Chapter 71:

"Ah, there is such a small shrine."
Yuan Xiang'er pushed aside the grass, and she found a small house under a thick phoenix tree.
The moss crawling on the tiny tiles makes it hard to see what gods are enshrined under the dim eaves.
"This is mostly the tree god." Hu Qing squatted down beside Yuan Xiang'er. "In the past, humans worshiped and feared all powerful creatures. Whether it is a spiritual creature, a monster, or a monk, as long as they can get close to and protect humans, humans will help them. Build large and small statues of gods. There are human beings who worship and worship, from the powerful people who are able to reach the sky, and the plant monsters that gather spirits in the village."
I don't know how many years this huge plane tree has grown alone in this barren mountain. Its brown torso is so thick that it can't fit dozens of people.
This place may have been a village where humans lived, but now all traces of humans around it are long gone, but this small shrine under this tree is still left alone.
Yuan Xiang'er stretched out her hand and pulled out the weeds in front of the shrine. A ray of sunlight shined through the small room. You could vaguely see a simple ribbon carved on the hair of the small statue in the shrine, which was a sycamore tree. The tree spirit, once also grew up in human villages and was loved and respected by humans.
She couldn't help thinking of the plane tree in her yard that grew up with her.
Pizhi lived in a tree. Master taught herself to draw a talisman on the stone table beside the tree. Wu Yuan and Jin Yu played on the seesaw under the tree...The layers of green shade witnessed her countless joy.
Yuan Xianger stood up and looked up at the sycamore tree in front of him, and gently touched the rough trunk.
"Thank you." A slow voice rang in Yuan Xiang'er's ear.
A flower in front of Yuan Xianger's eyes was suddenly taken into the perception world of another creature at that moment.
The picture in front of her looked like looking down from a very high place. Countless humans were singing and dancing happily under her feet. She seemed to have become a big tree. People hung colorful banners on the branches to offer sacrifices. , Build a shrine, kneel under the tree and pray.
"Tree god, Brother Ashan will come to my house to propose marriage tomorrow. Please bless everything goes well. I like him so much and hope to be with him in this life." A young girl stroked the trunk of the tree, praying with a red face, Yuan Xianger could feel her Soft and warm skin on palms.
"Master Tree God, I will have a baby soon, please bless me to give birth to a fat boy this time." A pregnant woman who is about to give birth protects her swollen belly and looks up under the tree with happiness.
"The cow in the house is lost. Lord Tree God helps me find it. Otherwise, I will be beaten to death by A-da." The young cow baby snorted and cried, sitting on the root of the tree and crying.
People's sorrows, joys and noise seemed to have infected Yuan Xianger, or the tree where Yuan Xianger was located, making her look at such a lively excitement, so she felt happy and joyful.
I don’t know when it started, but the neighborhood gradually became deserted, and fewer and fewer people came under the tree.
"Lord Tree God, we are going to move. I don’t know why there are more and more monsters here recently. I heard that the land on the east is suitable for human survival. We plan to move over and see. You will come back to see Lord Tree God again in the future. ."
The girl who was blushing and begging for marriage under the tree has become a mature woman, holding her parcels, holding children of all sizes, standing under the tree saying goodbye.
Soon humans moved decisively. There was no more noisy noise near here, and there was complete silence. No humans appeared again. Even the houses left by humans were collapsing and disappearing bit by bit. In the dust, no traces can be seen again.
"Humans are really ruthless creatures. I grew up in them since I was a child, but they bullied me for not having legs to move, and they left after saying that I was leaving, leaving me here for hundreds of years."
A girl with a satin ribbon in her hair appeared on a branch, sitting next to Yuan Xiang'er. With her slender and translucent legs, she looked at the empty tree under her cheeks, and complained with a small mouth.
A feeling of loneliness filled Yuan Xianger's heart like a tide.
The girl turned her face to look at Yuan Xianger who was sitting next to her, smiling in the mild sunlight.
"Sorry, I accidentally pulled you in." She took Yuan Xiang'er's hand and gave her a little push. "It's been a long time since I saw a human being. I'm so happy. Let me send you out. Thank you."
Yuan Xianger was in a daze and found that she was still standing in front of the ancient sycamore tree, her palm was still on the trunk, and Hu Qing was by her side, looking up at her.
Time has only passed for a short moment, and I have just been affected by the soul in the tree, and the long time I saw, turned out to be the distant memory of the tree in front of me.
"You..." Yuan Xianger looked up at the huge tree canopy covering the sky and the sun. "I will return to the human world in the near future. If you still want, give me one of your branches, and I can plant it in In the world where humans live."
After a while, it seemed as if there was a wind blowing, the dense branches and leaves rang with a small sound, and a small branch fell in the air. The tip of the tender branch curled up with two small buds, which was shining and full of aura. , Can guarantee that it stays alive after leaving the main trunk for a long time.
Yuan Xiang'er wrapped the small branches and the piece of spirit jade together and carefully put them in his backpack.
As they set off and continued to move forward, waves of waves came from the woods behind them, as if they were saying goodbye to the little twig in Yuan Xianger's backpack.
Yuan Xiang'er turned her head, the shrine standing under the ancient trees in the mountains was no longer visible, only the dense green leaves on the towering tree canopy beckoned gently in the wind.
"What's the matter? A Xiang? What did you do with that branch?" Hu Qing asked Yuan Xiang'er.
"I just saw the tree here. She told me that she missed the human world very much and I plan to take her back to see it."
"Just now? Are you affected by the tree spirit?" Hu Qing stretched out his hand to hold Yuan Xiang'er's hand. "These trees have been flexible for many years. Although they cannot move, they often have special abilities. They are especially good at tempting humans, let alone pulling away. It’s possible for your soul to take your whole person away. You should stay away from them."
Nan He transformed into the Sirius body, shook his beautiful hair, "The road here is not easy to walk, let me carry you on my back."
Yuan Xianger felt very guilty when he saw Nan He.
"Ah, no, no need. I'll just go by myself." She turned a little red, declined Nan He's invitation, and put two magic runes on her legs to help her walk quickly.
She was so embarrassed to say that she had had that kind of particularly difficult dream for two or three days.
In the dream, Nan He only draped her tail, lying in the wild to provoke herself, but if she hadn't awakened halfway, she almost couldn't resist the temptation several times, and almost had to press others on the roots of the tree.
Nan He glanced at her in silence, turned back into a human form, and walked the way forward without saying a word.
When the golden crow went west, the jade rabbit rose in the east, Yuan Xianger and his party surrounded the bonfire and stayed overnight in the wilderness.
Wu Yuan had a full stomach and fell asleep on the blanket that Yuan Xianger had cushioned for him.
Du Shuo got up to inspect the surrounding safety, Yuan Xianger and Hu Qing huddled together to chat.
"What's the matter with you? Are you deliberately trying to avoid Nanhe?" Hu Qing said quietly. She lifted her chin and nodded in the direction where Nanhe was. "Why do you suddenly treat Xiao Nan like this? You don't know how sad he is. ?"
"Ah, is it so obvious?" Yuan Xianger touched her nose, not knowing how to explain it.
In order to prevent herself from having that kind of dream again, she deliberately kept a little distance from Nan He today, but did she really behave so that A Qing could see it at a glance?
She took a peek at Nanhe. The silver Sirius was curled up at the other end of the campfire, his head buried in his tail silently, and his ears were drooping listlessly. On every cold night along the way, Yuan Xiang'er squeezed by his side to fall asleep early, only tonight did not pass immediately.
Sure enough, it's sad, this sensitive guy.
Yuan Xiang'er walked over with a blanket in her arms and lay down beside Nan He, wrapped her blanket in a proper manner. She kept her paws away, and read the meditation mantra twice in her heart, praying that she would not be wildly animalistic in her dreams and reveal something. It would be a shame to say the voice.
"Am I doing something wrong?" A familiar voice suddenly rang in her mind.
Low and deep, sad and sad.
Feeling guilty, Yuan Xianger threw away the blanket and rolled over to Nan He, moving his big tail over her body. I pulled out the small comb I was carrying to help him smooth the hair on his back.
"Don't think about it, you are not at all wrong."
(If there is anything wrong, the fault is that you are too beautiful, so I can't stand the temptation to dream wildly.)
Yuan Xianger accidentally passed a true thought from the bottom of her heart.
She covered her face in shame. How could I become so uncontrollable? At any rate, she was a girl who grew up decently in ancient times. She was really ashamed of her teacher's more than ten years of teaching.
Perhaps the more you mind, the easier it is to appear in your dreams. Even though she had chanted the meditation mantra countless times before going to bed, and had done various ideological education work, Yuan Xianger in her sleep still came under the white bamboo tree.
This time Nan He was sitting on a low branch. He didn't look at Yuan Xianger. He raised his neck and looked at the bright moon in the night sky. The pale moonlight reflected on his skin, a soft and white fur pine slumped on his body, smooth and slender legs hanging from the empty bottom, swaying slightly in the night breeze, and the firm skin was faintly visible. When Yuan Xiang'er looked over the cyan blood vessels, the white toes curled up obviously.
Sometimes the ultimate temptation is not to wear less, but it is the most suffocating when it is looming, watching him shyly and shyly, watching him stretch out his bright white fingers, which stretched out to the loose skin under the moonlight fur.
Yuan Xiang'er even knew that she was in a dream again, she couldn't advance or retreat in her hazy sleep.
Waiting for the tempting gift to be unwrapped, waiting for the most charming position to be peeled off, all the good things will be presented in the cold wind, blooming for her alone. The moment of waiting like this is the most sultry, making her almost reluctant to wake up from this dream.
"Axiang. Come by my side." The people on the tree called her, and stretched out a smooth arm forward.
She couldn't help but stepped forward and walked towards the white stick tree.
The white branches swayed gently in the wind, and Nan He's arms were shiny and shiny under the moonlight.
Yuan Xianger, who was advancing, only felt that the forehead jumped suddenly, she subconsciously noticed something was wrong, and hesitated to slow down.
"Axiang," Nan He raised her wet eyes to look at her, and lowered her ears in frustration, as if accusing her of her ignorance of current affairs, "What did I do wrong? Why do you always avoid me like this?"
"No, no, I don't have one." Yuan Xianger explained in a hurry, and couldn't help but stretched out and held Nan He's hand.
The moment she held Nan He's hand, Nan He's hand immediately held her tightly, and the familiar palm turned into a strong white branch, tightly climbing up and wrapping Yuan Xiang'er's arm.
The white branches swaying in the air flew up excitedly, and the branches flying all over the sky formed a white whirlpool.
Yuan Xiang'er opened her eyes suddenly. She found that she was still lying next to Nan He, but everything around her seemed to be covered with an invisible white fog. Her body was rapidly becoming lighter and lighter, and the space where her body was located was intersecting. Folding changes, she is being dragged into another white space by a powerful attraction.
Yuan Xiang'er wanted to open her mouth to shout, but she couldn't make a sound or move.
Nan He slept next to her, closed her eyes, breathing well. Du Shuo sat not far away, closed his eyes and meditated, and the fire light matched his calm face. Hu Qing and Wu Yuan were curled up and slept very peacefully, and none of them noticed the abnormality that happened to Yuan Xiang'er.
The ground under Yuan Xiang'er seemed to collapse. She seemed to be falling into a bottomless space crack. At the last moment when the crack closed, she finally saw Nan He beside her open her eyes and looked at her in astonishment. .
Suddenly, there was a blank whiteness in front of him, and the white turbulence closed Nan He's panic and pale eyes out of the paleness.
I don't know how long it has been through the chaos, it seems that a long time has passed, and it seems that there is only a short moment, Yuan Xianger rolled out of a white world, she supported her dizzy head in the space transformation, and barely stood up , I found that I came to a familiar place.
Gorgeous courtyard, huge white bamboo tree, knotted purple torso, and swaggering white branches.
There was a person standing under the tree, watching her caress her hand and smiled, "Axiang, I said everything, we will meet again soon."