"Mom, why do you put a red cloth on the stone?"

"There's any red cloth there."

"Mom...... I seem to see the stone in front of the temple in the back hill that can speak."

"Go to bed early, I'll go to school tomorrow."

The woman covered the boy with the quilt, and the boy turned his head to look out the window at the night, and the woman put out the oil lamp, closed the door, and the moonlight shone through the window on the boy's face.

He blinked, stared out the window, and after a while rolled over, tickled, and handed his back to the moonlight.

I have to go to school tomorrow.

In the mountains, hundreds of insects are singing, one after another, and there are owls that hunt at night, which is very lively.

The next day, Du Ziheng came to Houshan again.

There is a temple here, in front of the temple there is a unicorn made of stone, and there is a statue of the god in the temple, and the idol of the god is draped in red cloth.

His mother said no, but he turned his head and saw that there was.

I heard that it was very prosperous here in the past, and the incense must be prosperous during the New Year's holidays, but then I don't know why no one came.

When there are fewer people, the vegetation becomes more abundant, and the sun does not shine in the forest.

It became his secret base.

As soon as he took out the steamed bun in his satchel and was about to eat it, a gust of wind suddenly rose in the forest outside the temple, and he looked up in confusion, and he didn't know when there was another person in front of him.

That's a beautiful woman.

Six or seven-year-old Du Ziheng was stunned, wiped his nose with the back of his hand, and divided half of the steamed bun in his hand to the woman.

The woman ate his bun and told him that she had eaten his tribute and that she could come to her for anything in the future.

She would say yes.

"Then take me into the mountains to play."

This is Du Ziheng's first wish to her, he wants someone to take him to play.

The woman agreed to him, took him by the hand, and led him to the mountains.

The mountains are very lively, there are a few cumulus clouds floating under the melodious clear sky, slowly, a gust of wind comes to the forest and sounds, and the wind blows on the body very pleasantly.

He tried to pick the fruit from the tree, and the woman asked him to ride on his shoulder, and the woman would weave the barma, blow a whistle made of banyan leaves, and take him to catch hares.

She can also sing, she learned from the people under the mountain, and she sings very well.

The woman sang softly, the wind blew across the grass and the lake, and Du Ziheng lay on the lawn, not knowing when he fell asleep.

They squatted in the grass to watch the ants move, and when they caught the unicorn, they were very happy, and when a monster appeared in the mountains, he was even more excited, and ran over shouting, but was pulled by the woman.

"That's all for today, it's getting dark, I'll send you back."

When he went back, Du Ziheng knew her name.

The woman's name is Duoxi.

The next day he went to the mountains again.

"Duoxi, I brought this, this is called Southeast and Northwest, I will write something on it after I fold it, and I will teach you to play ......."

I went on the third day.

"Taxi, wouldn't it be boring for you to be alone in the mountains, by the way, you're a monster."

Day 4......

"Taki, why can't they see the youkai, only I can see the youkai?"

Every day after that, there were no accidents.

"Daxi, let's go pick snake fruit today, I see that the snake fruit is ripe a lot."

Duoxi took his little hand and took him to the mountains to find snake fruits, Du Ziheng was always restless, like to jump up and down, or pick up a stick to play.

"How glad you look! The bellflower is blooming, and it's so beautiful."

Du Ziheng asked Duoxi to squat down, and then stuck the bellflower in her hair.

The boy grew up day by day, and was always accompanied by a quiet and peaceful beautiful woman, and when he looked back, it seemed that he had run fast enough, and his troubles could not catch up with him.

But the young man is not all cheerful times, and occasionally he is troubled.

When he was twelve years old, he sat by the lake, holding his face sullenly, and said:

"Duoxi, I really want a lantern, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days, everyone in the school has lanterns, and my mother won't buy me lanterns."

This was his second wish to Taki, and he wanted a lantern.

Duoxi doesn't have human money, she doesn't even know what money is, so she can't buy a lantern for Du Ziheng, but she can make one for him herself.

They went to find the material.

Oil paper, candles, wire.

Trim the wooden strips into strips, fold the oiled paper into lanterns, and bend the wire into the bottom of the candles.

Du Ziheng thought that Duoxi could do anything, because Duoxi was always at ease in what she did, she could catch rabbits and judge what fruits could be eaten.

But this time Duoxi failed many times.

It turns out that there are things that Duoxi can't do, he thought with a smile.

Between failure and every new start, he remorseful and laughing, but he was always calm, but they finally succeeded on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It was a lantern so beautiful that Du Ziheng cheered.

Duoxi lit the candle for him, and watched the boy go down the mountain with a lantern, and a fire went away, returning to the fiery festival of humanity below.

Later, the boy had new troubles.

"How hi, it's so hard to do your homework."

"What's the homework?"

"It's the homework assigned by the gentlemen of the Academy."

"That's right...... Do you want to play Northeast, South, Northwest?"

Du Ziheng was speechless, it was something that children played, and he was almost eighteen now.

He told Taki that he doesn't like to play this now, and he wants to get into college, but he is stupid and can't always remember what the teacher says in class.

For this reason, he was very distressed, if he could not get into the university, he would have to stay and farm.

He didn't want to farm, he wanted to go out, he wanted to go outside.

This is Du Ziheng's third wish to Duoxi, he wants to be admitted to university.

Du Ziheng already knew that Duoxi was not omnipotent, and he didn't hope that Duoxi could help him.

But Duoxi still tried his best to help him, supervise his homework, read books, memorize texts, over and over again, when Du Ziheng was studying hard, Duoxi was waiting for him on the side.

"Let's play Northeast, Northwest."

"Tohi, I'm an adult, and I don't play this game anymore."

"You take a look at this first."

Taki handed him a new piece of origami paper, and the punishments written on it were, such as memorizing essays, copying texts, and doing science homework.

In the arduous learning process, he couldn't help but laugh out loud: "East Twelve."

Duoxi counted from one to twelve very seriously, and said in a crisp and calm voice: "I'll see, it's miserable, you have to memorize the text."

Du Ziheng laughed.

Taki asked him what he was laughing at.

Of course, it's funny...... He looked at the other party's face under the oil lamp, that innocent and simple appearance, he didn't know why, avoided her gaze.

For the first time, the young man had something that he couldn't tell if he was happy.

In the end, Du Ziheng got his wish and was admitted to university.

But going to college meant that he was leaving the place where he had lived for more than ten years.

"Ah Heng, the bellflower in the mountain has opened, can we go and see it together?"

Du Ziheng looked at the woman in front of him in a daze.

The other party accompanied him through his childhood, youth, and now his youth.

Du Ziheng didn't know what he thought of her.

At that time, because of her innocence in her childhood, she asked this beautiful woman to take her into the mountains to play, because of the ridiculous comparison of the teenager, she asked her to make a good-looking lantern for herself, and in order to satisfy her growing ambition, let her help her be admitted to college.

But now? What does he want?

He felt that his ideas were ridiculous, that they were wrong, and he would always be scared of his disgusting thoughts.

He didn't dare to look at the joy, and the strange feelings in his heart forced him to flee.

Du Ziheng chose not to say goodbye.

Maybe it's because he has come into contact with too few people, or maybe when he walks out of this place, he will slowly fade away those impulsive thoughts.

Soon, Du Ziheng realized that he had made a wrong decision.

When he was in college, he always remembered the woman's face in his dreams, who was as pure and beautiful as a bellflower in the mountains.

He understood, and he wanted to go back to see her, even if it was wrong.

That's the person I've been dreaming about.

It's just that he just made a decision, and he learned an embarrassing and ordinary thing in his family letter.

The village decided to build an ancestral hall behind the village, and started to bulldoze the temple of Duoxi Niangniang in the back mountain.

When Du Ziheng returned to the village after a long journey, he found two stone statues in a pile of waste rocks in the back mountain, one of which was the stone beast in front of the temple.

There is also a fisset statue of a woman.

Her name is Taki.