don't go near that tree

Chapter 15

Wu Chun could feel that after he finished saying this sentence, the other party was obviously taken aback, and a trace of bewilderment flashed in his eyes.

In fact, Wu Chun has always had a question in his heart. According to previous reports, Xu Shiyao had a haircut of three to seven points before his death, with a little beauty point on his forehead. Now the beauty point is still there, but it has changed from the previous short hair to the current long hair reaching the waist. .

Xu Shiyao probably wouldn't remember why he became like this.

Wu Chun looked down at the necklace on his neck, then at the silver thread in his hand, and had a rough guess in his heart, just like the natural selection learned in biology, long hair may not be an option for ghosts missing part.

Wu Chun felt that when Xu Shiyao had short hair, he had the temperament of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers. When he smiled, his eyes seemed to have light, but at this moment, Xu Shiyao's temperament was not affected by his waist-length hair , compared to before, it seems that after a young boy has experienced a storm, a coldness has accumulated on his body.

When he was standing there, he was not so much a ghost as a fairy who was not easy to mess with. His stern face was hidden under a head of long hair, and the youthful vigor was gone, leaving him with a sense of loneliness.

With a little cold loneliness.

Whenever he saw Xu Shiyao, Wu Chun couldn't help but think about what kind of elegance and beauty Xu Shiyao should be.

"It would be great if I could be born five years earlier." Wu Chun whispered, maybe at that time, there would be a chance to meet each other.

"what?"

Xu Shiyao's voice made Wu Chun stunned, and Wu Chun's thoughts were immediately pulled back.

"It's nothing." Wu Chun said with a smile, he looked at Xu Shiyao's long hair, thinking about how to do it better.

"I've wanted to do this for a long time." Wu Chun carefully moved towards Xu Shiyao, "Turn around, I can't do it like this."

Xu Shiyao stared at Wu Chun silently for a while, and finally turned around obediently.

Some things seem to be much simpler than what Wu Chun thought.

When meeting Xu Shiyao for the first time, Wu Chun was troubled by it. The other party looked so cold that he almost wrote the words "Reject people thousands of miles away" on his face. How much effort does it take to get close to him? The other half step.

But now it seems that it's not that difficult. It's not that Wu Chun's personal charm is great, but as Wu Chun gets to know Xu Shiyao, he gradually discovers that the other party's coldness is only on the surface.

Wu Chun had never tied anyone else's hair. When Xu Shiyao turned around, he stared at the long black hair for a while, then gathered together from both sides, and tied it with the silver thread in his hand.

It is amazing that the black hair can quickly turn silvery white after breaking.

"All right."

Wu Chun clapped his hands and said, when Xu Shiyao turned around, Wu Chun took another careful look.

Sure enough, Renmei can control all hairstyles.

"Xu Shiyao, can I ask you something?" Wu Chun asked.

Xu Shiyao nodded.

"When your memory is cleared every day, what is it like to see everything about me from the bark?"

"Familiar." Xu Shiyao replied without hesitation.

Wu Chun was taken aback, "It's very familiar, but I just can't remember it, right?"

Xu Shiyao nodded.

Wu Chun had some indescribable feelings in his heart, especially when he heard Xu Shiyao say the word "sorry", the feeling in his heart was even more obvious.

"There's nothing to be sorry for, and it's not your fault." Wu Chun said indifferently, and when he saw Xu Shiyao still had an apologetic expression on his face, Wu Chun hurriedly changed the subject, "Help me as a staff officer, I How will that plan be implemented?"

"What do you think?"

Seeing that the other party's attention was finally diverted by him, Wu Chun breathed a sigh of relief temporarily.

"I think it's better to give it a try. The protection of both parties is the effective protection. We can't just work hard on our own. We also take action. Besides, we are the ones who benefit from this matter, don't we?"

As Wu Chun said, he looked down the mountain, the moonlight was bright enough tonight, and he could just see Grandma Wang's yard from here.

The yard was pitch black, and the old man should be asleep at the moment.

In the five years after Xu Shiyao's death, everyone in the village took care of Grandma Wang from time to time. For example, when every family needed firewood for cooking, there was only a lot of firewood at Grandma Wang's door.

Even the elderly can no longer afford a spatula.

Wu Chun believes that people are kind, so as long as he explains the pros and cons clearly, he may be able to change some of their thinking.

So far, this approach works.

"I think it's okay, but who should I start with first?"

This is Wu Chun's distress. He is not Xu Shiyao. Xu Shiyao grew up in this village, and the villagers also regard him as a member of the village.

But to Wu Chun, he is just an outsider after all.

The people Wu Chun knew could be counted on one hand.

"Don't be yourself."

Wu Chun glanced sideways at Xu Shiyao, and asked, "You mean I'd better not go alone."

Xu Shiyao nodded.

"Why?" Wu Chun asked puzzled.

"You are a child after all."

"But I'm already eighteen!" Wu Chun argued unconvinced.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Wu Chun caught a trace of a smile on Xu Shiyao's face.

Although it was only a little bit, after getting used to Xu Shiyao's expressionless face, Wu Chun could immediately notice any slight changes in his expression.

"Are you laughing at me?" Wu Chun stared at Xu Shiyao.

"No." The other party replied lightly.

nonsense!

Wu Chun crossed his arms in front of his chest, staring at Xu Shiyao resentfully, with a gesture of "Do you think I believe it?"

"I didn't laugh at you." Xu Shiyao's tone was a little helpless.

"Then you also think I'm still a child?" Wu Chun asked.

This time, Xu Shiyao remained silent.

really…

"Ahhhhhh!" Wu Chun yelled twice, grabbed Xu Shiyao's arm, and kept shaking it from side to side, "Xu Shiyao, if he is an adult in the world, he will no longer be a child!"

Xu Shiyao let him shake his arm, and waited for the other party to calm down a little before he continued, "It has nothing to do with age."

"What does that have to do with it!"

"Eyes." Xu Shiyao said these two words without thinking.

To Xu Shiyao, his brain seems to be a leaky container, no matter how much it is filled, it will eventually drain through countless densely packed gaps.

Because he could only hide in the pine trees during the day, Xu Shiyao had the concept of day and night.

The time when you don't allow yourself to appear is the time when there is light, which is the day.

As for the distinction between children and adults, Xu Shiyao has always distinguished by their eyes.

Most of the children's eyes are innocent and clear, and most of them are consistent, without so many complicated emotions.

Wu Chun's eyes are naturally clear, like a pool of clear water, but compared to other children Xu Shiyao has seen here, the pool of clear water in Wu Chun's eyes seems to shoot a ray of light vertically, which seems to have a special magical power, always Xu Shiyao would unconsciously stare into those eyes.

It's something that isn't in the eyes of the other kids here.

It was precisely because of this that Xu Shiyao thought that in his brain like a colander, when the memory of Wu Chun flowed out, he would just catch it, and then pour it into the container, and so on.

He has to get to know Wu Chun again every day.

He looks forward to getting to know Wu Chun every day.

When Wu Chun asked the question just now, Xu Shiyao didn't say everything. When he cleared his memory every day and saw that he had recorded everything related to Wu Chun with his own hands, Xu Shiyao had never had the expectation in his heart.

The nervousness before seeing Wu Chun, but the joy in his heart when he sees Wu Chun.

When Wu Chun looked over for the first time, Xu Shiyao's impetuous heart actually calmed down.

From then on, Xu Shiyao's life had more expectations.

"Eyes...eyes?"

Wu Chun had no way of knowing Xu Shiyao's so many inner monologues, but he felt a little unbelievable when he heard Xu Shiyao's words.

For the first time I heard tell the age by the eyes.

Wu Chun remembered the ghost-related things that his grandfather told him before, saying that before the age of three, children had an eye that humans could not see on their foreheads, and the purpose of this eye was to see things in the underworld.

So there has been a saying that children can see the existence of ghosts.

It's just that it is said that the eye will disappear after the age of three. Wu Chun thought about what Xu Shiyao said just now, and after a while, Wu Chun had a guess in his heart.

"Xu Shiyao." Wu Chun said as he drew an oval in the middle of his forehead with his right index finger, "You mean, I have an invisible eye here?"

……

"Find someone to accompany you." Xu Shiyao turned his eyes away, and said directly to the topic, "Don't be yourself."

In Wu Chun's eyes, the other party's reaction almost confirmed his guess. Wu Chun touched his forehead lovingly, and even the protective fire on his shoulders was weaker than others. No surprises.

For a moment, Wu Chun felt that his forehead became more precious.

"I don't know many people." Wu Chun didn't worry about that question any more, and began to think along Xu Shiyao's words, "My grandfather can't do it, Grandma Wang can't do it..."

"Oh, that's right!" Wu Chun slapped his thigh vigorously as he spoke, and his tone became agitated, "Why did I forget him, do you know the village chief?"

Xu Shiyao shook his head suspiciously.

"Let me tell you that he always remembers you. He put away all the newspapers about you separately, and always remembers what you did for this village five years ago."

Seeing that Xu Shiyao still had some doubts on his face, Wu Chun put his hands on the other's shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay, I just want to tell you that there are many people who remember you in places you don't know."

……

The helper has settled down for the time being. Wu Chun doesn't have much communication with the village chief. The village head looks like he is around 40 years old. He is gentle and looks like a cultural person.

But just because the other party has kept the newspapers related to Xu Shiyao, Wu Chun's impression of the village head has been raised to a very high position, and he will discuss with the other party tomorrow, Wu Chun thought to himself.

After confirming the helper, the rest of the time was relatively easy. Wu Chun would mostly talk, and Xu Shiyao would reply to him from time to time, but most of them were just one or two short words.

These days, Wu Chun took advantage of his spare time to go to Granny Wang's to make up extra lessons, and learned a lot about Xu Shiyao's childhood.

"Your grades are good. Do you know what your two best subjects are? Chinese and history!"

Wu Chun was also very surprised when he heard the news. Xu Shiyao was studying liberal arts in high school, and it is said that he was still short of five full marks in Chinese in the college entrance examination.

Wu Chun has always admired people who are good at liberal arts, like him who just passed the Chinese college entrance examination.

Wu Chun's grades in science are excellent, but the best is mathematics. Xu Shiyao is just the opposite of him. Mathematics is the worst subject of the other party, but this difference is compared to Xu Shiyao's other subjects.

"My mind is very slow to memorize things, and I can't memorize so many things in liberal arts." After Wu Chun complained, he turned his head and asked, "If you memorize things now, you should be very fast."

The other party said, "Look at it again, do it again."

This made Wu Chun somewhat puzzled, but this doubt did not remain for a long time.

Tonight, Wu Chun and Xu Shiyao chatted about the time, and when they left, it was almost a few minutes before twelve o'clock in the morning. The reason was that Wu Chun remembered something halfway and turned back. After a distance, he saw Xu Shiyao seemed to be closed. Eyes sat on the tree, a faint light glowing from the familiar bark in front of them.

Just as Wu Chun wanted to go there, he saw Xu Shiyao get up suddenly. He stood in front of the bark and watched for a long time, and then Wu Chun saw that the other party repeated the actions and behaviors recorded on the bark.

That is to say, during the time when Wu Chun and Wu Chun met again, the other party simulated the things that happened between them before, and set foot in the places they had been.It seems that through this behavior, I want to get back some feelings.

Wu Chun suddenly understood the meaning of Xu Shiyao's phrase "read it once, do it again".

Wu Chun looked at Xu Shiyao who was still circling around the vegetable field, and suddenly shouted, "Xu Shiyao!"

The moment the other party turned his head, Xu Shiyao's "eyes" sounded in Wu Chun's brain appropriately.

"It's me!" Wu Chun pointed to his eyes, "Wu Chun!"