After taking a bath, when Xiao Kunu returned to the room with a bath towel, Liu Mu Nan unconsciously "hummed" a few times, then turned over again, muttered something in his mouth, and then fell asleep again.

Xiao Kunu lay on the bed and stretched out her hand to extinguish the light, but after she grabbed the cord of the cable switch, she hesitated for a moment and retracted her hand again, she didn't know why she was more and more afraid of the dark. It's just that the night without lights is even more lonely, and in the dull and dark room, she will feel suffocated like death, so she won't turn off the lights before going to bed every time. It wasn't until Yanagi Nan felt that the light was dazzling and he couldn't sleep, so he let him turn off the light.

Yanagi is the opposite of her habits, he never likes to sleep with the lamp on. As long as the lamp is lit, even if it is a little bit of light, he will feel unbearable, and Xiao Kunu will find that Liu Mu Nan's eyes are full of pain and melancholy. Now that Yanagi has entered his own numb world, she doesn't need to let herself be lost in the darkness anymore.

When Xiao Kunu lay on the bed, it was the time when she felt the loneliest. The more she is in the dark, the more lonely she feels, so she gets used to sleeping with the lamp on, and this habit is slowly formed after half a year of marriage to Yanagi Nan. There was no one when she was at her mother's house before, but at that time, because she had the "fourth brother" with her, she never felt lonely.

Xiao Kunu likes to sleep, her maiden family is on the other side of Beishan, and there are two older brothers at home, she is the youngest child in the family. Parents like her the most, and all children who like their parents will always enjoy all kinds of freedom. Her parents have always been up to her in everything, and her two brothers have let her everywhere.

Although Xiao Kunu's family is not very wealthy, the people in the mountains are rich or poor, and trees are the most things, so it is not difficult to build a few more houses. She has had her own boudoir since she was a child, and she has developed the habit of independence and freedom. Since she was a teenager, she has found that sleeping naked is very free, and it can make her feel very pleasant inside. Since then, she has regarded sleeping naked as a person's secret, and even more as a person's enjoyment.

After she married Yanagi Nan, she began to feel unaccustomed, a girl who likes to sleep naked, there is an extra man by her side, although she knows that this man is her husband, she can't be as free as before.

Although she longs to be caressed by this man, it is a curiosity about the other half of her life, a curiosity about the unknown experience of life. This curiosity does not eliminate her conservative instinct for the secrecy of her own body. Therefore, for a long time, she had to change her habit of sleeping naked.

Looking at the man who had fallen asleep on the side, the man who often wandered in her dreams, she felt as if he was living alone in another world. He didn't seem to feel that there was a living woman by his side. And this woman is going through physical and mental torment, and she is deeply lonely with her eyes open.

Xiao Kunu took off the bath towel around her body, and the original bright lights were too dazzling. A few days ago, Liu Mu Nan changed a much dim lamp, which can be regarded as taking care of the different needs of the two people. Let a person who is afraid of the dark, and a person who likes to sink into the night, no longer have too strong discomfort.

The wind was blowing, and the thick and lush leaves outside the house made a "rustling" sound in the night wind, and she seemed to think that this was a wild and uninhibited teenager grinding with his lover's ears and temples, lingering and sympathetic, she liked to listen to this sound quietly, and enjoyed the illusion that this sound brought to her. She seems to have returned to her girlhood, lying alone in the courtyard halfway up the hillside, the mountains are full of flowers, bees and butterflies flying, and the black dog "Fourth Brother" who accompanies her day and night, that is her happiest carefree time.

"Fourth Brother" is the name she gave to the black dog in the family, because she only has two older brothers but no younger brother, so she calls the black dog that is inseparable from her "Fourth Brother". If there is anything delicious, she will give it to the "fourth brother" first, and if there is anything fun, she will also play with the "fourth brother".

There was only one unpleasant incident between her and the "fourth brother", and that time was a small accident. When she was changing clothes in the room, the "fourth brother" suddenly broke in, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly wrapped her naked body in a quilt. The "fourth brother" is very human and smart, it seems to understand something, and then wagged its tail and lowered its head and turned away.

Since then, every time he enters her room, the "fourth brother" will rub his front legs against her door, and until she calls for her to come in, it will wag its tail and push her door open, look at her face, and if there is no expression of disapproval, it will snuggle up to her side.

The black dog "Fourth Brother" who was swept away by the flash flood is her eternal heartache. It was a tragedy that happened a year before she got married, and that summer afternoon that Xiao Kunu still remembers clearly, a day that makes her heart ache when she thinks about it.

On that day, the weather looked exceptionally good, and on the blue sky, patches of white clouds moved slowly like sheep on the grass. Xiao Kunu's father, who had accidentally sprained his ankle while hunting, knew that there were several herbs in the nearby ravine that could be treated, so she carried the bamboo basket into the mountain, and the black dog "Fourth Brother" happily followed her.

There are a lot of naturally growing Chinese medicinal materials in the ravine, Xiao Langzhong's father and daughter from the village health center often go into the mountains to collect medicine to treat the villagers, Xiao Kunu and Xiao Langzhong's daughter are good friends, she sometimes calls Xiao Kunu to go into the mountain together, Xiao Kunu follows her to collect medicine, and also learns a lot of Chinese medicine knowledge, and understands the therapeutic effects of some herbs.

Xiao Kunu took the black dog "Fourth Brother" into the ravine, and soon found a few tendon grass and bone grass, she knew that the muscle grass has the effect of relaxing the muscles and activating the nerves, and the bone grass can disperse stasis and reduce swelling. The fruit of the bone-piercing grass is overgrown, and when it passes by, if you are not careful, the dress will be stained with its fruit, and you can't shake it off if you want to, so the mountain people call this grass "sticky skirt" and "inverted grass".

Xiao Kunu carefully packed the herbs with the cloth medicine bag she brought. Looking back, the black dog "Fourth Brother" was spinning around, it turned out that there were a lot of bone-penetrating grass fruits stuck to its fur, and it couldn't shake off no matter how much it shook its head and tail. Xiao Kunu smiled happily, she walked to the side of the "fourth brother" and squatted down, carefully helping it pick off the thorny fruits on its body one by one.

The weather in the mountains is changing, and when Xiao Kunu walked into the ravine, the sun was still shining brightly, and the sky changed in a blink of an eye. Dark clouds rolled, thunder roared, and then strong winds and torrential rain poured down. The black dog "Fourth Brother" not only has a keen sense of smell, but also has a very powerful eye, Xiao Kunu followed behind it and found a cave to shelter from the rain.

After about half an hour, the rain finally stopped, and the sun came out again. Xiao Kunu hurriedly walked back with the black dog "Fourth Brother". At this moment she faintly heard a rumbling sound, which was getting closer and closer, and before she could take a closer look, a torrent of mountains and seas rolled down the slopes of the great ravine, and the trees in the lower part of the ravine were uprooted and washed into the water.

Xiao Kunu even rolled and crawled to the ground and wanted to go to a high place, but the stones under her feet slipped, she fell heavily into the water, and saw that she was about to be swept away by the torrent, and the black dog "Fourth Brother" bit her clothes tightly and dragged her up. She desperately climbed up the hillside, and a half-man-high stone rolled down beside her with a "boom", and she heard a short wail from the "fourth brother" behind her. When she was out of danger, she looked back in horror, and in the rolling flood, a small and smaller black dot struggled weakly, and soon disappeared without a trace.

The "fourth brother" never returned, and Xiao Kunu buried the clothes it wore and the used food bowl on the nearby hillside. She deliberately planted a few bone-penetrating grasses around the mound of the "fourth brother". She thought that if one day, if the "fourth brother" suddenly came back, it would still have a lot of bone-penetrating grass fruit stuck to its body.

Liu Mu Nan turned over again, muttering something in his mouth, Xiao Kunu knew that he might be dreaming again, and he would often wake up in his dreams. She looked at Liu Mu Nan and knew that he was too afraid of light, so she thought that he would have to get up early to go to work the next day, and he had to get him a good night's sleep, so she reached out and felt the pull cord of the switch. After thinking about it, he looked at him sleeping deeply, and put the lamp rope back in its place.

Xiao Kunu put the two hands that had become a little rough on her face, her face immediately felt the grinding of the bark of the two hands, and when she looked in the mirror during the day, she stared at the shallow wrinkles that had climbed to her face at some point, and then she thought in a trance that seven or eight years of time had passed unconsciously. She stroked her smooth abdomen, imagining what it would be like to be pregnant with a child. A desire rose from the bottom of her heart, and she felt an indescribable expectation.

Midsummer nights are also the world of the insects, who make all kinds of noises one after another to prove that they exist as always. A moth slammed into the window glass with a "poof", probably injured, and after a while, Xiao Kunu didn't feel its movement.

Xiao Kunu couldn't help but think that this little moth should be as afraid of the dark as she was, otherwise why would it rush to the lights desperately? Although the process of throwing itself into the lamp is the process of death, it still chooses to die under the light, and does not want its short life to disappear into the darkness.

The wolf that belonged to the mountain barked again, and at this time, the faithful Ah Lang would also bark a few times, as if it was just to prove his existence. There are only two families in this small village, in fact, it is one family, four adults and two children, and there are usually no guests at the door, let alone at night.

Xiao Kunu was accustomed to hearing Ah Lang's cry at night, and that cry was the white dog Ah Lang's announcement of the end of the day. If she couldn't hear it one night, she would feel that something was missing, and it wasn't until the white dog Ah Lang barked as promised, that she would settle down and close her eyes and fall asleep, so that the day would end in peace and quiet.

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