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Chapter 344 Julie on the Tree

"Is that your home?" Chen Xing asked in surprise.

"Yes, yes, are you coming up?"

She spoke lightly, as if climbing a tree didn't take much effort.

She soon arrived at a small house built with various branches, planks, and black tarpaulins. She didn't go in, but sat at the door and opened the plastic bag that the children had just sent.

Chen Xing smelled the strong smell of beef again.

Nose spirit is also a sin.

"If I don't come up, I don't know how to climb trees." Chen Xing said.

The girl could have entered the tree house to eat, but she didn't do so. While eating, she said to Chen Xing who was already far away: "That's a pity, the scenery up here is very beautiful, what's your name, Where are you a tourist from Asia?"

"Huaxia."

"Wow, that's a nice country, several times the size of Sweden."

many?I don't know much!

Sweden seems to be only 10,000+ square kilometers, while China has more than 900 million people.

The area of ​​Sweden is less than a fraction of that of China, and it is only the area of ​​a province.

The term “travel abroad” is quite popular in China, but there is not much such enthusiasm in Europe. For people in Europe, traveling abroad is like going out of the province at home. It doesn't matter people.

She loves chatting very much, and talked a lot with Chen Xing.

It is very principled, saying that Chen Xing can only eat when he climbs up, but now he really does not give Chen Xing at all.

Just as he was about to bid farewell and continue walking, Chen Xing heard someone running towards him.

Chen Xing couldn't understand the squeaky Swedish.

At first I thought it had nothing to do with me, but then I realized that this group of people was coming towards me, and the leader was a child, one of the few children Chen Xing saw just now, followed by a group of men and women, saying Walking towards this side while speaking in Swedish that he couldn't understand.

Although I don't know what they are talking about, but judging by their faces... they are very unfriendly.

Simply vicious.

But when they approached Chen Xing, their faces changed, and they looked at his equipment suspiciously.

This is a gringo tourist...

It's just that it's hard to see foreigners in this small place.

"You are?" Someone asked in English.

Finally someone could speak English, Chen Xing quickly replied: "I am a tourist, if this is your private place, then I can leave now, I'm sorry, I didn't know before."

Coward first!
The person who spoke English misunderstood Chen Xing, and then said to his companion.

"Just an ordinary tourist."

"Who said a foreign boss came?"

"Boy, please see clearly in the future, we are tired after running so far!"

"Then go."

"Don't worry, this handsome guy is really good-looking, wait until I get to know him."

Everyone chattered and discussed, Chen Xing was a little depressed, he might as well leave earlier, walk faster and now we are all in the city.

There was a burst of laughter from the trees.

The woman didn't know when she came down with food, so she listened to them from a tree several meters high.

Only then did Chen Xing see her face clearly.

She is in her twenties, very young, her hair is white, but it is a little gray in the dim light in the woods, but it cannot hide the smile on her face. At this moment she is sitting in a On a thick branch, eating steak with a fork in one hand and a box in the other, with his legs dangling back and forth.

Not afraid of falling off at all.

Nice balance.

Everyone looked at her when she laughed, and after she said a few words, the group was about to leave. This time, their attitudes were completely different from when they came here. Everyone who could speak English expressed apologies to him, and then said A few words like a happy trip.

After they all left, Chen Xing said to the girl on the tree who was giving a speech: "What did you say to them? Why did you all leave?"

"I said that you are my friend who came to see me from abroad."

"..."

"Are you their boss?"

The scene just now looked very majestic. There were about a dozen people in that group, and they were persuaded away with a single sentence.

Chen Xing is not envious of this ability.

He has also been majestic, who hasn't been young and frivolous, but he is very curious why this group of people would listen to a woman.

"No."

"Then why are they so obedient?"

She chuckled, hung the food bag on a branch, patted her side and said to Chen Xing: "Want to know? Then come up and chat with me, I'm almost bored to death."

Chen Xing saw that her eyes were clear and good-looking, he nodded in agreement after thinking about it for a few seconds, and then climbed up.

Ten meters or twenty meters dare not go up, but a few meters high is still possible.

Chen Xing hasn't climbed a tree for a long time.

But now that his hand touched the trunk, he soon thought of how his cousin took him to climb the tree when he was young, jumped up and grabbed the branches for support, and soon came to the girl. This person is really good-looking, especially When he laughed, he felt like the Nordic version of Zhang Zifeng.

"Look, didn't this come up? He also said he couldn't climb trees."

She rolled her eyes, took out two pieces of bread from the bag, handed them to Chen Xing, and said, "I heard your stomach growl, haha, here you are, take it."

Chen Xing was not a polite person, and said with a smile: "Thank you, I'm going to eat."

"Wait a minute!"

He hurriedly grabbed Chen Xing, and then took out a small snack-like package from the pocket of his jacket. There were Swedish characters on it that Chen Xing couldn't understand, but he knew after she tore it open. The inside was flaky. Ham, it smells good.

She squeezed it out and put it between two pieces of bread, and then said: "It's ok, it's better this way."

Don't be fooled by domestic bread.

In Chen Xing's opinion, European bread is actually not tasty, it's not very sweet, and it's easy to dry your mouth when you eat it, just like steamed buns, you have to drink it with some water to make it more interesting.I don't know what the raw material is for this snack that smells like ham, but it definitely tastes better when added to bread than eating bread directly.

After taking two bites, Chen Xing felt refreshed all over his body.

Fan Dabiao doesn't lie to me.

When people are hungry, as long as they have food, they are very happy.

Sitting on a branch five meters above the ground, there are some cedar trees around that height, and the trees near the road don’t have any leaves. Maybe it was blown away by the wind brought by the passing cars?Anyway, he could see through the trees now to the road that occasionally drove by.

Suddenly, a dirty hand appeared in front of Chen Xing's eyes. The shape of the hand was beautiful, but there were many calluses on it, especially under the tiger's mouth.

Now this hand holds a bag of milk.

Chen Xing looked at her hand, and looked at her when he took it to eat.

Woman you managed to get my attention.

Really, it's too mysterious.

He tore off a corner of the bag, took a sip of milk to sweeten the bread in his mouth, and then said, "My name is Chen Xing. I said I was from China earlier. What about you?"

"Julie, my name is Julie Carroll."

She wasn't worried about what would happen at this height, she put her hands on both sides of her buttocks, and her legs flew up. From this, Chen Xing could guess that she was very happy now, but why was she happy?Wouldn't it be falling in love with yourself?

Chen Xing thought about it narcissistically.

But her eyes were different from those superficial Yangou girls. Chen Xing didn't see infatuation from her eyes looking at him, but pure joy.

Barely suppressing his hunger, Chen Xing breathed a sigh of relief: "Now you can tell me, who are they?"

"They are all volunteers in several nearby towns or villages. Sometimes they will send me some things. Those three children who were scared away by you are their younger brothers. Haha, do you look scary? They You will be scared away."

Chen Xing subconsciously touched his face.

"Don't touch it, you look very good-looking."

"Thank you for the compliment."

"Haha, I'm not blind."

At this time, the sun slanted a little from the middle, just enough to shine on them. Julie raised her head and closed her eyes, letting the sun shine on her neck. The white hair also highlighted her complexion. Bai who doesn't go out.

"It's so comfortable to bask in the sun in winter."

"Well, is that house yours? It looks very nice."

Zhu Li looked up at the house she had built, hummed, and nodded heavily: "I built it myself. The inside is more beautiful and wider. There is a bed for me to sleep on, and a small table made of tree branches. So comfortable to sleep at night with two birds as my neighbors... oh, not two, two, a black-throated woodbird and a red-breasted tit, both beautiful."

"Do you want to go up and have a look?" She still looked at Chen Xing and asked.

"No, no, no!"

Her tree house was at least 30 meters long. Chen Xing looked down at this height, and his legs were a little weak, let alone climbed up the tree step by step.

Chen Xing was afraid that he had the guts to go up, but he didn't have the guts to come down.

"By the way!" Chen Xing suddenly realized, "You just said you slept on it? You can't live here, right?"

"You guessed it, I live here."

"???"

The old man in the subway is puzzled.

"But... why?"

"For this tree." She patted the branch she was sitting on, making Chen Xing tremble with fear.

But the branch is very stable, no shaking at all.

"This tree is [-] years old, and it may be the largest tree in the surrounding area. It has guarded us for many years, and there are many small animals living on this tree." Zhu Li has not yet said. After that, a squirrel quickly climbed up the tree from the ground, chirping.

His ability to climb trees was many times better than Chen Xing's, and he couldn't see the squirrel in a blink of an eye.

"Look, there are lots of birds besides squirrels."

"Do you like animals very much?"

"I don't deny it, but I don't live in trees because I like these animals, I just live in trees because of the tree itself."

Chen Xing still didn't understand.

Zhu Li put away her smiling expression, pursed her lips and lowered her head, sighed, and said to Chen Xing: "A year ago, the Slagness government issued a notice to cut down this tree because it was too big. , blocking the growth of many surrounding plants."

Indeed, the natural world pays attention to the law of the jungle, not only for animals, but also for plants.

Larger trees will take root deeper, and the canopy will grow taller because it wants to absorb more sunlight, and spread out in all directions, so that the plants around it will of course not be able to receive sunlight.

But such a big tree, it's a pity to cut it down...

Chen Xing only felt it was a pity, but Julie felt angry. Under Chen Xing's astonished eyes, he hammered the tree trunk several times, and said fiercely: "What kind of stupid order is this, this tree has elves, if you put The tree is cut down, where does the elf live?"

"Elves?"

"It's the elf in our Nordic legends, the kind of elf who will turn into a girl during the festival to celebrate with us, go shopping, and return to the forest at night."

Chen Xing touched his chin like a detective.

Are you talking about yourself?

"So? Do you want to find the elf?"

"No, as long as I live on it, they won't come to cut down this tree." She said that she was a little proud here, shaking her feet, "Besides being a little boring, living on a tree feels surprisingly good , listening to the chirping of the birds makes me sleep more soundly, really, you can try it.”

Chen Xing looked up at the 'tree house' which looked very small due to the distance and shuddered.

"No, no, no."

Only then did he see the girl's eyes narrowed into a line, revealing a relaxed and happy atmosphere, full of sense of humor.

Just kidding.

But at this time, Chen Xing realized that what Zhu Li said in a relaxed tone was a terrible thing. In order to prevent people from cutting down the tree, she had lived alone on this tree for a long time, and Will continue to live like this.

Unless the local government withdraws the logging order.

In front of the referee, she was in a tug-of-war with a regional government.

Chen Xing looked up again at the place where she lived, and then looked at her for a long time with a very deep and serious expression, seeing that Zhu Li's white face turned red, and then asked:
"You are really amazing, how long have you lived?"

"It's almost... a year." She also replied very deeply.

The atmosphere gradually became serious, and it seemed that the sky was going to die.

But Chen Xing suddenly thought of a problem, and looked towards the ground under the tree. Zhu Li found that her face turned pale, and then turned red again, which was very interesting. She resisted this moment and pushed Chen Xing down. Impulsively, he asked, "What about you? Why did you come here?"

"On foot."

"This is not a place for hiking, are you lying to me?"

"No, I followed a Dane who came to look for meteorites. He was still looking for meteorites in the forest, but I wanted to leave, so I walked towards the city, that's all."

Thinking about the scene she saw a few days ago, Zhu Li said fascinatedly, "Looking for meteorites? There was indeed a meteor shower two days ago, and it was very beautiful. Then I believe you."

Chen Xing smiled, took the camera off his neck, opened the album and said.

"I also took a lot of photos, let me show you."

"Um……"

Julie agreed very simply and was very happy.

In fact, she has a mobile phone and a computer, batteries in the tree house, and solar charging panels on the canopy. She can usually see things and pictures in the outside world, but she is only enjoying the moment of communicating with people.

Especially when the person is sharing it with himself.

Julie is happy to accept such sharing.

(End of this chapter)