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Chapter 8 Jumping off a cliff

 The countryside is always very quiet at night, so quiet that you can hear the sounds of various animals.

Although the sound is very small, it is extremely clear.

Hutao was very tired and went to bed after dinner.

She heard Ling Yechen talking on the phone. She didn't know who the other party was, but she could tell that his attitude was very bad, and she felt like they were about to start a fight.

The soundproofing effect of the two rooms is not good, and every word he says can be clearly transmitted to her ears.

Fortunately, the call only lasted about five minutes, and then I heard the call was hung up.

Then there was the sound of playing games.

Hutao was a little irritated when she heard the sound of playing games, so she put the quilt over her head to block out the sound.

Although she was very tired, she just couldn't sleep because of the sound of the game.

After a long time, Hutao looked at the time and saw that it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

She thought that he was still playing games at twelve o'clock, so she talked to him and let him sleep.

Unexpectedly, after eleven o'clock, the sound of playing games stopped.

The two rested for a night, then sent the car to the hotel owner the next day and went up the mountain.

They went up the mountain and into the village.

I heard from the hotel proprietress that the roads in the mountains are not easy to walk on because they are all mountainous and the mobile phone signal is not good.

I didn’t expect that the road would be so difficult.

Hutao, who grew up in the countryside, finds it very difficult.

There are many mountain roads, either uphill or downhill, and you have to pass through many cliffs.

Looking down from the cliff, Hu Tao was shocked by such a road.

For Ling Yechen, it was unheard of and never seen.

Coming out this time really refreshed his bottom line.

Both of them walked very hard, and it took them half a day to search and ask questions, and finally arrived at the village chief's house.

This place is poorer than where they went two days ago.

Even the village chief's family is impoverished. I heard that they survive by finding some mountain products in the mountains and selling them.

It happens to be summer vacation now, and there are a lot of mushrooms growing in the mountains.

There is a kind of mushroom called matsutake that is very valuable.

The villagers would go up the mountain to pick up matsutake mushrooms every day before dawn, and then carry them to the foot of the mountain where the two of them stayed for one night, sell them, and exchange them for some daily necessities and food to carry back home.

If you are lucky, look for more. If you are unlucky, you will find nothing.

The village chief said that he was unlucky today and couldn't find it, so he stayed at home.

What they received in the evening was a bowl of matsutake soup and a few tortillas.

The matsutake soup is made from matsutake mushrooms that they cannot sell. I heard that corn is cheap, so I bought it at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing such food, Ling Yeshen didn't eat it. Instead, he ate the instant noodles prepared in his bag.

Hutao still ate a tortilla, and it actually tasted pretty good, not as bad as expected.

In the next two days, the village chief visited each of their households.

This place is really too remote, and each family is at the top of a mountain. If the village chief hadn't been there to guide them, the two of them might have gotten lost in the mountains.

After two days of wandering around, Ling Yechen no longer had the exquisiteness he had when he first arrived.

My face has turned darker, and I don’t care whether I take a shower or not.

He was no longer particular about food. As long as it could fill his stomach and was clean, he began to endure it slowly.

In the past, he would never sit down on the grass where there was dust, for fear of soiling his clothes, but now he is really not that particular about it.

When I'm tired, I just sit on the floor. I'm not used to getting dust on my clothes and pants.

What made Hu Tao particularly uncomfortable was that when they arrived at the last house, they happened to catch up with a funeral.

The child's grandfather passed away and there was a funeral.

And they have the custom of cremation here.

The village chief and the two of them happened to meet each other, and according to custom, they could only participate in the funeral.

The funeral is not over until the body is devoured by fire and the relatives tearfully pick up the ashes and scatter them to the top of the mountain.

Although the two of them did not see the whole process up close, Hu Tao just felt uncomfortable.

Her only feeling is fear, because she has not yet understood life, so she is afraid of its passing.

Ling Yechen was very calm, but obviously quieter than the previous two days.

He remained silent until the two of them said goodbye to the village chief and walked down the mountain.

He was so silent that she was scared. No one spoke to her along the way, but they both walked quickly down the mountain.

They had to get to the hotel down the mountain before dark.

What Hu Tao didn't expect was that something happened to Ling Yeshen.

There is a section of the way down the mountain where you need to walk over a cliff.

The cliff is so high that they can't see the bottom. They have to walk a long way and then go down the mountain from the gentle slope on the side.

After passing this cliff, it’s not far from the bottom of the mountain.

Because they were walking too fast, both of them were out of breath. What was even worse was that their legs were very sore and a little unruly, so they stopped and rested for a while.

They were standing on the top of a cliff, and looking down they could see deep ravines criss-crossing them.

One mountain and one valley, then one mountain and one valley.

Hutao was still a little familiar with the endless mountains, and Ling Yeshen had adapted a lot in the past two days.

Unexpectedly, after standing and resting for a while, Ling Yechen actually jumped off the cliff.

Yes, he jumped by himself. Looking at the bottomless abyss, he jumped uncontrollably and wanted to disappear into the abyss.

Unexpectedly, when I jumped down, I was caught by Hu Tao.

Hutao sensed that something was wrong with him from the moment they came down the mountain, so she let him go in front while she followed him down the mountain.

Unexpectedly, he jumped off the cliff in front of her.

She quickly grabbed his right hand.

But the body still slid down a bit following him.

Fortunately, her foot hooked into a tree behind her, and the two of them were hoisted to the edge of the cliff.

Half of Hu Tao's body has fallen off the cliff, while Ling Yechen's entire body has fallen down.

If his hand hadn't been tightly grasped by Hu Tao, he didn't know if he would be shattered to pieces.

Hutao used a lot of strength to shout: "Hold on to me."

She yelled, her voice trembling a little.

Not only did she feel that her voice was trembling, but her whole body was shaking.

She was afraid that if she let go, he might die in front of her. If she didn't let go, she might end up explaining this today.

I didn't have time to think too much, so I grabbed him tightly and adjusted my feet so that my feet were tightly clasped against the tree behind me, preventing me from moving even half a minute.

Because she felt that he had given up.

He actually looked up at her and said, "Let it go."

She saw the joyful expression and shining eyes in his eyes.

At that moment she had no idea why.

Why does he have an expression of relief, relief and joy?

She didn't have time to think about it.

Then she yelled again: "You bastard, you want to die, don't drag me with you, come up here, do you hear me?

Come up, come up, come up!"

The last sentence was shouted out while crying.

In an instant, tears burst out from his eyes, mixed with the sweat on his forehead, and dropped drop by drop onto Ling Yechen's feet and head.

It was like a small mountain spring watering his heart.


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