Ten Years in Daocheng

Fragrant.

He cautiously grabbed the side of the boat and looked down—under the boat was boundless water, spreading in all directions, extending to the depths of the starry sky, and connecting with the sky.The water has no waves, it is so clear and quiet that every star is reflected in the water.With a slight movement, the boat swayed.The ripples shattered the starlight, and it calmed down after a while.

After the water calmed down, Bai Xincha realized that the boat was not stationary, but floating in a certain direction.The stars overhead and in the water are moving very slowly at the same time.Bai Xincha feels as if he is among the stars, which is different from stargazing on the ground.The latter needs to look up, which makes people feel awe; but now he seems to have left the earth, soaring in the universe, becoming a star.

The stars in the sky are still shining, pushing the deep sky farther and farther, as if it is slowly falling at an illusory speed. "My mother said that there are too many stars hanging in the sky, and some of them will fall down and become a meteor shower. She said that she saw it when she was a child, and it flew across the sky with a 'swish'. But I never saw it with my own eyes. I can see." Bai Xincha was thinking wildly, her thoughts letting go. "What if the stars fell from the sky?"

As he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a "boom", as if a pebble had been thrown into the water.Bai Xincha leaned on the side of the boat and looked around, but saw nothing.But the sound of "dong", "dong" came again, and gradually became denser - this time he could see clearly - the stars actually...

It really fell!

Different from what mother once described, the stars here fall extremely slowly, several times slower than the speed of paper dragonflies, and they float down gently.Some stars are only as big as fireflies, and disappear as soon as they touch the water.Some stars are the size of hawthorn fruit, smashing the water surface to make ripples.And when these larger stars entered the water, they melted like a drop of ink.It's just that this "ink" is luminous, dyeing the water around it bright.A star fell on the ship and did not disappear immediately.Bai Xincha picked it up carefully, and Xing Xing lay quietly and warmly in his palm.

Bai Xincha no longer knew how to describe this scene.He looked up in the direction the boat was heading.The Milky Way and its reflection blend perfectly into the shape of the giant eye towards which the ship is heading.The falling stars are like crystal tears flowing from the eyes.Bai Xincha felt regretfully that this eye should have a pupil.But he already has experience:

"At the beginning, I was thinking about the stars in Daocheng, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the sky full of stars; just now I was thinking about the meteor shower, and the stars really fell down. It's as if I can achieve anything I think."

So he closed his eyes and tried to picture it in his head.Sure enough, he lived up to his expectations, and when he opened his eyes again, a crescent moon was already hanging in the center of that eye.The boat approached it in a shower of stars.The crooked moon was only as high as a small hill away from him, and it shone with silvery white light faintly, making it look extremely huge, as if it had just bathed in the water and hadn't had time to rise to the sky.Baixincha is not surprising at all, it seems that it should be there, and it should be that big.He suddenly discovered that there was a small person sitting on the moon, and it gradually became clear as he approached——

"Junior Liu Jun!" Bai Xincha shouted happily.

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"Brother Xincha!" Xu Liujun answered him happily.

Bai Xincha didn't think there was anything strange about the stars falling from the sky and the huge moon, but he was stunned when he heard Xu Liujun's voice.He had known Xu Liujun for only three days - on the first day he was beaten half to death by Xie Wei'an without even saying a few words; on the third day Xu Liujun simply hijacked him.Bai Xincha didn't know what Xu Liujun had experienced, or what he was experiencing.In his impression, Junior Brother Liu Jun should be mysterious, cold, and sad, like autumn in Daocheng; or calm and courageous, like winter in Daocheng.But definitely not like now, with the clear voice unique to teenagers, calling his name.

"I'm not dreaming." Bai Xincha thought a little helplessly.

Then he saw Xu Liujun leaping from the moon.

"Hey, be careful!" Bai Xincha was startled.

But Xu Liujun, as light as a falling star, slowly landed on the boat from mid-air.The small boat shook slightly a few times.

"Junior Brother Liujun..." Bai Xincha was surprised to find that Xu Liujun was grinning, his brows and eyes were curved, and he was smiling happily like a child, which made him full of vitality.If it weren't for the pale and thin face that hasn't changed, Bai Xincha would have thought it was someone else.

"Huh?" Xu Liujun tilted his head slightly and waited for Bai Xincha's next words with a serious look.

"Ah, cough," Bai Xincha recovered, "Where is this?"

He was ready to hear all kinds of unimaginable answers, either scary or dangerous.But Xu Liujun's answer was beyond his expectation.

"This is my dream." He said happily.

"Oh." Bai Xincha thought in frustration, "It really is a dream. I should have thought of it a long time ago. The Milky Way, the starry sky, the lake and the moon here, as well as the happy Xu Liujun, all appear in dreams." So he tried hard He pinched his arms to wake up.

It doesn't work at all.Xu Liujun still existed in front of his eyes, and he could even see the galaxy reflected in his eyes.

"Hahahaha!" Xu Liujun laughed even more happily, and grabbed Bai Xincha's hand that was pinching his arm.Baixincha felt the familiar coolness again, it was Xu Liujun's temperature.

"Brother Xincha, this is my dream, not yours. How could you wake up from my dream?"

Shaoyang Mountain

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There are as many question marks on Bai Xincha's head as there are stars above his head.

"If I hadn't woken up from the dream, you wouldn't be able to get out." Xu Liujun explained.

Bai Xincha finally grasped the point: "Then you wake up quickly, so we can escape from this ghost place!"

"A ghostly place? How fun is it here?" Xu Liujun pulled Bai Xincha's sleeve with his other hand, "Brother Xincha, let's play for a while, just for a while, huh?"

Bai Xincha fell into deeper confusion.

"What is this?" he thought, "Is it acting like a baby? It's like Xiao Zhen begging his master and his wife when he wants to go down the mountain."

"Huh? Xu Liujun will act like a baby? I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"Oh, I'm just dreaming."

"No, this is not my dream, it is Xu Liujun's dream."

"But having said that, is it really possible to enter another person's dream? Or is it my dream at all, but Xu Liujun in my dream said it wasn't my dream?"

If it wasn't for Xu Liujun's hand holding her, Bai Xincha really wanted to pinch herself awake again.

"Xu Liujun", who couldn't tell whether it was real or not, saw that Bai Xincha didn't say a word, so he assumed that he had acquiesced, and said happily, "Brother Xincha, you are so kind. Let's go, I'll take you to a more interesting place!"

Then he grabbed Bai Xincha who was still in a daze, stepped on the side of the boat, and jumped into the water.

Before Bai Xincha could react, she heard a "plop" and fell into the cold water.Caught off guard all of a sudden, Bai Xincha couldn't even yell out, held his breath and paddled desperately to the surface of the water, but his body still sank.

"Senior Brother Xincha, don't be afraid! Senior Brother Xincha!" He vaguely heard Xu Liujun calling him.

Bai Xincha did not calm down.When he was young, he had seen his companion washed away by the water of Daoxiang River, and even his body was never found.Since then, he has become very afraid of water, and even the bath water in the wooden bucket only reaches his chest, and will never exceed his chin.He desperately thought he was going to die.The instinct of survival will force him to suck water into his lungs, and then he will be choked to death in Xu Liujun's dream.

Now he was sure it wasn't his dream.How can a person die in his own dream?

Bai Xincha finally couldn't help taking a breath.However, the imaginary choking water did not appear, and the feeling of suffocation stopped abruptly.Everything around him became clear again, Xu Liujun looked at him guiltily and worriedly.

"Brother Xincha, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were afraid of water."

"No...it's okay." Bai Xincha replied with lingering fear. "No, wait a minute... what!"

He was surprised to find a very small fish waddling up to the tip of his nose, staring at him with two bulging eyes, and had a face to face with him.

"Why am I still in the water?" Bai Xincha murmured, "And I can breathe, who am I, where am I..."

Xu Liujun smiled apologetically: "Brother Xincha, don't be afraid, this is my dream. You are the guest in my dream, so there will be no danger."

Bai Xincha tried hard to convince himself to accept this setting beyond his comprehension, and asked tentatively: "The starry sky and the moon just now..."

Mentioning this, Xu Liujun became happy again: "That's something in your mind! You are a guest here, so whatever you think will be reflected in my dream!"

Then a star fell from the water and melted around them, becoming smaller and smaller.The little fish stopped exploring Bai Xincha's nose, rushed up like an arrow, swallowed the gradually shrinking stars into its stomach, and then glowed like a small lantern.Xu Liujun stretched out his hand to tease it, and the little fish circled around his finger lively a few times, then swam to the depths of the water.

Xu Liujun took Bai Xincha's hand and followed the little fish into the bottomless water.Bai Xincha followed Xu Liujun ignorantly, only then realized that their hands had been holding each other and had never been separated.falling star