It rained all the time, and the sky was foggy. Xiao Yao couldn't wait for the rain to stop, he carefully dressed Huang Li in a raincoat, and asked Chang Fangxing to boil some boiled water to bring it, the spicy paste soup had been drunk, and the aluminum pot was just thrown to his home for later use.

Chang Fangxing took out dozens of rice dumplings from the basket, washed Xiao Yao and Huang Li's rubber shoes and put them under the basket, spread straw on them, and covered them with newspapers and plastic sheets.

Then put two bottles of water and dumplings on top, take a large plastic sheet, and wrap the basket in its entirety to prevent rainwater from entering. The four of them are ready to go.

"Classmate Xiao, there is only this oil-paper umbrella at home, and it is rotten, you can take it, and you will block the rain on your head. ”

Uncle Chang didn't persuade them not to leave, he knew that he couldn't persuade them. Xiao Yao took the umbrella, took it in his hand and looked at it, nodded, said goodbye to Uncle Chang, pulled Huang Li, and plunged into the wind and rain.

"Xiao Yao, we can't go back to the original road, although the trail is close, but at night we can't see it, this muddy road is slippery, it's easy to slip into the ditch, it's too dangerous, let's go along the big fence." The detour is a detour, but the road is wide and easy to walk. ”

After Uncle Chang saw Xiao Yao go out, he used an umbrella to block Huang Li's head and prevent the rain from drenching Huang Li's face. In his heart, he gave Xiao Yao a thumbs up.

In the wind and rain, this combination of "*", under the guidance of Chang Fangxing, followed the village, along the big river, upstream, and embarked on a difficult journey again.

This return journey is destined to be more distant and difficult than when it came. Because they didn't go long, it was still raining, and it was dark. On this stormy night, even though they struggled to get on the road, there was still some coolness on their bodies.

"When the roof leaks rains for days, the boat hits the head wind. It's the same day, it's raining, and it's getting dark a lot earlier. If you hadn't bought a flashlight, you wouldn't have been able to walk at night. ”

Chang Fangxing saw that everyone was walking all the way, and they didn't squeak, and the atmosphere was a little depressing. He opened his mouth to laugh and break the silence. He and Zhu Xianqing were both bald and drenched in the rain, and not long after they went out, the two of them became soup chickens.

Xiao Yao kept holding Huang Li and used an umbrella to cover the rain on the heads of the two. Half of his own body was already soaked. The other half is no better.

Huang Li asked him to move the umbrella to his side, he smiled and pointed to the umbrella on his head, a big hole, on Xiao Yao's side, the rain was still dripping, and Huang Li's side was fine.

Although she rested for more than two hours, she didn't go long, Huang Li's physical strength couldn't keep up, and she didn't care that there were two classmates around her, so she had already held Xiao Yao side by side. She looked up from time to time to look at Xiao Yao, who was holding an umbrella for her, and felt that this trip was worth it no matter how tired she was.

"I call it planning first and then acting, I don't want to take the back road, I am reckless, and I am the one who suffers. I'm good at everything now, but this foot is drilling dirt in it, rotten, it's really panicked, and I can't shake it off. ”

"That's because you don't often walk barefoot on muddy roads, and when you walk a lot, you get used to it, and you don't feel it. There's a village in front of us, let's find a place to shelter from the rain, eat something and then leave, what do you think?"

"Okay, just take a break. Restore your strength. ”

"Why are there so many? You kid, didn't you wrap up all the shops that sell rice dumplings in the morning?"

Under the eaves of an ancestral hall gate, they stopped, and as soon as they opened the oiled paper wrapped in rice dumplings, Xiao Yao found that there were at least fifty or sixty rice dumplings.

"I didn't have a bag, one was not enough, I ran two and added twenty rakes. Anyway, it doesn't cost me money, I buy less, you eat at night, I watch, you treat me stupidly?"

"There are only two salt water bottles at home, and I don't have one more bottle if I want to, you and Huang Li share a bottle, and I have a bottle with them. ”

Chang Fangxing handed Xiao Yao a bottle of water, and the four of them sat around the basket, eating and drinking. But Huang Li didn't have much appetite, so she couldn't eat two and didn't eat it.

"Huang Li, aren't you shy to eat with us, right? This is not fun, there are still three-quarters of the way to go, at our current rate, at least more than six hours, why don't you eat enough?"

"We've been walking for more than two hours, haven't we? Only a quarter of the way we've walked?

"Xiao Yao, you don't know this, do you? Do you know what a bowstring is? We take the path, and the one we walk is the string, and between the two points, the straight line is the shortest. And the big river ridge we are walking on now is walking a bow, and the greater the arc, the farther the distance. ”

Zhu Xianqing really deserves to be the representative of the mathematics class, and he uses mathematical knowledge to explain a detour, and the head of the explanation is the Tao.

Maybe their kindness touched God, maybe God took pity on these children who hurried overnight. Just as Xiao Yao was about to ask Huang Li why there wasn't more, the rain stopped.

"Okay, while it's not raining now, let's hurry up, Huang Li can't eat now, I'll eat again when I'm hungry for a while, you take off your raincoat and breathe." ”

Several people hurriedly packed up the uneaten rice dumplings and set off again.

Chang Fangxing took Xiao Yao's umbrella over, Xiao Yao took Huang Li's raincoat off, folded it, held it in one hand, and supported Huang Li with the other, he felt that Huang Li's body was hot, his breathing was very heavy, and his pretty face was getting redder and redder.

Xiao Yao reached out and touched Huang Li's forehead, and the high temperature from his hand surprised Xiao Yao. Huang Li has a fever.

"You crow's mouth, why do you say that? Now it's really raining in the house. Okay, why do you have a fever?"

When Zhu Xianqing learned that Huang Li had a fever, he, who had always been more trustworthy, complained that Chang Fangxing was coming. Chang Fangxing was speechless, who told him not to say anything, to laugh at the rain leakage in his house?

"Huang Li, how do you feel?

"I... I can persevere, I just feel dizzy. ”

If it weren't for the muddy road slippery, Huang Li really didn't want to persevere. But on such a road, it's night, and she can't be coquettish if she wants to, she also feels sorry for Xiao Yao, she doesn't go, only Xiao Yao is affected, and the other two male classmates, she doesn't want them to touch her.

I felt that when Huang Li spoke, she was weak. Xiao Yao was still not at ease, he stuffed the raincoat in his hand into the basket, turned around and bent over with his back to Huang Li:

"Come, climb up, hold me tight, I'll carry you. ”

"I can walk on my own, the road is far away and there is no light burden, and you yourself are not used to walking barefoot on this muddy road. ”

Huang Li wanted to climb up directly, but she couldn't do that. Xiao Yao seemed to think of something again, took off his wet shirt, went shirtless, and came to Huang Li again:

"Climb up!"

The tone of the command, the unquestionable command. Huang Li did not disobey, looked at the two people around her a little shyly, leaned forward, and fell on Xiao Yao's broad back.

She wrapped her hands tightly around Xiao Yao's neck, and pressed her hot face against Xiao Yao's cold and bare skin. A refreshing chill spreads from the face to the whole body. It's so comfortable, she snorted involuntarily, and immediately closed her eyes in shame, not daring to look at people.

"Xiao Yao, it's okay for you to be like this, the road is still far away from you?"

Chang Fangxing felt extremely guilty at this time, it was all for themselves, they suffered like this, and suffered such a crime.