Non-Human Sub-district Office

Lin Mu woke up in the morning and found that he was wrapped in a quilt and slept like a spring roll.

No wonder I dreamed that I was locked in a small dark room last night, and I couldn't help myself every day.

Lin Mu lay on the bed in a daze for a long time, and when the alarm clock rang, he rolled slowly, rolled himself out of the spring rolls, and got out of bed.

After changing his clothes and folding the quilt, Lin Mu remembered that the dog who came to sleep with him last night was not on the bed.

He turned his head and glanced at the kennel, only to find that the kennel was also empty.

Lin Mu was stunned, he packed the bed and went downstairs, only to see the dog lying on the open door, and a sweet aroma wafted from the kitchen.

Lin Mu took a deep breath, only to feel that his sleepy mind was awake for a moment. He looked into the kitchen and found that the rice cooker was in the heat preservation mode. He opened it and found that it was a pot of millet porridge with With two thin ginseng whiskers.

This millet was bought by Lin Mu in the mall. He has made porridge several times, but it is far less fragrant than today's.

It seems that the fragrance should be the ginseng inside.

Lin Mu put the lid on the pot, turned around and walked out of the kitchen. When he walked to the door of the house, he saw the ginseng baby wielding a small shovel and digging the soil.

"Good morning." Lin Mu greeted Toffee and Little Ginseng.

Little Ginseng noticed that he was coming, raised her head and smiled sweetly, and said hello in a childlike voice: "Good morning, Lin Mu!"

But Gouzi just shook his ears and didn't even look at him.

Lin Mu looked at the dog, knelt down and patted its head.

Gouzi still ignored him, even shook his head and shook his hand.

These trees finally realized something was wrong.

His dog seems to be throwing a tantrum with him.

——But last night they slept together sweetly!

Lin Mu withdrew his hand, looked at the dog lying on the side with a solemn expression, and began to seriously think about what he did wrong.

It shouldn’t be the matter of bringing Dahei back, Lin Mu thought, after all, Toffee suddenly became close to him after Dahei left, and Dahei also said that Toffee was willing to be his dog alone—although the original words were not the same , but that's about it.

The pigeons and old hens I made yesterday, the toffee is also delicious.

What is wrong with that.

Lin Mu frowned slightly, and thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a trick.

It couldn't be because he didn't sleep well and kicked Toffee out of bed in the middle of the night, right?

forest:"……"

Oh grass.

Lin Mu thought of the pigeon and the old hen that ate delicious toffee yesterday, and decided to get another one back today as a snack for it.

After making a decision, Lin Mu turned to look at the diligent little ginseng, and asked, "Did you cook the porridge in the pot?"

"Yes, I saw you used it before." Little Ginseng nodded, with a soft and sweet voice, "This way you can sleep for a while longer."

Lin Mu was stunned, as if his heart had been gently pricked by something small, warm emotions flowed out, sweet and tingly, all over his body.

He slowly came back to his senses, rubbed his unconsciously smiling face twice, and nodded: "Okay, I'll go have breakfast."

The millet porridge with ginseng has a slightly sweet taste. After drinking a whole bowl, I feel that there is no discomfort in the whole body. It is like taking a bath, scrubbing and massaging. , full of energy, even the vision in front of him became a bit clearer.

Lin Mu had never eaten ordinary ginseng, but he was sure that ordinary ginseng would not have this effect.

It's just that the ginseng is so powerful. If you really stew the whole ginseng, it is estimated that it can cure all diseases and return to youth and prolong life. No wonder the ginseng baby is hiding everywhere.

Lin Mu gave the remaining porridge to Gouzi. Seeing that it was still early, he took a hoe to the yard and dug the soil with the ginseng doll.

He told Little Ginseng yesterday that he was going to grow some vegetables in the yard, and he got a very positive response. Ginseng Doll is very happy that he has something to do.

Lin Shu waved his hoe, and the thin soil layer was easily turned up like sand.

He raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Little Ginseng: "Have you loosened the soil?"

"Yeah, I'm good at loosening the soil. In the mountains, I used to help those grass and trees loosen the soil." After the little ginseng finished speaking, he twitched at his bellyband and asked in a low voice, " Lin Mu, can I plant some elixir with you?"

"The elixir?" Lin Mu asked suspiciously, "What elixir?"

"Recently, there are a lot of monsters from outside the mountains, and they always clash. Several old trees I know have been injured. I want to get some medicine for them..." Ginseng Doll said, and took out a few small bags from nowhere , bulging, "I have collected a lot of seeds in the past few hundred years."

Lin Mu looked at the seeds and decided not to grow vegetables at all. He planted the seeds with the little ginseng and buried them in the soil.

Gouzi finished today's breakfast, looked at the one big and one young who were busy in the yard, thought for a while, took the basin back to the kitchen, and threw it into the sink.

Lin Mu was almost late for his morning shift, and when he entered the office, Dahei was slumped in his chair, lost in thought.

Hearing the sound of Lin Mu coming in, he turned his head and glanced at him, grunted as a greeting, then looked away again, and then remained in a daze.

Lin Mu sat down in his seat, looked at Dahei who was clearly out of state, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Did something happen? You don't seem very happy."

"Yeah." Dahei nodded, "The old lady left last night."

Lin Mu was stunned when he heard the words, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

"Why do you apologize?" Dahei was a little puzzled.

"Last night, you were not at my house..."

"No, I went to see her after I came out from you, and I met her once before she was taken away by the ghost messenger." Dahei said, rubbing his hands unconsciously, "She walked away very peacefully."

Dahei went with the body.

When I went there, the soul of the old lady was sitting peacefully on the sofa, and the body was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, her expression neither sad nor happy, apparently she had stopped breathing peacefully in her sleep.

There was no one else in the room. Everyone was asleep in the middle of the night, and the old lady was waiting quietly on the sofa in the room.

After waiting, Dahei who came in through the window came, the two looked at each other for a while, Dahei scratched his head and changed back to his original form.

The old lady lived her last days with a peaceful and tranquil mood. She was only slightly surprised for a moment when she saw the transformation in front of her eyes, and then she smiled lovingly and waved to Dahei.

"She said... when she first saw my human form, she felt kind, so she told the people in the nursing home that if I go, let me in." Dahei said with a smirk, "Otherwise, I can't go all the time. "

Dahei chattered for a while, and the sadness in his heart disappeared without knowing when. When he thought of the old lady who had gone away, his heart was filled with those beautiful and gentle memories.

"Hey, it's a pleasure to chat with you." The dull gloom on Dahei's face disappeared completely, and he regained his energetic appearance, complaining, "If I tell the old tortoise, he will definitely I have to repeat some big truths.”

In fact, Lin Mu, who didn't bother Dahei's chatter, saw Dahei's recovery, and said, "You should also listen to the great principles that the old man said."

"Yes, yes, I understand the truth." Dahei muttered, "From today onwards, I will no longer be a monster who has any entanglements with humans. The old turtle will not miss me anymore."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone knock on the door.

Lin Mu went to open the door, and found a woman at the door, who was very charming and charming. When he saw him, he was stunned, and then smiled, and even his voice was cloyingly sweet: "Young man, you are new here!" ?”

"Yes, hello." Lin Mu hesitated after speaking, always feeling that the other party had an aura that made him feel slightly uncomfortable.

He paused, nodded, and didn't know how to distinguish between monsters and humans, let alone how to distinguish and grasp that kind of aura. He just felt that this woman knew that he was a newcomer, probably a monster.

He let the door open: "Come in."

"I won't go in. The director of your office doesn't like humans very much." After the woman finished speaking, she looked at Dahei in the office and said, "I'm here to get the letter."

Lin Mu couldn't figure it out, so he had to turn his head to look at Dahei.

Dahei has already looked over at this moment. After seeing the woman at the door, the smile on his face paused slightly, his face stretched, he took out a box from the drawer, and handed it to the woman.

The woman didn't mind either, she smiled coquettishly, took the box, turned her head and left.

Lin Mu watched her go away, then turned to ask Dahei: "Is that a human?"

"Yeah." Dahei nodded, "She comes here every month, and if she comes later, if you are here, give her the box in this drawer."

Lin Mu looked at the lacquered wooden box: "What is this?"

"The fruit of the grass, after eating it, people will become charming and charming for a period of time, which is sure to seduce people." Dahei said and rolled his eyes, "The woman is with a monster, I know there is something Afterwards, I made a lot of demands for such a thing, but there is only one grass under the sky, and the fruit is even more expensive, how can ordinary monsters get it."

"Then these fruits...?" Lin Mu looked at the boxes.

"Oh, that monster is already dead. He bought these fruits with his life. Please give them to that woman." Dahei snorted softly after speaking, clearly not happy about this matter for a long time, "Monsters talk to humans Love is like this. Monsters have a long lifespan, and their perception of time is completely different from that of humans. Human life is a period of passionate love for monsters. During the period of passionate love, when the partner dies, most monsters will record it for hundreds of years. Even a lifetime, but what about human beings? What a beautiful life."

"If you want me to say it, monsters who have the courage to contact humans, and even have in-depth relationships and even fall in love, are warriors."

Dahei concluded in this way that he was very thankful that he did not fall in love with a human being.

Lin Mu just listened in a daze, and couldn't help thinking about his biological parents all day long.

In fact, he rarely explores his own life experience, and he doesn't even think about it.

Because it is the same to him whether he has a father or not. Anyway, the mother who raised him is gone, and he can live alone, and he is doing well.

Just mentioning the relationship between humans and monsters, it is inevitable that some will come to mind.

Lin Mu was in a trance all day. When he returned, he went to the supermarket and bought a finished roast chicken. When he got home, he stuffed it with toffee and ginseng. Under the gaze of a ginseng and a dog, he went upstairs and walked in The studio that belonged to his mother.

Lin Mu's notebooks and folders, which he hadn't read since he found them from the attic, were lying quietly on the desk.

Lin Mu opened the folder.

Inside are some materials from my mother's digging in the field, photos and materials of some rare plants, hand-painted reference maps, and photos of my mother's dirty body in the field.

Lin Shu browsed roughly, and then stopped at one of the pages of photos.

That photo was probably in a deep mountain. His mother was hugging a huge tree with huge roots. Her body and face were covered in mud, and the equipment on her back was all earth-colored. She hugged the tree and smiled. He was extremely happy, showing his neat eight teeth, his eyes sparkling, and the excitement visible to the naked eye.

Lin Mu glanced at the tree, but because he didn't take all the photos, Lin Mu couldn't tell what kind of tree it was.

But it is not the tree that attracts the forest, but a phantom sitting on the other side in this photo.

That phantom sat on an exposed branch with one leg curled up, the other leg hanging casually, wearing a dark green robe embroidered with a few golden leaves, with black hair tied high with a black headband Tied up, holding a black round thing in his hand, he seems to be looking at the muddy woman next to him.

When Lin Mu looked at the things in his hands, he felt very familiar.

The shadow was too thin to be seen clearly. Lin Mu frowned and tried to look carefully. As he watched, the phantom gradually solidified.

Lin Mu realizes that the person recorded by the camera is not human.

He glanced at the half-slap-sized black object in the hand of the man who was suspected to be a monster, then raised his head suddenly, and looked at a fruit carefully kept in a box in the bookcase.

Lin Mu didn't recognize the appearance of this fruit, and his mother had always preserved it so well that Lin Mu thought it was some kind of fruit-shaped ornament.

Lin Mu was stunned for a while, then turned to look at the face in the photo, feeling very familiar.

He took the mirror out of the drawer and looked at the face in it.

……alike.

Lin Mu covered the mirror and turned to flip through the photo album his mother had left before.

In the photo album that has been flipped through countless times by Lin Mu, among the many single photos of his mother, another male figure suddenly appeared.