Hey!Your patron saint of the underworld has been revealed!

Chapter 45 Another Awakening

Shi Erruo was startled, and the diary fell from her hand with a bang.

"Sister." The smaller version of Qiu Zhuo blinked his bright eyes and said excitedly, "Are you here with my future self?"

Shi Erruo forced out a smile, nodded awkwardly, then blinked and signaled Qiu Zhuo with his eyes: "What should I do?"

Qiu Zhuo shook his head, he didn't know what to do.

But the small version of Qiu Zhuo was not shocked at all. Instead, he was very happy. He would glance at Shi Erruo from time to time and smile at her.

Shi Erruo could only give him a smile in return.

Qiu Zhuo asked him to read Buddhist scriptures, but he seemed to have no intention of reading.

Finally, he couldn't help but ran to Shi Erruo and asked the question he had been holding back for a long time.

"Sister, will you be my girlfriend in the future? Will you marry me?"

"puff--!"

When Qiu Zhuo, who was drinking water, heard this, he spurted out a mouthful of water. He looked at the small version of himself in shock, as if he didn't recognize him.

If possible, he didn't even want to admit that the child in front of him was indeed his childhood self.

"Cough cough!"

Qiu Zhuo coughed violently several times to relieve his choking throat, and couldn't wait to defend himself: "What girlfriend, what marriage? What are you thinking about?"

Shi Erruo didn't expect that the small version of Qiu Zhuo would ask this question, and he suddenly became playful.

"Xiao Zhuo, do you want me to be your future girlfriend?"

The small version of Qiu Zhuo immediately nodded fiercely, "Of course, sister, you are so beautiful!"

"Hahaha..." Shi Erruo laughed, "You were cute when you were young, but when you grow up, you become very boring."

"Ah? Why?" The small version of Qiu Zhuo frowned, pointed at his grown-up self, and asked, "Is he not good to you?"

Qiu Zhuo felt helpless, "This is not a question of whether we are good or not, we are not what you think at all!"

"But, I think you will like her!" The small version of Qiu Zhuo scratched his head and asked, "Aren't you the future me?"

Qiu Zhuo knelt down and touched Xiao Zhuo's head, and said patiently: "But people change. Moreover, there are many kinds of likes, and they may not be the ones you think of."

"Hey!"

Xiao Zhuo sighed, "Adults' emotions are really complicated. Isn't it just that I like you?"

Qiu Zhuo listened to his own argument when he was a child. He was stunned for a moment and then changed the subject, "Are you sad when you hear your parents quarreling?"

"Of course!" Xiao Zhuo affirmed.

Qiu Zhuo touched Xiao Zhuo's head and comforted him: "But have you ever thought that these are just experiences and emotions? Sadness is just like happiness. If you allow happiness to happen to you, then Why don't you allow sadness to happen to you?"

Xiao Zhuo said in confusion: "But if you are sad, your heart will hurt! I don't want to feel pain."

Qiu Zhuo said: "There have always been two sides of yin and yang in this world. Where there is joy, there will be sadness, and when there is sadness, there will be joy. If you have never experienced sadness, how can you understand the preciousness of joy? If you have not experienced joy, you will not understand sadness. Suffering. And all sadness and joy are just a dream, joy and sorrow only last for a moment, and everything will eventually return to nothingness."

"I know!" Xiao Zhuo seemed to understand something and said happily, "Just like when I was young, I saw my parents quarreling, which was sad; but when I grow up, I will meet my sister, which is joy. Because I have been sad before. experience, so when I meet my sister, I will cherish this joy even more!"

"Hahaha..." Shi Erruo smiled and patted his thigh, "What an inference! Xiao Zhuo, you have some talent."

When Xiao Zhuo heard this, he became arrogant, "Of course, I'm smart!"

"Hey!" Qiu Zhuo shook his head helplessly, looked at Shi Erruo, and reminded, "Don't forget, if he can't wake up, we can't escape the dream."

Shi Erruo shut his mouth truthfully. He knew that Qiu Zhuo's implication was to restrain himself and help him find a solution.

perhaps?This diary can be of some use, but she must get rid of Qiu Zhuo because he believes that the only way to liberate himself is through Buddhist scriptures.

But, how to get rid of him?

Shi Erruo suddenly had an idea, "Qiu Zhuo, I'm thirsty again. Go and get me another glass of water. You've sprayed all the water out." The method is old-fashioned, but it works!

Xiao Zhuo seemed to see something. He rolled his eyes and did not rush to pour the water.

But after Qiu Zhuo left, he said mysteriously to Shi Erruo: "Sister, do you have something to tell me?"

Shi Erruo patted Xiao Zhuo on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be so good, kid!"

She gave Xiao Zhuo the diary she had just dropped and secretly told him, "Don't let yourself see it when you grow up!"

"Ok!"

The two looked at each other tacitly and nodded.

When Shi Er wanted to buy time for Xiao Zhuo to read the diary, she walked directly towards Qiu Zhuo who was holding a water glass, "Let's go out for a while and let Xiao Zhuo read the Diamond Sutra alone. Don’t you have to be alone to read books? We are here to disturb him.”

With that said, without waiting for a reply, she pushed Qiu Zhuo and left Qiu's house.

"Where is the money you have left from buying the book?" Shi Erruo spread his hands and asked Qiu Zhuo.

Qiu Zhuo handed it to Shi Erruo and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to buy some ice cream. It's too hot!" Shi Erruo covered his brow bone with his palm to block his eyes and looked for a shop selling ice cream on the street.

Qiu Zhuo looked at Shi Erruo, who was constantly searching, and said helplessly: "Follow me, there is no one on this street."

Half an hour later, Shi Erruo held two large popsicles in his hand, biting them as he walked towards the front door of Qiu's house.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhuo rushed out, stood in front of Qiu Zhuo, took out the diary that Shi Erruo had given him before, and showed it to Qiu Zhuo.

Shi Erruo was so shocked that one of the popsicles fell from his hand and melted on the hot cement floor.

She exclaimed: "What are you doing?"

Xiao Zhuo seemed to be very determined, and asked Qiu Zhuo, "Have you read this book?"

Qiu Zhuo shook his head and said that he had not seen it.

"Think about it again, when you were a child, when you were my age, you really didn't read this book?"

Qiu Zhuo shook his head firmly, indicating that he had indeed not seen it.

In the next second, the whole world spun and began to collapse. The picture gradually blurred and became illusory and unclear.

Shi Erruo bit off the popsicle in his hand, looked at the world in confusion, and muttered, "What happened?"

Xiao Zhuo glanced at Shi Erruo, his eyes filled with tears.

"Sister, I really like you, but we are not the same kind of existence, and we are destined to be separated." Xiaozhuo choked and continued, "Actually, as early as when my future self appeared in front of me, I was doubting something. It’s over.”

Shi Erruo asked: "What's the matter?"

"Is my existence real?" Xiao Zhuo became illusory and ethereal as the world shook.

"Even in a parallel world, two identical people cannot exist at the same time, let alone meet each other, but he appeared in front of me intact." Xiao Zhuo said, "Then there are only two possibilities, either I am Fake, or he is fake.”

"But I have seen this diary, and the ending of the diary has not changed at all. Dad still wants a time machine, and he is still a monk. In other words, I am the fake one, right? So you are You are so casual when you are facing me, and you don’t even regard me as your real child. You asked me to read Buddhist scriptures. You clearly know that this is not the time for you to understand Buddhist scriptures, but you encourage me to read it. Because I simply don’t It’s not that your childhood is illusory in itself, right?”

"I finally understood that nothing would change and that I never existed!"

The dream has been shattered, and Qiu Zhuo's childhood has also been shattered.

Amid the violent tremors, Shi Erruo shouted something to Xiao Zhuo.

"I remember you! At least this will change!"

At the last second, a smile appeared on Xiao Zhuo's lips.

(End of this chapter)