Bai Ziren spent two days thinking about it, and finally decided to go to Jishan County to see Cheng Jingbo. She told her mother and Uncle Mu about her thoughts. At first, her mother objected, but Uncle Mu finally persuaded her to succeed. He said: " It's good for Xiaoren to go out for a walk, it can relax her mind, and it will be boring if she stays at home all the time."
Bai Ziren didn't tell Cheng Jingbo in advance, fearing that he would disagree, she simply and quickly packed up her clothes and food, put them in a sports bag, brought enough money, and set off.
From the center of the city to Jishan County, you can take a bus. There is only one bus a day, at 1 in the afternoon, and the journey takes six hours.
Uncle Mu drove Bai Ziren to the bus station, and saw her enter the ticket gate before leaving in peace.
After Bai Ziren got on the bus, she silently began to count the time. Thinking that she could see Cheng Jingbo in the evening, the time would not be so difficult. She opened a bag of plums and ate one. By the way, she saw the single picture outside the window. I got tired of the dusty road after a while and was about to listen to music. The sister-in-law next to me smiled and asked her, "Little girl, are you going back to your hometown during the summer vacation?"
"No, I'm going to see my friends."
The sister-in-law was fine when she was free, so she asked her if she went to see her boyfriend, she nodded when she saw her, and then asked her what his boyfriend did, where he lived, how old he was, how tall... it was endless.
According to the usual practice, Bai Ziren would answer a few questions perfunctorily, then lower her head and pretend to look at her phone, but this time, she would rather chat with strangers about Cheng Jingbo, as a way to pass the time.
An hour later, my sister-in-law was sleepy, she turned her head and fell asleep, snoring loudly.
Bai Ziren immediately put on his earphones to listen to the music, and then looked out the window. The dusty road was gone, replaced by moving paddy fields. The slender rice grew towards the sun, and it would gently lower when there was a breeze. I bowed my head.
The vision is broad, and so is the state of mind.
When I arrived at the bus station in Jishan County, it was already 7:20. Fortunately, it was summer, and the sky didn’t get dark so fast, but it was still bright at the moment. She didn’t choose to take a taxi, but took the bus to Cheng Jingbo’s school , Arriving at the station in fifteen minutes, she came to the gate of the school, looked up at the very simple building, then looked left and right, there was indeed a row of two-story dormitories, it felt like it was there, she walked quickly , When she got downstairs, she saw a polite man wearing glasses coming with a hot water bottle. She politely asked if this was the staff dormitory building, and if there was a teacher named Cheng Jingbo.
The man didn't answer her directly, but asked who she was and where she came from.
"I'm his friend, I came from the city, and I want to see him." Bai Ziren was a little embarrassed.
The man smiled: "You should be Teacher Cheng's fiancee, right? I heard him mention it."
At this point, Bai Ziren couldn't care less about the embarrassment, and nodded.
"He is still in the hospital and will be back in about half an hour."
Hearing the word hospital, Bai Ziren was surprised and frowned: "Why is he in the hospital?"
"Did he not tell you? At an outdoor activity a few days ago, a child was almost knocked down by a motorcycle. Fortunately, he stretched out his hand to pull him back. The child was fine, but his finger was injured. He has been in the hospital for the past few days Bandage and dressing, don't worry, there is no serious problem."
"Excuse me, how far is the hospital from here? I'll go find him."
The man shook his head: "It's getting late, if you go alone, how can I explain to him if something happens along the way? Just wait here, he'll be back soon."
Bai Ziren was very impatient, no wonder he sent less text messages these days, it turned out that his hand was injured.
"I'm the administrator of this dormitory building. I happen to have the keys to each room. Let me take you there."
Bai Ziren stood where he was, looking at him hesitantly.
He smiled helplessly: "My surname is Xu, and my name is Luoshan. If you are worried, call him and ask him, or I will bring a chair over, and you can just sit here and wait for him."
"Thank you, I'll wait for him here."
Xu Luoshan nodded, went upstairs leisurely, and came down after a while, holding a light folding chair in his hand, unfolded it and placed it next to Bai Ziren, without saying anything more.
Bai Ziren called Cheng Jingbo, but he couldn't get through. He was a little disappointed and had to sit on a chair and wait for him.
As the sky darkened little by little, a few female employees came slowly, talking and laughing, and when they approached, they saw a very beautiful girl sitting on a chair in a daze, very curious, someone asked softly: "Little girl, who are you waiting for?"
"I'll wait for Cheng Jingbo."
"Are you Teacher Cheng's fiancée?"
Bai Ziren nodded, feeling a little strange, did Cheng Jingbo tell everyone about his engagement? Even if that was the case, how could they see it at a glance
"I said, with such fashionable clothes, beautiful skin and fair skin, he must have come from Teacher Cheng's city."
Hearing the words, Bai Ziren looked down at himself, and felt puzzled again. He was only wearing a beige dress, could it be considered fashionable? Look at her feet again, oh, by the way, she also wore a pair of newly bought British women's shoes.
A group of people went upstairs, opened the door one after another, and cooked in a hurry. Bai Ziren sniffed and smelled the smell of sauced duck.
She was a little hungry, and although there were biscuits in the bag, she was not in the mood to eat them.
She is like a child waiting for her parents to pick her up, unwilling to do anything until she sees someone.
After nearly forty minutes, she finally saw a clear figure emerging from the darkness in the distance. With that silhouette, that pace, and the way he walked, she knew it was him at a glance.
He was wearing a gray-blue shirt, and he was carrying a bag in his uninjured hand, with the bandaged hand hanging on one side.
She stood up and quickly hid at the stairs, her heart beating a little fast, she didn't know why she was so childish.
Familiar footsteps came from her ears, she held her breath, and when she saw a slender shadow falling on the floor tiles at the entrance of the corridor, she stuck her head out decisively.
bang...
She bumped against his chin, and his facial features shrank, it hurt so much.
Surprise flashed across Cheng Jingbo's eyes. After confirming that it was her, he reached out and lifted her face to check, especially the nose. He pinched it lightly and asked, "Is it broken?"
Bai Ziren shook his head.
He looked at her, his eyes reflecting the quiet and gentle night sky in summer, and said after a while: "You are getting more and more willful."
"I want to surprise you."
After the last word fell, he had already held her in his arms with one hand.
They hugged silently for a while, until she asked, "How's your left hand?"
"It's okay, it's just a small injury, it's almost healed."
She was attached to the temperature in his arms, and she was glad that she came here on her own initiative. The depression of the past few days disappeared, and the six-hour drive was worth it, everything was worth it.
"Go upstairs, and I'll cook for you." His plain words were full of obvious love.
Because Cheng Jingbo had an injury on his hand, Bai Ziren originally wanted to be in charge of the cooking, but he gently ordered her to sit down and not move, and everything must be obeyed by him here.
She was sitting behind the small table, guarding an empty bowl, watching his back without blinking, and suddenly realized that there are so many people in this world, and he is still the most handsome.
There are ingredients in the kitchen, although they are not rich, but they can be full. The vegetables have been washed before going out in the morning, and they can be put into the pot when they are cut. The herring is scraped and scaled, and the internal organs are removed. An egg, shrimp skin and seaweed can be a bowl of hot soup.
Cheng Jingbo was busy in an orderly manner, and when the three dishes and one soup were ready, she turned around and saw her fiancée eating plums.
"Put the snacks aside and eat."
Bai Ziren put aside Huamei, looked at the hot dishes, and said happily: "You also said that you don't know how to cook, so you are being modest on purpose."
"Try and see my handicraft." He took a piece of eggplant with his chopsticks and fed it to her.
“Not greasy at all, delicious.”
"You eat the vegetables first, and the food will be ready soon."
"It's okay, I still have plums and potato chips."
Cheng Jingbo quickly took the snacks from her hand, put them on the top of the cabinet, and patiently taught her: "Snacks should not be eaten too much, it will delay the meal."
Bai Ziren was a little delusional, why was he treated like a child when he came here
He turned his head to look at her, looked her up and down, and said simply: "In the future, when you go out alone, don't dress so beautifully."
She came to him and asked seriously: "Is it really good-looking? This is the first time I wear a dress."
He looked down at her outfit, even if he hadn't studied girls' clothing at all, he could intuitively know that she was very attractive dressed like this, the light-colored dress lined her fair skin, and the belt with rhinestones around her waist It was very thin, and when it was clasped around her waist, it felt like a tight grip. The hem of the skirt was not very big, and the skirt was not very long. Anyone could see her straight calves.
Suddenly, she felt that she shouldn't be walking on the street dressed like this, otherwise every man would look at her and take advantage of her eyes.
He smiled lightly and said, "I know you are beautiful, but I don't know how beautiful you can be. Can I look at you for a while?"
Bai Ziren's face turned red. In his impression, he seldom praised her appearance, and he was not like the boyfriend of a female classmate. He is different, except for kissing, most of the time he just likes to hold her hand and hold her shoulder, and he won't go too far.
"Of course you can," she whispered.
He inspected the dress politely with his eyes, then took it back, and said to her: "I've served dinner, you go and sit down."
They finished their meal face to face, and he even peeled fruit for her to eat.
"You sleep on the bed at night, and I lay on the floor."
"Will it be cold on the ground?" she asked while eating watermelon.
"It's just summer, and it's comfortable to be cooler."
She helped tidy up the house, and then sat on the sofa with him, her eyes glanced at a book in the corner, without looking at the name, she handed it to him for him to read.
Originally, he just wanted to hear his voice, but soon, Bai Ziren devoted himself to this book called "Six Chapters of a Floating Life".
He had only read a third of it, and she asked, "Is there really a woman as lovely as Yunniang in the world?"
Yunniang is a talented woman, sometimes gentle, sometimes lively, bickering with her husband, dressing up as a man to go to temple fairs with him, when he and his friends have no money to drink, she trades her hairpins for her hairpins, Many clever ideas increase the leisure time in life, such as hiring a wonton bag to take to the flower viewing party, cooking tea on the spot, warming a pot of cold wine, and preparing a plum blossom box to make everyone feel comfortable.
He put down the book and replied, "Aren't you?"
"I'm not as smart as her, and I can live a poor life happily." She thought for a while, and urged him to read on, eager to know their ending.
He read a few more pages, closed the book, and said, "That's all for today, you go and wash up, we'll go to bed early."
She was taken aback.
"Everyone sleeps separately."
"..."
When Bai Ziren went to wash his face and brush his teeth, and changed his clothes, Cheng Jingbo was making the bed, so he didn't deliberately peek.
She went to bed, he covered her with a blanket, and went to make the floor by himself.
"What was that sentence just now? It sounds good, but I forgot." She turned sideways and reached out to touch his shoulder.
"Incense in a quiet room, leisurely and elegant."
"It's not this one, it's the one I asked."
"Love is what you love, even though it's ugly."
She smiled and said to him, "Why did the ancients speak so nicely?"
"If you like, you can read some ancient books in the future, and you will gradually find that they have already expressed some truths that we couldn't understand when we were young, in the simplest terms."
She nodded, her arms still hanging, her fingers resting on his shoulders.
He opened his eyes, and by the moonlight outside, he saw that her arm was shining like jade, flawless, so he reached out and clasped her wrist, and kissed her.
She thought he was already sleepy, but she didn't expect him to do these things soberly, it was a little sweet besides the surprise.
"Are you sure you're not testing me now?"
"What?" She didn't understand at once.
"Deliberately dangling in front of my eyes in pajamas."
She understood and decided to withdraw her hand, but he held it firmly.
"You are pretty enough in yourself, you don't need to wear too beautiful clothes when you go out in the future." He said slowly, "Be careful that others have unreasonable thoughts about you."
"Who else would think that but you?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she brushed her drooping black hair with the other hand. When she raised her arm, the ruffled sleeves parted, and his gaze naturally stayed where he shouldn't be looking. After a moment, he lowered his eyes silently. Zuo didn't see anything.
"Why don't you talk?" She wondered if he was asleep, and gently tested, "Quiet?"
He suddenly pulled her down, and with her exclamation, her whole body was attached to him. Fortunately, the bed was short and not high from the floor, so she would be fine if she fell directly, let alone him at the bottom.
Nose to nose, eye to eye.
He pressed his hands on her back and said in a clear voice, "Let me hug her for a while."
"You... don't you think of something else?" She thought of what Zhu Mingwen had said in a blink of an eye.
"right."
"..."
He admitted it so directly, she had nothing to say, she maintained the status quo, did not dare to move, and was held securely by him.
After a while, she noticed that his breathing slowed down and seemed to have calmed down, so she said cautiously: "I thought you wouldn't think about that."
"If I told you that I couldn't think of it more than once, would you be afraid?" His eyes were as deep as an endless black sky.
She really didn't dare to speak any more, she only listened to his breathing with her ears, and thought of something, if he really had unreasonable thoughts about her...
He didn't have a definite answer in his heart yet, he had already picked her up, put her back, covered her with a blanket, reached out and tapped her forehead, and said earnestly, "Test me next time, at your own risk."
After he finished speaking, he walked to the door and opened it to blow the cold wind.
Bai Ziren stayed in the room alone wondering, what did he do to make him have such a misunderstanding
She rested her forehead with one hand as if thinking, and gradually realized that something was wrong. When she turned her head to look, when did her right cuff come off the thread? With such a wide opening, you can see everything inside.
She got up quickly to find a needle, thread or a pin...
But it was too late, Cheng Jingbo at the door was tall and tall, until the shadow of the moon and the shadow of the west, his clothes were covered with coolness, and he still didn't choose to go back to his room.
Early the next morning, when Bai Ziren woke up, he found something strange. Cheng Jingbo was looking down at her, with a helpless smile in his eyes, with his arm resting on her back, and she seemed to be in a dream. Here's the pillow to sleep carefree all the time.
However, why did he fall down again
She looked at him dejectedly, with guilt in her eyes.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Good, How about you?"
"Slept well before you fell."
"..."
"You seem to have had a dream about eating."
"How do you know?" She blinked, recalling the braised pork knuckle she ate in her dream, it tasted super delicious.
He calmly glanced at his injured hand, which was set aside. There was a row of tooth marks on the wrist, and the blood stains were faintly seeping from behind the bandage. After a little thought, he hid it so that she would not see it.
"I'm just guessing," he said.