Blow

The level of economic development in Chang County is unbalanced between the north and the south. There is a modern urban area in the south. The further north you go, the more dilapidated the buildings are, but at the same time the natural environment is more intact.The next day, Wen Xiao and Xia Jue got up early to climb the northernmost mountain.

This mountain is not high and not well-known. The locals generally call it "Northern Tea Mountain", because every household in Caojia Village at the foot of the mountain sells a kind of wild tea from the mountain, and the name of the tea is "Northern Tea".

Compared with other wild mountains, Beicha Mountain has at least undergone a certain amount of human development. There are mountain trails, tea gardens and farmhouses. It is said that it has become the first choice for spring and autumn tours in primary and secondary schools in Changxian County.Therefore, when Wen Xiao asked Xia Jue what impressed her the most besides home, Xia Jue immediately thought of it.

According to the plan, they went out at 07:30 in the morning.Xia Jue kept making noises about Xiao Xiao last night. She didn't wake up because of her own crimes, and yawned in the car. She didn't even feel the phone ringing, or she was too lazy to move.

Wen Xiao put his hand into the pocket of his coat, took out his cell phone for him, looked at the caller ID, and said, "It's Xu Chengkai."

Xia Jue rubbed her eyes, and pressed the connect button slowly.

Wen Xiao only heard him agree with "um" and "oh" all the time in a daze, and finally sat up straight with an "ah?"

"What's wrong?" Wen Xiao asked.

Xia Jue hung up the phone, sat for a while, and said, "Brother Kai is at home, so why did we stay in the hotel last night?"

Wen Xiao asked unexpectedly: "Isn't he running business in other places?"

"It seems that they came back with Li Rui," Xia Jue said. "Actually, they haven't been going well. I guess maybe they didn't make it--by the way, he saw my circle of friends and knew that we were going to Beichashan, so he will come over later. ,OK?"

Wen Xiao said, "Whatever you want."

Xia Jue looked at his expression, and quietly reached out to scratch his palm.Wen Xiao grasped and kneaded Xia Jue's soft fingertips sensitively.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Xu Chengkai and Li Rui came together after the two didn't wait long.Li Rui drove the family's car, which solved the problem that they couldn't get a car when they went back.

The two sides greeted each other, each carried some dry food and water, and walked towards the mountain.

The mountain road is very rough, and it was basically stepped on by the villagers for a long time. There is no stone slab, but fortunately, the ups and downs are not too big.Wen Xiao and Xia Jue walked in front, the air was refreshing, along the way besides the tea garden, you could also see a few wild fruit trees, such as cherries and figs, which were just in the ripening stage, but because they had not been artificially cultivated, their appearance and taste were limited.

Xia Jue ate a particularly sour one, and stopped to drink water with a wrinkled face.Wen Xiao picked a hibiscus flower from the side and stuck it in his hair.

"Don't," Xia Jue said hastily, "You attract bees like this. The bees in this mountain are very fierce, and I don't dare to provoke them."

Wen Xiao then helped him take it off again, and said, "How do you know it's bad, you've been stung?"

Xia Jue nodded.

"You are skinny," Wen Xiao smiled, "Have you poked a honeycomb when you were a child?"

Xia Jue muttered: "No, it's not what you think."

Xu Chengkai and Li Rui caught up and saw the unobtrusive intimacy between them. They were a little embarrassed, but they didn't say anything.

A group of people continued to move forward, and when they reached a large flat area on the mountainside, Li Rui and Xu Chengkai stopped, as if they had reached the finish line.Wen Xiao looked at them a little strangely, then looked at Xia Jue.

Xia Jue explained: "It usually stops here, and there is almost no way to go up."

But it was only before ten o'clock in the morning, and Wen Xiao basically didn't feel exhausted, only a thin layer of sweat, and his physical strength was still very abundant.

"Or if it's not enough, I'll take you around again?" Xia Jue said, "I know a way to go further."

Xu Chengkai interjected: "What way?"

Xia Jue pointed not far away and said, "You can walk over that slope with bare hands."

The rest of the people looked in the direction of his finger and found that it was facing a slope with sparse vegetation, and the uneven mudstone surface was exposed.

"Forget it, it's not safe." Xu Chengkai disagreed.

What Wen Xiao noticed was another point, and he frowned and asked Xia Jue, "Have you ever crawled before?"

Xia Jue originally wanted to say "yes", but when she found that Wen Xiao's eyes were not right, she gave a covert "huh".

However, Wen Xiao stared at him, obviously not letting him get away with it.

"...Yes," Xia Jue had no choice but to admit, "It should be the first or second year of junior high school. The class organized a spring outing, and I even watched the sunrise."

Xu Chengkai couldn't understand Wen Xiao's repressive attitude towards Xia Jue, so he couldn't help but chime in: "It's normal for a child to like to play."

Wen Xiao didn't know what to think of, and his brows frowned even tighter.

"Actually, it's just right to go down the mountain here, and I can have lunch on time." Li Rui looked at the three of them, smoothed things out in the middle, and changed the subject. It's all on the pot."

Xu Chengkai became interested: "Is it from Lao Gui's family? That's fine, let's go."

It was only then that Wen Xiao found out that the two of them were engaged in the tea business in Jiangxi, selling "Northern Tea", which was specially received in batches from a few old farmers in Caojia Village, and then packaged for sale in other places.This "Old Gui" is one of their suppliers. In addition to selling tea, the family also runs a farmhouse.

The reason why Xu Chengkai and Li Rui want to sell northern tea to other provinces is mainly because in Changxian County, the price of northern tea is too low as a local tea.Caojiacun followed the path of small profits but quick turnover, leaving little room for dealers to intervene.

Nearly twelve o'clock, they had lunch at "Old Guitou Farm Home".

They are all farm dishes, and they taste really good. No wonder Xu Chengkai was so excited when he heard about them.At the dinner table, Wen Xiao heard that he had been chatting with Li Rui, talking twice as much as before.

Gradually, Wen Xiao had a subtle idea, feeling that some of what the two of them were talking about was purposely for him.For example, Li Rui said that the tea business is too difficult to do, and he is going to give up and consider investing in other industries.

"I also said that outsiders are not used to drinking this kind of tea," Lao Gui interrupted when serving the dishes, "In the end, you two young people didn't listen to anyone, so you insisted on going out and doing it to make flower heads."

Xu Chengkai said: "It's not that I'm not used to drinking, it's that I have no money to earn."

"If you're used to drinking, someone will buy it, but if someone buys it, you won't make any money?" Lao Gui walked away muttering.

After he left, Li Rui explained: "The main reason is that the packaging is not in place, so the price of the tea cannot be raised, and the profit is too small."

I don't know who to tell.In short, Wen Xiao had heard them chatting on this topic for a long time, and his interest was lacking, and he stayed out of the conversation all the time, helping Xia Jue pick chicken bones.

After a few more minutes like this, Li Rui still didn't get Wen Xiao's accusation. He couldn't hold back any longer, so he called his name directly and asked, "By the way, Wen Xiao, I haven't heard from you all this time. What is your family doing?" of?"

Wen Xiao paused and said, "My dad is in finance."

"Doing finance?" Xu Chengkai got up and fished out a chicken wing from the casserole. "What do you mean, borrow money? Money makes money?"

Xia Jue faintly heard something strange, raised her head and said hesitantly, "Brother Kai, you..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Xiao said indifferently: "Can you leave the chicken wings to Xia Jue?"

Xu Chengkai was stunned for a moment, and then responded, instead of putting down the chicken wings, he stretched out his arms.Put the freshly picked chicken wings into Xia Jue's bowl.

Wen Xiao stared at his actions with ambiguous eyes, and then said: "I don't know the specifics, I only know that it is a financial service business, and has a cooperation with a state-owned enterprise."

"So your family runs a bank?" Xu Chengkai asked again.

Wen Xiao said, "It's trust."

Li Rui and Xu Chengkai looked at each other.Li Rui could barely touch the edge, but Xu Chengkai didn't understand at all.

Suddenly Xia Jue put down her chopsticks and said, "I'm full. Brother Kai, Brother Li Rui, Wen Xiao and I will leave in the afternoon, we have something to do at school."

They hadn't discussed this beforehand.Wen Xiao was helping him peel the shrimp, and there was a slight pause in his movements.

Xu Chengkai was also taken aback, and asked doubtfully, "You don't have a National Day holiday?"

"...It's not class, it's something else." Xia Jue said vaguely.

After eating the last shrimp that Wen Xiao peeled, he stopped using his chopsticks, and he didn't eat the chicken wing that Xu Chengkai picked up.

After the meal, Li Rui drove them back to the hotel to pick up their luggage, just in time for the latest check-out time of the day.On the way, Wen Xiao opened the mobile app, temporarily booked two high-speed rail tickets to Huijuzhou, and forwarded the ticket purchase information to Xia Jue on WeChat.

When Xia Jue received the message, she silently replied "Yes".

——Evidently they were sitting side by side in the back seat of the car, but it was like a secret meeting.

"Why are you in such a hurry all of a sudden?" After entering the train station, Xu Chengkai and Li Rui had both left. Wen Xiao was finally able to ask directly, "Don't stay another day?"

Xia Jue said, "What are you waiting for, wait for them to check your account?"

"Just asking," Wen Xiao understood, and smiled, "It's not a problem."

Xia Jue said, "It's more than just asking. They must be out of business on their own, and they've got your idea. If I knew this was the case, I wouldn't let them come."

He was very sharp and spoke very straightforwardly, making no secret of his protection of Wen Xiao.

Wen Xiao couldn't help but put his arms around his shoulders and said, "It's really all right."

Because it was the middle of the holiday, there were not as many people at the train station as usual.Xia Jue glanced around, pretended to be dozing off, and leaned her head on Wen Xiao's body and said sullenly, "Anyway, I don't like this. Li Rui and Brother Kai are gangsters when they do things. I don't want you and my sister, because I got into trouble. "

"It's not a matter of the horoscope," Wen Xiao pinched the tip of his nose, and said deliberately, "Besides, it may not be for you. If you are so narcissistic, don't you think that your face is really so big?"

Xia Jue whispered, "I'm not narcissistic, you just treat me too well."

Wen Xiao parted his forehead hair and wanted to kiss him, but after all, it was in public, so he could only force himself to hold back.

"Let's not talk about this," Wen Xiao coughed lightly, and said, "You said earlier that you watched the sunrise on Beicha Mountain, what happened?"

Xia Jue was dumbfounded.

"The ordinary spring outing organized by the school, how could there be a chance to see the sunrise," Wen Xiao continued, "What's going on, you spent the night on the mountain?"

Xia Jue said, "It's not—"

Wen Xiao approached him and warned, "Tell the truth."

"...Yes," Xia Jue shrank her head and answered honestly, "I spent the night on the mountain."

Wen Xiao had a bad premonition and asked, "Are you alone?"

Xia Jue looked away guiltily: "Well, alone."

Wen Xiao looked at him with seemingly calm eyes.

"I didn't want to do this myself," Xia Jue quickly surrendered, "I, I can't help it."

"no way?"

Xia Jue hesitated and said, "There are a few classmates chasing me. There are too many of them. I fought for a while and could only run, but then I lost my way."

It is an extremely dangerous thing for a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child to get lost in the mountains and have to spend the night, but he said it so casually in a few words.

Wen Xiao took a deep breath and asked, "Then no one cares if you disappear? Where is the teacher? Who were the people who fought with you, and what happened afterwards?"

"They told the teacher that I was leaving first, so the teacher didn't care," Xia Jue recalled. "Afterwards, I was fine and went back to school and threw away all their schoolbags one by one."

Wen Xiao slowly took one of his hands: "Throwing schoolbags is nothing, they want to kill you."

Xia Jue said distressedly: "It's a little lighter, but I probably didn't have the interest to do anything else at that time, and—"

"And what?" Wen Xiao subconsciously asked.

Xia Jue said: "And that was also the first time I saw the sunrise, and I felt a sense of power—exactly the same as when I met you later."