Chapter 17 017. Heartbeat Insomnia
silence.
The silence was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Lei Li thought Zhou Yi was dead for a moment. He reached out and touched him. He felt warm, so he was not dead. "Squeak, you just kissed me without sticking out your tongue. You need to kiss me again."
"...But you didn't reach out when you kissed me before."
"I won't."
"Neither can I."
Lei Li was a little skeptical, "Shouldn't men be born with the ability? You don't even know how to give birth."
“…I don’t know how to do that.”
It would be strange if Zhou Yi could do that. "Before I met you, I had never even touched a man's hand, nor had I kissed anyone. I can't just make something up out of nothing."
"Then you learn."
“…I don’t want to learn.”
"How can you do that if you don't learn?"
Lei Li was so confident that he reached out to grab Zhou Yi's collar and pull him over to kiss him, but he grabbed her wrist and her other hand as well.
He also predicted that he would do something naughty and try to wrap his legs around him, so he pressed down both of his feet in advance.
Locked tightly.
Only the head could move, and Lei Li was not idle either. He tilted his head to kiss one and tried to avoid the other.
Seeing Zhou Yi's refusal to cooperate, Lei Li became a little annoyed. "Why are you hiding? I'm going to kiss you, not eat you. Why are you hiding from me like you're hiding from a ghost?"
"Stop making trouble and go to sleep first."
"No."
Lei Li got stubborn and said, "You have to kiss me tonight, even if you don't want to. If you don't know how to kiss, just kiss me a few more times. I don't believe you can't learn it."
"I worked so hard to pick you up and bring you home as my husband, but if you can't give birth to a baby, then I'm done for."
Zhou Yi was really tired. "Are you a bandit? I am the one you saved and I have human rights. If you respect my wishes, I will respect yours, right?"
"You don't respect me."
"I respect you..."
"Then you suck my ass."
“…”
Zhou Yi really couldn't stand being pestered anymore, so he took a deep breath, loosened Lei Li's hands and feet, closed his eyes, held Lei Li's face and slowly moved closer.
The four elements in the heart are empty.
His tongue lolled out of his mouth.
It feels like I haven’t stretched it at all.
Before Lei Li could feel what was going on, Zhou Yi let go of his face and lay back down. "We're done kissing, can we go to sleep now?"
Lei Li: “?”
Lei Li persisted, "No, you really stretched it out? Why didn't I feel anything?"
“…Stretched out.”
"Stretch it again, slower this time."
"...Stop it. Didn't you say you have to go up the mountain to dig for herbs tomorrow? If you keep making trouble, neither of us will be able to sleep well."
"I can't sleep."
Lei Li said, "The chicken you cooked was delicious. It was the first time I had eaten something so strange and delicious. I ate three bowls of rice tonight and was so stuffed."
"Then go out and do some boxing to help digest it."
"I don't want it, I want a kiss."
“…”
Zhou Yi stopped talking.
Zhou Yi pretended to be dead.
She let Lei Li's hands touch her and scratch her, and his legs wrap around her, calling her name and calling her "husband, kiss me" without saying a word.
"Are you really angry?"
“…”
"Zhou Yi?"
Lei Li muttered suspiciously, "You're such a man, but you're so stingy that you get angry over a kiss... I don't believe you can hold back all night."
Lei Li clung to Zhou Yi like an octopus, and Zhou Yi didn't move. Lei Li fell asleep first.
Zhou Yi closed his eyes.
But I rarely suffer from insomnia.
The chirping of insects and the sound of wind in the night are particularly noticeable, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, sometimes rustling, sometimes rustling.
The person behind him was pressed against him, his body warm, and his equally warm breath, tinged with moisture, hit the back of Zhou Yi's neck, making that small area wet and damp.
The breathing sound changed from heavy to light and long, drilling into Zhou Yi's cochlea like an ant, tiny but hard to ignore.
This was not the first time Zhou Yi had slept with someone.
When he was in high school and in the army, he occasionally slept with his brothers once or twice, but this was the first time someone was so close to him.
So close that it seems as if our hearts are beating in sync.
Feel……
A bit strange.
Not as conflicting as I imagined.
—
Until midnight.
Lei Li felt too hot and loosened his octopus-like hands and feet, rolling into the bed.
Someone sighed in the night.
Then there was the rustling of leaves in the wind and the chirping of unknown birds in the mountains.
Long and ethereal.
—
Have a good night's sleep.
Lei Li felt refreshed. He followed Zhou Yi in boxing twice, ate two bowls of sweet potato porridge mixed with wild vegetables, and then went into the mountains with a curved grass knife and a hoe in a backpack.
Today is not as lucky as yesterday.
I didn't encounter any pheasants or wild rabbits, but I still had a lot of harvest. I dug up a lot of herbs and unexpectedly came across a Chinese yam.
Digging mountain yam is a delicate job. It grows very long and deep, and it can be easily broken if you are not careful. Once broken, it will not be as valuable and it takes a lot of effort.
Lei Li memorized the approximate location and planned to come back to dig it next time. The branches and leaves of the Chinese yam are not eye-catching, so if he hides it, it should not be discovered.
I picked some shepherd's purse to make soup, and also picked some horsetail and ground ear. Ground ear is a kind of algae that grows on the ground and looks very similar to wood ear. It can be eaten raw and is very delicious.
Because he walked far this time, Lei Li also went to see the bamboo forest with small-headed bamboo shoots, but someone got there first and there was not a single edible bamboo shoot.
Zhou Yi asked doubtfully, "I saw a large bamboo forest on the south side of the mountain. Why don't you look there?"
"Those are the big-headed bamboo shoots. They haven't sprouted yet, that's summer. The small-headed ones are for spring."
Lei Li explained, "The leaves of bamboo shoots can also be used to make rice cakes. They need to be ground into flour from rice and glutinous rice, and grinding requires a stone mill, which is quite troublesome."
"Some families with more money would put brown sugar and crushed peanuts in it. It's sweet, sticky, and a little sticky, but it's delicious."
"Those without money have their own ways. Some flowers have honey in them, so they use the flowers as stuffing, or they use tender mugwort leaves."
Zhou Yi asked, "Does our family also make it?"
"We don't make it at home. We don't have the money to buy glutinous rice and sugar, nor the time to grind it with water."
Lei Li glanced at him and said, "Do you want to eat it? I'll be delivering some herbs to the county in a couple of days. They should be sold there. If you want to eat it, I can buy you a piece."
"No, I need to save money to renovate the house."
"Um."
Lei Li and Zhou Yi were walking down the mountain incoherently when they heard someone shouting in the distance. They looked quite anxious. Without seeing them clearly, they hurriedly asked,
"Have you seen my little treasure?"
It was Mr. Miao whom I met while washing clothes that day.
He was still wearing the washed-out long gown, and his face was covered in wounds, both old and new. However, he didn't care and ran up to ask anxiously,
"Mr. Li and Mr. Zhou, have you seen my little treasure? I was just cooking and asked him to play in the yard, but he disappeared in a flash."
"An aunt said she saw him coming to Sanlihe Mountain. He had a red hairband tied in two small braids and wore green clothes..."
"I didn't see it."
Zhou Yi shook his head.
Lei Li also shook his head. "We've been in the mountains for a whole day and haven't seen any children. Your little brother might just be walking this way and not going into the mountains. Zhou Yi and I will help you look for him."
"Thank you so much..."
Miao Fulang's tears kept falling, and his eyes were swollen from crying.
Lei Li said, "Let's split up. You go to the left side at the foot of the mountain, Zhou Yi goes to the right, and I'll go into the mountains to look for it."
Zhou Yi suddenly had an idea. "Is there a dog in our village with a good sense of smell? A dog that understands human nature and human language? Let the dog smell the things Xiaobao often uses and let it lead us to find Xiaobao."
Lei Li's eyes lit up. "The village chief's dog is good. Liu Ye'er once got lost in the mountains, and it was that dog that brought him home."
"Will this work..."
Miao Fulang was now extremely anxious. When he heard this idea, he was afraid that it was unreliable and would delay the search for the child.
Zhou Yi said, "I'll go borrow the dog, and you and Lei Li go look for Xiao Bao. One more way is another way."
"Okay, okay, thank you so much..."
Miao Fulang said as he quickly handed him a wooden pony. "This is what Xiaobao has been playing with since he was little. I found it on the road. Can it be used?"
"some."
Zhou Yi took the pony.
The three of them split into three groups.
Miao Fulang looked to the left, and Lei Li didn't care about the wild vegetables and herbs. He put the backpack on the side of the road and hurried to the other direction to look for the child.
Zhou Yi didn't bring a backpack with him. He went to the village chief's house with ease and explained his purpose. The village chief not only lent him the dog, but also called his two sons Niu Dashu and Niu Ershu to go look for Xiaobao together.
Find darkness from sunset.
Finally, Gou Zi took Zhou Yi to find Xiao Bao in a pit at the edge of the forest at the foot of the mountain.
Xiaobao slipped and fell in accidentally. He was covered in dirt and his face was covered in tears. He shouted for a whole day but no one came to rescue him. The four-year-old boy was almost scared to death.
When he first saw Zhou Yi, he didn't dare to say a word. He had never seen Zhou Yi before and was afraid that he was a bad person.
Zhou Yi rescued Xiaobao and coaxed him again and again, "Xiaobao, don't cry. Uncle will take you to find your dad... Find your dad, okay? Your dad is very worried about you."
"...Looking for daddy?"
Xiaobao was timid and wanted to believe it but didn't dare to.
"Well, uncle knows your father."
Zhou Yi took off his coat and wrapped Xiaobao in it before picking him up. The nights at the end of March were a bit chilly, and the child was frightened and caught a cold, so it was easy for him to catch a fever and a cold.
In this age of money and medicine shortage, a fever or cold is no different from a serious illness for a child.
When Miao Fulang saw Xiaobao, tears started to flow again. He hugged Xiaobao tightly, and his tears soaked Zhou Yi's coat, which was mixed with mud and made his face look tired and dirty.
But there was a gleam in his eyes, filled with fear and joy of regaining what he had lost.
"Thank you, thank you Mr. Li, thank you Mr. Zhou, thank you village chief... If it weren't for you, we wouldn't know our Xiaobao, our Xiaobao..."
"Just find the person you want."
Lei Li shook his head and asked Miao Fulang to take the child back and wash him thoroughly with hot water.
The village chief also comforted Miao Fulang for a few words, but seeing the scars on his face from domestic violence, he paused and said, "Next time I see Niu Dali, I'll talk to him about how he stays away from home all day and doesn't even know his child is missing..."
"No need, Village Chief..."
Mr. Miao wanted to say something but stopped himself. Finally, he shook his head and walked back with the child in his arms.
The village chief also left with his two sons and dog.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi went to pick up two backpacks thrown on the roadside, as well as wild vegetables such as horsetail orchids.
"Shall I send some ground fungus over? Also, honeysuckle and kudzu root. I'm afraid the child will get a fever and fall ill."
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