Chapter 101

These actions took only a few seconds.

He didn’t ask, it seemed like a natural move.

After putting her hand on his waist, he didn’t say anything, lifted his leg and rode away.

By the time Xia Qingning reacted, her hand was already around his waist.

Although he was wearing a neat military uniform, there was no possibility of skin contact, but the action of holding his waist was quite ambiguous in this era.

However, Xia Qingning was a person from the modern world, and she didn’t feel excessively shy or reserved. Since he took the initiative to let her hold him, she had no psychological burden and naturally wrapped her arms around him, after all, this way she could sit more steadily.

What surprised her was that his physique was so strong, but his waist was so narrow.

Sitting behind him, her eyes fell on his broad back, her hand resting on his waist, Xia Qingning had a direct visual and tactile experience of the term “broad shoulders and narrow waist” for the first time.

At this moment, her mind involuntarily recalled the scene when he pulled her out of the river and took off his vest for the first time:

A strong physique, firm abdomen, distinct muscle blocks, although he had been training for a long time, his skin was not dark, but a healthy wheat color, an inverted triangle figure, seductive mermaid lines, simply perfect.

If it were in the real world, just that action of taking off his vest could instantly kill a bunch of pale and skinny young meat, and captivate a large number of young ladies.

Now, holding his waist, what surprised Xia Qingning was that she could still feel the firmness of his abdomen through the thick fabric.

What a pity, if he hadn’t been wearing his military uniform today, would she have been able to touch the legendary abs?

She didn’t have any evil thoughts, she was just simply curious. She had always heard her dormitory mates talk about how attractive the eight-pack abs and six-pack abs of sports students were, and after hearing so much, she had always been curious about what those blocks of muscles would feel like to touch.

Just as Xia Qingning was lost in thought, she heard Lu Jingzhe’s usual clear and calm voice:

“We’re here.”

“Ah?” Xia Qingning was thinking about Lu Jingzhe’s “abs”, her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by him, she felt like she had done something wrong and was caught by the person involved, so she hurriedly responded in a guilty voice:

“Oh, okay.”

A moment later, she removed her hand from Lu Jingzhe’s waist and jumped off the bike.

After her hand left his waist, Lu Jingzhe’s abdomen was obviously not as tense as before, and his muscles relaxed.

Xia Qingning didn’t notice his movements, her eyes were fixed on the front, she saw that there was a very steep slope ahead, and the bicycle was still carrying someone, obviously it couldn’t go up, no wonder Lu Jingzhe stopped here.

Lu Jingzhe pushed the bike ahead, Xia Qingning followed behind, after passing the steep slope, the front became open and flat, ten or so flat houses suddenly appeared in front of them.

The houses were new and old, not concentrated, scattered around, just in the middle surrounded a large courtyard, similar to the threshing ground in her hometown.

There were seven or eight young boys playing games in the courtyard, each child holding a reed-woven gun, chasing each other, shouting and killing.

Seeing strangers coming, the children who were originally playing stopped and looked curiously at the two of them, but their eyes fell more on Lu Jingzhe.

It was not strange, the children were not yet at the age of paying attention to beautiful girls, now they were more interested in Lu Jingzhe’s military uniform and the bike he was pushing.

It should be almost there, Lu Jingzhe didn’t let Xia Qingning get back on, but pushed the bike forward, and Xia Qingning, who was following behind him, accidentally discovered a different little boy when she passed by the children.

He was about seven or eight years old, the patches on his clothes were obviously more than the other children’s, and his hair was very thin and yellow.

He also held a reed-woven gun in his hand, but he didn’t play games with the group of children, he just squatted silently in the distance, watching the other children play, his eyes full of envy and longing.

Although he didn’t seem indifferent, Xia Qingning somehow felt that there was a kind of loneliness in this child that didn’t belong to his age.

Just as Lu Jingzhe passed by the child, the child seemed to sense something, turned his head to look at him, his eyes fixed on the military uniform he was wearing, and his face suddenly showed a different emotion.

Although Xia Qingning felt something unusual, she didn’t rashly ask anything, and followed Lu Jingzhe past the child.

After they had both walked away, a boy with two snots hanging from his nose suddenly asked the older boy beside him who was wearing dirty blue and white striped sailor clothes and had a pot-lid haircut:

“Brother Xiaoming, was that big guy just now Guangtou Zeng’s dad? I saw his dad’s picture on the wall of their house, and he was wearing the same clothes.”

“Impossible, my mom said his dad died a long time ago, he couldn’t have come back.” The pot-lid head said like an older brother, with a serious tone.

“Oh.” The boy with two snots hanging from his nose nodded, then looked puzzled: “But they look alike.”

“Oh, I told you dead people can’t come back, why are you asking so many questions, do you still want to play?” The pot-lid head was a little impatient, and his voice rose a little.

“Yes, yes.” The boy with two snots hanging from his nose hurriedly said.

“Then it’s your turn to be the Japanese soldier this time…”

At this time, Xia Qingning followed Lu Jingzhe to a house and stopped, she found that this was one of the few brick houses in the area, the others were mostly mud houses.

The door of the house was open, obviously someone was at home, Lu Jingzhe didn’t go in rashly, but stood outside the door and called out in a deep voice:

“Sister-in-law.”

After a long time, there was no movement in the house, just as he was about to call again, a woman slowly walked out from the house, she was about forty years old, a little short, wearing a red plaid dress, no patches on the dress.

She glanced at Lu Jingzhe, then fell on Xia Qingning behind him, she didn’t hesitate to start looking at her, after a while she asked in a high voice:

“Who are you? Who are you looking for?”