Alice studied magic last night and didn't sleep until late at night, and she woke up a little late this morning, thinking that Marisa had something to do with her today, she looked at the time in a little panic, but fortunately, it was only nine o'clock.

After getting up and freshening up and dressing herself up like a doll, she remembered that someone had stayed in this mansion last night.

Is the man gone? If you haven't left yet, it's a little boring.

Alice manipulates the doll to open the door to the room, the bed is neat, and the room is empty, and it seems that it has left.

It's kind of interesting.

But with the doll, Alice frowned when she saw something on the long table in the room.

There was a row of dolls on the table, and Alice could tell that it was the one she had disposed of last night.

What's going on, why is my puppet here? Could it be...

Alice's eyes glowed coldly. This man is so presumptuous, he gave him a place to live, not only did he not thank him, but he sneaked around in this foreign pavilion and did some bad things.

She found a piece of paper on the table, on which something was written, and when she picked it up with a doll, there was a long list of English on it, and even Alice was a little surprised when she saw it.

The gist of what it wrote on the paper was this:

Sincerely, Miss Alice.

I am very grateful for your care for my stay in the museum last night.

Bored in the middle of the night, I happened to meet Miss Abandoning My Couple, I was very happy and couldn't bear it, so I took it to make up for the night, so that Twenty-two was flawless, and I took a souvenir with my selfish heart, hoping that Miss Don't blame.

Another word to tell. I watch Miss make a puppet, lifelike, and speculate in vain, is there a wish to endow the puppet with spirituality? I thought that in order for its spirit to manifest, it had to be seen as a living being. Some flaws, people and gods share, if you waste food because of choking, because of small losses, each piece of demanding perfection, the sun and the moon are long, I am afraid that this wish will not come true. Flaws are inevitable, but discarding is not good, make up for the shortcomings, turn the lack into a circle, the party is a good policy, Miss Wang thinks twice.

Thanks again.

Bai Mingqiu

After reading the letter, Alice's face was expressionless, but she just checked the twenty-one dolls on the table one by one, and sure enough, as the letter said, the twenty-one dolls that were originally discarded by Alice mercilessly because of various defects are now becoming perfect one by one, and every part of Alice's original defects has been repaired in various ways by Bai Mingqiu's skillful hands, and it makes Alice have a feeling of "this puppet should be like this". Transforming defects into the most special part of the puppet, Bai Mingqiu's carving skills can really be described as ingenious!

White, bright, autumn.

Alice pronounced the name, once, twice, three times, her eyes a little confused, and her delicate and beautiful face could not be seen. She manipulated the dolls to put away all the dolls on the table and put them in a room where she never let outsiders in.

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Bai Mingqiu came out of the mansion early in the morning.

I didn't sleep all night last night, and I carved until more than six o'clock in the morning. However, immersing himself in the carving made him forget the troubles in his heart for a while, and after successfully repairing all twenty-two little dolls, his mind was clear and comfortable, and he ignored the fatigue of the night. Anyway, he has a phoenix totem, has great energy, and doesn't care about a night's sleep.

Last night, he left pastries for breakfast, drank a glass of water before the meal, did Tai Chi and Baduanjin, stretched his body after a night's hard work, and then embarked on the journey in good spirits.

The place I'm going to go today is Hakurei Shrine.

Hakurei Shrine is not far from here, this enchanted forest is at the foot of the mountain, and when you go out, you will be on the beast path, and there will be youkai only at night, and during the day. After passing through the long animal path, you can see the stairs up the mountain, and after climbing one or two thousand steps, you will arrive at Hakurei Shrine.

Bai Mingqiu had already decided before the trip that he would try not to fly, and to observe the beautiful scenery of Gensokyo in detail little by little, rather than flying by and watching the flowers, so this distance was enough for him to walk for a morning.

He didn't care, carrying a small suitcase, and playing with the doll brought out of Alice's house last night in his other hand, all the way.

There are a total of twenty-two discarded dolls of Alice, and the one that Bai Mingqiu brought out is the one with the best materials and workmanship. The three-headed body, like a match, the long black hair is cut to the waist, the broken bangs on the forehead slightly cover the forehead, and the hair in the two buns is long and light, hanging down to the chin. The doll's eyes are made of a black unknown gemstone, which looks extremely precious and shines at night. Delicate Qiong nose, sandalwood mouth with a smile, that little face does not apply any makeup, but it is as clear and beautiful as a hibiscus out of the water. A well-cut beige dress covers the doll's petite body, and a pair of delicate white cloth shoes are worn on her small feet.

Of course, in Alice's style, she will inevitably change her high-heeled shoes for her dolls, so the cloth shoes were actually changed for her by Bai Mingqiu.

This doll is made of top-quality materials both from the material and the carving, Alice's original intention is to make it a cold and proud doll, and this doll lives up to her expectations in appearance, but the failure is that the doll is made of top-quality sycamore wood. In the Book of Songs, it is said, "The phoenix is singing, and it is in the high post." The sycamore is born, and the sun rises in the sun. "The sycamore is the tree where the phoenix dwells, and it is the most noble and noble. This kind of wood did not match the temperament that Alice expected, Alice was a Westerner, and she did not understand the truth that plants and trees also have spirit, so she simply felt that there was no such feeling as she imagined, so she abandoned it.

Bai Mingqiu saw this puppet for the first time, he had a feeling of pearl dust, he had a deep relationship with the phoenix, and he also liked the sycamore, the moment he saw this puppet, he knew why her little "cinnabar" couldn't be lit, just because the choice of wood did not match the temperament of the puppet. This doll was born to be a woman with a light aura like Hakurei Reimu.

Bai Mingqiu changed her into a pair of cloth shoes, cut the cloth from herself to make a small skirt, and then slightly hooked the corners of the puppet's mouth that should be expressionless, and then painted the eyebrows a little shallower, and after the cinnabar was finished, the puppet's temperament changed greatly, Bai Mingqiu was very happy, so he couldn't help but want to take it away.

This doll, let her really have spirituality, it is worthy of Bai Mingqiu and Alice's intentions!

It's just that making dead things really have life is an extremely profound method, Bai Mingqiu doesn't know this kind of thaumaturgy, he wonders if there are any people he knows. Huiyin? Sister red? Hiroshi? Eight Meaning Yonglin?

One by one, the powerful characters in Gensokyo flashed through his mind, and in the midst of such thoughts, he walked out of the Enchanted Forest, all the way through the beast path, and climbed more than a thousand steps to the Hakurei Shrine.

It's still a bright red torii gate and a small shrine, and it's still Bai Mingqiu, who is alone, although time has changed, but every time he comes here, he always has a lot of thoughts.

Sorting out his mood, he called:

"Bo Li, Bai Mingqiu came to visit."

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The translation of foreign articles at the beginning of the twentieth century is like this literary crepe, and there are omissions in the language, so I hope you don't care about it.

Here is a collection of names for the dolls, cute or fresh, one, two, three words.

Title wordplay, Sycamore Figure, hehe.