There are two extremes of human emotion, one is love and the other is hate.

The most inexplicable thing is not extreme love or extreme hate, but the inability to tell which end of the scale is tilted between love and hate.

Evil spirits hate people, and if they kill them, they will do it;

If a ghost loves others, he will do everything in his power to fulfill the wishes of his loved ones.

But what is this between love and hate?

Fan Xiaofang hates Hong Dalei, but she will never kill him, as long as Hong Dalei is alive, her resentment will never be calmed down, and she will not be able to get rid of it;

But she loves Hong Dalei again, and she is reluctant to kill him.

When will it be a head?

I thought about it, but I couldn't come up with a compromise.

After Hong Dalei listened to my words, the whole person was already panicked, and it could be seen that his mind was blank and he didn't know what to say.

After a while, he said, "It's been raining for the past few days, maybe the bird hasn't left the courtyard yet, anyway, I'm ...... I'll go find out first! ”

After speaking, Hong Dalei turned around and left.

I said, "If you go like this, maybe you will be in danger again in the courtyard!" ”

He froze.

Again, I added: "Probably die." ”

Hong Dalei hesitated for a while before he said to me: "Even if this is the case, I should go back to the other courtyard first!" If only the bird had stayed in the courtyard, if I had come later, maybe it would have left! For the sake of my daughter, no matter what kind of danger it is, I have to go back! ”

Seeing that he was so sure, I sighed and said, "I'll go with you." ”

He was stunned for a moment, and then reassured: "Thank you!" ”

*

I followed Hong Dalei to the courtyard, and as soon as he returned to the courtyard, he hurried towards the "end of the corridor" that he had said, where he first saw the bird, so he thought that when he came back to look for the bird, the bird should be where they first met.

And I, the only thing I am familiar with in this strange courtyard is the peach blossom tree.

So I walked straight to the peach blossom tree.

When I walked to the backyard and saw the peach blossom tree, I was stunned.

The peach blossom tree fell.

Come to think of it.

When I instructed the police to dig up the bones from under the peach blossom tree, I wanted to cut off the roots of the peach blossom tree, and I remember that several policemen worked together to dig out the bones buried deep under the peach tree!

And what about after the fact?

Hong Dalei was taken away by ambulance, and I was taken away by the police, there were many people at that time, but then everyone left, and there was no one left in this courtyard, so there was no one to clean up the aftermath of this peach blossom tree.

The peach blossom tree, which had no one to take care of, had its roots cut off, left the soil, and fell to the ground, and the peach blossoms were scattered on the ground, and the green leaves began to wither.

In a few days, the peach blossom tree was about to die.

I walked over and looked at the peach blossom tree, which was no longer lifeless.

"Xiaofang?"

At this time, I heard Hong Dalei say.

I looked up and saw Hong Dalei standing under the eaves, looking at me in surprise.

I was amazed and thought to myself, who was he calling? Fan Xiaofang appeared? But there is no trace of Fan Xiaofang on my side!

It wasn't until I saw Hong Dalei hurriedly walking towards me, his eyes locked on the peach blossom tree, that I realized that he was using the peach blossom tree as a stand-in for Fan Xiaofang.

Because Fan Xiaofang was buried under the peach blossom tree, and because it was Fan Xiaofang who guided him to get a peach blossom tattoo - all these reasons are enough for Hong Dalei to use the peach blossom tree as Fan Xiaofang's stand-in.

He hurried over and picked up the peach blossom tree, wanting to help it back into the mud pit and replant it, with a panicked look like he wanted to save the person he wanted to save the most!

But......

I sighed and said to him, "It's useless, the tree is dead." ”

He froze.

I said: "In the past 14 years, the peach blossom tree has grown luxuriantly and splendid, and that is because it has absorbed the essence of Fan Xiaofang's corpse, so that it can grow more beautiful than other peach trees." In the past 14 years, the spirit of the peach blossom tree has been entangled with Fan Xiaofang's soul, so later, Fan Xiaofang became this peach blossom tree, in other words, Fan Xiaofang's soul became the flower essence of this peach blossom tree. Now that her body has been taken away, her soul is no longer attached to this peach blossom tree, so this peach blossom tree has begun to decline, and there is no way in this world to save this tree. ”

“……”

Hong Dalei fell into silence, and I could see that his mood was very complicated.

That's right, too.

For 14 years, he has always regarded this tree as a stand-in for Fan Xiaofang, and now that the tree is dead, perhaps in his heart, it is like accepting Fan Xiaofang's death again.

In the middle of the night, he lowered the trunk of the tree that he was carrying on his shoulders and lowered the tree to the ground in a respectful manner.

Staring at the dead tree lying on the ground, Hong Dalei said: "The bird can't be found, and the tree is dead, is this the retribution I have to bear?" My only wish now is to get my daughter's voice back, so that I can go to Xiaofang and apologize for her death with peace of mind. ”

I bowed my head, silent, but I was skeptical of his words.

He hasn't died yet, which means that he doesn't have the courage to die.

A person who really wants to die, how can he care about his wife and daughter?

He retrieved his daughter's voice, and there would be another reason to stop him from dying, anyway, in the end, he wouldn't kill himself. - That's human nature.

At this time, a flock of birds flew in the sky, and Hong Dalei and I both looked up.

I asked him, "Do you recognize which bird is the one you saw that day?" ”

He shook his head.

Alas, I knew.

The birds in the world all look the same, and the crows are all the same black, how can you tell these flying birds?

It wasn't until the bird passed that Hong Dalei asked: "By the way, you say, after that bird has my daughter's voice, will it become the same as my daughter and have a special connection with me?" Could there be a special connection to my daughter's familiar environment? If that's the case, then maybe I can find it in a place my daughter is familiar with. ”

I said, "I can't tell you about this, maybe there is a connection, maybe there is no connection." ”

"How?"

"If the bird has a special connection to you, it should naturally approach you when it first sees you, not fly away when you do. This may indicate that your daughter's voice is one thing, and the bird is still a bird. ”

He was in despair.

At this time, it suddenly rained in the sky, and Hong Dalei and I hurried back indoors, but I didn't expect that after entering the house, the rain outside suddenly became heavier and couldn't stop.

- This is ...... Stuck in the rain?

I was surprised and helpless, but I had no choice but to wait for the rain to stop.

But what I didn't expect was that the rain had no intention of stopping.

It went down until night.

It's been rain-soaked this year!

I feel like I can't go home tonight, so I'll just stay here for the night and wait until the rain stops before leaving.

*

Late at night.

I fell asleep, but as soon as I fell asleep, I suddenly smelled the sweet fragrance of peach blossoms, and I was awakened.

I don't know when the window opened, and the cold rain came down from the window and drifted onto me.

This must have been a window that had just been opened, and if the rain had already drifted in, I would have woken up long ago.

Not only are the windows open, but even the doors are open.

Who did that......

Such a lack of morality!

I got up and closed the window, and at this moment I noticed that there was a wet mark on my quilt that had crossed and fallen to the ground, and this wet mark had been dragged from the window to the door, as if a wet person had walked past it.

Peach blossom ......

Could it be Fan Xiaofang?

In the afternoon, I talked to Hong Dalei.

In order to free Fan Xiaofang, I tattooed the peach blossom on the back of his hand and channeled Fan Xiaofang's soul into his tattoo;

But my tattoo itself exists to let the undead resolve their grievances, once the wishes of the undead are fulfilled, it is time for them to leave - I don't know if Hong Dalei was in distress that day to fulfill Fan Xiaofang's wish, anyway, it is also a result, so Fan Xiaofang has left the tattoo and doesn't know where the soul is going. Otherwise, I would have called Fan Xiaofang out to ask him about Hong Dalei's tattoo.

It doesn't matter what is happening now or in front of us.

This wet trail...... Could it be that she is looking for me?

Looking for me, not Hong Dalei?

That's weird.

So I followed the wet trail and followed her all the way outside.

In the courtyard, I finally saw the desolate undead.

She was just like the first time I saw her, the rain drenched her body, and she was wrapped in a vine that was stained with rain and made it look even more delicate.

However, her face is extremely ugly.

It's as ugly as dirt and a dead tree, so it's no wonder that children cry when they see it, and they say that they are a "terrible sister".

I was under the eaves and shouted softly: "Fan Xiaofang! ”

Fan Xiaofang looked back, and I saw that she had a pale mask on her face, but even if she wore the mask, the mask matched her long knotted hair, and she still looked like she was enough to scare a child crying on a rainy night.

Why did she suddenly put on a mask?

I suddenly remembered the story that Hong Dalei told me.

In that story, the Fan Xiaofang he saw was Fan Xiaofang's innocent appearance before his death, but I knew that after Fan Xiaofang became a ghost after his death, his appearance had already changed to a different appearance, and he was no longer that innocent appearance at all!

Therefore, the "Fan Xiaofang" that Hong Dalei saw that day was just an illusion, and the real Fan Xiaofang hid outside the illusion and watched everything about Hong Dalei with cold eyes - this may mean: She doesn't want to see Hong Dalei again!