This time, Chen Fan stopped in a small village.
The village has been dilapidated. Almost all the huts have collapsed due to disrepair. Only one hut still has smoke rising.
Chen Fan approached the hut, pushed open the gate, and hit a tombstone standing head-on.
Beloved wife, the tomb of Ewha.
"You are here to find me."
A simple-looking young man walked out of the hut, not looking like a monk, but like an ordinary hunter.
With a smile on his face, there was no resentment when he looked at Chen Fan, and there was no extra plainness.
It's like a hospitable host, welcoming friends from afar.
"I……"
"I know what you are here for, but can you wait for me?"
Orion smiled and interrupted Chen Fan's words, and invited him into the hut, but he carefully watered the plants and fowls in the small courtyard.
He even brought an old yellow dog in the house, hit two hares, and hung them on the eaves.
Throughout the whole process, Chen Fan had been watching silently by the side, without speaking or interrupting.
He seemed to feel that everything that Orion did was full of ritual, as if he was not doing the simplest thing in the world, but was doing a pilgrimage.
After Orion finished all the trivial matters, he finally stopped in the small courtyard, in front of the tombstone.
Carefully took out a white handkerchief from his arms, the Orion's sweat-stained face and the blood-stained animal skin shorts formed a sharp contrast.
It is hard to imagine that such a rough man would carry such a slender, white and flawless handkerchief with him.
Orion just wiped the tombstone in front of him lightly, his eyes were gentle, the corners of his mouth had a slight smile, and even when he listened carefully, he could still hear him singing some unknown ballad.
"Do you have a lover?"
Orion turned his head to look at Chen Fan and asked kindly.
At the moment when this question appeared in his ears, Chen Fan thought of Jianxin, and thought of the pain he would never go away in his life.
"She is Jianxin, the person I love most in my life."
Chen Fan loves many people in the country, but if you want to add a most in front of love, I am afraid that only Jianxin is qualified in the whole world.
Orion was also very emotional, touching the tombstone in front of him with love and compassion, as if mumbling to himself, and as if talking to Chen Fan.
"Ewha doesn't have a surname. When I first met her, she was like a little rabbit, hiding behind a pear tree, looking at me shiveringly."
"Now, I seem to have forgotten her appearance, but the situation of the first meeting is still imprinted in my heart."
"We got married and lived happily together for decades, and then I watched her take one last breath in bed."
"Ewha told me before she died that she likes cleaning the most in her life, and she wants me to wipe her tombstone every day. Now that counts time, thousands of years have passed. I really didn't expect me to stick to it."
With a self-deprecating smile on his face, Orion shook his head, as if he didn't want to mention the past.
He just said to Chen Fan with a pleading expression: "Can you please build a burial mound for me later and bury me and Lihua together?"
"I know what you are here for, and I know what my ending will be like, so this is the only wish left."
Chen Fan was silent and didn't speak for a long time, so he looked at Orion carefully.
"Are you sure you want me to do this?"
"I confirm!"
Orion's face showed unprecedented firmness.
But after receiving Chen Fan's nod, his firmness became relief.
The corners of Orion's eyes began to wet, and his body gradually faded. With a teardrop falling to the ground, his whole person, also turned into a plume of blue smoke, penetrated into Chen Fan's hands.
Only an old animal skin short coat remained on the ground, indicating that everything was not an illusion.
Chen Fan slowly picked up the animal skin short coat and waved his hand slightly, and the grave in front of him was parted on both sides.
There is nothing in it, and there is no Ewha's skeleton.
Because everything is just beautiful.
The whole world that Chen Fan lived in was illusory, and it was based on Zu Long's inner obsession.
There is nothing but seven strands of obsession here, so how can there be a pear flower?
However, this is the most worrying thing.
Some people have loved for a lifetime, but they don’t know the one they love.
Some people try their best, but still can't save the one they love.
"I can't ask, I can't ask."
These three words kept echoing in Chen Fan's mind.
Perhaps it is the true meaning of love if you can't ask for it.