not a monster

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

"Where is the red cloth?"

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

"Go to bed early, you have to go to school tomorrow."

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

He blinked, stared out of the window, turned over after a while, scratched his itch, and handed his back to the moonlight.

I have to go to school tomorrow.

In the mountains, all kinds of insects are singing, one after another, and there are owls hunting 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 in the temple there is a statue of a god, which is covered with a red cloth.

His mother said no, but when he turned his head to look, it was obvious that there was.

I heard that it used to be very prosperous here, and it must be full of incense during the festivals, but then no one came here for some reason.

When there are fewer people, the vegetation becomes more prosperous, and the sun can't even shine in the forest.

It has become his secret base.

He had just taken out the steamed buns in his satchel and was about to eat them when there was a sudden gust of wind in the woods outside the temple. He looked up suspiciously, and at some point there was an extra person in front of him.

That is a beautiful woman.

Du Ziheng, who was six or seven years old, was dumbfounded. He wiped his nose with the back of his hand, and gave half of the steamed bun to the woman.

The woman ate his steamed bun and told him that after eating his tribute, she could ask her for anything in the future.

She will agree.

"Then take me into the mountains to play."

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

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

The mountain is very lively, with a few cumulus clouds floating under the melodious clear sky, slowly, a gust of wind comes and shuttles in the forest, and the wind blows on the body very comfortably.

He competed with women for nothing, but failed to win many times. He wanted to pick the fruit from the tree, but the woman asked him to ride on his shoulder to pick it. Will lead him to catch hares.

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

The woman sang softly, and the wind blew across the grass and the lake. Du Ziheng was lying on the lawn, and fell asleep at some point.

They squatted in the grass to watch the ants move, and when they caught the unicorn, they were very happy. When a monster appeared in the mountain, he became even more excited, and ran over yelling, but was held back by the woman.

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

When they went back, Du Ziheng knew her name.

The woman's name is Duoxi.

The next day he went to the mountain again.

"Duo Xi, I brought this, this is called East, South, North, and I will write something on it after folding, and I will teach you how to play..."

Also went on the third day.

"Daxi, won't you be bored alone on the mountain, by the way, you are a monster."

Day [-]...

"Duoxi, why can't they see monsters, but I can see monsters?"

There were no surprises every day after that.

"Duoxi, we went to pick red snake fruit today, and I saw that the red snake fruit is very ripe."

Duoxi took his little hand and took him to the mountains to look for snake fruit. Du Ziheng was always restless and liked to jump up and down, or play with a stick.

"Look, I'm so happy! The platycodon is blooming, so beautiful."

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

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

However, it is not always a happy time for a young man, and occasionally he will be distressed.

At the age of 12, he sat by the lake, hugged his face sullenly, and said:
"Duo Xi, I really want a lantern. The Mid-Autumn Festival will be in a few days. Everyone in the school has lanterns. My mother won't buy me a lantern."

This is his second wish to Da Hee, he wants a lantern.

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

They went to find the material.

Oiled paper, candles, wire.

Trim the wooden strips into strips, fold the oiled paper into a lantern, and bend the wire into a candle base.

Du Ziheng thought that Duoxi was omnipotent, because Duoxi was always able to do anything with ease. She could catch rabbits and judge what fruits were edible.

But this time Daxi failed many times.

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

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

It was a beautiful lantern that Du Ziheng cheered for joy.

Duoxi lit the candle for him, and watched the young man holding a lantern down the mountain, and the flame went away, returning to the fiery red festival of the human beings below.

Later, the boy had new troubles.

"Thank you, homework is so difficult."

"What's the homework?"

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

"Is that so... playing southeast and northwest?"

Du Ziheng was speechless, it was something for children to play with, and he was almost eighteen now.

He told Duoxi that he doesn't like playing this game anymore, and he wants to get into college, but he is stupid and can't always remember what the teacher said in class.

For this reason, he was very distressed. If he failed to enter the university, he had to stay and farm.

He doesn't want to farm, he wants to go out, he wants 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 her best to help him, supervised his homework, read books, and recited the texts over and over again. When Du Ziheng was studying hard, Duoxi was waiting for him.

"Let's play southeast and northwest."

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

"Look at this first."

Daxi handed him a new origami paper, and the punishments written on it were memorizing articles, copying texts, and doing science homework.

During the arduous learning process, he couldn't help laughing out loud: "East Twelve."

Duoxi counted from one to twelve very seriously, and said in a clear and calm voice: "Let me see, it's too bad, you have to recite the text."

Du Ziheng laughed out loud.

Daxi asked him what he was laughing at.

Of course, Daxi is very funny... He looked at the other person's face under the oil lamp, that innocent and simple appearance, he didn't know why, and avoided her sight.

For the first time, a young man has something on his mind that even Daxi can't tell.

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

But going to college means that he will leave the place where he has lived for more than ten years.

"Aheng, the bellflowers in the mountains are blooming, do you want to go see them together?"

Du Ziheng stared blankly at the woman in front of him.

The other party accompanied him through his childhood, youth, and then to today's youth.

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

Back then, because of her innocence when she was young, she asked this beautiful woman to take her into the mountains to play. Because of her ridiculous comparison, she asked her to make a beautiful lantern for herself. In order to satisfy her growing ambition, she asked her to help her get into college.

But now?What does he want?
He thought his thoughts were absurd, that they were wrong, and he was always terrified by his disgusting thoughts.

He didn't dare to look at Duoxi, the strange feeling in his heart forced him to run away.

Du Ziheng chose to leave without saying goodbye.

Maybe it's because he has contacted too few people, maybe after he walks out of this place, he will gradually fade away those impetuous thoughts.

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

When he was in college, he would always think of that woman's face in his dreams. He was as pure and beautiful as a platycodon in the mountains.

He gets it, he wants to go back and see her, even if it's wrong.

That's the person I've always dreamed of.

It's just that he had just made a decision and learned of an embarrassing and unusual thing in a letter from home.

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

When Du Ziheng returned to the village after traveling thousands of miles, 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 another one, which is a split female statue.

Her name is Duoxi.

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