140 Treehouse Under the Stars
Shang Tan'an was casually admiring a jade sculpture like a snow crystal tree by the door, and she glanced at the side wall next to her bed silently pushing out a delicate dressing room, the bright light held her, she sat down silently, stretched out her finger for a while and pointed to a small wooden lattice under the mirror, took out a yellow comb from inside, and stared down without saying a word.
Ta Taqing completely sank to the foot of the distant mountain.
The gray twilight sky and the outline of the mountains merge into one. The room unconsciously lit up with a soft white light, reflecting the four walls of the dressing room that seemed to be transparent like glass.
Scarlet put the comb on the table and took out something from her handbag, which turned out to be another comb, and the two combs looked very similar in appearance. She pinched and looked at it gently, and after a while, her eyes were raised, and she looked at Shang Tan'an by the door from the mirror.
Shang Tan'an also looked at her and didn't speak.
"I bought it from the basement of the Tenth District," Scarlet said with a blank face, "The person who sold it to me wanted to lie to me at first that the comb was made by a master. I know not.
"My grandfather only made a comb with his own hands, and it was a gift for my sixth birthday." She lowered her eyes, put the inferior topaz comb into the wooden lattice, held the warmer comb on the table in the palm of her hand, and whispered for a while, "After the arbitration tribunal is over, I have two days to sort out my personal belongings, they came to stay overnight, and when I left, all my things were unpacked and shown to the trusteeship agency and them." β
She raised her eyes again, looked at Shang Tan'an through the mirror, and clutched her comb tightly.
Shang Tan'an looked at her silently, then looked away, still admiring the snow crystal tree by the door.
Scarlet sat silently for a long time, reopened the wooden lattice, replaced the comb, stood up and turned around. Shang Tan'an's expression was slightly surprised, and his eyes fell on her hands, but he did not express his opinion from beginning to end.
"I want to stay for twelve hours." She walked out of the bedroom.
"Hmm." Shang Tan'an didn't have any objection and followed out the door. The pale vermilion carved door closed smoothly behind them. He glanced back, then at her, and only then did the corridor light up with a dreamy soft footlamp, so that he could not see her expression clearly. "If you're sleepy, you can rest on the sofa downstairs." He suggested.
Scarlet laughed suddenly, "I have a better place." β
"Do you want to sit?"
Shang Tan'an looked at the faint swing frame under the twisted vine tree in the gloom, and chuckled lowly.
"Don't be embarrassed, adults can sit, can you sit?" Scarlet asked again, thinking about this trip, she didn't know when she would be able to get the house back, so she asked very sincerely, wanting Shang Tan'an to also experience the swing frame in her garden.
Shang Tan'an laughed again: "You can sit down." β
Scarlet was not reluctant, walked to the twisted vine tree, and skillfully pulled a soft rattan branch wrapped around the trunk, Shang Tan'an only heard a rattle sound from the top, looked up, and after a while, a soft rope ladder hung down from the canopy of five or six meters high.
"My treehouse wasn't designed back then, so I have to climb it," Scarlet shook the rope ladder to test the fastness, turned her head to Shang Tan'an and said, "I'll go up first, you're okay, right?" β
"It should be fine."
Scarlet climbed to the half-center, lowered her head and looked at Shang Tan'an, he could be seen standing by the rope ladder in the night light, reaching out and grabbing it, no wonder she didn't feel like she was dangling like before. She continued to climb, deftly burrowing into the floor of the wooden house, reaching against the wooden wall and touching it, turning the light on.
Shang Tan'an blinked subconsciously.
In the dark mid-air, a room of light lit up, yellow ground, like a shining crystal house under the stars, a girl leaned over and lay in the mouth of the light, the long light green skirt hung down a corner, and she bent her head, afraid that her hair bun would also loosen.
"Come on." A gentle cry came from the night wind.
"Okay."
Shang Tan'an's speed is not slow, and Scarlet is worried about him in vain. She took back the rope ladder, pulled the door open, and saw that Shang Tan'an was still sitting on her knees and looked at the tree house, so she said, "It's okay for you to stand up, it's okay for both of us to walk around inside, I've tested the safety factor." β
Shang Tan'an laughed, really straightened up, and tried to take two steps.
The floor of the cabin was smooth, the walls were full of rough strips of rolling wood, and a rattan cabinet was placed in one corner, which was as steady as a rock when walking.
Scarlet went straight over and opened the window, and there was a sound outside, Shang Tan'an hurriedly followed, only to see several strings of dark green palm leaves on the window frame squeezing and trembling.
"Every year at this time, the leaves grow denser," Scarlet frowned, "I don't let the gardening robots do regular pruning here, I call them when I feel the need, and I don't care about it for a long time, but there are so many leaves." As she spoke, she raised her hand and loosened the tightly picked leaves and vines on the lintel.
Shang Tan'an raised his arm, easily reached it, and with a slight force, the heads of those thin vines loosened the lintel and hung down softly. The window was suddenly very refreshing, the night breeze rushed in, the face was warm, and the night was deep and open, and the blue velvet-like starry sky was quietly unfolding, boundless.
"It's very rudimentary here, and it's going to take you a couple of hours to stay here." Scarlet leaned against the window, her eyes apologetic.
"It doesn't matter, I think it's very good." Shang Tan'an said with a smile, "I've never been in a treehouse yet. β
Scarlet lips couldn't help but curl up, her eyes turned, she walked to the rattan cabinet, took out her collection in one go, and said in a brisk tone: "I have good things." β
Shang Tan'an couldn't help but be curious, and when she looked over, she saw a fat bulging vermilion painted jar, a square flat painted box, and two blankets, one thick and one thin, spread all over the ground at her feet.
Scarlet opened the lid of the box, and inside was a box of neatly stacked high-energy nutrients: "You take it and eat it, it's still within the expiration date." She stared at Shang Tan'an and said attentively, "Eat tomorrow in your car, eat here first, and next time I come back, it will definitely be past the expiration date." β
"You...... Putting nutrients in a treehouse? Shang Tan'an was stunned and smiled.
"There are others," Scarlet opened the lid of the jar again, reached out and took out a palm-sized crystal bottle, and handed it to Shang Tan'an, "You drink, this is the snow dragon liquid of Hipper, it is said that drinking it will calm the nerves and nourish the skin." β
"You drink."
"I still have it." Scarlet took out an identical crystal bottle from the jar, and the golden liquid in it was only half a bottle, she opened the lid neatly, took a sip first, and raised her eyebrows, "You don't have to worry, we will keep the bottle after drinking, it is a lot." β
Shang Tan'an couldn't help laughing, no longer shirked, unscrewed the bottle of snow dragon liquid, and raised his head to take a sip.
"Tastes good, right? I treasured it for seventeen years. β
The warm liquid slid into Shang Tan'an's throat, and a faint fragrance melted in his mouth, as if the blood flowed to his limbs. Shang Tan'an couldn't help but glance down at the crystal bottle, raised his eyes and said with a smile: "Seventeen years? You were very young and already thought of putting food in your treehouse? β
"When I first built the treehouse, I had more stuff to put in." Scarlet said disapprehantly, "This is what I used to have left over from the engagement banquet, I heard that it is suitable for all ages, so I brought it up, and I drank a little in the past few years, and there is only this last bottle and a half." β
Shang Tan'an held the crystal bottle, and suddenly felt a little weird that he couldn't drink, looking at the scarlet look on the other side, it was as if he was talking about an ordinary dinner, and he wanted to choke and laugh more and more.
"Your engagement banquet with Mr. Qi?"
Scarlet was stunned, surprised that Shang Tan'an still remembered her ex-fiancΓ©'s surname. "Yes, it's the Qi family."
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