Chapter Twelve: The Willow Tree Returns to the Village

  Zhang Ting's domineering appearance shocked everyone, and I saw that Lin Yifan was stunned and didn't say a word.

  "Hmm, we'll see about that tomorrow." Yifan said and walked away.

  We also walked back and forth in a group.

  "Aren't you afraid that the willow tree is real?" I asked Zhang Ting.

  "Ah! That's even better, I've never seen such a magical tree before." Seeing Zhang Ting more excited, I didn't dissuade her but instead helped her.

  "Have you forgotten about Mengmeng's affair?" I brought up Mengmeng's affair hoping to scare her, but the result...

  "Don't scare me, besides, willows and those are different..."

  I'm thoroughly defeated by this girl, forget it, I'll just go. Maybe the storyteller is just trying to hit on her too? Even if something happens, I can take care of it for her, although I'm also just a half-baked guy.

  Zhang Ting's class is on the 4th floor of the hotel, our class is on the 6th floor. When sending Zhang Ting to the stairs...

  "Are you not staying with me tonight?" Zhang Ting asked, stopping me with this one sentence.

  "Tomorrow I still have to accompany you to see the willow tree, I don't want to sleep on a stool at night,"

  I just saw Zhang Ting look at me a few times, and later there was a joke on the internet called "What's wrong with you?"

  A loser's life is lonely...

  The next morning, Zhang Ting called me early and asked me to wait for her at the door. When I walked out of the door, they were already there. I felt embarrassed again, subconsciously thinking that this time would be another difficult situation for me. However, unexpectedly, nothing was said.

  We followed Zhang Lin to that village, and Zhang Lin was the storyteller... it turned out he didn't know the way either, just walking blindly.

  After walking for several hours, I saw a place that looked a bit like a village.

  "Is it here?" They all asked Zhang Lin.

  "I don't know either..." Seeing Zhang Lin say this with a guilty conscience, everyone's heart suddenly ignited with anger and they were about to turn back.

  "Hey! Come and see, it's really a willow tree! It's so big!" The speaker was Lü Xīn. She had been walking ahead of us all along, and her words drew everyone's attention. We walked over to take a look.

  There really is a willow tree! Just like she said it's so big!

  "Willow tree, willow tree, why don't you speak?" I saw Lv Xin and several other girls under the tree, holding a willow branch in their hands and asking this willow tree, with Zhang Ting among them.

  I walked towards that village, and when I reached the entrance of the village, I took a look around. The buildings inside were still quite old-fashioned, with tiled houses, but they gave off a somewhat desolate feeling. Next to a pile of mud, I saw a stone tablet, which was covered in sand. After wiping away the sand, I saw that it said "Hui Village". It turned out that this village was called Hui Village.

  "Hmm, Zhang Lin, this rumor of yours is quite believable." Yifan teased Zhang Lin a bit, and I saw that Zhang Lin seemed somewhat uncomfortable, feeling anxious in his heart but not showing it. Maybe if the girl wasn't around, he would have fought with Yifan already?

  "Zi Chuan, come and take a look." I heard Zhang Ting calling me, so I walked over.

  So cold! I felt an inexplicable chill as soon as I approached that willow tree!

  Although it's winter, there is still a bit of sunshine, but this cold feels so unusual.

  I walked around under the tree, looked at this willow tree and put my hand on it.

  A huge wave of yin energy is filling my hand! It's so cold it's numb and painful, I struggled to pull my hand out, feeling like it was going to freeze stiff. I put it in the sun for a bit and felt much better. I picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at that tree, they were stunned by my sudden move.

  But I saw the tree that I had smashed out, and it actually flowed out... It was blood! In the instant when I saw the blood flowing out, a ghostly face faintly appeared, opening its bloody mouth to scream at me, staring straight at me with its eyes!

  "This tree is weird! It seems this isn't a legend, it's real! I walked over and pulled Zhang Ting along."

  "Zhang Ting, let's go!"

  "Zhang Ting... your boyfriend won't be mentally ill, will he?" I just heard this girl Lv Xin say that I'm mentally ill right in front of me.

  "Am I a nervous wreck? Ha, if you guys stay here, something will happen to all of us!" As I said this, Yifan chimed in with "That's right, we're afraid that if you stay here, something will go wrong."

  "Huh? Don't believe me, go see for yourselves what's flowing out of that tree!"

  "Isn't it just tree resin? You haven't even seen tree resin before?"

  Tree sap? I saw Lin Yifan's mocking face walk away, how could this be! Why did the liquid that flowed out turn out to be white tree sap?!

  I couldn't care about all that, and pulled Zhang Ting to leave.

  "Zi Chuan, what's wrong?" Zhang Ting asked me weakly, but I felt that she didn't believe me either.

  "Useless!" Hearing Yan say that to me, I couldn't take it anymore and ran over to kick him!

  "I'm telling you, I'm useless, I'm a coward, but one thing I'm not afraid of is fighting. Don't believe me? Try me!" I said, pointing at Yifan as he was about to get into a fight with me after I kicked him in the foot.

  "Zi Jiang! How can you be like this!" I heard that it was Zhang Ting who was actually scolding me! She actually scolded me for the sake of this man! I took a look at Lin Yifan, originally he was going to fight with me, but seeing Zhang Ting scolding me, he pretended to be magnanimous and stood there!

  I can't take it anymore, I'm going to hit him on the head!

  "Zi Jiang! You can leave if you want to." I saw Zhang Ting's face looking a bit downcast as she said this to me, and my heart suddenly flared up with anger.

  "Hmph, you want me to leave for him? Fine! I'll leave!" I glared at Lin Yifan and turned around to walk away, seeing Zhang Ting seemingly stretch out her hand to pull me back, but stopped.

  I'm leaving, and when I'm gone, you'll regret it!

  I cursed in my heart and walked back and forth on the road! I also heard Zhang Ting ask Yifan a sentence "Are you okay?"

  I stopped on a bridge, smoking. The more I thought about it, the angrier I became, but I didn't go far and instead waited for them to return because no matter how angry I was, I didn't want anything to happen to Zhang Ting, so I sat there, one cigarette after another.

  It was unknown how long had passed when the sun dipped below the mountain, but the sky hadn't completely darkened yet.

  "Why haven't they come over yet!" I'm getting more and more anxious, thinking that something must have happened to Zhang Ting!

  I threw down the cigarette butt and ran back to the village! I blamed myself in my heart, if something happened to Zhang Ting, I would never forgive myself!

  When I arrived at the village entrance, there was actually no one! I circled around, and still there was no one!

  When I ran back to the village entrance, I subconsciously looked towards the village, had just measured it, but didn't go in... Would they be inside?

  I walked into the village in the morning, and indeed it was a desolate village, not a single person was there. As I walked on the road, I could even hear my own footsteps! The village was eerily quiet.

  "Cough, cough" I heard a very faint coughing sound, but in such a quiet village it still floated into my ears. I followed the sound and walked over to the front of a house, the door was slightly ajar, I pushed it open and went inside, passing through the courtyard and entering the main hall. But there wasn't a single person around, where did that sound just go?

  "Huh~" Another sound, it's a sigh, this time louder than before, in the yard!

  That's right, it was here. I walked to a place that looked like a house made of straw and slowly pushed open the small door. A foul smell came over me, and I instinctively pinched my nose shut, with the result...

  "Whoa!"

  This is really embarrassing, I saw someone about my age squatting in the toilet... The sound of vomiting just now was him smoking, he was clearly startled by me, and he was squatting well, but suddenly I showed him a face-to-face.

  He stood up directly and pulled up his pants...

  "Hey, hey, sorry about that, I'm out of here." I saw the guy squatting in the toilet was about to scold me, so I said a sentence. "By the way... you seem to be quite dirty..." As soon as I finished saying this, I immediately ran out with my legs.

  This time it's really bad.

  Zhang Ting and others did not find anyone, but instead bumped into someone else squatting in the toilet. Someone else? This village actually still has people?

  Forget it, these are not what I should think about now, I continue walking in the village.

  Finally heard a room came the sound of voices, and the voice was Zhang Ting and others. I sneaked over and saw through the hole that 7 people were sitting inside the house making a fire... I didn't dare to walk in.

  "Zhang Ting, don't be unhappy. Be happy." Seeing Lin Yifan approaching Zhang Ting with his hands shaking, I almost jumped up outside.

  It's okay, it's okay, Zhang Ting just responded coldly and let him go awkwardly to do other things.

  Can I get in or not?

  Finally decided not to go in after all... going in would be quite embarrassing.

  But if I don't go in, where can I go? I suddenly thought of that squatting man just now, why not go find him and stay with him?

  He saw me and thought he would beat me to death.

  "How dare you come back?" The speaker was the one who had been squatting, and he couldn't believe his eyes that I actually dared to return. At this time, I took a serious look at him, and in the dimly lit toilet just now, I didn't even have time to see clearly, but he looked quite gentle, should not have a big temper, and indeed, my guess was correct.

  I apologized profusely and kept talking to him, and sure enough he forgot about what just happened along with me.

  "How did you get here?" He and I sat in the house, which was very simple and had some dust, but it could be seen that the seats had been wiped clean. The person asked me.

  "That... I'm just accompanying someone today." As soon as I finished saying this sentence, I saw a hint of worry on that person's face.

  "Are you from this village?" I thought about how desolate and abandoned this village was before, so how could he still be here.

  "No, I'm just passing by today too..." I was about to ask him something, "By the way, have you accompanied anyone?"

  "They're in the room up front, I'm too embarrassed to go in."

  "You'd better go find them and tell them not to wander around at night."

  When I saw him say this sentence, I felt like he seemed to know something?

  "What's your name?"

  "My name is Lizi Chuan, and you?"

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