Chapter 185: Peach God
Chapter 185: Peach God
Shi Yi switched scenes, and everyone was now in the old-looking screening room. Although Shi Yi has already perceived Tao Ling's memory, but memory is such a thing, it is interesting to savor it. He looked very happy, grinning as he fiddled with the paint-off projector.
Rong Di put Tao Ling on the chair, and kept her head against the back of the chair and exposed half of the top of her head, and her memory photo was pressed by Rong Di behind her head, and then he used a few small dragonfly paper figures to fix Tao Ling.
"That's it!" Rong Di made an "OK" gesture to Shi Yi behind him.
Shi Yi adjusted the angle and said that the memory projector was aimed at the back of Taoling's head, and then knocked the projector hard! The old machine screamed again, and another piece of paint fell off. A few days ago, it was also knocked like this by its owner. Like Yang Jun's situation at that time, the unconscious Tao Ling statue also seemed to be electrocuted, and the whole person jumped.
Tao Ling's memories were projected through the projector, and the pictures on the screen were five, four, three, two, and one from the countdown.
Rong Di was holding the hand of the red coat and looking at the screen carefully and carefully, but his grandmother was looking at him and showed a knowing smile: "Grandson...... It's become reliable. β
While the picture was playing, Tao Ling was also recalling the lost memory in her dream.
It was something that happened to Tao Ling in her hometown when she was thirteen years old, and she had a bad heart and would have an operation that would determine her fate. She had to recuperate before the surgery. So, she returned to her grandmother's rural town.
It was a somewhat backward town, and Tao Ling, who was used to living in the city, didn't like this kind of place very muchβthere were people driving cattle on the highway, and the cows pulled out a big lump of ...... It's so unhygienic! That was her first impression of the country town, and she looked at the buffalo with a look of disgust as she sat in the car, but she also seemed to notice the dark-skinned peasant with a look of envy, or rather sadness, and inferiority.
She feels that she is different, and this is the superiority of rich people. From the bottom of her heart, she hated being here, and she was thinking that if it weren't for the sake of recuperation, she would never come here.
There is a hospital in the town, and the hospital is against a hill. There are many peach trees planted on the mountain, which is her family's land, and the peach trees are contracted to others to make orchards. Her family's small cottage is at the foot of the mountain, and her room is on the second floor, and the land temple on the hill can be seen from the window on the second floor. The dilapidated house exuded a strange atmosphere, and the frail Tao Ling always fantasized that there were unclean things in the old house, and she was afraid that she would be eaten by those things.
Luckily, she heard from her grandmother Taoxun that the town was about to usher in the Land God Festival, which made her look forward to the future a little, and who doesn't like the celebration.
When Tao Ling first learned that her heart was not good, she didn't dare to breathe, her body was trembling, and her brain was blank. Even after coming back to her senses, she still didn't dare to gasp for breath, for fear that doing so would cause a burden on her body.
She is afraid of death, and she still has a lot of things to do when she is young. However, this news tormented her like a dream demon, making her sleep uneasy.
She was scared, afraid that her heart would not belong to her after the operation.
Since then, she has rarely smiled.
That day, she overheard a conversation between her grandmother and the doctor, about when the operation was scheduled and when. She fled, crossed the small stone bridge, and also walked through the peach blossom orchard, and she walked towards the top of the hill.
To be honest, she didn't know why she came here, she wasn't familiar with the place here, she just walked aimlessly. But when she arrived at the top of the mountain, the feeling of sudden enlightenment made her heart flutter, the houses and pedestrians at the bottom of the mountain became so small, the visual impact of this beautiful scenery made her feel like a new life, and the little troubles in her heart were blown away by the breeze.
As a young woman, she had very little to do, and she naively felt that she had a small world. With a beautiful view of the scenery, this is definitely a great sightseeing spot, and Tao doesn't plan to share this beauty with others.
As everyone knows, this "paradise" has long been occupied by others. When Tao Ling came to the top of the mountain alone for the third time to relax, that person appeared.
It was a man who called himself the god of peach.
He has the fragrance of peach blossoms on his body, and the fragrance has already wafted before he arrives. He is tall and wears a period costume and a strange mask on his face with some kind of writing written on it.
"You're dressed so strangely......" Tao Ling said, looking at him.
Not far away, the man was also looking at the scenery below the mountain, and the man was a little surprised when she said this. He said, "You're the girl who's been here in a daze for the past few days?"
"Why are you here?" Tao Ling was angry, she didn't want someone to step into her own world.
"I've been here all along, but you haven't noticed." The man replied.
"It's really a strange costume, is there a crew filming here?" Tao Ling looked around and saw that it was just the two of them. She got angry, "This is our family's territory, why are you here?" β
"I, I'll live here." As he spoke, the man pointed to the old land temple.
"You work in the temple?" Tao Ling looked at him with some surprise and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Momogame." The man seemed to smile.
"That's a weird name," Tao Ling said.
"That's your name......" the man grumbled quietly, and then he asked, "What about your name?"
"Tao Ling." She replied.
β¦β¦ This is their first meeting, and there are no interesting episodes like in the novel that make either of them unhappy. It's a light encounter, and life is plain.
Interestingly, Tao Ling would see him every time she came here. Gradually, they started talking, and the topics became more and more. They talked to each other, and Tao Ling liked this strange friend very much. She was very curious about the face under the mask of the peach god, but no matter how she begged him, he would not show her. She thought: This person has a soft voice, and he must be a beautiful man with a scholarly temperament.
The more I wanted to see it, the more I couldn't see it, and the girl's heart trembled under the random speculation. First love is a feeling, a feeling of liking.
You'll be happy to see him, and you'll be a little shy to be looked at. It's not that you want to keep your distance, but you get close and don't know what to do.
It's a really good feeling, sweet and sour.
When she noticed this feeling, Tao Ling had already begun to dress up. She combed her hair very softly every day before going out, and she secretly went to the small beauty shop in town to get her ears pierced and happily put on earrings.
The reason why girls work so hard to dress up is nothing more than that they want the person they like to look at her more, and in this regard, Tao Ling is not surprised.
"Xiaoling, do you like someone?" Grandma said with a grin.
Tao Ling was originally in a daze in front of the mirror, but when her grandmother said this, her heart was suddenly confused. The girl's heart attack made her hold a fluke mentality, planning to deceive the past.
"No, no! Also, grandma don't just come into my room! She said with a blushing face.
"It's really good that you're so energetic, do you want to confess to him after the operation?" Grandma laughed.
"I, I didn't like him!" Tao Ling was confused all of a sudden.
"Oh~" Grandma's routine was successful, and she smiled slyly: "So, you still have a boy you care about?"
"Grandma! You're so annoying! Tao Ling was very unhappy, but she couldn't talk about grandma.
"Can you tell me who he is?" Grandma continued: "Maybe I can help."
Tao Ling hesitated for a moment, and finally told her grandmother about those things. The latter frowned, and his expression was a little complicated. Grandma said, "The person you met may be a real god." Grandma met it when she was a child......"
"Nonsense! He, how could he be a god? Tao Ling's mind was blank, this kind of thing was far beyond her cognition.
"Gods like theirs are born of spirits, feed on thoughts, and they come and go quickly. That's what Momogami-sama told me. Grandma smiled and said, "When I was a child, I went to play hide and seek with some children in the peach orchard in the back mountain, and as you know, this kind of game often ends with the adults in the family calling home for dinner." That day I hid in the peach tree behind the temple and waited for someone to come to me, but he never came, so I fell asleep there. Guess what, what happened when I woke up? β
"Met the Peach God?" Tao Ling asked.
"Hmm." Grandma smiled and said, "I cried because everyone was gone, and it made me feel abandoned." I remember it was dusk and the sky had darkened. I didn't dare to go down the mountain alone, so I cried there for a long, long time. β
At this moment, the peach god appeared. She is a very beautiful big sister who wears the clothes of the ancients and has a mask on her face. She told me not to cry and gave me a big peach. In this way, while comforting me, she took my hand and walked down the mountain. I still remember that she had a very fragrant peach blossom fragrance on her. β
But when I told my friends about it, they didn't believe anyone. Because ah, the season of ripening peaches has long passed. But I told my grandmother about it, and she believed me. Because, when she was a child, she also met a big sister who called herself Peach God. β
"My grandmother said that gods like theirs would suddenly appear and die out one day. My grandmother also told me what I just said about gathering spirits and feeding on thoughts. β
Grandma smiled and suddenly couldn't laugh, she looked a little serious and said: "That's why our family bought this hill and repaired the mountain temple on the mountain from time to time, just so that the peach god can continue to live on the mountain."
"You may not believe it, our family's ancestors used to be temple boys in the mountain temple, and she also had our descendants because she got acquainted with the peach god."
"She, they're married?" Tao Ling couldn't believe it.
"yes, otherwise why do you think all the children born in our family are women?" Grandma smiled slightly: "Since then, our son-in-law has to go to the mountain temple to worship before coming to the door, and the peach god agrees to enter the door."
"You, you mean, fell in love with our ancestors?" Tao Ling felt like her head had exploded, why didn't she think of the bloody episode in the TV series - she is your sister! This could have happened to her.
"No, it's not. They are spirits fed by the earth and will die out naturally. Our ancestors have long since returned to nature, and although the peach god you meet has the same name, it is someone else after all. Grandma suddenly said bitterly, "They are actually very vulnerable, and at the same time very lonely, because ah, when any of us forget their existence, they will surely perish."
After knowing that her feelings were so heavy, Tao Ling became a little afraid to face him.
Grandma Taoxun cheered her on, "Go and confess to him, maybe you can be together." β
"Not everyone has the opportunity to fall in love with God." Tao Xun said with a smile.
"Hmm......" Tao Ling nodded, she felt that her face was very hot, and she seemed to be blushing.