puppet mask game

On weekends, people who had finally waited for the holidays took advantage of the rare good days to go out together, some went shopping, some bought things, and the streets were full of joyful scenes.

In a corner close to the city center, there stands a museum of customs of the Republic of China. The items on display range from daily necessities to clothing, and there are almost everything you want to see. It is definitely worthy of the museum's blog, so it is also here on weekends. The crowds are surging, not only customs lovers come to visit, but also many parents bring their children to gain knowledge here.

It's the same today. After ten o'clock, the museum is full of people. If you don't pay attention, you may bump into other people when you turn around.

A boy stood in the annex, quietly looking at the portrait on the wall, motionless, if it weren't for the modern clothes he was wearing, some people would have mistaken him for a dummy.

"Bang." Suddenly, there was a small commotion from the left side. Hearing the sound, I saw a gentle and handsome man helping a thin young man to the side of the public chair and sitting down, asking anxiously. Said: "Laiyi, are you uncomfortable? Why don't we go back."

The boy shook his head and said, "No need, just take a break." He smiled softly, "I want to finish reading this place. Didn't you say this is the place I really wanted to come to before? I want to finish watching it."

The man's brows were still tightly frowned, but he also knew the boy's temper, so he had no choice but to let him go, and focused all his energy on the boy, for fear that an accident would cause any accident to the boy.

Although the man's handsome appearance made passers-by unable to help but look back, the scene was not abrupt among the people passing by, so no one stopped to do anything, but they all consciously left a small space. Come to the area so that the teenager can get a better rest.

However, the boy who had been watching the exhibition since he came in turned his attention away from the exhibit at this time, and he looked at the two people in the small area—the boy's complexion was very pale, and his body was also very thin. The bones of the body that can collapse when the wind blows make people feel distressed; the person next to the boy is a man with outstanding appearance, but this seemingly smart and capable man is just an ordinary person who loves to worry in front of the boy. The young man looked so caring, those who didn't know thought he was taking care of a newborn child.

The boy looked at the boy dizzy, watched the man massaging the boy, watched the boy pointing around to say something, looked at the man's helpless expression, watched...he looked so carefully that he couldn't bear to blink.

Suddenly, the man raised his head as if aware of it, and caught the boy's sight.In an instant, the eyes of the two met in the air and merged together.

"Laiyi..." The man couldn't help murmuring the name he had called countless times in the hospital a few days ago.

The boy raised his head and called out curiously: "Mingjing?"

The man immediately lowered his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Didn't you call me?"

"I didn't..." The words stopped in the middle, and when I looked up again, the boy had disappeared into the crowd.The man's eyes sank slightly, but he didn't know where this contradiction came from.

Why...do you feel like you saw Lai Yi just now?

***

At night, at the end of an inconspicuous alley in the bustling city center, there was a door with four words written on the door - Lingxi Tea House.

"Yeah", the door was pushed open, and the boy entered.

The tea maker boils the pot with hot water, and the raised wrist is as white as the moon.

"Are you back? I'm about to make tea, come and have a cup of tea together."

The boy sat down silently.

After putting down the hot water, the tea maker looked up at him.

"Today is the fifth day, have you changed your mind?"

Looking down, the boy said, "I don't want to wait any longer. Tea maker, this game can be over."

The tea maker chuckled and shook his head. He poured the tea into the pot with a teaspoon and said, "Since you said it's a game, you have to follow the rules. You should know that this world has its own rules. When life should Disappear, and when should the soul be dissipated? This has long been a track, and it cannot be changed casually. If everyone wants to disappear like you, then how can I be here as a tea maker? "

The boy was silent.

The tea maker pours hot water into the kettle and then warms the cup.

"It's not that I don't want to fulfill your wish, it's just that my responsibility is to correct the trajectory. People who deserve to die will come to me. I must try to get you all on the right track. Whether it's your past three months or now Giving you a body so that you can return to this world to experience the world is a rule made by this world, and I can't change anything. So, before the seven days pass, you should look at this world again and ask yourself, do you really want to abandon it? You have endured the loneliness on the shelf for so many years, why do you suddenly give up now? Don’t you want to live in this world anymore?”

I didn't expect to get an answer, but this time the boy spoke up.

"Because I am satisfied."

The tea maker stopped.

"I would stay here waiting for a chance to be reborn just to get one thing, and now I have it, so I don't need to stay any longer."

Put down the teapot, and the tea maker sits upright.

"Can I ask what you want?"

Thinking back to those three months, the boy's facial lines became much softer, and his always cold eyes became warmer.

"care."

The most sincere and cleanest care, just once, he wants to get these.

Thinking about my own experience, the infamy of the illegitimate child, the sarcastic words, the disgusting living environment, and finally being dragged to death by the mother who was a mistress, I never experienced the feeling of "happiness" or "happiness".So just once, if he wants to experience the feeling of being cared for and cared for by others, if he doesn't even know this and goes to the underworld to reincarnate and do it all over again, he can't accept it anyway.Therefore, when the tea maker appeared in front of him who was dead and asked, "Do you want to come to me? I will give you a chance to return to this world as a 'waiting spirit'", he did not hesitate. accepted.

He wants to experience a real taste of life with his current soul.

"Hello, young master, my name is Jiang Mingjing. Mr. Zheng entrusted me to take care of you. You can regard me as your guardian."

"I often hear the old man mention you. Do you know that your name, Lai Yi, is derived from the Phoenix Lai Yi, which means auspiciousness. And my name, Ming Jing, Gaotai Ming Jing, also comes from an idiom, so Zheng Zheng The old man once said that there is a predestined relationship between you and me, and because of this, he entrusted you to my care."

"Zheng Laiyi! What the hell are you doing? You are asked to eat and you refuse to eat? Do you know how many people out there want to eat but can't eat, so they are hungry and smile all over the place just to have a meal? Take the food away. You actually plan to waste it when it’s served in front of you? Also, don’t turn on the air conditioner if you’re afraid of the cold! It’s not hot enough to turn on the air conditioner yet, how much electricity do you want to waste by turning on such a strong air conditioner? Lying on the bed and watching TV to your eyes Not good, this is something that elementary school students know, please don't be so willful, get up for me!"

"Eat more, you are too thin."

"Don't worry, if you can survive on water alone, I will definitely not care about you."

"Young master, don't just eat vegetables, eat some rice too."

"Drink your head! What kind of wine do children drink! Give me the soup honestly!"

"Zheng, come on, Yi! Even if you are spoiled, if someone talks to you, you have to respond to others. Isn't this the most basic courtesy? How long are you going to play with your young master's temper!"

"I'm sorry, it's my fault. I won't leave you alone anymore. Be obedient and eat well."

"It's you who said, you don't need the mask of 'Little Master', so, be obedient, get angry at me if you are unhappy, don't make fun of your body, Come to Yi."

"But, I just want to take care of you, even if I tell myself how annoying you are, even if I leave here, even if I fill up my time, I just care about you, so much that I have to come back here. But Thanks to the blessing of leaving this time, I know that I broke your heart, but it made me recognize my heart. Zheng Laiyi, I solemnly tell you that I want to take care of you. This is my decision and my determination. So, it's not why I stay here to take care of someone I hate, but I want to stay here to take care of a kid I care about, a person named 'Lai Yi'."

"Really, have you forgotten the injury on your foot?"

"Eat everything, don't leave anything left, there is still a bowl of porridge in the pot, I will serve it to you later."

"Are you satisfied, young master?"

"Then take another bite, just one bite, or you will be hungry at night."

"I asked someone to buy me a bottle of Shaoxing wine yesterday, do you want to drink it?"

"Please, don't talk about death next time, I feel very sad to hear that."

"It's okay, if you don't want to eat this, I will make something else, and I will make you whatever you want."

"Laiyi, good boy, how about something to eat?"

"Laiyi..."

"Laiyi..."

"Laiyi..."

"Laiyi..."

His ears were full of that person's call, and his face on the last day was still swaying in his eyes, which was so vivid and terrifying.

Enough is enough, seeing his panic expression because he heard the truth behind it, getting his scolding and hugging, feeling his kiss, hearing his promise to take care of himself forever in the ear of his about to leave , enough, really enough.

For three months, this warmth is enough to make me remember forever.

Even if the guardian spirit is not allowed to enter the underworld to be reincarnated, and the end of giving up is to be wiped out, he still wants to end his journey with this warmth.

He will not let any other memory cover this warmth.