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The little baby cried desperately to take a shit, and three big men circled around. Finally, it was Xie Hengyan who bravely stretched out his hands, pinched his nose and leaned over, and lifted off its little swaddle that was dripping with feces and urine.

——Suddenly, the entire tent was filled with an indescribable stench.

Xie Hengyan cut up the old sheets and used them as diapers for the child.

Yin Chun raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose, showing a strange expression of disgust.

"What do you dislike?" Xie Hengyan said while wrapping his hands, "Weren't you like this when you were young?"

Yin Chu: "..."

He pondered for a while, and he didn't know what to think of, and asked: "Do you know what I was like when I was a child?"

Xie Hengyan didn't raise her head, but asked instead: "... Isn't everyone like this?"

Yin Chun stopped talking and looked at him in silence.Every time Xie Hengyan brings a child, she is always more patient than ordinary people. After changing the diaper, the doll finally stopped crying. After a while, Xie Hengyan carefully picked it up, put it in her arms and said softly Whisper coaxing--

"Good baby, sleep and wake up to grow taller..."

"Don't cry, don't cry, brother will buy you candy..."

——Don't...don't cry, don't cry, I'll buy you candied haws.

——Yin Chun, good boy, please sleep well...

Yin Chun raised his eyes suddenly, and the long and fuzzy memory in his mind seemed to return to the blazing sea of ​​fire back then.

He was still lying in swaddling clothes, crying and waiting for death.And standing in front of him was an indistinct black shadow, hideous like a soul-stirring ghost—then slowly, slowly, he stretched out his sharp hands until he strangled the fragile and weak infant neck.

That was the only nightmare that Yin Zhu could not get rid of when he was a child.

But looking at it now, it seems that the ferocious ghost who killed people in the dream just lowered his head and gently kissed the child's forehead.

...that's all.

"Thank you Hengyan!"

Yin Zhen raised his hand suddenly, almost ruthlessly, and clasped it tightly on Xie Hengyan's wrist!

"you……"

Xie Hengyan said in a daze, "What are you doing? Be careful not to scare the child."

Yin Chun's throat was slightly choked, and he calmed down suddenly. He lowered his head in front of the puppet, with an indescribably dazed expression: "No...it's nothing."

"I'll go find Sister Tangshui again in a while." Xie Hengyan said, "The child must not be without milk. He is already six months old, so he is much worse than others."

"Yeah." Yin Zhu said in a low voice, "You are very good at taking care of children."

Xie Hengyan: "That's natural, I'm a puppet, I was born to be with others."

Yin Chun: "Then you...have taken care of her before?"

"..." Xie Hengyan paused, then got up and put the child into Yin Chun's arms, "Hold it well, don't wake it up."

Yin Chun said at a loss: "Slow... wait. What are you going to do?"

Xie Hengyan turned to Wu Na and said, "Let's go, Brother Wu, let's go find Sister Tang Shui."

Una was stunned, and immediately came back to his senses, and responded, "Okay!"

"You stay at home and take good care of the baby." Xie Hengyan went to look at Yin Zhen again, "If there is any mistake on the way, I will break up with you from now on!"

Yin Chu: "..."

Xie Hengyan stood on tiptoe and kissed him sideways: "Do you know?"

Yin Chun turned his face away, held the child in his arms, and whispered: "I know, I know."

Xie Hengyan held a pot of freshly boiled fish soup in his hand, and stood obediently in front of the tent door of Una's house, turning around three times.

Finally, he turned around and exchanged a glance with Una who was retreating behind him.Una reluctantly nodded, and stammered, "Go... go in."

Xie Hengyan said: "Go and lift the curtain."

Una said, "You go."

"Why are you so timid?" Xie Hengyan frowned.

Una's face was not very good-looking: "I'm afraid of Sister Lian..."

Before he finished speaking, a woman's extremely indifferent whisper came from inside the tent: "Brother Na, are you outside?"

Una immediately fell silent, and looked at Xie Hengyan with some embarrassment, but Xie Hengyan remained calm, stepped forward, and said warmly outside the curtain: "Sister Tangshui, and me."

There seemed to be a moment of silence in the tent, Xie Hengyan didn't get an answer for a long time, and wanted to reach out to lift the curtain, but Rong Shilian said tremblingly: "Wait, don't come in!"

Xie Hengyan wondered, "What's the matter? I'm here to bring you fish soup."

"You...you brought that monster too?"

Rong Shilian's voice was trembling, and through the cover of a thick long curtain, it was transmitted far to Xie Hengyan's ears, filled with countless repulsion and panic.

When Xie Hengyan heard this just now, her eyes were a little dazed.He didn't enter the door in a hurry, he just stood a curtain away from her and asked helplessly, "...why?"

"There is no reason." Rong Shilian took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, "If you also came to persuade me to provide breast milk to that monster... I have nothing to say, please leave quickly, I am not Don't want to see that hideous face."

... a hideous face?

Xie Hengyan's eyes froze: "Sister Tangshui, you..."

"Sister Lian." Before the puppet finished speaking, Una said coldly, "What are you talking about? That poor child is our own flesh and blood!"

"What flesh and blood? It's an out-and-out monster!" Rong Shilian roared, "That monster is obviously dead, why did you bring it back? You asked me to feed it, what should I get? Feed it! A despicable beast that eats people's flesh and blood and steals people's souls! You want me to feed that beast with my life?... so that it will come back and kill me when it grows wings and becomes stronger and rebellious?"

"My God, why do you have such strange thoughts, it's unreasonable!" Una really made her very angry, "What kind of murderous monster... Beast? What are you thinking? All of this is The illusion you made up, it is still a child, a poor six-month-old fetus...it is your own daughter!"

Rong Shilian's voice suddenly rose, and he shouted at Una almost hysterically: "What do you know? You are a stupid fisherman who can only throw fishing nets all day long, you know what a monster is! I told you to throw it Burn it with fire, but you still want to pick it up, do you want to take this opportunity to kill me?"

"You...what are you talking about? You say I'm a stupid fisherman?" Una's eyes widened in disbelief, "Sister Lian, what's wrong with you? You never did this before... the meaning of this is that Dislike me?"

Rong Shilian paused every word, and said with utmost clarity: "No, I don't dislike you. Wuna, I hate you even more, I really hate you, take back the demon that shouldn't be picked up!"

Una said in astonishment: "Sister Lian..."

Rong Shilian's voice was as cold as ice: "I've made it clear today, Una, if you still recognize me as a wife - then burn that monster as soon as possible. From now on, this family will have me without it!"

"Sister Lian, do you want to force me to death?" Una's heart was twisted like a knife, "That is our child, if it is dead...but it is still alive, how can you let me do it? "

Rong Shilian: "If you don't want to get rid of it, then give it to me, and I will take its life with my own hands!"

Una: "You... I think you are really crazy! Ever since you gave birth to this child, you have been wrong!"

Rong Shilian hissed: "I'm crazy, ever since you brought this monster back, I've been really crazy!"

"Lianmei... Are you, are you really the Lianmei I know?"

Una's eyes were red, and he felt the heat in his throat, trembling violently, unable to speak a single word.

An indomitable, iron-framed old man was standing at the door of his house, choked up several times in a row, and almost staggered to his knees to sit on the ground, facing his unreasonable wife and children, and also because of their newborn baby. The little daughter... seemed to be so shocked that tears streamed down her face, distraught.

Even Xie Hengyan at the side was stunned.

He never thought that it would be such a bad result.

Right now in the tent, the ferocious woman who keeps stabbing her husband and family members with her fierce and fierce reaction... It is really the one who was gentle and patient when she first entered the island, and gave him bowls of life-saving sugar water. Kind girl?

Or...Rong Shilian, does she actually have other difficulties?

Xie Hengyan couldn't help but ask: "Sister Tangshui, did you want to accept your baby because you were afraid of tossing about it the night you gave birth?"

"No." Rong Shilian replied simply, "I made it very clear that it is a monster."

Xie Hengyan said: "How can this be considered a monster? The six-month-old thin baby is naturally weak, so it is naturally not as healthy as ordinary children."

Rong Shilian said: "Are you going to argue with me about right or wrong? If I say it's a monster, it must be a monster. There's no way it's wrong!"

"It doesn't even have the most basic demon mark, and now it needs mother's breastfeeding and care." Xie Hengyan said slowly, "A child who will die at any time, how can there be a monster?"

"..."

——There was a long silence, and another unbearable silence passed.

Just when Xie Hengyan thought that Rong Shilian would not give any more answers...she spoke again, and said in an infinitely bleak way: "If you want to see me die, just bring it here."

Xie Hengyan: "..."

"Since the two of you can't listen to what I have to say, I don't want to make any unnecessary explanations." Rong Shilian turned around, and seemed to be further away, obviously disheartened, "I'm tired, Brother Na is also...you decide for yourself, I don't want to interfere with your thoughts."

"Lian, sister Lian..."

Una looked heavy, turned his head with difficulty, and looked at Xie Hengyan who was also hesitant to speak beside him.

Rong Shilian said: "Let's go, I just want to rest now."

"I...I want you so I can live." Una said suddenly, with tears in his eyes, "As for that child...you won't be able to see it in the future."

"Brother Wu!" Xie Hengyan said in horror, "What do you want to do to the baby?"

"Let's go first, go first!" Una frowned in pain, and grabbed Xie Hengyan's arm fiercely.

Xie Hengyan instantly showed a bewildered expression, but Una just shook his head vigorously at him, and kept repeating: "Go!"

The two of them turned around in unison, and stepped forward one after the other, until they were far away from the countless gray tents shrouded in haze behind them.

The spring breeze after the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival is still as cold as a knife cut.Although the layers of tree roots inside and outside the forest are constantly sprouting new green shoots, the countless old branches at that time are still covered with pale and weak frost, and there is no sign that they are about to grow vigorously. signs.

Everything in front of him was still icy cold, soaked in the lingering winter cold wave last night, after all, he couldn't easily break through the shackles and escape from the oppression of the cage.

Xie Hengyan and Una walked side by side on the small road back to the tent, during which neither of them spoke, except for the rustling of the snow gradually melting under their feet.

"About the child..." Xie Hengyan couldn't hold back, and finally spoke.

"Don't worry, I'm not that reckless yet." Una interrupted him, "It's said that a tiger doesn't eat its eggs. Do you think I look like that kind of person?"

Xie Hengyan sighed: "To be honest, it's pretty similar. Your family is really awkward beyond imagination."

Una understood the meaning of his words, but did not immediately refute: "I'm just worried about sister Lian, why did this happen all of a sudden. I don't understand the Rong family you keep talking about, what does it do?"

Xie Hengyan asked: "Sister Tangshui didn't tell you?"

"I only know that it is a family with a strong desire for control. Sister Lian doesn't like her family, so she ran away desperately and ended up on our island." Una said, "As for other things, she seldom mentioned to me Yes. I know she doesn't like to hear this, so I don't bother to ask."

"Actually, I don't know too well. I can only say... It's a family with a bad reputation, but most people try to get close to it. Maybe for most people on your island, they are the real monsters, cannibals Beasts... are also objects that are bound to be repelled."

Regarding the past of Rong Mansion and Bi Yu Mansion, Xie Hengyan did not want to have an in-depth discussion with Wu Na.

Una himself, like almost all the villagers on the island, is a group of kind people with a simple mind and a hatred for evil.They have been rooted in Yongcun for a long time, just like being immersed in a paradise, their temperaments are simple and enthusiastic, and they can even coexist peacefully with most of the monsters—so once they know the background of Yin Chun and Rong Shilian, they will look at their relationship later. The eyes will gradually become sharp and unbearable, like a thorn stuck in the eye for no reason.

"They are clearly notorious, but people will desperately go to rely on them... What kind of family is this?" Una smiled bitterly, "What you say sounds very funny, and it doesn't seem to exist in reality."

Xie Hengyan also smiled, and said: "Brother Wu has been on the island for too long, and has no specific understanding of the outside world. In fact, our current small village, in the eyes of most people in the world, does not seem like a real place. .”

"Is that so?" Una asked.

"Yeah, because the life is so beautiful and comfortable." Xie Hengyan said, "It's like a fantasy where the gods live."

Una retorted: "You are lying, the gods don't have to worry about it, they are afraid that they will die all day long."

Xie Hengyan condensed her voice slightly: "When you go out completely and go to places other than the island, you will be able to witness more...things that are more terrifying and cruel than death."

"What is that?" Una looked confused.

"I don't know, do you want to go out and experience it?" Xie Hengyan raised the corners of his mouth, trying to seduce, "I have a free ferry ticket here."

The two walked to the depths of the dry forest before, outside the small wooden house used to store abandoned ships.

Originally, after they disassembled the delicate and unique ornamental boat together, they planned to drag it directly outside the tent where Xie Hengyan and the others lived—but after that, the manpower was obviously insufficient, and it took a lot of effort to carry it. Qian and the idiot Chen Lang joined in. They simply chose a compromise and chose the place to lay the keel on the open space outside the wooden house. Kind of like that.

Now the laying process of the keel seems to have completed more than half.The power of everyone's cooperation showed amazing effectiveness at this time. Although it is still a blank skeleton, in Una's eyes, it seems to be a huge sea ship that has not appeared in 20 years. There are countless waves sweeping across, and the pleasant sound of the sea tumbling... It can lead Una to a new, vibrant, and even unobstructed wide world, so as to touch him For a long time, I dare not imagine, let alone practice, a beautiful luxury.

"W-Wuqian did this for you?" Una's voice was slightly hoarse, and he couldn't help his blood boiling, and he staggered forward a few steps, "That bastard...Impossible, I'm sure I'll give you more A lot of trouble."

Xie Hengyan smiled and said: "No, Ah Qian has always worked hard, even more serious than me!"

"I believe you are a ghost!" Wu Na stared again and again as if being stabbed by a needle, "You foxy monster, you only know how to deceive people."

Xie Hengyan spread her hands and said, "I didn't lie to you! Anyway, when the time comes, when the big ship is built, don't beg me to go aboard."

"..." Una was stunned for a moment, then he turned his head and walked in the opposite direction: "Oh, I won't get on your pirate ship!"

"Just keep being stubborn." Xie Hengyan stood behind him and muttered in a low voice, "You've put all your worries on your face, and you still say you don't want to...you really are stubborn."

Turning around to the sunset, the sunset at dusk, and the end of the day.

When Xie Hengyan and Wu Na just walked to the door of the house, they found that Yin Chun did not follow the agreement and stayed honestly in the tent, but left the little doll alone in the haystack, sleeping on all fours, almost kicking off the quilt Kick over.

"Print - pour -"

Xie Hengyan entered the door with her front foot, her back foot on her hips, and shouted to the sky: "Yin Chun, come out for me—"

——However, Yin Zhu didn't obey. He was sneaking behind the tent, busy all by himself.

"What are you doing?"

Xie Hengyan was so angry that he touched the past along the way—but before he could walk a few steps back, he found that Yin Chun was going crazy, and he brought a dirty...sheep from somewhere. ?

At that time, she was so skinny that only a few bones remained, and she was so pitiful that when she saw someone approaching, she immediately bleated and screamed in fright.

"You beast, you actually cheated on me with a sheep!" Xie Hengyan accused angrily, "Let him go!"

Yin Chun didn't turn his head back, but bent over and squatted on the ground beside him, as if he was seriously working on something: "...can you please keep your voice down, you are really noisy."

Xie Hengyan stretched her neck, pushed her fart/butt to Yin Chun's side, stared and asked, "What are you doing?"

But I saw that Yin Chu was holding a small bowl in his hand, and there was a little milky white juice in the bottom of the bowl, and some cloudy sediment floating on the surface.

Xie Hengyan: "Hey!"

"What are you saying?" Yin Chun said with a dark face, "Don't think about it!"

Xie Hengyan went up to take a look, and said: "Isn't this goat's milk... What else can you think about?"

"..." Yin Chun turned his head away, pretending nothing happened, "It's nothing."

"It's so fishy!" Xie Hengyan touched a few drops with his finger, put it in his mouth and tasted it, then grinned and said, "Hmm... it smells like a mutton, it stinks."

"Is it fishy?" Yin Chu took his finger and tasted the taste, "...I don't think so, I plan to get it for the children to drink."

Xie Hengyan asked in a daze, "Why do you suddenly think of feeding him goat's milk?"

Yin Chun asked, "Will Rong Shilian give him milk?"

Xie Hengyan lowered his head and said, "Of course...he refuses."

"That's it. I guessed this possibility earlier." Yin Chun said, "When you come back, the child should have starved to death. This goat milk... can't be fed? I think it is better than rice soup at least."

"No, no, you can feed it. Of course it's better than rice soup." Xie Hengyan said with a smile, "But you have to heat it up first, it tastes too strong and looks dirty."

The two held hands with each other, turned around and entered the tent together.At that time, Una sat dryly on the straw again, hugging his daughter and worrying alone.

"Brother Wu, there is a solution." Xie Hengyan called him, "Yin Chun brought goat milk over, let's feed the baby first."

Before Una could react, Gu Zi stared and raised his head, staring at the top of the tent in a daze.

Xie Hengyan shouted again: "Brother Wu!"

"Oh oh oh!" Una shuddered and hurriedly turned around, "Here we come!"

So the three big men in the tent, now like the child's three mothers, hurriedly squeezed over to nurse.

—in the care of babies—it has never been a man's job.Even for the experienced Xie Hengyan, there are certain difficulties.

After the little dolls finally ate and fell asleep, they had nothing to do, and they couldn't escape the disaster, so they had to fall into contemplation about another problem.

"Sister Lian doesn't want to see it no matter what." Una whispered, "If I take the child back with me at this time, I'm afraid she...will never want to see me again in the future."

Yin Chun frowned and said, "I haven't asked why yet?"

"Sister Tangshui was very vague. Anyway, she just insisted that the child is a monster." Xie Hengyan said, "I have explained it to Brother Wu many times, but she couldn't understand it... It feels like she is possessed by a demon. Strange."

Yin Chun got up and said, "Otherwise, I'll go and have a look, maybe I can see something."

"Hey, sit down and don't provoke/provoke her." Xie Hengyan hurriedly pressed him and said, "The most important thing now is where the child should go. You can't really set it on fire, right?"

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It's late today!Because I got home very late, it was past ten o'clock after taking a shower! !

The island dungeon continues to count down

Countdown to Proposal

Regarding the secret of Rong Shilian and this child, I can't say it yet, I will leave it to everyone to guess slowly!

Xie Hengyan: So, what exactly did Yin Chu want to get wrong just now?

Yin Chun: You can't say it, you can't say it...jj won't let me say it.