The three of them chatted all the way, and time passed quickly.
When I saw the large lake reflecting the sun in the distance, it was only after three o'clock in the afternoon, nearly an hour earlier than I expected.
Seeing my pace speeding up involuntarily, Chujiu laughed with a wicked smile on his face, "Sister Xiaoyu is in the village and she won't get lost, and she won't be afraid of spraining her feet when walking so fast."
At the entrance of the village by the lake, the eldest sister put down the drink box. Her house was located in two directions from Grandma Jian Shu's house.
This time I was carrying two snakeskin bags, and Chujiu threw a box of drinks on my shoulders. It didn't feel heavy at all, and my steps became lighter.
Chujiu whispered softly, the slogan at the door of the hot pot restaurant was right, the power of love has no physical formula that can be measured so far.
I laughed loudly without being ashamed. If you have the ability, you can find a girlfriend as beautiful as Xiaoyu.
"Women will only affect the speed of my practice."
Chujiu curled his lips and walked quickly along the lake in front of me.
When passing by the section of road close to the lake, I couldn't help but slow down. The psychological shadow caused by the black dragon on me was too strong.
I couldn't help but start thinking wildly, if the black dragon suddenly jumped out again this time...
"Ah~"
Chujiu screamed, dropped the burden on his shoulders and ran away.
My heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, my legs suddenly began to weaken, and I looked toward the center of the lake.
"Sister Xiaoyu."
With the cry of Chujiu, my heartbeat became even faster.
On the other side of the path, Xiaoyu was sitting by the lake, lifting his two feet out of the water, looking sideways at me and Chujiu with a sweet smile on his face.
"I guess if you are coming, it will be in these two days."
Set off by a simple Miao clothes, Xiao Yu's refined temperament is even more apparent.
Xiaoyu smiled and rubbed Chujiu's head gently, took Chujiu's hand, and walked to me.
"Are you tired? I didn't expect there to be so many things. Let's put them down and rest for a while."
I stared at Xiaoyu and giggled, then remembered that I had been standing there for a long time with the suitcase on my shoulders.
"I'm not tired of Guo Guo. It's so powerful that I can't finish it. Let's go back and rest."
Chu Jiu picked up the bag thrown on the ground and pulled it onto his shoulder. There was a lot of seasoning in it, which was not good at the lakeside where there was a lot of water vapor.
"Our Chujiu has grown up and is even better than our elder brother."
Xiaoyu walked side by side with me and kept staring at me.
"Qin Feng, you have lost weight."
The person who answered Xiaoyu was Chujiu who was walking in front. We weighed ourselves in the school cafeteria two days ago and we all gained several kilograms.
"Isn't Grandma Jian Shu at home?"
The door of Grandma Jian Shu's room on the first floor of the stilted building was closed tightly. Chujiu called Grandma Jian Shu twice but received no response.
"Grandma and others went into the mountains to collect herbs."
Xiaoyu opened the door and put the two bags of groceries from Chujiu on the first floor first. As for the two suitcases I was carrying, I had to move them upstairs. Upstairs was Xiaoyu's room.
"You guys sit still and don't move. I'll bring you some honey water to drink. The new honey Lanyan sent you two days ago."
It was obvious that Xiao Yu and Lan Yan had a good relationship. When Lan Yan was mentioned, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"Are you tired?"
Xiaoyu went upstairs again, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw Chujiu and I squeezing our shoulders.
"If I wasn't tired, how could I be tired from carrying such a small amount of stuff up the mountain? I've been practicing martial arts since I was a child."
Chu Jiu was holding the honey water, his eyes narrowed into the shape of crescents. The honey water in the village was definitely comparable to the drinks in the city.
"Don't move, let me take a look. It's so red from being crushed by the pole, and you still say you're not tired."
Xiao Yu took advantage of Chu Jiu to drink honey water and casually opened Chu Jiu's collar. The skin on her shoulders was so red that blood was oozing out.
"Oh, what's all the fuss about? When I was practicing kung fu in the village, the slightest injury was more serious than this. It will be fine tomorrow."
When Chujiu was feeling nervous, Xiaoyu poked Chujiu's shoulder with his finger, causing Chujiu to take a sharp breath of air from the pain.
"I probably know what's going on. Let me apply some medicine to you."
Xiaoyu went out again, and when she came back, she was holding a tray filled with bottles and cans.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, it might hurt a little, can you bear it?"
Chujiu curled his lips in disdain and beat him for a long time on the road without even complaining of pain.
Xiaoyu turned her head and looked at me, with obvious questioning in her eyes.
I smiled helplessly and said that I was bored and fooling around with Chujiu on the way, so you Chujiu would complain in a different way, and you will see how I deal with you when you leave the village.
"Sister, Guoguo must be thinking about beating me again when I get back to school. This ointment doesn't hurt at all. It feels cold and cool."
As soon as Chujiu finished saying it didn't hurt, Xiaoyu opened the second porcelain bottle and started applying the second ointment to his shoulder.
The moment the ointment touched Chujiu's skin, a series of screams sounded out like a slaughtering pig.
Seeing the sudden breakout of cold sweat on Chujiu's head, I decided not to apply Xiaoyu's ointment. I even secretly thought that Xiaoyu was not good at studying.
The third ointment was applied to Chujiu's shoulders, and Chujiu's eyes instantly changed, making him feel comfortable and sleepy.
"Okay, be careful not to get it on your clothes. It will be completely healed in an hour."
After Xiaoyu applied the ointment to Chujiu, she turned her head and stared at me. Seeing that I didn't respond, she pouted and stared.
I pulled the clothes off my shoulders, and Xiaoyu frowned slightly. It was just as he guessed, I was much more serious than the ninth grade.
Hearing what Xiaoyu said, Chujiu came over curiously. Guoguo was so stupid that he could wear the skin on his shoulders even with the clothes on his back.
"Hold your clothes and don't move. You need to use other ointments."
With an unquestioning tone, Xiaoyu dug out two other white porcelain bottles in the tray.
The first porcelain bottle contains medicinal powder, and the second porcelain bottle contains brown ointment.
After applying the ointment, Xiaoyu began to pack the tray, and the pain I was worried about did not appear.
Chujiu grinned dissatisfied. Sister Xiaoyu was biased and bullied her like Guo Guo, causing her so much pain, but Guo Guo didn't feel any pain at all.
"You two have different injuries. On the ninth day of the month, the subcutaneous tissue was injured, while Qin Feng only had the epidermis and dermis damaged."
Xiaoyu's words once again proved that the pile of things carried on Chujiu's shoulders was much heavier than what I was carrying.
"Are Xiaobai and the teacher okay?"
Xiaoyu packed up the tray and sat next to me, staring at the sky outside the window and asking softly.
I told Xiao Yu what happened when I met the vice dean, and told her that the vice dean seemed to be in good spirits.
Regarding Xiaobai, Chujiu danced and told Xiaoyu.
When Xiaoyu heard Xiaobai bargaining wildly in the clothing store, Xiaoyu chuckled and Xiaobai didn't change at all.
After chatting for a while, Chujiu suggested sorting out the two big bags of sundries downstairs.
[Author's digression]: "The ninth day of the lunar month: Today is dad's birthday"
High temperature red warning: In most areas of our province, high temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius will occur in the next 24 hours. Please take precautions against high temperatures.
"Guo Guo, do we still need to go out in this weather? There is nothing to eat in the refrigerator."
Turn off your phone screen on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year. This is the fourth day in a row that the weather station has issued a high temperature warning.
"Whoever is hungry goes out, and I definitely won't go out. I suffered heatstroke from the sun the day before yesterday, and I haven't recovered from it yet."
I wrapped myself tightly in quilt, and this pervert on the ninth day of the month set the air conditioner temperature to 18 degrees.
"But you have to go out to pee today. Have you forgotten what day it is? It's the eighteenth day of the sixth lunar month, dad's birthday."
Many years ago, Chujiu and I returned to Lijiacun for a whole summer vacation. From that summer vacation, Chujiu called my parents dad and mom.
"Then what? Are you going to pick dad up from Lijiacun?"
"We can celebrate a little bit and wish dad a happy birthday."
"You want to celebrate, you celebrate. Anyway, I won't go out even if I kill him. I will call him later to wish him well."
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I couldn't resist me, so I stood up and dug out the last popsicle in the refrigerator. The refrigerator was completely empty.
"Guo Guo, do you want to eat hot pot?"
"No! Don't try to trick me into going out!"
When I heard Chujiu leaving my room, I couldn't help but smile. The instant noodles I had hidden under the bed for a long time finally came into use.
"Hey, Mr. Ding is pretty? I'm Chujiu. Guo Guo said I miss you and wants to treat you to hot pot at home tonight, but I forgot to buy the hot pot base just now. Can you bring it by the way? Okay, okay, bye."
"Hey, Brother Feng, I came to eat hot pot after get off work in the evening. I passed by the supermarket and picked up some mutton rolls and beef rolls. I forgot to buy them just now."
"Hey, Sister Xiaoyu, Hot Pot said he wanted to eat hot pot tonight, but he forgot to buy beef meatballs..."
"Hey, Sister Xiaobai, Sister Xiaoyu is coming to my place for hot pot tonight, do you want to come? Okay, remember to bring some green leafy vegetables, I forgot to buy..."
"Hey, Sister Zhang Ying, Guo Guo and I miss you. We are preparing hot pot tonight. You can buy some sesame sauce by the way..."
"Hey, Dean Wang is pretty? I'm in the ninth grade. I'm coming to my house to have hot pot in the evening. Sister Xiaoyu and Xiaobai are also here. Oh, you're welcome. There don't seem to be enough small plates. Please help me buy some when you come..."
"Hey, Uncle Ding, Teacher Ding wants to come to my Guo Guo place to eat hot pot and drink wine at night, but I don't have the wine she likes here... Okay, okay, we're waiting for you."
"Hey, Boss Deng..."
"Hey, Guban..."
"Hey, Boss Jing..."
Twenty minutes later, Chujiu was humming a little tune with a proud face on her face and rushed to my room to ask me to get up and help set up the pot and boil water.
…
Finally seeing off the last guest, Chujiu was lying on the sofa, burping.
"Chujiu, guess what I have in my hand?"
"Guo Guo, why did you hit me on the head again?"
"Did you agree to celebrate dad's birthday?"
Chujiu hurriedly grabbed her phone and looked at the time on it with a wry smile on her face. It was already past twelve o'clock at night and it was now the 19th day of the sixth lunar month...