When Liu Zhishu sent the old man to the hospital and came back, Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao had already returned to the county seat.
There were not many recreational activities in the small county town. After the two of them had dinner and returned to the hotel room, Ding Yinan took out a book from the suitcase and sat on the bedside to read to pass the time.
Huo Zhixiao glanced at it casually and asked, "Rural architectural design?"
"Yes." Ding Yinan said, "Just take a look."
There are almost no bestsellers on Ding Yinan's bookshelf, and very few literary works. He only reads reference books according to his own needs. For example, in order to master Huo Zhixiao's dressing taste, he subscribed to men's clothing magazines for half a year.
The advantage of this is that he can quickly grasp the information he needs and make up for the shortcomings in his knowledge as quickly as possible.
Huo Zhixiao on the other side also took out the geological data of Sanyang Village and spread them all on the bed. He himself sat in the middle and took whichever one he needed.
There is no problem between the two of them, each focusing on the words in their hands, this is the most ideal state in Ding Yinan's mind. To be honest, although he wasn't worried that Huo Zhixiao would do anything out of the ordinary, but with Huo Zhixiao's unpredictable temperament, he might come up with some pranks to torment him.
However, this ideal state was finally interrupted by a thunderclap. As more and more raindrops hit the window, it gradually began to rain heavily outside the window.
Before Ding Yinan set off, he checked the weather forecast, and there would be heavy rain in this area tonight. He went to the window and drew the curtains, then asked Huo Zhixiao who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, "When do you take a shower?"
Huo Zhixiao straightened his back and stretched, looked at his watch and said, "Now."
After finishing speaking, he stepped out of bed and walked straight to the bathroom.
Ding Yinan quickly realized that something was wrong, he stopped Huo Zhixiao and said, "Don't you take a change of clothes?"
Huo Zhixiao stopped and looked back at him: "I always change after I come out." He acted as if it was a matter of course, without considering the current situation of the two of them at all.
Without saying a word, Ding Yinan walked to Huo Zhixiao's suitcase, took out his change of clothes and pushed them on his chest, and said in a businesslike way: "Please change in it before you come out."
Then he took out Huo Zhixiao's toiletries and stuffed them into his hands: "Small hotels in this kind of place won't provide you with disposable items."
Huo Zhixiao took what Ding Yinan gave him, and said with a smile: "It's not like I haven't seen it before."
Of course Ding Yinan has seen it, even the most intimate parts, but it doesn't mean he wants to see it again. He didn't answer, Huo Zhixiao raised his eyebrows and asked, "How about washing together?"
Ding Yinan knew it was a joke, so he simply pretended not to hear it, sat back on the bed and picked up the "Rural Architecture Design".
Huo Zhixiao didn't wash for too long. When he came out of the bathroom, he was wearing cotton T-shirt and pajama pants honestly, and Ding Yinan's tense nerves finally relaxed.
The water heater in the hotel is a water storage type, and Huo Zhixiao has to store water again after washing.
Ding Yinan waited for a while, and when he saw that it was almost time, he took the toiletries and a change of clothes and went to the bathroom. He also locked the bathroom door just in case.
I thought there would be no accidents after taking a bath, but as soon as Ding Yinan put the bath lotion on his body, he heard a loud "boom" of thunder outside the house, and immediately the surroundings were plunged into darkness.
There are no windows in the bathroom, and the lack of light means darkness. Human beings are born with a physiological fear of the dark, otherwise they would not use this term in a derogatory sense.
Ding Yinan flushed twice casually, turned off the faucet, wrapped a towel around his waist, and went outside the bathroom.
At this time, Huo Zhixiao just opened the curtains, and saw that the street outside was also pitch black, with only the faint moonlight barely illuminating the outline of the house.
Huo Zhixiao withdrew his gaze, looked at Ding Yinan and said, "The power is out."
Ding Yinan couldn't help having a headache, why did he encounter such a crap while taking a bath
In the hallway outside came the chatter of the city leader who directed agricultural development who lived a few rooms down the road. At this time, Ding Yinan heard the voice of the hotel owner again through the door panel. He was explaining to several leaders that the transformer was struck by lightning and the entire county was cut off.
In this case, the call will only be made after the transformer is repaired tomorrow. Ding Yinan suddenly thought that the hot water stored in the water heater might cool down soon, so he put aside the power outage for the time being, and planned to wash himself clean first. Besides.
He turned and went back to the bathroom, but didn't hear the boss outside the door add that there are diesel generators in the hotel.
The small space is too dark, this time Ding Yinan only half closed the bathroom door.
He thought to himself that even if Huo Zhixiao came to the door of the bathroom, he could only see a vague black shadow. He is not so hypocritical, and he cares about this matter.
However, Ding Yinan had calculated everything, and he didn't count the foam on his body just after washing off, when the bathroom lit up with a thud.
He froze for a moment, then subconsciously looked back to the door. And Huo Zhixiao probably wanted to go outside the door to see what was going on, so he happened to be standing at the door of the bathroom, so the eyes of the two met so impartially.
The air was silent for a second, Ding Yinan immediately pulled the towel around his waist, and then walked to the door in two steps, trying to close the door that was ajar. But at this moment, Huo Zhixiao suddenly supported the door frame with one hand, and slammed the other hand on the door panel.
"Why hasn't it disappeared yet?" Huo Zhixiao asked without beginning or end.
His eyes slowly swept across Ding Yinan's steamy skin, as if it was tightly glued to it.
"What?" Ding Yinan didn't understand what Huo Zhixiao said.
"Slap print."
Hearing this, Ding Yinan immediately understood that Huo Zhixiao was talking about the marks left on his butt that night. He was a little annoyed, and said in a bad tone: "You pinched too hard." Then he slammed the bathroom door.
Huo Zhixiao outside the door smiled lightly and said, "Then I'll be lighter next time."
That tone, as if there is really a next time.
Ding Yinan took a deep breath with a headache, he didn't want to go out right away, just as the hot water in the water heater hadn't run out, he washed in the bathroom for a while, and didn't come out until the warm water gradually turned cold.
The heavy rain outside the window showed no signs of abating, and the generator downstairs was still humming, which disturbed Ding Yinan, who was still unable to sleep peacefully.
He glanced at Huo Zhixiao who was lying on another single bed, and saw that he hardly turned over and his breathing was relatively steady, which showed that this old man had perfectly adapted to the environment here.
But to be precise, the reason why Huo Zhixiao was able to fall asleep so quickly was largely because in his eyes, sleeping is the biggest thing in the world.
When Ding Yinan started working, Huo Zhixiao always went to the office after eleven o'clock in the morning. Huo Xun's first request to Ding Yinan is to ensure that his son will be on duty before ten o'clock.
— Actually, the normal working hours are nine o’clock, but Huo Xun doesn’t expect Huo Zhixiao to wake up after eight o’clock.
Later Ding Yinan discovered that Huo Zhixiao didn't have a sense of time, as long as he didn't remind him, Huo Zhixiao would often forget the time.
So he came up with a way to come one minute earlier every day. After two months of persistence, he successfully brought Huo Zhixiao's wake-up time up to eight o'clock.
When Huo Zhixiao realized why he got up so early, his biological clock was already used to getting up at this time, and he was just upset for a while, but he didn't blame Ding Yinan in the end.
Ding Yinan was unconsciously thinking about things at work, but just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, he heard a faint sound.
Slap.
Another sound. This time Ding Yinan heard it clearly, it was the sound of water droplets.
Huo Zhixiao next to him was obviously also affected by the sound. He sat up and turned on the light in the room, then touched his forehead, looked towards the ceiling, and said with disbelief: "Water leak?"
Ding Yinan followed Huo Zhixiao's gaze, and saw water stains on the white wall of the ceiling, and there were signs of continuous dripping. He immediately turned over and got out of bed, and said to Huo Zhixiao, "I'm going to find the boss."
Within five minutes, Ding Yinan came up with the boss. The boss glanced at the leaky ceiling, said "wait for me", then returned to the first floor and brought up a bucket.
Next, Ding Yinan felt a little suffocated by the boss' actions.
He dragged out the bedside table between the two single beds, moved it to the corner of the room, then pushed Ding Yinan's single bed to the wall next to the bathroom, and then pushed Huo Zhixiao's single bed —
Pushed together with Ding Yinan's single bed.
Staggered the leak point perfectly.
"That's what's wrong with this house." The boss put the bucket under the leak point, and patted the ashes on his hands as if he was done. "The two teachers will leave first tonight. We don't have any other rooms here."
Ding Yinan really wanted to ask from the bottom of his heart: Is this your solution
But if Ding Yinan was to deal with this problem, he couldn't handle it better than the boss for a while.
Huo Zhixiao looked at the two single beds pushed together, seemed to find it funny, suppressed the smile on the corner of his mouth and said: "Thank you, boss."
"Hey, thank you." The boss waved his hand, "Then I'll go down first."
Two single beds lay quietly there to form a large bed. Huo Zhixiao neatly lay down again, looked at Ding Yinan with a stiff expression and said, "Ding Zhu, don't you want to sleep?"
Ding Yinan slowed down for a while, and then he got rid of the suffocation. His single bed was pressed against the wall, and he could no longer get into bed from the side, so he had to climb up from the bottom.
However, the action of "climbing the bed" itself has an ambiguous effect, Ding Yinan didn't dare to look at Huo Zhixiao's eyes, and crawled back into his bed without looking sideways.
After the quilt was covered, he didn't know what he was worried about, and reminded Huo Zhixiao behind him: "It's very uncomfortable to sleep in the middle seam." So don't fall asleep.
But Huo Zhixiao acted as if he didn't hear it, and just called out: "Ding Zhu."
Ding Yinan turned his head slightly, listening to the movement behind him.
"Unexpectedly," Huo Zhixiao smiled, "The countryside is quite interesting."
Boss: thank you for what