Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 39

Entering the fog

While he was drifting off to sleep, Anle noticed An Xiaoyu tiptoeing onto the bed and getting into bed.Since the two of them slept under the same quilt for warmth, An Xiaoyu would also take a nap when he took a nap.Anle had long been used to it and didn’t open his eyes.

Maybe mermaids are also hibernating animals.An Le thought about it, and after An Xiaoyu lay down, he habitually leaned towards An Xiaoyu, who was a warm stove with a suitable temperature, and murmured: “Are they gone?”

“I’m not leaving.” An Xiaoyu hugged Anle and said, “I’m playing cards in the side room.”

“Oh.” Anle knew that these people would not listen to him, and was not surprised. But when he thought of these people, Anle’s sleepiness receded a lot. He slowly opened his eyes and said, “Anshun… why didn’t you tell An Linmian and the others that he was leaving?”

“He said he didn’t want them to leave with him,” An Xiaoyu said.

“Did he tell you?” Anle was a little surprised. Anshun didn’t answer him when he asked Anshun before, and only asked him to help keep it secret. Unexpectedly, he told An Xiaoyu.

An Xiaoyu nodded slightly.

“When did your relationship become so good?” An Le said, turning over with his back to An Xiaoyu and planning to continue sleeping.

An Xiaoyu laughed softly and said, “No, he never beat me. He only told me after he lost.”

“Are you fighting again?” Anle turned around quickly, stared at An Xiaoyu seriously, and asked accusingly.

An Xiaoyu blinked and looked innocent: “No, it’s just a sparring match. The branches used can’t be counted as a fight.”

Anle rolled his eyes speechlessly, and decided to ignore the two of them and let them fight, as long as they didn’t lack arms or legs.

After all, both of them deserve a beating.

The two are surprisingly similar in that they are both obedient and incompetent.

“Forget it, go to sleep, I’m so sleepy.” Anle muttered, turned over again, and soon fell asleep.

The snow absorbed all the sounds, and the only sound in Longyin Village was the sound of falling snowflakes.He slept so peacefully that he didn’t know what the heaven and earth were.When he woke up, An Xiaoyu had already gotten up without knowing when, and the snow stopped outside the house.The snow was ankle deep, and the sky was so dim that it was hard to tell what time it was.

When Anle opened the door, she heard vague chatter and laughter coming from the side room, and was surprised that An Linmian and the others hadn’t gone back yet.

“Why haven’t you gone back yet?” An Le entered the side room and felt a warmth rush to his face.

There was a charcoal fire burning in the room, which was very warm. An Linmian, Anmai, and Antu were playing a game of landlords. The cards were made by Anle, and Anle taught them how to play.The faces of the three of them were more or less covered with black ink marks. An Linmian’s face could be seen to be painted with cat flowers, while An Tu’s face was so covered with ink marks that it was hard to tell what he was trying to be painted into, or what he had been painted into.Only Anmai’s face was as white as snow.

“I was beaten to pieces by wheat again.” Anle couldn’t help but sigh.

“Mai Zi is so lucky.” An Tu complained rather unconvincingly, and then shouted: “Yes J, do you want it?”

Anle took a look at the cards played by several people, but he didn’t think Anmai’s cards were that good. They were very ordinary cards.After watching several people play a round, Anle understood the reason why Anmai always wins: playing with these two people who are straightforward, do whatever comes up, and have everything written on their faces, it is no wonder that Anmai wins easily.

Anle shook his head secretly and said, “Where are An Xiaoyu and Anshun?”

“We’re playing with mud in the kitchen.” An Linmian said casually, “It’s amazing that two people who don’t talk to each other can actually play with mud together. They’re not fighting with mud, are they? You make me look bad, and I’ll make you look like dirt…”

“Hahahahaha, if they are really like this, then I must go and see it!” An Tu seemed to laugh at An Linmian’s imagination, and kept laughing.

He must be making a statue of the Dragon King, Anle thought.Leaving the three of them behind, they went to the kitchen again.Unlike the noise in the side room, the kitchen is so quiet that you can hear the sound of charcoal fire burning.

The clay materials were prepared in advance before winter. When Anle was learning clay sculpture from Anmu, the two of them were also teaching simultaneously.An Xiaoyu had just completed the skeleton a few days ago. At this time, An Xiaoyu and Anshun were silently applying straw mud layer by layer on the skeleton.

“Get up.” Hearing the sound of the door opening, An Xiaoyu looked up and saw An Le coming in and said.

“Well, what time is it?” Anle closed the door and approached and asked.

An Xiaoyu glanced at the hourglass in the kitchen: “About three o’clock.”

“Well, I’ve been sleeping for so long.” Anle pulled up a chair and sat down next to An Xiaoyu. He looked at the two people applying mud and said, “Is it difficult to make in winter? The mermaids I made are all cracked. Grandpa An said the air is too dry.”

“Applying a damp cloth can delay the drying speed.” Anshun continued without emotion.

“Oh.” Anle said oh and stopped talking.

After a while, Anshun raised his eyes and glanced at Anle, and said, “An Xiaoyu said you don’t plan to leave with him?”

“Yeah.” Anle stared at the clay sculpture and responded lightly.

After a moment of silence, Anshun spoke again: “The villagers don’t pay much attention to the rule prohibiting leaving the island. Anyway, no matter whether there is that rule or not, we can’t leave the island. Besides, the villagers have never thought about leaving the village. We have heard from adults since we were children that the outside world is very chaotic, and wars will occur from time to time.Most of the food that people grow has to be handed over to powerful people, so we don’t have enough food and clothing.If outsiders know about the existence of Longyin Island, they may come to rob our hometown, or ask us to hand over the food, which will lead to death.Our ancestors moved here to avoid this.”

“Well, that’s true. The corvée taxation in ancient times was quite serious, especially during times of war.” Anle nodded.

Anshun said: “I heard that when the villagers first moved here, there was no thick fog on the sea. It only appeared later. The regulations prohibiting villagers from leaving the island only came later. The village rules have been revised over the years. It is not difficult to apply for a revision of the village rules. As long as you submit a proposal signed by one-tenth of the villagers to the village chief, the village chief will call the whole village to vote.”

An Le said: “But I heard from An Linmian that the village chief has veto power, and Grandpa An does not agree with the decision to leave the island.”

Anshun said: “That’s true, but Grandpa An once said that if all the villagers agree, then he will not violate the decision of Longyin Village.”

“All the villagers…” Anle frowned and said in deep thought: “Getting more than 500 people in Wuyin Village to agree is probably more difficult than convincing Grandpa An.”

Anshun glanced at Anle and then said: “The villagers are worried that if the outside world discovers the existence of Longyin Island, our peaceful life will be broken. However, Longyin Island has thick fog as a natural barrier. In the past two hundred years, only An Xiaoyu has broken in by mistake. In fact, the villagers are not worried about being discovered by outsiders, as long as the villagers do not reveal the existence of Longyin Island after going out.”

Anle’s eyes lit up and he said: “So we can find a compromise and change the rule ‘no leaving the island’ to ‘no leaking the existence of Longyin Island’. This will make it much easier to convince the villagers.”

“But how can we ensure that those who leave will not reveal the existence of Longyin Village?” An Xiaoyu interjected.

Once someone leaves Kirigakure Island, they are like a fish entering the ocean.Not to mention restrictions, it is difficult to find them. Whether they abide by village rules can only depend on people’s consciousness.

But how can human consciousness be reliable?Thinking of this, Anle sighed deeply.

However, Anshun didn’t take it seriously and said calmly: “Didn’t the village chief give you a method a long time ago?”

An Le was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: “Sending people unconscious into the thick fog?” This was the answer Grandpa An gave when An Xiaoyu first arrived in Longyin Village and asked Grandpa An that he wanted to leave. Naturally, An Le would never forget it.

If you don’t know where you are, even if you reveal the existence of Longyin Island, you can’t reveal the location of Longyin Island.Grandpa An may have had the same idea at the beginning: leaving it to God’s will and gambling on human nature.You are allowed to leave, as long as you can leave alive.

But this brings us back to the original problem: after being stunned and sent into the thick fog, you will have no way of knowing where you are, and the possibility of getting out of the thick fog is even smaller.Even if you get away by luck, the possibility of coming back through the thick fog is even slimmer.

In other words, those who leave will never be able to come back.

Anshun obviously understood: “Actually, our current situation is not much better. Even if we find a map and leave quietly, once we enter the fog, we will lose our directional coordinates, which is no different from being sent in after being stunned. Not only can we not see anything in the thick fog, but the compass will also malfunction.”

“Do you have a compass?!” Hua Luo, An Le and An Xiaoyu shouted in shock at the same time.

Anshun shrugged and said indifferently: “Yes. Mianmian stole it from Grandpa An, otherwise we wouldn’t have entered the thick fog rashly.”

“…”

An Le was speechless for a long time, and said angrily: “Grandpa An really lied to me! It’s all a lie that he said he didn’t have a map and compass!”

An Xiaoyu said: “But it’s much easier to do it with a compass. As long as you go through the thick fog and find the map to confirm the direction of the continent, you can find the continent with the guidance of the compass.”

“How to get through the thick fog?” Anshun asked.

They both fell silent.

Anshun’s face finally showed an expression, and he said with a hint of disbelief: “Have you not considered it at all?”

The two looked at each other silently and said nothing.

They had always known that there was such a problem, and Anle originally planned to find an opportunity to explore it in the thick fog, but since the two had a cold war for a day, no one mentioned it again.

Anshun still couldn’t believe it and couldn’t help but raise his voice: “You didn’t think about why you were going to smash the Dragon King statue when you went out?!”

“Isn’t this…” Anle scratched his head, glanced to the side guiltily, and murmured: “Do you want to find the map first…”

Anshun was speechless for a long time.

An Xiaoyu continued calmly: “Look for an opportunity to go into the fog and see how big the fog is. Last time you were bitten by a shark and the rope was broken and you hurried back without knowing the scope of the fog. Maybe the problem of thick fog is not that serious. As long as you prepare enough food, you can go out.”

As of now, there is no other way.The three of them decided to go to the thick fog to find out what was going on first, and at Anshun’s urging, the time was set on a recent calm night.

God cooperated, and a day later there was a calm night with a bright moon high in the sky.

The moon was very bright, and the ground was covered with thick white snow, so it was not dark even though it was late at night.The white lanterns held by An Le and An Xiaoyu looked much dimmer in the white snowy night.

The two of them were tightly wrapped in fox furs, stepping into a deep snow pit, and walked towards the small pier.

The large boat dedicated to the hunting team is hidden in a secluded harbor some distance away from Longyin Village. Several people need to row a small boat to change to the larger boat.The necessary ropes and other tools were prepared during the day and were brought by Anshun, Antu, Anlinmian and Anmai.

Adhering to the principle of strength in numbers, Anle brought An Linmian, An Mai, and An Tu with him, telling them that he was going on an adventure.

The three happily agreed, but before setting off, An Linmian immediately protested when he heard that Anle asked the three of them to stay outside the fog as an anchor point.

“No! I want to go in too!” An Linmian was determined not to get on Anmai and Antu’s ship.None of the three Anle people could find a reason to persuade her, so they could only nod in agreement.

The bows are connected to the sterns, one boat is sailing into the fog, and the other is floating outside the fog.This time Anle learned the lesson of An Linmian and others. The rope was not left at the stern of the boat, but two people were at the stern to check the condition of the rope at all times.The ropes were also prepared to be as long as possible. The six people searched for all the usable ropes in the village and connected them together. After folding them several times, they tied red ropes at the fold points to mark them. They roughly measured the length with An Xiaoyu’s footsteps. Each section of rope was 112 steps long, and there were fourteen sections in total.

Anle visually inspected An Xiaoyu’s step distance at about 80 centimeters, the rope distance between the two red ropes was about 90 meters, and the total length of the rope was about 1,300 meters.

Although there was a rope connected, Anmai was still uneasy and added a layer of insurance: Anmai and Antu would blow the bone whistle every once in a while. Anmai asked a few people to answer when they heard the sound. Once the bone whistle was too far away to hear clearly, the people had to come back.After receiving guarantees from the four people one by one, Anmai let them leave.