Chapter 069: The Truth
It will open tomorrow, and Wangcai is busy tidying up the shop in front. Pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Yuncui is pregnant, and it is not good for her to do these physical jobs. Mulan asked her to rest, and she rolled up her sleeves and came out to help.
She was in charge of cleaning, while Wangcai moved the cloth out of the warehouse and placed them on the shelves. The two of them worked hard until it was dark, and then they could be considered to clean up.
Wangcai went back to the house to take a look, and saw that Yuncui was sleeping in a pile with Fuwa and Xuewa, so he didn't disturb them. Came out lightly and greeted Mu Lan and said, "Let's go, Uncle will take you to see the lanterns." ”
Mu Lan's original intention of coming to the town was not to see the lanterns, let alone work and prosperous, so she waved her hand and said: "Don't go, Uncle Wangcai has been busy for a day, hurry up and rest." ”
Wangcai greeted her again, and saw that she really had no interest in lanterns, so he didn't force her. I took out a handful of copper coins from the hidden box at the counter, went around the street, and bought steamed buns, crispy meat, and some snacks for children.
put the buns and crispy meat on a plate, poured soy sauce and vinegar, put them on the counter, and called Mulan to come and eat together.
After being busy for half an afternoon, Mulan was really hungry, so she didn't shirk, pinched a bun and ate it slowly, thinking about how to open her mouth while eating.
Wangcai is not a dull person, and when he felt that she wanted to speak several times, he asked, "Do you have anything else to tell me?"
"There's one thing. When he asked, it was not as difficult to talk as before, Mulan also put down the half-eaten buns, and said with a straight face, "Uncle Wangcai, I still want to go back to Shouzhen Island." ”
"What?" Wangcai was taken aback, and the bun in his mouth almost squirted out, "Do you still want to go back?"
Mulan lowered her eyes, "Actually, I left Shouzhen Island just to pick up those people on the island. But after listening to what you and Aunt Wangcai said, I couldn't make up my mind again, and I didn't know if it was right or wrong to take them out.
They are as kind to me as a mountain, and they are closer than blood relatives. Even if I can't pick them up, I can't leave them alone, even if I just go back and give them some food, clothing, and healing herbs.
I was able to get out of Shouzhen Island because of luck. Again, I'm afraid I'll be trapped in the Fog Belt.
Uncle Wangcai ......"
She raised her eyes to look at Wangcai, "I heard Da Chun say that you once entered the mist belt and came out in good shape. I wonder if you have a way of finding your way through the fog?"
Wangcai's expression quickly dimmed, "I can't help it." ”
Mulan didn't know why, and looked at him blankly.
Wangcai looked away from her, and a bitter smile line pulled up at the corner of his mouth, "Everyone in the village thinks that I am looking for a stone, but in fact, it is ......a stone that I am looking for."
After the stone told the big fish to drag it into the mist belt, he chased after it with all his blood, and he lost his way not long after entering the mist belt. It turned around like a fly for a long time, not to mention stones, and not even a ghost shadow was found.
In the fog, he couldn't accurately tell between day and night, and he didn't know how many days and nights he had wandered by himself. The sea was sometimes deathly silent, sometimes there was a rustling sound from the shadows, and something was haunting around the fishing boats.
It's irritating when it's quiet, and it's creepy when it's not quiet. My voice was hoarse, the water I brought was drunk, and my spirit was tense all the time, and the feeling was worse than death.
Just when he was in despair and almost collapsed, he met the stone.
To be precise, it was the stone that found him.
The few who went out to sea to fish with him all had extraordinary skills. Guicheng's ability to drive a boat is first-class, the two donkeys are the most accurate in casting nets, the stones are small, and they are thin and weak, and they can't drive a boat with a net, but their ability to listen to the sound is unmatched.
Of course, the stones are not heard in the ordinary sound, but in the sea. Listen to the water with your ears close to the surface of the water for a moment and a half, and you can say something in the sea within 100 meters around you to be able to say eight ~ nine and ten.
At first, they didn't believe that Stone had such ability, so they blindfolded him and took him to a remote sea area to make him listen. When he had heard this, he said that there were reefs, where there were schools of fish, where there were seaweeds, and even where there were larger fish.
Pick a good water-based dive and take a look, there is nothing inaccurate. After two attempts, they were convinced.
Wangcai was the leader of the young fishermen at that time, and he was excellent in all aspects, but he couldn't listen. I've consulted with the stone a few times, but unfortunately I can't get the hang of it.
There's no way, that's a natural ability, and others can't learn it if they want to!
When the big fish ran away, the stone screamed and was stupid, and it took half a day to wake up in the fog belt, and immediately jumped out of the boat. While listening to the sound, he swam back, and after swimming for a while, he realized that there was a boat nearby, so he looked for it.
When they met, the two of them were surprised and delighted. When the surprise has passed, I remember that the people in the village have received the letter, and I must mobilize the people to find them. Fearing that everyone would be worried about going back late, he drove the boat out for a while.
With the ability to listen to the sound of the stones, they walked smoothly for most of the way. Seeing that he was about to get out of the fog belt, the stone was close to the water and listened to it, and his face immediately changed, saying that the big guy who had dragged away his boat had caught up with him, urging Wangcai to go quickly.
There is a thick fog to obstruct it, so Wangcai can't see anything, and it is not like a stone that can listen to the sound, but only concentrate on driving the boat according to the words of the stone. After walking for a long time, Leng Buding asked the stone to push, and when he turned his head, he saw a blood-red tongue full of barbs sticking out of a black hole and rolling the stone into it.
Too nervous and frightened, he didn't remember very well what happened next, he only remembered that he screamed and pounced, and then he was sprayed with blood all over his head. In the blood mist, he faintly saw the stone, and grabbed him.
Then he heard a series of strange screams, and a great wave rose on the sea, and the boat overturned, and he fell into the sea with the stones. When everything calmed down, he realized that the stone he was holding on to had become a skeleton of bones.
He didn't know how he was wounded, how he got into the boat, how he got out of the mist with the bones of the stones, as if a voice had been guiding him.
Afterwards, the people in the village were asking him what had happened, but he didn't say a word. It's not that I don't want to say it, but I can't understand what happened in the middle at all, and I can't say it clearly if I want to say it.
It was long after that nightmare had passed, and he remembered dimly that when he fell into the water, he seemed to see half a barbed tongue floating in the blood-red waves, and he thought that the great fish had been wounded. But if he hadn't been injured, how could the big fish have let him go?
As for whether it was the hand that moved at the moment before the stone was rolled, or the hand that moved when he pounced, he had no memory. In fact, it doesn't matter if he has an impression or not, he just needs to remember that the stone saved his life.
If it hadn't been for the stone pushing him, he would have been the one who had become a skeleton of bones.
"It was I who went out to sea to fish with a stone, and I chased him in, but I could not save him, but watched him lose his life. Wangcai's eyes were red, and his tone was full of remorse, "I hurt him twice, two times!"
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