The sea embraces all rivers, and being tolerant is great. The most important thing in the world is the sea. In terms of fantasy, bizarre, dangerous and unpredictable, there is also the sea.
The ocean outside Yanyu Island is very gentle, like a kind mother, raising children in this area. On the calm sea, the sea breeze gently blows by, and the afterglow of the sunset is like gold, sprinkling on the layers of waves, as if thousands of beating mirrors reflecting golden soft light.
"Ao—Ao—" Several seagulls flew down from the clouds, flapping their wings across the intersection of the sea and the sky, making the whole picture look more peaceful.
A small boat full of seafood, swaying and undulating on the sea surface. Several seagulls were paused and stopped on the side of the boat, and they couldn't stop pecking, but they were very particular about eating. They only picked shrimps and swallowed by dead fish, which seemed to give the owner a face.
Suddenly, a young man suddenly crawled out of the sea, splashing water at a foot, revealing his bronze skin, his eyebrows raised, his eyes were like stars, and his simplicity was a bit heroic. It seemed that he was only twelve or thirteen years old.
The boy shook his head vigorously, holding a small blue fish like a petrel in his right hand, grabbed the side of the boat with his left hand, rolled over and rolled onto the fishing boat, lying on the boat, looking at the small fish that could not help but be filled with joy: "I'm so lucky today, this petrel fish should weigh more than two pounds! Go back and roast it to serve my grandfather!"
The seagull beside him was jealous and couldn't help but come forward to try the taste of the seagull fish. The young man shrank and said, "Xiaobai, don't make trouble! This is not for you." The seagull seemed to be quite human. He retracted his head angrily and continued to peck at the tiny fish and shrimps.
The boy put the seagull fish in the boat, grabbed a few fat fish and fed a few seagulls. He smiled and said, "I have a good harvest today, and I will give you a tooth sacrifice." The boy is simple by nature, and a few seagulls are very familiar with him. He always comes to his boat to peck at the small fish. They are also very obedient. Without the boy's consent, they never touch fat fish and prawns.
"You are all here. It's not too late, it's time to go home." The boy said as he stood up, wearing only a pair of shorts, revealing his slimming body. He held the oars and rowed the boat back.
Within half an hour, the boy stopped the boat and drifted, filled the fish and shrimps with a large bag on the shore. He tied the bag mouth with a rope, like a boatman. He put the other end of the rope on his shoulder and dragged the bag forward on the beach, leaving a long row of drag marks behind him. He was washed by the waves and disappeared soon.
The inland sea near Yanyu Island is rich in sea swallow fish. This fish looks like a sea swallow, so it is named after it. It is a precious ingredient in the famous Blue Kingdom. Its meat is tender and delicious. It has always been the best delicacy used in the palace. Because it is extremely difficult to catch, the price of sea swallow fish is ten times more expensive than gold. The name of Yanyu Island comes from sea swallow fish.
The boy dragged a fish bag and walked hundreds of meters on the beach, walked into a dense forest, carried the fish bag on his shoulders, and walked forward in a twists and turns in the dense forest. Even though the boy was very familiar with the dense forest, he walked for half an hour before he walked out of the dense forest and came to a valley.
The valley was very hidden, and the boy and his grandfather lived there. No outsiders came in. When the boy grew up to twelve or thirteen years old, he had only seen his grandfather and never seen anyone else.
The boy walked out of the valley and saw his grandfather sitting in front of his house from afar. An old man in Ma-clothed with his right arm was smoking a dry tobacco. The boy accelerated his pace and walked forward and said happily: "Grandpa, I took a fish today and roasted it for you later!"
The old man Mayi was thin, wrinkled, and had a very kind face. While smoking a dry tobacco, he smiled at the boy and said, "We Asheng are filial and don't waste grandpa's hard work, and you will be raised and raised."
The young man smiled and said, "Grandpa, you sit down first, I'll go cook." The old man in Mai took a breath of dry tobacco. When he heard this, his face changed. He was choked by the cigarette. He coughed a few times and waved his hands repeatedly, "Don't... cough, cough, A Sheng, you are tired of fishing, go and rest quickly, let grandpa come for cooking, be good and obedient."
The boy said strangely: "Grandpa, why don't you let me cook? Last time I roasted the fish for you, you said it was delicious!"
When Mai thought of that painful experience, she couldn't help but feel a little sensation. It was also called grilled fish? The outside was burnt like a ball of paste, and the inside was half-cooked, and even the fish scales and gills were not removed. At that time, Mai thought that this was the first time that the good grandson had cooked for him, and he said that he could not help the good grandson's excitement. He had to bite the bullet and ate the whole grilled fish in front of the boy, and praised it while eating it. After that, Mai had no appetite for food for three days.
Since then, Old Man Mayi came to a conclusion that he must not let the young man cook anymore, otherwise his life would be tortured to death sooner or later. So when he heard that the young man was going to grill fish again, Old Man Mayi couldn't sit still and laughed dryly, saying, "A Sheng, it's not that Grandpa doesn't let you cook, you have more important things to do, um... Have you finished reading the book "The Eight-World Command" given to you by Grandpa?"
The young man shook his head and said, "Not yet." The old man in Mai smiled and said, "That's right, just go read books and cook, just let grandpa come."
"Okay, then I'll go read a book, grandpa, you cook." The boy didn't think much, smiled slightly, put down the fish bag, and went back to his house to read a book.
The old man Mai wiped his head and whispered to himself: "It's so dangerous, so dangerous... I'm smart and clever. I can learn everything I can. Why can't I learn how to cook? It's really... I can't let him touch the stove anymore!" He packed up his fish bag and went to cook without mentioning it.
Soon, the old man Mayi prepared the meal and asked the boy to come out for dinner. The swallow fish naturally became a treasure on the table. After the two of them finished their meal, the night was already dark. The grandparents and grandchildren packed up their cups and plates, sat on the big bluestone outside the house, looked up at the night sky, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the sky seemed particularly clean. The old man Mayi took a sip of dry tobacco, exhaled his breath, and said, "Good grandson, are you almost thirteen?"
The boy nodded and said, "It's still three months away." The old man in Ma was slightly stunned and murmured, "Is it only three months away... it's almost... it's almost..."
The boy said, "Grandpa, what's going to be soon?" The old man in Mai smiled slightly, stroked the boy's head lovingly, and said, "My dear grandson is about to fly into a dragon." The boy was confused and said, "Grandpa, what's flying into a dragon?"
The old man Mai took a sip of dry tobacco and said, "You will know in the future." The boy lay on the bluestone, looking up at the starry sky, and said in a daze: "Grandpa, I am almost thirteen years old, but I don't know who my parents are? I don't know what kind of people they are? Grandpa, why do you never tell me?"
The old man Mai shook his head and said, "Good grandson, don't ask about your parents anymore. You should know some things less. Grandpa is also for your own good."
It was this sentence again. Every time the boy asked about his parents, the old man in Mai always made such excuses. The boy gradually got used to it. When he was silent, he said, "Grandpa, you told me a lot of things about the outside. When can I go out and see..."
The old man Mai touched the boy's head and smiled and said, "When you can beat Grandpa, grandpa will let you go out..." (To be continued...)