no puppet

In the morning of the next day, the sky was very bright.

There were faint sounds of waves crashing on the pier outside the window.

Yin Chun got up and wrapped himself in a robe in a hurry. He originally wanted to cook a bowl of hot porridge for Xie Hengyan, but Xie Hengyan nestled under the quilt, arched and arched, and finally stretched out his hand to grab the corner of his clothes, saying: "Don't be so busy, accompany me." I will sleep again."

Yin Chun said, "You have to eat."

Xie Hengyan said vaguely: "... eat you."

Yin Chun had no choice but to sit back on the side of the bed, grabbed him into his arms, and held him firmly: "Where can I eat?"

Xie Hengyan pointed to his mouth and said, "Here."

Yin Chun then smiled, leaned up to kiss the corner of his lips, and then touched his temple hair, his eyes were rare gentle and docile, but there was always some nostalgic reluctance in his eyes.

The two sat on the edge of the bed again, sticking together endlessly, Yin Zhu finally made Xie Hengyan laugh, and looked back at him with red eye circles, as if he was about to cry, waiting to say something, but Xie Hengyan Throwing away the clothes, shoes and socks, he said, "Put on your clothes quickly, idiot... If you don't leave, why don't you just stay here?"

Yin Chun said, "I want to stay."

Xie Hengyan patted him on the back and said, "Put it on!"

So Yin Chun had to get up and get dressed.On him was the rough linen coat that villagers usually wear, loose knee-length shorts, and a pair of straw woven flip-flops.

From Cheng Daofeng's point of view, this kind of attire might be thrown into the shrine to punish him kneeling and confessing, but in Xie Hengyan's eyes, it is a kindness and peace that has never been seen before.

Thinking that in the future, he will go to Feng Town by boat and change back to the dark attire tightly wrapped from top to bottom, Xie Hengyan thinks that in a sense, Yin Chun's free and rebellious nature is bound , Maybe there will be nowhere to be released in the future.

After that, is there any happiness in his life?

Xie Hengyan bent down to fasten Yin Chun's belt, and at the end, he picked up the fang on his chest, and when all the bags were packed, Xie Hengyan patted Yin Chun's shoulder and said, "It's time to go. "

From the pier outside the window, there were faint voices of people soaring into the sky.No need to think about it, the big boat was definitely surrounded by villagers who came to see him off, but Xie Hengyan said to Yin Chu: "...I won't see you off."

Yin Chun looked back at him and said, "Well, I know."

There are not many things to bring, just some dry food, a few changes of clothes, and various emergency tools on board.

Xie Hengyan got out of bed on crutches, and sent the seal all the way to the door.But he himself stood in the threshold, stretched out his hand to push the seal, and turned his face away, urging coldly: "Go, it's time to get on the road."

"..." Yin Chu couldn't help asking, "Can you speak?"

"Get out!" Xie Hengyan gritted her teeth, her heart turned violent, and she kicked her calf fiercely, and shouted loudly, "Don't get out, wait for the young master to send you to the bow of the boat?"

Yin Chun was a little flustered at once, originally wanted to go over, at least to coax him, but Xie Hengyan wiped his face forcefully, pushed Yin Chun with red eyes: "Go, you, why are you so coy, are you still a man? "

Yin Chun pursed his lips, and after a long time, Fang whispered, "Then... daughter-in-law, I'm leaving?"

Xie Hengyan repeated: "Well, I won't give it away."

Yin Chun: "I'm really going..."

With a "snap", Xie Hengyan closed the wooden door.

Yin Chu: "..."

After a moment of silence, Yin Chun spoke and promised him softly: "I will be back."

The person at the door didn't make a sound, so Yin Chun looked at him silently and kept looking at him like this.

After a while, the sky light scattered above his head, already illuminating the leafy steps in front of the wooden house, he picked up his luggage, turned around slowly, and walked to the end of the path.

……have they gone?

Xie Hengyan leaned his back against the door panel, until the voices outside the room were completely quiet, then he slightly lowered his eyes and let out a long sigh of old-fashioned.

With a soft "squeak", he quietly opened the wooden door a thin crack.

"Yin Zhen?" Xie Hengyan called out.

However, when he raised his eyes and looked outside the door, the area around the front yard was already empty, and the tall and familiar figure of the man was no longer seen.

"Really gone! You bastard, don't you know how to hug me again?" Xie Hengyan's temples twitched for a while, and when he thought about it afterwards, he suddenly felt very regretful.

"Anyway, I'll have to see him off at the pier."

As he spoke, he limped again, bumped back to find the crutches, went out even in a hurry, even put on his shoes backwards, and just rushed madly towards the gravel path to the pier.

After Yin Chun left like this, let alone ten or half a year, they may be completely dead by now, and there will be no chance to meet again in the future.

Xie Hengyan is not a person who understands feelings, but this does not mean that he will not feel sad about the parting between each other.As a result, he was almost insane, rolling and crawling and plunged into the woods—until he ran all the way, and when he reached the fork at the end of the path, he suddenly remembered something, and stopped in the middle of the road .

Xie Hengyan raised his head and glanced at the sky, reckoning it should be still early.Even if Yin Chun arrived at the pier, he still had to wait for the other people in the same group to pack up their things, and then dawdled to say a few farewell words, and it would be more than an hour before they finally got to set off.

The reason for stopping was because when Xie Hengyan passed the fork, she suddenly realized that after such a long time, she seemed to have neglected a very important person——

That is Chen Lang.

There was a quarrel in the previous period, the relationship between the two of them was handled very badly, and later Yin Chu became very sticky, so Xie Hengyan had less contact with Chen Lang.

But even so, the friendship in the past is still there. At any rate, people did their best to help during the most difficult days.

Up to now, when the boat is going out to sea, everyone in the village knows about this important event, except Chen Lang, who has never appeared in the eyes of everyone since that day.

Including when Wu Na was counting the list of villagers who went out to sea by boat, Chen Lang did not come to show up, even if he asked someone to help him to inform him.Xie Hengyan guessed that he was the only one left in the Chen family, but he was crazy all day long, completely clueless, maybe he didn't hear the news of going to sea.

So Xie Hengyan hesitated for a while when he ran halfway, thinking that there was still enough time, he simply turned a corner, turned around and walked towards the tent where Chen Lang lived.

"Is everything packed?"

At that time, the sky was clear, and the sunlight in the late summer day was still dazzling. Large swaths hit the blue-gray sea surface, breaking into countless mottled in an instant.

Just as Xie Hengyan expected, before dawn, a large number of people had gathered on the beach pier, bustling and noisy, some came to join in the fun, some came to see something new, most of them were to see off their families, but the real If you want to set foot on a big ship and fly away, counting on your fingers, there are only a few here and there.

"Son, mom and dad will miss you." Facing the parents whose children are about to go far away, wiping their tears with a handkerchief, they tried to persuade them, "Can't you just leave? Going out is very dangerous. If you lose your life because of this, what should you tell your parents to do!"

"Father, you're already quite old, why are you messing around with their young people?" Facing the children whose parents were about to travel far away, he held back his tears and dissuaded him, "Isn't it good for An Sheng to live on the island?"

Looking at the whole circle, at least most of them wanted to leave, and the whole family came to persuade them to stay. Looking at it now, there are only two people left, Yin Chun and Wu Na, one was forced to leave by his wife, and the other was forced to leave by his wife. Rushing to leave, he was determined not to stay no matter what he said.

Holding Wu Nian in his arms, Wu Qian was stunned, and now he was standing in the crowd.Wu Na squatted down, patted Wu Qian's shoulder with his big hand, and said, "Son, this is your first time traveling far away. Dad doesn't have anything valuable with him, so I can give it to you and your siblings."

Hearing this, Wu Qian couldn't help but get red-rimmed eyes, and said nonchalantly: "I don't want anything, I just want daddy to be healthy, and in a few years, I will definitely come back to see you."

"Stinky boy, I finally know how to be sensible!" Una laughed loudly, then suddenly reached into his bosom, and took out a gold bracelet that he inherited from his family.He put the gold bracelet on Wu Qian's hand, and there was a stroke of each stroke, engraved with a very clear "Wu" character - it was a relic left by his parents when he was still young.

"This bracelet is yours. If you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can find a pawnshop to sell it... let alone a handful of rice." Wu Na patted Wu Qian's head, then lowered his head to touch it. With Wunian's face in his arms, "Son, Dad is not well-educated. In the past, whenever he saw you being mischievous and making mistakes, he would only think of beating and scolding. He never found the right way."

Wu Qian tremblingly said: "Father..."

"But you have to believe that Daddy always treats you as his own son." Una held Wuqian's hands, his voice was trembling slightly, "We rough people, the only way we can think of to care for our children is to rely on Shout out loudly. Dad has always wanted to change this, but he can't change it... Over the years, he has wronged you, and Dad can only apologize to you today. "

"Don't be wronged, don't be wronged." Wu Qian cried and said, "Daddy loves me because he beats me, I know it!"

"Good boy, remember to take good care of Nian'er when you go outside, she is your younger sister." Una said in a rare loving voice, "As for sister Lian, she..."

"I will also take good care of that... that woman!" Wu Qian promised with a blushing face, "I am a man, and I will stand upright in the future so that I can marry a wife who is even better than Yan Yan!"

Una laughed three times, patted Wu Qian on the shoulder repeatedly, and said haha: "When you go to the outside world, you will find many, many things that are more important than marrying a wife!"

However, Yin Zhu, who was standing dryly at the side, was hurt by the unintentional conversation between the father and son, and couldn't recover for a long time.

"Brother Yin!" Una waved at him, "What are you doing standing there, take your luggage on board!"

Yin Chun looked into the distance and said softly, "Just wait a little longer."

He just had a little thought in his heart, hoping that his silly and crippled man would rush up to the pier as usual, and give him a final parting hug.

Even if it's just talking.

"It's almost time." Wu Na let go of Wu Qian, and said to Yin Chun, "Go up early and prepare, don't drop something later, and you won't have a chance to turn around and pick it up!"

Yin Chun smiled, and said to himself, he has already left the most important person here, so what else can he be afraid of losing?

"Miss Rong hasn't come yet?" Yin Chun looked at the direction of Yongcun, and suddenly asked Wuna.

"Oh, woman, it's not like you don't know that you always like to grind." Una lit a pipe and said with a wry smile, "She said this morning, there is still a pile of luggage that I haven't had time to count, I'm afraid It's going to be a while."

Yin Chun paused, and then said: "Then I..."

"Brother Yin." Una patted Yin Chun on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "How much you miss in your heart, how much you can't let go, you will have to leave sooner or later... You said you would be in a hurry, and then Running back, isn't it just adding to your worries for nothing?"

Yin Chun hesitated and said, "I..."

"Listen to my advice, let him go, and yourself too." Una sighed, "If there is a fate in the future, there will always be a chance to see you again. At a time like this, don't pester you any longer..."

"Chen Lang!"

Xie Hengyan stood in front of the tent door of Chen Lang's house, panting, before anyone could go in, she took the lead in shouting, "Chen Lang, come out... Hey, I'm exhausted... I have something urgent to tell you!"

It was quiet inside and outside the tent, and no one responded.Only the humming of the cicadas in the bushes a few feet away, accompanied by the scorching sun shining in the sky, and the salty and damp sea breeze blowing constantly, is ringing loudly in the ears.

"Chen Lang, don't make trouble with me today."

Xie Hengyan stepped forward with a wooden crutch, and partly opened the curtain outside the tent: "Let me tell you, you haven't been to the village these days, Yin Zhu and the others are all ready, and the big boat is also parked at the pier, and will leave at any time .”

"You have also come to help before, I guess you want to go to sea together... But everyone is busy, there is no notification in place, and you are usually not caught."

Xie Hengyan stepped on the threshold and said to the tent, "Chen Lang, why don't you go with them? You can also cure your stuttering disease outside..."

However, with the door curtain completely opened.

Xie Hengyan poked out half of his head from the crack, only to find that in the narrow and crowded interior, the windows were closed, the light was dim, and the tables, chairs and benches inside were piled up in a mess, and some of them were even covered with a thick layer of dust.

"Chen Lang?"

... Chen Lang is not at home.

Xie Hengyan thought to himself, why does this person like to wander around, especially at this critical moment, he just missed the once-in-a-century opportunity to go to sea?

Xie Hengyan lay on the edge of the door, and swept in a circle again.The place where Chen Lang lived was really messy, and it was pitch black everywhere. Not to mention, if you got too close, you could smell a particularly pungent smell——Xie Hengyan couldn't bear to read it a third time, so in the After confirming that there was no one in the tent, he leaned on his small wooden crutches, staggered and prepared to turn around and walk back.

At this moment, the soles of Xie Hengyan's feet brushed against the ground, as if he had stepped on something soft.

"hiss……"

The moment he lowered his head to look, he couldn't help being terrified, and almost quickly retreated his legs and crutches together, staggering and avoiding to the side.

Xie Hengyan stepped on a dead mouse.

At that time, its eyes were wide open, and at first glance, it seemed to be staring at him fiercely.

But in fact it has died.Perhaps it has been dead for a while, with its mouth open, its eyeballs have turned gray, and its fur has no luster, and where it was lying just now, there is a small piece of completely dried up liquid stain, the color is dark purple and slightly tinged Green, it looks like it was spit out from the mouth, and a little bit of it is also sticking to the sides of the nose and ear, which is sticking to the fur on both sides of the mouth, and it has completely condensed into a lump.

Xie Hengyan's face turned blue and then pale, and at that moment he froze in shock—fortunately, he was quite courageous, and he was familiar with this kind of things long ago, and he didn't feel much fear because of it.

On the contrary, at the same time, some very bad conjectures suddenly arose from the bottom of his heart.

"Chen Lang?"

This was the last time Xie Hengyan tried to call that person's name in the face of the turbid air around him.

Immediately afterwards, he took a deep breath, turned around again, and stepped into the small tent with a strong stinky smell, step by step, as if by accident, he continued to explore inside.

Soon, among the tables, corners and chairs, he found some familiar food scraps - fragmented cake crumbs, and several groups of dusty rice grains, almost all scattered and scattered in different corners.

Xie Hengyan moved forward slowly, and when he reached the bedside, he hesitated and stopped.

Up to this point, the dirty and rancid smell in the room became more and more intense. It was the smell of severely rotten food after several days of storage, but vaguely, it seemed to have a special and weird smell that belonged to animals or humans. fishy body odor...

That feeling is like being in the same room with overwhelming vomit.Xie Hengyan couldn't bear it for a moment, and even couldn't help but want to run away.

But he didn't turn around immediately, but after hesitating for a moment, he stabilized the corner of the bed, and squatted down with difficulty from the dusty sky.

At that moment, the strong and surging premonition in his heart urged him to stretch out a hand, tremblingly uncovering the quilt to cover the bottom of the wooden bed, the dark corner where the smell is the strongest.

as predicted.

He met a pair of pale human eyes that were completely out of focus and even turned upside down.

The facial features of that person were very familiar, Xie Hengyan had seen him countless times before.Only at this time, his entire face was severely dehydrated, his cheeks were deeply sunken, and had become infinitely tight to a bruised purple color. Xie Hengyan could barely make out his facial expression through the faint skylight outside the curtain. In the cold fear, revealed With a deep despair that has never been seen before.

It was Chen Lang who they hadn't seen for several days.

Now he is curled up at the bottom of the wooden bed in an extremely distorted posture, his side face is pressed against the ground, his lips are also slightly parted, and there is a large pool of black and green vomit next to him, which has completely dried up and agglomerated at the moment. As a result, the pungent fishy smell is constantly exuding outward.

——Xie Hengyan tried to put his hand under the bed, but Chen Lang had no breath.

he died.

There was no obvious sign of struggle before death, only the veins on the back of the hand and the wrist were bulging, as if he was enduring some degree of severe pain.

Xie Hengyan squatted on the spot blankly, her eyes were blank, and she seemed to be stunned for a while.

Then he completely lost strength, facing the side of the bed, knelt down uncontrollably, and faced Chen Lang's frozen profile.

"So it's hiding here..."

At the same time, not far behind him, outside the tent separated by a curtain, a particularly lazy voice sounded:

"Alright, it saves me the time to search everywhere."

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I could have finished writing 6000 words today, but I feel that my article will be very beautiful and melodic if I stop here (make excuses for being lazy...)

Let's make persistent efforts tomorrow, and strive to try it every day~

Next, open the bento mode. Of course, our protagonist will not die. Shermos will solve the puzzles for you one by one with a magnifying glass.

but i think i almost guessed it hhhhh so obvious

【Microscope Q&A Time】

Yin Chun: You have to eat.

Xie Hengyan: Eat you.

Yinzhu: where to eat?

Xie Hengyan pointed to her mouth: here.

Question: Why did Yin Chun just smile at the end and didn't really let Xie Hengyan really "eat"?

Yin Chun (in a very low voice): I will answer this question.Because all the teeth of the puppet except for the fangs are pointed, n times sharper than any animal teeth.I'm afraid that after tonight, I'll go from silver needle to needle father-in-law...