During the Snowstorm

Chapter 34: Across Mountains and Seas (2)

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He is a person, and sometimes what he says is too straight, and no one can catch it.

This is true for a bunch of bad-mouthed men in the past, let alone Yin Guo, who has always spoken kindly. However, she has learned to be good, and she can only look at the scenery if she can't say it.

"Nothing to say?" The man beside him was still teasing her.

It's cheap to be a good boy... Yin Guo pointed to the car window and changed the subject: "Look, the rain seems to be getting lighter."

Lin Yiyang was still smiling.

Forget it, don't tease her anymore, if you are in a hurry, you still have to coax her back.

The water marks smashed on the windshield became smaller and smaller, much better than before.

The rain on the island has always come as soon as it is said, and it will not leave when it is said to leave. Ten minutes later, the sky cleared and the sun was dazzling.

His original plan was to go to the station first, and seeing that she was in good spirits, he changed his mind temporarily. He drove her straight to the dormant volcano with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.

Before going up the mountain, he left a private dressing room for Yin Guo and asked her to put on thick clothes first. He was alone on the edge of the road, with his back to the car, looking at the vast grassy hillside. The landform here is much better, at least the land is no longer scorched black cooling magma, but a large area of green grass and half-dead bushes.

There are no beasts here on the Big Island, and the direct result of the ecological imbalance is that there are too many wild goats.

When Yin Guo was buttoning the waist of his jeans, he kept looking through the car window at the herds of wild goats outside, there would be hundreds of them, gnawing grass on the rolling grass, and there were goat bones in the depression not far away.

"Rainbow." As soon as Yin Guo jumped out of the car, he pointed to the neon lights across the mountains in the distance.

This was the first rainbow she saw on the island. After a few hours, counting to the seventh rainbow was no longer rare.

"This is the Rainbow State," he pointed to a car that had just passed by, and asked Yin Guo to look carefully at the license plate of the car. Apart from the number, there was a rainbow logo, "You can see how many times a day, the people around me We met up to fourteen times a day."

It's not new if you see it too much.

After the two had a short rest at the foot of the mountain, they first went up to the visitor center, which was more than 2,000 meters away, and drank hot drinks to keep warm. He wanted Yin Guo to acclimatize here for half an hour, lest his body would be overwhelmed by the sudden climb to the plateau.

Seeing that she responded well, he was relieved to take her up to the peak of more than 4,000 meters.

The higher you go, the worse the road condition is, it is full of sand and there is no guardrail to protect it. Fortunately, he was experienced and rented a four-wheel drive off-road vehicle with good climbing ability, and he was also good at driving on mountain roads, so he reached the summit smoothly at noon.

In the cold wind that was close to zero, Lin Yiyang pulled her and continued to climb to the top of the mountain. The snow in April is so thin that the soil cannot be covered in some places, and what is exposed is brown volcanic soil.

This is the place where the earth is closest to the landform of Mars. Above the clouds, it is desolate and quiet.

Lin Yiyang was looking for an angle to let her see the distant active volcano crater, and she could see the crimson flame emitting white smoke at the end of the mountain. And in front of you, on this peak, there are more than a dozen spherical and cylindrical white buildings scattered on the top of the undulating mountain. Is this the only equipment on this peak? Or a building

"This is the observatory." Lin Yiyang told her.

It was the first time she saw the observatory up close, and it was very novel.

There are mountaineering tour groups coming up regularly, and the tour guide is pointing to the observatory and giving detailed explanations to tourists. It is said that this is one of the best astronomical observation spots in the world. Because of the good latitude, you can see all the starry sky in the northern hemisphere and more than 80% of the southern hemisphere. It is simply a paradise for astronomy lovers, and it is a holy place for stargazing for ordinary tourists.

The tour guide finally concluded: This is the closest place to the sky.

It’s not about the real distance, but the purity of the starry sky is amazing. When you look up at night, the arched Milky Way seems to be right in front of your eyes and within reach.

Yin Guo listened with relish, and asked him in a low voice, "Are you using these telescopes to look at the starry sky at night?"

"The observatory cannot be entered," he said, "and no one can be left on the top of the mountain after dark, so that the observatory can work."

If you want to see the starry sky, you can do it anywhere on the island, unless you are an astronomy enthusiast, you will bring your own telescope, or line up at the visitor center to use the telescope there.

He brought her here also to let her see the Milky Way starry sky.

But that's for the night.

The top of the mountain is too cold and the altitude is high, so it is not suitable to stay for a long time.

He pulled down the zipper of his mountaineering suit, took it off, wrapped her in the mountaineering suit directly, and rubbed her hands in his palm: "Do you have a headache?"

Yin Guo shook her head, struggling to breathe, but it was okay.

Lin Yiyang took her back into the car, turned on the maximum air conditioner to keep her warm, and left for a short time. When he got into the off-road vehicle again, what he brought was not only the cold wind, but also snow flakes left on his sleeves.

He started the car, took off the watch on his left wrist, and handed it to her: "Put it on."

What are you doing

"Watch the time," he said, "in three hours, it will take you down to the horizon."

She didn't understand much at first.

After Lin Yiyang drove her down the mountain, he kept stepping on the accelerator. The speed of the car was much faster than when he came. At first, it was fine on the mountain, but when it reached the flat ground, it was completely racing.

The altitude has been dropping, and the temperature has been rising, from zero to more than 30 degrees.

Apart from changing their summer clothes halfway, and filling up their car's gas tank at a gas station, the two of them never stopped. Two hours and seventeen minutes later, the car stopped at the coast.

She got out of the car barefoot, ran to find the backpack in the trunk, and dug out the flip flops. Before he had time to wear it, Lin Yiyang had already picked up a dark blue incubator in the trunk: "No need to wear it, go to the beach."

She was holding a slipper in one hand, and he ran the other hand along a sandy path. In the high temperature of more than 30 degrees, the torches on the wooden stand were burning in clusters by the coast.

He put the blue incubator on the beach.

Yin Guo thought it was an ice-cold drink, but when he opened the box, white air-conditioning evaporated.

It was a box full of compacted snow, and he actually brought down the snow at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, driving like a desperado just for this box of snow

Tourists from far and near look here.

He originally planned to rent a pickup truck, take it slowly down the snow, and get her to the beach for her to build a snowman. However, I changed my mind later. First, there was less snow on the top of the mountain at this time, and second, it was too troublesome to load the car, and I lost the surprise.

"Not much, just play around with it." He said, and poured it all onto the sand, forming a small snowdrift.

Yin Guo watched the snow melt in front of her eyes, even though it was pressed hard, she couldn't stand the baptism of more than 30 degrees high temperature. She hurriedly rescued the snow on the beach: "It's almost melting, what should I do if it melts?"

As if nothing had happened, he sat under the shade of a tree, hugged his knees, and watched her screaming that the snow had melted, while desperately trying to hold the snow back, and was watched from afar like a neurotic.

Watching the snow melt and soak the sand.

She finally put her arms around his neck, no matter how much sweat was on his body or how much sand was on her hands, she just refused to let go while holding him. How could there be such a man who would take you up the snow-capped mountains, and then drive you wildly to the summer beach in the center of the Pacific Ocean, next to clusters of torches, let you show your love on the beach, among tourists wearing all kinds of bikinis and swimming trunks, and in full view of everyone? Your whole box of winter snow.

The back was patted lightly by him, pampering and comforting.

Someone next to it was saying that this is crushed ice from a cold drink store, and some people guessed that it was dry ice, and it was refuted that dry ice should not be touched... Various speculations, no one knew them, and no one would guess the answer.

Lin Yiyang's hand slid down and rested on the edge of the girl's hot pants pocket, slowly sliding along the sewing thread on the edge: "Are you happy?" He asked her who was hugging him.

"Hmm." Crazy happy.

If you let him pull the snow of a pickup truck here, he will not be very happy if he looks like a psychopath. When you like someone, everything you do seems to please her, so why not please yourself.

Seeing her happy made him even happier.

The empty incubator was next to the two of them, and after a while, the snow water inside evaporated.

Lin Yiyang went to buy her a pineapple smoothie and came back to relieve the heat. Holding the pineapple shell, Yin Guo first sat on the beach watching people surfing, sweat rolling down his face, biting the straw, wanting to smile at him every ten seconds.

Later, unable to sit still, he dropped the pineapple and stepped on the sand in front of him, walking around him round and round, like stars revolving around the sun.

After turning around a few times, he suddenly reached out and grabbed her ankle on the fine sand: "Aren't you afraid of getting dizzy?"

Yin Guo shook his head, pursed his lips and smiled, and was forcibly grabbed by him and fell down in front of him.

She looked at him helplessly, her temples and bangs on her forehead were soaked, a stream of sweat trickled down from her right temple, flowed down her neck, and into the round neckline.

Lin Yiyang could imagine how the sweat flowed into her clothes and across her body.

"What are you thinking? You don't speak." Yin Guo asked him.

The smile never faded from the snow-capped mountains, it bloomed on her face all the time.

"I'm thinking," Lin Yiyang put his hand on her hot pants, "You."

His palm was hot, and the fine sand was grinding her skin.

"Thinking," he added, "you should catch up on some sleep."

Anyway, at this time, it’s too late to go back to the mountain to watch the sunset. It’s better to go to the station, rest first, and then go out at night to see the sunrise from the starry sky.

"Go?" he asked.

She nodded, and went with him everywhere, to the ends of the earth.

Lin Yiyang booked a big bed tent in a small town, which was in the jungle.

On the way there, she was distracted all the time, opened the car window, and the hot wind blew into the car, not cool, but brought the unique humidity of the island, as well as sticky sweat on the skin.

The car was parked on the grass in front of the tent, Yin Guo was looking for the flip-flops in front of the seat with her feet, before she could put them on, Lin Yiyang had already bent down to get into the car, wrapped her around her back and the hollows of her legs, and pulled her out of the car hugged out.

Yin Guo put his arms around his neck, saw two umbrellas drifting by, and saw three girls turning their heads, and felt more embarrassed: "I'll go by myself."

"It's raining, you walk too slowly."

Rain again, rain over the Pacific Ocean.

Within two minutes, Lin Yiyang stepped into the tent by the jungle, pushed the three wooden folding chairs out of the way with his legs, and put her on the bed. In the damp jungle, the sheets and bedding are also damp.

There are even frogs calling.

Sleeping in the tent in the jungle, with the smell of mud in the rain, coupled with the sound of the rain on the roof, gave her the illusion that she was in the open air and was surrounded by crowds: "Are there a lot of bugs here at night? There are also mosquitoes?"

How much girls care about bugs, even Lin Yiyang, who has never had a girlfriend before, has a deep understanding since kindergarten. He directly extinguished her fear: "If you don't sleep in the tent at night, I will let you catch up on sleep here."

"Isn't it a waste to book a tent?"

They don't come until late in the evening, what a waste of an empty night.

When she was discussing this issue with him, her legs pressed against the quilt and dangled back and forth right under his nose. Lin Yiyang originally planned to let her sleep for a while, after all, after playing all day long after the long-distance flight, her physical strength was exhausted.

His plans are elsewhere, and the folding chair next to the bed is his resting place. You can check emails and get down to business. But now... Her legs are really white, still very thin, thin but not revealing, and even the knees are slightly bent with a beautiful arc.

The rain was getting heavier, beating on the roof of the tent.

Yin Guo looked up at the ceiling, thinking that the tent might not be suitable for living in rainy days, as it would be noisy. Gradually, there were waves of heat on her body, which fell through the clothes or directly onto the skin.

What sleepiness decomposes is people's willpower, which is easy to be carried away, and it will be sideways if carried along.

The tent door was closed, but not securely. A slight wind poured in from the open tent mouth, he fished out the quilt from under her body, and covered her.

"Hot." She muttered, hot and humid, covered with a quilt, it was torture.

"If you don't cover it, you can see it from the outside."

"...Why don't you pull it up."

Too lazy to move.

Lin Yiyang was dressed neatly, without taking off any of his clothes. She was under the quilt, looking from the outside, at most she could see him holding her and talking, and could not notice anything else.

He searched for a while on the hot pants, unbuttoned a copper-colored button, and sank his hand in.

There was a moment of confusion and subconscious resistance in Yin Guo's eyes. Lin Yiyang just looked at her, observed her expression, and didn't kiss her. The kiss was postponed indefinitely, which gave birth to an emotion that made her feel anxious.

He hadn't kissed himself for more than twenty hours.

She was thinking about how he picked up the snow and pressed it in the incubator today on the snowy mountain, thinking about his fingers on the snow, thinking—the strength in her whole body was suddenly taken away, it was just a matter of a moment.

For the first time in her life, a black shadow and white light intertwine and merged in front of her eyes, white first and then black? Or black and white first? Forget it after it happens, like a memory is formatted. It's just the feeling of fatigue and the sudden relaxation of the muscles all over the body. From the legs and arms to the fingertips, they are all clamoring desperately: so tired.

"How do you feel?" Lin Yiyang asked her first.

"Hmm..." It was strange and comfortable.

For the next half a minute, she didn't even think about moving. She hugged him like a koala, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing his collarbone with the tip of her nose. Looking at her dazed eyes that were not clear until now, he guessed that she probably didn't know what happened.

In the end, Yin Guo didn't even have the strength to turn over, and his throat hurt so hot, it didn't seem like thirsty water, but more like the sequelae caused by his body being too excited. In Lin Yiyang's arms, she adjusted her posture, pillowed her face in his arms, and said hoarsely, "I'll sleep for a while, ten minutes... just fine."

These were the last words she said before going to bed.

Confused, Lin Yiyang put something like two rubber band loops on her ankles and wrists, she frowned, and rubbed the loops on her wrists, not wanting to get rid of them, it was too tight. This was the last thing she did before falling asleep.

"Anti-mosquito ring, children wear it, I think it looks pretty, I bought it for you to try." These were the last words she heard him say before going to bed.