Seeing that Liang Yuanque didn't respond, Zhuang Youjie rubbed his eyes and stood up.
Through the moonlight outside the window, he could vaguely see a dark figure beside Liang Yuanque's bed.
Zhuang Youjie's mind was agitated, and he was suddenly so frightened that he woke up and fumbled to turn on the light.
There were no electric lights in this room, only a kerosene lamp placed beside Zhuang Youjie's bed. He shivered and touched a match to light the lamp, but he couldn't touch it.
"It's okay, you were asleep."
Just when he was panicking, a pair of hands put on his shoulders, and Liang Yuanque's voice came to his ears.
Zhuang Youjie felt relieved when he heard it was him.
Liang Yuanque pushed him back to bed as if coaxing a child, "Good boy, go back and continue talking."
Zhuang Youjie turned his head and looked at his bedside again. There was nothing there.
Zhuang Youjie breathed out gently. It seemed that he was really too nervous.
After soothing Zhuang Youjie to bed, Liang Yuanque looked back and saw that the man beside the bed had long disappeared.
"Who are you? At least close the window for me!" Liang Yuanque cursed in a low voice as he closed the wooden window with a gap.
The next day, Zhuang Youjie was woken up by Liang Yuanque.
The sky outside the window was still blue and white, and Zhuang Youjie wondered if he had fallen asleep again.
Liang Yuanque asked him while tying his hair, "Do you need breakfast?"
At this time, the owner of the breakfast stall probably hasn't gotten up yet. Zhuang Youjie ate a lot last night, and after feeling it, he said he wasn't hungry.
Liang Yuanque nodded, "Then go and wash up quickly, we have to hurry up."
This was the first time Zhuang Youjie saw him with his hair tied up. He looked much more energetic, but at the same time, he looked more like a little girl.
His skin is very white and his figure is very thin. It seems that if he puts on a dress, he can be fake.
Zhuang Youjie went to the outhouse, and in order not to wake up the sleeping doctor, he casually wiped his face with the cold water in the basin.
Under Liang Yuanque's constant urging, Zhuang Youjie packed himself up almost as quickly as possible, and the two of them embarked on the road back to the water village.
It was still dark outside, there were no pedestrians on the street, and the entire Luo Chuanshui Town was still sleeping.
Standing on the familiar river bank, Zhuang Youjie couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the water village on the other side of the river that was dormant like wild beasts.
"If you are really scared, just wait for me outside." When Liang Yuanque said this, he was untying the reins of the boat on the river bank.
"No," Zhuang Youjie immediately retorted, "Since I chose to come with you, I won't back down here."
Liang Yuanque didn't say anything more, but jumped directly onto the boat and stretched out his hand to him, "Come on."
Strangely enough, after falling into the water a few days ago, Zhuang Youjie didn't seem to be so afraid of water. Looking at the swaying water waves at the bottom of the boat, he no longer felt nervous as before.
Sure enough, people still have to take a brave step forward.
When you really move towards fear, when you look back, you will find that the fear that you once thought was insurmountable is just that.
Zhuang Youjie did not hold Liang Yuanque's hand, but instead mustered up the courage to jump on the boat. After stumbling for a moment, he stood firmly.
"Hey, it's okay." Liang Yuanque expressed surprise at his progress.
After Zhuang Youjie sat down, Liang Yuanque took up the oars and the boat staggered towards the other side of the river.
"Is this really okay for us?" Zhuang Youjie walked out of the cabin and looked at the gradually brightening sky outside, "Don't you need to tell the boatman?"
"Let Uncle Wonton tell him when we get there. It's not like I won't pay." Liang Yuanque said as he paddled the boat.
When the boat swayed to the other side, Zhuang Youjie saw white smoke rising from Mr. Wonton's stove.
"Uncle, do you always leave the stall so early?"
On the way here, he was worried about what to do if the uncle hadn't left the stall yet, but seeing Liang Yuanque's confident look, he didn't ask any more questions.
Looking at it now, I realized that my worries were unnecessary. It turned out that the uncle got up much earlier than them.
"To make money, of course you have to get up early," the uncle said while stirring the wontons in the pot, "and I'm waiting for you, I know you will definitely come back."
Liang Yuanque was obviously in a hurry and didn't want to talk nonsense. He sat directly in front of the wonton stall and said, "Since you have guessed it, please help us to go to the water village again."
The uncle glanced at him and said, "Go in again? Are you afraid that you won't be able to get out?"
The expression on Liang Yuanque's face was very determined, "Since I can come out once, I can come out a second time."
After hearing this, Mr. Wonton burst out laughing, "Interesting, really interesting. Do you detectives all have such a personality?"
Liang Yuanque shrugged, "Maybe it's just that I'm biased. Once I start something, there must be a result no matter what."
The uncle seemed to appreciate his spirit and immediately put out the fire, "I know a place where you can sneak into the water village quietly. Come with me."
Liang Yuanque waved to Zhuang Youjie, and the two of them followed the uncle for a while until they came to a gathering of private houses.
On the other side of the river, the area outside the dividing line also belongs to Luo Chuanshui Town, so there are residents like uncles living nearby.
These private houses are only one step away from the water village. They can no longer be distinguished from each other by white dividing lines, but can only be distinguished by the courtyard walls that have been built.
The uncle knocked on the door of a private house. After a while, a sleepy young man opened the door.
The uncle chatted with him for a few words, then stretched out his hand to Liang Yuanque and rubbed his fingers. Liang Yuanque immediately understood and took out a few silver coins from his pocket and handed them over.
The young man took the banknotes and led them into his yard while muttering softly.
The backyard of the young man's house is very close to the water village. The outermost wooden building of the water village is almost within sight of his backyard.
He pointed to a somewhat collapsed courtyard wall and said to Liang Yuanque, who was following the uncle, "Well, you can just climb over from here."
Zhuang Youjie raised his eyebrows in surprise. So "sneaking in" meant "sneaking in" in such a literal sense?
Liang Yuanque looked at him and asked quietly, "Are your feet okay?"
Zhuang Youjie stamped his feet on the ground and nodded to him, "It's okay. I didn't feel any pain during this whole journey."
After getting his answer, Liang Yuanque turned forward very neatly. Knowing that Zhuang Youjie couldn't climb over the wall even without his feet, he sat on the wall and stretched out his hand to him.
Zhuang Youjie took a deep breath and held his hand. Although the movement was a bit unsightly, he climbed up smoothly.
The uncle waved to them, "I will always wait for you at the stall."
Liang Yuanque thanked the uncle and pulled Zhuang Youjie to jump off the wall.
The water village, like Luo Chuanshui Town, has not yet woken up, and the surroundings are quiet.
The two of them walked lightly, and after walking for a while, they saw a figure at the intersection in front of them.
Taking a closer look, it was Liu Yun standing there with a cold face!
