Chapter 8: A Fork in the Road

And from the love of two people to the present, a flash has spent the entire university.

Zhang Ziming took Jiang Lu's hand and walked slowly on the mountain road, not in a hurry or slowly. When Jiang Lu held Zhang Ziming's wide and powerful palm, he thought: "Life is sometimes because of the existence of these beautiful things, there will be hope, and when you encounter some unbeautiful things." Bravely continue to go down. ”

When they were about to reach a fifth of the way, the two of them suddenly saw that the road, which was supposed to lead to the top of the mountain, suddenly diverged in a road. Looking at the inexplicable fork in the road, Jiang Lu said to Zhang Ziming suspiciously: "Ziming, you see that there is a fork in the road here." ”

Zhang Ziming replied, "Yes." The already steep mountain road has an extra path here. It was quite unexpected. ”

In the company of Zhang Ziming for several years, Jiang Lu has become more and more bold. Looking at the unknown mountain road and unknown scenes, he said excitedly to Zhang Ziming: "Ziming, why don't we cross this road, maybe we can catch up with Meng Yao and the others." ”

Zhang Ziming looked at the forked road in front of him, which was so narrow that people were not allowed to walk side by side at all. But seeing Jiang Lu's excited face, he couldn't bear to spoil Jiang Lu's mood to move forward, but he looked at the road in front of him, which seemed to have a tendency to widen, and it might be much easier to walk than the original road to the top of the mountain. After Zhang Ziming made a quick judgment, he said, "Okay, let's take this road." I'm ahead of you, you're holding my hand, and if there's any danger, we'll go back to the way we came. ”

Jiang Lu saw that Zhang Ziming agreed to his request, not to mention how happy he was in his heart, and said with a smile: "Hmm." ”

Sure enough, the road that suddenly forked out was very smooth, and there was not much steep slope. And just as Zhang Ziming judged, the road is getting wider and wider.

Walking on the road without too many steep slopes, the road is indeed getting better and better. But the distance to the top of the mountain will inevitably be much longer. Jiang Lu couldn't help but regret it when she figured out this truth, and said in her heart: "If you want to take this road, I don't know when you will reach the top of the mountain, even if you reach the top of the mountain, it is estimated that you will be tired and half dead." I knew I wouldn't have gone this way. Jiang Lu felt remorse at this time and looked back. Seeing that the two of them had already walked so far, I thought, "It's not easy to go back now." ”

He turned his head desperately, wanting to finish the rest of the journey, but the moment Jiang Lu turned his head, he saw a group of black spots through the cracks in the dense woods. Jiang Lu couldn't help but be scared into a cold sweat, and said in her heart: "What is this?" The frightened Jiang Lu pointed to Zhang Ziming and said to Zhang Ziming where he saw the black dots just now: "Ziming, look what these black dots are." ”

Zhang Ziming saw that there was indeed a group of black spots in the cracks of the dense woods, and said in his heart: "It may be a large black mountain bird." He comforted Jiang Lu and said, "Maybe it's a few mountain birds." Don't worry, I've got you covered. ”

Jiang Lu looked at the black dots he saw just now, but those black dots didn't even move, and Jiang Lu was even more scared. It's just that I thought that Zhang Ziming was next to him, even if there was any accident, Zhang Ziming would protect himself, so I was relieved.

I thought that I would be able to walk back to the original path that Meng Yao and the others walked while walking, but I didn't expect that this road would indeed get wider and wider, and I came to a slope. Zhang Ziming looked at the top of the mountain, then looked at his position, and after roughly confirming that his location was the back of the mountaintop, he said to Jiang Lu: "We are on the wrong path, this is the back of the mountain." Looks like we're going to have to go back the way we came. ”

Hearing the news that he was going to return the same way, Jiang Lu's intestines were about to regret soon, and he said apologetically to Zhang Ziming: "It's all my fault for being too willful." Otherwise, the two of us wouldn't have walked so far. He lowered his head as he spoke.

Zhang Ziming saw Jiang Lu bowing his head a little sadly, hurriedly walked over and hugged Jiang Lu with both hands, kissed Jiang Lu's forehead and said, "It's okay, it's not a scenery where you go, as long as I'm with you, it doesn't matter where I go." ”

looked into the distance, and then prepared to return the same way with Jiang Lu, at that moment, Zhang Ziming saw a group of low stone houses, and said to Jiang Lu happily: "Jiang Lu, I know what the little black dot I saw just now." ”

After Jiang Lu heard this, he hurriedly turned around, stood on his tiptoes, and looked in the direction of Zhang Ziming's gaze, there was a group of low stone houses, Jiang Lu said in his heart: "It turns out that the black spots I saw just now are them." Thinking of this, the hanging heart finally let go.

At this time, Jiang Lu, who didn't remember to eat or fight, said on a whim again: "Ziming, let's go and see the people who live in the stone house." ”

Zhang Ziming thought to himself: "It will take us almost two hours to come from that fork in the road, and if we go back, it will be impossible to go to the top of the mountain again, so it is better to make a mistake." Later, I met the people who lived in the stone hut and asked for a way down the mountain. ”

After thinking about this, he replied to Jiang Lu and said, "Well, okay." Let's take a look. ”

I walked along a small path leading to the stone house on the slope, and after walking for about ten minutes, I finally got close to the stone house. But it was stopped by a small river that didn't reach the calf.

Just when Jiang Lu was still thinking about how to get over, Zhang Ziming put the things in his hand in his backpack and said to Jiang Lu: "This water is not deep, I will carry you over later." As he spoke, he took off his shoes and pulled up his trouser legs.

Jiang Lu understood that Zhang Ziming had already thought about what to do when he started to act, so he nodded and said, "Well, okay." ”

Zhang Ziming handed his shoes to Jiang Lu, turned his back to Jiang Lu, and half-squatted down. Jiang Lu saw Zhang Ziming half-squatting, and couldn't help but think of the first meeting between the two people, which was so accidental and so beautiful. But in the blink of an eye, four years have passed.

Just as he was about to be sentimental, he heard Zhang Ziming say: "Come up, I'll carry you over." Interrupted Jiang Lu's train of thought.

Seeing that there were a lot of large and small stones at the bottom of the river, Zhang Ziming did not walk so fast to avoid slipping and falling in the river. The river water in autumn is already very cold, and soaking in the cold river water makes Zhang Ziming more energetic, which also makes Zhang Ziming more vigilant.

Jiang Lu lay on Zhang Ziming's back, put her face close to Zhang Ziming's ear and asked softly, "Ziming, when we met, why did you come to carry me?" Didn't there be a couple of boys from your class who came to advertise it?"

Zhang Ziming replied slowly: "Actually, I saw you when I was building a pergola, and I thought you were so beautiful at that time, so I wanted to carry you." ”

Hearing this, Jiang Lu's heart was about to melt.