Chapter 1535

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

After finishing dinner, Zhang Ruoshui was still very active and took the initiative to help wash the bowls and chopsticks.

Wang Xiaohua saw this and felt restless and annoyed.

Because the more Zhang Ruoshui acted like this, the more Li Xiulan and Du Xiaojuan would like her, and the more Li Xiulan and Du Xiaojuan liked Zhang Ruoshui, the harder it would be for Wang Xiaohua to refuse Zhang Ruoshui.

In the blink of an eye the bowls and chopsticks were washed, Li Xiulan wanted to turn on the television to watch, but discovered the television had been placed unused for too long and actually couldn't be turned on.

Wang Dashan then tinkered with it, wanting to personally try to repair the television.

Wang Xiaohua told him not to mess with it blindly, that they could just send it to a repair shop tomorrow, but Wang Dashan said there was plenty of time anyway, so he would just tinker with it.

Du Xiaojuan then took the opportunity to say to Wang Xiaohua:

"Since there's nothing to do right now anyway, Xiaohua, why don't you take Ruoshui around the village for a stroll."

Wang Xiaohua was somewhat unwilling:

"Eldest Sister-in-law, it's late at night now."

Du Xiaojuan said:

"But it's a clear starry sky, late at night, there are stars, there are fireflies, that's even better!"

Zhang Ruoshui immediately looked full of anticipation:

"There are fireflies here? I've never seen real fireflies before!"

Du Xiaojuan said with a laugh:

"Let Xiaohua take you out to the fields, guaranteed to let you see fireflies!"

Zhang Ruoshui immediately grinned foolishly, blinking her big eyes, just looking at Wang Xiaohua like that.

She didn't even open her mouth to speak.

Wang Xiaohua let out a long breath of turbid air:

"Alright, I'll take you out for a walk!"

So Wang Xiaohua took Zhang Ruoshui and went outside for a stroll.

Actually, the mountain village at night, there wasn't much to see.

Silent and quiet, apart from the sound of insects calling, there was no sound at all.

In the distance, scattered households, shining with sparse lights.

The township's evening was much darker than the city's.

Wang Xiaohua turned on the flashlight function on his mobile phone, illuminating the road ahead.

Zhang Ruoshui followed closely behind.

"Brother Xiaohua, there really are fireflies over there!"

Zhang Ruoshui had unknowingly already started calling Wang Xiaohua "Brother Xiaohua", actually Wang Xiaohua and she were the same age, and not much older than her.

Wang Xiaohua looked in the direction Zhang Ruoshui pointed.

Only to see on the road surface ahead, dots of fluorescence flashing.

It was indeed the light of fireflies, but these flashing dots of fluorescence barely moved on the ground, and did not fly and dance in the sky like fireflies.

"Why don't they fly?"

Zhang Ruoshui asked this question with a puzzled expression.

Wang Xiaohua said to Zhang Ruoshui:

"Those are female fireflies, their wings have already degenerated, they have no flight capability, they can only crawl on the ground and grass leaves, the fluorescence emitted from their tails is used to attract the flying males."

Zhang Ruoshui immediately looked full of admiration and exclaimed:

"Brother Xiaohua, you're really amazing, how do you know so much knowledge? If you didn't say so I still wouldn't know, fireflies actually have ones that can't fly!"

Wang Xiaohua was praised until his face showed embarrassment:

"These things you'd know just by reading a popular science book, it's nothing remarkable."

Zhang Ruoshui said at this time:

"I want to take a look at what these fireflies that can't fly look like!"

Wang Xiaohua advised her:

"You'd better not go look, seeing them glow from afar is fine, if you look at close distance, I'm afraid it will shatter your fantasy of fireflies."

"Why?" Zhang Ruoshui's face was full of puzzlement.

Wang Xiaohua said directly:

"Because they look very ugly."

"Very ugly?" Zhang Ruoshui became even more curious, "No way, the fluorescence they emit is clearly so beautiful."

Driven by curiosity, she hurriedly walked over, squatted down, and used the light of her mobile phone flashlight to examine that female firefly.

As a result, one look and it really was very ugly.

In her imagination, fireflies were a type of beetle, with wings, that could fly, and were even quite beautiful little insects.

But the insect before her eyes, apart from its tail emitting fluorescence, completely didn't have a bit of a firefly's appearance, instead looking more like a fat, segmented, ugly flesh worm, and the color on its body was also very dull.

Zhang Ruoshui saw the female firefly's true appearance and directly froze.

Wang Xiaohua said to her:

"Some things are better left in fantasy, after all the human brain's nerve cells will automatically beautify things seen from afar, once you get close the true appearance will shatter all fantasies, this kind of cruelty isn't something ordinary people can accept."

What Wang Xiaohua said was Zhang Ruoshui's view of him, filtered through a beautifying lens.

To be honest, Wang Xiaohua still didn't know what Zhang Ruoshui saw in him, to the point that she was actually willing to come all the way to this Mountain Pass to meet him.

He felt none of this was real; it seemed more like something Zhang Ruoshui had imagined and beautified.

Zhang Ruoshui suddenly cried at this moment, sobbing softly and wiping away her tears.

Wang Xiaohua thought Zhang Ruoshui had understood his words, seen reality, and realized that Wang Xiaohua was not the firefly she imagined, but an unattractive reptile seen up close right before her eyes.

What Wang Xiaohua didn't expect was that Zhang Ruoshui said at this moment:

"This female firefly, how she is like me? Stupid, unable to fly, and not good-looking, even crawling slowly, always half a beat slower than other bugs, struggling in this vast dark night with her few flashes of light, not knowing when she will find her true home."

Wang Xiaohua was stunned upon hearing this.

For a moment he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

He wanted to tell Zhang Ruoshui that he was the firefly who couldn't fly.

But Zhang Ruoshui thought in her heart that she was the firefly who couldn't fly.

"You will find your home."

Wang Xiaohua comforted her with this one sentence.

Zhang Ruoshui suddenly asked:

"Brother Xiao Hua, in your heart, do you really dislike me? Do you think I'm too stupid?"

Wang Xiaohua was stunned again:

"No, dislike is not too much, but..."

"That's good!" Zhang Ruoshui laughed out loud, she wiped away her tears, "Brother Xiao Hua, I'll come find you on weekends from now on!"

Wang Xiaohua hurriedly said:

"It's not good, it's a long way, the journey is tiring..."

But Zhang Ruoshui said:

"It's fine, I don't dislike trouble!"

Under the moonlight, Wang Xiaohua looked at Zhang Ruoshui's simple face, and for a moment couldn't find words.

For a moment, his heart stirred slightly.

He admitted he was somewhat moved.

And just then, Zhang Ruoshui suddenly looked toward the sky:

"Look, there's a firefly over there flying this way!"

Wang Xiaohua looked up.

Not far away, there was indeed a firefly flying over.

Although it was only one, in this night sky, it was especially eye-catching.

Then it landed near that female firefly.

It did not immediately approach, but wandered nearby.

Wang Xiaohua said:

"How come I feel you're more like the firefly that can fly, flying all the way from Guangzhou to this Shangou Village..."