On the morning of the first day of the new year, Tang Zhixi went up the mountain again. In the afternoon, she returned home and cooked two buckets of instant noodles.
Then he squatted at the door of the kitchen, supporting his chin with one hand and looking at the grass in the yard.
It should be cleaned up, but let's go back to the room and sleep for a while.
As a result, I slept through the night.
So, when Ye Hanzhi arrived in the evening, Tang Zhixi was pulling weeds in the yard.
Complete the work that should have been done during the day but was not completed.
The lights in the yard were on, very dimly lit.
Tang Zhixi's fair hands were covered with dirt, and her slender jade fingers seemed soft and weak. But when she grabbed it with one hand, her knuckles were raised, and the roots of the grass were pulled out with the dirt, and they were dead.
Life.
While I was concentrating on pulling out, suddenly a sound of footsteps, accompanied by the sound of wind, reached my ears.
Tang Zhixi's hand paused, and her blank expression instantly turned cruel.
Very few people usually come to this place, let alone this late at night, when the lights are on in the yard.
She neatly uprooted the grass in her hands, and then listened quietly to the footsteps that were getting closer and closer.
When the footsteps reached the door, she quickly stood up. As fast as the wind, she climbed over the courtyard wall.
Seeing the person standing at the entrance of the courtyard, my hands moved faster than my brain.
Almost climbing over the wall, seeing someone, taking action, all in one go, without any pause at all.
And the attack was extremely ruthless.
The person at the door also heard the noise and turned around quickly. He also subconsciously blocked Tang Zhixi's blow.
Then he reached out and held her other hand which was used to punch quickly.
As soon as he took hold of this hand, he quickly used his other hand to block her raised knee.
"Zhixi, it's me."
Tang Zhixi's series of actions were so fast that they almost happened in two or three seconds. When she heard him speak, her hand that was not caught had already moved again, reaching Ye Hanzhi's neck.
superior.
If he had said it a few tenths of a second later, the hand would have struck the side of his neck.
Now her hand stopped at the side of his neck in time, and she was stunned for a moment: "Ye Hanzhi?"
"It's me." Ye Hanzhi said with a smile.
The moment Tang Zhixi relaxed her strength, she smelled the scent of agarwood: "You, why are you here?"
Ye Hanzhi wrapped the hand he was holding into his palm again: "New Year's greetings."
"New Year greetings?" Tang Zhixi's expression was a little blank, and even her head was a little blank.
Ye Hanzhi's surprise when he appeared here was almost the same as telling her about materialism and the existence of ghosts in this world.
"Yeah." Ye Hanzhi smiled, "The main reason is that I want to see you. I miss you so much."
Ye Hanzhi was backlit, and his whole body was in shadow. It felt very unreal, but Tang Zhixi's hand was in his, and she felt his temperature, knowing that he was really standing in front of her.
Tang Zhixi raised her head and looked at him without moving for a while.
Hanqing Village is a corner she hides deep in her heart. No one has ever set foot in this place, never. But Ye Hanzhi came in without any warning.
The lights in the yard were on, and the front of the yard was very short. But Ye Hanzhi was too tall, completely blocking the light.
Therefore, Tang Zhixi was also in darkness.
But Ye Hanzhi could still see clearly her eyebrows, her expression.
It's not that the two of them have never been separated, and sometimes they were separated for more than ten or twenty days. But they never broke off contact.
After being unable to contact anyone for three days, Ye Hanzhi really missed her.
After looking at her for a while, Ye Hanzhi leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. Then he held her in his arms.
"Zhixi, I will accompany you back to celebrate the New Year next year." Ye Hanzhi promised softly in her ear, "I'm sorry, I let you come here by yourself this year. It's because I didn't think well."
Tang Zhixi didn't speak, but for the first time she leaned into his arms and closed her eyes.
Ye Hanzhi also tightened his arms and hugged her a little tighter. He kissed her again on the top of her hair.
The two hugged each other at the door for a while, and then Tang Zhixi took him into the room.
The lights in the room were brighter than those outside. After entering, Tang Zhixi realized that the dirt on her hands was all on Ye Hanzhi's clothes.
She pointed to the wet wipes and paper towels on the table: "Well, wipe your clothes yourself."
Ye Hanzhi is looking at things in the room.
Very simple, but very clean, everything is clean.
And all the daily things were brought here by Tang Zhixi.
Hearing her speak, he looked down at his clothes. He noticed the dirt on them and raised an eyebrow.
While taking off his coat, he looked at Tang Zhixi's hands: "What were you doing just now?"
"Pull the grass." Tang Zhixi kicked a chair to Ye Hanzhi, "You sit there for a while, I'll wash my hands and boil some water."
"I'll accompany you."
"Fine."
The two went to the house next door again.
When he went out, Ye Hanzhi looked at the yard and saw a small pile of pulled grass: "Weeding at night?"
"I wanted to pull it out during the day, but I fell asleep during the day." Tang Zhixi took a few pieces of wood from the door.
Ye Hanzhi immediately went to pick it up, but Tang Zhixi glanced at his hand and didn't give it to him.
He took a few short pieces of wood and gently kicked the kitchen door open with his feet.
Ye Hanzhi was stunned for a moment, and before he had time to think about it, he pushed the door open for her.
Seeing the situation inside, he said: "This is really using fire to boil water."
"Um."
Tang Zhixi squatted in front of the stove, put the wood away, found some soft firewood, and lit a fire.
Ye Hanzhi squatted beside her, looked at her and said, "There are no electrical appliances there."
"It won't work, there will be a power outage." Tang Zhixi turned her head and glanced at him, "Stay away, it's very irritating."
Ye Hanzhi looked at her, smiled, and said, "Zhixi, you really treat me as a young master."
"do not you?"
"I" Ye Hanzhi did not deny it, "but I don't know anything. I can still make a fire."
Tang Zhixi obviously didn't believe it.
Ye Hanzhi took the lighter from her hand, asked her to step aside, and then lit the fire himself.
The technique is indeed very skillful, and after lighting it, there was no smoke coming out.
"Third Master, not bad."
Ye Hanzhi smiled and moved the two pieces of wood stacked together to the side: "I have participated in field training. Making fire is a necessary skill. If you can't make a fire, you have to eat raw."
Tang Zhixi raised her eyebrows. She really didn't expect this.
After all, Ye Hanzhi's background and his exquisite life make him a young master who deserves to be taken care of.
"Zhixi, wash your hands and put some water in it." Ye Hanzhi said, "If there is no water, the pot will burn out."
Tang Zhixi went out to wash her hands. When she came back, she scooped some water from the water tank next to the stove and put it in the pot.
Only then did Ye Hanzhi realize that the thing used to wash hands in the yard was a bucket with a hand-operated water pump on it.
Before washing your hands, you have to press it several times before the water comes out. And the water needs to be filled frequently.
"I remember there is no shortage of water here. Every home has running water."
"Well, the village is connected," Tang Zhixi said, "but this place is on the mountain one kilometer away from the village."
"That water."
"Go down the mountain, walk five or six hundred meters, and there is a pressure well." Tang Zhixi said, "If you are short of water, just go and get it."
Ye Hanzhi said nothing. The conditions in Hanqing Village were already bad enough, but the place where they lived was even worse.
It can be said that I am causing trouble for myself.
"It's very inconvenient. But once you get used to it, you won't notice anything." Tang Zhixi said, "You know, my grandma is of mixed race and was sold to this place. At that time, everyone ostracized her, so she lived in the mountains by herself.
"
Ye Hanzhi held a small wooden stick, stirred the fire, and listened to her quietly.
"There is a small piece of land behind where we can be self-sufficient." Tang Zhixi knocked her hand on the edge of the water tank, looking at half of Ye Hanzhi's face that was red by the firelight, and said, "After a long time, I got used to it.
It’s almost isolated from the rest of the world, which is quite pleasant.”
Ye Hanzhi played with the wooden stick in his hand and thought about what she said.
If you were really enjoying your life, why did you run out of Hanqing Village again?
She and her grandmother can be said to be dependent on each other. Moreover, her grandmother is in poor health and has been in need of care a long time ago.
How could she run out on her own and leave her grandmother here without anyone to look after her?
She knew those people, obviously for many years. They didn't just get to know them in the two years since her grandmother passed away.
Unless there is still someone here to take care of her grandmother, or the information he got is wrong.
"When did you leave Hanqing Village?"
Tang Zhixi tapped her finger on the water tank, and after two seconds of silence she said, "It must have been many years, I can't remember clearly."
Feeling that she didn't want to say anything, Ye Hanzhi didn't ask any more questions and changed the subject: "I went to see Nan Cheng yesterday. He knew that I was coming over and asked me to say 'Happy New Year' to you.
"
Tang Zhixi smiled: "Didn't you say you would bring a New Year gift?"
"No." Ye Hanzhi said, "It is said that there is some problem with his funds, and he has to collect the new year's money before giving it away."
Tang Zhixi laughed: "Little brat, you are not a big person, but you have many evil ideas and thieves."
"He is very smart." Ye Hanzhi praised, "He is much smarter than his peers."
"Good genes." Tang Zhixi said casually.
Ye Hanzhi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I was very smart when I was a child, smarter than my peers."
"?" Tang Zhixi didn't know why he suddenly praised herself.
"My genes are also very good." Ye Hanzhi said.
Tang Zhixi: "."
Sigh - did I say yesterday that I would update more today?