After slept more than three o'clock, the fragment of the tea name reproduced repeatedly, and she turned around and got up. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally dialed his phone. In the long waiting tone, I tried to hang up several times.
Is he taking a short break? Still in the laboratory? Still in a meeting
She held the phone in front of her eyes and looked at the notification that it was not connected, and her thumb had been slid to the option to hang up. Suddenly the phone was connected and I should pick it up immediately and stick it to my ear.
"Why haven't you slept so late?" Zhou Shengchen's voice was a little puzzled.
"I had a dream," she said with a sleepy sound, "a same dream, repeated many times. I know it's a dream, but I can't wake up, so I can only watch it."
"nightmare?"
"Well, nightmare."
"Those water villages have stories in many ways," Zhou Shengchen didn't know where it was. The sound coming through was accompanied by some slight echoes. "I've heard some of them, and most of them have signs of evil. But I don't believe it, maybe Did you rest during the day?"
"Um... Maybe."
The dream is the same, both him and her, Shiyi doesn't feel terrible. So when I woke up, I just had the urge to listen to his voice, as if to prove that he really existed, in the same age and space as myself.
"What did you dream of?" he asked.
"I dreamt that I was copying famous teas from past dynasties," she whispered, "Can you memorize it? Tang Dynasty tea?"
"Almost, I know something."
"for example?"
"For example?" He laughed, "Want me to recite the name of the tea for you to coax you to sleep?"
"Hmm..." She was lying flat, now she came to her side and changed to a comfortable position, "I want to hear."
"It seems that my wife is one of the four great voices?" He teased her, "I'm just a researcher, and the voice is really nothing special. I'm afraid you will get sick after hearing it for a long time."
"No..." She laughed, "I won't get bored all my life."
There was a little silence, and she called her name.
"Um?"
It's time to think he wants to say something.
Unexpectedly, he really began to recite those tea names to her. Mengding, Zisun, Shenquan Xiaotuan, Bijianmingyue, Fangshan Luya, Yonghu Hanao, Xishan Bailu, Huoshan Huangya... Some of them may be recorded problems, and the individual words are somewhat inconsistent, and she did not speak to correct them.
She sat up and leaned against the wooden bed, looking at the sparse lights outside the window. The architectural design here has a sense of time. In that time, the Cui clan of Qinghe and Chang'an were both north of the Yangtze River. What did the south of the Yangtze River look like? She didn't have much impression. Only in the verses of Li and Du, I learned that Jiangnan "women are like snow".
And hundreds of years later, she was sitting here, listening to Zhou Shengchen far away on the other side of the ocean, chanting some boring tea names to herself.
There is no special feature in his voice.
Slowly, but very patiently.
She discovered that Zhou Shengchen's greatest advantage is his patience. I don't know if he treats everyone like this, at least he has always treated her like this from the first acquaintance to the present.
"Wuzhou Dongbai, Qimen Fangcha, Qujiang flakes, Qimen Tuanhuang, Yashan horizontal pattern, Tianzhu tea, Xiaojiang Tuan, Jiukeng tea, Qihuo tea, Zhuyuliao..." He paused briefly, "Almost Now, that’s it, do you still listen to other dynasties?"
"Hmm..." Shi Yi hesitated, and wanted to ask if he would be busy.
Suddenly, there was a slight noise outside the door.
It was like the sound of metal falling to the ground, which I heard just now, but she wanted to hear him so much that she ignored it. "The time is right?" Zhou Shengchen suddenly called her again, "What's the matter?"
"I seem to hear a strange sound..." She whispered, comforting herself, "It's not you who said'There are some stories here', right"
He laughed and teased slightly: "If you believe in Buddhism and don't do evil, why are you afraid of gods, demons and ghosts?"
"I don't know, it's natural, right?"
She thought about it carefully, people who have experienced reincarnation really shouldn't be so afraid of the dark, or afraid of gods, demons, and monsters.
Zhou Shengchen said something again.
Shi Yi rarely took the initiative to call him, and he unexpectedly took the initiative to chat with her about some of his experiments. Shi Yi listened carefully and walked over to close the window tightly. When he went to the door to check the lock, he heard some footsteps.
She concentrated, trying to hear clearly.
"Are you still afraid?" Zhou Shengchen was by her side, and she could see the change in her heart.
"A little bit..." She whispered, "Maybe someone likes the scenery of the water village too much. When I get up in the middle of the night to see the night view, I hear some footsteps. I don't know why it is so light."
"Sometimes the more people fear something, the more they want to approach something," Zhou Shengchen's voice has a reassuring power, deliberately gentle, "Don't open the door, go back to bed and try to fall asleep. If you can't sleep, I Will always speak with you."
She was indeed a little scared, and went to bed very obediently: "Will it delay your business?"
He laughed: "No."
Later, Zhou Shengchen talked to her for a long time, and slowly the voice disappeared.
Shi Yi fell asleep at more than nine o'clock, was awakened by Hong Xiaoyu, and had breakfast together. She asked Hong Xiaoyu if he heard a strange sound last night. Xiaoyu was surprised and said no, and then looked at Du Feng next to him. Go and ask if he heard it.
Du Feng just held the dish with his chopsticks and shook his head.
It was time to see the two of them reacting like this, and they were even more afraid. Before the afternoon finals, they whispered to Mei Lin that they wanted to live in a different place. Meilin bit her pen cap and was overwhelmed with joy: "I'll change it for you, you must still be afraid, or else you will sleep with me in the next two days?" Shiyi is naturally happy.
Meilin asked her why she didn't call herself because she was afraid of ghosts in the middle of the night, and when she thought of the phone with her until dawn, she smiled vaguely. She lowered her head slightly, smiled so much that even the same sex as Mei Lin couldn't look away for a while, and muttered softly: "I bet you really have the urge to make men overwhelming."
Shi Yi stretched out his hand and gave her a light push to signal the start of the game.
The two of them sat upright and watched the performances of the finalists.
Today's game was over at three o'clock in the afternoon, and she suddenly received a phone call, a very unexpected call.
It's Zhou Shengren.
She remembered that the adopted brother of Zhou Shengchen was very kind to herself, even closer than his compatriots like Zhou Wenchuan. The little boy said on the phone that he just had some free time these few days and wanted to accompany her future brother-in-law. Although Shi Yi thought it was strange, he did not refuse.
For the term "future siblings", she had long been mentally prepared.
As long as Zhou Shengchen's mother does not recognize this marriage, even Uncle Lin next to Zhou Shengchen will always call her Miss Shiyi. Perhaps this is the rule of the big family. She and Zhou Shengchen obviously live in modern society and are legal couples, but they are not recognized in this family. For these, Shiyi sometimes thinks about it, but also feels wronged.