The Heartless Mage Chapter 205: Acacia

In the early morning, before dawn, Su Tao was awakened by Wuxin.

Inadvertently, he got into her quilt roll and took her into his arms, hugging and hugging her. Su Tao's sleepy eyes didn't wake up completely, and while she was half asleep, she felt that the tip of her cold nose touched her ear and couldn't stop sniffing, and then her soft lips pressed against her cheek, and remained motionless for a long time.

She lay peacefully on her back in Wuxin's arms, warm and hot and didn't get enough sleep. After being idle for several months, she was used to being lazy, and the cold weather outside made people miss the bed in the room. As soon as her soul floated, she was about to fall asleep again. Wuxin's arm lay across her stomach, her fingers grabbed the sheets, forcing herself not to move rashly.

Having been with Su Tao for nearly two years, Wuxin seems to have realized her gender and age for the first time tonight. She had been living like a cat by his side, and he had almost forgotten that she wouldn't be just a little girl forever. Why forget? Probably because of her timid and childish look, because of her humming childish words, because her rags are always one size larger than her body.

In fact, at first he was afraid that she would grow up. He was afraid that when she grew up, he would attract wild bees and butterflies to fight for her. What a beautiful little girl she is, what happened when she grew up?

Fingers twisted the sheets, stumbling themselves neither up nor down. Su Tao really slept, and she slept in a pleasant manner, still in the posture of a child. Wuxin looked up at the sky outside the window, there was a bit of cold fish maw white in the sky, time was running out, it was time to get up.

The fingers hesitantly loosened the sheets and patted Su Tao's waist lightly: "Tao Tao."

Inadvertently heard his own voice echoing in the dark room: "You forgot? Today we...we got up early!"

Su Tao heard Wuxin's call in her dream. She shivered unexpectedly, opened her eyes, and suddenly remembered that today was not an ordinary day.

Su Tao didn't say anything, and got up like a little shadow. Her facial features were all blurred, she hunched her waist and lowered her head, but she was getting old at a young age, and was depressed by the worries of her life.

Wu Xin moved faster than her. After washing up, he went downstairs and served Su Tao with soy milk fritters. Eggs are stirred in the soy milk and sugar is added, which is a special treat for Su Tao. Su Tao washed her hair yesterday, and after a night, it was perfectly fluffy, except for a pinch on the back of her head. Wuxin dipped her comb in water, brushed her hair again and again, and said, "You eat yours while it's hot."

Su Tao kept silent and drank the hot soy milk. I drank the soy milk and ate up the fried dough sticks. In fact, she has no appetite, but if she doesn't drink or eat too much, the soy milk fritters become a big lump in her stomach. The last breakfast that Wuxin prepared for her was enough for her to digest the whole day.

After eating and drinking, she turned her head to Wuxin and said, "Take the white lady with you, she is human, I want her to send me too."

Wuxin glanced at Bai Liuli, although he thought he was a heavy load, but since Su Tao opened his mouth, he nodded with a good temper: "Okay, I'll take him."

Then he picked up Bai Liuli and stuffed it into his schoolbag.

The big owl flew up the railing at the end of the bed with a flap of its wings, and looked at Wuxin and Su Tao with its big eyes. Su Tao reached out and touched his head: "I'm leaving!"

The big owl knows everything. He opened his mouth to Su Tao, but he resisted and didn't bark.

Su Tao didn't look at the heart, she only spoke to the big owl: "If he bullies you again, no one will save you."

The big owl closed its mouth in approval, and its big eyes rolled around.

Inadvertently slung the schoolbag across the body, holding the doorknob of the house with one hand: "Tao Tao, let's go."

Su Tao stood still, bowing her head and saying nothing. Wuxin waited for a moment, finally took her hand, and he led her out without saying a word.

On the way to the guest house on foot, Wuxin kept talking, nagging, he was also getting old. What to do when being bullied, what to do when you get sick, what to do when you don't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes... He pretended to have a cunning strategy and wished he could teach it all to Su Tao at this moment. The military camp is located in Jiao County, not far from Harbin, so he finally told Su Tao: "Didn't you say that after the three-month training camp, you can have Sunday off? I won't leave, I will wait for you in Harbin for three months. We'll meet in three months."

He smiled at Su Tao: "Three months, soon."

Su Tao turned her head and asked him, "If it's not good at all in the military camp, how can I survive for three months?"

Wuxin smiled silently for a moment, and after a while he replied: "I go to the Dongfanghong department store every afternoon. If you become a deserter, come find me there."

Strengthening Su Tao's hand, he stepped on the ground covered with hoarfrost: "Tao Tao, don't be afraid, I'm not far from you."

Su Tao turned forward, her breath caught in her throat.

In front of the guest house, they met Laotian, along with Laotian's guards and jeeps. Laotian survived the catastrophe last year, and now he is in a state of loneliness, enjoying his little privilege without showing anything. There are no daughters in his family, there are only three big boys with strong backs, all of them inheriting his sharp teeth uniformly, they look like three beasts at first glance; now there is a lovely half-old girl to care for him, and he is very interested in caring .

Su Tao greeted Laotian. Seeing the open door of the jeep, she knew she was really leaving this time.

Bai Liuli stuck out a small head from her schoolbag and surreptitiously looked at Su Tao. Wuxin also let go of Su Tao's hand and urged softly, "Tao Tao, get in the car."

Su Tao followed Laotian to the jeep. The first few steps were very good, and it was a posture of never looking back, but it was not right to walk. Parking in front of the jeep and turning around, she suddenly grinned at Wuxin, tears streaming down her face instantly.

Beautiful face was out of shape, she grinned her small mouth into a big one, and cried out unconcealedly: "I don't want to go..."

A sixteen-year-old girl cried to be six-year-old, which is the most clumsy way of crying, and the most ugly way of crying. She has no reason to say anything, so she can only hide behind her tears and shame: "Wuxin, I don't want to go..."

Wuxin did not move, because he was afraid that if he took a step, he would pull Su Tao back to his side. Lao Tian moved his hand for him and pushed Su Tao into the jeep like playing with a brat. Su Tao got into the car involuntarily, clawed at the door with one hand, she stuck her head out, this time she really didn't say a word, she looked at Wuxin from a distance, and let out a sharp howl.

Wuxin was shaken by her—that was the cry of a baby, heartless and piercing. It existed before all language, and it was the most primitive and sincere sadness. Subconsciously taking a step forward, he saw Lao Tian packed Su Tao's hands and feet that were crawling around into the car, and then bent over and got into the car, Lao Tian completely blocked her.

As soon as the door closed, the jeep walked away crying.

Wuxin walked slowly back to the hotel. After entering the room and closing the door, he took off his schoolbag and threw it away, then sat down on the bed.

Bent over and cupped his face in his hands, he was silent for a long time. Finally, looking up, he saw Bai Liuli floating in front of him.

Bai Liuli was expressionless and looked at him. After a moment of silence with big eyes and small eyes, he straightened his waist unintentionally, and suddenly smiled: "Look, now there are only two of us left."

Bai Liuli seemed to be too lazy to pay attention to him, turned around and walked out through the wall, slipping away without a trace.

Wuxin looked in the direction where he disappeared and asked loudly: "Is it my fault? Do you have the heart to let her hang out with me forever? You have the patience and I can't bear it!"

A pair of blue eyes faintly appeared on the white wall, and it was Bai Liuli who glared at him: "Why don't you bear it? It's not like you haven't found a woman before!"

Inadvertently, I bent over to untie my shoelaces, feeling that I couldn't understand Bai Liuli. And Bai Liuli stuck out his head from the wall and looked down at him condescendingly: "Do you really like Taotao, or do you particularly dislike it?"

Wuxin took off his shoes, then raised his head and stared at the single bed opposite for a moment. Su Tao always likes to lie down and sit on the bed during the day. She has a quiet temperament, and a handkerchief is enough for her to play with for a long time. Now the bed is empty, and there is only a schoolbag and a backpack, which used to be all his and Su Tao's property.

Inadvertently, I didn't look at it, I raised my legs and went to bed and lay down. Bai Liuli was really confused, so she stuck out her upper body from the wall and asked, "Why don't you like her?"

Wuxin turned his back to him, closed his eyes and replied softly, "Bai Liuli, don't be noisy. You let me sleep for a while, I'm dying of exhaustion."

Inadvertently slept all day. He moved house in the evening and left the hotel with the guards sent by Laotian.

In an old building near Harbin Institute of Technology, Wuxin got an empty house. The guard conveyed what Laotian meant, saying that he could live here as he pleased.

Wuxin thanked him and asked the guard, "Tao—how long has Su Pingping been crying today?"

The guard replied, "She stopped crying when she entered the barracks."

Wuxin asked again: "Is it the house she asked Uncle Tian to find me?"

The guard nodded: "Yes."

Wuxin didn't ask any more questions. When the guards left, he inspected his new territory - a total of two rooms inside and outside. The previous owner should be a good person, because the few pieces of furniture left were delicate stuff. The back room looked like it was not cleanly copied, and there was a mess of books piled in the corner. According to today's standards, all of them were poisonous weeds, and they were foreign poisonous weeds. The pages of the books were all printed with foreign characters. Logically speaking, the poisonous weed should have been put to the flames long ago, and the reason why it has survived to this day may only be because the young generals have forgotten about it because the revolution has become anticlimactic.

The cold wind blew through the night, making the big-character posters on the walls outside the building rattle. There was no sound inside or outside the building, so I walked around inadvertently, but I didn't see a few households with their lights on. The old building was covered in white by the big-character posters. He slowly read one by one, and learned that the building used to be full of bourgeois reactionary academic authorities. Where are the authorities and their families now? He couldn't think of it.

I don't want to be hungry. Back in the second-floor room, he locked the door and sat in the corner with his knees folded. He didn't know what Tao Tao ate at night, he thought silently, and he didn't know whether the bedding distributed in the barracks was thick enough. It's amazing how powerful the little girls are. He is really afraid that Su Tao will be bullied.

At the same time as she was thinking about nothing, Su Tao had already got into the cold blanket on the bed in the dormitory. There were six little female soldiers sleeping in a dormitory. Except for her, the other five came by train wearing big red flowers. The six people started getting along in the morning, and now it was night, Su Tao still couldn't recognize who they were.

I can't recognize it clearly, and I don't even bother to recognize it. It has nothing to do with who love is. Lying on the top bunk with her back to the sky, she only felt that the surrounding fields were vast, and she was lying on the boundless wasteland. She didn't want to think about it, she felt a pain in her heart, and she cried all tears in the morning, so now she is in pain. She suddenly raised her hand and touched her face, as if she had just woken up completely, remembering that Wuxin had put her lips to her cheek.

In the low, excited whispers in the dormitory, she looked back to herself and remembered all the good things. She moved to the side quietly, imagining that Wuxin was still by her side, and she left a room as wide as one person for him.

It seems that it is just a matter of closing your eyes, and the night is over. In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, all the little girls in a dormitory were woken up by the monitor. The fluffy new quilt was dragged to the ground, and they started the first lesson of the day: learning to fold the quilt with the monitor.

The quilts, taking the girls' body temperature, were laid out one by one on the ground - the bed was too small to be rolled out on the ground. Someone came back with a basin of cold water. Under the order of the squad leader, the six little girls poured water on the quilt together, because the quilt can only be folded into angular tofu cubes when it is too wet.

Su Tao knows that she is slow, so she is always busy and meticulous, trying not to lead or lag behind. A little girl asked while folding the quilt: "Squad leader, can I make a quilt at night? If I don't do it, how can I cover it?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she was scolded by the monitor. As for the question itself, there was no answer. After a day of military training, the six little female soldiers stumbled back to the dormitory. The quilt is still damp, and it is more comfortable not to cover it than to cover it. Su Tao has learned to deal with it very well. In the military camp, she deals with eating, dressing, training and sleeping. Her heart is either floating in the past or in the future, but she doesn't look at the present.

After a week of recruit training, the beatings started. Su Tao was personally sent to the barracks by Chief Tian, ​​and the company cadres knew it, so compared to others, Su Tao was treated preferentially. Wearing Jiefang shoes, she stood on the large playground in early winter. She was fascinated by the sun in the sky while kicking her legs to practice her step. In the afternoon, Wuxin must be wandering in front of Dongfanghong Department Store. Dongfanghong Department Store, whose real name is Qiulin Company, is located at a very prosperous crossroads. There is always a cart to buy popsicles in front of the store. Since she decided to join the army, she often plays a small temper with Wuxin, and buys cream ice cream for her whenever she gets angry. She ate so slowly that an ice-cream was enough for her to lick back to the hotel from the street.

As soon as Su Tao thought about it, she felt that the training time was not too difficult, and her frozen feet were stomped on the ground, but it was not unbearable pain. A crisp sound came from the front, and it was the squad leader who hit a female soldier's calf with the copper head of his belt. Su Tao was shocked, and immediately raised her head and raised her legs. A hero doesn't suffer immediate losses, and she can't commit a fight by herself.