Across the palm trees, the fat cat raised its front paws, grabbed its owner's trouser leg, and while complaining, pulled towards the direction where Lu Chixiao and the two were hiding.
"Fat boy, I'm very busy. I have to cover the roof tightly before the rainy season comes. You can play by yourself!"
"Meow meow meow!"
Through the gap between the palm leaves, Lu Chixiao saw the cat's owner——
He was a sturdy man with dark skin, long and messy hair, and a beard that covered half of his face. He was bare-chested, wearing only a tattered grass skirt around his waist, and his shoes were straw sandals made of the same material.
It doesn't feel right...
Lu Chixiao squinted his eyes and looked at the other person - he didn't even have any clothes, not even a pair of shoes... What a closed and backward place this must be?
But his accent sounds like the dialect of a coastal village in Province Z. Does it sound like he is isolated from the world?
"Meow meow meow!"
The fat cat struggled to grab its owner's trouser legs and led him desperately towards the palm trees.
Lu Chixiao thought for a moment and asked Xiao Xu to stay here. He stood up and walked out.
"Excuse me! Excuse me..."
"Dong——"
The man in the grass skirt with his back to the boss was obviously frightened. He turned around in disbelief, opened his mouth under his big beard, and fainted without saying a word.
Lu Chixiao: "..." Am I so scary? I scared people into fainting just by saying hello? How embarrassing!
Xiao Xu silently took back the hand on his lower back: Worrying about the Second Young Master is in vain!
"Meow-meow-"
When the fat cat saw its owner fainted, it kept licking his face, crying and crying.
After calling several times, the owner didn't wake up and rushed towards Lu Chixiao: "Meow meow meow!"
Lu Chixiao came back to his senses, dodged the sharp cat claws, and squatted down next to the man in the grass skirt. He used one hand to be alert and the other to detect the man's breath. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was just fainting.
"Xiao Xu, bring the kettle!"
Xiao Xu ran over, took off the army green water bottle from his waist, fed the man in the grass skirt water, and used the first aid method he learned during his service to press the man's philtrum.
After a while, the man woke up leisurely.
"Ahem..." He choked a few times and sat up in a hurry.
"Brother." Lu Chixiao helped him sit up, "I was wrong just now. I made a sudden noise and scared you."
"No... no..." the man in the grass skirt trembled in his voice and shook his head as hard as he could, "No, I wasn't scared. I, I'm so happy! Twelve years... I've lived on this island for twelve years
Years...meet a living person for the first time...I, I'm happy..."
Lu Chixiao and Xiao Xu looked at each other: Ganqing was so excited that she fainted.
Then the black line: What the hell is a living person?
but--
"Brother, you said you live alone on this island? Then how did you get here?"
"It's a long story..." After the man in the grass skirt calmed down, he became less anxious.
After twelve years of hard work, he finally found a living person other than him, and it seemed that the person's clothes did not look like he was in trouble like him. There was hope of returning home, and the person became excited.
"We'll talk about this later. Are you here to have fun?"
Lu Chixiao smiled bitterly: "We encountered a tornado."
The man in the grass skirt said "Ah": "You were also blown here by the damn tornado, right?"
"..."
The word "ye" reveals the origin of the man in the grass skirt.
Lu Chixiao really had a headache now: a person who had been blown here by a tornado for twelve years and had never met a living person before today shows that he is not familiar with the geography of this area at all...
"Brother, besides the woods, what else is there on this island?" Lu Chixiao asked.
"It's all in the woods." The man in the hula skirt replied calmly, "There are many wild fruit trees in the woods. When I first came here, I relied on these to survive. Later I dug cassava, kudzu... I had nothing to do.
I planted a piece of land and planted some wild berries, so I don’t have to eat wild berries. Fatty...oh, it’s this cat, he’s eleven years old this year.”
He pointed at the fat cat with bristled fur at his feet, staring at Lu Chixiao and Lu Chixiao for a moment, ready to explode at any time, and said with a smile, "When I picked it up, it was just a cub, bigger than my fist."
Not much older, it was washed up on the beach while clinging to a piece of wood. In the past few years, it has been keeping me company. Apart from it, I have never picked up any living things, but I have seen a few floating corpses..."
As he spoke, he sighed: "It's not that I haven't built a raft or made a boat in these years, but I can't see a way out after rowing for a long time. Don't look at the calm weather now, there's no telling when a storm will come. When a storm comes,
, the waves were huge, and I was lucky enough not to capsize, but the food either fell into the water or was soaked in water, so I had to come back..."
The man in the hula skirt met the same kind of cat for the first time in twelve years. He finally stopped talking to himself to the cat, so he couldn't stop talking.
Lu Chixiao glanced at the sky and stood up apologetically: "Brother, we still have companions on the yacht. Let's stop talking here today."
"Are there any companions? Then go quickly! Invite them all to come ashore. It will get dark soon, and I will light a fire and make food. If you don't mind, you can stay with me at night."
After the man in the grass skirt left with the cat, Xiao Xu asked: "Second Young Master, are his words reliable?"
Lu Chixiao rubbed his chin and said nothing.
Judging from the other party's expression and tone when speaking, it doesn't look like he's faking it.
If so, then it can only be said that this person's acting skills are so good that even he can't see through it.
Fortunately, there has been no news of anything unusual since Beetle left, so there should be no danger in coming to this island.
However, it is necessary to be on guard against others. After thinking about it, Lu Chixiao said: "The old man and the others are clamoring to go ashore, so it's okay to let them come down to do some activities. In the evening, we will set up two tents on the beach near the yacht. We will be a group, the boss and Xiao Wu.
One group, the others will stay on the yacht. Let’s make a bonfire and grill fish on the beach for dinner. If we can’t find out more information, we can pick some coconuts tomorrow morning and continue on our way.”
Xiao Xu nodded and returned to the yacht to convey the news. When everyone heard that there was really someone living on the island, even though there was only one person, he was a compatriot from the same country as them, and he was also a victim of the tornado, and they immediately felt a sense of "fellows meet fellows"
, two tears welled up" was touched.
"Mom, don't be too busy being happy." Young Master Lu crossed his arms and reminded his mother coolly, "My second brother is right, you must be on guard against others. If you are tired of staying on the yacht, you can go ashore and do some activities.
But don’t get separated. Especially the children, don’t take them too far, just play on the beach for a while, and then come back to the yacht after dinner.”
Lu Zhanfeng nodded in agreement.
Mrs. Lu curled her lips: "Boring! You three are equally boring! You are always on guard against this and that..."
"We are also doing this for safety reasons," Young Master Lu coaxed helplessly.
"Okay, okay, let's not go far, right?"
Mrs. Lu took her grandson in her arms and got off the yacht happily.