174. Don't be stingy with praise

After a while, I asked, "What are you always looking at in the middle of the lake?" After asking, I remembered the story he said about "Chu Cheng", and sure enough, I heard him answer: "I am using my consciousness to outline Chu Cheng, which is a way for me to consolidate my thinking, and it can help me clear my brain." My heart skipped a beat, and I asked inadvertently, "Do you want to remember the things you have forgotten?" ”

He let go of the hand around my waist, leaned back slightly on the ground, and said lazily: "To be sober, who wants to be confused?" He paused, looking at me from a rear-view perspective, "Do you want me to be sober?" ”

I don't want to! The heart gave the most honest answer in an instant. Because the current high city is no longer as high as before, and it can't touch the heart. He will laugh when he is happy, frown when he is unhappy, and even if he is quiet, his emotions are frank.

I didn't say it, and I couldn't say it, and I couldn't say that I wanted him to return to his old form, so I only turned around and avoided his gaze. I could feel his gaze always fall on me, suddenly my hand warmed, and I lowered my head, and my hand that was hanging at my side was unconsciously clenched into a fist just now, and my knuckles were a little white, and now they were covered by his big palm.

He still seemed dissatisfied, and reprimanded: "Let go." Then he went and rubbed my fingers, flattened them one by one, and then pinched them in his palm. My heart fluttered, and I lowered my eyes and stared at his hand and said softly: "I had a dream just now. ”

I heard him ask, "What dream?" ”

I pulled the corners of my lips and smiled flatly, "At first I thought it was a sweet dream. I dreamed that I was on the rocks by the lake, I was washing your clothes, and you were grilling fish on the fire. The fish was a rod, line, hook, and bait that you had made with your own hands, and you didn't catch a single fish for a whole day, and finally you stuck a small one with the rod. I was hungry and full of amusement to see you grilling fish with a dark face, smelling the smell of the fish, and my mind was hooked. ”

As I spoke of this, I noticed that he sat up straight and stood beside me, and his mouth moved and stopped. I continued: "You know, we have been eating that wild vegetable for many days, so when you handed the grilled fish, my saliva was almost dripping, and when you took a bite, the fish was tender and delicious, and I did not hesitate to praise you, and the corners of your lips flew and smiled proudly. Noticing that the corners of Takashiro's mouth curled up again, I was considering whether to continue with the next paragraph. But he had already asked, "What next?" ”

He groaned and shook his head: "No." ”

His face was turned by him, his gaze swept over his face for two seconds, and he said, "Your expression tells me that there is something to come, tell me." ”

I laughed in my heart, how could I hide it from him, or maybe I didn't want to hide it, because I wanted to share that dream with him when I opened my mouth. So I said, "Then you are like a bubble being punctured, and the image slowly dissipates, and I reach out to grab you, but my fingertips pass through the phantom, and the tentacles are nothing." ”

"It's fake." Gao Cheng calmly commented and analyzed: "First of all, dream is a manifestation of idealism, which has four sources: first, external objective sensory stimuli; the second is the internal subjective sensory stimuli; the third is the stimulation of internal organs or the body; Fourth, pure psychological stimulation. Yours is a psychological stimulus, because before you fall asleep, the subjective consciousness thinks that I am dead, so the reflection becomes a dream and becomes a bad image. Let's talk about its unreality, first of all, fishing is my forte, and there will be no situation where you can't catch a fish in a day like in your dreams; Secondly, this is a lake, not a ditch, you and I are a person in martial arts, and you can fork a fish with just a plug? But there's one thing you dreamed of, grilled fish is really good at it. ”

When he said this, he looked at my face carefully and said, "When the wound on your face is healed, I will show you a hand." ”

Listening to his analysis, the first half is quite reasonable, but the second half is ...... I was speechless, the things in his bones were always there, and they would not change because of sobriety or confusion.

Probably prompted by my dream, he came back in the evening with a bunch of things, including bark, dry branches, long willow branches, large and small stones, etc., and when I asked him what he was going to do, he only pointed to the long willow branch and told me to peel off the bark.

I looked at him silently for a moment before I looked down to get the willow branch, worried about his injury. At that time, his breath was so weak that I thought ...... Later, he slept for a night, and when he woke up, he found him on the rock outside the cave, his face was still pale, his walking steps were not as steady as usual, and he did not pick any medicinal fruits, and I did not know if his wounds had worsened again.

As soon as his hands were empty, the willow branches were taken away, and when he looked up, he was shocked to find that he had cut two pairs of chopsticks with dry branches, and took the willow branches that I had peeled and knitted something in his hands, and soon the shape of a bowl that was not too beautiful came out. He looked at me and said, "If you have nothing to do, let's go to the lake and wash the bark." ”

I replied softly, and when I actually went to the lake to wash the bark, it occurred to me: he wouldn't be waiting to eat this, would he? Because I have heard that people who survive in the wild can use anything to satisfy their hunger when they are hungry, not to mention tree bark, even insects and the like.

It turned out that I was not thinking nonsense, he piled a few stones into a small stove, and put a vessel similar to a stone pot on top and began to light the dry branches, and it was the stone vessel that added water from the lake and threw the bark into it. I couldn't help but ask, "Yes...... Do you want to eat this? He replied without lifting his eyelids, "No." ”

"What is that for?"

"Expel the miasma from the body."

Gao Cheng asked me to guard the fire here and went to the forest again, I stared at his back to the forest entrance, and was relieved to find that he was wandering around there. The water in the stone vessel began to turn red slowly after boiling, and when he saw that the fire was small, he took a dry branch and added a little underneath, and when Gao Cheng came back, it was already a black pot, exuding a strong smell of medicine.

He had a lot of things in his hand, and the most surprising thing to me was that he brought back a lot of mushrooms. This time, I didn't need his instructions, so I consciously took it and washed it, and when I came back after washing, I casually asked, "These mushrooms are not poisonous, right?" ”

He raised an eyebrow, "Why did I pick up the poison back?" ”

So I was relieved, and when I saw him hand over a bowl of black soup, I looked strangely at the wicker bowl, and I didn't know what he had pasted on the outside of the bowl, so that no liquid would leak out. took a sip, slightly bitter, not as unpleasant as he imagined, and saw that he himself was drinking a bowl in the afterglow. When the bowl bottomed out, he looked up and saw that he seemed to want to pour out the remaining juice in the stone vessel, and leaned over to help, but when he touched the stone vessel, he was immediately scalded and retracted.

I wanted to retract and hide behind him, but he grabbed it, and his fingertips were immediately red. He pulled me to the lake and sank my fingers into the water, and the coolness instantly dissipated the burning sensation. I was touched by his meticulous care, so I couldn't take my eyes off the eyebrows, until he turned his eyes to me and said in a disgusted tone, "Why are you always so stupid?" ”

I turned my eyes back and replied softly, "Because you're here." ”

Because you're here, I don't need to use my brain too much to think about reality; Because you're here, I'd rather be stupid than have your gentle care like this.

When the mushroom soup was cooked, Gao Cheng said expressionlessly, "How can I let you just gnaw on the bark and eat unpalatable wild vegetables?" I'm going to drink this mushroom soup tonight, and I'll see if I can catch game tomorrow morning. ”

I responded by drinking two bowls of mushroom soup in a row, eating all the mushrooms, and then complimenting him: "It's delicious." ”

A truth can be drawn from him: it is a virtue not to be stingy with praise. Looking at the smile hidden in his eyebrows, I felt happy in my heart. To my surprise, after the night was dark, he suddenly asked me if I wanted to take a bath, which was a bit embarrassing to me, and I was silent. He pointed to the stone tool and said, "There is a concave stone in the cave that you can sort out and clean, although it is a little smaller, but if you boil hot water a few times and then mix it with cold water, it should still allow you to take a hot bath." ”

I walked into the cave with some water on my face, and it was indeed a sunken rock, and I couldn't help but smell it when I was about to wash it. I washed his coat during the day, and now it is dry and worn on him, but I have not dared to take it off and wash it because I am afraid of the cold, and because my clothes have been torn in the woods. To be honest, the idea of taking a shower did get into my heart, but I was even more annoyed that I didn't have any clothes to change after washing.

Women and men are different in the end, there are some questions that you don't think about without thinking about anything, but it's hard not to care about them when you really put them in front of you. If I want to put that dirty underwear back on, I might as well not take this bath.

Someone saw through my thoughts, and when he came in with hot water for the first time, he threw his coat to me, "This is what you washed during the day, so put it on first after washing." Your clothes will be washed and dried, and they will be dry by tomorrow morning. ”

This was the only way out of desperation, and I nodded silently.

When the water was almost full, he saw that Gao Chengtou did not go out again. I quickly undressed, trying to get a quick fix. Due to the environment, it is impossible to be too demanding, and it is gratifying to have hot water to scrub it. But what I didn't expect was that when I just took off my clothes and sat down to wash, a dark figure crashed in, and when my eyes met, sparks erupted. I was several beats late in my reaction before I thought of turning my back and asked, "Why are you .....?" Before I finished asking, I listened to the footsteps approaching, and I retracted the words from my mouth, and my heart was beating hard.

The back was like a thorn in the back, and the gaze was strong and could not be ignored, and I couldn't help but think in my heart: he won't ......<