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After all, it is an old house for decades. In the past, the siblings had no money, and they always fantasized that one day they could demolish this house and build a big and beautiful new one. It's because they don't have the same thoughts as before. This old house carries their childhood memories, which is an inseparable relationship. At this moment, Chen Dasheng can fully understand the old lady of the Shen family's unwillingness to demolish the house.

"You child, why are you being polite to Aunt Xue!" Aunt Xue immediately became a little displeased when she heard Chen Dasheng's words of gratitude. After drinking Aunt Xue's milk, Aunt Xue has long regarded you as her own children."

Chen Dasheng was stunned, but his heart was very moved. Aunt Xue was a hard-working woman, but she was very strong. Maybe it was because of her sympathy with each other. She took good care of their siblings since they were young. The image of mother that often appeared in Chen Dasheng's mind was mostly Aunt Xue's appearance, in Aunt Xue's body, he could feel a strange maternal love.

I was about to blurt out a thank you, but Chen Dasheng swallowed it back violently. I'm afraid Aunt Xue would scold me for saying it.

"Yesterday you called and said you would come back. I bought a fish at Chen Laoliu's house, and I will cook boiled fish for you later." Aunt Xue said to herself.

"Then we are lucky, the fish cooked by Aunt Xue is the best in the world." As soon as Aunt Xue finished speaking, Chen Xiaoli said with a smile.

"You child, Aunt Xue's craftsmanship cannot be praised, and a compliment is enough." Aunt Xue had a thick smile on her face.

"Hehe, how could it be!" Chen Xiaoli smiled and said, "Don't be busy, Aunt Xue, come over and enjoy the fire."

"Wait a minute, I'll boil some water for you to wash your face and warm your feet," Aunt Xue said.

Looking at Aunt Xue who was so busy, both Chen Dasheng and Chen Xiaoli felt the warmth of home in their hearts. Chen Xiaoli was determined to go back to his hometown for the New Year. Apart from paying homage to his parents and third uncle, there may be reasons for Aunt Xue.

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In the evening, Aunt Xue made a delicious table. Although there were only three people, all three of them were talking and laughing happily. After dinner, Aunt Xue did not go back to her home, but slept with Chen Xiaoli. Compared with her The deserted home, with the company of the Chen brothers and sisters, seemed much warmer.

in the room.

The room was cleaned up by Aunt Xue. Chen Dasheng sat cross-legged on the bed with his five hearts facing the sky, exhaled and inhaled from time to time, and practiced with his eyes closed. Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are the five elements, the heart belongs to fire, the lungs belong to metal, the kidneys belong to water, the spleen belongs to earth, and the liver belongs to wood. With the tempering of the five internal organs, traces of internal energy of different colors flow out from the five internal organs.

Green enters the liver, red enters the heart, yellow enters the spleen, white enters the lungs, and black enters the kidneys. What is refined from the heart is the red internal energy of the fire attribute, and what is refined from the liver is the blue internal energy of the wood attribute. , the spleen is a yellow earth attribute, the lungs are a white metal attribute, and the kidneys are a black water attribute.

The five colors are entangled with each other, blended and mixed but distinct, slowly converging in the dantian, the viscera become stronger and stronger under the tempering of inner strength, and the meridians of the whole body are also slowly expanding, Chen Dasheng It feels like I am soaking in a hot spring, it is warm and very comfortable.

"Boom boom boom!"

A sound of knocking on the door awakened Chen Dasheng from his practice. Chen Dasheng opened his eyes and knew without thinking that it was Chen Xiaoli who was knocking on the door. He calmed down the turbulent inner breath, guided the inner energy back to the sea of ​​energy in his dantian, and let out a long mouthful. Feeling turbid, Chen Dasheng hurried to open the door.

"Why?" As soon as the door opened, the person standing at the door was indeed Chen Xiaoli.

Chen Xiaoli said, "It's nothing, I forgot to tell you just now, get up early tomorrow, and let's go up the mountain to clean the graveyard for parents."

"Oh!" Chen Dasheng nodded.

"Go to bed early." Chen Xiaoli gave Chen Dasheng a strange look, left a word, and immediately turned back to his room.

Chen Dasheng scratched his head, closed the door, returned to the bed and was about to continue practicing for a while, but the phone rang again, picked it up and checked, no surprises, it was Liu Yunshi calling.

After talking on the phone for more than an hour, when I hung up the phone, the battery was almost dead. Chen Dasheng shook his head helplessly. This woman can really talk. Think about it. If there are more women in the future, everyone will give themselves If you come for an hour, won't you be exhausted.

Originally, I wanted to practice for a while, but tiredness came up, so I simply turned off the phone, charged the phone, and jumped under the covers.

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The next day.

The two siblings woke up early, took a hoe and sickle, and incense paper money, and walked up the mountain. The custom in the ditch is to take care of the graves of the old people every year before the New Year. He also lived a new year cleanly, of course, except for the newly erected new grave, which is said to take three years to take care of. Chen Dasheng doesn't know why, maybe he has to ask Chen Xiaoli about it, but Chen Dasheng doesn't have that curiosity .

The graveyard is in a locust forest on the mountainside of the mountain. There are some mountain roads, and the roads are slippery after snow, so it is very difficult to walk. It is only the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. It is still early before the Chinese New Year. Almost no one comes up the mountain. Only on New Year's Eve will I go up the mountain to clean and worship, and then go home to celebrate New Year's Eve.

The forest is gloomy, the snow on the trees falls from time to time, falls to the ground and shatters, if you are timid, you really dare not come alone.

"Be careful, don't fall." Chen Xiaoli walked ahead, passed a high cliff, and turned to Chen Dasheng.

"Don't worry, sister, my qinggong is good, even if I fall, it's fine." Chen Dasheng laughed.

Chen Xiaoli gave Chen Dasheng a blank look, and said while walking, "It's rare for you to come back a few times a year, and you will have to kowtow to your parents a few more times in a while."

"Ok!"

Chen Dasheng answered obediently. Since he went to study outside, he rarely came back except for the New Year. Even if it was Ching Ming Festival, if the school was not on holiday, he would not have time to come back. After going through school, few people could recognize him when he returned to Chenjiagou, so Chen Dasheng felt very guilty.

The ancestors have worked hard, and their kindness is as deep as the sea, so don't lose it and never forget it!

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Soon he arrived at the Huai Shulin cemetery. Chen Dasheng looked up and saw that the graves were covered with snow and weeds. This can be regarded as the cemetery of Chenjiagou. here.

Looking around, I didn't come back for almost a year, and I didn't see any more graves. This year, Chenjiagou should have been very stable.

I found the grave where my parents were buried together. Like the other graves, they were covered by snow and weeds. However, the grave of Chen Dasheng’s parents was much lower than the nearby grave. The grave looks rather bleak.

"Sister, let me see when this tomb will be repaired." Chen Dasheng looked at his parents' graves, feeling a deep sense of sadness in his heart.

Chen Xiaoli sighed and said, "I wanted to repair the tomb a long time ago, but I was afraid of disturbing the peace of the elders. Let's talk about it after a year, and clean the tomb first."

"Ok!"

Chen Dasheng nodded, waved the hoe in his hand, and immediately took action to get all the snow off the grave. Chen Xiaoli took the sickle and cut the thatch on the grave.

In the quiet locust tree forest, the two siblings were very busy talking and laughing.

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After working for more than an hour, they finally cleaned up the grave. The two first went to pay respects to the third uncle's grave, and then went back to pay respects to their parents' grave.

Kneeling in front of his parents' grave, Chen Xiaoli was talking to his parents in another world with his mouth, while Chen Dasheng was burning incense paper money beside him.

A family, two people inside, two people outside, Chen Dasheng felt inexplicably sad, if there were no accidents in the family, how wonderful it would be for a family of four now.

Doing filial piety once a year, thinking about relatives during festive seasons, loving mothers and loving fathers, going west, knowing that children have the same heart!

"Look, Mom and Dad are here to collect the money!"

Looking at the ashes that had been burned before being blown up into the sky by the hot wind, Chen Dasheng and Chen Xiaoli felt very peaceful in their hearts at this moment.

"Squeak, squeak..."

Just as the siblings were all smiling and enjoying this moment of tranquility, a strange sound came from beside them. (To be continued.)