"What a laugh, bad guy!" I sat up from the sea with my face covered, my hair and face covered with tawny sand.

"What's wrong? Annoyed? Shirtless asked with a smile behind my back.

I ignored him and took a handful of seawater to wash the sand on my face.

"I have something to give you, and if you don't turn your head, I'll throw it away." Shirtless laughed behind me.

"Who wants your stuff." I got up and took a few more steps into the depths of the ocean.

"Shall I throw it away?"

"Throw it away." I untied my hair and dipped the sand-stained side into the sea.

"Poor loggerhead turtle (1), Miko says she doesn't want you ......"

"What!" I turned my head sharply to see Shirtless holding a huge bareback loggerhead turtle standing in the water not far from me.

"Loggerhead turtles, really loggerhead turtles!" I ruffled my hair and ran to the shirtless through the water, "Where did you catch it?" Is it still alive? Overjoyed, I reached out and touched the back of the turtle's reddish-brown carapace.

"Watch out for it sticking its head out and biting you!"

"There are really loggerhead turtles in this world, and I have only seen them on the medical papers of Yichen before." I excitedly tapped my knuckles on the crimson back of the loggerhead turtle, which was a sacred object for the shaman.

"Ashi, do you want to see how slow it climbs?" Shirtless smiled like a fox again.

"Yes." As soon as I nodded, the poor loggerhead turtle was thrown far away on the beach with a "whoosh".

"Oh my God, it's going to be killed by you—" I was shocked.

Wuxian grabbed my hand and pulled me into his arms: "No hurry, it will crawl back very slowly...... " he muttered, leaning over in the middle of the sea and kissing me on the lips.

"What are you doing...... I don't know how long it took, and the innocent voice suddenly sounded behind us.

I jerked Shirtless away, and turned around to see Innocent standing behind us with the loggerhead turtle in his arms.

"When did you come?" My face was so hot that I embarrassedly pinned the hair on my cheeks behind my ears.

Innocence looked at me but didn't speak. I was so frightened that I could only cast a distressed look at Wuxian beside me.

Shirtless winked at me, got up and half-picked me up from the water, drenched in the water.

"Wolf cub, you've come just in time. Yesterday I promised to invite you to eat roasted shellfish, now go with me to pick up some dry firewood and make a fire! ”

Innocence ignored him, and his aggressive gaze never left my face for a moment. What shall I say to him now? I stared at Innocence in a daze, and my mind was in turmoil.

The atmosphere between the three of them was even more embarrassing because of the silence, and Wuxian gently pushed me behind my back when he saw this: "What are you still doing stupidly, you are not afraid of catching a cold!" Quick, go and ask the grandmother of the house to borrow a set of old clothes, and take out this set of wet clothes on your body for a while and I will bake them for you! ”

"Oh, okay, right away." I came back to my senses and replied, pulling up my skirt and running quickly towards the fishing village.

Seeing that I was wet, my grandmother hurriedly went back to the house and found me a clean burlap coat: "The female guest is so greedy, why did she go to the sea so early?" Come, hurry up and change into clean clothes. ”

"Thank you, Grandma." I closed the door and took off my wet clothes, took the dry cloth and wiped my body indiscriminately, "Grandma, I saw a loggerhead turtle on the beach just now, Grandpa usually goes out to sea to fish so hard, why don't you catch a loggerhead turtle and sell it to the big city?" ”

"Loggerhead turtles? The female guest is talking about a red-shelled turtle, right? Grandma smiled and shook off the cloth in her hand and draped it over me.

"Well, the blood of this loggerhead turtle can solve the poison of the sword, and if the hairpin made of turtle shell is in good condition, it can be sold for at least two gold in Linzi City."

When Grandma heard this, she hurriedly waved her hand: "You can't catch it, and you can't kill it." The red-shelled turtle is a sacred creature in our sea, and we have to rely on its protection to shelter from the wind and waves when we go to sea for generations. The turtle only goes ashore at this time of the year to give birth, and if the female guest finds the turtle egg in the sand these days, she must bury it back. ”

"Grandma don't worry, I've written it down." I fastened the belt around my waist, bowed to the old woman, grabbed my wet coat and ran out.

By the time I got back to the beach, Shirtless had already built a bonfire on the beach, and the loggerhead turtle with its brownish-red shell was still digging holes in the sandy beach not far away.

"What about innocence?" I handed the shirt my wet clothes to the shirtless and turned around without seeing the innocent.

"When he suddenly said he wanted to drink, I gave him the dagger and told him to go around the fishing village to see if anyone would be willing to exchange wine with him." Wuxian built a drying rack with a few branches next to the campfire, spread out my wet clothes and hung them up, "Ah Shi, although Wuxian has grown up with wolves since he was a child, he is a man after all, and if you keep him by your side, there will always be inconveniences." In the past few years, you have been thinking about marrying the four girls, but you have never thought about finding a family for Wuxie? ”

"I haven't thought about this yet, but if he really has a girl he likes in the future, I will naturally play for him." I sat down on the beach with my knees crossed. On the other side of the sea, the new morning sun has faded its crimson coat, and the white dazzling light makes it impossible to open your eyes and look at it.

"You are speaking lightly now, but I am afraid that you will not be reluctant to do so then. Before the wolf cub has returned, you'd better think about how you're going to explain what happened to him later! With a chuckle, Wushirt took off his clothes and turned to walk towards the sea.

"What are you going to do?" I shouted.

"The wolf cub went to the village to change wine, and I went to the sea to catch a few crabs, touched a few shellfish and roasted them and waited for him." Wuxian didn't turn around, just raised the clothes in his hand at me, and strode into the water.

Need an explanation? The thief must have taught him about men and women......

In the distance, Shirtless had already plunged headlong into the waves and disappeared. I picked up a twig and squatted on the sand with a little golden light, gently paddling the sand under my feet.

"Innocent...... ......"I looked at the words I had written on the beach, and suddenly fell into deep thought. If one day, he marries and has children and leaves me, will I be sad? Will you be reluctant? In the past days, I have imagined the wedding of Wu Feng and Bo Huan more than once, and imagined the backyard where Wuxian became the wives and concubines of the Zhao family, but I have never imagined an innocent wedding, an innocent woman, and an innocent child...... Because I have long decided in my heart that he will never leave me.

"As long as you don't die, I'll accompany you wherever you go." It was the oath he made to me, he was my most innocent child, and I believed every word he ever said. Wu Feng has abandoned me, and Wuxian is destined not to belong to me alone, only Wuxi, and he is the only one who belongs to me. He doesn't have a family mission on his shoulders, he doesn't have a desire for power in his heart, if there is really someone in this life who will accompany me through thousands of mountains and rivers, rain or shine. Well, that person must be him.

Is that why I refused to grow up? Is this the real reason in my heart?

I scratched the innocent name on the beach with a twig and stood up in a daze.

Because I was afraid of loneliness and abandonment, I would use those high-sounding reasons to resist his growth. Because I envy his simplicity and covet the ease when I am with him, I would rather let him be an ignorant child for the rest of his life. I rejected the advice of the innocent and coaxed the innocent feelings, because I knew that only in this way would I always be the whole of his life, and he would not leave me.

But why am I so selfish, and why have I never thought of giving him the power to choose for myself?

Standing in front of the boundless sea, I once again saw my ugly heart clearly.

"Ah?"

I turned my head, and the innocent with his curly corn hair was standing behind me with two jars of wine.

"What's wrong with you? Are you sad? He frowned, put down the two jars, and walked up in a few steps.

I looked at the person in front of me, and shame and sadness swept through my heart like a tidal wave.

"I won't ask, don't be upset." Innocent rubbed my cheek and lowered his head into a sunny smile, "Look, I'm not unhappy now, and you shouldn't be unhappy either!" ”

"Innocent, I'm sorry......" I grabbed his hand in my hand, forcibly suppressed the surging emotions in my heart, and said seriously, "Innocent, from today onwards, you can ask me any question, as long as you want to know, as long as I understand, I will definitely tell you." ”

Wuxian was stunned for a moment, then smiled and waved his hand: "I don't want to know anything." Drink, we drink bar! I exchanged Zhao Wuxian's dagger for two jars of sea snake wine. Innocent pointed to the two black pottery jars on the ground, and bent down to pick up a clam shell that was upside down on the beach, "Can you just use it to make a wine glass?" When I first came, I saw that there were two bigger ones over there, so I went to get them. So saying, he pulled his legs and ran to the north of the beach.

"Innocent, listen to me!" I caught up and grabbed his hand.

"Don't say—" Innocent suddenly broke free of my hand and covered his ear, "I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear anything right now." ”

"You had so many questions a few days ago, and now I want to tell you, why don't you want to listen to them?" I reached out and took the hand he was holding over his ear.

Innocent didn't speak, but his eyes involuntarily drifted to my lips.

I sighed lightly and said, "What you just saw is not a bad thing, men and women like each other and want to be so close. In the future, if you meet a girl you like, you will want to be close to her. Just now, I suddenly understood something. Back in Yongcheng, although I bought you and saved you, you were not mine, you were your own. You can do whatever you want and go anywhere you want. You can travel around the world to find someone to compete with the sword, or you can marry the girl you like, you don't have to be with me for the rest of your life, you should have your own life. ”

"You, don't want me anymore?" Innocence looked at me, and his lips trembled.

I hurriedly shook my head: "No, I didn't want you." I was just...... I just don't want to, and I can't selfishly occupy you anymore. Si'er is right, I am not your mother, even if I am your mother, where have you seen a son who has been with your mother all his life? You may not understand what I mean now, but I will teach you more things in the future, and slowly you will understand. I raised my hand and stroked the broken hair between Innocent's forehead, trying to squeeze out a smile.

"I know, I already know." Wuxian suddenly screamed and grabbed my shoulder, "I said I like you, I said I don't like Zhao Wuxian, I said so many times, it's you who don't understand, it's not me!" ”

"Innocent, your liking is not the same as I said."

"Same! It's the same! Innocent blushed, and with a clench of his hands, he pulled me in front of him.

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