I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 419 Medioc's Tombstone

"Boom thump... thump thump..."

"call……"

The sudden knock on the door startled Ye Linhan,
Then I realized that it was probably a takeaway.

"Hello, takeaway..."

After a few breaths, Ye Linhan looked back from the "Ordinary and Great" in his hand,

To recover from the depressing story and world of that book.

"Thank you."

I took the takeaway, opened the takeaway box,

Ye Linhan ate his dinner in one gulp, and then glanced at "The Ordinary and the Great" which was temporarily placed on the sofa next to him.

This is a good work,

Maybe after he reads it, he can consider making a book push video.

With such a high popularity on the Internet, making such a video will definitely become popular.

Thinking of this incident, Ye Linhan was a little excited, feeling so energetic that he couldn't sleep tonight.

Of course, what he wants most now is to read the book in its entirety first.
Before he finished reading it, he really didn't have the heart to put down the book and do something else.

In addition,

He always feels that the writing style of this book, which writes the most appropriate and exquisite sentences without jerky and only uses ordinary vocabulary, and describes the story very smoothly, has an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
It's just a pity that his English level is limited, and he can't grasp the key points for the time being.

Just like that, I looked back and watched a better "Ordinary and Great", while eating takeaways.

Ye Linghan finished his dinner like this.

I wiped off the oil stains on my hands and food with a paper, and picked up "The Ordinary and the Great" almost devoutly.

Turn over the place you saw just now, and continue to look down.

……

In the book, the plot continues.

If little Gerrit is serious, it's like a rock-shattering shock.

The invisible wall that broke through is Hoth's limited cognition.

It was like a dark corner of Howth's mind, now illuminated by a lighted candle.

He has obviously used a method similar to bribery in exchange for the favor and favor of God in Burton's mouth.

But it never considered, using the same method, in exchange for the erection of the tombstone in front of Medioc's tomb.

why?
Perhaps he was still stuck on the fact that Medioc was a sinner.

Like that drop of blood on his trouser leg that can never be wiped off.

Hoss looked at the serious little Gerrit,
He opened his mouth, wanting to tell little Gerrit,

What he wanted was for Medioc to return to the bosom of the Lord,
Just like what Moss once said, Medioc can only return to the embrace of the Lord when the sin left by Medioc is paid off.

Instead of just erecting a tombstone for Medioc's grave.

But this sentence,

Howth couldn't say it,
After opening his mouth, he just made a sound.

"Um……"

Then Huos fell silent, but the expressions on his face changed.

On his tanned face, his brows were tightly furrowed, he sucked in his breath, his whole body was tense, trembling.

The Hoss at the moment is not that, the father of little Gerrit, more like the little Hoss who lost his father back then.

"...Father, you go, we can have dinner later."

Little Gerrit said to his father Hoss again.

After Hoss looked at little Gerrit again, he nodded,
"Then you will go home with me first, or..."

"I'll wait for you here, Howth."

Little Gerrit replied immediately.

Hoss looked at little Gerrit, turned and left without saying a word.

Little Gerrit looked at his father, who in his eyes had always been steady, strong, and silent most of the time,

At this time, he walked farther and farther, but gradually started to run.

Little Gerrit watched his father's figure disappear into the night,
Turning back, squatting down, facing the grave of grandfather Medioc,
"Grandfather Medioc, do you know that even if you commit a crime, the punishment is not ten silver coins..."

"The law of the church has never said that the crimes you committed in Medioc cannot be returned to the embrace of the Lord... But they have never told Father Hoss, told Medioc that the law is like this..."

Little Gerrit was talking to his grandfather's Medioc grave.

……

On the other side, Hoss walked faster and faster on the ridge,

Hastily returned home.

He didn't even change his clothes, he just picked up a whole sack of food and headed back to Burton's house.

Just walking in front of Burton's house, Hoss hesitated again.

The bag of grain was placed at his feet, but the whole person didn't walk any further.

"Hoss? Why are you here?"

Until Varina, who came out of the house, noticed Hoth and shouted.

Hoss was silent and didn't speak. He just picked up the bag of food and walked to the door.

"I'm looking for Uncle Burton."

"Well, he's in the house. It's a pity that Melia died. I hope you don't feel so sad."

"Ah."

Valina stepped aside,

"He's in the house, and we were going to have dinner."

Hoss stepped into the house carrying a large bag of food, and saw Burton's figure,

Burton was sitting at the table in the house, and when he heard the movement at the door, he had turned his head,

Burton's gaze first glanced at Hoss, and then at the bag of food that Hoss was carrying beside him.

"My dear Hoss, a devout believer of the Lord, come to me at this time, what's the matter?"

Burton stood up and walked towards Hoss, with a smile on his face, he reached out and hugged Hoss before backing away.

Hoss looked at Burton, clutching the sack of grain in the bag at his feet.

"Is it the death of Mrs. Milia? That is really a sad thing. Milia is a hardworking, intelligent, and pious woman. I believe she will return to the embrace of the Lord."

Burton said aloud again, and then looked outside the door behind Hawes,

"However, the death of Mrs. Milia may also cause you to lose the grace of God, so Hoss, are you going to add another woman to your family? Let little Gerrit have a stepmother?"

"Just right, I have a good candidate here, from the village..."

Before Burton could finish his sentence, Hoss clenched his hands tightly, trembling all over, interrupting Burton's words,
"I want to erect a tombstone for Medioc."

"Is this the only thing?"

Burton gave Howth a strange look,
"Oh! I thought you had something to do with me, but it turned out to be this matter."

"I thought you had already forgotten about it, after all, you never mentioned it."

Hoss was silent.

"My dear Howth, if it's just for this matter, where can I bring this generous gift, and only use half of the food here, I can re-host the ceremony of erecting the tombstone for Medioc."

Burton said easily, stretched out his hand, and took the bag of food from Howth's hand.

The matter that had troubled Hoss for half his life was resolved in an understatement.

In Burton's mouth, it is so worthless,
Not even the bag of grain that Hosti brought.

Hoss remained silent, but his tense body couldn't stop shaking.

"Oh, it's really a pity to talk about the matter of Medioc. But in the past so many years, Medioc's sins have disappeared like the wind."

"Do you know, Hoss, I haven't told you yet, the knight your father charged has died. A grand funeral was held, and he was buried behind the church in the town. heaven,

Will that knight and your father Medioc meet again. "

Burton didn't pay attention to Hoss's reaction, but turned around with some difficulty, carrying the bag of food that Hoss had brought,

Handed it to Varinna who had just entered the room,

Varinna dragged the sack of grain and leaned it against the wall of the house.

"Well, Hoss, it's already late tonight. Tomorrow, at noon tomorrow, I will hold a ceremony to erect a tombstone for your father."

"...Tonight, tonight, I will erect Medioc's tombstone by myself, and you will hold the ceremony tomorrow, okay?"

Hoss lowered his head, with a complicated expression on his face,

His body was still trembling, and his voice was hoarse.

Burton's response to this incident was easier than expected.

Listening to Hoth's words, looking at Hoth's appearance,
Burton gave him another strange look,
"Of course, if you wish."

"That way I can save some effort tomorrow."

Burton smiled as he spoke.

"Yes, you can go if you want. Burton will tell the people in the village and hold the ceremony for you."

This Valina, who often visits the grave of the child Walker, seems to be able to understand Hoth's thoughts,
She looked at Howth and said aloud.

"thanks……"

With a final hoarse word, Hawes turned and left the Burton house.

Turning around, Hoss could vaguely hear the conversation between Burton and Valina behind him.

"What's for dinner tonight?"

"Of course bean soup and black bread..."

"Oh... let's make some softer bread tomorrow, and use the ones brought by Hoss..."

later,
Hoss walked faster and faster in the night, and ran towards the cemetery in the village.

……

"Father, did Grandpa Burton agree?"

Little Gerrit still sits on the grave of his grandfather Medioc,
Hearing a voice behind him, looking back, he saw his father Hoss walking closer and closer from the distant night, and then his footsteps became slower and slower.

"accepted."

Hoss' eyes were a little red, and it was only such a short time to go back and forth that his eyes were bloodshot.

"Um……"

Little Gerrit looked at his father, stood up again, and stood beside him,

"Hoth, shall we erect Medioc's tombstone now?"

Little Gerrit looked at the forest trees not far away.

Hoss didn't answer Little Gerrit's words,
Just gradually bent his knees and crouched before Medioc's grave-bag,
As he squatted down, Hoss' body, which seemed to have remained unchanged, trembled more and more.
After squatting down, Hoss staggered a bit, then stretched out his hand,

The outstretched hand was also trembling.

Without using any tools, Howth used his hands to dig a piece of dirt in front of the grave.

Little Gerrit didn't speak any more, just stood by and watched Hoth's movements,
Hoss gradually dug a small hole in the soil in front of the tomb,
Hoss's hands, the nails are already full of mud, but they are already full of calluses, and the rough hands seem to know no pain,

Still digging down the dirt,

Until the digging went deeper, a branch, or one end of a small stick, rose from the soil.

Hoss saw the small wooden stick, paused, and then moved more slowly and cautiously,

The small wooden stick was planed out bit by bit.

Waiting for the dirt on the stick to be dug away,

The small wooden stick was lying flat, and half of it was embedded in the soil below.
The wooden stick has long been rotten, and the handwriting carved on the bark has long since rotted along with the bark.

It's like a rotting branch that just fell from that tree and got trampled into the dirt.

"what is this?"

asked little Gerrit.

Hoss looked at the small wooden stick that had been planed out, and stopped moving.
"The tombstone of Medioc, with the name of Medioc engraved on it."

Little Gerrit could no longer see Medioc's name on the rotten stick,

But he didn't speak again.

Father Hoss stretched out his hand and reached into the dug earth pit,

Buckle it with your fingers to pull out the stick.

It's just that the wooden stick is really decayed. When Hoss tried to take him out,
The rotten stick broke in two from the middle.

Or stopped again, looking at the wooden stick that had been cut into two in his hand,

Don't know what to think.

"Father, we can now give Medioc a new tombstone."

Little Gerrit looked at his father, took the two sticks from his father,

His father did not object,
Then little Gerrit picked it up, crushed the two rotten sticks into pieces, and threw them out.

Father Hoss watched, paused again, and then stood up.

"Ah."

After answering, he walked to the nearby forest.

Little Gerrit followed.

Two father and son are on the edge of the forest,
I chose a tree with a thick mouth,
Little Gerrit ran home and fetched felling tools,
Only then did he cut down the thick tree and cut it into two pieces.
Bundled together to make a tombstone.

On the new tombstone, Gerrit Jr. carved the name of his grandfather Medioc.

"Mediouc."

"A devout believer."

Little Gerrit carved very carefully, and the words he carved were much better than those carved by Hoss back then.

Maybe it can last longer.

"Father, it's all right."

Little Gerrit carved the words on the tombstone,

Hoss nodded, took the tool in his hand, and smashed the erected bit into the soil in front of the grave.

Hoss tensed up and used all his strength, as if trying to stabilize the tombstone in front of the grave.

I don't know if it was a lot of effort, Hoss gradually gritted his teeth, gradually widened his eyes,
Until the last drop, the tombstone has been firmly erected.

And Hoss fell to the ground in front of the grave as if he had lost all strength.

"Hoth!"

Little Gerrit shouted.

Hoss propped himself up, sat on the ground, panting heavily,

"It's okay...I'm fine..."

"I just need to sit, I just need to sit..."

Hoss gasped and said.

Little Gerrit saw that his father was fine, so he simply sat down beside his father.

Gradually panting for breath, Hoss, who was gradually recovering from the exhausted state,
Sitting on the ground in front of the tombstone, he slowly raised his head, looking at the newly erected tombstone in front of him,

I also looked at the grave bag behind the tombstone.

Now he sits high and looks at the grave behind the tombstone,
It was as tall as he looked at when he was young.

"Little Gerrit, Medioc's tombstone has been erected!"

Hoss looked at the tombstone and said.

"Well, father."

"Little Gerrit, Medioc's tombstone has been erected!"

Hoss repeated it even louder,
Little Gerrit also followed suit.

Hoss' body trembled a little, and then fell silent again.

Perhaps others in the village have forgotten that there is no tombstone in front of Medioc's grave,
But this is something that traps and binds Huoss all his life.

At this moment, Medioc's tombstone has finally been erected.

Young Gerrit and his father Hoss, sitting in front of Medioc's tombstone,
After sitting for a long time, the two got up and walked back home step by step.

That night.

Hoss fell asleep after tossing and turning in bed,

But I dreamed of the day when Medioc died,
Little Hoth's helplessness, fear and pain still linger in his heart.

At the end of the dream, Howth dreamed of the kingdom of the Lord.

It's just a country in a dream, but it's very similar to the town closest to the village.

Hoth was at the gate of the town and saw Medioc, who was about to enter the town.

In the dream, Huos felt some inexplicable joy in his heart.

Just following closely, Hoss saw Medioc, whose back was turned to him, was knocked to the ground by a heavily armored horse amidst the fear and trembling.

Immediately afterwards, the scene in the dream changed back to that day, the day Medioc died.

At last,
Howth woke up from this nightmare.

panting heavily, with sweat on his brow,
Turning his head back and forth, Hoss gradually came back to his senses,

I just remembered that Medioc's tombstone has already been erected...

In this way, he gradually calmed down and lay back on the bed again.

(End of this chapter)