Cold and warm depend on each other

I slept comfortably this time, and woke up the next day when the sky was bright.

As soon as Su Zhe opened his eyes, he saw Xue Wanxiang curled up in her arms. In the morning light, he could see a pretty face, a pair of talking eyes still resting at this moment, a delicate bridge of nose, and petal-like lips, which made people feel alive. joy.

After a while, Xue Wanxiang also woke up, and looked at Su Zhe who was nearby in a daze. Su Zhe suddenly realized that he seemed to be staring at him for too long, and turned his head away.

"Why are you drilling into my arms?" Su Zhe said a little bluntly.Although it was a change of subject, it was somewhat puzzling.

Xue Wanxiang glanced at her, not wanting to speak.

Su Zhe withdrew his arm when he stood up, and yelled "Yeah".Xue Wanxiang looked at her slightly sideways, and Su Zhe said with a bitter face, "Num. It's so numb."

Xue Wanxiang had already put on her clothes, and when she heard the words, she turned her head and was grinning. Suddenly her face turned cold, and her jade finger like a green onion pinched her arm, "It deserves it!"

That taste~~Su Zhe said "Oh" again, his arms were so numb that tears came out.

The tiger's daughter-in-law outside heard the movement in the house, and called out through the door: "Miss Su, Miss Xue, are you awake?"

"Wake up, come here." Xue Wanxiang buttoned her clothes, opened the door a crack, stepped out and closed the door behind her.

Huzi's daughter-in-law asked: "Miss Su hasn't gotten up yet?"

Xue Wanxiang smiled brightly: "She stays in bed."

Su Zhe lay crooked on the couch and wished he could beat the bed: You're the one who made my hands numb from the pillow, yet you still bully me once or twice!

After eating a simple meal, Su Zhe asked the old man when he should visit the old farmer's house, and the old man said he would go there later, don't rush for lunch, it's not good.

Xue Wanxiang was worried, and pulled Su Zhe back into the room, frowned and said: "It's a cliff, it's not stubborn to fall down."

"What are you afraid of? I have..."

"I know you have the skills, but we don't need to take this risk!" Xue Wanxiang stopped her, glanced at her, and continued: "Just now I asked the elder sister, there is no teacher in this village, my father is the boss Teacher, as for me, although I am a woman, I have a good command of pen and ink, a hundred surnames, thousands of characters, disciple rules, and even simple embellishments."

Su Zhe understood, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to be a teacher?"

Xue Wanxiang didn't answer, and just continued: "We can earn some money from this, although the income is not much, but it is better than you picking evening primroses."

"Wanxiang." Su Zhe stood by the window sill, took her hand, and explained patiently: "Although your method is good, but there are not many people in the village who have money, and there may not be many who can do it for a while." A child who came to practice writing and hyphenating characters. I have practiced kung fu with Master seriously, especially light kung fu. My wife said it was used to save my life..."

Xue Wanxiang was half a head shorter than her, and looked at her behind her back, with a half-smile on her face: "It's used to save my life..."

Su Zhe said solemnly: "For example, when you encounter Xiloumen, when the enemy is outnumbered, you can use 36 tricks..."

"Run is the best!" The two yelled in unison.

After that, they looked at each other and smiled.

Su Zhe continued the previous words: "So you see, it won't be too dangerous for me to pick evening primroses. Don't worry. We'll set off after we get the money and take you back to Linhuai City."

When she spoke like this, her eyes kept looking at Xue Wanxiang, wanting to see how happy she was.

Xue Wanxiang was silent for a long time, and then said quietly: "Linhuai City is going back, but your safety is more important. You and the people from the Zhuang family go to see, if you can go up the cliff, go up, if it's difficult, don't To be brave, we don’t need to earn this money, there are always other ways. Okay.”

Su Zhe heard the concern, and replied solemnly: "Okay."

The two stood close to each other, and the warm sunlight came in from the window drawer, casting their shadows together, like two flowers cuddling each other.

The old man shouted hello in the hall, Su Zhe squeezed Xue Wanxiang's hand, turned and walked out.

"Hey." Xue Wanxiang called her to stop.

Su Zhe turned around.

Xue Wanxiang wanted to say something, but felt that there was nothing to say.Then he stepped forward to straighten her collar and said, "Come back early when you're done."

Su Zhe got closer, with a bit of teasing in his eyebrows: "Do you know what you look like now?"

"Like what?" Xue Wanxiang straightened her lapel and looked up.

"Like a new daughter-in-law who is worried about her husband going out!"

Su Zhe hooked his finger and frivolously scratched her fair and delicate chin.

"You!" Xue Wanxiang bit her lip and brushed her hand.

Su Zhe had expected that she was going to explode, so he immediately retreated to the door with one blow. When he opened the door, he turned his head and smiled crookedly: "Good daughter-in-law, when you earn money for your husband, bring a big red sedan chair to marry her." you."

Xue Wanxiang stomped her feet, and when her figure came out of sight, and the voice of saying hello and going out came from the hall, she sighed, and said to herself, "I wish I could come back safely."

Originally, I thought that the old man and Su Zhe would come back after noon, but I didn't know that the old man who came back alone didn't wait until the sun slanted slightly.

"Hey. Why did you come back alone?" The aunt rushed up and asked, "Have you eaten yet? Where's Miss Su?"

The old man smiled and said, "Miss Su showed her skills at the old farmer's house. The farmer's family was very satisfied and kept her for dinner. Then pack up some things for going up the mountain, and go to gather medicine tonight."

"Tonight?" Xue Wanxiang stood up suddenly.

The old man nodded and said, "Of course we go at night. Evening primrose evening primrose, you can only see it when the moon comes out at night."

"This..." Xue Wanxiang's face turned pale, "It's a cliff, go to collect medicine at night? How can this work!" She was about to go out in a hurry: "I'm going to find her back, please give me a hand Show me the way."

When the old man saw her saying that the wind is the rain, he was stunned. These days, he looks like a very stable girl.

Seeing that the old man did not speak, Xue Wanxiang just assumed that he refused to give directions, and did not ask anymore. There are only dozens of families in the village, so just go out and ask.

Seeing that she had come to the door, the aunt quickly stopped her: "Hey, Miss Xue, don't worry." Then she turned around and shouted: "Old man, take her there! The old farmer's business is also unstable, and Miss Su is not from a herb-picking background." , Let her climb the cliff in the middle of the night! How good it is if you really fell!"

The old man came back to his senses, and then he remembered to persuade: "Hey, it's my fault that I didn't make it clear. The old Zhuang family took Miss Su and set off with the things ready, and went up the mountain before dark, and they might be on the road by now. The evening primrose does not come out until the moon is seen, the old farmer said that there is a slightly flat place on the cliff, Miss Su can wait there, and come back slowly when it gets dark to gather the medicine."

Xue Wanxiang stomped her feet and said, "Then we still have to climb the cliff in the dark!"

Everyone was speechless.

But it was all on the way, and she couldn't catch up even if she wanted to.

In fact, the process of collecting medicine was quite smooth.Su Zhe has been a teacher since she was a child, and has learned a solid light-weight kung fu, which is naturally beyond the reach of ordinary medicine craftsmen. What's more, the old Zhuang family also prepared mountain claws to help her climb.

Su Zhe climbed on the cliff, found a plant of evening primrose, carefully removed the surrounding soft mud with a small medicine shovel, picked half of the root, and threw it into the medicine basket behind her - this is what the farmer asked her to do. The other half of the roots have to be kept, so that they will grow again in the coming year when the autumn wind blows.

It is more troublesome to come down from the mountain than to go up the mountain. When we reach the foot of the mountain, it is just dawn.

The dealer's two strong boys were waiting at the foot of the cliff, and they were all happy to see her landed safely, so they helped her take the medicine basket and put it aside.

A fire was lit in a place sheltered from the wind, and hot tea was boiled on the fire. Su Zhe used some dry food for breakfast with the tea.

The mountain wind was blowing, whizzing by, and she didn't close her eyes all night, she couldn't help but miss, miss the warm quilt the night before, and by the way, remember the person who was nestled in her arms yesterday morning, who was as gentle as a cat Son.

Returning to the village with the boys from the old Zhuang family, Su Zhe handed over the medicine basket to Uncle Zhuang, and the Zhuang family was overjoyed to have solved a major concern.Uncle Zhuang hurriedly asked someone to order food and drinks, but Su Zhe declined.The old dealer knew that she must have stayed up all night, so he didn't force her to stay, so he readily paid 20 taels of silver, and Su Zhe received it in his purse, and said goodbye.

When I came out, the sun was not yet in the middle of the sky, and I thought it would be the end of the day, and I don't know what Xue Wanxiang is doing at this time, probably teaching the little tiger to read.

She thought of Xue Wanxiang sitting sideways on the short bench, holding a book in her hand, reading every sentence like an old master, and the little tiger shook his head and recited half a sentence, got stuck, oh, the lady master wants to slap her palms!

"Hahaha!" She laughed while thinking, not noticing that a pretty figure had already stopped in front of the courtyard gate not far away.

"Wanxiang?" Su Zhe was stunned for a moment, walked two steps and saw it more clearly, and couldn't help wondering: "Why are you here?"

"Miss Su is back?!" The aunt came out of the room to greet her, and smiled kindly: "Miss Xue has been worrying all night, no, she was waiting in front of the courtyard before dawn, why did you come back at this hour? Have you picked the evening primrose yet?"

"I picked it. I sent it to the old farmer first, and came back a bit late. Aunt Lao is worried." Su Zhe said to the aunt, but his eyes kept drifting towards Xue Wanxiang's figure.

Seeing that she came back safely, Xue Wanxiang bit her lip and went into the house without saying anything.

Inexplicably, Su Zhe felt that Xue Guliang was angry.

She couldn't help but immediately followed back to the house, could only smile, followed the aunt to the front hall, sat down and drank a cup of hot tea, took out an ingot of five taels of silver from the purse, and handed it to the aunt.

The aunt hurriedly waved her hand and said no, five taels of silver was enough for a whole month's travel expenses for a family in the countryside.

Su Zhe said: "A few days ago, Wan Xiang and I were almost penniless. If it hadn't been for the aunt's permission, I would have slept on the street with Wan Xiang. Today, with my father's advice, I earned some money. Although it is only five taels, it is not much. Madam, take it as a piece of mind between me and Wan Xiang, and save it to buy a new dress for Little Huzi."

The aunt heard what she said was sincere, so she couldn't push it any further, put the money in her close-fitting bag, and smiled gently: "Go in and see Miss Xue, she heard that you are going to climb the cliff in the dark, I've been worrying about it all night. After coaxing you, come out, and the aunt will make dumplings for you."