Chapter 48 Why is it called Xiaojiu?

Shuang Xu walked back along the same path, and suddenly, water drops fell on her shoulders.

It's raining?

She quickened her pace, but the sudden rainstorm came so fast that in a blink of an eye it became a torrential downpour, with the crackling rain hitting her body heavily.

The sky grew darker, and the heavy rain made the mountain road even more difficult to identify, and the road began to become muddy and slippery.

She took out her cell phone to make a call, but sadly found that there was no signal.

It's raining, so I'm afraid everyone will stay in the campground and won't go to the observation deck.

This place is still some distance away from the camp. It is too dangerous and scary to walk in the mountains in the heavy rain. Shuang Xu didn't want to take any risks, so he came across a cave on the road and hid in it to avoid the rain.

She probably remembered the way and could just go back when the rain stopped.

But Shen Yu and the others might get worried if they found out she was missing, and she didn't know if they would come out to look for her. Just in case, she hung her yellow beanie on a branch outside the cave.

The cave was dry and a little dark. She turned on the flashlight and found a clean place to sit down and rest.

There was a shallow stream of water inside. The faint sound of the flowing water suddenly reminded her of the snake, and she nervously shone her flashlight around.

Fortunately, there was nothing around.

But she didn't relax for long because she started to feel cold.

The temperature on the mountain was already low, and it was raining heavily. The cave, which is cold and damp all year round, was bone-chilling.

Frost Xu was so frustrated that he turned his phone off and on again, but there was still no service, so he resigned himself to it and gave up.

What kind of weather forecast is Yue Zifeng looking at? It's not accurate at all.

It’s raining so hard, let alone proposing, I can’t even watch the meteor shower.

Perhaps the rainstorm came quickly and will go away quickly. If we are lucky, we can catch up with the original plan and not let everyone’s hard work and efforts of the day go to waste.

It rained for a while, and there was no sign of the rain stopping outside. Frost Xu listened to the sound of the rain. Amid the noise of the rainstorm, there was suddenly the sound of human footsteps.

The sound of footsteps on a rainy night was like the beginning of a horror movie. She became alert involuntarily and picked up a stone from the side for protection.

A tall black shadow approached the cave entrance in the rainstorm. In the light of the flashlight, He Tingzhou's overly handsome face appeared.

The unexpected encounter left Shuang Xu stunned for several seconds before he put the stone down.

Shuangxu wore a hat when she came, and she came in to avoid the rain in time, so her body was only slightly wet. He Tingzhou was much more ferocious than her.

His hair was almost soaked, his black combat jacket was covered with rain, and his face was also wet.

He Tingzhou walked into the cave with his head lowered. He was probably in a hurry to avoid the rain, and he was breathing slightly.

He stood there and stared at Shuang Xu for a while. After his breath slowly calmed down, he pulled his lips mockingly: "You are so smart. You know how to hide from the rain."

She is not a fool. She doesn't know how to hide when it rains.

Shuang Xu guessed that he was caught in the rain, so he saw that she was mentally unbalanced.

"Aren't you here to hide from the rain too?" she whispered.

He Tingzhou shook the rain off his clothes, pushed his hair back, sat down two steps away from her, and leaned against the mountain wall.

His entire face was damp, and the wet hair made his facial features more three-dimensional, with thick eyebrows, deep eyes, and a sharp and intimidating handsomeness.

He casually threw the DV on the ground. It was soaked by the rain and I don't know if it was damaged.

He is still taking pictures so late at night. She must be his cousin, which is why he cares so much about her.

As a fellow wanderer, she felt a lot less afraid because she had someone she knew to be with her in this difficult time, even though this person was He Tingzhou, whom she avoided as much as possible.

He Tingzhou didn't say anything, just leaned there to rest, and she didn't say anything either.

Neither of them paid any attention to the other, as if they were two strangers who happened to rest temporarily in the same cave. Only the stream was flowing quietly.

The heavy rain continued to fall, and the cold accumulated in the bones. Frost gradually became frozen and his face turned pale, and he curled up his body.

There was a rustling sound nearby, and He Tingzhou took off his coat.

Shuang Xu's first reaction was to think that he was going to give it to her, but she quickly dismissed the idea.

When Yue Zifeng asked him to behave like a gentleman on the cliff, he acted as if it had nothing to do with him.

Without gentlemanly manners, where can you show your talents?

Besides, the perceived temperature in the cave was too low, and he must be cold too.

He Tingzhou put on his coat and tilted his head to call her, "Come over and sit down."

At an inappropriate time, Shuang Xu's mind recalled the time when he held her tightly in his arms and the warmth she had felt from his body.

In the dim light, her cheeks felt slightly hot, and she refused without thinking: "No."

He Tingzhou looked at her with dark eyes: "Between you dying in the cold and me dying in the cold, there is a compromise option for both of us to live. Come here."

His tone left no room for doubt, and Shuang Xu's fingertips were already numb from the cold. If this continued, when the rain stopped tomorrow, Shen Yu might find a frozen hard popsicle.

She hesitated for a long time, then slowly moved towards He Tingzhou, carefully lifted one side of his coat, and tucked herself in.

He Tingzhou glanced at her and ignored her.

His assault jacket is rainproof, dry and warm inside, with his signature cool aura.

As soon as he got close, every cell in Frost Xu's body seemed to have caught a cold and started to have a high fever.

It reminded her that she had been too close to him.

She and He Tingzhou wore the same coat to keep warm, and she tried not to get too close to him. These two things went against each other, making her body stiff all the time.

The flashlight illuminated the mountain wall in front. He Tingzhou closed his eyes. Shuang Xu thought he was going to sleep and prepared to turn off the flashlight.

As soon as she picked it up, He Tingzhou said, "Don't turn it off. I'm afraid of the dark."

In everyone's eyes, He Tingzhou is a man with no taboos.

He is so willful and casual that he even dares to catch a poisonous snake with his bare hands. How could he be afraid of the dark?

Frost Xu was puzzled and turned on the flashlight again, moving the light closer to him.

"Why is your nickname Xiaojiu?" He Tingzhou asked suddenly.

In fact, only Shen Yu called her that, and Lu Manman learned it from Shen Yu.

Shuang Xu said: "I was born on September 9th. Shuang Xu means September."

He Tingzhou's angle is unique: "September 9th. Shouldn't you call it Double Ninth Festival?"

Shuang Xu was a little speechless and retorted: "Then why aren't you called He Jianjun if you were born on August 1st?"

He Tingzhou laughed. They were so close that Shuang Xu could even feel the slight vibration of his Adam's apple.

He opened his lazy eyelids and glanced at her: "How do you know my dad hasn't thought about it?"

Shuang Xu was stunned. She had just said it casually, but the temperaments of He Jianjun and He Tingzhou were so different that the entire history of New China could not be more different.

"My father is a soldier. I was born on August 1st. He thought it was God's will and wanted me to join the army since I was a child." He Tingzhou paused for a few seconds, "My mother gave me my name."

This was the first time Shuang Xu heard him mention his mother.

She turned her head to look at He Tingzhou, and He Tingzhou was also looking at her.

The flashlight cast his outline on the stone wall, his nose was high and his eyelashes cast a thick shadow.

Shuang Xu's heartbeat suddenly quickened, and he turned his head away and said, "My mother also gave me this name."

After saying this, they became quiet again.

He Tingzhou's body was very warm, like a heat source in the damp and cold cave, and it was very comfortable to use it to keep warm.

Slowly, Shuang Xu's body warmed up and he no longer felt so cold. He fell asleep leaning against the wall.

She was awakened by the heavy weight on her shoulders. When she opened her eyes, she found that He Tingzhou's head had slipped onto her left shoulder.

Shuang Xu suddenly felt tense all over. When he reached out to push his head up, he felt an unusual heat.

She was stunned and put her palm on He Tingzhou's forehead.

He has a fever.