35

After inspecting the water leak in the small room, the property owner made it clear that the floor would need to be pried up and ventilated for a few days, and that the house would need to be thoroughly inspected. Yaxiao knew that water leaks in a house could be a big deal, and for her it was a matter of wanting to get it over with, but prying up the floors and checking the plumbing had to be done by a professional, and it was a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. That means strangers are bound to come in and stay for half a day, and Shan Yanxiu hates having outsiders in the house; usually even the delivery people for necessities just drop off their stuff and leave. This to come a bunch of people in the home and knocking and prying clanking he is not angry strange.

She thought it would take a lot of effort to convince him, but she didn’t realize that he would readily agree after she just mentioned the beginning. Ya Xiao repeated in disbelief, “Is it really okay?”

“Yes.” He looked up at her, “Did you hear me?”

She nodded, “Then I’ll notify the property and have them come tomorrow to fix it.”

He didn’t answer, by default. He was heard ringing in the background after she had called the intercom to report the repair, “Get ready too, we’re leaving tomorrow.”

“Depart? Where to?”

“For a walk in the countryside.”

She looked at him suspiciously, “A short trip?”

“You could interpret it that way.” He avoided her gaze, his tone flat.

Why did you think of traveling when you were so nice? It would be a lie if she didn’t wonder in her heart, but on second thought she thought it had something to do with repairing the pipe network. It was probably because she didn’t want to be distracted by strangers coming in and out of the house, so she took a little trip for a few days to get out of sight and out of mind. Thinking this way also explains the past, she knows this man once made a decision is basically the thunder and lightning, so quickly according to what he said to pack the luggage. To her surprise, as soon as he saw the duffel bag, he shook his head, “You brought too much.”

“Four days and three nights to bring these,” she was a bit unconvinced, “the temperature changes a lot in the morning and evening at this time of the year, so you have to bring more clothes.”

“Minus at least half the weight,” he concluded after eyeballing it, “or you’ll die of exhaustion.”

Tired? What’s there to be tired about, isn’t there a car? She was still bellyaching over his words, but after actually arriving at the countryside, she was completely dumbfounded.

The demon had indeed not lied, she would really be exhausted.

“You said you came for a trip, but you didn’t say it was for hiking na.” She thought that she would have a relaxing and pleasant short journey, how could she imagine that his car got on the highway and drove for most of the day to drive her to this kind of shithole place to come. The scenery along the way had been pretty good before, and she had coveted the view without asking him about his destination, only to be shocked to realize something was wrong now that she was here.

“I’m talking about getting out and walking.” He removed two traveling bags from the car and threw the smaller one in front of her, “Traveling is what you said.”

“…… That, and that doesn’t mean you have to come for a walk in such a pristine place,” she pointed ahead with shaking hands, “Look, there’s a sign there that says no tourists allowed!”

“Told you it wasn’t for tourists,” he handed her a pair of shoes, “change into these.”

She looked down at the light sneakers she was wearing on her feet, then at the pair of camouflage military boots he was holding, and subconsciously rejected them, “I don’t want them.” Those boots looked heavy, climbing this kind of unexplored mountain must be very strenuous, as light as you can be.

He didn’t say much, and put the shoes away, “Carry your things and follow me.”

She pulled him back, “Aye aye, is it okay for the car to be parked here? No one will be watching.” Brand new off-road vehicle, put here in the wind and rain think of meat pain, and now it is dark early, this time is already more than three o’clock in the afternoon, even if you climb fast to halfway up the mountainside day is also dark, by then also have to touch the dark down. She suddenly remembered, just came along the way only scattered homes, there is no decent inns and other places, then curious, “Hey, where do we live at night ah?”

“On the mountain!” He was already fully loaded and ready to go.

“Live in the mountains?” She couldn’t help but shout, “Is there a hotel on the mountain?”

“Camping.”

“Camping?” She was really shocked, “You’re going to camp here in the dark or in an undeveloped mountain? You’re sick!”

He stomped his foot, casting a sidelong glance over at her, the corners of his eyebrows were hung with mockery, “You’re the one who’s sick, get up.”

She simply stayed on the ground and didn’t get up, “I’m not getting up! I’m not going to climb this damn mountain.” He really wanted to tire her out. Besides, coming all the way here to climb an undeveloped deserted mountain, not to mention camping out in the dark, is he trying to trick her into thinking she’s a three year old kid who doesn’t know any better? He is clearly looking for an opportunity to eat her! (Picking nose, finally here.)

“Going or not?” He paced to her side and looked at her condescendingly, “It’ll be too late if we delay any longer.”

“No go!” She wasn’t going to fall for that, “I’m not climbing dead.”

“Fine, then you can stay here alone and wait.” He turned and walked away.

She saw that he left decisively without any hesitation, and then looked around to see that it was really deserted, and it was very frightening to stay alone in such a place. She could not bear the fear, called out, “Hey, hey, you at least leave the car keys ah.” Seeing him walk farther and farther away without listening, seeing that he was about to disappear from sight, she could no longer restrain herself from jumping up and catching up with him, tugging at him with a deadly grip, “Give me the car keys!”

He impatiently raised his hand, the silver car keys in the air drew an extremely standard parabola soon disappeared into the grass.

“Keys ……” This man is really cruel to the absolute, he also do not think without the keys in a few days how he drove home? She was still in shock and couldn’t come back to her senses, when suddenly the back of her neck tightened and his face was suddenly close at hand.

“Either wait here for me to come down, or come up with me.”

She glared at him with hatred, itching to burn a hole in his face, “Son of a bitch!” Feeling his hand cupping the back of her neck slightly harder, she was compelled to move closer to him, so close that she could almost make out his eyelashes.

“Thought about it yet? It’s going to be dark in a little while.”

She wanted to snarl at him and say so what if she didn’t have a car? Sis can get out just as well with a walk! But she knew very well that she was not familiar with this place and the situation after nightfall was even more unknown. Although this man’s intentions are malicious, but look at his appearance seems to be very familiar with the terrain here, follow him to get lost is unlikely, just have to be more vigilant. However, in just ten seconds or so, her mind rolled over all the options of back roads and possible situations, and quickly made a decision.

He took in her expression before releasing his hand and turning dryly, “Follow.”

Gritting her teeth, she picked up her traveling bag and followed him, all along the path were tree trunks and branches that he had cut down with his dagger and rustled underfoot. At first she had the strength to curse him in her mind, but later on the path became more and more rugged, and she nearly twisted her foot several times before she dared to be distracted again. After an hour she was exhausted and wanted to stop and rest, even for five minutes. But see him in front of the back of the road, and then think of that man’s face when mocking, she can only force the spirit to hold on. The so-called lose not lose the battlefield, even if the root of the teeth broken she will never first open her mouth to ask for a rest.

Walked another half an hour, when the sky has gradually darkened, she gasped for air louder and louder, every time she breathed seems a little impatient. Mountain greenery a lot of air is also very good, but after heavy traveling, the respiratory system at this time has been overwhelmed, spit na alternation has begun to disorganize, she has begun to cough up under the continuous change of air is not as good. Every coughing throat is like being what open sand scraped like a hot and spicy pain. Nasal cavity is like being stuffed with a ball of mustard like choking, eyes are also difficult to can. She gritted her teeth and looked at the front of the athletic figure, this man is not clockwork, so desperate for what? Want to show that he is very MAN? If you want to show that he is very MAN, then take off your clothes and show your muscles, then you will see the difference, wrapped up so tightly that you can’t see anything, what’s the point! She hated to think, last time when he was drunk so obedient she should make some bad eyes. At that time, she just let him stand, and then later obediently went to bed. Now that she thought about it, she should have coaxed him into stripping and pole dancing, and then followed suit by taking pictures of his river crab and blackmailing him. If he dared not from she will put his gate crab debut in the big from, let him make a good show.

Now imagine in her is the best motivation, just the more on the more depressed, the more depressed the more regret. She is at this time a lot of pain, God is not not give her the opportunity to take revenge, is her own mistake missed. Now not only can not turn the tables to win, but also be forced to sleep with him in the wilderness. She hated so much that she raised her hand and slapped herself, snapping.

He turned at the sound and asked what was wrong when he saw her face half red. She clenched her back teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between her incisors, “I walked too fast and got hit in the face by a branch.”

He narrowed his eyes at her and pursed his lips, “You have a pretty big face.”

Gross?

“Who has a big face, you’re the cat with a big face!” Originally full of gas, now for no reason was said to be a big cake face, she also forgot tired step forward to give him a good look, the result of the feet floating plus behind the back of the bag is large resulting in an unstable center of gravity, a moment will be planted backward four feet to the sky.

His hateful face was hanging above her, grinning morosely, “Yo, big-faced cat on all fours, are you okay?”

She struggled to get up, but after nearly two hours of trekking she was physically exhausted, and with a large backpack behind her, she flailed her limbs in vain for a while, a little turtle with her back to the ground and her face to the sky. In the end or he pulled a hand to bring her up, she wanted to shake off his hand unsuccessfully, only to growl furiously, “Do not need you tube! Pretend to sympathize.” He didn’t hear her and pulled her forward. She struggled a few times, a sharp pain came from her wrist, and she couldn’t help but scream in pain.

He didn’t look back, his tone was cold, “Pain? Endure.”

She was angry and pain, that is, aggrieved and sad, simply dragged his hand to the ground, squatting without saying a word to shed tears, bean-sized teardrops smashed in the leaves of the bar bar ring. She really hated him, whether she was willing or not he was always so arbitrary to her. During the Mid-Autumn Festival she thought he had changed a bit, at least he had some respect for her, but she didn’t expect that he would still be like this. Why was she so melodramatic? He had only smiled a little more lately, only talked a little more, only casually helped her to cut two more cuts on the fruit peel, how could she be so stupid to think that he had changed? But in the end, it was still stupid of her to have unrealistic and childish fantasies about something so vaguely familiar.

“It’s at least fifteen minutes down the road to where we’re camping,” his voice sounded above her head, “get up, there’s not much time for you to be capricious, it’s going to be dark soon.”

She wiped away her tears hard and stood up, not saying another word to him, just walking with her head down. Her legs were too numb to be her own, and her shoulders were raw from the backpack straps, so she didn’t need to see them to know that they must be red and swollen. Her physical strength was actually much better than the average girl, and she had often led the group in front when climbing mountains before. But that is to climb the mountain of the tourist landscape, there are mature development support and safety measures, unlike now walk this wild mountain, everywhere is dense shrubs and uneven height of the trees. At this time of the year, the leaves of many trees are beginning to yellow, when people pass by even the smallest tremor will make these dry leaves rustle down, along with the leaves down there are unknown shriveled fruits. I m glad it s only these plants that are falling, if it were some animal or insect …… she naturally thought of her own mortal enemy, the spider, and thought that in a place like this there might be all sorts of new varieties of spider venomous insects What she involuntarily trembled a little.

Her hand was still cupped in his hand, and he was keenly aware of her emotional fluctuations, seeing her face suddenly floated in fear then stopped and spoke, “You ……”

“What for!” She cried out nervously, as if she were a frightened bird, “What for?”

“You have …… spiders on your head.”

“A spider? Ah!” She didn’t wait for him to finish before she jumped as if electrocuted while screaming, “Is it a spider?”

He saw her reaction so intense only had to reach out and gather her in his arms to stop her from continuing and jumping like a god twitching and writhing, “No spiders! No!”

Her voice changed tone as tears streamed down her face, “Yes there is, yes there is, it’s here in my neck ah ah ah it’s biting me, it hurts so much ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!” If the Black Widow bites down on her, her life will be over.

He probed in and pulled it out with a dry curly leaf and a few small fruits with curly thorns between his fingers, “It’s this.”

With snot and tears still smeared across her face, she took in what he had in his hand in the diminishing light, which slowly calmed her emotions. The tingling in her chest was still there, she couldn’t help but scratch a few times, but he grabbed her and drank it away, “Don’t scratch, it’s fine.”

Her chest rose and fell between gasping for breath, looking at him grabbing her hand, her brain immediately sobered up, backhanded away from him to lift up the palm of the hand and flung to give him a slap in the face.

It snapped like a small bomb.

“Where were you touching, asshole?”