dognovel Chapter 112 Tomb Sweeping at Qingming Festival
Chapter 112 Tomb Sweeping at Qingming Festival
Then he moved closer to Bai Yishu.
Bai Yishu was not afraid at all.
Huo Chao finally approached him, stretched out his claws and pinched his head, leaving a few red marks on his face.
Bai Yishu lay down and let herself be pinched.
Jiang Yuanyuan widened her eyes. She thought this fierce bad guy would beat Yi Shu's brother, but it turned out that she had misunderstood him.
Huo Chao let out a sigh of relief, but still refused to leave.
Grandma Jiang naturally welcomed him, and the other members of the Jiang family also greeted her with smiles when they saw the money and notes he gave to Grandma Jiang.
Huo Chao did nothing else every day but push Bai Yishu, who was in a wheelchair, around the team.
After Jiang Yuanyuan was lifted up high by him once, she was no longer afraid of him. She would often lie in front of him and act like a spoiled child, asking him to lift her up high.
My cousin likes this little girl, and since she is so cute, he is willing to pamper her a little.
Lift it up high, he also likes this activity.
“Hahaha, fun~”
Jiang Yuanyuan's clear, bell-like laughter can be heard from far away.
Xiao Zijing was squatting by the stream downhill from the cowshed washing dishes. When he heard the sound, he looked up and saw three figures approaching.
Bai Yishu's cousin brought him to see Brother Ji every day. Everyone thought he was concerned about his cousin's leg injury, but he knew that Huo Chao was still Grandpa Su's grandson.
Ji Baishu pinched Bai Yishu's leg skillfully, asked him a few questions, and finally gave Huo Chao some medicine.
"He still needs surgery on his leg. If the conditions are not right for now, he should just keep it in his care."
When it comes to Bai Yishu's legs, Huo Chao becomes worried.
The Jiang family took Bai Yishu to a large hospital in Kyoto, but the doctors there said that the disease could not be cured.
Ji Baishu said that the conditions were not right to perform surgery on him now.
Under such circumstances, it was impossible for him to send medical supplies to the Gaolitun Brigade, nor was it possible for him to send Bai Yishu abroad for medical treatment.
My cousin is still so young. It would be too cruel if he couldn’t stand up in the future.
Huo Chao thought of his elderly grandfather at home. He wondered if he could bear seeing his cousin in this state.
On the contrary, Bai Yishu saw that his cousin was so anxious that his mouth was covered with blisters, so he advised him: "There is no need to rush."
Huo Chao stayed in Gaolitun for more than ten days before returning.
Before leaving, he said to Bai Yishu: "No matter what you think in your heart, you will always be a member of the Huo family. Remember to call us if anything happens."
"… Call more often if you have nothing to do. Your grandpa misses you very much."
Bai Yishu nodded.
*
Qingming Festival is coming
The machinery factory gave workers time to go home and visit the graves.
Yu Qingtang and other educated youth naturally had no ancestors' graves to sweep, but it would feel wrong if they did nothing in this atmosphere.
So the educated youth at the educated youth point invited each other to visit the Martyrs' Park to pay respects to the deceased.
When the captain learned about this, he was very pleased and repeatedly praised them as good comrades.
"In fact, we don't have to go that far. A group of martyrs are buried in Xiaochongshan."
Everyone was surprised to hear him say this.
The most educated youth present had only been here for three years, while those who had been here earlier had either already married or had returned to the city long ago.
The captain sighed and explained to them the origin: "Alas, when the Japanese invaded the village, several nearby villages united to fight against them and many people died. The Japanese were cruel and would dismember the bodies after killing people. In the end, only a group of children who were hidden by the adults survived."
"They didn't dare to come out until the Japanese had been gone for several days. It was summer, and the bodies were rotting quickly. The children had no way of telling which limbs belonged to which person. They could only count and piece together the bodies at random, and then buried them all together in Xiaochong Mountain."
"too--!"
The audience opened their mouths but could say nothing and could only grit their teeth in hatred. It was not the first time they had heard about what happened back then, but every time they heard about these past events, they felt heartbroken.
"Although they were not soldiers, they also sacrificed their lives to defend their country. If you want to organize a tomb sweeping ceremony, I hope you can go to Xiaochongshan."
The captain choked up when he said this, he was one of the children who survived that year.
The educated youth returned home and prepared the items and offerings for tomb sweeping, and set out before dawn the next day.
Xiaochongshan is far away from Gaolitun Brigade and is located close to the mountains.
“How did those kids carry so many people here?”
Yu Qingtang looked back at the road he had come from, and could no longer see any trace of houses or the world.
Cheng Wuyang lived in a later period in his previous life than Yu Qingtang.
There is a book about this period of history in the history book that Yu Qingtang studied, but there is only a short chapter in the history that Cheng Wuyang studied.
History may not be forgotten, but it will be compressed by new history.
So Cheng Wuyang was even more shocked when he heard the captain's stories about the past yesterday.
Because he not only heard what the captain said, but also heard the hatred in his heart and the even more cruel memories that had not yet been expressed.
All the way to Xiaochongshan, everyone was silent.
The captain said there was no need to find someone to lead the way for them, as there would be people on the road.
Sure enough, when they arrived at Xiaosong Mountain, they saw fresh footprints.
Small mounds of earth are hidden among the weeds, and many people are silently pulling out weeds and cutting down newly grown trees.
Those nameless graves appeared one by one in front of everyone.
The people who came included members of the same brigade whom I knew, and also people from other brigade whom I didn’t know.
I heard from the team leader that those children were from different villages at first, and later they continued to live in their original villages.
After the founding of the New China, the government relocated many people from other places, and these villages came back to life.
Yu Qingtang and the others also followed suit to clean up.
The atmosphere was a bit depressing at first, but gradually more and more children went up the mountain.
Of course the children couldn't stay still. They jumped around happily and asked questions out of curiosity.
The surroundings became lively, and the atmosphere among the adults became less dull and they started chatting.
Yu Qingtang was originally with the educated youth, but she was not very interested in the topics they were talking about, so she gradually deviated from the course.
There were several aunts squatting in one place, one of whom was Aunt Xu, the women's director of their brigade.
They didn't speak as loudly as the others, but they all had meaningful smiles on their faces.
Yu Qingtang's melon-eating radar sounded, and he quickly moved to their side, then squatted down and reached out to pull out the weeds.
I listened to them talking while pulling the strings.
Now Aunt Xu and the others are talking about a daughter-in-law who had an affair with her father-in-law in the Nancha Brigade next door.
But they all started laughing for unknown reasons halfway through their conversation and didn't say anything further for a long time.
Yu Qingtang couldn't hear the subsequent heart-wrenching discomfort, and couldn't help but ask, "What happened next?"
The aunts were silent for a while when they suddenly heard the voice coming from behind.