Xueba at the same table from the future

Chapter 265 She and him

"It hasn't rotted after soaking for more than ten years? The two of you found a piece of plastic."

He was not surprised by the old man's questioning of the two, and even cheerfully took a biscuit from the plate and ate it.

But as soon as he put it in his mouth, the bad old man covered his throat like eating moldy apple pie.

"Cough cough cough... water water water..."

Seeing that the two people on the opposite side were not only indifferent to this, but even looked a little gloating, the old man coughed twice, and had no choice but to turn to Li Xinxi for help.

"I'll get you a glass of water for the uncle, and you two will chat slowly."

Li Xinxi quickly realized that he tapped Chen Mu's forehead, blinked at him, and then slowly got up and entered the room.

At the stone table in the middle of the courtyard, only the uncle and Chen Mu were sitting opposite each other, and the plate of strangely shaped biscuits on the table.

"Hey, you kid was pretty good at pretending just now."

Seeing that the sound of Li Xinxi's footsteps had completely disappeared, the bad old man put away his pretense just now, and slowly took a biscuit from the table and put it in his mouth.

"Although it doesn't look very good, it still tastes good, at least an old man like me likes it very much."

"Master, you have a problem with your sense of taste." Chen Mu rubbed his forehead and expressed that he didn't understand.

"Although it is true that Xixi's cooking skills are a little bit better than before, from unpalatable to barely palatable, it has not reached this point."

"Cough, cough, this person is old, but he tends to have bad taste, not only bad taste, but also bad memory."

The uncle squinted his eyes and ate the biscuit in his hand, and then looked at Chen Mu's cheerful mouth.

"You two little fellows, why don't you just take what I said that day as a joke? You went out of your way to look for it."

"This can't be done. After all, you know that Xixi is always curious, but as for me, I like to be serious."

"When the two of us got together, we would rather spend half a month looking for clues. It's actually not surprising."

"Cough cough cough..." The uncle scratched his head again: "I still don't know much about this matter. After all, your uncle is also old and has a bad memory."

"I can understand..." Chen Mu heard the words and took the water glass from Li Xinxi who came back, and handed it to the uncle respectfully.

"Fortunately, Xixi and I are quite filial, and we won't add anything weird to this glass of water."

"Strange stuff?"

"Tsk tsk-"

The uncle glanced down at the clear water glass in front of him, and simply drank it down without thinking about other matters.

"You two little fellows have become more and more filial recently."

"It's just that it's not good to tell the two of you about this matter. Instead, you will pester me even more in the future."

"No, sir~ The two of us actually just want to know one question, that is, how did you find Chen Mu at that time."

"As for more information, he and I can find out by ourselves."

"Really?" The uncle tilted his head like a child.

"real."

"Then pull the hook."

As he spoke, the old man stretched out his rough little finger like a child, and hooked it with Li Xinxi who was smiling.

"Okay, sir, we can talk about it now." The little squirrel's coquettish voice came from his ears again, making the speed of eating the biscuits a bit slower.

"You two little guys, do you know how many years I have been in this town?"

"About... 40 years?"

"Almost, anyway, I've been here for a long time."

"In fact, there is nothing strange about this town. After all, everyone will not feel that the surrounding environment is strange."

"Oh, by the way, except for you two." The uncle paused and said, "As for the reason why I chose to come to this town to retire in the first place, it wasn't just a random choice."

Speaking of this, the bad old man pursed his lips, and the mysterious look in his cloudy eyes became even more serious: "But it was a coincidence that I found Chen Mu, I would have known that I would come to take care of children at such a young age, I won't be here long ago."

"Then... what's the reason?" Li Xinxi planned to ask the question to the end.

"I'm not going to say—"

As soon as the words fell, the uncle's arm was shaken by the little squirrel at an extremely rapid frequency, but this time he didn't say anything and let go again.

The two were deadlocked for several minutes, and then stared at each other, before finally being interrupted by a word from the old man.

"You two little guys...you have to give me some time to think about it, I think, or I can wait until the sports meeting is over, and let me see how the young people in your school are struggling?"

"But sir..."

Li Xinxi wanted to say something more, but stopped talking when the old man looked pitifully shaking his head, and turned to watch him slowly enter the room with his slightly bowed back.

"Little brat, I'll go to sleep first, remember to call me when you have dinner later."

"Also, don't make it as spicy as before today. Your uncle is not as spicy as you two."

"Master, he—?"

Li Xinxi and Chen Mu looked at each other, and they both saw a deep sense of helplessness in each other's eyes.

"When the sports meeting is over, he won't procrastinate any more, will he?"

"That's not true. After all, my uncle has always attached importance to promises." Chen Mu rubbed his swollen forehead: "At first I thought it was just a coincidence, but I really know something."

"So...it depends on how you behave when the time comes, Gouzi. Remember to be smart and don't make the uncle angry again."

Li Xinxi sighed softly, and turned her gaze to the beautiful sunset in the sky at this time.

"Hey Gouzi, do you know what kind of job the uncle used to do when he was young?"

"When I was about ten years old... I was an apprentice in a cloth shop. As for what happened after that, my uncle has always kept his mouth shut."

In the middle of the sentence, Chen Mu suddenly seemed to think of something, and continued to add with uncertain eyes: "But my uncle, there is one point that is obviously different from the old men around him."

"He is very rich, but he doesn't usually use money very much. Even if he wants to use it, he uses cash."

"Dog, you mean..."

Listening to the regular snoring sound from the room, Li Xinxi made a silent gesture to Chen Mu, and lowered her voice a bit.

"Master... the source of this money..."

"possible……"

Chen Mu and Li Xinxi didn't continue on this topic, instead they chatted for a while.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting, Li Xinxi fed all the biscuits on the table into Chen Mu's mouth, which moved him to tears.

The time was long, the two had nothing to do, and they were not in a hurry to make dinner, so they held hands and walked around the embankment until they found the tree root.

"Goofy, the uncle said that this thing is made of plastic, he must be lying to us."

Li Xinxi squatted carefully beside him with her bare feet, and carefully sized up what was in front of her with Chen Mu.

"Indeed, if it is the size of a normal plum tree, there is no way that there is such a huge root, and it is in this remote corner, even the two of us have not noticed it."

"Who would have thought that I would grow up in a tomb." Li Xinxi glanced back at the deep and shallow tombstones behind her, and then turned to look at the undulating river ahead.

"According to my uncle, these tombstones should have been set up during the flood that year. It's just that everyone has no impression of such a plum tree, so it will be very strange."

"Perhaps... the memory has been erased, or the tree has been cut down for a longer time."

At this time, Chen Mu's five senses were fully activated, and he was staring at the tree roots in front of him motionlessly, trying to find some forgotten clues from them.

"I really admire Gouzi's brains, it just gets more and more outrageous." Li Xinxi knocked a chestnut on Chen Mu, and turned back to look at the deep and shallow tombstones again.

"The answer to this matter, I think I will leave it to the uncle. I brought you here specially today, not for this purpose."

"What's that for?"

"For these tombstones." Li Xinxi stretched out her little finger and nodded, with a rare look of fear in her eyes.

"Everyone will always meet death. No matter how colorful life is, in the end, it will become a small box and be encapsulated in such a tombstone."

"Dog, don't you think this kind of thing is scary?"

"Afraid? What's there to be afraid of?" Chen Mu shook his head and expressed his confusion: "Aren't there quite a lot of good brothers around here playing cards together?"

"I knew you wouldn't be able to talk about this with Gouzi—" Li Xinxi kicked Chen Mu decisively, and then gritted her teeth and uttered angrily.

"In short, I don't want to do this at that time. If it were me, I would rather scatter myself on the surface of the river and become fertilizer for weeds, or wild trees or something."

When the girl said this, no matter in tone or demeanor, everything was too calm, as if it had been held in her heart for a long time.

Chen Mu didn't answer right away, but took advantage of the situation and grabbed Li Xinxi's soft wrist, feeling the gentle autumn wind on the river at this time.

"Death...is a very heavy topic. Unless it is something that needs to be faced by oneself, most people will not think about it lightly."

"Scattering yourself by the river without leaving a trace, it's quite romantic to think about it that way."

"But actually... there are some more romantic ways to end your life than this."

"What is it?" The little squirrel beside him leaned his little head on Chen Mu's shoulder, and asked curiously in a very light and delicate tone.

"The most romantic way is to die for love."

Chen Mu wiped away the tears from Li Xinxi's face with a smile, then smugly put it to his mouth and licked it.

"Hey, it's really strange, it seems to be a little bit sweeter than before."

"Fool—" Li Xinxi slapped Chen Mu on the shoulder angrily.

"Just treat it as a dog, you comfort me, and feel very happy because of it, but you are absolutely not allowed to do that."

"This can't be up to my little squirrel." After being hammered by Li Xinxi for a moment, the painful Chen Mu simply buried his whole little head in his chest, preventing any creature other than himself from seeing him sobbing.

"Idiot idiot idiot—"

No matter how hard the hammering on the chest was, Chen Mu refused to let go, but held Li Xinxi even tighter.

"Don't worry, there will be no chance of this kind of thing happening, and everything will turn around."

"Except for time." Li Xinxi's voice lowered a little.

"Gouzi, is my strength much weaker than before?"

"It's become gentle." Chen Mu nodded obediently.

"Fart! I don't have the energy to beat you!"

There was another sound of gnashing of teeth from the chest, but this time it was obviously much more vicious.

"Not just strength, but reflexes, observation, and more."

"All the stats of my body are slowly declining, and even...at noon today, I can't even hold a plate stably."

"Except for cooking skills, to be honest, Xixi, your cooking skills have improved a lot compared to the beginning."

"Don't try to coax me again, it's useless, rebound."

This time Li Xinxi's ferocious voice was significantly lowered by many decibels.

"God, let me tell you, if you focus on this time, except for the two times you have been entangled with me, in fact... your life should be very, very long."

"At that time...you don't have to follow the life trajectory of your previous life to study, go to school, and work. But you will always meet various people, experience various things, and then obtain long-term and worthwhile happiness. "

"I don't want you to bind yourself because of me."

"If that's the case, you won't be the dog I fell in love with at the beginning."

"If one dose of fertilizer doesn't make the stump germinate again, it's not out of the question to add another."

Chen Mu seemed to have not heard Li Xinxi's words at all, but cast his eyes on the low tree stump beside him again.

The weeds on the riverside in autumn are so long that they almost submerge the entire calf of the two of them.

So much so that even though the whole stump was soaked and rotted and blackened, it was still submerged in a piece of green from a distance.

"Fool! Fool! Fool!!!"

Li Xinxi hammered Chen Mu's chest again, this time obviously much harder than before.

"You don't listen to what you say, right? Then I will... bite you to death!"

As he spoke, the little squirrel grabbed Chen Mu's ear and began to bite, until Chen Mu's right ear turned red and didn't stop.

"Bite it, bite it, maybe if you bite too much, I won't feel it anymore."

For Li Xinxi's childlike revenge, Chen Mu didn't care at all, and even lazily leaned back on the grass, leaving only two little brains gathered outside the weeds.

"Have you bitten enough? If you have bitten enough, I will replace you."

There was a rustling sound in the grass, but it quickly returned to calm, just like the gentle autumn wind blowing at this time.

Chen Mu didn't look at the tree stump at the side, nor at the red clouds in the sky, but stared at Li Xinxi's cute little face carefully.

I don't know when.

The girl lost her ferocious aura just now, but fell asleep quietly lying in the boy's arms.

She fell asleep gently, even breathing in a relaxed posture.

It's like he used to take a nap on her lap.

At the end of this long vacation, there is only each other left.

(End of this chapter)