Chapter 11: A Blind Boy in a Fairy Tale
"Is that Chen Fan you know a gloomy young man?" Xu Tian asked.
"I think you are belittling Chen Fan, although he is a little introverted, but he is not as unbearable as you said, his heart is sunny, not as gloomy as you said." Ying Feng said.
"Alright! Can you tell us how you met? Xu Tian asked.
"We met at the beach, at first because we helped a blind child together, and then Chen Fan returned to the mainland, but we often talked on the Internet, and over time we had a relationship." Ying Feng said.
"I'm interested in how you guys met, can you tell me?" Xu Tian asked.
"It's not inconvenient, it happened four years ago, when my dad led the villagers out to the sea to fish, and I used to go to the beach when I was idle, and in June four years ago, I met a little boy with an orange hat on the beach, he was blind." Ying Feng said.
Teacher Jin lit a cigarette and leaned against the door to smoke it, because when he heard Yingfeng talk about the appearance of this blind boy, Teacher Jin suddenly remembered a dark fairy tale from his childhood.
"The little boy seemed to be waiting for someone on the beach, and I didn't notice him much at first, but he appeared in the same place for several days, and I went to greet him and found that he was a very cheerful little boy." Ying Feng said.
"Stop, is that little boy waiting for a girl a few years older than him?" Teacher Jin said.
"Huh? How do you know? Ying Feng said in surprise.
"I'll tell you the story about the little boy, and then you can tell the story of you and Chen Fan after my words." Teacher Jin took a puff of his cigarette and said.
Xu Tian saw that Teacher Jin frowned, he already knew that this was another strange thing.
"The little boy with the orange hat is called Xiao Ai in the story, am I right?" Teacher Jin said.
"Yes, his name is Xiao Ai." Ying Feng said.
"Xiao Ai?" Xu Tian said in surprise.
"In this story, Xiao Ai is a boy, he is a resident of a village by the sea, his parents died when he was a child, and his grandmother who raised him also died, and Xiao Ai lives alone in the village." Teacher Jin said.
"You...... Are you sure it's a fairy tale? Ying Feng said with a shake of her lips.
"Sitting by the sea and listening to the sound of the waves is Xiao Ai's favorite thing to do, and one summer, a girl five years older than Xiao Ai came from the city to visit relatives in the countryside, and they met at the beach and became very good friends." Teacher Jin said.
Ying Feng couldn't help but swallow her saliva, proving that the story that Teacher Jin told was exactly the same as her experience.
The girl spent a very happy holiday with Xiao Ai, and the two became good friends who talked about everything. When the holiday is about to end, the girl is ready to go back to the city, she and Xiao Ai agreed, she will come next summer, just like that, Xiao Ai sat on the beach every day of the year and looked forward to the arrival of the girl. In the summer of the second year, Xiao Ai looked forward to seeing the girl by the sea every day, but until the autumn, the girl did not appear, and the lost Xiao Ai did not give up, he waited for a whole year. Teacher Jin said.
"It's a cliché, and it's a modern fairy tale?" Xu Tian asked.
"This is a fairy tale I heard from the old dean when I was in the orphanage, and I don't know if the old dean made it up, she said it was a fairy tale." Teacher Jin said.
"The girl won't come back at all, because she doesn't exist." Ying Feng said.
"What's going on?" Xu Tian asked.
"Because the girl didn't come from the city to visit relatives in the countryside at all, she had always lived in the village, and she was a small divorced father and daughter pretending." Teacher Jin said.
"What? This is not the ending that a fairy tale should have! Xu Tian said.
"So I defined this call as a dark call." Teacher Jin said.
"That hateful woman deceived Xiao Ai, she just wanted to see Xiao Ai's lost appearance for fun." Ying Feng said.
"You said that you and Chen Fan helped Xiao Ai?" Teacher Jin asked.
"After listening to Xiao Ai's story, the two of us decided to help Xiao Ai find the girl, and we went to Xiao Ai's village, probably because we inquired about the girl and alarmed the woman, and it happened that the next day, Xiao Ai received a letter from the girl." Ying Feng said.
"The woman wrote it?" Xu Tian asked.
"Yes, the letter said a lot of comforting words for Xiao Ai, and also said that she would definitely come to Xiao Ai again next summer, I felt that something was wrong at that time, because the handwriting on the letter was very ugly, not like a girl wrote it, the most important thing is that the letter was handed over to Xiao Ai by the woman who pretended to be a girl." Ying Feng said.
"You debunked the woman?" Xu Tian asked.
"That's right, but we didn't demolish her in front of Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai was already very haggard at that time, and we felt very sorry for Xiao Ai, so Chen Fan and I decided to help Xiao Ai realize a dream." Ying Feng said.
"You want to pretend to be a girl to comfort Xiao Ai?" Xu Tian asked.
"I've also thought about this method, but my voice and height are not suitable, Xiao Ai is not invisible at all, judging from Xiao Ai's description, he should only be able to see the outline of a person, but it is very blurry, so I can't pretend to be a girl." Ying Feng said.
"You found a person of similar height to the girl to act in front of Xiao Ai." Teacher Jin said.
"You know that, too?" Ying Feng said.
Teacher Jin shook his fingers and pinched off the unfinished cigarette, "When you went to find Xiao Ai with the girl you paid for the next day, you saw Xiao Ai in the courtyard of your house talking happily with a young girl, who was wearing a white dress, exactly the same as the costume of the actor you led past. Teacher Jin said.
"You...... Is that the story you heard? Ying Feng said in surprise.
"In which village did you meet Xiao Ai? It's not this village, is it? Teacher Jin asked.
"Yes...... It is a village in the northeast of the island and the only fishermen's village on the island, Sea Fish Village. Ying Feng said.
"What's the end of this story?" Xu Tian asked.
"The ending is that the girl who appeared in the courtyard of Xiao Ai's house is actually Xiao Ai Xu's wish." Teacher Jin said.
"Wish?" Xu Tian asked.
"Because Xiao Ai is talking about the girl on the beach every day, the mermaid who lives in the sea knows the story of Xiao Ai, so the mermaid turned into a girl to help Xiao Ai realize her dream, but there is also a warm-hearted couple in the story who is also helping Xiao Ai, and the actor and mermaid brought by the couple staged a story that is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood." Teacher Jin said with a desperate look.