Tao Le and Ximu arrived at the easternmost side of the beach.
This time is when the tide recedes and has not yet risen, and there are many rocks around.
Simu took her and moved easily on the rocks, seeming to be looking for something.
"Well, Mr. Xi, can you tell me what this puzzle means?"
Seeing that he had no intention of explaining, Tao Le had no choice but to ask.
"This is it." Simu leaned down, pulled out something from a rock deep into the water, and put it in the palm of his hand for her to see.
This is a creature shaped like a turtle's foot, only two or three centimeters long. It is attached to the reef at the back and has five small claws on the front.
Tao Le was born in the mainland and was completely ignorant of this parasite on the reef: "What is this?"
"Turtle feet." Simu explained: "A very delicious ingredient."
"Well, what does that have to do with our puzzle?"
"Of course it's relevant." Ximu said warmly: "Look at it, does it look like the character '无', or is it the character 'yi'?"
It's quite similar. Don’t the five small claws on this turtle’s feet look like the word “无”?
"So the first eight characters are neither oysters nor clams. They should be talking about turtle feet." Tao Le suddenly said:
"And the last eight words, do you want us to go to a place with a large number of turtle feet?"
Ximu's eyes were full of smiles: "You are right. This turtle's feet like to be born in rock crevices with clear water, but where they are most common is in caves by the water."
"There are not many places on this beach that meet the requirements. I think we can get the second clue soon."
Indeed, as he said, although this beach with turtle feet is quite large, it has only three caves.
In the largest cave, there is a small oil paper bag hanging.
Tao Le carefully took it apart and saw a line of words written in it: "Looking up makes you taller, digging into it makes you stronger. Be loyal and admire the purple as long as you grow old."
She clearly knew all these sixteen words, but when she thought about them carefully, she felt they were obscure.
"Looking up makes you taller, drilling down makes you strong." She murmured: "This is originally used to describe Confucius' profound knowledge, but what does it mean when I put it here?"
Ximu thought for a moment and then laughed: "Lele, don't think too complicatedly, just think about it literally."
"It looks very high, something that needs to be looked up at." Tao Le responded: "There are quite a few on this island. Either they are trees or cliffs."
"But now that Diamond is added, the former is basically eliminated." Her eyes lit up, a little excited.
"Probably we are looking for a tall cliff."
Ximu's eyes were full of smiles, and only then did he add: "Then what do you think the next sentence means?"
Tao Le's excitement lies precisely in this. Word puzzles are her specialty, the best at them.
"I just discovered that there is an anagram embedded in the last two sentences." She said happily: "Think about it, if you add the word Dan with a dot and the beginning of the word white, what is it?"
"Zhou?" Ximu said suddenly, "What does Mu Zi mean?"
"Purple is coming from the east." Tao Le was very confident now: "You should be able to find this high cliff if you take the boat eastward."
As luck would have it, when they walked out of the cave, they saw a rubber raft floating on the sea not far away, with two oars on it.
The raft was in waist-deep water, and if you wanted to get up, you had to enter the water.
As soon as Tao Le thought about this problem, he felt a tightness around his waist and was already being hugged by Xi Mu.
Her head was next to his chin, and her nose was filled with the faint scent of Thousand-year-old cypress.
It was obviously such an ambiguous posture, and she was under the camera, but her body was very soft, and she had no intention of rejecting him from the inside out.
Xi Mu's faction took it for granted and did not give any explanation for this.
He jumped into the water step by step, not caring about his shoes, socks and clothes. A pair of strong arms held Tao Le steadily until she was gently placed on the raft.
Simu followed closely and got on the rubber raft. Although the space was narrow, he was very careful not to get Tao Le's clothes wet.
The cameraman did not follow, but a drone in the sky took over.
The raft gradually rowed eastward, skirting the cliffs on one side of the beach, and soon left the base camp behind.
The sea water is quiet and blue, and as far as the eye can see, there are no other people except birds and fish.
Ximu put down the oar and looked directly at Tao Le's face. Thousands of words were tumbling in his heart, but when they came to his lips, he stopped talking.
Tao Le looked at the unpredictable sea water around him and finally couldn't help but speak first.
"Mr. Xi, are you tired because you didn't get a good rest outside last night?"
"It doesn't matter, let me row." She picked up the oar and looked at a high cliff ahead:
"That cliff looks very similar. Let's go over and have a look."
"No rush," Simu's movements were faster than his voice and he had already held her hand down.
Tao Le was shocked and wanted to withdraw, but found that he couldn't move at all.
"Mr. Xi, what are you doing?"
"Call my name directly." Ximu said: "Ximu, it's just a transliteration. The correct pronunciation should be Ximu."
"Okay Ximu." Tao Le said helplessly: "What do you want?"
"I just want to have a good talk with you."
"Okay." Tao Le agreed readily. In fact, she had always wanted to know what Ximu was thinking and why he favored her so much.
"What do you want to talk about?"
Ximu looked at her in silence for a while and then spoke: "I have expressed my feelings to you repeatedly."
"But the reasons you put forward - regarding appearance and family assets, etc., I cannot accept."
"Everyone has a love for beauty. You can't discriminate against me because of my appearance." For some reason, there was a trace of grievance in Ximu's usually light and sweet voice.
"Besides, the other extraneous things are not my fault. It's all my fault. Those friends of mine are too capable and have made the company bigger and bigger."
"But if you don't like it, I can sell the shares to them and use the money to do charity."
Hearing these words, Tao Le was both angry and funny.
Those reasons that are just mentioned casually are indeed difficult to resist scrutiny.
Moreover, regarding the resale of shares in Miao Technology, it is not a matter of changing the soup without changing the medicine. It does not matter whose name it is sold to.
She was about to come up with a few new excuses that were both reliable and high-spirited when she heard Simu's next words.
"You have feelings for me."
What he said was not a question or a question, but a direct affirmation.
"I'm not, I don't have one, don't talk nonsense!" Tao Le jumped up from the raft, and with a sway, he was about to tilt towards the sea.
Ximu rushed forward and pulled her into his arms.
"No, you do." He said firmly: "When you are with me, especially when you have intimate movements, your heartbeat and blood flow speed increase."
"As a doctor, you should know very well that this is the result of the combined action of dopamine and norepinephrine."
"As for the reasons for their occurrence, I don't need to say more, right?"
(End of chapter)
