Summary: The Elves' Daily Love

——A familiar title.

Yun Ci turned around and saw Xie Yuchen, who was soaking wet, running towards her.

Xie Yuchen is a bit of a mysophobe. He always keeps himself clean.

But today, I got soaked like a drowned chicken.

Xie Yuchen's trouser legs and shoes were covered in mud, and his hair was lying on his head because of the rain. He raised his hand to push it back, revealing his smooth forehead.

Looks much more mature.

Yun Ci fell into a somewhat clammy and cold embrace.

"Sorry, I seem to be a little late."

Yun Ci buried her head in the crook of Xie Yuchen's neck, shook her head gently, and said in a muffled voice: "It's not too late at all."

She always thought she was used to it.

But when faced with death, she couldn't control her feelings and felt sad and regretful.

"Thank you for coming."

It's much easier to face it with two people than alone.

Yun Ci patted Jie Yuchen's lower back, signaling him to let her go.

"I'm all right."

Yun Ci held the shovel, walked back to the pile of earth, and slowly buried the coffin.

She didn't ask for help and did the whole process by herself.

There was nothing engraved on the stone tablet. This was Grandpa Yun’s own decision. Yun Ci chose to respect it and did not add anything unnecessary.

The sky remained gloomy.

The rain that Yun Ci had forcibly driven away poured down as if in revenge the moment the grave was completely ready.

Before the rain could extinguish the paper money, Xie Yuchen blocked it with an umbrella.

Yun Ci knelt on the ground and burned all the paper money she had prepared. After watching it burn out and the flames go out, she spoke: "Let's go."

When it rains heavily, it's not good to let others stay here with you and wait in the rain.

"There is a hot spring nearby. My grandfather dug it." Yun Ci looked at the three people who were soaking wet, and said, "You should go take a dip. It is very dangerous to get sick in the mountains."

Jie Hei and Jie Bai looked at Jie Yuchen, and only after Jie Yuchen nodded did they put on their waterproof backpacks, and the four of them walked towards the waterfall together.

There are two hot spring pools, both of which were slowly dug larger by Grandpa Yun from small cracks.

Yun Ci was wearing her inner garments and said to Xie Yuchen, "You can come to my side of the pool."

Jie Hei and Jie Bai, who were arguing about whether Jie Yuchen should go first, looked at each other and then looked at Jie Yuchen together.

The cave entrances where the two pools are located are right next to each other. Standing at the entrance, you can see the hot spring pools inside without any door blocking them.

Yun Ci wrapped herself in her inner clothes and went down into the hot spring pool, then turned to look at Xie Yuchen.

Xie Yuchen paused slightly and went into the water wearing only his pants and shirt.

Immediately afterwards, two sounds of water entering the water were heard next door.

Yun Ci leaned against the hot spring pool, touching the not-so-flat stones below with water, her eyes blank.

'Crash--'

The sound of water swaying.

Xie Yuchen moved to Yunci's side and put his arm on Yunci's shoulder.

The warm big palm that had been soaked in the hot spring touched Yun Ci's slightly cold shoulder.

Yun Ci looked at Xie Yuchen, who patted her shoulder soothingly, comforting her silently.

When we finished soaking in the hot spring, the rain outside had stopped, but the sky was still cloudy.

It was clearly noon, but it was as gloomy as the early morning.

Xie Yuchen had already changed into clean clothes, but when he looked at the mud outside, his brows furrowed slightly. He made sufficient mental preparation before he put on his freshly washed shoes and stepped into the mud.

"We don't walk this path often, so there are no cobblestones." Yun Ci said, "But the path leading to the waterfall is paved, so we can go there and take a walk."

Xie Yuchen held Yun Ci's hand, just like Yun Ci held his hand when they were children, and responded.

The simple bamboo shed above the open-air kitchen was leaking a little, so Yunci cleaned the stove and made pickled pork with preserved meat and bamboo shoots at home.

A full pot of hot soup will completely prevent you from catching a cold.

After dinner, Jie Hei and Jie Bai stood beside the bamboo poles where clothes were hung to dry, looking up at the sky.

"Looking at the weather, it will probably rain in the afternoon."

"Ah."

"What about the clothes?"

The two turned to look at Yun Ci.

Yun Ci pointed to the hook under the second floor of the bamboo building and said, "Just move the pole there."

"Then let's move now, before it rains and we are too late."

Both of them were tall enough, so they didn't need to stand on a stool. They could put the bamboo pole on it by just standing on tiptoe.

Yun Ci took the quilt and put it on the first floor of her bamboo house.

"Xie Yuchen, you can stay in my room."

"Jie Bai and Jie Hei, one of you will stay on the couch on the first floor, and the other one will come with me over there."

Yun Ci went to sleep on the bed that Grandpa Yun used to sleep on.

The rain lasted on and off for five days, but fortunately we had bamboo shoots and meat at home, and the small vegetable garden grew lushly because of the rain, so we had no shortage of food and drink.

On the afternoon of the fifth day, near dusk, the shadow of the sun slowly appeared on the horizon, announcing the end of the rain.

When the sun rose the next day, Yun Ci moved all the clothes, quilts, beds, and other daily necessities used by Grandpa Yun that she had sorted out the day before to the tomb and burned them.

Xie Yuchen accompanied Yun Ci in moving, and the two watched together as everything burned.

"Grandpa, I'm leaving."

Yun Ci didn't stop and turned back to the bamboo building.

She used up all the remaining flour at home, mixed bacon, cured chicken, pickled vegetables, etc. with vegetables, and made them into sesame cakes and buns that she could eat on her way out.

I wrapped up the remaining cured meat and took it to Jie’s house to eat slowly.

"Do you want to take these bamboo shoots with you too?"

"Take it with you." Yun Ci packed the seasoning into a bag and stuffed it into Jie Hei's bag. "There's also bacon here. If you want to drink soup on the way, you can also make pickled pork with preserved vegetables."

When Jie Bai heard this, he stuffed the bamboo shoots into his bamboo basket without hesitation.

The pickled pork with preserved vegetables tastes really good, and I want to drink more.

Yun Ci, who was standing outside the bamboo building with a lot of bags, looked again at the place where she had lived for many years, then turned and walked towards Jie Yuchen.

"Let's go——"

*

On the way back, Yun Ci walked very quickly and did not look sad at all. She kept urging Jie Yuchen to hurry up so as not to delay Jie's family affairs.

Xie Yuchen and the other two thought that she was hiding her sadness deep in her heart, so they quickened their pace and left this "sad place" as soon as possible.

The Xie family's vehicle was waiting in a place where traffic could pass, but unfortunately the large bamboo basket could not fit into the small car. In the end, Yun Ci could only move the things inside and throw the bamboo basket into the forest, waiting for some lucky person in need to pick it up.

The vehicle swayed and jolted as it drove out of the mountains.

September.

Yunci officially entered Peking University and became a student majoring in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Herbal Medicine.

As for whether she would encounter any danger if she could not follow Xie Yuchen all the time - hadn't they done experiments before, those people simply did not believe that she was not with Xie Yuchen.

This was also thanks to Yun Ci's mysterious appearance before, disappearing in a flash and reappearing in a flash, otherwise those people would not be so afraid of her.

The only people who knew that Yun Ci was really not with Xie Yuchen, apart from Xie's mother and some close confidants, were the Wang family hiding in the dark.

"Student Yun, there is a social gathering with the neighboring school tonight. Do you want to attend?"

Yun Ci looked at the girl who had asked her out for the Nth time since the start of the school year, and there was a hint of hesitation on her usually expressionless face.

It seemed like she was embarrassed to keep refusing.

The girl's eyes lit up and she tried harder to persuade Yun Ci, and Yun Ci nodded reluctantly.

"Great!"

Yes.

Great.

Finally she found her chance.