My heart thumped.

When he spoke again, his voice was almost fragmented: "Li'er...... She, she's not, came to Yangzhou to find you? You guys, not together? Or, she's—"

I don't dare to say the rest of my speculation, but I'm afraid that it will become a proverb.

This time, he looked at me in amazement and didn't say a word. After a while, as if he had heard some absurd story, he suddenly smiled and said, "You, don't talk to tease me." Hasn't Li'er already gone back? How can you be with me. ”

“……”

Han Zitong gasped.

She looked at me and then at Liu Qinghan, and her eyes already revealed unconcealed horror.

I couldn't care about anything anymore, so I grabbed Liu Qinghan's arm: "I mean, this time you went to sea, didn't Li'er come to you?" ”

Liu Qinghan frowned tightly and said, "She did come to me, but she didn't go to sea with me." ”

"What?!"

"I promised you that I wouldn't get too close to her, and besides, this time it's already very risky to go to sea, how can I take her with me?"

"But—"

Before I could speak, he said clearly: "She did come to me before my ship this time, but she didn't want to go to sea with me, but she was just in a bad mood, and I think she probably wanted me to comfort her." So, I sat with her for a while and talked with her for a while. ”

"She's in a bad mood?" I immediately frowned: "Why is she in a bad mood?" ”

He glanced at me, then at Han Zitong, and seemed to hesitate for a moment, but still said, "She seems to know that you plan to have another son...... Little girl, I'm worried that my father and mother won't hurt me anymore. ”

“……！”

I just felt as if I had been hit with a hammer on the back of my head, and my eyes were almost blackened.

Li'er she, she actually knew about Pei Yuanxiu's plans and me? She knows we're going to have another child, and probably a son, so she's worried that we won't love her anymore?

This-

This, this may be a girl's concern, but my departure, how can she think that her mother will not hurt her anymore?

I was a little flustered, and I couldn't laugh or cry, but by the time I reacted, my eyes were already red, and I was almost about to fall into tears.

"Although I know that you husband and wife have your own plans, but-" Liu Qinghan glanced at me again and made a faint smile: "She is still young, you should also take care of her a little more." ”

With that, he smiled.

But for some reason, that faint, non-existent smile was like a heavy blow, hitting me hard in the chest.

For a while, I had some difficulty breathing.

Pei Yuanxiu and I are planning to have a child, how did Li'er know? Who sued her? The purpose of suing her is again--these questions are like a thousand threads of twine, entangled, and I am a little suffocated for a while.

After a while, I said slowly: "So, she wasn't with you?" ”

"I comforted her for a moment," he said lightly, "and then, postponed for a while, took her off the boat." ”

“……”

"I was going to take her to the south shore, but she said that she had an attendant with her, and she didn't want to bother me too much, so I gave her to her attendant before getting back on the boat, and then going out to sea."

As soon as these words came out, Han Zitong's and I brows immediately twisted.

Han Zitong immediately asked, "Who did you say you handed her over?" ”

"Her squires."

"Are you sure?"

Liu Qinghan glanced at her and said, "I won't even be sure of this kind of thing." ”

After speaking, his eyebrows twisted again, and he turned his head to look at me: "What's the matter?" Is it ...... Gone again? ”

I looked at him, a little speechless for a while, and my mind was in chaos.

Although Li'er went to Yangzhou, went to the dock, and even got on his boat, she just sought a little comfort, she was not as ignorant as before, and she was about to "run away from home" without even saying hello, she got off the boat, and Liu Qinghan even handed her over to the attendants who followed her across the river.

But—

Han Ruoshi said that they couldn't find Li'er on the dock.

Perhaps, when getting on the boat, Li'er was worried that the boat was about to leave, and he would not see Liu Qinghan anymore, so he would go on the boat regardless of his own people who were following, and I also guessed this possibility, so I got on Yao Lao's ship to chase Liu Qinghan and their fleet.

But, if you follow what Liu Qinghan said, then-

"You're lying!"

Before the two of us could speak, Han Zitong had already stood up with a blushing face, glaring at Liu Qinghan angrily.

Liu Qinghan's brows also furrowed: "I lied? What am I lying? ”

"You didn't hand over Li'er to those attendants at all, my sister took her to Yangzhou, if it was handed over to those people, how could my sister not know?"

Liu Qinghan looked at her: "Your sister? ”

He was silent, but the wrinkles between his eyebrows slowly deepened, and after a while, he raised his head again but said with a smile on me: "You didn't go back because Li'er didn't go back, and some people said that they couldn't find her, and my ship is gone, so you suspect that Li'er is on my ship, so you follow and go to sea?" ”

I bit my lower lip and nodded slightly.

Then, as if hearing him chuckle.

There was an indescribable meaning in that laughter.

Even I could barely help laughing.

This is a good game - if you want to talk about the technique, it is definitely not clever, just because of the "bad deeds" before leaving, and because, I have long thought that someone will try to force me to go to sea, so for the sake of leaving the child, I have no choice but to "take the bait"; But in fact, Li'er doesn't matter in this game, it's just a bait to lure me into the bait, and even, whether she goes to sea or not is no longer the most important thing, it's just-

Fortunately, the person who set up the bureau didn't really let her go to sea.

Or rather, she didn't really go to sea!

In other words, she's fine, at least now, not in the storm, attacked by pirates, and suffering all these life and death tribulations, as I guessed before, at least, she's still safe!

Thinking of this, I didn't know whether to cry or laugh, but the whole person was a little paralyzed, and I was almost about to fall.

Liu Qinghan leaned on me, and stumbled slightly at this time, but he just glanced at me and didn't speak, but Han Zitong next to him became angry and said viciously: "What do you mean?" Do you believe his word? ”

I glanced up at her.

"Do you believe him or my sister?!"

I looked at her, and the resentment of being deceived and calculated in my heart was a little suppressed for a while, and the words of comforting her, or perfunctory to her, could not be said at all at this moment, and I tilted my head to the side so hard, she became even more angry, stomped her feet fiercely, turned around and brushed her sleeves away.

Liu Qinghan and I, one was not in the mood, and the other was not strong, so we didn't stop her.

Here, it's just the two of us.

Neither of them spoke again.

The wind blew the light sand of the sea, blowing the dense branches and leaves around us, making a rustling sound, and for some reason, it made this moment even quieter.

It was so quiet that you could hear his heartbeat.

And the breath that belonged to him slowly penetrated through his body clinging to my body, through his clothes that were warmed by body temperature.

Almost as soon as I let go of him, he gritted his teeth and propped himself up, and both of them subconsciously glanced at each other, but at the same time avoided each other's gaze.

I also had a slight prostration, and sat next to him, both of them were silent for a while, and he whispered, "You, have you been calculated?" ”

I nodded, "Hmm." ”

He let out a long sigh, but then said, "However, you should also rest assured, at least Li'er is still on land now." She was safe and wouldn't be as ...... as we were."

The words are not finished.

Because I looked around, looking at this small island with a radius of only ten miles, and outside the island, the boundless, undulating sea, and the huge heaven and earth, it seemed that there was only this shelter under our feet, and we became the loneliest group of people in the world.

It was in this quiet moment that suddenly, I heard a very strange sound—

Grunt......

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately looked at him, only to see him look down at his stomach, and his face, which was originally a little pale from hypothermia, turned red.

I couldn't help but be a little amused: "Are you hungry? ”

“…… Well. ”

"Wait."

I got up and walked to the place where the food was placed on the other side, picked up two grilled fish wrapped in banana leaves, but did not immediately return to him, but looked up and immediately saw that in the not too low bushes in front of me, Han Zitong was holding a dagger and slashing left and right inside, venting the anger in her heart angrily, and almost all those bushes were cut down by her.

Still, that's fine.

I really don't have the mood to comfort her now, especially this matter is related to Han Ruoshi, I talked too much, and there was a dislike, there are only three of us on this island, if we are separated, it will be even more difficult to get along.

It's okay to let her lose her temper, after all, being on this desert island is enough for her to be uncomfortable.

Thinking of this, I glanced at her again, and saw that she lowered her head and picked up a stone again, and smashed it into the distance, so I shook my head gently, turned around and walked back to Liu Qinghan's side.

He sat there, trying to clench his fists, as if to see how much body he had, and I walked up to him and opened the grilled fish and laid it on the grass, but he was stunned for a moment, looked up at me, and then looked at the grilled fish that was just baked, not raw, not burnt, but completely cold.

I said, "It's cold, but I'm afraid you're hungry, so eat a little first." I'll catch some fish later and bake it hot for you to eat. ”

He didn't speak, just lowered his head, picked up a grilled fish, put it to his mouth and took a bite.

The two of them fell silent again.

The sea was not far from us, lapping the shore wave after wave, bringing a chill, I watched him eat little by little, although it felt like he must have been floating on the sea for many days, he was already very hungry, and even, the hand holding the fish was trembling, but he seemed to be trying to eat calmly, unhurried, and even asked me for a little water to drink.

When he had finished eating a fish and his face had turned a little bloody, he breathed a sigh of relief.

I was also relieved.

Then he asked, "You, how did you do this?" ”

"......," he looked up at me.

"Our boat was caught in a storm, the boat capsized, and Zitong and I drifted here. What about you? What did you encounter again? ”