The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

Arriving at the highest point of the hillside in one breath, the vision suddenly opened up. I saw a lake with the size of five or six football fields lying on its back under the sky. The shore of the lake is surrounded by towering cliffs. A volcanic lake.The blue sky, white clouds and light dew are reflected on the water surface. The wind blows down from the mountain peaks and skims across the water surface. The orange, white and blue light seems to be crushed.

Qin Xiu took out the photo in his arms, and Archer followed to compare it. Qin Xiu forgot to take out this photo when he jumped into the river to save him. It was already soaked in water, and it was taken at night Yes, it doesn't look very clear now, but you can still roughly see the scenery around the lake and the shape of the mountain peaks.Although the lake looks like an ordinary lake at present, Qin Xiu is sure that this is the golden lake in the photo.Archer still had some doubts in his mind, such as how such a large lake escaped the eyes of the outside world, but at the moment the two of them were immersed in excitement and couldn't speak until a familiar voice suddenly came from the lake wind: "Shen Dog!! Shen Gougou!! Crazy!!”

Archer moved his ears and looked down following the sound. A familiar figure was running towards them all the way down the hillside waving his arms.

Archer's eyes widened in disbelief—wasn't that man Odgeron?

Zi Chou said enviously, "His Royal Highness came to pick you up personally..."

His Royal Highness Prince?O'Gellan?Obra Siglia Rembrandt? !

"I've been waiting for you for a long time!" O'Zhelun ran up panting, with a Nike backpack on his back.

Qin Xiu looked him up and down: "...Obrassizer, Leah Rembrandt?"

"I don't like that name, it's too long, and I can't remember it myself," O'Zhelun said with a smile, "you should call me Lun Lun."

Qin Xiu looked at O'Zhelun who sat down on the grass automatically and kept calling them to sit together, with a distorted expression: "You left that letter?"

"That's right," O'Geren said as he took out chocolate pie, Pepsi and playing cards from his backpack, "I've been looking for almost half a month to find out where you live, but luckily I found it..."

Archer was convinced, no wonder the agent said that Ozhelun was missing, he was not missing, he was just lost... But fish are stupid, Ozhelun is the prince of the mermaid clan, so he must be the best of the idiots.

"So you are also a fish?" Qin Xiu felt that his three views were like fried eggs in a pan, and he was almost cooked after being turned upside down. He held his forehead and the corners of his forehead twitched, "After all, there are all kinds of fish around me. What kind of monsters..." He wouldn't be surprised if Wang Ziqiong suddenly came to him and told him that he was the Frog Prince after returning...

Archer saw that Ozhelun started shuffling the cards, so he sat down to save face, and said earnestly to the fun-loving Ou model: "Do you know that your agent has reported the crime to find you? Let's go back together."

Ozhe Lun paused happily shuffling the cards, and looked back at the vast Naxi Lake: "I won't go back. I'm going to be a mermaid prince in the Hui clan."

Archer was a little puzzled when he heard O'Zhelun's strange tone: "You don't plan to go back to be a model?"

"I'm the prince of the mermaid clan. I couldn't stay in the human world for a few years, and I'm destined to come back," said O'Zhelun. "I met you two friends in the human world. This time I'm saying goodbye to you."

Zichou walked over and sat beside the prince without saying a word.

"Let's play blackjack!" O'Zhelun put the shuffled cards on the grass.

All three of them sat down, only Qin Xiu was still standing tall, looking down at the three childish ghosts who looked up at him: "If you want to play with yourself, I'm not interested in such childish games. .”

"Where are you childish?!" Archer and O'Zhelun said in unison.

Qin Xiu ignored them at all, and walked to the side of the hill by himself, looking at the lake at his feet: "Hey, Ozhelun, does your lake only glow at night?"

O'Zhelun was playing HIGH and didn't seem to hear it.

Qin Xiu looked back at Model Ou's back, and didn't ask any more questions. The sun has already started to set, and he will know in the evening.

He lay on the grass with his head up, and the clouds drifting slowly in the sky cast a shallow shadow on the grass and him.He is about to take pictures of the real Golden Lake, and when he thinks of this, there is a smile on the corner of his mouth, father, mother, grandma, please watch carefully in the sky.

Archer is almost always the winner in 24-point games. O'Zhelun and Zichou are together, it seems that there is no dumbest but dumber. Archer is full of self-confidence, eager to challenge Qin Xiu.Qin Xiuxiu sat on the grassy slope with one leg bent, hands on his knees, facing Naxi Lake, looking unusually quiet.

The night was getting darker and darker, and the light of the lake changed from bright to deep, but there was no sign of turning golden. Archer couldn't continue playing, and asked Ozhe Lun: "When will it start? Doesn't this lake shine?"

Only then did O'Zhelun put down the playing cards: "Tomorrow night."

"Why tomorrow night?" Archer was puzzled, and what was even more puzzled was that after he asked this question, Zichou's expression seemed to darken instantly.

"Tomorrow night there will be a ceremony to welcome me back. It is a very grand ceremony. The whole family will participate at that time. Such a ceremony does not happen every day. Because I know that the psychopath is looking for the Golden Lake, I wrote to you Came here at this time."

As a result, they played all night at 24:[-], and Qin Xiu came to participate in the end when he had nothing to do.The loser had to take off his clothes, and he took off one piece at a time. It didn't take long for Archer to have only one pair of underwear left, and after a while, all three of them had only underwear left.

Qin Xiu was probably quite bored, and asked the three of them to wear little swans before he would give them back their clothes. The three of them stood in a row arm in arm, splitting their legs back and forth, and Qin Xiu lay on his side on the grass , holding a grass stalk in the corner of his mouth, leaning on his chin with one hand, looking up boredly at the three of them jumping around in front of them.This is clearly a humiliation, and Archer doesn't know why O'Zhelun still dances so high...

It was late at night, and the surface of the lake was as calm as a mirror. The sky was scattered with stars, reflected on the surface of the lake, making the whole Naxi Lake look like a small universe, extremely deep.Archer and Zichou were gathering firewood to build a bonfire on the hillside, wondering, this lake is too quiet, Zichou said that all the mermaids live under Naxi Lake, and that the area under the lake is more than ten times larger than the surface of the lake. , then it should be very lively.They came here as friends of the prince, so they can be regarded as distinguished guests. The mermaid tribe didn't intend to entertain at all. The atmosphere was so deserted that he wondered if the mermaid tribe only had Ozhe Lun and Zichou. .

"By the way, Shen Gougou, how did I meet you?" Ozhelun asked while throwing firewood into the fire.

"You don't even remember this, how long have we known each other?" Archer looked at the idiot mermaid prince with a headache, and patiently told him everything he knew when he and Ozhelun were on location.

"Ah yes, I remembered!" O'Geren patted his thigh, happily rolling on the grass, "You can't even remember a phone number, thanks to me repeating it so many times!"

Archer rolled his eyes while pounding firewood with a branch, is that you?How the hell did you hear that?

O'Zhelun turned to Qin Xiu again on his stomach: "Crazy, how did we know each other?"

"I don't remember." Qin Xiu said coldly.

O'Zhelun sat up: "Impossible, you are so smart, you must remember!"

In the end, Qin Xiu got impatient with O'Zhelun: "You came to me out of nowhere, saying that you wanted to be a model, and insisted that I take pictures for you."

"Did you take a picture?" O'Geren asked.

Qin Xiu coughed: "I thought you were sick, so I called 120."

Archer and Zichou listened with black threads.

O'Zhelun clutched his chest in fear, as if he wasn't the person in the story: "Did that 120 take me away?"

"No," Qin Xiu glanced at him, "You hugged my thigh and begged me, saying that you lost your memory and had no money and no place to live." Qin Xiu broke a piece of firewood and put it in the campfire, "Finally I let 120 go .”

O'Zhelun became more and more interested the more he listened: "What about after that?"

"What's next? Didn't you want to take a picture, so I took it for you and posted it on the Internet with your information, so you can go back and wait for news." Qin Xiu frowned and looked O'Zhelun up and down, "How could you be a little bit Don't remember?"

"It doesn't matter if I don't remember, as long as you remember." Prince Ou smiled quite naturally.

The night was clear and there was no wind. The four of them were lying by the bonfire. Archer fell asleep and turned back to Volume [-]. When he woke up, he found that Qin Xiu hadn't closed his eyes at all, and was looking up at him without saying a word. Xing Xing, Ozhe Lun on the opposite side of the bonfire turned over a few times, as if he was not asleep, Zichou stared at the back of his prince, with a melancholy expression on his face.

No wonder, the dog lay on the grass with its chin resting on its paws, staring at the dancing flames.Tomorrow we will be able to see the real face of the Golden Lake. Qin Xiu must be too excited to sleep. Ozhelun may never be able to return to Genglin City and see Abi again when he returns to the Mermaid Clan this time. He should have a lot of thoughts. Yes, Zichou looked like Ozhelun's caring little follower, his own prince couldn't sleep, how could he sleep.

A group of people were so worried about each other until dawn.

After Archer took a shower, he and Qin Xiu went to the lake to see O'Zhelun off. O'Zhelun asked Zichou to stay with them, and he himself had to go back.

He said that he had to go back, but O'Zhelun stood by the lake, reluctant to part with his death: "Actually, that ceremony was not only to welcome me back, but also to celebrate my 25th birthday."

Archer opened his mouth wide and complained: "You said it earlier!" After saying that, he immediately stepped forward and gave him a bear hug, "Happy birthday, Alan!" Zichou told them on the way here that the mermaid tribe The average lifespan of a mermaid is four to five hundred years old. He thought that Odgeron was 250 years old, but he was only 25 years old. Judging by the age of the mermaids, he is still the age of a kid.

I don't know if it was because my hug was too abrupt and inopportune, O'Zhelun suddenly cried out without warning, Archer was caught off guard, and patted O'Zhelun on the back: "Don't be sad, we will come back to see you. "

O'Zhelun hugged him tightly, sobbing uncontrollably: "You guys have to remember me! You must remember me!"

Archer hurriedly promised: "Yes, yes, we will remember you forever!"

I don't know if this made O'Zhelun feel better, this guy was still smoking all over his nose.

"Don't cry," Qin Xiu stepped forward in a deep voice and handed over a tissue, "Wipe it clean and let's take a photo as a souvenir."

The four stood by the lake, Qin Xiu held the shutter release in his hand, and said, "Everyone except Zichou shout eggplant", and then the flash light went on.There is no background cloth, no lighting, and no reflective umbrella. This feeling is like taking a photo with an old friend, with a kind of plain warmth.

Archer promised O'Geren that he would bring the photo back to him as soon as it was developed, O'Geren just nodded, turned around and walked slowly into the lake, Archer watched the water gradually reach his ankles, knees, and waist He kept turning his head and waving at them all the way, crying all the way, Archer didn’t know why O’Geren was so sad, it made his eye sockets hot, when he raised his hand to rub his eyes, O’Geren swam into the water In the middle of the day, only a scissors-shaped ripple was left on the water surface, and in the blink of an eye, the water surface returned to tranquility, as if nothing had happened.

Archer picked up his mood and followed Qin Xiu to walk up the hillside, while Zichou stood alone by the lake looking at the center of the lake.Taking advantage of the sunny morning, he and Qin Xiu chose a few good spots on the hillside and took a lot of panoramas of Zhang Naxi Lake. It was almost noon, and Archer was eating the chocolate pie left by Ozhe Lun. When he turned around, he saw Zi Chou He was still standing motionless by the lake.He took a pack of chocolates and sent them to Zichou, but suddenly saw the boy standing by the lake crying, Archer felt something was wrong, if Ozhelun was sad because he was leaving them, why would Zichou cry? ?He hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, why are you crying? Didn't that guy Ozhe Lun go back to celebrate his birthday?" The boy kept crying without saying a word, and Archer felt more and more uncomfortable, holding his shoulder and asking, "What the hell is going on?" What's going on?"