Chapter 531: Memories of the Town
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When night came, Yuan Lai watched the shopkeeper close the shop. ??? One reads the book
Yuan Lai then followed him around the town.
The direction is clear.
When the ancient peach tree appeared in front of the two of them, Yuan Lai's feeling was unexpected.
"Is that what you want to see?" asked Yuan as he looked at the relatively huge canopy of the peach tree in the dark.
The shopkeeper nodded, still wearing the same short robe he wore when he worked, and the sleeves were rolled up to reveal two arms, hanging at his sides.
When night falls, the town quiets down, and the location of the peach tree is even more peaceful when there are no dwellings around.
"That's it, part of the reason why I chose to live in Qingni in the first place. β
The owner said with some emotion.
"Oh?" Yuan Lai's eyes were puzzled.
The shopkeeper looked around, then walked straight to the small low stone wall that surrounded the peach trees.
Yuan didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly followed.
The cold moonlight shone down, reflecting the moonlight on the ground of the street, but the area shrouded in peach trees was a dappled shadow.
The moonlight passes through the gaps in the leaves of the peach blossom trees and is projected on the ground, gently changing position with the breeze.
The low stone wall was low, but it was a boundary, and beyond the boundary was a clean street, and inside it was a lot of weeds and wildflowers.
The messy flowers and plants didn't look like they were planted by people at a glance, and Yuan Lai hadn't been so close before, so tonight was the first time he had seen them.
The shopkeeper whispered, "Since the appearance of this fence, the townspeople have stopped cleaning the inside, and after a long time, it has become like this. β
With that, as soon as he lifted his legs, he stepped in, so that he stood so close to the peach tree that he could touch the trunk with his hands.
And that's exactly what he did.
Yuan Lai watched the other party jump in, and then lightly put his hand on the trunk of the tree, and then closed his eyes, as if he was savoring something, and after a while, the other party opened his eyes, stepped out again, and said lightly: "It's still early, wait until it's later." β
Yuan Lai was confused and couldn't help asking, "What do you want me to see?"
The shopkeeper smiled mysteriously and said, "Memory." β
"Memory?"
"Well, that's the memory of this peach tree. β
Yuan Lai was taken aback when he heard this, and said: "Although it is said that plants have spirits, but how do you look at this tree, it doesn't seem to be able to have its own memories, if it reaches that level, wouldn't it be like the legend to form a human?"
The shopkeeper shook his head and said lightly: "Indeed, it is far from reaching that level, and the memory I am talking about is not a memory in the real sense, but some very chaotic and unconscious fragments, as far as I can see, this is not its own derivation, the people in the town say that it was planted by extremely powerful cultivators many years ago, I have observed, it does have traces of being artificially opened by the spiritual aperture, in short, it exists." β
There is always a reason for what exists.
Yuan Lai understood this truth, so he nodded, and then asked, "Then since you want to see its memory, why do you have to wait for a specific time?"
The shopkeeper smiled, and said with a bit of smugness in his smile: "This tree is closely connected to the whole town, if you compare the whole town to one person, then this tree is the heart of the person, the people are boiling during the day, the town is awake, at this time you will never be able to feel those chaotic and messy memories, only at night, the town is asleep, this time can be seen." β
Yuan Lai thought for a while, his eyes lit up slightly, and said, "You mean to wait for it to dream?"
Yuan Lai knows that people will only awaken the chaotic memories in their subconscious when they are dreaming, and the analogy here should be the same.
The shopkeeper nodded affirmatively.
Then he said: "When it is in a dream, you can use your divine sense to dive into its dream, but this is very difficult, just as it is extremely difficult for your divine sense to invade the mind of an animal, trees are completely different from people, if you forcibly invade, it will only be in vain, so if you want to succeed, you must use some methods." β
"What's the method?"
"Breathe. β
"Breathe?"
"When you want to dive into its consciousness, you need to synchronize your breath with it, in other words, you have to disguise it as a peach tree, so that you can do it, the plant has its own way of breathing, you just need to feel it carefully and believe that you can find it. The shopkeeper's answer surprised Yuan Lai again.
He couldn't help but ask curiously, "These...... Ordinary people can't find out, right?"
"Yes, if I hadn't settled here and often ran under the trees at night to meditate, it would have been absolutely difficult to find. β
Yuan Lai was silent, knowing that this was a gift from a man, and he couldn't help but cast a grateful look.
The latter smiled calmly and said, "Just wait here." β
The waiting process was very fast, and it was only after the middle of the month that the shopkeeper spoke again: "It's okay." β
He pointed to the peach tree, then took a few steps back and said, "Go and see, I'm waiting for you here." β
Yuan Lai looked at him deeply, and after a moment's hesitation, he stepped over the fence and pressed his hands on the trunk of the tree.
Cool as if you were holding moonlight.
He immediately began to calm down, covering the peach tree with his divine sense, sensing its breath.
Soon, Yuan Lai noticed the rhythm of its breathing, the slow breath starting from the roots and ending on the leaves, and the peach tree was always shaking with an extremely smiling amplitude, which was a sign of breathing.
Yuan Lai soon began to imitate this breathing rhythm, the process was not easy, it took him a full quarter of an hour to succeed, and at the moment of success, he decisively pierced a bundle of divine consciousness into the peach tree.
Then he noticed a flower in front of him, and his form had disappeared, as if it had turned into a wisp of green smoke floating in the void, and the void was pink, just like the color of a peach blossom at this time.
There was a faint light in it.
Yuan Lai hesitated for a moment and began to capture the closest ball to him, and as soon as he touched it, a scene appeared in his mind.
It was a thunderstorm, thunderstorms, lightning roaring, peach trees swaying in the wind, and the whole town was silent in the sky.
There was only one paragraph of the picture, and there was only these contents, and when Yuan finished looking at it, he put it aside and continued to drift forward to capture the second light cluster.
This time, the scene is a room with a group of people busy, chaotic, and anxious emotions filling the space, followed by a chaotic cry, a loud baby cry, and then the picture disappears.
Yuan Lai was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this was the memory of the production of the town that I don't know which household, and I don't know which year and month it was.
Since the peach tree is one with the town, its memory is also the memory of Qingni Town.
And how many things will happen to a small town in thousands of years? How many of them have been captured by the hazy will of the town, and how many of them have been floating in this void and seen by Yuan Lai?
As long as I think about it, I can't help but feel a thousand emotions in my heart.
Yuan Lai captured the third group of light.
This picture is extraordinarily long, it turns out to be the growth history of an orphan in a town, and the whole memory is like a fast-forward player, quickly pulling time, and the entire decades of life of the orphan from childhood to middle age, and then to die alone flashed in a hurry.
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