Chapter 78: Snowy Night Warm Jiang Tong was silent, her fox eyes narrowed into crescents...
“…The three lights are the sun, the moon and the stars. The three cardinal guides…the three cardinal guides…” Wang Xiaoshi shook his head and recited the Three Character Classic, seemingly doing it seriously, but his progress had been stuck here for several times.
He was so anxious that he glanced at Su Guanqing, but found that Su Guanqing did not notice his stuck.
After Teacher Jiang left, Master Su became a little uneasy, and kept looking out the window.
The weather in Daming has been getting colder each year. This year's snow is also much heavier than last year.
The snow on the roofs piled up more and more, turning this small mountain village into a world of ice and snow.
"...The three lights are the sun, moon, and stars. The three principles... the three principles..."
Just as Wang Xiaoshi began to make faces at his classmates for help, a loud noise of something breaking suddenly came from outside the house.
The students saw that their usually gentle Master Su's face suddenly changed, and he pushed the table in front of him away like a madman and rushed out of the house.
Jiang Tong, who was still being forced to receive new education after marriage at Aunt Wang's house, also heard the loud noise.
Jiang Tong was still trying to figure out what that noise was when Aunt Wang slapped her thigh. "Ouch! Could that be someone's house collapsing under the weight of the snow?"
Jiang Tong thought to himself, this is not good. Isn't the direction of this sound coming from his home?
She got up and hurried out to check, and when she saw it, she was almost dumbfounded.
It was her house that was crushed!
It was probably just the thatched roof that collapsed. There were a few people inside her fence, bending over and digging the soil.
"Oh my, how did this happen? Have you never cleared the snow off the roof?" Aunt Wang asked anxiously.
Jiang Tong no longer cared about her and ran home.
Only when she ran to her doorstep, one foot deep and one foot shallow, did she breathe a sigh of relief.
What was crushed was the small room where she slept, so of course there was no one in the room at that time.
Outside the collapsed hut, Su Guanqing was digging the soil with a group of children.
Suddenly, a child noticed Jiang Tong and hurriedly shouted, "Teacher Jiang! Teacher is here! Teacher is not trapped under the house!"
Su Guanqing was crawling on the ruins, looking like a madman. He didn't respond to other people's voices at all, but just kept digging at the snow.
When he discovered that Jiang Tong's house had collapsed, he completely lost his mind.
He ignored the pain in his bones and dug out handfuls of snow, calling out in a trembling voice, "Tongtong! Tongtong! Can you hear me? Don't be afraid, just hold on."
The biting cold seeped into his skin and soon his hands lost all feeling.
Even though he tried his best, his hands were getting slower and slower.
Suddenly someone hugged him, and then a pair of slender and warm hands grasped his trembling hands.
"Guan Qing! I'm here! I'm not buried down there!"
Su Guanqing turned around in a daze, and saw Jiang Tong looking at him with concern.
"Tongtong...are you okay?" he murmured.
"I'm fine, I'm not home at all!" Jiang Tong pulled his hand, only to feel a bone-chilling coldness where she touched it.
She held those hands in her arms with heartache, but suddenly Su Guanqing pulled his hands away.
Jiang Tong looked up in surprise and saw Su Guanqing leaning towards her, stretching out his arms and hugging her tightly in his arms.
He held Jiang Tong tightly in his arms as if he wanted to rub her into his own bones and blood.
After a moment of hesitation, Jiang Tong immediately hugged Su Guanqing. She hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Guanqing, it's okay, it's okay, I'm here, I'm here."
They hugged each other tightly in the ruins, oblivious to the surroundings. In the vast white sky and earth, it seemed that there were only the two of them.
…
Jiang Tong's house collapsed, so she had to move into Su Guanqing's house at night.
During the day, enthusiastic villagers helped clear the snow off the roof, and there were no safety hazards for the time being.
At night, Su Guanqing lit the stove and walked around the house a few times, seeming a little hesitant.
Jiang Tong sat on the bed, curled up her legs, and tucked herself into the quilt.
Su Guanqing walked around the stove again, and when he looked up, he met Jiang Tong's teasing gaze.
Su Guanqing rubbed his hands uncomfortably and asked, "Are you still cold?"
Jiang Tong didn't say anything, his fox eyes narrowed into crescents.
"Do you want to move the stove a little closer?" Su Guanqing asked again.
Jiang Tong still didn't say anything, just looked at him and smiled.
"There may be a little wind through the window, but even if it's closed tightly it won't work..." Su Guanqing scratched his head and walked around the room again.
The house was small, and there was only so much work to do in it, and he really couldn't find anything else to say.
"Are you planning to stand there all night?" Jiang Tong finally spoke.
"I..." Su Guanqing looked at the bed with some embarrassment. There was only a quilt on the bed, and Jiang Tong's original quilt was still buried under the rubble.
"Actually... I'm not sleepy yet. Why don't you go to sleep first." Su Guanqing had already started thinking to himself. In fact, he would not teach the students until tomorrow afternoon. It would be the same if he went to sleep after Tongtong woke up tomorrow morning.
"I'm a little cold." Jiang Tong curled her lips.
Su Guanqing hurriedly opened the door and said, "I'll go get the stove and light it up."
He was talking about the one buried in the snow.
"Wait a minute!" Seeing that he was really about to leave, Jiang Tong called him with a headache, "It's pitch dark, what can you dig out?"
"But aren't you cold?" Su Guanqing looked innocent.
Jiang Tong took her hand out from under the quilt and stretched it towards him.
"Tongtong, this is not appropriate..." Su Guanqing said in embarrassment.
"It's not like we haven't tried sharing a bed in prison before," Jiang Tong muttered.
"That's different."
"What's different?"
"That one in the prison wasn't even considered a bed. Besides, wasn't there anything else we could do back then?"
"Isn't there anything we can do now?" Jiang Tong waved his hands, "Hurry up, it's cold."
Su Guanqing had no choice but to blow out the candle and walk towards Jiang Tong.
Jiang Tong stretched out his hand and was about to pull Su Guanqing's clothes, but Su Guanqing paused, took out a piece of cloth from his sleeve pocket, and covered his eyes with it with difficulty and clumsiness. Then he took off his coat and groped his way onto the bed.
Jiang Tong looked at Su Guanqing speechlessly as he carefully climbed up along the corner of the bed, as if he was afraid of touching her.
She narrowed her fox eyes, suddenly lifted the quilt, grabbed Su Guanqing's arm, and pulled him towards her.
Su Guanqing was caught off guard, lost his balance, and fell suddenly into Jiang Tong's arms.
He was so panicked that he tried to get up using his hands and feet, but Jiang Tong held him tightly and wouldn't let go.
"Stop moving around! I'm sleepy! It's time to go to sleep!" Jiang Tong held back her laughter and led him to lie down.
Su Guanqing didn't dare to move.
There is only one quilt and one pillow.
The two people were very close to each other.
Jiang Tong felt the people around her tense up. She turned around and faced Su Guanqing, mumbling pitifully, "Guanqing, I'm cold."
Su Guanqing felt her breath on his neck again and again, and his whole body became more and more tense. Suddenly, an idea came to him: "Why don't I sleep with my coat on?"
As he said this, he was about to get up and get Jiang Tong's coat.
As soon as he moved, his waist felt tight. Jiang Tong hugged his waist, and he just got up a little when he was pulled back.
"曈戈..."
"It's not warm to sleep in your clothes, so I'll just hold you." Jiang Tong felt the wind blowing in from the window, so she simply tucked her head into the quilt, put her face against Su Guanqing's chest, and squinted her eyes comfortably.
But after hugging for a while, she became dissatisfied again. She arched her body and said, "Hug me too! I'll feel warm if I hug you."
Su Guanqing stretched out his hands stiffly like a wooden man and held Jiang Tong in his arms.
Jiang Tong was like a small stove, continuously emitting warmth in his arms.
Su Guanqing felt that he had never been so warm since the beginning of winter, and he even felt a little hot.
After a long while, Su Guanqing finally remembered something. He swallowed and asked softly, "Is it still cold? I'd better go dig it out tomorrow. At least I have to dig out the hot water bottle."
"I'm not cold anymore," Jiang Tong's voice came from under the quilt, a little muffled. "You're much better than a hot water bottle. That hot water bottle gets cold in the middle of the night. You definitely won't be cold in the middle of the night."
Jiang Tong said, and nudged Su Guanqing's arms again: "Relax a little, why are you so nervous?"
Su Guanqing couldn't relax.
Before, he had just been tortured in prison. He was in pain, cold, and desperate, and he couldn't think of anything else.
But now, he was warming himself by the fire, lying comfortably in warm bedding, without any pain in his body, and holding his beloved woman in his arms. How could he relax?
Su Guanqing recited the articles of sages over and over again in his mind, but his heart could not calm down.
But Jiang Tong was not obedient and would twist in his arms from time to time.
Su Guanqing felt something on his body rising up. He was startled and tried to turn over to cover himself.
Jiang Tong refused to let him move, holding onto his waist tightly and pushing herself into his embrace: "Don't move! You're letting the cold air in!"
Su Guanqing was completely helpless. He gritted his teeth and talked to Jiang Tong, "Tongtong, can you please stop moving around?"
"Oh no, who doesn't turn over when sleeping?" Jiang Tong said and even twisted a little.
Before she finished her words, her bent knee bumped into something awkward.
Jiang Tong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered what Aunt Wang taught her during the day.
...It turns out that things really change!
Out of curiosity, she pretended to move her legs casually and gently nudged him with her knee. Su Guanqing immediately groaned and his body trembled.
……interesting!
At the same time, she clearly felt that Su Guanqing's breathing was becoming heavier and heavier, as if he was enduring some kind of torture.
Jiang Tong was startled and didn't dare to move for a moment.
After a long time, Su Guanqing's breathing gradually calmed down, and the feeling in front of his knees also returned to normal.
...What did Aunt Wang say?
Jiang Tong gently moved her legs again, once, once, and again.
……here we go again!
Jiang Tong hid in the quilt, her eyes widened with curiosity, wishing she could light a candle inside so she could take a good look.
It was a pity that it was dark in the bed and she couldn't see anything.
She didn't know that Su Guanqing was almost driven crazy by her.
He read the writings of sages and wise men in such a confused way that he himself was falling apart.
He clenched his fingers into fists, and under the strong pressure, the deformed healed parts of his fingers protested, causing him sharp pain.
He relied on that little bit of pain to maintain his final clarity of mind.
Jiang Tong had enough fun and stuck her head out of the quilt to get some fresh air.
The moonlight shining on the snow was much brighter than usual. Jiang Tong saw in the moonlight that Su Guanqing's expression was not right.
His handsome features were almost twisted together, and he was obviously suffering from some unspeakable pain.
Jiang Tong was startled. She pulled her hand out and cupped Su Guanqing's face. "Guanqing?"
Hearing Jiang Tong's voice, Su Guanqing came back to his senses a little, and felt something soft and warm lightly poking his lips.
"Guan Qing, you don't have to endure it." Jiang Tong's voice sounded in his ears, very soft and gentle.
Su Guanqing shook his head, his voice coming out from between his teeth: "No, no."
"Why not?" Jiang Tong still held his face in her hands. "Who in the village doesn't know that we are a young couple who eloped?"
Jiang Tong's words contained a fatal temptation designed to restrain Su Guanqing, but he still shook his head and refused to move.
"Guan Qing, I don't understand what you are so stubborn about." Jiang Tong gently stroked his cheek, trying to help him relax his wrinkled facial features, but no matter how she rubbed or pinched it, it was all in vain.
He was still in so much pain.
"We have fallen to this point, and I'm afraid we will have to stay here for the rest of our lives. What's wrong with just living like this?" Jiang Tong said.
Her lips fell again.
Su Guanqing trembled all over, and the string in his mind completely broke. He suddenly crawled out from under the quilt and almost fell off the bed.
The cold air enveloped him, he shivered, and calmed down completely. Some unbearable desires also completely subsided.
He sat on the edge of the bed, the cloth on his face had fallen to his neck, but he still kept his eyes tightly closed: "Tongtong, we can't do this."
"Are you avoiding me like the plague?" Jiang Tong also sat up and looked at him with a dark face.
"No, how could I think you were such a snake?" Su Guanqing smiled bitterly, "I dream of living with you."
"Aren't we living together now?" Jiang Tong's expression softened slightly. "Here, no one forces me to be a princess, and no one knows you're a lowly woman. We can live like an ordinary couple. Isn't that good?"
Su Guanqing's expression was fascinated for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure. "Of course, if I stay here, no one will know I'm a lowly person, so I can teach, get married, and spend the rest of my life with you, Tongtong."
He smiled bitterly: "But Tongtong, I can't just think about myself."
He turned towards her, following the sound: "Tongtong, you have a lot of abilities. You don't belong here. Your abilities can't be buried here."
"Is this my choice?" Jiang Tong felt a little depressed.
"Let's wait a little longer, maybe there will be a turning point. I don't believe that God is so cruel, I...ah!"
Su Guanqing was speaking when he sneezed.
Jiang Tong hurriedly pulled the quilt over him: "Come in! Come in! It's no fun to catch a cold."
"Tongtong..." Su Guanqing just refused. Feeling the quilt coming, he even moved towards the edge, and half of his butt fell out.
Jiang Tong was completely out of temper: "I won't tease you anymore, I promise. Come in quickly."
Su Guanqing then agreed and crawled into the bed using his hands and feet.
Jiang Tong lifted the quilt and wrapped him in it. This time, she didn't tease him anymore, and the two of them lay down peacefully.
After a moment, Jiang Tong suddenly whispered, "Guan Qing, wait until the snow melts, then let's go out of the village and find out what's going on, shall we?"
"good."
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