It wasn't until he passed through the alley that Chen He determined the direction in which Nandao left.

Because there were blood stains all the way, as if someone was vomiting blood while walking, this made Chen He's heart very worried.

The water tank in the alley was blood-colored, Chen He initially thought that Nandao was hiding there, but stopped to take a look, it was empty, thinking that Nandao should have washed the blood on his body here.

Of course, Chen He didn't doubt that Nandao would lose to Hua Wuxi, after all, Hua Wuxi only stayed in Qingniuyuan for a while before leaving, even if he could feel the sense of qi, he would not be the opponent of a person like Nandao who practiced quickly.

He walked all the way east along the bloodstains, and it was not until he saw the sitting figure on the city wall in the distance that Chen He relieved himself, but he was a little puzzled about who the black-clothed man on the side was.

However, Chen He's heart hadn't been put down for a long time when he saw Nandao suddenly fall backwards.

Chen He was shocked, pushed the valve to the maximum, and the small wheelchair was racing wildly in the long street at night.

Stopping at the city wall, Chen He closed the valve, jumped out of his wheelchair, and hurriedly climbed up the moss-covered stone steps beside him.

Nandao lay on it, surrounded by blood, and a peach blossom blooming beautifully in the night on his chest.

The black-robed man had gone far away, and then jumped down from the city.

Chen He hurriedly ran over.

Nandao was unconscious, and his face was covered in blood spat out of his mouth.

"Don't die yet, I'll take you somewhere!"

Chen He patted Nandao's face and said hurriedly.

Yet there was no response.

Chen He grabbed the two swords next to him and carried Nandao on his back, the black umbrella was a little in the way, Chen He wanted to take it down, but Nandao still held the umbrella even if he had fallen into a coma. Chen He broke it twice, but he really couldn't break Nandao's hand, so he didn't care anymore, and hurriedly ran down the city wall with Nandao on his back.

Standing next to the wheelchair, Chen He found that the small wheelchair could not fit two people, and he was worried, thinking about carrying it back directly, but someone pushed the wheelchair over in the distance.

North Terrace.

Bei Gongzi, who had drunk a lot of wine, came over in a wheelchair, threw a bundle of rope to Chen He, and then stood up from the wheelchair and limped to the side.

Chen He looked at the young man who didn't say a word, sighed, and said, "Thank you." ”

Beitai waved his hand and limped into the distance in the night.

When Chen He passed by before, he naturally saw it.

So I thought there might be some trouble, so I followed.

Coincidentally, there was real trouble.

Chen He tied the two wheelchairs together, put Nandao, who was already unconscious with blood stains on his back, and then hurriedly left in a small wheelchair.

Beitai looked at the departing two in the night, and was silent for a long time.

Some blame yourself.

He felt that it was his own instigation that would make Nandao do such a thing.

So he was wounded.

Although the truth is quite different from what he guessed.

But Beigongzi naturally took Nandao as a friend.

Just like Chen He.

When I returned to the Hangshuin Library, it was already late at night.

The door of the library was open, and Chen He didn't pay attention, thinking that he had forgotten to close it when he left earlier, or that other students had come to see the book.

Carried Minami Island out of his wheelchair and put him on the listening platform.

Chen He ran down again and found a biographical novel.

Just like the boy who called the grass for the firefly said.

Flipping it open, I found a sword word.

Chen He took a deep breath.

Stand on the listening platform and shout - I'm going to Old Dog Town!

The building is full of wind.

Chen He and Nan Dao lay side by side on the listening platform.

The sword light fell.

Zhang Xiaoyu's figure landed on the listening platform in the night.

After looking at the two of them in silence for a while, he bent down and took the book from Chen He's hand.

He reverently pressed his hand to the page.

He looked around.

Whispered, "I'm going to Old Dog Town!" ”

A gentle breeze blows on your face.

Nothing.

Zhang Xiaoyu looked around again, and the people from the three faculties didn't seem to be around in the night.

So he followed Chen He's example, took a deep breath, and shouted, "I'm going to Old Dog Town!" ”

Nothing happened.

Zhang Xiaoyu coughed and covered his face in shame.

Yun Hu didn't know how to poke his head out of the small bamboo garden.

Not sure what happened.

......

Chen He woke up from the table in the tea shop in a daze with the scroll in his arms, and the green-dressed boy Cao Weiying sat opposite him, looking at him with a smile.

The sun is just right outside the window, and the spring light is infinitely bright.

"You didn't lie to me?"

Chen He saw that he had really come here again, and looked at the grass and said in surprise.

Cao Wei Hotaru smiled and said, "What did I lie to you for?" ”

Chen He put down the book and looked around, but found that there was no trace of the South Island.

"What about the South Island?"

"He's out of town."

"What are you doing out of town?"

The grass thought for Hotaru and said, "Bask in the sun." ”

“？”

Chen He looked dazed.

But the grass stood up and walked outside.

Chen He hurriedly followed, and didn't forget to pick up the biographical novel that Cao Wei wanted for Firefly.

The two made their way through the town to the outside of the town.

For the first time, Chen He saw this kind of spring and comfortable town, Yunya Lake, and the sea of flowers and bamboo forests, and he sighed for a while.

"It turns out that there is such a good place in the world."

Grass for Hotaru drank wine in front of her, smiling silently.

Passing through the sea of flowers flying in the wind, the two stopped at the edge of the cliff and the lake.

There is a peach tree by the lake, full of rouge peach blossoms, swaggering in the wind.

Chen He didn't wonder why there was a big lake under the high cliff, but just looked at the scenery here in amazement.

After watching it for a long time, I remembered the purpose of my visit.

looked at the grass that was holding a gourd and drinking wine on the side.

"Where does the South Island sun?"

Cao Weiying turned his head to look at Chen He, and said with a smile: "It's here!" ”

Chen He turned his head to look at it for a long time, and then his eyes stayed on the peach tree, understood something, and gradually became dumbfounded.

"This is the South Island, why did he become like this?"

Chen He remembered the peach trees and peach blossoms that Nandao said today, as well as those so-called causes and effects, which were still unbelievable.

Cao Weiying sat down under the peach tree, leaned on the trunk of the peach tree and looked up at the falling flowers, and said softly: "Because he once borrowed ten years of cause and effect from a peach tree, in other words, he borrowed ten years of life from the peach tree, and now that ten years have passed, he will naturally have to pay it back." ”

Chen He looked at the peach tree in a daze, the peach blossoms were full of branches, each one was like the peach blossom that opened in the heart of the South Island.

In the wind, the peach blossoms continued to bloom, falling into the cloud and mist lake, and slowly moving towards the distant fog.

One fell into Chen He's hands.

But there are some pictures above - in the town after the rain, children crouching under a black umbrella, looking enviously at the people passing by the long street, and children playing in the distance.

Another one fell—the child kept coughing, and someone brought in a peach branch, planted it in the backyard, and then grew up, and the child began to watch the stove in the backyard, and boiled peach blossom wine and drank it.

Slowly, the peach tree began to grow old, and it was covered with peach fat, and the amber peach fat was sticking everywhere, like many wounds.

Then the peach tree dies and no longer blooms.

Nandao stood sadly under the tree with an umbrella, began to cough up blood, and a peach blossom grew on his shoulder.

......

The peach blossoms were blown away by the wind from his hands, and Chen He stood quietly under the tree, looking up at the peach blossoms blooming in the wind.

"So that's it?"

Grass nodded for Hotaru and whispered, "Yes, and that's where it's the most interesting. ”

"Why?"

The grass is a firefly looking up at the spring sky, above the blue sky, the sun is shining.

"What kind of person would need to hide under an umbrella all day?" Grass asked softly.

Chen He looked at Cao Weiying, not sure if he was asking himself, thought for a while and said, "I don't know." ”

Cao Weiying didn't say anything, and looked at Chen He with a smile.

"What are you watching me do?" Chen He looked down at himself, there was nothing strange about it.

Grass smiled for Hotaru, turned back, and said, "It's nothing. ”

Chen He looked at the South Island where the lake had turned into peach trees.

After thinking about it, he said, "Then how do you solve this problem?" ”

Grass held the gourd and drank the wine for Hotaru and said, "Let him forget." ”

Chen He didn't understand what it meant.

So Kusa took a sip of wine for Hotaru and continued, "Forget who you are. And forget all those causes and effects. Cause and effect will naturally diffuse. ”

"How can cause and effect come to an end by forgetting?"

Cao Weiying laughed softly and said, "Because if I want him to forget, he will forget, and if I want it to end, it will end." ”

This is a very unreasonable statement, even if he is talking about such things as fate and cause and effect.

There is only one place in the world where people speak like this.

But that place is also the most reasonable place in the world.

for theirs is theirs.

"I think you're drinking too much and talking nonsense." Chen He looked at the young man in green clothes who kept drinking wine in front of him, and said suspiciously.

Cao Weiying smiled slightly and said, "But what I said is true. ”

As he spoke, the young man raised his head, looked at the bright peach blossoms above his head, and said slowly: "He needs to stay with me for a while, and when he forgets a lot of things, he will wake up naturally." ”

"He's not going to die?"

"Not for the time being, because his cause and effect remain in the heavens.... Old Dog Town, this is another world. The cause and effect of that world—"

Cao Wei Hotaru smiled and said, "Don't dare to come here." ”

Chen He looked at the grass for a long time and said, "I hope you don't lie to me, after all, in life, it is rare to have a few friends." ”

Cao Weiyi said softly, "Of course not. ”

Chen He said: "Then how do I get out?" ”

Cao Weiying said: "Walk along the path, and then you can go out, and as for coming back, it is still the same." ”

Chen He nodded, glanced at Nandao again, and turned to walk along the way he came. Then slowly disappear into the sea of flowers.

Cao Weiying held the gourd under the peach tree and watched Chen He's back leave, smiling incessantly.

Just smiled and fell silent.

Stand up and stand by the lake.

There was no shadow of itself inside, but the peach tree that Nandao had turned into reflected in the water a man in white with a peach blossom face.

Cao Weiyi looked at the lake quietly for a long time, then turned to leave.

If Chen He was standing by the lake and looked at the lake, he would have found it.

He also has no shadow in the lake.