Deer in deep forest

Chapter 23
Every once in a while, regular customers who are familiar with Ah Qing will come to the mountain to buy her wild honey.

This is already in the province of Z, but it is also an inaccessible mountainous area, with rugged trails, and unfamiliar people can easily get lost.Gu Yanshu and Xiguang decided to wait for someone to cut honey in a few days, and they went down the mountain together.

It's just that there is no electricity in this place, and the mobile phones of the two are constantly turned off, and there is no way to get in touch with people outside.Gu Yanshu looked indifferent and didn't care at all, as if he was quite satisfied with his current life, only Xiguang was anxious to get angry, worried about the safety of Qiu Shan and Zheng Mingming.

Gu Yanshu said: "Jinger is old and spicy, Qiu Shan is much better than you, just take care of yourself."

Is this a consolation?Xiguang was depressed.

After two days of rain, it finally stopped.Ah Qing took out a small bamboo basket, which contained small bowls of delicacies and white wine, and wanted to go out for a trip.The black cat followed her, walking gracefully, its fluffy tail raised high.

A Qing asked: "Would you like to go out with me for a walk too? The room is too stuffy."

Xi Guang was fiddling with the camera, nodded hastily, and looked at Gu Yanshu with bright eyes.The latter was sitting on the window sill with his knees bent, taking advantage of the bright sky outside, repairing the rusty old wall clock for Ah Qing, and all kinds of small parts were dismantled and scattered on him.

Gu Yanshu looked up at Xi Guang, didn't speak, just put down the half-finished wall clock, went straight to the water tank under the eaves, took a ladle of water, and washed his hands.

"Aren't you going out?" He turned around and asked her.

Xi Guang was taken aback for a moment, then reacted slowly, and smiled: "Then let's catch up with A Qing quickly."

Ah Qing led the way and brought them to a blue stone tablet.She seems to often come to worship and clean up the weeds. That piece of ground looks particularly clean and tidy. There is a half-burned incense stick stuck in the mud, which was probably washed out by the heavy rain in the past few days.

There was not a word engraved on the stele, and the edge was covered with newly grown moss, which A Qing wiped with a towel.

A Qing said: "I'll stay and talk to him for a while, you guys go and have a look around, don't go too far, I'll call you when I go back next time." She seemed to be in good spirits on weekdays, but at this moment, The sun was shining brightly, but there was a kind of grayness and indescribable vicissitudes in his eyes.

The black cat walked around her feet, as if comforting, and swept her shoe with its tail.

Gu Yanshu pulled Xiguang away quietly, and the sixty-year-old man behind him bowed three times in front of the monument, silently, and kept kneeling to get up.

Xi Guang didn't dare to guess what kind of hurtful past was behind this, quietly raised her head to look at the people around her, and only felt that she should cherish the present.

The golden sun shone all over the sky, and the light and shadow in the forest were mottled, like a piece of sea floating on the mainland.

Gu Yanshu walked forward unhurriedly, his figure was as tall and straight as a bamboo, and a slanted shadow was cast on the ground.Xi Guang slowed down his pace, deliberately lagging a few meters behind, took out the micro-slip from his schoolbag, and watched him walk into the depths of a lush and lush forest.

"Yanshu—"

He suddenly turned around.

Xi Guang's hand pressed the shutter, "click", and the picture was frozen.

This action drained the last bit of power of the micro-single.It was only later that Xi Guang saw the photo he took. The sunlight shrouded it gently like a mist. The trees on both sides were lush, and the sparse light leaked from the dark green leaves and fell on the boy. When he heard the voice, he turned his head and his face was peaceful. And warm, with a little daze in his eyes, as clear as a deer.

When I followed Ah Qing back, there were several smoking men sitting on the tree stump in front of the house, all of whom came to collect honey.

Xiguang packed up her things and would follow them down the mountain in a few hours, she didn't expect it to be so soon.Gu Yanshu seized the time, picked up the half-repaired wall clock and continued, with his head down, looking meticulous.

Before leaving, Ah Qing had nothing to give them, so she dug out a piece of tea wrapped in newspaper, which was grown by herself.Confess to the two of them, and live a good life in the future.

Embarrassed by the light, Gu Yanshu still had a calm expression, and took the tea with both hands.He handed the repaired wall clock to A Qing, but A Qing seemed to have received a big gift, showing a very pleasant expression.

Xi Guang was thoughtful, thinking that when Ah Qing was sitting under the eaves peeling beans, he would always raise his head inadvertently and glance at the broken clock on the wall.Apparently Gu Yanshu had noticed it a long time ago, if he is willing to put his mind to please someone, he is really invincible.

The black cat suddenly seemed to be clinging to Ah Qing, and slowly circled around Xiguang's feet, raised its head, and stared at her with round eyes, like a child who can't speak.Xiguang knelt down and stroked its tail, and it stretched out its head to let her smooth its fur.

Gu Yanshu stretched out his hand, it shook its head and dodged, meowing.

He was disgusted by it.

Xi Guang looked at Gu Yanshu who was expressionless and the corners of his mouth were a little stiff, he couldn't help laughing, his eyes were bent, the black cat was mighty.

"What are you laughing at?" Gu Yanshu asked.

Xi Guang hurriedly looked up at the sky, and said innocently, "The weather is really nice today."

When going down the mountain, Ah Qing and the black cat sent them off for a while.They waved goodbye and said goodbye to each other, but Xi Guang knew that maybe they would never see each other again in their lifetime.

On the mountain road, I just turned a corner, and the line of sight was blocked, so I couldn't see the figure anymore.

Xi Guang walked in front of Gu Yanshu, and heard that he borrowed a cell phone from a man in the same company, and he did not know who to contact, and explained the situation here clearly in a few words.

In just a few days, suddenly, it seems like a few years have passed.Xi Guang almost forgot that she and he still have to go back to the big world outside after all, and have their own lives to live.Those moments of being together day and night and the pictures of being dependent on each other, no matter how beautiful and precious, will be reduced to memories.

"Don't be in a daze when you walk, look at your feet."

Gu Yanshu hung up the phone, pulled Xiguang's elbow from behind, and pushed her back to the middle of the path, away from the thatch and branches on the edge.

(End of this chapter)