How does a tree escape?

Yanagawa didn't know.

Over the years, its most common action has been to shake the willow shoots or extend its roots deeper.

Yanagawa is puzzled why humans can move around at will, birds can fly freely, but he can't.

It was very anxious and helpless, so it consulted with the birds that rested on it at night, and the birds paid some attention to it.

You can pull out your roots, and you can walk everywhere. The birds said.

But if I didn't have roots, I would have died. Yanagawa sighed.

You're going to die tomorrow anyway, so you might as well give it a try.

Yanagawa shook the branches and leaves, and felt that this was not unreasonable.

The birds said, "I have seen fish in the river, and they are like you, they cannot survive without the water, and they are rooted in the water." But they swim in the water and don't stop in one place.

You're right! It dawned on Yanagawa that I should follow their example, just leave the roots in the land, but move to other places!

That's right! That's right!

The birds were happy with their cleverness, and the trees were full of chirps.

You can swim in the earth like a fish!

The earth is your river!

Yanagawa was excited and happy, so it started to exert itself.

But it moved very slowly, slowly, and although it tried hard to move its roots, it was not until the next morning that it was far from where it had been standing. It only moved a few feet.

Watching the sun rise in the east and the farmers opened their doors one after another, Yanagawa felt disappointed.

It knows. Their efforts were in vain.

Death will come eventually.

The birds began to wail and chirp, as if singing an elegy that belonged to Yanagawa alone.

The peasants gathered in groups with axes on their shoulders, and the birds were frightened and hurriedly called their friends to flee.

Yanagawa looked at the rising sun in the east, shaking his body sadly.

Yes.

Many, many years have passed.

It can already be "seen".

It thought the axe would fall immediately. only to find that the next moment, the farmers were already kneeling at their feet.

They bowed down to themselves. There were words in his mouth, with a mixture of surprise and surprise on his face, and he looked at his eyes with admiration and admiration.

The axe had long since been thrown far away by them. No one seems ready to pick it up again.

Yanagawa thought it was strange. So it started listening to people.

"Manifestation! The god of the tree has appeared! ”

"Oh my God! We almost blasphemed the gods! It must have been the god of the tree who knew about our unclean mind and moved so far at night to warn us foolish people! ”

"It's the god of trees! It must be a tree god! You see, this willow tree is so thick that it is probably hundreds of years old! It's disrespectful that we even want to cut it down! ”

Yanagawa listened to it for a long time, but he still didn't understand it too much.

But subconsciously, Yanagawa guessed. His life seems to have been saved for the time being.

In the days that followed, Yanagawa was still a little frightened. Every night they will continue to run away, and in the morning, the farmers will come to worship themselves.

Humans are strange creatures.

Yanagawa thought so.

The people tied it with red silk, put incense on it, and burned scriptures and prayed for it.

Gradually, more and more people in the village came to worship it, and the words became more and more complicated.

"Tree God, please bless me to give birth to a big fat boy!"

"Tree God, please bless this year!"

"The little one is about to travel far away, please bless me from encountering bandits on the road!"

"My chickens haven't laid eggs in months! Please bless it to lay eggs! ”

Yanagawa thinks that humans are really strange creatures.

But in any case, it is naturally a very fortunate thing that life has been preserved.

Moreover, as people gradually prostrated and prayed to themselves more and more, Yanagawa found that some strange things began to happen to him.

At first, there was only an occasional hint of a strange feeling. After that, this feeling gradually converged into a vein, like a stream, and began to flow slowly but surely on its body.

This stream is very strange, not the feeling of rain flowing through it, but more like an invisible halo of light, which makes Yanagawa feel very comfortable all over his body, just like those warm days he experienced a long, long time ago.

Then, Yanagawa's vision became very different.

It began to be able to "see" more. For example, the strange "creatures" that people occasionally carry on their backs, and the things that sneak up on them in the middle of the night to call themselves brothers and sisters, and call themselves "monsters". And...... The pale blue ribbon that binds between himself and all the humans who worship him.

Yanagawa didn't know what these were exactly, and there were actually very few things it was able to do. After all, it's just a willow tree that can be heard, seen, and felt.

However, there is always something that can be done.

For example, if someone comes to worship him after he has an illness, these diseases may be inexplicable, and no matter how much the village doctor treats them or how many herbs they eat, they do not improve.

Yanagawa could see the little monster attached to the patient at a glance, so he waved the wicker to drive it away.

The worshippers didn't know so much, but in the process of praying, they found the soft willow brushing on their bodies, as if the tree god was telling them that it had indeed heard their worship.

By the next day, their symptoms are often cured.

This is naturally because Liu Chuan drove those little monsters away, and when he came to the villagers, it became a sign of the manifestation of the tree god.

There are more and more such things, and Yanagawa's reputation is getting bigger and bigger.

People from ten miles and eight villages came to worship. Later, people even built an ancestral hall for it.

Yanagawa doesn't really understand these things, but he can feel them. As the number of people who came to worship increased and the people became more and more religious, the things flowing in its body became more and more powerful, as if a small stream was babbling into a river with waves.

Such days lasted for a long, long time, until an old man rode a skinny black donkey and slowly walked to Yanagawa's side.

"Hey. Small willow trees can become fine. The old man did not worship it as the others did, but smiling and crawling down from the donkey, his hands behind his back. Lazily walked around himself.

Yanagawa was very uncomfortable by this gaze, so he shook his body.

The old man grinned, and Yanagawa found that he had lost seven or eight teeth.

"Little willows. You're confused now. I don't know what those things in my body are and how I should use them, right? The old man reached out and patted his torso, smiling like an old fox, "I can teach you something, and I can also show you the world." After all, wouldn't you want to end your life in such a remote place? ”

Yanagawa was a little confused. I suddenly remembered that when the villagers were sacrificing and sweeping, they had said something about "liars". I don't know if these two words refer to the person in front of me.

"You're a liar!" The old man glared at the willow tree in annoyance, and slapped it on the trunk as if he were teaching a child.

Yanagawa was beaten in some pain, and tears were in his eyes.

The old man rolled his eyes, slowed down his luck, and channeled a trace of spiritual breath through his palm into the trunk of the willow tree.

The spiritual breath guides the rivers in Yanagawa's body that are constantly flowing, as if it is a guide, and all the spiritual energy that is in an idle state is introduced into the track that should really be walked.

It's just that for a moment, Yanagawa only felt that the world suddenly opened up.

It felt so many things it had never felt before, it saw so many things it had never seen before, and it heard so many sounds that it had never heard before.

It was at this moment that Yanagawa had a feeling of epiphany.

Only then did it realize what kind of path it should take in the future and what kind of people it should follow.

The old man felt the change in the mood of the little willow tree, laughed, and didn't know what kind of door method was used, and after a while, the willow tree turned into a human form.

Liu Chuan looked down at his appearance, and felt shocked while secretly rejoicing, and was about to thank the old man, but saw that the old man was looking at him with a complicated expression.

Yanagawa was puzzled, looked at his body, and touched his face again.

Nothing is wrong, huh?

"The other willow spirits in the family will either become a personable teenager, or they will turn into a girl who smiles and falls into the city, how do you look like this?" The old man looked at him helplessly.

Yanagawa touched his face, he was indeed not very young, and even had shallow wrinkles on his forehead, and a beard on his chin, no matter how he looked at it, it had nothing to do with words like teenagers and girls.

So, Yanagawa was depressed and hung his head.

Then, his eyebrows wrinkled into a Sichuan character.

The old man looked at the word "Chuan" and waved his hand casually: "No matter what, you will take the word 'Liu' as your surname in the future and name it 'Liuchuan'!" ”

"Thank you for the name!" Yanagawa was overjoyed, having been worshiped for so many years, he naturally knew what a name meant to humans.

"That ......" Liu Chuan glanced at the old man with some apprehension, "Excuse me, what is the old man's name?" ”

"Me?" The old man laughed loudly when he heard this, "I'll teach you this first, it's rude to ask the elder's name directly." As for me, you call me an old man! ”

Yanagawa scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

"Let's go!"

The old man slowly climbed onto the donkey's back again and staggered along.

"Old ...... Sir, where are we going? Liu Chuan hurriedly followed, his posture more like that of a four or five-year-old child.

The old man's eyes were half-open and half-closed, and he was content.

"Jiankang City, from the Sect."

He said. (To be continued......)