Xia Sheng turned his head to Hua Tao and said, "I have something I want to say to my father alone......"

Hua Tao nodded thoughtfully, knowing that he needed a little space to settle the grief in his heart, so he said softly: "Then I'll go look elsewhere." ”

Xia Sheng watched Hua Tao go away, and until he couldn't see it, he didn't continue to pretend that nothing happened.

His eyes were black, his figure staggered, and he almost knelt on the ground, hurriedly holding on to the stone tablet beside him, barely standing firmly.

Cold sweat seeped from the corners of his forehead, slid down his pale cheeks, gathered on his resolute chin, and dripped into the mud, glittering in the sunlight, and finally disappearing.

He brought painkillers with him, but the mineral water had already been drunk, so he could only pour out the medicine, put it in his mouth, and swallow it little by little.

The pill melted in the mouth, and it was miserable.

But compared to the torment of splitting headaches, that bit of suffering is nothing at all.

He sat down against a thin old tree, quietly waiting for the overwhelming pain to pass. Occasionally, there was one or two unknown insect chirps in the weeds, like crickets, like cicadas, chirping, chirping.

On the top of the grassy hills, it is very bleak.

He suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette. It's just that there is no room to hide cigarettes in the backpack, so I didn't bring it.

After more than ten minutes passed, the painkiller gradually took effect.

Xia Sheng raised his hand to wipe a handful of sweat, and looked up to see a large dark cloud gathering in the distance. The autumn wind was blowing, and the clouds were rolling in the sky.

Maybe a shower is coming.

Xia Sheng stood up, bowed deeply to Xia Jinsheng's tombstone, his eyes lingered on the grave for a moment, and finally turned to leave.

The small hillside is not big, but it is not small, and the tall and low trees grow messily, and he looks all the way in the direction where Hua Tao just walked, but he has never seen anyone.

He took out his mobile phone and wanted to dial the other party's number, but found that the signal was weak, not even half a bar.

"Flower Piggy!" He simply shouted, "Flower piggy, where are you?" ”

There was a hint of moisture in the wind, and the dampness carried the scent of leaves, and it grew louder and bigger, rolling up the grass clippings and fallen leaves on the ground.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

The daylight quickly hid into the thick clouds, and the sky suddenly darkened, and it seemed that it was really about to change.

"Flower piggy, flower piglet...... Flower peach, flower peach! His voice lingered over the empty hills, but was never answered.

He was a little anxious, and his steps became more and more hasty.

Why can't I find anyone? Hua Tao has always been measured, and it is impossible to go that far.

Xia Sheng secretly blamed himself for not letting her go away alone just now.

Although there are no jackals, tigers and leopards in the barren mountains and mountains, who knows what dangers lurk in this strange place?

He couldn't help but regret it.

"Peach!" His voice startled the birds perched on the trees, and a few leaves swirled and fell in the wind.

Xia Sheng anxiously turned over the entire mountain, and finally found someone in the middle of a ravine.

If he can't find it again, he's going to go crazy.

"Flower piggy?" Xia Sheng shouted at her a few times, but she didn't hear it.

His heart suddenly lifted.

"Flower Piggy!" He slid down slowly, walking briskly to Peach's side.

Hua Tao should have accidentally stepped on the air and fell into the ditch, I don't know if it was when she fell, she hit her head and lost consciousness.

Xia Sheng put his hand under her armpit, carried her out, and then took out half a bottle of mineral water from her backpack and splashed some on her face.

"Wake up, piggy." He thought for a moment and pressed her thumb into the man.

Hua Tao's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

Xia Sheng sat down, hugged her in his arms, and looked down at her worriedly: "What do you think?" ”

Hua Tao blinked, a blank expression on her face.

"What's wrong with me?" She broke free from his arms, looked left and right, and slowly remembered everything before she fell unconscious, "Ah, my phone! ”

She threw herself in his arms and tried to get up, but she screamed "sigh".

"It looks like I've twisted my foot." She frowned in pain and fell back into his arms.

"Then don't move." Xia Sheng hurriedly rolled up her trouser legs to check, there were some bruises on her ankles, and there were a few blood marks. He unscrewed the lid of the mineral water bottle and rinsed her from the wounds.

Hua Tao wanted to find her mobile phone, Xia Sheng asked her to sit obediently, and jumped to the ravine to find it, and after a while, she found it, but the screen was already black, I don't know if it was broken or out of power.

He tucked his phone into his backpack and looked at the sky, which was already starting to get gloomy, and a heavy rain was brewing.

"I'll carry you down the mountain first." Xia Sheng hung the backpack in front of him, took Hua Tao's backpack in his hand, and then turned his back and let Hua Tao lie up.

"Can you do it? Take so many things. "Their backpacks weren't really heavy, and after the offerings and incense sticks they had just taken out, all they had left were car keys, wallets, water, and a little bit of dry food.

Xia Sheng said, "Come up, it's going to rain." ”

Hua Tao then lay on his back and gently hugged his neck.

It is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, although it is a small dirt slope, Xia Sheng is carrying a person on his back, and his steps are inevitably very cautious.

The mountain wind was strong, and the sweat that came out of his forehead was dried before it could drip down.

Hua Tao put her face on his neck, looked at the surrounding grass, full of wind and fallen leaves, and felt that this scene had a bit of romantic tones.

As soon as the two of them got down the mountain, the rain began to fall.

It didn't fall down all at once, but saw the white expanse in the distance, and then heard the sound of dripping, like the wind blowing grass and trees, and like rain hitting plantains. Then the rain curtain caught up with them from behind, engulfing them at once.

Before he had time to get back into the car, Xia Sheng knocked on the door of a nearby farmer, and the aunt who opened the door didn't say a word, and immediately welcomed them in.

There was also an old man smoking dry tobacco and two girls in the room, four or five years old, not afraid of life at all, tilting their heads and staring at the two drenched strangers.

The aunt pulled two dry towels to wipe the rain for them, and poured two cups of hot water on the table.

The rain was so heavy that in just a few moments, both of them were soaked. The aunt found a piece of her own clothes for Hua Tao to change, and Hua Tao thanked her repeatedly.

"You're here for a tour, aren't you?" Aunt asked, the local accent is a bit heavy.

Xia Sheng took off his shirt and wiped the water stains on his body.

"Hmm." He didn't want to explain too much, so he simply followed his aunt's words, "There is a quaint taste here." ”

"Yes, nostalgic is in vogue again, and a lot of young people like to come here to see these old buildings."

The aunt was very talkative and hospitable, invited them to eat sweet corn, and also served them two large bowls of purple sweet potato syrup to drink.

The uncle is not good at words, occasionally interjecting a sentence or two, and spending more time concentrating on smoking dry tobacco.

The two children quickly became familiar with them, squeaking around them.

The aunt knew that Hua Tao's foot was sprained, so she immediately took out the ancestral bone-setting wine and asked Xia Sheng to help her massage it with medicinal wine.

"You don't leave tonight, stay at my house for the night, I still have a room here anyway." The aunt walked to the window and looked at the sky, the rain came quickly, but it didn't go quickly, and it was still raining for more than an hour.

Xia Sheng looked at Hua Tao and asked her opinion.

Hua Tao thought for a while, nodded to her aunt, and said, "Then bother." ”

So the two stayed that night and stayed in the same room. Because when Xia Sheng introduced Hua Tao to his aunt, he said that she was his wife.

It is very cold in the small villages and towns at night, especially after the rain, when the wind blows and the temperature swishs.

The aunt prepared a thick quilt for them.

"Do your feet still hurt?" Soon after dinner, the aunt coaxed the two girls to sleep in the house, and they went back to the room early.

Hua Tao moved her ankle, it was already much better, I don't know if the medicinal wine given by the aunt is really powerful.

"It doesn't feel like a big deal." After she finished speaking, she remembered the phone with the black screen again, "Bring my phone." ”

Xia Sheng took out his mobile phone from his backpack and handed it to her.

"I don't know if it can be turned on." She fiddled with her phone with her head down.

Xia Sheng said, "Recharge it." He opened his backpack, glanced at Hua Tao, and took out a pill bottle while she wasn't looking, poured out a few pills from it, and quickly put it in his mouth.

Hua Tao looked up and said, "Give me the charger." ”

Xia Sheng handed her the charger.

"What did you just eat?" Hua Tao asked.

Xia Sheng showed her the medicine bottle, which said vitamin C tablets.

"The doctor told me to take some vitamins after I had a cold."

Hua Tao returned the medicine bottle to him: "We'll buy more fruit when we go back." ”

Xia Sheng put the medicine bottle back in his backpack and closed the zipper: "Okay." ”

Hua Tao's mobile phone was charged for a few minutes and could be turned on again, and she was suddenly so happy.

"If it's broken, I'll buy you a new one." Xia Sheng said.

Hua Tao hugged her mobile phone and shook her head: "How can the new one compare to the old one?" I'm already in a relationship with my phone. ”

Xia Sheng said: "Then I wish you a hundred years of happiness." ”

He got up early, covered the quilt, closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Hua Tao looked at the time, it was less than nine o'clock, so she pushed him: "You can sleep so early?" ”

Xia Sheng snorted from his nose in response, and said lazily: "Carrying you down from the mountain has exceeded my exercise today, now I have to rest early and make up for it." ”

Hua Tao pursed her mouth: "I'm not heavy." ”

The WeChat prompt sounded, and she clicked on it to browse, it was sent by Tao Sihua. The two chatted for a few words, and Tao Sihua said that she wanted to soak her feet, and then she went down.

"It's so boring, Brother Sheng, let's search for a horror movie, shall we?" Hua Tao is full of interest.

Xia Sheng didn't say anything.

Hua Tao turned her head to look at him suspiciously, and found that the noble son had fallen asleep, breathing steadily, but his brows were frowning slightly, as if he was not sleeping comfortably.

Hua Tao leaned over and touched his handsome face, lowered her head and kissed the tip of his nose: "Are you really that tired?" ”

Why did I fall asleep so quickly, like taking sleeping pills?