63 bellyband
◎A few peach blossoms in full bloom◎
"Sister Yang, what you said is true." Her voice was trembling.
Yang Xiuhe grabbed a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and said as she ate them, "Little Yang was lying naked at her doorstep, scaring the neighbors who were passing by."
"I heard he still hasn't come to his senses, and he's become a bit stupid and idiotic." After a pause, she added, "What a sin."
Shu Yao bit her lower lip and asked, "Why didn't anyone report a flower thief to the police when he appeared in the village?"
Yang Xiuhe snorted and said, "We live in a remote and poor place. The county magistrate doesn't care about us at all. We poor people have cheap lives." She said with a self-deprecating laugh.
Shu Yao remained silent for a long time, with her head lowered and a serious expression on her face.
Yang Xiuhe thought she was just frightened: "Yao sister, try not to go out late at night in the future." After she finished eating the melon seeds in her hand, she brushed off the shells that fell on her dress and walked away with her plump waist twisted.
Shu Yao stood there for a long time. Who was the flower thief?
Her heart was pounding.
Ji Shijing came behind her without her knowing when, and sighed imperceptibly.
Shu Yao turned and looked at him: "A Jing, another girl was murdered in the village last night."
"Don't panic, everything will be fine."
Shu Yao looked at him, and suddenly a strange thought came to her mind. Ji Shijing was so handsome, his appearance was three times better than that of women, he would not be targeted by a flower thief, right?
She quickly shook her head to get rid of these messy and strange thoughts.
The two stayed in the yard for half a day. In the afternoon, Shu Yao suddenly remembered that her parents who had passed away early had left her a few plots of land. Now that it was spring, she could use these plots of land to grow some fruits and vegetables.
She got down to work right away, picking up a small hoe and preparing to weed the field.
Ji Shijing also carried a basket and went out with her because he was worried about her being alone.
It was a March day with warm sunshine and even the wind was less harsh. Shu Yao hummed a song as she walked to the land in her memory, and it seemed that she had long forgotten the anxiety of the morning.
Ji Shijing followed her silently, listening to her singing a somewhat strange song, which was surprisingly beautiful. His mood seemed to gradually relax.
But soon, Shu Yao could no longer sing. She saw the empty space in front of her, or to be more precise, a wasteland. The dark yellow weeds were three feet high, one after another. The land of other people nearby was clean and planted with crops, but her land was "extremely ugly" and covered with weeds.
As if she saw the workload in the next few days, she held her forehead with her hand and felt that buying vegetables was also a good idea and it was not necessary to grow them herself.
However, these wastelands here are really unsightly. Since we are here, we might as well clear the weeds a bit.
She handed the big hoe in her hand to Ji Shijing and smiled at him ingratiatingly.
Ji Shijing saw through her thoughts at a glance, feeling a little amused and helpless. He took it obediently and started weeding without saying a word. But after all, it was his first time weeding, so he was a little unfamiliar with it.
Shu Yao took a small hoe and dug on the other side, but she couldn't dig up many weeds after digging for a long time.
She threw away the small hoe and went to Ji Shijing happily.
Ji Shijing has gradually become proficient. The weeds are piled on the ground, revealing the original yellow soil.
"Wow, Ajing, you are so awesome." She kept praising him.
"come on."
Ji Shijing was hunched over, with a little dirt on his white sleeves, like a god who had fallen into the mortal world.
When Shu Yaokua was tired, she sat on the edge of the field to rest. Looking at his busy back, she felt for the first time that it was really nice to have a man at home. She didn't expect that he looked weak at ordinary times, but now, after working the grass for such a long time, he didn't even complain of being tired, and his hands and feet were still steady.
This guy has good physical strength.
Shu Yao opened the kettle and took a few sips. Ji Shijing wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked straight over, picked up the kettle that she had just placed on the edge of the field, tilted his head back and drank it. The curve of his Adam's apple was like a sharp mountain, and it looked even more upright in the shadow of the sunlight.
Shu Yao looked up at him and wanted to remind him that this water was the one she had just drunk, but seeing that he had already drunk it, she didn't say anything more.
"Ah Jing, sit here." She beckoned him to sit next to her. "You've been working for so long, take a break."
After Ji Shijing sat down, the water drops from the corners of his mouth flowed down his chin into his collar. The water drops mixed with sweat, and he felt a little uncomfortable, so he pulled his collar, revealing his beautiful collarbone and half of his chest.
Shu Yao looked away, put her hands behind her head and lay back.
Ji Shijing turned his head to look at her. He was facing the light, so Shu Yao couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.
"Yesterday I heard Jiang He say that there is a very good teacher in the village. Ah Jing, do you want to go and study under him?" She plucked a blade of grass next to her and folded stars in her hands.
He hesitated for a moment and said, "No."
Shu Yao handed him the folded little stars and said, "I think it's better to have a teacher than to study on your own. If you want to take the imperial examination in the future, you still have to study systematically."
After saying that, she looked at him with burning eyes.
Ji Shijing held the star in his hand and asked, "You want me to take the imperial examination?"
Shu Yao nodded, then shook her head: "Yes and no."
He tilted his head and looked at her in confusion.
Shu Yao thought for a moment and said solemnly, "The imperial examination may be able to change one's fate."
It's really interesting that an evil ghost who can't see the light of day can defy fate and stand in the sun and be admired by thousands of people.
He suddenly felt that the star in the palm of his hand was getting slightly warm.
After a long time, he nodded.
Shu Yao's eyes lit up: "Then we will go find that gentleman tomorrow." She smiled at him, "If our Ah Jing graduates from high school one day, don't forget me. We will never forget each other when we become rich and powerful."
A faint smile appeared on Ji Shijing's lips: "Okay."
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard a faint crying sound coming from not far away. The sound was twitching and sounded extremely suppressed and aggrieved.
Shu Yao pricked up her ears and listened carefully, and it was indeed a little girl crying.
After listening for a while, she closed her eyes in the sunshine. She thought that maybe the other person had encountered something sad and crying would make her feel better. She planned to take a nap, but gradually, she found that the little girl's crying became more and more wrong.
The crying stopped abruptly.
Shu Yao opened her eyes suddenly. Something was wrong. She stood up and wanted to go over to take a look, but Ji Shijing held her back, not wanting her to meddle in other people's business.
She brushed his hand away: "It's okay, I'll go check it out."
Ji Shijing followed closely behind.
She parted the grass and saw a little girl in a gray patched dress standing on the edge of the cliff, her thin body trembling constantly.
The terrain here is high, and there are cliffs everywhere. It took a lot of effort to climb up here. If you fall from here, you will be seriously injured if not dead.
Perhaps the noise she made when she ran over had startled the little girl. She turned around as if frightened, her face covered in tears and snot. Looking at the unfamiliar face before her, she asked anxiously, "Who... are you?"
Shu Yao quickly said, "Little girl, it's dangerous over there, come over here first."
The little girl's mouth drooped, her eyes turned red, and she started sobbing again.
While the little girl wasn't paying attention, she pulled her back.
"Have you suffered any injustice?" she asked.
Unexpectedly, when she asked this question, the little girl cried even harder, and Shu Yao was in a hurry to wipe her tears.
Shu Yao waved to Ji Shijing. He knew what she meant and turned and walked away.
After crying for an unknown amount of time, the little girl stopped. She sat on the loess pile, hugged her knees, buried her head in her bed, and sobbed intermittently.
Shu Yao was afraid that she would do something stupid, so she stayed by her side the whole time.
Finally, the little girl looked up at her with tears in her eyes: "Who are you?" She had just moved to this village with her mother last year, and she had never seen this beautiful sister in front of her.
Shu Yao wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve: "My name is Shu Yao, little girl, what's your name? Where is your home? Can I take you home?"
The little girl looked at the sun that was about to set in the distance, with a dull expression: "My name is Yang Xiaoniu, last night... last night..." She really couldn't continue and started crying again.
Shu Yao's heart skipped a beat. Yang Xiaoniu, isn't this the name Sister Yang mentioned this morning? Could it be that this little girl had been... She didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Yang Xiaoniu looked up, spat on the ground, and said bitterly, "If I knew who did this, I would drink his blood and eat his flesh."
Shu Yao gently stroked her back, many words stuck in her throat, and she couldn't say a single word.
Yang Xiaoniu looked at her with tearful eyes: "Sister, you must not go out alone at night. My mother had a high fever last night, and I went to the doctor to get medicine, but... when I woke up again... I found myself... a damn flower thief."
Shu Yao hugged her and said, "We will definitely catch the bad guys."
Yang Xiaoniu smiled bitterly and nodded. She stood up and her big toe popped out from her torn cloth shoes. She was a little shy and turned around and ran down the mountain.
Shu Yao wanted to ask her about what happened yesterday, but when she thought that asking would expose other people's scars, she chose to keep silent.
When she came back, she found that Ji Shijing had cleared half of the land, and she gave him another big thumbs up.
It was not until the sun had completely set that the two men put away their hoes and came down the mountain. Halfway there, Ji Shijing took the hoe to the stream to wash it, and Shu Yao was waiting for him by the roadside.
While waiting for him, she accidentally bumped into a man who was carrying a load of manure, and a few drops of manure splashed onto her dress.
Shu Yao was a little angry. She had clearly avoided the other person, but he didn't take the wide road over there and insisted on sticking close to her. Wasn't he crazy?
She looked at the man who was carrying the manure. It would have been fine if she hadn't looked, but when she did, she was shocked.
The man carrying dung was a short man with one blind eye, a crooked mouth, and a twisted face. At this moment, he was looking Shu Yao up and down with a strange look.
Facing his malicious gaze, Shu Yao got goose bumps all over her body.
Just as she was about to ask, she saw the aunt next to her carrying out the meal. She said while chewing, "Hey, isn't this the Shu family's sister? Do you want to have dinner with your aunt?"
Shu Yao shook her head: "No."
When she turned around again, the man carrying manure had already walked away.
The auntie next to me leaned against the pillar by the door and kindly reminded me, "Girl, the man who just bumped into you is from the next village. He has a very strange temper. You must not provoke him."
Shu Yao looked at the stain on her clothes and could only blame herself for her bad luck.
When Ji Shijing came back, he noticed that she was unhappy, and Shu Yao just said that her clothes were dirty.
At night, after taking a shower and lying on the bed, she heard the sound of running water in the yard. She put on her clothes and went out to see Ji Shijing carefully scrubbing the clothes that she had made dirty today.
She hesitated to speak, but didn't tell him that the clothes were actually stained with feces: "Ah Jing, I will wash it myself tomorrow, you go to rest."
Ji Shijing looked up. He had just finished a shower, his hair was wet and stuck to his neck, and his clothes were loosely draped around his body. At first glance, he really had a bit of a romantic air. She actually felt that he was not inferior to Chen Jing'an.
"I'll be done soon, go back to the house first."
Shu Yao didn't say anything else. She drank a cup of hot water and went back to lie down.
Ji Shijing finished washing his coat when he suddenly noticed a hint of red in the basin.
He paused, and just rolled up the clothes into a ball and took it out. Unexpectedly, there was a bellyband inside. The red bellyband was spread out in the water, and there were a few blooming peach blossoms embroidered on it.
There was a slight emotion in his eyes.
Thinking of the red plum blossoms on the snowy mountain that day, he picked up her bellyband from the water, touched the peach blossoms on it, and couldn't help but put it to his nose to smell it.
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