God's Gift

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou who was jumping as she walked. The hairpin in her hair kept shaking with her movements, dazzling Lu Keming's eyes.

The sour plum in my heart seemed to be soaked in blood, and the sourness permeated in my chest, spreading and spreading again.

After a long period of sourness, a sweet taste slowly came, constantly beating on his heart, making the heart that had been tightly closed due to the sourness open again.

He pursed his lips and responded.

"Ah."

The sound vibrated in the nasal cavity and was a bit dull.

"Why do you suddenly ask this question?" Yu Youyou suddenly asked when she saw Lu Keming lowering his eyes.

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou, and under her sincere gaze, he slowly said:

"The man I killed today had a dog. His dog stood in front of him to save him. I wanted to let them go, but the man pushed the dog towards me to escape... The dog also died under my sword."

"Ah..." Yu Youyou's voice was a little indescribable when she heard this.

"After I left, I kept thinking, that man didn't seem to be very kind to his dog, but the dog was still willing to save him." There was still some weariness between Lu Keming's brows, and his voice was very light in the night breeze.

Yu Youyou thought about her experience as a dog and replied, "Although it is not that important to that human, humans are the most important to it."

"There are many, many things in the human world, but there are only a few things in the puppy world, so there are many likes given."

Lu Keming listened to Yu Youyou's words, frowned, and said directly: "I hate humans."

Hearing this, Yu Youyou seemed to have seen Lu Keming in the past, with a little surprise in his eyes, he looked at Lu Keming with a smile.

Noticing Yu Youyou's gaze, Lu Keming finally realized what he had said and immediately added, "Except you."

Yu Youyou didn't pay attention to what he said. She turned her head and looked forward. Everywhere she looked was a sea of ​​fireworks. Merchants were busy greeting tourists, and children were playing in the streets and alleys, with laughter and joyful chattering ringing in the ears.

Yu Youyou smiled and said, "But I quite like humans."

"They can build many things. They can build very tall houses. They can travel across the ocean without a tail and fly into the sky without wings."

"They can risk their lives for the one they love, keep their promises to their friends, and even sacrifice their lives for their children."

“While there are bad people among them, there are also a lot of very good people.”

At this point, Yu Youyou turned her head to look at Lu Keming and said, "Go and take a look at those very good humans. Maybe you will find them quite cute."

Lu Keming was silent, his eyes fixed on Yu Youyou, and he also followed her gaze to look at the bustling crowd around him. Everyone passing by him had a smile on their face.

He never understood their joy before, but now because of Yu Youyou, he seemed to be slowly getting involved in it.

Lu Keming still didn't answer. He walked beside Yu Youyou, watching Yu Youyou buy all kinds of new things as she walked. When her hands were full of various things, she wanted to lift up her skirt to make a pocket.

He stopped Yu Youyou and took the thing from her hand.

The location of the sugar painting grandma's stall was not fixed, and Yu Youyou and Lu Keming couldn't find it after walking for a long time, so they walked to the canal and walked slowly under the willow trees.

"Oh..." Yu Youyou sighed, shook her sore feet, and kept looking towards the market.

"Does your foot hurt?" Lu Keming noticed her movements and asked quickly.

Yu Youyou pursed her lips and nodded, then said to Lu Keming, "Hold my hand."

Lu Keming looked down at the tired Yu Youyou. After a few seconds, he squatted down in front of her and said softly, "I'll carry you."

When Yu Youyou saw Lu Keming's action, she widened her eyes in surprise. When she asked Lu Keming to carry her before, Lu Keming sternly refused her, but now he actually took the initiative to carry her.

But she quickly smiled, fearing that Lu Keming would go back on his word, and she quickly climbed onto Lu Keming's back and said happily:

"Ke Ming, you are so nice!"

Even if you forget her, she's still so good!

When Lu Keming heard Yu Youyou's affectionate name, the corners of his eyes curved, and even his long eyelashes could not hide the smile in his eyes.

After Youyou climbed onto his back, Lu Keming hugged her up and walked slowly along the canal in the night.

The willow branches slid across Yu Youyou's cheeks, like countless tickles. Yu Youyou laughed out loud and kept dodging the willow branches.

Lu Keming noticed her movements, walked to the side of the road, avoiding those branches, listened to her laughter gradually subsiding, and raised his lips and said:

"In a few days, these willow trees will bloom."

"I know." Speaking of the willow flower, Yu Youyou nodded immediately, "It's a small white flower called catkins."

"When the flowering period is over, the flowers will turn into catkins. The catkins are also white and will be blown by the wind, floating in the sky, just like bird feathers."

Her clear voice was full of interest, like a child, and she kept sharing with Lu Keming, "I've seen it twice."

Hearing her excited words, Lu Keming smiled and said, "The willow trees here are hundreds of years old. When I was a child, I loved sleeping under the trees. When I woke up, I was covered in white catkins."

At that time, he had not yet transformed, and these willow trees were not as tall as they are now.

"Unconsciously, a hundred years have passed." Lu Keming thought about his past as a fox, his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat gentle, "Time flies so fast, I have seen the flowers bloom more than a hundred times."

"It's really fast." Yu Youyou nodded in agreement. She was more than a thousand years old before she fell asleep, but those thousand years seemed to have passed in a flash.

Time goes faster after falling asleep, and four thousand years have passed when I wake up.

Yu Youyou lay on Lu Keming's back and said subconsciously: "I want to watch the willow trees bloom and bear catkins more than a hundred times!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she realized that she still had to leave here, and said with a bit of disappointment: "No."

“Why…” Lu Keming was about to ask why, but his voice froze, and the smile on his face froze. He murmured absentmindedly, “Human lifespan is only a few decades.”

"Yes." Although Yu Youyou didn't know why Lu Keming suddenly brought up this matter, she still responded.

Lu Keming barely managed to pull the corners of his mouth, but that smile could no longer be maintained and gradually disappeared. He finally lowered his head and whispered, "It was too short."

"Yes, a little bit." Yu Youyou nodded in agreement. They can live for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Natural life is like a flash in that tens of thousands of years.

The dog-headed soldiers following behind her were still happily jumping up one by one to bite the willow branches. Yu Youyou looked at those carefree puppies, many of whom had families. She asked with some concern:

“Would they be sad if their family died?”

Lu Keming glanced at the dogs. The emotion in his voice was imperceptible. He lowered his eyes and said, "If it were a dog, it would probably be very sad."

"Will they find new families?" Yu Youyou put her face on Lu Keming's back. The domestic dogs here are not very good at hunting. Other dogs can catch rabbits, but they can only catch insects.

Lu Keming's voice became even deeper, and his eyes, which seemed even darker in the night, stared at the ground, "No."

"Ah, then won't they die?" When Yu Youyou heard this, her voice was filled with undisguised worry, and she looked at her poor little dog brother.

Lu Keming did not look at the dogs. He raised his eyes to the dark night sky, and his voice blended into the wind.

"He will probably die."