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After several struggles, Yu Zhinian finally settled down in the village with the largest population in Xiping County.

This village is called Dangzhuang. It is not far from Xiping's county area. It takes more than half an hour to drive up from the county seat. It is considered a village with the best road conditions.He rented a small bungalow next to the village chief's house, and Mai Qi bought him a mountain bike, and visited him from time to time to bring him some daily necessities.

Xiping has its own dialect system, which is quite different from Sanwenhua. Yu Zhinian couldn't fully understand it, so he hired a local assistant named Xiaochang.Xiao Chang is the cousin of Mei Qi's colleague. He used to work as a tour guide in Sanwen's travel agency. Later, because of poor business and poor health of his family, he returned to Xiping and couldn't find a job for the time being.

Colleague Mei Qi heard that someone was looking for an assistant who is good at communication, and suddenly thought of Xiao Chang.

Xiaochang was twenty years old, with a cheerful personality, familiar with the surrounding villagers, and patiently taught Yu Zhinian to speak the dialect.He is young and doesn't know much about many customs, but he is very enthusiastic and willing to ask questions for Yu Zhinian.

With Xiao Chang's help, Yu Zhinian has established a good relationship with the surrounding villagers, and the notes are progressing gratifyingly.

The communication signal of Dangzhuang is elusive. Most of the time, the mobile phone cannot receive the message, and the village has no network cable.If Yu Zhinian wanted to contact the outside world, he could only rely on once a week. When Mei Qi picked him up to go to the county, he finally connected to Sange's mobile phone signal and the computer in Mei Qi's study room.

Yang Ke didn't complain about this, but he always didn't want Yu Zhinian to hang up the phone on the night when Yu Zhinian lived in the county guest house every week.The time difference between the two is different. Yu Zhinian is about to rest, and Yang Ke has just started working. Yu Zhinian fell asleep listening to the sound of Yang Ke in a meeting several times.

During half a month in Xiping, Zhao Sibei contacted Yu Zhinian several times.

He learned that Yu Zhinian was writing ethnography in Xiping, so he wrote a long email to Yu Zhinian, which included practical tips that were inconvenient to record when he and his colleagues were doing fieldwork in mountainous areas. The professor who wrote ethnography in Sanwen asked the other party to help him contact the government officials he had contacted back then, and introduced him to the provincial archives, so that he could look up the documents in the future.

Yu Zhinian wrote ethnography independently for the first time, and he was very grateful for the help of all parties. The emails between the two almost consisted of work. Go to Xiping.He added this sentence at the end of the email, in very small font.

Yu Zhinian admitted it, and Zhao Sibei quickly replied: "The rainy season in the mountains is a bit dangerous, you have to pay attention to safety when you go in and out."

The main research content of Yu Zhinian's ethnography is customs and customs.

The rainy season in Xiping is coming soon. Xiping people love and hate the rainy season, and they will hold a blessing ceremony every year before the rainy season.This is the grandest ceremony in Xiping every year. Half a month ago, Xiping people have already started to prepare various ritual items and light incense made of mountain plants at the door of their house.

Coincidentally, Yang Ke came to Xiping just a few days before the ceremony was about to start.This is one of the most important days in Yu Zhinian's field field.

In the earliest days, he also said that he would go to Sanwen to meet Yang Ke, but now he didn't even have time to go to the county town of Xiping.Yu Zhinian went to the mountains to collect spices with the villagers during the day, so he had to ask Mei Qi to pick up Yang Ke for him, and let Xiao Chang wait for them at home.

It took much longer than he expected to pick spice flowers, and he didn't return to the door of the house until the moon was high.

Pushing open the door, he saw lights were on in the yard, and an electric fan was placed in the corner to fan it back and forth.Xiao Chang sat cross-legged on the futon, and there were two people sitting opposite him.

Mei Qi, and Yang Ke.

"Zhi Nian," Mei Qi waved happily upon seeing him, "You are finally back, and this spice has been picked for too long."

"We were talking about you just now," he said.

Under the moonlight, Yu Zhinian looked at Yang Ke from a few meters away. Yang Ke was dressed in the same clothes as last time, so that no one would feel that there was any distance. He didn't make a sound, and looked at Yu Zhinian.Yu Zhinian stood for a few seconds, then whispered to Mei Qi: "What are you talking about?"

"Say you're popular," Xiao Chang said with a playful smile, "Didn't you go into the mountain with Miao Miao today, she must have followed you all the time, right?"

Yu Zhinian was taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately explained: "Xiao Chang, don't talk nonsense."

Miaomiao is the youngest daughter of the village chief's family. She is 19 years old and is studying at nursing school. She is at home during the summer vacation.Maybe it's because he has a good impression of Yu Zhinian, but at most he loves to chat with Yu Zhinian, and has no other actions.

"Is it nonsense?" Yang Ke asked casually from the side.

Yu Zhinian let out a "hmm" and walked to them.

A light bulb was hung at the door of the bungalow, which was the biggest light source in the yard, and there was a scent of toilet water to repel mosquitoes all around.Half of Yang Ke's face was illuminated by the light, and half of his face was in the shadows. He was so handsome and clean that he didn't look like someone who would appear in the courtyard at night in the mountains, but his sitting posture was very relaxed, as if he was also the owner of the place.

Xiaochang yawned and said that since Yu Zhinian was here, he went home first.Mei Qi had to go to work tomorrow, so she didn't stay long, and drove back to the county.

Yu Zhinian brought Yang Ke in, and saw that Yang Ke's luggage had been put aside.

He was covered in dust himself, so he went to take a shower first, and came out to see Yang Ke reading the printed email of Professor Zhao's investigative skills that he had placed on the table.

"My dad has a lot of experience," Yang Ke turned a page, and said to Yu Zhinian, "There is also a certain way of giving away alcohol and cigarettes."

"These are very practical," Yu Zhinian walked over, took a look with him, and asked, "Did you come here alone?"

Yang Ke gave a "hmm" and said, "The assistant is in Xiping."

"How many days will you stay this time?" Yu Zhinian asked again.

"Three days," Yang Ke reached out and grabbed Yu Zhinian's wrist, pulling him closer, and said, "Did it affect your work with Miaomiao?"

Yu Zhinian became hot for a while, and said to Yang Ke: "Don't listen to their nonsense."

"Is it nonsense?" Yang Ke pulled him into a corner, and knelt on Yang Ke's body. Yang Ke kissed his neck, which made him itchy, and asked, "How did you introduce me? Yu Zhinian."

Yu Zhinian pressed Yang Ke's shoulder and said nothing, but Yang Ke said again, "Ordinary friends?"

"Good friend." Yu Zhinian corrected.

Yang Ke had no expression on his face and didn't speak. Yu Zhinian couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy. After thinking about it, he asked him, "Are you tired on the road?"

A few months ago, Yu Zhinian never thought that one day he would go to the mountains to write ethnography, and Yang Ke would come to see him.

Such an option has long been deleted from his outlook on the future of life, and the most imagined scenarios seem to be "one day I met Yang Ke with a company at a restaurant in Heshi", "I ran into Yang Ke with a company when I attended a classmate's wedding", and so on. .

He looked into Yang Ke's eyes, leaned over, and tentatively touched Yang Ke's eyebrows and eyelashes with his hands.

Yang Ke said "it's okay", grabbed Yu Zhinian's hand, and pulled him into his arms.Yu Zhinian's knees were sore from climbing the mountain, and he was also a little sleepy. He leaned on Yang Ke's shoulder, and when he was drowsy, he suddenly heard Yang Ke say: "Before entering the mountain, Li Lu called me and said that I would Might still have to go to court."

Yu Zhinian reacted for a few seconds before raising his face, looking at Yang Ke, and asking him, "Is it about the trust will?"

"Ah."

"What about me?" Yu Zhinian asked.

Yang Ke said, "You don't need it."

Yu Zhinian was a little worried, and asked Yang Ke: "Will it affect your company?"

"No," Yang Ke said simply, "I'm afraid you'll think about it when you see it from other places."

There is no air conditioner or fan in the room, but the night temperature in the mountains is low and the room is not hot.

The sound of cicadas and frogs can be heard outside the window, and the light bulb hanging on the roof makes a slight hissing sound, and small insects flying in from outside hit the light bulb.

Such a peaceful summer night reminded Yu Zhinian of their high school years for no reason.

When Yang Zhongyun is not at home, they sometimes go to the tennis court behind the corridor to play tennis at night.Yang Ke played very well, but Yu Zhinian was not good at it. After playing for a long time, he was so tired that he sat aside. Yang Ke came over and laughed at him.

Of course, the pose can't be as intimate as it is now, but it's not like Yu Zhinian didn't have such fantasies at that time.

In his fantasy, Yang Ke as an adult may be colder and less gentle than now, while Yu Zhinian himself is more proactive.However, compared with his teenage years, after all, it has been some years and many things have happened. Yu Zhinian has also habitually not dared to take too much initiative.

Yu Zhinian looked at Yang Ke, thought for a while, and said, "I don't want shares."

Yang Ke said "I know".

"Yang Ke," Yu Zhinian knew that the matter was long gone, so he shouldn't mention it, but for some reason, he couldn't help asking, "Why did you live with me at that time?"

Yang Ke pressed his hand on his waist, and after a while, he said, "I don't know."

The answer he gave Yu Zhinian didn't surprise Yu Zhinian, he went on to say: "I read your observation book and think—"

"Poor?" Yu Zhinian completed for him.

"No," Yang Ke denied immediately, and after a while, he said, "I thought you were noisy at that time."

"It always appears," Yang Ke said, "You also come to the finance department class, but you can't learn well when you come."

Yu Zhinian blushed.

"Every time he calls, it's all about the will, and I'm annoyed," Yang Ke said to Yu Zhinian, "I'm not interested."

Yang Ke always spoke in a calm tone, but he did not let go of Yu Zhinian's hand, as if recalling a short period of time, and suddenly said: "Yu Zhinian."

"Sometimes, not often—I don't like to think about it."

"But I miss you sometimes then," he said.

"Maybe you are too noisy." Yang Ke said again.

Yu Zhinian leaned his face on Yang Ke's shoulder and did not speak.

"Let you live with me," Yang Ke said slowly, "It's because I think the object is you after all, even if it's according to his heart, but it's not impossible."

"Have I made it clear?" He asked Yu Zhinian, and then said, "I know that I have a bad personality, and I am not suitable for dating or marriage", "But you said I don't like you, and I don't."