The air on the artificial island in the morning was always very fresh, because the fish smell had just been cleaned, so Yueyue hurriedly finished washing and ran outside to take a deep breath. Xiaodou finally promised to marry her. At this moment, Yueyue's mood became much better. Although she was still full of worries, she had returned to her previous lively appearance.

Directly opposite her, there is a row of strange houses in the distance. It is actually a residence for people to live in after the stage is reassembled. Yueyue doesn't know these things yet, so she now runs over to see it curiously.

The prefabricated house is next to the guardrail on the westmost side of the artificial island, and the other side is next to the warehouse for food. It looks big and is a two-story building. After Yueyue ran to the door, she stopped and gasped, because she ran through the middle part of the artificial island in one breath, which was really tiring for a girl.

Yueyue's figure and footsteps attracted a woman hanging clothes upstairs. She was a pretty young woman who looked in her 20s. Her black hair was as short as a boy, her cheeks were rosy, and her big eyes were embedded on her round face, and her skin was also very white.

The woman put down the clothes in her hand, stood on the edge of the balcony and shouted to Yueyue downstairs: "Hey! What's your name?" The voice sounded very hoarse.

"My name is Yueyue, where are you?" Yueyue also responded upstairs because she felt that this woman looked easy to get along with.

"My name is Kang Ju, and I am the umbrella maker here. All the workers and waiters from our artificial island live in Bifang's house, and the owner of Chongming Hotel and Aunt Ye live here," the woman upstairs continued.

"It turns out that place is not called artificial island hotel, but Chongming Hotel! Also, why do you call the prefabricated house Bifang House?" Yueyue stared at Kang Ju in confusion, looking for an answer.

"Who told you that there is an artificial island hotel?" Kang Ju asked.

Yueyue said: "It's the hotel owner Uncle Li, but last night Aunt Ye showed us an umbrella and said it was the Chongming umbrella made here. It's really beautiful, so I know the name Chongming."

‘Oh! Why did Aunt Ye take out that umbrella again?’ Kang Ju thought to herself in an instant. She knew that Aunt Ye didn’t actually take out a Chongming umbrella, but Bi Fang umbrella, but for some reason, she didn’t want to say more.

"Yueyue, wait a moment, I'll go down and open the door for you and come to my room to have fun." Kang Ju smiled and shouted at Yueyue, covering up her thoughts.

Yueyue also responded very happily: "Okay, if you don't mind the trouble, tell me more stories about the umbrella."

After the conversation, Kang Ju hurriedly hung up the last few pieces of clothes and walked towards the stairs on the side of Bifang's house. Kang Ju looked a little strange when she walked, and one of her legs seemed to be very stiff. The girl wanted to ask him why this happened? But she swallowed the words again. After all, she mentioned that the other person's flaws were not good as soon as she met.

So Yueyue pretended to see nothing and waited silently until Kang Ju walked downstairs and limped towards her. Yueyue pretended to look shocked and looked at Kang Ju's legs.

Kang Ju said without any mind: "This is a problem that comes from birth. I was originally an orphan. After being adopted by the fisherman here, I stayed on an artificial island. I heard from my adoptive parents that when they adopted me, they got a letter from my cradle. The letter stated that I was a child with congenital defects. Because my parents really couldn't support me, they chose to abandon me."

"It's really sad to say this kind of thing. However, fortunately, I'm lucky that I'm lucky to meet a good family. And now I live here very freely, which is also a kind of happiness!" Although I said this, Kang Ju still smiled on her face, and I couldn't tell how much sad she looked.

Yueyue asked: "What about your adoptive parents? Do they live with you?" At this time, Kang Ju was already standing in front of Yueyue. Yueyue could see that Kang Ju not only had a little lame feet, but her hands were also very rough and wide, not like a pair of women's hands, but her face was indeed very delicate and small.

If you only look at your figure and not your appearance, some people will probably mistakenly think that Kang Ju is a man. However, as long as you see her appearance, this misunderstanding will not arise again. In order to relieve Kang Ju's emotions, Yueyue looked at her face and praised, "You are so beautiful."

Kang Ju didn't seem to care about Yueyue's praise. She just shook her head gently, took the initiative to pull Yueyue's hand and said, "Let's not talk here, hurry back to the house. I just finished my work in the morning, and now everyone is resting."

"Do you have a rest time in the morning?" Yueyue asked.

"Yes, the busiest morning! We will get up before five o'clock, clean the artificial island, wash all the clothes, and clean up all the food we need for that day. Well... at about eight o'clock, we will go back to the room to make up for sleep, usually before lunch."

"It sounds pretty good, at least much better than our lives," said Yueyue. "I don't have much time to sleep during the day. Usually, after I get up, I'll be busy until dark."

"What job do you do?"

"I don't have any specific jobs. My parents are nursing staff in the hospital. As for me, I basically help them cook, wash, deliver food every day, and help them in the hospital. I can also take care of Xiaodou's daily life. Anyway, they are just trivial things in life, just don't have time to rest and play."

"Oh, after hearing what you said, the children in the city are not easy!" Kang Ju sighed as she went upstairs: "I thought the children in the city were much happier than us."

"We can't say that all of them. There are fewer children in the city like me. Most of them should be very relaxed and live a life of being cared for by their parents." Yueyue replied.

The two of them soon arrived at Kang Ju's room. Her room was the one closest to the lake on the second floor, which was the one on the west side. After walking in, Yueyue found that it was much more spacious than the rooms they lived in. Moreover, there were windows on the west and north side of the room. The windows were very large, and they were all blinds made of wood.

The most attractive thing to Yueyue's sight is not the wooden windows, but the umbrella surfaces hanging layer by layer on the windows. These umbrella surfaces have not yet been installed. They are supported by skeletons. They are hung on the brackets at the top of the windows and placed layer by layer. Some are fiery red, some are ink blue, and some are dark purple. Anyway, they are all very strong colors. Yueyue tilted her head and observed the patterns under the umbrella surface one by one.

Kang Ju asked: "Do you like these umbrellas?"

"I like it, but I don't have the money to buy it. Are these umbrellas assembled by you?" Yueyue raised her head and asked her. Her elbow touched the chair on one side and sat down. There was a slightly greasy wooden table next to the chair. It should be a table for eating. Yueyue didn't think it was dirty, and she supported one hand on it and looked at Kang Ju.

Seeing her sitting down, Kang Ju moved a chair and sat opposite her and said, "It was not assembled by me alone, but by all the women in this building. Most of the women here come from the abandoned fishing villages in the past. They are very strong and work hard."

"After we came here, the man was responsible for physical work on the pier and the island, while the woman was responsible for learning to make Chongming umbrellas with Uncle Li. I have only learned this technology in recent years and I can't even get what I did before."

Yueyue asked: "Who painted the pattern under the Chongming umbrella?"

"It was painted by Aunt Ye. She is a very good painter. Sometimes I learn to paint. It's all handmade. We don't have a printing machine here, and we won't take it to the city to print. Even the colors on the fabric are dyed by hand."

"The more you say, the more I want to have an umbrella like this. Can you tell Uncle Li that I will help him work and change an umbrella?" Yueyue begged.

"This... Uncle Li will come back from the hotel later. I'll talk to him. It should be OK. Uncle Li is a very easy-to-talk person. In the past, some customers who couldn't afford to buy umbrellas asked him if he wanted it, but he didn't let others work and gave him an umbrella."

"It's not good not to work. I don't want to take other people's things in vain. Just tell Uncle Li that I must work to ask for his umbrella."

"You are really a straightforward little girl, okay, I will tell him like that."

While talking to Yueyue, Kang Ju kept smiling happily. She seemed to like to communicate with others very much, especially girls like Yueyue. Kang Ju's hand was always on the back of Yueyue's hand and never left.

Because Kang Ju is a young woman, Yueyue didn't care about her little movement. Most of Yueyue's attention was attracted by the beautiful Chongming umbrella, and she was always watching the different patterns under each umbrella.

Suddenly, Yueyue saw one of the fiery red umbrellas and asked, "Why are there only a black line under this umbrella? There is nothing else?"

Kang Ju looked along her gaze. Sure enough, there was only a long black line drawn under the fiery red umbrella, which was very wide, like a person's tied hair, but there was no stroke below the end of the hair. Kang Ju instantly realized that the fiery red umbrella was painted by the human and bird Bi Fang!

She quickly changed the topic and said, "Aunt Ye must be tired and has not finished drawing. I will remind her later."

Yueyue next asked what the pattern Kang Ju was going to draw? Of course, Kang Ju said he didn't know, so he used it to avoid the problem. However, what is the point of painting the fiery red umbrella of Bifangbi? It caused people around 15 years to hide it! Will Bifang umbrella be related to the disappearance of Nuonuo 50 years ago?
Chapter completed!