Chapter - 463 Iron Spear In the Temple (11) (1/2)

He heard Huang Rong asked, ”Then what did Yeye do?”

Shagu replied, ”Yeye beckoned me to come over. I jumped in fright; turned out he had already seen me slipping out to play. I did not dare to come over, I was afraid he would hit me. He said ”I won't hit you, you come over here”. So I went over. He said he wanted to take a boat ride and go fishing, he told me to wait for the Taoist priests and to let them in as soon as they came ashore; he told me to let them eat together with the short and fat man six people. I said I wanted to go fishing too. Yeye said I could not come; I had to wait for the Taoist priests and let them in, because they did not know the way on the Island.”

”And then what happened?” Huang Rong asked.

Shagu said, ”And then Yeye went beyond the big rock and set sail. I know, these Taoist priests are ugly, Yeye did not want to meet them.”

Huang Rong praised her, ”That's right, what you said is totally correct. When did Yeye come back?”

”Come back?” Shagu said, ”He did not come back.”

Ke Zhen'E was shaken; he heard Huang Rong ask, ”Are you sure? Then what happened?” He could hear her voice was slightly trembling; apparently she also realized this was a crucial point.

Shagu replied, ”Yeye was about to set sail, suddenly a pair of big birds came flying by; they were your birds. Yeye beckoned and whistled toward the birds, this pair of birds came down. There was something tied on the bird's foot, it looked so amusing. I shouted, 'Yeye, give it to me, give it to me!' …” Speaking to this point she actually shouted loudly.

Yang Kang chided her, ”Quiet! Everybody is trying to sleep.”

”Shagu,” Huang Rong said, ”Just continue your story.”

Shagu said, ”I will speak quietly.” And she indeed lowered her voice, ”Yeye ignored me; he ripped a cloth from his robe and tied it up on the big bird's foot, then he let them go.”

”Hmm,” Huang Rong talked to herself, ”Father was going to avoid the Quanzhen Masters, no wonder he did not have time to fetch the 'jin wawa' [see Chapter 29]. But who shot the female eagle with an arrow?” So she asked, ”Who shot an arrow to the bird?”

”Arrow? There was no arrow,” Shagu said; and then she went silent like she was lost in thought.

”All right,” Huang Rong said, ”Why don't you continue?”

Shagu continued, ”Yeye saw his robe was torn, he took it off and told me to go and get another one for him. But when I came back Yeye was gone, the Taoist priests' boat was also gone, I only saw that torn robe lying on the ground.”

Listening to her to this point Huang Rong no longer asked; she silently mulled it over in her head. Half a day later she said, ”Where did they go?”

”I saw them,” Shagu said, ”I called Yeye, but he did not reply. I climbed to the top of a big tree and looked, I saw Yeye's little boat in front, the Taoist priests' big boat followed behind, slowly they sailed on the ocean and disappeared. I don't like to see that short and fat man, I stayed on the beach, kicking the gravel and playing all day until dark, and came back with this Yeye and this good brother.”