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(6) An Eternal Company of the Trees

Different from his mother, Wuli had his fame for his honesty and cowardice.
He loved Xin Yue so much and was always docile and obedient to her, whatever she wanted.
His over overwhelming love spoiled her very much and made her always be audacious. Shortly after her wedding, her behavior toward husband came to be more and more redicurous.
But, Wuli never dare to say no to his wife and had no way to change her hard head and reasonless annoyance.
At that moment, when he was striding home with happy whistles, he found, just like a disturbed beehive, a big crowd and deafening noise around his house.
Mother�s roaring and wife�s weeping puzzled and shocked him very much.
Against people�s weird eyesight, he went through the wall of the spectators and was instantly petrified when he had known what had happened.
Stiffly sitting on a chair with pale and emotionless appearance, he was completely ruined and psychologically crushed down.
From then on, he was so ashamed to wife�s indecent behavior that he never raised his head.
On the one hand, hopelessly, he had no way to persuade his wife to abandon her true love to her lover; on the other hand, he couldn�t bear this humiliation and others� snooty eyesight.
Heavy psychological burden largely destroyed his mental health.
Every moment, as if million fingers were pointing to his back and a horrible voice were always round him� What a poor guy wearing a �green cap��.* He had suffered hypochondria and depressed all day long.
He was too tired and completely despaired to the life.
One day, with endless sorrow, he had hung himself and died at age of 27.
The son had gone and the daughter-in- had remarried, such a crude reality made the lady grieve and weep day and night.
Someone said this disaster could be attributed to her unlucky fate by which her husband and son�s souls had been captured respectively.
From then on, under the foot of Dong Shan Mountain, the lady� s cheerful shouting had been replaced by her hoarse cry.
She became weaker and weaker.
Considering her physical and mental strength dried up, the local authorities in our community asked her to stop the safeguard duty and to retire. They promised all allowances and relief money will keep unchanged.
This requirement didn�t please her at all.
She sadly kneeled down and appealed: �Dear directors, one of my old son has gone, however, thousands of my younger sons in Dong Shan are still alive. They have been brought up under my yearly nursing. They still need my great care. If you ask me to leave them alone, how can I make my life?
After all, no one could dispute the fate. She had completely fallen down.
When she was dying, she was mumbling:� Take me to the mountain, I still have thousands of offspring there.�
To satisfy her last will, her daughters managed to move her to the mountain.
Lying on a stretcher, she was gently touching a tree and gradually closed her eyes. ��
People were deeply touched by her behavior. She had been exclusively approved to bury her in Dong Shan Mountain.
She became the only one to accompany the trees eternally.

(The End)

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