don't go near that tree

It rained intermittently.

The path in the village was muddy, and Wu Chun was standing at the gate of the village director, wearing his grandfather's bulky water boots and holding an umbrella.

"Those things were still on TV back then, and by the way, they were also in the local newspapers. At that time, every family had a copy. Your grandfather and I couldn't read, so I didn't know where to throw it. But the village director will Yes, after all it's only been five years."

After hearing what grandpa said, Wu Chun came here immediately. Looking at the closed wooden door in front of him, he sighed slowly.

According to my grandfather, the village will send the latest newspaper every week. Five years ago, could I still find it?

"Xu Shiyao..."

Wu Chun muttered these three words in a low voice, at this moment, the door in front of him was opened from the inside.

"Isn't this Uncle Wang's nephew?"

Wu Chun raised his head and forced a smile, "Hi Uncle, I have something to ask for your help today."

……

"I read newspapers every issue, and the ones that I thought were meaningful five years ago have survived. You can look through them to see if there's anything you're looking for."

Wu Chun looked at the pile of newspapers in front of him and scratched the back of his head.

"That..." he asked cautiously, "Is there anything about Xu Shiyao?"

The village director was taken aback for a moment, and his smiling face sank instantly. After a while, he sighed slowly, turned around and took out a newspaper from the drawer behind him.

"Grandma Wang thinks of you as his grandson again." He said, handing the newspaper to Wu Chun, "Son, don't mind, she just misses her grandson."

Wu Chun took the newspaper and read it carefully.

The newspaper said in detail that because of the terrain and location, the rainfall here is rare. Even if it rains, the rainfall will not be very large, but the rain five years ago seemed to be caused by God and this village. Someone made a joke.Suddenly, without warning.

"The child just arrived on the third day. When he was a child, he lived at his grandma's house until he was five years old. He was picked up by his father in the city. He was considered half of the people in the village. When he was admitted to university, the whole village was happy for him. Just thinking that our village can be regarded as a college student, and at that time, every household planned to raise a little money to hold a celebration banquet for their children, but it's a pity that we haven't had time..."

As the village director said, he took off his eyes, covered them with his hands, and sobbed softly.

Wu Chun looked at Xu Shiyao on the newspaper, and remembered the face he saw hidden under the long hair last night. Although the newspaper was a little blurry, Wu Chun could still recognize him at a glance.

It's just that the face I saw last night lost the immaturity and innocence of the boy's face, and at the same time became more mature and lonely. The only thing that hasn't changed is the firmness in those clear eyes.It's just that there seems to be a little confusion mixed with the firmness now.

He seems to have forgotten what happened before he was alive. He only knows that he died in 95, five years have passed, and people will enter reincarnation seven days after death. What makes him stick to this place all the time.

There seems to be an answer in Wu Chun's heart that is about to come out. He recalled all the things related to Xu Shiyao in the past few days. It seems that the other party will only appear when someone cuts down pine trees secretly. In the past five years, he has been preventing people from cutting down pine trees secretly. pine.

"Uncle, is it because of this landslide that tree cutting is now prohibited?"

"Yes." The village director wiped his eyes with the corner of his clothes, and put it back on again, "It's okay in summer, especially in winter, people here can only rely on burning fires to keep warm, how can there be so much firewood, so they stared at the forest , Even if the order is given, what should be cut down is still cut down, but in the past few years there have been frequent rumors that the mountain is haunted, but I think it seems that this young man is protecting us. If the tree survives, the mountain will not lose its temper."

Wu Chun had mixed feelings in his heart, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling for a moment, a tear suddenly dripped on the newspaper, and before he knew it, Wu Chun's eyes were already wet.

"Thank you uncle for telling me this today." Wu Chun looked at the newspaper in his hand, hesitated for a while, and decided to ask, "Can I borrow this newspaper for a day? Return it to uncle tomorrow."

Wu Chun knew how important it was. If it wasn't for that, the village director didn't have to keep it on purpose, but he wanted Xu Shiyao to remember it and let him know why he was sticking to it.

"Take it." The village director said and patted Wu Chun on the shoulder, "Grandma Wang didn't know that her grandson was gone, and the old man couldn't bear the excitement, so we kept it from her, saying that the grandson went abroad to study, don't let him she knows."

Wu Chun nodded, he kept the newspaper in his arms, and left the village director's house with an umbrella.

Along the way, Wu Chun kept thinking, Xu Shiyao was a high-spirited young man who just turned 95 and was about to enter university, and this year he just turned full and was also a young man who was ready to enter university.

Then, Wu Chun met Xu Shiyao.

Everything seems to be the same as fate.

Unknowingly, Wu Chun walked to the door of Grandma Wang's house holding an umbrella.

The rain was still falling, and the door of Granny Wang's house was half-closed. Wu Chun saw Granny Wang sitting at the door of the main room, staring at the mountain in front of her.

Wu Chun remembered what she had said to herself, "Every time you come, you come down from that mountain."

Tears wet his eyes again, Wu Chun folded the newspaper and put it in his pocket, adjusted his mood, forced a smile on his face, pushed open the door, Wu Chun said, "Grandma, I'm here to see you."

When Granny Wang heard this, the crutch in her hand fell to the ground. She stood up holding the door frame, stared at Wu Chun for a long time, and suddenly reached out to hug Wu Chun.

"Yaoyao, after five years, you finally came back to see grandma."

The old man is 93 years old. His wife passed away seven years ago. She became confused and couldn't recognize her children. She couldn't even remember what she ate just now, but she remembered everything about Xu Shiyao.

"Yaoyao, do you remember? When you were four years old, grandma went to the bottom of the mountain to collect dry firewood in winter, and you followed grandma. It was cold at that time, and the water level of the lake rose to the woods, and it was all frozen. Grandma alone Without paying attention, you slipped into the ice cave. Fortunately, there were people nearby at that time, but my Yaoyao still had a high fever for three days. Since then, every time I took you out, I tied a stick around your waist, and another One is tied around grandma's waist."

"When you went out to play, someone gave you a peach. You didn't want to eat it, so you kept it in your hand. Then the neighbor's uncle joked with you and took a bite. You sat on the ground and cried, saying that you would keep it for grandma. Food, every time you go to bed at night, you have to find me to hold you, and at that time, you said that when you grow up, you will buy a lot of delicious food for grandma."

"When your father said he was coming to pick you up, you went out to hide every day, crying and yelling and refusing to go back. In the end, I lied to you that I would go too and you were willing to go back with me."

……

Granny Wang talked a lot, with a smile on her face, holding Wu Chun's right hand, and Wu Chun could only secretly wipe away tears with her left hand when she was not paying attention.

"Yaoyao, why haven't you come back to see grandma for a long time?"

"I'm busy with studying, but I will visit grandma every day." Wu Chun tried to make himself smile and said.

"Okay, grandma's is so dazzling."

As Grandma Wang said, she raised her hand and gently touched the top of Wu Chun's hair.

Wu Chun stayed at Granny Wang's house until very late before leaving. The rain finally stopped in the evening, but the weather was still not very good.

In the evening, after Wu Chun had dinner with grandpa, grandpa went out.

Funerals here are very particular. It seems that it is held for three days in a row, and the burial can only be done on the third day. Someone needs to be there on the night of the first two days.

Grandpa said to help and let Wu Chun go to bed early.

Wu Chun agreed, and as soon as his grandfather left, he took the newspaper and ran to Shili Mountain.

Although it is not yet nine o'clock, the weather is gloomy, and the other party should be able to come out of the tree.

Wu Chun thought about climbing up the mountain. The mountain road was not easy to walk when it rained, and the road was slippery. Wu Chun supported the pine tree on the side of the road all the way, and it took a lot of strength to climb to the place where the pine tree was.

In the dark night, in front of the pine tree, Xu Shiyao was still dressed the same, looking at himself with his hands behind his back.

Wu Chun only felt that his eyes were hot. He stared at the other person's face for a long time, his hands trembling slightly.

The other party's probing eyes looked at him for a long time before slowly saying two words, "Go back."

As soon as Xu Shiyao's voice came out, Wu Chun couldn't bear it anymore, stepped forward in two steps, hugged him forcefully, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"I'm not going back!"

Wu Chun didn't know why he was wronged, but when he saw the other party, he could no longer hold back the emotions that had been suppressed for a whole day, and poured out all of them at this moment.

"Rainy weather is dangerous."

When he said this, Wu Chun felt even more sad, and suddenly he was a little glad that the other party had forgotten what happened in his lifetime. If he always remembered, how would the other party survive every rainy day in the past five years.

Wu Chun also thought about seeing every dead person step into reincarnation after seven days in the past five years, and there were many people passing by around him, but perhaps no one could stop and talk with him.Xiao / Ying

Five years of silent persistence is only for the safety of Shili Village.

Wu Chun let go of the other party, wiped away his tears, and said with a smile, "With you here, I'm not afraid."

"I'm a ghost."

The other party said these three words again.

"I know." Wu Chun walked past him with a face of indifference, even though the rain had stopped and the mountains were covered with grass, Wu Chun's shoes were already soaked through, and his trouser legs were tightly attached to his skin, which was very uncomfortable. Comfortable.

"Can I climb this tree?" Wu Chun turned around and asked, although he climbed up without permission last time, but those who don't know are innocent.

Wu Chun looked at Xu Shiyao, who lowered his head and wondered what he was thinking, as if he didn't hear Wu Chun's words.

"If you don't speak, I will take it as your promise?"

Seeing that the other party still didn't respond to him, Wu Chun didn't care so much, and hurriedly dragged his shoes and climbed up.

The wet shoes were very uncomfortable to wear on his feet. Unexpectedly, he had just climbed up for a while when he heard a click, and the branch he was on broke.

"what!"

Wu Chun screamed, watching his body fall down with the broken branches, but he was helpless, Wu Chun closed his eyes instinctively, but the pain he imagined did not come, but felt a little cool instead, when he opened his eyes, Wu Chun Chun found himself being held in Xu Shiyao's arms at this moment.

Xu Shiyao regained that expressionless face. He was just about to put Wu Chun down. Looking at Wu Chun's red feet from wearing wet shoes for a long time, his eyes froze for a moment, and then he hugged Wu Chun and sat on the pine tree. on another fork of .

Wu Chun refused to let go, and hugged Xu Shiyao tightly.Said, "It's not that I was very strong last time. I haven't gained weight these days."

Wu Chun's mood hasn't calmed down yet, so let's talk about whether it hurts or not, mainly because it just rained today, and the soil is mixed with rainwater. If he falls, Wu Chun can almost think of his disheveled appearance, and it's not good to go back with his grandfather. Explain, the more Wu Chun thinks about Xu Shiyao, the stronger he will be holding Xu Shiyao, and finally the whole person even sits on Xu Shiyao's body.

"let go."

"No, no, no." Wu Chun hurriedly shook his head, holding Xu Shiyao's hand with more strength, and said in a panic. "This one also looks very thin, and I have to fall down when I let go."

"will not."

Wu Chun was taken aback, the voice just now was too hasty, Wu Chun couldn't be sure whether the other party really said it, or his own imagination, he looked up at Xu Shiyao, and found that the other party was looking down at him, his eyes were already full of aggression. His eyes were gradually replaced by helplessness, and even though he kept saying that he wanted Wu Chun to let go, his left and right arms were always on Wu Chun's waist, for fear that he would fall off.

"What... what?" Wu Chun looked at him and asked cautiously.

The other party looked away, and after a while, Wu Chun heard him say again, "I'm here."