"I decided to go back to being a ranger."
One day, her father suddenly said this to Xuan Ye.
"why."
Xuan Ye asked in a calm tone.
"It's not an easy job. There are very few people who do it. I applied and it was approved."
Her father ignored her question and after finishing her words, he placed a document with a fresh seal in front of Xuan Ye.
"why."
Xuan Ye frowned and asked again.
Although she asked this, she knew in her heart that life with her was not easy. Maybe her father was tired of this kind of life.
"Even if, even if you are tired of me, you shouldn't joke with your life. Do you know how old you are? If you find me annoying, I will move out. I am working well and I can support myself. Myself, if you are still not satisfied with this, I can move to a farther place, I can still..."
Tears filled the corners of her eyes.
Perhaps subconsciously, Xuanye held the corner of her father's clothes tightly, but she didn't seem to notice it.
"Are you going to abandon me again..."
"Xuan Ye..."
Father pulled Xuan Ye's hand away ruthlessly and turned his face away slightly.
"When dad was a forester, he had an unrelated brother..."
"I've heard your stories countless times, and I don't want to hear them anymore!"
"Really..." My father whispered with a wry smile: "I have already made an agreement with the other side. The forest guards will be paid and the retirement allowance will be paid as usual. But those things are not needed in the forest, so you can Take it for me."
"Wait...wait..." Xuan Ye opened her eyes in surprise.
"No one has managed it there for a long time. I plan to leave now."
Probably because he was afraid of being discovered by Xuan Ye, his father didn't even pack his luggage, but his determination to leave was definitely not false.
By the time Xuan Ye recovered from her father's words, her father had already turned his back on her and was about to leave.
"Stop!"
Xuan Ye tried her best to step forward and grab her father's hand, but the white-haired but still strong old man just waved his hand gently, and Xuan Ye lay on her back on the ground.
"I'm going back to get my dream back."
"Please, don't leave me again."
Xuan Ye, who was still lying on the ground, whimpered.
"Xuan Ye, it's time for you to leave me."
These were the last words left by my father.
He left without any nostalgia and never returned to this home again.
Only now does Xuan Ye feel that those ordinary days spent with her father in her hometown seem so far away in retrospect.
Yes, I remembered, this was my dream.
It's a father who is still dreaming.
...
Xuan Ye closed her eyes and covered her ears with her hands. The ground beneath her feet began to collapse and dissolve.
The world suddenly started to rain.
At that moment, Xuan Ye sank into the icy abyss, and the bone-breaking water kept pouring in from her mouth, nose, ears, and eyes.
She felt suffocated and hopeless.
But she didn't want to struggle, and she didn't have any strength to struggle anymore. She could only let her body slowly sink to the bottom of the water.
Even though the place was eerily dark.
"Would you like to hear me tell that unfinished story again?"
suddenly someone asked.
The familiar and majestic voice reached Xuan Ye's ears through the cold water.
Forget it, I have already heard the tragic story about the young ranger and his brother who gave up his life for him by heart.
but,
If I could go back to that time, I might want to listen to it all.
In this way, that person might be able to stay a little longer.
"If you want to hear it, then try to stand up on your own."
The voice has not left yet.
What kind of dream is this?
If this is a dream, if you want to escape, you can only be locked in a dream.
Xuan Ye slowly opened her eyes and put down her hands covering her ears. Her vision gradually became clearer and her voice became normal.
Her body woke up, and the gentle moonlight shone through the water on her face.
Xuan Ye sat up suddenly, and then she realized that the water was unexpectedly shallow, barely covering her legs even when she was sitting.
The water slowly receded, and under the starry night sky, what appeared was an endless beautiful sea of sand.
And in the darkness of the night, there was a familiar figure sitting next to him.
Xuan Ye's eyes widened and tears slowly filled her eyes. She choked several times before shouting in a trembling voice: "Dad!!!"
"I said, after seeing it, go back."
Her father replied extremely flatly, without even turning to look at her.
"Didn't you agree that you would finish it properly for me this time?"
Xuan Ye's body trembled. This father, who had no limits in every sense of the word and lacked common sense, was really infuriating.
"You can already stand up on your own, so you know what I'm going to say."
"Well, I've known it for a long time. I've known it from the beginning. Because dad is a stubborn person and won't express his worries easily, so I have been very good at guessing dad's thoughts."
My father is not good at saying nice things. He always only uses actions to prove himself.
I like to imitate him and want to be a person who stands upright. Who can guess the idea of the hero I have longed for since I was a child?
All his complicated actions just wanted to tell me that even people of his age can regain their dreams, so why can't I.
His actions of risking his life were all for me. I didn't understand it until now. I just didn't have the courage to admit it.
Heroes always do what they say. Heroes cannot admit defeat yet, but who can always do everything and who can never admit defeat.
"Then I won't say anything more."
My father laughed out loud, until warm tears fell from his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Xuan Ye, dad has to go and apologize to mom first, and you will have to rely on yourself for the rest of your life."
The father turned around, with a very familiar and hearty smile on his face.
The moment she finished speaking, Xuan Ye was hugged by her father with all her strength:
"But, I guess it doesn't matter, because you are already an excellent adult."
snap——
The warm temperature fell on Xuan Ye's face, and then slid down her cheeks. Xuan Ye slowly opened her eyes.
Was I kicked out again?
She reached out her hand and gently stroked away the tears still hanging in the corners of the eyes of the black-haired young man in front of her.
"Are you crying?"
"Damn it, how could I cry? I'm... haha?"
"I had a dream, but I forgot what it was."
But that must be a father who is still dreaming.
