it's dark, coax me

Gu Xiu was caught off guard and felt a fiery temperature coming from his hands.

Zhou Xing held his hand and brought him the fishhook that Gu Xiu couldn't pull off with all his skill, but now it fell off easily by itself.

Zhou Xing let go of his hand with a smile, "There are some things, there's no need to fight too hard, just let it be, relax, maybe it will get better slowly."

Gu Xiu only responded, not sure if he listened to his pun.

Zhou Xing changed the subject and said, "It seems that you don't usually fish very much. Do you like this? If you don't like it, I can take you for a walk around later and do something else."

Gu Xiu asked back, "What about you? Do you like fishing?"

"Well, it's a good way to pass the time. I feel very peaceful when I'm fishing."

"Then go on."

Zhou Xing smiled, straightened the thread for him, moved the position of the umbrella a little bit, stood beside him, and sat down again after trying to swing the pole without any problem.

Qian Jing came over with two glasses of drinks.

They squeezed a lot of juice, and put two big buckets in the refrigerator before, and now they brought it here directly. Sitting under the umbrella while fishing and drinking cold drinks, it's not a bit pleasant.

Soon, Zhou Xing raised his hand vigorously, and caught a fish in a short time.

This is the first fish caught by everyone today. This fish is not small, so it is a good start.

Seeing this, several people booed one after another.

They made an agreement before fishing, whoever catches the first fish today will treat the guests in the evening. Unfortunately, Zhou Xing cooks the meal at noon, and he will treat the guests in the evening.

Zhou Xing just responded with a smile to everyone's booing, then took the fish off and threw it into the bucket, baited the hook again, and threw the fishing rod out.

Zhou Xing said before that fishing would make people feel very peaceful, but Gu Xiu didn't feel it at first, but gradually, he began to have a similar feeling.

When the whole person just quietly stared at the float on the water and felt the movement of the fishing rod in his hand, he stopped thinking about other things and naturally became quiet.

Gradually, Gu Xiu began to like this feeling, he quietly stared at the floats in the water for a long time.

After a while, the other people also gained something, but Gu Xiu's side remained silent, without any reaction.

Zhou Xing has already caught three fish after a short effort, he turned his head to look at Gu Xiu, and said, "Raise the fishing rod and have a look."

Gu Xiu seemed to be in a trance, but it took a while to realize that he followed Zhou Xing's words and closed the shot.

The bait had disappeared, only a bare hook remained, no wonder there had been no movement for so long.

Zhou Xing said with a smile: "Some small fish don't bite the hook but only eat the bait. You can pick it up after a long time and have a look."

Gu Xiu responded, baited the fish, and then threw the rod out again.

Zhou Xing did not continue fishing at this time, he put the fishing rod on the shelf.

"Thirsty?" Zhou Xing asked while picking up the juice.

"I'll do it myself."

Zhou Xing's eyes fell on the float and asked, "How do you feel? Do you feel a little bored?"

"No, it's fine."

After a pause, Gu Xiu continued: "Actually, you don't need to do this, you don't need to take care of me like this, and care about my feelings."

Zhou Xing was a little too kind to him. While he was at a loss, he was also afraid that he would become dependent or misunderstand.

In fact, sometimes he would feel this way now, sometimes he would feel that Zhou Xing looked at him with an indescribably soft and tender look, which made him a little unbearable .

"It's nothing, it's not enough. If I do something that makes you feel uncomfortable, you can tell me directly."

"No."

Gu Xiu's words were so decisive that Zhou Xing was amused again.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xing continued, "Actually, you don't have to feel embarrassed. I'm used to taking care of my younger siblings at home, and I subconsciously take care of you as my younger brother."

When Gu Xiu heard Zhou Xing mentioning his home, he remembered what Zhang Hui had said and was interrupted in the middle, and asked, "Your home?"

"Last time I told you that I grew up with my uncle. Besides me, my uncle's family has three children. I am the oldest, with two younger sisters and one younger brother."

Gu Xiu was slightly surprised when he heard this, "Three children? How old are they?"

"The eldest, 26, is now working in a big city, the second, 24, got married last year, and the oldest, 39, hasn't gone to school since graduating from high school. Now he's doing odd jobs or something."

Gu Xiu was a little surprised, the opening of childbirth was only in recent years, so when Zhou Xing said it, he thought it was a very young child.

"We have a small population here, family planning is not so strict, and boys are preferred to girls. Even if you are fined, you have to have a son until you are born. In the early years, every family was like this."

Gu Xiu understood what he said.

Zhou Xing said with a smile: "I was poor when I was a child, and there are four children in my family. Just food and clothing is a big deal."

"Uncles and aunts earn money day and night, and the children in the family can only be brought up by the older ones. I am a few years older than them, so I usually take care of them, and sometimes I go to parent-teacher meetings. .”

Gu Xiu couldn't help laughing, thinking of the scene where one child held a parent-teacher meeting for several other children, he was inexplicably happy.

After that, Zhou Xing told him some interesting stories about taking care of his younger siblings when he was young, which successfully attracted Gu Xiu's attention and made him smile a bit.

Gu Xiu didn't smile much, but when he smiled, he was pretty. Zhou Xing loved to see him smile.

Sometimes when he looked at Gu Xiu, he couldn't understand why such a good person would suffer from depression.

He didn't know what he could do and how he could help him, so he could only take care of him within the scope of what he could do, and make him smile more on weekdays.

Zhou Xing said while lighting a cigarette.

In fact, Zhou Xing told Gu Xiu about the fun things in those years, but in fact those years were very hard.

At the beginning, because his uncle gave birth to two daughters in succession and had no son, he took the initiative to take him by his side after his parents had a car accident and assumed the responsibility of raising him.

At that time, the main reason was that I was afraid that I would be bullied and looked down upon in the village without a son, and I was also worried that no one would take care of them when I was old, and no one would inherit the incense.

But he didn't expect that within two years after Zhou Xing was brought home, he would have a third child, and the third child was still a son.

With a son, it is naturally not Zhou Xing's turn to inherit the incense.

Moreover, it is very difficult for two people to raise three children, let alone Zhou Xing, an outsider.

At that time, his aunt wanted to let him go, and even said in front of his face: "My family can't afford you anymore, you can go with whoever wants you."

Zhou Xing was 11 years old that year.

At that time, he really thought about leaving, thinking that no matter what, he would always be able to survive, and if he couldn't, he could go to the orphanage.

Later, his uncle insisted on keeping him, and his aunt finally had no choice but to agree.

His status in the family in those years can be imagined. Even though he spent little money, never asked for anything, and tried his best to help take care of his younger siblings, most of the time he still didn't get any smiles.

Later, I didn't go to university to join the army because of this reason.

He told Zhou Xing before that his academic performance was not good, but this sentence actually depends on what standard is used to measure it.

His grades at that time were actually pretty good. Even if he couldn't pass the 985 and 211 exams, it wouldn't be a big problem to take an ordinary one.

But when he was in high school, his aunt didn't want him. She only hated him for not being like the other poor children in the village. He went to earn money after finishing nine years of compulsory education. It was impossible to support him to go to college.

Compared with the cost of going to college, being a soldier not only costs nothing, but can actually make money, so his aunt tried her best to let him join the army.

At that time, several younger siblings had to spend money to go to school, and the family was already struggling to support them. In the end, he compromised and went to serve as a soldier, and the money really helped the family a lot...

Gu Xiu looked at Zhou Xing, although the expression on Zhou Xing's face was indifferent and what he was talking about was interesting, Gu Xiu somehow felt the change in his emotions.

"You don't need to tell me these things." Gu Xiu said.

Zhou Xing really didn't say anything after that.

After the two of them sat quietly for a while, Zhou Xing said, "Closer."

Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment, and then he felt the fishing rod start to rise and fall, and it took some strength to hold it steady.

He followed Zhou Xing's words and picked up the fishing rod, and actually caught a fish.

Zhou Xing helped Gu Xiu unload the fish from the hook, and showed him his prize with a smile.

This is Gu Xiu's first time fishing, and he is very happy to see that he can really catch fish.

And this fish appeared at the right time, breaking the previous atmosphere between the two of them, and pulling Zhou Xing back from the previous emotion.

Gu Xiu looked at Zhou Xing's profile, thinking about what Zhang Hui had said before.

Originally, he was a little curious about the affairs of Zhou Xing's family, but from what Zhou Xinggang said, he could understand the difficulty of those years. At this time, he could already understand the hidden meaning of Zhang Hui's words.

But he didn't agree with Zhang Hui's words. He didn't think such a family was Zhou Xing's shortcoming.

He feels sorry for Zhou Xing's past, but the past is also a part of Zhou Xing, and it is the past that determines Zhou Xing's current appearance.

Zhou Xing is a very good person in all aspects.

Sometimes Gu Xiu even wondered what kind of person a perfect person like Zhou Xing needs to be worthy of him.

Gu Xiu had gained experience after catching fish, so he started to catch fish by himself without Zhou Xing telling him anything in detail.

In the following time, both of them had a harvest, and so did the rest of them. They were fishing, chatting, and laughing by the river, and they didn't start packing until five o'clock in the afternoon.

Upon seeing this, Gu Xiu asked, "Shall we go back now?"

"No, go to the farmhouse below to eat barbecue."

"Ok?"

Zhou Xing himself runs a farmhouse, and they want to go to other people's farmhouses to have barbecue?

Zhou Xing only pretended that he didn't know the rules in this area, and explained: "Barbecuing is not allowed near the reservoir, it is not safe, and we are also afraid of polluting the water source. There are no such restrictions when we go to the nearby farmhouse for barbecue. The place is not far from here. We I go there often. There aren’t many people there, so it’s not too noisy, so you can rest assured.”

This farmhouse is indeed not far away, and it took no more than 10 minutes for everyone to drive to the place.

The boss came out to meet them, and helped them carry their things in by the way.

Everyone brought their own fruits, vegetables and fish, and what the boss asked them to prepare was beer and skewers.

They had already greeted each other, and as soon as they sat down on the outdoor chairs, the boss brought everything up.

The barbecue grills here have also been set up, just waiting for everyone to ignite the barbecue by themselves.

Several people lit a fire, and then grilled with skewers.

After Zhou Xing lit the fire, he also randomly took two trays and started to grill the meat.

Gu Xiu walked to Zhou Xing's side.

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "You don't need to come, I'll just come, and you can eat in a few minutes."

Zhou Xing's hands turned the skewers from time to time, and the oil dripped onto the charcoal, making a light sizzling sound, and the smell of meat slowly wafted out.

Gu Xiu stared at Zhou Xing's sharp fingers for a while, then turned his gaze to the distance.

It was the setting sun at this moment, and the clouds on the horizon slowly turned red under the reflection of the setting sun, and finally turned into a large piece of burning clouds, which hung magnificently across the entire sky.

This is the most beautiful time of the day.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Zhou Xing looked at Gu Xiu with a smile.

The setting sun reflected on Gu Xiu's face, making his expression very soft.

The boss over there asked attentively: "Is there anything else you want to eat? Potato cakes, roast chicken?"

These two can be said to be the boss' specialty dishes, Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Okay, let's serve."

Gu Xiu came back to his senses.

Seeing that he didn't seem to have the intention of sitting back and resting, Zhou Xing pointed to the seasoning and asked with a smile, "Why don't you come here."

Gu Xiu was a little hesitant, and asked, "Shall we let go?"

Zhou Xing laughed, "You can put whatever you want."

Gu Xiu took several cans of seasoning and sprinkled them evenly on the skewers.

After this he took the tray again.

Zhou Xing put the grilled skewers on the tray, took new ones and put them on the fire.

The two of them didn't communicate much, but they cooperated unexpectedly harmoniously.

Contrary to the two, beside the other two grills, a few people were laughing and arguing.

Here Zhang Hui disliked Qian Jing for burning the meat, while Zheng Yan complained that Meng Ze knew how to eat without helping.

Gu Xiu vaguely felt that being like them was a truly intimate gesture, and the relationship between him and Zhou Xing seemed a bit too polite.

But after thinking about it, he and Zhou Xing had known each other for a short time, and it was normal to be more polite, and his relationship with Zhou Xing might not be called friends, at least not as pure as friends.

Zhou Xing was just taking care of him dutifully.

It's even hard for him to relax so completely and laugh with others.

He couldn't do anything right, and he was born to be so repulsive.

Unreasonable self-loathing suddenly surged up.

Zhou Xing observed Gu Xiu's expression, didn't ask him what's wrong, just took a skewer and handed it to his lips, "Taste it."