Sharing a Bed

Zhou Chenglei's hand holding the water ladle shook slightly. He quickly grabbed the dry towel from the back of the chair and draped it around her neck, covering that alluring scenery.

Suddenly, a large amount of water flowed down her neck. Jiang Xia, unaware of what had happened, quickly used the towel to wipe her neck. "Too fast, slow down, my clothes are getting wet."

"Sorry," he said, his voice slightly hoarse.

After finally helping Jiang Xia wash her hair, Zhou Chenglei carried two large buckets of hot water into the shower room for her to bathe.

Fortunately, Mother Zhou had already returned to her room, otherwise, if she had urged them to shower together, he didn't know how they would have handled it.

After Jiang Xia finished her shower, she sat in the courtyard to dry her hair.

The wind tonight was very comfortable, carrying a faint smell of the sea.

In the Fishing Village at night, there was no light pollution, and the night sky was filled with stars.

Jiang Xia combed her hair with a red plastic comb, while thinking about what to do next.

She definitely had to take the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, not only for the diploma, but also so that she could legitimately use the knowledge she had learned in her previous life after getting into university.

However, she couldn't participate in this year's National Higher Education Entrance Examination. The time had passed, and she only had one hundred yuan on her. The money was definitely not enough, so she had to find a way to earn money and take the exam next year.

She had to take the exam by next year at the latest, because according to the setting in the book, after next year, married people would no longer be allowed to participate in the National Higher Education Entrance Examination.

But how to make money? Zhou Chenglei came out after showering and saw Jiang Xia staring at the night sky in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking, so he said, "The courtyard is windy and there are many mosquitoes. Go to bed early when your hair is dry, don't catch a cold."

Jiang Xia came back to her senses and glanced at the two people's clothes in the basin. Her face felt inexplicably hot, and she quickly responded, "Okay, then I'll go back to the room first."

Just now, after she came out of the shower, he had taken the clothes from her basin.

She said she would wash them herself, after all, they were getting divorced.

He gave her a faint look, "Can't you wash them? I've always washed them for you, it won't make a difference these few days."

What else could Jiang Xia say? Zhou Chenglei waited for Jiang Xia to return to the room, then began to wash the clothes they had taken off.

In the room, Jiang Xia's hair was already dry.

She lay on the bed, looking at the snow-white old-fashioned mosquito net, listening to the sound of washing clothes outside, and wondered: After Zhou Chenglei finishes washing the clothes, will he come back to the room to sleep?

Probably not! They had both agreed to get divorced. Last night, Zhou Chenglei didn't even sleep in the same room with her. Now that he had moved over and had a room, he should stay in his own room.

Before long, there was the sound of a door closing in the hall, followed by the sound of a door closing in the next room.

Jiang Xia heard it, turned off the light, and went to sleep.

Cicadas chirped outside the window, and the sound of waves could be faintly heard. The room was very quiet, perfect for sleeping.

After a tiring day, Jiang Xia quickly felt sleepy.

In a daze, there was a faint rustling sound from the roof tiles, like something was crawling across.

Jiang Xia's whole body stiffened! She opened her eyes wide. In the darkness, she couldn't see anything, but she suddenly thought of the two snakes in the room during the day.

She thought of Great-Grandmother saying that they had laid a nest of snake eggs and hatched a nest of baby snakes.

Jiang Xia: "..."

Why did she have to think about this? It couldn't be, she must have misheard.

She pulled up the blanket and covered her head.

At this moment, there was another rustling sound from the roof tiles.

The room was too quiet, so she could hear it very clearly! "Zhou Chenglei!"

That scream almost lifted the roof tiles! Throwing off the blanket, pulling open the mosquito net, and getting out of bed, Jiang Xia ran out like a gust of wind.

In the next room, Zhou Chenglei had just taken off his shirt and was about to go to sleep when he heard the screaming call. He ran out without even putting on his clothes.

Then a black shadow pounced on him, clinging to him like a sloth.

"There are snakes! There are snakes on the roof!"

Father Zhou and Mother Zhou were both awakened, only Zhou Zhou was a child, sleeping soundly and snoring.

The two were so frightened that they quickly got out of bed and went out of the room to see what was happening.

Mother Zhou had just opened the door when she quickly closed it again.

"What's wrong with her now?" Father Zhou followed behind her, filled with the impatience of being woken up. This wasn't the first time this had happened in the middle of the night.

Mother Zhou pushed Father Zhou back to sleep, "It's nothing, it's nothing, A'Lei is here! Little Xia was probably frightened by the snake during the day and is having a nightmare."

Mother Zhou had also heard Great-Grandmother mention the snake in the house during the day.

Father Zhou didn't care when he heard that. It was just a snake. You could see them every now and then in the summer, and A'Lei knew how to catch snakes, so what was there to be afraid of? People from the provincial capital were just making a fuss about nothing.

The two of them went back to bed and continued to sleep.

In another room, Zhou Chenglei held Jiang Xia, turned on the light, and shone the flashlight around.

There was no way around it, she was holding him too tightly and refused to get down no matter what.

Zhou Chenglei held Jiang Xia with his right arm and held the flashlight with his left hand, checking everywhere.

Even though he knew in his heart that it couldn't be a snake and was probably a rat, he still checked carefully.

"Look, there's no snake. It must be a rat running across the roof. Rats generally don't bite people." After his right ear was injured, he was almost deaf. He could only hear with one ear, so his hearing wasn't as sensitive. That's why he didn't hear anything just now, but he could guess.

Jiang Xia followed the light of the flashlight in his arms, looking around. There wasn't one, but she was still scared!

He probably couldn't understand, but she was just afraid of snakes, very afraid of snakes.

"I don't dare to sleep alone."

Zhou Chenglei: "..."

The floor had been washed today and hadn't completely dried yet, so there was no way to make a bed on the floor. In the end, Zhou Chenglei carried her back to the next room to get his pillow and thin blanket, as well as the clothes he had just taken off.

He was used to sleeping with his upper body bare, but he couldn't sleep with her with his upper body bare.

Jiang Xia lay on the inside of the bed, watching him put on a long-sleeved shirt, buttoning it all the way to the top, the lines of his muscles faintly visible under the shirt...

Zhou Chenglei turned off the light, sat on the bed, tucked in the mosquito net, and lay down.

"Sleep!" The man's voice was low and a little hoarse.

There was a distance between the two of them, and there was also a thin blanket separating them.

Jiang Xia closed her eyes peacefully.

In the midsummer of August, there was no fan, no air conditioning, and the breath of the person next to her was scorching hot, making it impossible to ignore. Jiang Xia felt a little hot and a little parched.

Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger. In her previous life, she was about the age of a wolf or a tiger...

What are you thinking about? Jiang Xia was startled by her own wild thoughts, turned over, faced the wall, gently kicked off the thin blanket, and instead hugged it. She put aside the yellow thoughts in her mind, listened to the cicadas and the sound of the waves, and forced herself not to think about anything and go to sleep.

Zhou Chenglei was also hot, and he was still covered with a thin blanket.

The bed was 1.5 meters wide, and it was a little close to lie down with two people. It was safer to cover yourself with a blanket.

Feeling Jiang Xia kick off the blanket, he asked, "Are you hot?"

Jiang Xia's body stiffened, and she replied, "Yes, it's hot."

In August, it was normal to be hot.

Zhou Chenglei lifted the blanket, got out of bed, took a large palm-leaf fan, and lay back down, gently fanning the two of them.

The wind from the large palm-leaf fan came in gusts, gently, softly, and coolly, just right to keep people from being too cold or too hot.

Perhaps the wind was too comfortable, or perhaps the breath of the person next to her was clear, steady, and reassuring, Jiang Xia's breathing quickly became shallow.

Zhou Chenglei felt that the person next to him had fallen asleep, but he couldn't fall asleep no matter what. He wanted to fetch two buckets of well water to take a cold shower, it was too hot.

But as soon as he moved, the person next to him turned over and put their hands and feet on him.

Zhou Chenglei: "..."

It wasn't until dawn that Zhou Chenglei fell asleep groggily, feeling like he hadn't slept for long when he heard his parents talking softly outside.

Zhou Chenglei opened his eyes: It's time to go out to sea!