143. Children

When Emile woke up, almost the whole day had passed. As health began to return to Emile, appetite gradually returned. When Emile woke up, he began to feel how uncomfortable his still wet clothes were, and began to feel that his unkempt hair and dried salt were mixed together, as if he was wearing a hat that must be extremely uncomfortable, but the more obvious feeling was hunger. It was at this moment that the faint aroma of food attracted her, making her unzip the door of the tent and emerge from the tent of the bright yellow sè.

Right in front of the tent, Zuo Lin built a small stone stove out of stones, and lit a large piece of solid liquor on the bottom, on which was a thin stone slab with a few fish fried. In this extremely simple environment, Zuo Lin actually came up with a trick of grilled fish on a slate. On the gas stove next to it, there was a small marching pot, and the porridge mixed with herbs was boiling one after another, and the moisture had been fully collected, and now the thickness of the porridge was just right.

Seeing that Emile woke up, still obviously staring at the food on the stove, Zuo Lin smiled slightly, picked up an enamel mouth jar, filled it with a bowl of porridge, and handed it to Emile.

Emile took it with some confusion. She wasn't familiar with the rice-cooked porridge, and the obvious pounded medicine in it made her a little jǐngti. Emile carefully held the jar in his hand, carefully observed it through the steaming heat, then leaned his little head up, stuck out his tongue, gently picked up a few grains of rice, and retracted them. It's hard to imagine that the human tongue can be so flexible.

The refreshing, smooth and warm taste mixed with blades of grass obviously conquered her at once, and Emile's eyes lit up. She ignored the spoon in her mouth, puffed out her cheeks, snorted and blew a few breaths, then leaned her head up and sucked the small part of her cold into her mouth, and swallowed the still hot porridge. The process is then repeated. Bury your head deeper and deeper in the mouth tank, which is not too large in diameter. After a while, Emile realized that he could no longer eat the porridge with his head down, and immediately changed his method to tilt his head and pour the porridge into his mouth.

What a lovely look and gesture that was, Zuo Lin was so dumbfounded for a moment that he forgot to persuade Emile to eat slowly.

Emile drank the porridge, which was about half a liter in size, with a dizzying motion, grinning slightly, letting the sea breeze blow into her mouth to cool her tongue, which was now a little hot and numb, but her eyes were secretly aimed at the grilled fish on the slate. The sizzling fish, which was already charred on the outside and tender on the inside, was a great temptation for Emile, who had now been prepared by the porridge to have a good appetite.

"Hehe, it's for you to eat. You're welcome. Zuo Lin just wanted to hand the fork to Emile, but found that as soon as he finished speaking, the fish had already reached Emile's hand, dealing with this kind of barbecued fish, Emile obviously has a lot of experience, and her fingers landed firmly on the part that was cooled down as soon as the wind blew. Then he put his head up. The lips that stuck to this lot of rice were immediately covered with a layer of oil paint.

Emile doesn't eat very well, but it's funny. Instead of carefully picking the flesh off the bones little by little, she used her tongue to pick off the flesh and roll it into her mouth in the direction of the bones. In the past, Zuo Lin had only seen this way of eating from the stray cats adopted by Yan Yingxue, and the cats' small inverted tongues were their secret weapon for enjoying fish. But seeing such a skillful way of eating in a young girl makes people laugh a little. Although Emile's tongue is not barbed...... Or maybe she hadn't thought she could bridge the gap with partial Transfiguration. But the ripe and tender fish makes her eat this way of eating very efficiently. With a slight curl of her tongue, a piece of snow-white fish meat fell into her mouth.

Emile was so focused as she ate, as if her attention was entirely focused on the food in front of her. But Zolin noticed that Emile had her back hunched a little, and her ears listened to her surroundings at a very small angle. Subconsciously, Emile understands that eating is dangerous, and she is used to unfolding the jǐng vows.

Emile is an extremely lovely girl, and not only because she has a beautiful face, eyes that seem to be able to speak, and honey sè slightly curled hair. There are too many girls of the same age in this world who have such characteristics that people can't ignore. Emile is different, her simplicity is mixed with the qualities of a keen animal, and she has a kind and simple heart like gold.

Even a group like the druids, who are extremely close to nature, will also feel how such a jīng spirit who seems to have come out of the mountains has grown step by step, why those precious qualities in her body have never been destroyed, and why she has become a person that all druids want to be.

After Emile swallowed a whole fish and shook off the bones, he remembered that the way he had eaten and the way he roared was probably a little ridiculous. Her face was already very red, maybe it was the wind in the northern sea, maybe it was because of the steaming heat of the food, and she said softly, "Thank you." As if he didn't think it was enough, not very completely, he added softly, "I'm sorry." ”

The smile on Zuo Lin's face became even stronger, and the rice grains and oil flowers on Emile's lips were mixed together, making that beautiful face look interesting. The smile on Zuo Lin's face mixed with a hint of banter made Emile feel that something was wrong, and she immediately understood that it was because of her current appearance. Emile was still a teenage girl anyway, and the loss of image was intolerable to her, and she wanted to wipe her mouth with the only fabric she could use now—the sleeves of her clothes—only to find that her sweatshirt, which had not been properly washed for almost a month, might be dirtier if it had only been in the water. She was stunned at that moment.

Zuo Lin expertly pulled out the Leica's sideshaft from his pocket, pressed the shutter on Emile, and then tucked the camera back into his pocket and closed the zipper. The sideshaft is used for catching. It is used to capture the wonderful moment when a moment comes inadvertently. In that photograph, Emile's expressions of shame, anger, bewilderment, and consternation are fully recorded. Many years from now, this photo will surely become a precious memory.

“…… You're bullying me!" Emile almost tried to pounce on and snatch the camera back, but she held back, perhaps knowing that this was not the right time to fight with Zorin. But her angry tone didn't do anything other than make Zuo Lin happier.

"Emile. How did you come into conflict with the Rì Hon's fleet?" asked Zorin. He washed the cutlery in the seawater and put it in a bag to take it home. Then he shifted the conversation to the serious aspect.

Emile's god became stern all of a sudden, she knew the Druid Council's guidelines for trying not to clash with major political, economic, and military forces and the state apparatus, and she also knew that the "Lion" Zolin had full authority to decide such matters. This power of adjudication does not change depending on whether Emile is now formally subordinate to the Operations Division.

"I ...... I went to the Bering Sea to see Lila and her mother. Emile said cautiously. "Lila's mother was saved by me a few years ago. Her name was Maria. It was winter, and I went to Hawaii, where there were a lot of humpback whales every winter. At that time, Maria herself was a calf less than a year old and had just left her mother. It is unknown why she set off long later than the other whales and was targeted by a whaling ship. Winter is the breeding season for whales. There are many scientists in the big breeding colonies, and whaling ships generally don't go near those places. But it's hard to say when you encounter a single person. I helped steer away the whaling ship and spent the winter with Maria. I didn't come to the Pacific for a few years until last winter, when Maria recognized me in the Hawaiian waters. At that time, little Maria also became a mother. But at that time, I had to go back to Mr. Bernard's and didn't play much with Maria. I just told Maria that I would definitely come to see her this year. This year, as soon as I finished training, I rushed to come. As a result, I didn't expect to see the whaling ship shè killing Maria. What's even worse is that little Lila is swimming around, still waiting for her mother, and little Lila is crying so sadly. The whaling ship didn't care that little Lila was still a little bit of a big whale, and actually harpooned her. Isn't there an international convention, and why would they do that?...... If...... If humans really needed whale meat to survive, I wouldn't do it. For years, every year I have to lose some friends for various reasons. I know that in the tundra of the northern cold zone, the children of my old friend Snow Goose Gaza were eaten by Arctic Fox Fox. There's no way I can hate Fox. Fawkes is also a friend of mine. And the relationship between the snow goose and the arctic fox is like that. But do humans really need to kill those whales? What do they need whales to do? Will they starve to death without whale meat, or will they really lose much without these fat masses? How many people will be affected without those bones? never. Mr. Bernard said that Rì himself lacked anything but ambition, that they needed to keep killing whales to show that they were a different country, and that they needed to extort more benefits from the people who loved whales. I can't help it. You don't know, how much blood Lila shed, she refuses to be caught by a harpoon, she refuses to be hoisted onto a whaling ship, even if she wants to die, she wants to die in the ocean, as a zì yóu whale. I could save her, but I couldn't get her mother back. She was barely a year old, and she was supposed to live with Maria for a long time. ”

Emile cried like a child. Maybe it was the scene of the sea full of blood that appeared in her mind again, maybe the contrast between Maria and Lila's intimate situation and the current miserable and embarrassing situation was too stark, maybe she had never enjoyed maternal love, she could only look at the gentle bits and pieces of other people's families with envy, or maybe it was because she had never had a family of her own that made her cherish every home in this world more...... Maria and Lila, whose home was originally from the equator to the North Pole, is now like a spray of the waves, dissipating into the air.

How can such an Emile be harshly criticized? Perhaps a confrontation with the state apparatus of any country is not desirable for the parliament, but if it is the ...... It probably doesn't matter. When Sophocles wakes up, God knows how everyone is going to toss. And the whaling industry in rì is really too unusual.

When he was on the Siren, probably because he was afraid that Zolin would hold Emile accountable for such a big incident caused by a conflict with the whaling ship, everyone quietly stuffed him with various materials. Things such as Akari marine life research, installing radio signal generators for whales, secretly selling signal frequencies and whale activity data to whaling ship owners, etc., can be regarded as a heinous crime, in the case that those aristocratic families in Europe have begun to accept metal materials as the support of dresses and long skirts, a group of rìben nymphomaniac noblewomen also use whalebone materials as a show off and status symbol, which can be regarded as a thirteen-point behavior, it seems that there is no industry that needs to rely on blubber to find a substitute, blubber is actually a raw material with no supply guarantee at all, in fact, it can only make some soap and other things labeled as blubber products, which is regarded as a luxury by a small group of people......

Emile's expression was so sad and resolute. She knew she shouldn't have attacked the whaling ship, but even now knowing that it would cause such a big reaction, she would still do the same thing at that moment. This was also the case with the so-called scientific research ships and destroyers that followed. In order to protect the evil whaling industry is the protection that a country provides to its citizens?

Zuo Lin sighed, held Emile's head, rubbed her hair lovingly, and said, "Don't cry. It's okay. It's not your fault. ”

"I'm going to avenge Maria! There are fewer than 10,000 humpback whales in the world. Didn't they kill enough?" Emile looked up, the tears in her eyes not dampening the determination and anger that flashed in her eyes. "No one can declare war on a population, no one! I want to leave this world without a whaling ship!"

Zuo Lin tilted his head in embarrassment and said, "Emile, you are a good boy. But...... That's a big project. ”

Emile tugged at Zuolin's collar and choked up in a pleading tone that could not be refused: "Zuolin, you are a lion, and you are the leader of the beasts. The positions of the 6 whales in the Druid Council are vacant, and there is no one left to fight for the whales. I beg you, help me. Or, at the very least, please give me enough time to complete this task. ”

Zuo Lin let out a sigh of relief, as if he had made up his mind, he wiped the tears from the corners of Emile's eyes with his hand, and said, "Cure Lila, and then we will go to Fox Island first." Anyway, I'm going to trouble Rì himself, so let's help out, okay? There are seals, there are frigate birds, there are eagles...... We're all there. ”

Emile heard Zuo Lin's words and nodded vigorously.