“Mom, this is Mei Fang. I have never told you before. He is the best friend I have with me besides Xia Yuan. Today he is also here with me to visit you. You must protect him well and not let the monsters nearby bully him.”
“…”
Lin Youxi pushed Mei Fang’s shoulder, “I’ve finished introducing it, why are you doing stupidly? Say hello to my mother!”
“Hello, auntie! My name is Mei Fang…I…I am Lin Youxi’s good friend.”
Mei Fang looked at the photo of Lin Youxi’s mother on the tombstone. She smiled so brightly. Mei Fang suddenly didn’t know what to say.
At this moment, Lin Youxi suddenly closed her eyes and said something Mei could hear clearly “I think she could say in a low voice.”
“Mom, let me tell you. I had a fight with Mei Fang today… I was the first to throw a tantrum, but Mei Fang apologized and comforted me. I feel very guilty now, so I hope you will tell Mei Fang for me. I want to say sorry to him, and I hope he can forgive me.”
After Lin Youxi finished speaking, he opened his eyes and asked Mei Fang, “Have you heard my mother talk to you?”
Mei Fang nodded, “She told me that although her daughter Lin Youxi is a naughty and violent bad girl, she still hopes that I can be more tolerant and take good care of her…”
Lin Youxi blushed and punched Mei Fang, “My mother can’t say such things, please listen to me again!”
Mei Fang and Lin Youxi played and completed Youxi’s mother’s worship.
When Mei Fang was busy packing up her things and preparing to leave, Lin Youxi stopped at the tombstone next to her mother.
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Youxi looked at the tombstone beside her. “It seems that no one has paid homage to the grandma next door… I haven’t seen a new yellow paper or offering on the tombstone here this year.” “Maybe the family is too busy and don’t have time to come…or it’s because they have moved.” “This grandma is so pitiful.”
Lin Youxi said, then took a small apple on her mother’s offering table and respectfully placed it in front of the incense burner of the tombstone next door.
“Aren’t you afraid that my mother will get angry?”
“Mom and this grandma are neighbors. They should talk often, but it doesn’t matter if they just divide an apple.”
Lin Youxi pointed to the photo and said, “Look at my mother smiling so happily, she must not be a stingy person.”
“Yes.”
Mei Fang agreed with Lin Youxi’s statement. When she was about to leave, Lin Youxi pulled Mei Fang’s arm.
“Are you just in a hurry to leave? I finally came to see my mother and stay here for a while.”
Mei Fang looked up and saw that the weather was gloomy now, and he was actually a little worried that it would rain.
“Okay… I’ll follow you.”
Lin Youxi and Mei Fang sat on the small stone steps opposite their mother’s tombstone, chatting about some trivial topics.
But it was also told to my mother.
At the end, Lin Youxi suddenly asked Mei Fang, “Mei Fang, are you afraid of death?”
“Well… I’m afraid, of course I’m afraid.”
Mei Fang nodded seriously, “That’s a very painful thing, especially sudden death.”
“It seems like you’ve experienced it.”
“That’s not.”
Lin Youxi used Mei Fang’s truth as a joke and did not continue the topic.
“I think that after a person dies, there will be descendants or relatives and friends to worship. At this time, it is not completely dead. Just like my mother, she still lives in my father and I.”
“Well… that’s it.”
“But if my father and I die, we may still remember others, but no one will remember it.”
Lin Youxi’s voice sounded very sad.
“When that time, my mother will be like the grandmother next door, no one will come to worship and no one will remember it.”
There are three deaths in total, which is a very common saying.
But it is indeed amazing that Lin Youxi can understand this truth at a young age.
“But there is nothing I can do about it…”
“No, I don’t want to do this.”
Lin Youxi seemed to have made some determination, “When I grow up, I will definitely bring my child to see my mother. I want to tell my child that this is his grandmother and his mother’s mother. If I leave in the future, he can’t just remember to worship me, but also to worship my mother.”
Listening to Lin Youxi’s firm words, Mei Fang felt a little inexplicably moved.
In the culture of the Celestial Empire, we have almost god-like respect for our ancestors. The custom of worshiping ancestors is prevalent in this land, and the emphasis is on passing on the torch and incense is always prosperous.
However, with the development of the times, these inherited things have gradually been forgotten. The older generation who stayed in their hometown followed the traditions of the past, while most of the new generations struggled in rental houses in big cities.
As the older generation gradually faded away, some customs and habits seemed to be inevitable to avoid the fate of dying.