Xie Changxiao was right. His use of the knife to intimidate Fang Lu only had a temporary effect. When she stayed in the utility room of Building 6, she ate a small piece of snake meat given by the mother and daughter who rescued her on the island. , she once again thought of finding Wen Qizhou to take in.
She asked someone to inquire for a while, and on the grounds of her weak appearance and hearing that Qizhou had left something behind, she deceived the young man who had lowered his guard and asked him to send her there to find someone while he was out hunting.
Seeing the tent in the middle of the thick fog, she hesitated for a moment, and after much deliberation she decided to start with Chi Yue.
"Mrs. Wen, are you there?" In order to prevent Wen Qizhou from driving her away, Fang Lu didn't even call him: "I want to talk to you."
Chi Yue, who was reading a book, raised her eyebrows slightly.
She put on the mask and walked out of the tent, cast her eyes on Fang Lu's haggard face, and motioned for him to sit on the picnic mat.
"What are you talking about?" She was very calm, with a pair of clear, light brown almond eyes that seemed to be able to see into all her thoughts.
Fang Lu grabbed her clothes uneasily.
The woman she once regarded as her love rival was much better than her in terms of clothing or mental appearance.
Looking at that face full of collagen, she felt bad in her heart, and her self-esteem was not willing to let her bow.
But thinking that they were the only hope she could hold on to at the moment, she had to endure the feeling of embarrassment and bow to the other party.
"I've been having a bad time lately..."
Fang Lu talked about the hardships of getting to the island and the recent difficulties. She shed tears pitifully: "I know I shouldn't bother you, but I really have no other choice."
The meaning of her words couldn't be more obvious.
Chi Yue lazily leaned against the tent cloth, looking directly at the other person with slightly curved eyes, pretending not to understand: "What do you mean?"
"I'm scared to be alone there." She wiped her tears and whispered, "Can you let me move here?"
"No one's name is written on this island. You can build a wooden house wherever you want. There is no need to go out of your way to inform me."
"no……"
"Is it possible that you want to live with us?" Seeing the other party's acquiescence, Chi Yue couldn't help but smile: "Why?"
Fang Lu's face turned red.
She pinched her palms tightly and lowered her posture despite the teasing gaze: "I know your tent can't accommodate sleeping, but I can't build a wooden house by myself."
"That's your business."
"..."
She was choked and speechless.
Chi Yue watched her with interest as she tried to think of a solution. Her eyes were like looking at a cricket in a jar. No matter how she jumped, she could not escape from the indestructible world.
"Mrs. Wen." Fang Lu was so angry at her eyes, but she could only force herself to swallow the breath that came to her throat: "I just want a place to stay, and I won't cause any harm to you. Threats will not affect your relationship with Mr. Wen, so why should you be hostile to me?"
"Hostility? That's okay if you think so." Chi Yue closed the distance between him and Fang Lu, and put his cold fingertips on her neck: "However, everyone who stands in front of my enemy is dead."
Her fingertips were like needles quenched by the cold, scratching across Fang Lu's skin. For a moment, the hairs on her body stood up in fear, as if she was on the verge of death and was struck by fear.
She suddenly realized that the woman in front of her was not as harmless as she seemed. If she angered her, she would really lose her life.
Just when she was about to push Chi Yue's hand away and escape, Wen Qizhou and Xie Changxiao, who were out hunting, slowly walked through the thick fog to the tent carrying pheasants and snakes.
Wen Qizhou, who mistakenly thought she was going to take action, his eyes darkened, and his quick eyes quickly grabbed the arm that was about to touch Chi Yue.
It was removed for her with a click.
"Ah!!" The sudden pain caused Fang Lu to scream miserably.
The scream echoed in the forest, and the birds perched on the trees were also disturbed, flapping their wings and passing over their heads.
Wen Qizhou didn't even look at her.
He knelt down in front of Chi Yue and held the hand that was almost touched: "What did she just tell you?"
"tell a joke."
"A joke? On her own?"
Chi Yue pursed her lips to suppress a smile, and glanced at Fang Lu, who was crying endlessly, with unknown meaning: "She does have the ability to make people laugh."
"Yeah, it's also very noisy." He didn't want to be disturbed by the noisy sound anymore, and immediately gave Xie Changxiao a look.
Xie Changxiao understood.
He held Fang Lu by the back of her collar without mercy, ignored her struggles, and walked to the beach in a familiar way.
Then──
There was a "plop" sound of falling into the water.
The thick fog gradually obscured the figure flopping in the sea, and the sounds of begging for mercy and crying were blown away by the wind, and finally returned to calm.
*
It’s golden autumn in a blink of an eye.
The temperature has risen to 16 degrees, and the thick fog has not lifted. More and more people are coming to the island, and hunters can be seen everywhere.
But the resources on the island are very limited. In less than two weeks, they almost caught all the pheasants, hares, fish and snakes.
No way, we can only focus on Shanghai products.
Realizing that those people only had seafood to eat, Chi Yue and the others stopped cooking, let alone bringing out cooked food that had a strong smell, so as not to be smelled by others and cause unnecessary trouble.
They were low-key enough, but they couldn't resist the greed of some people who came to this area at night in an attempt to snatch food.
Once again dealing with a "night visit", Wen Qizhou rubbed his brows sleepily: "Shall we find a new place tomorrow?"
"Okay." Chi Yue put away the knife.
While he and Xie Changxiao were finishing up, she rolled her eyelids and lay down in her sleeping bag, falling asleep in less than two or three minutes.
No one came to disturb them in the second half of the night. They slept until they woke up naturally, packed their things and looked for a slightly secluded place.
Because there have been more and more people hunting recently, they stayed away from the southwest, found a suitable location to set up their tents, and used vines and branches as cover to avoid being easily seen.
However, not long after they stopped, another wild mandarin duck came to roll in the grass near them.
"I'm going crazy!" Xie Changxiaosheng looked at the roof of the tent helplessly: "Don't they have any sense of shame?"
"Those who are shady, how do you expect them to have any sense of shame?" Wen Qizhou hugged Chi Yue, who had not yet woken up, and covered her ears with his big hands to block out the sound outside.
"Then I'll shine a light on them!" He listened to the unbearable noise of death, put on his coat, and rushed out with a flashlight, as fiercely as if he wanted to kill a mandarin duck.
Not long after, a scream came.
Wen Qizhou raised his eyes and glanced at the beam of light that seemed to be dancing. He put his hand on Chi Yue's ear with a little force.
When the movement outside the tent disappeared and Xie Changxiao returned without incident, he closed his eyes and fell asleep against the top of Chi Yue's hair.
They thought the appearance of wild mandarin ducks was just an occasional occurrence, but they didn't expect another pair to arrive four days later.
The wild mandarin ducks who came this time were even closer to the tent, and Wen Qizhou's hands alone could not muffle their voices.
"So annoying." Chi Yue woke up in a daze, with worry about being woken up in her eyes.
(End of chapter)
