We haven’t seen each other for a long time, but Sa Dou is still the same as in the memory.
The familiar impression of the delicate and perfect appearance, the gorgeous and elegant kimono, and the impeccable manners made Qiao Xi, who was originally in a strange mood, quickly calm down.
He stayed in the shrine.
The feeling of coming home, speaking of it, is really great!
The tender, joyful, various emotions and memories that gradually emerged from her memory made Qiao Xi feel sour, but also felt inexplicably happy.
He just knew it too.
It turned out that not long after he left, Sa Dou woke up from his deep sleep and began to wait for a long time.
——Waiting for someone who doesn’t know whether he will come back or not.
"grown ups."
As if aware of Qiao Xi's thoughts, Sa Dou turned his head and looked at him, and then called out softly.
When Qiao Xi turned around, Sa Dou smiled with the corners of his lips raised.
"Lord Fengyue, have I ever told you that waiting for you to come back is a very happy thing."
Qiao Xi's eyes couldn't help but open slightly in surprise.
"Are you happy?"
Sa Dou lowered his eyes, the smile on his face was surprisingly gentle.
——Yes, happiness.
Just thinking about the happy smile on Lord Togetsuki's face when he comes back to see the shrine getting better and better, I can't help but feel a happy feeling in my heart.
——But I don’t want to tell the adults for this reason.
Sa Dou smiled slightly and looked sideways into Qiao Xi's eyes. The smile seeping out of his clear pupils was like water, invisible and traceless, but it permeated the air.
"Master Fengyue probably doesn't know that in infinite time, having someone worth waiting for is a very happy thing.
When I was still regarded as a sacred tree by humans, I didn't have the ability to leave my true body, so I just stood there and watched the joys and sorrows of humans, all the time."
Sa Dou gradually became a little confused when he recalled the memories from long ago.
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At that time, because it was worshiped as a sacred tree, many humans would come under the cherry blossom tree to do things that seemed more formal or serious to humans and worthy of good expectations.
——For example, the love between a man and a woman, or the farewell after leaving home.
Over time, a tacit understanding seems to have developed among humans.
——If you send someone off here, you will be here waiting for him to come back.
Sa Dou has witnessed many times of waiting.
Some waits get what they want, while more waits end in vain.
At that time, Sa Dou was actually very curious.
He once saw a human girl who had been waiting under the cherry blossom tree for more than forty years, from the age of cardamom to gray hair.
Everyone who knows her is advising her - don't wait any longer, the person you are waiting for will not come back again.
But that human girl still stood steadfastly at the end of every month under the cherry blossom tree that sent that person away, from early morning to dusk, waiting until she could see him, and then left as if nothing had happened.
People in the village always looked at her with pity and said that this woman was a weirdo, and Sa Dou thought the same.
He is a strange human being.
That human has never had a partner in her life - or in other words, the partner she identifies as is someone she can never wait for.
Sa Dou still remembered that human being was once again hobbling alone under the cherry blossom tree when he was dying. The junior who had a side branch asked worriedly and impatiently: "What are you doing here again?!"
The woman was so old that she no longer had the strength to stand. She leaned against the tree trunk with a weak smile.
"I'm waiting for someone."
Junior didn't know what the story was, but he had heard the occasional rumors from the villagers, so he patiently told her: "You don't have to wait any longer, he won't come back."
——Everyone knows that the person she is waiting for will never come back.
At that time, Sa Dou was watching from the side, and he was particularly curious about how this woman would answer this question.
He always felt that this woman was a strange human being.
——The strange thing is that she is different from other humans who are good at forgetting.
Sure enough, the woman squinted her eyes and smiled as she faced the setting sun - before that, she had not been here for more than half a year due to her weak body.
"He just got lost... he will come back eventually."
She said this in a very soft voice, so soft that it seemed like it would disappear in the wind in the next second, but it suddenly made the originally impatient junior freeze in place.
"This is his hometown. He will come back one day. We have agreed that I will wait for him here the day he comes back."
After saying this, the woman closed her eyes with a wonderful, peaceful smile.
The junior stood there for a long time before he realized that the woman was dead.
That was the first time that Sa Dou knew that not everything he waited for would come true.
Gradually, he began to wonder why some humans still had to wait even though they knew no one would come.
After that, he witnessed many waitings, men, women, old people, and cubs. They repeated the waiting one after another with a desperate yet peaceful attitude.
As time went by, and as he waited more and more to witness it, instead of being solved, this problem became more and more confusing to him.
So, when Sa Dou woke up from his deep sleep and found that Qiao Xi had left a handwritten letter and left the shrine, a strange feeling came from the bottom of his heart.
He also began to wait.
The monster's lifespan is always almost endless. While waiting, he fulfills his responsibilities as the envoy of Fengyue God, and sprinkles the miracles of Fengyue God on this land every once in a while.
One year, two years, ten years and a hundred years...
He had forgotten how much time had passed, and even some distant memories had dissipated in his mind, but he always remembered that he wanted to be here, waiting for his god to come back.
In the process of waiting, he suddenly understood why some humans kept waiting for someone who didn't know whether he would come back or not.
Sa Dou thought, those humans must want to smile and tell the waiting person as soon as he returns: "Welcome back."
——Just like him.
——He just wanted to tell him, welcome back.
——Also, as long as you come, I will always be there.
Sa Dou smiled slightly and raised his hand, taking off a cherry blossom petal that suddenly fell on Qiao Xi's shoulder. His eyes met Qiao Xi's blank gaze, and he repeated as if he was sure: "That's it. I'm waiting for you to come back."
A very happy thing!"
And this kind of happiness reaches its peak at the moment when his waiting comes true, and then it is engraved in his time from then on until death forgets him.