Chapter 38: Wild Vegetable Essence

When I'm fine, I go to the park to pull wild vegetables for the rabbits. I have a little rabbit, a snow-white white rabbit, very naughty, very smart, I have patience to raise it, I really like this little rabbit. I sometimes look at it for a long time, and I can't get enough of it, and its round little body is bouncing around in the cage, which is very cute. It is not a precious rabbit, it is an ordinary white rabbit, my love let it live a pampered life, bought it a lot of rabbit food, kettle, mats and other small facilities are not lacking, the cage is placed in a corner of the living room, not frozen in winter, not hot in summer.

The park I went to was not big, but there was a large square for exercise and walking, surrounded by trees and lawns, and I walked among them in search of wild plants. Wild plants like to grow in shady places, very scarce, the lawn grows a small area of pine trees, the pine trees grow sparse wild plants, as soon as I see wild plants, my eyes light up, as if I have found some treasure. The pine trees are very cool underneath, covered with thick dry pine needles that fall all year round, and there are soft pine nuts that have fallen when stepped on, and I have always thought those pine nuts grow strangely and never touch them. I would lie down and rest after I plucked the wild plants, which seemed to never be plucked, and in a few days they would pop up again, and if it rained, they would grow even more. Whenever I lie on the soft pine needles and squint at the sunlight shining through the layers of pine needles, I feel very comfortable, what is the happiest thing in life? It's leisure. At this time, I always think of those Taoist priests who stayed away from the red dust and entered the mountains and forests to practice, they also chased this leisure, but I don't know if they will get bored of sitting under the tree and meditating every day. The sun was mild under the shady pine trees, and I almost fell asleep under its gentle rays.

There is white juice in the wild vegetables, which seems to be very nutritious, and the rabbit has gained weight after eating it a few times, and the appearance is even more pleasing, and every time I see it like a ball, I can't help but hug it. Animals are fat and good-looking, I thought. In order to make the rabbit fatter, I ran into the park more often to pull wild vegetables. At noon on this day, the sun was very scorching, shining brightly on the earth, I looked at the bag containing wild vegetables, it was empty, although the weather was very hot, but I saw the eyes of the rabbit in the cage, it must have been hungry, I went out desperately, no matter how hot, I could not let the rabbit starve. When I came to the park, I was already sweating profusely, and I quickly hid under those pine trees, and my heart lit up when I saw those verdant wild vegetables. When I was happily pulling wild vegetables, I suddenly heard someone talking to me, and the voice was in my ears, "Pulling vegetables?" "Who? At this point, people are hiding in their homes to blow the air conditioner, the park is empty, and there was no one when I came, even the road was quiet, and not a single car passed by. I looked back curiously, and an old lady, dressed in black and black pants, with her hands behind her back, leaned over slightly, looked at me with a smile on her face, she was so old, her mouth was deflated, and her mouth was pitch black. "yes, pulling vegetables." I replied at a long time, and continued to pull vegetables, not going to pay attention to her. Maybe it was because of my cold attitude, she "smacked" twice in her throat and didn't speak again. After a while, I didn't hear her leave, she wouldn't be standing there, would she? I looked back and there was nothing behind me. I wondered even more, when did she leave? Why is there no sound at all? I stood up, walked out of the pine forest, looked around, did not see the figure of the old lady, the bright and dazzling sunlight shone on the empty lawn, the grass tip seemed to condense golden sunlight particles, dazzling people's eyes, how this old lady was so elusive, I suddenly became frightened, and hurried away.

In order to make the rabbit more active, I bought a rabbit walking rope, and the rabbit must be fun to look at on the lawn. I picked a cooler day, tied up the bunny, carried it to the park, walked through the big square, and came to the lawn to put it down. The little rabbit is especially excited in nature, bouncing and jumping, it has not seen green trees and red flowers since it was born, right? It sniffed around curiously, saw the familiar wild herbs, and ate them, and by this time we were already under the pine trees. I tied it to the trunk of a tree and began to pull vegetables to prepare it for tomorrow. I haven't forgotten the weird old lady, but today with people in the park and a bunny by my side, I'm not scared at all. Time passed little by little, and before I knew it, it was noon, I checked the wild vegetables in the bag, almost, I couldn't eat the rabbit when I pulled too much, and the leaves were yellow and rotten, which was a pity, so I stopped what I was doing and prepared to take the rabbit home. However, when I turned to pick it up, I found that the rabbit was gone, and the rope was still hanging on the tree, but there was no trace of the rabbit. I hurried out of the pine field and looked around, I thought worriedly, don't meet the dog, from time to time there are people here to walk the dog, if the dog bites it will be troublesome, although the rabbit runs fast, but my little rabbit is still a young rabbit, it can't outrun the dog. In the process of searching, I saw that there was no one in the square, so I probably went home for dinner and took a lunch break. Finally, I saw a person behind a dense hibiscus tree, and I stepped up to ask her if she had seen my little bunny. "Hey, did you see a little white rabbit?" I asked her. The man turned around, chewing on the food in his mouth, and a white fluffy thing was exposed, and her shriveled mouth kept moving, and once or twice she sucked the food into her mouth, and continued to chew, saying, "Don't you see, girl, you have a rabbit?" I nodded, and looked at her steadily, wasn't this the old lady I had met last time? Since she said no, I ran elsewhere to find it. I felt more and more that this old lady was abnormal, what was she doing in the park every day? She doesn't walk her pets, and she doesn't meet in twos and twos like other old people to do tai chi, take a walk or something, it's really strange that she stays alone on the lawn like this. Also, what is she eating? Why are her eyes so wide when she eats, her cheeks bulging, she has no teeth, is she chewing so badly in such a way of eating? The food that hasn't been chewed into your mouth yet, fluffy, how can it be so like...... Like a rabbit's tail! My head exploded, was she eating my rabbit? I turned around and ran back to the hibiscus tree, and the old lady was long gone. However, I quickly recovered from my anger and quickly left the place, thinking as I went, how could a big living man eat rabbits alive? So, that old lady is most likely not human. I walked out of the empty park, and suddenly turned around, feeling more and more dark inside.

The rabbit was gone, and I was so sad that I didn't even dare to look at its empty cage. In order to cut through the sadness, I bought another white, about the same size rabbit and put it in a cage. At this time, I looked at the cage and had the illusion that this was the little white rabbit, and it was still alive, maybe the rabbits all looked the same. I don't dare to put the rabbit out for a walk anymore, so I just let it run around the living room every day. However, wild vegetables are to be pulled, wild vegetables and weeds are the best food for rabbits, and if you just eat vegetables or rabbit food, you will get sick. I still go out every few days to pull wild vegetables for the rabbits, but I don't go to the park anymore, I have a new destination, the easternmost part of the town is a field with many wild plants on the ridge path, and there are many kinds of wild vegetables, I ride the tram back and forth, and put the wild vegetables in the basket. A month later, I suddenly thought, the wild plants in that small park are growing very dense and lush, I think that no one but me will go there to pull wild vegetables, they will grow like crazy, if I don't pull them out, what a pity? My heart began to itch, like I had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and I had to pull them out. I picked up an oversized woven bag and pulled them all out, thinking about it all the way. I went into the park, and came under the long-lost pine tree, and the good fellow, it was so dense and big that I greedily pulled it up like a gold, and the pine tree slowly regained its freshness and neatness, and the dried pine needles and pine nuts were exposed. The pine tree was plucked clean, and I began to feel around again, and under the dense and tall hibiscus tree, I found a large one, which hid in the arms of the hibiscus tree, enjoying the shade, and I grabbed its rhizome, and uprooted it at once, and the rhizome was thick, and the juice was more sapy, and it was more nutritious, and I dragged it home.

When I came to the house, I put down the bag, first folded the big tree to the rabbit to eat, the white juice splashed out, there was a jerky taste, I put the folded into the rabbit cage, the rabbit sniffed, a little disliked, licked the white juice, unwilling to chew up. I crouched down next to the rabbit cage and wondered, why doesn't it like it? Could it be that this wild vegetable is too old, I picked up a leaf and compared it with other wild vegetables, and sure enough, the color is darker and thicker. The old are nutritious, I refuse to change my mind, just like a hen, the older the more nutritious it is. Eat! I stuffed the leaves into the rabbit's mouth, probably too bitter, and its ears stood up, and it looked uncomfortable. At night, I folded all this big wild vegetable into the cage and let it eat, the rabbit is a nocturnal animal, mainly eats at night, if it swallows this vegetable, it will definitely gain weight, the animal is still fat and good-looking. "Bye-bye." I said goodbye to it and went to my bedroom to rest.

I had a dream, in the dream, someone knocked on my bedroom door, I opened the door to see, a bloody, mutilated old lady standing in front of me, she said very painfully, "Girl, okay, let me go, I am the big wild vegetable, I have been cultivating for many years, I will turn into a human form, but you pulled me out, I am about to be eaten by your rabbit, you quickly take me out of the cage, bury my stump under the hibiscus tree in the park, I still have a chance to survive." As she spoke, her arms were suddenly gone, her head was suddenly gone, and I knew that it was a rabbit eating, and I was stupefied until she was completely gone, and I didn't come back to my senses. I woke up from my dream, hurried to the living room, turned on the light, the food in the rabbit cage was empty, and the big wild vegetable was already in the belly of the little rabbit, and at this moment, the little rabbit was looking at me with its cute eyes. It's just a dream, dreams are messy, how can wild vegetables cultivate as adults? Joke, what if that's the case, you ate the rabbit and now you're being eaten by the rabbit, how fair. I went back to sleep and never dreamed again.

The next day, the rabbit got up abnormally, I released it out of the cage and let it move, but it bit me and chased and bit me, and its red eyes were straight and very scary. I was so scared that I ran all over the house. In the end, there was no way, so I sold it and sold it to a restaurant.

This should have been over, but once I went to the restaurant for dinner, and the owner came to talk to me, and he said, "That little rabbit is so strange, I cut it open and found some gray hair in its intestines."

Gray hair? It occurred to me that the weird old lady was a man with white hair.