My golden finger is not right

three,

I was inexplicably chilled by the mountain god's words, and my mind was full of Hua Piao's unbelievably beautiful face.

He didn't even hear the mountain god's reminder to get off the car, so he had to be carried out by the other party in the end.

Lost, lost to death...

After getting off the car, I saw a crooked house made of thatch at a glance.A large open space was opened around it, and many large and beautiful grapes were planted.

With this kind of layout, it's really hard for me to believe that there is a big monster who is more powerful than Miss Keiko living here.

"It usually likes to grow grapes, and others persuade it to grow something with style, but it will not do it." Seeing that I was a little surprised, the mountain god explained with a wry smile.

After that, he pushed aside the low fence for me, then took my hand and walked in with small steps.

"That guy doesn't allow others to step into its home, so we can only call it outside the door." After the mountain god finished speaking to me, he turned to the direction of the house and shouted "Fujita" loudly.

After a while, a handsome young man in coir raincoat came out.

With a stern face, he brought a pot of tea in his hand at the same time, and then swept his hand, and there was a small pavilion on the green grass for people to rest: "You drink tea here, the little devil and me Come in."

The mountain god's attention was all focused on the things in his hands, and he just nodded perfunctorily when facing his words, then grabbed the pot of tea from inside and drank heavily.

"It's still the same taste..." The mountain god narrowed his eyes and said with a happy expression.It's just that he reacted not long after he finished speaking, and said with a slap in the face, "Wait...you let him into your house?" After receiving a positive reply, he hugged the teapot into the teapot with a lonely face. Putting it into his arms, he murmured a few words in detail, such as "You really don't treat me as a friend", "I like young and beautiful children", "It's really not cute at all".

I have never seen such a childish look on his face.

I feel more and more that the relationship between these two people is unusual, but before I think about it, I was sent into the room steadily by a small cloud shot by Fujita. I don't even know if Fujita responded to the mountain god's thoughts in the end.

The cloud seemed to have a spirituality. When I landed, it rubbed against my arms for a while before disappearing with a "puchi".

Behind him, the young man named Fujita also closed the door.

-

I sat cross-legged on the tatami, and saw Fujita making tea in a leisurely manner. I was a little at a loss, and it was hard to look around, so I had to focus on the small wooden table in front of me.

An unknown bird and beast is carved smoothly on the surface, and it looks a bit like a phoenix, with long tail feathers and a delicate crest.And beside it are misty clouds one after another.

Huh?this is……

I moved my head closer, and there were some crooked patterns engraved on the back of the bird and beast. Looking closely, it looked like a puppy or something. There were four engraved in total, and the lines seemed to be written by children.

"It was carved by Yuzi." The young man who was making tea suddenly said, seeing my puzzled face, he continued, "At that time, Yuzi kept clamoring to see its mother. I had no choice but to tell her, Mom went to heaven and never came back."

"Did she carve these then?"

The young man nodded, put down the glass teapot, and wiped his hands with a handkerchief: "She said that she could go to see her mother by riding this phoenix, so she engraved everyone on its back, even every day Before going to bed, I have to pray to Luanfeng."

"Hmm... then can I ask a question?" Seeing the young man nodding his head gracefully, I said awkwardly, "Why did you engrave four puppies on it?"

"...that's a fox."

"……Excuse me……"

The young man coughed lightly, then carefully poured the water boiled in the stove into the glass jug: "Actually, Yuzi did engrave a wrong place."

"The biggest fox on the wooden table." The young man smiled slightly, full of coolness, "Actually, I shouldn't be carved like that."

"I'm not a fox after all, I'm just a monster who steals other people's lives."

He pushed the wooden board under the cup in front of me, and the hot water produced wisps of white mist, gradually blinding my sight.

"Actually, I've heard of you." I tried my best to organize my words, and said slowly, "Fujitaemon, the one who married the rescued white fox and had children."

The young man glanced at me, a little surprised, after a while he seemed to remember something, smiled and mumbled "So it's in your hands".

"Are you curious about the ending of that story?"

I hesitated for a while before carefully answering: "I've talked to Ms. Yuzao before, so... I can probably guess a little bit."

"Guess I killed my wife because I hated monsters, right?"

I saw that his face was pale and seemed to be angry, so I didn't dare to answer.

Neither of us spoke for a while, and the only sound in the room was the sound of water boiling on the stove.

"Forget it, I am more serious than a child." The young man laughed and broke the silence first.

He raised his teacup and took a few sips, then said in a calm tone, "The book you're reading, originally called "Mountain and Field Miscellaneous Volumes", was edited by me."

"At that time, I suddenly had endless time, and I didn't know how to pass it, so I wrote this on the spur of the moment. It's just that when I moved, I fell in the original residence, and when I went to look for it, it had disappeared."

"The last thing written in the story on the scroll should be the sentence 'If you don't know, grow old with your wife'. It's just that my wife was afraid that I would be tricked by the law, so she gave up her body in exchange for my human and demon. For a long time, I was killed by the law."

"My wife is dead, why should I live with the phrase 'grow old with my wife'? So I tore up that page, just pretending that I don't know the ending, so that later generations can guess."

I took a sip of tea to calm down the shock in my heart.

This story turned out to be such a twist!I thought that Orion must be a foolish fool who wanted to kill his wife, but I didn't expect that not only was he not, but he was also the editor of that book!

I need silence.

The prettiest one.

"Yuzi is my favorite child." Before I could calm down, I saw him restart the topic.

"There is no other reason. My wife gave birth to three children, all of whom were girls. According to the laws of their race, girls are the least likely to die young. But when we came here, the three were due to some so-called accidents, and only Yuzi was left. child."

"She is my only child, so the more I love her, the more I am reluctant to let her take a step away from me, and be taken away by heaven. It is a pity that she is not defeated by luck, but like her mother, it is only a word of love."

"And the defeat is even worse and more painful."

"Now I'm the only one, guarding this room where everyone is gone, waiting for those people and the past that I will never see."

He took another sip of tea, and there was no trace of loneliness or pain on his face, only a deadly indifference.

"I was originally a hunter who hunted in the mountains for a living, but I just released a fox one day, which made her vow to marry me to the death."

"At that time, my family was poor and I had nothing to give her as a gift. She told me that she liked drinking tea the most. It happened that there was a tea seedling I picked up from somewhere outside my house, and I didn't know how to make tea. I had no choice but to break a few pieces randomly, wash them, and soak them in water for her.”

"She accepted it with a smile, and said 'good tea, good tea' after drinking."

"It was only later that I found out that it was not a tea seedling at all, but a weed that looked somewhat similar to a tea seedling. She knew it, but she drank it as if she didn't know it."

"Once again, I heard some jokes about grapes and foxes being passed on by children at the bottom of the mountain. I bought a grape seedling and planted it in order to help her. I thought she didn't understand the things going down the mountain. , but I didn't expect that when she saw the grape seedlings, she would be angry and refuse to talk to me. After I coaxed her for a long time, she calmed down the dissatisfaction in her heart."

"Later, the grapes were planted generation after generation, but every time they matured, there were only three little ones who robbed me for food. Later, there was only Yuzi left."

After the young man finished speaking, he drank the tea in the cup, then got up and walked to the bookshelf, and took out a jade box.

"This is what you asked for."

I took it with both hands, and thanked him gratefully.

"What my daughter owes you has been settled."

"I think she can go away with more peace of mind."

The young man sat back on the chair, looking as if he had exhausted his strength and didn't want to talk more.

I didn't know if I would disturb him any more, so I said my goodbyes, got up and left.Just the moment I pushed the door open, I turned my head as if feeling something.

The young man is still sitting quietly, and the air of dying under the skin is getting stronger and stronger.The water on the stove was still billowing, and wisps of white smoke wrapped around the young man's body, making his figure blurred a lot.

In a trance, I seemed to see that the smog lingered into a woman's posture, half-embracing the young man with her blurred hands.

It's just that when I looked at it again, the smoke had already changed into another appearance.

And the young man sitting there seems to be unknown.

-

After I came out, the mountain god sent me back down the mountain.Before leaving, I asked the mountain god about the young man again.

"Actually, I didn't tell the truth just now, but seeing that it doesn't seem to have any scruples about you, it doesn't matter if I tell you."

"I still remember when he first came here, probably hundreds of years ago. At that time, he took three cubs, and after asking my permission, he originally settled on the top of the mountain. But then his two children Died early, according to the tradition here, it is easier for monsters who die early to ascend to heaven when they are buried on the mountainside, so after burying the two children, he moved to the mountainside, which is the place you see now."

"I'm probably afraid that the two children will be lonely. If there are father and sister living next to them, they should not be so afraid."

"Although I think this reason is ridiculous, it is justified."

I didn't know how to take over the mountain god's sigh, and looked back at the crooked thatched hut before stepping into the carriage without looking back.