"Ah~"

Xiao Nian was startled, and his originally steady hand trembled, if it wasn't for the steady holding of that hand, the fish soup would have been spilled all over the ground.

She slowly raised her head, looked at each other, and saw Ning Feng smiling gently.

"You...... You ......"

Xiao Nian's voice was also trembling, "...... Okay?"

Ning Feng's voice became more and more gentle, and said, "I'm fine." ”

"That'...... That's great. ”

However, her slightly lowered head and her trembling voice showed that she was not so happy.

Ning Feng sighed and gently took the fish soup in his hand.

He could fully understand the frightened bunny-like girl.

Ning Feng's recovery, his ability to take care of himself, seemed to be an omen, telling Xiao Nian that he was not so dependent on her anymore, and he could leave at any time.

Everything is likely to return to the way it was, the previous track......

Ning Feng shook his head, he couldn't say anything.

He didn't want to deceive the lovely girl and tell her that he wouldn't leave, because he would.

Who can be deceived by such a white lie?

So, Ning Feng just silently, ate the fish soup one bite at a time, praised it with a smile, praised "It's delicious", and asked very seriously, "Is there anything else?"

After such a break and relaxation, Xiao Nian also eased up, and a bright smile was put on his face again, but he was less than the usual chatter, somewhat reluctantly.

"That's right. ”

Ning Feng suddenly remembered something, looked at Xiao Nian, and asked, "It seems like three days, right?"

The subtext is. Do you remember me?

Xiao Nian was stunned. First of all, panic. Then a look of thought, and finally an indescribable look of joy overflowed her eyes, spreading over her brows and crawling all over her face.

"I forgot to eat the fruit. ”

Xiao Nian muttered to herself, Ning Feng's ears were erect, and she really wanted to ask what was the fruit?

"But I still remember you. ”

Xiao Nian's whole person is shining with light, and this light is indescribable joy. It's even more radiant.

"Xiao Nian can't remember where the barrel was, I can't remember where the beach where the turtle laid its eggs, I can't remember everything, but I remember you. ”

"It's so good ~~"

Xiao Nian cried with joy, her long eyelashes, and her round cheeks were filled with tears, glowing with joy.

"It's only been three days. ”

Ning Feng waited for her emotions to calm down a little, and asked, "What if it's accidental, what if you forget it three days later?"

"Uh~"

Xiao Nian suddenly cried with a sad face. I wanted to cry, because I was afraid of this result. even expressed resentment at Ning Feng for pouring cold water.

"Hahaha~~~"

Ning Feng laughed loudly and said, "It's okay, just try it and you'll know, I haven't left yet." ”

"I'm just moving, and I'm far from being alive. ”

"You're not going to want to kick me out, are you?"

"Xiao Nian, you're not so cruel, are you?"

"Poof", Xiao Nian laughed out loud, "Hmm", she nodded heavily, her hands clenched into fists against her chest, as if she was praying for something.

Pray and remember him in three days, six days later, nine days later...... I always remember him......

"What is the fruit?"

Ning Feng remembered the words that Xiao Nian blurted out just now, and asked curiously.

"This ......"

Xiao Nian ran out happily, holding something in both hands, and ran back cautiously.

Sitting at the head of Ning Feng's bed, she spread out the things in her arms.

"Huh?"

Ning Feng looked at the cleanly washed handkerchief, and the handkerchief wrapped in a purple-red fruit.

The fruit was ripe, and the only thing he could see from the bedside looking out the window was the tree that blocked most of the sky, and the fruit hanging from the tree.

Each of those fruits grew into the shape of what was in front of them.

In the past few days, Ning Feng, who was bored, was playing with the leaves, but he never saw Xiao Nian pick a fruit, and thought that it was a wild fruit that was not delicious.

"This fruit is special?"

Ning Feng played with the fruit, and was amused by Xiao Nian's gesture of offering treasures, and asked cooperatively.

"Uh-huh!"

Xiao Nian nodded like pecking rice, took the fruit back like a pilgrimage, lowered his head and sniffed, and said, "It is the most important thing for Xiao Nian." ”

Ning Feng raised his eyebrows, no longer with a casual attitude, and asked seriously, "What's the use of it?"

Xiao Nian's answer was messy, full of a lot of her personal thoughts, but when Ning Feng straightened it out in his mind, his mouth couldn't help but open wide, and he almost couldn't close it.

The fruit was wonderful, far beyond his expectations.

It has a nice name: "Once"!

In the entire Han Sea, only this island is known, and the production of these fruit trees is the only thing that the people on this island rely on for their livelihood and exchange for survival materials.

Therefore, the whole island is also named after "once".

Speaking of this fruit, "once" has no other effect, it can't make people strong, it can't make people run faster, it can't jump higher, it can't make people's cultivation improve sporadically, it can't make people full, and it doesn't even taste good at all......

It serves only one purpose, as its name suggests: ever.

It was a kind of past, as if we stepped into a stream at this moment, soaked in the gurgling water. No matter how inaccurate you are, how to grasp the time and angle, in the end you will never step into the same river again.

After all, the stream that filled your feet had long since flowed far away, merging with the other streams, and I don't know where it was.

Once upon a time, it existed only in people's memories and sighs.

The only function of the "once" fruit is to preserve the memory, and it can make the person who takes it feel the same memory.

To share this fruit is to share a "once", because of the irreproducibility of the past, it can be said that in addition to the owner of memory, the fruit itself is the past itself!

Xiao Nian has never taken half a step out of the "once upon a time", of course she can't be like Ning Feng, who deeply knows how wonderful the "once" fruit is.

Experience the memory. Yu Xiaonian's description. In this vast sea. Just a luxury treat.

Sitting on a high bed to take a beautiful concubine, taking a fruit, half-dreaming and half-waking, experiencing a hundred kinds of life, this is of course a luxury, but also a pleasure.

But that's not the real magic of "once".

"Inheritance!"

Ning Feng took the "once" fruit in his hand, played with it, and sighed. "The true use of this fruit is clearly inheritance. ”

"Inheriting what is seen but cannot be reproduced helps to perceive the scene of heaven and earth;

Inherit what you have realized but can't repeat it, and comprehend it in the Great Dao!"

"Such a treasure...... , it's just the luxury of luxury people here, it's really ...... Tyrannical creatures!"

Ning Feng was quite "once" not worth it.

"Huh, wait, something seems wrong. ”

Ning Feng's brows furrowed, feeling a little strange.

He never felt that he was really far superior to his peers, and it was hard to find three-legged toads in this world, and two-legged smart people were everywhere.

Case. Ning Feng can think of the question, why can't others in this Han Sea think of it?

"Or it's the 'once' fruit. There are limitations that I can't think of, or else, the cultivation system of the Han Sea is extremely special, and it doesn't matter what inheritance or perception it is. ”

"No......"

Ning Feng pondered for a moment, and the scales in his heart slowly leaned towards the latter.

Because if it is the former, there are a hundred ways to avoid it, just like I saw the world, so I formed a memory, this memory is not only the world, but also the most ordinary memory, how can it not be reproduced?

Thinking of this, Ning Feng had the urge to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand.

What is the situation with a completely different cultivation system that has no effect on inheritance and perception?

Ning Feng felt that his imagination was completely insufficient.

He shook his head and threw these thoughts out of his mind for the time being, anyway, he was still recovering, and he wouldn't even see anyone else in a short time, and it was useless to think about it so much.

In order to distract himself, Ning Feng casually asked, "Xiao Nian, then how do you usually deal with this 'once' fruit?"

He still remembered that this "once" fruit was her most important thing, but subconsciously thought that she was selling all the fruit in exchange for all kinds of things.

I never thought that a small recitation of a sentence would make Ning Feng's mouth open wide, and he felt like his jaw was dislocated.

Xiao Nian took it for granted to put the "once" fruit on his forehead, making a look of reading words, and then took it down, smiling like a flower: "That's it." ”

"Huh?"

Ning Feng blinked, "You used it yourself?"

"Yes!"

Xiao Nian nodded happily and said, "Xiao Nian is sick, but with this fruit, Xiao Nian can store very important things in it first, and then he can't remember it, and if he feels that he has lost something very important, he will take it out and eat it." ”

When she said the word "eat", she smiled and showed two cute little tiger teeth.

"Uh~"

Ning Feng opened his mouth and found that it was not appropriate to say anything, so he had to close it again, "Okay." ”

What can he say?

No wonder "once" fruit is the most important thing to her, can it not be important?

The most precious thing for people is never the luxury of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but the most precious memories buried deep in the heart.

For ordinary people, this does not require anything extra, even if it is a beggar on the side of the road, you can still fall asleep in sweet memories on a cold winter night.

It's just that the damn soul separation disorder made Xiao Nian unable to even do this, and it became an unattainable luxury.

Ning Feng looked up at the window, where the sparse "once" fruits were hidden in the lush branches and leaves, and there was not much to see.

Xiao Nian followed his gaze and said a little depressedly: "Xiao Nian's 'ever' fruits are all eaten by themselves, and they are all sold. ”

She lowered her head a little sadly and played with the corners of her clothes, a moon-white dress looked washed and worn, and it looked like she had been wearing it for a long time.

Ning Feng sighed secretly when he saw this, knowing everything about the emotions that this little girl almost had written on her face.

The people on the "once island" have "once" fruits, and they don't have to do anything, as long as they sell the fruits on time, they will have no worries about food and clothing.

But Xiao Nian is not.

Because of the detachment from the soul, most of her former fruits have entered her stomach, and no matter how much she cherishes it, there is not enough fruit in exchange for a happy life of eating and sleeping and eating.

So Xiao Nian had to go to the beach to pick up the seafood washed up on the beach by the waves, and she was able to save Ning Feng.

One drink and one peck, between gains and losses, I really can't say it.

Ning Feng smiled and said, "That's good, otherwise I'll have to feed the fish." ”

Xiao Nian suddenly became happy, and said angrily: "No, don't talk nonsense." ”

Subsequently, whether it was the "once" fruit, the inevitable parting, or the exotic disorder, or Ning Feng's current physical condition, none of them could stop the laughter that drifted out during the conversation, and the happiness that filled the small cabin.

A whole day passed, just like before Ning Feng woke up, Xiao Nian was still humming a song, picking up the seafood that had washed up on the beach, and returning home to boil a thick fish soup and send it to Ning Feng.

When I was free, I had a conversation in three or two sentences, or Ning Feng quietly looked out the window, Xiao Nian sewed things, and when he remembered from time to time, he would talk a few words, and the whole night would pass.

The night gradually deepened.

Xiao Nian got up from the edge of the bed with a little reluctance, put the "once" fruit in Ning Feng's hand, and said with a red face: "Big brother, can you store the memories you told me outside?"

"Huh?"

Ning Feng looked over in surprise.

Xiao Nian played with the corners of his clothes and added, "There must be you inside." ”

She said a little sadly: "Xiao Nian will definitely not forget the big brother, but Xiao Nian is afraid of forgetting what the big brother said, and remembering it in the past can make Xiao Nian remember it once......"

Come to think of it...... Once......

What a humble wish, but it is said solemnly, just like the warmth of a match outside on a cold winter night, the moment it is spoken, it is just like the moment when the match is struck, and there is a sad treasure in it.

Ning Feng opened his mouth and found that he didn't know what to say, so he just said "um" to agree.

Xiao Nian immediately smiled happily, like an epiphany blooming quietly at night, so beautiful that she didn't need the audience to appreciate it.

She was still shy in the end, and after getting Ning Feng's promise, she turned her head and ran to the side.

In the wooden house, on the edge of the bed where Ning Feng was, several rough boxes were merged into a small bed, just enough for Xiao Nian to curl up and sleep.

The rough cot is close to the foot of the big bed, and when Xiao Nian falls asleep, he will subconsciously move it there, as if he can sleep more peacefully.

Ning Feng woke up, and the shy little girl naturally didn't dare to wear her clothes anymore and lie down beside him, so she had to be so expedient.

The candle flame in the house was blown out, and Xiao Nian's voice came from the quiet darkness: "Big brother, good night." ”

"Good night~"

Ning Feng held "once" in his hand and answered, but his mind was not at ease, and he did not fall asleep.

In the dark night, his eyes were always open, I don't know how long it had been, everything was silent, only the sound of Xiao Nian's breathing gradually becoming even, thin and slight, inconspicuous, and undoubtedly existed.

"Hey~"

Ning Feng sighed, picked up the "once" fruit, and put it on his forehead...... (To be continued......)