no puppet

In fact, the single word "boat", in the eyes of the villagers of Yongcun, seems to have become blurred for a long time.

Almost all people who live by the sea have an inexplicable attachment to going out to sea by boat—it’s just that this attachment, deepened with the passage of time, will gradually evolve into a gentle and meaningless emotion.

Especially ordinary villagers who have lived on the island all year round and formed habits.After a long time in the future, their eagerness to go to sea seems to have become an extravagant hope in a dream, and when they wake up, they forget it and forget it completely.

Now all the people are near or far away, looking intently at the series of huge blueprints in the hands of Yin Chun and Xie Hengyan, as if seeing something new and strange, they all let out incredible sounds.

Naturally, among those voices, the emotion of admiration is far greater than that of approval.

"Brother Wu just explained clearly to everyone the words that should be explained... I accidentally shot the wooden arrow that came from the sky yesterday... I made it clear in advance that I did not have any malicious intentions, but pure intentions. It’s just a mistake. I’m really sorry for disturbing everyone, I’m sorry!”

It was rare for Xie Hengyan to be serious, and shook the blueprint in his hand vigorously, and began to say dryly: "But Brother Wu called everyone over today, not only to explain the arrow that missed the shot, but also to talk about more important things. !"

——He was about to die of nervousness. It was the first time he stood in front of so many people and said something important to his life and future with a serious face.

Even though Yin Chu squeezed his hand quietly behind his back, Xie Hengyan still shook like a quail just hatched, without the bright appearance of the little daisy blooming before.

"What are you trying to say? Try to hurry up, everyone still has to work!" A villager urged.

"Yeah, we haven't cooked yet, we'll be hungry soon..."

"Little monster, if you want to talk about shooting arrows before, we don't blame you, you don't have to take it too seriously!"

Xie Hengyan blushed immediately with anxiety, thinking that there were so many large pictures in his hand, why didn't anyone with long eyes take a closer look?

"I-I said it all, it's not just for apologizing, have you listened to it..." Xie Hengyan said dejectedly.

Yin Chun reminded: "Speak up louder, where did your confidence go yesterday?"

Xie Hengyan gritted her teeth and said, "I'll be very nervous too! Otherwise, you can tell me!"

"I-I-I heard it, Yanyan!"

At this time, a loud and crisp shout suddenly sounded from the crowd: "I know, Yan Yan is going to work with Untouchable Brother to build a big ship and lead everyone out to sea!"

Xie Hengyan raised her eyes suddenly, only to see a crowd of people moving in front of her, and from among the countless tall and cold figures of Dawson, a thin and thin figure quickly appeared - upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Wu Qian!

Xie Hengyan said in surprise, "Ah Qian!"

Yin Chun turned his face away, and said contemptuously: "...huh."

Wu Qian opened a pair of dark and bright eyes wide, with an infinitely confident smile on his face, as vigorous as the sun embedded in the noonday.Then he rushed forward, dragged the blueprint in Xie Hengyan's hand high with his small hand, shook it lightly, and said loudly to the surrounding crowd: "Let me tell everyone, our family is very good-looking, yesterday Only through two simple arrow tests, I have worked out a method that can take everyone away from the island!"

When everyone heard the words, there was a sudden commotion for no reason.

"T-True or fake!"

"It's fake, how can you believe what a child says?"

"But they even took out the drawings, here, isn't this the blueprint for shipbuilding?"

"Wuqian!" Wuna was so angry that his face turned blue and pale, "Get out of here, are you in need of cleaning up again?"

Wu Qian remained motionless, just like the little guardian god beside Xie Hengyan, holding his and Yin Chu's drawings in both hands, and continued to himself: "It's not fake! Yanyan is the most beautiful girl in the world. The most powerful person, he can not only shoot arrows, but also draw boats—— Yan Yan is serious about drawing these blueprints every day, and there is no problem at all! Anyway, as long as everyone is willing to work together to build a boat, it should be We will be leaving the island soon!"

"What..." Immediately, some villagers snorted and said, "How long have we not touched a boat? Some old boat builders from several years ago should have given birth to their hands long ago."

"Building a ship now? Is there any mistake? It's hard to fill our stomachs in this winter. Are you sure you want to build a ship now?!" Some people were full of disbelief.

"Don't fool us!"

"Una!" The villagers all glanced at Una who was standing still, "What's going on? Why are you suddenly going to the sea again? Is what your son said true?"

"Hold, I'm sorry! My son is not sensible and has caused trouble for everyone."

Una strode forward, grabbed the jumping Una back, and held him firmly in his arms.Then he cleared his throat very seriously, and continued to say to the crowd: "It's this little monster who brought our brother Yin Chu... He and I are in a hurry to leave the island, so I want to ask everyone for help, see if you are willing." Those who are traveling with you, help build and build big ships together?"

As soon as this statement was made, a series of disdainful and loose voices burst out from the crowd, obviously maintaining a deep doubt about it.

——Actually, there is not much to say at all.Everyone present, how many years have they never thought about the slightest picture of going out to sea by boat in the future?Most of the people in Yongcun had long regarded this matter as a joke, but now that Wuqian, a half-grown child, was asked to mention it, it became more and more unbelievable.

In addition, the words themselves came too abruptly. Right now it is a difficult season in which even ordinary animals have to worry about food and cold. Who would have the leisure to cut down trees and build ships?

"Are you kidding?" The villagers couldn't help but said, "We have been running for so many years, but none of us managed to get out. It's time for us to rest. Why do we still have the energy to mess around?"

"Advise you, go back and count the white hairs when you have time, if you find one, you will not live long, where did you come from to build a ship!"

"You say you know the way to leave the island, how can you prove it? And what about trying arrows, and what exactly are you trying?"

Suddenly there were so many people questioning in unison, Xie Hengyan felt a little untenable, and looked back pitifully at Yin Chun, but Yin Chun said: "It doesn't matter, tell me, believe it or not is their business."

Wu Qian also waved to Wu Na in his arms: "Yan Yan, I believe in you!"

"Yesterday's arrow test was to verify that all 'baby' forms, that is, unborn creatures, will not be affected by the time compression on the island, including the fetuses in the girls' wombs, and all kinds of different creatures. Bird eggs, these are the closest to us." Xie Hengyan mustered up her courage, and once again repeated word for word in front of everyone, "And these creatures have the ability to penetrate the barrier outside the sea area... anyway. That is to say, this island is not as unbreakable as everyone imagined, it also has certain weaknesses, and it can be successfully breached!"

"So?" The villagers continued to ask, "You said it could be breached...then what did you use to break it?"

Xie Hengyan was startled for a moment, then said solemnly: "Of course it's an egg, otherwise what else can I use?"

——Before the words fell, there was another deafening laughter all around.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

"Hahahahaha, little monster, you are so naive!"

"I'm going to doubt, you are so simple, are you really a monster?"

The crowd burst into laughter one by one, as if they had encountered something extremely joyous and wished they could roll in the snow.

When Fang Qiao heard the last sentence, Xie Hengyan's entire face and neck were flushed as if it had been cooked.He asked embarrassingly: "Yes, what's so funny, I don't look like a monster anymore... Don't laugh, don't laugh! I'm angry!"

After finishing speaking, everyone laughed even harder, Xie Hengyan was so ashamed that she couldn't be more ashamed, she stayed there for a long time and was annoyed, and finally plunged into Yin Chun's arms, and said very sadly: "Ah, I don't want to say it, why are they so angry? They are not obedient!"

Yin Chun said helplessly: "Of course I won't be obedient, do you think everyone is a golden needle?"

"Little monster, please understand that an egg is an egg, and a person is a person." After a while, a kind villager stood up and said, "You said that eggs can pass through, and everyone believes it. But you said that such a big person, can you also pass through?" Do you want to wear it together with an arrow and shoot it out of the sea alive?"

Yin Chun said coldly: "You said you want a boat, how can you use a living person to pierce an arrow?"

"That would require a large ship to go out to sea, so it would be even more impossible! Besides, you also said beforehand that people in the form of 'babies' must be able to pass through the barrier. There are so many of us, how many of us are really satisfied? On condition?"

"I didn't say that everyone must meet the conditions." Yin Chun said in a deep voice, "In the arrow test yesterday, the wooden arrow disappeared together with the egg, which shows that the conditions are not unique, and can even play a leading role in the group—otherwise How did the Mu family leave the island 20 years ago? Could it be that all the men, women and children on the ship are pregnant with Liujia?"

Xie Hengyan nodded sharply and said: "Yes, yes! Yin Zhen is mighty!"

Wu Qian howled: "You can't touch my brother's mighty power!"

"But in the end, to put it bluntly, things are still uncertain."

But at this time, Una came out, his eyes were heavy and sharp, he still looked at Yin and Xie indifferently and said: "There are no major mistakes in your point of view. Only when it comes to 'trying' - everyone You only have one life, how many times will you have to endure when you build a ship? If you end up trying to end up with an oolong, how will you deal with it then?"

"Whoever is willing will come naturally." Yin Chun said, "I didn't mean to force it."

Xie Hengyan also said: "We just want to call for help!"

"That's good. This is your own business. I can only help here—and I don't intend to participate." Una spread his hands.

Xie Hengyan said: "Just don't regret it."

"I don't regret it. The old village chief gave me my life, and I must help him take care of the village."

Unamuran glanced at Xie Hengyan, then raised his voice, turned to face the crowd, and asked loudly: "So——Everyone, do you want to build a ship? Follow them later, maybe it's a chance to go out to sea and leave the island ...Hey, would anyone like it? Would anyone like it, huh?"

All of a sudden, the cold wind howled, fallen leaves flew into the sky, and the entire ring-shaped village was silent, and the scene seemed very bleak for a while.

Yin Chu: "..."

Xie Hengyan: "..."

Villagers: "Why don't you go fishing and what's for dinner?"

"Lunch hasn't been settled yet, sisters pack up and prepare to cook..."

"It's really cold today, go back and burn more firewood."

After a while, Xie Hengyan buried her head in Yin Chun's arms with a mournful face still on her face: "...there is really no one here, I'm so pissed off!"

Yin Chun also let out a long sigh, and just wanted to touch his head, but that Wuqian was bouncing up and down, and rushed forward, hugged Xie Hengyan tightly and said: "Take me, take me, you said, if you want Take me out to sea with you!"

Yin Chun frowned and said, "What can a child do? Don't make trouble, go home and work quickly."

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolese is really the best." Xie Hengyan pushed the seal cup away, then knelt down, hugged Wuqian tightly and said, "after that, it will be just the three of us together!"

Yin Chu: "..."

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Immediately afterwards, the big yellow dog at the entrance of the village also spread its four long legs, ran up wheezing, and circled around Xie Hengyan and Wu Qian.

"Golden needle!" Xie Hengyan seemed to see a treasure, and immediately tightened the golden needle, resting her hands on the top of its head and stroking it, "Even the golden needle knows to face me, it's great, she is worthy of being my future daughter-in-law!"

"Stop making trouble!" Yin Zhu was almost speechless, "We are building a ship, not just playing around!"

——Not long after, the crowd gradually dispersed.The villagers who surrounded them at the beginning shook their heads quickly, and went about their own affairs, obviously not paying attention to Xie Hengyan's words.

Even later, even Wuna went fishing with a fishing rod and wooden bucket. Before leaving, he called Wuqian several times and told him not to play too late.

The hustle and bustle faded away little by little, until finally, there were only three people and one dog left, standing in the thick snow and blowing the sea breeze, letting the body be covered with boundless cold.

Holding piles of drawing paper in both hands, Yin Chun tilted his head to look at Xie Hengyan who was squatting on the ground playing with the dog, but his heart was full of helplessness and connivance.

"Forget it." Yin Chun took his wrist and sighed in a low voice, "Otherwise, why don't you go home first?"

"No! If you agreed to build a ship, you've already drawn all the pictures, how can you let it go!" Xie Hengyan frowned, "Let's go and cut down trees!"

"Just the two of us, how can we build a ship?" Yin Chun held the puppet's little hand, and for a moment, he didn't know how to describe his current mood.

In fact, the longer he spends with Xie Hengyan in the village, the more weak and invisible his mentality of wanting to escape will become.

On the one hand, Yin Zhen naturally wanted to leave.Just like when he first entered the island, he said that he didn't want to stay here until he died of old age - but from the beginning to the end, his thoughts did not change a lot, what really changed was his mentality.

So on the other hand, Yin Zhu was not so eager to leave.Especially after he found out that he likes Xie Hengyan... The taste of love for the first time, even if it is sweet and bitter, is enough to make people feel like it.

"Thinking about it, it might not be so good to go out." Yin Chun squatted down and petted the dog next to Xie Hengyan, "When I see my master again, many things will be different... I don't know how to deal with it he."

"Who told you to go back to find Cheng Daofeng?" Xie Hengyan turned around angrily, "I tried my best to get you out of the island, but you turned around and went back to Biyu Mansion, how can you do me a favor!"

Yin Chun said: "I didn't ask you to work hard."

Xie Hengyan said: "Do you have some goals to achieve? Don't be so indecisive."

Yin Chun turned his head away, and said unnaturally: "I don't want to..."

I don't want to be separated from you.

——But I can't tell.

A person who is destined to return to Biyu Mansion, how can he be so shy, begging a monster to accompany him, and live a life of constant fear in the future?

Xie Hengyan said: "When I say I want to leave, I really want to leave. No matter where you are going in the future, getting out is the first step!"

Yin Chun said: "It's just the two of us, we can't get out after a lifetime of tossing around."

"Obviously there are me and Jinzhen!" Wu Qian raised his head, dangling Xie Hengyan's calf, "I am young and have read a lot of books, so I can always help Yanyan!"

"it is good!"

Xie Hengyan stretched out his hand, and with a smile, he took the initiative to say to Wu Qian: "Then let's pull Gougou, no matter what happens, we must never give up halfway!"

Wu Qian seemed to be full of energy, and only said: "Listen to Yan Yan, pull Gougou!"

The golden needle also stretched out a paw, wagging its tail, and called out repeatedly: "Wow, woof, woof!"

Only Yin Chun stood beside him, holding his forehead with his hand, feeling that everything in front of him was like a farce, and he really didn't know what to do.

However, the next day was cloudy, and it was the first month of the month, and it snowed heavily all night inside and outside the island.

Xie Hengyan said that he was in a hurry to build a ship, but in the severe weather of wind and snow, it was impossible to go to the dead forest deep in the island to pick wood.Even the temperature plummeted once, and fewer and fewer villagers even went fishing on the ice. Most people chose to stay in the tents to warm up, consume the food they had hoarded a few days ago, and live an honest life that ordinary people should some days.

Naturally, Yin Chun and Xie Hengyan were no exception.Especially the puppet who is only afraid of the cold, wrapped himself in rice dumplings, held a stove in his palm, held a golden needle in his arms, and put a ball of firewood next to him. For the next half a month, he was nestled in a tent Living—but although others are sleepy, their hands are not idle at all.When Yin Chun glanced over occasionally, he would find a large number of blueprints next to Xie Hengyan, all of which were carefully revised by him one by one. After repeated thinking, almost all the cumbersome parts were made simple for him It is easy to build, and even greatly reduces the original difficulty of shipbuilding.

Yinben is not proficient in these, the only thing he can do is to contribute silently by the side.Now in the cold winter with heavy snowfall, going out to collect wood for shipbuilding is a life-threatening activity—not to mention that the wood on the small island may not be suitable for shipbuilding.Yin Chun proposed to prop up the fishing boat to see if there are other islands nearby, but this idea was stopped by Xie Hengyan, the reason was that it was too dangerous, and if something serious happened, the gain would outweigh the loss.

Then, when the weather was fine, Yin Chun went for a walk in the dead forest, but the wood he picked up was useless, either because it was bitten by insects, or because it had been soaked in too much snow in winter. , the inner layers are all corroded—and the first requirement for choosing wood is that it must be corrosion-resistant.

"Please, be careful when you pick it up! Don't bring everything home...Look, what are these things? Is this wood...Oh my god, there are scrap copper pieces, are you blind? "Xie Hengyan crazily whispered in Yin Chun's ear, "It can't be too soft, and it can't be too hard, especially the kind that rots when soaked in water. It's bad wood. You...do you understand?"

Yin Chun propped up his hands, stared at him intently, and said, "Then you are bad wood."

"Yeah, I'm bad wood... No, I'm bad for your size!" Xie Hengyan blushed with anger, "When did you learn to interrupt? I'm obviously talking about serious things!"

Yin Chun said, "Speak, I'm listening."

"Don't talk about it, I'll go see it by myself tomorrow!" Xie Hengyan stared, "Leave this matter to you, it's all over!"

"There is no such kind of wood as you said." Yin Chun said.

"I'll see for myself!" Xie Hengyan said bitterly.

Unfortunately, on the second day, news came out from the village that two families in a row died last night, and they were all young—a man and a woman, around 20 years old. It is said that the girl had just been diagnosed with a happy pulse. The family was still happily waiting to hold their grandson, but that night, they died after sleeping, and there was no sound at all when they died.

As for the man who died, it seemed a little more miserable.From last summer to now, all seven members of the family have died, leaving him and his younger brother to depend on each other, and before he died, he was still holding on to his younger brother's hand tightly, and he could not rest assured of him A person, finally lasted until the next morning, vomited blood all over the room, but everyone who saw it at the scene fell down and wept.

So Yin Chun and Xie Hengyan huddled in the tent for several days, and when they entered the tumultuous crowd again, it was to attend someone else's funeral.And in such a snowy weather where it is difficult to travel, even digging someone's grave is not an easy task. Anyway, the burial was hasty in the end, but the voices of a group of people were crying louder than ever.

Xie Hengyan still expressed her incomprehension: "This is their own choice, after all, why are they crying so sadly?"

"—It's because you think too simply, human beings are far more complicated than you thought."

Una turned back from the wailing, and said to Xie Hengyan lightly: "Everyone is very greedy in their hearts, and they have been trying desperately to extract the happiness in front of them, but they dare not take a long-term view."

Xie Hengyan lowered his eyes and said: "You won't get any sweets like this, and it's useless to cry. It's a waste of emotion."

Una smiled bitterly after hearing the words.After a long silence, he said again: "Wait a while...you come with me, I think there is something that may help you."

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The current status of Yinzhen and Xiaoxie:

Yin Chun: I'm clearly flirting with him, but he can't see it, and he always picks me up.

Xie Hengyan: He was clearly flirting with me, but it felt like he was joking, so I couldn't help but attack him.

At this time, I need to assist No. 1 Wuqian, No. 2 Jinzhen, and No. 3. I haven't figured out what it is, anyway, just pour vinegar!