The winter here is not long. Almost just after a few heavy snowfalls, the weather slowly warms up. The snow melts day by day, the stream tinkles day and night, and the turbulent water flows along the fields to all places.

The winter snow melted, and the dormant weeds underneath couldn't wait to see the residual snow, revealing the tender green bud tips.

Almost in the blink of an eye, there was another thriving green in the mountains.

This green is particularly gentle, with a vibrant tender yellow.

The gorse flowers in the plum blossom garden have also grown new buds and leaves, and so have azaleas. The garden that has been silent for a winter has put in full force to bloom again this year.

Looking at these plants, plums are always in a good mood.

However, compared with these plants that grow towards the sun every day, the ghost of Mrs. Peg at home seems to be withering.

Meli still remembers the lady Peg she saw when she first came to this world. Although she was pale and thin, she looked like a patient, but her bright red hair and green lake-like eyes made people feel swaying at a glance.

But now, her green eyes have become turbid and her bright red hair has faded unconsciously.

As usual, she brought food to Mrs. Peg, when she left her room, she saw that her beautiful red hair had become like straw.

In this beautiful spring day when everything is revived, Mrs. Peg seems to be unable to hold on any longer.

Is it because the ghost cannot stay here for a long time? Why does Mrs. Peg's ghost stay here and not want to leave?

Meili walked downstairs with a slightly heavy pace, feeling unspeakable worries in her heart.

"Bang-Bang-" The regular knock on the door interrupted her meditation.

The knocking sound did not come from the door, but from the side door of the kitchen. As long as you hear the knocking sound, Mei Li will know who is coming.

The previous worries were also suddenly dispersed.

She opened the door, and the door was blocked outside. It was indeed the swamp monster whose height was too tall and could not see his head at all.

He has learned to knock on the door now. The knocking sound is different from others. It is slow and distinctive.

"You're here, wait for me." Mei Li said to the swamp monster outside the door, changed into a pair of shoes that were more suitable for going out, picked up the basket and brought an umbrella, and took a shawl from the shelf on one side and draped it on her body. Then she left the door.

It's raining outside today. The drizzle is the gentle and gentle unique to spring, and it's even as hazy as smoke.

Meili walked beside the swamp monster with an umbrella. After winter, the shawl on the swamp monster had been taken back and washed clean by her, and was now being put on her.

I just don’t know if it’s an illusion. After being covered with the swamp monster for a long time, she always felt that there was a smell of grass on it and couldn’t be washed off.

The marsh monster in spring changes his home in winter. As long as it rains, he will wander in the wilderness, fully letting the spring rain soak his body.

If Mei Li didn't see him for a day or two, she would find that his body was covered with grass, which grew faster than the grass in the fields.

Once, she went to the wilderness to look for the swamp monster, but she couldn't find him for a long time. Finally, he moved by himself. She realized that he was squatting on the side of the road she had just passed by with his knees. Because there were too many weeds on her body, she didn't notice it. She mistakenly thought it was really a big stone covered by weeds on the side of the road.

"Can you pull out the grass on your body?" Meili has planted vegetables for a while and is often used to weeding. When she sees grass on the swamp monster, her hands itchy.

I quietly pulled it back, but I didn't see him feeling uncomfortable, so whenever I saw that his body had grown weeds, I would help me get rid of it.

It’s just... the grass in spring is growing too fast!

Walking in the hazy drizzle, there were no people in the fields nearby and the woods in the distance, only the two of them. Meili often came out with an umbrella and walked in the rain with the swamp monsters, and picked some wild vegetables to go back.

Maybe she picked that kind of wild vegetables too many times, and later she found that the swamp monsters began to grow that kind of wild vegetables.

Looking at the swamp monster that had grown wild vegetables and delivered to the door, Mei Li was silent.

She strongly suspected that the wild vegetables on the swamp monster were planted by him!

She obviously restrained herself from growing vegetables on him, but he did it himself!

He had no idea how difficult it was to restrain the farming power in his blood. Because of love, she had to give up the fat fields and fertilizers, and he had to take the initiative again and again.

...If you have to plant it and hope to plant some other vegetables, you can eat the wild vegetables fresh, but it is actually not very delicious.

Under her rejection, the swamp monster finally stopped growing wild vegetables on it.

He used to be a natural swamp monster who was not picky about what he had on his body, but after being with Mei Li for a long time, he actually learned to pick on what he had on his body.

After the weeds grow lushly, they will be pulled out by plums without hesitation, and obviously they are not loved.

However, once there was a wild flower growing on his body. Mei Li looked at it twice, but it didn't pull it out. The swamp monster discovered it. He slowly recalled that when Mei Li saw him, she would deliberately throw a wild flower to him.

Things are out of control now.

The plants on the swamp monsters transitioned from weeds to various wild flowers. In spring, this kind of wild flowers exploded, a whole garden bloomed in a few days.

Various wild flowers settled on him, red, yellow, white, purple, and colorful.

Mei Li was busy rectifying her vegetable garden. She didn't see the swamp monster for three days. When she saw her again, she was shocked by his "blooming heart" appearance.

——Meili’s mobile garden, this is very good.

Flowers bloomed and came to give them to her.

The swamp monster can't speak, and often his expression is slow and slow, but Mei Li can always clearly feel the love he gave back.

The likes of "monsters" seem to be more simple and straightforward than humans.

Meili couldn't resist this human-shaped garden. She carefully trimmed the flowers on his body to make them look better. The cut flowers made a garland and put them on his head.

It was probably her garland that caused the trouble. A few days later, Mei Li suddenly discovered that there was a new bird's nest in the middle of the garland on the head of the swamp monster.

Meili: "..." What bad luck birds with bad eyes make nests on their heads.

She had no choice but to take down the bird's nest and place it on the tree by the roadside. As for whether the bird with bad eyes could find her new home, she didn't know.

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Hesha ran to her house to play with her again. In winter, no one dared to approach the forest, and Meili had never been to the market. The two friends who had not seen each other happily finished chatting and made an appointment to go to the market to buy things.

Hesha's steps were light and jumped in front of him, greeting Meili, "Hurry up!"

Meili walked slowly behind, and from time to time he had to look behind him while Hesha was not paying attention.

The swamp monster followed her. He usually moved very slowly and could not keep up with the little girl's pace. He kept following them, falling further and further away, and he looked a little pitiful when he tried to catch up.

Passing by a mud, Meili pushed the swamp monster and let him go in and stayed, whispering to him: "You are here to wait for me, I'll come back after I buy things."

The swamp monster stood honestly in the mud, watching her leave.

Meili looked back and suddenly felt the condemnation of her conscience.

But you still have to buy things, and many daily necessities need to be replenished after a winter consumption.

The market was more lively than before, and many people were standing at the door of their homes to chat. Meili saw several young men running by, talking about something strangely.

"What's wrong? What's going on? What happened?" Hesha asked strangely.

She grabbed a young man who went to watch the fun. The man glanced at them and explained casually: "Aunt Maggie, who lives in the South Shulin, seems to be missing."

"What? How could it be!" Hesha exclaimed, dragging Meili to Aunt Maggie's house with a group of people watching the fun.

Aunt Maggie's family of three lives near Nanshulin a distance from the market. Meili remembers that she and Hesha had met her on the way to pick white mushrooms before. She couldn't remember her appearance, but she remembered that she was an ordinary middle-aged aunt with a loud voice.

Aunt Maggie's husband came back from work outside for two days, but he didn't see his wife. He asked his youngest son who had been playing crazy for a day outside. He didn't know where his mother was going. The father and son didn't find anyone everywhere. After another night, he was sure that the person was missing. Now his friends and neighbors are about to help them find Aunt Maggie's traces everywhere.

In the end, it was not what happened to them. Apart from relatives and friends, many people just watched the fun.

The crowd quickly dispersed, and they talked about this new thing, and then quickly started to talk about other topics.

Meili returned with many things, passing by the mud pool. The swamp monster pulled herself out of the mud pool like a spring sign full of flowers, and walked back with her.

Little butterflies with white and yellow flew around him.

Meili's mood, which was affected in the market, gradually improved when she saw this scene. She smiled and stretched out her hand and brushed the wild flowers on him.

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In the quiet night, she was suddenly awakened by a nightmare about the basement. Meili sat up with the cold sweat on her forehead.

It seemed like I heard some subtle movements coming downstairs. After listening carefully, it seemed to be auditory hallucinations.

There is only the sound of drizzle in my ears.

She touched her rapid heartbeat, slowly lay back, and soon fell asleep again.

"Aunt Maggie hasn't found her yet. I don't know where she went. Everyone searched for the places she usually went, but no one was found." Hesha said in frustration.

Because she had never found anyone, her parents followed her to search for her in the afternoon, but she still found nothing.

Mei Li could only comfort her: "Maybe she was trapped somewhere for a while, maybe she will find it tomorrow."

Hesha: "I really hope to find Aunt Maggie as soon as possible."

In a blink of an eye, three days passed, Meili went to the market again and found that many people were praying around the church.

Aunt Maggie's husband and son were kneeling in the middle of the crowd and crying.

Seeing Hesha wiping tears outside the crowd, Meili quietly walked up to pull her.

"Hsha, is Aunt Maggie's news? Have you found her?"

Hesa said with red eyes: "It can't be found. Aunt Maggie was dragged into the swamp by a swamp monster, and she couldn't even recover the body."

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