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Surrounded by flowers and trees, the room was dappled with light and shadow, and I was reading a book, a worn-out book, a manuscript to be exact, with many inks, alterations, annotations, scribbled hand-drawings, and yet, the things told were very profound and subtle, and they were also very complex, from the undulations of mountains and rivers to the delicate locks...... The strangest thing is that the whole book is actually teaching you how to escape in an unbelievable desperate situation, as if the person who wrote this book is a thief who is chased at any time......

The title of this book is "The Wonderful Thoughts of the Daoist in the Ghost Valley". When I was thirteen years old, I came into contact with this book and asked my grandfather what this book had to do with Guiguzi, and my grandfather said that the Guigu Taoist here has nothing to do with Guiguzi, Guiguzi is a saint, and the person who wrote this book is really a thief......

"Duanyang, push me out!"

I was immersed in the wonderful design of this thief book, and my grandfather suddenly said something. I was a little stunned, my grandfather had a stroke, and I hadn't said a word for more than half a year, and suddenly said such a sentence! His voice was calm, soothing, gentle and magnetic, as if it had pulled back time to ten years ago. Ten years ago, his voice was like that, calm and gentle, and very able to bring people into the story he told. At that time, he told me a lot of bizarre things......

"Grandpa...... Grandpa ...... "I happily ran into Grandpa's house, and Grandpa was able to speak again!"

He actually sat up from the wheelchair bed, his face was ruddy, his eyes were bright, he smiled and made a silent gesture, and the whole person looked so kind and warm......

I had no choice but to remain silent and quietly pushed my grandfather out of the house, and in the corridor, my grandfather quietly looked up at the sky and said nothing.

The sky is blue, white doves sweep across the sky, and the pigeon whistle is long...... However, the courtyard was surrounded by rubble, a barren and dilapidated place, and it was very quiet, not even a stray dog, let alone a human. Three years ago, everyone moved away, and the surrounding area was demolished, but for some reason, they demolished the surrounding houses, leaving only my yard, and there was no movement anymore, and no one came to my house to discuss the demolition of the house. In the past three years, the wind and the sun have been blowing, and the grass has grown, and my family seems to be on an isolated island......

"Alas! The trees are so quiet, tossing and turning, it is easy to hurt the roots, grandpa, my nature is like a tree, and now it is really going to become a tree......" grandpa looked at the sky and said calmly.

Grandpa said that his nature is like wood, and he really likes flowers and trees the most. Our family lives on the outskirts of the city, with a yard of several acres. I can't say why I can get such a big yard for my family. The yard is full of flowers and trees, and there are forty-nine huge white porcelain pots with lotus flowers and goldfish, which surround my small brick building in a strange layout. For more than ten years since I can remember, everything has been slow and slow, and nothing has changed. Grandpa seems to have been at home all the time, and he hasn't been out a few times for more than ten years, but he just concentrates on tending to the flowers and trees, especially paying attention to these forty-nine pots of lotus. Since I was a child, my grandfather has been such a relative, inseparable from each other, and I have learned to take care of flowers and trees, and after he got sick, I have always taken care of him and those flowers and trees.

The trees and flowers are intertwined with these forty-nine pots of lotus flowers, and the open space in the middle is a bluestone-paved path. After the heavy summer rain, the bluestone slab is smooth and cold, and it is comfortable to step on it barefoot. However, all dogs, kittens, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., enter my yard, only to go around in circles on this bluestone road, and no one can go out of the yard...... The door of my house was often open, and when there were neighbors living around, the neighbor's cat and dog walked into my yard, and the neighbors came in to look for it without saying hello, but they wandered around the yard for a long time, but they couldn't get out, and finally yelled, and grandpa led him out. After many of my neighbors have been through this several times, no outsiders have come in my house since......

I grew up in such a family, lived to be twenty years old, never went to school, and my grandfather taught me all the words and arithmetic, and the neighbors thought that my grandfather and I were weirdos, and their children never played with me. So all I know so far is these flowers and trees, a cage of pigeons, and two dogs. In addition to eating, the pigeons fly, and never seem to pay much attention to people. The two dogs, one black and one white, have been so big since I can remember, and they don't seem to have changed much in more than ten years, they are stupid, only chasing and playing among the flowers and trees.

However, today it was very strange, I pushed my grandfather out of the house, and the two dogs actually went up to the second floor! They haven't been on the second floor in more than a decade! Now they sit obediently in front of me and my grandfather, looking up at us, their eyes clear and gentle. The pigeons circled the sky a few times, and all of them landed, and stood in a row on the railing of the corridor, quietly watching us, as if waiting for something......

"The time to come is finally here, and the time to go is finally leaving! Duanyang, you go downstairs, walk out of the door, and then walk back to me! Grandpa looked at the sky, didn't look at me, and said slowly.

"This?"

"Go ahead!"

I've never disobeyed my grandfather, whatever he says, it's what it is. Although I felt a little bored that my grandfather told me to go out and walk in, he always had a good intention in doing things, so I went downstairs, and naturally went out, and then turned around and came back, and went upstairs to my grandfather's eyes. Although the path in the courtyard was torn apart by verdant flowers and trees and forty-nine pots of lotus flowers, I followed my feelings, went with the flow, and didn't care about anything, so I walked very calmly and easily.

I was about to ask my grandfather what he was doing this, when suddenly—

"Grandpa Wood Ghost!"

Someone behind him called out these four words! I was startled, and when I turned around, it was a woman, about my age, who was already kneeling in front of me and my grandfather!

"Uh......" I looked at the woman, my heart full of horror, "...... you?" ”

"I came in with you, I've been wandering the yard for hours, and I can't go up this floor without coming in with you. Don't worry, we're our own people! She looked at me with a smile.

I was going to ask her how she managed to be completely silent, but Grandpa spoke.

"Not bad, not bad! Duanyang, seeing that you can go out and come back so easily, I am relieved! Grandpa stroked my head, and then said to the woman, "It's not easy for the fire ghost to raise you so big with such a violent temper!" It should be the water ghost who protects you, right? The fire ghost and the water ghost are dead, right? Grandpa asked with a smile.

"Hmm!" The girl nodded, and tears began to fall.

"Duanyang, she is Chongyang! You have listened to grandpa's nonsense for more than ten years, most of what he said is some bizarre things, and for the last time today, I will tell you one more thing! It's a little bizarre, but it's true! I am a wood ghost among the 'five ghosts' of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and most of the things I have told you in the past are true, and they are the experiences of a few of us! After going through a lot of things, our five ghosts are hidden in the east, west, north, south, and middle of China according to the five elements, and after a few decades, now there are only me and the golden ghost left, and today I am going to die......"

"Grandpa? ……”

"Don't ask...... It's too late to say so much, in short, you remember that death is the same as life, it is a normal thing, don't be sad, live in a world where time flows, and all this will happen sooner or later...... Well, to make a long story short, I don't have time to talk to you...... Come on, take this! Grandpa took out a black iron lump worn with a red rope, hung it around my neck, and continued, "You and Chongyang go to the Jinguang Cliff under the Gongga Snow Mountain in Shuzhong to find the golden ghost!" He's supposed to live for a while, and he'll tell you something! …… I don't have time to elaborate on it for you...... There is a vermilion lacquer box in the safe, and in a moment your Uncle Maudi will come, and I will give it to him, and tell him to keep this yard no matter what! This courtyard is an important place, and it will be of great use to you and Chongyang in the future...... After that, set off immediately, and went to Shuzhong as soon as possible to discuss countermeasures with the golden ghost, the thief of the Guigu Daoist is coming out again, alas! ......" Grandpa did not have a calm tone, on the contrary, his words were very hurried, and a little difficult for me to digest......

However, he stopped abruptly as he spoke, and then stood up! An old man over 90 years old who was paralyzed after a stroke, unable to move and unable to speak, not only spoke today, but now he actually stood up...... I was so shocked that I didn't know what to do, so I watched him start moving around!

The girl and I had to follow him, the pigeons and the two dogs, and they also followed down the stairs, and walked for a while among the verdant flowers and trees in the yard, and came to a huge old acacia tree. Duanyang, Chongyang, you two go to my bedroom and carry down that camphor box! ”

I know that the box is for Grandpa's clothes, does he need to change his clothes? In any case, I never disobeyed my grandfather's orders, so I had to go upstairs with the strange girl Chongyang to carry the box.

"Your name is Duanyang, and my name is Chongyang? It's weird...... Don't talk about this, uh, your grandfather said he was going to die, aren't you sad? Chongyang asked me on the way, and she looked very sad. But she really didn't make a sound when she walked, and I suspected that she was made of real flesh and bones, and I always felt like she was a shadow, without temperature, without weight, without the breath of people......

"Grandpa said that death and life are the same, they are very common, living in a world where time flows...... "My mind is actually very messy, mechanically repeating what my grandfather said."

"But as long as time flows, he will die, and you will never see him again......"

As soon as she said this, I suddenly became very sad, we hurriedly carried the box and soon came to the national acacia tree, but there was no trace of grandpa, thinking that I would never see grandpa, I was very anxious, and began to run quickly on the intricate bluestone road in the yard, tears scattered all the way, but up and down in all directions, there was no trace and breath of grandpa!

However, except for me and Chongyang running around, anxious like ants on a hot pot, the other lives in this yard don't seem to be in a hurry at all, all the flowers and trees stand solemnly, the wind stops, the flowers and trees are not noisy at all, those white pigeons and two puppies, one black and one white, clay sculptures, stand quietly in front of the national huai, their eyes are dazed and sad! For a moment, everything seemed to freeze, the sun was shining, and only time and light were still flowing......

"Grandpa said that today, he is going to turn into a tree...... Could it be that he has really become a tree? "I gradually recovered from my anxiety and sadness. My grandfather often taught me to live like a tree, to be as simple as possible, and to try not to be happy or sad...... Over the years, my heart has become more and more like a tree, coupled with the fact that I basically have no contact with the outside world and complicated personnel, and my personality is as calm as a stone, if it weren't for the departure of my grandfather today, I don't know what it feels like to be anxious and sad.