Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

After the climax of the movie ended, Zhao Yeqing came back to his senses and noticed the man who had been standing next to him for an unknown amount of time.

Mu Xi was leaning against the wall next to the door. The sun was strong outside and against the light, she couldn't see his expression clearly. She was about to ask him what he was looking at.

Mu Xi spoke first, with another half-smiling expression.

"Didn't you say you would leave some for me?"

Zhao Yeqing looked down at the leaf at hand blankly. It was empty. The remaining purple color on his fingertips proved that he had indeed done it.

She was a little embarrassed. After all, she hadn't seen him for so long. He went out to work early in the morning to collect some fruits, but she ate them all.

"How about I pick some more for you?"

Mu Xi lazily leaned against the wall, "Forget it, I didn't have any hope."

...

Zhao Yeqing walked past Mu Xi to the kitchen and rinsed the purple stain on his fingers in the sink. In just three months, his hands had become calloused and the color had stained them. It was not easy to clean.

Mu Xi's eyes paused on it again, and this time she noticed it. She lowered her head and looked at her fingers, "Some time ago, wild boars came to the vegetable garden to harvest potatoes. Do you remember the toon forest? There are a few big trees over there. There were bear marks on the trees, so I was a little worried so I cut down the trees to build a fence.”

She felt a little ugly, so she hid her fingers behind her back, pretending to be relaxed and said, "I cut down ordinary fir trees, just the ones next to the house. They are not protected tree species, and there was a reason for it. You won't arrest me, right?" "

Mu Xi didn't seem to hear what she said next, "How dare you run north even if you know there are wild boars and bears? Just for those few fungi?"

Zhao Yeqing explained honestly, "The fungus was an unexpected surprise. I originally went to look for tea trees, but I didn't find them."

Mu Xi sneered and took out a waist basket from the corner. It was the one that Zhao Yeqing dropped when he rolled down the slope yesterday.

"Your surprise."

The matsutake mushrooms at the bottom did not fall out and were still intact. However, the tiger palm mushrooms were a little broken and had been aged for a long time, so they would probably become bitter, so Zhao Yeqing just threw them away.

"Yeah! Look at this matsutake. It's quite big. You can buy it in the city for a little over two hundred."

"Come out." Mu Xi turned to look at his herbal tea, "You cooked this unexpected surprise today as a way to repay my life-saving grace."

Zhao Yeqing had never cooked for him before, so he seemed a little surprised to hear that he didn't question her skills and allowed her to cook without any worries.

He then said, "You have lived for so long without being poisoned by yourself. I am also a good fortune teller."

The implication is that at least your cooking will not poison anyone.

Zhao Yeqing...thank you.

-

Wanting to avoid the hottest sunlight at noon, Zhao Yeqing placed a fan in the living room and asked Mu Xi to sleep there first.

There was no electricity there, and it was too uncomfortable to take a nap without a fan at this temperature.

Mu Xi did not refuse. He took down the pot of boiled herbal tea, placed it by the water to cool down, and wiped his face at the same time.

Back in the living room, Zhao Yeqing sat on the bench and leaned against the wall, looking at his phone. The bench was left to him.

Mu Xi woke up at dawn in the morning. The wind would blow, the air would flow, and the house would no longer be stuffy. He only felt warm. He put his hand under his head, closed his eyes and fell asleep after a while.

Zhao Yeqing heard his breathing become even, and his eyes moved from the screen that was not unlocked to the person's face.

Only now did she take a closer look at this face.

Familiar and strange.

I shaved today and finally got a good sleep last night. The bruises under my eyes have faded and I look much more energetic.

She carefully searched for familiarity in every part of this person's body, her eyes lingering on the scar on his neck.

That was when she was ten years old. She wanted to eat bayberries, and Mu Xi took her to pick them. She had never climbed a tree before, so she had to climb a tree that day for some reason.

Mu Xi was helplessly entangled by her, so he climbed up with her on his back. As soon as he sat on the branch and raised his hand to pick bayberries, he saw a squirming black caterpillar with long hair next to him.

She screamed and panicked and was about to jump under the tree. Mu Xi pulled her over, turned her around, and fell off the tree with him underneath.

Zhao Yeqing was fine, but Mu Xi's neck was inserted diagonally by a branch.

She cried and shouted for help. Fortunately, the bayberry tree was located near the foot of the mountain. The villagers digging wild vegetables heard this and picked up Mu Xi and ran to the hospital.

She was so scared that she locked herself in her room, not daring to go out or see Grandpa Mu and Grandma Mu. She would watch from the window at home every day when Mu Xi would come back.

What if he died? If he didn't die, he would definitely hate her.

She didn't know how many days she had been worried. She didn't dare to come out until she saw Mu Xi coming home.

Grandpa Mu and Grandma Mu came back and said at the door that they didn't blame her for letting her out, but she didn't listen and just kept crying.

Until finally Mu Xi's voice sounded at the door. It was very quiet, as if he couldn't speak loudly.

"Zhao Yeqing, I don't blame you, come out quickly."

...

"Seriously, stop crying."

"Why are you crying? I'm hurt and you cry, and I have to come to comfort you." The young man's voice was filled with laughter.

Only then did Zhao Yeqing believe it. He opened the door and saw Mu Xi standing at the door with a white bandage around his neck. Her eyes turned red again.

In fact, the wound on Mu Xi's neck was not serious, but the skin was punctured, and the branch was inserted diagonally. It looked scary, but in fact, the throat and trachea were almost not hurt.

At that time, she thought Mu Xi's neck was broken, so she cried even louder.

Hearing the sound, four old people walked in. Unfortunately, Mu Xi still had injuries on his neck and his butt was slapped by Grandpa Mu.

"Don't blame your sister for making her cry."

Later, Mu Xi changed his ways and ordered Zhao Yeqing to run errands for him, holding water cups, serving rice, fanning, pinching legs...

She didn't know his neck was broken until the bandage was removed.

Mu Xi said that he deliberately asked her to compensate him. At that time, Zhao Yeqing felt that this person was both good and bad.

-

Zhao Yeqing stared at the man's neck in trance.

Thinking about it now, he must have been afraid that he would feel guilty.

She was raised by her grandparents since she was a child. Her parents impulsively got together and then regretted giving birth to her. After the divorce, they lived their own lives.

There has been almost no news from my parents since I can remember, and my grandparents won't let them come back.

But she has never lacked care since she was a child. She has five elderly people who accompanied her when she grew up.

And there was Mu Xi, who was almost becoming her biological brother.

When she grew up, she saw some videos in which the various daily quarrels and venomous exchanges between siblings were indeed in line with the normal interactions between her and Mu Xi when she was a child.

After high school, he was going to college, and finally stopped bullying her. However, after two years in college, he seemed to have joined some secret organization, and there was no news from her for several years.

-

She swallowed subconsciously in her sleep, and her Adam's apple slid up and down to bring her back to reality.

Afraid of being caught peeking, I hurriedly took a look. I saw that the person was not awake yet, his eyes were still closed, and he was frowning in his sleep.

She thought she knew what had changed about him.

The arrogance and willfulness of the young man disappeared.