However, Confucius believed that Zilu's approach was very right, that kindness could be rewarded, and that efforts could be credited, so that more people would be inspired to save people, instead of ignoring life and ignoring the victims. Isn't it clear which is more important between the lives of the victims and the noble morals?"

"So you see, the great sage of Confucius thinks that the act of giving grace and receiving retribution is very desirable and beneficial to society. So ......"

Tian Xiaxia said: "So you have to be cheeky and report back to me, right?"

I asked rhetorically, "Shouldn't that be?"

Tian Xiaxia smiled: "Then how do you think I should repay you?"

I said: "Didn't I say it earlier, if you want to make a promise, I will half-push and half-accept, but I want to welcome it, and I will accept it reluctantly." ”

Tian Xiaxia blushed: "It's still difficult...... You think beautifully, but your mind is full of bad thoughts!"

I said, "Then take a step back, and reward me with a fragrant kiss, or you can barely repay it." ”

Tian Xiaxia said: "Don't give it then, you just want to take advantage of me, to put it so politely, the Confucian saints have moved out." ”

I shook my head and sighed, "It's boring, it's boring." I shouldn't have carried you just now, let you get close to the ants on the ground. This way I will be able to get a few fewer bites on my feet, and I will be guilty of myself. ”

Tian Xia Xia grinned, rowed the boat in front, and suddenly said, "That's it, I'll introduce my sister to you when I go back." ”

I rejoiced, "Well, this is a must......-have!" This doesn't seem right, you were saved by me, but you let your sister repay the favor, don't you cheat your sister!"

Tian Xiaxia said: "No pit! Although you are not very serious sometimes, but you are quite good, if you can be my brother-in-law, I am also very satisfied, I believe my sister will also be very happy." I've always spoiled my sister, and if I have good things, of course I have to give them to her first. ”

The whites of my eyes rolled: "Even men have to let me?"

Tian Xiaxia said: "Let's let it, why can't you let it? Or how to prove our deep sisterhood." ”

I was eating a coconut at this time, and I couldn't help but cough a few times when I heard this: "You are so logical! However, I can write it down, you owe me a sister!"

We stopped teasing, and I counted my belongings, and saw an extra sailor's knife, a flashlight, a box of fishing tackle, and an extra boat.

However, this lifeboat, we can't use it, and it is a burden to carry it with us, which affects our itinerary.

I pointed forward and said to Tian Xiaxia: "Go to the beachhead over there and moor for a while, replenish fresh water, and release this lifeboat by the way." ”

When we arrived at the beachhead, we first found a fresh water source, filled all the bottles, and then rested on the spot.

As for the disposal of the lifeboat, we decided to get it ashore!

You can't let it go into the sea and lose it, maybe you can use it someday.

As for the cable, I untied it and took it away. These things are all necessary for our survival, and we should try to bring them with us as much as we can, and don't throw them away.

Then, another long and lonely sea voyage.

Three days!

Another three days!

After all the calculations, we have been walking for almost half a month.

Aside from the bones of the victim we encountered that day, we didn't see any human footprints along the way.

That night, Tian Xiaxia and I gathered around the bonfire.

I said, "Xia Xia, maybe it's time for us to turn back." ”

Tian Xiaxia said: "Don't want to go any further?"

"We've been walking for so many days, and we haven't found anyone, or any human footprints, except for the one who died on the sixth day," I said. This proves that there are unlikely people on this line. After all, according to reasoning, from the point of view of the shipwreck, it is impossible for anyone to go so far to go ashore, and it will definitely be in vain to go any further. ”

Tian Xiaxia didn't want to give up, and said, "If you go back, it's useless." Let's go on and walk down, maybe we can walk around this island and meet Sister Su Wu and them in the other direction. ”

I shook my head and said, "Impossible." The island is too big. There's no way we're going to walk around it. ”

Tian Xiaxia said: "The island is very big? How do you know? Our field of vision is not big, so we can't see the shape and size of this island." ”

I said, "I can't see it, but I can guess." ”

I pulled Tian Xiaxia up, walked to the open place outside, and then pointed to the sky to the north and said, "Have you seen it, that North Star, from the day we and Sister Li Ling first came ashore, until this moment, every night has been hanging in the north direction of this island. You know what that means, it means we're always on the south shore of this island!"

Tian Xiaxia couldn't hear clearly, and said, "I don't understand what you want to express?"

I said, "I want to tell you that the coastline of this island is very long and wide. If you think about it, we have been walking for more than half a month, and at our speed, let's calculate it at 30 nautical miles a day, and then we have to have three or four hundred nautical miles in that half a month. ”

"Now, we've walked three or four hundred nautical miles around this island, and we're still on the south shore of this island, and how big do you think this island is?

Tian Xiaxia still couldn't figure it out: "No, I don't understand, how can you conclude that we are still on the south shore of the island?"

I frowned, drew an oval circle on the ground, and pointed to her, "Look, let's compare this circle to our island." When we set out, we were on the south shore of the island, and it was at this point, which is good, because we were looking at the North Star, which was on the same line as the island to the north. ”

"But now, we have walked three or four hundred nautical miles around the island, but we have found that the North Star is in the north, and this island is still in our north!"

"That is to say, we have been walking for so long, and we are still on the south shore, and we haven't walked much around this big island. ”

"This only shows that this island is so big that it may be a continent. ”

"I don't understand yet, do we, let's assume it's just an island, we've been walking around it halfway through the past half a month, and we've reached the north shore. In this case, if we refer to the North Star, we will find that the North Star is in the north, we are in the middle, and the island should be in the south of us. That's the right thing. ”

Tian Xiaxia finally figured out the circle on the ground, and pointed: "That is to say, we have walked for half a month, and we have only walked such a little distance on this island, which is far less than one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the coastline of this island. Therefore, the idea of going around the island is unrealistic, because the island is so big, and if we want to meet Sister Su Wu and them, we can only go back. ”