don't go near that tree

Chapter 9

The night seemed to be getting colder again.

The weather just after it rained was much cooler than usual. When Wu Chun went out, he specially added a coat, but for some reason, the temperature seemed to drop suddenly.

"Why is it suddenly so cold?"

Wu Chun said it subconsciously, and then felt that there was nothing around him. When Wu Chun turned his head, he found that Xu Shiyao had already sat far away from him.

The other party seemed to have no weight, even if Xu Shiyao sat on a very thin branch, there was no change at all.

"I'm a ghost."

Wu Chun: "..."

Is this sentence over yet?

Just as Wu Chun wanted to pretend to be angry, he heard Xu Shiyao say it again.

"The ghost is cold."

The complaints that Wu Chun had just come up disappeared in no time. It was rumored that the "ghosts" came from the underground to the dark and cold places. Wu Chun suddenly remembered that when he hugged this pine tree last time, he was like hugging a piece of ice. So cool.

It's just that the weather was hot at that time, and the coolness on Xu Shiyao's body was just enough to relieve the hot weather.

After a rain, the original heat was blown away. Now that I was sitting with Xu Shiyao, the coolness emanating from the other person's body would naturally make people feel a little cold.

It is estimated that it is some time in the early morning, when the temperature is the lowest.

Wu Chun also went from feeling a little cool at the beginning to gradually feeling a little cold, so that he had to sit separately from Xu Shiyao.

Even if a person wants to hug a ghost, there is a time limit.

Wu Chun looked at Xu Shiyao who was sitting at the other end of the branch. The other's long hair was draped over his shoulders, which just blocked the profile of his face. Wu Chun could only see the high bridge of his nose.

In the silence of the night, even though Xu Shiyao was wearing white clothes, he could blend into the darkness very harmoniously. At first glance, there was a kind of lonely beauty.

Every day at zero o'clock, all the memories of the day are cleared, and people or things in the yang world cannot be remembered, but most of the ghosts in the underworld stepped into reincarnation after seven days and never stayed by his side.

In Wu Chun's eyes, Xu Shi's eye is like a whiteboard, which is slowly written by different people during the day, and when night comes, he wipes it casually, and returns to the original state. In his world, he only knows himself.

"It must be hard." Wu Chun's eyes were wet, and a smile was forced from the corner of his mouth, "These five years of waiting for unknown reasons have been hard work."

Xu Shiyao lowered his head slightly, but did not speak.

"Xu Shiyao." Wu Chun wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his cuff, and his voice was a little choked up when he spoke.

Don't cry, Wu Chun persuaded himself in his heart, he exhaled slowly, adjusted his emotions as quickly as possible, and continued to say to Xu Shiyao, "I will only say the next thing once, you have to remember it."

The other party still didn't answer him, but Wu Chun saw that the bark in front of him that recorded Xu Shiyao's memory shone slightly.

Wu Chun raised the corners of his mouth and carefully stroked his train of thought. He looked up at the dark night sky, breathed a long sigh of relief, and then spoke slowly.

Wu Chun explained everything he knew in great detail from beginning to end. At first, Wu Chun was worried that he would irritate Xu Shiyao if he told it all at once. most harm to him.

"Xu Shiyao, don't keep emphasizing that you are a ghost. A ghost is just one identity, but you have another identity. You are the hero of all the villagers in Shili Village, you know?"

There was a distance between the two, and in the dark night, Wu Chun couldn't catch the specific expression on the other's face at all.

It's just that from the moment Wu Chun spoke, the other party kept his head slightly lowered, as if the still button had been pressed, and remained motionless.

It may take time to digest so much news.

"Xu Shiyao, do you know? I went to see the village chief the other day, and the village chief said that you grew up in this village when you were a child, and the people in the village treated you very well. We are discussing to hold a surprise celebration banquet for you. You love this village very much, and your grandma, Xu Shiyao, you have a close relative in this village, so do you know why you stay here? Do your best Do your best to protect the ones you love."

Wu Chun said so much in one breath, he couldn't guess what the other party was feeling at the moment, whether he would be sad after hearing so much.

In my prime years, when I was embarking on the journey with ideals and ambitions, an accident took my life. Whoever puts this on, I guess it will be a little bit unwilling.

Xu Shiyao must be full of love for the land under the mountain, otherwise, how could he give up the opportunity to step into reincarnation, endure the pain of amnesia every day, and stay here.

Guard because of love, this is the answer given by Wu Chun.

At this moment, Wu Chun just happened to receive a flash of light in front of his eyes. When he looked up, he saw that the other party was below the question and gave the answer - guarding for love.

"Dear?"

"Yes." Hearing Xu Shiyao's question, Wu Chun slid down from the tree, stepped on the muddy ground regardless of his bare feet, walked forward a few steps, pointed to the front and said, "This is the direction There is a big tree in front of the first house at the bottom of the mountain. During the day, she will sit under the tree and look at you. If you stand taller, you can definitely see it. That’s where you grew up. You grandma."

Waiting for you to come home every day...

Wu Chun swallowed this sentence, the other party had received too much news tonight, and Wu Chun felt that this sentence might be more lethal than the previous ones.

wait a little longer...

Wu Chun looked at Xu Shiyao with a smile. He saw him stepping on the pine branch easily, with his hands behind his back again.

Wu Chun walked over. He stood under the tree and looked up at Xu Shiyao.

"How is she?"

"Very good!" Wu Chun immediately replied, "People in the village take special care of her, and I will visit her every day. Chat with her."

The moment Wu Chun finished speaking, he seemed to see the corner of Xu Shiyao's mouth move.

Are you laughing?

Wu Chun smiled and looked at him, with his hands behind his back unconsciously like him.

You must have laughed.Wu Chun thought in his heart.

The moment the other party lowered his eyes, Wu Chun felt that the erratic and confused eyes that had been doped in those eyes had finally disappeared.

No longer confused, still firm, occasionally tender.

Wu Chun seemed to see Xu Shiyao who was always in high spirits.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome!" Wu Chun said, and climbed up the tree trunk again. He sat on the other end of the branch, saw Xu Shiyao continued to sit on the bark, and recorded a general outline of what he said tonight.

Starting today, Xu Shiyao's memory bank is no longer blank. Even though his brain is still cleared at midnight every day, after clearing, Xu Shiyao can still obtain all his memories from the words written by himself.

"Why can your memories only be kept for one day?" Wu Chun still asked the question in his heart, no wonder the ghosts in the ghost stories he read before were denied by his relatives, even his own relatives and friends, it seems that it is not They are cruel, but they don't remember at all.

To them, everyone but themselves is a stranger.

"It will be like this if you don't step into reincarnation after seven days."

It turned out to be the case.

It seems that ghosts do not have their own consciousness. Most of them still retain the consciousness when they were alive within seven days after death. Stepping into reincarnation in time, the remaining memories of the world in the mind will gradually disappear, and it will become like the days are gone and forgotten.

Even though it sounded a little sad, Wu Chun thought of Gao Ge very much at this moment. He counted the fingers of his two hands, and the other party said a total of thirteen words this time. For their communication, It is a big progress.

"You should go back."

It was already midnight, and usually at this time Wu Chun had already fallen into a sweet dream, but at this moment Wu Chun didn't feel sleepy at all, and felt that he could continue to sit for a while. As soon as the sun came out, Xu Shiyao would hide in the pine tree again. To meet each other, Wu Chun had to sacrifice his sleep time.

After all, it's okay for him to sleep less for a while, but Xu Shiyao might lose his wits if he stands under the light.

"I'm not sleepy yet." Wu Chun said, before he could say the phrase "you can stay for a while", he just felt a sudden gust of wind blowing in front of his face, and Wu Chun's double eyelids began to stick together uncontrollably, Wu Chun lost consciousness and gradually closed his eyes.

When he woke up again, the sun had already shone into the room, the rain had cleared outside, and a rainbow appeared in the sky.

Wu Chun opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed of his grandfather's house.

The sound of grandpa yelling at chickens came from the yard.

Wu Chun rubbed his eyes, maybe because he cried a lot last night, his eyelids were a little swollen, Wu Chun ran out of bed and looked in a mirror, his right eyelid was indeed slightly swollen and reddish.

"Chunchun is up."

Wu Chun turned around and saw his grandfather walking in with corn kernels, he smiled and shouted, "Grandpa."

"Disobedient, didn't I tell you to go to bed early last night? What are you doing outside the door? I fell asleep outside. Fortunately, I didn't feel relieved to come back and take a look. Otherwise, you would have to feed the mosquitoes last night." The old man As he spoke, he leaned closer to Wu Chun's face, saw Wu Chun's slightly red and swollen eye sockets, and immediately said with distress, "Look, look, this eyelid was still bitten by a mosquito, you wait, grandpa will get it for you." Find something to rub it on."

Speaking of which, the old man hastily put down the corn in his hand, turned around and got into his own room.

Wu Chun lightly touched the swollen area with his hand, but he didn't feel anything except some swelling, so it shouldn't be a mosquito bite.

Besides, when Xu Shiyao sent himself back unconscious last night, he would definitely find a way to prevent himself from feeding the mosquitoes.

But when Wu Chun thought that he was sent back in this way, he was still very angry!

I'll have to discuss it in a while.

……

After breakfast, grandpa still rushed to the family to help, and Wu Chun walked to the bottom of the mountain again.

Wu Chun wandered back and forth at the foot of the mountain for two times before climbing up. The pine tree was there. Passers-by might be attracted by the beauty of the tree, but they would never think that there was a hero living in it.

Wu Chun imitated the other party's appearance, turned around the tree twice with his hands behind his back, and pretended to say, "Let me tell you, Xu Shiyao, next time if you send me back unconscious without my permission, I will Just... I'll just..."

Wu Chun thought for a long time, and found that he had no way to do anything to the other party.

The disparity in strength is too great, the opponent has a special ability bonus, and I can only be bullied.

Wu Chun pouted, feeling very unconvinced.

"You can't bully people like this! If I'm sleepy, you don't need to tell me, I will go back." Wu Chun decided to reason with him, "I'm not sleepy, you made me dizzy, without my consent, it's too much Domineering."

Speaking of Wu Chun's tone, he gradually became aggrieved. He simply moved a stone and sat down beside the pine tree.

Even though the weather turned green, the temperature didn't follow up.

Wu Chun came out today and changed into a thicker dress. He felt better at the moment. He picked up the stones on the ground, threw them up and held them in his hands, and continued to narrate.

"Let me tell you that I still know a lot about you when you were a child. If you bully me like this again, I won't tell you."

Wu Chun decided to go to Granny Wang's place for an hour every day in the future, to listen to everything about Xu Shiyao. First, Wu Chun wanted to take on the role of Xu Shiyao's memory transmission belt. It can be used as a magic weapon.

As Wu Chun said, his eyes turned to the bare place not far in front. Wu Chun remembered that the tree was pulled out just after it was planted. If the trees grown out were planted back again, they could only leave that place empty.

"What do you think I am in this kind of tree?"

Wu Chun got up and walked to the bare spot. It had just rained, and the ground was still soft, and under almost every pine tree here, there were one or two small saplings that could be dug out and planted elsewhere. .

"When I get home and find a tool, I'll be right back, I'm going to give this mountain a makeover!"

Wu Chun said, and ran down the mountain...

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