When Niu Zaizhao first met Liu Geyang on the day he enrolled at university, his face flushed with rage, his heart fluttering like a deer's heart. A radish in the twelfth lunar month—it froze his heart. But Niu Zaizhao, aware of his uncouth appearance and rural roots, felt inferior, feeling he couldn't reach Liu Geyang. He could only bury the seeds of his admiration, only to have them sprout like magic beans, bursting through the sky.
But Liu Geyang had his heart set on the bright moon and green mountains, and he wouldn't even look down on Niu Zaizhao, a dark cloud. However, the two were students of the same class, and they usually studied and completed professional experiments together. Over time, they naturally became good friends.
Liu Geyang treats Niu Zaizhao as his buddy, and Niu Zaizhao has been silently paying for Liu Geyang, taking care of Liu Geyang in every possible way, from getting hot water for washing clothes to taking notes and doing tests.
The senior students in the department also noticed something was wrong. How could Xiao Liu go into the mountains every day and still have clean and bleached clothes and shoes? Later, everyone realized that the reason Xiao Liu was so handsome and talented was because there was a silly girl who silently worked hard for him. So everyone joked that Liu Geyang had a little girl hiding by his side, and he must not let her down.
I don’t know if Liu Geyang, this blockhead, can’t hear the hidden meaning of his senior brothers’ words, or if he is deliberately pretending to be ignorant. Every time someone jokes with him like this, he will reply heartlessly:
"What's this Snail Girl? I don't recognize it! I just love seafood. If you give me a whole conch girl, a clam girl, or something like that, maybe I'll be happy! Snails... forget it, they're not my thing!"
After hearing his answer, the fellow brothers sighed and shook their heads, cursing the boy for being heartless. Only Niu Zaizhao continued to be nice to Liu Geyang.
Niu Zaizhao looks rough and unrestrained, but has a delicate mind. In the past few days, she has been secretly observing the researchers from Japan. She found that these people rarely talk to each other, and sometimes they only need a few gestures to understand each other, as if they communicate in this way frequently.
The day before yesterday evening, Niu Zaizhao went to the stream to brush Liu Geyang's shoes. She saw with her own eyes a researcher standing barefoot in the water taking pictures of Luolong Mountain. When he came ashore, there were several big leeches on his legs.
Niu Zaizhao was planning to help, but before she could stand up, the researcher quickly pulled the leech off her leg and threw it away. Then he rolled up his trouser legs and walked back to the camp as if nothing had happened, with blood dripping down his trouser legs all the way.
Niu Zaizhao frowned at this scene: They claimed to be insect researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan, so how could they not know that the salivary glands of leeches can secrete anticoagulant toxins. If you tear hard after being bitten by a leech, the wound will cause bleeding, and in severe cases it may even cause infection and death!
Besides, the researcher just now had an indifferent and cold expression, as if he was accustomed to the situation of continuous bleeding and didn't take it to heart at all. This was totally inconsistent with the personality traits of an academic researcher. Instead, he looked more like... a spy!
Niu Zaizhao kept this matter to herself and told no one because she knew that without substantial evidence, no one would believe her. From that day on, Niu Zaizhao became more vigilant against these Japanese people, but she did not find anything unusual.
There is an idiom that goes "Suspect someone of stealing an axe, and Niu Zaizhao will have a painted soul in his heart." So no matter how he looked at these Japanese, he was suspicious. In the morning, when he heard in the laboratory that Yamada Zhiquan was going into the mountains with Liu Geyang, Niu Zaizhao became anxious and quickly picked up his bag and chased after them to prevent Liu Geyang from being in danger.
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