Water Splashing Festival: Pink gun dazzles foreign girlfriend

Chapter 73: I left as a young man, and returned as a -year-old soul

The prayer wheel in the old man's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and he looked at the small coffin wrapped in red cloth in disbelief.

I left with the body of a young man, and returned with the soul of a man of sixty.

More than 60 years have passed since that simple and honest man who was 1.8 meters tall was now left with only such a small coffin.

The old man lay on the coffin, crying bitterly, and was unable to get up for a long time.

She had been waiting for this belated hug for more than sixty years, and finally got it today!
After sixty years of waiting, at this moment, the result finally came to fruition.

The coffin had no temperature, but she felt an unprecedented warmth.

"The mountains and rivers are safe, and the loyal souls are buried in the majestic mountains!"

Yang Xuan sighed softly.

I didn't expect to meet the returning heroic spirit here.

Not only Yang Xuan, everyone in the hall stood still, in awe!
Many people even took off their hats and bowed.

Lina didn't know why everyone was doing this, but when she saw everyone doing it, including Yang Xuan, she immediately followed suit and bowed slightly.

"Comrade Liu Jianjun, this is the toy your father made for you in his spare time when he was fighting in the war!"

A man in plain clothes took out a broken and yellowed rattle from his bag and handed it to the middle-aged man.

"He originally wanted to give it to you as a gift on your first birthday, but he didn't expect that more than 60 years would pass before he finally gave it to you!"

The middle-aged man carefully took the rattle, his hands shaking uncontrollably and hot tears welling up in his eyes.

He looked carefully at the not-so-delicate rattle, feeling the fatherly love that he had never felt since childhood.

I watched other children have fathers, go swimming in the river with their fathers, learn to ride a bicycle with their fathers’ company, and sit on their fathers’ shoulders to go shopping together.

He didn't understand why he had no father?

How much he longed to grow up under his father's care.

Unfortunately, he could only envy silently!

He even hated Liu Hongwei, the father who had been absent from his entire life!

It was not until he grew up and gradually understood the truth, and knew that his father sacrificed his life defending his country, that his hatred gradually dissipated.

But the fatherly love that he had never experienced was still something he longed for and expected so much!
Until this moment, holding the rattle that his father had made bit by bit whenever he had time on the battlefield amidst the war, he finally felt the fatherly love he had never felt before.

He is not a child without fatherly love. His father loves him more than anyone else!
And that deep fatherly love has always been there, but it just got lost on the way home!

But even so, father's love never stopped and persisted for more than sixty years.

Now, I'm finally here with him!
In an instant, it surged and filled his heart!
Dong, Dong Dong~
He shook the rattle gently, and the man, who was over 60 years old, could no longer hold back and burst into tears!
"Dad~Dad!"

"I received your gift!"

"I really like!"

He had never called out "Dad" before, and the first time he called out "Dad", he was still a little awkward, but the strong father-son love made him overcome all obstacles in an instant.

The grievance and longing in my heart burst out in an instant.

At this moment, he cried like a baby!
"Comrade Wu Minfang, this is a gift that Martyr Liu Hongwei bought for you. He planned to give it to you after the battle."

"And there's a letter he wrote to you."

The man in plain clothes took out a pair of embroidered shoes and a wrinkled, yellowed, blood-stained letter from his bag.

The old man looked at the embroidered shoes and the letter, his body shaking uncontrollably.

At this moment, time seemed to flow back to more than 60 years ago.

At that time, the man was young and strong, full of vigor and vitality. He asked the woman to wait for him to come home, and he would bring her the most beautiful gift from South Korea!

The woman was in the prime of her life. Holding her newborn baby in her arms, she nodded with tears in her eyes and agreed to wait for him to come home.

I never thought that I would wait for more than 60 years! When they met again, the man was just a pile of ashes.

The woman was also old and frail, with wrinkles all over her face, and even her eyes had become a little cloudy.

Because of the times, they could not talk about love and romance like young men and women today.

After just an introduction by the team and some contact between the two, they got married in less than a month.

Not long after their marriage, Liu Hongwei went out to join the battle.

But every time the battle was over, he would go home.

I would bring her gifts from all over the world.

But she didn't expect that she would have to wait so long this time.

If you count carefully, the actual time they spent together would not exceed 365 days, but she waited for more than sixty 365 days for this!
At the beginning, she didn't think too much about it, because life was so difficult and she had no time or energy to think about it.

But as the children grew up, started their own families, had their own children and had their own homes, she spent more and more time alone, and her mind became more and more uncontrollable and full of random thoughts.

Finally, she came to Songzanlin Monastery.

She heard that at the foot of a deep mountain or next to a deep lake, if you take a few stones and pile them up in a cone shape, it will be a Mani pile. Every time the wind blows through it, it is praying for the person you are thinking of.

So, whenever she has time, she will build Mani piles.

After so many years, all the deep mountains and lakes near Songzanlin Temple are filled with Mani piles built by her!
Then the Living Buddha taught her to light lamps to offer to the Buddha. The light of the lamps represented the light of wisdom of Buddhism, which could illuminate the inner world of all beings and help them get rid of ignorance and suffering.

So she lit many wishing lamps (ghee lamps) here.

She originally thought that she might never be able to wait for that person in this lifetime.

Unexpectedly, that person appeared in front of her again.

In the eyes of outsiders, she was an extremely strong woman who shouldered all the responsibilities of the family alone. No one had ever seen her cry, complain about the hardship, or feel tired.

But today, holding the gift and letter that man brought her, she cried especially sadly.

More than sixty years of grievances, more than sixty years of waiting, all vented out at this moment!

The person she was waiting for finally showed up!

She also received the gift I brought for her!

She can finally travel with peace of mind!
With a thud, the old man collapsed to the ground as if all his strength had been drained away.

There are tears in the corners of the eyes and a smile on the corners of the mouth.

The people around immediately rushed over to check on the old man and found that he had no signs of life.

"Life is like a dream, and wishes are like bubbles. Today you have achieved your wish and left without regrets. This is truly rare."

"Your departure is the natural flow of the cycle of life, and also a small step forward in your spiritual practice."

"May your soul find that peaceful pure land in the long river of reincarnation and continue your journey of spiritual practice."

After hearing the news, several living Buddhas rushed over, sat cross-legged beside the old man, chanted Buddhist scriptures, lit lamps to offer to Buddha, and prayed for the soul of the deceased, hoping that it would be properly placed and guided.

Lina burst into tears.

"Sixty years of life and death, I can never forget them without even thinking about them"

Yang Xuan also sighed helplessly.

I didn't expect this would be the final result.

The old man was unable to fulfill his wish during his lifetime, but after his death he could finally be with his loved ones and be buried together.

No need to be heartbroken every year.

It's also a relief.

(End of this chapter)