He asked her, "How did you come to Luxian Village?"
Xu Nuo tilted her head and gave him a strange look: "I came here to teach, didn't you know?"
Li Xian avoided her gaze and shook his head.
The brigade leader assigned him separate work in the forest, so he rarely interacted with the villagers anymore, and would leave as soon as he finished setting up the firewood.
Most of the time, he would go to the commune canteen to get his meal, but he would only go after everyone else had finished eating.
He had no interest in, nor any opportunity to know, whether there was a schoolteacher in the village or who came to teach.
It was only when he took her up the mountain last time that he learned how she injured her leg. At that time, he thought that a proud and delicate city girl like her, who had fallen like that, would definitely not want to come again.
Xu Nuo nudged him: "What are you thinking about?"
He didn't say anything, shook his head, stood up and walked outside.
Xu Nuo waited for a while but didn't see her return. He turned around and felt a little embarrassed. He walked out without saying a word and went to whittle wood.
On second thought, the male protagonist doesn't like interacting with people, so the fact that the two of them can get along like this is already quite good.
She stood up, having delivered the pastries, and prepared to leave.
Hearing the noise, Li Xian turned around: "Are you leaving?"
Xu Nuo nodded: "Okay, you go ahead with your work, I'm going back now."
He put down the wooden block in his hand, stood up, lowered his eyes without looking at her, turned around and walked straight out: "I'll see you out."
It was still early, and Xu Nuo shook her head: "No need."
He turned around and glanced at her: "It's not safe here, unlike in the city."
Xu Nuo thought for a moment and nodded: "Thank you."
Neither of them spoke a word the rest of the way.
She walked ahead, and he followed at a distance.
Although it's only early autumn, it's already a bit chilly in the countryside.
She was wearing a black Peter Pan collar coat over a white shirt and a black long skirt, revealing a section of her slender white legs. Her white socks were only an inch higher than her shoes. Li Xian's gaze fell on her legs.
It was scratched by the grass on the ground, and it has a slightly reddish tinge.
For some reason, he remembered the first time he saw her at the hospital, when she cried so hard because her stitches were being removed.
He rubbed his thumb against his index finger, opened his mouth as if to tell her to stay away from the hard grass, but someone had already called her first.
"Xu Nuo."
"Brother Zicheng, what are you doing here?" Xu Nuo looked behind her, and the person behind her had also stopped walking.
"I've come to get some grass. Aren't you afraid of bugs? I'll use this to fumigate you." Chang Zicheng showed her the grass, the smell of which seemed familiar: "Is this the same grass you used to fumigate me before?"
"Yes, this works."
Since they had run into each other, Xu Nuo went with him to the brigade leader's house. She told Chang Zicheng to wait a moment, then turned around and walked away.
Chang Zicheng saw her walk to Li Xian's side, say something, and then Li Xian nodded.
Xu Nuo said, "I'll go with Chang Zicheng, you go back."
Li Xian didn't speak, his gaze lingering on her eyebrows and eyes before quickly looking away, and he silently nodded.
Xu Nuo turned back and said to Chang Zicheng, "Let's go."
Chang Zicheng asked her curiously, "How do you know him?"
Xu Nuo said, "We met him at the hospital when he was injured while doing a good deed."
"Acts of bravery and righteousness?"
Li Xian and his family have always been associated with bad things, such as bad elements, evil landlords, exploiting peasants, and betraying the country. This is the first time I've heard of them being heroes.
The two figures gradually disappeared into the distance. Li Xian turned around after a long while and walked up the mountain.
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