Flower Moon

Chapter 3 is dead!I will not live!
Tao Yue'er walked aimlessly, and finally arrived at Fahua Temple at dawn.

Fahua Temple is built on the top of Mangshan Mountain. The peach blossom forest on the top of the mountain is in full bloom, and the fragrance is tangy.Looking down from the mountain, you can see a green lake, with little sparks in the lake, which are fishing boats caught at night.In terms of scenery, it is the land of beautiful mountains, clear waters, singing birds and fragrant flowers that Tao Yueer yearns for.

Looking around, Tao Yueer finally fell in love with a peach tree with a crooked neck, not for anything else, but because it looked easier to climb.

Tao Yue'er untied her belt, climbed up the tree trunk, tied the belt with a knot and threw it on the branch, then put her head in, and jumped down with her eyes closed.

The weight of her whole body was supported by a coarse cloth belt, and Tao Yue'er's neck was severely strangled.She kicked her legs, her eyes popped out, her tongue stuck out.Not only is it not as elegant as imagined, but the shape is funny and creepy.

The feeling of suffocation came faster than expected, and she found that she still couldn't be calm in this last life.

The bits and pieces of these years flashed through her mind, and she remembered the days when she was a child in Pingkang, sitting opposite Chen Qiubi and Lu Guanting.At that time, although they couldn't eat enough food or drink hot soup, they were so simple to be happy. Where did they have the worldly vision later?

She remembers very clearly that 20 years ago, under the jujube tree in front of her house, she told Chen Qiubi and Lu Guanting firmly: "We must leave here. Only when we leave here can we have hope in life. We will definitely live the best In life, there will be meat for every meal..."

When she was young, she was always comforting and encouraging those around her, giving Chen Qiubi and Lu Guanting unlimited hope.But she didn't expect that she would be the one who gave up her life first.

The whites of Tao Yue'er's eyes rolled out, and tears fell from the corners of her eyes. From now on, she might not be able to close them again...

It's ugly.

She can't even look good in death...

Suddenly, Tao Yue'er felt her neck loosen, and then, her body and the tree trunk smashed to the grass. With a "bang", the tree trunk hit the ground, billowing smoke and dust, but she didn't feel any pain, she only felt that it was difficult to breathe.

"Cough, cough, cough—" The sudden relaxation made her cough unceasingly, a large amount of air poured into her chest and lungs, and Tao Yue'er breathed uncontrollably.

Didn't he die?

Yes.

Not dead yet.

Tao Yue'er's eyes were red, and she looked around, and found that the cracks in the trunk were neat, and it didn't look like it was broken because she couldn't bear her weight, but it looked like it was cut off by an axe.

"Who? Who is playing tricks?" Tao Yue'er stood up unsteadily, looking around.

"People nowadays are not free and easy at all. If they can't think about it for a while, they threaten their lives. Do you think the other party will be sad if you die?" A white figure leaned against a tree trunk not far away.The shade of the trees covered the moonlight, and Tao Yue'er could only vaguely see his long black hair and fair side face.Under the cover of long hair, his lips were thin and bright red.

While looking at him, Tao Yue'er also noticed that there was no sharp weapon like an ax beside the man. How did the tree trunk break?
"How does it feel to die?" The man raised his mouth and mocked again.

"You'll know if you try it yourself?" Tao Yue'er's eyes were red, and she looked at him with guarded eyes.

The man shook his head lightly and said, "I don't want to die yet."

"Then don't hinder me." Tao Yue'er said, untied her belt from the tree trunk, and was going to find another tree to hang it again.She was cowardly all her life, and she finally didn't have to bow down to others when she died.I don't want to talk to him at all.

But before she took a few steps, she heard the man say, "Isn't it worthwhile to seek life and death for a man?"

Tao Yue'er stopped and replied coldly: "What do you know? From your voice, I'm afraid you're still a brat. What right do you have to comment on other people's lives?"

"Heh..." The man let out a barely audible sneer, and said inscrutably, "Isn't it? Now all you think about is the shadow of that man."

man?

It's Lu Guanting...

That's right, as long as a man is mentioned, he will be the only voice and smile in her mind.

"But so what? I'm going to die, can't you let me think about it?" Tao Yue'er thought about him for most of her life, and finally waited for him to appear, but he was already her good friend's husband.Now that I am about to die, even if I still think about it, I am afraid it will be the last time I think about it.

In her life, there is no one else to think about.

"Are you determined to seek death?" the man asked again.

"Yes." Tao Yue'er nodded, and answered crisply without delay.

He took a long sigh and said slowly: "The today you gave up so easily is the tomorrow that the deceased dreamed of. Life comes and goes, and every day is a life that cannot be reproduced. You, really Are you going to give up on this?"

Tao Yue'er was silent for a moment, but still said without hesitation: "I'm not going to live! I'm not going to live!"

"Then... you just go to die." After the man finished speaking, he turned and left without looking back.

The surroundings returned to deathly silence.

Tao Yueer felt lost for a moment.In fact, although she is stubborn, she still hopes that there is someone who can talk to her more.Maybe if you say a few more words, she won't want to die so much?
But she couldn't see through her heart after all, and that man was more indifferent than she thought.

Tao Yue'er found another peach tree with a crooked neck, and hung herself on it again.

--"Snapped!"

This time the branch broke faster than last time, except for the pain in her hip when she fell to the ground, she hardly felt any other pain.She angrily searched for more than a dozen peach trees in a row, but the branches were all broken without exception.When hanging on the No.17 tree, she still fell to the ground without exception-this time the trunk was not broken, but the belt collapsed.

Tao Yue'er looked down at the rope in her hand, and smiled wryly at herself: "I can't even die, I'm really useless, and everything I do is difficult."

Tao Yue'er threw the rope and walked to the edge of the cliff, intending to end her life in a simpler and decisive way - jumping off the cliff.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, but a faint white light rose from the east. Looking down from the top of the cliff, there was only a foggy area, and the bottom could not be seen at a glance.Jumping down from here, I'm afraid there will be no bones left.If she had known that there was such a cliff here, what was she messing around with most of the night?
Tao Yue'er sniffed, almost crying for her own wisdom.

She stood on tiptoe, opened her hands, and jumped.

"Clap-pop-pop-"

There were three sounds in succession, and she landed on three tree trunks one after another, and finally landed on the grass with a "bang".This time it's on your face.

"It's already dawn, and you haven't died yet?"

A familiar but indifferent male voice sounded like a dream.Although it was a mocking tone, but with a lazy smile because of the crisp throw, it sounded like Sanskrit from the Buddhist world.

Tao Yue'er opened her eyes, and what caught her eyes was a pair of black and thin men's boots with shallow dirt on them.She raised her head with difficulty, and saw that man was holding a bunch of branches in his arms last night, looking at her dumbfounded.

"..." Tao Yue'er also looked at him blankly.When he sat up and looked towards the top of the cliff, he realized that the hill shrouded in black clouds was only two feet high, and he was blocked by three big trees, so he only suffered a little skin trauma when he fell to the ground.

"Why?! Why is this!!" Tao Yue'er scratched the ground with her hands and shook her head vigorously: "Life is already difficult, but death is harder than life! God, are you kidding me!?"

The man sighed leisurely and asked her, "Do you really want to die so much?"

"Otherwise? Isn't my determination firm enough?" Tao Yue'er beat her chest and feet, tossing and tossing all night, her words became weak.

"Come with me, I'll take you to die." The man gathered the branches into a pile, and the next moment, the five fingers of his right hand spread out in front of Tao Yueer's eyes.

These are beautiful hands.

The nails are well trimmed, exposing a little of the fingertips, and the knuckles are white and slender.With such hands, most women would feel inferior when seeing them.Tao Yue'er took a closer look at his, and then compared with her own, only to feel that her own could not be called a hand at all.

It's claws.

Tao Yue'er stared blankly at the hand he extended to her, and put her own hand on it in a strange way.

His hands were warm and cold, with protruding knuckles but not painful.After pulling Tao Yue'er up, he turned around and walked ahead to lead the way.

Tao Yue'er followed behind him, looking at his tall and jade-like back, and found that she still didn't see what he looked like.

Such a person appeared in the wilderness in the middle of the night...couldn't it be a monster?

(End of this chapter)