Garbo only suffered a few scrapes, and the tree was healed by me with a green feather before it was removed as a roadblock and stood upright again. People wouldn't have noticed the strange change, as not many people would pay attention to a tree.
Garbo's abrasions also healed on the way home - Sama made her take a yellow tonic as we stopped by the forest, and the few bloody marks faded, faded, and finally disappeared altogether.
"That's amazing!!!" Garbo exclaimed, jumping up and spinning around, her face, which had just been turned to dirt and dust by the shock, flushed with blood.
"That ...... you're fine." Sama blushed, "You guys go home, it's getting late." Sometimes the three of us went to the edge of the woods to play and tell stories that grown-ups no longer understood; other times we ran to the center of the woods to watch Sama work his magic and listen to his introduction to various elves. When Sama couldn't come out of the woods, Garbo and I brought him ice cream and chocolate made by Garbo's mom from outside. A year passed, and while the world outside was often cloudy, times in the forest were always happy and bright.
"Do you ...... have time on Saturday night?" Sama muttered in a slurred voice one day as she chewed a large mouthful of chocolate.
"I can't come home that late again, mom cried so much last time." Garbo said.
"What is it? I can sneak out at night." I said.
"The wee-wee ball, the elves in the woods have agreed to let you go to the wee-wee ball on Saturday." Sama's attention was still on the chocolate.
"Great!" Garbo and I jumped for joy.
"Heh, it is great." Sama replied in a careless tone, knowing we were happy, but with a snicker at the corner of her mouth. A couple of adults had just walked by with flashlights, and the sound of conversation, so loud in the stillness of the night, reminded me all the more to be careful, more careful, and to move more gently. It's 11:30, why isn't Garbo out yet, that guy wouldn't have slept like a piglet.
"Soda ~ ~ ~ ~" a voice trembled, sweet.
"I'm, under your window." I tried to keep my voice as low as possible, hating that I had to learn to transmute, "Climb out, it won't hurt you to fall."
I knelt in the grass, staring out of Garbo's window, watching her carefully tumble out and jump off the ledge, falling into my arms with perfect aim, and we collapsed together in the grass.
"Phew, caught you." I breathed a sigh of relief.
"What now?" Garbo asked as he got up from the ground.
The sound of a car engine was getting closer in the distance, and without saying anything, I pulled Garbo up and ran.
After running through a few homes and along the path for a while, Jiabao and I plunged headlong into the woods. As soon as we entered the woods, several clusters of yellow light came over. That is the air elves, they are almost transparent, daytime can only see a shallow pearl white outline, those yellow light from a small lantern they carry in their hands.
A ball of yellow light landed on my ear, and that's when I heard a tiny voice say, "Sa X busy X getting ready X field can't XX you guys, X guys X let's go." Since the voice was so small, I could only hear a few words in a broken voice, which together should have read - Sama is busy preparing the venue can't come to pick you guys up, you guys come with us.
I nodded, and the balls of yellow light flew ahead of us to lead the way.
"It's 11:30, is it too late?" Garbo asked, looking at his glow-in-the-dark watch.
"Go with them, looks like we can't ride today."
Without walking a few steps we came to a large sycamore tree, the trunk of which is as thick as dozens of people hugging it. This is a place I've never been before, and it should be closer to the heart of the woods than the Elven Lake. It seems that Sama was right when he said that elves are the best guides, following them for ten minutes is equal to the distance you would walk on your own for ten days.
Several clusters of yellow light went out at once, and Garbo and I were trapped in darkness.
"Soda?" "I am." "What's going on?" "I don't know."
I inadvertently touched my hand to the bark of the tree, and felt a sudden, brute force twist my hand and pull me inside the tree. "Soda!" Garbo shouted and tugged on my other hand, so we were both pulled into the darkness together. Feet stepping through the air at once, we spun and were thrown into a cascading vortex, dizzy and unable to see anything, but I held on to Garbo's hand for dear life, never letting go.
"Oh!" My head hit something soft and I opened my eyes to see - Sama!
"You're here!" Seeing me and Garbo sitting on the floor in a state of disarray, Sama showed her delight, "Great!"
"What's going on?!" I stood up, yes I was angry, for a moment I thought I was going to die.
"That ...... tree is the entrance to the venue, and it's faster to come in through that entrance~"
"You mean to say ...... there are other ...... better and easier entrances?" Garbo was getting a little angry too.
"Ahem, nevermind that, you guys, look ......" Sama dodged out of the way in a flash, giving us a view behind him.
It was ...... a luscious amethyst tree! The huge canopy covered half an acre of land, the clear amethyst branches illuminated the mysterious night sky, and large strings of sapphires dangled from a mantle of leaves containing green jade rays.
"My God!" Garbo cried out in surprise, and I could no longer pronounce a word.
It was five minutes before I reluctantly took my eyes off the amethyst tree, under which floated a legless round table on the pasty grass, filled with all manner of delicious-looking food. Roses and lilies tied into flower bulbs floated in the air like still bubbles in water, moving slowly through the venue with the wind as it picked up a little. The most beautiful of all were the large and small elves that danced in the air - the grass elves that shimmered with blue light, the river elves that glowed with red light, the golden guardians of fruits, the leaf fairies that shimmered with purple light, the small tree spirits that jumped around in the trees with dark green bodies - all colors of light that flowed like fireflies through the air. points of light flowed through the air like fireflies, nervously busy. The demons, on the other hand, frolicked in the grass, flickering, transforming into animals one moment, and half-human forms with pointed ears and long tails the next. Snow-white guardians of small creatures gathered around bouncing rabbits and graceful fawns, and colorful birds swirled overhead.
A loud flute pierced the clouds, and a silver rain suddenly fell on the amethyst venue, hitting the grass and playing a natural sound in tune with the soul. A white mist suddenly rose up and dispersed in a moment, as if the curtain was closed and drawn back, all the elves changed into flower and leaf gowns as if by magic, hovering in the air in the melodious music, gradually lined up in two rows and danced a waltz.
"Hey," I said, finally able to speak, nudging Sama, who was sprawled out on the table, wolfing it down, "that was great!"
"Well, eat up! It's delicious." He replied.
An elf flew up to Garbo, vibrating his wings in a soft salute.
"He's asking you to dance." Sama muttered with a mouth full of food.
"Yes!" Learning from the television, Garbo lifted her skirt to return the salute and twirled around the grass with her index finger against the elf's small hand.
Soon, more and more elves flew over, pulling roses off the bouquet to put on Garbo's head and pin on her dress, and in the end Garbo simply became the Rose Princess.
"I say," yelled Sama, "you should ask her to dance."
I clumsily brushed up against Garbo and took her hand and twirled it. I can't remember now how many feet I stepped on her, or the light and music that permeated the surroundings and soaked the air with a dreamy, soft, sweet scent, except for a beautiful rose-flowering princess who stayed in my heart, so clear ......
It was the happiest night of my life. All the elves and goblins, including Garbo and me, held hands in heaven and earth and surrounded the Amethyst Tree three times, laughing loudly and singing the same song. Amethyst tree's branches and leaves suddenly sprayed out thousands of gorgeous fireworks in all directions, the road sparks rushed into the cold air, immediately turned into a little bit of delicate yellow petals, splashed in the elves around the body.
"I'm so happy!" A petal-covered, flower-scented me exclaimed, but it was immediately drowned in the sea of laughter surging around me.
A dozen pixies from different clans flew over holding a crown of embellished sapphire flowers made of amethyst branches and leaves, and gently placed it on Garbo's head.
"You've been chosen to be the queen tonight! At every ball, the elves choose the most beautiful one to be queen, and today they have made a special large crown for you." Sama called out.
"Really?" A blush flooded her face and my Rose Princess smiled sweetly.
Chapter 6 - Garbo's Dad's Secret
Although our parents didn't find out, both Garbo and I arrived at school the next day with dark circles under our eyes. The week after this we were happy as usual. Now as soon as we entered the woods, many elves showed up to welcome us and snatched half of the chocolates and cakes brought to Sama.
On the way home, Garbo, who was half silent, suddenly said, "Mommy cried again the other day."
"Why? Did she know about the early morning dance?"
"No, it was for dad. She clutched a letter in her hand and hugged her pillow and cried for a long time, saying over and over again, 'So you're so nice, but why are you so stupid!'"
"What do you mean?"
"Mom originally always thought that Dad was cruel to leave us behind. But now, from what mommy said, it seems like it was for our own good that he left." Garbo said.
"I still don't get it?"
"I don't get it either."
It is true that the age at that time will not understand a lot, grow up to gradually know the original cause of things. Not long after they were married, Garbo's father left home, and no one knew where he went. Rumors spread, Jiabao's mother is still alone in the house waiting for him to come back, waiting for eight years, during which time the accidental birth of the little Jiabao raised. She hated the man who abandoned her, but she also loved him to the core. Eight years later, he suddenly returned home without warning and left in a hurry, without even leaving her a reason. Another year later, she received a letter and a death certificate. It turned out that eight years ago he knew that he had a terminal illness, in order not to drag her, a person to go to the end of the world and wait for death, a year ago, learned that he will soon die, finally could not help but to run back to see her last time, to see the faithful wife and unexpected daughter. But he left anyway; he didn't have the courage to tell the truth and die in front of them. If you ask who is the most pitiful person in this story, it's not me, nor Jiabao, but Jiabao's mom. Maybe it's really God's jealousy, fate also took away her only spiritual pillar, Jia Bao, shortly after her husband left.
Yes, I don't have the chance to see the beautiful figure of Jiabao growing up.
CHAPTER VII SENDING A SPIRIT
It was summer vacation, and I waited for Garbo for several days at her usual place in front of the woods and she didn't come. I went to her house to look for her, and her door was locked so tightly that a layer of dust had fallen on it. I asked around and didn't hear from them either. So, from that day on, I was home → old place → Jiabao's home, wandering like this for a month.
That day, I walked up to her door again, knocked on it as usual, and sat down with my back against the door, intending to stay there until noon.
The door opened with a bang and I leaned back into it.
"Soda?"
I saw a pale, bloodless face with two cloudy eyes and deeply sunken cheeks, was it Garbo's mom?
"I ......" I snapped, "Where's Garbo?"
"She doesn't want to see you right now." Garbo's mom said calmly.
I froze in my tracks, Garbo didn't want to see me, that's impossible! Even if it was night and day Garbo wouldn't ignore me.
"Garbo! Garbo!" I burrowed under Garbo's mother's arms and wrists and rushed toward the house.
There on the blue velvet cot lay my Garbo. Her large eyes were slightly open, and she struggled to look forward, like a poor child whose life had been drained out of her.
"Is it ...... Soda ...... Soda?" The gray lips quivered softly.
"Yes, I am here." I grabbed her hand, soft but cold.
"I ...... can't see ...... you, lean over!"
"Uh-huh!" I kneeled down to the cot and leaned my head towards my angel, close enough to feel her faint breathing.
"Soda, mom said I have the same disease as dad. The doctor, told me to get good, rest. But I ...... but I ...... want to play with you so much ...... cough! Cough!" Garbo smiled as a tear slid down her face.
"You rest well. When we get better, we'll go play with Sama together."
"But I always thought ...... I wouldn't, well ......" she muttered to herself, tears welling up from both of our eyes at the same time.
"Nonsense, you will be fine. I ...... I'll go to Sama ...... and ask him to cure you. He must have marvelous herbs that can ...... can ......" I choked.
"Soda, Sama has come, I dreamed of him yesterday."
"What?"
"He said he couldn't save me, he couldn't save me ...... I don't want to be separated from you, I don't want to! Cough, cough~"
"Not separate! We're not separating." I sat down on the bed and wrapped Garbo into my arms.
"Listen, he said," Garbo murmured in my arms, "he can let me live in another form, like him. But we'll be apart for a long time ...... growing up without a father, just Soda, just Soda! Ahem, Soda, you won't abandon me, will you? Right?"
"Right! We're not abandoning anyone~ We're playing together!" I trembled from sobbing, tears flowing along with hers.
"We're best friends, you wouldn't leave me even if everyone did, right?"
"Yes, yes! I'm not leaving, I'm staying by your side!" I wrapped my arms tightly around Garbo and kept nodding my head like I was pounding onions.
"And if I leave, you'll find me and stay with me forever, right?"
"Yes, definitely, even if I go to heaven and hell I'll look for it." I made a vow in my mouth and in my heart.
"Soda?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Look at me ......"
I lowered my head and looked at Jiabao in my arms - her eyes were hollow and confused, her eyes wide open, struggling to find my position.
"Soda, you must come, I'm going to the woods. Remember, you must come, or I'll be lonely--" The voice that seemed like heaven suddenly disappeared, and Jiabao's head hung back against my tear-dampened chest, tears still sliding down her face, the smile that could have warmed my heart still lingering on her face.
I lifted my head, put Jiabao back on the bed, and carefully tucked her in. Jiabao's mother was curled up at the foot of the bed, staring mute and dead at Jiabao's crib, neither of us aware of the other's presence. I rushed out of the cabin and headed straight for the woods; I was going to find Garbo!
She never lies to me, she must have gone to the woods! That day, I ran through a much longer road than usual in the shortest time possible.
"Garbo-" I shouted and rushed into the woods. There was nothing, nothing, not even the elves that had flashed in the past were there anymore. The sun was still warm and bright as it had been the day Garbo and I first entered the woods hand in hand. Was everything, along with Sama, just a dream? If it is a dream, when I wake up, can I have Garbo back?
"Garbo-" I screamed, running around the woods with my arms wide open. I hoped and I despaired, thinking that she would suddenly appear and throw herself back into my arms.
"Ah." Once again I tripped over a branch and fell into a thorn-covered depression. Something white popped out of the depths of my pocket and swirled bone-deep on the ground, faster and faster, bigger and bigger, and finally into a white stallion - it was the pebble!
"I'll take you to Sama." The horse actually spoke!
"Good~" I struggled to get up from the thorn bushes, my clothes already scraped into wisps and a few more bloody marks on my arms.
"Come on." The horse lowered its head and picked me up, rotating its neck 180° to place me on its back.
In less than five minutes, we were at the amethyst tree.
"You came?" Sama greeted me in surprise, "I was going to pick you up, I didn't think you'd be so quick~"
"Where's Garbo?" I jumped off my horse, the white horse turning into a puff of white smoke and a stationary pebble the moment I hit the ground.
"Her~ Come here ......" he pulled me over to the thick trunk of the crystal tree, "She's in here."
"What?"
"The human undead are fragile, and in order to train to become an immortal elf, they must train in the amethyst for 16 years. During this time, no one but the elf can see her."
"So? You mean I won't be able to see Garbo until after 16 years?"
"Yes, Garbo has been very lucky. Not all undead can become immortal spirits. Only the pure of heart have a chance, and only if they get a blood sacrifice voluntarily donated by three thousand different elves within an hour of their death." Sama held out his arm, which bore a crimson scar from a fresh cut.
"All the elves in the forest ......" I froze.
"Yes. So, you have to live and wait for Garbo. If you die now, we won't have any more blood to save you."
"Who said I was going to die!" I bristled, "Take good care of Jiabao for me. I'll come back for her, I'll do what I promised her."
Chapter 8 Tell Me Where You Are
Time slipped by in a hurry, nearly fourteen years disappeared into the memories of growing up. Many people believe that time can change everything, and that the deepest loves and hates will melt away under the wash of time. However, they are wrong, the real love is not disappeared, but like the wine brewed, the longer the more intense.
It's about to graduate from the university. After leaving the forest that day, I never went back there. Mom and Dad were delighted to find that their son loved to study and was simply crazy about reading. Apart from my daily exercise, I was pretty much just soaking in books, I was going to study hard, and when I grew up I was going to make enough money to buy that forest, because I knew that elves like Garbo and Sama could never leave that forest. I got into the best middle school, the best high school, and the best university in the country. Now I'm attending school in a foreign land 10,000 miles away from my hometown, formed my own company a year ago, and though I haven't graduated yet, I should be able to have the money to buy that forest within two years of graduation - that's the day I get to see Garbo.
"It's been almost four years since I've been home, I wonder what's become of my hometown." I kicked the gravel on the side of the road, thinking hard in my mind.
As soon as I returned to the dormitory, I collapsed into my bed, I had not closed my eyes for two days in order to examine that project.
Darkness! Above and below, left and right were all black and dark, it was like I was floating in the darkness.
"Soda-" a sweet voice called out from the nothingness.
"Who? Who's where?" I looked around and there was still nothing but blackness.
"Souda-" Thousands of rays of light shot over from an ethereal thousand miles away and condensed into a humanoid shape in front of my eyes.
A very beautiful young girl, with long black hair like waves, fair skin, large black jewel-like eyes, and lips as red as coral beads. The long white dress she wore fluttered and fluttered in the wind that blew from nowhere.
"Soda!"
"Garbo!" Yes, I knew she was Garbo, even though it had been fourteen years since I'd seen her, and even though she'd grown up.
"Soda!" She sobbed and trembled as large teardrops rolled down from her crystalline eyes.
"Garbo!" We were a meter away, and while I took a step forward, she slid back a silent step as if propelled by something.
"I, I~ miss you so much - miss you so much - come and find me -" she cried in a Flowery branches were shaking.
"I, I miss you too. But, Sama said I won't be able to see you until after 16 years," I took another step forward and Garbo slid back again, I couldn't reach her.
"I understand, I know. But I, I just miss you! I, I thought I'd never see you again."
"What?!" I rushed over and grabbed her in a hug, but she turned into dozens of rays of light that flew away in my arms.
"Soda, Soda, I miss you, I don't want to be separated from you, I don't want to be separated from you ----," Garbo's voice echoed in the infinite darkness.
"Garbo ------" I shouted wildly, jumping out of bed at once.
"Was it a dream? No, no-" I grabbed the phone to book a flight. The rapid development of the economy has led to the improvement of people's living standards and the continuous expansion of the city. Four years did not go home, the original suburb where I live has long been part of the city center. The residents of that neighborhood have long since disappeared, and I heard from my parents that Jiabao's mother disappeared shortly after Jiabao left. When I got off the plane, I didn't go back to my new home in the other direction, but went straight to that forest. Why did Jiabao cry, why did he cry so much, and what happened?
The first thing I saw was a high class villa, a couple of green security guards ran over to stop me -
"No one is allowed in here!" One of the guards shouted.
"I'm here to see the house." I said.
The guard glanced obliquely at my cheap shirt and torn jeans and chuckled lightly, "Can you afford it?"
"Meh, how much for a block?"
"It starts at two million dollars."
"Two million? Not expensive." I laughed and looked at him with contempt. Probably grossed out by my laugh, a few of them stepped aside.
Walking into the villa area, I struggled to recognize the direction: this should be Zhang Curry's house, this turned out to be Liu Thin Er's house. Linzi, where is the forest? A cacophony of noise came from the front, a noise unique to the construction site. It is the direction of the woods!
I ran a few steps tightly, turned a building, a huge construction site presented in front of me - woods? Where are the woods, there's just a barren construction site and lumbering gondola cranes!
"How? How!?" I froze, falling to my knees without realizing it.
"Are all the trees plowed?" An overseer-looking man said from the side.
"Just finished cutting the last one today!"
"Trees! Tree! What did you do to the tree?!" I yelled as I ran over and clutched the overseer by the collar.
"Crazy! Crazy man! Nuts!" The overseer screamed at the top of his lungs as a couple of workers ran over to me and pulled me away and pushed me hard to the ground.
"Garbo! Sama! They can't leave the forest ...... they ...... what will they do without the trees ～～～～～～～ Garbo, Sama. Where are you?!" I cried out uncontrollably, letting my tears flow freely for the first time in years.
"Call security to drag him out!" At the supervisor's words, several men walked up and grabbed me by my sleeves and pants.
"No ～～～～" I had lost my mind, my heart just ached, only ached ~~ my hands clawed and struggled for dear life in the freshly dug earth, and finally I was thrown out of the villa area by the ear patch.
It hurt! I reached down and felt it, and choking underneath me was a large exposed piece of rhizome with brown dirt still hanging off of it, obviously dug up not too long ago, and it was still alive!
I put my hand on it, I was able to talk to trees 8 years ago, I just don't do it very often because in the city all you can hear is the sad, wailing of the trees.
"Do you know where Garbo and Sama went?"
There was no answer, no resentment, no pain, just the calm before death.
"Do you know where they went? Me, I'm Soda!"
I felt it begin to struggle, struggling to spit out a few words.
"Where's Garbo? Where's Sama?" I yelled, tears spilling onto the dry roots.
"Sama ...... Garbo ...... he ...... they... . all ------" It spat out a few words with difficulty.
"They?!" I asked, my hand suddenly cold, it was dead!
I don't believe that Sama, Garbo is dead. Yes, I don't believe it, and I can't believe it. I promised Jiabao not to be separated from her, I promised her to find her even if I went to heaven and hell, I want to fulfill my promise.
I started traveling right after I graduated, traveling from city to city, reading about the travails of each tree, asking them about Garbo and Sama; I planted trees, only the ones I planted myself to send messages to me across thousands of miles, and I asked tree lovers to take care of them for me. ......
In every city, there was a newspaper that featured a strange man who loved to touch trees. the story of a strange man who loved to touch trees.
I'll carry my backpack and keep walking, looking, looking, walking - until I die, and if I'm still conscious after death, I'll look for her even as a lonely ghost: I'll never give up on her, and she'll never give up on me, and my Jiabao waits for me up ahead ...
I'm not going to give up on her, and she'll never give up on me. ...
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