It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

Bai Lu's stretched body stiffened, she turned back and glared, Dong Yang spread his hands, and Gu Nian was still grinning foolishly.

"Anyway, the vegetables we eat are all grown with manure." Bai Lu thought about it and said, "Hey, this feels a bit strange."

"Stop talking." Dong Yang hit her. "I feel the smell getting stronger now. It's all your fault."

Bai Lu giggled and felt much better.

"There's a river over there, do you want to go see it?" Gu Nian suggested.

The two agreed and walked through the fields. Slowly, they approached the river. The dogtail grass on the road was taller than them and they had to push it aside to move forward. When the road under their feet turned into pebbles, a narrow river appeared.

The sound of the stream and the sound of women beating the mallets when washing clothes. The dry branches of willow trees hang down into the water, and the clear water flows far away.

"Wow." Bai Lu exclaimed, "That's great."

Dongyang didn't say anything, just watched quietly.

"It's a pity that it's winter," Gu Nian said regretfully, "It would be very comfortable to swim here in the summer."

"Oh?" Bai Lu suddenly laughed slyly, "Many children bathe naked here, right? Gu Nian, have you ever bathed here?"

This question made Gu Nian blush, and she hastily denied it:

"I've only been here to swim, not take a bath!"

"Really? Maybe I forgot it when I was a kid."

"real!"

Dong Yang smiled and did not join in the teasing of Gu Nian. Instead, she was attracted by the noise not far away. Not far away was a small corner of the river. From the sound, it seemed that there were children playing. She walked over there, and Bai Lu and Gu Nian followed immediately. When they arrived, they found that there were several children splashing water on each other in the river.

"Your kids here are in great shape," Dong Yang said, "They even swim in the winter."

"People's physical conditions...cannot be generalized." Gu Nian was also a little surprised.

At this time, the child in the river stood up from the water, revealing a restricted-level picture like Crayon Shin-chan.

Elephant, elephant, your...

Dongyang's face heated up rapidly, and while he was stunned, his eyes suddenly went dark - it was Bailu's hand.

Dong Yang: "…What?"

Bai Lu: "...Don't look."

Gu Nian covered her face: "You are still watching! Bai Lu, you are so lustful..."

"No way! I obviously didn't watch it! And how do you know I was watching it! You must be watching it too!"

They were making so much noise that the little kids over there noticed the girls here. They were not shy at all. They put on their clothes and pants carelessly and disappeared from the reeds.

Dong Yang: "Can you take your hands away?"

Bai Lu retracted her hand and stuck out her tongue.

"The water here is quite good for diving." Dongyang changed the subject.

"The deepest is only about one meter." Gu Nian went down the stairs.

"Maybe we can come swimming later..." Dong Yang said casually.

"Wow, are you swimming with those naked kids?" Bai Lu shouted deliberately.

Dong Yang was slightly annoyed: "Bai Lu, why are you so lewd!"

Only Gu Nian was quiet, and turned her face away shyly when she thought of the scene of herself and Xu Dongyang playing in the river in swimsuits.

"Want to play skipping stones?"

"Who is afraid of whom?"

It gets dark quickly in winter.

At dusk, Gu Nian brought her friends home. Steam was wafting from the kitchen. When her grandmother saw them, she said cheerfully:

"Dinner will be ready soon. Did you have fun out there?"

"I just took them for a casual walk." Gu Nian ran to the kitchen to see, "Hey, chicken? Grandma, did you kill a chicken?"

Grandma said: "Your friend is here, so of course we have to entertain him well."

Gu Nianxin said, poor rooster.

Smoke curls from the kitchen.

Dong Yang sat in the living room and gently pushed Bai Lu's shoulder: "Let's go to the kitchen and ask if they need help."

Bai Lu woke up from her phone: "Oh, yes."

Both of them were not very good at doing housework, so naturally they were kindly persuaded by the old man to go back, leaving only Gu Nian to help.

Grandma: "It's rare to see our Nian Nian so happy."

Gu Nian was preparing dishes with her back to her grandmother. Perhaps it was the heat from the steam that burned her face: "No..."

"You're so happy that your face is blooming." Grandma sighed, "It's good to have friends. Before, grandma was worried that you were too afraid of giving birth."

"Really not..." Gu Nian's awkward look was not convincing.

Perhaps, few people are willing to admit loneliness.

Dongyang didn't just wait in the living room. She wandered around the house. The furniture here was full of age. The warehouse upstairs was unused, and there was an orange tree on the roof. She went up to the roof and enjoyed the tranquility there. The bricks and tiles at her feet were covered with moss, and she didn't know if she would fall into the kitchen if she stepped on them.

Bai Lu followed her up and enjoyed the scenery with her.

“It feels really nice to have a house in the country.”

Bai Lu stretched lazily.

Dong Yang said "hmm". He didn't know when he started to feel awkward when he was alone with Bai Lu. They didn't need to find topics to talk about before. They could sit together and read books for an entire afternoon. But now...

Maybe it's because they've grown up.

"Dinner is ready!" Gu Nian's voice came from downstairs.

"Oh, good!"

They hurried downstairs. There were a lot of dishes on the table, and the cooking methods were very different from those in the city. Grandma asked if it was to their taste and if they wanted anything to add, and they hurriedly said no, it was delicious.

At night, the old man watched TV alone and went to bed early after watching. He washed his face and brushed his teeth in the yard, and had to boil water for washing his feet in advance. When it got dark, the house was large, which added some scary and cold atmosphere to the environment.

After entering the bedroom, Gu Nian turned on the light with a "click" and felt warm instantly.

"My grandma turned on the electric blanket for you," Gu Nian reminded Bai Lu, "Remember to turn it off."

Bai Lu made an OK gesture and turned to go into the house.

When it was Xu Dongyang's turn, Gu Nian became visibly stuttering:

"Dongyang, are you going to sleep now?"

Dongyang hesitated for a moment, nodded slightly, sat on the bed, took off the fluffy leggings, and got into the quilt with bare legs.

——Sleeping with Xu Dongyang!

Gu Nian felt like her head was about to explode. The consequence of the explosion was that she lost the ability to think. After turning off the lights and going to bed, she lay in bed like a fool.

In the darkness, she silently turned towards Xu Dongyang.

It's so close, yet it seems out of reach.

"This window... doesn't have curtains?" Dong Yang suddenly said.

"Ah? Um... no." Gu Nian took a while to react.

"Oh, it's okay." Dong Yang whispered, "It just feels a little scary."

There were trees outside the window, and because of the moonlight, they were clearly visible, making it seem like a horror movie.

Also, the dog next door barks very loudly.

Maybe it was because of the concrete floor, or maybe it was because the house was old and big with a long corridor, a perfect setting for a ghost story. Dong Yang was quite scared, but luckily Gu Nian was there with him.

"Now that you mention it, I feel a little bit the same way." Gu Nian whispered, "Actually... I used to be afraid to go to the bathroom at night. If I wanted to go, I had to turn on all the lights along the way."

"Pfft," Dong Yang laughed, "The toilet is indeed a bit far away."

Seeing her smile, Gu Nian suddenly had the urge to "do it now". Now, confess her feelings to Dong Yang... Her heart was about to jump out of her chest, and her voice was almost trembling:

"Dong...Dongyang."

"Ok?"

"me……"

The girl lying on her stomach suddenly raised her hand and waved it. Then, a soft voice came:

"Go to sleep, we'll talk tomorrow."

Gu Nian was stuck, like an anxious puppy, and in the blink of an eye, he was soothed by his master's gentle touch.

Well, no rush.

One day, she will make Dongyang understand her feelings.

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Whatever you are afraid of will come.

Dongyang got up carefully, put on her cotton jacket, and found her way in the dark. She originally thought that she didn't need to take her phone, but after standing in the corridor, looking ahead at the seemingly endless space, she suddenly had an idea: "Why not hold it in until tomorrow morning?"

——But there are no ghosts in the world.

She convinced herself and walked forward slowly. She reached the toilet at the end, which was gloomy and scary. There was an abandoned pigsty in the toilet, so it was bigger than the average bedroom. She was afraid that a ghost would jump out of the pigsty. She felt around and thought that the light cord should be on the wall at the entrance, but she couldn't find it...

I finally found the line and pulled it down, and the dim light enveloped the toilet.

Dongyang breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he found the pit, he heard footsteps outside the door.

"Who?"

The footsteps stopped.

"Dongyang? Are you in the bathroom?"

It’s Bai Lu’s voice.

Dong Yang felt more at ease: "Well, I'll be fine soon."

Soon, she came out of the bathroom. Bai Lu leaned against the door, glanced at her bare legs, and went into the bathroom silently.

Dong Yang took a step forward and heard Bai Lu inside hurriedly say:

"Dongyang, don't go!"

Dong Yang: “Hmm?”

Bai Lu: "I'm a little scared..."

The voice is weak.

It turns out everyone is afraid.

Dong Yang curled his lips, and suddenly had the idea of ​​teasing:

"I'll turn off the light."

"Don't! Don't!" Bai Lu almost cried.

Of course she didn't really turn it off, she just smiled and said, "Okay."

After a while, Bai Lu came out with a resentful look in her eyes, but when she thought about how Dong Yang was waiting for her with his legs exposed and so cold, her anger subsided.

"Let's go."

She followed behind Xu Dongyang with her eyes lowered.

This corridor is... so short.

When they were parting, she suddenly grabbed Dong Yang's hand. Dong Yang was slightly startled and looked at her. Bai Lu stammered, or begged:

"Can you... sleep with me?"

These words sounded so strange that Dong Yang was stunned and thought of the wrong thing.

Bai Lu also realized that something was wrong, but she didn't correct it. Instead, she held Dong Yang's hand. She wanted to say something else, and Dong Yang subconsciously wanted to interrupt her, but Bai Lu spoke faster: