C12

I turned off the light, climbed onto the bed with River Branch, cut a strand of our hair and divided it into twenty pieces. Then I tied our little strands together, tied them with little red strings, and placed them on twenty small plates.

After the hair was done, he placed twenty large red candles on a small plate and pressed them against our hair. They were arranged around the edge of the bed and lit. Then I took out the red rope and looked at the branch.

The red candlelight illuminated her flushed face. She whispered, "Turn around."

I obediently turned around with my back facing her. After a while, River Branch said, "It's done."

When I looked back, she was in the quilt, beside the clothes she'd taken off. I took off all my clothes and lay down under the covers and tied our hands together with a red rope and lay side by side.

The candlelight flickered, and River Branch asked, "Is this really okay?"

"I can."

"It's a little hot."

"That's right. It's summer and the electric fans aren't open yet and the blankets are still covering them. Other than us, there's no one else."

"Hmph, you're being dishonest!"

"Of course not, River Branch, what plans do you have for the future?"

"I don't have a plan. I just want to be a white-collar worker or something. "Don't earn too much money. Be carefree every day. Go shopping after work, eat good food, watch a movie on the weekend, or be lazy at home, listen to songs, watch TV, and live my life."

"Yes." I returned softly.

We talked about life as if we had never talked to her like this before.

Time passed bit by bit. By the time 12 o'clock arrived, all the candles had been extinguished.

I sat up and said to River Branch, "Put on your clothes, I'll go turn on the lights."

"En, you can open it after I'm done!"

I swiftly put on my clothes and used the moonlight coming through the window to walk to the switch. I waited for River Tree to finish shouting before I turned on the light.

I quickly checked the candles on the edge of the bed. Ten of them had already been burnt, and the other ten were only half burned.

The number of candles burned out meant that the lifespan of the River Branch had increased by many years. Ten of them were burnt out, and each of them was burnt in half. The total amount of them should be fifteen candles, so I lost fifteen years of my lifespan.

I lost fifteen years, the River Styx has gained ten more years, and there are still five more years left, which is to bribe this generation's Yin Division.

"Are you done?" River Branch asked softly.

I nodded. "Okay, you can live now."

I didn't tell her that in order to let her live another ten years, I wanted to live fifteen years longer.

"River water, you are really capable. It would be better to not stay in our village and go to a big city. Who knows, you might even have some achievements!"

I smiled, noncommittal. From the conversation I had with River Branch, I also discovered that there was a difference between my understanding of life and hers. She was deeply influenced by the melodrama, looking forward to the living environment of the sunny city, while I prefer the quiet countryside.

If we were to be together, this disagreement would only get worse and worse, and eventually, it would just get worse and worse. "But I don't regret it, because at this moment, I still like her very much.

"I'm going back." I said with some sadness.

River Branch was stunned for a moment and was a little disappointed. When I held onto the door handle, River Branch suddenly pounced on me and hugged me. After a deep kiss, she shyly ran to the bed with her back facing me.

I opened the door and went downstairs. Her parents were anxiously walking around the living room, and when they saw me come down, they asked, "How is it? Is it okay? "River water?"

"Alright, Uncle and Auntie, let's break up the happiness words. The River Branch is fine now, I'm going back to sleep."

"Oh, thank you so much!"

I walked out of her house and looked up at the lights in the upstairs windows, not sure if I was happy or not. I think that I should be happy if River Dew can live on. But why can't I laugh? Is it because I lost fifteen years of my life? To be honest, I have no concept of this. I have always felt that one doesn't have to live for too long. Maybe it was sad to discover that we were not on the same side.

When I got home, my grandfather was lying on a bamboo chair in the living room, listening to his old radio with a soft fan. Seeing that I had returned, he asked, "Is it done?"

"Yes." When I returned, there was an old song on my grandfather's old radio. Guo Fucheng sang in his crappy Chinese, "Should I leave quietly, or should I stay brave?"

"Grandfather, I want to send that family of three to their hometown." I made the decision all of a sudden.

His grandfather was a little surprised. "You're leaving now?"

"Mm. I can't leave during the day anyway. I'm in high spirits now, so I might as well leave now."

His grandfather took out a cigarette and said, "What I mean is that you don't want to benefit from being with that girl, River Branch?"

"No, if she comes to see me tomorrow, tell her that I've been away for a long time and won't be back." I said.

Grandfather didn't ask me why I made this decision. He said emotionally, "Humans don't grow up slowly, they grow up suddenly. River, you've grown up. "

I smiled, squeezed grandpa's shoulder, and pushed the motorcycle out. Pappy couldn't move, so he had to lie down on the bamboo chair and wave a fan at me, warning me to be careful on the way.

After pushing the motorcycle out of the village, I suddenly smiled in my heart. There was no one on the road, and the road ahead was very wide and full of unknowns. Perhaps this was the path that I should take.

Just leave those feelings of adolescence behind.

Around two in the evening, I arrived at a gas station, added fuel, and began to ride the motorcycle.

Grandfather said, the path of sending people away has always been lonely and proud. At this moment, I have a profound experience. The lonely thing is, what we do, will never be accepted by the public, and even some people will laugh at us for putting on a show. We are proud that we are willing to take the risk alone to send undead souls on their way.

At about five o'clock, when the sun was about to rise, I stopped at a fishpond and dug a shallow hole to bury the dead and dead of the family of three so that they would not be touched by the sun. Then he slept in the shed next to the fish pond. It was a little after nine in the morning, and he was woken up by the phone call. It was from River Branch.

I quietly looked at my mobile phone. The ringtone was the chorus of Yang Zongwei's "Actually Not". "I also looked forward to it, but there was no result …" Previously I only thought the melody was nice, but now I suddenly realized that the song had reached my heart.

When River Branch called for the third time, I picked up.

"River, why didn't you pick up my phone? Your grandpa said you went on a long journey, why didn't you tell me?" River Branch's voice was a little hurried and a little angry.

I coughed and pretended to be indifferent as I replied, "What did I tell you? Haha, it's not like we're close friends."

"What do you mean?" River Branch's voice was choked with sobs.

"It's nothing. I hope you don't misunderstand. I was just watching my classmate and I didn't want you to die at such a young age, so I lied to you. I said that I liked you, and the purpose was to think about the process when you didn't mind." Actually, if it was anyone else who did not know me, I would also be like this. For generations to send their spirits to someone else, other than giving them to someone else, saving someone is also my duty. "

When I said this, my eyes were red. The river branch on the other end of the phone was speechless. I hastily replied, "Alright, I have some matters to attend to. Farewell." After hanging up.

I went to a small shop in the village and bought a bag of instant noodles. I also recharged my phone, so I had to rely on it to navigate during the night.

After dark, he dug out the bones of the family of three and continued on his way.

For three consecutive days, he travelled every day at night. When the sun rose, he would stop to rest. On the fourth night, they crossed the provincial border. On the same road, on the provincial monument one side of the road is flat, but on the monument the other side of the road is so rotten that I was about to vomit on my motorcycle.

There were a lot of holes on the road, some of them were even sticking up. I slipped a few times and fell all over in the mud. We can't go this way anymore, or we'll fall to death on this road. I looked at the navigation carefully, saw a path that could be crossed, and went around it.

They followed the path for more than an hour and didn't see a single house. The cement on the path was covered in grass. It seemed that no one had walked there in a long time.

Finally, at around 2 PM in the evening, he met a village. I stopped in the yard of one of the houses, still in the old well, and when I got out I washed myself in the mud and went on my way. However, he estimated that half an hour had passed and they still hadn't left the village. Normally, the countryside wouldn't be this big.

I turned the phone on and navigated. After locating it, I rode on for another ten minutes. Then I looked at the navigation screen and saw that I was still there!

There's something blocking my way! I stopped the bike, lit a cigarette, and looked around warily.