Chapter 56
At the entrance of the stockade, Qin Yuxi stopped and looked back at Qi Zihan. Qi Zihan looked up at her. She said,
"Don't send it. It's too late. People see it. They think we've gone."
"OK, you go in and I'll take a detour to the east mountain."
He nodded and saw Qin Yuxi turn around and go to the stockade. Qi Zihan shouted hurriedly,
"Yuxi... I'll wait for you by the stream tomorrow."
That's good. He didn't even call her surname. He called her name directly. He said he had taken a few days off and came to ask Qin Yuxi to play today.
Then he felt uneasy. Just now, he seemed to be rash. He didn't know whether Qin Yuxi was willing to go to his appointment, so he hurriedly added,
"I'll wait for you to come. If you don't come in the morning, I'll wait until the evening. If you don't come tomorrow, I'll wait until the day after tomorrow. If you don't come the day after tomorrow, I..."
"I'll come."
Qin Yuxi turned and stood in the wind. Her sleeves rippled with the wind. She pursed her lips. She was still a little shy, but smiled briskly in the moonlight. The wind blew her long hair. She raised her hand and waved at Qi Zihan. The silver bracelet on her wrist fell into her sleeves. She turned and walked towards the stockade.
At this time, her heart was still beating, and she walked back faster. Occasionally, when she looked back, she saw Qi Zihan still standing at the entrance of the stockade. When she could still see her, he would not go, so Qin Yuxi hurried home and wanted Qi Zihan to go back and have a rest.
What kind of feeling is this? Qin Yuxi is still a little confused. In fact, nothing happened just now, right? Why did she feel kissed by Qi Zihan?
What a shame.
When she got home, Qin Yuxi was remembering all the way. When she entered the house, Chen Yulian had been back for a long time. She said a few words with Chen Yulian in a hurry, then rolled to take a bath and back to bed. She couldn't forget the touch of Qi Zihan's fingers on her lips.
So the next morning, it was inevitable that Chen Yulian got up late. Chen Yulian had already gone to cut firewood with the sixth master.
When Qin Yuxi was awakened by the sound of stones hitting the window, she opened the wooden window with bleary eyes and looked down. The enemy who had hurt her for a night was standing behind her house, holding a handful of stones in her hand, ready to throw them again.
"Come up!"
She shouted Qi Zihan, yawned, and rolled back to bed. Vaguely, she seemed to see a green shadow outside the white mosquito net. Qin Yuxi snorted and asked:
"Did you sleep well last night?"
"No."
He stood outside the tent. He didn't dare to say that he would wait for her by the stream at five o'clock in the morning, but he couldn't wait left or right. He was afraid that she wouldn't come, so he ran behind her house and knocked on her window with a stone to see what Qin Yuxi was doing. Why didn't he come?
She sat up in the mosquito net, wearing a sleeveless nightdress, stretched out her hand, lifted the mosquito net with her bare hand, sat vaguely by the bed, looked up at Qi Zihan's chicken nest like hair, and was unprovoked lazy.
She smiled innocently,
"I didn't sleep well either. Why don't we go to play this afternoon?"
"No!"
Qi Zihan categorically refused her, saying ruthlessly:
"I'll wait for you until the afternoon. Don't do it."
"All right, all right."
She stretched out her hand and pushed Qi Zihan's body standing in front of her, with some coquetry that she didn't notice,
"Then go out and I'll change my clothes."
He turned around and went out according to Yan. As long as Qin yuxiken went out with him, Qi Zihan was still a very obedient person.
After waiting outside the bedroom for a while, Qin Yuxi had changed his pajamas, put on Tu costumes, tied up the long hair of his shawl, tied a unique tail braid of an unmarried girl of Tu nationality, then hurried to the back of the hall to wash his face, and then returned to the hall to ask Qi Zihan,
"Have you had breakfast? Let's have some together."
Chen Yulian made the breakfast and put it on the table in the main room. Qin Yu hoped to see Qi Zihan nod, so he pulled him to sit at the table, filled him with a bowl of porridge, and chewed it with a potato.
"Where shall we play later?"
Seeing Qi Zihan shaking his head, Qin Yuxi exaggerated holding the potato and asked:
"Aren't you? You haven't decided where to play and asked me out!"
Qi Zihan, holding a bowl, looked down and didn't speak. His mind didn't know where he had gone.
Qin Yuxi thought again and asked,
"Did you find anything on the east mountain?"
"No, I didn't find anything."
"The Dongshan mountain is a great place to go. Why don't we go and find the cave I used to play with when I was a child? There is still spring at the mouth of the cave."
"OK!"
Qi Zihan nodded, raised his head, looked at Qin Yuxi and smiled. In fact, he had no other place to go. As long as he was with Qin Yuxi for a few days, he was tall everywhere. That is, he felt particularly comfortable staying in this stilted building with Qin Yuxi now.
After breakfast, they set off one after another. Qin Yuxi went upstairs with a firewood chopper, and then he didn't forget to bring his cowhide kettle and bamboo kettle. He was going to fill the cave with some mountain spring water later.
When she reached the hillside of Jieshan mountain, she saw Qi Zihan waiting for her in front.
It's really a simple folk custom. It's easy to be misunderstood if lonely men and women walk together, so Qi Zihan goes some way first, and Qin Yuxi follows.
But when they entered Jieshan, they were not afraid. They didn't take the path anyway. Qi Zihan took the initiative to take the basket behind Qin Yuxi, put it on his back, and followed Qin Yuxi with a military knife in his hand.
She grew up in the mountains when she was young. She knew exactly what roads she could walk and what roads she could not walk. She could walk even if she waved a few times with a firewood chopper.
Soon, they deviated from the path and walked into the deep mountains and forests.
"You should go no further."
Qin Yuxi looked at the trees, took Qi Zihan forward, walked and stopped, and said happily:
"Here it is, this hole!"
Qi Zihan followed her and looked up. The front was full of trees. The hole Qin Yuxi pointed to was very insignificant. They were all under a piece of green trees and vines. If they didn't have good eyesight, they didn't know there was a hole here.
"Come on!"
Qin Yuxi, in front of her, poked away some weeds outside the cave. The cave was bigger. She bent down and went in. It was dark, but the space inside was much larger.
Seeing Qi Zihan coming in from outside the cave, Qin Yuxi turned on the flashlight in his satchel, bolted around the cave and said to Qi Zihan:
"You outsiders certainly don't know why I brought you here!"