Chapter 052: Cemetery Bones (8)
The original owner had a car, and it was actually a pretty nice car. He drove to the cemetery, a semi-abandoned place, so naturally no one cared about his banging and banging.
The little yellow dog liked to come to the cemetery with him and would wait for him in the grass, surrounded by bees and butterflies.
The clouds above his head provided shade and blocked the sunlight for him. If the sun was strong, a cool breeze would emerge from the clouds and blow on his cheeks.
Tao Xing chatted with He Lin while working. They passed by his grave several times. While chatting, he wiped the dust off the tombstone and stroked the eyebrows and eyes in the photo.
But the bones didn't want to know about his life, so he never spoke.
He also went to other people's graves, and if he had time, he would take care of them.
There were many leaks and it would take some time to repair them. Tao Xing would arrange things at home and in the store every morning and then go to work.
After more than ten days, he had revitalized the coffee shop and the business began to pick up. He raised the salary of the two employees and hired two more people.
Grandma's mood has improved a lot. She says every day that Xiao Xing can finally make her feel at ease.
Xiao Huang has grown fatter and is no longer skinny. He hops around on his short legs, with curly fur and bright eyes, becoming more and more adorable.
It was a cloudy day. When they arrived at the cemetery, it was drizzling and a thin mist was lingering all around. Tao Xing was holding a hammer and just turned a corner when he saw someone standing in front of a tomb.
He really didn't expect someone to come. The man was wearing a black umbrella and black clothes, and he was startled.
The other party turned around after hearing the noise, and was startled when he saw the hammer in his hand. Then he looked up and saw his face, and then he breathed a sigh of relief: "Xiao Tao, why are you here?"
Tao Xing walked over and said, "Aunt Wang, you are here too."
It was the lady from the neighborhood committee, a very enthusiastic person who would help anyone who had problems.
Aunt Wang said, "Well, let's go to the grave."
She was standing in front of Xiaobei's grave. Tao Xing turned around and saw that today was the anniversary of the death of the person in the grave. He said, "This is your son..." He stopped talking halfway. Xiaobei was 19 years old when he died. He had a preconceived notion that this was Aunt Wang's son, but then he realized that although the person died at the age of 19, the time of death was 2000, which was more than 20 years ago.
The age of the dead stops, while the age of the living continues to increase. More than 20 years ago, Aunt Wang should have been the same age as the person in the tomb.
Aunt Wang said, "This is my boyfriend."
Tao Xing nodded gently: "Yes."
"He died while saving someone. I saw him fall down with my own eyes." Aunt Wang smiled bitterly.
Tao Xing lowered his eyes slightly and bowed towards the grave.
After the worship, the two walked forward. When they were about to leave the door, Aunt Wang suddenly remembered something: "Hey, why didn't you get wet? I saw that you didn't get wet in the rain, so I subconsciously forgot to bring you an umbrella. Now I realize that you didn't have an umbrella."
Tao Xing raised his eyes and saw that the cloud was bigger than usual and was shielding him from the rain.
He said, "Maybe... the raindrops are afraid of me and don't want to fall on me?"
Aunt Wang smiled and said, "You are deliberately trying to make me happy." She didn't ask any more questions. When she heard that Tao Xing was not leaving, she left first.
Tao Xing continued to repair the tomb.
Words floated in the clouds: [I’m sorry, they don’t have the ability to transform spirits, so they can’t contact their living family members. I may have died early, and the location of my grave has some good feng shui, so I have special abilities.]
Tao Xing smiled: "Why are you apologizing?"
[I think you seem a little sad, but I can't help you.]
"I just feel a little emotional." Tao Xing said, "I haven't thanked you for keeping me out of the rain yet."
[Isn't this as it should be?]
"It's nothing, a little drizzle won't affect anything."
The clouds flickered slightly, and after a moment, words appeared: [Even if you don't build our grave, I will still protect you from the rain. It's not to thank you, but I just don't want you to get wet.]
Tao Xing smiled and reached out to touch the cloud. Even though he couldn't touch it, he still wanted to do it.
He fixed the last leak and asked Yun Duo, "It's raining today, take a look and see if it's still leaking."
Cloud: [Where are you now?]
"Northeast direction."
After waiting for a while, Yun Duo said: [I am under your feet.]
Tao Xing leaned over and gently stroked the ground beneath his feet: "Is it leaking?"
[No more missing.]
"Then let's go to the next place. I'm heading east."
[good. ]
He strolled slowly in the cemetery in the rain, stopping from time to time.
There was a ding-dong under my feet, and a piece of rubble was loosened. The cloud said: "This is where we can bask in the moonlight."
Tao Xing picked up the rubble. It was made of mottled bricks and tiles, without any holes or light as he had imagined. This was actually expected. The place where the bones lived was a space opened by He Lin's ability. It was not a completely underground place. It was impossible to see them by just lifting a tile.
In short, if living people want to see them, as I said before, it depends on chance.
But this space is connected to the underground and combined with the site generation, so the leaking rain also affects them, so they cannot see the sunlight but can see the moonlight.
He twisted the rubble in his hands and asked, "Can you see me?"
Underground, on the rock, He Lin looked up and smiled softly: [I can’t see.]
"Yeah." This was expected.
[But this is the closest place we can get.] Bai Gu stood on the highest point of the rock, tiptoeing and raising his hands.
"Really?" Tao Xing lay on the ground and placed his palms on the bricks.
If there were no obstruction of space, the white-boned fingers would have just touched Tao Xing's palm.
It was already evening, the sky suddenly darkened, and then it cleared up at night. The moonlight, accompanied by the mist that had not yet dissipated, fell quietly, covering the cemetery like a veil.
A ray of soft light was seen in the eyes of the white bones. It started from the raised fingers and slowly changed. The floating light flowed like a gently fading white gauze. When the gauze passed, the white bones grew flesh and blood.
Even after turning into human bones, it still maintains this posture, looking up at the person who cannot see.
A line of words slowly emerged from the clouds: [I miss you very much.]
Tao Xing smiled slightly: "I miss you too."
The man under the moonlight trembled his fingers slightly, and his pale face turned red. He put his hand away and gently stroked his beating heart: [It’s getting late, you should come back soon.]
"I'll stay with you for a while." Tao Xing turned over and looked up at the moonlight.
Helin curled the corners of his mouth slightly, raised his head again, and looked at the moonlight with him.
It was late at night when Tao Xing returned. There was some mud on his clothes. He washed them and went to bed. He looked at the time and found that there were still seven days before the passage opened.
The next day, a group of uninvited guests came to the quiet courtyard. When they pushed the door open, Tao Xing felt that they looked familiar.
The man said to him, "What do you mean, are you sure you don't want to be engaged to me?"
Tao Xing remembered that it was the young master of the Lin family, named Lin Yan. Although he had met him once, he didn't look at him much that day and didn't remember his appearance.
He said, "Isn't my meaning obvious?"
"I don't think you know the consequences of breaking off an engagement." Lin Yan snorted coldly, "There is no way my Lin family can help your Tao family's business. Your father can just wait for bankruptcy!"
"Oh." Tao Xing nodded, "Whatever."
It’s none of my business!
You deserve it!
That’s great!
"You..." Lin Yan was stunned. "Why do you want to break off the engagement? There are many people who want to get close to my Lin family. Not everyone has this blessing. I will give you one more chance. If you don't fight for it, it will be too late to regret it later."
This question made Tao Xing a little puzzled: "Don't you hate me very much?"
Lin Yan coughed lightly, stepped back for a moment, and said, "I originally hated you, but... the day you ran away from the marriage, I suddenly felt that you were quite courageous. You have always flattered me since you were a child, and you are the only one who dares to disobey me. I am very interested in you now, and you look very much in line with my aesthetic taste, so I decided to let this marriage continue."
Tao Xing: “…”
What's wrong?
"I've told your Tao family that as long as you get married obediently, I won't hold you responsible for what happened that day. But I heard that your brother came to see you, but was scared away by a ghost?" He looked at Tao Xing, "Your brother doesn't dare to come now, so I had no choice but to come here in person. When are you planning to get married?"
The clouds above my head swayed slightly, then became still, as if they were holding their breath in concentration.
Tao Xing smiled slightly: "I don't plan to marry you."
Lin Yan seemed to have expected this: "I know, your brother told me, but... it's not easy to get away from messing with my Lin family. It's not easy to reject someone that I, Lin Yan, like."
He raised his hand lightly: "I never believe in ghosts and gods. I am not that loser Tao Chi. Even if there are ghosts, I am not afraid." He looked back and said, "Come on, take him back."
Clouds float overhead.
Tao Xing said softly: "It's okay, I'll do it this time."
The pink cloud paused slightly.
"I can do it myself." Tao Xing said with a smile, but then his smile suddenly disappeared, his eyes became cold, and he raised his foot and kicked the person who rushed in front of him away.
The man fell to the ground, confused for a moment, got up and took a step forward, but before he could react what happened, he fell to the ground again.
With a crackling sound, several people fell to the ground one after another.
In just a blink of an eye, this group of people were completely helpless.
Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, unable to believe it, but he could only stagger to his feet. His eyes were full of humiliation, and he said angrily, "You...you just wait."
After saying this, he walked away trembling with help.
Tao Xing shook his hands, looked up, and saw a line of words floating in the clouds: [You are awesome.]
He smiled and stroked the clouds.
After dinner, I went to the coffee shop as usual, came back in the moonlight, and lay on the small bed by the window. The clouds seemed to have something to say, but they swayed for a long time, seeming to stop talking.
Tao Xing said gently: "What do you want to say?"
The cloud said: [My soul has limited energy, and I probably won’t be able to hold on until the day you come. This cloud will dissipate in the next few days.]
"Then I can't contact you?"
[Um. ]
Tao Xing sat up: "It's okay, I'll be there to find you soon."
The clouds swayed gently, and words slowly emerged: [Your marriage...seems to be very troublesome.]
"It's no trouble." Tao Xing smiled, "I've already refused."
[But the one who came today seemed unwilling to give up.]
"This is not something he can decide on his own."
Yun Duo was silent for a moment, then Fang said: [From what I heard, he is good-looking and comes from a good family. You originally wanted to develop a relationship with him. If he keeps pestering you, will you...]
"Hey." Tao Xing stroked his eyebrows. That was the original owner's intention, not his. He was thinking about how to explain it when he suddenly remembered something. He raised the corner of his mouth slightly and smiled, "You mind it."
The mist in the clouds was lingering in disorder, and a line of words appeared in the air: [I don’t mind.]
After a moment, it disappeared again, and then became messy again, and then the words appeared again: [Yes, I mind.]
Tao Xing's smile became even more intense.
The cloud moved again: [I like you very much.]
Tao Xing's eyes were soft. Just as she stood up, she saw that the writing had disappeared.
He thought the other party was going to say something else, so he maintained a half-sitting, half-standing posture and waited for a long time, but nothing happened.
He said, "I saw it, why are you..."
[Suddenly I thought of a lot of things. The dead like the living, but there are too many obstacles. I can’t give you money, fame, or fortune, and I can’t always…]
"I don't want any money, fame or fortune from you." Tao Xing interrupted him, "I can see you three days a month and chat with you like this. Isn't this constant companionship?"
[But there is still…]
"I like you too." Tao Xing said.
The words in the clouds suddenly stopped, the clouds moved slightly, the pink color became even more intense, and through the clouds, it seemed that the person's rosy cheeks could be seen.
Tao Xing raised his hand and stroked the edge of the cloud: "No buts, whether it's flesh or bones, I like them all."
The clouds suddenly dispersed, like a heart beating suddenly out of control, and gathered together after a while. The mist trembled slightly, and the color became redder than before.
Yun Duo didn't say anything else, and Tao Xing didn't say anything either. In the quiet cottage, the moonlight filtered through the window, and two worlds met in excitement.
After an unknown amount of time, Yun Duo said again: [But…]
"What are you still worried about?"
[Two hours...is that enough?]
"Cough cough..." Although Tao Xing didn't drink the water, he almost choked.
This is too detailed.
But then again, whether it’s enough or not…what does it matter?
Didn’t I say it before? I like both the body and the bones.
Those who are moved find it difficult to fall asleep, with love entangled on both sides. They say good night to each other, and after a long time, they smile at the same time and accompany each other quietly.
Then, say good night.
But still no one fell asleep, under the moonlight, a cloud, and a person, silently accompanying each other.
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