The grass leaves rustled against my legs. Apart from the sound of the wind and the occasional chirping of insects, there was no sound on the mountain.

Ye Kong walked very fast.

She was so familiar with this mountain that she could walk on it at night with her eyes closed. So without having to focus on finding her way, her mind was filled with a lot of thoughts.

Before actually seeing it, Ye Kong couldn't be sure whether his guess was true or not - there was also the possibility that he had guessed wrong or the two children had seen it wrong.

Maybe Yuanye really just had a nightmare and came to his brother crying, and when he passed by the shovel, he suddenly wanted to weed his brother...

She didn't want to think about the biggest possibility.

But Ye Kong herself was not aware of this problem. Even the messy associations she had were all based on her own personality. She had not thought that someone as overly serious and face-conscious as Yuan Ye would not do such an instant neurotic behavior as he pleased.

If he did something that seemed outrageous to ordinary people, he must have thought about it carefully for a long time.

——But Ye Kong didn’t think of this.

She never cared about Yuanye.

This has been true since childhood.

So when she finally arrived at her destination covered in leaf and grass debris, and looked up and saw that scene, she lost control of herself.

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A flashlight was lit on the lonely tombstone, and the pale light shone onto the bulging mound of earth behind the tombstone - and now, this mound of earth had been half dug away.

When Ye Kong stepped onto the steps, he just heard the sound of wind caused by the shovel being swung down, and the sound of soil being dug, turned up, and scattered by the iron tool.

Her mind was suddenly ignited.

When Yuanye heard the sound and looked up, he saw the figure of a girl running towards him in the darkness.

"Ye Kong? Why are you..."

Before he could finish his words, he was violently pushed to the ground, rolling down the pile of dirt and lying in the mud in a mess.

Yuanye coughed twice, spitting out gravel and dirt. He looked up and was about to speak, but was completely covered by the girl's pressing figure.

His collar was suddenly grabbed and he was lifted up from the ground.

It was obvious that Ye Kong had used a lot of strength. She slammed him against the tombstone, grabbed his throat tightly, and asked him word by word in a chilling tone, "What are you doing?"

"Yuan Ye, what are you doing?!"

The last few words burst out from between his teeth.

Yuan Ye was silent for a few seconds, as if he was sorting out the situation. After a moment, he suddenly relaxed his body, letting Ye Kong pinch him, and smiled: "Don't you understand after reading this? You don't think I'm here to loosen the soil for my brother's grave?"

"..."

The flashlight was right above his head, but it was Ye Kong's face that was illuminated.

Yuanye's face was completely submerged in shadow, so that only the corners of his lips could be seen.

Ye Kong looked at him for a moment before asking, "Why?"

"what why?"

"Why are you digging up your brother's grave?" Ye Kong slammed his head against the tombstone. "Are you kidding me? Are you crazy? Weren't you very superstitious before? When your brother just died, you refused to fulfill his last wish and insisted that your hometown values ​​​​the burial in peace! What are you doing now?"

"I regret it now. I want to fulfill my brother's last wish. Can I dig him out and expose him to the world?"

"..."

Ye Kong suddenly fell silent.

The Yuan Ye in front of him was obviously not in a right mental state.

He was laughing the whole time, and it was clear that all he said were lies, but every sentence he said was filled with a kind of desperate hysteria.

……

The collar was loosened and the hands around the neck were removed.

After such a while, Ye Kong had regained his composure.

Her brain, which had been boiling just now, cooled down almost instantly, and the girl's lowered eyes were as cold and indifferent as a god.

"I don't care what you want to do."

She stood up, took a step back, and looked at the young man leaning against the tombstone. "You can't do it anyway."

She glanced at the pile of earth that had been half dug away and said, "Don't even think about doing anything to this grave today."

"..."

Yuan Ye was still for a moment, then he started laughing, and while laughing he staggered to his feet, leaning on the shovel, and pointed at Ye Kong: "Ye Shiyi, do you understand that this is my brother's grave?"

"I, Yuanye," he slapped the monument, "I am him, the original! The only one in the world! The closest person to him by blood! As his family member, is there anything wrong with me wanting to move him to another place?!"

"Sure enough, you just want to move the grave."

"So what?" Yuanye sneered.

"If you don't think there's anything wrong, you can come during the day. Why do you have to come alone at night when no one is around like a thief?" Ye Kong said coldly, "You know it's wrong, so you don't dare let anyone notice your intentions."

"I just find it troublesome!" Yuan Ye shouted loudly and then stopped, suddenly laughing again, "Why should I explain all this to you? I'll tell you again, it's only natural for me to move my brother's grave, and you have no right to tell me what to do."

He turned around, leaning on the shovel, and was about to continue.

Ye Kong stepped forward, snatched his shovel, and threw it into the mountain stream.

The iron tools and wooden sticks made hollow echoes when they struck against the rocks, startling a few birds and making the forest at night even quieter.

Yuanye looked at her back and was not angry at all.

He looked away woodenly like a robot, walked to the pile of earth, knelt down, and began to dig the earth handful by handful with his hands.

Ye Kong turned his head and looked at the young man's black silhouette in the dark night. He walked over and pushed the man to the ground, then looked into his cold eyes in the shadows.

"Yuanye, I'm really curious, why did you suddenly go crazy?" The girl whispered, "You said you wanted to move your brother's grave. Where do you want to move it to? Why do you want to move it? Do you know that your brother likes this place very much? Whether it's this mountain or this orphanage - his last wish is that we can bury him in this mountain. You refused, so even if we bury him here, it can only be considered a reluctant completion. What about now? What do you want to do now?"

Her tone was almost gentle, a gentleness never before heard before, but her eyes, trapped in the night, were very cold, even colder than the mountain stream behind her.

"Are you in a bad mood lately?" she asked him.

The wilderness was silent for a long time.

He stared at the girl's half-lit and half-dark face without any emotion, and after a while he said, "I've been in a bad mood."

Ye Kong nodded: "Tell me about it?"

"I was in a bad mood when my brother was alive, and I was even worse when he died."

"After my brother died, I felt uncomfortable every time I saw you. I felt uncomfortable when I couldn't see you or thought about you."

The corners of his mouth curved slightly, and his tone was mechanical and stuck: "It feels like a hair is stuck in my heart. Can you understand that feeling?"

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