50 years ago

The night before Nono's father went to sea, after four o'clock in the morning

In the courtyard of the two-story slab house where someone lived in the forest, a man was opening wooden boxes one after another to check the contents, and not far from him, another man was hiding behind a tree, carefully watching his movements.

The two men each had their own doubts, they wanted to meet, but they were not sure whether the other was trustworthy, and at this moment, the friendship they had built up over the years seemed to crumble somewhat, and in the end, the man hiding behind the tree decided to trust his friend and ran in the direction of the courtyard of the board house.

The area surrounded by trees was already dark, and the two men did not know what to say, and then they quarreled, one of the men yelling very loudly, and the other tried to keep his voice as low as possible, for fear of being heard.

However, his wish was still not fulfilled, and after a while, the light on the first floor of the board room was turned on, and the hazy voice of the hostess was heard from inside, and the two men immediately stood on the united front, and one of them told the other to hurry up. And threw all the things he had just taken out back into the box, closed the lid, and hurried back into the house.

This inexplicable quarrel, and the inexplicable behavior of the two men, stopped under the sudden interruption of the woman in the house, and afterwards, we can still faintly hear the voice of the man in the house explaining to the woman, and the strange bird cry coming from somewhere.

The lights in the board room went out without warning, but the sound from inside lasted for a long, long time, until it was almost dawn, and the sound of birds that had been surrounding it also stopped at dawn.

The heavy curtains were pulled up, and the sunlight shone through the treetops, shining into the courtyard of the board house, I don't know when? The boxes we saw at night were gone, and where the boxes were placed, there were only a few boxy indentations left on the grass, and I don't know if these boxes were taken by the man in the house, or by the man who left in the middle of the night, anyway, what were the contents there? We simply don't have a way to see clearly.

The morning of Nono and his father's last voyage

The wind and waves on the lake have risen suddenly, and Nono and his father have been gone for a long time, and the fishermen have no choice but to guard the big lake, praying that it will calm down as soon as possible, so that they can go out to sea to find the two people who have not yet returned.

The whole village liked Nuo Nuo very much, especially Lao Yan, Nuo Nuo was like his own son, so now the most impatient at the edge of the big lake was Lao Yan, who wore a thin coat and let the wind on the lake blow his hair and clothes, pacing back and forth, constantly looking at the lake in the distance, hoping to see a miracle.

But the more he hoped for a miracle, the more disappointed he became, there was no shadow of a boat on the lake, only the green aquatic plants kept being lifted to the shore, and Lao Yan couldn't control it anymore, and he said to the fishermen on the side: "Why don't I go out to sea first?" I'm good at the water, and even if I fall into the water, I won't necessarily drown, so you can continue to wait on the shore. ”

"How can this be? With such a big wind and waves, no matter how good the water is, it can't be controlled. As the old saying goes, besides, you are old, you haven't sailed for many years, and we can't let you take risks. The fishermen who had summoned him to the lake immediately dismissed his idea.

Immediately, like two spinning tops, the two of them continued to circle back and forth on the shore, thinking of better countermeasures.

But in this case, what can they do but wait? The worry on Lao Yan's face became more and more intense, and the people around him were no better, until the sky was getting darker and the day was about to pass, and the lake was finally a little calmer.

This time, no one persuaded him, Lao Yan immediately unlocked a boat, drove the boat to the center of the lake, the fishermen behind him were also ready, they continued to observe, as long as the waves on the lake calmed down a little more, they would follow Lao Yan to sail together to find Nuo Nuo and his son.

Nearly half of the day had passed, and the shadow could not have stayed long under the surface of the lake, and from time to time he poked his head out to breathe and observe if the ship he was waiting for had reached the designated area. Today, he deliberately attracted that person to the surface of the lake, just to take advantage of the wind and waves to kill him, but it had been a long time since the incident, and that person had never appeared, which made the black shadow very anxious and felt faintly uneasy in his heart.

Finally, at the moment when his heart was racing and he wanted to give up, he saw a familiar boat from a distance, which was heading towards him, and he was equally familiar with the middle-aged man on the boat, as long as he glanced at it from a distance, he could recognize who this person was.

The shadow took a sharp breath and submerged himself into the undetectable place at the bottom of the lake, estimating that it would take several minutes for the ship to sail close to him, and in those few minutes, the shadow waited like centuries, until he felt that the air in his chest was about to melt away, and a shadow finally passed over his head.

The black shadow hurriedly put on the mask he had prepared in advance, and like a ghost, gradually floated up from under the lake, ready to take the life of the man on the boat......