Chapter 18 Chapter 18 I've long been in love with you
In the yard.
The sound of axes breaking through the air rang out rhythmically.
Qin Xiong placed the wooden stake, raised his arm, gathered strength and then dropped it.
The axe tip flashed a silver-white edge, and with one up and down blow, the wooden stake broke into several pieces.
Originally, short clothes were more convenient for working, but Qin Xiong felt comfortable in a long robe.
When he raised the axe, his wide silver-gray sleeves gathered to his elbows, revealing his strong arms with bulging wheat-colored veins.
He chopped down from the air, and his long sleeves slipped down from his skin, barely covering the axe handle.
When Tian's father asked him to chop wood, Qin Xiong chopped it very hard without any trickery.
It's cool on a drizzling day.
But Tian Ge felt a surge of heat.
He stood next to Qin Xiong and took a step forward quietly, and the feeling became more obvious.
Qin Xiong was like a charcoal fire, his breath was misty white, and his body wrapped in a long robe was also hot. When he bent down to pick up firewood, his flexible waist bound by the belt was fully exposed, and his legs were particularly long.
Somehow, Tian Ge suddenly felt embarrassed. She stood aside, looking particularly light and small compared to Qin Xiong, and her cheeks blushed.
If nothing unexpected happens, he should marry this person.
"Tian Ge'er." Qin Xiong put down the axe and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. He looked at him with his dark eyes, and his originally low and heavy voice softened, like a small brush, scratching straight into people's hearts.
Tian Ge nodded in response, his light brown pupils flickering with fragmented light. He stared for a moment, then quickly looked away, then calmed down and looked back, the tips of his ears bright red.
Originally, Tian Ge should have asked more questions and let Qin Xiong answer them, but...
This is really difficult for a mute.
Opportunities to be alone together are rare.
Qin Xiong naturally understood this truth.
But several times the words were on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them back and thought over them again.
Before he could even utter a word, he had chopped up all the wood stakes.
There were still many wood stakes to chop next to the firewood pile.
But the others would come out of the kitchen at any time.
Qin Xiong rubbed his hands, cleared his throat, and then an idea suddenly came to him, and he finally found something that he could say easily.
"More than a year ago, I ran into Lianzi in the county town. He asked how Tian Er was doing, and I told him I didn't know."
Tian Ge was stunned and gestured eagerly.
----Is he doing well?
I can't understand the gestures, but the eyes are easy to understand.
Qin Xiong realized belatedly that he had started the conversation wrong and frowned in frustration, but he still told the truth: "He was accompanied by a servant to the street, and he seemed to be shopping. Although he seemed to have enough food and clothing, he looked very haggard and thin."
Lianzi not only had a relationship with the second brother, but was also Tian Ge's only friend, a friendship they had grown up with.
But ever since Lianzi married a wealthy man in the county as a concubine, they had not seen each other again for three years.
Hearing that Lianzi was not having a good time in the county and that his second brother was not having a good time at home, Tian Ge lowered his eyes, a layer of mist covering his eyes.
A purple silk handkerchief with a mandarin duck pattern was handed to her.
"I washed it clean, you can use it to wipe your eyes." Qin Xiong said, frowning, "I'm not good at talking, so I was picky and said things that made you sad."
Tian Ge shook her head, lowered her eyes, took the handkerchief, and their fingertips accidentally touched each other.
Although they separated immediately after the touch, the warm touch still remained on the fingertips.
The delicate and small hand reached up again and gently grasped the fingertips of the rough big hand.
The drizzle hits the loquat leaves, making a rustling sound.
Tian Ge took the initiative to hold his hand, her eyes moist and her emotions fluctuating. She seemed to have a lot to say, and she looked at him with pursed lips.
Qin Xiong was stiff, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and it seemed that only the fingertips of his right hand could feel anything, and his fingertips trembled uncontrollably twice.
Tian Ge let go of his hand.
After doing such an extraordinary thing, the courage that had surged up in me was gone.
But when he thought about it again, he didn't regret it.
Knowing that Qin Xiong couldn't understand, Tian Ge still made gestures.
-----Let’s talk it out, don’t give up on me suddenly.
Qin Xiong stared blankly at Tian Ge slowly making the same gesture twice, then suddenly took out a stack of paper and some pen and ink from his chest.
Like a magic trick.
The paper was crumpled and the tip of the brush was forked like exploded chicken feathers.
Tian Ge opened her eyes wide in an instant, looking at the ruined paper and pen, feeling distressed and amused. She smiled and then pursed her lips, unable to hold back her tears.
Qin Xiong is not mute. He carries paper and pen with him because of his own.
He didn't have high expectations for this rough-looking man, but why was he always more considerate to him than he expected and so good to him?
A crystal clear tear, before it could fall to the ground, was wiped away by the index finger of a large hand and fell into the palm of that person's hand.
Qin Xiong frowned and drooped his eyes. He said the wrong thing and did something offensive. He took a step back and tried to pull his hand away, his whole body exuding an air of regret.
Unexpectedly.
Tian Ge grabbed her wrist.
Tian Ge rubbed the side of her face against his palm imperceptibly, with tiny tears hanging on her eyelashes. She sniffed, and when she raised the corner of her mouth, one of her canine teeth was revealed.
If you still don't understand what it means at this point, you can really be called a fool and deserve not to be able to get married.
Tian Ge was not angry with him at all.
After putting some distance between them again, the two of them looked at each other and stood stupidly in the yard.
The rain grew heavier and the thatched shed on the firewood pile could no longer provide shelter.
They came under the eaves and sat on the small benches.
There is room for another person to sit in the space in the middle.
Tian Ge supported himself on his knees, caressing his hot cheeks with his cool palms, watching the raindrops melt into the ground continuously.
As for Yu Guangzhong's people.
He didn't dare to look any further.
The brief intimacy just now seemed like an illusion, and the atmosphere became even more unfamiliar and tense.
Qin Xiong smoothed the brush hair, ground the ink, spread out the paper on another bench, and handed the pen to him.
The movements were done in one go, without a trace of awkwardness, as if nothing had happened just now.
Unfair.
Tian Ge was inexplicably annoyed.
"Tian Ge'er, actually I lied to Uncle Tian just now." Qin Xiong said suddenly, turning around to face him. His eyes were no longer evasive, and his tone was firm as if he was swearing.
What's going on?
Tian Ge couldn't help but sit up straight, curling up his fingers, and secretly scratching his palms with his well-trimmed nails. The look in his eyes was very much like the alert and uneasy wild deer in the mountains.
There are almost no men in the village who are still unmarried at the age of 26.
According to the villagers, Qin Xiong is no longer in his prime. At this age, most men would be entering a stable middle age when their children would be running to the river to catch crabs.
Qin Xiong has always been calm, especially in the past two years.
His hunting business was good, and many people in the village were jealous, and they were full of gossip.
But Qin Xiong was not affected at all. He went up the mountain and down the field as usual, walking leisurely through the rumors.
It is like a majestic mountain that has stood there after going through baptism, unmoved by wind and rain, and unmoved by thunder and lightning.
Calm, but also rigid.
Throwing a stone into the mountain is so lonely that no echo can be heard.
Never thought about it.
One day, a person like the warm light and spring breeze will approach this dead mountain.
It's shameless to say this.
In fact, it was God who gave him a chance to get close to that person.
"I lied." Qin Xiong looked at Tian Ge, his eyes as gentle as the moon and clouds at night, and repeated softly, "In fact, I fell in love with you long before I rescued you from the water."
Tian Ge picked up the pen, the tip of the pen hovered over the paper, but only a few ink dots came out. It was the first time in his life that he heard love words, and he stared at the other person blankly, at a loss.
This should be considered a love story.
It definitely counts.
Tian Ge had only seen the word "fall in love" in the storybooks written by Confucius.
But thinking back, he had almost no interaction with Qin Xiong before he fell into the water.
wrong.
In fact, there are many intersections.
But every time he stood vigilantly by the river, watching Qin Xiong rush down the mountain, and then leave through the path without looking around.
It's like this every time.
They never said a word.
At that time, Qin Xiong had never even looked at him.
"There are no other people in some places upstream of the river. You always wash clothes and catch small fish there alone. When the setting sun shines, you will lie on the grass with your clothes spread out, staring at the sunset motionlessly." Qin Xiong answered his doubts.
-----You are observing me secretly!
Tian Ge wrote hurriedly and glared at him, looking angry and annoyed, with two blushes on her cheeks, a cuteness that he himself was not aware of.
Qin Xiong smiled, his fingers opened and curled up, from hanging on his thighs to crossing them to support his knees. His palms were itchy. After feeling the soft and smooth touch on his cheek once, he immediately became addicted and wanted to touch it again at any time.
"One time you were lying there, asleep with your eyes closed. I waited until the sun went down, but you didn't wake up. I had no choice but to hide in the corner of the path and imitate the bird's calls, but you were sleeping too soundly."
Qin Xiong seemed to have his Ren and Du meridians opened up. He ignored the look on Tian Ge's face as if she was about to dig a hole to crawl into, and became more and more relaxed, his smile getting wider and wider. "It was getting dark, and I had no choice but to imitate a dog's barking. You were scared awake, and when you were running home, you almost tripped over a vine and fell."
This person!
It turned out that it was this person who scared him that time.
That day he accidentally fell asleep by the river. When he woke up from his dream, he saw that it was almost dark. He was already scared, and the sound of dogs barking kept coming to his ears.
And it sounds very close.
He thought it was a wild dog and was afraid that it would be bitten if he ran too slowly.
----You're still laughing at me.
Tian Ge complained on the paper, frowning.
----This is not love, you are making fun of me.
Tian Ge added, glaring at him.
As I looked at it for a while, I couldn't stare anymore.
After knowing each other for so long, he had never seen Qin Xiong laugh so happily. His upturned eyes were slightly narrowed because of his smile, and his eyelashes were so thick and long.
The scar that spread from the corner of the eye to the corner of the mouth seemed to come alive, giving this person a unique mark.
Qin Xiong stopped laughing, but he couldn't help it, so he covered Tian Ge's hand holding the pen with his right hand.
Although they haven't gotten married yet, in her heart, she has already decided that this is her husband.
Tian Ge curled up a bit, but didn't shrink back.
"I was very strange back then, often coming down the mountain before it was time to go down," Qin Xiong said. "When I passed by that area, I sometimes ran into you, but often not. I knew you were Uncle Tian's son, nine years younger than me. You were so bright, smart and lively, but I knew I wasn't worthy of you, so I didn't dare to have any more ambitions."
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