Su Mingming distanced herself from them, and Aunt Yufen called out to her, telling her to follow closely and not to get lost.
"Who is that girl? Why does she live in your house?" the neighbor asked curiously.
"The head of the house said that she came to the island alone without any relatives or friends. He thought she was pitiful, so he brought her back."
"Brother Huang is kind at heart."
"Oh, she is so pitiful. Her parents are dead and her relatives don't like her. She is all alone. How can we not take her in?"
"Orphan? What is she doing on the island? You can't think of it, right?"
"Nonsense, maybe, maybe there is something else."
Aunt Yufen wanted to say that she actually knew Su Jian and Su Huan, but she also thought that it was someone else's housework and that she, as an outsider, couldn't interfere.
During the seventeenth tide, the moon over the sea is extremely big and bright. Even without a flashlight, you can clearly see crabs, conchs, small fish, and shrimps that have no time to escape.
Have any children in the city ever seen these things? Except for Su Jian, Su Dan and Zhongli, the others are like mountain cannons coming into the city, and everything they see is strange.
"Don't get separated. No matter how big the moon is or how low the tide is, the sea at night is the scariest and it's easiest to lose your way." Zhou Xing told them.
The people in this village are so good at living and so frugal that they almost never turn on the lights at night, and the lights are dark. If it weren't for the occasional barking of dogs and the quacking of ducks, it would be impossible to imagine that there are still other people there.
There's still an hour left for high tide, so we have to go back.
It was really strange tonight. There were so many "big products" on the beach. The women agreed to take a photo of a representative at dawn, take a boat out of the island, and take the crabs and conchs to the land to sell them.
"Huh? Where is that girl? Where did she go?"
Aunt Yufen was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat. She was the one who brought Su Mingming to catch the sea. Five minutes ago, she was still in his sight. Why did she disappear as soon as she turned around?
"Miss Mingming? Mingming, where are you? Mingming?"
Aunt Yufen shouted at the top of her lungs. Her voice echoed on the empty and lonely beach, but was soon covered by the rumbling sound of the rising tide.
"Sister-in-law, maybe that girl has gone back. Let's leave quickly."
Su Jian, who had almost reached the shore, suddenly stopped and looked back at the villagers who were coming ashore one after another.
Zhongli asked her what was wrong.
"Brother, it seems someone fell into the water."
Not falling into the water, but walking towards the depths of the sea.
Su Huan and others had already gone ashore and found the two of them running in the opposite direction into the sea.
"Hey, what are you two doing?"
Aunt Yufen ran to the shore in a panic, calling Su Mingming's name as she ran.
"Miss Su Jian, you, what are you doing?"
Suddenly two black shadows rushed in front of her, and Aunt Yufen was so frightened that her tongue was tied.
"Su Mingming is missing?"
"Yes, yes, I'm just about to go back and call someone to help look for it."
"Auntie, you go home, we will go look for you."
"Ah? Miss Su Jian, the tide has already risen. You can't go in anymore. Come back quickly. It's dangerous!"
When she shouted, Su Jian and Zhong Li had already ran out more than ten meters away.
The water came up very quickly. Su Jian pointed her hand and said, "Senior brother, go to that rock. I won't allow you to go further in."
Zhongli doesn't show off. His swimming level is far behind that of his junior sister. If you have to take care of him when the time comes, won't it just add to the chaos?
"Where is she now?"
"It's more than 700 meters away from here, and the water has already reached her chest."
Damn girl, why do you want to run away and die in front of her?
Do you want to try whether you can save her? Or should you grasp the mentality that you will definitely save her and perish together?