In the courtyard, there were babies and pregnant women, so Village Chief Li sent the somewhat lively Xiao Hei to the security team.
The eight little wolfdogs have grown into half-grown puppies, and are taller than the adult native dogs. During the slack season, the security team took these puppies out for training and patrolling.
Seeing Xiao Xiaohei coming, the puppies gathered around him as if they were no strangers at all.
Seeing that Xiao Xiaohei could blend in, Li Zhengguo felt relieved and left Xiao Xiaohei under the control of the security team.
Xiao Hei is older and more reluctant to move.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to come, Xiao Hei, who was always lying next to the kang to keep warm, actually got up and dragged Tian Jing's trousers out.
Tian Jing didn't understand what Xiao Hei meant, but looking at it stumbling around, she had a guess in her mind.
She brought a basket and carried Xiao Hei inside.
Li Weili asked her mother where she wanted to take Xiao Hei.
Tian Jing patted her daughter on the shoulder: "I guess Xiao Hei is almost done, I'll take him into the mountains."
"No!" Li Weili stopped: "Let Xiao Hei always stay at home."
Li Zhengguo persuaded his daughter to leave and waved his wife to leave alone.
After loading the new year's goods in another basket, Tian Jing carried the load into the mountains.
She first took Xiaohei to see Xiaosong, hoping that Xiaosong could communicate with Xiaohei.
But Xiao Song burst into tears, saying that with Xiao Hei gone, there was one less person who could communicate with him.
Tian Jing sighed: "Xiaosong, people's lifespan is not long, I will also walk in front of you, you have to accept this reality."
Xiaosong refused to accept: "Tian Tian, before you leave, don't come to see me. If you don't come, I will treat you as if you are too busy at the foot of the mountain to come see me."
"I've been practicing for a long time, but I haven't shrunk myself into a bonsai. I can't go down the mountain, and I don't have to face life and death anymore, woo woo woo."
Tian Jing "..."
"I'm not dead yet. I plan to live for a hundred years, at least six or seven years. Why are you crying so sad?"
"Really?" Xiaosong's crying stopped abruptly: "Can you really live to be more than a hundred years old?"
Tian Jing nodded: "That's what I planned. I don't know how many years God wants me to live."
Only then did Xiaosong realize that he had been cheated, but he no longer felt sad:
"Xiao Hei said it will be buried in the mountain you chose with it."
Tian Jing's nose felt sour, it was really not a good thing to have feelings for people and things.
She and Xiao Song chatted with Xiao Hei until the sun went down, and Xiao Hei finally closed his eyes.
Tian Jing couldn't help but shed tears.
She just sat quietly, talking to Xiao Song about Xiao Hei and Xiao Hei's father.
In the early morning, Tian Jing, who had almost become a popsicle man, moved her body and put the stiff Xiao Hei into the basket:
"Xiaosong, you are right, I will definitely not come to see you before I leave."
Xiaosong regretted it again: "No! If you want to come, you must come, right here with me. Let's reminisce about the past together, lest I forget you as time goes by."
Tian Jing picked up the basket and left: "Let's talk, if I can move, I will come. If I collapse on the bed, just think that I am still farming under the mountain using my powers to pretend to work hard."
After burying Xiao Hei, Tian Jing went to the valley to see her grandpa.
A Guang did not expect that Team Leader Tian would go to the valley in the new year.
He went down to the cave and carried all the new year's goods into the cave: "Team Leader Tian, don't send me food for three months. I won't be able to finish it."
Looking at A Guang who was losing weight, Tian Jing asked: "Do you want to go down the mountain?"
A Guang shook his head: "It's good for me to stay here. There is no one I want to accompany at the foot of the mountain."
Tian Jing stopped trying to persuade him and looked at Xiao Bai who was lying in the sun at the entrance of the cave. He didn't know whether it was good or bad to get a dog to accompany A Guang.
Squatting beside her grandfather's grave, Tian Jing chatted about some trivial matters before going down the mountain.
When she returned to the courtyard, she was surrounded, and everyone was worried that she had not returned home all night.
Tian Jing shook her head and said she was fine. Xiao Hei didn't die until dark, and she waited until dawn to bury her.
Li Weili cried and said that she did not accompany Xiao Hei on his last journey.
Tian Jing comforted her daughter: "Birth, old age, illness and death are the laws of people and things. The more emotions you give, the more pain you will feel when parting."
"You want Xiao Hei, aren't you planning to empathize? Just treat Xiao Hei as Xiao Hei."
Li Weili nodded with tears in her eyes: "Xiao Hei also knows, so he made me a Xiao Hei."
"Okay, don't cry." Tian Jing patted her daughter on the shoulder, "Go wash your face, I haven't eaten yet."
Mother Li hurriedly went to the kitchen to cook for her daughter-in-law.
Just after dinner here, someone came over to tell Tian Jing that someone had returned with Zhang Fangcao's ashes.
Li Min, who was in a bad mood, retorted: "Just send it to the Zhang family. Come and tell me what my sister-in-law is doing?"
The villager looked at Tian Jing: "Team leader Tian, the person who delivered the urn said that Zhang Fangcao asked you by name and there is a letter."
"No!" Li Min pulled Tian Jing who stood up: "Whether Zhang Fangcao can enter the Zhang family's ancestral graves or not, that is the Zhang family's business and has nothing to do with my sister-in-law."
Tian Jing patted her sister-in-law who was protecting her: "I'll go read the letter before we talk. We've been fighting for so long. I didn't expect that she, like Zhao Xiaofang, would miss me even before she dies."
"Bah, bah, bah!"
Li Min drooled repeatedly: "Don't talk nonsense, you are not a child."
Tian Jing dragged her sister-in-law who wouldn't let go, "Let's go together and see if she mentions you."
"Bah!" Li Min sighed again: "Sister-in-law, can you stop talking nonsense? What do I want her to worry about?"
Having said that, Li Min still didn't let go and was dragged to the village committee office by her sister-in-law.
The visitor was a young man who said he had been hired by the deceased for five hundred yuan to take care of his funeral before he died.
After the deceased asked him to help with the cremation, he sent it to the village committee according to the address on the envelope and found the person on the envelope, which was considered as completing the request.
After the young man confirmed Tian Jing's identity, he handed her the letter, left the urn and left.
In front of everyone in the office, Tian Jing opened the letter.
Tian Jing:
I don't want to say sorry to you.
I owe too many people in my life.
Based on the four addresses given by Village Chief Li, I visited four children respectively.
The person who sent me back was the eldest of the four children. He didn't look like the Li family anymore, right? He looked like his adoptive father.
In fact, this baby really belongs to Li Aiguo, but since he doubted me, I didn't tell him and took his baby to marry Lin Silai.
The four children are doing well, and I feel relieved.
Now that the girl has a place to belong to, I feel relieved.
No matter who I owe, I don’t want to end it by saying I’m sorry. No matter how I have to pay it back in the next life, I will pay what is due.
Finally, I'd like to ask you one thing, please send my ashes to the back mountain. Whether you scatter or bury them, as long as they are in the back mountain, that's fine.
I want to live in Kushan in my next life, no matter what I do. Even if I am just a grass or an ant, I will be the grass and ant in Kushan.
Please.
Tian Jing handed the letter to Li Zhengguo and walked out of the office holding the urn, but was stopped by Zhang's father and mother.
They wanted to bury their daughter in the Zhang family, and they had already discussed it with their son and daughter-in-law.
Tian Jing refused: "Zhang Fangcao wants me to send her to the back mountain, and she will be the soul of Kushan."
"If you don't believe it, look at the letter in Li Zhengguo's hand. She didn't mention the Zhang family a word."
Avoiding the devastated Zhang's father and Zhang's mother, Tian Jing carried the urn to the back mountain.
She scattered Zhang Fangcao's ashes at the foot of Xiaohei's mountain.
This pair is considered familiar, so they should take care of each other.