What is the spiritual world of human beings? is it the world of thoughts, emotions, energy, or dimensions. No matter how one defines it, the spiritual world is as real as the physical world, just like another planet that is inseparable from the earth, with weather, elements, and living beings, and denies its existence only because humans have always liked to deny what they do not understand.

Dizang Village is a remote mountain village with a vast area and sparsely populated areas, with a long river that winds endlessly, and there are cliffs on both sides of the river, and more than half of the land that people have not set foot in for a hundred years. In such a village, it is conceivable that the mind is backward.

According to local customs, people must be buried in a coffin after death before they can be reincarnated. And because of the untimely death, the people who died unexpectedly were short-lived ghosts, and they could not return to their ancestors, enter the temple, or even enter the coffin.

However, there was a man in the village who buried the body of his child under the age of six into a coffin, and in order for the child to enter the path of reincarnation, he traveled 40 miles to make a private sacrifice in a cliff that no one had set foot on.

After the three-day sacrifice, the father was about to seal the coffin, and suddenly the light of dawn came from the east, and there seemed to be a black shadow entering the coffin in a trance, and the father pushed the coffin, and the child seemed to be frowning. When the morning light covered the coffin, I don't know if it was the reflection of paint, or the lower realm of the fairy, a dazzling golden light shrouded it, and the child inside actually came back to life. After this rebirth, the child has a new name - "Twilight".

Years later, the legendary experience is reduced to after-dinner conversation, and Twilight's growth is not as extraordinary as that of being reborn. In the cruel real world, "resurrection" cannot change the fate of "poverty and backwardness", and if you want to get out of this mountain, reading is the most ideal way out.

In the blink of an eye, Twilight was 16 years old, and due to her excellent results in the high school entrance examination, she was admitted to the city's key high school. This is a double-edged sword for the overly poor family, but Twilight's parents are not forced to give up on making ends meet, but decide to accompany them to school.

Speaking of Twilight's father, it is precisely because of Twilight's father's stubbornness that Twilight has the miracle of rebirth. And he was notorious in the village, when he first came to the village, he was wandering and unpopular, and later eloped with Song Honglian, the daughter of the archmage in charge of the village sacrifice. A year later, he came back with a newborn baby, and although there was a lot of talk at the time, it was a matter of course, and people had to accept the blessings of the couple. Twilight's father seems to think that this child is a new direction for his existence, so he takes his name "Father Xiao".

On this day, before dawn, Twilight is suddenly woken up and shoved into a van before she can figure out what is going on. There is no seat in the car except for the driver, and it is full of large and small burdens, and the family is crowded into it like goods.

Twilight looked out and saw that the sky didn't mean to brighten at all, so she asked, "Dad, why are we leaving at this time?" ”

Father Xiao just smiled embarrassedly, and her mother Honglian nagged: "Your father is the most afraid of trouble, this time he must be afraid of being sent by the villagers, and he is rare to greet us, so we are like thieves." My father didn't refute it, and it seemed that it was eight or nine and ten.

Twilight said mischievously, "I thought you owed someone money and was afraid that someone would ask for it." ”

Father Xiao unceremoniously patted Twilight on the chest: "You stinky boy." What have you heard, the money is for you to study, I didn't say I wanted to borrow it, how can I ask you to pay it back? You have nothing to do and go to sleep, and I won't serve you until you get motion sickness. ”

Twilight smiled wryly and moved away from the ground to lay down, grimacing behind her father's back and continuing to sleep.

It feels like a dream, not a dream, and I feel like I'm not in the car, but in the canopy of the mountains. Looking at the beautiful landscapes and rugged mountain roads of Jizo Village, the van sneaking away in the faint starlight, at this time, my heart was full of mixed feelings, as if I was reluctant to give up.

Suddenly, the dream shattered, and Twilight woke up in a panic, tears hanging from the corners of her eyes. He hurriedly wiped away his tears, but unfortunately his father caught him.

"Oh, look. Our little twilight actually cried, are you afraid, do you want your father to hug you. "Father Xiao would never say such a sensual thing, this is clearly a mockery.

"Who's going to cry, I'm just having a strange dream. ”

"I cried in a dream, you're too fragile. ”

"It's all said that it's a dream, can the dream still be controlled by itself?"

"Cut! Dreams are the deep thoughts of people. is the truest version of yourself, you can deceive yourself when you are awake, but you can't disguise it in your dreams. ”

Twilight looked at her father's smug appearance and was full of displeasure, thinking to herself, "Why is it that my father is different from those uncles and grandfathers in the same village, and is born with a self-righteous relapse."

Twilight glanced at her disdainfully and fell asleep. Instead, the father leaned his face over and asked Twilight, "Twilight, tell Daddy what you dreamed of, did you dream of a beautiful female classmate who was about to kiss you and was cut off by a dead fat man." ”

Twilight jumped up and complained to her smirking mother, "Mom, if you don't care, your son will be spoiled by this old rascal."

The mother just shook her head and smirked without saying a word.

Father Xiao hugged Twilight Shadow and continued mercilessly, "What do you mean by being spoiled by me, don't you know what you did in the woods in the east of the village before?" ”

"What have I done, am I just good friends with those people, can't your mind be purer?". Twilight wonders how her father knows about herself, but now is not the time to ask, and it's imperative to end the topic as soon as possible.

Father Xiao didn't intend to let it go at all: "It's really fake, shouldn't you be bent." ”

The mother finally couldn't bear it anymore and coughed deliberately, as if to remind the content to be out of proportion.

Twilight took the opportunity to pluck up her mind, "Don't you want to know what I just dreamed?"

"It's not a good thing to look at you like that. ”

"Well, I dreamed of you. ”

"Do you cry when you dream that I am laughing at you? ”

"Of course not, I dreamed that you were dying. For the sake of father and son, I can barely mourn for a while. ”

As soon as Twilight spoke, her mother's expression became solemn. He instantly felt that he was so stupid, and he didn't choose to say anything in order to fight back.

Twilight was at a loss, hesitating how to apologize, but Xiao's father suddenly took off the pendant he had never left and placed it around Twilight's neck. He said very heartily: "Twilight, from today onwards you are a real man, your father can't protect you all the time, the best protection is to be self-reliant." This pendant used to be the totem of my life, unless you really understand it, you must not take it off, it is my 'last wish'. ”

Twilight's father's inexplicable sense of death made Twilight feel emotional, and he couldn't imagine that a joke would make the atmosphere so solemn.

Twilight lay down, but no longer sleepy, slowly looking at the shadows of the trees that were retreating, quietly waiting for the dawn.

The surrounding buildings are getting taller and denser, and cars are already driving into the city. At this time, the sky is getting brighter, but the city seems to be still asleep. There are almost no pedestrians in the streets, and there are no bright lights in the buildings, only the announcements of the buses and the smell of breakfast still prove that it is still "alive".

In a few moments we were at our destination. It's a small neighborhood with only six six-story buildings, with water-soaked marks and raunchy moss on the walls, and wires flying like cobwebs intertwined between the buildings. Although Twilight has never seen much of the world, she knows that such a place is by no means prosperous.

Twilight's parents waited for a long time, until a sleepy-eyed, fleshy-faced man appeared. Her expression was not friendly, and without saying a word, she reached out to Xiao's father to ask for something, and Xiao's father took out a stack of 100 yuan bills and gave it to the other party. The other party casually pointed to a room, lost a key and left.

This place that is about to become a "house" is actually a garage, 20 square meters, with water and electricity, in addition to the small place, no windows, the door is too big, it is not too much, a simple layout, there is basically a way to live.

Twilight's parents prepare for a livelihood problem, but they don't want Twilight to help, so they give Twilight some change to go out and find a school. Twilight was already curious about the city, so she took the money and walked out without saying a word.