Chapter 54
Happiness fell like petals on the trees, covering Lili's body, echoing on the country roads of the Grange. The donkey's grange has become a paradise for Lili. Every gust of wind, every cloud, can make Lili laugh happily. In order to make Lili's life as comfortable as possible, Tian Donkey picked up some branches and tied them into a fence, trying to trap Lili's laughter and happiness.
"Brother Donkey, tomorrow I will become a sheep"
Lili stood outside the fence, looking at the shadow of the fence, and said sadly.
"Why?"
"Because the sheep are home, they need a fence"
"Uh......"
"I don't need anything, I just want to be happy"
"Lili, I want you to be happy"
"I'm so happy right now."
After saying that, Lili danced barefoot on the ground, and her dancing was as beautiful as her singing. She was really happy again.
Tian Donkey forgot about the fence and looked stunned, Lili's face was full of happiness, and she was tired of jumping, and the two sat quietly under the tree, looking farther into the distance.
"Brother Donkey, what are you planting on your land?"
"Crops"
"Can I grow something else?"
"What do you want to plant?"
Lili stood up suddenly, like an artist of the earth, and began to paint with a stroke of her brush.
"The land in the east is planted with the sea, the land in the west is planted with the sound of the piano, the land in the south is planted with flowers, and the land in the north is planted with stars."
Tian Donkey followed Lili's finger, but he didn't see anything.
"In the future, sitting under this big tree, I can see my sea calm, my piano melodious and pleasant, my flowers purple and red, and my stars bright and shining."
Lili continued to depict, intoxicated by the beauty she depicted, as if she had heard the sound of the sea, smelled the fragrance of the sea of flowers, and saw the beauty of the stars.
"Why don't we plant some more crops?"
Tian Donkey, who had been worried about their future, asked tentatively, but Lili didn't speak and shook her head.
Yes, Tian Donkey's head can't imagine the kind of beauty that Lili depicts, he only knows that the farmer's land, spring, summer, autumn and winter are crops, if Lili wants to plant those strange things, then, what will become of the grange in the future? Will the people of the Grange say yes? He couldn't have imagined.
Smoke rises in the distance.
The people of the Grange began to prepare dinner, and the evening was about to come.
When the time of each day passes, the happiness always ends, and Lili's face is covered with a gray shadow. Tian Donkey was reluctant to tell her the bad news, but he was even more reluctant to lie to Lili, so he looked at the deeper and deeper night and said leisurely.
"Lili, we've finished eating the food we brought, and we'll finish it tomorrow"
"Then from tomorrow, I'm going to skip meals"
"Why?"
"I have so many beautiful things, what else do I need?"
Tian Donkey smiled, thinking that Lili's words were a joke, so in order not to worry Lili, he continued.
"Lili, don't worry, I'll find a way, it's always better to be in the Grange than outside, or, I can go and work for everyone as before, Lili, we Grange people are all good people"
"I know, I've seen the way they look at me, I laugh, they laugh, I don't laugh, they laugh, but they have kindness in their eyes, and it makes me happy"
"Well, when I'm outside, I always miss the Grange, and when I return to the Grange, I don't miss the outside at all, Lili, you say it's magical."
"Yes, this is a magical land, Brother Donkey, I think I'm in love with the Grange, and, I want to die, die in the Grange"
Lili told Tian Donkey that she had fallen in love with the Grange from the first time she saw him, and that it was not a joke that she wanted to die, but the happiness she wanted most.
Tian Donkey looked at Lili in surprise, Lili was immersed in her imagination, happy and strange, she continued.
"Brother Donkey, you are always worried about life, how can I make you not worry? Under our feet, on this land, can grow countless happiness, is true, you have to believe, we plant once in spring, once in summer, every season to plant, when the time comes, we can walk on the rippling seaside, and there will never be winter, in this way, our life is all beautiful, all year round, are a good day for birds and flowers"
“……”
Tian Donkey seemed to be a little unable to understand such Lili. Grange and Lili, such two existences that would never have intersected, because Tian Donkey, came together, and Grange seemed to have really changed Lili, he began to wonder, shouldn't he bring Lili to Grange? I can't help but start worrying, what will become of Lili's Grange and Lili of the Grange in the end? Tian Donkey will never know.
In the evening, a strong wind blew in the Grange, and the gentle sky changed in an instant, as if it was going to rain.
Tian Donkey looked up at the night sky and said to Lili.
"Lili, tonight, it looks like we can't live under the tree, it's going to rain, let's hide from the rain"
"Then let's live in a tree"
"It's going to rain on the trees, too."
"But there is a bird in the tree, and it will bring me news for tomorrow, and I don't want to leave my bird, just as a shepherd does not leave his flock."
"Lili, when it rains, the shepherd will drive the sheep back to the sheepfold, and the birds will return to their nests, and the news of tomorrow, the news of the day after tomorrow, we still have a lot of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and when the weather is clear, the birds will fly, don't worry"
"But yesterday's bird told me that I can't leave the tree today, so, donkey, I can't leave."
"But it's going to rain."
"That can't leave either"
Lili is stubborn like a child, and Tian Donkey has no choice but to think of other ways to avoid the rain.
"Hey...... Okay, Lili, you wait for me, I'll go to the village to borrow an umbrella for you to shelter from the rain, you must wait for me" As he spoke, Tian Donkey glanced at the sky above his head again, and said, "Before the rain from the sky falls on the earth, I will definitely come back"
After saying that, Tian Donkey ran towards the village of Grange, and behind him, it seemed that Lili had said something, but the howling of the wind filled his ears, and people couldn't hear anything.
It was the biggest rain in the Grange, and the last rain the donkey had ever seen. When he was not far from the big tree, the thunder and lightning pierced the depth of the night sky, he looked back at Lili under the tree, hanging on the branch like a lonely ghost, Tian Donkey was taken aback, and when he looked closely, it was too late, and the heavy rain poured down, and the watering people could not open their eyes.
At that time, Tian Donkey didn't know where to go? Do you continue to walk to the village to borrow an umbrella or go back to Lili? This kind of indecidable difficulty was like the bloody mouth of the god of death, which instantly engulfed Tian Donkey, and he didn't even have time to see the appearance of death, the flash flood behind him erupted, roaring and rushing towards Tian Donkey, washing away Tian Donkey.
How many forms of suffering are there? I'm afraid no one can tell. But Tian Donkey, who has tasted many kinds of suffering, finally, never has the opportunity to taste suffering again. In the embrace of the flood, he struggled and screamed, but the merciless flood still took away the life of Tian Donkey, and also took away all his hatred and fear of the miserable life.
That night it rained heavily, mercilessly, and strangely, and every man, woman, and child in the Grange remembered the rain.
The next day, the people of the Grange came to the tree, and saw only a brightly colored skirt hanging on the tree, and under the tree, there was nothing, no donkey, no woman who could only smirk, nothing, not even traces, so the people of the Grange began to argue whether the donkey had really returned to the Grange......
"End"