Chapter 454: Xian'er
By the time it was almost twelve o'clock, the barbecue party was basically over.
The once bustling beach became deserted. The little girls had gone back to sleep long ago, and most of the adults had left. The remaining people had lost interest, but no one suggested ending the night so they stayed. Only Wichita, Nevada, Indiana and others were gambling for fun and were having more and more fun.
Su Xia finished the last bit of the drink in his cup, and looked at Yixian caressing the white-haired girl who had been wanting to sleep for a long time but was willing to go home and was sleeping on Yixian's legs, and said, "Yixian, why don't you go back first."
"What about you?" Yixian asked.
"Me." Su Xia hesitated for a moment and stood up. "Wait here for a while. I'll be back soon."
L20 is useless. As a secretary ship, it is just a mascot and can't help the admiral in his work. Su Xia looked on the beach and found Victory near the sea. She was looking at the dark sea. She patted her shoulder and said, "Victory, what are you looking at standing here alone?"
"Admiral?" Victory spotted Su Xia, "I didn't see anything, just stood there and got some fresh air."
"How is it?" With just a simple thought, she knew why the admiral was looking for her now. Victory asked, "Admiral, are you ready to end the barbecue party?"
"It's almost twelve o'clock." Su Xia took out her phone and looked at it. "I still have work tomorrow, right?"
"What kind of job?"
"I need to study, you need to prepare for the exercise, and then we need to hold a competition for the secretary ship when it is ready to be replaced..."
"It seems so." Victory stretched and showed off his strong capital, "Then let's end it."
After a discussion with Victory, mainly about what to do with the tables, chairs, benches, barbecue grills, etc. on the beach after the barbecue party, because trash cans were prepared in advance and everyone was very civilized and threw any garbage into the trash cans, the beach basically did not need to be cleaned up. However, there were still a lot of food left, so what should be done? Su Xia returned to the rest area.
"Yixian, you guys go back first."
"What about you?" Yixian asked.
"I have to wait until the barbecue party is finished before going over." Su Xia said, "No more than half an hour."
Yixian looked at the increasingly quiet beach. As the night progressed, the temperature dropped and the sea breeze grew stronger, making the tall leaves rustle. The sound of the waves gave people an inexplicable feeling of desolation. He said, "I'll help you finish it up, too."
"It's nothing. I don't need your help." Su Xia touched the soft long hair of the white-haired girl lying in Yixian's arms, "You can send Changchun back to sleep first."
Yixian looked down, nodded after a moment of silence. She still had the mission of sending Changchun back.
Yixian thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll wait for you at home."
"good."
Changchun was an out-and-out girl, lying on the beach in a swimsuit, even many adults could not compare to her , so it was not easy to carry her back home. Yixian pushed Changchun, woke her up, and took the confused girl back home.
Apart from Chongqing who went to find her sisters, Danyang and Yangyan were together. They were the last people in the fishery administration to return.
Watching Yixian and Changchun walk up the steps leading to the beach and the embankment by the sea, Su Xia found the Victory, as well as the reputation and counterattack that you can always trust, and persuaded those gamblers who were still excited even late at night to leave, and began the final finishing work of the barbecue party.
It doesn't matter if the grill is left on the beach. If you don't have time tonight, you can wait until tomorrow to deal with it slowly and move it to the warehouse. The garbage must be thrown away, otherwise it will be troublesome if there is a strong wind at night and the beach is full of garbage. Fortunately, there is not much garbage. The ingredients must be put in the kitchen and frozen.
It was already twelve o'clock when the messy finishing work was completed.
"Admiral, what are your plans for tonight?" She had long golden hair parted on the side. She used to wear cool clothes, a belly-baring shirt and hot pants. But when it got cold at night, she quickly put on a coat. Indiana did not go home to sleep immediately after the barbecue party like Nevada and the others. She helped everyone clean up the mess.
Su Xia replied: "I already have an appointment."
"Yixian?" Indiana asked. She had been observing him and naturally knew that he and Yixian were particularly close tonight. He slept on Yixian's thighs on the rocks by the sea, and later helped Yixian prepare a barbecue and drank with Yixian.
Su Xia said: "I promised to accompany her to watch the moon."
"Haven't you been watching the moon with her all night?"
Indiana was unwilling to accept it: "Besides, it's already August 16th."
After twelve o'clock it is the next day.
"August 16th is August 16th." Su Xia said, "I promised Yixian anyway."
"Okay." Indiana looked around and everyone had gone far away. She grabbed Su Xia's hand and said, "If you want to accompany Yixian to appreciate the moon, then appreciate the moon. But, well, I've waited for so long, you can't just not show any appreciation at all."
Su Xia hugged Indiana and said, "Okay."
"Not good." Indiana raised his chin.
"Okay, that's enough." Su Xia knew what Indiana wanted him to do, but he didn't want to do it. After kissing Indiana here, he would turn around and look for Yixian to appreciate the moon. It would be a bit too much of a scumbag. "Go back to sleep."
"I don't care." Indiana said, "I am also a marriage ship, the admiral can't be partial to one."
Su Xia looked at Indiana who was holding his wrist tightly for a long time. Indiana looked stubborn, his shoulders drooped, and said, "Next time I will make out with other people before I come to you. I'm sure you can accept it."
"Even if you have many wedding ships, but... no." Indiana said, "I'm not a green crane."
Su Xia spread her hands and said, "That's good."
Indiana pouted.
Su Xia pinched Indiana's smooth face and patted her head.
Indiana slapped his hand away and said, "I'm not a puppy."
"Okay, okay." Su Xia withdrew her hand.
Indiana bit his lip and asked, "Halloween is next month, right?"
"Halloween is next month?"
Except for a few special holidays, Su Xia doesn't know much about any holidays that cannot be celebrated.
"November 1st," Indiana said. "Halloween."
"So," Su Xia asked, "what's the problem."
"Nothing." Indiana said nonchalantly, "I remember the Admiral really liked the Devil's Prison, right?"
"Compared to the Devil's Prison," Su Xia crossed her arms, "I still prefer the fake author of Ayanami."
Indiana's expression froze, and he kicked Su Xia fiercely.
Su Xia clapped his hands down, knocking back Indiana's attack, and laughed.
Indiana went home.
Su Xia walked towards the Chinese restaurant alone. She saw that except for the street lights along a few main roads in the garrison, all other street lights were off. The commercial buildings were completely dark tonight. Some windows in the residential area were lit, but most of them were off, emitting a hazy warm yellow light. It took her several minutes to walk to the Chinese restaurant.
Su Xia walked into the Chinese restaurant. The lights were on and the layout was still the same as before. The lucky cat on the cash register kept waving its hands. He flicked the cat's waving hands with interest and walked into the backyard of the Chinese restaurant. He saw Yixian sitting at a round table in the backyard. He turned around when he heard footsteps.
Su Xia sat down at the round table, opposite Yixian, and asked, "Is Changchun asleep?"
"Um."
"Danyang should be sleeping with her sisters at the Japanese place." Su Xia asked, "Has Chongqing come back?"
"No." Yixian said, "She just sent a message saying that she will not be back tonight."
"Oh." Su Xia didn't comment. Suddenly, she realized that she didn't know what to say or what topic to start. Otherwise, she could just keep quiet. "I suddenly remembered that I haven't had a good mooncake tonight. Did Yixian bring two back?"
There was a lot of meat and fish for dinner, so naturally there would be no mooncakes. And when I thought of eating a mooncake at the barbecue party, the scene brought back memories, and no matter how delicious the mooncake was, it tasted bland.
"I brought some back." Yixian stood up, "I'll give them to the admiral right away."
Yixian soon came back with the mooncakes.
Su Xia looked at it and asked, "Which one is the Wuren one?"
“It’s written on the mooncake.” Yixian said.
"Bean paste... I can smell it right away, the fragrance is really familiar. Lotus paste, lotus paste again... Found , five-nut mooncake." Su Xia picked up one mooncake after another, "I usually don't eat five-nut mooncakes, but I believe in Yixian's craftsmanship."
"If the admiral has never eaten five-nut mooncakes... I can't guarantee that the admiral will like it."
"No problem." Su Xia said, but after thinking about it, she was still a little worried, "There's no winter melon candy."
Su Xia hates winter melon candy the most, even more than green and red silk.
"No." Yixian replied.
"Where's the green and red silk?"
“Neither do I.”
Although I have never eaten any high-end five-nut mooncakes, at most I have eaten some low-end five-nut mooncakes, and I really feel very stressed when I see five-nut mooncakes. However, it would be a bit bad to back off immediately after just saying such a harsh word. Su Xia made up her mind to give it a try and said, "Let's share one between the two of us."
"Okay." Yixian nodded happily.
Su Xia was not polite and divided the mooncake into two halves, giving one half to Yixian and eating the other half herself.
First smell it, it smells very fragrant, break off a small piece and put it in your mouth, chewing it slowly.
"How is it?" Yixian stared at Su Xia nervously. She didn't care what others thought, but the admiral was different.
"Yes." Su Xia nodded, "It really is. It's very soft and fragrant."
"That's good." Yixian said. Judging from the admiral's expression, he was not being perfunctory. Now he felt relieved.
Su Xia looked at the five-nut mooncake in his hand, and tried hard to recall what the five-nut mooncakes he had eaten before tasted like. He couldn't remember. Every time he saw the five-nut mooncake, he would back off... Could it be that he had misunderstood the five-nut mooncake?
The mooncakes made by Yixian were not big, at most the size of a girl's palm, and about the same size as the opening of a disposable paper cup. Since it was divided in half, the portion was smaller, and Su Xia finished the mooncake in one go.
Yixian asked, "Do you want more, Admiral?"
"No...if I want it, I'll try a different flavor." Su Xia said, picking up another mooncake. "And I still think the lotus seed paste and egg yolk mooncake tastes better. It's the most classic mooncake...If I have to say it's classic, the bean paste mooncake is the most classic, right?"
"Let's split another one." Su Xia asked, "Yixian, what do you think?"
Yixian finished the last bit of mooncake and clapped her hands to get rid of the food residue on her palms. She didn't have a big appetite, but seeing the admiral's high interest, she couldn't bear to refuse, so she risked her life to accompany the gentleman and said, "Then lotus paste, egg yolk or bean paste."
Su Xia hesitated for a long time. He always had difficulty making decisions. Finally, he made up his mind: "Bean paste. I remember I haven't eaten bean paste for a long time." He remembered that he ate bean paste the most when he was a child. Lotus paste was a high-end mooncake. He didn't know when bean paste became less and less, and he hadn't eaten it for a long time.
Su Xia found a bean paste and gave half to Yixian.
Su Xia was not in a hurry to eat. She took the remaining half of the mooncake and walked to the back railing under the eaves. She looked at the moonlight reflected in the pond, looked up at the moon and ate slowly. She saw Yixian coming over from the corner of her eye and said, "I didn't have a chance to appreciate the moon at the barbecue party. Now I can quietly look at the moon. It's really beautiful."
"Yes." Yixian looked at the night sky.
Su Xia withdrew her gaze from the sky, looked at the silver glow of the moonlight on the wooden floor of the porch, and said with a smile: "I didn't know it before, but now I really feel it a little bit."
"What?"
"That poem, Quiet Night Thoughts... The moon shines brightly before my bed, I wonder if it is frost on the ground. I look up at the moon and think of my hometown." Su Xia said, "I learned it in elementary school, but I couldn't appreciate it. Now I read it again... I have to say that the boss is the boss, amazing."
Su Xia raised her eyes and glanced at Yixian, who looked worried and said, "Don't worry, Yixian... I still miss home, but that's it."
"Um."
Su Xia broke a piece of mooncake and ate it. She looked at the moon, then looked at Yixian, and suddenly laughed.
"Admiral, what are you laughing at?" Yixian asked.
"I just suddenly thought that if there really was a Chang'e on the moon, she would probably look like Yixian." Su Xia said, "Yixian with a streamer and bare feet wearing a clear blue gauze is really full of fairy spirit."
"I don't want to be Chang'e, who stole the immortality elixir that Yi got from the Queen Mother of the West and flew to the Moon Palace." Yixian said, "I just want to live with my husband forever. Only when the mountains are gone, the rivers are dry, the winter thunders, the summer snows, and the heaven and earth merge, will I dare to break up with you."
"If I were to do it, I would be the Weaver Girl." Yixian said, "The thin clouds are playing tricks, the flying stars are conveying hatred, and the Milky Way is far away and dark. When the golden wind and jade dew meet, it is better than countless things in the world. Tenderness is like water, and the good time is like a dream. I can't help but look back at the Magpie Bridge on the way home. If the love between two people is long-lasting, why should we be together day and night?"
"We are not Chang'e and Yi, nor are we the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. We are the admiral and the ship girl, Su Xia and Yi Xian." Su Xia grabbed Yi Xian's hand, "We will be together through life and death. I will hold your hand and grow old with you."
Yixian smiled.
"We are married and love each other without any doubt."
