The years are always ticking, no matter how fast or slow you feel

The small medicine garden next to the thatched hut is already full of young plants and full of vitality. The slopes that were neither poor nor fertile had been turned over, and the wheat seeds that had been sown had sprouted green shoots.

Gu Changsheng has already made two bamboo chairs and a desk, the smell of lacquer on the desk has not yet dissipated, and the wood used to build the bookshelf still exudes this woody fragrance.

Gu Changsheng would go to Peach Mountain every day to see if the peach tree had pulled out its buds and whether the buds had bloomed. This year, the flowers bloomed a little later, and the early spring was almost over before the peach blossoms were ushered in.

After the flowers bloomed, Gu Changsheng would go up to Peach Mountain whenever he had free time, looking at the path into the village, wanting to see if his brother would appear on this green country road with the Taoist priest.

However, Gu Changsheng went from only a few flowers to the mountains and fields, and did not wait for his brother. No matter how beautiful the peach blossoms are, there is a time limit, and in a few days, this mountain of pink will be thanked. Gu Changsheng thought about his brother's words before leaving: "When you are sixteen years old, when the peach mountains are full of peach blossoms, I should return home." Gu Changsheng's heart is a little more peaceful, and my brother should return home within these ten days. "Little turtle, little turtle, do you think my brother will go home that day, will it be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or will it be a few days?" Gu Changming looked at the little green turtle in his hand and asked in a low voice, and the little green turtle stretched out his head and looked at the trail, and retracted his head again.

The length of more than ten days is neither long nor short, it is both long and short for Gu Changsheng, and Gu Changsheng hopes that every day will pass faster, so that he may be able to see his brother soon, and Gu Changsheng hopes that time will pass slowly, because as the peach blossoms wither, Gu Changsheng will become more and more uneasy. In fact, my brother has another sentence that Gu Changsheng has never dared to think of, and he is afraid to think of it, this sentence is "If I haven't returned yet, then I don't have to wait, I may not come back." ”

It was another full moon night, and Gu Changsheng sat on a bamboo chair in front of the thatched hut and looked at the night sky with only one bright moon but no stars. Tomorrow, the peach blossoms of the peach tree on the top of the peach mountain should also wither away, will my brother come back tomorrow? Will he come back? Looking at the bright moon in the night sky, Gu Changsheng was disgusted, the bright moonlight illuminated his own depressed, since the ancient moon reflects the nostalgia, where is the brother at the moment, whether he has also seen this round of bright moon. Will my brother come back tomorrow......? If you really don't come back, what will happen to you?

The little green turtle lying on Gu Changsheng's leg seemed to feel Gu Changsheng's discomfort, uneasy, confused, stretched out his head and gently rubbed Gu Changsheng, Gu Changsheng felt the movement of the little green turtle, and gently tapped the green turtle shell with his fingers, wanting to smile at the little green turtle, but found that it was really difficult for him to laugh.

So Gu Changsheng picked up the little green turtle from his lap and put it on his shoulder, lowered his head and muttered, "If we really don't come back, let's go out and look for it, okay? Go out and find it......", the little green turtle rubbed Gu Changsheng's neck with his head again. Gu Changsheng looked up at Mingyue again, and felt that it was really bleak, so he got up and took the bamboo chair back to the thatched hut.

Since the last time the moonlight came into view, the gray stone was hidden, and nothing like it happened in the past two years. No matter how bizarre it is, if it's only a rare one or two, then there's no fuss.

After a sleepless night, he got up as soon as he was white, and after eating some leftovers from last night, he took the little green turtle up to Peach Mountain, and came to the top of the mountain under the peach tree, sat on the ground, and didn't care about the dew all over the ground, anyway, his trouser legs were already wet with dew when he went up the mountain.

Fortunately, last night's wind did not blow off the few remaining peach blossoms on the old peach tree. The few remnant flowers scattered on the branches are more lonely and desolate than the fallen flowers all over the ground.

Sitting on the dew-stained grass, Gu Changsheng under the scattered pink peach trees, began to look at the path that was not long, and there was a faint white fog on the path in the early morning, but it was no problem to see if there were pedestrians passing by.

There are no people on the wet road in the early morning dew, and there are few pedestrians on the only road leading to the outside world in this small village, and the most pedestrians on this path are the days of the market, and today is not the day of the market.

Gu Changming looked at this winding path, there was some intersection in his heart, Gu Changming very much hoped that two pedestrians would suddenly appear at the end of the sight, the elder brother carried the small book basket he made for him, the Taoist priest was still in a green robe and a torn shirt, and the two came back together with a smile. But by the early morning, the dewdrops had evaporated in the spring, and the spring had been shrouded in red glow, and the ancient longevity was still not rewarded.

The lonely few remnant flowers on the old peach tree under the sunset also ushered in the final pastel, shining with the sunset and competing with the sunset, but after all, they could not compete with the few wisps of evening breeze and withered the earth.

When the peach blossoms are everywhere, where are the peach blossoms?

Gu Changming's heart was full of bitterness, and he was more worried. Although the peach blossoms have fallen, Gu Changsheng still did not get up, still staring at the path, until the night came, he could not see the path clearly, the night sky was dark tonight, there was no bright moon, no stars.

Gu Changsheng picked up the little green turtle on his knee and prepared to get up, but found that his legs were already numb and difficult to get up, so Gu Changsheng kept rubbing his legs, and finally got up.

Fortunately, Gu Changsheng was very familiar with this road in Taoshan, so he didn't spend too much effort Gu Changsheng went down Taoshan and walked on the path at the edge of the village. The night was very quiet, and the quiet Gu Changsheng could clearly hear the sound of grasshoppers and crickets shuttling in the grass, and Gu Changsheng walked quietly and suddenly heard someone behind him shouting, "Little brother, little brother, wait a minute, wait."

Gu Changsheng stopped, turned his head to look behind but didn't see anyone, the night was too dark. The sound sounded very close, so Gu Changsheng decided to wait a little longer, and waited for a while before hearing the sound of footsteps that gradually intensified, and then saw a tall and thin old man approaching. I couldn't see it very clearly at night, but the old man should be fifty or sixty years old.

Recently, without waiting for Gu Changsheng to ask, the old man explained: "Little brother, I am here to look for someone, I don't want to be delayed on the way, I just saw the little brother, so I stopped the little brother, the night is heavy, I want to go with the little brother, by the way, ask about something, if you are disturbed, don't blame the little brother." Gu Changsheng patiently listened to the old man's speech, listening to the old man's accent should not be a local, although since the human race was divided into three thousands of years ago, the three kingdoms have unified their respective languages, but there are still some subtle differences in the languages of various places, but it does not hinder understanding.

"Old man, it's not in the way, I'm also waiting for someone to just return, the night is heavy, it's naturally good to have an old man with you, what's the disturbance. Gu Changsheng replied very politely.

"That's good, that's good, I don't know if the little brother has waited for someone?" The old man asked, without waiting for Gu Changsheng to answer, the old man may have seen Gu Changsheng alone, the old man laughed at himself: "It's the little old man, I'm stupid, if you ask more, don't blame the little brother, don't blame." I don't know if it's an illusion, Gu Changsheng felt that the old man seemed very restrained in both his speech and movements, as if he was a little nervous, and the old man was hunched over and lowered his head when he spoke to himself, feeling a little weird.

After the old man asked and answered himself, Gu Changsheng still replied to the old man, "As you can see the old man, I didn't wait, maybe it was delayed on the road." ”

Then he muttered in a low voice: "The peach blossoms have fallen and no one has returned, and I don't know where they are." ”

Presumably the old man couldn't hear this, Gu Changsheng didn't say anything, and beckoned the old man to be careful of the potholes on the night road, and walked towards the village together.