Cold and warm depend on each other

With the help of the woodcutter, the two finally reached a small town at dusk.

There are several bluestone roads in the town, and there is only one inn. Su Zhe raised his eyebrows to signal Xue Wanxiang to go into the shop first.

The second brother came out with a rag on his shoulders, "Are the two girls eating or staying at the hotel?"

"Let's stay in the hotel." Su Zhe glanced sideways at the living room. It was just before and after dinner, and most of the square tables in the lobby were full of people.She continued: "Make two simple dishes and deliver them to the room in a while."

"Come on!" the shop waiter yelled loudly, walked two steps, turned around, and asked with a smile, "Do the two girls want one room or two?"

Su Zhe turned to look at Xue Wanxiang.

Xue Wanxiang blinked sleepily, and replied: "One room is fine."

The second brother brought the two girls to the door and went straight downstairs to get busy.Xue Wanxiang sat on the chair in a daze, Su Zhe came over to see her tired face, "Tired?"

Xue Wanxiang nodded, with a serious expression on her face: "I've never been on such a long journey, I'm not used to it yet, it will be fine in a few days."

Su Zhe also sat down at the table, poured two cups of hot tea, pushed one to Xue Wanxiang, and raised the other to his lips to take a sip. "The life you lived in the past is very different from now, right? It's also very different from me."

Xue Wanxiang thought for a moment, then put her cheek in one hand and said slowly: "It's a bit different. I really...haven't been out much. My father and my mother were a scholar when they got married. Let my mother and I live a prosperous and good life. My mother sells money by weaving for a long time, so that my father can study and also provide food and clothing for the whole family. Until I was ten years old..." Her The voice became softer and softer, and gradually fell silent.

Su Zhe realized that something bad must have happened, so she took her hand and stayed with her quietly.

There was a familiar and reassuring temperature in the palm of her hand, Xue Wanxiang pursed her mouth, a tear overflowed from the corner of her eye, and slid down her face, "When I was ten years old, my mother was ill, and I invited the doctor to see her, and the doctor diagnosed her Mai just shook his head and said some obscure words..."

"Wanxiang..." Su Zhe grabbed her hand with one hand, put his other arm around her shoulder, and gently stroked her back.

"Girl, girls, the food is here." There was a knock on the door, and the waiter's voice was heard outside.

Xue Wanxiang tried her tears and pushed Su Zhe: "I'm fine. Go and open the door."

Su Zhe walked to the door and looked back. Xue Wanxiang had already walked to the screen on one side of the room, poured out the hot water from the copper kettle, and was about to wash his face.

Su Zhe felt relieved, opened the door, took over the tray containing the food, and said, "I'll trouble you to bring some hot water later."

The shop waiter said: "The two girls want to..." He rolled his eyes, he couldn't talk about bathing directly, so he changed a safer word: "But we need to wash up? There is a woman in charge behind our kitchen, what should I use?" Ask her everything."

Su Zhe thanked him, took some change and handed it to him.

The waiter in the shop took the reward and went downstairs with a smile.

The meal is very simple, but it is the most common home-cooked stir-fry. The two of them sat around the table. Su Zhe was very smart and did not mention the previous words. He only talked about the boringness of walking on the road alone. Fragrant.

How could Xue Wanxiang not know that she was trying to make herself happy, so she cast a glance at her and put a piece of meat into her bowl.

When it was time to light the lamps, Su Zhe went to the kitchen to ask the woman in charge to borrow a bathtub, and the woman helped bring some buckets of hot water in, and the two of them took turns to wash up behind the screen.When Su Zhe cleaned himself up, Xue Wanxiang was sitting in front of the big bronze mirror, letting her hair out. Seeing her coming out, he waved her to let her sit in front of him, and took a large clean towel to twist her long hair.

Su Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly, and his head shook with Xue Wanxiang's movements. Xue Wanxiang patted her, "Sit down! Don't make trouble."

Su Zhe giggled.

There are two figures reflected in the bronze mirror, either sitting or standing, one is pure and graceful, the other is soft and tactful.Su Zhe looked at the person standing behind her in the mirror, holding a wooden comb in his hand, his long eyelashes were half drooping, and his focused expression became more gentle and demure.

"Wan Xiang." Su Zhe's voice was soft, afraid of disturbing the beauty of the room.

"Huh?" Xue Wanxiang responded, brushing away the hair from Su Zhe's ear, and combed it carefully with a jujube wood comb.

Her fingertips were slightly cool, and Su Zhe's skin, which had just bathed, was slightly hot. When she brushed it over with her fingertips, she just felt itchy and couldn't help but want to laugh.

"It's so itchy!" Su Zhe shrunk his neck with a smile, turned around and grabbed Xue Wanxiang's left hand that had just touched her.

Xue Wanxiang's wrist was very thin, as white as jade, and she could feel the beating pulse in her hand, hitting the palm of her hand.

Su Zhe raised his head, wanting to say something.

Originally, she wanted to say, Xue Wanxiang, you treat me very well.Later she wanted to say, Xue Wanxiang, I am actually ticklish.

But when she looked up, she saw Xue Wan's fragrant ink-like hair scattered on her middle coat, maybe the water drops were still wet after bathing, and the hair by her ear was hanging on her shoulders, and drops of water fell drop by drop. From the neck to the chest.

The texture of the jacket was already light and thin, and it was smudged by the water color, almost sticking to her round and soft place, vaguely revealing a sweet outline.

Xue Wanxiang saw that Su Zhe turned her head back, her smiling face turned into an indescribable expression, and it turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a short moment, her face became more and more red, and finally her ears were red. It's going to burn.

"What's wrong with you?" Xue Wanxiang was frightened, and hurriedly covered her forehead with her hand, "What's wrong?"

Just touching her forehead, Su Zhe jumped up, turned his head immediately, covered his eyes with his hands: "I...I'm fine."

"Why are you okay? You didn't look like you were okay just now." Xue Wanxiang pulled her arm, Su Zhe slightly trembled, and retracted his arm.

……

"You are..."

"I'm really fine." Su Zhe cut off her words, took a step back, her face was still hot, she didn't dare to look up, "I'll call the cook and bring the tub back. You go to sleep first." She said go outside.

"Hey!" Xue Wanxiang tugged on her sleeve again: "Are you going out like this?"

As soon as Su Zhe lowered his head, he belatedly realized that he was also wearing a middle coat, and his face became even redder.He took the coat from the hanger and put it on his body, fastened it fast, opened the door with a muffled sound and ran out.

There was the sound of trotting down the wooden stairs.Xue Wanxiang stood in the room, looked at the closed door, lowered her eyebrows and thought about what she did wrong.

Two women came from the kitchen and carried the tub out.

After another incense stick of time, Su Zhe came back slowly, his face was as usual.

Xue Wanxiang waited for her to close the door and blow out the lamp before lying sideways on the side of the bed.Su Zhe sat on the edge of the couch for a while, and then lay down slowly.

She waited for Xue Wanxiang to ask her where she was just now, she had already thought about it, so she asked the route to Linhuai City in the kitchen, if Xue Wanxiang asked how to get there, she said that no one in the kitchen knew, tomorrow Ask the shopkeeper again.

What a good reason, Xue Wanxiang must not let Xue Wanxiang know that she was wandering around the inn yard in the middle of the night, and for some reason her face was so hot that she dared not go back to her room.

But Xue Wanxiang didn't ask, the reason she thought up was useless.

Su Zhe felt a little blocked.

After tossing and turning, the starlight outside the window was dimmed, and she fell asleep in a daze.In the dream, I heard someone sighing softly, as if in the ear, and as if in the sky.

Woke up a bit late the next day, the two had breakfast at the inn, Su Zhe called the second brother to ask the way, but he was not in a hurry to settle the account.

"I'll buy you two suitable clothes, but I always let you wear my old clothes. I'm sorry for wronging you." Su Zhe smiled, and pulled Xue Wanxiang to the street.

Xue Wanxiang didn't make a sound, but followed her out.

Turning around Qingshiban Street, the two of them walked to the entrance of the alley, and sure enough, they found a tailor-made clothing store under the big banyan tree that the younger brother mentioned.Su Zhe looked at the patterns hanging on the shelf, and turned his head to ask Xue Wanxiang.

Xue Wanxiang shook her head, "Just go and buy two coarse clothes."

Su Zhe flattened his mouth: "No. Just buy it here, the ones here look good."

Xue Wanxiang avoided the shop assistants and said in a low voice, "We want to save money."

Su Zhe waved his hand generously: "I don't think about it." She said as she took out a light blue gauze dress, "How about this one? You must look good in it."

Xue Wanxiang finally felt helpless, and glanced at her, "I'm walking in this?"

Su Zhe was taken aback for a moment, then laughed out loud.

The two looked left and right for a long time, picked out two clothes suitable for going out, and the assistant took them over and wrapped them up.Su Zhe had a special liking for that light blue dress, holding it in his hand reluctantly.

"Or, you go and try it? If it looks good, we'll buy it." Su Zhe looked at Xue Wanxiang eagerly.

Xue Wanxiang remained unmoved, shook her head and said, "If you can't wear it, put it back."

Su Zhe had no choice but to put the gauze skirt back on the shelf, and walked out of the store step by step.

Seeing her sad little appearance, Xue Wanxiang laughed and said, "Or buy it for you to wear?"

Su Zhe glanced at her and stopped talking.

After buying the clothes, the two of them were going to the market to buy some common things on the road. Su Zhe's fingers touched Xue Wanxiang's fingertips when they walked side by side through the alley.Xue Wanxiang's fingertips trembled slightly, and she withdrew her hand.

Su Zhe was a little confused, so he raised his eyebrows to look at her.

Xue Wanxiang bit her lip and lowered her head, thinking about her resistance yesterday when he touched her ear hair.She hates being touched by others, so in the future, she must be careful not to touch her skin, because she really doesn't want to be hated by her again...

The thin wind in late autumn rolled up a few fallen leaves and flew around.There is a blue sky outside the gray wall, and Su Zhe saw Xue Wanxiang's long eyelashes hanging halfway, and the circles around his eyes were reddish.