There's nothing you can't do.
Zhang Shouyi smiled and said, "Looking back and forth will get us nowhere. We're already in the worst situation, so what are we afraid of losing? We can always start over."
"Haha, that's incredibly irresponsible of you."
"How do you take responsibility? In the future, you can't be timid and hesitant when something happens. If you think it's right, just do it."
"Save me a spot in your grave too."
"You? You should just obediently go to your burial."
Liu Jingze, do you believe in repaying kindness in this life?
"Why are you suddenly being so sentimental? This isn't like you at all."
Zhang Shouyi smiled and said, "Actually, it was that young girl Zhang Hongmei who led me to find this batch of gold."
"Wasn't she dead for many years? What happened?"
“I had a voice calling to me from the bottom of my heart, which is why I went to Liujiatun.”
Guided by my intuition, I found a cave and inside I discovered the little girl who had been dead for many years.
"It scared me. I thought she was really not dead."
“There’s a gentleman in your neighborhood who told me a story.”
The story is about a woman who fell in love with a scholar and they agreed to get married, but in the end, the woman married someone else.
The scholar couldn't accept this fact, just then a wandering monk came by and showed the scholar a mirror.
It turns out that in her previous life, this woman died tragically, her body left to rot in the wilderness. The scholar, seeing her pitiful state, took off his own clothes to cover her and then left.
In her past life, the woman's current husband dug a pit and buried her.
So in this life, a woman came to repay a debt of gratitude, but only gave the scholar love; in the end, however, she still married the man who buried her.
"Haha, you still believe in these things."
"I believe I will never find a woman or get married in this life, so I'm putting all my hopes on the next life. Finding a wife for myself early is not bad."
Liu Jingze wanted to laugh out loud, but he couldn't manage it. He suddenly felt as if he had lost something.
"You mean Zhang Hongmei will marry you in the next life?"
"Yes, it's not bad to get a little wife for free."
Liu Jingze wanted to say that Zhang Hongmei was his fiancée, but the engagement had already been called off, so what could he say?
However, he kept this matter weighing on his mind in the days that followed. Zhang Shouyi would never find a woman or get married in his life, and he himself was unwilling to do so either. The Liu family still had Jingxiang.
So the two old bachelors struggled together for another fifteen years.
Over those fifteen years, they became friends who could trust each other completely. When Zhang Shouyi was forty-three, his life was nearing its end.
When Liu Jingze saw him at the hospital, where there were no signs of life, he felt particularly heartbroken.
His only request was to return to Liujiatun, so Liu Jingze sent a group of people to escort him back.
The returning guards told him that Zhang Shouyi was much better when they arrived there.
There were so many documents to approve every day, so I could only get news of what was going on with Shi Tou by phone every evening.
That day, he received a call from his guard, who informed him that Zhang Shouyi was dying. He dropped everything he was doing and immediately flew back.
But it was too late. I still didn't get to see him one last time.
Looking at Zhang Shouyi lying on the kang (a heated brick bed), even the heartless Liu Jingze's eyes reddened.
He waved his hand, and six people came over to help Zhang Shouyi put on the clothes he had brought.
"You two come out here."
The guards and doctors, their faces drained of color, followed their leader out.
"Did the commander leave any messages?"
The doctor shook his head. "The commander came down from the mountain and was about to write you a letter. After he finished writing, he was in critical condition. Then Xiao Lin called you, but I didn't notice. When he came back, the two of us went to see the commander, but he had already lost all signs of life."
"Tell me about the situation on the mountain."
“I accompanied the leader up the mountain. He climbed up entirely on his own without my help. When we got there, he burned paper money and told me to stay a hundred meters away. I didn’t hear what the leader said. However, he told me the location of his grave.”
"Where's the letter?"
The doctor ran in, grabbed the letter from the table, and handed it to the supervisor.
Actually, writing a letter is very simple; it just instructs him on his funeral arrangements. He must be cremated. Also, there should be no elaborate funeral arrangements, and no tombstone should be erected.
After reading the letter, Liu Jingze folded it and put it in his shirt pocket.
"You take your men up the mountain and do as the commander says."
"yes."
At this moment, Shi Tou helped Liu Maocai over.
"Jingze".
"Third Uncle, the commander has passed away. Find someone to go up the mountain and help dig up the grave."
"He went so young."
"Yes, too young, Third Uncle. I want to be buried here when I die, Stone, remember that."
Liu Maocai glared at Liu Jingze and said whatever came to mind.
In fact, Liu Jingze knew that he wouldn't live too long, since he had worked too hard when he was young and didn't have time to take care of himself now.
He really didn't care about that. But he didn't say anything more.
"Sir, we've helped the leader change his clothes. His body is still limp. Changing clothes wasn't difficult for him."
Liu Jingze went in, looked at the very handsome Zhang Shouyi on the kang (a heated brick bed), and smiled. "Buddy, you go first, I'll come find you later."
Liu Jingze followed Zhang Shouyi's instructions exactly. During the cremation, he personally went to see what was being brought out—a pile of bones.
Wearing gloves, Liu Jingze personally picked up the bones one by one and put them into the jar.
The coffin was the best one ever chosen, and the burial was exceptionally quiet.
Liu Jingze looked at the raised mound of earth. He squatted down and burned paper money.
"Old friend, you've abandoned all this hardship."
It's okay, I can manage on my own. But after all these years, I'm really not used to not having you around.
You always complain that the people I train lack guts. That's alright, I'll beat them until they show it.
After burning the paper money, Liu Jingze went to the Zhang family's grave and lit some paper money there as well.
He left that afternoon, along with his reluctant parents.
They're getting old, and besides, Jingxiang already lives in the capital. He feels at ease having Jingxiang take care of the two elderly people.
He only gets three or four hours of sleep a day. Liu Jingze has persisted like this for ten years.
Before he passed away, he left a letter requesting to be buried in Liujiatun, on that same land, and also requested cremation.
The whole nation mourns. The country's rapid development is solely due to the correct decisions made by its leaders.
The next leader, following Liu Jingze's arrangement, was the same as Zhang Shouyi. There's no tombstone there either, but the area is now protected. There are tomb keepers.
Liu Jingze floated in front of his own grave, watching himself finally laid to rest, before smiling and disappearing.
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