"Little monk, what are you planting? Tea tree? ”

"Why do you live here alone?"

"Oh, I see, because you're a proton, you're going to be stocked alone so I can keep an eye on you, right?"

"But why don't you even have someone to serve tea and pour water, why do you have to do it yourself?"

"Little chubby girl" Shentu Jingyao squatted on the threshold, her hands on her cheeks, her eyes unblinkingly looked at the busy and empty, and her mouth kept asking "why".

In order to facilitate his work, he took off his long shirt, wore only plain clothes and trousers, and dug up soil in the yard with his sleeves rolled.

He was only 10 years old, and although he sometimes found it difficult to read the Bible, his daily life was well organized.

On weekdays, it is still difficult to see clearly in the empty robe, but when you take off the coat, you can clearly feel the shape of his skeleton change, there is almost no flesh, and the thin one is taller.

"Huh? Do you recognize the tea tree? He couldn't be cold in the face of the "fat girl", so he didn't stretch up, and he felt more and more comfortable in front of her.

The mountain temple is lonely, and it is rare to have a person to speak, which is the deepest thing in the five years of emptiness.

"I also have tea trees at home! It's not like your tree! Shentu Jingyao said a little proudly: "Do you know that the Feng in Kyoto still comes to the teahouse, the top tea they sell is from our Hongmeng Valley, because their boss has some friendship with my grandfather, so Hongmeng Valley allocates one-fifth of the annual tea production to them!" I heard that they are all sold for one or two thousand gold now! ”

"Tea shouldn't have anything to do with money filth!" He had already dug several earthen ditches silently while he was talking, and he planned to use half of the yard to grow tea.

Shentu Jingyao disagreed: "Rare things are expensive, it's just such a truth!" Just like Miss Ben! I- you know, I'm the rare kind, too! There are few people everywhere, and you, a little monk, don't know anything! ”

She is only five years old now, her words and deeds are natural, she is not pretentious and twisted, pretending to be a little adult, but giving people a cute and cute feeling.

"The daughter of the Shentu family, the future head of the Hongmeng Valley, and the granddaughter of the lord of the Ling'an Kingdom, the only son of the eldest princess Lou Moxue-" Kong Dingding looked at her and said, "These are all known to the little monk!" ”

"Well—now that you know, don't you think Miss Ben is rare?" Shentu Jingyao asked with puffed out cheeks.

Empty nodded naturally and replied, "It's really rare, it's priceless." ”

Shentu Jingyao never thought that he would say this, his little face was slightly red, but his tone was still not weak: "Little monk, you are very knowledgeable!" Since you like tea so much, do you want to go to my house as a guest, and drink as much tea as you want! ”

"Tea tasting is more important than drinking cows and mules!" waved his hand and saw through her intentions: "If you have the intention of asking the little monk to accompany you down the mountain, you can still avoid it, you also know that the identity of the little monk - it is impossible to go down the mountain!" ”

"That's a shame!" Shentu Jingyao said: "I do want you to accompany me home, but more importantly, I want you to see the scenery outside, especially Hongmeng Valley, others can't get in if they want to!" When you come to Dali Kingdom, how can you not go to Hongmeng Valley to have a look? She was very frank about her thoughts.

"The little monk traveled with his master in his early years, and he also traveled a lot of places in the Great Li Kingdom!" He sighed, and the work in his hand stopped: "This is still the grace given by the emperor of the Great Li Kingdom, and now the little monk is at ease!" Although he said this, he still had a yearning on his face, wanting to get out of the Lingkong Temple and out of the cage of this "proton".

"Then, you have to find a way to be the prince of the Great Xia Dynasty, Chu Tianyan, instead of the little monk who can't even get out of the Lingkong Temple now!" Shentu Jingyao said: "Blindly sinking into the world is not the solution!" ”

Holding the wooden handle of the hoe tightly, there was a ripple in his heart, this little fat girl could always tell the key to the problem, and from time to time she had to stimulate him.

But there is still something missing, so that he can't get out of the cage in his heart, what is missing? The reason why he stayed in Lingkong Temple was also to think about what was missing, maybe after thinking about it, he would be able to walk out completely.

After a brief silence, the quiet Zen Monastery welcomed a new guest.

"Senior Brother Likong, that old man of the Shentu family asked me to bring you a message!" A real little monk who was less than six years old trotted over, and did not enter the empty courtyard, but stood outside the door and shouted: "He said that there are some things that need to be done, and I bother you to take care of his young lady for a few more days!" With that, he left without looking back.

Hearing this, Shentu Jingyao's originally smiling face instantly became bitter, "Uncle Qi, you can't leave me here alone!" I want to go home! I don't want to stay here! As she spoke, her emotions came up, tears welled up, and she looked very pitiful.

But after saying 'okay' to the little monk who had disappeared, he continued to plant tea saplings and ignored her.

Shentu Jingyao had already understood the indifference of the air, cried a few times, wiped her tears by herself, and quickly calmed down.

She watched as Sora buried the saplings in the soil, covered them with pine pine, watered them, and then sat back on the threshold, her eyes glazed over, and she didn't say a word.

It wasn't until twilight fell, the sun sank in the West Mountain, the trees were planted, and they surveyed back and forth a few times before shouting Shen Tu Jingyao and said, "Let's go, go to dinner!" ”

"Can I sleep with you at night?" Shentu Jingyao realized that Qibo might really not be able to come back for the time being, and she was a little scared.

Seeing that there were tears on her face, she suddenly realized that she was just a little girl, and she shouldn't be so strict and cold to her, so she didn't refute her again, and said very gently: "Okay-"

"There are noodles at night, and the steamed buns are too hard to eat!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture to pull Shen Tu Jingyao up.

The thin sunlight hit the empty behind, reflecting a warm color, Shentu Jingyao raised her eyes and looked, only to see a humanoid light and shadow in a trance, she unconsciously stretched out her hand to touch, and was caught off guard by a hand that was thicker than her, somehow, the heart that had been hanging in the air because she couldn't return home suddenly became steady.

"Eat noodles!" She smiled at the air, her fleshy face was like a flower, and at that moment, the two seemed to go back to the time when they first met five years ago.

An indescribable sense of familiarity, from the moment the hands were held together, sprouted and took root in the hearts of the two.

The sound of 'plop-plop, plop' suddenly resounded in his eardrums, and he found that his heart was moving!