Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 50
byNever leave the green mountains, stay with us through thick and thin
In the dead of night, with the bright moon hanging high, the outline of Longyin Village is getting farther and farther away.On a cliff along the coast, two black figures stood on the hillside. Anle stood at the stern of the boat and stared at the two figures in trance.
Anshun walked over, followed his gaze and said, “It’s Aunt Ye and Uncle Changchuan.”
Anle hummed in a low voice and stared motionlessly at the two figures that were getting smaller and smaller.
After a while, Anshun scratched his hair and asked unnaturally: “You…you and An Xiaoyu had a quarrel?”
“No.” Anle forced herself to look away, smiled slightly at Anshun, and pretended to be relaxed, “How did you tell Lin Mian and the others?”
Anshun scratched his head again and whispered: “I didn’t dare to say anything, I just left a letter.”
An Le smiled and said, “They will definitely be very angry when they wake up tomorrow morning.”
Anshun also smiled: “Mian Mian’s first words tomorrow morning will definitely be to call me ‘son of a bitch’.”
An Le nodded in agreement. He could even imagine An Linmian gritting his teeth and yelling out the word “son of a bitch”. He felt a little regretful that he couldn’t see that scene.
Anshun looked at Longyin Village directly ahead, and said after a moment: “They will calm down when I bring him back.”
Hearing this, he felt happy and silent.
Anshun shrugged, changed the topic, and said, “What happened between you and An Xiaoyu during this period? There is something wrong with him.”
“What’s wrong with him?” Anle became nervous instantly.
“I don’t know,” Anshun looked at Anle with a blank expression, “Always pick a fight with me.”
An Le was speechless: “Don’t you always fight before?”
“It’s different these days,” Anshun shook his head seriously, turned to glance at An Xiaoyu, who was concentrating on driving the boat, and whispered to Anle, “You really don’t blame me, he must have hit him with a spear.”
“So…so?” Anle suddenly stuttered and asked.
“I was merciful,” Anshun tried his best to defend himself in a low voice, “I couldn’t even dodge if he had to hit the tip of the spear.”
Anle’s mind went blank.”He…”
“Is he prone to self-abuse?” Anshun then asked, “I asked Maizi, and Maizi said that this situation may be due to mental problems.”
Anle frowned and said, “What else?”
“Nothing else…nothing.” Anshun thought for a while and shook his head, “I don’t know anything else. You are a couple, didn’t you notice?”
An Le is speechless.During this period, in order to get over the shadow of broken love, he basically spent the day copying books at Grandpa An’s house, and would only see An Xiaoyu when he went to Grandpa An’s house to cook for them during lunch.Then in the evening, after the two of them had dinner at An’s mother’s house, they went home and went to bed together.During this period of time, An Xiaoyu’s performance was nothing unusual.If I have to say it, it means that I talk less.On weekdays, when he said something, An Xiaoyu would reply. If he didn’t speak, An Xiaoyu wouldn’t speak.He talked a lot less during this period, and An Xiaoyu naturally talked a lot less too.But this was his abnormality, not An Xiaoyu’s.He knew something was wrong with him, so he never felt there was anything wrong with An Xiaoyu.
Even now, he didn’t feel anything unusual about An Xiaoyu.
Anle frowned and looked up at An Xiaoyu in front of him, who was concentrating on playing with the tiller with his head down.There was a northeasterly wind tonight, and they had to sail due east. After getting on the boat, they adjusted the sails together. It was less than half an hour after setting off, and the wind direction had not changed. In fact, there was no need to guard the rudder.
An Xiaoyu was avoiding him.
But that’s as it should be.He took the initiative to reveal the truth, which made him lose his home. He was angry and ashamed, so he avoided himself and avoided contact with himself.
It’s normal, and it’s in line with how a person who has done something wrong should behave. His golden retriever also felt guilty like this when he got into trouble, so there’s nothing wrong with it.
So what is he doing to himself?
He always couldn’t figure out what An Xiaoyu was thinking.I don’t understand how this person can reject himself and at the same time show that he needs him very much, and even let himself leave with him even if he doesn’t hesitate to make himself angry.
He was really angry with An Xiaoyu when his identity was revealed, but when he saw An Xiaoyu’s devastated look, he couldn’t help but feel sad.
In the final analysis, An Xiaoyu did nothing wrong. He just revealed the truth. Revealing the truth was not wrong.An Le excused An Xiaoyu unconsciously.
It’s better to coax this awkward mermaid, Anle thought.
After all, she was his married wife, she just did something slightly wrong, and it wasn’t cheating.
Besides, there was no overnight feud between husband and wife, and the night was almost over.
Anle thought this and was about to walk towards An Xiaoyu when he suddenly heard a familiar wolf howl.
“Ouch~” A mournful cry resounded across the sea. Anle’s heart tightened and she subconsciously looked back.Not long after they set off, before the ship had traveled too far, Anle saw two figures, a man and a wolf, running towards the beach. The man’s figure was only half the height of the wolf.
“Susu!” Anle blurted out.
The wolves howled one after another with mournful sounds, and Anle’s heart trembled when he heard it.
“Xiao Jin went into the sea.” Anshun shouted in surprise.
An Xiaojin ran very fast, leaving the figure behind him, and followed the direction of the ship to the coastline but did not stop. Instead, he plunged into the sea and swam towards the ship howling.
“Go back! Go back!!” Anle pointed at An Xiaojin and shouted.”Turn around!” This shout was directed at An Xiaoyu behind him.
The ship quickly turned around.
In the layers of white waves, An Xiaojin was swimming towards the ship.
The ship sailed toward the shore with full sail.
“Su, Susu!!” Suddenly, Anshun shouted in panic.
There was no need for Anshun to remind him. In an instant, Anle’s heart stopped and he felt cold all over his body.
“Hurry up!! Xiaojin, go back, go back to find Susu!!” Anle shouted at the top of his lungs.
An Susu ran across the seaside, and the small figure stepped into the sea without stopping behind An Xiaojin.
Everyone in Longyin Village can swim, even a five-year-old child can move freely in the water.
But it is late at night in the dead of winter.The blood in Anle’s body seemed to have frozen into ice, and he was trembling with cold.
“Go back! An Xiaojin! Go back! Susu!!” Anle pointed at An Susu, her hand trembling with fear, her voice breaking at the top of her lungs.
An Xiaojin seemed to have heard it. He looked back with his head above the sea, and then looked at Anle who was trying his best to point at An Susu. He immediately turned around and swam towards An Susu.
Anle stared at the two small figures in the sea, her whole heart was tightly squeezed together as if in a rapidly contracting fishing net, and she was in constant pain.
Across the distant sea, he seemed to hear Susu’s cry.Heart-breaking, lung-breaking, heart-breaking.
“Aunt Ye, Uncle Changchuan is here.” To comfort An Le and himself, Anshun kept repeating: “It’s okay, it’s okay, it’ll be okay…”
When An Xiaojin pushed An Susu towards the shore with all his strength, An’s father and An’s mother also ran quickly into the sea and picked up the soaked An Susu.Ansusu was only wearing cotton winter pajamas, and the pajamas were dripping and clinging to Ansusu’s body.
Father An held An Susu in his arms, wrapped Susu in his fur clothes, and warmed An Susu’s body with his body.But An Susu kept fluttering in Father An’s arms, pointing at Anle with one finger, crying out of breath, as if he was going to faint, and cried out incessantly: “Brother-brother, brother-go-”
“Su Su, Su Su,” An’s mother hugged An Susu, her eyes were red, and her voice was trembling, “Be obedient, Su Su, be obedient. My brother is just going out to play for a few days. Be obedient and don’t be willful…”
“Susu.” The boat finally approached the shore and ran aground in the shallow water. Anle jumped off the boat, ran through the cold and biting water, and ran towards the three of them.
An Xiaojin followed An Le, the lush hair on his body wetly sticking to his skin.
“Oh – brother.” As soon as he saw Anle, An Susu broke away from An’s father’s arms, with a lot of snot and tears running down his face, and stumbled towards Anle.
“Su Su, how could you run into the sea!” An Le scolded with red eyes. At the same time, he squatted down and hugged Su Su tightly, wrapping An Su Su in his fox fur.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu” An Susu cried so hard that she couldn’t speak. She just hugged Anle’s neck tightly and wouldn’t let go.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry, Su Su,” An Le felt distressed. She hugged An Su Su tightly and softened her voice, “How can you go into the water when it’s so cold? What should you do if you get sick?”
“Brother,” An Susu lay on An Le’s neck. Tears and snot ran all over An Le’s neck again. She sobbed and cried, “Don’t leave, brother. Su Su plays with you. Su Su plays with you every day. Brother, don’t leave.”
“Don’t leave, brother, don’t leave. Go home first. It’s so cold and I’m going to be sick. Why are you so disobedient…” An Le wiped her tears and said while holding An Susu and striding home.
The kang in Ansusu’s room was still hot, so An’s father added a few more fires to make the kang burn brighter.An Susu, who was wrapped in a thick quilt, still grabbed An Le’s neck and refused to let go. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her big eyes were much smaller.
Anle patted An Susu’s back and kept comforting An Susu: “Okay, okay, brother won’t leave. Brother promises that he will not leave Susu behind…”
After a long time, An Susu’s emotions calmed down. He stretched out his right little finger and said, “Brother… pull Gou Gou.”
“Okay, pull the hook.” Anle wiped the tears from Ansusu’s face, and like Ansusu, stretched out his little finger to pull the hook with Ansusu.
“Golden hook, silver hook, seal with your little finger, it’s a puppy!” As the big and small thumbs met, An Susu smiled so hard that he couldn’t see his teeth.
“Well, you’re just a puppy.” An Le smiled slightly, pinched An Susu’s face, and said, “You can’t run into the sea next time, and my brother will punish you next time.”
An Susu nodded vigorously: “As long as my brother doesn’t leave, Susu won’t go to the beach.”
An Le smiled and rubbed An Susu’s head, turned to look at Father An and Mother An with red eyes standing by the bed, scratched his head, lowered his eyes and asked, “Can I…can stay at your house?”
“Of course! You can stay as long as you want,” An’s mother held Anle in her arms excitedly. After a long while, she wiped away her tears and looked at Anle with tearful and expectant eyes, saying, “Of course, of course, mother, mother wants to ask you. Mother has wanted to ask you all day long, are you willing to be our family member.”
An Le’s nose felt sore, and her tears could not be controlled. She buried her head on An’s mother’s shoulder and said hoarsely, “Yes. Mom, I want to be your family.”
“Okay, okay, thank you, thank you.” An’s mother was so excited that she didn’t know what to say. She could only repeat “thank you” with a trembling voice, patting Anle’s back, and tears fell from her eyes.
“Thank you, thank you.” After a long time, An’s mother let go of An Le, wiped her tears with her sleeves, and said, “The sea took away a child from me, and the Dragon King gave me another child. Mother is satisfied.”
“Mom, brother, there is something on Brother Xiaojin’s neck.” At this moment, An Susu suddenly pointed at An Xiaojin who was next to the door and said.
Anle’s attention had been focused on An Susu, and then he remembered that An Xiaojin was still wet. After hearing this, he immediately turned to look for An Xiaojin, only to see that the hair on An Xiaojin’s body was half dry, with a white jade pendant hanging around his neck and a bamboo tube in his mouth.
An Le recognized that the jade pendant was An Xiaoyu’s, and her heartbeat suddenly became erratic. She looked around in panic, but couldn’t find An Xiaoyu, and asked eagerly: “Where is An Xiaoyu? Dad, mother, where is An Xiaoyu?”
An Xiaojin twisted his tall wolf body and walked over, shaking his mouth to signal Anle to take the bamboo tube.
Anle’s hand that took the bamboo tube suddenly trembled, and he had a bad feeling. He tremblingly took out the letter and unfolded it.
It was An Xiaoyu’s farewell letter without saying goodbye.
“An Ran, I’m sorry. I tried to force you to leave with me in such a despicable way. I feel deeply ashamed of this and have no shame to ask for your forgiveness. An Ran, be friends with you.I have been very happy during these four months.I have never had a chance to tell you who I am, so I have to go back.There is nothing left for you.Just treat this jade pendant as my thank you gift and apology.If…if you come out one day, if you are still willing to see me, go to a lantern shop called ‘An Ran’ and buy a mermaid lantern.”
“Stupid fish.” The piece of paper was crumpled, Anle cursed and ran towards the seaside in large strides.
The east wind roared, the sails expanded into a full arc, and the ship moved at full speed in the direction of the morning star.Anle bent over, holding on to his waist, panting and looking at the ship that was getting further away, with blazing anger burning in his red eyes blown by the cold wind.
“An Xiaoyu!!! You stupid fish!! You’re the best! Don’t let me catch you again!!!”
A touch of fish belly white appears in the eastern sky, the sun rises slowly from the sea, the clouds are dyed into gorgeous satin, and the last trace of the ship disappears in the red sun.
Anle climbed up Longyin Slope, and the sun’s rays illuminated the Dragon King Temple.The half-human-tall Dragon King statue has long beard flying in the morning light.Anle picked up the brush that was still on the ground.
“Hello, Dragon King.” An Le stared at the Dragon King and said seriously: “Let me introduce myself again. My name is An Ran, seventeen years old. My father’s name is An Changchuan, a pharmacist; my mother’s name is An Ye, a doctor; I have two siblings:The younger brother is called Anle, and he goes out to play; the younger sister is called An Susu, who is cute and willful; we have a wolf who is more obedient than a dog, and his name is An Xiaojin, who is the youngest of our family.We live in a yard with pear trees in Longyin Village.
“I still can’t convince myself that God exists, but I can’t prove that God doesn’t exist either.If worshiping you has a one-in-a-billion chance that my family will be happy, this land will be blessed, and the people on this land will be peaceful, then, from now on, I will worship you sincerely.”
An Ran picked up the pen, and a red dot fell on the Dragon King’s golden pupils.
The morning light shines on the earth, and the brightly colored Dragon King statue shines in the golden light.
“By the way,” as he crossed the threshold, An Ran suddenly turned back, a smile waving in the corners of his eyes as the corners of his mouth rose, “I just forgot to finish what I said, I’m married, his name is An Xiaoyu, and he is my legal spouse.Our home is in Longyin Village, in the courtyard with a thick osmanthus tree at the door.”