[Comprehensive] The gap in history

"Are you okay?"

Just when Natsume was in a trance, a hand was placed on his shoulder.Natsume turned her head, and Okita's gentle smiling face appeared in front of her eyes.

"Mr. Okita, you can also see it, right?" Natsume met Okita's eyes, as if looking for something inside.

"If you're talking about the little girl with braids, of course I can see it. Is that little girl a ghost or a monster?" Okita was very curious, everything in front of him was unknown to him, and attracted him He keeps exploring.

Natsume shook his head. It was also the first time he had seen this kind of existence that was originally human but later became inhuman.

Although it looks a bit scary to others, isn't it also a kind of happiness that you can still be with your parents after death?

However, I am a little concerned, what do Jingzi's parents think of their daughter who has become a ghost?

Do you feel happy and relieved, or...fearful and disgusted?

Madara sniffed, and jumped from the eaves onto Natsume's shoulder: "Dinner is ready, Natsume, I smell fried shrimp."

Natsume's shoulder tilted to the left, and the heavy force almost caused him to fall: "You should lose weight, Mr. Kitty! Recently, I seldom walk around because of the injury, so you really gained weight!"

"Hmph! What Fu Sangshen said is right, you are too thin! It really is a useless guy, I'd better eat it." Saying that, Madara bit Natsume's head.

"boom!"

Natsume punched Madara on the head: "Give me enough time, teacher!"

Is that monster called Mr. Kitty comforting Natsume in his own way?

Okita could faintly feel the powerful monster power in Madara's body. If such a big monster really wanted to eat Natsume, it would be impossible for him to swallow it without any wounds.

Sure enough, he put away his claws and teeth.

The boy named Natsume always wears a gentle and polite mask in front of humans, and only reveals his true nature in front of monsters.

When a person loses something, he will probably gain something new.

Is he like that too?

Okita stretched out his hand and caught a leaf that was blown down by the wind.

The leaves, after leaving the big tree that sheltered him, became rootless duckweed, which may wither at any time.However, it is precisely because of the absence of the shackles of the tree that it is possible to wander around like this and see a world that has never been seen before.

The world other than humans is very exciting; the era other than the end of the Bakumatsu is also very exciting.

dinner.

Natsume told what happened this afternoon, but he still couldn't let go of Shizuko's matter.

The director of the ceramics factory listened to Natsume's question, and paused with his chopsticks: "Well, today you saw Jingzi's parents. They are also poor people. It was so hard to have such an only daughter, but accidentally died in the mudslide. ..."

It was a day just after the summer heat, and the autumn rain came one after another, cooling the hot and dry world.

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, Mom and Dad are getting old. Yesterday I saw the white hair on Dad's head again. Is there any medicine that can make them stop getting old?" The [-]-year-old Shizuko was wearing a linen plaid skirt with her chest hanging down. With two braids and a hat, she looked expectantly at the mother-in-law in the pharmacy.

"That is an irreversible scar caused by the years. As the age grows day by day, the parts in the body will slowly age, just like the mother-in-law. One day, your parents will also grow old like the mother-in-law But, as long as Shizuko grows vigorously, even if she is getting old, this kind of life transmission is meaningful." The mother-in-law smiled kindly, revealing the wisdom of the old man in her words.

"But, Jingzi doesn't want her parents to grow old, she wants to be with her parents forever!" Jingzi bit her finger with a sad face.

"Spring goes and autumn comes, birth, old age, sickness and death, this is a fixed number in the world, and Jingzi will understand when she grows up." The mother-in-law said, stroking Jingzi's head.

But, Shizuko doesn't want to grow up, doesn't want to understand.

She wants to be so young forever, so that her parents will never grow old?

The little Shizuko sat in the library of the elementary school, trying to use the knowledge she had learned, flipping through those difficult books, hoping to find a way to stop time.

Legend has it that on the steep hillside to the south of Yanyu, there is a herb that emits green fluorescence at night, called Yingcao, which has the effect of curing all diseases.

Is it true that as long as you find Yingcao, you can cure your parents' aging diseases?

At dusk, Jingzi walked into the forest alone, and came to the cliff.

The wind blew past, thick clouds covered the afterglow of the setting sun, lightning flashed across the sky like a ferocious monster, the thunder beast roared, and then heavy rain poured down.

So dark, so cold, so scary.

Shizuko, trembling in the face of the wrath of nature, grabbed the vines and climbed up the slope.

She can't give up, because she has already seen that the herb that exudes beautiful fluorescence is growing on that dead branch. It is an incomparably beautiful light, just like the smiles of parents.

Parents are over 40 years old, they are very busy every day in order to make money to raise Shizuko.

But even so, every day when Jingzi came home, they would still say "Welcome back!" to her. The lights in the house were very warm, the food was delicious, and the quilt smelled of sunshine every day.

But ah, parents sometimes bend over and cough, and the rickety back seems to never be able to straighten up one day.

Shizuko loves her parents, so she is always deeply worried when she sees the faces of her parents who are older than other children's parents.

She was afraid that one day her parents would leave her, what a terrible thing that would be.

So... so...

She must do something for her parents.

Shizuko stretched out her hand, barely touching the fluorescent herb between her fingers.

Their family, must, must, will be together forever!

The accumulated water under the torrential rain gathered into streams and flowed on the muddy land.

The soil was soft, the gravel fell, and the boulders broke away from the land, like wild horses running wild, mixed with mud and water.

"got it!"

Jingzi smiled brightly on her dirty face in the rain, and the grass in her hands emitted a soft light.

then……

The sky fell and the earth fell apart, and it was dark.

Natsume opened his eyes suddenly on the bed, and then gasped loudly.

The one just now, is the memory flowed by Shizuko?

Madara opened one eye: "You don't want to do some extra things again, do you?"

Natsume stood up, opened the window, and looked at the sky that had just turned pale: "Sorry, Mr. Cat, I want to do something anyway."

"Hmph, whatever you want." Madara yawned and continued to close his eyes and doze off.

He's really a restless kid, but it's just like this that keeps attracting him to stay, isn't it?

Natsume was walking along the mountain path holding a card with the address written on it.

Yanyu is famous as a hot spring resort, so the ecological protection here is very good. There is neither large-scale road construction nor large-scale house construction. Usually, people come and go on dirt roads that have been trampled out.

"Mr. Okita, I'm causing you trouble, it doesn't matter if you don't come with me."

When Natsume proposed to visit Shizuko's parents, Zi was worried, so she asked Okita to go with Natsume.

"Natsume, you don't have to be so polite. Even if Mr. Shi didn't ask me, I would take the initiative to follow. After all, after hearing about Shizuko, I am a little worried." Okita shook his head without hesitation.

In the end, everyone stopped in front of a house with "Harada" written on the house number.

"Ding-dong~ding-dong~"

A haggard-looking Mrs. Harada opened the door a crack: "May I ask who you are?"

"Ah, excuse me! My name is Natsume Takashi, are you Shizuko's parents?" Natsume bowed and asked Mrs. Harada.

"You, are you the boy Shizuko mentioned yesterday? Come in." Mrs. Harada opened the door.

This is an old house. From the old furniture, it can be seen that the family situation of Shizuko's family is not very good.But the home is very clean and the decoration is very warm. It can be seen that the owner of the home is a very caring person.

Mrs. Harada took a tray, brought out three glasses of water from the kitchen, and put them in front of Natsume and the others: "Since that incident, everyone is unwilling to pay attention to Shizuko, and they keep saying bad things like Shizuko's death. But Isn't Jingzi there? Jingzi, come here and say hello to brother."

Shizuko was still braided and wearing that somewhat worn-out plaid skirt: "Hello, Brother Natsume!"

"Hello."

Natsume also responded, but suddenly didn't know how to speak.

Is he going to tell Mrs. Harada that Shizuko is dead?Or just let Jingzi continue to live with her family?

"I'm going to get some food, Shizuko wants to treat my brothers well, you know?" Mrs. Harada seemed very happy about Natsume's visit, as if Shizuko's existence had been confirmed, a rare smile appeared on her face.

Perhaps, this is also good.

Looking at the back of Mrs. Harada busy in the kitchen, Natsume thought.

"It will die. If this situation continues, the couple will die." Madara jumped onto the table and said abruptly.

"what?"

"Jingzi is dead, which means that she should not continue to exist in this world. But because of the strong desire of the couple, Jingzi was able to continue to 'live'. However, every day Jingzi exists, the couple Will continue to weaken until all energy is exhausted and finally dies."

In other words, using one's own life to maintain a false existence like Shizuko, human beings are indeed boring creatures.

Natsume thought of the thick dark circles under the eyes of the Harada couple and their haggard looks. Why is this so?

Jingzi hoped that the Harada couple would not grow old and lost their lives, but the Harada couple were willing to exchange their lives for Jingzi's existence.

Is this the so-called relative?

"If I stay here, Mom and Dad will die, right?" Jingzi's eyes widened in surprise, "No wonder, Mom and Dad are so tired recently..."

Looking at Shizuko's cute little face, Natsume was at a loss for words and didn't know how to answer.

"Can I ask Brother Natsume for something?" Shizuko narrowed her crescent eyes and smiled for the first time.

Although Jingzi hopes to stay with her parents for a longer time, longer, but if the price is the lives of her parents...

Sure enough, it was she who should disappear!

Mom and Dad, even if there is no Shizuko, you must be happy.

When she turned into a star in the sky and looked at the world, it would be really great if she could see the figures of her parents enjoying each other!

The author has something to say: What I write is not abusive, not abusive at all, you see, there is also the lovely Yingcao coming out to make a guest appearance.