Villager of Destiny

Hearing his words, I felt as if something suddenly appeared in my mind, but it disappeared all of a sudden. This feeling made me feel that I should be called by this name.

Seeing that I didn't object, he smiled even more happily, and happily walked towards the village beside me while hugging me.

I just let him hug me until I reached the village. Looking at the empty village, I felt a familiar feeling again. This familiar feeling made me cry out uncontrollably.

I just remembered.

I seem to be a child now.

I don't know why it became like this.

I just know that I seem to have forgotten a lot of things, my memory seems to be blocked by something, or, I feel as if I should have a lot of memories, and it seems that I should not be a child.

Not long after, I was carried by him to a room.

I was put in a boxy wooden box by him, and he covered me with some strange things, but after covering me with those things, I actually felt very comfortable.

And he just looked down at me, with a smile on his face from beginning to end.

He said: "Little guy, I will make it difficult for you to sleep here from now on."

"When you grow up, you won't need this coffin, these paper money, and you will be able to live."

After saying this, he left.

I looked at his back in the boxy wooden box. I didn't know why, but I suddenly felt a bit sore in my nose, and couldn't help crying.

As if he heard my cry, he suddenly turned back, but this time he looked at me with a little more emotion that I couldn't understand.

He didn't take me out of the wooden box, but just looked at me so quietly, until I stopped and stopped crying, he reached out and touched my forehead, as if to confirm that I was not After the incident, he left again.

Not long after, I saw that the surrounding seemed to be dark.

Then there was a faint yellow flame.

After the fire appeared, I heard his voice again, but I couldn't hear what he was saying, the voice was very low, but it carried an emotion that I couldn't describe.

He seemed sad.

In this way, I don't know how long it has passed.

Until exhaustion hit, I finally couldn't bear it and fell asleep.

When I woke up again, I looked up and saw that the outside was already very bright. This time he didn't leave me in the wooden box, but carried me out of the wooden box, and took me all the way to the entrance of the village.

I saw a few wild dogs.

I feel very familiar.

It was as if I had seen these wild dogs before.

It's just that at this time, I still can't speak.

I just followed him like this and sat at the entrance of the village until the evening. On this day, I just looked at him and kept smiling.

I don't understand why he would do this.

Just looking at him like that made me laugh too.

In this way, day after day passed.

Finally I can walk and talk.

Although it was still very reluctant, I finally left the wooden box he prepared with me.

There will no longer be those weird things covering me.

I also learned that the wooden box is called a coffin.

Knowing that those strange things are called paper money.

Got his name.

He told me to call him old madman.

Gradually, I also seemed to have forgotten a lot of things, and lost that familiar feeling, so I just followed him and sat at the entrance of the village at dawn.

He smirked, and I was pushed by him to play with those wild dogs. When I was bullied by wild dogs, he laughed beside him. When I wanted to cry, he let me laugh along with him.

Unknowingly, I got used to this feeling instead, following him, when he laughed, I would laugh with him, and when he came home, I would follow him home.

At night, he sat at the door burning paper money, and I followed him. When I saw him burning paper money, talking and crying, I laughed at him, but every time he would beat me up.

Several times I couldn't help asking him why he burned paper money.

Who to burn.

Why is he crying again.

But he never told me.

Just like that, I don’t know how long it has passed, anyway, it’s been a long time, I suddenly feel that he seems to be getting older, and every time I sit with me at the entrance of the village, his smile also becomes forced.

His vision began to dim.

Finally, one day, he suddenly couldn't move on the bed. When I called him, he just looked at me like that, even though I called him, he didn't respond to me.

On this day, we did not go to the entrance of the village for the first time.

It wasn't until late at night that he finally got out of bed.

He took me to sit at the door, and started to burn paper money like every day before, and he suddenly asked me: "Boy, if the old man is no longer here, do you have the courage to live here alone?" go down?"

I don't know why he asked me this sentence, but I didn't think too much, nodded and said: "Then I can definitely live, one person, two people, what's the difference?"

He laughed again at my words.

"What difference does a good one make?"

"Indeed, there is no difference."

"It's just..." He smiled, and suddenly looked at me seriously, "Boy, can you really do it?"

"If a person will be very bitter."

"It will be very tiring, can you still do it?"

I scratched my head and said, "It should be fine."

"But why am I alone?"

"Are you really going to be gone?"

He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Yes, we're leaving."

"In the future, you will be alone."

"You have to live well."

"but……"

"But what?" I asked.

"If one day you can't hold it anymore and want to die, don't make it too difficult for yourself."

"A person's whole life is inherently difficult. Whether it's life or death, it's nothing more than a normal thing."

"If life is too tiring, it will be too bitter."

"Then there's no need to force yourself."

As he spoke, he put the last paper money in his hand into the fire, then got up and walked back to the bed.

I didn't quite understand what he meant and just looked at him like that.

Watch him lie on the bed.

Until he called me to the bed and told me three sentences.

I finally remembered.

Also finally understand.

It turns out that the four forces of birth, old age, sickness and death mentioned by Lord Taishan appear in this form.

He sent me back to the past.

Let me once again experience the difference between the experience from a toddler to a child, and an old lunatic.

Is this the so-called life and death?

I looked at the silent old lunatic on the bed, and seeing this familiar scene, I couldn't help laughing.

I don't know why I'm laughing either.

just feel.

This also seems to work fine.

At least, after experiencing childhood again.

I seem to understand, who hoodwinked the secrets for me, and who offset the so-called five disadvantages and three shortcomings for me. (end of this chapter)