Chapter 70: The Lovers' Tree in the Clouds
A stream of cold and clear pure water flowed out of the bottle that Xiao Ting lifted to a high place, and the water used gravity acceleration to wash Xiao Nan's palms full of blood, and the water mixed with blood flowed out and splashed down the grass along Xiao Nan's fingers, and the wounds covered by blood stains and blood scabs were gradually revealed.
Xiao Nan twisted his face to the side, and under the eyebrows that were slightly frowning because of the pain in his palms, a pair of autumn water-like eyes stared blankly at the outside of the cliff side path, watching the tumbling clouds rise from the valley below the cliff in the mountain wind, constantly changing shapes and climbing to the peak overhead.
'Life is like this cloud, fluctuating, changeable, no one can know in advance what will happen to them tomorrow, how many people in this world can really control their own destiny......?
"Hey......" With a soft sigh, Xiao Ting stopped rinsing Xiao Nan's wound, raised her head and glanced at Xiao Nan curiously: "What's wrong with you, sighing and sighing, you look like a lovelorn girl......
"Uh, how can I ......" For Xiao Ting's alternative interpretation, Xiao Nan could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
"...... Uproar"
Xiao Ting peeked at Xiao Nan's reaction, and continued to pick up pure water to rinse the wound on Xiao Nan's palm. Xiao Nan's right wrist was held by Xiao Ting in the palm of her hand to the sky, and after several rinses of pure water, the residual blood and coagulated blood scabs in the palm of her hand were washed away, and the wound that had been bleeding was revealed.
Xiao Nan deliberately turned her head not to see Xiao Ting's action of washing her wounds. 'Will Xiaoting find the old scars on her palm, what will happen if she finds it, everything is left to fate, if she asks, I will tell her everything, if she doesn't ask, then I ...... What should I do?' Xiao Nan was troubled in her heart, and unconsciously, her breathing and heartbeat gradually became flustered, and at this moment, she was like a prisoner waiting for the verdict.
To Xiao Nan's surprise, she waited for a long time, but found that Xiao Ting did not raise any questions about the wound on her hand, Xiao Nan felt a little strange and turned her head to look, but saw that Xiao Ting was just seriously cleaning her wound with a handkerchief, rinsing the mud and sand pebbles embedded in the wound, using a paper towel to absorb the blood and dirty water, and finally washing the handkerchief and wring out the water, and padding a few tissues on the wound and then using a handkerchief to help Xiao Nan bandage her palm tightly.
From beginning to end, Xiao Ting didn't say a word again, and she didn't even look up to look at Xiao Nan meaningfully, until she finished all this, she raised her head, hooked the thick bangs that were wet and stuck to her forehead with her jade onion-like little thumb, and gave Xiao Nan a charming smile: "Okay, I also bandage your hands." But what I'm doing now is just emergency treatment, you have to go to the hospital immediately after you go down the mountain to re-apply medicine and bandage, otherwise you will still be infected. ”
Xiao Ting's reaction was greatly unexpected by Xiao Nan, she didn't know how to answer for a while, she could only say stupidly, "Thank you......"
"Okay, don't thank me, if it weren't for you first aiding me, how could you have a scar on your body?
Xiao Ting's words were like a heavy punch hitting Xiao Nan's chest and abdomen, making Xiao Nan feel a little out of breath. What Xiao Ting just said...... What did she mean by that? Did she say it on purpose, or did she say it casually? What the hell did she ...... Do you see any signs from the scars on my palms?'
She peeked at Xiao Ting's expression, but saw that Xiao Ting was also squinting at her, and when the two looked at each other, Xiao Ting immediately gave Xiao Nan a bright smile, but other than that, there was really no clue in Xiao Ting's expression. 'Could it be...... She didn't notice anything? The scar...... Didn't it attract her attention at all?' Thinking of this, Xiao Nan, who was originally worried, actually felt a sense of loss in her heart.
At the moment when Xiao Nan was stunned, suddenly a drop of cold water hit the top of her head, and the water droplets instantly penetrated her thick hair and made Xiao Nan's scalp feel cold, followed by a drop of water in her neck, and for a while, there was a big rustle of raindrops falling on the leaves of vegetation everywhere, although the raindrops were not dense, each drop was very weighty, and it felt numb on people's faces.
"Oops, it's really raining!" Xiao Nan suddenly became nervous, but he didn't expect that this shower that he had been trying to avoid would come early. "Let's pack up and get out of here, no matter what, we can't be trapped on this dangerous ancient road by the rain, we must at least find shelter before the rain rains!
Originally, Xiao Ting was already packing her backpack, and when she heard Xiao Nan's shout, she quickly looked up at the sky, only to see that the sky was covered with dark and heavy clouds, and as soon as she raised her face, there were two large drops of rain smashed on her face, and Xiao Ting was also panicked, and both of them hurriedly began to pack up the items scattered on the ground, Xiao Nan turned off the portable generator and fixed it to Xiao Ting's electric car pedal with a rubber rope, helped Xiao Ting put on the motorcycle armor neatly, and put on a helmet and gloves herself, and Xiao Nan drove the Z4 in front to lead the way, guiding Xiao Ting to drive herThe "hussar" electric car rushed along the ancient road to the direction of the Lovers' Tree, because only when you get to the Lovers' Tree can you find the fire road of the forest farm, and only from there is the safest and fastest route to go out of the mountain.
The shower didn't seem to be in a hurry to show the two girls how powerful it was, and only when the mountain wind blew it, did it drop a few large droplets of water on them, and the rain didn't even wet their clothes, nor did it make the vegetated cliffside path muddy and slippery, as if it was purely to scare them and admire the girls fleeing in panic.
Xiao Nan's experience tells her that at this time, especially in front of this road condition, there must not be any panic, otherwise it is easy to try to overturn and cause danger. She calmly drove the Honda DIOZ4 along the misty path on the cliff and turned on the tail lights and double flashing lights to indicate the direction for Xiao Ting, who was following not far behind the car, so as to prevent the "hussar" electric car driven by Xiao Ting from driving too close to the cliff edge because of the cloud and fog obstructing the view and causing danger.
Through a pair of rearview mirrors of the Z4, Xiao Nan can see Xiao Ting's red and black two-color "hussar" electric car with its night running lights on, and the body is close to the side of the cliff, carefully following behind the rear of his car.
Through the layers of misty clouds, Xiao Nan saw a very hidden fork not far ahead, this fork is herringbone, blocked by knee-deep plants on the road, making it extremely difficult to find, when you come, you can only see a straight road leading to the front, and only when you walk over and turn around and come back can you see the hidden fork in the road- Xiaoting had passed through this intersection when she came, and although she had been misled by the inaccurate GPS navigator and taken the wrong route at that time, if she could see this fork in the road, she would still have a chance to walk to the correct route of the "Lovers' Tree", instead of following the cliffside path to the ancient road that had been abandoned for more than 60 years.
When Xiao Nan came to the fork in the road, he stepped on the brakes and stopped, turned his head and greeted Xiao Ting behind: "There is a fork in the road here, you have to follow me, you can't go wrong again, this road is the best and the closest, I hope we still have a chance to get out of this mountainous area before the rain becomes heavier." ”
"Okay, I'll follow you. ”
Turning the fork in the road is a section of two turns of the big uphill, climb to the top of the slope and climb the ridge of this section, the ridge that should have a wide field of vision on the foggy piece has long been unable to distinguish the southeast and northwest, fortunately, there is only one road and not to go wrong, Xiao Nan led Xiao Ting along the gravel path on the ridge all the way through the clouds and fog to go forward, sure enough, the road is getting wider and wider and more flat, on the way I also saw a piece of cement tablet written on the side of the road that reads "Baoquan Mountain Forest Farm", which is enough to confirm that the road is indeed not wrong.
The two of them were walking forward, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be a tall shadow looming in the clouds rolling in front of them, and they were feeling strange, the tall and green "lover tree" umbrella-like towering canopy suddenly jumped into view, and the two trunks of the two trees under the canopy that could only be hugged by more than a dozen people were still tightly entangled and inseparable.
For these two big trees that have been hugging each other here for an unknown number of spring and autumn years, time seems to have stood still here, no matter how the outside world changes, they will always embrace each other until the end of the world.
Xiao Nan and Xiao Ting stopped at the same time, raised their heads and looked up at the two "lovers' trees". Leaving this place for only a few years and months, the two experienced the pain of car accidents, disability, seeking medical treatment and recovering from injuries, and then Xiao Nan experienced the rebirth after aging and transformation, and today the two returned to the big tree again.
Xiao Nan, who was standing under the tree, only felt that she had mixed feelings in her heart, thinking of her various experiences for more than a year, her nose was sour, she was afraid that she would not be able to control her emotions and cry, so she hurriedly took a few deep breaths to suppress that emotion, but the vision in front of her was already a little blurred. Xiao Nan twisted his head to the side with his back to Xiao Ting, quickly wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve like a thief, and when he turned back to look at Xiao Ting, he saw that Xiao Ting was looking at him intently, and his autumn-like eyes were full of water.
Xiao Nan's heart suddenly tingled, and she just wanted to say something, but Xiao Ting spoke first.
"You know, I ventured here today to see these two big trees, because this is the agreed place for me and my boyfriend, we used to meet here, and we will never be separated in this life, just like these two lovers' trees...... But I can't find him now, and I don't know why he left me alone and ran away, without even saying a word before leaving...... So I've been looking for him, and I've searched everywhere I can think of, but there's no trace of him anywhere...... This is the last place to be associated with him, and if I still can't find him, I'll ......."
Xiao Ting couldn't go on talking about this, her pitiful look when she looked at Xiao Nan made Xiao Nan feel distressed, Xiao Nan simply gritted her teeth and turned her heart sideways, and said loudly to Xiao Ting: "Actually, I ......"
Xiao Nan only said three words with one mouth, but Xiao Ting rushed to the front and shouted at Xiao Nan, "Oops, it's raining heavily, you can see it's dripping into my eyes......" wiped his eyes with the back of his hand while saying. "It's better for us to get out of here as soon as possible, and if we delay any longer, we will be stuck in the mountains......"
Xiao Nan's words were held in his throat and couldn't swallow it, not to mention this discomfort in his heart, seeing that Xiao Ting had already buckled the windshield of the helmet, he could only turn his head and continue to lead the way in front, guiding Xiao Ting to find the fire road of the Baoquan Mountain Forest Farm, and the two of them embarked on the way home one after another.
The road conditions under the wheels are getting better and better, and the speed of the two is getting higher and higher, but this shower that does not lead to it has been a slow tick-tock, until their cars have left the dirt and gravel road of the forest farm, and when they return to the winding mountain road of Baoquan Mountain, there is no sign that the rain is about to get bigger.
Seeing that the rest of the journey was all the way down the mountain, Xiao Nan disconnected the power supply of Xiao Ting's "Hussar" electric car according to the predetermined plan, and re-connected the portable generator to the battery of the "Hussar", so that Xiao Ting could charge while sliding down the mountain, and when she completed all this, a dramatic scene appeared, a heavy rain swept from the mountain, and the rain and fog in the sky were like a wide and boundless water curtain, dividing the entire Baoquan Mountain into two completely different worlds of "rain" and "no rain".
Xiao Nan and Xiao Ting could only drive down the mountain along the highway desperately, and a violent storm followed them slowly and unhurriedly less than a hundred meters behind them, and everywhere they went, they became a water town. Fortunately, there has been no traffic on this highway, so it is not tight to run a little faster.
The red taillights of the two women's scooters on a series of curves on the Baoquan Mountain Highway, drawing a perfect arc one after another, seeing that the rain curtain behind them has been thrown off far away, not far in front of a mountain pass at the junction of S and H provinces, at this time the downhill road suddenly turned into an uphill road, Xiaoting's electric car because the battery was disconnected and there was no power to climb the speed immediately down, and at this time the rain curtain that had been left behind them also chased by the wind again.
At the critical moment, Xiao Nan drove Z4 and turned around and ran to the right rear of Xiao Ting's car, stretched out his left foot and pedaled Xiao Ting's "hussar" tail, and increased the accelerator with his right hand, and forced Xiao Ting and the car to pedal up the high mountain pass. The moment the two of them crossed the ridge, the rain that had been following closely seemed to have a spirit, and suddenly turned with the direction of the wind, and it raged all the way to another mountain in the distance.
Xiao Nan and Xiao Ting finally escaped the wind and rain, looked down and saw that the asphalt of the road was all wet, there was still water in some potholes, and the roadside was full of dead branches and leaves.
Xiao Nan stood at the pass of the mountain and looked down the mountain, the air after the rain was extremely transparent, and the plains and land below the mountain were boundless. The sunlight pierced through the clouds, and the golden light sprinkled the land.
"Look! over there!" Xiao Ting shouted loudly with her finger to the southeast, Xiao Nan turned her head to look in the direction of her finger, only to see that the dark clouds in the eastern sky had dispersed, and a bright rainbow appeared in the sky.
Before he had time to admire, the mobile phones of the two rang at the same time, and the sound was the laughter of an ordinary little baby, Xiao Nan glanced at Xiao Ting embarrassedly, and saw that she didn't seem to notice herself, she had already pressed the connect button and started listening to the phone, so she also pressed the button to answer the call.
"Damn!, you idiot, fool, madman, stupid donkey@#¥%&%¥#......" Huzi's roar on the mobile phone almost broke Xiao Nan's eardrums: "You want to run into the mountains alone, tell me that you can die!!!Do you know how many calls I have made to you, you are a dull soul!!"