After a few conversations between the two children, they naturally put the previous awkwardness behind them. After watching Journey to the West, we took the puppy to wander around the village together.
On the road, when he met children who were all in black, Shen Jize met their eyes and nodded reservedly.
He usually looks quite deserted to outsiders, but only those who are familiar with the game will know that is not the case.
The two walked down the river embankment along the path, and when Shen Jize saw the good water in the river, his heart began to stir.
He has signed up for swimming classes, and he swims quite well. Now that there are no people by the river and the weather is hot, he wants to swim a few laps.
It's just that he didn't bring swimming trunks... He stood under the willow tree by the river and hesitated.
The little dog who had been following him didn't have these worries. He rushed towards the river with his tongue out, plopped into the water, and swam happily.
"Do you want to go down the river?" Lu Rong was watching the situation beside him.
Shen Jize looked around and hummed.
Lu Rong also felt hot, his forehead was sweating, and his face was red, but he still tried to persuade him: "Grandpa doesn't allow me to go down the river by myself, I must be accompanied by him."
"He didn't allow you to go down the river, and he didn't say that I wasn't allowed to go down the river. Besides, I want to go down the river to collect wind." Shen Jize glanced at him.
Lu Rong opened his mouth, as if he felt that this statement was wrong, but he didn't know how to refute it, so he just said, "Don't go down the river alone, you will easily be drowned."
Shen Jize was still hesitating without swimming trunks, but he was inexplicably agitated when he heard this, and said with a sneer, "Do you know that I have won prizes in swimming? I will drown? It's just a joke."
After speaking, he took off his T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, put them on the big rock next to him, and walked into the river wearing a pair of underwear.
"You're still wearing pants." Lu Rong reminded him.
Shen Jize's heart had already plunged into the cool water, impatient to explain, so he didn't make a sound.
The river does not seem big, but it is deep in the middle, but it is crystal clear. The moment Shen Jize leaned over to enter the water, he felt comfortable all over his body, and all the heat dissipated.
He did butterfly, freestyle, and backstroke once, pretending to look at the shore indifferently, and seeing Lu Rong looking at him, he was even more proud, and even raised his hands to step on the water with his feet.
"Come on, come down, the water is very comfortable."
Shen Jize wiped the water off his face, and hooked his fingers at Lu Rong. The boy's childish face was already somewhat handsome, showing a perfect handsome outline.
Lu Rong was already itchy, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he decided to ignore Mr. Cai's instructions, and stripped himself naked in two or three strokes.
He was raised by the rich man, unlike those children in the village, who often run around barefoot in summer. After taking off the sandals and stepping on the stone, he only walked forward in small steps with his heels so hot.
Shen Jize saw him raising his bare hands, walking forward cautiously, with his white, fleshy belly sticking out.
"Can you swim?" He couldn't help shouting to Lu Rong.
"Yes, grandpa taught me."
Lu Rong walked to the river, stepped into the water tremblingly, and hissed: "It's so cold."
"If it's not cold, it won't be cold when you enter the water." Shen Jize was afraid that he would go ashore again, and swimming by himself would be boring.
The little dog had swam far away, but when he saw that the little master was about to enter the water, he swam back quickly.
Lu Rong finally dived into the water and swam towards Shen Jize with his hands and feet.
Shen Jize's place is not deep here, only up to his chest. Standing in the water and looking at Lu Rong, he couldn't help laughing and said, "You swim like a puppy."
Lu Rong pawed under his body with both hands and feet, indeed making the same movement as the big yellow dog beside him. There is no standard posture for Cai Ye to teach swimming. The only requirement is to float.
He swam up to Shen Jize and stood up, but the water only covered Shen Jize's chest and covered his head.
Gulu Gulu.
Caught off guard, Lu Rong drank a few sips of water, and a string of bubbles floated to the surface of the water.
Shen Jize hurriedly grabbed his arm and lifted him up, bringing him to a shallower place to stand.
Cough cough cough.
Lu Rong coughed for a long time, his nose and eyes were red.
Shen Jize waited for him to finish coughing, and said, "I just saved your life, you know?"
"Ah?" Lu Rong was a little dazed, didn't understand that this would save a life
"If I hadn't caught you just now, you would have been drinking water and sinking, and you would have drowned."
Lu Rong thought in his heart that he would swim and not drown, but he said, "... oh."
"In this way, you are not allowed to go to the deep place, just swim here." Shen Jize drew a territory for him.
"OK."
Satisfied, Shen Jize stared at him for a while, and suddenly asked, "Why are you so white?"
He himself seldom basks in the sun, and his skin is quite fair, but Lu Rong is even fairer than him, and is a bit dazzling in the sun.
"I don't know, it's always been like this." Lu Rong also looked down at himself, and pressed the pink spots on his chest with both hands: "Look, it's all white now."
Shen Jize was startled, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He turned his head and swam deep, and said, "You're right here, don't come here."
"understood."
Lu Rong just played with the puppy by the shallow water, or paved the water with his hands and feet, and swam around within the range specified by Shen Jize.
From time to time, he would look at Shen Jize, watching him plunge down from the high stones by the river, splashing with a splash. Or dive to the bottom of the water and surface after a while, with the hair wiped back to reveal the forehead, and the water droplets on the face glistening in the sun.
"Puppy, isn't he pretty?" Lu Rong hugged the wet dog's head, and asked softly in its ear.
The puppy shook its head, water droplets were everywhere.
"I think he's prettier than everyone I've ever seen." Lu Rong affirmed again.
When Lu Rong turned his head again, he found that Shen Jize was gone. Guessing that he was diving again, he patiently looked at the water surface and waited.
Shen Jize looked best when he got out of the water.
But this time, after waiting for a long time, he started to panic, but he still didn't see Shen Jize.
Shen Jize was sinking to the bottom of the water, holding his breath, and tore a few aquatic plants wrapped around his ankles. But those aquatic plants were so flexible that he couldn't tear them apart for a while, and his lungs began to swell from holding his breath.
In a hurry, he pulled wildly with his hands, and the water plants became more and more tightly entangled. A huge panic surged up, making his hands and feet weak and unable to use his strength.
Consciousness gradually blurred, Shen Jize looked up, saw the light flowing through the water, and his ears were buzzing.
He thought he was going to drown, and his parents would die of grief. After school started, those classmates knew that he was drowned. It was a bit embarrassing...
In his misty vision, he saw a white deer swimming towards him in the water, paddling its four hooves with red stripes, passing through the bright and dark light in the water, and the two potato-like silver horns on the top of its head shone with light.
This is still a dream...
After these words appeared in Shen Jize's mind, he completely lost consciousness, his hands and feet stretched out, and his body floated lightly in the water.
Lu Rong, who had turned into a deer, quickly swam to his side, biting the edge of his underpants and dragging him towards the surface of the water. After dragging for a few times without dragging, he found the water plants on his ankles.
He dived down again, crushed the aquatic plants with his teeth, and pushed the man out of the water to the shore.
The puppy has been wandering in circles on the water, barking anxiously while swimming, and when it sees Lu Rong, it swims up and affectionately licks the deer's horns.
As soon as Lu Rong pushed Shen Jize into shallow water, there were passing villagers by the river.
He sank himself into the water and turned into a naked child again, and when he emerged again, he shouted: "Uncle, someone is drowning here, Uncle, help, someone is drowning..."
Not long after Shen Jize was submerged, the villager wanted to hang him upside down on the donkey's back to spit water, but when the donkey brought him, he opened his eyes.
The first time I saw Lu Rong, whose face was full of tears, was leaning over his head, sobbing and pulling his eyelids with his hand, weeping and asking, "Are you dead? Are you really dead?"
"I'm not dead yet." After Shen Jize finished speaking weakly, he began to cough.
The villager also breathed a sigh of relief: "You child is too disgraceful, what if you really drowned? This river swallows several babies every year, and there is no meat this year. You almost made up the number just now. Fortunately, Lu It has a good water quality."
He only knew that it was Lu Rong who saved Shen Jize, but he didn't see Xiaolu.
Shen Jize slowly got up and sat down. Lu Rong helped him up and thanked the villager. Seeing that nothing happened, the villagers led the donkey away after a few words of advice.
After the scene just now, the two children were a little scared. They sat side by side on the stone in a daze, and the puppy lay beside him to bask in his hair.
"I actually swam very well, but my feet were entangled by water plants." After a while, Shen Jize's face was still a little pale, and he turned his head and explained to Lu Rong in a hoarse voice.
Lu Rong sniffed, and whispered: "Yes."
"You do not believe?"
"I believe it."
Shen Jize thought he was rescued by him, he hesitated and said, "Of course you swim very well."
Lu Rong let out a low voice.
"thank you."
"Oh."
"You will be my brother from now on. I will cover you if anything happens." Shen Jize stretched out his left hand to him.
"Oh."
Lu Rong's gaze fell on his wrist, and he found a bright red mole the size of a grain of rice there, subconsciously took a second look.
"This is my lucky mole, so I wasn't drowned just now." Seeing that he didn't know how to shake hands, Shen Jize grabbed his hand and shook it twice.
Lu Rong twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking that it was obviously me who saved you, and it wasn't because of the lucky mole.
After getting dressed and going home, the courtyard door was knocked open before sitting for a while, and the rich man walked in with a gloomy face.
When Lu Rong saw Cai Ye's expression, he knew that he had heard about the flooding and that he had come back to clean up people.
"You two, stand in the yard for me." The rich man shouted angrily.
Lu Rong dawdled and couldn't get up, Shen Jize felt ashamed in his heart, so he went out and stood in the yard well-behaved.
"I told you to come out, what are you doing for me?" Cai Ye yelled at Lu Rong again.
Lu Rong trembled all over, not daring to sit still, went out and stood beside Shen Jize.
The rich man went straight to the kitchen, and when he came out again, he had an extra twig in his hand.
Before Shen Jize had time to react, Lu Rong beside him had already rushed out, hugged Cai Ye's waist under the eaves, and yelled sadly: "Grandpa, grandpa, I was wrong, never dare again... "
The rich man grabbed his arm wrapped around him with his other hand: "Go away, stand in the yard for me."
Lu Rong's tears streamed down, but he hung on the rich man's waist tightly: "Grandpa, grandpa, I was wrong, your good grandson will never dare again..."
Cai Ye couldn't pull his hand away, so he just walked forward, Lu Rong dragged his feet on the ground, his arms were not loose at all.
Cai Ye insisted on walking two more steps, finally stopped, and looked down at Lu Rong angrily.
Lu Rong secretly raised his face and glanced, then fell down with a groan, sat on the ground and hugged Cai Ye's calf, crying and rubbing his face: "Grandpa, I was wrong, I was really wrong."
"Get up."
"I can't get up."
Lu Rong kissed him a few more times on his calf, and said with a sob: "I will never sneak into the river again, I promise..."
Seeing him acting like this, the anger on Cai Ye's face receded a little, a little helplessness surfaced, and he let out a long sigh.
Lu Rong took the opportunity to raise his hand tentatively, pulled out the thorns in his hand little by little, and threw it towards the corner of the courtyard.
The puppy at the side thought it was playing a game, so it swooped forward to catch the Vitex, ran to the little master happily, and flicked its tail desperately.
"Go and stand by the yard first." The rich man stretched out his finger and pointed at the washing table.
Lu Rong's eyes lit up, knowing that the punishment was avoided, and he was only punished to stand, so he quickly got up, and called out in a long and whimpering voice: "Grandpa~~"
Shen Jize was still standing in the middle of the yard, staring at this scene in a daze.
His parents seldom beat him, but every time they beat him, he was ruthless, and his buttocks were covered with rattan marks after a meal. And no matter how much it hurts, he won't make a sound, let alone beg for mercy.
As a man, it's nothing to be beaten, but it's embarrassing to beg for mercy.
Even the disappointing Xiao Yong, when his parents slapped him with shoes, he just ran around the room, talking back while running, who would be like Lu Rong
Not only did they not run away, but they also stuck to them, kissed them, and softly called grandpa.
Totally spineless.
...but it really works.