In the sixth year of the Republic of China, December 4, 1917, before dusk.

Through the stone-stacked windows and crumbling glass windows, Ouyang Anna looked in the direction of the Asian continent, a sunset like blood-soaked gauze, floating at the end of the skyline and the sky, and the bottom was the golden East China Sea, just like the opening celebration of Shanghai World.

A week ago, Anna took Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan to the big world to play. The three of them seemed to be Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden, followed the crowd of people, and entered the largest playground in the Far East. The twelve haha mirrors are dizzying, and all kinds of local dramas will make you sing and I will appear. The large theater on the upper and lower floors is the first for men and women to perform Peking Opera on the same stage. Qi Yuanshan would hum a few passages of Peking Opera "Dingjun Mountain", which provoked Anna to applaud. They also rode like children on a pleasure ship and a small Ferris wheel, and finally watched a French silent film, "From the Earth to the Moon" adapted from Verne's novel.

After watching the movie, Qin Beiyang said: "One day, if human beings really land on the moon, will my generation still be alive?" ”

Qi Yuanshan shook his head: "Chang'e running to the moon?" I'm afraid that by that day, I would have died a long time ago! ”

"Hugh said these unlucky things!" Ouyang Anna blocked his mouth with her slender jade fingers, "The three of us, no one is allowed to die, we have to live together, to live until we are old enough to be old enough for humans to land on the moon!" ”

"Well, on that day, the three of us will immigrate to live on the moon together." Qin Beiyang smiled and craned his neck, just as the bright moon was in the sky, "Mr. Sainz will help us realize our dreams." ”

The three boys and girls walked out of the big world and went to the photo studio next door to take a group photo of the three of them. They chose three different backgrounds: the moon in the three pools of West Lake, the Great Wall at Badaling in Beijing, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris — and a few days later, these photos became the images of Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan on wanted notices.

Anna discovered that Qin Beiyang had a blood-colored jade pendant hanging around his neck. She touched it lightly and irresistibly, and a burst of warmth came from her fingertips, not just the temperature of a teenager.

"My father said that this is the jade I brought out of my mother's womb."

"Your dad lied to you! Are you really Jia Baoyu? ”

Ouyang Anna laughed insolently, many years later, when she was old, she still couldn't forget the night she was seventeen years old.

The old stone house is the old house of the hometown of Dharma Mountain. Unbeknownst to Anna, her home in the Shanghai Public Concession, the three-story Western mansion on the Dharma, had been burned to the ground. Her father, Ouyang Sicong, turned into a cold corpse, his throat was cut by a sharp blade, and he lay in the morgue of the patrol room.

The night before the crime, on December 1, Ouyang Sicong had a long talk with his daughter, and finally said: "Tomorrow, you will go back to your hometown Dharma Mountain and go to your mother's grave." ”

"Daddy! Is something going to happen? ”

"It's okay, I'll just want you to be okay!"

Her father took her in his arms and hugged her so tightly that it almost suffocated her.

The next day, the Ford Model T took Ouyang Anna to the dock, and her father chartered a 500-ton steamer to send her out of the Huangpu River.

Autumn goes to winter, the north wind is bleak, Shanghai is gradually moving away, and the steamer is thrown into the sea. She leaned on the railing of the boat, her white hat blown high in the sky by the wind, like a kite with a broken string, and I don't know which lucky one will pick it up.

Bodhidharma Mountain is in the center of the East China Sea, an insignificant island.

More than 2,000 years ago, legend has it that this is Penglai Immortal Mountain. Qin Shi Huang ordered Xu Fu to go to sea, and 3,000 boys and girls crossed east to find the elixir of immortality, and once passed by this deserted island.

1,500 years ago, the patriarch of Bodhidharma crossed to the east and was the first to land on the island, which was named Bodhidharma Mountain. There are still footprints of the Bodhidharma Patriarch landing on the island. Japan sent a Tang envoy ship to the west, and the great monk Jianzhen crossed to the east, and this island was the only way. The islands are full of people, up and down. The Ming Dynasty was once a nest of Japanese robbers, and all of them were moved away during the Qing Dynasty's sea ban, and it was not until the late Qing Dynasty that people resettled. Damo Mountain is the only route for the Sino-Japanese route, but this sea area is full of reefs, and ships are often shipwrecked.

Ouyang Anna was born on this island.

Three days ago, she stood on the bow of a steamer, looking out at the island, standing alone in the East China Sea. The whole island is black, not the color of vegetation, but bare rocks, with a high mountain protruding in the middle. The pier is nothing more than a long causeway deep into the sea, and the shore is rocky, and the captain has to be extra careful every time he lands. The topography of the entire island resembles a coffin, with an asymmetrical trapezoidal shape and magnified to the north. The marina and fishing village are at the western end of the island, with mountains and cliffs on the east side, and a small gravel beach, deserted.

Take a deep breath and the air will be filled with the smell of salted fish. The fishing village is a cascade of stone and tile houses, spreading along the coastline and hillsides, full of cold winter and gloom, like a deserted village between the sea and the cemetery.

It was an isolated island, with no telegraphs, no messengers, no liners, and only one fishing boat could be hired if you wanted to go to the mainland or other islands.

Her father also gave her the task of visiting her two younger brothers - Anna was his only daughter, but not the only child.

Ouyang Anna held a small parasol, walked through the bumpy stone road of the fishing village, and came to a thatched house. A young boy who could just walk was playing with seashells, and out of the house came a young girl with a nursing baby in her arms.

That's her. Ouyang Sicong's little lover left in his hometown is not even a concubine, and she is also the last "sea lady" on the island - a girl who dives into the sea to collect shells and sponges for a living. The customs of Mt. Bodhidharma are slightly different from those on the mainland, and the ama are all diving naked, which is similar to that of Japan. I am afraid that it is also the body of the sea lady exposed to nature, which makes Ouyang Sicong, who is middle-aged, moved.

In winter, the water is cold, and the ama cannot go into the sea to dive, and they have to nurse their children at home. Ouyang Sicong sent people to bring her silver yuan, rice, clothes and medicine every month, and her life was much better than that of other islanders. The ama remembered the man's promise - next year, the mother and son will be brought to Shanghai, live in the Dharma Mountain on the sea, and enjoy the glory and wealth.

"The cheapest thing in the world is a man's promise."

Ouyang Anna said a dialogue from the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School novel. She touched her half-brother's head, and on behalf of her father, she gave the ama a bag of silver yuan, as if she were a reward for a maid. In fact, the ama is only three years older than Anna. But when she saw Anna in a Western school uniform, she bowed her head in shame and called out "Miss Anna".

"I forgot their names?"

"His name is Ouyang Lulu." The sea girl first pointed to the one on the ground, and then raised the one in her arms, "His name is Ouyang Lianfan." ”

"My dad really knows how to name it!" Ouyang Anna looked at the vast East China Sea besieging the isolated island, "Take care!" ”

Leaving the fishing village, she walked along the rugged mountain road, leaving the island at the age of twelve, and her memory is still vivid. The island is windy and cannot grow tall plants, only weeds and lichens in the leeward area. At the northern end of the island, there are bare, rocky barren hills dotted with stone graves. Halfway up the mountain, the bottom leads directly to the bottom of the sea, and the good feng shui with the mountain and the sea at the back.

She saw her mother's tombstone.

Anna shed two tears, offered a bouquet of flowers, added a few stones to the grave, and walked to the top of the steep hill.

The highest point of Bodhidharma Mountain is located in the middle, with an altitude of more than 700 meters. Three years ago, the Ministry of Communications of the Beiyang government sent people to the island to build a towering lighthouse on the top of the mountain to warn ships from south to north not to stray into this dangerous sea area.

Beneath the lighthouse is a large stone house, which from a distance looks more like a fortified fortress, with narrow panes that give the illusion that a cannon is hidden inside.

This is the ancestral house of the Ouyang family, which was built by her grandfather during the Tongzhi period.

Anna spends two boring days on the island, visiting her mother's grave every day, visiting her two younger brothers in the fishing village, and chatting with the ama. She had heard a lot of stories about the diving of ama, and it turned out that there were so many secrets under the surface. There are a total of three to five hundred islanders, all of whom are Ouyang Sicong's old department. Living alone at the top of the mountain, you don't have to worry about safety.

At dusk that day, she stood in front of the stone house of the Ouyang family, overlooking the entire Dharma Mountain. The sea within a radius of dozens of miles, and the nearest few small islands, can also be seen from afar, like a large sea turtle floating on the water.

Suddenly, in the sunset in the west, a dark shadow faintly jumped out. She rubbed her eyes, it looked like a huge golden-winged bird, but she couldn't see the wings, but there was a spindle-shaped object, it wasn't ...... Airship?

She opened the unguarded lighthouse door and climbed up the spiral staircase to the top of the lighthouse, squinting at the airship to make out the copper coin pattern on the airbag.

The airship was heading towards Mt. Dharma, almost at the same level as the lighthouse on the top of the mountain, where she was located.

Ouyang Anna opened her arms to greet the passengers in the airship pod, and the name was about to come out!

Ten minutes later, the airship came over Mount Damo, circling in search of a suitable hovering spot. The lighthouse at the top of the hill was an obstacle, and the airship turned to the other side of the hill. Anna ran down the lighthouse, and Saya rushed in the direction of the airship.

As she ran out of breath to the hillside, the airship pod lowered a soft ladder.

A seventeen-year-old boy fell from the sky.