"Mom, why do you want to put a red cloth on the stone?"

"Where is the red cloth?"

"Mom... I seem to see that the stones in front of the temple in the back mountain can talk."

"Go to bed early, I have to go to school tomorrow."

The woman covered the boy with a quilt, and the boy turned to look out the window at the night. The woman put out the oil lamp, closed the door and went out. The moonlight passed through the window and shone on the boy's face.

He blinked and looked out the window. After a while, he turned over, scratched his itch, and handed his back to the moonlight.

I still have to go to school tomorrow.

In the mountains, hundreds of insects chirp one after another, and the owls that hunt for food at night are hooting, making it very lively.

Du Ziheng came to Back Mountain again the next day.

There is a temple here. In front of the temple is a unicorn made of stone. There is a statue of a god inside the temple, which is covered with red cloth.

This was his second wish to Duoxi, he wanted a lantern.

"Let's play southeast, northwest."

He didn't dare to look at Duoxi, and the strange feelings in his heart forced him to run away.

Du Ziheng stared blankly at the woman in front of him.

The fourth day...

But this time Duoxi failed many times.

But going to college means that he has to leave the place where he has lived for more than ten years.

Du Ziheng chose to leave without saying goodbye.

Du Ziheng, who was six or seven years old, was dumbfounded. He wiped his nose with the back of his hand and gave half of the buns on his hand to the woman.

Du Ziheng was speechless. It was something for children to play with. He was almost eighteen now.

"That's all for today. It's getting dark, so I'll take you back."

She will agree.

This was Du Ziheng's first wish for her. He wanted someone to take him to play.

"Duoxi, I am an adult and I no longer play this game."

It actually became his secret base.

Maybe it's because he has come into contact with too few people. Maybe after he walks out of this place, those irritating thoughts will slowly fade away.

Duoxi asked him why he was laughing.

"Then take me into the mountains to play."

This is Du Ziheng's third wish to Duo Xi, he wants to be admitted to university.

For the first time, the young man had something on his mind that he couldn't even tell.

Between failure and each restart, he regretted, laughed, and was overjoyed but always calm, but they finally succeeded on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

However, it is not always a happy time for a young man. Sometimes he will be troubled.

The woman's name is Duoxi.

I heard that this place was very prosperous in the past and was always popular during festivals and festivals. But then for some reason no one came.

Duoxi doesn't have human money, she doesn't even know what money is, so she can't buy a lantern for Du Ziheng, but she can make one for him herself.

The next day he went to the mountain again.

He had just taken out the steamed buns in his bag and was about to eat them when suddenly there was a gust of wind in the forest outside the temple. He looked up in confusion and saw that there was someone else in front of him.

Du Ziheng has long known that Duoxi is not omnipotent, and he has no hope that Duoxi can help him.

The woman ate his steamed buns and told him that she had eaten his tribute and could ask her for anything in the future.

"How happy, we went to pick snake fruits today, and I saw that the snake fruits are quite ripe."

Du Ziheng asked Duoxi to squat down and put platycodon in her hair.

They go find the materials.

When he was twelve years old, he sat by the lake, hugged his face glumly, and said:

"How happy, I really want a lantern. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in a few days. Everyone in the school has lanterns, but my mother won't buy me a lantern."

Duoxi handed him a new origami, with the punishments written on it being memorizing articles, copying texts, and doing science homework.

He told Duoxi that he didn't like to play this anymore. He wanted to get into college, but he was stupid and couldn't remember what the teacher said in class.

When he was in college, he would always think of that woman's face in his dreams. He was as pure and beautiful as a platycodon in the mountains.

In the end, Du Ziheng got his wish and was admitted to university.

He was very distressed about this. If he couldn't get into college, he would have to stay and farm.

"Duoxi, why can't they see monsters but only me?"

The mountains are very lively, with a few cumulus clouds floating under the melodious clear sky. A gust of wind comes slowly through the forest, and the wind blowing on you is extremely pleasant.

Trim the wooden strips into strips, fold the oil paper into lanterns, and bend the wire into the base of the candle.

But what about now? What does he want?

He thinks his thoughts are ridiculous and wrong, and he is always afraid of his disgusting thoughts.

But Duoxi still tried her best to help him, supervise his homework, read books, and recite the texts, over and over again. When Du Ziheng was studying hard, Duoxi was waiting for him.

Duoxi took his little hand and took him to the mountains to find snake fruits. Du Ziheng was always restless and liked to jump up and down or pick up a stick to play with.

"How happy you are! Look! The platycodon flowers are blooming, so beautiful."

His mother said there wasn't one, but he turned around and saw that there was obviously one.

Every day after that happened without incident.

The village decided to build an ancestral hall at the back of the village and started to bulldoze the temple of Empress Duoxi in the back hill.

"What a joy. The homework is so difficult."

Soon, Du Ziheng realized that he had made a wrong decision.

Du Ziheng laughed heartily.

He understood that he wanted to go back to see her, even if it was wrong.

"What is the homework?"

"Duoxi, I brought this. This is called Southeast, Southeast, and Northwest. After I finish folding, I will write something on it and I will teach you how to play..."

It was a lantern that was so beautiful that Du Ziheng jumped for joy.

Went there on the third day too.

The boy grew up day by day, and there was always a quiet and peaceful beautiful woman by his side. When he looked back, he seemed to be running fast enough that his troubles could not catch up with him.

"It's the homework assigned by the school gentlemen."

But just as he made his decision, he learned a sad and ordinary thing from a letter at home.

The woman agreed to him, took his hand, and led him to the mountains.

Duoxi counted from one to twelve very seriously, and said in a clear and calm voice: "Let me see, it's terrible, you have to memorize the text."

Du Ziheng thought that Duoxi was omnipotent, because Duoxi was always able to do anything with ease. She could catch rabbits and judge what fruits were edible.

Of course Duoxi is very funny... He looked at the other person's face under the oil lamp, that innocent and simple look, and for some reason, he avoided her sight.

Du Ziheng didn't know what he thought of her.

It turns out that there are things that Duoxi cannot do, he thought with a smile.

He competed with the woman but failed to win. He wanted to pick fruits from the tree, but the woman let him ride on her shoulders to pick. The woman could also weave banyan leaves and blow whistles made of banyan leaves.

Will take him to catch hares.

When Du Ziheng returned to the village after a long journey, he found two stone statues in a pile of rubble in the back mountain. One of them was the stone beast in front of the temple.

When he went back, Du Ziheng knew her name.

With fewer people, the vegetation has become more prosperous, and the sun can't even shine into the forest.

Oil paper, candles, wire.

"Ah Heng, the platycodon flowers are blooming in the mountains, do you want to go and see them together?"

During the arduous learning process, he couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Let's go to Dong Twelve."

Later, the boy had new troubles.

The woman sang softly, and the wind blew across the grass and lake. Du Ziheng lay on the lawn and fell asleep at some point.

That is a beautiful woman.
To be continued...