Chapter 2

Xia Youning took a closer look, and it was almost the same as the temple in memory, except that it was more dilapidated and older, and it seemed that it hadn't been renovated or cleaned for a long time.This is called the Earth Temple, rather than the Earth Shrine. One person is tall, three people are wide, and two people are deep. Nothing else.

But if you take a closer look, there is a yellow-orange orange in front of the altar, which is particularly conspicuous and strange in this gray earth temple.Xia Youning walked in, and the 1.8-meter one had to lower his head slightly to get in. He looked carefully at the statue in front of him. It was just made of mud, with a few strokes to draw the facial features, and the red cloth was wrapped around it as clothes. When he looked up, it didn't look like it was there. It’s not raining, but from the outside, the tiles of the Earth Temple are covered with moss, and the three walls are also fallen from the soil. The moss and moss are dilapidated, as if they will collapse when the wind blows and people push them.

Xia Youning picked up the oranges on the altar, looked at the oranges he picked up just now, and saw that there was no scenery around him, so he left the temple and walked back.I peeled the oranges on the road, because they were sugar oranges, I swallowed one at a time, and the orange peels were thrown on the side of the road, and I went home when I walked out of the path, and I didn’t see the orange peels that were thrown on the ground being picked up.

When she got home, Xia Youning saw grandma and mother busy making dinner, father being directed to chop meat, and grandpa watching TV on the recliner.

"Ayou is back? Where did you go to play?" Grandma Xia put down her vegetable basket, looked at this tall and fair grandson and smiled again and again.Grandma Xia dotes on Xia Youning very much. After all, he brought it out with her own hands. At the beginning, Xia Youning was a high-spirited student, and now she has a stable job. Accidentally became "other people's children".

"I walked around, and the scenery here is really nice, unlike in big cities, where the pollution is heavy." Xia Youning took over Grandma Xia's work, "I sat by the river for a while to enjoy the breeze."

"Yes, the environment here is good and it's comfortable to live in." Grandma Xia watched her grandson wash the vegetables with a smile, and Mother Xia turned her head to look at the grandson and grandson while cooking.

"Grandma, I went to the Earth Temple to see. When did a big temple be built there?"

"It was built a few years ago. You will build it when you just went to university. The old earth temple is also broken. It is very small and has been repaired several times. The village wants to build a new big temple, so there is no need to crowd every year." It's a small earth temple."

"Is the Earth Temple not used anymore? Is it so deserted?"

"The village is discussing that the Earth Temple will be demolished soon, because there is a village across the river from the Earth Temple, which is only 10 minutes away from us. There is a new Earth Temple, and we can go there Goodbye."

"I feel very nostalgic. When I was young, I often went there to get something to eat, and grandma beat my ass with a bamboo stick. It hurts hahaha."

"Who told you to be naughty, you can't take things from the land gods randomly."

The grandpa and grandson prepared dinner just like that.

"Dinner is ready!" Mama Xia set out the rice bowls, everyone sat down and started to move.

"Wow, sweet and sour pork ribs, spicy chicken, vinegar potatoes, steamed Luo Fei, Mom, you've worked hard!" Xia Youning picked up the rice bowl to pick up food for the elders, and ate happily, "The food at home is really delicious, It's been a long time since I had such a delicious meal!"

"As long as your mouth is sweet, eat yours!" Mother Xia put a piece of ribs in her son's bowl.

"Eat, eat, Ayou, open your stomach and eat!"

After dinner, I chatted with grandma for some homework, and then I went back to my room.The room has been cleaned up by Xia's mother, two suitcases are placed in the corner, and mosquito coils are lit on the corner.Xia Youning opened the suitcase, organized the brought back luggage, took out the computer, put it on the desk, and planned to play a game.Although this is a rural area, the villagers have developed well in recent years, keeping up with the government's development plan, and the quality of life of the villagers has made a qualitative leap. Xia Youning's family has already pulled up the network cable, because Xia's father and Xia's mother can't use computers That's all, so the network cable was pulled in Xia Youning's room.

When I went online, I found that a senior in the team was also online.

"Senior, are you done? Come on?"

"You kid is on vacation and free."

"Why, senior, are you alive again?"

"Yeah, you just left, and we are preparing for the next project. When you come back, we will be busy again."

"Okay! Wait for me to go back!"

"Okay, let's stop talking, let's go, team up and play!"

The more you play the game, the more you don't know the time.

"Ayou, it's time to take a shower and sleep when it's late, and you're not working, so don't stay up late." Grandma knocked on the door and reminded.

"Understood, Grandma, I'll just play this round."

After a few minutes, the game is over.

"You Ning! Let's play again!"

"Senior, I'm not coming, my grandma is urging me to sleep."

"What are you doing sleeping so early! Wake up!"

"Health care, health care, do you know that you stay up all night doing design codes, and your head is bald, so it's not good to cherish the hair on your head?"

"You! Don't rely on your youth and hair. Let me tell you, your head will be bald in two years!"

"Heh, at least my hair volume is quite impressive now, let's go."

Xia Youning finished talking, lay on the bed after taking a shower, and fell asleep after swiping her phone for a while.

In the dream, there was the bamboo forest again, but there was no new temple, only the small earth temple, which was not as dilapidated as it looked during the day, and there was a person standing in front of the temple, looking at the flowing water outside the bamboo forest. River water, holding an orange in hand.The man turned his back, and he could only see that he was wearing a red gown with a white shirt inside, and his long hair was fluttering.

"Ayou! Ayou! Wake up!" I felt my face being patted, and I vaguely saw Grandma's face, "The sun is drying my ass! It's time for lunch!"

"Grandma, what time is it?" Xia Youning rubbed her eyes and sat up.

"It's almost 11 o'clock, ouch, what time did you go to bed last night, wake up!"

"Grandma, do you have something to do today?" Xia Youning got up, changed clothes, and brushed her teeth with her slippers drooping.

"Dragon Boat Festival will be in two days, and we are going to make zongzi."

"Oh." The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival that I haven't celebrated much since I went out, and there is no holiday, so I can't remember this day when I am outside.But when I get home, the family will have a grand celebration. They will kill a chicken to worship the gods, and they will wrap all kinds of rice dumplings and distribute them to neighbors and relatives. It is also very lively. "Okay, grandma, I want to eat cold rice dumpling, it will be delicious if dipped in honey."

"I know, I know, you like eating cold rice dumplings the most. You can go and buy a few catties of alkaline water later."

Xia Youning changed her clothes, looked at the noon sun, put on her hat, rode on the little electric donkey at home, and drove to the store at the entrance of the village.The shops at the entrance of the village are usually not very lively. Because of the Dragon Boat Festival in two days, the shops are very lively, and the villagers all come out to buy things for the festival.

Xia Youning's pocket phone vibrated, and she took it out to see that it was her mother. "Hello, Mom."

"You are at the entrance of the village."

"Well, yes."

"By the way, I'll buy the ingredients for making zongzi, as well as paper money for firecrackers and candles. For the ingredients, I'll buy peeled mung beans, yeast powder, and a few catties of pork."

"Okay, got it." When Xia Youning finished buying what his mother ordered and was about to go back, when he saw the oranges piled up on the fruit stand, he suddenly thought of the dream he had finished, and bought a box of oranges involuntarily.Back on the slope, park the car at the crossing of the trail, carry a box of oranges and walk in, pass the new temple in diameter, and come to the dilapidated earth temple.

"Elder Land, I took an orange from you yesterday, and I will return it to you today." Put the box on the ground, open the box, hold two handfuls of oranges, and put them on the altar, "I will give you another orange in two days after the Dragon Boat Festival." Oranges." Then he picked up the box and walked back.

In the bamboo forest, the bamboo leaves resounded, and a long-haired man in a faded red gown appeared in the earth temple. Looking at Xia Youning walking back with a box in his arms, he picked up an orange and smiled.

"Grandma, I'm back." Xia Youning came back with big bags and small bags, including a box of oranges. "Die again, die again."

"Why do you buy a box of oranges when you're dead? We have oranges at home." Grandma Xia helped put these things away.

"I took some things to the Earth Temple."

"What to do there, it will be lively the day after tomorrow."

"Grandma, is the old Earth Temple really gone? It's a pity. The bamboo forest there is very beautiful with the Earth Temple, but the new temple is not. It's red, red, and green."

"This has to be discussed at a meeting in the village. When you were a child, you liked to join in the earth temple, and it is still the same now. When you were young, you were still playing there. When I was not paying attention, you went to the river to play and accidentally fell into the water. At that time The water is deep, and you can't swim. The water is over your head and you can't call for help. Fortunately, a little brother in red called me at that time, so I noticed that you fell into the water and lay on the shore I was in a daze, and I ran over to pick you up and you were crying there. Later, when I wanted to thank my little brother, I noticed that he was gone, what a living Lei Feng!" Grandma Xia opened the alkaline water and poured it into the washed water. rice.

"The little brother in the red dress?"

"Yes, but this little brother has a very bad face. He must have come to us for the festival with his parents from outside the village. It really scared me at that time, and I couldn't bear to beat you and scold you afterwards, and I couldn't help it." Teach you a lesson, but it pissed me off."

"Grandma, I'm not naughty anymore, I'm not angry anymore." Xia Youning took advantage of the situation and gave her grandma a hug. "The little brother in red?" At this moment, he always felt that he had caught something and felt that he had missed something.

When Xia's father picks zongzi leaves, Xia's mother prepares materials, Xia's grandma makes zongzi, and Xia's grandpa Xia Youning squats aside waiting to eat zongzi, the Dragon Boat Festival is here.

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