At least I can't guess what she's doing.

Sitting outside for a few minutes, I thought about it a lot. In the end, I felt that it was too cold outside, so I went into the tent. Close the flysheet and sink into your sleeping bag. Before I could fall asleep, I heard the sound of the zipper opening.

In the dark, I saw Lino shrinking into my tent, dressed in pajamas and holding a sleeping bag in his hand.

"Haven't slept yet?" I asked suddenly.

She was taken aback and let out an embarrassed giggle, "I, I'm afraid." So, so. People, this is out. ”

After saying that, she wanted to slip away.

I smiled and patted the spot next to me, "Come here." ”

"Really?" There was surprise in her tone.

"It's just tonight, don't tell the Guardian Girl." The squeeze of relatives and the death of relatives must make the current Li Nuoyi particularly vulnerable. Tonight, my heart softened as rarely as I could.

"Well, don't tell her if you die." Li Nuoyi excitedly got into my sleeping bag, she lay in my arms, leaned against my chest, and moaned comfortably.

I closed my eyes again, and Li Nuoyi sought my palm, clenching it. Her little hands were a little cold, and before she went to bed, she vaguely said in my ear, "Ah Ye, actually, I'm so scared." ”

"I'm here, don't worry." I hugged her tightly. She seemed to be really relieved, her whole body relaxed, she took my hand and fell asleep.

It didn't take long for the day to dawn, and the sun poured down on the earth, driving away the cold and bringing warmth and light.

By the time I came to my senses, it was almost 11 o'clock. The sun's rays are like thorns, projected onto the flysheet, fainting out of circles of light. There was no trace of Li Nuoyi in the sleeping bag next to him. Turning over, she came out of her tent and saw her cooking breakfast in a camping gas tank in an open field.

Seeing that I was awake, she looked back like a good wife and mother and smiled sweetly, and pointed not far away, "The toiletries are there, and breakfast is almost ready." ”

In the direction of her finger, there was a small stream. Last night, because it was pitch black, I didn't notice it at all. I scratched my messy hair and washed it with the stream. The stream is clear, and schools of tiny fish can be seen swimming by from time to time. The tranquility that I hadn't seen in a long time calmed my heart a lot.

"Come on, eat." Breakfast was poached eggs and quick spaghetti. Compared to the simple conditions, the taste is already very good. Looking at my messy hair, Li Nuoyi covered her mouth and laughed, she gently scratched my hair with water, and then found hair wax to smooth it. Looking at his masterpiece with his hands behind his back, he nodded with satisfaction.

Although I had a late-night snack last night, the hunger in my stomach was still very substantial. After I finished breakfast, I found her sitting across from me, holding her head with her hands, looking at me in distraction.

"What?" I was embarrassed to see her.

"Nothing. I think Ah Ye is more and more handsome the more you look at it, and the more you look at it, the more flavorful it becomes. Unlike those men who smell heavy fat now, walking down the street, I can't even figure out their gender. "Her eyes were shining, and she was almost a nymphomaniac.

"Don't talk about it, it's like a romance." My face is hot.

"Shy, Aye is shy." Li Nuoyi smiled and straightened her long hair. She tied her hair into a neat long ponytail, and combed some green silk on her temples and hung it on the side of her ears, "It looks good on the left, or on the right." ”

She put her long ponytail on her left shoulder, tilted her head to think about it, pulled it to her right again, and asked.

"It's all good." I replied vaguely.

"Sure enough, as I said, asking men these things is tantamount to asking in vain." Li Nuoyi said these words, but the happy expression on his face still did not dissipate in the slightest. She seems to be very satisfied with her current life. Although her grandfather's death last night hit her hard, she clearly didn't want her depression to affect me.

I put my face in order and changed into more casual clothes. I went to Mr. Li's house with her, and none of the relatives were inside, and the rest were all people who had come to help. After burning some paper money, Li Nuoyi stood in front of the coffin containing his grandfather's corpse and looked at the corpse for a long time.

"Let's go out for a walk." I tugged at her arm.

"Hmm." She nodded slightly, and walked out of Li's house with me.

Last night, I didn't really see the terrain of the entire Liluo Village, and it wasn't until I left the Li family that I figured out the appearance of the village.

The village is indeed located on a shallow hill. This shallow hill is located in the cascading mountains, and the elevation is more than 3,200 meters above sea level. It's a plateau and canyon landform.

There are not many other trees in the whole village, and all the fields are planted with a green, round-shaped shrub, and only a few peasant homes are dotted with pine and cypress trees.

The Li family compound should be built at the highest point of the shallow hill and occupies a lot of land.

"Haven't you always wanted to know what a hedge looks like? All of these. Li Nuoyi drew a circle in the air with his fingers, enclosing all the green bushes in his sight.

Sure enough, I was thinking just now that what can be planted in a large area of Fence Village should be Fence Fall.

I found a hedge closer, and I took a good look.

I saw that this plant is about 50 centimeters tall, and the tallest is only more than 80 centimeters, which is round. The leaves are oblate and pointed at the top. The branches are covered with green thorns. I carefully snapped a thorn and looked at it in my hand. The thorn is verdant green, measuring less than a centimeter. The trunk is like a needle. The underside of the needle tip is covered with dense barbs, a miniature version of the green thorn that punctured our tires last night.

"Are all hedgerows so small?" I asked.

Li Nuoyi nodded, "The history of the village is recorded, and the largest hedge is only one meter and five meters high. The size of the thorn is about 150 or 80 in the same height as the tree. If it were to grow to the size of the thorn we saw last night, I would estimate that the hedge would have to grow at least nine meters, which is simply not possible. ”

"Perhaps." I didn't know the specifics of the hedgerow, and I couldn't make a judgment, so I didn't waste any more energy on it. But I secretly paid attention to it in my heart.

"What are the parts used to make flavors?" I sniffled, the so-called essence, diluted ten million times into a perfume that swept the world. There are many types of flavors, but most of them are judged directly by the human sense of smell, and they will be considered to be a foul smell. But the shrubs called hedgerows under my nose didn't give off the slightest smell, and I couldn't even smell the scent of plants.

"Guess." Li Nuoyi smiled slyly.

I looked at her expression, then looked at the fence again. I tore off a leaf and put it in front of my nose and smelled it, but it didn't smell. After thinking about it for a long time, he hesitated and said, "Could it be the rhizome of a plant?" ”

"Wrong." She took the thorn from my palm, "It's its thorn." ”

"How is that possible!" I was amazed that the essence can be extracted from many plants and animals. Animals are sachets or internal organs, while plants are mostly flowers and leaves, and it is very imaginative to guess that they are rhizomes. But the answer was beyond my imagination.

"Every year in February and March, the hedges begin to grow thorns. As winter approaches, the thorns of the entire plant will fall off. Farmers usually take advantage of the February harvest when the hedges are budding and thorns, before the thorns have yet to take shape, just before they are still buds. The thorny foliage contains a chemical that is very pungent. This was all discovered by my father, who studied chemistry, and developed into a unique industry in the village. ”

Li Nuoyi also picked a leaf from the plant and gently crushed it with his thumb and forefinger, "It is said that the vicissitudes of the sea, in fact, human beings are the creatures that have changed the most to nature." Who knew that this plant, which only grows in the village of Hedgeraku, would change the whole village? More than 10 years ago, the village was just weeds that hindered the growth of crops. No matter how hard the farmers shoveled, they couldn't eradicate it. But more than a decade later, the farmers turned the crops into weeds, and the hedgerows became cash crops, which became a unique way of making money in the village. ”

Sighing, she continued to mumble, "My parents built a factory in the city and formed a business. In order to reduce costs, farmers are encouraged to take land as shares. All the hedges planted are purchased by the company. At first, it was nothing, the people in the village were as simple as ever, and everyone was excited and happy because of the increase in income. The essence extracted through the thorns of the hedge produces a special smell that has conquered many perfume houses around the world. Sales and prices went all at once. Soon after, my family's company went smoothly, and the original shares of the local farmer's hands became convertible money. ”

"That's when everything changed." Li Nuoyi's face was full of sorrow: "Originally, the Li family had a good centripetal force, and it was a big family that was poor but harmonious. But in order to compete for land and occupy more shares, in the end, the brothers turned against each other and the sisters became enemies. Then, everyone thought that my dad was sitting back and enjoying his success, and he worked hard to plant hedges and trees, and my parents only needed to sit in the office in the company, which could take away most of the profits. My aunts and uncles demanded that my parents hand over management and give a large portion of the shares. This is just nonsense, they don't know what a company is and what management is. Just want to get more money. ”

"The way it is today, the family has completely lost their affection. At the end of the day, it's all about money. After Li Nuoyi summed up the situation of his family in one sentence, he looked at me, "I finally said it, whew, it was much more comfortable." ”

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