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"Have those bone needles of his been removed?" Rong Shilian asked Yin Chun, "Are they still in his heart?"

Yin Chun embraced Xie Hengyan and said, "It won't be dismantled."

Rong Shilian asked again: "Why not take it apart? Those needles..."

Yin Zhen Lingran said: "What's none of your business?"

It is clear that a few days ago, she still had a righteous look on her face, pointed her knife at the necks of the two of them, and kept saying that monsters such as puppets are ferocious and brutal, and ordinary people cannot suppress them, and there will be endless troubles if they stay behind.

But it was she who kept talking about Xie Hengyan as a good "friend".

Yin Chun's expression was not good.

It would be understandable and pardonable to say that Una was rude and reckless, as it was in his nature.But Rong Shilian herself is not dull, and there is no such thing as impulsiveness, Yin Chun can't see through what is going on in her mind, let alone have the patience to talk to her in depth.

"Brother Yin." Una finally couldn't stand it anymore, "Are you still angry about that day? Mei Lian was just eager for a while, and didn't want to hurt the little monster. Besides, he also..."

"...Forget it, Brother Na. Don't talk about it."

Rong Shilian waved his hands, then lowered his voice, and took the initiative to say to Yin Chun: "The situation was urgent at the time, and I didn't know why the little monster made an attack. I just saw that Na Ge was injured, and my first reaction was naturally to protect him."

Yin Chun did not speak, and remained silent throughout.

"I know, I went too far that day, and at the critical moment, I completely lost my mind." Rong Shilian calmed down and said slowly, "If you feel bad about this matter, I don't want to see the result. Let's be friends , I would like to apologize to the little monster and to you as well."

Una said: "Sister Lian..."

Yin Chu: "..."

Rong Shilian said stubbornly: "...I did something wrong, I'm sorry."

Yin Chun was speechless at all.Rong Shilian's eloquence is far better than the three men in front of her. Xie Hengyan is usually only good at sophistry and simple and rude deception, but this woman is well-founded and can always gain the upper hand in front of others.

"Little monsters are always soft-hearted. I will send a bowl of sugar water to him later, so he won't be angry with me." Rong Shilian sighed, then slightly bowed his head forward, and said to Xie Hengyan who was in Yin Chun's arms, "Is that so? , little monster?"

Xie Hengyan squinted her eyes, and nodded ignorantly, which could be regarded as a reply.

"Look, he's just like that." Rong Shilian said lightly.

"You can say whatever you want." Yin Zhu was too lazy to mess around with this woman, "As for the sugar water... there is no need to send it. It is very difficult for me to just feed myself."

Rong Shilian said: "I just want to visit him once in a while."

Yin Chun said, "You can do whatever you want." Originally, he wanted to say, you'd better not come, you are not welcome in my house.But from the corner of the eye, he glanced at Una next to him, and finally Yin Chun saved face for him, and didn't say this directly.

In the end, the four of them said their goodbyes, Wuna and Rong Shilian left one after the other, Yin Chun led Xie Hengyan home, put him back on the warm bed, pulled the quilt over and covered him tightly, and Asked: "Yanyan, the weather is getting warmer now, do you still want a hand stove?"

Xie Hengyan opened her hazy eyes and said, "Yes."

"Then take it. I'll go out to make a fire and cook porridge." Yin Chu touched him with his hand, "I'll be back in a while. Promise me, don't sleep for now... okay?"

Xie Hengyan: "Okay."

"good."

After Yin Chun finished speaking, he turned and went out.In fact, he didn't have much hope, after all, every time Xie Hengyan said this, it was as if he hadn't said anything, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

However, when Yin Chuan finished chopping firewood, cooked the porridge, and came in through the back door carrying the stove, he unexpectedly found that the quilt was empty, and Xie Hengyan was gone!

"Thank you Hengyan!"

Yin Chun's heart was about to pop out, he hurriedly turned his gaze back, only then did he catch a glimpse of the candle light on the other side, Xie Hengyan was wearing only a thin coat, no shoes, and stepped on the ground with bare feet, at that time Holding an ink pen and paper in hand, she bent over and sat down in front of the old wooden table, writing something stroke by stroke.

This frightened Yin Chu quite a bit, and the porridge, vegetables, and hand stove were all gone, so he rushed forward in two or three steps, stopped at the table and asked in surprise: "What are you doing out of bed? You don't have any clothes on, you ...don't die?"

Xie Hengyan acted as if he hadn't heard of it, and Gu Zi lowered his head, his attention was still on the pen and paper in his hand, and he didn't seem to want to stop at all.

Yin Chun shouted again: "Xie Hengyan!" Still no response.When he stepped forward, Fang noticed that the ink marks floating on the paper, the pen tip outlined lines, lines, and uniform shades of ink—it turned out to be the detailed patterns of various accessories in the ship!

"Why do you want to draw a picture now?" Yin Chun said anxiously, "Go back to bed and lie down!"

Xie Hengyan drew with her head depressed, without saying a word, Yin Chun saw that shouting was useless, so she had to forcefully pull Xie Hengyan's arms, and pulled them to the bedside desperately: "Stop drawing... go back to eat."

When the words fell, Xie Hengyan was expressionless, but suddenly began to struggle the moment he left the table!Yin Chun wanted to pull him back to the bed, but he headed back between the tables and chairs, Yin Chun pulled him again, and he ran again.At the end of the run, there was no way to escape, Yin Chun suddenly exerted force with both hands, and lifted him up from the chair. Just as he was about to say something, Xie Hengyan kicked his legs away from Yin Chun's arms, and immediately One lost its center of gravity and slammed back onto the old wooden table with a flutter and roll, making a loud bang.

All of a sudden, jet-black ink was thrown up into the sky, covering the puppet's head and face, and white paper fluttered around like snow, turning the whole room into a mess.

Xie Hengyan, on the other hand, remained expressionless, and sat back in the center of the crooked desk and chair, continuing to complete his drawings.

"Are you okay?" Yin Zhu looked at him in disbelief, even incomprehensible, and said, "Is this bewitched?"

After speaking, he raised his hand and brushed the puppet's smooth forehead.Sure enough, the temperature is not as scorching as before... In other words, the high fever has subsided to a certain extent.

"Xie Hengyan, look at me." Yin Chun gave him a middle finger, "How much is this?"

Xie Hengyan completely ignored it, his face was covered with ink, like a cat, but he lay unmoved in front of the table, obsessed with holding a brush and drawing, meticulous.

It’s over.

...it's all over.

Yin Chun's face was livid with horror, and it wasn't until then that he finally realized that all the visions so far came from the sudden pair of "ghost hands" in the tent.

Xie Hengyan's forehead was stroked by those ghostly hands, so why did she become what she is now?

Is this the reason?

Yin Chun didn't dare to make a conclusion, so he had no choice but to stretch out his palm again, and caressed the place between the puppet's forehead and hair, which had been touched by "it" - and there, everything was the same as what he had seen in the past, and it was not him. An imaginary exception.

"Where is the problem?" Yin Chun squatted beside Xie Hengyan, obstinately looked at him from top to bottom, from inside to outside, "Are you being possessed by a ghost? Hey... Xie Hengyan!"

Xie Hengyan was still drawing the picture, her eyes were fixed on the paper, she seemed to be in a daze, except for drawing the shape of the parts, she didn't even have the usual and most basic reactions.

"Xie Hengyan...!"

After Yin Chun yelled the last cry, he completely lost his patience.All of a sudden, he stretched out his hand and snatched back the pen, ink, paper and inkstone all at once, and hid them all behind him. He looked at Xie Hengyan anxiously and said, "Can you wake up!!!"

"……what?"

Xie Hengyan was taken aback for a moment, and seemed to go around a very long arc in his mind invisible, and finally showed a bewildered expression on his face: "What, what's wrong?"

Yin Zhen was really driven crazy by him: "Do you know what you are doing?"

"Drawing pictures." Xie Hengyan rubbed his eyes tiredly, and when he lowered his head to look at the table, Fang asked in surprise, "Hey, where is my drawing? The table is so messy... Where did the paper go?"

Yin Chun's complexion was almost covered with blackness: "Thank you... Heng Yan."

Xie Hengyan looked up at him blankly: "Huh?"

"You really are, Xie Hengyan?" Yin Chun asked unsurely, "Isn't it something else?"

Xie Hengyan asked: "...what else can I be?"

Yin Chun asked back: "Then you just now, why didn't you talk to me?"

"Yes, yes?" Xie Hengyan scratched her head in doubt, "Didn't I just... seriously draw pictures?"

"never mind……"

Yin Chun was completely defeated by him, as if he was suddenly discouraged, and sat back at the table half-paralyzed, unable to ask any more words.

——Today, almost a month has passed.Xie Hengyan's state is unpredictable, just like the lingering rainy season in spring at that time, sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny, but most of the time there is no better, only worse, worse, even to the unimaginable level, never Endlessly falling and extending.

When Yin Chuan was busy taking care of him, he usually stayed around day and night, watching and serving him all the time.Up to now, his body is seriously overdrawn and he is already exhausted, but he is always looking forward to it, and Xie Hengyan can get better, even if it is only a little bit, it is more or less fulfilling his wish.

But judging from the current situation, all his efforts were in vain.Xie Hengyan was not like Xie Hengyan anymore, because of the existence of some other "things", Yin Chun felt desperate, and even couldn't help wondering whether this muddled and completely disobedient piece of wood in front of him was the Xie Hengyan he knew at first.

——Until Wuxin turned his head and saw Xie Hengyan sitting upright at the table, no longer burying his head in drawing, but kept silent, looking at Yin Zhu's expression calmly, as if he was confirming something.

Immediately, Yin Chun was sweating coldly, and he sat up straight in a jerk. Before he could speak, Xie Hengyan took the initiative to prop up the wooden crutches, walked crookedly to the side of the bed, just now, Yin Chun put the rice bowl and hand stove - then bent down and sat down, He picked up the cool sweet porridge and slowly ate it.

Yin Zhu was shocked again.The two sides were awkwardly silent for a long time, Yin Chun's throat was choked, and after a while he asked Xie Hengyan, "Xie Hengyan...you, are you Xie Hengyan?"

After Xie Hengyan finished his porridge, he gently put down his rice bowl, still surprised, "What's wrong?"

"You didn't say a word just now, and suddenly ran to the table to draw pictures." Yin Chun said, "I called you many times, but you ignored me. Then you dragged you, and you kicked me... Is that really you?"

Xie Hengyan thought for a while and said, "Maybe I was too fascinated by the painting and didn't notice it."

Yin Chun's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he raised his voice and shouted: "How could you not pay attention!"

Xie Hengyan said in amazement: "Otherwise what could it be?"

Yin Chun asked: "You were touched on the head this morning, don't you feel it?"

Xie Hengyan said: "Didn't you keep touching my head?"

"No, you didn't notice? Now your fever is gone, your reaction is normal, you can eat and talk." Yin Chuu took a step forward, resting his palm on Xie Hengyan's head, and said in disbelief, "I never thought about why this happened. ?”

Xie Hengyan said blankly: "Isn't this a good thing? I can get up and draw pictures."

"It must be for the drawings." Yin Chun's expression became more and more serious, thinking of the pair of pale little hands just now, after pointing on Xie Hengyan's head, his whole body began to be abnormal.

"...I don't know if there will be other effects." Yin Chun can't find out what's wrong, the only thing that can be confirmed at the moment is that "it" uses Xie Hengyan's body, probably to draw blueprints to build a ship, forcing all the processes to continue... And after that, there is no need to postpone the plan to go to sea, "If that's the case, then that monster, doesn't it mean that he also wants to leave the island?"

Thinking so, Yin Chun couldn't help murmuring the words out of his mouth.Xie Hengyan listened to it, and couldn't help feeling strange: "What are you muttering all by yourself?"

"Hmm...it's nothing." Yin Zhu glanced at Xie Hengyan, and in order to keep vigilant, he simply kept some words in his heart, and didn't intend to tell him, "Go and lie down, the fever hasn't completely subsided."

"No, it's still bright, what are you lying about?" Xie Hengyan got up, limped back to the table, sat down and sorted out his pen and ink, "I've finished the drawings, you can take them to Old Wang later, and tell them to come back to the table first." Make some small things, and I will go there in person tomorrow."

Yin Chun said, "I'll tell you to lie down and stop drawing."

Xie Hengyan didn't raise her head: "Oh, and there's more, about the wood used to make parts..."

Yin Chun: "Xie Hengyan..."

"Tell them not to cut corners." Xie Hengyan said, "Remember to choose the best..."

Before he finished speaking, Yin Chu came over and took all the white paper away.Xie Hengyan looked up dully, and saw his face turned blue, his eyes were like knives, coldly pressed between his neck, and he didn't move for a long time.

Yin Chun said coldly: "Go, lie down, lie down."

Xie Hengyan: "..."

Yin Chun: "...can't you hear me?"

Xie Hengyan paused, and after a while, he let out an inaudible sigh, then propped up the crutches again, and slowly climbed onto the bed to lie down.

Yin Chun stared at him, his eyes didn't move, and he tried to find something from it several times—but Xie Hengyan was still the same Xie Hengyan, they were silent for a while, and Xie Hengyan suddenly said: "Yin Chun, take care of me." Cripples are troublesome."

Yin Chun: "...?"

"Forget it, it's nothing." Xie Hengyan said, "Don't be too busy, let's rest."

Yin Chun said, "Wait, I..."

"I was not possessed by a ghost." Xie Hengyan spoke first, and explained slowly, "Old Wang came here this morning, and I heard everything you said that the ship would stop working...so afterward, I kept thinking, when If you can get up, complete the rest of the drawings at once."

Yin Chu: "..."

Xie Hengyan: "Aren't you too tired, too busy to be suspicious, always worrying about my affairs. You recently... well, I don't know what to say, you should go and rest."

His voice was very peaceful and docile, without any hint of complaint, as if he was just stating a certain fact.But this made Yin Chun feel tense in his heart, and he became more and more embarrassed: "No... I'm not tired." He bent over, approached the bed, and said into Xie Hengyan's ear: "Are you angry?" Already? I'm not trying to kill you, I just want you to rest."

Xie Hengyan said: "I know."

"Maybe my tone is bad, you...don't take it to heart." Yin Chun immediately added, "I'm sorry!"

Xie Hengyan still said: "I know."

Afraid that he would be unhappy, Yin Chun hurriedly took out a lot of candies from his pocket, put a handkerchief under it, piled them all up on the head of the bed, and coaxed softly, "Don't be angry, I'll give you some candies."

Xie Hengyan stood up, glanced at the seal, and at the candy all over the bed.In the end, he picked up a piece casually, put it in his mouth and ate it, then freed his other hand to rub Yinzhu's head in a comforting way, and then he nestled back into the quilt and lay down again.

Yin Chun could sense sensitively that Xie Hengyan was very concerned that she was in a completely passive state of "being taken care of" and "being taken care of".In other words, he is a cripple now, but he doesn't want to be treated as a cripple, especially Yin Zhu who is the closest. If possible, Xie Hengyan even wants to push him a little further away.

To describe it in his own words, it is probably:

"I'm very sick now, and I don't have much consciousness. I lie in front of you every day, lying down, paralyzed...even full of ugly behavior." Xie Hengyan said, "Right now you think it's nothing, after a long time, you've seen enough every day , you are probably tired of taking care of her, and we will get tired of seeing each other forever."

Yin Chun was laughed angrily by him, held back for a long time, and could only utter one sentence: "...how is it possible?"

After finishing speaking, Xie Hengyan chased him away, and said he would be given a vacation, and he survived a whole month. No matter how strong the young man is, he needs a good rest and recuperation.

Yin Chun's face was dark, and he tried to refute him again and again, but Xie Hengyan was absent-minded and didn't listen seriously at all.When he woke up from sleep, it was rare for him to be groggy again. Then he picked up the stove, wore a thin shirt all day long, sat at the table and was busy drawing with a pen and drawing—it seemed that he was more energetic than when he was sick get a lot.

Yin Chun once thought that he was bewitched by some kind of demon, even if it might be caused by some ghosts and gods, since that day when a pair of ghost hands touched his head, Xie Hengyan's whole state was constantly hovering on the edge of ups and downs.

When I am happy, I light candle lamps, sit next to the old wooden table, and paint for the whole afternoon.

When it's bad, it's lethargy, or sitting in a daze for no reason...but it's not as serious as before, and I can often wake up with a shout.

Because of this, Yin Chun often touched his head with his hand, but he couldn't figure out why, vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.After all, when he turned his head and raised his eyes, he saw Xie Hengyan quietly at the table, from the beginning of drawing a draft stroke by stroke until the whole paper was fully outlined, he didn't speak much in the middle, anyway, Yin Chu called him, and he Then he answered with a smile, and Yin Chun asked him: "You are really angry with me, aren't you?"

"Why do you always want me to be angry?" Xie Hengyan thought it was funny, "Can't you deliberately find a fight?"

Yin Chun frowned and said: "I never thought that taking care of you is a troublesome thing, not now, not including in the future. It will not create a quarrel because of it... Don't always think about it."

"Yes, yes, yes, my brother... How do I feel that you can think more wildly than I do?"

Xie Hengyan sighed, and finally, handed over the blueprints that had just been drawn one by one, and said to Yin Chun: "If you have time to talk about this, why don't you help... run an errand?"

Yin Chun let him shout "Brother" so that he was exhausted, and finally had nothing to say, so he just answered honestly, turned around and went out with the blueprint, and took it to Lao Wang, Lao Zhang and others.

Later, those shipwrights visited again, and specially discussed with Xie Hengyan the planning and production of the internal and external boards, ribs and other plans.At that time, it was mostly dark, and everyone just got off the fishing boat again. They were busy all day outside, but they were still thinking about the shipbuilding from time to time, treating it as if they were their own children.

Xie Hengyan told Yin Chun that these villagers are honest people, and once they have helped them, they will definitely carry out their responsibility to the end, so no matter what, they must not let them down.

Yin Chun saw it too, and did not give money to work for nothing, relying entirely on his strong mentality to support him.At first everyone talked about it, saying that they didn't want to waste time and life for it, but later they did their duty conscientiously, running back and forth between the wooden houses and docks one by one, which made Yin Zhu and Xie Hengyan feel a little embarrassed.

Lao Wang said: "As long as there are drawings, everything will be easy in the future. After all, the keel frame is placed there, and adding accessories to it is also a slow work, which can always be honed slowly."

"I can't grind it, I really can't grind this one." Xie Hengyan hurriedly said, "No matter what, the work has to be completed in summer. If there is a real shortage of manpower, Yin Chu and I are always on call."

Yin Chun said coldly: "It's good that you can wake up, why don't you go outside to join in the fun!"

"Then let you go alone...you go and help with them." Xie Hengyan pushed him hard, and then said to Lao Wang and the others, "I will ask him to bring the remaining parts blueprints tomorrow morning. It's not early today, everyone, hurry up and go back to rest... Don't get tired because of this."

The shipwrights responded one after another, and after saying goodbye to Yin and Xie, they turned their heads and went back to their respective homes.Now Yin Chun and Xie Hengyan stayed in place, stood and sat, looked at each other in silence for a while, finally Yin Chun spoke, and said to him helplessly: "Xie Hengyan, can you stop being so brave."

"I'm not trying to be brave, I'm just doing what I should do." Xie Hengyan raised his hand, cut off the half of the candle wick in front of the table, then turned his head again, and fixed his eyes on Yin Chun.

At that moment, from the depths of his eyes, Yin Zhen saw many subtle emotions that he had never seen before, or even never appeared before.

...It seems to be the lingering warmth between lovers, but it transcends the original love that has existed for a long time, and then becomes a complex emotion that neither party can easily penetrate.

At that time, Yin Chun almost didn't even think about it, so he walked up, held Xie Hengyan tightly in his arms, and whispered in his ear: "I don't allow you to leave me. Even if it's a piece of wood, it's only A piece of wood that can hold me alone."

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15 days, really too much!I'm finally back, I don't know how many readers are left TAT

Ps, Chapter 185 is really delicious~ See you at the old place if you want to read it!

Then I planned to update the 0 chapters at 2:[-], now Jinjiang is very easy to draw, so I will post a chapter first and wait and see~

There will be an update tomorrow. I don’t know the exact time. I’ll post it when Jinjiang is done.