Chapter 20 Sharing a Bed
Zhou Chenglei's hand holding the water scoop shook accidentally, and he quickly picked up the dry towel on the back of the chair and put it around her neck to cover her beautiful spring scenery.
Suddenly, a large amount of water flowed down his neck. Jiang Xia, who knew nothing, hurriedly wiped his neck with a towel: "Too fast, slow down, your clothes are all wet."
"Sorry." His voice was slightly hoarse.
After finally helping Jiang Xia wash her hair, Zhou Chenglei brought two large buckets of hot water into the shower room for her to take a shower.
Fortunately, Zhou's mother had returned to her room, otherwise if she had urged them to take a bath together, who knows how it would have ended.
After taking a shower, Jiang Xia sat in the yard to blow dry his hair.
The wind tonight is very comfortable, with a faint smell of the sea.
There is no light pollution in the fishing village at night, and the sky is filled with stars.
Jiang Xia was combing her hair with a red plastic comb while thinking about what to do next.
She had to take the college entrance exam, not only for the diploma, but also for the things she had learned in her previous life.
But she cannot take the college entrance examination this year because the time has passed and she only has 100 yuan on her, which is definitely not enough. She has to find a way to make money and take the exam next year.
The exam must be taken next year at the latest, because according to the setting in the book, after next year, married people will no longer be able to take the college entrance examination.
But how to make money? Zhou Chenglei came out of the shower and saw Jiang Xia looking at the night sky absent-mindedly. He didn't know what he was thinking, so he said, "The yard is windy and there are many mosquitoes. Go to bed early after your hair is dry, otherwise you will catch a cold."
Jiang Xia came back to her senses and glanced at the clothes of the two people in the basin. Her face felt a little hot for some reason. She quickly responded, "Well, I'll go back to my room first."
As soon as she came out of the shower, he took the clothes from her basin.
She said she would wash it herself since she was getting divorced after all.
He glanced at her calmly and said, "Don't you know how to wash? I have always washed it for you, not just these few days."
What else could Jiang Xia say? Zhou Chenglei waited for Jiang Xia to return to the room, then started washing the clothes they had taken off.
In the room, Jiang Xia's hair had dried.
She lay on the bed, looking at the snow-white old-fashioned mosquito net, listening to the sound of clothes being rubbed outside, and wondering: Will Zhou Chenglei come back to his room to sleep after washing the clothes?
That shouldn't be the case! They both agreed to divorce. Zhou Chenglei didn't sleep in the same room with her last night. He will move in tonight and he will have his own room.
Not long after, the sound of a door closing was heard in the hall, followed by the sound of a door closing in the next room.
When Jiang Xia heard this, he turned off the light and went to sleep.
There are cicadas chirping outside the window and the sound of waves can be vaguely heard. The room is very quiet, perfect for sleeping.
After a tiring day, Jiang Xia soon felt sleepy.
While I was half asleep, I heard a slight noise coming from the roof tiles, like something was crawling across.
Jiang Xia froze! She opened her eyes wide, but could not see anything in the darkness. Suddenly, she thought of the two snakes in the room during the day.
I thought of what my great-grandmother said: if a nest of snake eggs is laid, a nest of baby snakes will be hatched.
Jiang Xia: “…”
I really want to, why do I think about this? No, I must have heard it wrong.
She pulled up the quilt and covered her head.
At this time, there was another strange noise coming from the tiles on the roof.
The room was so quiet that I could hear it clearly! "Zhou Chenglei!"
The scream almost blew off the tiles on the roof! He lifted the quilt, opened the mosquito net, got out of bed, and ran out like a gust of wind.
In the next room, Zhou Chenglei had just taken off his shirt and was about to go to sleep when he heard a scream and ran out without even putting on his clothes.
Then a dark shadow pounced upon him and hung on him like a sloth.
"There's a snake! There's a snake on the roof!"
Both Zhou's father and mother were frightened awake, but Zhou Zhou was a child and was sleeping soundly and snoring.
The two were so scared that they quickly got out of bed and went out of the room to take a look.
Zhou's mother opened the door of the room and then quickly closed it.
"What's wrong with her?" Zhou's father followed behind her, full of impatience for being woken up. This was not the first time she had made a fuss in the middle of the night.
Mother Zhou pushed Father Zhou to sleep: "It's okay, it's okay, A Lei is here! Xiao Xia was probably scared by the snake during the day and had a nightmare."
During the day, Zhou's mother also heard from her great-grandmother that there was a snake in the house.
Zhou's father didn't care when he heard it. It's just a snake. You can see it every now and then in the summer. Besides, A Lei can catch snakes, so why should he be afraid? People from the provincial capital are always surprised by what they have never seen before.
They both lay back on the bed and continued to sleep.
*In another room, Zhou Chenglei held Jiang Xia in his arms, turned on the light, and shone a flashlight around.
There was no way, she held on too tightly and refused to get down.
Zhou Chenglei held Jiang Xia in his right hand and held a flashlight in his left hand, checking around.
Even though I knew in my heart that it couldn't be a snake and must be a mouse, I still checked it carefully.
"Look, there is no snake. It should be a rat crawling across the roof. Rats generally don't bite people." After his right ear was injured, he was almost deaf and could only hear with one ear. His hearing was not that sensitive, so he didn't hear it just now, but he could guess.
Jiang Xia looked around in his arms following the light of the flashlight. There was nothing there, but she was still afraid!
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I guess he couldn't understand it, but she was just afraid of snakes, very afraid of snakes.
"I can't sleep alone."
Zhou Chenglei: “…”
*The floor had been washed today, but it wasn't completely dry yet, so it was impossible to sleep on the floor. In the end, Zhou Chenglei carried her back to the next room to get back his pillow, thin quilt, and the clothes he had just taken off.
He was used to sleeping shirtless, but he couldn't sleep shirtless with her.
Jiang Xia lay on the inside of the bed, watching him put on a long-sleeved shirt, buttoning it up to the top button, his muscular lines faintly visible under the shirt...
Zhou Chenglei turned off the light, sat on the bed, tucked in the mosquito net, and lay down.
"Go to sleep!" The man's voice was low and a little hoarse.
There was a distance between the two of them, separated by a thin quilt.
Jiang Xia closed his eyes with peace of mind.
It was August, the height of summer, and there were no fans or air conditioners. The people around him breathed hot air that could not be ignored. Jiang Xia felt a little hot and his mouth was a little dry.
Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger, in her previous life she was also about the same age as a wolf and a tiger...
What was he thinking about? Jiang Xia was startled by his own wild thoughts, turned over, faced the wall, gently kicked off the thin blanket, hugged it instead, threw away the yellow waste in his mind, listened to the sound of cicadas and waves, forced himself to think about nothing, and went to sleep.
Zhou Chenglei was also feeling hot, so he covered himself with a thin blanket.
The bed is 1.5 meters long, and it is a bit close for two people to lie on it. It is safer to cover them with a quilt.
Feeling Jiang Xia kick off the quilt, he asked, "Is it hot?"
Jiang Xia's body stiffened and he replied, "Yeah, hot."
It's normal to be hot in August.
Zhou Chenglei lifted the quilt, got up from the bed, took a large sunflower fan, lay back down, and fanned the two of them gently.
The wind from the big sunflower fan was gentle, soft, and cool in gusts, just the right amount to keep people neither too cold nor too hot.
Perhaps it was because the wind was too comfortable, or perhaps it was because the people around him had such a clear and steady breath that made him feel at ease, Jiang Xia's breathing soon became shallow.
Zhou Chenglei felt that the people around him were asleep, but he couldn't fall asleep. He wanted to fetch two buckets of well water to take a shower because it was too hot.
But as soon as he moved, the people around him turned around and put their hands and feet on him.
Zhou Chenglei: “…”
It was not until the early morning that Zhou Chenglei fell into a drowsy sleep. It felt like he had not slept for long when he heard his parents talking in a low voice outside the house.
Zhou Chenglei opened his eyes: Let’s go out to sea!
(End of this chapter)