Chapter 2079 When it opened again

I don’t know which autumn it was, when the autumn leaves fell with the wind, curled up and danced in the sky, as if looking for a home.

The autumn sky was clear and blue, looking very beautiful. On the ground, in this autumn morning, the smoke from the chimneys rose into the sky, looking like a farm like a peach garden.

This is Zhao, and the people who live here have never gone far from home in their entire lives, let alone here, which is a remote place in Zhao, a small mountain village at the foot of a mountain range.

When the morning wind blows the autumn leaves, the sound of suona rises from the village, and some naughty children run with a simple and excited laugh.

A red sedan chair is surrounded by a crowd in the village and stops outside a courtyard. The noise is deafening. Obviously, this family is welcoming the bride.

The family’s ancestors were said to be carpenters, and the current generation was a scholar who was said to have passed the county exam, but for some reason, instead of going to the capital, he returned to this place and settled down.

Now, more than twenty years have passed, and the scholar has become middle-aged. He has a single son who is also growing up. Today is the happy day of the child named Wang Lin.

Wang Lin grew up here, and the villagers in the neighborhood all knew him very well. The child was very poor. He was a mute and always looked into the distance in silence, not knowing what he was looking at.

When the lively sounds were flying, a woman with her head bowed and a red coverlet came out of the sedan chair. The woman’s hand was held by Wang Lin, who was standing next to her, and the two of them walked into the courtyard.

Speaking of this woman, all the young people in the village have a crush on her. She is the second daughter of the Liu family, a wealthy family in this area. When she was a child, she liked to be with Wang Lin. The two of them could be said to be childhood sweethearts. They could often be seen sitting together, looking into the distance at the same time.

Now that they have grown up, no one is surprised that the two of them are getting married.

The happy events of the village households are often not as extravagant as those in the county seat, and they are very simple. The host family arranged a wedding banquet and invited everyone in the village to congratulate them. When the sun set in the west, it was over.

The rest of the time belongs to the newlyweds.

In the new house, when Wang Lin, with his honest face, lifted the curtain of his wife, he saw a breathtakingly beautiful face.

The woman was called Liu Mei.

Her face flushed slightly as she looked at Wang Lin and laughed.

The two of them locked eyes, as if they had looked at each other like this in the past, in the cycle of reincarnation, until eternity.

On the second day of their marriage, Liu Mei sat in the courtyard, opposite Wang Lin, who was smiling. He had a wooden carving in his hand, carving the most beautiful scene for his wife.

The plain life was filled with warmth. In the blink of an eye, two years passed. They had a child, a boy, whose name was Wang Ping.

The boy was very smart and articulate. As he grew up, the three of them seemed very happy in their warm life.

On weekdays, Wang Lin did not study with his father, but chose to follow the carpentry skills passed down from his ancestors and live in this quiet little mountain village.

His wife, Liu Mei, has a deep affection for her child. She spends most of her time with Wang Ping, cooking for him in the morning, playing with him during the day, and reading stories to him at night to help him fall asleep.

Ten years later, when Wang Ping was 15 years old, he chose to study and left the small mountain village to go outside and take the county’s big exam.

On the day he left, he saw his mother sitting in the courtyard. His father carved a second wooden sculpture of his mother, and it was still very beautiful.

Wang Ping successfully passed the imperial examination and, a few years later, went to the capital. Wang Lin and Liu Mei accompanied him and settled down in the capital.

As the years passed, Wang Lin and Liu Mei’s hair became white. Wang Ping had his own way in the capital with his fame.

At this time, Wang Ping married a wife. His wife had a very beautiful name, Qingyi, and she was a very beautiful girl from a wealthy family in the capital.

She was very filial to Wang Lin and Liu Mei, making them happy, but also sad, because from then on, Wang Lin represented a family that had become established, like a bird that had grown up and would fly high in the sky, perhaps not returning home for a long time.

Wang Lin and Liu Mei chose to leave. They left the capital and returned to the quiet mountain village to spend the rest of their lives.

After returning to the old house in the village, Wang Lin carved a third wooden sculpture for Liu Mei. The face on the sculpture was marked by the passage of time, but it was still very beautiful.

Life is like this, full of monotony, without too many ups and downs. Wang Lin enjoyed every day with Liu Mei. Although he never said a word to her in his whole life, they watched the sunrise and sunset together, and there was warmth in their eyes. Gradually, they had more and more gray hair.

Time passed in this warmth. When autumn came again that year, Wang Lin and Liu Mei had completely grown old. Their son Wang Ping occasionally came back over the years, but each time he didn’t stay long and left in a hurry.

The two old people sat in the courtyard, Liu Mei smiling, looking at Wang Lin across the way. Wang Lin had a wooden carving in his hands. He looked at Liu Mei and was carving it for her. Perhaps it was the last wooden carving in their lives.

The wood carving gradually took shape in Wang Lin’s hands, gradually outlining the appearance of Liu Mei, but not the white hair of today, but as beautiful as the day they got married.

“I know that even if you never spoke to me in your whole life, you’re not mute…” Liu Mei looked at Wang Lin and saw the slowly forming sculpture in his hands, her eyes gentle.

Wang Lin looked up at Liu Mei, smiled, shook his head, and still didn’t speak.

On the third day after the statue was finished, Liu Mei fell ill. She was lying in bed, and her old face still showed the beauty of her youth. She held Wang Lin’s hand, which was sitting by the bed, and never let go.

“I know, you’re not mute…”

“Do you remember when we were little and first met? At that time, you were looking at the sky, and I was curious about what you were looking at. I came to your side to take a look with you.

But I didn’t see anything. When I was about to leave, you suddenly spoke to me, and the first thing you said to me… you remember, and I remember…” Liu Mei looked at Wang Lin, and the tenderness in her eyes was like water.

“You told me that I was your wife… and you were my husband… this was our destiny.” Liu Mei’s eyes were misty, and her smile was even softer. She looked at Wang Lin, as if she was immersed in that memory.

Wang Lin also laughed. He held her hand and didn’t let go.

The two of them looked at each other like this, and Liu Mei always spoke, speaking about a lifetime of words, speaking about her youth, speaking about after marriage, speaking about having Wang Ping.

“Ping’er is a good boy, but he has grown up and has his own path… We can’t keep him by our side forever… After I leave, you will be left alone, and you will have to take care of him.” Liu Mei muttered.

Wang Lin shook his head and looked at Liu Mei with a gentle gaze.

Liu Mei continued talking until the night passed, until the morning sun shone down, and the autumn wind blew the yellow leaves spinning in the sky and earth. Liu Mei’s eyes became confused, and she suddenly grabbed Wang Lin’s hand.

Her wrinkled face was flushed, as if she were experiencing a moment of glory, as if her weak body had been infused with a new vitality.

“I saw it… Wang Lin, I saw it…” She struggled to sit up, her face full of surprise, pointing to the sky outside the window and quickly saying to Wang Lin.

“I saw what was in the sky that we saw together when we were young. I really saw it! I saw that there was a you and a me in the sky…

I saw… we were immortals… I… I…” Liu Mei said, suddenly tears welled up in her eyes. She saw a scene that made her heart ache with unreality.

“I… how could this happen…” Tears welled up in Liu Mei’s eyes.

“Everything is over…” Wang Lin said to Liu Mei, speaking the first words they had spoken after they had married. His voice was hoarse and contained a softness.

That night, when Wang Ping took his wife and resigned from his official position, he returned to his hometown to be with his parents. He saw his parents in the room, as if they were sleeping, with a smile on their faces, and they had passed away.

He stood in front of his parents, staring blankly for a long time, and tears rolled down his face… His mind flashed back to the faces of his parents and the memories of his childhood.

After the funeral, Wang Ping and Qing Yi lived in the old house until the years passed, until they grew old, until they closed their eyes.

In the cave that the thirteen guardians protected, Wang Lin and Mu Bingmei sat cross-legged with their eyes closed. Between them, there was a rotating bead that emitted a faint light, as if connecting the two of them.

On this day, Wang Lin opened his eyes and looked at the woman next to him for a long time.

The woman’s eyelashes trembled, and tears flowed down her face. She opened her eyes and looked at Wang Lin. The two of them gazed at each other, as if in a dream, as if they were destined to be together forever.

“Is it over…?” Mu Bingmei muttered.

“It’s over. Close your eyes and when you open them again, everything will be a new beginning…” Wang Lin said softly. He knew that the woman in front of him had very complicated feelings for him, but no matter how complicated they were, she would never let go.

Mu Bingmei looked at Wang Lin in a daze. She didn’t know what Wang Lin meant by this, but obediently closed her eyes, blocking the tears from flowing for a moment.

“Open your eyes…” A familiar voice came to her ear.

When she opened her eyes, she saw.