The sky, the sea.

Isolated island, detached from people.

Han Zitong and I were guarding a small bonfire, watching the half-dried firewood slowly dry and burn in the fire, and the green smoke rising into the sky and finally disappearing into the starry sky, it was such a scene.

The wind was blowing with sea sand and water foam, and seeing that the bonfire was blown so much that it was almost licking the ground, it was about to go out, so I hurriedly reached out and pulled Han Zitong, who was already dozing off with his head, and said softly: "Come, sit down a little." We keep the wind out so that the fire is not extinguished. ”

She looked up at me, her eyes were still a little hazy, but she was obedient like a child, her hands on the ground, and slowly moved to my side to lean on me.

The clothes on our bodies have not yet dried, and our backs are blown by the wind like this, in fact, we are shivering with cold, but this bonfire took me nearly half an hour, failed countless times, and even worn out the palm of my hand, before it was drilled out of a piece of dead wood.

Also what I regard as the source of life is a spring that emerges from the ground a few steps away from us, and is still rumbling.

I looked down at Han Zitong, who was leaning against me.

Her face had been pale before, but she had drunk some water, eaten two more fish that I had caught and cooked, or perhaps only because of the light of the campfire, that she could see a little rosy.

After finally finding this spring and lighting a bonfire, she finally calmed down and satisfied the most basic desire to survive, and she was finally able to appease her feelings and regain her sanity, but now she has faded away from the identity of the princess and abandoned the attitude of opposition to me, just like what I said with Pei Yuanxiu before, but a pure heart, a little girl who has not grown up.

As if sensing my gaze, she looked up at me.

Usually when she looks at me, she will look away impatiently, but at this time, she just looked at me with wide eyes, and even a little stupid, and only after a while, did she say, "What should we do tomorrow?" ”

I said softly, "Tomorrow, let's go inside again and see what the hell is here?" ”

"Isn't this an uninhabited island?"

As she spoke, I visibly felt a shiver against my cold body.

It seems that the desperate love xù still did not abandon her.

In fact, I didn't despair, especially when I realized that I might never see my separated son again, and I was almost in a state of collapse. It's just that, fortunately, God let Han Zitong also drift to this island.

I need to take care of her affection, but I have to comfort myself first.

Surviving is a qiē hope!

Thinking of this, I said to her, "Whether there are people or not, you will only know if you see it." And here, it should be east of Zhoushan. ”

"How do you know?"

"When I heard the boatmen chatting before, I heard them say that there are many islands and reefs here. Our ship sank because the bottom of the ship was broken, most likely because it ran aground. Originally, our route would not have gone here, and it should have been blown away by the storm before it hit the rocks. ”

She looked at me for a moment, and said lightly in a tone that didn't know whether it was praise or sarcasm: "You know how much." ”

"I don't understand, I guess."

"You know a lot, you are the one who finds the spring under the wet soil, and you are the one who makes the fire." She said softly, "I don't know anything, like a piece of waste." If I were the only one here, I'd be dead by now. ”

I said, "You are the princess of King Jiangxia, and you have been clothed and fed since you were a child, so it's not strange that you can't do this." ”

"But aren't you Miss Nishikawa? Why would you? ”

She looked at me, and both of them were silent for a while, and she said, "Is it because of Hongyan Building?" ”

“……”

I was slightly stunned and looked down at her.

After a while, I said, "Yuan Xiu sù yours? ”

"Hmm."

"He even told you this, did he say anything else?"

"Actually, he didn't say much, but I understood what he meant."

"What do you mean?"

"He wants to sue me that you are a woman who is worthy of him, so that I should not be hostile to you."

Although it was such an environment, I couldn't help but smile faintly, but seeing that she seemed to be offended, she sat up straight and said coldly: "Actually, he doesn't have to say this, I don't have the slightest interest, I want to be your enemy." ”

I couldn't help but glance at her.

But after reading it, I couldn't help but sigh softly in my heart - indeed, she was right, even if she wanted someone to kill me when we first met, from beginning to end, her hostility and murderous intentions were not for herself.

It's for her sister, the sick and weak woman who makes everyone want to take good care of her.

In fact, it is not necessarily a good thing to have such a person in life.

In this life, if there is a person who makes you thinkable and lovely, it may not be a good thing for the other party, but it is a very happy thing for yourself.

Thinking of this, I let out a long sigh that drew her to a glance at me.

I looked at her and said, "So, did he tell you anything?" ”

The expression on her face was stunned for a moment, but she slowly fell silent, and after a long time, she said lightly: "Nothing, nothing special." ”

With that, she closed her eyes.

I watched her for a while, listening to the sea breeze whistling in my ears, and finally slowly closed my eyes.

……

This night, I slept very restlessly.

Not for anything else, but because of the pressure of survival, I would wake up almost every half an hour, listen quietly to the sounds of wild beasts around me, add some firewood to the fire, and carry a heart all night.

The strange thing is that Han Zitong, who was originally in the lowest mood and the most mentally broken, seemed to sleep well, she leaned behind me, her clothes had been dried, and even the warm body temperature came through her clothes, and the sound of her long breathing echoed in her ears with the sound of the waves.

I don't know why she has such peace of mind, and even, in her sleep, the corners of her lips have a faint, almost smiling arc.

Perhaps, deep down, she is really just a child.

fate, but let her go through too much.

It's just that this comfort doesn't last long, and the next morning, we have to face new problems, after all, survival, especially the survival of two people on a desert island, is not a simple matter.

I caught two fish in the shallows, roasted them, ate them, drank enough water from the spring, and then left the tinder, and, with her, drew the dagger from my boot, and walked toward the center of the island.

This island, I stood on the beach and visually inspected it, it should not be too big, but this size is in terms of the island, for two people, it is definitely not small, the island grows dense bushes, fortunately they are not too high, there are several high mountains in the center of the island, rolling and undulating, some like camels, as for what is on the mountain, what is on the other side of the mountain, we need to see it ourselves.

We took the dagger and waved it all the way, cutting off a lot of thorns, and barely making a way, but after a while, the dress was torn to the point that her clothes were not in shape, and her shoes were soaked in water, and after a while the rough stone road cracked, revealing snow-white toes, and in a few moments they were worn out.

She was stubborn at first, gritting her teeth and refusing to speak, but I listened to her breathing that something was wrong, and when I looked back, her whole foot was already stained red.

I hurriedly stopped and said, "Let's take a break." ”

After speaking, he helped her to sit on the stone on the side, which was also full of mud and grass clippings, and at this time he couldn't even care about it, so he sat down directly without even wiping it. I carefully tore off a piece of fabric from my inner skirt, wiped the mud and sand from the wound, and bandaged the wound for her.

I saw that her toes were cracked, the flesh was blurry, and it should be painful, but when I bandaged her, I didn't hear her cry out in pain.

It wasn't until she was wrapped that she heard a click.

A drop of water fell and landed on the back of my hand, making a splash of crystalline water.

I looked up at her, and saw that there was no expression on her pale little face, only large tears falling from her eyes.

I looked at her like this, and was silent for a while, before reaching out and gently wiping the corner of her eye with the back of my hand.

She didn't even cry, she just cried quietly like this, and it took a long time to calm down, and even her face and eyes softened. She raised her eyes to look at me and said softly, "Yue Qingying." ”

"Huh?"

"When are the two of us going to die, you say?"

I was slightly shocked, I didn't expect someone to talk about my life and death so calmly.

and the fear that she almost collapsed before, and the shallow smile she showed in her sleep last night, it seemed to be a different person.

However, I can somewhat understand her mood at the moment, and after thinking for a long time, I slowly said: "The two of us will not die so easily." ”

"How can you be so sure?"

She said, looking up and looking around. The two of us had been some way from the beach, but we were still a long way from the mountains in the middle of the island, and we were even in the middle of the thorns and greenery, just as our fleet was in the middle of the sea.

Man, when faced with nature, is the smallest and most powerless.

She said, "How can we survive on this island if we have nothing?" ”

I said calmly, "It's been a few hours since yesterday. If we can all survive, we will live the days to come, and we will live as these hours. ”

She frowned slightly and looked at me, "Why are you so relieved?" ”

“……”

"Aren't you worried about leaving?"

“……”

"In case you die here......"

Before she finished her words, I had already interrupted her faintly, even with a little smile: "I was relieved because I thought that maybe I would die here." ”

She frowned, "What do you mean?" ”

"If I were still alive, I would definitely find a way to go back and find Li'er. If I die......" I sighed lightly and said lightly, "Then it's easy." If I die, I will be reincarnated as someone else's daughter, and in the future, someone else's mother. I won't even know what happens to her again, and I won't even know if it has anything to do with me. ”

“……”

I looked up at her and said, "Death is like a lamp going out." ”

I don't know if it was the coldness of my words, or the cruelty in her eyes, which made her tremble slightly.

Her voice trembled slightly: "You, you're really not worried about her?" ”

I shook my head and smiled wryly: "How can you not worry." ”

"Then you-"

"I just, I can't let the fear of her break me down at this time. I'm going to survive, to find her! ”

With that, I waved the dagger in my hand and cut through a large mess of branches and leaves in front of me, revealing the strange rocky road below.

Fortunately, she and I are both from everyone, almost all girls in our family will have such a habit, that is, as long as they go out on the road, they will hide a dagger in their boots, saying that it is better to protect themselves and save their lives, and to say that it is difficult to hear it, the world is too chaotic, it is difficult to guarantee that nothing will happen, and as a girl, you can't live and be humiliated, when necessary, you must know how to die.

It's just that now, it's not yet time for us to die.

Seeing me struggling to open the way in front, Han Zitong gritted her teeth and followed, she walked behind me, and while helping me split those branches and leaves, she said: "But, even if the two of us survive like this, what's the point?" This island is deserted, and in the end, it is not a death. ”

I glanced back at her and said calmly, "We'll have a chance to go back." ”

"Oh?"

Her eyes widened: "What chance?" ”

I said calmly: "We have been at sea for so long, we won't go for a month, we won't go for two months, can't we go back after a year or two?" ”

“……”

"Yuan Xiu, he will definitely come to us."

"But—"

"Yes, the sea is so big, it's possible that he can't find us at all, and even if he can't find this place, there are other people who will find it."

"Who?"

In front of a bush full of needles and thorns in the middle of the road, I tore off a piece of clothing that was about to be torn and wrapped it in my hand, and then brandished a dagger and slashed left and right, the thorn bush was immediately cut to pieces by me, but there were also some sharp needles, pierced into my hands, but at this time I didn't care, I slashed fiercely, and said: "Here, it is near Zhoushan." ”

“……”

"The court must know about our going to sea."

“……”

"Someone will come to us."

Hearing this, Han Zitong stopped, looked at me for a while, and she suddenly said, "You mean, the emperor?" ”