Zhang Deshuai woke up with a start. To be precise, the content in the dream was too long, and the faces made him feel panicked. In addition, Cai Si's screams could be heard in his ears, so he gasped with lingering fear.
This calmed down my somewhat depressed emotions, but my head moved involuntarily.
As soon as I moved, my neck felt sore and painful, as if it was about to break. I twisted my face and stopped moving, but my eyes clearly saw the surrounding situation.
The night was already very dark, and it was particularly lonely and cold. The cold wind blew outside the cave, as tirelessly as the howling of wild beasts. Looking through the firelight, Zhang Deshuai stared intently. Cai Si, who was opposite the firelight, covered her mouth with one hand and opened her mouth wide.
Staring at him, she was rubbing her feet with her other hand. There was a branch next to her feet that was still emitting smoke.
It was obvious that the burning of the fire caused the branches to bounce out, and they just hit Cai Si's feet, causing a sharp cry.
Zhang Deshuai weakly turned around a few times, found a warm position near the fire, lay down on the ground, lifted his down jacket in one hand to cover his body, tilted his head, and looked at Cai Si with a smile.
Cai Si looked a little flustered and cowered, as if she felt guilty for disturbing Zhang Deshuai's rest. She lowered her head and did not dare to face Zhang Deshuai. She pinched her feet with one hand and shrank back. She leaned against the stone wall and stared blankly at the fire.
Occasionally, I would use my free hand to hold a branch and poke the fire a few times.
Zhang Deshuai watched quietly for a while, thinking that although his condition was not good, he seemed to be able to survive, and couldn't help laughing.
Hearing the voice, he raised his eyes slightly. In the bright yellow firelight, the boy smiled contagiously. He didn't know what he was laughing at, but looking at him smiling, it seemed that he didn't mind being caught while he was dozing off.
He couldn't help but scream when the branches burned his feet, so Cai Si scratched his messy hair and laughed too.
Does this mean that silence is better than sound at this time? There seems to be a trend of coming and going face to face...
Thinking in his mind, he looked up at the night outside the cave. The night was very dark, maybe because there was the only fire beside him that gave out light. The situation outside the cave could not be seen clearly at all. It looked like it was so dark that he couldn't even see his fingers. Zhang Deshuai
Looking back, he saw Cai Si following his gaze to the outside of the cave, then following his gaze back, fiddling with the fire with his slender arms, and couldn't help but ask: "Are you keeping the fire burning?"
Cai Si blinked his eyes in confusion, opened his mouth but immediately stopped, as if hesitating, and finally said "ah" in a confused tone.
"...It would be great if you could talk." He sighed softly, and Cai Si's figure hidden in the flames looked shaky. Thinking of Cai Si's experience in Wang Jianfeng's mouth for no reason, Zhang Deshuai smiled bitterly, "At least
You also need to understand what Iām saying, and let me say a word of thanks.ā
The eyes on the other side of the fire blinked with confusion, and then he shrank his scarred legs as if he was very insecure, covering his sensitive parts, and rested his head on his knees, holding a branch with both hands.
, stirring the fire.
Her behavior made Zhang Deshuai stunned. Although this act of protecting herself can be seen as a girl's shyness, more importantly, it seemed that she was afraid that Zhang Deshuai would treat her like an animal.
I felt a little sad in my heart, and I didn't know if I was overthinking it, or if this woman was too lonely, so she naturally exuded the desolation of a beast walking alone in the wilderness. She turned her eyes slightly sideways, not wanting to make her feel humble.
Feeling, the two crooked characters on the stone wall suddenly appeared in my sight.
"Cai Si?"
Cai Si suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with dancing flames.
"Did you write this?" He wanted to move his finger to touch the handwriting on the stone wall, but as soon as he moved, he felt weak and achy all over. Zhang Deshuai barely suppressed the pain, and his eyes wandered to those two words, so as to let Cai
Si knows what he is talking about.
Cai Si seemed to have remembered something, turned back suddenly, pointed at the writing on the stone wall and shouted "Ahhh"!
Her body trembled slightly, her clear eyes suddenly looked at Zhang Deshuai, she covered her face with her hands, and let out a whimpering sound.
Zhang Deshuai looked at her with confusion, "Don't cry, don't..." Halfway through, he couldn't say anything anymore. He always felt like he was changing his direction to attack her.
But judging from her reaction, Zhang Deshuai really didn't know who wrote this. If it was written by her, how high is her cultural level to allow him to communicate with her in words?
With the spark of hope still jumping in her heart, Cai Si quickly wiped her face in sight, grabbed the long-extinguished branch at her feet with one hand, hurriedly walked around the fire, and climbed over.
Zhang Deshuai quickly closed his eyes. Even so, the two shuangfeng that caught his eyes and swayed slightly as they crawled fiercely were still so impressive.
Pretending to be a hypocrite, he angrily scolded himself for his treacherous intentions but not his courage. But for such a simple woman with tragic experiences, Zhang Deshuai didn't want to show any expression that made her feel disgusted. He was afraid that his unintentional actions would blaspheme her.
Simple mind.
But Cai Si had already noticed his behavior. While Zhang Deshuai closed his eyes, Cai Si knelt on the ground and lowered his head in confusion and glanced at his chest. As if he had reacted, he scratched his head in embarrassment.
, then climbed onto the withered grass, picked up Zhang Deshuai's cotton sweater and sweatpants, and put them on clumsily.
It didn't take long for Zhang Deshuai to feel someone helping him up. He saw Cai Si kneeling aside, tugging on the cotton sweater he was wearing inside out, as if he was not used to it, and also seemed to be curious, as his hands were tightened from time to time.
After squeezing his chest a few times, Zhang Deshuai coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment.
Cai Si reacted and shrank her head timidly, then tilted her head and thought for a long time before picking up the branch and scratching on the ground.
"Yes - no - already... the clothes - newspaper - let - find - get - the village." Zhang Deshuai read what Cai Si wrote word for word, dumbfounded, and Zhang Deshuai trembled with laughter all over his body.
Pain.
He hissed hard, "This level is barely good..." Seeing Cai Si scratching her head shyly, Zhang Deshuai asked her to look over and shook his head, "It doesn't matter, just dress like this.
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Looking at Cai Si's puzzled eyes, Zhang Deshuai guessed that she must have received some education. It's just that she didn't have deep contact with Mandarin. Maybe she just mastered her own dialect. Then the subsequent changes made her start
In order to live apart from human society, they have almost forgotten their mother tongue.
But it's a good thing to be able to communicate. At worst, a person with a half-level education like me can act as a temporary teacher.
Zhang Deshuai couldn't help but feel a little excited when he thought that he could live out the addiction of being a teacher. He raised his hand tremblingly and let the down jacket wrap his lower body, then reluctantly stretched out his hand to grab the burnt branch in Cai Si's hand.
Cai Si quickly handed over the branch. Seeing how weak Zhang Deshuai was, her eyes were full of hope. She quickly sat up and clamped Zhang Deshuai's arm to stabilize his arm that might fall at any time. She also supported his wrist with one hand.
Let the branches just touch the ground.
Zhang Deshuai smiled bitterly, feeling the softness and elasticity on his arms. This was the first time for such a charming scene. However, seeing the hope and innocence in Cai Si's eyes, Zhang Deshuai could only put away his thoughts, holding on to the branches and reluctantly lying on the ground.
He made a light scratch and wrote, "You look good in what you wear, I don't mind." Then after thinking about it, he continued to write, "Thank you for saving me."
Cai Si watched carefully, with a trace of innocent smile on his face. After a while, he opened his eyes in grievance, whispered "Ah", pointed at "Jie" and "Xie" with one hand, and looked at it eagerly.
Zhang Deshuai.
Zhang Deshuai was greatly frustrated and looked at Cai Si in astonishment for a while. Until Cai Si innocently scratched his head, lowered his head and sobbed, he couldn't help but raise his hand, patted Cai Si's wrist naturally, and wrote on the ground
"Don't be sad, I'll teach you."
Cai Si shouted with joy, immediately hugged Zhang Deshuai's neck, hugged Zhang Deshuai and rubbed her head several times affectionately.
Zhang Deshuai felt soft in his heart and could not bear to reject her enthusiasm.
It turns out that literacy can be such a happy thing.
When Cai Si left his chest, Zhang Deshuai felt a slight chill in his chest. Looking down, Cai Si's tears shed due to excitement flowed onto his chest.
Originally, she just wanted to take a look at him, but when Cai Si saw him lowering his head, he quickly reached out and rubbed his chest. Some warm palms gently brushed his chest, as if he was afraid of hurting himself, so he moved his fingers.
Very cautious.
Zhang Deshuai closed his eyes, and suddenly a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He didn't know what he was remembering, but the smile was a little bitter and weird. But the smile quickly subsided, and he raised his trembling hand and grabbed Cai Si's wrist.
, then shook his head at Cai Si, stretched up her arm to her face, and gently wiped away the tears on her face.
"Don't cry, this is what you should have. They deprived you of your happy life, I will give it to you. You saved me, I should repay you." After finishing writing, Zhang Deshuai suddenly felt much more at ease. See
Cai Si smiled softly.
Cai Si tugged at her awkward cotton sweater a few times, waved her hand quickly, and snatched the branch from Zhang Deshuai's hand. She imitated Zhang Deshuai's handwriting while thinking about returning it, "You protected me first, and didn't let those supporters catch me.
No need to thank me, you are my monthly friend, and monthly friends should help each other."
When it came to writing "thank you", Cai Si paused for a long time, first wrote "shoot", and then suddenly, with a sudden flash of inspiration, he pointed at Zhang Deshuai's word "thank you" and shouted with pure joy, happily adding another.
Beside his crooked words, he smiled at Zhang Deshuai with satisfaction.
Fortunately, there were no messy words. Most of these words were just missing arms and legs, or "go" was written as "lose". Zhang Deshuai read it with trepidation, holding back his smile and feeling quite accomplished.
Cai Si looked at him, nodded, and when Cai Si handed over the branch, he wrote "Well, we are good friends and help each other!!!".
The three big exclamation marks made Cai Si's eyes moist again. After staring at it for a while, Cai Si suddenly pointed at the word "good" suspiciously, reached out and wiped away the "å", and looked at it uncertainly.
Looking at Zhang Deshuai, he drew a supplementary symbol in front of "female" and wrote "male".
"..."
No need to be so weird, right?
Zhang Deshuai's mouth twitched, but looking at Cai Si's sweet smile, he understood that she simply thought of the friendship between men and women.
Immediately, he no longer cared about it, but a thought came into his mind, which made Zhang Deshuai quickly grab the branch and wrote tremblingly: "Can you speak? Or have you been able to speak before?"
"...Ah." Cai Si nodded vigorously and kept moving his lips and tongue, but he still held back the word for a long time.
But this time, Zhang Deshuai was very happy. There were obviously some changes in this "ah", which made Zhang Deshuai look forward to it.
Cai Si grabbed the branch, leaned over and tilted her head and thought, "What's your name?"
"Zhang Deshuai".
"Zhang Deshuai." He repeated it in his mouth. Seeing Cai Si looking at his lips and imitating, he couldn't help repeating it a few more times. However, Zhang Deshuai's expectations were always too high. No one communicated with him for a long time, which made Cai Si difficult for a moment.
Changed the way he spoke, even got tongue-tied and drooled.
Seeing her wiping her saliva angrily, her little face flushed by the firelight, Zhang Deshuai smiled, leaned over again, and started writing again with great interest.
Ever since, in the light of the fire, branches were being passed around, and the cold wind outside the cave was whistling, but inside the cave were two people who were becoming more and more familiar. Two twisted shadows on the stone wall fell alternately and stood up.
, the boy's muffled laughter and hissing of pain continued, and the woman's weird pronunciation and aggrieved whimpering continued.
The firelight gradually dimmed, the night retreated quietly, and when the daylight came, the two of them snuggled together naturally, wrapped in their down jackets, and fell into a deep sleep.