RI Chapter 56

The hotel was a simple two-story building with a small courtyard in the back.

The hotel owner, an old woman dressed in Miao ethnic clothing, arranged a room for them. The driver was present at the time, so Lei Yun and Chen Jing couldn’t say anything.

After arranging the room, the old woman and the driver spoke in a language that Lei Yun and Chen Jing couldn’t understand, then the driver left.

The old woman’s Mandarin was very poor; she only spoke simple words with a heavy accent.

“Young man, take your girl and go to bed early,” the old woman said, shining a flashlight outside their door before leaving.

Lei Yun put down his backpack, looked at the only wooden bed in the room, and said to Chen Jing, “You take the bed, I’ll sleep on the floor.”

Chen Jing’s expression was calm, and she nodded lightly. She was indeed very tired after traveling all day.

The room was very simple and lacked a bathroom. The bathroom was in a separate courtyard in the back. Chen Jing took her change of clothes and left the room, and Lei Yun finally relaxed his tense nerves.

This feeling was strange. He had been alone with Hu Lanlan before, and even slept in the same bed, but being with Chen Jing felt different.

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He didn’t have a special feeling when he first met her, but now, in a room like this, the feeling was even more wonderful. When he saw the bed just now, he didn’t even have other thoughts. Lei Yun sat heavily on the edge of the bed, chanting the Cleansing Heart Mantra over and over, but Chen Jing’s graceful black figure kept floating in front of him.

The door was suddenly opened. Lei Yun was startled and looked back. Chen Jing was wearing a knee-length nightgown, her long hair hanging down her back, wet and dripping water. She was also holding a basin of water in her right hand, and her calves were fair and slender. Wait, why was he thinking about this!

Chen Jing looked at Lei Yun’s strange expression and asked curiously, “What’s wrong with you?”

Lei Yun seemed to have been caught red-handed, feeling a little embarrassed. He quickly got up, grabbed his clothes, and said hurriedly, “Nothing, nothing, haha.”

“Well, I’m done washing, you go wash, I’ll go to sleep early.”

After speaking, he quickly left the room, leaving Chen Jing puzzled as she watched his fleeing back.

The cold water flowed down Lei Yun’s head, and he exhaled a breath of turbid air, looking at the mirror misty with water, and muttering, “Could it be that I’m having impure thoughts?”

He thought about it and couldn’t accept it, so he turned the water ice cold and took a good shower.

When he returned to the room, Chen Jing had already made the bed. She was lying on her side, and the lamp on the bedside table was still on.

Lei Yun’s throat bobbed, he looked away, walked to the side, and lay down on the floor.

“How come you took so long?” A soft voice sounded in the room.

Lei Yun’s body stiffened, and he pretended to be nonchalant, saying, “Long? Is it? It’s okay, haha.”

Seeing him like this, Chen Jing said nothing, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

After a long time, steady breathing filled the room. Lei Yun lay flat on the floor, staring blankly at the ceiling. After a while, he turned his head to look at Chen Jing on the bed, sighed, and closed his eyes.

Early in the morning, shouts rang out in the hotel. When Lei Yun and Chen Jing got up, the old woman was already upstairs weaving bamboo baskets. She smiled slightly when she saw Lei Yun and Chen Jing, “You two are awake.”

Lei Yun smiled and squatted down, “Yes, Auntie, are you weaving a bamboo basket?”

The old woman understood this and nodded with a smile.

Outside the door was a bustling street, where most of the people were dressed in local ethnic minority clothing.

“Auntie, why is it so lively today?” Lei Yun asked.

The old woman glanced outside and said with a smile, “Today is the fifteenth, market day.”

“Oh.”

“You haven’t eaten yet, have you? There are restaurants outside.” The old woman pointed to a stall across the street. Lei Yun nodded and said to the old woman, “We’ll go now.”

The old woman smiled and nodded.

Lei Yun and Chen Jing sat down at the stall and spent twenty yuan on two bowls of rice noodles.

Chen Jing liked to eat it, and added a lot of vinegar to it. Seeing this, Lei Yun suddenly thought of last night, and he coughed awkwardly, turning his head away.

“Why are you acting so strange?”

Lei Yun was startled, scratched his hair, and grinned, “No way, eat quickly, after eating, we’ll inquire about Mount Xiaoji.”

Chen Jing nodded lightly and ate the rice noodles in her bowl.

The morning market was exceptionally lively. Today was the day for the fair, and many people were carrying shoulder poles, with various goods placed on both sides of the street.

The stall owner saw Lei Yun looking around and said with a smile in accented Mandarin, “Young man, if you like something, go take a look later. They all come from the villages below, and the things are all wild, better than the ones in your city, what do you call it in your city, all natural.”

He chuckled, and continued to cook rice noodles for others.

Lei Yun grinned, “I’ll go take a look later.” He suddenly asked, “Brother, my girlfriend and I want to go to Mount Xiaoji, do you know how to get there?”

The rice noodle brother gave him a strange look and said, “Young man, it’s better not to go to Mount Xiaoji these days.”

Lei Yun got up, walked to his side, and asked curiously, “What’s wrong there? I saw online that the scenery there is particularly good.”

The little brother said, “Yes, it’s good looking.”

He suddenly glanced at Chen Jing, lowered his voice, and said in Lei Yun’s ear, “This girl is so good-looking, why do you still want to worship the Flower Goddess? Could it be that you two?”

Lei Yun looked at him puzzled, “Brother, what do you mean?”

The big brother saw that Lei Yun seemed to be just a tourist, so he continued, “If you really want to go, hire an ox cart at the entrance of the town to take you there, but once you go there, don’t run around. You city people are so curious.”

Lei Yun grinned, “Little brother, you just pretend to be a couple coming to take pictures. I see that your girlfriend is so cold, maybe she is angry with you, so you bring her here to relax.”

Hearing this, the little brother thought it made sense and nodded. “That’s true.”

“Young man, if you want to pretend, put on some of our local clothes later. The people in the villages around Mount Xiaoji don’t like outsiders very much.”

Lei Yun understood, smiled, and thanked the little brother.

After the meal, Lei Yun took Chen Jing into the room, and the two of them bought local clothes on the street and changed into them before heading to the town entrance to hire an ox cart.