【142】Uphill
Bai Lu thought of this, Shanshui's water droplets had fallen from her forehead to her chin and jaw, so cold that she shuddered. Watermark Advertisement Test Watermark Advertisement Test reached out to take off the towel hanging on the towel rack and wiped her face clean.
Looking back, looking at the phone placed on the sink, the signal is out of order. Maybe as Mr. Wan said, it will take about a few days for this signal to be interrupted.
If you are in a hurry to go down the mountain and things are not done, it is impossible. Moreover, the road is muddy. It is reported that the bridge they passed through last night was finally destroyed by floods and collapsed halfway. If you want to leave the village, you can only cross mountains and ridges. This is not something that ordinary people can do. Of course, Bai Lu doesn't think she can't climb mountains and ridges. This is just a small case for her. She has tried marching in the harshest environment on heavy rain.
Everything is just because she and her father have not had formal communication yet.
When he walked out of the room, he saw that Chen Qiaoli and her family should be sleeping like dead pigs and did not wake up. Bai Lu locked the door, wore a casual sportswear, and walked down the stairs with the handrail.
Downstairs, you can hear the sound of rain falling on the eaves more clearly. The rain is getting bigger and smaller, but it is not suitable for going out at all.
Bai Jianye wore a hat and a raincoat, and took a hoe behind the door, not knowing where to go.
Bai Lu shouted softly: "Dad."
Bai Jianye, who was about to step out of the threshold in the house, turned around and saw her going downstairs, and said in a slow tone: "I've prepared breakfast and it's in the kitchen."
"Have you eaten it?" Bai Lu asked, walking to him.
Seeing that she had come to her, Bai Jianye could only put down the hoe first and whisper: "I've eaten it, you can eat it."
"It's very lonely to eat alone." Bai Lu said.
For him, his little daughter acted like a spoiled person, almost something he had never seen before. Bai Jianye remembered that his son and daughter were both very independent since childhood, as if they were locked in their own world and never said the word loneliness, because the Bai family could always find fun on their own.
Bai Jianye was stunned for a moment. Later, he thought about it. He might not have thought about how to answer his younger daughter's question. He could not find any excuses. This gentle man who has always put etiquette first could only take off his hat and raincoat and accompany his daughter to the kitchen for breakfast.
Bai Lu smiled at him, her smile was like a little flower blooming on the roadside, with a little childish childishness.
Bai Jianye suddenly felt that his daughter was only a few years old.
He has never seen his daughter how old he was. Because at that time, his wife lived in Baoding with her children. However, he was forced to stay in Yanjing and even traveled all over the country on business trips. Due to his special nature of work, it is normal for those who are engaged in architecture to protect ancient relics and often run away. On the contrary, the mother of two children does not work the same as him.
"Go and eat." Bai Jianye swallowed his saliva as if he was dry and called his daughter to walk to the kitchen.
Since Bai Jianye said that he had eaten it, Bai Lu opened the small pot on the biogas stove. His father was a very careful calculation. He first figured out how much food the two of them could eat. He only used a small pot to cook the pot of flower porridge. It looked exactly three or four bowls, and each person had two bowls of porridge as the bottom of breakfast, with no more or less.
In the flower porridge, since my daughter returned to her parents' home, she must be more nutritious than usual, so she put some peanuts, eggs and pork in it.
Bai Lu took a large bowl of noodles, poured all the remaining porridge water in the pot into the bowl in one breath, brought it over and put it on the dining table, holding chopsticks in one hand and a spoon in the other.
Bai Jianye saw her like this and shook his head and sighed.
Bai Lu knew that her father was laughing at her, but she was not as good as a woman, and she looked like a man.
Bai Jianye said: "You don't look like your family at all, and you don't know where you learned it."
What her father said is correct. Think about it, each of the Bai family is not elegant and decent, each of which emphasizes as accurate as a machine in daily behavior, eating, washing hands. It can be said that at this point, her brother and Jun Ye hit it off at first sight and fell in love with each other. Her brother's love for Jun Ye is not a little bit, but it can be said that it surpasses her sister. The reason is very simple, and it is also because of this that Bai Lu learned from nowhere. The occasional casualness that she inadvertently reveals does not look like a woman at all.
However, most people rarely see her like this. She only occasionally reveals it in front of familiar acquaintances and family members. It feels like, like Jun Ye, her brother, they are people who have been together for a long time. When they meet every day, they have to behave every day, and they will be so tiring.
It was the first time that Bai Lu quietly lowered her head slightly.
I heard my father say, "I heard people say that before, when your brother was busy, you were playing with a group of young men. I think those people were also from a well-educated family, so I didn't think much about it."
Bai Jianye speculated that the actions of these tomboys must have been caused by her and his group of men when they were young.
Master Yao is not like Master Jun. No, no, their brothers can restrain themselves with ropes like Master Jun. Master Jun is an exception. Master Yao and the others are really arguing about it by her father, fighting and making fun of each other, climbing over the wall to steal fruits, going down the pond to catch fish, and doing everything. They all have a gentle appearance and are lying.
It was also thanks to these people who deceived them all the way until now they married their wives. Those wives may not know the nature of the savages flowing in their bones.
Since my father said it, Bai Lu pretended that he hadn't heard anything and lowered his head to drink porridge.
Bai Jianye sat there alone watching her drink porridge, doing nothing, not drinking water, reading newspapers, not doing things, not talking, not even swallowing her saliva, and sat quietly.
Bai Lu felt that her father suddenly turned into air again. When she raised her head, she saw that her father's eyes were floating wherever she was looking at her.
After she finished her porridge, she washed the dishes and the pot and placed it on the table to dry.
Over there, Bai Jianye put on his raincoat and hat. Bai Lu washed his hands and walked over and said, "Dad, I want to go and see the tombs of grandparents and mothers."
Bai Jianye seemed to be stunned, and his face was stunned and suspicious expression seemed to be clearly said: How could she see it?
He was preparing to go up the mountain to inspect whether the tombstones of his relatives were damaged by the heavy rain last night. After all, the graves were built in the mountains. The soil on the mountain would inevitably loosen or even collapse due to the rain. Just like the heavy rain last time, the villagers' cemetery of his ancestors was destroyed by the rainwater washed down like mudslides. In order to find the lost ashes of relatives, people from a large village helped the family go up the mountain and down the mountain to search. After searching for a few days, they could only find a broken urn. The family cried sadly for several days.
The location of the Bai family cemetery was designated by Grandpa Bai during his lifetime. It was said that it was facing the river and the sunrise place with good feng shui. However, Bai Jianye thought that mudslides were easy to occur in that place.
Bai Jianye wanted to say to his daughter: It's raining now, so don't go, it's dangerous.
However, after he said that, how did he answer when his daughter asked him where he went. For someone like Bai Jianye who is completely unfamiliar with lying, he might have to fight in his heart again.
"Dad." Bai Lu found a raincoat and hat suitable for adults in the house without waiting for his answer. She put on the rain gear, rolled up her trouser legs, and stuffed her legs into the farmers' rain boots.
She was tall, and the raincoats that men wore would not look too big, but raincoats were more troublesome, and men's feet must be bigger than women. This was also something she often was amazed at. Although her father and brother were gentle, the shoes they wore were all sizes of forty. She was almost 1.7 meters tall, but she was only wearing size 37 shoes. She was a whole circle smaller.
After she took two steps, she felt that the rain boots would fall off. I wonder if she would wear them or not. After all, if the shoes are too big, it would undoubtedly increase the danger when walking on the mountain road.
Unconsciously, Bai Jianye no longer thought about whether he would advise her not to go, but walked into the house and found a pair of women's rain boots to come out.
Bai Lu saw that the pair of shoes he brought out were not new shoes, and someone should have worn them.
Bai Jianye did not explain anything about this, but just asked her to wear these shoes.
After Bai Lu put her feet in, she found that it was still a bit big, maybe it was a size 38 shoes. She turned over the soles and saw that it was true. Of course, she would not think about the shoes her father bought for her mother. Not only was her mother wearing size 37 shoes like her, the shoe size was wrong, but her mother had passed away, so her father could not prepare a pair of shoes her mother wore at home.
The shoe size is wrong, but fortunately, she wears shoes for thirty-seven and thirty-eight, especially when wearing sneakers, it doesn’t matter if she is bigger. Her feet can be stuffed in, and it’s okay to walk a few steps. She is always better than the bigger men, who fit the shoe size and won’t fall.
Bai Lu didn't ask her father how these rain boots came from and who did she wear them.
Bai Jianye seemed to have automatically ignored this problem, picked up the hoe, and went out with her.
The sky slowed down a little, and the sunlight slowly revealed the misty water vapor. The rain drizzled, and when the father and daughter went up the mountain, it was a tendency to be smaller.
Bai Jianye walked halfway, stood and rested for a while, looking back worriedly, fearing that his daughter's delicate body, who grew up in the city, could not adapt to the journey of climbing the mountain. However, the facts proved that his worries were purely unnecessary. Bai Lu walked on the mountain road without steps, step by step, as if a sika deer was walking on a single-plank bridge.
"Dad." Walking behind his father, Bai Lu took off the hat with his left hand and then took off the rain hat. The weather in the mountains changes at any time. Look at the place where they stand, it is no longer rainy. The sunlight is exposed, and the energy to climb the mountain is exhausted, and the forehead is sweating.
Bai Jianye said to her: "It's almost here, hold on for another ten minutes."
For her, it doesn't matter if she climbs the mountain for a few days or nights. However, Bai Lu didn't want to tell her father these words.
The father and daughter climbed the hillside silently and reached about half of the entire mountain. Bai Jianye stood up and reached a foothold, stretched out his hand to open the bushes in front, revealing a slope facing the river.
The tombstones of several generations of the Bai family gather here.
When Bai Lu looked at her family’s cemetery, her heart still felt slightly tight.
In any case, her mother's tomb was next to her grandparents' tomb. This seemed like a huge irony.
At the entrance and exit of the small county town, a Land Rover passed through the toll station and parked in front of a nearby restaurant.
Gao Dashuai, who was driving, jumped out of the car door and ran into the restaurant to buy breakfast. He couldn't help but hold a bag of buns and soy milk and turned back to the Land Rover. When he was about to jump into the car, he saw a familiar figure across the street, and surprise soon appeared on Gao Dashuai's face.
In the passenger seat of Land Rover, his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping. When he smelled something was wrong, he opened his eyes and saw Gao Dashuai standing by the car door without moving, and shouted: "What's wrong?"
Gao Dashuai came back to his senses, and jumped into the car with breakfast in agile manner. Without closing the door, he handed the soy milk or something to Jun Ye, and then whispered: "Master, I don't know if I'm confused. Guess who I saw just now?"
Jun Ye slowly inserted the cannula into the soy milk cup, but he didn't even look at him while looking at him, and replied, "Is it your sister-in-law her brother?"
The tall and handsome man opened his mouth into a big circle, and finally gave him a thumbs up to Mr. Jun: Master, you are a magical calculation! You can guess things like a god!
Jun Ye felt that if he met the White Team here, no, he had already expected it before he came, and he would definitely meet the White Team. But he didn't know when or where he would meet it. Now he met this place, it only means that the White Team may be about half an hour earlier than him starting from Yanjing.
Not surprising.
Because for both of them, they could feel that her missing contact this time was quite strange.
She lost contact unreasonably at the inappropriate point. Not to mention her, the Bai team should have called back to Baijia Village. If Baijia Village has been disconnected, the Bai team must not only worry about their sister, but also about their fathers in Baijia Village and some of the villagers in the village.
"It's good." Jun Ye said, "We don't know the specific way to Baijia Village. Team Bai may know. Let's just follow him."
Gao Dashuai nodded and bitched the buns in big mouths. He was exhausted after driving all night. Because the train to this small county town was too long, they had to drive over after taking a plane to a certain point.
Jun Ye was considerate of him and asked him to sleep in the car after breakfast. He got out of the car alone and walked across the street to the white team.
Team Bai also asked someone to drive him to come. So, he slept in the car like Jun Ye for a night, full of energy, and prepared to go up the mountain. Before going up the mountain, he was even more eager to get the situation inside the mountain. Team Bai found a local person to ask about the road conditions.
Chapter completed!