don't go near that tree

Chapter 13

Wu Chun was startled, then immediately raised his head to look at the night sky, roughly estimated the time, people could still vaguely hear people chatting and laughing at the foot of the mountain, it shouldn't be too late at this time.

Is it so early to cut down trees now?

Wu Chun didn't care that he was still sore, so he hurriedly climbed up to keep up. He didn't even bother to put on his shoes, but Wu Chun's speed was not as fast as Xu Shiyao's. He ran around in the woods twice but still couldn't find Xu Shiyao. where.

Wu Chun looked around, and suddenly heard a loud shout, "There is a ghost!"

That's it.

Wu Chun ran quickly in the direction of the sound, and just as he ran, he saw a figure running past in panic from not far away from him. Wu Chun followed the direction that the man ran just now, and finally found the tree that the other party was cutting. The location, when he arrived there, Wu Chun saw Xu Shiyao standing in front of him with his hands behind his back, and he could only see Xu Shiyao's back and the other's tightly clenched fists.

"Xu Shiyao." Wu Chun called out in a low voice.

When the other party turned around, Wu Chun finally saw what kind of scene was in front of him.

"How did this happen?" Wu Chun hurried forward, the one that was cut down was a small tree, which was relatively thin, and was cut off from the trunk. Even though Xu Shiyao rushed over in time, he still couldn't save the tree , At this moment, the tiny pine tree is split in two, the broken part of the trunk faces the starry sky fiercely, and the other part lies on the ground.

"Two years."

Wu Chun was taken aback by Xu Shiyao's abrupt voice.

"What two years?" Wu Chun asked inexplicably.

"This tree."

"It takes two years to grow such a small tree?"

Xu Shiyao nodded.

Wu Chun was a little bit embarrassed. I heard from my grandfather that after the landslide, there were pine trees planted on the hillside here, and the order was forbidden to cut down. However, the growth environment here is harsh, the terrain is steep, and it cannot hold water. Most of them are stones. For pine trees, surviving is not a difficult task.

It's just that the growth rate of the pine trees here seems to be much slower than the poplar trees at the foot of the mountain.

Wu Chun sighed slowly. Ever since Xu Shiyao took care of the pine forest, the brave people in the village at the foot of the mountain only cut down some branches, and did not destroy the whole tree, so that even though the felling has never been broken in the past five years , but this pine forest is still there, who would have thought that the entire pine tree has been attacked now.

There are quite a few families in the village, and if one family had one tree, the pine trees on the entire mountain would not be able to last a year if the situation continued.

A sense of helplessness suddenly came to mind, Wu Chun looked at the broken small tree, if it was in the past, Wu Chun would not be so sad for a tree, but now Wu Chun understands that all the vegetation here is not It's just as simple as the vegetation's own life.

"Why did you come here?"

"I'm also in a hurry." Wu Chun curled his lips as he spoke.

Xu Shiyao looked down at Wu Chun's feet, the white insteps were covered with mud, and a big blister was formed on the thumb.

As if feeling Xu Shiyao's gaze, Wu Chun looked down at his feet, and then scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"That... the situation is urgent."

Wu Chun didn't notice the emergency just now, but now Wu Chun feels it. He was only running just now, and the sole of his foot should have been cut. A slight pain came from the sole of his foot. Wu Chun glanced at Xu Shiyao, but the other's eyes were still fixed on him. on feet.

"Oh, what's the matter, don't the children in this village run around barefoot, I..."

Before Wu Chun finished speaking, he felt that he was being hugged by the waist. Responding instinctively, Wu Chun hugged Xu Shiyao's neck again.

Wu Chun stared at Xu Shiyao in surprise, and asked in disbelief, "You...what are you doing?"

Xu Shiyao looked down at him and saw the panicked expression on Wu Chun's face, which really looked like a frightened little rabbit. Xu Shiyao turned his eyes away and said in a flat tone, "There are many stones on the ground."

The implication is that Wu Chun can easily get injured by running around with bare feet like this.

"Aren't you barefoot too?" Wu Chun argued softly.

"I'm a ghost."

Although the other party said these three words this time with a different starting point from the previous few times, Wu Chun still felt uncomfortable after hearing this. He grabbed Xu Shiyao by the collar and asked fiercely, "Did you forget me again?" What did you say?"

"No, I watch it every day."

"Look at something related to me?" Wu Chun asked jokingly, "I'm suddenly curious about what you wrote about me on those tree barks again, let me see."

Xu Shiyao ignored him, and Wu Chun was restless in Xu Shiyao's arms, begging with a dead face, "Just let me see, did you remember something bad about me, so you refused to show it to me, it must be like this , you must be secretly speaking ill of me behind my back."

The person in his arms was restless, and Xu Shiyao could never throw him out. After being harassed several times, Xu Shiyao finally agreed to Wu Chun's request.

"Wait back." Xu Shiyao's tone was rather helpless.

Hearing these words, Wu Chun immediately calmed down, and honestly let Xu Shiyao hug him and go back. I don't know if it was because of hugging him, Wu Chun always felt that the way back was very long.

Wu Chun was placed on the pine branch, but his hand was still holding on to Xu Shiyao's cuff.

"You told me to see, it's not like you want to leave."

Wu Chun clung to Xu Shiyao tightly, as if the other party would not let go unless he saw him. After the two stalemate for a while, Wu Chun heard Xu Shiyao sigh slowly, and after a while, a familiar light appeared in front of his eyes. With light green light, three pieces of tree bark appeared in front of his eyes.

Wu Chun's attention was attracted by the bark the moment it appeared, and he didn't notice that his two legs were being snatched by Xu Shiyao again at this moment.

Wu Chun looked at it with relish, compared to the first sentence "Wu Chun is very noisy", the next few things, it is obvious that his status in Xu Shiyao's place has improved, Wu Chun is very pleased, and he is not in vain Tired like a dog.

Wu Chun had seen some of the contents of the three barks before, and some of them were seen for the first time.

"You said I was like a rabbit."

Wu Chun couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw this sentence, "Have you ever seen a rabbit? How could you remember a rabbit."

It stands to reason that rabbits are also life and belong to the world

"I've seen it a few times, and I'll write it down."

"I look alike?"

Xu Shiyao nodded.

"Where does it look like?" Wu Chun continued to ask.

Xu Shiyao became silent.

Wu Chun pouted, seeing that he didn't want to talk, so he didn't force him to ask, and continued to look down cheerfully. Wu Chun found that Xu Shiyao recorded more trivial things in life, and the way of recording was similar to his way of talking. Write more, and only remember some key things. If someone else reads these contents, they will definitely be at a loss. However, Wu Chun has long been used to Xu Shiyao's way of speaking.

For example, the following "eggplant is very sweet"

Wu Chun remembered that this was the last time he wanted to let Xu Shiyao feel the taste of something in the world, but this was very sweet and Wu Chun couldn't understand it.

Eggplant is sweet?

Could it be that the taste of ghosts is different from that of humans?

Wu Chun scratched his head in confusion, and glanced at Xu Shiyao secretly from the corner of his eye. The other party was concentrating on massaging his legs, and his attention was not on himself.

Forget it, Wu Chun gave up the idea of ​​asking, the other party said that sweetness is sweetness, everyone has their own opinions.

In just a few days, Xu Shiyao recorded quite a lot. Wu Chun looked at it, probably more than what the other party recorded in the past five years.

After reading a piece of bark, Wu Chun read the next chapter with great interest. He didn't expect to see the phrase "Wu Chun's hug" at the first glance.

Wu Chun was taken aback, and then noticed the matching problem—the feeling of warmth.

During this period of time together, Wu Chun learned from Xu Shiyao's intermittent descriptions that ghosts are cold and cold. In other words, people approaching ghosts is like falling into an ice cave, but it seems that ghosts cannot perceive this feeling. I can't even perceive the feeling, I only know that I came from a cold place, but I don't know the taste of the cold.

The question on the bark seemed to be written a long time ago, and Wu Chun couldn't help wondering what caused Xu Shiyao to be suspicious of warmth.

"When you wrote this? What were you thinking?"

Wu Chun pointed to that question and asked Xu Shiyao tentatively.

"Can not remember."

When Xu Shiyao said this, his expression was very flat, as if he was describing an unimportant matter.

Wu Chun tried hard to capture a trace of emotion from his face, but unfortunately there was nothing.

After a while, Wu Chun laughed at himself.

Perhaps the question I asked just now is also a question that has troubled Xu Shiyao for a long time.

Being able to be recorded by Xu Shiyao on it shows that this matter must be very important to Xu Shiyao, but he still passively forgot about it.

Now Wu Chun understands that even if he can record it, so what, he has forgotten the cause and effect of the matter, and when he sees these trivial records, he will probably feel dazed. When he sees the words recorded by himself, he can’t find them Go back to the mood recorded at that time.

There is a difference between having memory and recording memory.

Wu Chun was even thinking, when Xu Shiyao saw the name "Wu Chun" on the bark every day, what kind of psychological construction should he do? How many times did he have to tell himself "he is a friend" before he could face Wu Chun At that time, the discomfort of meeting for the first time was hidden.

For Wu Chun, Xu Shiyao is an increasingly familiar and close friend.

For Xu Shiyao, Wu Chun is an "acquaintance" that he can't remember every day

At this moment, Wu Chun suddenly understood why Xu Shiyao's records became everyday life, and he began to record the details of that day and his own experience, perhaps just to preserve the kindness towards himself as much as possible at the moment when the memory was cleared. feel.

Wu Chun remembered the first impression he had when he saw Xu Shiyao—cold, just like him, so cold that no one dared to approach him.

It's just that now Wu Chun seems to be slowly realizing that there seems to be a flame burning under the ice shell.

"What's wrong?" Xu Shiyao stopped what he was doing and asked, as if sensing something wrong with Wu Chun's mood.

"Xu Shiyao." Wu Chun shouted with a smile.

The other party looked at him suspiciously, and asked again, "What's wrong?"

"Xu Shiyao! Xu Shiyao! Xu Shiyao!" Wu Chun raised his volume and yelled three times in a row. When the last words fell, Wu Chun suddenly leaned forward and hugged Xu Shiyao again.

When Wu Chun captured the moment when he hugged him, Xu Shiyao's body trembled.

"It's nothing, just to take you back to the warm feeling."

The atmosphere became quiet, feeling the other party's bewilderment, Wu Chun let go of Xu Shiyao, opened his arms towards him, and said with a smile, "Come on, Xu Shiyao, embrace warmth."

Wu Chun felt the careful but powerful hug from the other party, which was different from every previous hug.

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