Chapter 355: A Moment of Life

Su Yun smiled and said, "I'm just asking casually, don't be so sensitive."

"I don't like others treating me as a weak person with no ability." Zha Lan shook her head, "Even if I am in this situation now, I can still take care of myself."

"Okay, okay, you are a strong man." Perhaps once the spirit that has been tense for a long time relaxes, people will become lazy and weak. Su Yun stretched out his arms and paralyzed on the bed, and replied to him perfunctorily, "Go to sleep. Even the strongest people need to rest."

Hearing the perfunctory and tired tone in her words, Zha Lan frowned slightly, leaned against the head of the bed in silence for a long time, and finally did not argue with her as usual. She groped her way to lie down on her bed and covered herself with the quilt, then closed her eyes silently.

I don't know how much time had passed, but with the even more peaceful chirping of insects and birds in the forest at night, sleepiness began to come over me like a tide.

"Shit! I remember who they are!"

Just when he was about to fall asleep, there was a sudden whirring sound next to him. Anyone would be startled - especially him, whose hearing may have been temporarily enhanced due to his vision problem.

"What's wrong with you?!" Zha Lan lifted the quilt from her face.

"Did I disturb you? Sorry, sorry..." The idea of ​​not making noise that would disturb others' rest at night has been deeply engraved in the minds of young people like Su Yun, who have been taught most of the etiquette and common sense through basic education. Therefore, after discovering that Zha Lan, who lived in the same room with him, was woken up by his excited shouting, Su Yun quickly apologized to him.

"I haven't fallen asleep yet... Never mind, what did you find out?" Everyone has a gossipy heart. Now that she was woken up, Zha Lan half sat up and acted as if she wanted to listen to gossip.

"I'm not sure yet. I'll tell you slowly after I confirm my thoughts with them." Su Yun thought for a while and finally waved his hand.

Zha Lan was speechless for a while: "Do you know that I have a little trouble getting up and going to bed now?"

"But I'm not sure now. I told you. If it's not what I guessed, it won't be good." Su Yun said as he climbed down from his bed.

Just when Zha Lan's mind was racing as he was trying to refute Su Yun, a pair of warm hands suddenly pressed down on his shoulders. With a tough style that was completely different from the gentle and affectionate touch of these hands, they pushed him down on the bed while he was half sitting up, and then stuffed him back into the quilt.

"Isn't it not a trouble if I help you? Okay, stop bothering me. I really need to rest. I still have things to do tomorrow." Su Yun clapped his hands, turned around and walked back to his bed.

The inner complaint of "This person is hopeless" was defeated by the sentence "I still have things to do tomorrow". Zha Lan couldn't help but popped her head out from under the quilt again: "What do you have to do tomorrow?"

"Really, I never found you so annoying before..." Su Yun said in a low voice with disgust. When she looked up and saw the confusion that was involuntarily revealed on Zha Lan's face, she suddenly understood why he was so abnormal.

It's a fear of the unknown.

Vision limitations have always had a greater impact on a person than hearing, language limitations, etc. On the surface, he pretended to be nonchalant and not to care much, but in fact, the fears he wanted to hide in his heart had already been quietly revealed in various ways.

But she just felt that he suddenly became a little abnormal and annoying.

"I'm sorry, if I hadn't been unable to retract my attack, you wouldn't have become like this." Su Yun said softly.

After a long while, until Su Yun thought that the other person in the room had already fallen asleep, he suddenly responded softly: "It was an accident, it has nothing to do with you."

"Uncle Liu said that after a few days when my feet are no longer swollen, he will take us down the mountain to the village. I will find a doctor for you as soon as possible then." Su Yun looked at the thatched roof and said.

"Take care of yourself first. I don't want to continue being your crutch. Going down the mountain is much more difficult than going up the mountain, and the road is so difficult..."

The two chatted in random places, and in the end, no one knew who fell silent first. The faint chirping of insects and birds still echoed in the night between the mountains.

After getting up the next day, Su Yun placed Zha Lan on the stone bench at the door, then returned to the kitchen and brought him a bowl of medicinal eggs cooked by Old Lady Xu.

"It is said that this can invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. You should try taking it. Even if the medicinal material doesn't work, at least it can replenish some nutrition." Su Yunyi told Zha Lan how precious eggs are as a "tonic" here, and then put the bowl on the stone table next to him and asked him to feed it little by little with a spoon.

"I understand. The living standards here cannot be judged by the concepts of developed big cities..." Zha Lan said unhappily: Although he needs help with meals now, he is not some rich young man who is ignorant of the sufferings of the world. Of course, he knows that things that are commonplace in normal times are very precious in some places.

"That's good. They took us in with good intentions, but they're afraid that you might say something nonsense." Su Yun nodded: Zha Lan had previously said that someone's place was dirty and messy in front of them when they were traveling in the capital, so of course she was afraid that this guy here was also talking nonsense without knowing the inside story.

"They can't understand what I say, okay?!" Zha Lan replied angrily.

This state of having to rely on others to survive was really uncomfortable for him, and Su Yun was "unromantic". Apart from helping him with the three meals, she spent the rest of her time chatting with the two old couples, leaving him, who had no idea what was going on and was powerless, to eat the wind here...

"So you care about this. Why didn't you say so earlier? I've almost finished sorting it out. I'll talk to you about it in detail later." Su Yun put away the bowls and spoons, and when she came back to the stone table, she took a small basket of vegetables. She was really embarrassed to eat and drink for free, so she just "grabbed" the dishes to be cooked tonight from Grandma Xu, intending to choose the vegetables while chatting with Zha Lan.

"You haven't seen what they look like, so you don't quite understand my previous doubts..." Although one's true age becomes increasingly difficult to tell as one gets older, if there's a big gap between two people, the age difference can still be seen.

In Su Yun's narration, a touching story of long-distance love gradually unfolds: when Mr. Liu Guokang first met Mrs. Xu Shaoying in his childhood, the two were ten years apart in age.

Xu Shaoying was a famous beauty when she was young, and she married into the Wu family in the neighboring village at the age of sixteen.

Liu Guokang had just knocked out his front teeth at that time, and there was a saying in the village that if you let the bride touch your mouth, new teeth will grow, so he was looking forward to the bride's arrival more than anyone else.

At that time, I was still young and didn’t know what love was. I was simply stunned by her beauty. I thought the bride was as beautiful as a fairy, and I couldn’t help but secretly pay attention to her.

Ten years later, the naughty boy has grown into a handsome young man, while the fairy-like bride has become a widow with four children.

In the early years, the family was extremely harsh towards women. Even though her husband died of illness, Xu Shaoying was considered a jinx by her in-laws, who ignored her and even criticized her harshly, making life very difficult for Xu Shaoying, who had four children to raise.

Liu Guokang often helped Xu Shaoying with physical work and housework, and as a result, there was a lot more gossip in the village.

Xu Shaoying couldn't stand the gossip of the villagers, but Liu Guokang, who was only 19 years old at the time, didn't care at all. He threatened to marry her and finally brought her and their four children to the top of Banpotou Mountain and built a small home where no one would disturb them.

Although living in seclusion means that there is no longer any gossip from others, it is impossible to completely isolate oneself from the world. Occasionally, the two of them would go down the mountain together to buy daily necessities.

The mountain road was rugged and difficult to travel on, and Liu Guokang was worried that Xu Shaoying would fall while going up and down the mountain. So from the year they moved up the mountain, he began to use an iron chisel to manually carve out this stone staircase that started with love between the vast sea of ​​clouds, thousand-year-old ancient vines and rugged cliffs.

Over the years, this long winding stone staircase of more than 6,000 steps has become a witness to the love of this couple...

In later generations, "Ladder of Love" became a famous scenic spot in the mountain city. The reason why Su Yun did not remember it immediately was mainly because he did not expect that he would actually meet the two protagonists of this tragic love story.

If we count the days, there are still more than ten years since they were accidentally discovered by the expedition team in 2001.

"This is such a romantic and tragic love story, isn't it?" Su Yun asked.

"Indeed, to persist in loving someone for so many years and to try to break through all obstacles no matter how many difficulties and obstacles there are..." The romantic nature deeply rooted in the French people makes them like such perfect and beautiful love stories the most. Even someone like Zha Lan, whose views on love and morality are both fragmented, still has some yearning for beautiful love stories.

"But, you are not just telling me a story, are you?" After Zha Lan finished sighing at the story of the Ladder of Love, she added with a doubtful look.

"I plan to make their story into a movie, so that more people can know their story and accept their story." The reason why the two elders went to the mountains to escape from the world was because of the gossip about the age gap, but now that decades have passed, the gap that was once gossiped about has become a poignant beauty that people sing from the bottom of their hearts.

Su Yun did what he said, and in the following days, he really pestered the two elders to explore their life and old memories in recent years.

Thinking that Su Yun was the "good child" praised by the great man in the capital, and the two elders recognized Su Yun as the beautiful purple-eyed little girl in the "Movies Going to the Countryside Program" when they secretly went down the mountain to join in the excitement, when faced with Su Yun's sincere request, the two elders agreed after some consideration.

Listening to the elderly elders telling stories about the past, those times always passed quickly yet slowly. Su Yun scooped up a sip of the clear mountain spring flowing beside the house and nodded his forehead, feeling even more clear-headed.

While people here are busy recording old memories, people in the house over there are vaguely seeing a long-lost ray of light in the morning mist.

His eyesight has recovered a little and he can barely see things!

Although he still looks 1000 degrees myopic now, at least this proves that his vision will recover sooner or later with time!

Thinking of this, he groped his way out and wanted to tell Su Yun the good news.

Although he was extremely excited, he suddenly stopped when he vaguely saw a figure sitting on a rock beside a spring and writing a script.

He didn't know if it was the morning mist or the confusion that he could never see clearly, but the person sitting there in front of him made him feel both close and far away.

In order to deal with his old rival Berg, he deliberately brought Bern Anderson with him. Once when he was bored, he casually asked Anderson why he liked Su Yun, this strange but charming little guy.

How did Anderson answer at that time? He said that the feeling was hard to describe. It was like encountering the most attractive side of oneself at a certain moment, and from then on, one was trapped in it and could no longer extricate oneself. All he could do was keep chasing this beautiful dream, which even he knew would never stay for him.

He has been playing in the human world for many years, trying to find someone similar to himself, but also wanting to be a more "perfect" self.

That's why he has so many double standards for Su Yun that are almost partial to her - because he already knows in his heart that as long as she grows up to be the person he wants to see, he will definitely be attracted to her.

However, he is definitely much better than Anderson, the guy who only thinks but does nothing.

The night in the mountains always brings a deeper chill. Su Yun is used to sleeping with a heavy quilt, but tonight, for some reason, the "quilt" on her body suddenly felt much heavier than before...

"What are you doing so late at night?!" Su Yun opened her eyes dazedly and found that someone had climbed onto her bed. She wanted to struggle but was immediately held down again.

"I'm not as patient and unwilling to fight as that fool Anderson. Since I know what you're thinking, I should take the initiative..." He lowered his head and looked at me. "Didn't you waver for me before?"

"Even if you do this, I'm just blinded by desire for the moment, and I'm not truly in love with you. Do you think it's worth it?" Su Yun was extremely angry as she didn't expect that this half-blind guy could do such a shameless thing as climbing into bed in the middle of the night.

He raised his head slightly, and his eyes, which seemed blue or green in the dim moonlight, seemed to be covered with a layer of hazy moonlit mist. His breath warmed the chill of late autumn, lingering around him, and it was an irresistible temptation -

"It's okay. I don't mind if you fall in love with my body first."