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"noob."

I agreed, but the other party didn't speak again, and I was faced with a long silence.

In the complete silence, Gong Shuji's slightly bitter voice came slowly:
"I know you want to chat, but it's already late at night, so let's stop talking."

The sadness contained in these words was almost as clear as saying, "If you can't speak, then stop talking."

I followed his previous behavior and sighed softly:

"Then I'll take a nap. If there's any movement, just touch me and I'll wake up."

Gongshuji responded in a muffled voice.

I closed my eyes again, and the fatigue from the night soon made me fall into a real dream.

Stepping into the blue earth and green sky, at that moment in my dream where the dome hung upside down, my consciousness returned to me, and I suddenly remembered——

Gong Shuji's voice seemed to be trembling when he spoke just now.
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Rustling.

It's very light and doesn't make any waves.

But I clearly heard a person walking barefoot on the tiles
Of course, if you walk barefoot, you won't make any big noise.

But when the exposed skin and ceramic tiles are stepped on and lifted, there will be a slight sound of adhesion.

The sound is very small and subtle. In fact, everyone will make such a sound when they step barefoot.

It’s just that no one ever paid attention.

Of course, normal people would not deliberately listen to this sound.

So, what is the sound doing around me walking?

From my left, around to my right
Then there was a gentle breeze of air blowing across my face.
I opened my eyes suddenly and stood up. Gong Shuji, who was carefully opening the window, was startled by my movement:
"Sorry, did I wake you up?"

The room was still the same as when he fell asleep last night. He deliberately slipped out of the cracked curtains and saw that it was already bright.

Gong Shuji's hand was still pressed against the window, and the sound of wind slowly filtered in from outside.
Obviously, the airflow on my face just now was not the breath I expected, but wind.

I pressed my temples:
"It doesn't count as waking me up."

"Why didn't you call me when you woke up?"

The soundproofing of this B&B was surprisingly good. There was almost no sound that disturbed us one night.

In addition, Gong Shuji's steps and movements were very light. If it weren't for my good hearing, I might have really fallen asleep to death.

Gong Shuji looked away from the window. Although there was still no blood on his face, his expression was obviously not as weak as last night:
"I rested for a short while, thinking about getting up and changing the dressing. I immediately checked to see if any wooden cows or stray horses came to see us. I saw that you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't disturb you."

"are you hungry?"

I shook my head:

"Not hungry."

As soon as he finished speaking, the final sound of the word "I'm not hungry" hadn't even disappeared, but my stomach let out an unsatisfactory growl at this moment——

'grunt'

Let's put it this way, my stomach's growling was louder than when I first woke up.

Looking at Gong Shuji's smiling face, I touched my nose:
"I'm a little hungry, but it doesn't matter."

"Did you see the wooden cow and the flowing horse coming to us?"

Gong Shuji was about to reply.

My stomach was the first to speak before he could -

'Gulu gulu gulu -'

This time, to be honest, I was a little embarrassed.

Gongshuji quietly came to the rescue:
"It's okay. It's already noon. I'm hungry too. Let's order takeout."

"The wooden cow and the flowing horse haven't come yet, we still have time."

noon?

I found my phone, turned on the screen and saw, sure enough, the time was approaching one o'clock:

".I slept for so long?"

Go to bed at four o'clock and wake up at one o'clock, nearly nine hours of sleep.

Normally, I wouldn't be able to sleep enough no matter what. Gong Shuji covered his shoulders, found a chair, sat down, and began to choose takeaways and answered again and again:
"Yes, you have been sleeping, but you slept very soundly and unsteadily, and you kept talking in your sleep."

For a very rebellious person like me, sleeping for a long time and talking in my sleep means that the information in my mind is leaked.
This is not exactly good news.

"What did I say?"

I got up and looked at the takeout Gong Shuji had chosen:

"What did you choose? I don't eat spicy food. I eat a little bit of green onions and a lethal amount of coriander."

Gong Shuji had no choice but to show me his mobile phone screen:
"Although it's noon, my body has just woken up. Don't eat onions, oil, coriander and some preserved egg and lean meat porridge, right?"

I saw his mobile phone. The damage on the mobile phone was similar to that of the old Novo model that had been with me for five or six years. It was really kind of friendly:
"it is good."

Gongshuji lowered his head and replied to what I just said while placing the order:
"Although I kept talking in my sleep, I didn't actually say anything else."

"You kept calling people's names last night. Do you want me to tell you the number I counted?"

Call someone's name?

Gongshuji even counted the quantity?

For a moment, I doubted that I hadn't woken up yet, but after the doubts passed, I immediately understood what was going on:

"Your wound hurt all night last night, and you didn't sleep much?"

Gongshuji did not answer my words directly, he just turned off the screen and said softly:
"The first one to call was mom."

"I didn't think about counting at the beginning, so when I called mom, I didn't count how many times I called."

"Then he shouted 'Second Uncle', followed by Luna, twenty-three times."

"Then came 'Enron' again, and Enron had twenty-one."

"After 'An Ran', there is Tzu Ching Nv. Tzu Ching Nv has eight tones, and Chen Jin Hua has five tones."

"Yu Jiajia, Du Sheng, Ah Chi, Ah Shi, Half Eyes, etc. have two sounds each."

Gong Shuji is obviously thinking:
"That's pretty much it."

Looks like a pretty complicated dream.

Or maybe, it's not a dream at all, but the first half of my life.

I went through the names of these people in my mind:
"They're all people I know. It sounds like a pie chart. Didn't I call you and your father's names?"

Gong Shuji coughed softly:
"Shout, eight calls each."

I added the values ​​again:
"It's less than a hundred, but if I go by my ranking, there is no room for mother and uncle in the hundred-percent system here."

Gong Shuji shook his head:
"It's not a 100-point scale."

I was stunned and then heard Gong Shuji continue:
"You called me uncle for most of the night, at least hundreds of times."

"Far more than anyone else, including your mother."

I pondered for a few seconds and didn't find it strange:
“I have always believed that it is better to cultivate kindness than to give birth to kindness.”

"In those years in the small mountain village, if my second uncle had not depended on me for life, I would have become a withered skeleton long ago."

Moreover, it is still a nameless withered skeleton.

I would not have the opportunity to leave the mountain village, I would not have the opportunity to touch the door of the new world, and it would not be what it is today.

I miss my second uncle very much.

Just like what is written in fairy tales——

The little rabbit asked the big rabbit how much he loved it. The little rabbit asked:

"Then how much do you love me?"

Little Rabbit said:

"It's so far from here to the moon, what about you?"

Big Rabbit said:

"Then I love you from here to the moon and back again."

I also miss my second uncle so much from here to the moon and back again. (End of chapter)