Coming out behind the paper man should be the man we heard coughing, but he is not a strong man like I judged from the cough, but an old man. Because the name of this village and the paper man’s light are too strange, I looked at him carefully after seeing the old man. The old man has a clear face, bright eyes, a dog fur hat and a white goatee. He is quite tall, wearing a coarse cotton-padded jacket, big crotch cotton trousers and a pair of cotton shoes with a thousand layers of bottoms.
I looked at the old man, and the old man also looked at several of us.
I was deeply shocked to see the old man break into his village, wearing fashionable clothes, but with long braids and carrying backpacks that shouldn’t have appeared in this era. Men and several beautifully dressed women with submachine guns in their hands would be as shocked as we saw him let paper men light his lights. Unexpectedly, after he saw us, he suddenly showed surprise, pulled his hands out of his sleeves and said to us with a fuels, "It’s really you who have to leave the house and leave the house."
When the old man said no, he turned around and walked the way he had just come out. When he turned around, the paper man floated in front of him with a lantern.
The old man’s strange appearance and strange speech made us wonder what happened. He walked so fast that he didn’t mean to talk to us. We couldn’t talk about anything in front of others, so we took a look at each other and followed him.
The road inside the fork is half as wide as the outside, and the direction is towards the top of the mountain. There is also a section of stone-built steps in the slope. The old man turned his head to look at the top of the steps in one breath, and we all followed. Just now, the enthusiastic tone said, "Look, I’m crazy, and I forgot that the mountain road is not good. I’ll give you a light."
I can see that the old man is not senile. He is happy and confused when he sees "it’s really us" and says "we can see if the old man doesn’t light up"
"Yes, yes, look at my brain. How can you not see it?" The old man said, and turned and walked quickly before I could say anything.
After the steps, a courtyard appeared on the east side of the road less than 100 meters ahead. In the distance, you can see that the courtyard gate is beating. I think this courtyard is the old man’s house. The old man shouted through the courtyard wall, "Wow, his mother, can you cook? They are really coming."
Lu Dachuan asked me, "Is it that hospital?"
I know in my heart that Liu Dachuan asked the old man if the Buddha’s light fell into the courtyard and looked at it quickly to say "yes"
Lu Dachuan said, "It’s strange that there is a baby. His mother is obviously a Buddha’s light to bring us to other people’s homes."
"This meal is made for me for a while and it is clear to ask …"
Chapter one hundred and ninety-one Bodhisattva dreams
After the old man shouted loudly, we didn’t go to the gate of the courtyard before an old lady walked from the courtyard to the gate. The old lady was full of silver hair, dressed in a blue coarse cotton coat and an apron around her waist. When she went out, she looked at us and said, "Okay, okay, let’s get the baby into the house."
Leading the way with lanterns before speaking, the paper man and the old man went to the old lady together, both stopped and looked back to welcome us into the hospital.
Although the two old people look tough and don’t look senile at all, judging from the white beard of the old man Ba Qing and the white hair on the top of the old lady’s head, how can they be 70 years old? We are returning to the Republic of China from modern times. Not to mention the time difference, the two old people are also our grandfathers and grandmothers. Of course, we are embarrassed to keep the old people waiting together to speed up the pace.
When we walked to the door, the old man and the old lady took us to the courtyard together. After we came in, the old lady took us to the house with little feet. The old man backhand put the courtyard door behind us.
A few of us are not the kind of people who can’t fart with three sticks, but there are so many oddities in this matter that we can’t even say a usual polite greeting at the moment. After being welcomed into the gate by the old man and the old lady, we all turned our heads to look at the scene in the yard.
Since I met these two old people, besides the old man inexplicably saying that "it’s really you", let’s hurry to the house for dinner. He didn’t say a word, which made us curious enough, but when we entered the gate, I was even more curious because the old man’s courtyard was quite large. There were three tiled houses in the north, two large and one small three-hole caves in the south.
Judging from the number of houses in the courtyard and the fact that the doors of these houses are hung with curtains and some farm tools in the courtyard, the old couple should live with their children and grandchildren. In addition, the old man went out to pick us up and said that they had prepared the food. It is obviously unreasonable that they knew we would come, but the young people didn’t get up and let the two old people go out to pick up people and cook in the middle of the night.
When I found this situation, I couldn’t hold it any longer. I turned to the old man and said, "Uncle, your hospital is really big. Are you living with your aunt?"
"I have three eldest sons and two youngest sons who live in the front two courtyards." The old man pointed back to a wall and saw two houses. "Now the old couple, Yao and Da Sun live in this courtyard."
"You always know that we are coming here in the middle of the night. Why don’t you let them get up and pick us up and get up in person?"
"They’re all busy," the old man said, looking at the two big caves in the south of the courtyard, with an imperceptible sadness in his eyes.
When the old man stopped talking, I was embarrassed to ask what other people and grandchildren were busy with, but I was even more puzzled. It was the twelfth month of winter, and there would definitely be no farm work outside, and it was troubled times. What could they be busy with?
Is it the idea of joining the team to play ghost? I immediately denied it, because judging from the age of the old man, his son is also 50 or 60 years old, and it should be impossible to join the team to play ghost.
There is a north room in the courtyard, that is, the Buddha’s light falls into that room, and the old couple are taking us to this room.
At the front of the door, the paper man bowed his head and blew out the lantern. He fell to the ground and walked motionless. The old lady beside us was busy lifting the curtain for us to let us into the house. We made some concessions with the old couple. Finally, all of us advanced into the house before the old couple came in.
After entering the room, the old lady looked at each of us one by one, and then reached out and pulled Liu Keqin again and again, pulling Lin Xianer again and again and pulling Hongyun’s mouth to praise that this girl is beautiful and that girl is beautiful.
The three women surrounded the old lady, calling her grandmother sweetly like honey, saying that the old lady was also beautiful when she was young. The old lady said that she was a bad wife, but she smiled happily from ear to ear.
After the three women and the old lady were so noisy, the atmosphere in the room no longer seemed so deserted, and the distance between us and the two old people seemed to be getting closer.
Liu Dachuan was also busy taking out cigarettes and talking to the old man. I took the opportunity to look at the room and saw the old man’s pattern in this room. It was the same inside the courtyard house we found in Beiping City, and it was also the right-hand side wall that entered the door. The three rooms were divided into two rooms, one inside and the other outside.
There is a curtain hanging on the door of the inner room, but you can’t see what’s inside. There is a fairy table facing the door, with teapots, teacups and other living tables on each side. There are two wooden boxes side by side in the west, and then there is a big kang like the Datong shop in the hotel. There is a brick against the window in front of the kang, and there is a steaming casserole with a big water tank near the door.
After looking around the house, my eyes finally fell on a dining table in the middle of the room. This dining table is obviously for us. The food has been set with a plate of fried potato shreds, a plate of fried radish strips, a plate of pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew, a pot of steamed bread made of white flour and corn flour, and a plate of pickles.
I didn’t ask anything about how much delicious food Lu Keqin and others brought back to us during the daytime, but I clearly knew that food was extremely scarce in this war-torn era. They only bought so much food when they went out with gold bars, and it was absolutely splendid for ordinary people to have such food at home, but it was not the food that surprised me more, but the wooden benches around the table were six tables, bowls and chopsticks.
That is to say, the old man not only knows that we are coming, but also knows that there are six of us, which is associated with hiding the village and arranging lanterns. The words paper man and lanterns make me doubt again. What we see in our eyes, including the Buddha’s light that brought us here, is not real, but something magical and confusing us.
At this time, the old man, the old lady and Liu Dachuan, pulling their family, have asked them to put their parcels and luggage to fetch water, and let them wash their hands and face and go to the table.
I once again had doubts in my heart, so I winked at Liu Dachuan and told them not to eat first, then winked at Liu Keqin and Hongyun, and said to the old man, "Uncle, you have this place in the toilet yard. My two friends wanted to be convenient for a long time, and I was embarrassed to say it." When I actually entered the gate to look at the courtyard, I saw the southwest corner of the toilet yard and deliberately asked it out, but I just wanted to find an excuse to go out and ask Hongyun if there was anything unusual, but it was not good to go out alone with Hongyun, so I pulled Lu Keqin.
As soon as I spoke, the room suddenly became quiet. The old man and the old lady stared at me but didn’t answer. They were puzzled. I remembered that they didn’t understand what I said about the toilet. I didn’t understand what I meant by convenience, so I said, "I asked you where the toilet is. We want to relieve ourselves."
"Oh, you miss the toilet," the old man said, and went to the door to lift the curtain and said, "Southwest corner of the courtyard."
