Silver Leaf Whale Chapter 24

I thought…

Chapter 24·I thought

In the evening, Qi Zhixuan and Pang Jing were arranged in the same room. The earthen kang was very hard, so they were afraid of being bumped by them, so grandma spread out a thick mattress. This was Qi Zhixuan’s first time sleeping on the kang, and he found it very strange.

“Xiaoyu, this is so warm! It feels warmer than the heater!” Grandma’s house is not a building, and there is no heating. Everyone in the village sleeps on the kang. Qi Zhixuan huddled in the warm quilt, sighed comfortably, and kept moving closer to the kang.

“Don’t be so close to the head of the kang. It’s too hot there and it will steam you dry in a moment.” Pang Jing saw him shrinking on the head of the kang and wanted him to come over.

“It’s okay, 60% of the human body is water.” Qi Zhixuan just huddled in the hottest place, rolling left and right, and fell asleep.

But by midnight, he knew the power of the kangtou, and even a 100% waterman wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

When he was sleeping soundly, he felt like his back was on fire, and his throat was dry and itchy. He felt uncomfortable and wanted to look for water, but his face suddenly felt wet.

“What’s wrong?” Pang Jing was also asleep and asked vaguely when he heard Qi Zhixuan getting up.

Qi Zhixuan didn’t answer. Pang Jing struggled to get up and took a look at him with his cell phone, which almost scared him out of his wits.

Qi Zhixuan sat with blood on his hands and face, staring at his hands in a daze.

“It’s okay, don’t be afraid, your nose will bleed if it’s too dry.”

Pang Whale reacted immediately and patted him comfortingly, put on his clothes and went outside to get some water and came in to wipe him.

Qi Zhixuan didn’t let him help. He took the towel and wiped his face slowly, still looking a little dazed.

When I first saw the red hand, it looked familiar. I didn’t react. I thought I was going to die again, but this time I actually felt a little regretful, thinking that I had just come here and hadn’t started playing yet. What a pity.

Unexpectedly, it was just too dry and caused a nosebleed.

After it was cleaned, Qi Zhixuan found that the quilt was also stained. He couldn’t cover it again, so he had to squeeze together with Pang Jing.

“I thought I was going to die again.”

Qi Zhixuan got into bed with a smile in his voice. Although he said it with a smile, Pang Jing paused for a while when he looked at him.

“Why die? Anyone who sleeps on the kang without nosebleeds should be an ice sculpture.” He gathered up the quilt and wrapped Qi Zhixuan tighter.”Go to sleep.” He patted her again.

It was indeed a bit crowded for two men to share a quilt, and Qi Zhixuan slept almost next to Pang Jing.

I smelled the smell of the sea again.

“You smell like the sea, Xiaoyu.” Qi Zhixuan said.

His hair swept across Pang Jing’s chin, and Pang Jing swallowed stiffly, “Maybe… it’s the smell of perfume. Li Yunyao gave it to me for my birthday before. I sprayed it on my suitcase, and it probably got on my clothes.”

“Oh…” There was a moment of silence.

“It smells good and suits you very well.”

“Well, go to sleep and stop talking.”

It was very hot. If he kept talking, Pang Whale felt like he was going to have a nosebleed.

When he got up early in the morning, Pang Jing took the quilt cover to wash. When his grandma heard that Qi Zhixuan had a nosebleed, she specially made brown sugar, egg and millet porridge for him to drink in the morning, and told him to put two basins of water in the room at night.

“Thank you, grandma, I understand.” Qi Zhixuan held the bowl, the millet porridge was hot, and his stomach was warm.

“You are just not used to it. We are like this in the north, so I will definitely not apply for a school in the south next year. I am afraid that mushrooms will grow there.” Li Yunyao sat on the other side of the kang table and said while eating.

Pang Jing was leaning on the bed playing with his mobile phone. Hearing this, he immediately answered: “Maybe the thing growing on your body is a poisonous mushroom.”

Li Yunyao threw a pillow at it, and Pang Jing stretched out his hand to catch it steadily.

She stopped paying attention to the annoying guy and turned to talk to Qi Zhixuan: “Brother Xuan, after eating in a while, let’s go to that park to play. There is a big lake. It is frozen solid now. There are many things to play. Have you ever played on the ice sledge? There are also snow circles and ice bikes, but the kind of snow drifting is gone. Our small place here probably has to go to the Songhua River to have it…”

Li Yunyao chattered, Qi Zhixuan listened and nodded from time to time. After he finished eating, Pang Jing drove the two of them to the park.

The Chinese New Year is almost here, and all the children from out of town are back. There are a bunch of stalls selling snacks, and there are people renting various skating props. The small park is full of people and very lively.

The three of them each rented an ice sledge. As soon as they stood still, Li Yunyao was like the ice and snow queen of the Northeast, holding on to the ice sledge and swishing out of sight.

Qi Zhixuan had played with Chen Runsong once before in Beijing, but he still didn’t know how to do it well. His sense of balance was a bit poor, and he would always fall into the snowdrift next to him before he could slide very far.

“Lower your body a little. If your center of gravity is stable, it won’t be so easy to fall.” Pang Whale guided beside him.

Qi Zhixuan followed suit.

The wind was blowing loudly. He was wearing a fluffy white hat and a scarf that covered the lower half of his face, leaving only a pair of round eyes.

In fact, his eyelashes are not very long, but they match his round eyes perfectly. They have a very pure feeling. When he occasionally looks at people, he looks like an ignorant child.

Qi Zhixuan practiced seriously, while Pang Jing stood aside and watched for a while. Li Yunyao flew out of nowhere and made trouble to chase her brother. Pang Jing quickly slipped out to avoid it, and the two chased him half a circle around the lake.

When Pang Jing suppressed Li Yunyao into submission, he came back and found that Qi Zhixuan had made some progress and could at least paddle back and forth on the ice track.

He studied so hard that he took off his gloves in order to better control his balance. Now his hands were red and he was still sliding back and forth while holding the iceberg.

Pang Jing frowned and stared for a while, then went to the door and rented a two-person ice sledge. “I’ll take you.” He asked Qi Zhixuan to put on his gloves and sit behind him.

Qi Zhixuan was not very happy at first. He was trying to figure out some tricks, but after playing for a few times, he felt that it was really different from his own. He couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. He is indeed an athlete. Not only does he have a great sense of balance, but he also has strong physical strength. He can also skate very fast with others.

Li Yunyao on the side had just lost to her brother and was unconvinced. Seeing that they had changed the sledge, she quickly came over to ask for a fight again.

“Brother! Let’s make a bet of five candied haws. If we see that tree, we’ll go down this slope. We’ll see whether you get there first or I get there first.” Li Yunyao pointed to an icy slope, full of confidence.

“Huh? But I… can’t…” Qi Zhixuan was just a mascot above, and Pang Jing was doing all the work just now.

“It’s all about it! Otherwise, I’m still a loser with him.” Li Yunyao told Pang Jing to hurry up, so the two of them ran to the slope and got ready.

“Hurry, hurry, little brother Xuan, come and shout to start.”

“Okay.”

“3-2-1-go!”

Following Qi Zhixuan’s order, the ice sledge rushed out, “Ah-” Qi Zhixuan was frightened by the sudden speed and screamed, feeling the wind whistling by his ears.

Rushing down the slope, the speed became very fast, which Qi Zhixuan had never experienced before. The figures and sounds next to him became blurred, and he felt as if he was flying.

After rushing for a while, he finally got used to it. He turned his head curiously and glanced at Pang Whale. He saw that his eyes were focused and his jawline was tightened very tightly. He was as serious as if he were participating in a competition.

“Sit tight.” Pang Whale said without looking back.

Qi Zhixuan immediately put his head back and sat upright. The slope was very long and steep, and Pang Whale continued to accelerate. In the end, it was really fast, as if the wind had broken through, and they both reached the finish line.

“Well, the candied haws of Yam Dou’er is still delicious. Thank you, Brother Xuan.”

“You’re welcome.”

Although Pang Jing won, Qi Zhixuan bought the candied haws on his own initiative. Just think of it as a mascot. A few bunches of hawthorn, strawberry, raisins, jujubes, etc. came. After playing for a while, it was too cold outside, so the three of them were ready to go home.

“Do you want to eat this?” Qi Zhixuan took a bunch of strawberry candied haws and handed it to Pang Whale behind him. The strawberry was very red, and the sugar covering it completely wrapped the fruit. It was shiny and looked very tempting.

Pang Jing didn’t even reach for the skewer, he just held Qi Zhixuan’s wrist, looked into his eyes, ate the top one in one bite, and then walked ahead of him.

Qi Zhixuan froze on the spot, looking at his hands, the string, and the person in front of him.

“Come quickly.” Pang Jing stood in front of the car door and called him with a smile. He stopped looking and ran forward.

When we returned to grandma’s house, everyone was busy making sticky spoons and sticky bean buns. Grandma and Aunt Meihua were shouting about the bean fillings, and the men were dividing the dough. The whole house was filled with sweet smell.

“You’re back! Are you freezing after playing all morning?” Grandma looked up and saw the red faces of the three children, and greeted her quickly, “There is still something hot in the pot, go get it when you are hungry.”

“I’m full after eating the candied haws, but I’ll definitely be able to eat some of the sticky bean buns you made soon.” Li Yunyao was like a puppy, smiling and rubbing against her grandma.

“Xiao Qi, we have to go to the morning market tomorrow. Will you go with us? Or do you want to sleep in at home?” The uncle was busy and suddenly remembered this and asked.

“He’s with us.” Pang Jing took two hot buns from the pot, handed one to Qi Zhixuan, and answered for him.

“Well, I’m going too.” Qi Zhixuan took the steamed bun and took a bite.

“Hey, hey, hey, don’t call me. I’m not going. I want to sleep in. Whoever wants to go can go.” Li Yunyao just said she wouldn’t eat, and now she grabbed the steamed buns from her brother’s hand.

“If you don’t go, you won’t get to eat.” Pang Jing stuffed the steamed bun into his mouth without giving her a chance.

“I’m the hardest working senior in high school. What’s the matter with sleeping in? Is it justified by God?” Li Yunyao angrily went to the pot to find the biggest one.

The family was very quick with their hands and feet. Not long after, the first pot of steamed sticky bean buns was ready. The aroma of yellow rice noodles mixed with the sweetness of red beans was very exciting. My uncle and the others fried a large plate of sticky bean buns. They were very delicious when they were hot and crispy right out of the pan. Everyone ate several of them.

When everything was done, it was getting dark, and the children helped put the cooled sticky bean buns and sticky spoons into an ice bucket outside the house for storage. This was a natural refrigerator made by my uncle when it was first frozen. The transparent bucket body allows you to clearly see the contents inside, which is convenient and fresh.

The adults were busy with dinner again. Here, Qi Zhixuan felt that sometimes he only had to work for three meals a day. Some people might find it boring, but he felt very satisfied. Food everywhere was just a bowl of human fireworks.

It was good, but Qi Zhixuan ate too much delicious food and his stomach felt heavy. Besides having fun in the morning, he was really tired, so he lay down early after washing up.

Pang Jing chatted with his family for a while in his grandma’s room, shared a bit about his college life, and pinched Li Yunyao twice by the way, but because he had to rush to the morning market tomorrow, they all left early soon.

When Pang Jing returned to the room, Qi Zhixuan was already in a daze and couldn’t open his eyes. He learned his lesson and now he stopped sleeping on the kang and lay down next to Pang Jing’s quilt.

But it might still be a little hot. His hands were hanging on the edge of the kang.

Pang Whale saw that his knuckles were a little red and swollen, probably from blowing without gloves today. Seeing that he was about to get frostbite, he ran to Meihua and asked for some ointment and applied it on him little by little.

He was afraid that the medicine would get on his sleeves, so he pulled them up one by one.

The kang was very hot, so Qi Zhixuan wore a single coat to sleep. The sleeves were easy to roll up, but when Pang Whale rolled them up halfway, his hands suddenly started to tremble uncontrollably, and he couldn’t continue no matter what.

He saw layers of scratches on Qi Zhixuan’s left wrist, some deep and some shallow. One of them was really deep. You could see through the scar how hideous the wound was, as if the hand was about to be severed.

Holding his hand tremblingly, Pang Jing’s heart suddenly felt very painful, and his blood seemed to be frozen, unable to flow.

From summer to now, Qi Zhixuan has almost never worn short-sleeved clothes, and even his swimsuits have been long-sleeved. He always thought it was because the other party was afraid of being exposed to the sun, but…it turned out to be the case.

“I thought I was going to die again.”

The words came to my ears last night.

Again, that’s what it turns out to be.

Pang Whale’s blood finally started to move, and together with the unbearable emotions, they surged out of his heart, causing him to gasp in pain.

Looking at the sleepy face in front of me, thinking of his panic and sadness, how desperate he must have been to do this.

Her hand couldn’t stop rubbing his wrist, as if this would make the pain less painful.

I don’t know how long it took, but it started to snow outside the window. It was very quiet, as if it had swallowed up all the sadness and sorrow. Pang Jing returned to Qi Zhixuan and lay down next to him, as if nothing had happened, except for a gentle kiss on his wrist at the end.