Xiang Nanzhi couldn't get through to Shen Shixun's phone until evening; there was no doubt that there was no signal.
She picked up her tools to cut the rough stone, but because she was distracted, she only managed to cut off one corner of it. The stone fell to the ground with a thud, startling her.
There are many processes between raw stones and finished products. Raw stones are not as fragile as finished products, and this small setback did not break the raw stone.
Xiang Nanzhi felt a little sorry for herself for cutting it so badly; what could she possibly do with such a small corner?
She tossed a small corner aside, turned on the machine to continue cutting, and suddenly, an idea struck her. She put the tool down and observed the corner.
Ma Xiaorong was already yawning. "Miss, aren't we going back yet?"
Xiang Nanzhi's designs are bold, and she has sold a few items since the store opened, but not as much as she earns from selling her designs herself.
But she wasn't in a hurry; what she wanted was the accumulated experience and the business that would come sooner or later.
It was only after meeting Shim Sehun that she had a general idea of what she wanted. Before, she only thought about what bags to buy, where to go for fun, what to eat, and where to go on vacation.
"Go back, go back now."
Xiang Nanzhi was reluctant to part with the small piece he had cut off, so he put it directly into his pocket.
She was still examining the small piece of wood that had been pinched off inside the car.
"Do you want to continue doing it when you get back?"
"I'm not doing it anymore, I'm tired."
"Then what are you going to do with it?"
"I'm thinking about what I could do best to make this corner."
"Make it..."
Ma Xiaorong knew nothing; how could she possibly know what to do?
"Why does this woman like to bite people so much in bed? Look at the bites she gave me."
Shen Yue showed Xiang Ciyuan the marks on his neck. Just as Xiang Ciyuan was about to speak, Xiang Nanzhi came in.
"Cough cough..."
"Zhizhi." Shen Yue smiled insincerely, "You're becoming more and more like a lady from a respectable family, you don't even make a sound when you walk."
"Zhizhi is back."
"Second Brother."
Xiang Nanzhi disliked Shen Yue and went straight into the house. Shen Yue was still complaining, "Seriously, she bit so hard. If you bite hard, she bites hard too. I even suspect she's a dog."
Xiang Ciyuan muttered, "Don't make lewd jokes in my house, go outside and tell them."
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Xiang Nanzhi slept with that corner of her body in her arms. While holding the corner, she called Shen Shixun, but she still couldn't get through. Anything is unpredictable on the plateau. You never know if it will be windy or rainy tomorrow, or when there will be a signal.
Shen Shixun said he was only going away for a few days, and she didn't know when he would be back.
In her dream, Xiang Nanzhi dreamt that a dog was chasing her. She got up, drank a glass of water, and lay down again, only to find that the raw stone was still beside her pillow.
Dog, how about making a dog tooth?
Jade dog teeth.
Thinking of this, she hesitated again. Dog teeth are something that children like to wear to ward off evil spirits when they are young, right?
The next morning, Xiang Nanzhi finally got through to Shen Shixun on the phone. "I thought you'd been eaten by wolves."
"Are you hoping I'll get eaten by wolves?"
"I feel more at ease knowing you're carrying a gun at all times."
"Old Black is next to me."
The mastiff is his guardian beast.
The signal dropped again after only a few words, and Xiang Nanzhi hung up the phone.
The sun had already risen over the grassland. When Alan heard that Shen Shixun had returned, she asked Jila and went to find him carrying mushrooms. "Brother Xun is back."
Shen Shixun turned around, and Alan smiled at him, "I didn't tell Jira that you helped take care of my mother, thank you."
"No need to thank me."
Alan offered him the mushrooms, but Shen Shixun refused, saying, "Take them. You can't get these in the city. They're definitely not available in the city. The beef and mutton aren't as good as what we have on the grasslands. You probably won't like them."
"You have a lot of people in your family, so eat by yourself."
I still have some here.
Behind her was a man carrying a basket, sweating profusely. After finishing his story, he put down the mushrooms and prepared to leave. "Gila said the women in the city didn't come back with you. She doesn't care at all about Gila getting married."
"Brother Xun, she doesn't have feelings for you. I'm afraid you've chosen the wrong person."
She thought, there's nothing I can do about it now that I've married the wrong person.
Alan was supposed to be with Basang today, but unfortunately she wasn't feeling well tonight. Basang was furious and went hunting early this morning. Jill and Baza laughed at his bad luck and went hunting with him.
Chenmu arranged the wedding for Jila. At night, she invited people from the tribe to come. They lit a fire on the sand and sang and danced together, drinking some barley wine.
Mother Shen was probably too happy and drank too much. She started dancing along with the girls from the grassland. She danced with such abandon that she completely forgot her age.
Shen Shixun frowned, somewhat displeased, but he couldn't say anything about Jira's marriage.
Women and uncles of similar age joked that she was even more beautiful when she danced in her youth, and that she was still beautiful in her old age.
“I pursued Rama when she was young, but she only had eyes for that Han Chinese man.”
"They're still talking about the rotten grains. Lama, Lama's drunk."
Before, Chen Mu had difficulty walking. After drinking too much, she forgot about the incident. She jumped for a long time and then collapsed, unable to stand up.
She smiled and said she hadn't drunk too much, so everyone helped her sit down.
Next, they watched others dance. Gila and Rooney also drank a lot of alcohol, and after the dance, they went back to their respective tents.
After escorting the two to the tent entrance, Gila cried, but she just cried and didn't say anything.
He told the two to rest early and presented them with a pair of silver bracelets he had bought in the old city, one for Gila and one for Rooney, which were quite substantial.
Perhaps because his father was Han Chinese, he also carried some Han Chinese blood from a young age, and certain ideas were deeply ingrained in his bones.
Even after he grew up, he received invitations from women, but he didn't like tents. Moreover, Gila wanted to have her own tent after she became an adult, but he didn't agree.
He, as a man, naturally understood what it meant to set up his own tent, but the rules were there, and he couldn't break them. Even his mother kept telling him not to break the rules, that women should live in tents by themselves once they reached adulthood.
Shen Shixun had no choice but to bite the bullet and work hard for several days to set up a white tent for Jira. At night, he tied Tie Ge, Lao Hei, and a female mastiff to the entrance of Jira's tent.
Sure enough, Jira slept soundly until dawn, while the dog at the door kept barking for most of the night.
During the first half of the night, some people came over with sticks, eager to try and beat the dogs, but the three mastiffs bared their teeth and, though they had the desire, didn't have the guts and ran away.
The men, young and old, huddled in the grass, watching and drooling, until the middle of the night. They wanted to wait until the mastiffs were asleep before going, but out of the three mastiffs, one was asleep and the other two were still there.
They slept at two ends and there was still one more; none of them were easy to mess with.
As the night wore on and it became clear that nothing was going to work, everyone had no choice but to go back to sleep.
I've never seen such a hard dog to hit, or such a hard tent to get into.
Shen Shixun kept watching like this before he went to the city, but everyone forgot about it a few years later.
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