EBE Chapter 467: Flower Island Old Friend
Chapter 467: Flower Island Old Friend
Seeing him like this, Xiaoying knew that he must not think about her every day. She raised her eyebrows, picked up a willow branch from her side, and hit Chu Xiaomu with it.
Chu Xiaomu covered his head and ran away, laughing: "Every time I see you, it's always bad news. You either beat me with a stick or pulled my ears! You are so fierce, whoever marries you in the future will be in big trouble!"
Xiaoying couldn't catch up with him after hitting him with a few bamboo sticks. She stood by the pond and said angrily, "Who said I'm going to get married? I won't marry anyone in the future. I will just follow you, a piece of wood, and hit you on the head with a stick!"
As the two of them laughed and joked, they didn't realize that it was almost dusk.
Xiaoying said, "I've been out for quite some time. Sister Xiaoxuan must be mad at me. Should we go back quickly?"
Chu Xiaomu asked in surprise: "Sister Xiaoxuan is here too?"
Xiaoying nodded and said, "Not only is Sister Xiaoxuan here, but many people from your East Village and South Village have also come."
Chu Xiaomu was overjoyed and said, "Quick, take me to see them."
Chu Xiaomu hugged Xiaoying and jumped out of the house gently.
After exiting that remote alley, Xiaoying led Chu Xiaomu and ran on the streets of Baijun City. Their silver bell-like laughter filled the entire street.
Everyone was extremely surprised to see this young man and woman running hand in hand on the street and laughing without any restraint.
After running through several streets, they came to a large river without waves. This river was called Mianshui, and Chu Xiaomu had heard about it from Lin Zhen, who was born in Baijun City.
Xiaoying pointed to a large ship docked by the river and said, "Everyone should be on the ship by now."
Chu Xiaomu couldn't wait to meet everyone, so he pulled Xiaoying and ran to the big ship.
The two of them went onto the deck of the ship. Chu Xiaomu pushed open the cabin door and almost bumped into someone.
When he looked closely, he found that this person was actually his seventh uncle of the Chu family! The nagging and nonsense-talking seventh uncle Chu!
Chu Qi immediately recognized Chu Xiaomu and shouted, "Hey, Xiaomu, you are my second brother's Xiaomu!"
Chu Xiaomu's body was shaking with excitement, and he cried, "Seventh Uncle, you...you are here too?"
Chu Qi said, "What are you talking about? I see you are here too. Does that mean your Uncle Qi can't come here? Not only am I here, but also Cousin Shan, Third Brother Yang, Fourth Brother Yang, Third Uncle Huai, and the one who made eye contact with Xiao Dou... Oh, I can't finish talking all at once!"
"Then...then Uncle Qi, please take me to meet them."
Chu Qi cleared his throat and shouted, "Brother Shan, Brother Yang, I found Xiaomu. Haha, we found Xiaomu!"
There was a sound of footsteps, and more than a dozen people in the cabin rushed onto the deck. They were Xiaoxuan from Baihuading, Baishantang from the South Village, Yang Dou's father Yang Hai and fourth uncle Yang Hu, Huai Xiaomeng's third uncle Huai Fugen, Du Heng and her father from the East Village. There were also two people with the surname Lu, two people with the surname Gao, and two people with the surname Tao from the East Village. Although Chu Xiaomu was familiar with them, he could not remember their names.
When everyone saw Chu Xiaomu, they were all very excited.
Bai Shantang said, "It's not nice to make so much noise here. It won't be good if outsiders hear us. Let's go inside and talk."
However, although this ship is large, it is still nearly half the size of the large merchant ship of the Snow Country. The cabin is very narrow, and a small room can only accommodate three or four people. A dozen people had to squat in the aisle to talk.
As soon as Chu Xiaomu sat down, Yang Hai asked, "Xiaomu, where is Adou? Why aren't he and Xiaomeng with you?"
When Du Heng heard him mention Yang Dou, his eyes became extremely anxious.
Chu Xiaomu then told the story of Yang Dou in Bicheng, saying that he was in good health and had made great progress, so Uncle Yang didn't have to worry.
Hearing this, Yang Hai, Yang Hu, and Du Heng immediately felt relieved.
Huai Fugen then inquired about Huai Xiaomeng's whereabouts, asking: "Where is Xiaomeng? Is he with Xiaodou?"
Chu Xiaomu burst into tears and told the whole story of how he was beaten to death while fleeing to Bicheng. He also said that he would definitely avenge Xiao Meng and asked Uncle Huai to rest assured.
When everyone learned that Huai Xiaomeng was dead, they were all silent. Huai Fugen cried, "I can't believe it... I can't believe it... my second brother and his wife's family are all gone just like this..."
Bai Shantang said bitterly: "No matter what, we must find out the Snow Country people who harmed us and the murderer who killed Xiao Meng. This hatred must be avenged!" His father Bai Qizhen was also poisoned to death by Bai Yixing, and he always remembered this hatred in his heart.
Chu Xiaomu said: "Uncle Shan, don't worry, I will definitely do these things! I won't let any of those evil people go!"
Everyone listened and just responded with a blank expression. Everyone knew that the four countries were more than tens of millions of miles away, and those people from the Snow Country had disappeared after stealing the tripod, and they might have already returned to the White Snow Country, so it was impossible to find them.
Chu Xiaomu asked again how everyone came to Baijun City.
Bai Shantang then told the whole story.
When Chu Xiaomu, Yang Dou and Huai Xiaomeng disappeared, the Chu, Yang and Huai families asked the new clan leader Bai Shantang to send people to sea to search for them. Yang Dou's father Yang Hai was particularly anxious and went to Bai Shantang's house every few days.
Baishantang arranged for people to search the sea for several months, and even went to the island where the stolen ancient tripod was found, but unfortunately nothing was found. The search was delayed.
Fortunately, the Snow Country people did not do all bad things during their time on Baihua Island, and the shipbuilding drawings they presented during the ancestor worship festival were very useful.
The Lu family in the east village was good at all kinds of construction, so they spent nearly three years building this big ship according to the blueprint, and it was able to withstand the wind and waves after two months of sea trials. The two southeast villages were all excited and celebrated together for several days, as if they were celebrating another ancestor worship festival.
Both the East and West Villages contributed to the construction of the big ship, and Huai Fugen proposed to go out to sea on the big ship to search for the missing three people. Du Heng and Yang Dou fell in love with each other, and also begged his father to go to the clan leader Gao Chiqian to advocate going out to sea to search for people.
The people of East Village had long known about the disaster in South Village. After the two villages discussed, most people had no objection to the idea of borrowing a large ship to go out to sea to search for people. In fact, the islanders also wanted to go out to sea to see the East Road that their ancestors left.
One is to find someone, the other is to find your roots, both things can be done at the same time.
However, it is unknown how many thousands or even tens of thousands of miles it is from Baihua Island to the East Continent. Since our ancestors moved to the island, no one has ever returned, so we don't have an exact number of miles in our minds.
The sea was dangerous, and this trip eastward was a life-or-death struggle, and one might never return. Therefore, not too many people were allowed to go, only one or two people from each surname came, and they had to volunteer, and could not be forced to go.