Walking alone, silent all the way.

Not halfway through, it rained heavily.

There was a thunderclap, and the dullness that shrouded the air suddenly dissipated. In the rain on a summer night, Zhou Yu's face was as usual, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. She walked under the rain curtain, not slowly, the cool raindrops did not leave wet marks on his body, and the little rain stains were like oily paper, along the cheeks and clothes, condensing and dripping.

Maybe it's been lonely for too long, maybe those words have been brewing in my heart for too long

It feels really good to meet someone who can talk.

After returning home, Zhou Yu changed her wet clothes, and after taking a hot bath, she wore a thin shirt and came to the door of the backyard. I took out a cotton mat and put it at the door, and sat on it looking at the courtyard.

Under the heavy rain, the jujube trees swayed in the wind and rain, and the branches and leaves flew over.

A few green dates flew down and landed on a small dirt bag under the jujube tree.

For many years, she sat in front of the courtroom, quietly watching the night rain by herself. I always felt that someone was whispering to her in the sound of the rustling rain, telling her about the little things in front of the door, and in the hazy rain curtain, under the tree, someone looked at her and accompanied her...... Forever, forever.

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There was a rain, as if it was just yesterday.

There was a man who never seemed to leave.

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I was fascinated by it, and the bits and pieces about Xiao Yi surfaced again, and they clearly appeared in front of Zhou Yu's eyes.

Fifty years ago:

"Xiao Yi, why do you always like this tree?"

"Because, I planted it with my mom and dad when I was a kid. Mom and Dad left, and I was left with it. ”

"No, no, Xiao Yi still has me, I will never leave Xiao Yi. ”

"Thank you, Ah Yu~"

Five years later, spring

"Xiao Yi, don't look at it, I'm annoyed! It's still spring, and it's going to be a long, long time before this tree bears fruit......"

"Oh, yes, Ah Yu is too impatient. By the way, you're a monster, you're very powerful, can you let this tree bear fruit all year round, so we have a lot of dates to eat. Xiao Yi smiled yearningly, Ming Cui was like a leaf at that time: "If there are a lot of dates, even if there is no rice, we won't be hungry~"

"Stupid! Xiao Yi is stupid, don't eat dates at all. ”

Looking at the rice bowl in the kitchen that was eaten clean by the rats, she ran to Xiao Yi in a panic: "Oh no, no, Xiao Yi, we have nothing to eat!!

"QQ!! Ah Yu didn't eat it secretly, it's obviously enough to eat for a day. ”

"It's a mouse! it was eaten by a rat yesterday......" she defended loudly, seeing Xiao Yi's disbelieving eyes, she ran into the kitchen angrily and grabbed a mouse with a round belly in front of Xiao Yi: "That's this guy!"

"Woo...... There is no food to eat, Ah Yu, we have no food to eat. Xiao Yi, who has always been calm, finally panicked at the moment.

"Xiao Yi, do you want me to go out and 'get' some back? Although I'm not very good, these little things are still fine."

"No, I'll think of a way to ......" Xiao Yi restrained her panicked expression, and instead focused on the mouse moving in her hand, looking at it, the original disgusted expression also became salivating: "Ah Yu, although the rice is gone...... But we have meat to eat!"

"Xiao Yi, everyone else has gone to plant crops, and our fields have been taken away by the villagers, so there will be no food to eat this year. The two squatted in front of the door and watched in a daze as the villagers walked towards their fields with hoes on their shoulders. Xiao Yi's family's field was rented from the village by her father, and her father, who went out to fight, never returned, so the villagers took the land back.

“...... Yes, we can't grow crops without fields, and we don't have food without crops. Xiao Yi frowned, looking at her restless and turbulent beside her, Xiao Yi seemed to have made up her mind: "We don't grow crops anymore, let's open a small shop! ”

"Xiao Yi, I found a lot of wood, you can see if there is anything that can be used. ”

She carried a few small pieces of wood to Xiao Yi.

"No, no, no, we have to be thicker, we have to make a counter, this is not going to work. Xiao Yi, who was trying to flatten the wood, wiped her sweat and put away a few slightly larger pieces of wood in her hand, counters, rice trough shelves, signboards, and price tags...... Slowly, slowly, Xiao Yi made all of this.

"Ah Yu, go to the house and bring the gold ring left by your mother, we'll sell it later!"

"Why, Xiaoyi, isn't this the dowry left to you by your mother. ”

"Stupid, if we don't sell it, we won't even have the money to buy rice. ”

"Xiao Yi, don't we really have to go hungry after the store opens?"

"Absolutely, I'm very good, as soon as our little shop opens, a lot of people will come. ”

Ten years later

"Xiao Yi, there are not many people at all. She looked at the guests who never had many and said to Xiao Yi in the small courtyard

"Ah, what's the matter, anyway, everything was solved for dinner, so ah, my original decision was still very wise!" Xiao Yi is already a mature and beautiful woman at this moment, but her smile is the same as before, just like when the two first met, with a bright smile, so innocent.

"Na, Ah Yu, do you say that this year's jujube trees will bear fruit early, I really want to eat it~"

"Xiao Yi, don't dream, wake up quickly~~"

"Damn, why aren't there any jujube trees that bear fruit all year round?!"

"Hmph, even if there is, are you willing to replace it?"

"Stupid Ah Yu, who said I was going to change it, I can plant another one next to it!ahhhhhhhhh She raised her head yearningly and looked at the jujube tree, as if preparing for the future,

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In fact...... At the beginning, she didn't like those dates, she always spit out the dates, and Xiao Yi never got angry.

Until one day, she saw Xiao Yi being bullied for a few dates, and she never spit it out again.

Humans are always going to die......

It knows that in the face of time, people are too fragile and too small.

It's just that Xiao Yi was too painful before leaving...... She can only watch, helplessly watching.

Maybe it's her own misfortune that has affected her.

Luck is such a thing as little favoring one...... When he was very young, he was on a cliff when he came out of the egg, and he fell half to death to survive. When you grow up, your cultivation will never bear fruit...... Others have become refined, but their own cultivation has not borne fruit. It seemed that something was holding her back, something that didn't want her to become a real youkai.

She's so unlucky.

Walking can be hit by a fallen tree, and on a rainy day, you will be hit by lightning......

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Because Xiao Yi is not married, the gangsters in the village often come to trouble them. The people in the village don't care, let it go, maybe for them, this woman doesn't marry is not abiding by women's morals and not following the rules!

"Ahem, Ah Yu, do you say that people will become ghosts after death?" On the hospital bed, Xiao Yi, who was only thirty years old, was already exuding a sense of twilight, maybe the pain had been tortured for too long, and her face would always be so pale.

She couldn't see it anymore, the smile as bright as a leaf.

"Xiao Yi Xiao Yi, don't say it, you won't die, I'll find you a doctor, you will be fine!"

"Alas, if only I could become a ghost......" Xiao Yi's tone was very soft, but his pale face was full of regret. She looked at the person in front of her lonely, her eyes were red, and she shed tears for her. If she could, she hoped that she could live a little longer and stay with her for a while. But she knew that she had come to the end of her life.

Or turn into a ghost so that you can take care of her for a while longer......

The doctors in the village will not come, this village does not welcome aliens, those who do not follow the rules.

“...... Now, Ah Yu. In fact, beauty is not a happy thing, beautiful things will only make others have a desire to possess them, and if you can't let them get their wish, they will destroy this beauty. Many people like that moment when their beauty is destroyed and trampled on, maybe it's just pleasure for them......" Xiao Yi took Yu's arm and whispered in a low voice, and finally, she whispered faintly: "Ah Yu don't show her girl's appearance in the future, when Ah Yu has a friend who can reveal her heart, show him your face...... It's enough to show a good-looking appearance to someone you like. ”

"Or, when Ah Yu really gets stronger, he doesn't have to be afraid of other monsters anymore. In that way, Ah Yu can ignore other people's opinions, and when the time comes, let's live with my presumptuousness. You don't have to follow the rules anymore, you don't have to accommodate others anymore, you just have to be happy. ”

Ah Yu is a monster, she knows.

Ah Yu is a very weak youkai, and she knows it, even though she is always strong in front of herself.

It is not a lucky thing for a weak person or a youkai to be so beautiful.

Just like her......

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Xiao Yi died, and since then the two girls in the shop have disappeared, leaving only him.

Business that is already bad is even worse

Fifty years have passed, all the way to the present.

The rain is non-stop, the fruit on the jujube tree is overflowing, and the green leaves raise the sound of rain.

"Xiao Yi, good night. ”

At the door, the girl lying on the cotton mat showed a tired face and whispered hello.

Maybe the years have passed, maybe the people of the past are not there, but the warmth has always remained in my heart.

It has never passed, and it has never changed.

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-- The years have passed (end)