Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Time: The 53rd year of the founding of Dawu

Age: Li Ji is 73 years old and Er Gouzi is 75 years old.

Background: Elder care in the village

For people of Li Ji's age, what is happiness?If the current Li Ji said that the greatest happiness is that he is seventy and eighty, and when he returns home, he can call out daddy when he enters the door.

The fracture ten years ago made him crippled, but now ten years have passed, and he can walk with crutches without delay.

Shen Tianzhan was also leaning on a walking stick. When the two old men went out, Li Ji's waist was even worse than Shen Tianzhan's.

Shen Tianzhan is ninety years old, and he has really become an old fairy passed down by the common people.Few of the common people live past fifty, one or two out of a hundred people on the Internet at the age of 60, and those who can pass 90 are favored by God.Shen Tianzhan is over [-] this year.The folks say that this is a living god who is not easy to seduce the soul of the Lord of the Underworld.

Li Ji's legs shouldn't be too hard, and he needs to rest after walking for a while.The three of them walked out of the yard to bask in the sun, and without four servants to serve them, they were afraid that they would break something when they went out.

The first of the three to lose their teeth was Er Gouzi, mainly due to the rough food he ate in the mountains in the early years and suffered a lot of tooth injuries.I lost two teeth, so I can only eat something that is easy to eat.However, his bones are still strong, and his waist is still straight at 75 years old.If it weren't for the appearance of age spots, he would look like he was in his fifties.

"Seeing that the rice sticks are almost ripe, autumn is here again." Looking at the yellowed crop fields, his dry eyes narrowed, still unclear.

"It's a pity that we can't move and work." Li Ji sat on the chair and kicked his legs.I can't accept the old man, I don't know if I have no strength in my hands and feet. If it weren't for the rich family and the loyalty of the servants, the old man would not be able to support himself even if he was kicked out.

Er Gouzi tilted his head and rested his pillow on Li Ji's shoulder: "It's so fast. I feel like I was still sitting here watching the sowing a few days ago."

Shen Tianzhan smiled and said, "I can't resist being confused."

The three old men smiled at each other.Li Ji sat for a while without enough energy, so he leaned against Er Gouzi and closed his eyes to rest his mind.Shen Tianzhan was fed such a mouthful of dog food by his two sons, and he hurt himself with a stick on his chin.

Getting old, living too long.Sometimes Shen Tianzhan would forget something inadvertently, and would think of something in the few dreams.He has had a wonderful life.Civilian background, high school talent.Steady ascension with no distractions.After being defeated and demoted, the country was destroyed, and the new dynasty flourished again.

Throughout the ages, there have been a few people.

After basking in the sun for a while, the sun began to become venomous.The three old men returned to the main room.Li Ji played chess with Er Gouzi to pass the time, and Shen Tianzhan asked someone to read to him.He is old and dazzled and can't read clearly, so he can only read with the eyes of others.

And the books I read are becoming more and more miscellaneous, no longer living in the books of sages, and I also listen to those miscellaneous books and scriptures, and I listen with gusto.

Later, simply studying was not enough.Shen Tianzhan directly found a storyteller to tell the story.Because he spends a lot of money and is easy to take care of alone, the storyteller is also happy to come here.After kissing several times, Shen Tianzhan seriously chose someone he liked and asked him to come over and talk about it.

Almost every day.Shen Tianzhan listened to the book with relish, not far away Li Ji and Er Gouzi were sitting and playing chess.

Each has its own way to pass the time, and each plays its own way.

The people of Li Ji's next generation were basically gone, and the rest belonged to the grandchildren.Li Ji himself did not expect that he could live so well, he was almost an old man, and he had no intention of dying at all.

At the age of 60 or [-], I am most afraid of getting old.Especially when I saw age spots, I wished I could find some powder to cover them up.Now I'm used to it, and I can't hide it anymore, but I'm used to it.

When a person gets old, he looks like an old man, basking in the sun, playing chess, eating and sleeping every day, simple but fulfilling.

Recently, Li Ji's hair has been falling out so much that he doesn't dare to be familiar with it.Lightly on the top of the head, the scalp can be seen.

It is also rare that Li Ji is smug and beautiful, looking for recipes to grow hair everywhere, and extravagantly bought good Polygonum multiflorum soup and even drank and washed it, some black roots grew in his snow-white hair.But he was so overjoyed that he hurriedly dragged Er Gouzi and Shen Tianzhan together, only said that his hair was black, and he looked like he had returned to spring.

Shen Tianzhan just listened to the book, and he was in a good mood. Seeing that the two sons were not in the house, he asked the servant where they went, and the servant said that they went to dig fish and insects (earthworms) in the back, and they were going to the fish pond in the afternoon fishing.

After finishing speaking, the servant asked considerately: "Master is also going to take a look? At this time, Yu'er Feimei, it's not bad to hang here to write and eat."

Shen Tianzhan was too lazy to move and refused to admit it.The old man in his [-]s pretended to laugh: "This kind of trick is only played by children in their [-]s and [-]s."

An old house where a treasure.The auspicious three treasures have been together for more than ten years, and there are always times when they leave first.

When Shen Tianzhan couldn't get sick, the root cause was either a serious illness, or he was old, and King Yan sent someone to go.

Li Ji and Er Gouzi sat on the bed and talked with Shen Tianzhan, but Shen Tianzhan couldn't open his mouth.Just Li Ji told Er Gouzi.

Shen Tianzhan has been content all his life, and if he lives to be a hundred years old, he will still have a son before his death.This person is relieved to go to the underworld.

Shen Tianzhan's letter was sent to Beijing early.It's a pity that Little Tudou came back with the whole family a step late, and he didn't even look at the family's ancestors when he arrived.

Little Tudou now has a lot of people with their families and children, and they are in a hurry to come here, and they haven't prepared anything.Fortunately, there is nothing missing here, and the family members have not been wronged.

When Shen Tianzhan left, Li Ji and Er Gouzi were quite calm, neither crying nor doing anything.When the spirit stops, insist on keeping the spirit.But the two old men couldn't keep up, and Li Ji almost fell into the brazier when he was burning paper.

Afterwards, the two old men only gave one hour of vigil time a day, and the rest was for Little Tudou to burn paper with his successors.

Li Ji and Er Gouzi's tempers also twisted as they got older, and some people watched them jump out of the window to hide and ran out to burn paper while others were not paying attention.And the juniors were afraid that the two old men would join in before the wedding and funeral were over, and they also followed closely.There is a situation where the yard is full of arresting old men.It was a good funeral and a few jokes were made.

When the spirit was sent off, there were huge crowds of people.The well-known old fairy has gone, and many people have come to pay tribute to him.There are not many people who really wear sackcloth and filial piety. Er Gouzi walked in front with a banner, Li Ji followed, followed by Xiaotuo, Yingzi and other descendants.

After entering the mountain, outsiders are not allowed to enter.I don't know who suddenly yelled from behind, female family members are not allowed to enter, there is no rule for women to be buried in ancestral graves.

Li Ji glanced back, and shouted loudly: "There is no ancestral grave in my family, so there are no rules."

The team entered the mountain.The place where Li Yan was buried was deep in the mountains, and when Li Ji was exhausted along the way, the funeral procession could only stop and wait.

The mountain road is far away, and it takes three or four hours to reach the location.

Li Yan's original grave was dug up, and Li Yan's bones were invited out.The couple were buried together in one coffin.Li Yan died for 70 years and waited for 70 years.Now the husband and wife finally meet.

Li Ji's body was weak, and he watched the shovel after shovel fill it in. From then on, there was no such person as Shen Tianzhan in the world.

The juniors started crying, and Er Gouzi just waited to fill back the first shovel of soil dug up, and walked to Li Ji's side: "You are tired."

How could you not be tired.I haven't traveled this far in more than ten years.

"good."

"It's great that they are together at last." Er Gouzi and Li Ji cuddled each other.

Li Ji said with a smile: "Although father and mother left 70 years apart, father has always pretended to be mother in his heart. Now that they are buried together, they have no regrets."

Er Gouzi didn't answer, Li Ji knew what he was thinking.He said again: "So, we really don't have to worry about who will leave first. If we buy together in the future, we will be together forever. Let's go first and then go. It's just a matter of a few years, and we can still have the time of parents. long?"

Er Gouzi looked up at the sky and sighed.

Li Ji's body weakened faster than Er Gouzi's. The more he was like this, the more Li Ji said such things.He comforted Er Gouzi before and made Er Gouzi take things lightly.As long as the two still think about each other in their hearts, it is the same whoever goes first and who goes later.

Er Gouzi knew what Li Ji was thinking, and that's why he didn't know how to answer.

A few days later, Xiao Tudou and his party will return to Beijing.After all, it is the imperial court's order, so we can't delay for too long.After sending them off, the three old men were reduced to two.Without the sound of reading and the sound of the storyteller telling the story, the courtyard felt much quieter.

When Li Ji was free, he called more children to play wildly in the yard.Now he loves the real vitality in the child.

Er Gouzi prefers to look through the old things of the two of them. Whenever Li Ji is in the yard with the children, Er Gouzi will go through the old things in the house.The two have been together for more than 50 years, and there are not many things that can be left to the present.Basically things like clothes.

Sometimes Li Ji watched him fiddle with these things, and knelt down to watch him for a while.You can think of many things when you hold it in your hand.

"We couldn't find the things we had at the beginning. When we first met, I was still wearing patched clothes. When I had good clothes back then, those patched old clothes were thrown away. Thinking about it now, I regret it Yes, stay until now, and take a look."

"When I first met you, you weren't dressed yet," Er Gouzi said.

"Not only did you not wear clothes, but you also buried them. I washed you for the bath, and it took me all afternoon just to wash your hair. At that time, you ate eight steamed buns for a meal, and that scared me. I thought we would starve to death as soon as winter came." Li Ji thought about that time, looking at Er Gouzi's wrinkled face, his eyes were red when he smiled.

"I saw you when I was a child. Before I got lost." Er Gouzi looked at Li Ji, "I always dreamed that when I was very young, I stood at the entrance of the village and peeked in. There were many children playing there. I You didn’t dare to go over after listening to your mother’s words. Then you came over and touched my chest, two or three years old, told me a lot, and gave me sweets.”

It's been too long, and even Er Gouzi can't be sure whether this is a dream of his, or it really happened.

The author has something to say: There is another update today, to send these two old men away.

Didn't sleep all night last night, insomnia.

So today I have to think carefully about how to cry [cross out] to move you

Well, stop making trouble, and write their most perfect ending in my heart.

Life and death are together, life after life are together.