Chapter 849: You Don’t Need to Inherit My Family’s Golden Finger (15)
After Li Qiansu left Qu Shichu's house, the strong desire to possess her white building that suddenly emerged in her heart did not disappear, but became more urgent and intense. Even when she was sleeping at night, she dreamed of that house. But what was strange was that the house in her dream was just an ordinary rural residential building, not the white building where Qu Shichu lived now. But she was very sure that this was Qu Shichu's home, which made her very confused.
Even after waking up, I was still very confused and didn't understand why she was so obsessed with other people's houses. She had never been interested in rural houses before. After all, she didn't enjoy any pastoral life. She would rather live in a convenient and prosperous big city. Otherwise, she wouldn't buy a house in a big city even if she had to take out a huge loan and work 996 as a social animal.
Could it be that she was really interested in the decoration style of Qu Shichu's house? But she knew that this was just an excuse. Although she really liked the style of the small building, her actual purpose was to go and see the small building, so she had no idea where her obsession came from.
She originally wanted to ignore this feeling. After all, the house belonged to someone else and she could only look at it.
Thinking this way, Li Qiansu believed that as long as she spent a few days here, when she returned to the city after her vacation and all her free time was filled with busy work, this inexplicable obsession would naturally disappear.
However, she did not expect that things did not develop as she had imagined. As time passed, her obsession with owning the small building did not diminish at all. Instead, it became stronger and clearer. By the last day of the holiday, she seemed to be crazy and always wanted to run to Qu Shichu's house involuntarily. In the end, Zhou Liwen stopped her and asked her in confusion where she wanted to go.
Li Qiansu was pulled back and then she realized the strangeness of her thoughts and behaviors. She was shocked, as if she had just woken up from some kind of bewitchment. She was extremely suspicious and felt that she was very abnormal. She wanted to leave here immediately and go back.
If that small building was not a structure but a person, Li Qiansu would have thought that she had been bewitched, but it was a building, and Li Qiansu couldn't do anything even if she wanted to doubt it.
Qu Shichu had no idea that Li Qiansu was so entangled and weird. She was currently only interested in a three-meter-tall tree with yellow leaves that suddenly appeared on the hill behind her house.
At first, Qu Shichu didn't notice it. After all, there was a forest on the back mountain. There wasn't much else there, just trees and grass. It was normal to see a tree that wasn't growing well occasionally.
But the problem is that the tree won't grow in a different place every day.
Qu Shichu would basically come to the place where the time and space gate was located every night to check if anyone from other worlds had traveled through. She hadn't found any in the past few days, so she thought no one had traveled through.
Later she discovered that indeed no one had traveled through time, because what had traveled through was a tree.
At first glance, this tree is no different from the trees on the back hill, except that it has too many yellow leaves, making it look out of place with the surrounding green trees.
But this tree was too lively. It took root in a new place every day, making it impossible for Qu Shichu not to pay attention.
Qu Shichu squatted beside the tree and looked at it carefully. He found that its leaves were shaped like copper coins, with small, hairy thorns growing underneath the leaves. They felt prickly to the touch and could injure the skin of humans or animals if touched with force or over a large area.
This small tree looks very lifeless, as if it grew in a place where the land is barren and dry for a long time. The trunk is only as thick as two adult fingers, and the bark is rough and dry, not as smooth and tender as a small tree. Instead, it looks like the bark of a decades-old tree.
The leaves are also yellow, and many have dried up and fallen off, making the whole tree look balder. It looks like a tree that has been malnourished for a long time.
However, although it has been traveling for a longer time, it is becoming more and more energetic.
"Hey, are you conscious? Can you communicate with people?" Qu Shichu asked softly while pinching a leaf.
She waited for a while, but the little tree didn't react at all, as if it was just like the surrounding trees. Even if there was some movement, it was only caused by the wind.
Qu Shichu thought for a moment and said to himself, "It looks like this tree is going to die. I'm afraid it has some disease. In order to prevent it from spreading the disease to other trees and leaving the mountain bare, I'd better go back with the shovel, dig it up with its roots, and burn it."
After saying that, she was about to get up and go home to get a shovel, but as soon as she turned around, she felt her skirt was pulled by something. She looked down and saw it was a branch of the small yellow tree.
At the same time, a somewhat exasperated young man's voice suddenly appeared: "I won't die! I don't have any infectious disease! I'm just not feeling well and need to rest!"
After hearing this, Qu Shichu chuckled, turned around and looked at the little yellow tree, and said, "Are you finally not pretending to be dumb anymore?"
"Hmph! You evil-hearted human, you actually want to dig me up and burn me! I am a precious Pia tree man, you are so ignorant." The little yellow tree said in an angry voice.
"Pia tree man? Is this a species of human? Is it a person who can transform from a human into a tree, or a person who can transform from a tree into a human?" Qu Shichu was very curious and added, "So, is your original form a tree or a human?"
The little yellow tree shook its malnourished and yellow branches and said, "Of course the great Piya tree man is a tree. You are so stupid!"
"Then will you become a human?" Qu Shichu asked again, ignoring its bad temper.
"Of course we can. As long as we have intelligence, we can naturally transform into humans. But we prefer our original appearance, and maintaining our original appearance is more conducive to survival, so we rarely transform into humans." The little yellow tree said proudly.
"Then turn yourself into a human and show me?" Qu Shichu asked impolitely.
"I... I can't transform for the time being..." The little yellow tree suddenly became disappointed, "I am too seriously injured. I need to replenish my body's energy. Without enough energy, I can't transform into a human."
"Oh, why are you injured?" Qu Shichu asked again, without any doubt. After all, it was obvious that the little yellow tree was not growing well.
"I was ambushed by a despicable gray wolf orc. Humph! It actually robbed me. It had to use such dirty tricks since it couldn't beat me in wild adventures. It really is a cunning and vicious orc..." said the little yellow tree angrily.
Qu Shichu's eyes suddenly lit up: "There are orcs in your world? There are tree people and orcs, then what other people are there? Tell me about it?"
She was not interested in the feud between the little yellow tree and the gray wolf orc, but she was very interested in the human composition of that world.
(End of this chapter)
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