The boy remembered the first time they met.

"—I have eaten your tribute, and you can come to me for anything."

The picture was too blurry, and he looked at the cracked stone statue of the woman in front of him, and the mental impact made him unwilling to believe that it was real.

When those memories of the past surfaced, the playmates of childhood, the big sister that I longed for as a child, and then the woman who was young and Muai.

It was like a dream that became unreal.

"You're back?"

Suddenly, a woman's light voice came from someone in the tree.

He looked up anxiously, and the man was sitting in a tree, his swaying calves looming under the hem of his skirt.

When I looked back, I saw a cracked stone statue in front of me.

"Pick one, south, east, west, and west?"

"East ......," he replied.

"How many times east?"

「…… Three times to the east."

"One, two, three, I'll see...... The punishment is to give me two pieces of candy." She held out her white palm to him.

"Why are you crying? It's okay to give one."

Du Ziheng said that he thought she was dead.

Duoxi said that in the past, they found a stone that looked like a woman in the mountain, and brought it back to build a temple for her, but then they themselves were no longer believed, and the temple was no longer there.

"Don't cry, the bellflower in the mountain is open, go pick it?"

Du Ziheng held her hand.

In the past, Duoxi was the tallest person in his world, but now he doesn't know when he is a head shorter, and Duoxi's palms used to be very large, but now he is holding in his hand to know that he is so petite.

When they meet again, it seems like they have gone back in time.

It doesn't seem to be.

When playing in the water, Du Ziheng can always win, and if he wants to pick the fruit on the tree, he no longer needs to ride on the other party's neck, but can reach out and touch it, and the sound of the spoon he blows out with the banyan leaves is melodious, which is even better than Duoxi.

"Why do you keep looking at me?" Duoxi turned his head and suddenly wondered.

The boy panicked and hurriedly avoided his gaze.

Unconsciously, I always look at that face and look at the woman next to me.

He fled to the bottom of the mountain in the twilight and returned to his home, his heart stirring in the setting sun.

He saw his old mother busy eating, and the other party told him that it was time to eat.

"Mom, I seem to hear the stones in the back mountain talking."

Mom just said, "It's almost time to eat, come and wash your hands."

That night, Du Ziheng had a dream, in which he was dressed in red and married the woman he loved, and when he lifted the hijab, he saw that familiar face.

At that moment, he woke up from his dream.

That's what a joy!

He felt like he was crazy, and he actually liked Duoxi.

But why can't he like Toki?

Du Ziheng didn't figure it out.

That's right, why can't he like Toki?

He thought about it all night, tossed and turned in bed, looked out the window at the last quarter of the moon, turned over, and let the moonlight shine on him.

The next day, Du Ziheng went up the mountain.

He found the woman lying on her stomach by the lake drinking water and made a fourth wish.

His fourth wish was that he wanted to marry Tahei.

Taki doesn't know what it means to marry, she doesn't know what it means to be a wife, but this is the only person she believes in.

She promised him.

Du Ziheng was ecstatic.

They held a wedding in the mountains, invited the strange creatures of the mountains, and the stone statues were draped in red cloth and set aside, and they were married under the sun, moon and stars.

Du Ziheng took Duoxi out of the mountain.

Duoxi entered the world, Du Ziheng smiled, when he was a child, his Duoxi was obviously omnipotent, how could he come here and tiptoe.

"Xianggong, what is that?" She pointed to the street in confusion.

Du Ziheng's heart shrank, and his face became red, although this was his own

He shouted with joy, but when he really came out of this woman's mouth, he felt his heart jump out of his mouth.

"That's a rock sugar gourd, it's human food."

He smiled and said, "Xianggong is going to buy it for you."

Taki knows that human things need money to buy.

"Thank you."

Du Ziheng avoided her childlike gaze, feeling displeased for his meanness, but he couldn't help but get more.

Duoxi has a lot of things to want, I want the rouge on a woman's face, I want beautiful human clothes, I want a child's rattle.

That kind of desire is not strong, just pure curiosity, but Du Ziheng will satisfy her.

The people of the town saw a man holding a stone statue from out of town, buying a house and placing the stone statue in the house.

He did not marry a wife, rarely interacted with people, and would bring many novelties home every day, and it was even rumored that he could be heard laughing alone near his house.

Du Ziheng listened to the gossip of the neighbors.

"Toki, let's move."

They move to a larger mansion, and no one knows that there is a yokai in the house that is invisible to ordinary people.

Du Ziheng made a lot of money, as long as he liked it, he would buy it to her.

Du Ziheng thought that he and Duoxi would be happily together all the time, until one time, he suddenly fell ill in front of her.

After years of hard work, and a period of dizziness, he fell straight to the ground.

He was anxious to tell Taki that he was okay and not to worry, but he was wrong.

He saw that Duoxi just had a calm face, looked at him condescendingly, and said calmly with doubts in his tone:

"What are you doing lying on the ground?"

She didn't worry about herself at all, and her heart never fluctuated because of herself.

Du Ziheng knew that as long as he opened his mouth, Duoxi would come over to help him, bring him tea and water, and obey all his orders.

But Taki is a stone.

Stone, he said one of the hearts.

He had already known it, but he had always been stupid, or he didn't want to admit it, but the day and night spent time tearing the problem apart until he had to face it.

He just imprisoned Taki by his side.

He panicked.

The joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the past, it turned out that everything was his emotions, and at this moment, he felt that those emotions were like bubbles rising in the sun, looking colorful fluorescent, but meaningless.

He lay quietly on the ground, and Duoxi also looked at him calmly.

"Help me up, I'm happy."

"Okay."

He found the best craftsman to restore the cracked stone statue, and asked people to move the stone beast that was originally placed in front of the temple in the mountain behind his hometown.

The people around him said that the rich businessman surnamed Du had a problem with his brain and fell in love with a stone, and some people said that he knew the evil law, and the reason why Du Ziheng made a fortune was because of that stone.

Du Ziheng didn't pay attention.

He himself knows that he does not love a stone.

The courtyard was cold, and there was a man talking to himself all year round, always talking to the stones, laughing, or telling about his recent troubles.

But when the man closes the door and leaves, the courtyard will be quiet again.

Cicadas chirp in summer, roast fires in winter, the door of the courtyard opens and closes, but only one person enters and exits the whole time.

The door to the deep courtyard of the house was pushed open again.

The woman, dressed in white and playing with origami in her hand, asked herself if there was anything wrong with coming to her this time.

Du Ziheng looked at the beautiful woman, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.

Her face has never changed, that amazing face has always been as calm as the surface of the water, for decades like a day, not sad or happy, not anxious or angry, never laughed because of herself, annoyed, she just ...... Keep an eye on him.

It was autumn, and he wore a long robe, like when he was a child, like when he was a teenager, like when he was a young man......

prevent

Ziheng made a fifth wish to Duoxi, he wanted her to love him.

"What is love?" She asked.

From that moment on, Du Ziheng seemed to see clearly that there was no beautiful woman in the room at all, only a peaceful and solemn statue.

He knelt before the idol and burst into tears.