Love at the Right Time

Chapter 33

The first part of the “in and out of play” competition ended with the final result of the Shi Qingqiu group with nine points. Qin Wang’s group ranked second with eight points, Yu Shushen ranked third, and Lu Sizhou and Xu Zhi tied for fourth.

A braised fish and a fish soup made by Wen Qinghan were unanimously approved by the villagers who came to the village chief’s house to participate in this scoring, including the uncle who guided Wen Qinghan’s fishing. Even Qin Wang and others were convinced, Yu Shushen even uttered a few words of praise.

The cameraman also joined the staff for dinner after shooting the first half. Although the actors would have to be hungry if they couldn’t cook tonight’s food, but so many people ate together, the working group arranged to add food after the camera was turned off, and everyone ate and drank until nearly midnight.

She woke up naturally in the morning. Shi Qingqiu turned her back and lost her sleepiness, squinting her eyes and frowning to adjust to the light spilling into the room. She couldn’t look directly at the light of the window for a while, so she had to withdraw her gaze, and the calm face of Wen Qinghan was caught in her eyes.

The indifference on Wen Qinghan’s body when he fell asleep was not so obvious, nor so sharp. The face that was slightly soft because of the deep sleep had a different style, and the long black hair scattered on the pillow and behind it made people unbearable.

The sleepiness in Shi Qingqiu’s eyes gradually faded, watching Wen Qinghan quietly, watching the long and slightly curled eyelashes, watching the pretty bridge of the nose, watching the light-colored thin lips. Wen Qinghan has always been a very beautiful person, and when she is not acting extremely cold, this beauty exudes to the extreme.

A smile gradually appeared on Shi Qingqiu’s lips. She moved her hands and lifted it quietly, unconsciously wanting to gently touch Wen Qinghan’s face with her fingertips. Before she realized what she had done and withdrew her hand, her fingertips had already swept across Wen Qinghan’s cheeks.

Before Shi Qingqiu had time to think about anything, Wen Qinghan slowly opened her eyes, and Wen Qinghan looked at her slightly flustered eyes.

“Qing Han, morning.” Shi Qingqiu pursed his lips, and greeted Wen Qinghan as naturally as possible.

Wen Qinghan could see that Qingqiu didn’t seem right, but she didn’t know what was going on. When she woke up just now, she saw Shi Qingqiu’s eyes dodge, and she didn’t know what happened after waking up.

“Morning.” Wen Qinghan replied faintly, her voice a little lazy because of sleepiness, but her eyes kept looking at Shi Qingqiu. After a pause, she asked, “Isn’t there any problem if you don’t adjust the alarm today?”

Shi Qingqiu smiled and said, “Last night the host said that everyone would go to bed late today, it’s okay.”

Wen Qinghan didn’t say anything, and stretched out his hand to raise the blanket. The red fingertips of her left hand were noticed by Shi Qingqiu. Before she retracted, Qingqiu grabbed her left hand and spread it out, the index finger and the middle finger. The tip glowed abnormally red.

“Qing Han, do your hands still hurt?” Shi Qingqiu’s right hand was holding Wen Qinghan’s left hand, and his fingers gently stroked Wen Qinghan’s fingertips.

“It doesn’t hurt anymore.” Wen Qinghan moved her hand, but Shi Qingqiu didn’t let her take it back. She blinked and didn’t speak, nor did she look at Shi Qingqiu.

It was her finger that was hot when she fed Shi Qingqiu with the fish soup yesterday, and it was still aching when she pinched it, but when Shi Qingqiu touched it like this, she felt more and more intense desire in her chest.

Shi Qingqiu laughed, and took Wen Qinghan’s hand back under the blanket, and slowly and gently stroked Wen Qinghan’s burned finger, “Don’t do this again in the future. You can give me a drink when it gets cold. Yes, it’s not that I can’t wait. Also, don’t finish all the following competitions by yourself. Assign me some tasks, lawyer Wen, chef Wen.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Qinghan shook her hand back, rubbing her thumb on the back of Shi Qingqiu’s hand repeatedly, and his four fingers gradually separated from Shi Qingqiu’s hand.

There was still some distance between them, Wen Qinghan took a deep breath, and just moved his hands, he heard the host’s voice faintly seeping in from outside: “Get up! Work! Don’t sleep! Get up early! The birds have worms!”

Wen Qinghan’s body just about to get closer froze in place, everything was nothing but sparks, and Shi Qingqiu was still smiling at her. The impulse in her eyes abruptly faded clean, and finally she only said calmly: “Okay, I know, get up.”

When everyone had washed up and gathered in the yard, the host was already standing behind a table with a large box on the table. He clapped his hands and said, “Everyone is in place!”

After the conversation, the cameramen all picked up the machines and started to work. Qin Wang yelled, “What’s the situation? This box is a lottery?”

The advantage of having Qin Wang is that everyone doesn’t have to say any questions, he is the first one to ask.

Everyone looked at the host, and saw the host knock on the box, picked up the loudspeaker and said: “Everyone will send a person from each group to draw the lot according to the number. The content drawn is to guide you to find an envelope. The next part of the game has a lot to do with you.”

The audience was quiet, and he emphasized: “But! Set off immediately after the draw, no whispers, no exchange of reminders!”

The host glanced at the crowd, nodded in satisfaction, and said in a quieter voice: “One group, Qingqiu, who are you and Lawyer Wen?”

Wen Qinghan winked at Shi Qingqiu. Shi Qingqiu walked over and reached into the hole in the middle of the box, fiddled with it a few times, grabbed a folded note, and returned to Wen Qinghan.

The host nodded, “Next, the second group, Sister Shu Shen…”

Lots were drawn group by group according to the numbered order. Taking advantage of this time, Shi Qingqiu opened the note and saw it read: White cranes crowing in the sky, thousands of miles in the air, and rhinos watching the moon.

Wen Qinghan read it out in a low voice, then lowered his eyes and thought, Shi Qingqiu folded the note in his palm, and asked in confusion: “What does this mean? Is it related to animals?”

Wen Qinghan shook his head slightly, and said softly, “I don’t know either.”

She and Shi Qingqiu both graduated from the Faculty of Law, and hadn’t been in contact with literature for a long time, so suddenly, she really couldn’t see anything other than the literal meaning.

“Okay, everyone has their own tips. Now the groups can act, find their own goals, and come back here before dinner. You don’t need to cook tonight. The villagers will entertain you! ”

After the host finished speaking, he put down his horn and stared at the people for a while, and urged: “Go, what are you doing in a daze? Those who didn’t find the envelope have no food to eat tonight.”

“Isn’t it, so cruel?” Qin Wang asked in surprise, and Ji Lan patted him on the shoulder, motioning him to study the note quickly.

“Then let’s set off, everyone. Come on.” Yu Shushen smiled and said, looking confident, not at all annoyed by the content of the note.

If everyone’s notes are all such verses, then this is probably Yu Shushen’s strong point. Wen Qinghan can still remember that on the day of departure, Yu Shushen once read a few poems containing Shi Qingqiu and his own name.

“We also set off.”

“We are also gone.”

The relationship between Lu Sizhou and Xu Zhi was better. The two groups greeted each other, and Shi Qingqiu and Wen Qinghan also went out of the village chief’s house with them.

“In these few sentences, one is flying in the sky and the other is running on the ground. Could it be that they hide things in animals? It’s not possible…”

Shi Qingqiu mumbled a few words as she walked, and the cameraman who followed them also took a good time to give her a few close-up shots of her frown and annoyed expression. This kind of game process is what viewers of outdoor reality TV show love to watch.

Wen Qinghan still shook his head, “If it’s an animal, then it should also give a hint that can be met. Now the white crane and the rhino are obviously not in this place.”

“What about animals that have something in common with white cranes and rhinos? The kind that can be found here.”

Wen Qinghan glanced at her and said lightly: “Pheasant, buffalo.”

Shi Qingqiu: “…”

The dignified white crane, the pheasant that can have in common in this place, maybe there are wild ducks, but what is certain is that there is absolutely no white crane and rhinoceros. Think about it, if they can be seen so easily, where would it take them so long to find them?

The two of them wandered along the small roads in the village for several laps and they didn’t come up with a reason. Let alone white cranes and rhinos, there are not many cats and dogs. Shi Qingqiu watched the fine sweat bead on Wen Qinghan’s forehead under the sun. She took out a tissue from her pocket and wiped the sweat on Wen Qinghan. This action was very natural, as if it had happened before.

Wen Qinghan pursed his lips, and didn’t match Shi Qingqiu’s eyes much. After a while, he held down the piece of paper and said to Shi Qingqiu, “I’ll do it myself.”

Shi Qingqiu let go and looked at Wen Qinghan and said softly, “Thanks for your hard work.”

In the past, she seldom paid attention to Wen Qinghan, but she saw a lot of things that she hadn’t noticed before. Wen Qinghan likes actual actions more than just speaking. Many times Wen Qinghan will plan it in his heart, but he doesn’t change his expression on the face. This is the case with good things, as well as anxiety and worries.

Wen Qinghan squeezed the tissue in her hand, looking at Shi Qingqiu’s eyes with expectation hidden in her eyes. She stretched out her other hand carefully to hold Shi Qingqiu and said, “Qingqiu, let’s go there and rest for a while, by the way. Discuss it, I think it might not be that simple.”

“okay.”

After the two walked to the nearby villager’s house and explained their desire to rest, the villagers enthusiastically left them behind and brought a few chairs under the tree for them and the cameraman to cool off.

When Wen Qinghan asked Shi Qingqiu to take a look at the note, she lowered her head and said in a low voice: “What are these poems alluding to? What are they…”

“The white cranes are crying in the sky, thousands of miles in the air. There seems to be no such poem in the ancient poems we have learned…” Shi Qingqiu muttered to himself, “Is it a very unpopular poem? The program team does not include the author.”

“Wait, we have been thinking about what these poems mean, but we haven’t thought about the nature of it.” Wen Qinghan suddenly thought of something, and his voice suddenly became heavier. Maybe not even poetry?”

Shi Qingqiu blinked, before he recovered from Wen Qinghan’s inference, the aunt who had been picking beans with a bamboo sieve beside them smiled and curiously said, “What are you two children talking about? What can Auntie help?”

The aunt’s speech has a little accent, which is a bit different from the standard Mandarin villagers screened by the program group, but since this is the case, it also better represents that the aunt must have been in this village for a long time. It can be said to be something she knows. Maybe more.

Thinking of this, Shi Qingqiu hurriedly pulled the chair over, took the note from Wen Qinghan’s hand and showed it to her aunt: “Auntie, you can help us look at this. Can you see what this is talking about?”

Auntie also let go of her work when she saw it, and squinted her eyes to look over: “Baihejiu…what? Oh, I can’t understand this.”

Shi Qingqiu smiled, and the glimmer of hope in her heart was quickly extinguished, but before she could say anything to Wen Qinghan, the aunt’s voice suddenly sounded: “I don’t understand this thing, but ah, like that Signed, the girl next door drew one a few days ago, she came back and wrote it to us, it looks like this one…”

Wen Qinghan immediately noticed the important point: “Sign? Is it a sign? Is there a lottery in this place?”

The aunt nodded: “If there is or there is, it is far away. There is a ruined temple at the foot of the mountain over there. There is an old monk. He has been there for decades, and usually takes some wild vegetables to the town to exchange some money for the temple. Continue the incense.” She stood up and gave Shi Qingqiu directions.

The doubts seemed to be solved all at once. Regardless of whether it was right or wrong, at least it sounded reasonable. Those few sentences were probably the lottery, so their destination was the ruined temple.

“Thank you, auntie.” Shi Qingqiu stood up and thanked him, and then grabbed Wen Qinghan who stood up and said, “Qinghan, go away.”

The two thanked them and hurried to leave. The cameraman also hurriedly followed. The aunty exclaimed from behind: “You two should stay a little longer. It’s not easy to walk on the road…”

The two of them kept walking in the direction pointed by the aunt. After they had a purpose, they stopped doing more useless work and went straight to the ruined temple. It’s just that the road is really difficult to walk, the potholes are very serious, and I don’t know how the program crew hides things so far. The mountain is at least one or two kilometers away from the village.

The hard work paid off. When they came to the temple, the old monk was cleaning the open space in front of the temple. The whole temple had been ruined badly, exuding a strong dusty atmosphere, and it was very old.