"Whew, that's it." Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Lin Zichen left the orange grove satisfied.

As soon as Lin Zichen walked out of the orange forest, he met a few cousins.

"Xiao Chen? Why did you come to the back mountain alone? The eldest cousin Li Ge was not only worried when he saw Lin Zichen running to the back mountain alone.

The peers in the family are all boys, and Lin Zichen is a girl, so the Li Ge brothers naturally have more relationships with this cousin. Not only them, but also the rest of the Li family, if something happened to Lin Zichen in the back mountain, his own grandmother would not let him go first, thinking about Li Ge's skin, he couldn't help but twitch.

My own grandma beats people, it's really beating, even if a few of them have thick skin, they can't help but beat.

"Xiao Chen, let's go back, it's not safe to stay here." Second cousin Li Yu also opened his mouth to persuade.

"Why are you going back so soon, I've just arrived." As soon as he found something good, Lin Zichen was full of energy, how could he go back.

"There's nothing interesting in the back mountain, I think we'd better go back." The third cousin, Li Huaye, helped to persuade.

Li Ji, who was only one year older than Lin Zichen, blindly urged Lin Zichen to go back, "Xiao Chen, are you looking for something in Houshan?" Tell me what you want, and my cousin will help you find it. After saying that, he patted his chest righteously.

"I'm not looking for anything." Lin Zichen's words made the Li Ge brothers almost vomit out a mouthful of old blood.

"Then what are you doing in Houshan?" Li Ji asked.

"I'll see what you're doing." Lin Zichen answered very naturally.

"We're just going to the back mountain to see if there's any vertebrae." Several black lines slipped down Lige's forehead.

"Do you see that?" Shigee! Lin Zichen hadn't eaten it for a long time, and he wanted to eat it a little.

"Sometimes there were, but we didn't have a dustpan with us, we didn't have anything to put on it, so we planned to go home and get the tools first, and then pick them up." Li Yu briefly explained the situation.

"Then you go back and get the tools, and my fourth cousin and I will go to see the vertebrae first." After speaking, without waiting for everyone's consent, he pulled Li Ji and left.

"Hey, Xiao Chen, slow down, do you know the way? If you don't know, don't go so fast, I'll show you the way. Li Ji was dragged along, and his steps were a little messy.

"Let's go, let's go home and get the tools." Li Ge said to his two younger brothers.

On the other side, Li Ji took Lin Zichen to a vertebral forest.

The vertebral tree is an evergreen tree that can reach more than twenty meters in height. The vertebral forest that Li Ji brought Lin Zichen to this spine forest is not big, and the tallest vertebral tree is only about ten meters, but it also gives people the feeling of a towering tree.

The foliage is luxuriant, intersecting with each other, obscuring a large area of the sky, and standing under the trees, the light is a little dim.

"Xiao Chen, standing here doesn't feel a gloomy feeling." Li Ji said to Lin Zichen in a low voice.

Lin Zichen glanced at Li Ji, "You've watched too much horror TV." ”

"Cut, it's not fun at all. Aren't you girls scared of such a dimly lit place? Li Ji muttered quietly.

It's a pity that Lin Zichen, who was sharp-eared, heard it, "You girls? You've brought a lot of girls here? Or is it that girl do you fall in love with? Want early love? ”

"Shhhh Grandma heard it, and she didn't pick my skin. Li Ji hurriedly covered Lin Zichen's mouth.

"So nervous, you don't really like that girl, do you?" Lin Zichen looked at Li Ji with an expression of hurrying up and recruiting from the truth.

Li Ji was angry for a while, and said a little angrily: "What if I like it, I don't have a young love." ”

Li Ji thought that Lin Zichen, who was a good student, would scold him for such behavior, but he didn't expect Lin Zichen to pat him on the shoulder like a buddy, and said in a calm tone: "Fourth cousin, good job, I support you." ”

Yes? Li Ji was stunned, "Xiao Chen, you don't have a fever, right?" ”

Lin Zichen patted away Li Ji's hand that was probing the temperature on his forehead, "Don't worry, I'm normal." Fourth cousin, unrequited love is very hard, you must hold on. After speaking, he patted Li Ji's shoulder again.

Li Ji was slightly embarrassed, how did he feel that he was sympathized, wouldn't everyone else oppose it when they heard such a thing, or they would desperately ask to solve their gossip hearts? Why did it become a drama to wish him good luck when he arrived at Lin Zichen?

Lin Zichen seemed to know the doubts in Li Ji's heart, and took the initiative to explain his doubts: "Fourth cousin, I'm not encouraging you to fall in love." I'm just telling you that the heartbeat of the student days is the purest, but it is also the most fragile, so you have to protect it well, and the best way to protect it is to bury this love deep in your heart. ”

"This..." Li Ji wanted to refute, but was interrupted by Lin Zichen, "Don't say it's too difficult to do, as long as you think about your future and whether you have the ability to get this feeling, you won't always indulge in this kind of nothingness and sweetness." ”

Lin Zichen's words made Li Ji thunderous, and he was stunned for a while, not knowing what to say.

Lin Zichen continued: "Fourth cousin, it's normal for you to start liking girls at your age. If you feel that you really like her, and the other party is worthy of your liking, then please bury this love in your heart for the time being, study hard, be admitted to a good high school, or even be admitted to a good university, if you still like that girl at that time, and that girl is also single, then I will help you chase her. ”

Li Ji was still pondering what Lin Zichen said, but when he heard Lin Zichen's last sentence, Li Ji snickered very unkindly, "Cut, don't look at who your brother and I are, I still need your help to chase girls." ”

After looking Li Ji up and down a few times, Lin Zichen did not deny it. The genes of the Li family are good, fifteen-year-old Li Ji has just begun to enter puberty, and his voice is in the period of voice change, which sounds a little hoarse, but there is a charm in it.

Li Ji's current height is only about 1.65 meters, but the development period of boys is later than that of girls, and Li Ji's height can grow even longer, and it is estimated that he can exceed 1.75 meters when he goes to high school.

Li Ji's appearance is also good, with a pair of peach blossoms squinting slightly, with a ruffian smile, the whole image of a smiling fox.

But this kind of physiognomy is also the most attractive to women, and it is estimated that at school, Li Ji has also received a lot of love letters.

Li Ji is seventeen years old this year, as long as he doesn't grow crooked, he will definitely be a handsome guy when he becomes an adult.

When Li Ge, Li Yu, and Li Hua came to the vertebral forest, Lin Zichen and Li Ji had already picked up all the vertebrae that had fallen on the ground and put them aside in a pile.

The three of them were late, so they naturally missed the wonderful scene before. Lin Zichen assured Li Ji that this matter would not be known to anyone other except for God and the two of them.

Among the tools that Li Ge brought was a sickle with a long stick, and the vertebral tree was difficult to climb, so he had to use such a sickle to cut off the vertebrae.

Li Yu and Li Hua beat the vertebral tree with a penny, and Lin Zichen and Li Ji were responsible for picking it up.

Vertebral trees can be found everywhere in Fenghezhuang, and there will be several in the back of every house. In winter, use a penny to knock the vertebrae off the tree, remove the thorny shell outside, take it home and wash it, put it in a pot and steam it, and take it to dry if you can't finish it, and keep it for the New Year as a snack It is also a good choice.

Lin Zichen likes to eat the freshly beaten vertebrae, biting through the hard shell on the outside of the vertebrae, eating the white and tender meat inside, "crunching", but crispy.

"Xiao Chen, don't eat it, you haven't washed it, you're not afraid of stomach trouble." Li Ge watched Lin Zichen eat one after another, and couldn't help but stop.

"No... It's okay... I'm in good shape. Lin Zichen replied inarticulately.

Li Ge shook his head helplessly, I hope so.