When John heard the brook's proposal to find a rabbit in the sky, he immediately came to his senses.

Because he used to do this when he was bored, but he never looked for a rabbit in the sky.

"Well, I'm sure I'll find the best rabbit sign"

"Then let's see who finds it first."

The boy and the girl, with their eyes wide open, sat on the dead wood and looked up at the pale blue starry sky and the pale yellow full moon.

"I found it." Xiaoxi said quickly.

"Where?" John asked anxiously.

"In Heaven"

"Where in heaven?" John's pupils reflected in the night sky, but he still hadn't found it.

"Think big. It's bigger than anything else."

"I can't find it. Wait, wait. I see it. John let out a cheerful celebratory voice.

"Tell me what you see." Xiaoxi's pupils glanced slightly at the side face of the cheerful and excited boy sitting beside her.

But as soon as Xiaoxi asked this sentence, it came out. Jiang Ying's whole body was shocked.

This question has such a familiar feeling.

Jiang Ying remembers very well, in the first few chapters of this book, when the protagonists of the story, Neil and Eva, have not yet explored the depth of John's memory.

After John and Creek have been married for decades, because John once approached Creek just because he thought she wasn't talking, cool, and maverick.

From that day on, Brook was an origami rabbit again and again, and then kept asking John.

What did he see.

Jiang Ying's memories overlap with the content of Chapter 8.

"Is that right there? There are two ears and a head! John excitedly pointed to the starry sky.

It was the top of the moon, with a pair of ear-like stars dotting the moon.

"What else?" Xiaoxi asked.

"And there. It's two feet. ”

It was the bottom of the moon, and after a dozen stars were connected into a line, the music could tell that it was the shape of a pair of feet.

"Yes, anything else?"

"The Moon."

"It's its bulging belly."

Jiang Ying turned the page of the book and saw it. An illustration in anime-colored colors.

The light blue sky is dotted with stars, and the light yellow moon hangs high.

The boy pointed to the moon in the sky, and the girl sat beside him, with her short orange hair standing out and charming.

In the sky, the moon and the twenty or so stars around it are connected like a rabbit with open limbs.

The pale yellow moon turns into a belly, the pale blue sky becomes paper, and the stars connect into legs and ears.

The image of a blue and yellow rabbit, under the guidance of the text and the contrast of this illustration, is vividly sketched out in Jiang Ying's mind.

rabbit

Paper bunny.

Blue and yellow paper rabbits

Jiang Ying held her breath at this moment.

She thought of the early stage of the plot, in the later part of Xiaoxi's life, she was origami rabbit again and again, asking John over and over again, what did he see?

Jiang Ying's goosebumps rose.

In an instant, tears could not stop gathering in the eye sockets.

She probably understood why Brook would ask John about rabbits over and over again in her old age.

Creek in old age. She should have hoped that John would take a look at the blue and yellow paper rabbit she folded, remembering that decades ago, that carnival, that night sky, that dead wood. John and her encounter at this time.

Together, they found this blue and yellow rabbit in the sky that night, made up of stars, the night sky, and the moon.

"So, what do you think these stars are?" John asked, looking at the creek.

"I, I've never told anyone. But I think the stars are the lighthouses." Creek said.

"Thousands of lighthouses, shining at the end of the world, stars, they can see the lighthouses on the other side, they want to communicate with each other, but they can't do anything, the sky is on different sides, they can't hear what each other is saying. All they can do is work hard to shine. That's the only thing they can do. Let that light shine on other beacons, and on me."

"Why you?" John asked curiously.

"Because someday. I'll be their best friend, too. ”

Lighthouse?.Creek, this is saying that it is.

Because of her mental illness, she can't communicate well with others, and no one can understand her no matter what she says.

Only tonight, the little boy who met for the first time, Xiaoxi and him hit it off at first sight, chatting with the sky and the earth, admiring the moon and stargazing.

So. In the plot of the previous chapter, the reason why Xiaoxi asked John to build the house next to the abandoned lighthouse on the cliff is because she feels that the lighthouse is lonely, just like her, so even if she dies, she has to let John build the house and guard the lighthouse, and her own tombstone also stands next to the lighthouse and guards it.

The stars, the lighthouses, in the eyes of the creek, are all lonely, as lonely as she is.

Far away, untouchable, but shining.

She is of the same kind as them, and she is a friend.

Therefore, in the later part of her life, she will use all her strength to protect the abandoned lighthouse.

"In your bag. What's in it? Xiaoxi looked at John's bag at this time and asked curiously.

Hearing this, John smiled smugly and took out a sandbag from his bag. Platypus dolls.

Jiang Ying hadn't woken up from the foreshadowing of the previous two plots, and there were still tears in her eyes, but a text. Straight to her heart.

This sandbag and doll platypus

It can't be the two items that Xiaoxi has carried with her all her life.

Yuanqing, is your foreshadowing buried here?

Sandbag, in middle age in Creek, was thrown off a cliff by John.

And the platypus doll, until the death of the stream, she always carried it with her, and did not lose it.

"These two are the prizes I got by playing whack-a-mole." John said triumphantly.

"Can I take a look?"

John hands the doll to Creek.

"It's weird-looking. I wish I could win one back. ”

"My mom called me." John heard his mother calling out to him at the foot of the mountain and prepared to leave.

"This." The brook stopped him.

"Take it, they're yours. I gave it to you. I'm sure I can win another one." John smiled and said goodbye to the creek.

The brook was silent.

"Will you come here again next year?" Xiaoxi took a deep breath, looked at the boy in front of him, and plucked up the courage to ask this sentence.

"Of course. What about you? John said confidently.

"Yes."

"Old place, old time?"

"Hmm."

When Jiang Ying saw this, tears had already burst out of her eyes

Because this story is a flashback structure, from John's old age to his childhood.

Jiang Ying knows all the rest of the story.

Half a year later, John's brother Joey died due to his mother's mistake, and he was given a large amount of β blockers by his mother to forget a large number of memories.

Naturally, this agreement between John and Creek is also included.

John: He certainly didn't come the next year.

"And what if you forgot or got lost?" Xiaoxi finally asked this sentence cautiously.

The little boy John in her eyes was as bright as the stars in the sky that she regarded as a lighthouse.

"So. We'll always meet on the moon. Fool. John laughed.

"It's in the belly of the bunny."

When Xiaoxi heard this, he held the platypus doll given by John, sat on the dead wood, and stared at the starry sky.

This platypus, she hugged it. Just hold it for a lifetime!

(End of chapter)