CHAPTER XXIV

Long Xiaoyu fell asleep when the sky was bright, and he woke up suddenly after sleeping for less than two hours, looking at his watch, it was seven o'clock in the morning, he hurriedly got up and ran to the kitchen to wash his face hastily, and after washing his face, he hurriedly prepared breakfast for Luo Baochun's father and daughter, and just boiled a pot of water when he heard Luo Baochun calling him outside:

"Xiao Yu! Long Xiaoyu! ”

Long Xiaoyu threw away a tomato that was being washed, ran out of the kitchen, and saw Luo Baochun just coming out of his daughter's bedroom, and asked him anxiously, "Where did Jingjing go?" ”

Long Xiaoyu said: "I don't know, didn't you sleep in the house?" ”

Luo Baochun looked at Long Xiaoyu's wet hands and said, "You cook, I'll go out and find it." "Luo Baochun went out. Long Xiaoyu returned to the kitchen, restless. I cut my hands when I cut bread, I burned my feet when I poured boiling water, and I don't know how to make a breakfast. He made porridge, cut sausages and bread, and scrambled eggs and tomatoes. The meal was just ready, Luo Baochun came back, he came back alone, as soon as he came back, he entered Luo Jingjing's house, and saw that Luo Jingjing's luggage was still there, I don't know whether he was relieved or sighed, and smiled at Long Xiaoyu who followed up, hiding the uneasiness in his heart: "This Jingjing, where did you go early in the morning?" Regardless of her, let's eat first. ”

They sat down to breakfast and watched the hot porridge, the slices of bread toasted and the scrambled eggs with brightly colored tomatoes, but who was in the mood to eat them? A boring breakfast tasted like chewing wax, and after a long morning, I was anxious, and I still didn't see Luo Jingjing come back. At noon, Long Xiaoyu started cooking again, halfway through, and finally couldn't help but walk out of the kitchen, walked into the living room, and said to Luo Baochun, who was in a daze facing the TV: "Chairman, do you want to go out and look for it again, do you want to ask the people from the resort to help find it?" ”

From Long Xiaoyu's tone, Luo Baochun heard the hint that he had been worried about, but at the same time, he had been lucky: all around here are primeval forests, what if Luo Jingjing goes in alone and can't get out? Luo Baochun has been comforting himself in his heart since the morning: No, no, this kid may have nothing to do with wandering around somewhere. But now, Long Xiaoyu's reminder, the tone he used when reminding, and the anxious expression on his face, made Luo Baochun's self-confidence collapse all of a sudden, he stood up and walked out, and stood holding on to the door before he took two steps. Long Xiaoyu looked at his face and knew that it was bad, Luo Baochun's heart obviously didn't bear this anxiety, his upper body stiffened, and he slowly slipped to the ground with one hand holding the door frame...... Long Xiaoyu shouted "Chairman" and pounced, he pounced and turned the medicine out of Luo Baochun's pocket. The first thing he informed Luo Baochun as secretary was nitroglycerin in the chairman's jacket pocket...... He stuffed nitroglycerin into Luo Baochun's mouth, helped him sit up slowly against the door frame, and then went to make a phone call. Ten minutes later, the doctor from the resort came, and a manager on duty came, who treated Luo Baochun. The doctor said that he needed to go to the hospital in the city, otherwise he would not be insured. So, the manager hurriedly contacted the car. After carrying Luo Baochun into a van at the resort, Long Xiaoyu pulled the manager on duty aside and told Luo Jingjing about it. When the manager saw that he was trembling when he spoke, he comforted him and said that he would send someone to look for him nearby. She asked Luo Jingjing about her physiognomy and clothing style, and then asked Long Xiaoyu to accompany the patient to the hospital first, and the girl was found by them to reassure him. The female manager's service attitude and ability to handle things were an effective appeasement to Long Xiaoyu, and he accompanied Luo Baochun into the city with the car. It takes more than an hour to walk from the resort to Zhangyan City, and it is a highway, and it is already 1:45 p.m. when Luo Baochun is placed on the infusion bed in the hospital. The tranquilizer in the infusion bottle quickly took effect, and Luo Baochun fell asleep. Long Xiaoyu ran out to make a call without delay, and the phone was transferred for a long time before it was received by the manager on duty just now, and when Long Xiaoyu asked, he knew that Luo Jingjing had not found it. He kept comforting Luo Baochun along the way and said that he would find it soon, and he almost found it, and he believed it, so when he heard that he didn't find it at all, his nerves were a little unbearable. He threw away the phone and ran out of the hospital, taking a coach back to the resort along the highway from which he came. When he arrived at the resort, the sun was a little westerly, and he quickly found the female manager, who was preparing to receive a very large leader at the service desk, she assigned tasks to her subordinates one by one, and also took care of socializing with the officials sent by ** to meet the leader, and was very busy. Long Xiaoyu stood aside and barely interjected, and as soon as she spoke, she politely interrupted: "I'm sorry, please wait a moment." Her professional smile and politeness suppressed Long Xiaoyu for a full twenty minutes, and after twenty minutes, Long Xiaoyu said that without waiting, he stopped the female manager and shouted, "I'm sorry! "This time he said he's sorry! The female manager was a little angry, but she still endured it, and said to him, "Young man, aren't you looking for the person who came with you, now we are very busy, and we have important guests today." You go find it yourself, we can't help you find it now, unless you go to the public security bureau to call the police, you call the police and the public security bureau will help you find ......"

Long Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Okay, I'll call the police." ”

The female manager was also stunned, it seems that she didn't take it seriously at all, a guest goes out in the morning and doesn't come back in the afternoon, which is a common thing. She couldn't understand why the young man was so agitated. She said that calling the police was originally just a matter of words, but she didn't expect this young man to come to the real thing. She was stunned for a moment and said, "Okay, if you really want to call the police, you can report it yourself, or you go to the security department, and our security department can help you contact it." However, whether the Public Security Bureau accepts you to report this kind of matter must be determined by the Public Security Bureau. ”

Long Xiaoyu didn't say anything more, turned around and went to the security department. Obviously, the female manager had already called the security department, and the security department also said in this tone at the beginning: "This person went out to play and didn't come back, you can wait a little longer." The Public Security Bureau is not for you alone, and it can't find someone specifically for you. At Long Xiaoyu's repeated insistence, the security department had to call the nearby police station, saying in a very objective way that a guest wanted to call the police because he suspected that his companion was missing. Long Xiaoyu was relieved by the police station's reply, and they said that they could accept the police, but they needed to let the police call the police station in person. Long Xiaoyu asked the people from the security department for directions and went immediately. The attitude of the police at the police station was even better than he expected, and they recorded his account very carefully, and then, they really sent two policemen and a car to return to the resort with him. Then, at the request of the police at the police station, the security department of the resort dispatched more than a dozen people, and even those who were about to get off work were not allowed to get off work, and picked a direction that tourists most often went to and walked into the forest. More than a dozen people, plus Long Xiaoyu and the police, opened up the distance and pushed forward like a net. Long Xiaoyu shouted loudly: "Luo Jingjing! Luo Jingjing! Later, others also shouted: "Luo Jingjing! Luo Jingjing! The shouts stirred up the quiet forest, and for a moment the birds and beasts were silent, and they all watched in horror as the group of people walked through the thorns.

This is really a primeval forest, withered vines and rotten trees, intertwined, and the further you go, the more entangled your feet become. The smell is getting more and more damp, and the nasal passages are filled with the strange smell of rotten branches and leaves. It turned out that there was still a road, the kind of path that was stepped on by people for a long time, and it disappeared as I walked, and the sense of direction suddenly became confused. The red sunset pierced through the dense canopy of trees, pouring into countless thin rays of light, decorating their future in a variety of colors. But the good times did not last long, the light became less and less, and the fainter and darker, and the anxious cries could not retain the last splendor of the sunset, and the whole forest quickly became cold and dim. The two policemen from the police station briefly discussed it, and resolutely decided to stop advancing, collect their troops and go back. Because it gets dark very quickly, it is dangerous to go any further. Long Xiaoyu was so anxious that he almost went crazy, but he couldn't stop the police from giving the order to go back. He was already grateful that the police could come out, that so many people could come out, and that he was already grateful, and he didn't know how to express this gratitude. He saw the policemen and security guards gossiping about this tree and that flower in the forest, scolding and complaining about the thorny and hooked dry branches and wild vines, and he could only throw one last glimpse into the depths of the forest in despair, and he could only follow the searching crowd and turn back with them.

When they returned to the resort, the security guards dispersed immediately, and the police were ready to go back to the police station, comforting Long Xiaoyu when they left: "Don't be too anxious, maybe she didn't go into the forest at all, and she will come back in the evening." Besides, there are no big beasts in this forest, and she won't be in too much danger if she enters it. If she doesn't come back tonight, you can call us at dawn tomorrow, and we'll organize someone to find it for you. It's too late today to find her, and it's hard to think she's lost, maybe she's gone into the city to play. ”

The policeman finished comforting him and left. The embers of the sun have been completely extinguished, and night has been overwhelmed. Long Xiaoyu returned to their wooden house, which was dark and quiet. He turned on the light and walked to Luo Jingjing's bedroom with luck, and there was no one in the bedroom. He walked through every room in the hut, but no miracle happened. He had even been to the kitchen, and the half-cooked lunches in the kitchen were still sitting there motionless. Long Xiaoyu then remembered that from the two mouthfuls of porridge in the morning to now, he hadn't eaten a mouthful of anything, nor had he drunk a sip of water, but he didn't have a sense of hunger, and his body was a little weak and weak, but he didn't feel hungry. He walked out of the kitchen and walked into Luo Jingjing's bedroom again, Luo Jingjing's small suitcase was still in the corner of the wall, Luo Jingjing's pile of perfume and face oil were also placed there very eye-catching, what Chanel and Clinique and the like were still on the table. Those things made his nose sore, and two lines of hot tears actually came out of his eyes and rolled down his cheeks.

The night of Yunqing Mountain is darker than the night of Pingling, and the night outside the window is already like ink. Perhaps because this is a mountain wilderness, and Pingling is a city, the night of the city is always full of light, and the dark night itself belongs more to the mountains. The boundless and impenetrable darkness outside the window seemed to make Long Xiaoyu persistently believe that his beloved Luo Jingjing was in this night, crying and waiting in a small corner in this huge darkness. She wouldn't be waiting for someone else, she was definitely waiting for him, and the only person she could expect to rescue her was him!

Long Xiaoyu wiped away his tears, he carried his backpack, which he filled with bread, sausages, tomatoes and water. He brought both flashlights with the cabin. In order to protect himself from the cold, he brought his thick coat again, and this Versace coat was bought for him by Luo Jingjing. Then, he wrote a note addressed to the police comrades at the police station, telling them that he had gone to the forest and gone to find Luo Jingjing. He left the note on the coffee table in the living room, with an ashtray pressed on it. After pressing the ashtray, he remembered something, and deliberately wrote the time under his name. It was 8:45 p.m., and he walked out of the hut at this time. He didn't turn off the lights in the living room and bedroom when he walked out the door, he wanted the cabin to be visible from a distance, like a beacon for a night voyage. He left the brightly lit windows and strode alone towards the swarthy primeval forest in the distance. He wanted to sing a song for himself, so that the heroism in his heart could be vented, but he didn't know what to sing. And, I don't know how, he burst into tears again when he walked out of the house.

Primeval forest, this is a word he knows in books, a word that is very far away and very unused. He couldn't have imagined that he would break into this forbidden place of existence with such a person as he did today, and it was in the dark of night. During the day, the scenery of Yunqing Mountain is beautiful and spectacular, but at night, the night brings Lin Mang into a devilish hell. The sound of the night wind in the canopy of every tree, and the screams and rushes of the birds and beasts in the forest, rendered Long Xiaoyu's future and retreat extremely terrifying. He bravely waved the weak pillar of light of the flashlight, like dancing a laser weapon from a science fiction movie, and he shouted loudly: "Jingjing! Jingjing! Jingjing! Every cry was as hard as he could, and sometimes he felt that his cries were far, far away, and sometimes that they were little more than a few whispers compared to the vastness of the forest, as if they were far less deafening than a flock of frightened birds that suddenly fluttered their wings overhead.

He didn't know how far he had walked, how long he had been shouting, he seemed to be getting tired quickly, and he couldn't shout anymore, but he still shouted. His main method of finding Luo Jingjing was to shout. Soon his throat was hoarse, and with each shout he drew a sharp sting, and he knew that his throat was congested, and when he shouted he even suspected that his throat had been torn open, and the pain was unbearable. His face and hands were broken, and he didn't know how, and in the light of the flashlight, he could see blood stains on both hands. And the most terrible thing is despair. When his strength was exhausted, his passion was exhausted, the road ahead became more and more difficult to walk, and the darkness became more and more unfathomable, despair came uncontrollably, replacing the duty he had when he walked into the forest. His pace also began to slow down, he began to stumble, and he began to stumble...... I tripped over something under my feet and fell to the ground. He had long forgotten how many times he had fallen, until finally he realized that he no longer had the strength to get back up, and despair reached its peak. He lay on the thick rotting leaves, and he felt like he was wet from the inside out, not knowing whether it was the sweat on his body or the water on the ground. He was lying on the ground like paralysis, and for a moment he seemed to be in a coma, but his mouth was still muttering, he was talking about Luo Jingjing, he was saying that he loved Luo Jingjing, he muttered Luo Jingjing's name, he said let's die together, let's die together...... He repeated the word death because he was clearly aware of it. He was also lost, and he had long since lost his way. I don't know how long later, when he struggled to get up again and continue walking, he didn't know if he was walking back. He is not afraid of death at this time, the only thing he desires is to meet Luo Jingjing, to be with Luo Jingjing, and spend the last moments of his life. He longed for that moment. When he imagined sleeping with his lover in his arms, his soul not only transcended fear, but his whole body and mind were thrilled.

Long Xiaoyu always smiled when he told Han Ding about this kiss of death with the primeval forest, obviously the impression left on his mood by this experience was happy, and there was a little excitement and pride in happiness. This is not only because what he feels when he touches death is heroic and lingering, and it is the pleasure of sacrifice, but also that it is the primeval forest that almost swallowed his and Luo Jingjing's lives that bridges their suspicions and consolidates their love. The search team organized by the police found Long Xiaoyu unconscious at noon the next day and sent him to a hospital in Zhangyan City, where he not only met Luo Baochun, who was already able to get out of bed, but also Luo Jingjing, whom he thought he would never see.

Luo Jingjing was discovered that morning by a group of students who went into the forest for an adventure trip. She left the wooden house alone the morning before, and she just wanted to anger Long Xiaoyu again. In fact, she knew that Long Xiaoyu didn't love the girl named Siping, and she witnessed the behavior of the two inside and outside the movie theater that night. Long Xiaoyu was very cold to Siping, and Siping relied on him to die. She ignored Long Xiaoyu for a week was nothing more than anger, every time she came out this time, it was all planned for a long time, and her purpose was just to see his reaction. If he is embarrassed, sad, or in a dilemma, she will succeed, and she will have the pleasure of revenge. In fact, she was a little tired of this kind of game the night before, and she wanted to end the game and say that she wouldn't play, only to find that there was no step to go down, and she wanted to reconcile with Long Xiaoyu, but there was no natural opportunity. At the very least, this opportunity is: Long Xiaoyu has to bow her head and apologize to her first, and then make a guarantee, and then she will "reluctantly" express her forgiveness...... But this opportunity is not.

At night, she couldn't sleep, her mind was full of Long Xiaoyu, and she wanted to go to his room quietly several times, but she couldn't help it. When she got up in the morning, she went out alone, at first she just wanted them to get up and not see her again, but when she walked closer to the forest, she found that the edge of the forest was so quiet, friendly and easy, the trees were not dense, the roadside was full of flowers, and a path winded forward, leading people to step into it unconsciously. Luo Jingjing walked into the forest for the first time in her life, she had heard of forest bathing before, and she had heard that breathing the air of the forest could prolong life. The forest in the early morning of Yunqing Mountain made her feel the enjoyment of forest bathing, the fresh sunlight penetrated the canopy, the fresh air penetrated the heart and lungs, the birds sang and the flowers were fragrant, and the branches and leaves were swaying...... In fact, she was lost after only ten minutes into the forest. She had the impression that she had come in the direction of the rising sun, but she had taken an inclined path on the way back, and she had already changed directions twice after walking for more than an hour. She began to call for help when she realized she was lost, but there was no response except for her own echo. She walked around the forest for a day, her stomach empty and exhausted, her throat hoarse and tears dry. At dusk she decided not to look for a way out in vain, and she came out in the morning with Long Xiaoyu's string of pearls, which had not yet had time to be returned to him after she had been put on. She specially left a bead when she strung this bead chain, and took a jade bead from her own jade bead chain and replaced it. This bead chain immediately looks very peculiar, the white pearl surrounds a transparent green jade bead, how can it not be dazzling? She felt that the jade bead represented herself, and the pearl she took off represented Long Xiaoyu. She took out the pearl chain with jade beads from her backpack and put it on her wrist like a talisman, and she hid in a small cave with a small mountain spring at the mouth of the cave to replenish her body's moisture. It turned out that she made the right choice, she managed to maintain her strength, and she decided to keep her strength because she was prepared to wait for rescue for a long time. Although women are not as bold and fearless as men in desperate situations, they are often more resilient than men, and once they have calmed down, they are more resilient than men. Luo Jingjing was the same as Long Xiaoyu that night, her heart was full of thoughts and longings for love, she always imagined that if she saw Long Xiaoyu again, she would definitely hug him and cry, she wanted her to never be angry with him again, and never lose her temper at him again...... She thought this all night, crying for a while until dawn. The girl's thoughts are soft and restrained, unlike Long Xiaoyu, who cried blood and shouted all night, exhausted her physical strength, and almost died.

Luo Jingjing was still very conscious when she was discovered by the group of students. She was taken to the hospital and was given a nutrient solution, and after eating, her mental and physical strength quickly improved. That evening, she asked the nurse to help her to Long Xiaoyu's bedside, where she and Long Xiaoyu hugged and cried. In front of the doctors and nurses, they didn't say a word of love except crying, but they had already sworn in each other's hearts.