Enduring the Winter

Chapter 50

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Saturday morning at 5:30, the alarm clock in bedroom 517 rang.

This was probably the only time in college that all four of them got up before six o'clock.

It was Bai Lu who was the first to get out of bed, quickly finished washing up, and called the remaining three people down.

"I can't... I'm sleepy..." Sister Pi and the third child helped each other into the bathroom.

Bai Lu reminded: "Hurry up, we will meet at about forty-five."

Because the playing time was short, everyone didn't bring too many things. Only sister Pi prepared a lot of snacks and stuffed a full bag.

"Aren't you tired from carrying it!" the third child said while looking at it.

"Not tired!" Sister Pi put her bag on her back, "Don't ask me when the time comes!"

When they went downstairs, Dou Sprout obediently waited at the door.

"Hello, senior."

The third child: "Oh, you're so cute."

Bean Sprout saw that Sister Pi was carrying such a big package, so she took the initiative to help, "Let me carry it."

"You can do it." Sister Pi pushed him away, "I'll do it myself!" Turning to the third child, "Where's Big Liu?"

"It's at the entrance of the living area."

At the gate of the campus, three boys stood and waited.

They are not short, and they are not bad-looking, chatting at the door. Seen from a distance, there is a youthful vigor like the dawn in it.

Everyone gathered, a total of eight people, caught up with a small tourist group.

Sun Yuhe looked at the time and said, "I called a taxi last night and it will arrive at six o'clock, so wait a little longer."

Bai Lu came to Xu Hui's side. The latter was carrying a small satchel on one shoulder, looking down at the ground, as if he was waiting for Bai Lu to come and talk.

"Did you rest well?" Bai Lu asked.

Xu Hui shook his head.

"What time did you go to bed?"

"It's past three o'clock."

Only slept for two hours.

Xu Hui glanced at Bai Lu, and asked calmly, "Are you sleepy after getting up so early?"

"You are earlier than me."

"I'm used to it." Xu Hui rubbed his clean sneakers lightly on the ground, and said to Bai Lu, "It's much better than before."

"That's good."

At six o'clock, two taxis arrived on time and took everyone to Hangzhou East Bus Station.

The busiest places in a city are probably the bus and the train station. It was still early in the morning, and the gate of the station was already overcrowded.

Because there are many trains, buy tickets now when you arrive at the station.

Xu Hui frowned at the crowd, while Bai Lu was asking everyone for their ID cards, but he pulled her back.

"What's wrong?" Bai Lu turned her head.

The crowded crowd made Xu Hui's unrested brain even more drowsy. He glanced at Sun Yuhe, who immediately received the signal and took the ID card from Bai Lu's hand.

"I'm going to buy tickets, you wait."

Da Liu and Dou Sprout said one after another, "I'll go with you."

Three boys went to buy tickets, leaving Xu Hui and four girls waiting.

The young master is sick...

517 people thought in unison.

Sun Yuhe came back quickly, checked the tickets for a long time, and distributed them in pairs.

In the end there were two left, Sun Yuhe gave one to the youngest, grinning and said: "Don't worry, sister, I guess you have to sit with brother."

The youngest: "..."

At half past seven, get on the bus.

Bai Lu and Xu Hui were seated next to each other, and when they walked to the seat, Bai Lu asked him, "Do you want to sit by the window or in the aisle?" Xu Hui put his hands in his pockets, bent slightly because of his height, and did not answer Bai Lu's question. He just sat inside without saying a word.

Bai Lu let him go.

The train started soon, and the pair behind were Sister Pi and Bean Sprouts. Bai Lu listened to Sister Pi unpacking snacks one by one. She had already eaten half of the package before she got on the expressway.

"You have some too." Lie down, handed it to Bai Lu, and asked Xu Hui, "Would you like Boss Xu?"

"I do not need."

Sister Pi retreated and sent a message to the people behind. Bai Lu looked at Xu Hui's face and said, "Let's see if I can sleep for a while."

Xu Hui turned his eyes sideways, "It's so easy to fall asleep."

"There is no way to understand people who suffer from insomnia." Bai Lu chatted with him as the peaceful scenery of Hangzhou City flashed outside the window in the early morning. "Our dormitory can sleep more than ten hours a day."

Xu Hui chuckled, "Then let me share."

Bai Lu suggested, "Why don't you drink some warm milk before going to bed?"

"Have a chance to try." He said lightly.

In fact, he didn't have the nerve to tell her that it wasn't just about warming the milk. When he was in a hurry, he really even tried the horrible "Lullaby" that Sun Yuhe had chosen for him.

"Don't worry." Bai Lu looked at him.

"Yeah." But speaking of it, it's really better now than before.

He looks out the window.

His body is slowly recovering, he knows it himself.

This kind of feeling that the body is getting stronger and the mind is getting clearer is very good, so good that it is indescribable.

The sun climbed into the sky bit by bit.

He opens his hands.

Bai Lu noticed it instantly.

He was still looking outside, his body didn't move, just opened the palm of his right hand on his leg upwards slightly.

This picture seems familiar.

"What do you want, a drink of water?"

Xu Hui turned his head lightly and looked at her coldly, "Still pretending?"

Bai Lu finally laughed and stretched out her hand.

He was very thin, but his palms were unusually dry and gentle. His slender fingers gently held her, covering her whole body.

This fulfillment reassured the two of them together.

Xu Hui's expression of peace of mind was straightforward - he gradually fell asleep.

Bai Lu looked at him for a long time, and felt that no matter what his mental and physical conditions were, his sleeping face seemed to have never changed.

After a while, the excitement of the friends who came later was almost over, and they all started to sleep.

The car fell silent.

Xu Hui fell asleep for two hours during this rare sleep, and when he woke up, his face was slightly pale.

"Motion sickness?"

Bai Lu opened the motion sickness bag, "Do you want to throw up?"

Xu Hui frowned and pushed her hand away, and said weakly, "...don't disgust me."

"Don't be a clean freak here, just spit it out if you want to."

Xu Hui still shook his head, Bai Lu put the bag back, and said, "But you haven't eaten anything, so you probably won't be able to spit it out."

She opened the bag and took out a small bottle of essential oil.

"Wipe it, it might be better."

Xu Hui stared at the things in her hand, his brows still furrowed. "You even bring this?"

"I'm afraid that someone will get motion sickness or be bitten by mosquitoes."

Xu Hui leaned against the window and turned to Bai Lu, "This kind of thing is useless, why don't you just bring me some motion sickness medicine."

Bai Lu looked at him, flipped through the bag again, and held a box of motion sickness medicine in her hand.

Xu Hui: "..."

"But you can't take it." Bai Lu put the medicine back into the bag, "This medicine has a calming effect. Your blood pressure is already low, so it will be very uncomfortable."

Xu Hui stared at her for a long time, and finally nodded speechlessly.

"Do you want to apply wind oil essence?"

"No." Xu Hui stretched his body in the limited space, "The smell is so strong that the whole car can smell it. I just woke up like this. It's nothing serious. It will be fine in a while."

This kind of upbringing that follows him like a shadow makes Bai Lu feel that he is a bit cute.

Put away the essential oils.

After driving for more than an hour, we finally reached our destination.

When we got off the car, we could smell the sea tide blown by the wind, diluting all the fatigue.

"Ah..." Sister Pi stretched her waist, and couldn't help shouting, "That's great!"

Along the road, all tourists who come here are walking towards the pier, and there are already many small vendors selling fruits and souvenirs along the road.

By the pier, there were more and more people, and the flags of each tour group were raised higher and higher.

Today's cloudy day, without dazzling sunshine, the mountains and seas are showing a light ocher color, like a painting.

Sister Pi raised her hands, covering her forehead, looked into the distance, and couldn't help but recite a poem——

"Suddenly I heard that there is a fairy mountain on the sea, and the mountain is in the void!"

Bean Sprout was always by her side, and after hearing this, she smiled and said, "That's not this place."

Sister Pi turned her head, "By the way, you are a liberal arts student, come on!"

Bean Sprout thought for a long time, and said: "I can't remember the ancient ones. In modern times, Kang Youwei wrote-'Avalokitesvara has passed here and refused to go, and the fairy mountain on the sea is full of Putuo.'"

Sister Pi laughed, "Not bad!"

An island in Zhoushan in the East China Sea, the hometown of Guanyin, Haitian Buddhist Kingdom.

The sea breeze is fierce, and the mountains and fields are peaceful.

The ferry was full of passengers, rippling in the vast ocean, the wheels hummed, and drove slowly.

"Why did you come here?" Xu Hui squinted his eyes half-closed by the sea breeze.

"They chose it. It's close to Hangzhou, and it's also very famous."

It happened to be lunchtime when we climbed Mount Putuo, "Are you hungry?" Sun Yuhe asked. Everyone said that they have been fed by Sister Pi's snacks.

"Let's go first." The third child suggested.

Completely independent travel, without a group guide, a group of people wandered around according to their temperament.

After walking for a while, Bai Lu noticed that Xu Hui's pace had slowed down.

"tired?"

Xu Hui didn't answer, but Sister Pi came over and said, "Why don't you walk slowly, let's go to the front first?"

Speaking of it, there are many problems with eight people walking together.

Like Sister Pi, who is full of energy, walks in a hurry, and looks at the flowers; while Liu and the third child are here for honeymoon, and they don’t necessarily stop there; the youngest is more inclined to rub against the tour guides of other groups. , listen to the story.

Sun Yuhe and Xu Hui looked at each other, and then said bluntly: "Well, let's go separately, take a walk for a while, and gather later."

Everyone agreed, Sun Yuhe shook his hand, "Call me."

The crowd dispersed, Bai Lu asked Xu Hui, "Would you like to sit down for a while?"

But Xu Hui suddenly felt tired before, and walked forward with his pockets in his pockets.

"No need to."

Bai Lu followed him closely, walked for a while and asked, "Are you really tired?"

The silent boy glanced back at her indifferently, took his hand out of his pocket, grabbed her and continued walking.

Bai Lu lowered her head and pursed her lips, she really became more and more thieves.

They held hands and walked aimlessly in the mountains and forests.

The incense in the Buddhist kingdom is at its peak, and the Lin Palace of the ancient temple is surrounded by clouds and mist, and the air is extremely fresh.

"What's so interesting about Mount Putuo?" Xu Hui asked after walking for a while.

"The most famous one is Avalokitesvara of the South China Sea, do you want to see it?"

"Look at it."

Bai Lu stopped in front of a map of a scenic spot to carefully identify the direction, while Uncle Xu Hui also stood behind, waiting boredly.

"Haven't finished it yet?" He asked impatiently.

"... finished reading, let's go."

Avalokitesvara of the South China Sea is the most famous scenic spot in Mount Putuo, and it is also the center of Buddhist culture in Mount Putuo. When Bai Lu and Xu Hui arrived, the ticket gate was already crowded with many people.

Xu Hui looked at the ticket gate and said in a low voice, "It's not a festival, why are there so many people?"

Bai Lu: "It's the weekend."

Xu Hui walked inside, "I'll go buy the ticket." Being held back by Bai Lu, she took off her bag and handed it to Xu Hui, "Don't bother me, sir, I'll go and buy it."

Xu Hui frowned, "You—"

Before Xu Hui could finish speaking, Bai Lu had already left. Because there were too many people, and Bai Lu was extremely petite, she was drowned if she didn't pay attention.

Xu Hui waited for five minutes but Bai Lu did not come out.

"Isn't it crowded to death..."

While muttering, he got up worriedly and wanted to find it, when he saw a small hand stretched out from the gap in front of the person with difficulty.

"Bai Lu!"

When Xu Hui saw the hand, he instantly recognized it as his own. He strode forward, grabbed it and pulled it away.

There were still people pushing from behind, Xu Hui turned his head and said, "Don't squeeze, there are still people in front."

Everyone rushed to buy tickets, but no one paid any attention to him, just squeeze as usual.

It took Xu Hui a lot of effort to pull him out, but someone slapped him from behind.

This time he was really angry, "I said don't squeeze people who don't understand—"

It came to an abrupt end.

Bai Lu stood behind him and looked at him indifferently, "Understandable, I didn't squeeze."

"..."

Xu Hui turned his head and saw a thin girl standing in front of her with a flushed face, her hand was still being held by him.

"Thank you... thank you." The girl thanked shyly.

Xu Hui turned his head to look at Bai Lu again, as if confirming something, and then let go of his hand instantly.

"You're welcome."

After the girl left, Xu Hui asked Bai Lu naturally, "Where did you come from?"

Bai Lu didn't speak, but raised her finger and pointed aside. There is a small road over there, a little detour, but there are few people and no congestion.

"Oh." Xu Hui nodded.

Bai Lu was still looking at him.

Xu Hui said frankly: "Just now she called for help, so I gave her a hand."

Bai Lu's expression was extremely transparent under the sunlight, and Xu Hui suddenly discovered that, upon closer inspection, Bai Lu's facial features were actually quite small and delicate.

He didn't pay much attention before, probably because she had never looked at him so directly.

Xu Hui felt a little guilty under her gaze.

It felt like she was holding a script, she knew it all.

Xu Hui walked over, took her hand, and said, "Let's go."

Bai Lu let him go.

Half a minute later, Xu Hui heard Bai Lu's questioning with a smile.

"Didn't you admit your mistake?"

His hands were clenched instantly as if being punished. He thought about her face just now, and he didn't dare to turn his head for fear of showing his red face.

Stride forward, said lightly: "How is it possible."