Chapter 12 Section 7

Before going to bed at night, Ding Yi still hadn't forgotten the artifact, always looking for an opportunity to find out the truth. After dinner, she felt very sleepy after watching TV for less than ten minutes, so she left and went to bed.After taking a bath in the pond in the afternoon, she decided to do as the Romans do, so she didn't bother him to boil water for washing her feet. She just asked him for a glass of water, stood outside the door, brushed her teeth, and returned to her room. She knew that Dr. Man would not come into the room to sleep for a while, he was a filial child and wanted to watch TV with his parents, but she still locked the door just to be on the safe side.With the light like beans, I searched for the densely bundled red tube everywhere, worried that even if I found it, I would not be able to untie the hemp rope.She searched the room at least three times, but couldn't find it, so she had to lie on the bed and wait for him to see if he had brought the artifact with him when he came in to sleep.But as soon as she lay down for a while, she fell asleep in a daze.

This time, I slept so deeply, I didn’t even go to the toilet, until I was woken up by him the next day, my heart was beating wildly again, I didn’t know where I was for a long time, until I remembered that I was at his house He turned the direction of the bed in the wrong direction, stretched out his legs facing the wall, and was about to slip out of the bed, but his toes were bent by the wall, causing pain in his heart. She groaned, but he didn't say a word of comfort, he was just busy packing his things.She bared her teeth for a while, and waited until the pain was less severe before asking: "What's the matter? Are you going to visit the old man on the mountain again?"

"What else are you praying for today?" "Then why did you call me so early? It's not yet dawn." "I'm going back to City A today, can I get up early?" Only then did she remember that today was the day of the return trip, and she felt very depressed. She didn't know whether it was because she was reluctant to part with Manjialing, or because she was afraid of the whole day's hard trek. When everything was packed, he called her at the door and took her to bid farewell to his parents. His mother raised the corner of her clothes to wipe her tears again, while his father was smoking a long pipe and not talking.In the end, his mother said something to her, and he translated that he asked her to come home often, and she repeatedly agreed, but he dragged her on the road before he could translate it to his mother.

The morning in the mountains was very cool and quiet, and there were only the two of them on the road, but in the fields we could already see women working, as well as thin smoke from cooking.From time to time, there were a few dogs barking and roosters crowing. The grass on the side of the road was covered with dew, and the shoes were wet after walking too far.There was a smell of green grass and mountain mist in the mountains, which made her feel inexplicably moved. It was probably the "peaceful sentimentality" described in the book. Poetry or something, but also romantic. But he hurried away as if being chased by a ghost, so she had no choice but to trot and follow him all the way, and when she couldn't follow him anymore, she asked him to carry him for a while, and finally walked out of Manjialing like this.

They arrived at the long-distance bus station in City A in the evening, and before getting off the bus, he took the initiative to say something: "Fortunately, I urged you to leave quickly, otherwise, you will not be able to catch the last bus from the county seat to City A, so don't even think about going back to City A today." gone." Hearing what he said, she felt that it made sense, and she became more courageous, and asked, "I've wanted to ask you since yesterday, where did you hide that artifact?" "Nowhere to hide." "Did you put it in another room?"

"What am I doing in the other room?" "Just put it in our room? Then why didn't I find it after searching several times? Where is it placed?" "In the hole in the wall under the window." God, put it in a hole in the wall!Who can think of this?The walls of his house are full of holes and cracks. It's really hard to detect the red tube in one of them. Who knows which wall hole has something in it? She asked, "Did you use the artifact last night?" "Don't you know if it's useful or not?" "You must have used it, otherwise why did I sleep so deeply last night?"

"Do you think the artifact is a sleeping pill?" "Then what do you say the artifact is for?" He acted like he didn't hear anything, and didn't answer anything. The two walked out of the station, and she was about to call a taxi to take her home first, and then take him back to the hospital, when he shoved two bags into her hand: "Hurry up, my car is here!" Before she could speak, he ran away, bolting after a moving bus.The car stopped, he turned to the door, and she lost sight of him.After the car drove away, she found that the old man was no longer there.

She was so angry that she almost cried, who is this?He worked so hard to follow him back to his hometown, earn face for him, show off the limelight, and appease the elderly in the family. He refused to even send him home, and he didn't know how to wait for him to take a taxi first. Shedi chased the car and waved, then stood there for a while in awe, then he just jumped on the bus and ran away!It's getting dark now, doesn't it mean that he really doesn't know how to pity and cherish jade at all?I don't know how to be grateful?No sense of responsibility? Ding Yi was angry for a while, he hailed a taxi, got in, said the name of University C, and then thought: Did he and his girlfriend not flirt at all?Otherwise, why is he running back in such a hurry now?He definitely doesn't have to go to work today. He is a bachelor, so why don't he rush back to watch the news broadcast?He could only leave another woman behind for the sake of a woman, and it was a woman who had just helped him a lot.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the more she thought about it, the sadder she became. She was completely immersed in her own little world, and she didn't notice when the car entered the school gate. In the real world, point out: "Turn left at the street light ahead." When she arrived in front of her house, she got out of the car, paid the money, and went upstairs to her house. As soon as she knocked on the door, her mother opened it and said pleasantly, "The second daughter is back, it's all over now!" Her father also came out to greet her: "Why are you coming back now? It made the two of us panic to death."

She said impatiently, "Why are you in a hurry? Didn't you agree to come back today?" "I promised to come back today, but I didn't expect it to be so late!" "How late is it? It's not even eight o'clock." Mom immediately cut off the conversation, which was not optimistic. Zhang Luo said, "Take a shower first, and I'll serve the food. We haven't eaten yet, and we're waiting for you." She handed the coarse cloth bag to her mother: "There is smoked pheasant in it, and it tastes delicious after steaming." "Really? Then I will steam it in a pressure cooker now."

She came to her bedroom with the travel bag, took out the contents, and found that the towel looked really dirty, and the clothes she changed in Manjialing were also really dirty, her head was sticky, her face was gray, and immediately I took a change of clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. She took off her clothes and stood under the shower head, with the warm water rushing over her body, it was so refreshing!She looked around the small bathroom and saw the shampoo rack hanging on the shower head, a plastic brush for wiping the wall in the corner, and a few towels hanging on the towel rack, all of which were so familiar and friendly. It's better to be at home!Everything is so comfortable, I know where the toilet is and where the living room is with my eyes closed, and my parents hold her like a star, unlike in Dr. , I have to rely on him for help in everything, it is so inconvenient to take a shower and wash my face, and it is also inconvenient to go to the toilet, all these are too numerous to describe. By the time she finished taking a shower, changed into clean clothes, and went to the living room to eat in soft cloth slippers, she was already afraid of how she could ride such a long car, walk such a long way, climb such a high mountain, and squat so far. The simple toilet, sleeping on such a hard bed, I feel that those feats were done by a silly woman named Ding Yi, not herself. During the meal, Mom and Dad didn't ask her about the trip, but only talked about trivial neighborhood news.She realized that she might be in a low mood and worried her parents, so she cheered up and told her parents interesting stories about "classmates' hometown", which made her parents overjoyed. My mother said distressedly: "This time you are exhausted. I have led students to support agriculture before, and I have never been to a mountain village with such difficult conditions." Dad is a professor of folk literature in the Chinese Department of University C. He is particularly interested in the folk customs of the "classmate's hometown". Ask your classmates to help you find out, see if you can get in touch with the local government, and arrange for me to take a few students there to collect folk songs." She hesitated, she didn't want her parents to know the name of the so-called "classmate", and she didn't even want her parents to know the place name "Manjialing", otherwise the parents would be able to guess who the so-called "classmate" was. Because there should not be many people with full surnames. She was not afraid that her parents would interfere with her dating, but that Dr. Man would not date her. If her parents knew that she was posing as a doctor's girlfriend to go home and deceive her, they would definitely think that she was too reckless. He will urge her to make the fake come true with Dr. Man. But she really didn't have confidence in Dr. Man. What happened later proved that Ding Yi's secrecy was absolutely necessary. Fortunately, she didn't tell her parents that her so-called classmate was Dr. Man, otherwise it would be embarrassing, because Dr. Man seemed to be heading west after he came back, and there was no news from him. . The more she thought about it, the more she felt that he was ignorant and ignorant of the world.He helped you so much, you don't want to give a thank you gift, you should make a phone call, right? In fact, it's not unreasonable. During the few days he was in Manjialing, he still knew how to take care of her.Yes, yes, isn't the friendship of the landlord also a kind of sophistication?Now that you know the truth that the host should take care of the guests, how can you not understand the truth that "receive the favor of a drop of water, and repay it with a spring"? Perhaps the real reason was that he had a girlfriend, but that girlfriend couldn't bear the hardship of the long journey and was unwilling to go back to Manjialing with him.He is a dutiful son and a virtuous boyfriend. He wants to take care of his parents but doesn't want to offend his girlfriend, so he came up with such a bad idea, taking advantage of her affection for him, and letting her do this thankless "Manjialing version" girlfriend. But who can blame this?I can only blame her for having such a good impression of him, otherwise with the little favor he gave - helping her reimburse the travel expenses - who would risk their lives to go back to Manjialing with him? The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and she decided that she would never be fooled by him again. If he came to ask her for help on National Day or Spring Festival, she would resolutely ignore him. She even showed mercy to an old colleague, Xiao Jin, who had been chasing her for many years, and went out together to watch movies twice and go shopping once. But after watching two movies and walking down the street, she still didn't feel it.