In the morning, the air on the artificial island is always very fresh, because it has just been cleaned, and the fishy smell has faded a lot, Yueyue hurriedly washed up and ran outside to take a deep breath. Xiaodou finally promised to marry her, and at this moment Yueyue's mood has become much better, although she is still full of worries, but she has returned to her previous lively appearance.

Directly opposite her, there was a row of unfamiliar board houses in the distance, which was actually a residence for people to live in after the stage was reassembled, Yueyue didn't know these things yet, so she ran over to see it curiously now.

The prefabricated house is next to the westernmost guardrail of the artificial island at one end, and the warehouse for food at the other end, it looks very large, and it is a two-story building, Yueyue ran to the door, stopped to breathe, because running through the middle part of the artificial island in one breath is really tiring for a girl.

Yueyue's figure and footsteps attracted a woman upstairs who was drying clothes, this was a fairly good-looking young woman, who looked to be in her 20s, with black hair as short as a boy, ruddy cheeks, a pair of large eyes embedded in the round face, and very white skin.

The woman put down the clothes in her hand, stood on the edge of the balcony and shouted to Yueyue downstairs, "Hey! What is your name? "The voice sounded very hoarse.

"My name is Yueyue, what about you?" Yue Yue also responded upstairs, as she thought the woman seemed to be easy to get along with.

"My name is Kang Ju, and I'm an umbrella worker here. The workers and waiters of our artificial island all live in Bifang House, and the owner of Chongming Hotel and Aunt Ye also live here. The woman upstairs continued.

"It turns out that place is not called the Artificial Island Hotel, but the Chongming Hotel! Also, why do you call the board house Bifang House? Yueyue stared at Kang Ju with some confusion, seeking answers.

"Who told you it's called the Artificial Island Inn?" Kang Ju asked.

Yueyue said: "It's Uncle Li, the owner of the hotel, but Aunt Ye showed us an umbrella last night, saying that the Chongming lantern umbrella you made here is really beautiful, so I also know the name Chongming." ”

'Oops! Why did Aunt Ye take out that umbrella again? Kang Ju instantly thought in her heart, she knew that Aunt Ye actually took out not a Chongming lantern umbrella, but a Bi Fang umbrella, but for some reason, she didn't want to say more.

"Yueyue, wait a minute, I'll go down and open the door for you, come to my room and have fun." Kang Ju smiled and shouted at Yueyue, covering up the thoughts in his heart.

Yueyue also responded very happily: "Okay, if it's not too troublesome, tell me more stories about umbrellas." ”

After the conversation, Kang Ju hurriedly dried the last few clothes and walked towards the stairs on the side of Bi Fang's house. Kang Ju walked a little strangely, one leg seemed to be very stiff, and the girl wanted to ask him why he was like this? But the words came to my mouth and swallowed again, after all, it was not good to mention the defects of others when I first met.

So Yueyue pretended not to see anything and waited silently, until Kang Ju walked downstairs and limped towards her, Yueyue pretended to be shocked and looked at Kang Ju's legs.

Kang Ju didn't mind and said: "This is a problem that I was born with, I was originally an orphan, and I was adopted by a fisherman here and stayed on an artificial island to live." I heard from my adoptive parents that when they were raising me, they got a letter from my swaddling clothes stating that I was a congenitally defective child and that my parents had chosen to abandon me because they really couldn't support me. ”

"It's really sad to say this kind of thing, but fortunately, I have a good life, I met a good family, and now I live here very freely, which can be regarded as a kind of happiness!" Although she said this, Kang Ju still had a smile on her face, and she couldn't see how sad she looked.

Yueyue asked, "What about your adoptive parents?" Do they live with you? At this time, Kang Ju was already standing in front of Yueyue, and Yueyue could see that Kang Ju not only had a little lame feet, but also had very rough and wide hands, not like a pair of women's hands, but her face was indeed very delicate and small.

If you just look at the figure and don't look at the looks, probably some people will mistake Kang Ju for a man. But as long as you see her appearance, this misunderstanding will no longer arise. In order to alleviate Kang Ju's emotions, Yueyue looked at her face and praised, "You are so beautiful." ”

Kang Ju didn't seem to care about Yueyue's praise, she just shook her head gently, took the initiative to take Yueyue's hand and said, "Let's stop talking here, let's go back to the house quickly, it's just finished in the morning, and now everyone is resting." ”

"Do you have a break in the morning, too?" Yueyue asked.

"Yes, it's the busiest morning! We would wake up before five o'clock and clean up the artificial island, wash all the clothes, and clean up all the food needed for the day. Well... Around eight o'clock, we would all go back to our rooms to catch up on sleep, and we usually got up before lunch. ”

"Sounds pretty good, at least it's much better than our lives," says Yueyue, "I don't have much time to catch up on sleep during the day, and usually when I wake up, I'll be busy until dark." ”

"And what do you do?"

"I don't have any specific jobs, my parents are nurses in the hospital, and I basically help them cook and laundry, deliver meals every day, and then help together in the hospital, and take care of Xiaodou's daily life. Anyway, it's just some trivial things in life, and there is no time to rest and play. ”

"Oh, I heard you say that, it's not easy for children in the city!" Kang Ju said with emotion as he went upstairs: "I thought that the children in the city were much happier than us." ”

"I can't say it all, there are still relatively few children like me in the city, and most of them should be very relaxed and live a life of being cared for by their parents." Yue Yue replied.

The two of them soon arrived at Kang Ju's room, which was on the second floor closest to the lake, that is, the westernmost one. After entering the room, Yue Yue found that it was much more spacious than the room they lived in, and that there were windows on the west and north sides of the room, and the windows were very large, and they were all shutters made of wood.

One of the things that attracts Yueyue's eye the most is not the wooden windows, but the umbrella surfaces hanging from the windows. These umbrellas are not equipped with umbrella handles, but are supported by a skeleton and hung on brackets at the top of the windows, stacked on top of each other. Some are fiery red, some are dark blue, and some are deep purple, all of which are very strong colors anyway. Yue Yue tilted her head, one by one, to observe the patterns under the umbrella surface.

Kang Ju asked, "Do you like these umbrellas?" ”

"I like it, I like it, but I don't have the money to buy it, did you assemble these umbrellas?" Yueyue looked up and asked her, touched her elbow to the chair on the side, and sat down. There was a small wooden table next to the chair that was slightly greasy, which should be a table for eating, and Yueyue was not too dirty, and put one hand on it to look at Kang Ju.

Seeing her sit down, Kang Ju moved a chair, sat opposite her and said, "I didn't assemble it alone, but all the women in this building. ”

"After we came here, the man was in charge of the manual work on the dock and the island, and the woman was in charge of learning to make a heavy lantern umbrella with Uncle Lee, and I only learned this technique in recent years, and I couldn't do anything before."

Yueyue asked, "Who drew the pattern under the heavy light umbrella?" ”

"It was painted by Aunt Ye, she is a very good painter, and sometimes I learn to paint. It's all handmade, we don't have a printing press here, we don't go to the city to print, and even the colors on the fabric are dyed by hand. ”

"The more you talk about it, the more I want to have one of these umbrellas, can you tell Uncle Li that I will help him work and change an umbrella?" Yue Yue begged.

"This one...... When Uncle Li comes back from the hotel, I'll tell him about it, it should be okay, Uncle Li is a very talkative person, and there have been customers who can't afford to buy an umbrella in the past who asked him to ask for it, and he gave him an umbrella without letting the family work. ”

"It's not good not to work, I don't want to take other people's things for nothing, you just tell Uncle Li that I must work before I am willing to ask for his umbrella."

"You're such a straightforward little girl, okay, I'll tell him that."

When talking to Yueyue, Kang Ju kept smiling happily, she seemed to like communicating with people very much, especially girls like Yueyue, and Kang Ju's hand was always on the back of Yueyue's hand and never left.

Because Kang Ju is a young woman, Yue Yue didn't care about her little action, and most of Yue Yue's attention was attracted by the beautiful heavy light umbrella at the moment, and she had been watching the different patterns under each umbrella.

Suddenly, Yue Yue saw one of the fiery red umbrellas and asked, "Why is there only a black line drawn under this umbrella, and nothing else?" ”

Kang Ju followed her line of sight, and sure enough, there was only a long black line drawn under the fiery red umbrella, which was very wide, like a person's hair ends, but there was no trace of the hair under the ends. Kang Ju instantly realized that this fiery red umbrella was painted with people and birds!

She quickly diverted the topic and said, "It should be that Aunt Ye is tired and hasn't finished painting, I'll just remind her later." ”

Yueyue then asked what the pattern Kang Ju was going to draw? Of course, Kang Ju reasoned that he didn't know, so as to avoid the question. But what is the point of the fiery red umbrella with the Bifang bird drawn? Led to 15 years or so of people to hide it! Could Bi Fang's umbrella have something to do with Nono's disappearance 50 years ago?