Only you are so different

Chapter 6 All Visions Have a Cause

He didn't sleep well all night, and when he felt the sun shining on his cheeks, Lin Mei frowned and opened his eyes, feeling a little headache.

She propped herself up and sat up, and saw Su Xiuran's slender figure standing in front of the French window with the curtains drawn, looking out of the window with some ecstasy.

Lin Mei's gaze also moved out of the window, and she saw a white layer of snow fell on the grass outside at some point, and it was shining like silver scales under the rising sun at this moment.

Lin Mei, who had only seen a sporadic light snowfall in City B all winter, couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and got out of bed.

There was a thick carpet around the bed, she didn't care about putting on her shoes, so she ran over and stood beside Su Xiuran, looking at the fresh snow outside and exclaiming: "Yesterday's rain finally turned into snow."

She was only interested in surprises, but she didn't notice that she was standing very close to Su Xiuran, her head was almost on his shoulder, she was still a little dizzy when she just woke up, and her hairy head also rubbed against his. on clothes.

Su Xiuran turned to look at her, his eyes darkened, and finally he smiled softly and said, "If you like watching snow, I can often bring you here in winter."

Lin Mei happily turned her head to look at him, not paying attention to the words "later" and "come often": "Really, you don't think I'm troublesome?"

Su Xiuran smiled and shook his head. Once he laughed, the softness in his eyes seemed to overflow: "It's okay."

In the bright sunshine in the morning, Lin Mei felt that she was stunned again. She hurriedly took half a step back, looked up and down Su Xiuran, who had just woken up and had a button open at the collar of her pajamas, and mumbled unconsciously. : "God, don't be too evil, what should I do if I can't hold it?"

Su Xiuran didn't seem to hear clearly, he lowered his head slightly with a smile, and moved closer to her: "What?"

Under his bright pupils, Lin Mei only persisted for about a second before turning around and running away: "It's nothing, I'll go wash up first!"

When she tidied up and came out of the bathroom, Su Xiuran was already sitting on the sofa in the living room reading a book.It was snowing and the temperature was relatively low, and floor heating alone was not enough, so he turned on the electric heater in the living room, and put a pair of long legs on the sofa close to the heater, with a very casual posture.

When he came out for a trip this time, he brought a few books with him. Lin Mei went over to read them and found that they were the original English editions.

Lin Mei recalled that the large bookshelf in his study room was basically full of foreign language books, except for English books, there were also some French books, and there were almost no Chinese books.However, he is not very picky when reading books, whether it is classics or popular novels, there are all of them.

Thinking of this, she felt a little strange: "Master, you don't read Chinese novels."

While turning the pages of the book, Su Xiuran replied casually: "Look, it was before the 20s..." His tone was still very casual, "The language of modern Chinese novels is too rough, which will affect my sense of language in writing. Foreign languages This danger can be avoided."

Lin Mei suddenly felt choked up. Anyone who said this would be absolutely arrogant, right?But even if he said it, if outsiders found out, they would probably be scolded for being arrogant and complacent.

After getting acquainted with Su Xiuran, Lin Mei felt more and more that she needed to temper her little heart. One of the reasons was Su Xiuran's sudden mental attacks that could happen anytime and anywhere.

Yesterday she was busy packing her luggage and wondering how to sleep, and now she was in the mood to observe the surroundings carefully, so she discovered some details.

That is, the arrangement of furniture here is almost exactly the same as that in Su Xiuran's villa. Of course, the villa has three floors, and this is a flat floor, so it cannot be completely the same.It’s just that all the homes are subtly similar to those in the villa, such as the design of the open kitchen and bar counter, the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, the wardrobe and the position of the bed in the bedroom, all are exactly the same as in the villa, and even the big bathtub in the bathroom is also the same. There is also a large glass.

Thinking that Su Xiuran lived here for more than a year before moving to City B, she came to a conclusion: Could it be that the villas in City B are decorated and arranged according to the way here?
She became curious, looked around and asked, "Master, you really love this place, your home in City B is very similar to this place."

Su Xiuran did not agree with the definition of "loving", and said without raising his head, "It's nothing, but a similar environment will give me a sense of security."

Since coming here, Su Xiuran has always surprised her. From last night to now, he seems to be revealing his weakness little by little, which has never happened before.

Lin Mei didn't know how to answer, but noticed that while he was reading the book, his eyebrows were slightly frowned, and at the same time he raised his hand to press his abdomen.

Although his expression and movements were fleeting, Lin Mei grabbed hold of him. Thinking of his stomach ailment, she quickly asked, "What's the matter, does your stomach hurt?"

Su Xiuran didn't deny it, but he didn't look at her either. Instead, he continued to stare at the book with a tired look on his face: "It's nothing, probably because there was a bit of cold wind yesterday."

Only then did Lin Mei realize that he put his feet on the sofa and turned on the electric heater again, probably not only because of the cold.

She couldn't help worrying about this great god's ability to take care of himself: "Great God, you need to take stomach medicine for your stomach pain. It's useless to just curl up and lie on the sofa."

Only then did Su Xiuran turn his eyes from the book to her face, and said "um" indiscriminately, indicating that he had heard it.

Seeing him like this, Lin Mei could only touch his nose, resigned to his fate, went to fetch medicine for his stomach, and went to find warm water.

Although Su Xiuran got up earlier than her, but because of his stomachache, he neither boiled hot water nor prepared breakfast. Lin Mei could only temporarily boil hot water with the electric kettle, and then turned it into warm water for him.

Su Xiuran took it and thanked him, and drank a few more sips of water from the water glass. Lin Mei saw that some dry skin had formed on his light-colored thin lips, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Lin Mei thought that his stomach hurt so much that he would curl up on the sofa, but after waking up, he didn't boil water and drink medicine immediately, but forced himself to stand in front of the French window in the bedroom and pose for a look at the snow, and continued to bend over forcibly after watching the snow Posture reading a book in the living room... I feel that to some extent, he is really trying his best.

I took out the ingredients I brought, made porridge with millet, and steamed some purple potato steamed buns, and added some fresh vegetables. The breakfast was freshly baked.

After taking the medicine and eating again, Su Xiuran's stomach pain eased a little. Although he was still half sitting on the sofa reading a book, his posture was much more casual.

Lin Mei couldn't help slandering that with this amount of exercise, he still didn't have a trace of fat on his abdomen, so he had a bad stomach... Thinking of the wind noise she heard last night, she said: "Master, the wind noise here is amazing, it sounds like someone is crying. "

Su Xiuran glanced at her and said, "That's not wind, I've never heard it before."

Lin Mei said "Oh", and suddenly felt a chill down her spine: "It's not the wind, what is that? Someone is really crying?"

Su Xiuran nodded, still very casually: "Maybe."

God, don't be so calm, okay?That ghost crying sound has been lingering around your house all night, don't you care at all!

Just as they were talking, there was a knock on the door at the right time, "Dong Dong Dong". It was unhurried and the sound was not too loud.

There is still snow on the ground, and here is the wilderness. Who would come to visit at such a time?Lin Mei immediately sat up from the sofa, staring at Su Xiuran dumbfounded.

The silence lasted for about a few seconds, and there were three unhurried "dong dong dong", and Su Xiuran finally said impatiently: "Lin Mei, open the door, we have guests."

Lin Mei looked at him in disbelief. At this critical moment, he actually asked her, a little weak woman, to open the door?Shouldn't the man heroically signal her not to move at this time, and then deal with it by himself?
As time passed, the knock on the door rang twice again, each time with three "dong dong dong", no more and no less, and even maintained the same frequency, without impatience.

Su Xiuran looked at Lin Mei helplessly, he could only put down his book and get up, and walked over to open the door.

The cold air outside the door came together with a simple and friendly greeting: "Brother, I knew you were back when I saw the smoke from your kitchen!"

Su Xiuran also responded with a smile, with a lot of warmth in his low voice: "This time I'm only staying for a few days, I don't want to disturb you."

Hearing the conversation coming from the door, Lin Mei broke away from the fantasy of horror movies and realized that it was really a guest. She hurried over and stood by the door and smiled politely outside: "Hello."

It was a man in Mongolian costume, with a beard and a beard. At first glance, he was close to middle age, but if you looked closely, you would find that he was not very old, around 30 years old at most, and he exuded a simple and gentle temperament.

Su Xiuran let him in sideways, and introduced them to each other at the right time: "This is Lin Mei, my friend. This is Wu En, my brother."

Lin Mei noticed that Su Xiuran emphasized that Wu En was his "brother". With Lin Mei's understanding of Su Xiuran, it was impossible for him to be polite, so she immediately realized that Wu En's love for Su Xiuran Of course, it must have an extraordinary meaning to be called "brother" by him.

Greeting Wu En friendly, Lin Mei asked him to sit in the living room, Su Xiuran had already gone to the bar by himself, and skillfully made a cup of milk tea.

The tea was the Earl Gray tea they brought over, but Su Xiuran didn't brew it according to the usual practice, but added some salt after brewing, and served it to Wu En.

Wu En thanked him with a thick porcelain mug, and Lin Mei had already settled down with him: "How did Brother Wu En get here? Now it's snowing outside so it's hard to drive."

Wu En laughed "haha": "Indeed, but riding a horse is just as fast!"

Wu En speaks Mandarin with an unnatural minority accent, his smile is very simple and amiable, and his eyes are shining with sincerity.

Su Xiuran sat down and explained with a smile: "Wuen lives in the ethnic village on the other side of the mountain, and he came here very quickly on horseback."

Most of the mountains on the prairie are just slightly larger bumps of soil, which are incomparable to the mountains that stretch for dozens of kilometers in the hilly areas. Su Xiuran said that Wu En lives on the other side of the mountain, and the distance will not exceed a few kilometers.

Wu En nodded again and again, with a simple and honest smile on his face: "Yes, now we have built a customs village here, and everyone has fixed jobs and residences, and they don't have to work hard to herd animals. This is also a blessing brought by Brother Su."

They came in by the small road yesterday, and they didn't see any ethnic customs village along the way. According to Wu En, this customs village has something to do with Su Xiuran?

Su Xiuran smiled lightly. Although he didn't look at Lin Mei, he seemed to be explaining to her specially: "It's nothing, I just suggested to my friends that the environment here is suitable, and building an original ecological resort would be a good project, and the final decision will be made." are still friends."

Having said that, Lin Mei felt that the "friend" he was talking about did not exist, and the Su family should be the one who built the resort here. After all, apart from the Su family, his old friends probably thought he had "passed away".And after he wrote the book, he lived more reclusively, basically did not contact other people except the people in the editorial department, and did not make any "friends".

Her question was revealed through her eyes, Su Xiuran did not turn a blind eye to it, but gave her a look as an acknowledgment.

Lin Mei felt that she hadn't rashly guessed that it was indeed correct. Most people would think that he was squeezed out by his family and had to go far away when they saw him "resurrected from the dead" and had to go away. Persecuted and hunted down by relatives.

But through a series of clues, such as his house here was arranged by his family, and he even allowed the Su family to fund the construction of a resort for Wu En, it is enough to prove that he and his family are not at odds with each other, and they have even kept with a subtle connection.

A simple and simple Mongolian man like Wu En, of course, did not notice their exchange of eyes, and excitedly told Su Xiuran about the situation in the past six months.

It is said that Fengqing Village had a lot of guests last summer, and the aborigines who own the shares got a lot of money. In addition, the herdsmen still get their wages, so many people's lives are better. Whose old people have money to see a doctor, whoever The child of the family went to the city to study in college, and his eyebrows were beaming while talking.

Su Xiuran listened with a smile, nodding his head from time to time, looking very interested, but Lin Mei, who knew his personality well, knew that he probably didn't take a single word of these trivial things that he thought were boring.

When Wu En finally finished speaking dryly, and the cup of milk tea had run out, Su Xiuran smiled and got up to make another cup for him, being extremely gentle and considerate.

Wu En is not a eloquent person, the reason why he can't stop talking is because he hasn't seen Su Xiuran for a long time, and he has already held back his words.

After finishing what he had to say, he took a sip of milk tea, his expression changed slightly, and his honest face was quite serious: "There is one more thing to tell you, after the winter this year, everyone always hears that someone is Crying outside the door, but when I opened the door, I couldn’t see anything. I searched all around the village, and one day I gathered a dozen strong people, and they rode horses in the snow for a long time, but there was nothing. looking for.

"In winter, the snow is so thick that everyone thinks it's a fox wolf. What kind of cubs are hiding under the snow and calling, and they will stop when the spring comes. I didn't expect the snow to melt in the spring. Everyone is a little panic these days. Close the door tightly... If you hear any noise on the side of the mountain, pretend that you didn't hear it. Anyway, it's been screaming all winter, and nothing happened."

Lin Mei quickly asked: "Is it a crying sound like the wind? We heard it last night, and it seems to be very close to here."

Wu En nodded: "The sound is sometimes near and sometimes far away. When it is near, it seems to be under the window. When it is far away, you can't hear it if you don't pay attention. It was very far away in the village yesterday."

Did Ganqing specially go to cry under their window yesterday?Lin Mei's imagination was rich, and her hair stood on end, she couldn't help but reached out and grabbed Su Xiuran's arm.

She lost her composure and didn't pay attention. When she came back to her senses, she thought that Su Xiuran would push her hand away, but he didn't move. He just looked at her and said to Wu En with a smile: "Okay, we got it. After nightfall, I will definitely not go out and run around."

Wu En showed a reassuring expression, and then smiled honestly: "That's good, I rushed over to see Brother Su today, just because I was afraid that you wouldn't know this."

Wu En sat for a while, he was not good at exchanging pleasantries, he just asked Su Xiuran if he was in better health, how many days to stay this time, when will he go back, when will he come back again, or else it is the situation of those people in the village.

Near noon, he expressed that he would rush home for lunch, then got up and hugged Su Xiuran to say goodbye, saying that Sarina and Toya missed him very much and brought them to see him these few days.

Hearing these two names, the polite smile on Su Xiuran's face finally changed a bit. Lin Mei guessed that he didn't even know who those people Wu En mentioned before, but these two might really know each other.

Su Xiuran thanked him with a smile, and insisted on sending Wu En outside the house, Lin Mei hurriedly found him a coat to put on, lest he come back from the cold and complain of a stomachache.

A tall maroon horse was tied to the railing outside the door, waiting for its master very docilely and quietly.

Wu En got on the horse handsomely. This simple and honest Mongolian man jumped on the horse, as if he had gained a second life, and he was a little more handsome.

Waving goodbye to Su Xiuran gracefully on horseback, Wu En rode his horse and ran to the other side of the hill, leaving a second series of horseshoe marks on the smooth snow.

Because of the crying last night, Lin Mei took a special look at the surrounding snow, and found that apart from the hoofprints left by Wu En's horse, and some traces obviously left by birds or beasts, there were no other marks. .

She couldn't help muttering to herself: "Is it really something supernatural? No way, I believe in science."

As usual, Su Xiuran didn't respond to her words. After Wu En disappeared around the hill, he smiled slightly and turned back to the room.

The Great Master has an upset stomach today, so of course Lin Mei is in charge of the lunch.

After eating the lunch carefully prepared by Lin Mei, it was afternoon again. When he was in City B, this period was the golden creative period for Su Xiuran. He usually locked himself in his study to write books.

But since he was on vacation, Su Xiuran didn't even bring his computer with him, so he half-lyed on the sofa and continued reading after afternoon tea.

Lin Mei not only graciously made black tea for him and put it at hand, but also took a blanket to cover his legs and protect his stomach by the way, so as not to make him yell and feel uncomfortable. As a result, Su Xiuran's posture became more lazy and casual a little.

Looking at his appearance, Lin Mei thought of the other one who was left at home, their common master, Lord Chunshen. I have to say that there are some similarities in some places.

After serving him comfortably, Lin Mei felt that she could ask some questions: "It seems that you and Wu En have a good relationship, how did you meet?"

Su Xiuran didn't raise his head, and his slightly deep voice was as mellow as if he had been drinking wine: "The first winter I came here, the generator broke down, and it was snowing and the signal was not good. I couldn't communicate with the outside world, so I had to tear down the furniture. Build a fire to keep warm.

"At that time, I thought I was going to die of cold and starvation. It was Wu En who came out to graze and found the fire in the room. He came to rescue me, and later sent me a lot of food."

In this way, it is almost equivalent to the grace of saving lives, no wonder Su Xiuran regards him differently, but Wu En himself must be a trustworthy and sincere person, otherwise according to Su Xiuran's personality, at most give him some financial gratitude, It won't be called brothers after so many years.

What he said next really confirmed Lin Mei's thoughts, and he said lightly: "I asked my family to build a resort here, just to make him live better... As for how other people live, I don't care at all."

Lin Mei remembered the two obviously female names: "Where are Sarina and Toya? They have taken care of you too."

Su Xiuran looked up at her with meaningful eyes: "Sarina is Wu En's childhood sweetheart's wife, and Toya is his daughter, who is only three years old this year."

Lin Mei turned her head sideways to avoid his gaze, not wanting to admit that she was being tentative just now.

Su Xiuran's attitude towards Wu En is so good, it can be called amiable, it is very different from his usual cold and indifferent attitude, who can guarantee that he has not fallen in love with a pure and beautiful Mongolian girl like a flower ?
Lin Mei cleared her throat, and changed the subject a little stiffly: "That crying sound...First of all, we need to rule out any supernatural, supernatural and other factors. I think it should be man-made." Now she is very serious.

Su Xiuran smiled: "Oh? Why do you know?"

Lin Mei frowned and thought for a while: "Just now Wu En said that the noise has been going on for a whole winter, and it hasn't disappeared until now. They also ruled out the causes of animals and nature, even seasonal factors...then Only people are left for it."

"You did a good job of reasoning."

Lin Mei smiled "hehe" and said, "I've been studying with the Great God for so long, so I can't make any progress."

Su Xiuran continued to look at her and smiled: "Then how did you speculate?"

Lin Mei was not afraid of embarrassing herself in front of Su Xiuran, so she stretched out a finger and said confidently: "My guess is this: we visited quietly yesterday, and we didn't say hello to others in advance."

Su Xiuran added lightly from the side: "Every time I come here, I never notify Wu En in advance, just like today, he usually judges that I am back from the smoke coming out of here."

Lin Mei nodded: "We can't see the ethnic village from here, and I didn't find that there are buildings on the other side of the mountain, so I think although Wu En can tell that there are people here through the smoke during the day, but at night, the people here The lights are blocked by the mountain, so he didn't realize we were here yesterday."

Su Xiuran nodded in agreement: "Indeed."

Lin Mei continued: "Then let's assume that the person who discovered our arrival should be in a place where he can see the lights on here for the first time... Because it is inferred from common sense that it is impossible for him to specifically monitor this year-round people's hut."

Su Xiuran nodded: "This judgment is also reasonable."

Lin Mei said: "It's all wilderness here. Assuming he is in a position where he can see the house at any time, there are very few places to choose from, and the place needs to be able to withstand the severe cold in winter."

Su Xiuran added: "The extreme temperature in winter here is minus [-] degrees, and the average temperature is also minus ten degrees."

Lin Mei was speechless: "It must be an artificial building. Only wild animals can live in caves... The strange thing is that the herdsmen in Fengqing Village all ignored this building when they were patrolling. Someone might be playing tricks, so this place..."

Lin Mei stood up and walked to the big window in front of the living room, raised her finger and pointed to the dense forest in the distance outside the window: "So I speculate that the culprit probably lives in the ranger's duty room, or it may be the ranger himself! "

Su Xiuran put his palms together and clapped his hands lightly, with a smile on his lips: "That's right, there is indeed a forest guard station in the forest, with complete facilities, regardless of taste, the necessities of life are no different from here...Actually It was originally an abandoned weather station, but it was rebuilt by me later.”

Seeing that she had guessed right, Lin Mei immediately beamed with joy: "So it's true that someone has been hiding in the forest ranger station all winter to play tricks? No one found out?"

Su Xiuran shook his head: "There is a lack of fuel here. Before these cries appeared, there should still be herdsmen following the old habit of picking up fallen branches in the forest to make fire."

Lin Mei understood: "Then, because of the strange cries this winter, the herdsmen are afraid of unknown beasts and ghosts, so naturally they won't go deep into the forest?"

Su Xiuran smiled: "You may not have noticed last night, the crying we heard here came from the edge of the forest."

Lin Mei immediately figured it out: "That person saw us driving over last night, in order to prevent us from entering the forest, he specially chose a place very close to us to pretend to be a ghost, in order to scare us?"

Su Xiuran smiled slightly: "They probably didn't expect to meet such a difficult character like you."

Lin Mei looked at him in surprise: "Don't tell me you're not interested, my god? Shouldn't people who like reasoning encounter such weird emergencies and can't help but investigate?"

Su Xiuran shook his head: "No, you are not only a person who likes reasoning, but also a person who is very curious."

Lin Mei stuck out her tongue quietly: "I know, in horror movies, this kind of person usually doesn't survive for 3 minutes, and will soon be cannon fodder because of his own death."

She can always turn the topic in nonsensical directions, and Su Xiuran couldn't help laughing: "That's a pity, we're not making a horror movie."

Does it mean that it's a "pity" that she didn't commit suicide and was cannon fodder?Lin Mei knew that she couldn't expect to hear anything good from him.

Fortunately, she didn't get entangled. Instead, she squinted her eyes and touched her chin like a famous detective: "Do you think we should go to the forest to find out each other's reality?"

Su Xiuran nodded seriously: "You are the standard now..."

Lin Mei kindly took over the words he couldn't utter for him: "Standard death?"

Su Xiuran smiled subtly, although his tone was still light, not joking: "Although the crime rate here is lower than that of large cities, there is only one resident policeman in the ethnic customs village, and there are two or three local police officers. Co-op, more police forces are tens of kilometers away...Once encountering violent elements, it is difficult to get personal protection in the first place."

Lin Mei expressed her understanding: "I know, I'm just talking casually, I'm not the protagonist of a detective drama, I don't have the aura of invulnerability, I understand."

"It's good that you understand, the so-called do as the Romans do, has multiple meanings."

Lin Mei tilted her head and thought for a while: "But I'm still curious, why don't we do some inconspicuous field investigations and try not to arouse their suspicion?"

"This can be considered. They take pains to scare the herdsmen with crying because they have secrets to hide. Such people usually don't choose to take the initiative to make trouble."

Lin Mei looked out the window, it was obviously not suitable to go out today, the outside was covered with heavy snow and it was still very cold, even if she could go out, she would not dare to let Su Xiuran accompany her.

Su Xiuran saw that she was eager to try, so he smiled and said: "You can pretend to look at the scenery, go out and look around our hut, there will be a lot of details after it snowed just now." He paused, "Tomorrow I will ask Wu En Borrow two horses, let's ride around the neighborhood."

Lin Mei opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Can you really ride a horse?" She had long been envious of Wu En's tall, handsome and docile horse.

Su Xiuran raised his hand and raised his chin leisurely, thought for a while and said lightly: "Oh, I forgot to ask if you have practiced riding."

Lin Mei was suddenly depressed again: "No."

Su Xiuran showed an expected expression and raised his eyebrows: "It's okay, I'll teach you."

Lin Mei was so happy that she almost knelt and licked: "The Great God is awesome, the Great God is omnipotent, and the Great God accepts my worship!"

Su Xiuran smiled at her, picked up the half-read book beside the sofa, and continued to read.

He didn't tell her that not everyone is always curious and eager to explore the world, just like him back then, reality and body were nothing but prisons that guarded his soul.

Until recently, he gradually began to care about everything around him, and he began to feel that the world has become brighter again, and there is a brilliance worthy of his stop and nostalgia... This is more precious to him than anything else.

Lin Mei was fully armed and checked the situation near the house. In order to confuse her opponent, she also pretended to hold a shovel in her hand, pretending to be shoveling snow.

She walked around the house carefully, even shoveling along the gravel path they had come from.Except for a little detail, what she got was that she built a snowman with the shoveled snow.

After inserting a few twigs on the round head of the snowman, and adding two thick eyebrows to the snowman with dead grass leaves, she happily raised the shovel in her hand: "Come and meet King Thranduil of Mirkwood!"

Wrapped in a thick overcoat, Su Xiuran stood on the steps with a cup of black tea and watched her go crazy, a smile could not help showing on his lips: "Our King obviously needs a luxurious cloak."

Lin Mei nodded again and again: "Master, you are so right!"

Then she pounced on Su Xiuran and stretched out her claws, with a smirk on her face: "Master, I think the coat on you looks good, take off the King that was given to me!"

Su Xiuran evaded with a smile, turned sideways and easily dodged her chaotic attacks, the smile in his eyes almost spread out from the corners of his eyes: "The benevolent Elf King will definitely not have the heart to take away the poor human's remaining warm clothes..."

While laughing, the black tea in Su Xiuran's cup spilled on the ground, and Lin Mei staggered and hugged his waist.

She laughed and raised her head, only to see his eyes falling on her face, there was so much unexpected tenderness and brilliance in the deep black pupils.

As if being burned by his gaze, Lin Mei subconsciously let go of her hand and took a few steps back.

She retreated so suddenly that she didn't even think of saying a joke to break the siege, and Su Xiuran obviously didn't intend to speak for her, so an awkward silence spread soundlessly in the air.

A few seconds later, Lin Mei turned her eyes hastily, and used snow shoveling to cover up her gaffe: "Look at me making my king's pile bigger, so I don't need a cloak!"

Su Xiuran didn't answer the conversation, Lin Mei shoveled a few times indiscriminately, feeling the silence behind her still existed, she turned her head and saw that Su Xiuran hadn't returned to the room, he still held his hand in an almost graceful posture. Holding the teacup, he stood at the original position.It's just that there is no such tender smile on his face anymore, only a reserved smile remains.

Lin Mei looked at him again, and suddenly felt that the background behind him should not be such a white cottage, perhaps a cold and solemn old castle would be more appropriate.

After a while, Su Xiuran went back to the room first, Lin Mei buried his head in shoveling the snow for a while, and heard a soft sound of closing the door behind him, and when he looked back, he was no longer there.

Is Su Xiuran angry?Lin Mei was not very sure.

Did the indescribable ambiguity between them just now, and her sudden retreat, have angered him?
After all, his face cooled down to an observable degree, very quickly and obviously.

Lin Mei was a little apprehensive, and stayed outside for a while, until she realized that her feet were numb from the cold and her fingers seemed to have lost feeling, so she realized that she had stayed outside in the cold for too long.

Back in the house, she first put the shovel back in the tool room, and then dawdled to the living room.

Su Xiuran had already turned on the electric heater again, and when he heard her movement, he raised his head and said, "Bake it, so as not to leave frostbite."

His tone was indifferent, but he didn't ignore her, but said something of concern... Maybe it means that he is not so angry?

Lin Mei walked over cautiously, sat down beside him, and put her stiff feet in front of the electric heater. A warm feeling rose from the cold soles of her feet, which was indeed very comfortable.

She secretly glanced at Su Xiuran's face, and found that he had no other expression except for his indifferent expression, so she said some jokes to break this subtle embarrassment: "Master, your waist is quite thin, hold it up It’s quite tactile.”

Su Xiuran glanced at her sideways, and said in a flat, ironic tone, "Why, are you still addicted to hugging?"

He usually spoke in a calm tone, but this time Lin Mei was sure that she could hear his disdain and arrogance.

His emotions were so obvious that even Lin Mei, who was trying to appease and show kindness, couldn't ignore her. She suddenly felt that her self-esteem had been stabbed, and at the same time, she felt a little wronged.

She just hugged his waist accidentally. He obviously sometimes had some physical contact with her. As a clean woman, she didn't show any resistance. Why did he treat her so contemptuously when she touched him? ?
Lin Mei lowered her head slightly to hide her hurt eyes, and said after a while: "Dinner is about to come, I'll cook...and make you some medicine." After speaking, she stood up and moved around With his hands and feet not fully recovered, he went to the kitchen.

In fact, Su Xiuran's medicine can be handed over to the traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy to be boiled and pressed into bags of liquid products. After all, it is much more convenient. Nowadays, many people drink Chinese medicine in this way, but Lin Mei insists on giving it to him twice a day. Boiling, the reason is that the effect of the medicine should be better, and the most important thing is that the mind is more satisfying.

After she left, she didn't see Su Xiuran silently raising her head to look at her figure, with deep remorse and a touch of anxiety in her eyes.

It was not his intention to say something that would make her feel embarrassed and wronged, but he couldn't help but care about her actions and expressions just now... It was just a hug, but she backed away from him in such a hurry, as if he was her fear of avoiding him. Some kind of existence beyond reach, something dirty or tricky.

She must have never expected that if she hadn't retreated hastily and stiffly, his next move would be to hug her waist.

At that moment, he was full of anticipation to reveal his heart, but he was caught off guard by the overwhelming cold.

He knew that he might have overreacted. In order not to arouse Lin Mei's resentment, he should pretend nothing happened, and even cooperate with her to make a few jokes to prove that he didn't care.

But he couldn't control himself, being so mean and sharp, so frizzy, so out of control... In the end, he still failed to make other actions to make up for it, and only spread the dull atmosphere in vain.

While Lin Mei was busy in the kitchen, she thought a lot. She thought about the details of her recent relationship with Su Xiuran, and wondered if there was anything wrong with her attitude.

By the time of dinner, her mood had calmed down a lot, and she thought she had found the crux of the matter.

The man she has been in contact with the most these days is Su Xiuran. It is undeniable that he is a very attractive man.And the woman Su Xiuran had the most contact with was also him. Judging from his closed life, she was probably the only woman he had intimate contact with over the years.

With these factors, everyone is single young men and women, it is inevitable that there will be some ambiguity and embarrassment, just like when she was outside the house just now, she did not grasp the scale of getting along with the opposite sex.

So everything is just loneliness and habit at work, just pay attention to it in the future.

In the process of thinking, she overlooked one detail, that is... Su Xiuran turned cold when she let go of her hand suddenly, not when she hugged him.

Thinking that she had adjusted her mentality, Lin Mei's attitude towards Su Xiuran returned to her usual nonchalant attitude, and when he was patiently drinking the medicine, her cheerful attitude remained the same as before.

Su Xiuran also seemed to have returned to a normal state, with a light but gentle smile, and polite and elegant manners.

When they finished their meal and sat on the sofa, Lin Mei put on a posture of "Let's talk about it and forget about the unhappy things", cleared her throat and said, "Master, I'm sorry for my attitude towards you recently It may be a little casual, but I will pay attention to adjustments."

Su Xiuran looked up at her, and she saw that his eyes were soft and calm, so she continued: "Maybe I am too casual, so I accidentally offended you in some places, I hope you can forgive me. I will try my best to pay attention to it in the future." Boundary, if you find that I have done something wrong, I hope you can tell me frankly, after all, what we want to do is a long-term close cooperation, and we need to maintain good communication and trust."

To her surprise, Su Xiuran didn't answer for a long time, but just looked at her calmly. For a moment, Lin Mei almost thought that he didn't understand her meaning, but she immediately denied it.

Are you kidding me, Su Xiuran's IQ may even be able to learn Elvish language without a teacher, and he can't understand Chinese?

After a long time, Lin Mei unconsciously held her breath, and Su Xiuran smiled at her slightly: "I will."

Lin Mei breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little unbelievably disappointed. She said so much, with such a sincere attitude, and he only had these three words?
But Su Xiuran, who was born with aloofness, had already turned his eyes away, and cast his eyes on the book in his hand. Even if Lin Mei wanted to say something, she held back all of them.

Nested on the sofa and swiping on the tablet computer for a while, she couldn't bear it anymore and finally ran to the French window and sang loudly to the vast field outside the window: "Ah...peony! The most colorful among all the flowers! Ah...peony , the most spectacular in the Fragrance Kingdom!"

Lin Mei sings very nicely, with a full voice, full of emotions, can pull down the bass, and up the treble, bel canto is good at everything popular, even rap, the number one mic in the editorial department, and the finale of the company's annual meeting Yes, strength is not blown out.

It's just that the two voices suddenly yelled in the quiet hut all around, and the penetrating power is extremely strong, which is also quite scary.

Fortunately, Su Xiuran who was in the same room with her at the moment was Taishan collapsed without changing his face. After she finished singing, he just turned the pages of the book without raising his head, adjusted his posture slightly, and continued to read.

Lin Mei also murmured to Xue Yuan outside the window: "No, this song doesn't suit the scene, so I should change it."

She also specially turned on the accompaniment on the tablet... and began to sing "Let it go". I have to say that this song really fits the occasion.She even recorded the sound, and played it on the tablet again after singing to appreciate the effect.

When she finished tormenting, Su Xiuran might be afraid that she would continue singing, so he said lightly, "If you want to scare people, the volume is still a bit lower, and the glass in this house has a good sound insulation effect."

Lin Mei was stunned by him, she turned her head and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I think the long night is quite boring, since someone outside is trying to scare us, why don't we pay back, it's a courtesy."

Su Xiuran turned another page of the book, and said flatly, "Did you find anything this afternoon?"

Since the afternoon, Lin Mei has been patronizing and arguing with him, but before Lin Mei really had time to report the progress to him, she said at this time: "There are still some gains, for example, around our house, including places a little farther away from the house, I haven't found it yet. footprint."

Su Xiuran nodded slightly at her, waiting for her to continue.

She thought for a while and then said: "I recalled the crying last night, and felt that it was very even and regular, and it was probably a recording. It is difficult for ordinary recording and power amplifier equipment to operate at a temperature that is too low. Therefore, the equipment cannot be left in the snow for a long time, and should be held by someone.

"It also means that when we heard the cries, there were people in the field, and they were quite close to us ... so I guess, in order to avoid leaving footprints in the snow, they left before the snow stopped. "

When Su Xiuran heard this, he interjected lightly: "The crying stopped around four o'clock in the morning, and the snow stopped around six o'clock."

Lin Mei's eyes lit up first, and then she thought: "How do you remember so clearly? You were awake last night? Did you have a stomachache or were you disturbed?"

Su Xiu avoided answering, but continued for her: "Because they are afraid of leaving footprints, they will leave before the heavy snow stops, which can prove that they don't want to be discovered by us."

Lin Mei thought for a while and said: "I have a feeling that they will continue to play tricks tonight, and now there is snow on the ground... If we are lucky, we can find some traces left by them tomorrow."

Speaking of which, she ran back to the sofa, picked up her laptop, pointed to the built-in camera above the screen, and smiled a bit: "You said that I turn on the camera at night and put it by the window facing the forest in the kitchen, it will Won't you get something fun to shoot?"

Su Xiuran looked sideways at her computer: "Find a piece of black tape and stick the indicator light on."

Lin Mei hurriedly said "Oh", flattering habitually: "It's better to be careful, the red indicator light is still very eye-catching at night, and it's easy to be spotted!"

Facing her unscrupulous flattery, Su Xiuran naturally smiled and shook his head. He closed the book, leaned on the sofa with one hand and wanted to get up, but suddenly staggered a step when he got up.

Lin Mei was startled, threw the laptop aside, and ran over to support his unstable body.

It was only in the afternoon that she was unhappy because she hugged his waist, but at this moment she couldn't think of any scruples, and looked up at him in a panic: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong?"

Su Xiuran supported the back of the sofa with one hand, he couldn't stand upright yet, fine beads of sweat hung on his pale side face, but he held her wrist with his free hand.

His hand was cold, but he held it so tightly, as if holding the only warmth in the snow and ice.

Lin Mei looked at him, she could feel the unusual strength from her wrist, something was destined to happen at this moment, and this time, she couldn't escape.

Su Xiuran smiled slightly, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, the water vapor was dense, and the gentleness was shocking, he opened his mouth in a low voice, the words he said were cold and soft, like a snowflake falling: "Lin Mei , you said, we need to be honest with each other."

They were so close that even their breaths were stuck together, Lin Mei held her breath and saw his face approaching, so close that she could only see his chin, almost colorless thin lips and straight nose bridge.

In extreme tension, she suddenly closed her eyes, and after a while, she felt something soft and cold touched her lips.

She didn't respond, nor backed away, but tensed all the muscles in her body and stood stiffly, her mind was filled with a noisy emptiness.

His voice sounded, but no emotion could be heard, he just narrated indifferently: "Your body is stiff."

Lin Mei didn't know how to answer, her body didn't resist him, but she didn't feel joy or moved in her heart either.

Everything came too suddenly. At the previous moment, he was still an impossible opposite sex to her. Even if he had a slight heartbeat, he was nipped in the bud.

But in the next second, he kissed himself, not a domineering kiss full of possessiveness and predatory feeling, but such a light and cold kiss... as if there was some kind of sadness and despair.

refuse?How to bear it.Accept with joy?But there is no way to talk about it.

She closed her eyes and remained silent for a long time, until she felt Su Xiuran's body leave, and he took a step back, allowing the two of them to regain a safe distance.

Lin Mei opened her eyes carefully, and found that although his face was still pale, he had already stood up by himself, with his hands in his pockets and looked over quietly.

Feeling guilty for some reason, Lin Mei lowered her head to avoid his gaze: "Master, are you joking?"

She focused on his toes, and when she was about to make a hole, he coughed softly.

Lin Mei hated her worry-loving nature more than ever. He just coughed, and she quickly looked up at his face: "Master, what's wrong with you? Do you have a cold? You need to take medicine when you have a cold."

He still looked at her calmly, without a smile on his face: "Call me Xiuran."

Lin Mei took a breath quietly: "Master, please stop making trouble, your physique is not a joke, if you catch a cold, take medicine quickly."

Su Xiuran still said calmly: "Call me Xiuran."

The stubborn Su Xiuran was not only troublesome, but also a little childlike. Lin Mei thought about the batch of manuscripts that were going to be sent to the printing factory but were chased back, and immediately decided to give up: "Xiuran...how can you not Comfortable?"

Su Xiuran smiled slightly, his thin lips were still white, but the words he uttered were enough to irritate people: "I'm not uncomfortable, I'm just angry."

Lin Mei felt that she was the one who got mad, okay?Has she done anything unreasonable?She was obviously so considerate and gentle.

Perhaps seeing her expression, Su Xiuran finally showed a stretched smile, turned his head and coughed a few more times, but walked towards the bedroom as if he was in a better mood.

Lin Mei, however, was afraid that he would lose his balance and fall, so she followed behind him unwillingly and asked warmly: "Big...Xiu Ran, are you really okay? Don't scare me, it's a bit sudden in the wilderness here. No hospital could be found.”

Su Xiuran said "um" to show that he knew: "Don't worry, I'm the one who has lived here for a year."

She relaxed her hanging heart a little, then remembered Su Xiuran's light kiss that made her very entangled just now, and decided to insinuate: "Xiu Ran, are you particularly emotional sometimes?"

Su Xiuran stood still and turned around, Lin Mei, who followed him step by step, had no time to slam on the brakes, and her face almost hit his chest - too much height difference is not a good thing.

He looked down at her with deep eyes: "You think I'm too lonely or sick and weak to act like this to you?"

In front of his level of insight, Lin Mei had no intention of hiding anything, she cleared her throat and said, "It's normal for me to think so, after all, we've only known each other for a month or two, there's no reason for a man like you to do this Fall in love quickly."

Su Xiuran smiled at her. He didn't intend to explain, but his expression was in a trance for a moment: "I also thought that it would be impossible so quickly... until just now, I felt that pain."

Lin Mei's breathing quickly stopped. For a person like Su Xiuran, the lethality of his love words is indeed at the level of a hurricane... She was only a little bit close to being blown away of all her sanity.

Su Xiuran smiled at her again, then turned and went back to the room.

Lin Mei secretly let out a breath, and heard his voice coming from the bedroom: "Don't make excuses to sleep on the sofa tonight, I won't do anything to you."

Only then did Lin Mei realize that they had shared the bed last night, and they will continue to share the bed today... She suddenly wanted to pray to God to take her out of this place.

She wasn't afraid of Su Xiuran's night attack. How could he, who was extremely proud and a gentleman to his core, do such a shameless thing as a night attack? She was afraid that she couldn't help but attack him at night, God will testify!
Of course Lin Mei slept in the bedroom, firstly the sofa was really uncomfortable, and secondly she didn't have the guts to disobey Su Xiuran again.

Seeing his pale face, she couldn't afford to be sorry if he accidentally got mad at him.

Originally, I thought that this night was destined to be unsettled, but Lin Mei probably didn't sleep well the first night, and it took a lot of energy to shovel snow during the day. After lying down, I felt my whole body was soft, and I fell asleep without stress after being wrapped in a quilt. dawn.

The next morning, she was lured to wake up by the smell of coffee wafting from the half-open bedroom door. Su Xiuran didn't drink coffee, and would get up early in the morning to make coffee, which must be made for her.

After Lin Meichu woke up, a word popped up in her mind that was still a little bit confused: breakfast of love.

It was this word that completely woke her up. She turned over and sat up. The first thing she did was to look at the small wall made of blankets in the middle of the big bed.

Very good, the blanket is still in good condition, it stands majestically like the Great Wall and has not been violated in the slightest.

She exhaled, thankful that she slept enough last night, and didn't crawl over to rape Su Xiuran in the middle of the night in a dream.

The handsome man was right in front of his eyes, and he even threw himself into his arms. If he couldn't resist not to pounce on him and eat it in one bite, Lin Mei felt that he had exhausted his character for the rest of his life.

She didn't even dare to guess what unscrupulous actions she would make once her body lost the control of willpower.

Early in the morning, she was frightened and afraid to get up. After washing, Lin Mei went to the kitchen, and saw Su Xiuran wearing a solid linen apron frying eggs.

He timed it very precisely. After she sat down at the dining table, the baked bread just popped out, and the cup of coffee was delivered to her right in front of her.

Lin Mei clapped her hands together and expressed her thanks, with some sincerity and trepidation: "Thank you, Great God."

Su Xiuran tilted his head slightly and smiled: "Everyone cooks in rotation one day...isn't that a common practice?" He paused slightly, "Call me Xiuran."

God, don't you smile so softly in the morning sun and ask others to call you by your name!This is too foul!

Lin Mei shouted silently in her heart, while pretending to be calm: "Then I have to thank...Xiu Ran."

Su Xiuran smiled gently, then turned his head to cover his mouth and coughed a few more times.

Seeing that his face was really pale, Lin Mei stood up in fright: "My heart has been exercised for you. Now a wolf comes outside and I can tear it apart alive. Please don't force yourself to pose. If you don't feel well, just be fine." Rest please!"

What she said was so funny, Su Xiuran couldn't help laughing again, he still covered his lips, coughed a few times with a smile, then put down his hand, and raised the corners of his lips to her: "It's okay, I have something to eat Cold medicine."

He walked to the dining table, opened the laptop that he had moved to the table, and showed her the video that was frozen on it.

That was the picture taken by her laptop last night. Generally, the built-in camera of this kind of laptop has low pixel resolution, and the shooting effect at night is extremely poor.

But fortunately, the weather was fine last night, the moonlight was good, and with the reflection from the snow, we managed to take a recognizable picture.

Before she got up, Su Xiuran had already checked the content of the shooting, and fixed the picture at the most important place - the blurred shadows of some luminous objects on the edge of the forest.

Su Xiuran tapped the keyboard, and the video started to move, and the bright spots also moved slowly. If you observe carefully, you can see that the moving speed should be human pace.

Lin Mei picked up the cup and sipped the mellow coffee that was right for her taste: "Oh, Great Immortal Hu's fur coat fell off."

Su Xiuran smiled: "What are you going to do next?"

Lin Mei looked at him strangely: "Hey, why didn't you participate?"

Su Xiuran stared at her, the curve of her lips was elegant and charming: "Why should I participate? I'm just here for vacation, and I'm not overly curious."

When he asked such a question, Lin Mei was really stopped. Even if she was sure that the crying in the wilderness was man-made, so what?

She didn't have any evidence that the other party was engaging in illegal activities. What if someone said it was just a prank?Perhaps the people in the Ethnic Customs Village also confirmed that someone was playing tricks, but everyone remained silent in unison.It's because he's afraid of causing trouble to his upper body, and more because he has nothing to do.

She thought about it carefully, and decided to put this question aside for the time being: "Maybe you should tell your family, after all, the Ethnic Customs Village is an industry invested and built by your family, and if someone does something here, it will bring something to your family." trouble."

When she mentioned "family", Su Xiuran didn't show any different expression from usual, but just curled the corner of her lower lip: "You don't need to remind me, I will tell them."

The topic ended here, Lin Mei couldn't think of anything else to add, so she lowered her head and concentrated on eating breakfast.

Su Xiuran had already eaten, and after taking off the apron and putting it away, he went to the living room first.

His mobile phone was placed on the coffee table in the living room. When he approached and sat down, the screen lighted up silently, accompanied by the vibration of the incoming call reminder.

His number is very private, and few people know it. Su Xiuran glanced at the call notification on the screen, and the words "Su Xiuyan" were displayed on it.

Holding his mobile phone, he avoided Lin Mei, went to the study on the other side of the house, and closed the door behind him.When the phone was connected, it was Su Xiuyan's voice that was somewhat similar to his, but much colder.

Su Xiuyan at the other end of the microphone did not hide the malice in his tone, and laughed sarcastically: "Dear brother, it is said that you have a new pet recently, is it pretty and cute?"

Su Xiuran ignored him, and just asked indifferently: "How is Mommy recently?"

Su Xiuyan laughed "haha", and he didn't answer Su Xiuran's question, but threw out another sentence lightly: "I don't know if that beautiful little pet can see your true nature...you bought it specially took her out of her rented house so that she could live in your house, does she know about that?"

(End of this chapter)