The little man on the apex

Yuan Xi took out a clean handkerchief and handed it to that brother.

Brother took the handkerchief, wiped the tears from his face, and said with a sob: "Thank you."

He was half a head shorter than Yuan Xi, with fair skin, a red mole on the side of his nose, and light brows and eyes, he looked like an ink painting.

Yuan Xi tilted his head and smiled, and said crisply: "The villain has been beaten away, don't be afraid. My name is Jiang Yuanxi, what's your name?"

The brother lowered his eyes in embarrassment, and said timidly, "My name is Zhou Ziyu."

At this time, Xiaoyue at the side suddenly raised her head and said, "I remembered, are you the elder brother of Uncle Zhou's family?"

Zhou Ziyu nodded slightly upon hearing this; "That's right, have you seen me?"

He is shy by nature and doesn't like to meet people very much. He has nothing to do on weekdays and stays at home. His family lives in a remote place, so he is relatively unfamiliar to many people in the village.

Xiaoyue fiddled with the corner of her clothes, and said thoughtfully: "I haven't seen it, but I often hear my brother mention you."

"What's your brother's name?"

"Zhao Jing."

When Ziyu heard this name, a little smile appeared on his face.

When he was a child, he was good friends with Zhao Jing, and the two of them could be regarded as close friends.Later, Zhao Jing went to the town to become an apprentice carpenter, and they never met again.

Gouwa next to them saw that they had developed a relationship, so he also started to introduce himself.Zhou Ziyu recognized these children one by one, sat on the grass and chatted with them.

It turned out that today he was going to deliver food to his uncle's house. When he came back and passed by here, he met that homeless man and was dragged into the woods by him.

After finishing speaking, he blushed and thanked again, then took out a small bag from his waist, took out a lot of rose pine nut candies, and distributed two to everyone.

Pine nut candies can only be sold in the towns, and rose pine nut candies are even more rare. Children can’t often eat them. When they received the candies, they opened the candy wrappers and couldn’t wait to taste them.

Xiaoyue only ate one, and put the remaining one in her pocket, ready to eat it tomorrow.

Yuan Xi didn't eat any of it, he put the candy under his nose and smelled it, and kept holding it in his hand.

After a long time, the voice of an adult calling for a child came from a distance, and everyone realized that it was already dark.

Yuan Xi suddenly remembered Yan Heyi's advice, felt guilty, stood up and said, "I should go home."

"Yeah, I'm going home too, my mother must have cooked dinner."

"It's getting dark, I'm afraid I'll be scolded when I go back."

"..."

The children also stood up one after another. Before they had time to say goodbye, they scattered and ran to their own homes.

Yuan Xi turned around and said to Zi Yu: "Let's play together in the future. I usually stay at the private school in the village. If there are bad people bullying you again, you can go to me."

Ziyu nodded in response.

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The sky was getting darker and darker, the moon was slowly rising, and Yuan Xi quickened his pace.

The bluestone slab was wet and mossy, and he accidentally fell down, got up and patted the mud on his body, and then ran sullenly, and finally came to the alley in front of the house.

As he walked, he became more and more guilty. When he looked up, he saw a tall figure standing at the gate of the yard.

Yuan Xi thought to himself: It's over.

He rolled his eyes and thought of a plan, clutching the leg he fell on just now, and limping towards Yan Heyi.

When Yan Heyi returned home, it was not yet dusk.He didn't see Yuan Xi at home, so he put down the basket in a hurry, searched around the house, but couldn't find him.

He was a little flustered, so he asked Aunt Gu again, thinking about where Yuan Xi might go, and finally found a private school.

At the gate of the private school, there were two elders enjoying the cool air. They said that Yuan Xi was with the children, and Yan Heyi felt relieved.

He returned home, briefly treated the wounds on his calf and knee, and then went to the kitchen to cook.

After the last dish was fried and the steamed rice in the pot was cooked, he touched his grumbling stomach, put the food on the dining table, covered it with a cover, and went to the yard to dispose of the chopped purple bamboo tree .

He cut the purple bamboo to a suitable length, then drilled and polished it carefully.

Before I knew it, it was getting dark.

He was so anxious that he almost scratched his hand, and he didn't have the temper to continue doing it, so he put away the materials, stood still at the gate of the courtyard, and waited for Yuanxi.

He secretly made up his mind that when Yuan Xi comes back, he must first shake his face and put him in the cold for a while, and then severely criticize and educate him, scolding him for his bad behavior of going out without saying hello, and not coming home late at night .

However, at this moment, when he really saw Yuan Xi's thin figure approaching, the first thing that flooded his heart was joy, and the worry just now finally dissipated.

He straightened his collar, put on a cold look, and raised his chin to stare at Yuan Xi.

Huh?Why is this little ancestor still limping?

Yan Heyi was puzzled: Could it be that he was injured?

He resisted the urge to run over to help him, and quietly watched Yuan Xi walk over.

Yuan Xi came in front of Yan Heyi, frowned, flattened his mouth, and stared at him with round eyes.

After a while, seeing that Yan Heyi ignored him, Yuan Xi raised his right hand, stretched it out in front of Yan Heyi, and then slowly unfolded it, only to see two rose pine nut candies lying quietly in his palm.

He had been holding these two candies in his hands all the time, and he fell down on the road, got some dust on them, and his palms were sweating from running. At this moment, the wrappers of the pine nut candy had turned black.

Yan Heyi's heart ached, she took the two candies, then stretched out her sleeve, wiped the sweat from Yuan Xi's forehead, and said softly, "Come in."

The corner of Yuan Xi's mouth moved slightly, he stuck out his tongue quietly, and limped towards the back room.

Yan Heyi sighed softly, stepped forward to hold his arm.

On the dining table, the food was already a bit cold. Yuan Xi glanced at it and saw his favorite bamboo shoots. His mouth was watering, and he sat down hurriedly and picked up the chopsticks.

Yan Heyi patted his hand lightly, "The dish is cold, I'll heat it up."

He picked up the dishes and walked towards the kitchen. The hem of his clothes scratched the wound on his calf, and he couldn't help frowning slightly.

Seeing that Yan Heyi didn't care about her late return, Yuan Xi felt warm in his heart as he had prepared meals for him.He also came to the kitchen to help heat up the dishes.

At the dinner table, Yuan Xi happily told Yan Heyi about today's adventure, described the homeless man as a vicious monster, and exaggerated the scene of himself saving people several times, as if he was talking about a mythical giant hero.

Yan Heyi listened quietly, adding some vegetables to Yuanxi's bowl from time to time.

After dinner, Yan Heyi boiled water for Yuan Xi to take a bath, then put him to bed and wait.

He took out the medicine box, came to the bed, lifted Yuan Xi's trousers, and carefully checked his injury.

"Does it hurt here?"

Yan Heyi pressed Yuanxi's ankle and asked softly.

"pain."

"What about here?"

"It hurts too, brother."

Yan Heyi frowned: It's strange, it doesn't look bruised or swollen on the surface, how could it hurt?

He inspected it inch by inch, Yuan Xi's skin was delicate and reddened from being pressed.

Yuan Xi saw the needle: "Look, it's all red."

Yan Heyi had no choice but to take out Dieda wine and smeared it on Yuanxi's ankles, then put away the medicine box, and said softly, "Go to bed early, the injury is not serious, and you will be fine tomorrow."

Yuan Xi leaned against the head of the bed, and said pitifully, "Brother, it hurts and I can't sleep."

Yan Heyi had no choice but put her hands on Yuan Xi's ankles through her clothes, and said in a low voice, "I'll rub it for you, you go to sleep and close your eyes."

His hands are well-articulated, slender and well-proportioned. Yuan Xi thinks that Yan Heyi's hands are particularly beautiful when holding a pen.Now, he discovered that these beautiful hands were still very gentle.

Yuan Xi closed his eyes, opened them again after a while, and said softly, "Brother, let's tell a story."

Yan Heyi didn't respond, Yuan Xi lowered his eyes in disappointment and fiddled with the quilt.

Then, a gentle voice came from the opposite side: "A long time ago, there was a fairy in the sky. She came to the mortal world and met a good-looking scholar. They fell in love at first sight. After they got married, they gave birth to seven babies.

The seven dolls looked exactly alike, and the fairy dressed them in different colors to distinguish them.

Later, the seven dolls followed the fairy to visit relatives in heaven. When they were playing in the flat peach garden, they met a monkey who was eating the flat peaches. All settled down.

At this time, a child named Nezha passed by..."

After an unknown amount of time, Yuan Xi had closed his eyes and fell asleep, while Yan Heyi was still talking softly.

In his sleep, Yuan Xi still had a smile on his lips.

Yan Heyi gently hugged Yuan Xi, put him on the bed, and then carefully tucked him in the quilt as before.

He stared at Yuan Xi's slightly trembling eyelashes, and suddenly remembered that gentle touch that night.

It was quiet all around, and there was a dog barking in the distance, which made the night even quieter.

It was so quiet that Yan Heyi could clearly hear Yuanxi's breathing, as well as her own heartbeat.

After a long time, he stood up, stretched out his hand to extinguish the extra candles, and there was only one left, which was burning far away.

Ever since Yuanxi came, Yan Heyi would leave a candle for him every night.

He backed out softly, closed the door halfway, then took out the purple bamboo and tools from the day, and continued to make pen holders in the yard.

Afraid of disturbing Yuan Xi, he moved very lightly, rubbing his hands carefully.

Gradually, a thin layer of debris fell on the ground.

After a while, he stopped briefly, rubbed his wrists, and then turned his neck again.

Looking up, a full moon hangs in the sky.

In the house, Yuan Xi was having nightmares again.

In the dream, he was chased and killed by a group of people with knives. He ran desperately, but he couldn't run fast. He was chased and hacked to a bloody mess, and then fell into the boundless darkness.

With a jerk on his foot, he woke up from the dream.Raising his hand to touch it, his face was wet and full of tears.

He lay there in a daze for a while before he came back to his senses, stopped his tears, and habitually looked towards the floor beside him.

In the past, every time he woke up from a nightmare and saw the dim candlelight and Yan Heyi sleeping beside him, he would feel much more at ease.

This time, he tilted his head and didn't see Yan Heyi, so he hurriedly sat up, only to see that Yan Heyi's quilt was empty.

He put on his robe, got out of bed with bare feet, pricked up his ears, and heard the rustling in the yard.

What is brother doing?

Yuan Xi quietly opened half of the door, only to see Yan Heyi sitting on a stone bench in the yard, concentrating on sharpening the purple bamboo pole in his hand.

The moonlight shone on him, as if coating him with a hazy silver light.

My brother's back is so beautiful, straight and not thin, which makes people feel at ease.

Yuan Xi sat gently on the ground, hugged his knees, leaned against the door frame, quietly watching Yan Heyi's busy back.

Those two black rose pine nuts lay next to each other on the table.

The annual calendar hanging on the wall next to it was slightly yellowed, with a small corner slightly raised.

Today is twenty-five, and the moon is like a hook.