Chapter 1604 – The Old Father’s Peace in His Arms

That carriage in no one noticed, with the pale master and servant two, with a few pots of wine, slowly out of the city of Su, in the official road, towards the direction of home, gradually and go.

Until dusk, that Su City river in the boat in the two women, walked off the boat, in this Su City streets, slowly walking, the face has changed, become very unusual appearance.

“Elder sister, you grew up here, is there any other good place to go in this Su City besides the painting boat. This time, after being in seclusion for so long, it’s not easy to come down the mountain once, so you should have fun.”

“You ah, I go home to visit my parents, you have to follow me back, Su city can’t have any fun place, wait tomorrow I’m going to visit the great Confucian Su Dao, his old man in his early years, had been a family friend with my family, you go there, don’t talk nonsense, although he is a mortal, but even the master has to be very courteous to him.”

The two are talking, a scholarly scribe walked past the two women, heard this and laughed, saw that these two women look very ordinary, but still stopped and laughed: “The two girls are afraid to leave Zhao for a long time, right, Su Dao great Confucian in more than ten years ago has returned, now my great Confucian in Zhao, named Wang Lin, is the disciple of the great Confucian of Su Dao it. ”

Those two women were stunned, the scribe shook his head and walked away with a smile.

“Wang Lin …… Wang Lin …… ah, senior sister, I remembered, during the day in that boat, the old man who looked at us, his appearance despite the old, but he is exactly that little scholar Wang Lin ah! ”

Zhou Rui’s footsteps lurched, she turned back violently, looking towards the distant river that dissipated into the blur of dusk, before her eyes seemed to float back to the blushing appearance of that young man back then.

“Senior sister, senior sister, what’s wrong with you?” Xu Fei looked at Zhou Rui, seemed to understand something, and softly said.

Zhou Rui was silent for a moment, gently shook her head, then walked with Xu Fei towards the distance, only she didn’t wait to walk out ten steps, then her silver teeth clenched, seemingly making some kind of determination.

“Wait for me!” Saying a word, Zhou Rui body swayed, the whole person directly into a long rainbow rushed into the sky, her sudden move, immediately in the surrounding caused a shock of horrified cries, but it is the surrounding pedestrians, with awe and disbelief, dumbfounded to look at this scene, until a long time to react.

“Fairy!!!”

“That’s the fairy!!!”

Xu Fei looked at Zhou Rui’s departing figure, his eyebrows wrinkled slightly as he sighed softly.

Su City sky, that river Zhou Rui Divine Sense spread out, while speeding through, while looking, only in the end, she still did not find that shadow.

Until she searched the entire Su City, still the same.

“Gone? ……” Zhou Rui also do not know what is wrong with her, she wants to see each other, but the creation of people, like two life trajectories, after staggering apart, a short period of time will not have another staggering.

Dozens of miles away from Su City, the carriage on the official road rattled forward in the bumps, Wang Lin sat in the carriage, let the wind blow and lift the cover curtain, sweeping past him.

He sipped his wine, his eyes looked out from within the lifted curtains, falling on the dim sky, I do not know what to think, his appearance, although not old, but no longer young, the gray hair at the temples seems to be in the sip of wine, and a few more silk.

Slowly, he saw in the dark sky, the white bird circled back, with him toward home, fly away.

When you get older, your body is not as good as when you are young, and when you are bumping around in that carriage for a long time, it is as if your bones are going to fall apart, and you are exhausted.

In this way, when walking and resting, they walked through the summer, in four months after a noon, Wang Lin and Dafu, from that distant Su City, into the range of Heng Yue Mountain, the autumn sun in the sky.

When they were walking, the flowers and leaves on both sides of the official road were red and green, and when they arrived, most of those flowers faded, and the leaves began to yellow, even though they hadn’t yet fallen, but they weren’t far away.

“Twenty eight years ……” Wang Lin looked at the surrounding grass and trees, there is a blur in his eyes, he still remembered that year when he left, he was still a teenager, and now he is back, he is already half a hundred.

Carriage in that creaking sound, slowly down the official road, into a quiet mountain village hidden in front, everything here, Wang Lin is very familiar, he grew up here.

There was no need to alarm too many neighbors, Wang Lin took Dafu and returned to his home that he had been away from for a long time.

Father and mother are still there, just when the body hard father, now need to crutches, in Wang Lin gray-haired mother’s old mother assisted, with a smile, looking at the wanderer home.

Even if this wandering son, became a great scholar of Zhao, became the pride of the Wang family, stepped on the peak, but in front of them, Wang Lin is still as twenty-eight years ago when they left, just their children.

It was the same now, and it was the same back then when they were received in Su City.

The carriage stopped outside the courtyard of the house, Wang Lin held onto the carriage and walked down, and at a glance, he saw his parents.

With a soft smile on his face, Wang Lin walked forward, threw off his hem and knelt on the ground.

“Father, mother, Tie Zhu is back.”

Dafu blinked, and after getting off the carriage, he simply went up and knelt down as well, exclaiming, “Father, Mother, Dafu is back.”

Wang Lin’s father laughed out loud and ignored Wang Lin for now, instead he went forward to help Dafu up, shook his head and laughed, “You, it’s still the same as it was back then, all these years you’ve been taking care of Ping’er, I’m not even grateful enough for that, don’t you dare to learn from him.”

Wang Lin stood up and looked at his parents’ happy smiles, an indescribable warmth welled up in his heart. He held his mother, assisted his father, and Dafu, the family walked inside the courtyard.

“Tie Zhu, this time back, when will you leave?” Wang Lin’s mother looked at her son kindly, he, was her pride.

“Still called Tie Zhu, Wang Lin is now our Zhao’s great scholar, great scholar do you understand, that’s a status that even the emperor has to be respectful when he sees it, don’t you see that the county magistrate is always coming over these years.” Wang Lin’s father glared at his old partner.

“This time, don’t go, Tie Zhu serves you all for the rest of your lives.” Wang Lin looked at his mother, looking at her head full of white hair and the wrinkles on her face, and said softly.

Wang Lin’s return to his hometown caused an uproar in the entire mountain village a few days later, and those neighbors from the past came in droves, wanting to take a look at the great scholar of Zhao who was also the pride and glory of their hearts.

Even the scholars of the county and a group of officials had also rushed here in the fastest possible time after learning about this matter, and at the same time, there were also those relatives of the Wang family.

Wang Lin’s father in the past few days, radiant, sweeping away the old, but the waist straight, his whole life, the most proud is to have a son like this, a great scholar of Zhao.

Especially after seeing so many people arrive at the same time, Wang Lin’s father was even more pleased, so he took out silver to arrange for a banquet in the village square.

The banquet in the village, originally was very simple, but in the crowd’s intention, eventually was extremely luxurious, that table of food, was called from the county cook, with materials rushed here to personally arrange.

Such, it is difficult to go one by one table, Wang Lin saw his father happy, also did not say anything, if not, to his character, is like quiet.

If it wasn’t for that, with his character, he would like to be quiet. Just that his parents were happy, so he went along with their arrangements.

During the table, those relatives of the Wang family, one by one came to pay respects to Wang Lin, that one respectful look, Wang Lin has seen too many too many, slightly nodded, let those people flattered.

Among these relatives, there were old uncles, the patriarch of the Wang family, and some of his peers.

This scene, Wang Lin looked at, vaguely in the dream had encountered, but that dream and now, there seems to be a lot of gap.

To be dusk, Wang Lin saw his parents slightly tired, then flung his sleeve and took his parents to leave, the end of this lively banquet, the rest of the people in a few days gradually dispersed, the village once again returned to the calm.

“Tiezhu, you are not young, why not take a wife …… alas.” Wang Lin’s father was a little drunk, muttered a few words, in a sigh and then no longer say this matter.

In this way, Wang Lin grew up in this hometown, slowly watching that sunrise and sunset, watching that years and years.

Until five years later, in the autumn of the thirty-third year after Wang Lin left the mountain village, in that autumn leaves were swept by the wind, rustling away on the ground, searching for their roots, Wang Lin’s father was lying on the bed, pulling Wang Lin’s hand, with reluctance in his eyes, but more than anything else, it was a sense of relief and pride.

“Tiezhu, father this life, because of you, and unforgettable …… father can not read, but find someone to put you all these years to be sorted out the words of the books read for a long time, you have said that the cycle of heaven and earth, birth, old age, sickness and death as spring, summer, autumn and winter, father remember … … “Wang Lin’s father’s face showed a smile, just under this smile, under that pride and comfort, there is still a wave of Wang Lin can feel the fear ……

He was afraid of death, afraid of not seeing his loved ones, afraid of the loneliness and unknown after death. He tightly grasped Wang Lin’s hand, as if it was the last root in his life, the last one to rely on.

The light in his eyes dimmed and revealed helplessness.

“Father, don’t be afraid, I’m by your side.” Wang Lin’s hair, too, had gone mostly white, he looked at his father, sadness showing in his eyes, holding his father’s hand, Wang Lin leaned forward and hugged his thin father, gently.

“Father, there’s me, don’t be afraid, there’s me.”

“Father, remember the birthday present you gave me when I was little, that little wooden pony, I found it the other day ……”

“Father ……”

Outside the yard, the village a hundred years ago seems to exist that big tree, through the vicissitudes of life, in the fall of this year, most of the leaves were taken away by the wind, but there is still a piece of hanging there, seems to always be unwilling to leave, in that the wind shaking, shaking shaking, it seems to use up the last of its strength, from the tree flew down, circling around, drew an arc, landed in the Wang family’s house on top of the house.

Wang Lin’s father in his arms, in Wang Lin’s gentle patting and soft voice, slowly no longer afraid, slowly closed his eyes, lost his breath, and collapsed in his son’s arms.

The leaves on that roof, seem to have a soul, fly up again, far away with the wind, far away.