Chapter 190
When they arrived at the cemetery, the adults were still chatting and walking slowly on the top of the mountain. The children were bored and put their things away, including the offerings. Lin Nanzhi took a stack of yellow paper and crumpled it into the shape of a flower, so that they didn't need to fold it or burn it one by one.
Suddenly, she glanced casually and saw a lot of red things on the hillside not far away. Her eyes suddenly lit up.
She pulled Lin Nanxuan beside her and said, "Go pick some strawberries."
The strawberries she was talking about were not cultivated strawberries, but wild strawberries, bright red, as big as an ordinary grape, sour and sweet. In the past, my family had no money to buy fruits, so when the season came, the various wild fruits on the mountain became the children's favorite.
Lin Nanxuan was a little nearsighted and couldn't see clearly, but she still followed Lin Nanzhi and pulled Lin Nanmeng next to her. Lin Nanzhi heard it and walked in that direction too.
The four people came to the hillside and saw many red wild strawberries in the green grass. They were big and very tempting.
"There are so many!" Lin Nanmeng said, and shouted over there, "Come over and pick wild strawberries. There are so many."
Those who were playful in nature came over, while those who were not playful did not move. For example, Lin Nanye felt that he had grown up, and did not fight with the other children for things. He just played with the yellow paper on the spot.
Everyone searched around in the grass and soon harvested a lot of wild strawberries. Lin Nanzhi picked some wild flowers and leaves to wrap the strawberries, tied them up with straw, took a photo and sent it to Wen Jiunian, and then posted it on WeChat Moments.
—The south wind knows my intention—
Guess what this is?
[Image]
Ding Dong,
Wen Jiunian: [What?]
Lin Nanzhi: [The fruits we ate when we were young, wild strawberries, and white bubbles of different colors. I’ll take some pictures to show you later.]
Wen Jiunian: [Going up the mountain to worship ancestors?]
Lin Nanzhi sent me a nodding emoticon, so I didn't say anything else. I put away my phone and went to the cemetery to give some to Lin Nanye and Lin's mother. As for Lin's father, he wouldn't want them even if I gave them to him.
It was a rare opportunity to go up the mountain, so everyone brought tools. The men used sickles and hoes to level the grave and the weeds around it, while the women prepared the yellow paper. After it was done, they moved a few stones to surround it, squatted down to burn the paper, silently recited the name of the relative, asked him to receive the money, and then kowtowed to end the ceremony.
After covering all three graves and making sure the yellow paper would not burn again, we continued to move forward.
There are three roads ahead. The left one leads to a cliff with two or three houses. There is a valley in the middle. The right one is the road down the mountain. If you keep walking down, you will reach the door of Uncle Lin's house, but it is quite far away.
There are also several ancestral tombs there, but because the place is remote and halfway up the mountain, cars can't get in there, so we can only walk there.
It took us about twenty minutes to reach the destination, but it was overgrown with weeds. Fortunately, strength lies in numbers, so we quickly finished the task. After the worship, we returned the same way, got in the car and went home to rest, drank some water, and then went to worship on the opposite side.
The cemetery opposite was in a small wood in the orchard. There was not much weeds, so the worship was over quickly. Then we headed to the third group of the village, where there were several cemeteries.
Several ancestors, including Lin Nanye’s biological mother, are here.
It’s not far away and you can get there quickly by car.
After the worship, we went to Grandma Lin’s grave.
Grandma Lin was not buried with Grandpa Lin because she said the feng shui there was not good. She chose a good cemetery when she was alive. The mountain is called Yangmei Mountain, the largest mountain in Qingya Town. It got its name because of the wild Yangmei trees all over the mountain.
Now, due to the construction of a factory on the mountain, the original road is no longer accessible. Fortunately, the cemetery has not been affected. The Lin family dug a new road from the highway, making it easier to go up the mountain.
There aren't many weeds here, but there are a lot of trees. When burning paper, you have to be careful with the open flame. When you leave, you're afraid that the wind will blow and the fire will fall on the pine needles before it's extinguished, causing a forest fire. So we cover it with soil.
The last place was on a small hill below the amusement park. It was entered through a small path between Lin Nanzhi's courtyard and the amusement park. But because it was a mountain road, we could only walk in. It took us half an hour to reach the destination.
"I'm so tired!" Lin Nanmeng sighed.
"This is the last one, and we only come here once a year. If you don't want to come, you can just not come next year, or build a road so that cars can drive directly in."
These are all ancestors who only come during the Qingming Festival every year, and they only come once. They are not like Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin, because Grandpa Lin’s birthday is in Ramadan and Grandma Lin’s death anniversary is also around that time, so they will visit the graves once after the Chinese New Year.
"Um."
Lin Nanzhi touched her head, glanced at Lin Nanye who had been absent-minded since he went to his mother's grave, walked over and took his hand: "Brother, don't think too much. If our mother knew that you are so capable now, she would definitely be very happy."
"Besides, as a mother, your starting point is your children."
Lin Nanye smiled, rubbed Lin Nanzhi's hair and said nothing.
Of course he knew it, but he just felt guilty. Sometimes he thought that if he hadn't come, his mother might not have died.
But if it wasn't him, it would be some other child who was destined to suffer that disaster.
How could the Lin family allow the eldest brother, Mr. Lin, to be childless at that time?
After paying homage to the last place, everyone went home together. They had to have dinner together tonight. Lin Nanzhi was too lazy to look at Uncle Lin's dead face, as if he owed him a million or eighty thousand. So when he got to the courtyard, he said he had something to do and went back to the courtyard.
Lin Nanxuan didn't want to go back either, so she quickly said, "That's great. I have something to ask Zhizhi so I won't go back."
Lin Nanxun also got an idea when he heard this: "I'm going to take the college entrance examination, so I'm going to go review with my second sister." He said and ran away.
"I want to go, too!" Lin Nanmeng looked at her mother, and after getting permission, she immediately followed. The others took the bus back home.
"What are you having for dinner?"
Lin Nanzhi looked at a few people.
"Whatever."
"Then why don't we go eat hot pot? I heard a hot pot restaurant just opened and it's delicious."
"OK."
The few of them hit it off immediately, and Lin Nanxuan drove them to the city.
"Didn't you get your driver's license? Didn't you buy a car?"
"No, I don't know much about cars, so I don't know what kind of car is good. Do you have any recommendations?"
Lin Nanxuan was also troubled when she heard this.
What does she know about cars?
"I took a colleague to see this car and asked him to help me with the reference. I can't help you!"
Lin Nanzhi curled his lips.
"Forget it, no rush. I hardly need a car now anyway, so the electric donkey is quite convenient."
"Did you get your driver's license, too? That's amazing."
"Well, you can take the test then, and I'll give you the car."
"Okay." Lin Nanmeng did not refuse. Anyway, his family had a good relationship with his grandfather's family and they would send gifts every year. At worst, she could buy things for Lin Nanzhi after she graduated and earned money.
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