chapter 08
Hearing him suddenly say that he wanted to help himself, Zhou Jiyou's eyes that had already turned to the wall slowly twisted back, and his eyes stopped on his face, quietly studied.
Her appearance at the moment was a little weak, but her eyes were still sharp, like cold water, anti-gravity floated in the air, pouring his face.
Getting along with her, Shen Fei has been inexplicably passive.
It was a strange experience that he didn't have with any other girl, especially one younger than him.
She was silent for a long time, her expression pained, and she looked at him motionlessly.
He opened his eyes slightly, looked at the wall in front of him, twitched the corner of his left mouth, and repeated in a low voice, "I can help you." ”
Sweat slid down the forehead of the young man's thick face, brushed his thick eyebrows, rolled over his long eyelashes, and fell into his eyes.
His eyes were painful, and he blinked vigorously and shook his head. Suddenly, a bead of sweat on the short hair threw out a bead and landed on the tip of Zhou Jiyou's nose impartially, she felt a trace of coolness, lowered her chin, buried it in, and gently rubbed the corners of the quilt.
In the afterglow, Shen Fei noticed that the sweat droplets flew out, his heart jumped, and he followed the parabolic trajectory and landed on Zhou Jiyou's waxy face, and the whole person instantly froze.
Zhou Jiyou wiped off the beads of sweat and stared at him a little irritably.
Shen Fei was still holding her water cup in his hand, and he wanted to say something, his lips moved, and he couldn't open it.
"Hey." Zhou Jiyou didn't have much strength to call him.
His eyes blinked.
"You get out."
He was half a beat slower.
"You're doing me the most help when you go out."
“……”
***
Shen Fei sat in the hall to eat, his mood was like the temperature at noon, and he was panicked.
Grandma Shen saw that he was a little depressed, and asked, "What's the matter, not very happy?" ”
Shen Fei glanced at the inner room where his sister Shen Xin lived, the door was closed at the moment, and behind the door panel, Zhou Jiyou was lying inside.
He shook his head and said, "No." ”
Grandma Shen was not angry, glanced at him, and said, "Are you stupid to be a grandmother?" ”
Outside the house, the cicadas chirped restlessly, the sun was orange and yellow, and a golden net was scattered over the threshold.
There is no need to borrow light from the nearest place to eat at noon, and the food is placed on a high table against the wall directly north of the hall.
Shen Fei sat in the center of the wooden bench, facing his grandmother's shrewd eyes, thought about it, and said honestly: "I don't know what my heart is." ”
Grandma Shen sighed, worried in her heart, but comforted him with a smile: "Eating and drinking is definitely better than at home." There's your cousin and aunt taking care of you over there, so it's fine. After a pause, he said in a tone full of pity, "It's this little girl who came to our house, and it's really reassuring that her family left her so far alone." ”
Shen Fei swallowed his rice dryly and didn't speak.
Grandma Shen put down the bowl, thought of what to do, stood up and walked towards the back room, "I'll see if she's better." ”
Zhou Jiyou turned sideways inward, unable to sleep in pain, heard the door open, opened his eyes, did not move, and did not speak.
Grandma Shen asked in a low voice, "Child, are you sleeping?" ”
Zhou Jiyou didn't say anything and pretended to be asleep.
Footsteps came to the bedside, and a rickety figure slowly leaned over her head, and she closed her eyes.
A rough, dry palm lightly touched her forehead, paused for a second, then removed it again, reached through the back of her neck, and touched the damp corners.
Zhou Jiyou suddenly opened his eyes.
The figure stepped back, footsteps moving away, and the door closed again.
Covering the quilt on a hot day, she sweated endlessly, her body was sticky and greasy, hot and smoky, like stuffy in a steamer.
Every time she caught a cold and fever, she survived by covering her sweat and sleeping. The first time she had a rheumatic flu, she thought she might be dying.
She took her phone out from under her pillow and dialed a number over and over again, but she couldn't get out, and she couldn't get out......
More than ten days have passed, and the power is dying, and it is almost unsupportable.
She hurriedly turned it off.
The door suddenly opened again, and the sticky little hands subconsciously clenched their phones.
The quilt on his body was lifted defenselessly, the hot and humid air was scattered, the wet summer clothes adhered to the skin, and the moment the body was exposed, it was not cold because it was summer, but every hot pore on the body trembled.
She turned her sore neck and stared into the sky.
Grandma Shen had just picked up another thin quilt from Shen Fei's hand, and when she saw her cold eyes, she didn't care, she smiled lovingly, and was a little sorry: "I woke you up." I'll change your bed quilt, the tide is uncomfortable. ”
A clean, thin quilt was placed over her, suppressing a dry touch.
Zhou Jiyou was still staring at her.
Grandma Shen misunderstood and added: "The quilt is washed and very clean." Picking up the wet dirty quilt on the side, her brain turned around, realizing that she might not understand a word of what she just said, so she slapped Shen Fei behind her with one free hand, "Feifei, help grandma tell her." ”
Shen Fei's ears were slightly red, and he looked out the window, his eyes never turned.
"My grandmother said that the tide quilt is uncomfortable, so change your bed. The quilt cover was washed and just put on. ”
Zhou Jiyou lowered his eyelids and said, "Thank you." I'll leave that quilt cover for me to wash. ”
She hadn't spoken in almost a while, and her voice was a little hoarse.
Shen Fei turned to her sideways, motionless.
Grandma Shen bluffed: "Then what's the matter, if you don't let me wash your clothes, forget it, you can't let you wash this, absolutely not." ”
She hugged the quilt and walked out, glanced at Shen Fei, who was not quite right, and said to Zhou Jiyou: "I'll go and bring you a basin of hot water to wipe your sweat." ”
Shen Fei consciously translated: "My grandmother said, go and bring you hot water to wipe your sweat." "As he spoke, he went out together.
Zhou Jiyou opened his mouth and shouted, "Hey-"
Grandma Shen and Shen Fei both stopped, and Grandma Shen turned around and asked, "What's wrong, you?" If you have something, you can tell it. ”
Zhou Jiyou turned around with great effort, and for some reason, she suddenly wanted to ask for help. She didn't want to wait to die, she wanted to live.
She looked at Grandma Shen who was facing her, and then at Shen Fei, who was facing away from her.
"You said help me, does it count?"
Shen Fei's neck moved back slightly, and the amplitude was so small that it was almost invisible.
Grandma Shen was confused, and after two seconds, she realized that what she said might have been said to her grandson, and she winked at him.
Shen Fei glanced at his grandmother, the corner of his mouth on the left side of his mouth pursed down slightly, and responded, "...... Calculate. ”
Zhou Jiyou frowned invisibly: "You turn around." ”
Shen Fei's ears, which had finally faded down, began to turn red slowly, and Grandma Shen noticed that her grandson was very wrong, and her eyes were asking: What happened?
Shen Fei pursed his mouth, turned around with red ears, and faced the bed. Zhou Jiyou was wrapped in a thin quilt, not the moment the quilt was lifted, Bai Huahua's slippery and delicate skin was exposed in many places.
The head was groggy, like a poisonous insect gnawing at the nerves, and it was extremely painful. She held out an index finger from the quilt and said, "Can you help me pinch this place?" Thank you. ”
Shen Fei: "Now? ”
Isn't it the present or the future? Zhou Jiyou felt that he was unwilling.
"It's ......".
"You wait, I'll be right back." Shen Fei rushed out of the door, leaving Grandma Shen and Zhou Jiyou with a running back.
***
Zhou Jiyou thought that the irrepressible pain forced her to be very close to death, but when two large and strong hands rubbed and pressed on the temples on both sides, she finally eased up little by little, like a timer device about to explode was successfully cut to the circuit.
She lay flat on the diagonal of the bed so that he could sit on the small bench next to the bed.
When I got closer, I could smell the refreshing smell of his body, faint, faint. His hair was dripping, drops snaking down the contours of his cheeks.
He took a shower with well water and changed his clothes.
Zhou Jiyou looked up at him, he looked at the dirty walls, looked at the old ceiling, there was no expression, but it was weird.
She judged it for a moment, thinking that he was deliberately avoiding her gaze.
"Hey."
The force of the massage acupuncture points relaxed, and his neck stopped swinging, fixed in front of him, as if he was listening to his ears.
Zhou Jiyou stared at his angular chin and said, "Are you tired?" Don't take a break. ”
Shen Fei said: "I'm not tired. ”
Zhou Jiyou frowned lightly and questioned: "Then why is your strength so small?" ”
Shen Fei: "......"
He silently increased his strength again.
The pain that quickly returned to the cage was dissipated again, and Zhou Jiyou closed his eyes comfortably, his eyelashes trembling slightly.
When Fang Cai's question came back, she asked bluntly, "Are you angry with me?" ”
Shen Fei let out a soft "ah", confused.
Zhou Jiyou said: "I had a bad attitude before, and I apologize to you." ”
Shen Fei reacted for a few seconds, remembering that she said: You go out, you go out is the biggest help for me.
He opened his mouth and finally spat out only two words: "It's okay." ”
His sluggish answer was hard to convince Zhou Jiyou, and she stared at him with a stern face.
Shen Fei couldn't see it, but he could feel that his heartbeat was inexplicably faster, his cheeks were numb, and his ears were hot.
Zhou Jiyou inadvertently noticed his red left ear, on which crisscrossing capillaries could be clearly seen.
She said flatly: "Why are your ears so red?" ”
Shen Fei: "......"
Now, it's so red that it will burst blood vessels. Zhou Jiyou looked at him suspiciously, inexplicably.
In fact, Shen Fei himself felt inexplicable.
He stared straight at a damp yellow spot on the wall, almost staring at a hole.
Whether he has something to do, Zhou Jiyou doesn't care. She closed her eyes, and the wrist joints in the quilt were still pinching herself.
Just looked at him boredly, but it was just a distraction.
Now, she's changing her approach to get her brain active and thinking about something.
After a while, she said lightly: "When you are tired, you can rest for a while, you don't have to keep stopping." ”
Shen Fei paused for a moment, still in that low wooden tone: "I'm not tired." ”
Zhou Jiyou opened his eyes and found that he hadn't even changed the angle at which his chin was maintained.
"May I ask you something?" She said.
“…… What the? He was obviously a little out of step with her, and the massage was lighter.
Zhou Jiyou's thoughts were interrupted, and he was once again inadvertently diverted from the topic: "Hands are heavier." ”
Shen Fei: "......"
Without saying a word, he returned to his previous strength.
The kneading effect is just right, and Zhou Jiyou is not stingy and grateful: "Thank you, hard work." ”
Faced with her successive deviations, he pursed his mouth and drooped his eyelids. In the afterglow, Zhou Jiyou's palm-sized little face was blurred.
After hesitating for two seconds, he asked in a low voice, "What are you going to ask me about?" ”
She was stunned for a moment, and her tone suddenly fluttered: "I forgot." ”
Shen Fei: "......"
He faintly felt a hint of deliberateness, lowered his head, and slowly, slowly met her seemingly calm but unhappy gaze.
Such condescending glances and clear faces to each other are unprecedented these days.
There was no doubt that she was the best-looking girl he had ever seen, and her facial features were a little too delicate, even if she was sick now, she was very good-looking.
The movements of Shen Fei's hands stopped unconsciously.
Zhou Jiyou was even more convinced that he was tired.
She looked intently into his dark and clear eyes, and said without question, "Did you mean it?" ”
deliberately relaxed again and again, but refused to admit that he was tired.
"......" Shen Fei's eyes were pure and blank.
Although Zhou Jiyou was not happy and he was dishonest, he had a strange feeling in his heart, and this feeling also included Grandma Shen's silent care for her.