The so-called outside refers to the hall where we just ate. As soon as the latch was inserted, Grandma Shen and Shen Fei closed the door of the inner room again, and a red plastic bathtub filled with cold water was stacked in the hall, and two hot water bottles were placed next to it, and the water temperature was controlled by herself.

Zhou Jiyou took off his clothes and sat in the basin, scooping water and rubbing his body.

In the same place, an hour ago, she sat here to eat, and an hour later, she sat here to take a shower.

She looked at the sliding latch between the two dark mahogany doors, which separated the two worlds.

Outside the door is the vast and empty night, the wind is in the branches, the owls are calling, and the crickets are competing with each other in the wild meadows; Inside the door, she was taking a shower.

She doesn't feel how strong she is adaptable, and she can withstand it so far, which means that the conditions are not bad to the extreme.

The grandfather and grandson whispered in a back room, although the sound insulation of the house was very poor, but Zhou Jiyou didn't understand a word.

After taking a shower, she changed into clean pajamas, carried the dirty clothes back to the room, then folded back and knocked on the door of the other room, "It's time to come out." ”

She walked towards the bathtub, the door behind her opened, and she looked back to see that it was Shen Fei.

The candle was lit on the high table, and she stood far away, standing in the darkness, pointing to the water in the bathtub, and asked, "Where is it?" ”

Shen Fei looked at her loose cartoon pajamas and pajamas, and finally felt that she was a younger sister.

"I'll pour it, you don't have to worry about it."

He strode forward, the latch of the wooden door was a little blunt, and he lifted it slightly upward with his hand before opening it.

The evening breeze blows quietly, enveloping the coolness of the mountains.

He turned around, bent down, stretched out his arms and grasped the ends of the bathtub, and was just about to pick it up, when a pair of slender white fingers grabbed into the groove on the edge of the bathtub, he was stunned and looked up.

Zhou Jiyou squatted on the other end of the bathtub, looked up at him, and Yan asked, "Whose bath water?" ”

This question was a bit strange, Shen Fei thought about it and didn't answer her.

Zhou Jiyou didn't need him to answer, he paused for two seconds, lifted his arm hard, one end of the bathtub was slightly raised, and the water pressed down to a low place, hitting the wall of the basin and making a splash.

"Lead the way." Semi-commanding tone.

Shen Fei and her raised their heads together, thinking to themselves, they couldn't just look at her dress and deceive people.

***

The signal is missing on the spot and is never received. After washing, Zhou Jiyou turned off his mobile phone, threw it aside, and lay on the bed to sleep.

Although it was summer, the night in the mountains was cool and not hot. There wasn't even a broken fan in the house, and Zhou Jiyou was very satisfied with the pleasant temperature.

The place where I have been bitten by mosquitoes is still a little itchy and painful, maybe it is a psychological effect, and I always feel that there are mosquitoes buzzing in my ears.

She got up, and by the moonlight, she found the mosquito repellent and sprayed it all from neck to toe.

In the middle of the night, I heard something running around on the ceiling in a daze, and it was as lively as if I was holding a track and field meeting.

She stared into the void in the darkness, the shadows of the trees swaying like dark ghost claws outside the old wooden doors and windows.

At half past four in the morning, the reddish morning light woke up the fresh air, and after Grandma Shen got up, she walked to the hall to open the wooden door, and was surprised to find that the door latch was not inserted at all.

Confused, she opened the door.

Carrying a wooden bucket in her hand, she walked towards the well on the east side of the courtyard, shouting around as she went: "Feifei, are you up?" ”

No one responded.

As soon as her eyes turned, a girl sat on a haystack not far away with her legs dangling, her expression hidden in the white morning mist, and she couldn't see it really.

She had changed into a different outfit than she had been yesterday, and it was cold in the early morning in the mountains, and she knew how to wear a short coat.

Grandma Shen was stunned and felt a little relieved at the same time, and shouted, "Child, why are you sitting outside?" ”

Kind voices echoed in the silent mountains, empty and insignificant.

Zhou Jiyou pursed his lips, his eyes were calm, and his voice was calm: "Grandma, what's running around on the roof all night?" ”

Grandma Shen slapped her thigh and suddenly realized: "Oops, have you been woken up?" I forgot to tell you that there are rats on the house. ”

In the local dialect, the sound of "rat" is similar to "Chu", which Zhou Jiyou can't understand.

"My grandmother said there were rats on the roof." "Humanoid Translator" Shen Fei didn't know when he stood in the courtyard sleepily.

Grandma Shen turned around: "Ya Lak, get up." ”

Shen Fei rubbed his eyes and said, "I heard you calling me just now." ”

Grandma Shen explained: "The door is not latched, I thought you got up." ”

"Oh." Shen Fei nodded, he had just woken up, and his expression was wooden.

Mouse...... Zhou Jiyou supported the haystack with one hand, jumped to the ground, and came to Grandma Shen's side with his coat pocket, his eyes were facing Shen Fei, and he asked him without seeing emotion: "Will it fall off?" ”

Her eyes were beautiful amber, pure and clean, and being stared at by her like this without a trace of emotion, Shen Fei was so excited that his sleepiness disappeared.

He was a little dazed, his lips slightly open.

Zhou Jiyou looked at him without blinking for a moment: "Mouse, I said mouse." ”

He immediately understood, and his movements matched the words, assuring her, and shook his head: "No." ”

Zhou Jiyou's heart was relieved, Shen Fei paused for a second, lowered his eyes, pouted helplessly, and lowered his voice: "They will run down from somewhere else." ”

Zhou Jiyou: "......"

She glared at him, and after he finished speaking, he glanced up at her, probably not expecting her to be angry, surprised for a moment, and slowly turned his gaze away.

Zhou Jiyou: "......"

A group of rats held a national sports meeting above their heads every night, Zhou Jiyou suffered from insomnia for two consecutive nights, and on the third day, his spirit could no longer support it, and he fell into bed and couldn't move.

Grandma Shen used cold well water as a cold room to store leftovers. The roast chicken on the first night was completely solved after eating it for two days in a row, and the good parts of the chicken were basically fed into Zhou Jiyou's stomach by Grandma Shen, one said that he didn't like meat, and the other said that his teeth were not good.

The last time the roast chicken was put on the table, there was still one chicken foot left, Zhou Jiyou was already full, went into the house to take a cup out and pour water, walked to the door, and saw Shen Fei and Grandma Shen excuse each other around the belonging of the chicken feet. Shen Fei stubbornly refused to listen to persuasion, and insisted on putting the chicken feet into his grandmother's bowl. Grandma Shen knocked him on the head with the top of the chopsticks and said something, but in the end she still laughed and ate.

Zhou Jiyou didn't go out, and returned to the house with an empty water cup.

After knowing that the village was not yet powered, her mobile phone was basically turned off, and Nokia itself had a long standby time, and only a little power was consumed in two days.

Knowing that there would be no signal, she couldn't help but glance at it.

No incoming calls and no text messages.

She dialed a number meaninglessly, couldn't hear the sound, couldn't call.

***

After that, every meal, there is no more chicken, occasionally a little steaming of Layue pickled sausages, and pork is stuffed into the pig's intestines, using a traditional local curing method.

Shen Fei translated Grandma Shen's introduction to Zhou Jiyou, and after speaking broken Mandarin for a few days, he slowly got used to it, and the long sentences could be coherent in one breath.

Compared to sausages, Zhou Jiyou prefers another pickled dish, which is red in the snow.

Sour, put some red pepper and stir-fry, fragrant, especially rice.

She didn't have to have meat at every meal, the family was not rich, and could even be called poor, and her arrival undoubtedly added a burden to them.

At first, she turned a blind eye and stayed out of the matter, but then because of an incident, she inadvertently changed her attitude.

On the tenth day of coming here, she caught a cold at night, her physical condition deteriorated rapidly, and she took her own cold medicine but did not get better, and at noon on the twelfth day, she suddenly had joint pain all over her body, her brain was also groggy, and her temples were suddenly painful.

She wrapped herself in the quilt to cover her sweat, did not eat or drink, and curled up into a hot shrimp.

The Shen family is located in the corner of the mountain, and there is a clinic in the hinterland of the mountain, which was founded by an old doctor who retired from the town hospital, and anyone in the village who has a headache and brain fever will look for him.

Grandma Shen touched her sweaty forehead, felt her body temperature, thought that she couldn't delay if she was sick, and hurriedly called Shen Fei to ask Dr. Zheng.

When he went, Shen Fei ran in the mountains; When he returned, Dr. Zheng couldn't run.

Shen Fei was not easy to urge, and looked back three times at a time, as if with one more look, Old Doctor Zheng would be able to be pulled by his eyes to go faster.

After a basic examination, Dr. Zheng judged that Zhou Jiyou had rheumatic influenza.

In view of Zhou Jiyou's reluctance to take injections and infusions, he returned to the clinic to prescribe medicine, and Shen Fei had to follow again.

Both sides of the road are lined with lush green trees, and the sun casts dappled shadows through the leaves.

The recent strange incident in the Shen family, Dr. Zheng heard the villagers mention it, the dark back of the neck sweat like rain, sweat beads rolled into the collar of the short-sleeved shirt, and the back was hot. When Shen Fei walked in front of him with his diagnosis and treatment box and turned around again, Dr. Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "How long will this girl stay in your house?" ”

The topic came suddenly, Shen Fei turned his head back, and thought for a while: "Half a month." ”

"That means that Shen Xin won't be able to come back in half a month?"

He gave a vague "um".

"Miss her, huh?"

"Yes."

After some tossing, the prepared lunch was all cold. Grandma Shen instructed Shen Fei to wait for Zhou Jiyou to take medicine, and she went to hot dishes.

Shen Fei ran back and forth twice, the sun was scorching at noon, and he was covered in sweat.

He turned his back, lifted the corner of his clothes and wiped it on his face, and then found the water cup that Zhou Jiyou brought on the mahogany box, the cup was beautiful and exquisite, and the transparent cup body was so clean that it could reflect light.

He remembered that on the first day Zhou Jiyou came to the house, he poured water from an old enamel cup for her to drink, but she ignored him.

There was still a little cold and white boil in the cup, he took the cup to the hall to add hot water, the water temperature was almost neutral, he put down the water bottle, pressed the cork into it, and went back to the house.

"Take your medicine." Shen Fei stood beside the bed, looking down at Zhou Jiyou, who was frowning and his face was pale.

Zhou Jiyou was in a lot of pain, his head, wrists, ankles, everywhere he was.

She opened her eyes, her teeth clenched, her face twitched, and her eyes were a little fierce.

Shen Fei was a little stunned, silent, and said with concern: "You won't feel bad if you take the medicine." ”

Zhou Jiyou was silent, sat up half-way with his elbows propped up, and stretched out his sweaty palm from the quilt to take the pills.

Shen Fei saw that dense nail pinching marks appeared on her slender wrists, which turned red.

"......," he was slightly dumbfounded.

Zhou Jiyou swallowed the pills into his mouth, took the water cup and swallowed it in two sips. The cup was returned to him, and she continued to retract into the already wet quilt.

Shen Fei stood still, his eyes following her red wrist that retracted from the quilt and landed on the quilt.

Sweaty hair stuck to her forehead, she looked up at him, and said without a beginning or an end: "I'm sorry, your quilt is dirty, I'll be responsible for turning back and washing." ”

Shen Fei had a strange feeling that he didn't know what she was trying to do.

He thought of his sister and the female classmates he had been in contact with since he was a child, wouldn't a girl cry when she was uncomfortable, why didn't she cry? Doesn't a girl shout when she is uncomfortable, why doesn't she shout? doesn't cry or shout, is it because she is not in a familiar environment, she is embarrassed and can't let go?

Shen Fei couldn't help but think of his sister Shen Xin again, how was she doing, was she sick, did she secretly hide and cry......

Thinking like this, his mouth opened: "Why are you uncomfortable, what can I help you?" ”