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Chapter 155 The Last Story
"Brother, brother!"

"Huh? What's the matter, Ling?"

"Hmph, I told you to ignore me for a long time! Is that mountain so beautiful?"

"That mountain is not pretty at all."

"Then you still watch it every day, won't you get bored?"

"No, because that's the furthest thing I can see. When I'm an adult, I'll definitely climb over it and look over the mountain. Until then, I'm going to keep looking at it, I know It's been watching me too, I can feel it, it's lonely, it wants me to go find it."

"But mother said no one can climb that mountain, it's too high."

"I can definitely do it! I am an eagle. Eagles are born to belong to the sky. The sight of eagles will not be blocked by mountains!"

"Well... can I go then? I also want to go to the other side of the mountain to have a look!"

"Okay! Then it's settled, when you grow up, let's go together!"

……

"Grandma! Grandma!"

Grandma came back to her senses, her expression in a trance.

In recent days, she has been getting more and more distracted.She looked at the children as always, but she often slipped into memories when she looked at them. The memories buried deep in her heart were so clear, as if she was not recalling, but truly returned to her childhood, back to that shocking period. The years of nostalgia.

She remembered that the elders said that when people get old, they will miss their childhood.

She had never had a similar experience before, and she thought that she could escape the vulgarity, but now it seems that she is just not old enough.

"Grandma, have porridge."

Lan Hua served her grandma to drink the cooked meat porridge.

The meal in the morning is usually relatively simple and light. Of course, there is no difference for Grandma, she always eats porridge in the morning and evening.

Under Lin's guidance, the porridge cooked by women should be very delicious, but unfortunately she can't taste it. A long time ago, she didn't know how to taste it. She didn't tell anyone about it. She didn't before. Not in the future.

In fact, even swallowing becomes difficult and painful.

Grandma drank the hot porridge with a smile on her face, and gave the women a thumbs up.

These outlandish gestures served her well, allowing her to express herself silently.

"Aunt, are you going to the mountains?"

Orchid sends out an invitation to go to the bathroom together.

The tribe's work and rest are very regular, and it has become a habit to defecate after getting up early. The whole mountain is the tribal hut, and the toilet follows the tradition of "men left and women right". Men go to the forest on the left side of the cave, and women go to the forest on the right side of the cave.

Grandma made an "OK" gesture.

Lan Hua wanted to help Grandma, and after returning from the sacrificial ceremony, Grandma no longer rejected her support, but today Grandma pushed her arm away uncharacteristically, stood up calmly, and walked out of the cave.

Grandma seems particularly energetic today, and she seems to have finally recovered from the exhaustion of the long journey.

Thinking of this, Lan Hua followed Grandma's footsteps with a smile on her face.

Grandma stopped outside the cave, raised her eyes to the southern sky, and looked at the towering mountain blocking her view.

Qingshan is still lonely, and the eagle that vowed to fly high is no longer there.

"Mom..."

Grandma withdrew her gaze and followed Lan Hua into the forest.

After returning to the cave, she exchanged glances with three other elderly men who were very old and unable to walk. They understood that the time had come.

Grandma told Lan Hua: "Call everyone over here."

All the members of the Dahe Tribe gathered at the same fire. This kind of battle usually took place in the "story meeting" at night, but it was rare in the morning.

Obviously, Grandma must have something very important to explain.

Grandma looked at her children, her eyes flicked to every familiar face, and she stayed for a moment longer when the day came.

Tian, ​​who has been obsessed with the sky since she was a child, always reminds her of a boy who looked at the distant mountain, the other side of the mountain that the boy failed to reach, and she believed that the sky would lead the people there.

Grandma said: "I haven't told you a story for a long time. I have told my stories many times, and you have heard them many times. You must be tired of hearing them."

The people of the tribe immediately said that there was nothing wrong with it, and the stories told by grandma would never get tired of hearing.

Grandma smiled and said: "Even if you are not tired of listening, I am tired of telling. Now Youtian and Lin will share the burden for me. The stories they tell are very good. I like them very much. With them here, you don't have to worry about whether you will be in the future." Listen to the story."

Zhang Tian and Lin Yu looked at each other, both of them smelled something unusual from these words, they vaguely noticed what Grandma wanted to do.

Grandma went on to say: "Today I want to tell you the last story, a story you have never heard, and I have never told you, I have a brother who loves me very much, his name is Eagle, this story is exactly about him."

……

"Brother Heihu, you are so strong, why don't you go to the other side of the mountain and have a look? You can definitely climb over that mountain!"

"That mountain is too far away, far beyond our usual hunting range."

"Isn't the valley camp far away? You can go to the valley camp, why can't you go to that mountain?"

"We went to the valley camp to hunt giant beasts, not to play..."

"I didn't go to that mountain for fun. What if there are giant beasts on the other side of the mountain? Why don't you go and see? How do you know if you don't see it?"

"Where do so many questions come from!"

Hei Hu got a little impatient with this pestering boy, glared at him and said, "Don't ask any more! If you don't go, you don't go. There is no reason in the world of adults. You will know when you become an adult!"

Ying curled his lips, turned to look at his mother, and said in a very firm tone: "When I grow up, I must go to the other side of the mountain to see!"

"well……"

Teng Ye responded perfunctorily, grabbed her daughter's ears, brought her to the eagle, and said: "I'm going to the mountains to collect food, watch your sister, don't let her run around."

Ling rubbed her ears and said loudly, "I never run around!"

"As long as you do what you say, I will call you mother from now on."

Her daughter is good at everything, but her energy is too high, she can't sit still, if no one is watching, she will run away in a short while.

Teng Ye said solemnly: "I can tell you, now that the warm weather has just arrived, the beasts in the forest have been starving for a cold day, and they are all hungry. Those beasts look at you, just like we look at rabbits. Is the rabbit delicious?"

"good to eat!"

"Then you understand how delicious you are in the eyes of the beast? Do you understand?"

"understood!"

Ling nodded like a pounding garlic, stretched out her two delicate arms, pushed her mother out of the cave, and urged her to go out: "Let's go! Everyone is waiting for you!"

"You kid..."

Teng Ye picked up the bamboo basket, picked up the digging stick, gave Ying a few words, and then went into the mountain with the collection team.

The eagle watched his mother leave, and then climbed up the bare rock, staring at the eternal majestic mountain in the distance.

"Brother, brother!"

"Huh? What's the matter, Ling?"

"Hmph, I told you to ignore me for a long time! Is that mountain so beautiful?"

"..."

"Okay!" Eagle grinned, "Then it's settled, when you grow up, we'll go together!"

Ling rolled her eyes, sighed and said, "It will take a long time to grow up, why don't we go now!"

"Not now!" Eagle shook his head, "I'm not strong enough to protect you right now, but when I'm strong enough, I'll accompany you wherever you want to go."

"I didn't say to go to that mountain. We walked around in the nearby mountains. We didn't leave the cave in a cold day. We finally waited until the warm weather. Don't you want to go to the mountain? Mom said, when the warm weather comes, the forest will All the flowers are in full bloom, red, yellow, blue, white, pink... very beautiful!"

Ying was a little moved. He wanted to go to the mountains more than anyone else, but he immediately suppressed the idea and asked his sister: "Mother also said that you are not allowed to run around, why didn't you listen?"

"So I asked you to go with me! I'm running around alone, and it's okay to be with you! Could it be that...you dare not?"

Ling changed the subject, and said in a slightly mocking tone: "Hey, my good brother said that he will climb that mountain that no one can climb in the future, and he said it very loudly, but in fact he didn't even dare to cross the mountain near the cave. Go, haha, how funny!"

Youthful spirits are the most unbearable.

The eagle jumped up three feet high, blushing and said: "Who said I dare not!"

"Mom said, it's better not to talk than to do it." Ling put her hands on her hips, looking like a little adult.

"you!"

His younger sister has been eloquent since she was a child, no adults can speak against her, let alone him?

"Just go! If there is anything you dare not!"

The eagle jumped off the rock angrily, turned around and headed towards the forest.

Ling was very happy, and immediately chased after him, smiling and offering rainbow farts: "My brother is the bravest! You will definitely be able to climb that mountain in the future!"

The forest in early spring was still a bit chilly in winter. The two people walking through the thick bushes and vines were respectively immersed in tension and excitement. The rapid secretion of adrenaline prevented them from feeling the coolness.

Eagle was holding a fairly thick wooden stick, nervously watching his surroundings. After all, he had never hunted before. Thinking of men's terrifying descriptions of poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains, it was impossible to say that he was not afraid at all.

Only Ling has a big heart.

She hopped like a lively rabbit among the wild growth trees, marveling at the colorful weeds and wild flowers everywhere, white trillium, pink camellia, yellow kalanchoe, blue gentian, and so on. There are red, white, and purple crocuses...the list goes on and on.

"Don't run around!"

Eagle repeated his mother's advice.

But after entering the mountain, how can he control his wayward sister?

Ling Zao put her mother's advice behind her, ignored her brother's obstruction, and ran to the depths of the mountain forest following the scent of flowers, collecting flowers of different colors, chasing butterflies, catching insects, and going down to the stream to catch fish... had a great time Happy.

"Ling! It's time to go back!"

Ling glanced at the sky: "It's still early!"

"We are far away from the cave, and it will be too late to go back after sunset. We must go back before it gets dark!"

"Let's play a little longer!"

Ling hasn't enjoyed herself yet.

Ying grabbed her arm, scowled, and said sharply, "Go back!"

Ling was taken aback, her brother usually doted on her, how could he be so stern?
She wrinkled her nose slightly dissatisfied, flattened her mouth, and said reluctantly, "Okay."

Holding her breath in her heart, she deliberately dawdled on the way back, playing while walking.

Watching the sun go down, Ying became more and more anxious, urging his sister to quicken his pace.

But the more he urged, the slower Ling walked.

Hmph, who told you to yell at me?I'm dying of you!
Seeing her brother anxious, she felt the pleasure of revenge welling up in her heart.

The forest gradually dimmed, and Ying's heart was already in his throat. He grabbed his sister's hand and pulled her to speed up the pace.

Suddenly, a little fluorescent light slowly flew past Ling's eyes.

so beautiful!
She immediately broke away from her brother's hand, chased the fluorescent light, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Ling!"

The eager call of the eagle echoed in the dark forest.

……

Hearing this, everyone's hearts were suspended, but Grandma suddenly kept silent.

Bai immediately asked: "And then?"

"And...remember the story of the stars?"

"Remember!"

As soon as Grandma reminded her, Bai remembered: "In the story of Xing Xing, Grandma also chased fireflies into the forest after dark, and then met a dire wolf."

"Because the story of the stars is the continuation of this story, or in other words, this story is the original appearance of the story of the stars."

"But there is no elder brother in Xing Xing's story."

The grandmother showed a sad expression, she was silent for a long time, and said with self-reproach: "I killed my brother and mother."

Her brother was the first to find her.

In order to save her, Ying waved the wooden stick in his hand and rushed towards the fierce wolf that was almost as big as a horse without hesitation. At that time, the grandmother, who was still a little girl, witnessed her brother's chest being torn open and his neck bitten off. It is a forbidden zone in her memory, and she still dare not touch it to this day.

If she hadn't encouraged her brother to go to the mountains to play, if she had listened to her brother's advice and went home early, if she hadn't chased that firefly... Eagle would have become an excellent hunter and climbed the mountain that belonged to him.

It's all her fault.

She never mentioned her elder brother to the tribe, also because of this self-blame and guilt.

After that incident, the lively and willful Ling's temperament changed drastically, and she became the current calm, calm, and well-behaved grandmother.

She couldn't and dared not make the same mistake again.

It wasn't until after the sacrifice that she had that dream, in which she apologized to her brother and got his forgiveness, that she dared to bring up the past again.

"These days, I often dream about my brother, he is on the top of that mountain, the mountain that he wanted to climb, and he did it. I promised to go with him, I haven't done it yet To. I think it's time to fulfill my promise to my brother."

As Grandma said, her trembling hands took out the "family tree" full of knots from the folds of her coat.

Everyone turned pale, Lan Hua said anxiously: "Grandma, we need you, you can't just leave us like this!"

"Mom!"

Everyone realized what Grandma was going to do, and shouted in unison, wanting to stop Grandma's further actions.

But Grandma shook her head: "No, you have grown up and become as brave as my brother, you have your own mountains waiting for you to climb, you don't need me anymore, I am tired, very tired, I miss my brother, I miss my mother, I want to go back to them and be a carefree little girl."

"After the sacrifice, I should have left. It was my mother who asked me to come back and watch you prepare for the migration. Now, children, don't cry. I am happy, and you should be too. I believe you I will definitely reach the other side of the mountain and live a better life. I will watch you from that mountain, and I will watch you as a star, just like every ancestor who has passed away."

Grandma cut the knot that belonged to her cleanly and threw it into the fire.

She continued: "Bear paw, bear heart and bear gall will accompany me on my journey."

The hand raised the knife and fell, and three more knots fell into the fire, and were swallowed up by the blazing flames in an instant.

The three elderly people were smiling. They had already discussed with their grandmother. Given their physical condition, they may not be able to survive this winter. die on the road.

It is better to leave with dignity than to hold the children back.

At least until the last moment, what they leave to their children is still a glorious image of calmness, calmness, selflessness and fearlessness, rather than a demented old man who suffers from illness, cannot take care of himself, and is eventually rejected by others.

Grandma said without changing her face: "I hope that Lan Hua will take over the position of chief. If you have different opinions, you can speak out now."

"Mom..."

Lan Hua broke down in sobs, choked up and called out to her mother, but was speechless again.

Everyone was in tears, how could they have the mood to express their opinions?

Lin Yu lowered his head to wipe his eyes and burst into tears. Even Zhang Tian couldn't help but get red eyes when he recalled the day and night together for so many days.

Grandma still followed the rules, looked around and saw that no one objected, so she handed over the family tree in her hand to Lanhua.

Orchids don't pick up.

Grandma put on a straight face and said seriously: "You are already the chief, are you going to disregard the situation of the tribe because of your own emotions?"

Lan Hua bit her lip. She was in great pain but had no choice but to take over the family tree that symbolized the identity of the chief.

Grandma finally smiled and said, "Tian and Lin, you are sky priests and wizards respectively. In the tribe, you have the same status as chiefs. I hand over the Dahe tribe to you three, take good care of my tribe. "

Zhang Tian, ​​Lin Yu and Lan Hua nodded vigorously.

Grandma waited for the four elderly people to stand up unsteadily. Others stretched out their hands to help, but they were flatly rejected.

"Don't send it away! Don't follow us secretly, we are savages now, we can go wherever we want, it has nothing to do with you!"

Grandma spoke very unfeeling words in a very unfeeling tone. Her children cried even harder, but she ignored them. Together with the three old people, they walked straight out of the cave and walked towards the silent and cold world.

Grandma stood where her brother had stood for the last time, looking at the eternal mountain in the distance.

The eagle floated down from the top of the mountain, and in a blink of an eye it floated in front of his sister, with a gentle and doting smile on his face as always.

"Ling, you're here!"

"Brother, didn't we agree to climb the mountain together? Why didn't you wait for me?"

"Hey, I'll go explore the road first. Don't worry, I'm strong enough now to protect you well. In the future, no matter where you want to go, I will accompany you!"

(End of this chapter)