Tang Zhou's instinctive reaction was to retreat.
Not disgusted, but... shy.
Not to mention kissing a girl, even holding hands was something he had never done before, except for the erotic dream that day when he had a fever and thought Shen Zhixi was kissing him.
He wanted to hide, but Shen Zhixi held him tightly.
She hugged his neck tightly, leaving no space for him.
This kiss was heavy and passionate.
Tang Zhou felt like his breathing had stopped. After a while, he seemed to be suffocating.
Gradually, the taste of Shen Zhixi's kiss changed.
She was biting, like chewing on jelly beans, but the biting was not heavy and it didn't hurt, just the numbness that made people unable to recover. Tang Zhou's hands holding her arms gradually relaxed. He wanted to push her away, but he was inexplicably addicted to her nibbling.
“Karabune…”
She murmured, and Tang Zhou got a moment to breathe.
“Tangbune…Tangbune.”
She shouted softly, like a kitten charming and affectionate.
“Tangshu.”
Shen Zhixi wanted to press her lips to Tang Zhou's, but Tang Zhou gently raised his face to tell her off. Then he put his arms around her, hugged her waist with one hand, and held her head with the other to let her rest on his shoulder. Depend on.
Then, there was the sound of his slow and long breathing.
The night wind kept blowing, but it couldn't extinguish the fire of love that was ignited in him.
It's almost impossible to hold on.
"pain."
Shen Zhixi cried out in pain, which made him let go in a hurry, thinking that he was holding her too hard because he was lost.
"My feet hurt."
Only then did he realize that it was her sprained ankle that was causing pain.
"It hurts..."
"...Me." Tang Zhou lowered his head and spoke in a tight tone, as if he had not yet recovered from the exclamation of being bitten on his lip just now, "Which foot hurts?"
Shen Zhixi stretched out his right leg and said coquettishly, "It's twisted."
"I... let me rub it for you." Tang Zhou reached down and touched her calf and then touched it forward. He indeed found that her right ankle was particularly swollen. He touched it carefully and said comfortingly: "Don't worry. There shouldn’t be any broken bones.”
"Does it hurt like this?" he asked, tightening his fingers.
Shen Zhixi held back tears and replied softly: "It's okay."
She didn't just pretend to sprain her ankle, she really sprained it accidentally while going into the mountains.
"That's good. Take off your shoes and socks. I'll rub it for you to relieve the pain. When you get back, apply some heat for a while. No bones are hurt and you'll be fine soon."
After that, Tang Zhou went to take off her shoes and socks.
But Shen Zhixi shrank back and said in a naive and shy tone: "You can't touch girls' feet casually."
She wasn't pretending to be innocent at this moment, the snake's venom caused her brain to become dizzy, and she didn't even know what she was doing or saying.
Tang Zhou pulled her legs back and said funnyly: "You can't touch your feet, but you can look at my body? Linglan, you are not at a loss."
He put Shen Zhixi's leg on his knee, touched the swollen ankle, and massaged it carefully.
The force is neither heavy nor light, nor painful.
It seems like some acupuncture points are being pressed, or there are special fingering techniques, and you won't feel uncomfortable at all.
Shen Zhixi was half dazed and half awake, as if he was dreaming.
As he watched more and more ghosts appear behind Tang Zhou, the smile on his face became more and more charming.
"Tang Zhou, you are so beautiful."
Tang Zhou paused, but raised his lips without replying.
"I want to have a baby with you."
As soon as these words came out, Tang Zhou lost his composure, and the gentle movements on his hands suddenly became heavier, causing Shen Zhixi to grit his teeth in pain.
"Hey, it hurts so much."
"I'm sorry." He let go, at a loss as to whether he should continue.
"You don't want to?" Shen Zhixi asked.
Tang Zhou lowered his eyes, twitched his eyelids and denied, "No, I just..."
Now that I have decided to marry her, I am naturally willing to have children with her, but I have never thought about this question before, and I was so surprised that I didn't know how to answer it.
"I just……"
"Tang Zhou, I'm not ugly, and there are quite a few people pursuing me. Don't worry, our children will be beautiful and will never be ugly."
"I know."
Tang Zhou suddenly became serious and spoke a little more seriously.
"I know you are not ugly. How could you be ugly? You are the most beautiful woman except my mother and sister. Suzuran, except for my mother and sister, no one else treats me as well as you do and has done so much for me. I am willing, I really am."
Shen Zhixi was feeling dizzy, and he didn't know if he heard clearly.
She touched Tang Zhou's face, tilted her head and asked, "Then are you willing to have a child with me?"
Tang Zhou put his hand on the back of her hand, his bright eyes showing certainty.
"Don't worry, I will let you have someone to support you in your old age. I will not let you die alone. We will have filial children to look after us and take care of us in our old age."
"OK."
Shen Zhixi smiled stupidly, looking at Tang Zhou with stars in his eyes.
The wind blew, and she shrank her neck in the cold.
Tang Zhou seemed to be aware of it. He took out a jelly bean wrapped in oil paper from his arms, unscrewed it and sent it forward: "Eat a candy. When you feel sweet, you may forget about the cold."
There were so many ghosts that it took Shen Zhixi a long time to hold his hand accurately.
He opened his mouth and leaned forward, taking his jelly beans and fingers into his mouth.
Tang Zhou was startled, and the soft touch made his heart beat faster.
He endured his heart palpitations and waited until the jelly bean was firmly in her mouth, then he slowly withdrew his hand.
"It's still cold." Shen Zhixi moved closer to him.
He wrapped his arms around her and held her in his arms. He leaned her back against his arms to shield her from the wind behind her. With a bonfire in front of her to keep her warm, her body finally stopped trembling.
With candy in his mouth and Tang Zhou's warmth behind him, Shen Zhixi, who was already dizzy, quickly fell asleep.
Sweet candies and warm embraces, how can they not make people feel at ease.
Tang Zhou was inevitably nervous when he held a girl so intimately for the first time. But the more he listened to Shen Zhixi's shallow breathing, the more relaxed he became, and he gradually hugged her tighter, wanting to bring her more warmth.
Even more courageous.
He silently raised his hand to touch Shen Zhixi's cheek, and his fingertips traced the tip of her nose, eyes, brow bone...
It seems that he wants to keep her in his heart in this way.
Before, he wanted to recover his eyes because he wanted to go home, but now there was another reason, that is, he wanted to take a serious look at the lily of the valley in his arms.
The phrase from that day, "I've turned around a thousand times just to meet you" came to mind again, and he couldn't help but think, maybe this is true.
He was injured and fled, and ended up in this place just to meet her.
Looking back on the past half month, every day and every bit that was invisible but remembered in his heart made him cherish it extremely. There is God's will in the dark, and they may have been destined to meet.
Her kindness will be engraved in his heart and he will never let her down.
*
When Yuanyang came back from finding the herbs, Shen Zhixi was already fast asleep.
The herbs were crushed into juice with stones and applied to her wrists. Tang Zhou tore off a strip of cloth from his body and wrapped the herbs in it. During the process, Shen Zhixi fell asleep.
After doing this, Tang Zhou carried her back to the bamboo hut.
When she got home, Shen Zhixi happened to wake up.
Tang Zhou put her on the bed, and when he covered her with a quilt, she held her wrist.
Yuanyang took one look and wisely exited the door.
