There was a snap of the light cord from the inner cabin, and the rich man came out pulling his slippers.
"Ozawa, what's the matter? Do you want to get up at night or drink water?" He asked standing at the door of the two connected rooms.
Shen Jize sat on the bed in a daze and didn't make a sound, his emotions hadn't escaped from the nightmare just now.
The rich man noticed something was wrong, turned on the light and went to the bedside, reached out and touched his forehead, trying to see if he was sick and had a fever, but he felt cold sweat on his hand.
"Ozawa, what's wrong with you?"
Shen Jize's voice changed a bit: "Grandpa, there are monsters chasing me."
Before the words fell, Lu Rong, who was sleeping soundly beside her, trembled her eyelashes and opened her eyes.
He was chasing after Shen Jize just now, and saw him slipping into the ball of light from a distance, so he also slipped back, just in time to hear the phrase being chased by a monster.
He quickly glanced at the person beside him, lay there without moving, and only quietly pulled up the towel to cover the whole person.
The rich man hurriedly said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, this is a nightmare, it's Grandpa's fault, he frightened you before going to bed. There are no wild boars and Brother Hua near our village, nothing. It's Grandpa's fault, Grandpa's fault …”
"Grandpa, is Big Brother Hua a deer demon?" Shen Jize asked in panic.
Cai Ye was taken aback: "What deer demon?"
Lu Rong pulled down the quilt again, secretly revealing two round eyes.
"Brother Hua is a leopard, but it's okay, our village hasn't had those wild animals for many years."
When the rich man heard Shen Jize mentioning Brother Hua, he blamed himself even more, took Shen Jize into his arms, and patted him on the back like he usually coaxes Lu Rong.
No matter how normal Shen Jize was, he was only an eleven-year-old child. After being so frightened, he leaned sleepily in the arms of Mr. Cai, and it took him a while to recover his face.
"Grandpa, are there any deer around the village? White deer." Shen Jize straightened up from the rich man's arms, and gestured: "A deer a little bigger than a puppy. It's not the big yellow dog called puppy in your family, it's the real one." puppy."
"No, there is a development going on near our village, and the sound made it so loud that there are no wild animals in the ten miles around." The rich man comforted, "It's just a dream. Look, isn't it good to sleep on the bed?"
The rich man stretched out his hand and scratched the top of Shen Jize's head a few times, and made a gesture of throwing it on the ground: "I beg Xiangu Xiangu to protect the baby and sleep well. I don't have any dreams. I wake up until dawn."
Standing up again, she stomped on the ground a few times, and said with a smile, "Hey, go to sleep now, Fairy will protect you."
After Shen Jize lay down again, he couldn't fall asleep.
He felt that it should have been a dream just now, after all, it was too mysterious, and it couldn't be justified if it wasn't a dream.
But all that was vivid in his mind, more real and vivid than all the dreams he had ever had.
He remembered the deer demon, and the pair of little silver horns, which looked like two potatoes, and also remembered its weird dancing posture, and that grin.
He tossed and turned restlessly on the bed until a limp hand was pressed against his arm.
Shen Jize thought that Lu Rong was turning over in his sleep and was about to pull that hand away, so he heard him whispering against his ear, "Don't be afraid, it's okay, be good."
She patted him lightly a few times soothingly.
Shen Jize froze for a moment, his body was a little stiff, and realized that the child knew that he had been frightened by having a nightmare, so he was ashamed and had thoughts of breaking the can, so he simply closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
If you want to make fun of it, you can make fun of it, it doesn't matter, fortunately, he doesn't know that he was scared to cry in his dream.
Fortunately, Lu Rong didn't know whether it was too sleepy or something, so he didn't make fun of him, and continued to sleep quietly.
It was almost noon when Shen Jize woke up, and he was alone on the bed.
The room was filled with bright sunlight, which made people blinded. There were vegetables in the kitchen, and there was a crackling sound of cooking oil.
He lay in the sun, recalling the scene last night, unable to tell whether it was real or a dream.
It must be a dream.
Shen Jize figured it out easily, got up and found clean short-sleeved shorts, put them on, and walked out of the bedroom.
Lu Rong was sitting on the steps with his arms around the big yellow dog, and whispered to stop it from making a sound: "That person is sleeping, don't make noise, don't wake him up."
After hearing footsteps coming from the house, he immediately let go of the dog and trot to stand in front of Shen Jize.
Shen Jize stopped his yawning, closed his mouth, and looked at him inexplicably.
Lu Rong held back for a few seconds before asking, "Do you want to brush your teeth and wash your face?"
Shen Jize didn't know what he was asking this for, so he nodded slowly vigilantly.
Lu Rong quickly ran to the side of the yard, where there was a laundry table made of cement boards, with a wooden basin and an enamel tank placed on it.
He squeezed toothpaste on his toothbrush, and turned on the faucet next to him to fill an enamel pot of water. Then carefully put the toothbrush horizontally, stood beside the laundry table and looked at Shen Jize.
Shen Jize recognized the toothbrush as his own, because there was a big gourd baby on the top of the handle, which he left in the bathroom last night and didn't bring it out.
Did Lu Rong squeeze toothpaste for him, and wait for him to brush his teeth
Will it be so good
Shen Jize didn't know what medicine was sold in the kid's gourd, so he stood still, and his vigilance increased by two levels.
"Come and brush your teeth." Lu Rong lowered his hands and looked aside, his tone a little uncomfortable.
After thinking for two seconds, Shen Jize walked to the laundry table. Along the way, he half-closed his eyes and stared at Lu Rong carefully, with his hands in the pockets of his shorts, looking cool.
He picked up the enamel jar, picked up the toothbrush and smelled it, and it was indeed toothpaste.
He smelled the water again, turned his back to block Lu Rong's sight, and licked it quickly with the tip of his tongue.
The water is spring water brought down from the mountain stream, with a touch of sweetness, and there is no sediment at the bottom of the tank, which is very clean.
—No ambush.
Shen Jize finally began to brush his teeth in peace.
When he was brushing his teeth, he found that the child was not idle either. He was filling the wooden basin with water, and ran into the kitchen again, struggling to bring out a large kettle.
The spout was still steaming hot.
Seeing that he was struggling so much, Shen Jize took the big kettle with his toothbrush in his mouth, holding his toothbrush in his mouth, and heated the water in the wooden basin.
When he twisted the towel in the basin, he found that Lu Rong was still standing beside him, watching him quietly, without blinking his big moist eyes.
Shen Jize thumped in his heart, and quietly sniffed the towel.
Strange, there is no peculiar smell.
He covered his face with a towel and scrubbed it. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Lu Rong was still looking at him.
It's just... it makes people feel hairy.
Shen Jize wasn't sure if Lu Rong had any conspiracy.
His cousin Zhou Chang, about the same age as Lu Rong, came to play at his house last summer, because he was not allowed to enter his room at will, and after a few awkward moments, he caught the caterpillar on his bed.
Shen Jize knew that this kind of seven or eight-year-old child was not easy to mess with. They don't play their cards according to common sense, and they will use dirty tricks behind their backs.
But until the face was washed, there was nothing unusual. The two silently cleaned up the tooth jar and wooden basin, still without saying a word.
The rich man came out of the kitchen with the food, walked to the square table under the banyan tree, and greeted the two of them to eat.
After sitting down, Lu Rong bit the chopsticks and looked at the dishes with his eyes rolling.
"grandfather… "
As soon as Shen Jize picked up a piece of wax tongue, he heard Lu Rong prolonging his voice again.
"No drinking." The rich man interrupted lightly, took two bowls of egg soup with a spoon, and placed them in front of the two children respectively.
Lu Rong pouted and didn't insist on drinking any more. Shen Jize marveled in his heart expressionlessly: He's really an alcoholic. He didn't say he drank yesterday, but he still wants to drink today.
I have to tell Xiao Yong about this after school starts.
The three of them were eating when the courtyard door was pushed open and Shen Yan walked in.
"Uncle." Shen Jize stood up happily.
Shen Yan walked to the table, touched Shen Jize's head, and pinched Lu Rong's face.
He came to pick up Shen Jize, and he hasn't had lunch yet. The rich man asked to eat together, but he was not polite, and started to eat after sitting down.
As a result, as soon as he picked up the bowl and took a few bites, the mobile phone in his pocket rang. He wiped his mouth with his hand and connected the phone.
"... When did it happen? Why is the foundation unstable?... It must be re-surveyed... If it is not done well now, it will be too late for something to happen in the future..."
Everyone at the table put down their jobs and listened intently to Shen Yan answering the phone with bated breath.
After Shen Yan hung up the phone, he said to the rich man: "Uncle, I'm going to trouble you again, I have to go to another construction site, in the town under the mountain, Ozawa's words—"
"Don't worry, Ozawa will live with me, and I will take good care of him." The rich man interrupted him.
Seeing Shen Jize looking at him helplessly, Shen Yan said helplessly and regretfully: "Xiao Ze, something happened at my uncle's construction site, so I can't take you with me, you just stay at Cai Ye's house for a few days, and I'll pick you up when things are done. you."
When Lu Rong heard this sentence, I'll come pick you up after the matter is done, her face buried in the bowl suddenly lifted up, she looked at Shen Yan and then at Shen Jize, her big eyes were full of shock and sympathy.
Shen Jize didn't notice this, he just wanted to make a fuss and go with his uncle, but he knew in his heart that this was impossible.
He heard the conversation on the phone and knew that his uncle was going to work, not to mention that he was an eleven-year-old man, what did he look like crying and fussing
Besides, Lu Rong was still watching.
So he held back his grief and nodded calmly: "Uncle, you go, I will stay at Grandpa's house."
Shen Yan patted his head in relief again, and after a few words of advice, he stood up and walked out of the yard.
"You have to eat before you go." The rich man called out.
Shen Yan waved his hands hastily, and kept saying: "I don't want to eat, just buy a steamed bun after I go down the mountain. Ozawa, you have to do your homework, you can't just play for two days."
"I'll do it. I'll go collect the wind later and prepare some composition materials." Shen Jize was as steady as a sensible adult.
The rich man packed up the dishes, and outside there were villagers asking him for a letter of introduction for going out to work. He told Lu Rong and Shen Jize a few words, and hurried out the door.
Lu Rong moved the desk to the door and placed a stool opposite. He kept looking at Shen Jize. Although he didn't speak, the meaning behind his words was clearly expressed.
Shen Jize originally wanted to watch TV for a while, but he had no choice but to sit down and take out the composition text from his schoolbag.
He only wrote the beginning of yesterday's composition, so he racked his brains to continue.
"... When I woke up from the hospital bed, I saw my father's back, he was so tall, he was the lighthouse in my heart..."
Lu Rong on the opposite side was also starting to write, and the pencil made a rustling sound on the notebook.
After Shen Jize said a few words, his mind was dry and he couldn't think of any more sentences, so he started to lose his mind and went to see Lu Rong frequently.
Lu Rong lowered her head, her long eyelashes covered her eyelids, fluttering from time to time like little wings. Shen Jize wanted to touch it with a pencil itchingly, but he couldn't hold back his eager hand.
He remembered what Lu Rong said last night when he patted him to comfort him - don't be afraid, it's okay, be good - he thought that this kid would be cute if he didn't make trouble.
At least it's cuter than catching bugs and scaring his cousin.
When Lu Rong wrote very hard, but also very slowly, the strokes deeply scratched the copybook. His facial expression was serious, his brows were furrowed, and his mouth was pursed into a thin line.
Snapped!
The pencil lead was broken.
He raised his hand to look for a pencil sharpener in the pencil case, and Shen Jize quickly buried his head, pretending to be serious about writing.
"...the nurse auntie was very hard and slow when inserting the needle. The needle penetrated deeply into my arm. My father said: Don't be afraid, it's okay, be good."
Here comes the inspiration! ! !
The two children finished their homework and started watching TV. CCTV is broadcasting Journey to the West, and Monkey King is beating up a few little demons to rescue the captured Tang Seng.
Although Shen Jize had read it several times and was almost familiar with the lines, he still slumped on the wooden sofa and continued to read without expression.
"You little demon, quickly release my master..."
Lu Rong was watching with great interest, when Shen Jize suddenly asked: "Hey, are there any monsters in your mountains?"
Lu Rong sat on the small stool in front of the TV, watched the TV and shook his head: "No."
Shen Jize thought for a while, sat up straight, approached Lu Rong and asked, "Really?"
"No." Lu Rong replied decisively.
Although he can turn into a fawn, he doesn't think he is a monster.
"Where's the deer demon? Have you ever heard of a white deer nearby? Or something that dances like a human?" Shen Jize asked persistently.
Lu Rong froze while sitting upright, then quickly shook his head.
Shen Jize was sure that this was indeed a dream, so he stopped asking and began to read Journey to the West.
Lu Rong exhaled slowly.
He stared at the TV and thought, Sun Wukong is still a monkey, even if I can transform into a deer, I am with him, definitely not a deer demon.