"I ...... There is a reluctant request, I don't know if the shopkeeper can agree. ”

"Please."

"My wife, Xia Xia, she wants to see you." The young man hesitated and said, "I know that this request of mine is unreasonable and unbelievable, but ...... Doctors said she was in a bad condition and that she might not survive the summer. ”

"She wants to see me?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded: "I know the rules of the Ruyi Rouge Shop, and I am willing to pay any price." ”

"It's not that serious, I'm willing to go with you to see your wife." Xing Ruyi looked at the box of peach blossom cakes in his hand, and suddenly thought of the story told by Yuzhi.

Yuori said that she had been waiting for someone, but Xia Xia was looking for the peach blossom cake made by Yuori.

When he saw Xia Xia, Xing Ruyi hesitated for a moment, because Xia Xia in front of him looked very much like the jade weaver who lived in the peach forest all year round. The same eyebrows, the same temperament, and even the voice of the voice are extremely similar. The only difference is that Tamaori likes to wear pink and white clothes, while Natsu Xia likes to wear black clothes.

"Can you tell me, where did you buy this peach blossom crisp?"

"I didn't buy it, I asked a friend to make it."

"Your friend, can I meet her?" Xia Xia said eagerly: "I don't mean anything else, I just want to meet her." ”

"I can help you get the word across, but I'm not sure if she'll be able to come and see you."

"Thank you! Thank you! Xia Xia slowly closed her eyes: "Speaking of which, you may not believe it. Ever since I was very young, I've been looking for a taste. I didn't know what that smell was, I didn't know where it came from, I just knew that I had to find it. In order to maintain my sensitivity to taste, I have never eaten anything with a strong taste over the years. It wasn't until recently that I realized that the kind of thing I was looking for might be a dim sum called peach blossom crisp. I searched the streets and alleys and bought almost all the peach cakes I could buy, but none of them tasted like I wanted. Until, I ate this. ”

Xia Xia pointed to the box of peach blossom crisps that had been opened on the bedside table.

"The peach blossom cake made by jade weaving is indeed different from the one sold outside."

"Tamori, is her name Tamori?" Xia Xia's eyes lit up suddenly: "Yes, the peach blossom cake she makes is indeed different from the ones sold outside, it is very delicious, especially like the taste in my dream." ”

"Dreams?"

"Yes, a dream, a long, long dream." Xia Xia's eyes became misty.

"When I was five years old, I went into town with my dad for the first time. In the waiting hall of the train station, I smelled a smell. A very light, but sweet taste. I followed the smell and found a peach tree. That season was not the season when the peach blossoms were blooming, and the peach tree was just a wild peach tree that had not yet been grafted. Strangely, I smelled the aroma of peach blossoms. ”

"Maybe it's something else. Many products, in order to sell well, will be made into a floral taste, such as lavender-flavored laundry soap, lemon-flavored dish soap. ”

"Maybe, but it's not just that." Xia Xia looked at his hands: "For as long as I can remember, I don't like to have long hair, I don't like to wear flower clothes that girls like, I always keep telling my parents that they are mistaken, I am not a girl, I should be a boy." Mom and Dad thought I was sick and took me to a lot of doctors. When I was five years old, they took me to see a psychiatrist. Strangely, I've changed since I smelled that smell at the station. I no longer say that I am a boy, I no longer refuse to have long hair, and I even like Hanfu and the costumes of the Republic of China. I didn't understand why I had changed suddenly, and neither did my parents, they thought it was the psychiatrist's enlightenment that worked. However, only I understand that my changes are due to the smell of peach blossoms. ”

"It's a strange thing."

"After my eighth birthday, I started dreaming the same thing over and over again. In my dream, I seem to have gone back to three years. The dream was not complete, but seemed to be pieced together by multiple fragments. I first dreamed of a house, a very large house, and the building was also in the style of the Republic of China, but strangely, I never dreamed of the people in that house.

In the years of college, I spent my winter and summer vacations searching everywhere every year, and after searching for a long time, I found a house similar to it in a small town. Residents of the town told me that it was a typical house of a large family in the Republic of China, similar to it in many parts of the country, but because of the war and the continuous renovation of the houses, those houses disappeared. ”

"I have also had similar dreams, I always dream of a very strange valley, and I also dream of a very strange shop, which seems to be in the Tang Dynasty."

"Really?" Xia Xia looked at Xing Ruyi and smiled: "I thought I was the only one who would have such strange dreams, it turns out that the shopkeeper also has it." ”

"What else have you dreamed of besides the house?"

"A peach tree, a very old, old peach tree. The peach tree stood at the entrance of the village, and behind the peach tree there was a river, and on the other side of the river was a large field of rape flowers. Looking further away, it looks like a mountain and a hill, and it doesn't really look very real. I dreamed of a boy dressed in the costume of the Republic of China sitting under a peach tree, with his eyes and a book, reading as if it were a prose poem. ”

Natsuxia's dream overlaps with Tamaori's story.

"Anything else?"

"Battlefield!" Xia Xia's eyes became nervous: "A battlefield, I can't tell where it is, I just remember that there is an airplane overhead, which is the old-fashioned sound of a fighter plane that can only be heard in war movies." The sound of gunfire, the sound of fighting, and the fragments of clothing and blood. Chaotic, very chaotic fragments, but every feeling is clear. It was as if I was standing on that battlefield, and then my ears were buzzing, and my eyes were blank, followed by pain, very painful pain. ”

Xia Xia said, covering her arm.

"My arm has always been fine, and I have not had a slight fracture since I was a child, but in my dreams, I felt the pain of this arm being cut and separated, as if I had lost this arm." Xia Xia said, pulling up the futon and pulling the sleeve to the top: "I have a birthmark on this arm, and this birthmark is like confirming my dream, it is round." ”

Xia Xia's skin is very white, and her arms are also very white, but near her shoulder blades, there is a purple-red circle-shaped birthmark. The birthmark, born around Xia Xia's arm, was neatly like a mark left after being cut with a knife.

"What's even stranger is that after I had that dream, this arm of mine hurts on a rainy day, and I don't feel it at all from the birthmark. When it rained for days, I wondered if my arm would hurt so much that it would fall off. ”

"Do you believe in the past and this life?" Xing Ruyi stared at Xia Xia's arm and asked, Xia Xia was stunned.

"I once heard a story about what people have experienced in their previous lives that will leave their mark in this life. For example, some people don't like to wear scarves by nature, and always feel that if there are multiple scarves, the neck will be panicked, or even a little tighter, and there will be a fear of suffocation. This is because she was strangled, strangled or hanged in her last life. Although this statement has not been proven by facts, there is some truth in thinking about it. ”

"What does the shopkeeper mean is that this arm of mine may have really been broken in my last life?"

Xing Ruyi nodded: "Have you ever dreamed of a girl?" ”

Xia Xia nodded: "I've seen it in a dream, but it's blurry in the dream, I can't see her appearance clearly, and I can't remember her appearance." ”

"That's because the way you are now is what she is." Xing Ruyi sighed, and at the same time sighed in his heart about the magic of fate. Because of a promise, Yuzhi kept making peach blossom cakes in the peach forest, and the person she was waiting for was Xia Xia. Xia Xia has been looking for a familiar taste because of a promise, and what she is looking for is not actually the taste, but the jade weaving that left the taste.

In Natsu Xia's hospital room, she and Tamaori meet. The whole meeting process was surprisingly quiet, and these two people were like old friends who had known each other for a long time.

Yuori looked at Xia Xia and said, "You said that you would marry me in this life, but at the moment, it seems that you can't marry." ”

Xia Xia looked at Yuori and said, "I'm sorry, I remembered some things wrong, if you are still willing to wait, let's continue to meet in the next life, okay?" ”

Tamaori shook her head, "No, I've been waiting for you for a lifetime." ”

Xia Xia bit her lip: "I'm sorry, I broke my promise." ”

"No, we were wrong." Yuori smiled faintly, with some sadness in her smile: "I thought that it would be him who I was waiting for, but when I saw you, I realized that you are not him, and he will never come back." ”

After speaking, Yuori walked up to Xia Xia and put his hand on her forehead: "You are not him, and he is not you." He has his life, you have your years, and your life should not be tied up for him. Xia Xia, in this life, live well and live happily. ”

Tamaori's hand left, and a peach blossom imprinted from her palm into Xia Xia's forehead. Xia Xia glanced at Yuori, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

"Xia Xia! Xia Xia! ”

"She's fine, she's just asleep. When she wakes up, everything will be the same as before. Yuori looked at the young man's eyes: "Promise me, take good care of Xia Xia and love her well." ”

"Who are you? What did you do to Xia Xia? ”

"I'm the one who loved him so much in my last life. It's just that I missed it, he missed it, and we didn't have a chance to make up for it. Yuori said, shaking: "Ruyi, can you take me back to your rouge shop?" ”

Xia Xia's illness was cured, and after she recovered, she returned to the once ordinary and happy days.

Outside the Ruyi rouge shop, in addition to the black bamboo forest, there is another peach tree. The peach tree, which had neither leaves nor flowers, but only countless dead branches, was watching over each other.

"Tamori, you know what? Xia Xia was pregnant, and she gave the child a nickname called Tao Tao. She seems to have forgotten you, and it seems that she has never forgotten you. ”