Go both ways

"Go home, come home, fart? My home is here, okay?" Jiang Chao pointed to the old house in front of him without looking back.This house is quite old, mainly made of wood, painted with tung oil to prevent moths, but it has corroded a bit after a long time, and there are still a few holes in the wall panels. You can imagine how easy it is to leak air. It must be cold in such a heavy snow day.

There used to be quite a few old houses like this in the village, but now there are only a few of them left. The strong laborers left the land at home, went out to work to earn money and returned, and replaced the old houses with brick houses. If it can’t be replaced all at once, half of it is dismantled and a new one is built. It looks like a half-brick house and half-wood house, and it can make do with it—at least it’s more comfortable than the old wood house.

Jiang Chao's family did not have such conditions.

"My family doesn't welcome you." Standing in front of the door, Jiang Chao said sharply. Gu Jiuzhi's face turned pale, but he didn't back down. Instead, he said, "But strictly speaking, this is actually my home."

"You!" Jiang Chao froze for a moment, frowning tightly. She kicked the snow under her feet, and the snowflakes puffed up in the air. She said stiffly: "Nonsense."

Her attitude softened for a moment, because what Gu Jiuzhi said was actually right, but she quickly regained her indifference, not only entered the room on her own, but also slammed the door mercilessly.

Gu Jiuzhi who was thrown outside was not surprised. She stood under the eaves for a while, her hands and feet were getting colder, and the handle of the suitcase was as cold as ice. She hurriedly loosened it, and when she loosened it, she felt her skin Almost stuck to it, the slight pain made her brows twitch.

so cold.

Gu Jiuzhi lowered his head, put his hand to his mouth and breathed, and when his fingers were not so stiff, he went to the yard, picked up the shovel that Jiang Chao dropped and started shoveling snow.

Previously, Jiang Chao only shoveled half of it.

A door separated Jiang Chao and Gu Jiuzhi, the uninvited guest, and she forced herself to forget about the girl outside the door, and stood quietly in the room for a while, not knowing what to do for a while.After that, she seemed to come back to her senses suddenly, walked to the fire pond, poked the sparks skillfully, threw some fire-igniting bamboo pieces into it, and then threw in two knots of bamboo, and the fire slowly ignited There was a crackling sound, heating up the house, and the room gradually became brighter and warmer.

Jiang Chao was sitting by the firepit, throwing bamboo into it absent-mindedly, making the fire more and more intense. He raised the water on the fire stand in the morning, and it gradually became steamy.

Gu Jiuzhi failed to follow into the house, and never called her again, nor knocked on the door. He didn't know whether he had left or not. In fact, Jiang Chao knew without thinking, that person must have not left.

Jiang Chao was a little annoyed.

Gu Jiuzhi didn't come to knock on the door or bother her, she became upset.

The fire was high, and the water in the pot boiled quickly, and the hot air pushed the lid up, making a gurgling sound. Jiang Chao simply lifted the lid a little, and watched the bubbles constantly emerging from the water surface absently, and after a while, She seemed to inadvertently turned her head and glanced out of the window, but because of the large temperature difference between the inside and outside of the house, there was white fog on the window, and she couldn't see the scene in the courtyard. Jiang Chao turned her head back again, and her eyes became more erratic.

At this time, a sound suddenly came from the yard, and Jiang Chao knew it was the sound of snow shoveling.

Is it Gu Jiuzhi?She... shovels snow?

Jiang Chao stood up abruptly, walked to the window, lay down on the window and wiped the glass and looked out. He really saw Gu Jiuzhi picked up her shovel and was shoveling the snow in her yard, saying it was a shovel. Let's snow, you can't even clean a small piece around your feet, it looks so stupid.

I can't even shovel snow. I'm really clumsy.

Jiang Chao frowned fiercely, and he didn't know whether he couldn't bear Gu Jiuzhi moving her shovel, or disliked Gu Jiuzhi's stupidity, or both.

Gu Jiuzhi was also distressed at this time.She saw Jiang Chao shoveling snow very easily before. With such a shovel and throw, the snow cubes were thrown onto the pile of snow piled up next to him. The movements were neat and unrestrained. How could it be her turn, let alone throw it with precision? It's a little hard to even shovel snow up?Is the gap between people really that big?

Cough, the main reason is that she can't control her strength well. If she uses too much strength, the shovel will be directly buried in the soil under the snow, and the soil will be brought out together. If the strength is small, the snow cannot be shoveled clean... Moreover, it was too cold, his hands and feet were stiff, and he moved like a robot. It was good enough to be able to shovel it. What perfection is there to pursue?

Gu Jiuzhi once again deeply felt that housework is really her lifelong enemy.

Whether it was washing and cooking or shoveling snow, she was not good enough, well, badly.It is also because she has never touched these things since she was a child. Although she is not squeamish, the body that has been raised since she was a child is indeed not coordinated enough to do these things. She is handy with a pen, and she does not look like a shovel. Worker.

Forget it, do it slowly, you will always do well.Gu Jiuzhi has a good attitude and is patient enough. After constant exploration, she gradually found the hand feeling, but at this time she thought again, if Jiang Chao saw her like this, he would probably call her clumsy again.

A smile could not help but appear on Gu Jiuzhi's face, but it immediately turned into loneliness.

Alas... maybe not, maybe, Jiang Chao doesn't even want to tell her "clumsy" now.

Stumbled and stumbled, at least the snow had been shoveled, it was almost evening, and it was snowing again in the sky, Gu Jiuzhi ran to the eaves, looked at the wooden door hesitantly, weighed it for a moment, but still didn't knock on it rashly.

She silently sat on her suitcase, watching the falling snowflakes, thinking of any way to let herself in.

Jiang Chao has been lying on the window, watching her shovel the snow with difficulty but earnestly, watching her run to the eaves to hide from the snow, watching her raise her hand, wanting to knock on the door but not daring to do so pitifully.

Jiang Chao: "Forget about freezing to death."

She walked towards the firepit, and after a few steps, a strong wind suddenly blew outside, making the window sills rattle, and there was also wind gushing in from the holes, which suddenly lowered the temperature of the warm room by a few degrees.Jiang Chao stomped his feet, his legs seemed to have their own consciousness, and walked towards the door.

After all went, Jiang Chao opened the door. The woman sitting outside heard the movement, and suddenly turned to look at her. Jiang Chao held the door frame with his hands, and instead of looking at Gu Jiuzhi, he turned sideways , meaning to let her in, Gu Jiuzhi was overjoyed: "Jiang Chao..."

Jiang Chao said dryly: "If you don't come in, are you going to freeze to death in front of my house?"

She bit the word "my home" very hard, and it seemed that she was still thinking about what Gu Jiuzhi said before, "This is actually my home".

As she spoke, she lifted her chin into the door, Gu Jiuzhi hurriedly stood up, and ran in with the suitcase, Jiang Chao then closed the door.

Seeing the scene in the room clearly, Gu Jiuzhi felt a little uncomfortable on his face.

She had probably never seen such a barren place, and such a house.

Previously, he was outside and couldn't see the inside of the house. When he actually walked in, Gu Jiuzhi was surprised to find that the floor of this house hadn't even been paved. Moss even grew in the humid places in the village, and the ones in the winter did not freeze to death.Gu Jiuzhi stepped on the uneven ground and looked around the dark surroundings. His expression was blank for a moment. Jiang Chao took a look and thought in his heart that a person like her, whose hair is full of delicate hair, is really different from here. out of place.

Jiang Chao is used to everything here, but in Gu Jiuzhi's eyes, Jiang Chao is actually out of tune with this place. From appearance to temperament, she doesn't belong here. A girl like her deserves to live in the best palace in the world. , enjoying all the best things in the world, but none of those, she has been owed for too long.

Gu Jiuzhi fell silent again for a while, with shame on his face. Jiang Chao didn't know what was going on in her heart. After letting the person in, he sat back by the firepit to warm up, and turned around, turning his back to Gu Jiuzhi.

She has always been thin and thin, and when she nestled there warming herself by the fire, she was even smaller, and she looked very small even when she was wrapped in a padded jacket, which made Gu Jiuzhi's eyes sore.

Gu Jiuzhi blinked hard to force back the sourness.After entering the house, she was not so cold, but it was only relative. She had never been subjected to such a cold. Seeing Jiang Chao warming up, she couldn't help but move over there. It turned out that Jiang Chao seemed to have eyes on his back. He stopped her: "Don't come here."

Gu Jiuzhi didn't dare to move again, his red and swollen fingers grabbed the pole of the suitcase, and stood there silently watching her.It was really too cold, and she had walked in the ice and snow for so long, and the heat was not so bad when she walked, but as soon as she stopped, the snow on her body melted, her neck and hands hurt from the cold, and the cold entered her heart. I couldn't stop sneezing several times.

Jiang Chao turned his back to her, and sneered: "Go back if you can't stand it, you even chased me to my house, what is this? Do you think I will still be fooled now?"

Gu Jiuzhi still said the same thing: "Let's go back together."

Jiang Chao was silent for a while.

After about ten minutes, Gu Jiuzhi's feet were numb, and Jiang Chao said compassionately: "Come here."

Now that the little ancestor said what he said, Gu Jiuzhi walked over like a stream of kindness, glanced at the seat next to Jiang Chao, did not go there, and sat down diagonally far away in a very "sensible" way.

Jiang Chao threw two more knots of bamboo into the fire. There are bamboo mountains here. Everyone uses local materials, and what they burn is bamboo. Just now, Gu Jiuzhi noticed that there is a small building next door, full of tube after tube The dried bamboo is exactly the kind Jiang Chao burned, and it was probably stored for the winter.

Sitting by the fire, it was really warm.In fact, Gu Jiuzhi is not so cold now, the temperature in the room is high after all, she stood there for a while, her limbs have regained a little feeling, not as cold as it was at the beginning, when she sat down now, He sighed comfortably.

Suddenly, Gu Jiuzhi thought of something.

I don't know where I read a popular science article saying that it is not suitable for people to warm up immediately when they are in a particularly cold state, because it will cause more serious consequences.

So, just now Jiang Chao didn't let her warm up, and then called her over, was it because of this?

Gu Jiuzhi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Jiang Chao, but Jiang Chao was lowering his head, looking at the fire indifferently, with no expression on his face.

But Gu Jiuzhi just knew that it must be like this.

The author has something to say: we, Ah Zhi, can pick candy by ourselves.