I was his old enemy

There were whispers all around.

The shopkeeper was very helpless, he shrugged and shook his head, expressing that he was helpless, and then said: "But, you can't prove that your sister didn't break my things, can you?"

Tang Chen: "You can check the monitoring."

"Unfortunately, the monitoring here broke down a few months ago."

Few outsiders were willing to come in when they saw the scene in the store, and those who were willing to come in did not look or buy anything, and most of them gathered around curiously.The shop owner didn't want to affect the business of the shop just because of a small pottery, and he felt that the boy with black eyes and black hair was difficult to deal with, so he chose to calm down:

"Okay, tonight is a good night, let's put an end to this unpleasant incident together, and you don't have to pay for it."

"No, my sister is only 17 years old, you have to return her green and white, I don't want her to leave this beautiful land with regrets, she just arrived here this afternoon, she said it is beautiful here."

After coming back from rebirth, Tang Chen didn't like to wear formal clothes, even anything a little stricter.Now he is wearing baggy jeans and a light, casual jacket over a white T-shirt.

Looks like a real kid.

Foreign children are more precocious than Chinese children in appearance, so they think that Tang Chen is at most fourteen or fifteen years old.

But his manner of talking and standing there is not at all like a child.

Tang Fu can't understand every sentence of the English spoken here, but she can probably understand what Tang Chen said with a guess, and the tears that stopped just now suddenly showed signs of reappearing .

That's right, she doesn't care whether she buys that thing or not, she just doesn't want to be looked at with disdainful eyes, or by foreigners, if she doesn't figure it out now, she will remember this matter for the rest of her life, and she will be unhappy when she thinks about it.

A hand rested on her shoulder comfortingly, and the warmth of the palm rushed into her heart. She turned her head to meet Chen Qingyan's black and white eyes, and the clouds were calm and breezy.

Owner: "Do you want to call the police? No boy, you believe me it's not a good idea, you don't know the police here, they will make things worse, I have to close down here, and you can't play Now, we're all going to go with them to the goddamn police station, and they're just having fun with our money, that's true."

It doesn't matter if it's true or because of the bias of reason, because Tang Chen didn't intend to call the police. He just noticed a car parked outside the store.

"Is that your car?" Tang Chen turned and pointed to the car outside the door and asked the owner.

"Yes." The shopkeeper looked at Tang Chen suspiciously, not knowing why.

This time without Tang Chen speaking, the smart Italian woman who interpreted for them said directly: "Maybe your driving recorder has captured what we need."

The owner checked his car's dashcam and saw the truth, just as Tang Fu said.

"I'm ashamed, it was definitely not my intention."

Tang Chen: "You must apologize to my sister."

Shopkeeper: "Actually, I think so too."

The shop owner apologized sincerely, and gave Tang Fu a intact pottery statue of a three-legged woman, saying that it would be kept as a souvenir. Tang Fu didn't want a good one, so she took away the pottery statue that was broken in half.

Walking out of the store, the wind blew up the corner of Tang Chen's jacket, revealing his thin waist wrapped in a white T-shirt. He looked at the Italian woman whose hair was draped behind her like seaweed.

Woman: "How much are you going to pay me?"

"I know you won't ask for money."

Woman: "Why?"

"Because you're a smart woman."

"It's a pity, you are still a child," the woman smiled meaningfully, "otherwise, maybe we would have a wonderful night."

"Thank you!"

The woman was gone, lost in the lively night of Taormina's evening.

"Brother, did that woman take a fancy to you?"

Tang Fu's unhappiness came and went quickly, and now, she was shaking the bag in her hand like a normal person, making fun of Tang Chen while walking.

Tang Chen nonsense: "She said her daughter likes boys with black eyes and black hair, just like me."

Tang Fu didn't believe it, and it's not that she couldn't understand English at all, but she didn't refute, because his brother was really cool just now, she pouted and said, "When did your English become so good?"

Tang Chen smiled and said, "You despise it?"

"Huh! I will work harder to learn English in the future."

Tang Fu was attracted to a shop selling exotic trinkets again. Tang Chen and Chen Qingyan were not interested and didn't go in. They leaned under the tree outside the door and waited.

It is an old olive tree with a thick trunk and swaying shadows.

Chen Qingyan leaned against the trunk of the tree and looked down at the shadows of the trees under his feet. Tang Chen leaned over and raised an arm to put it on his shoulders. Unexpectedly, he smelled soap again, "You brought soap here to take a bath?!"

"I've used soap since I was a child, and I'm not used to using other things." Chen Qingyan looked up at Tang Chen, rubbing his neck against the fabric on his sleeve, itching a bit, "That woman just now, what did you mean by the last sentence?"

Tang Chen didn't expect this idiot to ask this, and smiled: "I thought you didn't understand."

Chen Qingyan: "I just didn't understand."

"He said I was charming, what do you think?"

Chen Qingyan lowered his head again and did not speak.

——You are very charming, more and more I feel that I can't climb high, but I don't dare to think high.

"Did you smell the fragrance of flowers?" Tang Chen asked, patting Chen Qingyan's shoulder lightly.

I've smelled it a long time ago, but I don't know what the scent of flowers is, it smells very good, but Tang Chen asked this question on purpose, there must be a reason.Chen Qingyan looked up and looked around, trying to find the reason.

When his gaze moved to the right back, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the hand hanging over Tang Chen's side subconsciously lifted up to grab the clothes around his waist.

There was a backlit corner over there, the light was a bit dim, he saw a large snow-white human face, the features on the face were exaggerated, the distribution and shape were exaggerated, it was scary to look at.

Then, he heard Tang Chen's deep laughter, which rang in his ears.His hands slowly loosened the clothes around Tang Chen's waist. A car passed by on the street, and the lights of the car flashed past, illuminating the backlit corner.

It turned out that it wasn't a human face, it was a large flower pot, made of white porcelain, with human facial features painted on it very freely, and a tree grew in the flower pot, and luxuriant red flowers bloomed on the tree.

Chen Qingyan: "Were you frightened when you first saw it?"

"No, but I know you will be frightened."

Chen Qingyan: "Why?"

"If you look closely, pots like this one in Taormina are very common."

Tang Fu saw the pattern of the three-legged woman again in the small jewelry store, and it appeared on the small jewelry. She was still holding a broken pottery in her hand, and the question that was interrupted by the unexpected incident came up again. ,What exactly is this?

After coming out of the small jewelry store, Tang Fu tentatively asked Tang Chen: "Brother, have you seen a pattern of a woman with three legs? What is that?"

She guessed that her brother didn't know either, so she didn't hold out much hope.

"I saw it."

Tang Fu: "What is that?"

Tang Chen asked Chen Qingyan: "Hey, do you know?"

Chen Qingyan: "I don't know."

Tang Chen: "Are we going to eat or not?"

Tang Fu: "Then do you know?"

"know."

The three of them walked to the April 2000th ​​Square. The floor was covered with black and white floor tiles. The surrounding buildings lost some vicissitudes of history under the light. The church built more than [-] years ago stood opposite in the night.

This is a restaurant, three people ordered cuttlefish noodles and grilled shrimp, and there was a pre-dinner dessert.

"How do you know this cuttlefish noodles are delicious?"

Tang Fu pursed her lips and looked at the black noodles on the table. She couldn't arouse the desire/desire to use the fork at all. On the contrary, the big plate of grilled red and fat shrimps looked more delicious, but her brother just said again and again. Emphasize that this is delicious.

The pre-dinner dessert just now, to put it bluntly, was a few slices of tomato on the bread, which made people a little disappointed.

Tang Chen: "You eat first, and then evaluate after eating."

Chen Qingyan rolled up a piece of noodles with a fork, tentatively put it into his mouth, tasted it, and under the expectant eyes of the other two, he gave a positive expression as he wished.

"good to eat."

After taking a few mouthfuls, Chen Qingyan asked Tang Fu's question again: "How do you know this is delicious?"

"It's said in the travel guide."

Of course it’s not what it said in the travel guide. He used to, no, he liked to eat this kind of noodles when he came to Taormina in his previous life.Tasting now, there is still a faint taste of the past.

After Tang Chen took a few mouthfuls of noodles, he said:

"The woman with three legs is called Medusa, also called trinacria, which means triangle. Another name for Sicily is triangle because it is a triangular island. Her three legs point to the three corners of the triangle, which means protecting the island. This island, she is the pattern on the Sicily regional flag."

"But why? Since she is so great, why does she look like that?" Tang Fu didn't understand.

"Legend has it that Medusa lost her virginity because of her extraordinary beauty, and was cursed by the goddess Athena to become like that, and any man who looked into her eyes would be instantly turned to stone."

I was really hungry, and each person was not full after one plate of cuttlefish noodles, so they ordered three more plates. The result was that the large plate of red grilled shrimps could not be eaten, so they had to take it away.

April [-]th ​​Square faces the sea. From here, you can see the entire coastline. If the weather is clear, you can also see the smoke clouds on Mount Etna in the distance. Unfortunately, it is night, and there are no stars and moons. At night, you can’t see it. Crystal-like blue, only boundless darkness, hidden turbulent waves.

"Let's go, go back to sleep." Tang Fu became sleepy after eating, and Tang Fu was a little listless.

The three of them were about to walk back when a distant harmonica sound came from the square, intermittent and sad, like someone was crying.

Tang Chenwenyin looked over, and there was an old woman with a dimpled face sitting on a wooden chair, she was as thin as a stick, and there was a small flower pot beside her, in which some scraps of euros were thrown by passers-by.

Tang Chen turned around and threw ten euros into the flower pot.

Suddenly, the sound of the harmonica stopped, and the old lady said something to Tang Chen that Tang Fu and Chen Qingyan couldn't understand, and then continued to play her harmonica.

"What did she say just now?" Chen Qingyan asked Tang Chen.

He felt that Tang Chen became a little absent-minded after that sentence.

Tang Chen: "I don't know, I don't understand either."

In fact, he understood, what he said was a sentence in the Bible:

"We have all gone astray like sheep, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."