Window 2, Seventh Canteen

The little boss in his 30s shook his feather fan and pointed at the wooden sign stuck in the soft mud.

"15 yuan and a half an hour, the price is clearly marked, and there is no deception."

Jiang Wei and Han Zilu glanced at each other, and Jiang Weiyi took out his wallet and asked, "Is this boat we row by ourselves?"

The little boss shook his fan quickly, "Yes, paddle by yourself, from here to under the bridge over there, you can play freely during this distance, you can't cross the bridge, the deposit is 15 yuan, [-] yuan and a half an hour, and the price is clearly marked."

Han Zilu laughed, and Jiang Wei took out 230 yuan, "Then we will cover it for an hour."

The little boss smiled and sent the two of them onto the boat, "It's right to take my boat, it's absolutely safe."

The water in the river is very shallow, and you can touch the bottom when you paddle down.

The boat swayed away from the shore, and the street lights on the shore were reflected in the water waves. The little boss stood on the shore and waved to the two, "One hour, remember the time, 30 yuan an hour, no one cheats."

Han Zilu: "This person knows such an idiom."

Jiang Wei imitated the tone of the little boss, "The price is clearly marked, and the old and the old are not deceived."

Han Zilu laughed, his voice echoing on the water.

Jiang Wei looked at the dimples on Han Zilu's cheeks and felt satisfied, so she simply ignored the oars and moved forward, next to Han Zilu, holding his hand in her own.

No one was paddling, and the boat slowly moved forward with the current, and gradually reached the middle of the river.

There is a shoal a few square meters in size, with lush aquatic plants and tall reeds.

Some bright green light spots stopped on the reed leaves, giving off twinkling light.

"firefly."

"Yeah, Firefly, I feel like I haven't seen it for several years. The last time I saw it was in Pinggu. You know Pinggu, right? The one in the suburbs of Beijing."

Han Zilu: "Where is Pinggu from Taozi?"

Jiang Wei: "As expected of a chef, you can connect with eating anything."

Han Zilu: "This is called professionalism."

Jiang Wei made a face and pointed at the firefly, "Would you like to catch one for you? Let you play with it before releasing it."

Han Zilu: "Don't grab it, the water over there is shallow, don't get stuck in the boat."

Jiang Wei: "What are you afraid of, and don't get too close."

The wood pulp stirs the river water, drawing circles of ripples on the water surface, the closer to the piece of reed, the farther away the street lamps on the bank are.

As the light dimmed, the glow of the fireflies appeared brighter.

When the distance was two meters away, Jiang Wei stopped paddling and made a silent gesture to Han Zilu.

Han Zilu whispered, "I didn't say anything."

Jiang Wei: "That's why I told you to stop talking."

This time Han Zilu gestured to him to silence, Jiang Wei curled his lips and shrugged his nose, "You did it on purpose."

The water waves that had been swayed by the oars gradually returned to calm, and a crescent moon gradually recovered from being broken on the water surface. The rustling insects came from all directions, and occasionally a few frogs were mixed in.

Jiang Wei subconsciously made a silent gesture again, stretched his neck, and stared at a few fireflies flying at low altitude.

After waiting for a while, he tentatively shot, but who knew that the little worm was more flexible than he imagined, two of the three flew away, and only one remained, dodging Jiang Wei's sneak attack, and slowly stopped in the water The tip of the protruding reed flickered twice, and then it went dark.

Jiang Wei stared at the reed, gearing up, and muttered, "It's just you."

The light in the center of the river is very dim, and the outlines of the non-luminous fireflies lying on the leaves cannot be seen.

Jiang Wei took out his mobile phone and handed it to Han Zilu, "Help me shine a light on it." As he spoke, he approached the reed, and when the light came on, he immediately arrested the criminal.

When the light came on, the reed leaves showed an emerald green color, and the worm on the back of the leaves seemed to be trapped in a green lantern, revealing a magnified black shadow.

Jiang Wei "hush" again, leaned half of her body out of the boat, and slowly reached out to the blade.

Just when he was about to touch the leaf, a splash appeared on the water under the reed, like a fish.

Jiang Wei subconsciously followed the prestige, and it was okay not to look at it, but when he looked at it, he was so shocked that his hairs stood on end.

He suddenly dodged backwards and yelled, "Snake!" Before he finished speaking, the boat shook violently with his movements. He struggled to stabilize himself, but the weight of his whole body had already made the boat lose its balance.

After the sound of "哗啦", water splashed up on the surface of the river, and Jiang Wei fell into it.

"Jiang Wei!" Han Zilu stood up in a panic, staring straight at the direction where Jiang Wei fell, but he still didn't come out after waiting for a few seconds.

Han Zilu's meager patience was exhausted by the dark water, he threw his mobile phone on the boat and jumped down.

Two strings of bubbles appeared on the surface of the water, and Han Zilu fumbled anxiously in the water.

Although it is a small river, the water in the middle of the river is not too shallow.

It's not that Jiang Wei can't swim, it's just that he was so shocked just now, and after falling into the water, he forgot to swim, struggled with his hands and feet, and almost choked on the water.

Fortunately, Han Zilu found him in time and grabbed him up.

Two splashes of water bloomed on the surface of the water, Jiang Wei and Han Zilu swam together for a short while, reaching out to grab the boat.

The boat was too small, they almost capsized again when they climbed it at the same time.

Han Zilu hurriedly let go of his hand, "Don't move here, I'll go around to the opposite side."

Jiang Wei coughed a few times, panted a few times, thought of the snake just now, and suddenly shouted, "Zi Lu, don't go there, there are snakes!"

But Han Zilu had already circled to the opposite side, only then did Jiang Wei realize that the two of them and the boat were no longer at the position where he saw the snake just now, and during the few minutes he fell into the water, the boat drifted downstream again Five or six meters out.

Jiang Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Han Zilu: "I'll hold this side to keep my balance, you get on the boat first."

Jiang Wei: "No, no, you go first, I'll support you."

Han Zilu: "Be obedient, you go up first, I'm lighter than you, it's easier for you to pull me."

This made sense, Jiang Wei climbed back to the boat first, and then pulled Han Zilu up.

The two of them were drenched, with all their hair sticking to their scalps, as embarrassing as they could be.

Jiang Wei wiped the water from his face, and grabbed Han Zilu, "Why did you fall too? Are you okay?"

Han Zilu, "Are you choking? Is there any discomfort? You said there was a snake? Did it bite you? Show me." He said, checking Jiang Wei's hand.

Jiang Wei quickly denied it, "I just saw it suddenly, and it shocked me, did you see it? It's so thick, and it's still red!"

Han Zilu shook his head, took off his upper body T-shirt, wrung out the water and helped Jiang Wei wipe his hair.

Jiang Wei still has lingering fears, and his mind is full of the snake - black and red stripes all over his body, his head is as thick as a wrist, the tail of the snake is wrapped around the reeds, the body of the snake is floating in the water, staring at a pair of cold snake eyes, and spitting letters at him .

That color should be poisonous, right?

He raised his head to look at Han Zilu with fear, and only then noticed that the other party was soaking wet, but was helping him to wipe the water, while he was thinking about the water snake that had died somewhere long ago.

Jiang Wei also followed Han Zilu's example, took off his shirt, wrung out the water, and helped Han Zilu wipe his hair.

The two kept the same movements with each other, wiping carefully.

After twisting the t-shirt several times, Jiang Wei's hair stopped dripping, but it was still very wet.

Han Zilu wiped, and suddenly hugged Jiang Wei tightly, "You scared me to death just now."

Jiang Wei herself was also afraid, "Hey, it's all my fault, and you fell into the water too."

Han Zilu sighed, didn't speak, but hugged Jiang Wei even tighter.

Back on shore, the two called a taxi together.

Jiang Wei originally planned to find another hotel to stay after shopping with Han Zilu, but something went wrong, so he didn't bother to look for a hotel again. He reported the previous residence and took Han Zilu back to the place where he and Zhao Siyuan lived together twin room.

Clothes dry quickly in summer, and when they got to the house, the two of them were already half dry, but even though the water had dried up, the earthy smell from the river remained on their clothes.

Zhao Siyuan shrugged his nose as soon as he opened the door, "What's the smell?" Then he glanced at the two of them, "Why are you back? Don't you say you won't come back to live? I thought I could put two beds together to have a good time today, who I know you're back."

Jiang Wei pulled Han Zilu into the room, "The clothes are dirty, I forgot to bring a change, so I came back."

Zhao Siyuan, "What's wrong with the clothes? Why are you here?"

Jiang Wei smiled, and didn't want to tell the truth, so he just said a few words to deal with it.

He arranged Han Zilu to sit on his bed, and went downstairs with his wallet, "Zi Lu, wait for me, I'll go and ask if there are any vacancies."

As soon as he left, Zhao Siyuan walked up to Han Zilu, "I said, what are you two doing?"

Han Zilu raised his eyebrows, "There are some things that children should not know."

Zhao Siyuan's face changed slightly, he opened his mouth but made no sound, the two just looked at each other face to face, without saying a word, until Jiang Wei came back.

Jiang Wei patted Zhao Siyuan on the shoulder, "Okay, I'll give you the bed, and Zilu and I will sleep downstairs." He picked up his luggage, pulled Han Zilu and went straight downstairs.

Change clothes and take a shower before entering the house.

The water rushed down, and the earthy and fishy smell of the river finally subsided. Jiang Wei took a deep breath and finally felt refreshed.

Han Zilu asked, "You can't swim?"

Jiang Wei: "Yes, but I haven't traveled often these few years."

Han Zilu: "It happens to be summer, when we get back to Beijing, let's go swimming together, at least twice a week."

Jiang Wei: "That's fine, but why? Don't you like running?"

Han Zilu: "Your swimming skills are average, what if you encounter this kind of thing again and I'm not by your side?"

Jiang Wei: "No, what a coincidence, and I can swim."

Han Zilu: "No, I have to swim."

Jiang Wei found that Han Zilu was extremely serious, so he had to raise his hands in surrender, "I listen to you, there is a swimming pool in the school, which is pretty good, and it was one of the Olympic venues at that time. When I finish my practice, I will join you immediately Let's get a card."

Han Zilu's expression finally relaxed, with a smile in his eyes, "Good boy."

The stream of water cleans the bodies of the two with foam.

Han Zilu: "I finished washing, how about you?"

Jiang Wei: "I'll wash for a while, and I want to rub the soap again. Hey, when I close my eyes now, I think of that snake. When I remember that I soaked in the same river as it, I feel uncomfortable."

Han Zilu: "I didn't expect you to be so afraid of snakes."

Jiang Wei: "Normal people are afraid."

Han Zilu smiled, "Really? I like it quite a bit, so I might as well raise one in the future."

Jiang Wei: "Don't do it!"

Han Zilu's smile deepened, and he walked out of the bathroom on *footsteps.

It was only now that Jiang Wei realized that Han Zilu was teasing him. He remembered very clearly that Han Zilu said many times that he would not keep pets, let alone snakes, which are cold-blooded animals that cannot be considered pets at all.

Thinking of snakes made goose bumps all over his body again, Jiang Wei rubbed the bath ball vigorously on his body a few more times.

Han Zilu walked to the bed wearing a bath towel and looked back at the bathroom.

He opened the backpack he brought with him, took out a transparent ziplock bag from a small pocket inside, and stared at the dozen or so white pills inside.

After hesitating for a moment, he put them back.

He was very clear that he suffered from insomnia at the beginning because there was one more person beside him. He was used to sleeping alone since he was a child, and he couldn't adapt for a while, so he had to borrow drugs.

But he didn't expect that even after Jiang Wei left, he still couldn't sleep.

And the situation is even worse than the beginning, four pills are only enough for him to fall asleep, but they can't let him sleep until dawn, for three consecutive days, he must wake up in the middle of the night every day, every time he wakes up, he looks at the empty room and the empty pillow next to him , he felt palpitations.

Later, he turned on all the lights in the house, lowered the temperature of the air conditioner, and wrapped him in a thick quilt, but it didn't work, and he would still wake up on the fourth day.

Lying in bed, he would often stare at the ceiling for an hour or two.

Later, he increased the dosage of sleeping pills, and managed to get a good night's sleep.

Han Zilu put away the small pocket and put it back in the bag.

At this moment, Jiang Wei came out wrapped in a bath towel, and called out with a smile, "Zi Lu."

Han Zilu walked towards him, thinking to himself, maybe after these few months, he has gotten used to sleeping with others, maybe with Jiang Wei by his side tonight, his sleeping pills are no longer needed.