Lovers come with the wind

Chapter 6

He said in a low voice, "I thought you would take this into consideration after buying the tickets. I have called my mother several times, but I haven't heard from you. I'm worried to death."

At dawn, the two got up to eat and hurried on the road. The road was bad, the ice and snow were slippery, and they couldn't drive fast. It took more than three hours to get back to the camp.The jeep was originally driving on the road. After passing the township government, it drove on a dirt road that had been cleared. Later, the dirt road was covered with snow, and the traces of the road could be discerned in a frozen snow field. It was white, and there were only the two of them and a car far and near, and they couldn't see the road or direction.

For a while, Zhuzi suddenly felt that this was a place without time. It seemed that he was far away from the world of mortals and indifferent to life and death. wait.He looked at Wang Pengze's face, Wang Pengze was frowning and driving intently, his eyes and nose bridge were not covered by hats and masks, and were brightly illuminated by the reflection of the sun and snow.Zhu Zi smiled secretly, he didn't care how long the car was going to drive, he only realized that he liked this place very much, because there was no one else, only him and Wang Pengze.

The camp where the expedition team lived was borrowed from the observation station of the Municipal Meteorological Bureau. From a distance, there was a lonely small courtyard on the white snowy field, which looked like an old toy that had been disassembled under the sky covered with overlapping clouds. The scattered ones seem to be very close, but when you really have to rush over, you realize that they are very far away.Wang Pengze didn't say anything along the way. Seeing that he was getting closer to the camp, he suddenly laughed, turned his head and said to Zhuzi, "Zhuzi, let me introduce you to three friends."

As soon as the words fell, there was a messy dog ​​barking in the cold wind.Zhu Zhu looked intently, and saw three earth dogs in front of him, rushing towards the jeep all the way, approaching, running and barking happily around the spinning wheels.

Wang Pengze named the three dogs Xiaohei, Xiaobai and Xiaohua respectively. Zhuzi looked at them through the car window and asked puzzledly, "Why do I see all three dogs are flowers?" Wang Pengze said with a smile: " Once you start running, there will be a difference." As he said, he rolled down the window, and a strong cold wind poured in.Wang Pengze poked his head out and ordered loudly to the three dogs: "Stop barking, open the way ahead." Then he quickly rolled up the window again.

I don't know if the three dogs understood, but they quickly chased to the front, jumping and running like three pompoms on the snow, one black, one white and one flower.

At noon, Xiao Hei opened the door with his head, and when he squeezed in through the crack of the door, Wang Pengze and Zhu Zhu were sitting around the stove to keep warm. There was a large pot on the stove, and ribs were simmering in the pot.Wang Pengze reached out to lift the lid of the pot, picked up a big bone with chopsticks in the steaming steam, and threw it to Xiao Hei.Xiaobai and Xiaohua smelled the fragrance and got in through the crack of the door one after another.Xiao Hei ran away with the bone in his mouth, and the three huge dogs fought in circles in the room, knocking over the chair, knocking Wang Pengze's washbasin to the ground with a "bang", and then came out of the door again. squeezed out.Unable to stop it, Wang Pengze said helplessly, "Hey, it's messed up again."

Zhu Zhu stood up, held back a smile, picked up the washbasin on the ground, and put it on the chair.He likes to look at Wang Pengze's house very much. No matter how simple the conditions are, they are all neat and clean, which makes you feel a serious life atmosphere.Zhuzi discovered this very early on when he was still in Wanzi Village. Every time he returned home from the scientific expedition team’s yard and looked at the mess, he couldn’t help but lament that not everyone can give others life. It feels that many people are also living, but you don't feel that they are living.

Wang Pengze sat Zhuzi down and said to him, "Zhuzi, have you arranged something for yourself every day?"

Zhuzi said "oh", not understanding what Wang Pengze was talking about.Wang Pengze explained: "Because I still have some work to do, a lot of data to sort out, and I also need to help the weather station read meters and check data, so I can't always be with you."

Zhu Zi smiled and said, "I know, don't worry, Uncle, I've already thought about it."

Wang Pengze filled Zhuzi with a bowl of stew, and brought steamed buns to roast on the stove.While eating, Zhuzi suddenly thought that he didn’t seem to fully understand what Wang Pengze meant just now, and he played back Wang Pengze’s words repeatedly in his mind, “I can’t always be with you” and “I can’t always be with you”, and gradually the food became more and more delicious. The more tasteless it is to eat.When I think about it carefully, I realize that there is so much indifference in this sentence. Some things are not important at all, why should I point them out so clearly?He reflected on whether he was too suspicious, but it was so obvious that after this meeting, Wang Pengze was deliberately keeping a distance from him.

In the afternoon, Zhu Zi repaired the heating pipes.These houses at the weather station used a heating method unfamiliar to Wang Pengze. Instead of radiators, heating channels were left in the thick walls. Over time, some places were blocked, and the house was not warm enough.The people in the scientific expedition team were helpless and could only rely on the fire in the house to keep warm.The pillars went around the house in a circle, but they couldn't do anything.Wang Pengze came out armed with hats, gloves, masks and scarves, and said to the pillar, forget it, turning the stove on will have the same heating effect.The pillar was not reconciled, and went around to the other side of the house to look.Wang Pengze no longer forced himself to step on the thick snow to copy the weather data in the distance.Xiaobai and Xiaohua followed, wagging their tails.Zhuzi watched Wang Pengze walk away under the gray sky with his head lowered, and then he turned around and found that Xiao Hei stayed behind, standing in front of him wagging his tail and looking up at him with his black eyes raised.

When Wang Pengze came back, he saw that Zhuzi's face and body were covered with black soot, a hole was pried open in the wall, Zhuzhu pulled out a rope from it, and held it in his hand.Wang Pengze came over and asked, "Zhuzi, what are you doing?" Zhuzi listened attentively to the movement inside and replied, "Fix the heating." Wang Pengze approached and asked, "What's the matter with this rope?"

The rope kept moving, and after a while the post pulled the rope out, and a fat rat was tied to the other end.Wang Pengze exclaimed "Ah", stepped back several steps hastily, pointed at the mouse and asked Zhuzi angrily, "What are you doing?" Zhuzi laughed and said, "Fix the heating."

Xiaobai, Xiaohei, and Xiaohua rushed over to grab the mouse, and the pillar hurriedly grabbed the mouse and lifted it up.Wang Pengze said disgustedly: "Throw it away quickly, and throw it away."

"Don't throw it away." Zhuzi said, "If it can't be repaired today, it will be used tomorrow."

When going to bed at night, Zhu Zi packed the mouse in a small wooden box, fearing that the mouse would freeze to death at night, and put the small wooden box by the stove.Wang Pengze ignited the fire and heated up the kang. He hurried back and took off his cotton-padded clothes and trousers and covered him with a thick quilt, only his eyes were exposed.The two comfortably huddled in their respective quilts without speaking, quietly listening to the howling of the cold wind in the outside world, the fire in the room glowed red in the dark, and the wooden box next to it , the big mouse is still sniffling.

Wang Pengze asked Zhuzi worriedly: "I heard that mouse biting the wood, shouldn't you put it in the wooden box?"

"Don't worry." Zhu Zi smiled, "I know you've been afraid of mice since you were a child, I'll keep it safe."

Wang Pengze laughed awkwardly, and asked, "My mother told you again?"

Zhuzi asked: "Uncle, what's so scary about mice, I really can't figure it out?"

Wang Pengze frowned, widened his eyes and said, "Rats burrow holes and steal things everywhere. They are the same as villains. Can it not be scary?"

The two fell asleep, and later woke up from the cold.The pillar propped up his head to look at the fire, which was already dying.Wang Pengze wrapped the quilt tighter again, and pressed it tightly against the pillar.Zhuzi felt that Wang Pengze seemed to be shivering from the cold, so he became worried and asked him softly, "Uncle, do you feel cold?"

"Yeah." Wang Pengze replied in a daze, "but it will be dawn soon."

Zhuzi asked: "Don't you feel cold when it's dawn?"

Wang Pengze heard that there was reproach in Zhuzi's tone, so he explained: "It's time to get up at dawn."

A few seconds later, Wang Pengze lifted the quilt and sat up, reached for the cotton coat, and said, "Then I'll go and light the fire again."

"No, I'll go." Zhu Zi grabbed Wang Pengze's hand, and when he touched it, he felt that the hand was very cold, and his heart ached, and he couldn't help but press Wang Pengze to make him lie down again.

Zhuzi put on the cotton coat and then the cotton coat, and when he walked out the door, he saw the dark night on the dark white snow field, and the dawn seemed to be very early.He reheated the kang, put a few pieces of coal into the fire in the house, broke the ice in the water tank, filled more than half of the pot of water with the aluminum kettle for boiling water and put it on the stove, and adjusted the chimney.

When he got back to the kang, Wang Pengze helped him lift the quilt, and said with concern: "Is it freezing? Come on, lie down."

The two wrapped their respective thick quilts tightly, back to back and were confused for a while.Zhuzi turned over and asked behind Wang Pengze: "Uncle." Wang Pengze said "hmm" and asked vaguely, "What's the matter?"

Zhuzi asked: "Do you still remember that year you celebrated the New Year in our village?"

"remember."

"On the night of New Year's Eve, you once said that I am a natural stove, and you can keep warm by hugging me."

Wang Pengze thought for a while, and it seemed that his thinking became clear all of a sudden, and he asked, "What's wrong with you, Zhuzi?"