"good."
He Xiao said, and Tang Miao just responded. After responding, Tang Miao lowered his head, then raised his head and said to He Xiao.
"Then we'll leave at six tomorrow."
After agreeing on a time, Tang Miao asked again: "Do you want to buy some boots? It just rained in the mountains and there might be a lot of mud."
"No need." He Xiao said.
He Xiao said no, he should have brought hiking shoes. He said no, Tang Miao did not insist, just smiled and said: "Okay."
After that, Tang Miao didn't say anything else, just said: "There's nothing else. If you're busy, go ahead and do it first."
Tang Miao said this with a smile. After she finished speaking, He Xiao glanced at her, said nothing, and turned to leave the kitchen.
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He Xiao agreed to go to the mountains together yesterday. The next morning, Tang Miao and He Xiao woke up at about the same time. They ate a little, and after breakfast, the distant mountain edge was covered with a fish belly white, and students also arrived at the school one after another to meet up.
There are five students here today, three girls and two boys. Three of them are fourth graders, He Xiao's students, and the other two are fifth graders.
The children in the fourth and fifth grades were already good at farm work in the mountains. After several people arrived at the school, Tang Miao asked them if they had eaten. After confirming that they had eaten, the group of people followed the mountain road behind the school into the mountains.
This was not the first time Tang Miao had gone into the mountains.
To be precise, this was not her first time entering the mountains from the mountain road behind the school.
For example, the mountainous area where their school is located is surrounded by mountains except for the occasional flat land between the valleys. There is not only one way to enter the mountain behind the school. Usually, Tang Miao and her students go out and basically climb mountains in many places.
However, after climbing so many nearby mountains, for Tang Miao, the mountain road behind the school is the most rugged. At the same time, the scenery is also the best.
In late April, before the sun rises in the morning, the southwest forests are damp with rain and fog, and there is cool moisture everywhere. When you enter the forests, you step on the thick mud, breathe the moisture of vegetation and dew and frost, and walk through the dense vegetation, with leaves cutting the fabric and making a rustling sound.
In addition to the sound of friction between the fabric and the leaves, there are also the calls of mountain birds, the sound of flowing water in the mountain stream, and the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves, knocking the dew off the leaves and falling to the ground.
These sounds are very subtle and insignificant in the hidden mountains. The mountains embrace everything and release everything at the same time. When walking on the mountain dew, various sounds are mixed together. There are so many sounds, but you can hear the timbre of each sound in detail.
Sound is a wonderful thing.
Sometimes, even if you can't see it or be there, just hearing the sound can give you endless imagination and be full of colors.
Tang Miao likes the feeling of hiding in the mountains.
When people walk in the mountains, it's like they are integrated into the embrace of the forests and mountains. As your perspective widens, you will slowly disappear and blend into this nature.
This will make you become part of the mountain for a short time. You will only remember breathing and growing, and forget the troubles, guilt and worries of humans. Like a tree, like a stream, like the mud under your feet, alive and silent.
Tang Miao likes this feeling.
But she wasn't sure whether He Xiao liked it.
After the two of them had dinner together yesterday, Tang Miao asked He Xiao if he would come over today. When He Xiao said "yes", Tang Miao became a little excited.
She didn't expect any changes in her feelings and relationship with He Xiao. But because of her feelings for He Xiao, she hoped that He Xiao could be happier.
There were many threads in her mind. She spent a week sorting them out but still couldn't figure them out. But there was one path that was very clear.
She didn't want He Xiao to dwell on the hurt she had caused him in the past. At the same time, she felt guilty about the hurt she had caused him, and hoped to make it up to him during this time when she didn't know what He Xiao wanted.
Once a person is hurt, the huge scars are not easy to heal. Even if they heal, they will leave old and hideous scars.
Tang Miao can't get rid of this scar.
But she could make some efforts on her own, either to make the wound heal faster, or to make He Xiao forget the pain and become happier before the wound heals.
This is what she can do for He Xiao now.
In fact, this was not the first time she and He Xiao had climbed a mountain. Not long after they established their relationship, the piano store was on holiday, so she and He Xiao went to a minority village near Huaicheng.
There, they also climbed mountains and picked mushrooms.
But the mountains in Huaicheng are nothing compared to the deep mountains in the southwest now. The mountains in the southwest are densely forested, steep, and rainy, and the environment is much worse than it was back then.
The harsh environment also brings some wonderful scenery, such as the gravel-covered mountain stream between two mountains, and the waterfall pouring down from the protruding cliff when you climb the mountain.
These are things that are not available anywhere else.
He Xiao should like it.
He likes to observe everything in nature. Even when he is not with her, he will go out to collect materials in his spare time. He has been to the northwest more often, and he should have been to the southwest as well.
But the Southwest is so large that no one has ever been to this mountain specifically.
But no matter how big the mountain is, climbing it is almost the same. In fact, when He Xiao was climbing the mountain, he was much more familiar with the route than she, who had already walked it twice.
The group entered the mountain, waded through the water, and lined up along a path. Two older boys led the way, followed by three other girls and Tang Miao, with He Xiao covering the rear.
The children climbed the mountain with agility and speed. Tang Miao, wearing a coat, a hat, and long boots, could just keep up. They didn't climb the mountain in one go. They climbed and stopped, picking up what they wanted.
At this time of year, the mountains are producing more and more, not only mushrooms, but also various medicinal herbs. Tang Miao is not very familiar with medicinal herbs, but the child gave her a few to compare, and she got to know them.
When picking mushrooms, Tang Miao would pick up some medicinal herbs if he saw any, and then give them to the children so that they could sell them to make money.
While Tang Miao was doing all this, He Xiao was not idle either. He seemed to be more comfortable with these things than Tang Miao.
He had a straight body, long limbs, and was strong and powerful. After climbing the mountain for a while, Tang Miao gradually felt a little exhausted, but He Xiao didn't change much.
"Teacher He is really good at climbing mountains."
Just as they stopped at a place and picked what they wanted, the little boy in front looked back and commented with a smile.
After he finished his evaluation, the other children turned around and expressed their agreement.
Outsiders don't often climb mountains, so they basically need to be pulled by others. Even if they can keep up in the early stages, they will gradually get tired later. But now, Teacher Tang's face has become slightly hot and pale, but Teacher He's expression is calm.
After receiving praise from several students, He Xiao looked up at them. Tang Miao, who was squatting nearby picking mushrooms, looked up at the child, then looked at He Xiao, and smiled.
"The waterfall is almost there." After saying this for a few times, the little boy said this.
Although their main task was to collect herbs or cut grass, they did not forget their task of taking the two teachers to see the waterfall. At the beginning, they deliberately walked in this direction.
After the little boy finished speaking, Tang Miao stopped picking herbs and listened quietly.
"I can hear the sound." said Tang Miao.
The waterfall was not far away. Although the dense vegetation blocked the view, the sound could still be heard intermittently through the gaps between the leaves.
The sound of water flowing from the mountains to the ground is also very magnificent.
"Let's go." Tang Miao pulled up the herb in her hand and stood up with her body. She stood up smoothly, but maybe because she had been squatting here for too long and she stood up too quickly, Tang Miao's eyes went dark for a moment when she stood up.
As his vision went dark, Tang Miao raised his hand to grab a nearby tree trunk. The tree trunk, which had not been exposed to sunlight for many years, was covered with slippery moss, and Tang Miao almost missed it.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly and anticipated the moss with her hand grip, so she used extra force to hold on to the tree trunk while also steadying her body.
Because it felt too sudden, all the senses in Tang Miao's body seemed to be covered by the dizziness for that second. When she grabbed the tree trunk and slowly woke up, the dizziness disappeared. She heard the sound of the waterfall again and felt the support on her waist.
The force is very light.
But calm enough.
Perhaps it was not she who grabbed the tree trunk just now, but the force behind her waist that supported her body.
The man's palm was broad and long, and one hand almost held her entire waist. The man exerted force between his fingers, and his slender finger knuckles penetrated her skin and body through the thin fabric of her coat.
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