Chapter 34 the fish

One evening twelve years ago, I was sitting on a reef by the sea, holding a bamboo pole in my hand, wrapped around a thread, hanging a bait, and hanging straight into the water.There are slight waves, and the fishing line is rippling, as if a fish has taken the bait. I raise the pole from time to time to see, and it is empty several times! Although the sun is down, the sea breeze is still very hot, who wants to come out and steam!It was my nanny who said that I slept too much in summer, and I was going to get sick from sleeping.She found me a pole; and having struck the hook, she dragged me out.

The reef is also stable, and the shadow of the fort wall over there is pressing us down.I leaned against the nurse's chest, holding the pole. After a long time, the silk just hung quietly.I felt a little impatient, so I said angrily, "What does this fish want to eat? Why haven't you come here for half a day! The nanny laughed, "It will eat anything in the sea, just wait, it will come soon!" " I was really tired, so I handed the pole to the nanny, crossed my hands and hugged my knees.Layer upon layer of waves slowly rolled in, as if they were about to cover the reef; when they receded, they seemed to take the reef with them.I didn't say a word, and I thought--I thought how nice it would be if I could follow the wave till the end of the water, and lift up the corner of the sky to have a look!

Then it must be very bright, isn't the home of the moon also there?But when the sky is lifted up, the sea water will be leaked and the moon will be wet.Do not worry about it!Is there anything cleaner than sea water in the world?It's crystal clear..."Yes, it's much cooler now, I'm here to play with the girl." The nurse's words woke me up from my fantasy; when I looked up, I saw a tall soldier standing by the reef, talking to the nurse.His right sleeve, which seemed to be empty, hung down from his shoulder. He came closer, looked at me with a smile and said, "Young lady caught some fish!"

When I looked carefully, his face was very dark, his hair was grizzled, his right arm was gone, and the sleeve was really empty.I felt a little scared, forced a smile and nodded with him, then turned around, leaned on the nurse's shoulder, and asked softly, "Who is he? What about his arm...? The nanny patted me with a smile and said, "It doesn't matter, he is my fellow countryman." " He also smiled and said, "What's the matter, is the girl afraid of me?" The nurse said, "No, the girl asked what happened to your hand!" He looked down at the sleeve and said, "My hand? My hand Let the cannon go away!" At this moment, I couldn't help but look up at him, and then look back at the muzzle of the cannon that was faintly exposed on the fort.

I looked at him and said, "Did you let the cannon on the fort blow your hand away?" He said, "No, he was injured during the war that year." I thought for a while, and then said, "How long have you been fighting? Why didn't I hear the sound of the guns?" He smiled unconsciously, pointed to the sea—the clean and bright sea I was thinking of just now—and said, "Girl, you weren't there at that time! We were over there, on a moonlit night, and the war was coming." ’” I said, “They must be shooting you.” He said, "Yes, during this time of heavy artillery fire, I lost my hand and fell into the sea." At this time, his complexion gradually turned pale.

I stared blankly at the blue sea——for a long time. The nanny said, "It seems that a lot of you died that time, I remember..." He said, "Isn't that right, I escaped with my life. There were hundreds of people in our team. After the ship was wrecked, all I sank in the sea. Only me and my two companions went up to the fort. Now because of this little labor, the pay is more than theirs, and there is nothing strenuous to do." I stroked my right arm and said, "Did you feel pain at that time?" He smiled and said, "Why didn't it hurt!" I said, "Did they have the same casualties?" He said, "That's natural. , we also fired at them, and many of them died, and they all sank in the sea." I stared at him and said, "Since both sides suffer, why do you still fight?" He sighed slightly, after After a while, he said, "Where are we?... It was an order from the captains on both sides of us. We have to fight, we have to fire!"

The trumpet on the fort began to whine.He looked back, nodded to us and said, "It's time for them to practice gunnery, and I have to go and watch them too. Goodbye!" "He himself was wounded, he had tasted the pain, and he still obeyed the unknown order to fire, and he also taught the people after him how to fire; he wanted to injure the enemy, make the enemy suffer, die, sink in the It's in the sea!—there's the same thing over there. They obeyed the unknown order to each other and did such work! -" The sea water pushes the golden red bright moon up from the horizon.

"The sea water is full of human blood. It let the human beings floating on it pour blood into each other, contaminating itself. It is still as if nothing happened, with bloody water, spraying snow-white waves—" Yue'er is Baptized by this blood, drenched by this blood, he stopped in the sky with a blood-red light, smiling, watching them do such a job. "Clean! Bright! That's what it is,..." The nanny grabbed my shoulder and said, "Girl, it's getting late, let's go." I slowly stood up, took the pole from the nurse, and brought it up to the surface of the water—a golden fish suddenly hung on the hook!

"'It eats everything in the water', it ate the soldier's arm, it drank the blood from the soldier's wound, it grew up in the blood!" I picked up the pole and took off the When the fish came, they were still thrown into the water. The nanny ignored me, and helped me down the rock, leaning on the pole with one hand and pulling me listlessly with the other, and walked home. Under the moonlight, I saw some people in white clothes surrounded by a bright and eye-catching thing on the fort. It turned out that those soldiers were practicing firing! "Go to the country". )