Chapter 334 (1/2)

The sky was gray and light snow was floating. It melted on the ground and paved with a thin layer of wet. The wind is not strong, but it is very cold. It blows on people like a small knife cutting.

At the moment, there are few pedestrians in Liuying lane. Not long after Qingmu came out, he saw the lifelong flowers in front. Standing under the old willow tree at the entrance of the alley, he was removing the reed mat around the trunk, with a clean blanket in his armpit.

Aoki opened his black umbrella, went up and spread it on the top of his lifelong flower.

All his life, he wrapped the blanket carefully around the tree trunk and said, ”give me a hand.”

Aoki reached out to help her hold the stall. All her life, Hua Teng went to tie the rope. First she tied a loose knot, and then carefully pulled it up and down, trying not to break the mottled bark. See if the position is appropriate, loosen the knot, tie it tightly again, and then tie it into a dead knot.

”After a few rains, the reed mats tied before were rotten. Replace them with blankets and let them have a good winter.” she said to herself as she worked.

”It's just a tree. Why be so nice to it?” Aoki said.

The lifelong flower walked around the willow. When he was satisfied, he stood still and said, ”it looks like a wood, but I believe he has life. If he has life, he can feel the cold and warmth. God makes him lonely and cold, and I make him warm. I believe he knows in his heart, don't you say?”

Aoki said, ”of course he knows what you've done for him. In fact, you can speak your heart out. Maybe he can hear you.”

The lifelong flower smiled and said, ”he is a wood. Even if I say it, he won't answer me.”

Aoki also smiled, but he didn't speak.

The snow grew slowly, and there was a layer of white on the ground and on the top of the umbrella. The wind gently shook the drooping leafless willow branches, across the umbrella top, making a Shua sound, leaving several faint traces on the snow particles.

Cold filled the world, only the little side under the umbrella was warm. The heat exhaled from the nose of the two people turned into a faint white fog and dispersed between their faces.

”Remember the day you first came?” said the lifelong flower. ”You stood under this tree all day and night.”

”Yes, of course.” Aoki said, ”my memory of myself began on that day.”

”You looked really embarrassed that day! Everyone thought you were a beggar, but no one was willing to give you charity, because there was an old Gua on your head, which everyone felt unlucky.” the lifelong flower reached out and touched the wicker hanging from the umbrella, with a smile on her face, as if she thought of the distant past, ”But only I know that you are not a beggar, because you are very clean. Even if you find the whole Liuying lane, I'm afraid you can't find someone cleaner than you.”

”I should thank you for taking me in.”

”Oh, after so long, are you finally willing to say thank you?”

”Wood can talk sometimes.”

”Do you know why this street is called Liuying lane?”

”Because it's full of willows?” Aoki was not sure whether his answer was right.

On this issue, the oldest old man in Liuying lane can't say clearly, because it is said that it was not called Liuying lane before, but mulberry camp.