camouflage

When Ji Xi woke up, it was past twelve o'clock in the noon. He was in a daze all night and had a few dreams, but he forgot all of them when he woke up.

This Saturday, Qi Lei was not here, Qi Xin and the others went home, he was wandering around the room bored, unable to find anything to do, he was a little bored.

Just packed up, white T-shirt with black slacks, black sneakers, carrying a camera, the weather is fine, he plans to go for a walk.

The last time I was racing, I saw a beautiful scenery there, and there was a lake. Although it was night, he had good eyes and saw a little sparkle.

He rode out that eye-catching motorcycle, put on his helmet, and hung his sunglasses on his collar, and walked slowly towards the highway.

There are too many people on the road, unlike big cities, where people and cars go their own way, here there is no distinction between sidewalks and driveways, he dare not speed up, for fear that someone running out of some corner will not be able to stop the car.

After driving outside the city for ten minutes, Ji Xi found himself lost.

Looking at the remote mountainous area around, there were not many houses, he swears, he just kept looking in the direction of the expressway, but he drove into the tunnel at high speed, he circled half a circle, and didn't see it again.

Leaning on the side of the road, Ji Xi put his legs on the ground, stabilized the car, took out his mobile phone and called Qi Lei.

"Stone, what was the name of our racing car last time?"

Qi Lei didn't know what was going on there, it was very noisy, Ji Xi couldn't hear clearly, so he asked uncertainly: "What is it? Where the hell are you, it's too noisy, I can't hear clearly."

Ji Xi waited for a while before a clear voice came from over there: "Dawanzi."

"Got it, hang up."

"I'm bored, let's go out for a walk."

"Okay, wait for you."

After hanging up the phone, he opened the map and searched for Dawanzi. Sure enough, there was this place, which was quite far away, about thirteen kilometers away.

He turned up the volume of his phone and put it in his pocket.

Following the navigation, it was really different after leaving the city. The road was very wide, with few cars and few people. It was either a national highway or a provincial highway.

Occasionally, I glanced and found that the scenery outside the city is very good. There is a big river between the two mountains. The mountain is very high, like a wave. .

He parked the car on the side of the road and took a picture of the dark blue water with his camera. The water here was very clear, and he didn't know if there were any fish. Thinking of this, he realized that he was a little hungry, and he came out before breakfast.

I don't plan to go back, and I won't starve to death if I don't eat for one or two meals.

Finding a relatively good angle and light, he took a panorama, and when the time comes to make it on the computer, it will definitely look good.

Putting the camera away, he continued on his way.

Sure enough, it is a village, the houses are all piled next to each other, and there are more than ten families in each pile, with different architectural styles and different orientations.

Unlike in the city, they are all planned, they look exactly the same, and it is hard to tell which one is my home.

He drives all the way to shoot, there are scenery and people, there are houses and trees, there are flowers and grass...

Finally, he arrived at the lake he saw that day. It was very big, much bigger than he imagined. He thought that lakes sandwiched in mountainous areas were usually small, but this lake was as big as a football field, with several small islands in the middle. He glanced, but there was no way up.

It should be an isolated island, not very big, covered with reeds and some unknown weeds.

There are sparkling ripples on the surface of the lake, shining brightly in the sun, a little dazzling.

There were white birds flying over the lake. He picked up the camera and took a few pictures, and after careful identification, it should be an egret with a whole white body, which is very beautiful.

A stone ladder was artificially built by the lake, and when he went deep into the water, Ji Xi looked around. He was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there was a river flowing out from between the two mountains, shining in the sun, and flowing out at the other end. The topography of the basin, the water is held here to form a lake, and the river he saw on the way here should flow out of here.

There are more than a dozen families on both sides of the river. The road passes in front of their doors, and a bridge is built on the river to connect the two places.

Between the road and the lake is a large vegetable field, surrounded by clusters, where many vegetables of all kinds are planted.

Ji Xi secretly said that maybe the food he ate came from here.

When he got closer, he found that the water at the stone ladder was quite shallow, and there were a lot of mud and vegetable leaves beside it. They should be washing vegetables in the lake.

He looked at the lake, it was quite clean, and immediately felt relieved.

Find a stone pier to sit on, hold a camera and take pictures of the lake. The scenery seen in the camera is different from what the eyes see. From the camera, he only sees the part that is in focus, and cannot see the vegetable leaves and leftovers at his feet. Bright vegetable garden.

Especially the four small islands in the lake are of different sizes and look very beautiful from the camera.

Footsteps came from behind him, he put down the camera and looked back, it was an old lady in her sixties, she also saw Ji Xi, stared at it for a few times, maybe it was dazzled, and shouted uncertainly: "Xiao Xia? Doesn't it look like that?"

As he said that, he took a few steps closer, and looked at Ji Xi curiously, "Which family do you belong to, why don't you seem to have seen it before?"

Ji Xi smiled at her twice: "Grandma, you are mistaken, I am not from here." He pointed to the camera in his hand: "I came here to take pictures."

"Oh, I just said that I didn't know when there was such a beautiful baby in the village. It turned out to be for fun, young man, the water is deep here, be careful! I have drowned people before."

Hearing this made me panic, so I moved a few steps away from the lake.

"Thank you grandma, what are you doing?" Ji Xi asked.

"The vegetable leaves are full of worms. I'll get some medicine, otherwise it won't be easy to sell."

Ji Xi choked, who said that rural dishes are fresh and natural, and that they have been sprayed with pesticides.

He moved a little away, stayed away from that person, the old man, nagging, saying in his mouth: Daqing's food is like this, why don't you take care of it.Xianghe's dishes look really good!Meilan's food is almost sold out, so diligent...

Ji Xi took a photo of her, looked at it carefully, deleted it, and took pictures of other things.

"Grandma, do you all sell vegetables here?" Ji Xi was idle.

"Yeah, growing crops doesn't make any money, so I've switched to growing vegetables, and I can still sell tens of thousands of yuan a year, which is much better than before." She opened the chatterbox, like opening a Pandora's box, and black magic spread.

"Let me tell you, your generation was born well and never experienced hardship. We were so poor at that time! We couldn't afford food. Now we are better, and every household has no shortage of food or clothing."

"It's all right for you, everything is convenient."

Ji Xi laughed and chatted with her.

"Where is the boy from?"

Ji Xi: "From city A, come here for tourism."

"Oh, it's a big city. I heard that all the people live there are rich people. Your child doesn't look like a child from a rich family!" He looked around as he spoke.

Ji Xi almost cried in anger, he looked very dirty or what?

"I saw on TV that children from rich families were covered in necklaces and rings, wearing gold and silver, and driving sports cars."

Ji Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she spent a lot of time watching those rich dramas, rich people don't have such tastes!

"Grandma, aren't there any young people in your family? Why are you here to clean up the vegetable garden?" Ji Xi changed the subject, otherwise he wouldn't guarantee to hear some shocking words.

"Hey, young people want to study and go to work, so they have time to take care of family affairs. Regardless of my age, I can still work for a few more years. I'm still idle. It's good to find something to do."

He chatted with grandma one by one, and was invited to visit her home in the end.

He half-heartedly agreed.

I used a motorcycle to help Grandma pull some food, and took people to her house, which lived across the bridge.

Sitting in the yard, he was still a little dizzy. It was really shameless. After some self-reflection, he had the cheek to help Grandma pick pea pods to ease the embarrassment.

There are six people in the grandmother's family. The son and daughter-in-law have gone to work, the two grandsons are in college, and the granddaughter is in high school. When she saw Ji Xi, the little girl blushed.

"What's your name? I don't think you are from this village." The little girl asked while stripping.

Ji Xi asked, "What's your name? You don't look like you're from this village, but from the city."

It made the little girl blush.

"My name is Shu Ting, how about you?"

"Ji Xi, the seat of □□."

"The name is quite special, where are you from?"

"City people."

The girl gave him a coquettish look, and Ji Xi snickered in his heart.

"Hey, everyone here is named Shu?" He suddenly thought that Shu Xia was also named Shu.

Shu Ting: "It's about the same, and some of them don't have the surname Shu."

Ji Xi: "Then do you know Shu Xia?"

"I know him, across the bridge, the house in Wafang, do you know him?" Shu Ting asked curiously.

Ji Xi shook his head: "I've only heard of it, I heard that he is a top student!"

"Well..." Shu Ting paused, "Study is very good, but he is not very good. Let me tell you, he is very fierce, has a bad temper, and loves to beat people. He even beats his father. Scratched."

"So awesome!" Ji Xi was astonished, Shu Xia didn't look like such a vicious person!

She said it clearly: "Their house is quite messy, they often fight, and there were screams this morning, it must be his father again."

Ji Xi couldn't believe it, was this Shu Xia the Shu Xia he knew?

"Where does he study?" He asked, swallowing, it should be the same name.

"Second Middle School." Shu Ting curled her lips: "He used to be in No. [-] Middle School, and I went to the same school, but I didn't know him very well. I only met him twice. Later, I went to No. [-] Middle School for some reason. Maybe it was because of a fight, anyway. People are not easy to mess with."

He nodded in a daze, thinking of the person who foolishly talked about Bao Ye yesterday, that four-eyed Shiba Inu, who couldn't be connected with the person in the girl's mouth.

"No way, have you ever seen him fight?" He seriously doubted that this was not the same person, but every school has a name, the chance of the same name is quite small, right?

Shu Ting: "Of course I've seen it. It's very harsh. The whole village knows about fighting with that bachelor in the village, but it's pretty good to his mother."

ah!Ji Xi's eyes widened, is the word prickly used for Shu Xia?Got it wrong!That is a soft bun, where is the thorn?

Aside from being a bit harsh in his speech, he was the one who provoked people first.

Ji Xi suspected that the girl was lying to him, or she was blind, or he was blind?

He found that Shu Xia, who came out of this girl's mouth, was a bastard. He beat his own father, who was better than him. Imagine how bad-tempered Shu Xia is; stealing things from home to buy, is this the Shu Xia he knows?Thinking of being scammed for 100 yuan, Ji Xi has reservations about this; it is said that he is still a rascal, selling things to villagers and then going to snatch them back, which is too rubbish, this reservation; I was beaten up, this, I also reserve my opinion...

He couldn't even imagine how that Xueba Shu Xia and this bastard Shu Xia overlapped, how could they be the same person?

Isn't this Arabian Nights?

"Xiao Ting, are you done peeling?" Granny called from the kitchen.

"Okay, now." Shu Ting responded.

Ji Xi hurriedly peeled a few pea pods in his hand and threw them into the basket, watching Shu Ting carry the basket into the kitchen.

He stood up and wandered around the yard. He couldn't help looking across the bridge, but he didn't see any tile-roofed houses. They were all made of cement, reinforced concrete, and tiles.

"You're really curious, if you can't see it here, come here." Shu Ting interrupted Ji Xi's gaze, he turned to look at her, and followed her to the other side of the yard.

She pointed to the opposite side: "There, on the other side of the mountain bag, you can only see the roof here, see?"

Ji Xi nodded, but he could only see a roof, which was pitch-black and blended with the mountain, and he couldn't see anything else.

"It's so far away, can the sound come over?" He asked.

Shu Ting said with a smile: "I didn't hear it. It was the neighbor who said it. I woke up after ten o'clock. How can I hear anything? It's all neighbors chattering. I'll listen to it."

I'm not too embarrassed to say that.

Ji Xi didn't understand why she blushed.

He looked away, pointed to the white flowers under the courtyard dam, and asked, "What kind of flower is this, it smells good."

"Camellia, we don't have many here, and there are more on the other side of the bridge. Every household has planted some, which is easy to feed, and the flowering period is very long, except in summer, you can see it."

"Oh." Ji Xi lowered his head and moved closer, "There are so many petals."

Shu Ting: "Fifty or sixty petals, white, red, pink, and pink. Our family grows white. White represents innocence and elegance."

Ji Xi nodded casually.

The grandmother was very enthusiastic and cooked a large table of dishes. Ji Xi was satisfied and embarrassed after eating.

Shu Ting was overly enthusiastic and helped him pick up the vegetables, hiding from left to right, but he couldn't hide. He smiled and thanked him, moved the vegetables to the side, and threw them into the trash can when they were not paying attention.

Knowing that this is not good, but he is quite obsessed with cleanliness, he can't eat food from strangers, and he seems to be unable to read the winks when he refuses a few times.

This meal was quite satisfying, and it would have been even better without Shu Ting's meticulous care.

Before leaving, he helped the grandparents take a few photos, added Shu Ting's WeChat, and sent them to her when he got back.

Crossing the bridge on a motorcycle, Ji Xi slowed down and looked up the mountain from time to time.

Soon, the tile-roofed house appeared in his eyes. He squinted and probably could see it clearly. The house is not big and looks old, but it has a sense of history. If he didn't know it was Shu Xia's house, he would still want to take two pictures. A picture, now that I know it, I have lost my mind.

Ji Xi turned his head, speeded up, and quickly disappeared in Dawanzi.

Next time, bring Qi Lei and the others over to see if they can fish.

When Shu Xia woke up, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun had also set.

This sleep made him dizzy, and he couldn't open his eyes, which were a little sore. He rubbed his hands a few times, and took out his mobile phone to look at it. His eyes were a little swollen, probably because he had slept for too long.

He put his phone in his bag, got out of bed and put on his slippers, unlocked it and went out.

The living room was empty, messy and untidy.He went to the bathroom to wash up, the toothpaste was gone, and the shower gel was almost gone.

There are still a lot of things that Shu Daqing specially separated, and Shu Xia knows how long it has been since he took a shower and brushed his teeth without thinking about it.

He went to the kitchen again and turned around, but there was nothing to eat.

His stomach was growling with hunger, and Mei Ting didn't know where she was. Everything that happened in the morning seemed like a dream. He was a little confused, a little absent-minded, and a little... powerless.

He is only a sophomore in high school, and he doesn't know how to deal with many things. He hopes that Mei Ting and Shu Daqing will divorce, he hopes to leave here, he hopes...all are his wishes, none of them are realistic.

If Mei Ting really got sick, what could he do? Could it be that he wanted to kill Shu Daqing?

He didn't want to think about these nonsense things, he boiled the water slowly, in a daze, the water boiled, and when it was brought to the table, he didn't know what was put in it, the taste was not good, and he ate it all in one bite.

Try to cheer up, always afraid that if you relax, you will be buried in this hell surrounded by mountains.

He changed his clothes and went out, threw a handful of vegetable leaves into the chicken coop, and went to the vegetable field.

His family's land is not small, but it has not been taken care of for a long time, and a lot of it is deserted, leaving only the relatively fertile area by the lake and the circle around the house.

Mei Ting was not by the lake, so he fell back and saw her in the backyard.

I am buried in picking vegetables, and there is already a small pile.

Shu Xia walked over and helped her do it, "Why don't you take a break, your body is not well yet."

Mei Ting seemed to have just realized it, raised her head, and looked at him with a smile: "Xiao Xia, you are awake, mom is not tired, and she is idle, mom will carry some vegetables later to see if they can be sold."

Mei Ting is only happy in the vegetable field, the kind of happiness from the bottom of her heart, maybe this is the nature of farmers!

He nodded and didn't stop her: "I'll go with you."

"You go and do your thing. Mom can still do this." She smiled so abnormally that she had never been so happy.

The smile is too fake!

Shu Xia muffled: "Mom, don't be brave!"

His words turned on a fucking flood switch, and she stopped what she was doing, took off her gloves, sat in the vegetable patch, buried her head in her knees, and cried like a child.

Shu Xia sighed and leaned forward to hug her, unable to say comforting words, just patted her on the back.

Mei Ting pushed him away, choked up and said, "Don't get so close to me, it won't be good if you get infected."

Tears fell down all of a sudden, he reached out to wipe them off, buried his head in picking vegetables, he couldn't say anything, it was futile.

Mei Ting herself should be hoping for the worst outcome, she doesn't usually wear gloves, but she did today.

Don't let him come near.

Shu Xia's feelings for her are very complicated, she is his mother, he loves her very much, but in Mei Ting's heart, her heart is always biased, she feels that Shu Daqing is pitiful, so she can't help exuding her sympathy , when she was beaten, she needed him again.

She always has a short memory, ignores his words, and comes to him for healing when she is hurt.

Shu Xia didn't know what she was thinking, she didn't have the courage to resist, nor did she have the courage to escape, she just endured silently, and then put the wound in front of him, what could he do.

He wished he could grab her and yell: Can you listen to me, can you stop being so cowardly, can you let me go...

But she is his mother, the one who gave birth to him and raised him.

Mei Ting was crying at the side, Shu Xia picked vegetables silently, no one said a word, he quickly filled the basket.

He put the basket on his back and went back to the house alone.

It's 10 minutes to five o'clock, and there are still several hours before he goes to work. It will take more than half an hour on the road. I don't know if we can sell the vegetables tonight.

While changing his clothes and shoes, he silently calculated in his heart, where the flow of people is higher, is there enough time...

Seeing Mei Ting came back, he looked at her bandaged face, eyes red from crying, and said, "When I saw him coming back, I hid, did you hear me clearly?"

Mei Ting nodded, "How about I go, you still have to go to tutoring!"

"You should have a good rest. Others don't dare to buy it when they see your face!" Shu Xia emphasized again, "If you see it, hide it. If you are so kind, I won't care about you."

Seeing Mei Ting nodding, he went out with the vegetables on his back.

There were not many people on the bus, so he put down his back basket and sat near the door, watching the sun go down slowly.The autumn sun has no temperature in the afternoon and evening, and it also leaves early. The parallel lines on the horizon are yellow and orange. He is a little tired, physically and mentally tired.

There were no people in the vegetable market, only a few people came and went. He waited for more than an hour before selling eight catties and earning 24 yuan. When it got dark, he saw that there was not enough time, and he was still carrying a full basket. Go to an Internet cafe.

If you go early, you can pay more. He plans to take a shortcut, instead of going around the school, go directly to the commercial street and enter through the alley.

Only then did he realize that there was a hot pot shop in the alley, and there were quite a lot of people there.

Looking at the dishes in the basket and the popularity of the hot pot restaurant, Shu Xia went in with the basket on her back and found the manager of the self-service area.

"Uncle, do you still need vegetables here? Fresh ones are sold at a low price."

The uncle had a big belly and was in his 50s. He didn't even look at him, and waved his hand directly: "No need, we all have special suppliers, not bad for you."

Shu Xia didn't give up: "Uncle, you see that there are so many people here and your business is booming. Seeing this, it will definitely not be over for a while. If there are not enough dishes, it's not good. Anyway, I don't have many here, so you just buy it." As a precaution, if the food is not enough, it can be used to refill the number."

The uncle looked back at him, and then at the crowded lobby: "You are very good at talking, let me see."

Shu Xia was overjoyed, quickly put down the basket, and showed him to check, "Uncle, this dish was just picked, it's fresh!"

The uncle looked through it, and turned up the bottom one to have a look: "It's quite fresh, how much do you sell it for?"

Seeing the scene, Shu Xia hurriedly said good things: "Uncle, you see that these dishes are all fresh, and you are so straightforward. If you buy them all, count your 50 yuan. You have made a lot of money. You could have bought seventy or eighty yuan. If you want It’s not that I’m in a hurry to go home, and I’m reluctant to sell it!”

What he said was well-founded, smiling all over his face, and wearing glasses, he looked like a hard-working and good boy. The uncle thought for a long time, then nodded and agreed.

Shu Xia smiled happily: "Thank you uncle, business is booming!"

"Okay, my mouth is so sweet, I will lend you a good word."

They were all sold out at once, and he felt a little better, walking into the alley with an empty backpack on his back.

Although I lost a little, it's better than not being able to sell it. It's definitely not easy to sell it if I'm slumped tomorrow, and I have to sell it at a low price, and I may not be able to sell it for 50 yuan.

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