Shili Village is in the depression of Nanshan Mountain.
Maybe it's going to rain, the mountains are full of water vapor, and the village is shrouded in milky white clouds. But it was only the distance from the entrance of the village to grandma's house, and the sky suddenly cleared up again.
The surrounding trees are green, and the bright sunlight falls from the sky, illuminating the villages in the mountains.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi saw the old man and the little girl home, and then there was a back-and-forth of "I'm here to have a meal before I go" and "No, no, my classmates are waiting".
Standing in front of the hut, Lin Zhaoxi was held by the old lady and refused to let her go, so she could only look at Pei Zhi for help.
The boy looked around and looked very interested: "If you really want to eat something casually, we will stay."
When he said this, the old man suddenly became happy, and ordered his niece, who was in charge of the housework, to light a fire and cook, and pulled some vegetables from the field. Lin Zhaoxi wanted to help, but was stuffed with two tea eggs, and she and Pei Zhi were asked to sit on a small stool by the door to eat.
The little girl was running around catching hens in front of the door.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi sat side by side on a small stool, and saw the boy with half-rolled sleeves of outdoor clothes, leisurely peeling eggshells.
Lin Zhaoxi: "Didn't you say it's better not to take the people's stitches?"
"Grandma accepted our kindness, and we should accept hers."
"You're right." Lin Zhaoxi knocked the egg on the stool, picked it up, and found it wasn't broken.
Pei Zhi handed over the tea eggs that he had just peeled, the top was not shiny, leaving only a little eggshell at the bottom, which glistened in the sun and looked very attractive.
"No, no, you can eat."
"My kindness." Pei Zhi said while motioning for her to exchange his own.
Lin Zhaoxi was shocked at first, but she thought about it, Pei Zhi didn't refuse her vegetable garden pancakes, and she shouldn't refuse Pei Zhi either.
"Thank you." Lin Zhaoxi simply handed over the egg she hadn't cracked.
"You're welcome." Pei Zhi put the peeled one on her fingertips.
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When we left Shili Village, the sky was still sunny. Birds chirp in the forest, and there are occasional mountain streams flowing by the roadside.
Before they left, the grandma took out a lot of snacks and specialties from the mountains to send them. Lin Zhaoxi took some walnuts to supplement her brain appropriately, and returned the rest.
Pei Zhi was uncharacteristically, asking his grandma for a plastic sheet to keep out the rain, and took a lighter. He even stopped at the door of the firewood house. He might also be interested in the coiled hemp rope and sickle at the door, but in the end he didn't have the nerve to ask for it.
Lin Zhaoxi rubbed the paper walnut in her hand, squeezed it hard, and gave half of it to Pei Zhi.
"Did you really want to take that coil of rope just now?"
"yes."
"The scythe?"
"Can be used to cut down some broken branches."
"The umbrella?"
"If there is a thunderstorm, the umbrella is considered a metal object, and it won't hold up, so it's useless."
Lin Zhaoxi couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, the weather is so good, it doesn't look like it's going to rain."
"I know." Pei Zhi said lightly, "It's my problem."
Lin Zhaoxi was stunned for a moment: "What kind of problem is this..."
"Before going up the mountain, I handed over my backpack to Teacher Xie, but I forgot to take it." Pei Zhi paused and said, "I'm not used to dealing with unprepared things."
He is very sincere, and this is also the first time Lin Zhaoxi has heard Pei Zhi confess his shortcomings, although it is nothing at all.
"It's good to be prepared." Lin Zhaoxi comforted.
While talking, they walked into a foggy area. The milky white mist flows at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Is it a cloud that we just passed?" Lin Zhaoxi was a little shocked.
"yes."
"What's the difference between a cloud and a fog?"
"Essentially there is no difference, if you must distinguish..."
"I can answer this question—clouds will turn into rain, but fog will not." Lin Zhaoxi answered quickly.
She said this with the intention of teasing Pei Zhi, but she never expected that the first drop of rain would fall without warning.
The weather in the mountains suddenly turned overcast, and thick dark clouds rolled in, covering the entire sky above their heads.
"Isn't that a bit exaggerated?" Lin Zhaoxi raised her head and asked the sky, when big raindrops suddenly fell on her forehead.
She shivered and started to scramble, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't talk nonsense."
"It has nothing to do with you, it's the rainy season." After Pei Zhi finished speaking, he motioned for her to take out her things.
Lin Zhaoxi hurriedly put down her backpack and took out the rain cloth from it.
Pei Zhi quickly unfolded the rain cloth and ordered: "Send a text message to Mr. Xie, saying that we have encountered a heavy rain and need to hide for a while, so that he doesn't have to worry. But if you don't receive our second message within an hour, you will be in trouble." He called the police."
Lin Zhaoxi immediately finished sending the message, opened the two plastic pockets that Pei Zhigang had asked for, put both of their mobile phones into the pockets, covered them twice, and tied the pockets tightly.
It was only a short time of preparation work, the mountain rain turned heavy, and the entire mountain forest was covered by a vast rain curtain. The rain slapped the mountains, making a loud noise, a thunderbolt struck, and Lin Zhaoxi shivered again.
At this moment, Pei Zhi took off his outdoor clothes and handed them over. Lin Zhaoxi subconsciously took it, and the next moment, he pulled back the rain cloth to cover her.
The light was dim under the awning, and they were so close that they could almost feel each other's breath.
Lin Zhaoxi held Pei Zhi's clothes, and her thinking froze for a few seconds. She was about to say "no", but suddenly remembered that she was wearing a white T-shirt today, and it was mostly wet by the rain. It must be unsightly without a suit.
It was the same when taking the little boy away in the hospital, and it was the same when it was raining in the mountains. Pei Zhi was a gentleman from the bottom of his heart.
"Thank you." Having just been educated to accept kindness from others, Lin Zhaoxi put on her clothes.
"What's next?" she asked.
"Find a place... squat down." Pei Zhi said, "It's better to be higher."
Lin Zhaoxi was silent for a while. They didn't go in front of the village or back to the shop. Squatting down would ensure that the rain cloth would cover their whole body. It was the best choice at present.
"I remember passing a platform just now," she cried.
They pulled the rain cloth and walked back for a while. In a short distance of a few hundred meters, the soaring mountain stream beside the road overflowed and flooded the stone road. These water flows will not form mountain torrents, but they do not pass through people's feet in an instant, and the stream is cold and frightening.
Finally found the slightly higher platform, they squatted down on the spot.
The space under the rain cloth was compressed to the minimum, they were close together, the surrounding light was dim, but the air was hot and stuffy, and it was impossible to tell whether it was sweat or rain on their bodies.
Obviously in an extremely embarrassing posture, but perhaps because she finally reached a safe zone, or even if it was not safe, there was no better choice, Lin Zhaoxi suddenly calmed down.
The thunder escaped into the hollow valley, making a violent sound that almost destroyed the world. The rain beat every leaf in the forest, and the sound gathered and surged like waves. At a more subtle moment, she even heard Pei Zhi's breathing and her own heartbeat.
Suddenly, the mountain wind picked up and lifted a corner of the rain cloth. In a blink of an eye, a bolt of lightning landed on the mountain in the distance. The rain cloud on the mountain top was so thick that it couldn't melt purple, and the mist was steaming like a fairyland.
She really wanted to say something, but the situation was nothing but shocking.
After a while, they pulled up the rain cloth again.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at Pei Zhi through the ray of light through the rain cloth, and suddenly smiled in relief.
"It was so beautiful just now."
"Very magnificent."
"Actually, this is quite interesting." She looked at her and Pei Zhi curled up in a squatting position, and thought it was funny, "I was caught off guard when something happened suddenly, but it seems that I can brag about it to them later It was a bizarre experience to hear!"
"Yes." Pei Zhi had a rare smile, "Try to use exaggeration as much as possible, and try to tell a wonderful story."
"no problem!"
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If there is nothing to do next, for Lin Zhaoxi, this will probably be a novel and interesting short journey. Although it was rained a little, not everyone had the experience of being sheltered from the heavy rain in the mountains with Pei Zhi, and being ankle-deep in the stream.
After the rain gradually subsided, she and Pei Zhi pulled the rain cloth and continued to walk down the mountain.
The mountain wind was blowing, carrying the refreshing breath after the rain. The weather in the mountains was like a child's face, changing at any time. They had just walked through a section of the mountain road, and the sun came out.
They hurriedly stopped for a little repair. Lin Zhaoxi took out her mobile phone from her plastic pocket and handed it back to Pei Zhi, while she herself began to fold the rain cloth.
Pei Zhi took two steps away with his mobile phone, stood in the sun, and began to bow his head to send messages to Xie Ran to report his safety.
The sunlight in the valley fell from the sky and fell completely on Pei Zhi's body, making him seem transparent.
Lin Zhaoxi raised her head, but suddenly froze.
A large part of Pei Zhi's white shirt was wet from the rain, and even the vest inside was completely soaked. They were tightly attached to his skin, making many marks on the skin that were originally covered up obvious.
They are long or short, with reddish corners, some are slightly raised, and some are flat like a light illusion. She couldn't determine how many they were, or when they formed, and she couldn't even see them fully clearly because of the covering.
But if she read it right, it should be a lot of scars.
Lin Zhaoxi's heart was shaken, her mind went blank, she had no idea what was going on.
At this moment, after Pei Zhi finished sending the text message, he put away his phone and looked up at her.
Lin Zhaoxi quickly looked away, pretending that everything was normal, she continued to fold the rain cloth, but her hands couldn't help shaking.
What exactly is going on
Why did Pei Zhi have so many stab wounds
The mountain road going down is still beautiful, the mountain stream is abundant, and the birdsong is melodious, but Lin Zhaoxi is immersed in a huge loss, unable to appreciate all this at all.
She forced herself to calm down and think about whether there were such clues in the cheese world, but completely
Hanamaki said that Pei Zhi practiced MMA since he was a child, so the knife injury may be from training. Moreover, Pei Zhi also mentioned that his family was afraid that he would be kidnapped, so he was allowed to learn fighting, perhaps because he had been kidnapped and abused. It is even possible that these stab wounds are purely due to a fight with someone in the second stage of his middle school...
On the way down the mountain, Lin Zhaoxi was always peeking at the wet spot on Pei Zhi's body. At first her mind exploded, but after careful analysis, she seemed to be able to find many reasons to explain these wounds.
The summer sun was scorching hot. From the mountain to the bottom, they could gradually hear the laughter of tourists. The cloth on Pei Zhi's body gradually dried, from transparent to blurred until it completely returned to its original color, covering everything like a healed wound.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi set foot on the lawn by the lake, and all the students who participated in the camping ran over, like welcoming heroes.
"Not bad, it doesn't look like a drenched chicken."
"I made ginger soup for you for nothing."
The students said happily.
Xie Ran walked up to Pei Zhi slowly: "Let me not call you in the future, just send 'Do Not Disturb if you have anything to do,' instead of talking so much."
"It will be dangerous to answer the phone during thunderstorms." Pei Zhi explained.
It was only then that Lin Zhaoxi remembered that what Xie Ran said was the text message that Pei Zhi asked her to send in the rain, and the purpose of sending it to Xie Ran was also very clear, he could hold down all the classmates who wanted to call them.
The classmates surrounded Pei Zhi and walked to the barbecue booth that had been set up. Lin Zhaoxi fell behind and looked at his back.
No matter what happened before, Pei Zhi's thinking logic is very clear now, he always knows what to do, and is always well prepared.
The lake water was sparkling and the lake breeze was cool. Lin Zhaoxi stretched her waist, and the heart that was originally mentioned in the throat was relieved.
She put her hand back into her jacket pocket and found a note inside. She subconsciously thought it was a small ticket that she didn't throw away in her clothes, so she opened it without thinking too much.
The paper was somewhat soaked by the rain, and the handwriting was blurred but still legible.
Lin Zhaoxi glanced at it, then froze.