Chapter Seventy-One: The Flowing Years, the River

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The bird's cry was crisp but piercing, and Ah Ye reluctantly opened his eyes.

She looked around in confusion, and when she found that she was alone in the house, she suddenly felt excited, and when she woke up, she got up, a little panicked, a little afraid, and the cool breeze penetrated through the cracks, blowing through her, and seemed to seep into her body.

She shuddered.

She strode out of the room, barefoot, the top of her feet brushing against the ground, tingling with a slight itch.

The girl slammed into the doorway, biting her lip and looking straight at the boy not far from the house.

It seemed that he had already woken up, and was talking to the hunters who had been sleeping with them, and she did not carefully listen to what they were saying, although they were very close to each other, she listened to his faint voice, but she did not understand what he meant.

In the end, the boy gave Orion a string of money, but Orion refused, but he didn't react, just nodded, and then walked over to her, Ah Ye involuntarily stood up straight, with his hands behind his back, like a child waiting for the master to teach.

"There's a small river nearby, go there and wash it, then have a bite to eat and we'll go." He flicked the girl's hair that fell down his cheeks seemingly casually, then turned around and walked southeast.

Ah Ye took a step back as if she had been burned by the flames, lowered her head and touched her hair, seeing that the young man was not waiting for her, she hurriedly put on her shoes and went up.

After walking through a low bush and a pile of rubble, the eyes suddenly opened up.

A river about a zhang wide came into view, the river water was clear and turbulent, Liu Fuling squatted down, put his hand in, and suddenly splashed a string of splashes, he put his hands together, picked up a handful of water, and sipped it all to his mouth, several times in a row, he seemed to be satisfied, washed his face, and combed his unkempt hair that was not long but not short with water a few times.

Ah Ye watched quietly again, but did not step forward, she wrung her fingers, and stopped talking.

Liu Fuling glanced at her, shook the water beads on his hands, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ah Ye pulled her wrinkled clothes, bitter and even her face, she suddenly noticed that she was sticky, and there was a faint wetness, it seemed that she didn't sleep peacefully last night, originally fragrant soup bathing and other things were far away from her, she only wiped it back in a few days in her hometown, and it was even rarer in winter, and now looking at the stream in front of her, she had an irrepressible impulse.

She finally said it.

"It's sticky, I want to wash it." She looked at Liu Fuling as she spoke, and immediately added, "I'll be soon." ”

"Just wash it." The young man simply got up and walked back, "Just go back to the house when you're done." ”

"Hmm!" Ah Ye was very happy, but the boy had disappeared in the blink of an eye, she was a little panicked, although she understood that men and women could not kiss or something, but she still hoped that the boy could stay where she could see, so she was in vain for a while.

Then she quickly took off her clothes, and the little girl, with her bare and thin body, tiptoed, carefully poked into the water, and then swished back, she jumped in place, but because of the gravel under her feet, she bared her teeth and grinned.

The river water in the early morning was very cold, just a light touch, the coolness of the tip of the toes jumped all over the body, she shivered for a while, some palpitations, but still puffed up her cheeks to cheer herself up, she silently counted one, two, three in her heart, and then took a big step, and the whole calf fell into the water.

She suddenly tensed, motionless like a sculpture, and then slowly relaxed, carefully squatting, she did not go any further, although the river did not look deep, but it was turbulent, she just stood by the stream, and already felt a little shaky.

After enduring the cold at the beginning, she gradually got used to it, although it was still very cold, she first picked up the water and sprinkled it on her thighs and back, then on her arms, until finally, gritting her teeth and wiping her cold hands on her chest and soft belly.

The stickiness of her body went away with the river, she shivered from the beginning, to the final relaxation, as if she had washed away the dirt of her body from the inside out, and her originally gloomy mood was also relaxed.

In the end, she poked her head into the water, the water flow was like countless ice needles running through her brain, unusually lucid and stimulating, her jagged hair floated on the surface of the water and danced wildly, Ah Ye fell asleep and opened her eyes wide, looking at the silt at the bottom of the river and the rotten roots accumulated over the years, and the strange insects that popped up from time to time in the cracks in the stones, she fell into silence, as if she herself had become a thing at the bottom of the river.

But it was only an illusion, and soon she felt that she could not hold her breath anymore, and suddenly looked up, feeling that she had delayed a lot of time, soaked her hair, washed it a few times, and came out of the river wet.

The moment she came out was even colder than when she entered the water, and she almost involuntarily stepped out of the stream, squatting down at once, curling up and hugging herself into a ball, like an ostrich burying her head and face, shivering again and again.

Then she heard someone coming towards her, she froze sharply, but the next moment she relaxed, the footsteps were familiar, and before she could look up, a soft foreign object fell on her head, and she reached out to grab it.

"Replace it, and the old one will be gone." A familiar voice.

Then there was the sound of footsteps in the distance, the boy came and went quickly, when the girl raised her head, the person was gone, and her shyness came so late, she opened her mouth wide, but there was nothing to say, it seemed that she wanted to say something, and finally she was speechless, she hugged her clothes tightly, and a heat radiated from the inside out, making her inexplicable and afraid.

She dried herself with her old clothes, and put on new clothes in a daze, and like the old clothes she had before, they were all very simple coarse linen clothes, barely fitting, and she trotted back to the house, and when she saw that the young man was ready to go, she handed her a nest.

Ah Ye said goodbye to Orion with Liu Fuling while gnawing on the head of the nest and went on the road.

To him, it seemed that everything that had just happened was just a small matter, and there was no concern at all, but for her?

The girl was a little annoyed, because even she was ignorant of herself, and her thoughts were twisted together, which made her breathe a little short, but she felt that it was more because she was in too much of a hurry.

Liu Fuling is a man of few words, even if he wants to say it, he is extremely concise and to the point, and he won't say more than half a sentence of nonsense, and the little girl is also used to it, so she doesn't ask much, as long as he says it, just listen.

And there doesn't seem to be much to teach today.

So there was nothing to say along the way, and the two walked one after the other.

From morning to dusk.

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