Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 36

Anshun

Anle is not a person who likes to pry into other people’s secrets, especially after being warned. Normally, Anle would shrug his shoulders and throw away his curiosity and never mention it again.But now, he couldn’t ignore it.

“Mom,” Anle found An’s mother who was washing clothes by the river and asked, “How did Anshun’s parents die?”

Before An’s mother could reply, An Hui, who was washing clothes with An’s mother, answered first: “His mother died in childbirth.” After saying that, she sighed deeply: “Xiao Shun is also pitiful. He lost his mother at such a young age and his father is also crazy.”

“Crazy?” Anle said in surprise, “I haven’t heard of it?”

“It’s not crazy,” An’s mother said sadly at this time, “After his mother died in childbirth, his father couldn’t accept it and often got drunk. Then one day, he suddenly disappeared and he couldn’t be found anywhere.”

“You haven’t found it yet?” Anle asked.

“Found him,” An Hui pounded her clothes hard and sighed again, “Five days after he disappeared, the village chief found him and said he ran away into the fog, but even though he was found, he went crazy.”

“Crazy?”

An Hui said: “Yes, since then he has been talking nonsense. He also said that Xiao Shun’s mother was in the fog and wanted to find Xiao Shun’s mother. Then one day, he disappeared again. A month later, someone found him from the sea, but he was no longer breathing.”

Anle was mentally disturbed and was found at sea after being missing for a month… Anle felt that these words were familiar, and frowned and thought for a while. Suddenly, he suddenly thought of the villager Anshun mentioned when they went hunting, who left Longyin Village in a boat and died in the fog. Anle was shocked and said: “Could… Anshun’s father be the one who wanted to leave Longyin Village?”

Mother An nodded slightly and said, “Xiao Shun was only five years old at that time.” After saying this, Mother An and An Hui sighed softly.

“Pah, pah, pah” The sound of a mallet beating clothes echoed dullly on the river bank.Anle was silent for a long time, wondering if this was the source of Anshun’s hostility towards him and An Xiaoyu.

“Does Anshun… hate his father?” Anle murmured for a long time.

“Maybe.” Mother An suddenly sighed and continued, “Xiao Shun doesn’t like others to mention his father, and he won’t visit his grave on the Qingming Festival. Every time his grandparents talk about his father in front of him, Xiao Shun will quarrel with them. Over time, the villagers will avoid mentioning his father in front of Xiao Shun.”

So it was because they also wanted to leave, which reminded Anshun of his father, and thus projected his hatred for his father onto them?

Could it be such a simple and far-fetched reason?Anle frowned and secretly shook his head.

“Then An… Shun,” An Le swallowed the word “乐” and turned a corner, “Did you and I have a good relationship before?”

“Yes,” An’s mother looked up at Anle and said gently, “You used to like to stick to Xiao Shun the most. You would follow wherever Xiao Shun went. Fortunately, Xiao Shun is here. When your father and I are not free, Xiao Shun helps to take care of you.”

An Hui seemed to have remembered something funny and laughed loudly: “Everyone used to say that you were Xiao Shun’s little tail. They said that they were afraid that you would follow Xiao Shun when he got married. I didn’t know if Xiao Shun’s wife would accept it. I didn’t expect that Lele would get married first.”

Anle suddenly thought that Anshun didn’t seem to be here when he got married. At least, he didn’t see Anshun during the wedding ceremony.

“What about Anshun,” Anle asked again, “How does Anshun treat me?”

“Very good.” Mother An rubbed her clothes, showing nostalgic eyes, and smiled: “Xiao Shun treats you better than your father and I. Sometimes when you get into trouble willfully, your father and I will scold you. At that time, you will run away as soon as I scold you.You went to Xiao Shun to cry.One time, you poured all the herbs your father dried into the water. I was very angry that time and reprimanded him too hard. So you cried and said, “You don’t like me, I don’t want you anymore. Ah Shun likes me, and I want to live with Ah Shun.”, never come back.’ After that, you immediately ran to find Xiao Shun.That time, I was so angry that your father wanted to find you, but I refused to let you go. You didn’t come back until night, so your father and I went to Xiao Shun’s house to find you, but you refused to open the door and refused to come home with us.In the end, Xiao Shun had no choice but to let you stay there first and wait for you to calm down before going back.”

An’s mother lowered her head, poked her collar slowly, and whispered: “It’s all mother’s fault. It’s just some herbs. What’s the big deal? Mother is so angry with you. You should be fine if you don’t want us.”

The gray clothes in An’s mother’s hands were obviously the size of a child. An Le’s chest felt sour for a while, and she said after a while: “Mom… I was… a child who is not sensible… I don’t mean it.”

“Yes, Ye Zi, Lele was still young at that time. Children can’t speak beyond their heads, so don’t take it to heart.” An Hui noticed that An’s mother was not in a good mood and comforted her, “My boy, when I scolded him when he was a child, he always said that he wanted to find another mother. Children are like this. He has become sensible when he grows up. Look, Lele is so good now…”

“I know.” With a splash, An’s mother threw the clothes into the water, shook the foam on the clothes, her tone returned to her natural tone, and she said with a smile: “I am very satisfied to have such a good boy like Lele by my side. Mom has nothing else to ask for now. As long as you two live well, I don’t ask for anything…”

The sound of gurgling water gradually faded away. Anle thought about the conversation just now and walked through a small forest and turned to a forest path.

The sound of a sharp weapon cutting through the air whizzed past his ears. Anle suddenly stopped and looked up at the end of the road.At the end of the path, Anshun was pointing his bow at him. Even though he was dozens of steps away, Anle still saw the coldness in Anshun’s eyes.

Anshun stared at Anle without blinking, picked up an arrow, and nocked the bow. The bowstring was tightened inch by inch, and the sharp arrow polished from fish bones was pointed at Anle steadily again.

Anle looked at Anshun and walked towards Anshun step by step without changing her expression, stopping five steps in front of Anshun.

“If you die, can he come back?” Anshun stared at Anle with a gloomy gaze and asked coldly.

Anle’s expression remained unchanged and looked back at Anshun: “I don’t know, you can try.”

With a swish sound, the bone arrow left the string, and the wind brought by the air flow blew the broken hair around Anle’s ears.

“Is this why you are hostile to us?” Anle stood there without moving a step, looking straight at Anshun, “because I replaced your good friend?”

Anshun stared at Anle silently.

Anle added: “But this has nothing to do with An Xiaoyu. Like you, he also wants Anle back.”

Anshun suddenly laughed: “You made me lose my most important person, so I killed your most important person. It’s fair.”

“I didn’t kill him, I didn’t know him, and I didn’t let you lose him,” Anle’s tone remained calm. “He fell into the sea. Maybe he was dead like me. It’s just that under the control of some force we don’t know, I came here and became him. The best case scenario is that he also went to my hometown and became me. We were all lucky enough to save a life.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the smile on Anshun’s face suddenly disappeared, and he lowered his eyes and fell into silence.After a moment, he put away his bow.

Anle didn’t feel relaxed, or in other words, he didn’t feel nervous at all. Even when Anshun pointed his bow at him, he had no fear.

He never thought Anshun would kill him.

“When did you realize that I was not happy?” The two of them walked side by side towards the return road, and Anle asked: “Before you heard the conversation between me and An Xiaoyu in the cave, you knew that I was not happy, right?”

The forest path in late autumn was full of withered leaves. Anshun lowered his eyelids and looked at the yellow leaves on the ground and said: “He hates the sea, doesn’t like to eat fish, doesn’t go near the seaside, and is most afraid of riding in boats. He is illiterate, can’t do arithmetic, is disobedient, ignorant, stupid, and stupid. He says he likes whatever he likes, and says he hates whatever he doesn’t like. He is completely different from you.”

“When he was rescued, Maizi said he had no pulse or heartbeat.He wasn’t in a coma for three days, he was dead for three days.It’s Aunt Ye who doesn’t want to believe it. She has been giving acupuncture, taking various medicines, and kneeling at the Dragon King Temple for a long time for three days…”

After a long time, Anshun whispered: “Three days later, you woke up.”

Heavy footsteps stepped on the thick fallen leaves, one step at a time, and the dead leaves creaked under the steps.Anle’s heart hurt sharply.

After another long silence, Anshun said hoarsely: “Before that, he and Aunt Ye were angry for a long time.He wanted to help Aunt Ye work, so he washed all the freshly dried herbs in the yard.” At this point, Anshun suddenly laughed a few times. In the bleak autumn wind, the laughter was tinged with sadness, and Anle’s eyes were filled with sadness.

“He originally wanted to wait for Aunt Ye to come back and praise him, but he didn’t expect to be scolded instead.When he came to see me, he cried on me and said that his mother didn’t like him and he would never go home again.Aunt Ren refused to forgive Aunt Ye no matter how much she apologized, and she was angry for half a month.

“When I was fourteen, I moved out from my grandparents’ house and lived in my parents’ house. Mianmian, Maizi, and Tutu were afraid that I would be lonely, so they always took turns to live with me. I always had their rooms in my house. During that time, when he came to live with me when he was angry, Maizi and the others also came.At that time, Aunt Ye brought delicious food, and he and Aunt Ye were angry and did not come out to see Aunt Ye.But in fact, they sat in front of the door and waited for Aunt Ye every day.When they saw Aunt Ye coming, they deliberately hid away.When Aunt Ye arrives a little late, he will show off to us and say, “It’s all my favorite food. Mom really loves me the most.”My mother is late today, and I won’t go back today.’ Every night before going to bed, he said that he missed my mother.But when I told him to go back, he said angrily that my mother had made him sad, and he was really not sensible at all.”

Anshun said with a smile on his lips: “He is too stupid. He has been stupid since he was a child, so we have all grown up, but he has not. People in the village say that he is a child who has not grown up. He has a mind of only five or six years old, and everyone treats him as a child. But we, me, Mianmian, Maizi, and Tutu, we grew up together., We never think that he is a child who has not grown up.He is our friend, but he is a little childish.We all know that he is growing up every year, but it takes longer.But it is okay, we can grow up with him, and we have enough time to wait for him to grow up.

An Le felt mixed emotions in her heart: “They…Lin Mian, An Mai, also know that I am not An Le?”

Anshun nodded: “We were just guessing before. Originally, Anmai suspected that your illness was not cured, or even worse. Elevators, mobile phones, computers… these were all your imagination. But your behavior was too normal, so later, we were not sure. The only thing we can be sure of is that we were unilaterally abandoned by you.Abandoned.It wasn’t until I told them about your conversation with An Xiaoyu that night that we were convinced that you were not him.Although it was difficult to understand, we quickly accepted it.Maybe it was because you were so different from him.There was no trace of him except your appearance.”

“Mai Zi didn’t believe that people could come back from the dead. At that time, she was very sure that you were really dead, so when you woke up and said that you had lost your memory, she suggested that we observe you for a while. But we didn’t tell Tutu. He always thought that you just survived the catastrophe, and it was a blessing in disguise that you recovered from your illness. He was very happy.

“We said to him, ‘You have forgotten us and abandoned us, and as punishment we will treat you as you treated us.We won’t forgive you until you remember us and apologize to us.Although he was reluctant, he accepted it.Until now, we haven’t told him the truth.All three of us agreed that there was no need for him to know the truth.”

“He was slow and lucky.”

An Le didn’t know how to answer the call for a moment. His feelings were very complicated. On the one hand, he felt sad for several people; on the other hand, he felt happy for “An Le”.But more than anything, he felt uncomfortable, uncomfortable, as if his chest was being pressed by an invisible boulder. This was the feeling his body had when he heard that An’s mother didn’t want to believe that her son was dead.

This feeling lingered for a long time, and An Xin wanted to relieve the dullness in his chest. He took a deep breath, deliberately chose a light topic, and asked: “By the way, how did An Le forgive my mother in the end?”

After finishing his words, Anshun’s expression dimmed, and after a long while, he said hoarsely: “No.”