire, and his body flew up and down with the flames until it reached the top of the sky and turned into a star.

Every star in the sky turned into a human face. Shi Dazhuang saw Yu Gang, Meng Yan, and his dead comrades. They were all looking at him in the sky and smiling at him.

At this time, he heard Poppy suddenly say: "Dad, I won't go back to Wuzhong."

Shi Dazhuang was suddenly frightened, and his clothes were soaked in cold sweat. He didn't respond to the beauty's question. He looked around the dark forest and made sure there was no one around, then asked, "When did you learn to control dreams?"

Poppy said: "Sister Xing and Sister Jingjing both taught me, but it was Qingmu Yeye who really taught me. When he rescued me from the Poppy Dam, I picked eighty-one poppy flowers. Passed by Much later, I realized that Aoki Yaye was already teaching me my skills at that time."

Shi Dazhuang breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was taught by Qingmu, it would be fine. Although he is not an awakened person, he has learned a little bit about spiritual power since he met Aoki, but he did not expect that Poppy's spiritual power is so powerful.

"What did you just say?" Shi Dazhuang was not sure whether that sentence was an illusion in his dream or what the beauty said.

The poppy slowly removed her hand from the faucet crutch and said seriously: "Dad, I won't go back to Wuzhong. I want to stay in Wanziba. This is my home."

Shi Dazhuang was extremely surprised, and deeply blamed himself for not taking good care of the girl in the past three years because he was busy with work. Otherwise, why would she have such an idea!

When he looked at the poppy again through the weak firelight and starlight, and saw the outline of her face, he realized that the girl had grown up unconsciously, and was no longer the girl who refused to call him big in the yard of Enkun's house three years ago. Daddy’s skinny little girl.

He could hear her stubbornness, which had been deep-rooted in her bones since she was a child, just like Yu Gang back then.

"But..." Shi Dazhuang still tried to persuade her, "You still have to study, you have to go to college, and you have to be promising in the future. Your father, your mother, and Grandpa Enkun are all watching you in the sky! Not to mention there are so many people in Wuzhong People who like you and care about you, as well as your classmates and friends..."

"I will go see them." Poppy looked up at the sky, as if communicating with the stars in the sky, and murmured to herself, "This is my home!"

Shi Dazhuang wanted to persuade her again, but Poppy suddenly pulled up Old Enkun's ebony crutch. The ground shook in a daze, as if all the life on the ground was held in Poppy's hands.

…

Sishenghua was sitting at the bar of the Xinruhua Bar on Changjiang Road, sipping the cocktail that Xiao Qi had made but still not much improved, and looking at the intoxicated guests under the flickering lights, as if she had gone back to the days when she opened a bar in Liuying Lane.

She saw the log stuck under the old tree like a log, and a hungry crow lay on the head of the chicken coop. However, suddenly a strong wind blew up, and the giant in the wind stretched out his hand and uprooted the tree.

The wine glass fell to the ground with a crisp sound. However, Bishenghua no longer cared about the strange looks from others, rushed out of the bar, stopped a taxi, and headed straight to Liuying Lane.