Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Journey

6. Bento rice The weather is cold to the depths, and it is the end of the year and the New Year.Every New Year, the mother always takes the two children back to her natal home. My mother's natal home was so far away, and I always got up and walked before dawn, until the sun was high and high, and then I walked to Shilong Railway Station.The mother lined up to buy tickets alone, and told the two children to sit on the side of the road and take care of the luggage, and no matter who came to strike up a conversation, they should not answer. When his mother bought the ticket and came back, Jiang Yibo lay on the ground and refused to leave.His mother pulled him to stand up, and he pointed to the small stall next to him - he saw a black submachine gun.

"No, Mom has no money." The mother picked up the luggage, "Come on, let's go to the train to eat box lunch." Jiang Yibo tightly grabbed the rope of her shoulder pole: "You are lying! Don't you have money to eat box lunch?" Jiang Caicai went to her mother and shouted loudly to her brother, "You will die if you don't eat, and you won't die if you don't play with guns!" "Look how good Cai Cai is. You are two years older than your sister, and you are not sensible at all." That was probably the first time her mother had complimented her.During that whole day, she couldn't restrain the joy in her heart.She couldn't see her brother's dejected expression, let alone imagine how life would hurt another child.Regarding growing up, those difficult propositions will not be until many, many years later, when she sits in another car on a distant journey and suddenly looks back at her childhood, she can slowly look away from herself. It fell on Jiang Yibo's face, and she realized that the other child who grew up with her, and more children, lost the opportunity to spread their wings and fly forever in poverty.

At noon that day, they ate box rice with scrambled eggs with tomatoes, sour tomatoes, and fragrant eggs on the train. Jiang Caicai ate the lunch box upside down, and almost ate his tongue.She was sitting in front of the window with her eyes open like two copper bells. She stared hard at the scenery outside the window. She felt that every mountain and every river was beautiful and moving. She wished to fly out of the window. She would become a gust of wind or a A cloud in the wind. "Mom, look, the trees on the mountain are so beautiful, they look like a lot of small umbrellas." "Well, those are lychee trees."

"The water in the lake is so clear!" "Well, the water in your uncle's house is cleaner than these." "Mom, can we see the sea tonight?" "No, we will spend the night at my aunt's house tonight, and we will go to the beach tomorrow." They got off the train and took another half a day in the car before they came to the foot of a big mountain.After getting out of the car, Caicai didn't feel tired at all. She walked in front of her mother, her legs were as agile and powerful as a wild animal, and she muttered non-stop. "Mom, look!" There is an old tree lying on the mountain road. The tree body has withered, and only the roots still grow green leaves.Mother put down the burden, first hugged Jiang Yibo, and was about to hug Caicai, but Caicai bent down and slipped through the gap under the tree.

"Caicai is so sharp!" Mom wiped off the sweat on her forehead and said happily. Cai Cai lowered her head, her heart was bright, and she walked more vigorously.They walked along the winding mountain road, and when they reached the depths of the mountain, it was completely dark and the stars were all bright, as if someone had lit many small lights in the sky.They walked under the starlight, turned over huge boulders, and saw the faint lights of the village. They walked into the entrance of the village, and suddenly a lot of big dogs ran out barking. The two children were terrified and stuck tightly behind their mother.Behind the big dog, the aunt led the cousin out.When the aunt took over the burden, the mother had both hands free. She led the two children and followed behind the aunt with her head bowed.

Cai Cai held her mother's hand, for some reason, a warm tremor passed through her heart, and she suddenly wanted to cry secretly and gently. At night, the children climbed into bed to sleep, and the mother and aunt sat on the small stool beside the bed. They didn't know why, and wept for a while.After a while they wiped away their tears and began talking in low tones. Caicai closed her eyes in a daze, and vaguely heard her aunt talking about her uncle’s rheumatism, her cousin’s disappointment in her studies, and then her uncle and concubine. My uncle has already obtained an official identity card in Hong Kong. , You can go home from the official pass this year.My mother talked about my father's lack of prospects, and that my elder brother was lazy and never wanted to do housework, but Cai Cai, although young, was diligent and able to help... Cai Cai tried hard to hear clearly, but her sleepiness became more and more intense , the words of mother and aunt became lighter and lighter, each sentence floated in the air, like the clouds in the depths of Qiniang Mountain, each sentence floated to the top of the high mountain, flew among the stars, and mixed with her dreams ...

It rained the next day, and the north wind brought rain powder into the house, making Caicai's neck shorter and shorter, and her head was almost retracted into her shoulders.The whole family had breakfast together, sitting in front of the door and waiting. After waiting for a long time, the rain did not stop, so my mother said that there was no need to wait, and she wanted to walk in the rain.My aunt went to the next door to borrow a coir raincoat, an umbrella, and a pair of red rain boots worn by children.Everyone dressed up and walked into the cold drizzle together. The drizzle wetted the sky and wet every hilltop. Caicai walked on the mountain road, only to feel that the sky and the ground were covered with fine water droplets.They walked into the fir forest at the foot of Qiniang Mountain, and the refreshing air was blowing in their faces, and the rainwater gathered on the leaves, dripping, dripping, falling on the long and thin mountain road.

The mountain road is paved with slippery rocks, high, steep, and uneven. My aunt and mother walked in front carrying the burden.Caicai was afraid that she would not be able to catch up, so she quickened her pace and tried her best to catch up. The wind shook the leaves, but she couldn't hear the wind, only the rustling of the coir raincoat on her body.Because she was wearing red children's rain boots brought back from Hong Kong, she had to look down at her feet every few steps she took.And for fear that the landslides would stain her beautiful shoes, she would stand on tiptoe from time to time.

Because it was up the mountain, I was sweating after walking for a short distance. My aunt and mother talked about the things they used to do in the production team. "You were only fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, and every day you carried a load of hundreds of catties over Qiniang Mountain. Thinking about it, it was very hard work." "I was born to work hard, and I have nothing to say. I only hope that they don't have to suffer." "You haven't grown taller since you went to pick up your feet—your mother is taller than you." Mother wiped her eyes and didn't answer for a long time.Suddenly she stopped and pointed to the front: "The sea! Caicai, the sea is just ahead."

Caicai rushed to catch up and walked up to the highest point of the small mountain, only to see the rain and mist ahead, and the sky was full of tears, watching them silently.The vast sea is shrouded in a gray-green mist, and you can't see it clearly. You can only feel that there are so many seas, boundless, rippling all the way to the distant, equally vast and misty sky. After crossing the small mountain peak, it is the way down the mountain.There is a stream beside the mountain road. Because of the rain, the stream is muddy and flows hard and fast.Walking along the stream, making two bends, and walking down the mountain, you will see dozens of streams converging in all directions to form a half-moon-shaped lake. The lake connects with the sea, and waves pass through the long and narrow mouth of the lake. Wave after wave became thinner and weaker, and finally turned into ripples like fine lines.At the junction of salty and fresh water, agile fish jump up from time to time.The water in this lake is not deep, and the silt and gravel at the bottom of the lake, fish, shrimp and aquatic plants can all be seen clearly.There is a thick tassel forest in the center of the lake, where many fishing boats are moored.

"Caicai, don't run around, come quickly!" Her mother had already called her in front of her uncle's door, and she ran over immediately. My uncle's house was built on the side of the road, with a lake in front of the house and a mountain in the back. Bright Spring Festival couplets were pasted in front of the house, and thick firecracker paper was dropped on the ground.The mother and aunt took off the coir raincoats, and in a blink of an eye, they didn't know where they were.Caicai walked into the room, and saw that the room was full of people, all of them came back from Hong Kong, and all of them were well dressed.Caicai lowered her head, staring at the little red rain boots under her feet, her aunt came over immediately, pulled her to the door, and asked her to put on Cousin Ling's slippers.The slippers seemed to be rotten, several pieces of tape were broken, and she didn't think she could walk to the other side of the house in these shoes and sit down on the little wooden stool.Everyone was staring at her, she couldn't stand or sit, she didn't know where to put her hands and feet.She looked around secretly, trying to find her mother, trying to hide behind her. "Is it sister Juan's daughter?" Someone asked. She bowed her head and remained silent. "She's not as good-looking as Juanmei, she's like her father." Another person commented on her. She was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do, and she was ashamed and annoyed. "Why are you so thin and tanned? Didn't your mother give you food?" A woman smiled and grabbed her wrist, squeezed it hard a few times, then turned her palm over, as if wanting to see her palm prints. She pulled her hand back suddenly, maybe it was too hard, she couldn't stand still, she tilted her body, and fell on the small coffee table next to her.The soda bottles and beer cans on the coffee table fell to the ground in a "ping-ping-pong-pong" manner. I don't know whose skirt was stained by the soda, and whose feet were hurt by the bottle.The women next to her screamed in unison.Terrified, she tossed off her shoes and ran through the small door next to her barefoot.Inside the small door is the kitchen. Cousin Ling is lighting a fire in front of the stove. Cai Cai leaned timidly in front of the firewood pile, looking at the firewood in the stove. The firewood was "crackling" burning, and the dry wood slowly turned into a flame. The flame was hot, bright and extremely warm.Inexplicably, messy and irrelevant thoughts floated in Cai Cai's head: "The fire went out and turned into ashes...Where did the firewood go?...If the ashes and flames are combined, can they be turned into firewood?... ...If firewood can be restored, can trees also be restored?..." She wanted to ask Cousin Ling about this thought, but Cousin Ling held a poker in one hand and sent firewood into the stove with the other, and she concentrated on it without looking sideways.After a while, she called out in a low voice: "Sister Ling." Cousin Ling seemed to be holding back for a long time, put down the poker, and laughed: "I won't open my mouth, just wait for you to call me! Come here, I will You braid." A piece of dry wood stuck in her chest burned quickly, and there was no obstacle anymore, and she felt at ease again.She walked over and sat down on the hay next to Cousin Ling. Cousin Ling took out a wooden comb and combed her hair slowly.Her hair was disheveled and damp, with the smell of wind and rain outside the door.Cousin Ling took out a small mirror, and Jiang Caicai saw herself, with disproportionately large eyes on her dark and thin face. "I wish you had come earlier," Cousin Ling combed her hair neatly. "Last month they went out to sea to scrape laver, and I delivered the food. I walked all the way to Paizijiao. The cape is leeward, the waves are not Big, I went down to pick up the snails. There were round big stones and small stones underneath, and the sea was not deep at all. I stretched out my hand and touched it. Wow, the stones were densely covered with Tsing Yi and spicy snails, and there was a black row in the cracks of the stones. Sea urchins are big and fat, but it's a pity that they didn't bring sea urchin hooks, and only picked up a few Angong heads." "Then - let's go to Paizijiao tomorrow and bring sea urchin hooks!" "Fool, the year is not over yet, and it's raining again, how can I go to sea?" "When the New Year is over, I will go back." "I'll ask Guzai to take your brother back and leave you behind. As soon as the weather clears, we'll go to Shatou to pick up snail shells." Cousin Ling unbuttoned her collar and let Caicai look at her shell necklace.Caicai leaned over to look carefully, it was a string of light-colored shell necklaces, shining with a soft luster in the firelight, one after another, all the size of rice grains, even and delicate. "It took me more than half a year to collect this string of chains." "It's so pretty." Caicai was amazed. "I also made a string, using a bigger shell, and I will put it on for you later." "Ok!" Sitting in front of the stove, her body gradually warmed up.She told her cousin that in summer, she and the boys in the village swam to Zhangwu Village on the other side with their arms around banana trees to pick apple apples. The hen laid three double-yolk eggs in a row.However, although Jiangcun also has some interesting things, she always feels that her life is far less interesting than that of cousin Ling. Cousin Ling said that before the Chinese New Year, she and some girls she was close to crossed several valleys and found a red bell flower by an unknown stream—"Did you see it when you entered the door just now? Just plant it in a pot." She forgot the embarrassment when she entered the door just now, and ran to the flower trough outside the door to look at it, but when she came back, she was covered in mud. Bellflowers are blooming with clusters of red flowers like wind chimes, which are really beautiful-but sparrow flowers are also good, Caicai said, she also planted flowers in front of and behind her house, all of which are sparrows Flowers and ground roots, and there is a kind called Ririchun, which she planted in the cracks of the wall. Although it grows in the cracks of the walls, it also blooms beautifully! Cousin Ling said that it was nothing at all. She stood up, opened the back door of the kitchen, and pointed, and saw a wild spring on the small slope not far away. Although it was in the depths of winter, it was also blooming There are flowers all over the place! Cousin Ling said that Ririchun is stupid, and it’s useless to open it more. As the saying goes, “Salt snakes are a manure skip, don’t be a green bamboo green”-you can see the oily oranges above the barracks, that’s really applauded see miles. Caicai recalled that last summer, when Cousin Ling went to Jiangcun, she brought her a pack of tangerine fruit, all of which were light green round fruits, sour and astringent at first taste, but after chewing, there was endless taste in her mouth. The sweet and delicate fragrance.She was greedy and ate one after another, but the more she ate, the more hungry she became. She turned the house upside down and couldn't find anything to fill her stomach, but the sun was high in the sky, and dinner was nowhere in sight—she had to sneak to the sugarcane They went to the ground and secretly broke the sugar cane from the production team to eat.But it was very unlucky, and Jiang Xiazi, a naughty bag from the village, happened to see it. "Shame, you're a ghost eater!" Jiang Xiazi stuck out his tongue at her. "Being a ghost eater, be ashamed!" Jiang Xiazai threw stones at her. ... Cousin Ling had already cooked the meal, and when she saw that she was bored, she promised her, "Tomorrow, tomorrow morning, I will go to the barracks to graze the cows, and I will bring you with me." It was time to eat, the uncle put away the mahjong on the high table, and the mother-in-law put away the cards on the low table, and the people in the room dispersed.My mother came to help wash the dishes and serve the dishes. We moved the stools and sat around the dining table.Uncle gave them red envelopes: "Bozai, Caicai, each person has a red envelope, the new year is a good fortune, grow up quickly." Caicai took the red envelope from uncle.Her mother taught her to say "Gong Xi Fa Cai." She lowered her head and opened her mouth, making a sound like a mosquito.The eldest sister took out a thick stack of red envelopes, saying that they were given to her by the aunts and sisters who were sitting at home just now. She waved her hand and said firmly, "I don't want it!" "Don't—because they laughed at you just now?" The uncle was sitting next to her, his voice sounded like Hong Zhong, "Caicai, in life, the first thing to do is to be tolerant. Don't be like your grandma, you are bored with big and small things. I can't live with myself. Put it away quickly, there is a lot of money in it." Caicai accepted the red envelope timidly, and the uncle went on to say: "You will study in the future, and then you will marry in the future. It is impossible for everything to be as you want. For big and small things, be more lenient in everything, and life will be easier. Like me now, in Hong Kong I work hard to do mud and water, and I often get angry from the boss. If I care about every word, I will find myself guilty. The so-called "forgiving others and forgiving others" means being more lenient in everything, and I am free and happy." "Brother, are you still working as a mason in Hong Kong?" asked my mother. "Yeah, I don't have any skills, so I have to work hard. What else can I do? I contracted a few projects with others last year, so I earned a little more money." "Those people who played mahjong just now—Laoji and those people, are they working with you in Hong Kong?" "yes." "You have forgotten how they fought against you back then." Mother's voice suddenly became cold and hard. "It's been so many years, why care about it? They were young and ignorant back then." "I'm a small belly, but you are magnanimous. You don't care about others, and you don't know what others think. If you are alone outside, you should be more careful in everything." "I know this. You have been married far away, and you are also helpless. In short, look at everything, the world is difficult, and you must know how to cherish yourself." Mother stopped talking, just bowed her head to eat.Cai Cai also lowered her head to eat. There was a plate of marinated sea urchin in front of her. She took a little bit of the food and thought it was salty and fishy—she couldn’t reach the other plates, but she was too embarrassed to stand up, so she had to take some more The salty sea urchin was served as a meal. This time, she felt that the sea urchin was salty and delicious, and it was quite delicious—she picked it up for the third time, and this time when she ate it in her mouth, she felt that the sea urchin was extremely delicious.So she ate hard and ate most of the plate of salty sea urchin in one go. Early the next morning, the rain stopped and the sun rose from the sea.The sun shines through the rain-drenched branches and leaves on the grassy and lush mountain road. The air is so fresh that it seems to cleanse the body and the heart. Caicai followed Cousin Ling and walked through row after row of barracks—the so-called barracks were the former barracks, and they were white, dilapidated low houses that stretched from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.The garrison here has long been withdrawn, and the barracks at the foot of the mountain have been used as local simple schools; while the barracks in the middle of the mountain are mostly vacant, with dilapidated glass windows.Cai Cai stood on tiptoe, poked her head into the window, and saw tall weeds growing on the cracked floor, and something moved in the weeds, as if hiding a small agile beast. On the hillside next to the barracks, the pink scorpion trees have bloomed in patches, and beside the small mountain stream, the unknown wild orchids spread their slender leaves, dark green and full of energy.There is a flat land in the middle of the mountain, which is an abandoned playground. There are still horizontal bars and parallel bars, a basketball stand and a large flower garden. Bright yellow winter jasmine sprang up from the flower garden, covering the entire ground.Caicai pushed aside the thorns and walked into the flower bushes, breaking one branch after another.Cousin Ling didn’t look at the flowers, but looked up at the birds on the acacia tree. From time to time, there were birds singing. In the quiet mountain forest in the early morning, in the infinite greenery, every bird’s song was like a colorful flower. Blooms and fades away.While walking, lingering at the same time, the two walked for a long time on the short mountain road.As they walked, Cousin Ling began to sing: "The turtledove dragged its tail on the tree, and the thrush sang a Hainan song..." Cousin Ling finished singing, and Caicai also started to read the song: "Mountain turtledove, with a long tail, married a daughter-in-law and forgot her mother!" "It's not good to forget mother, 'tail dragging' is fun." Cousin Ling took the winter jasmine branches in her hand, bent them around, and quickly made a wreath, and put it on Cai Cai's head. "Hee hee—Sister Ling is a thrush bird, singing Hainan songs." Jiang Caicai ran forward with a smile. "I see you messing around, and I'll do it for you too—a pheasant is not as beautiful as Caicai, Caicai has a chicken coop on her head!" The two ran up the hill at once, and came to the front of the highest row of barracks. This row of barracks had long been transformed into a cattle pen, and Cousin Ling's little yellow cow was tied in the middle. They untied the little scalper, and the cow walked towards the back mountain by himself.Jiang Caicai was wearing Cousin Ling's warm red cotton coat, and when she walked to the wasteland in the back mountain, she started to sweat. "It's so hot today, let the cows graze here, and let's drink water." The two took off their cotton clothes, hung them high on the incense tree at the head of the field, and ran to the opposite village in a hurry.It is said to be a village, but in fact there are only a dozen houses in total, like a small palm hidden among the mountains.Caicai walked into the village and found that there was no one in the village, not even a dog. Caicai looked back at the little scalper. The little scalper was devoting himself to eating grass with his head down.On the incense tree behind the little ox, two cotton coats, one red and one blue, fluttered in the wind, like two brightly colored flags. Cai Cai looked at the houses next to her curiously. Some houses had their doors open, while others had their doors closed.Caicai likes the stone path in front of the village, because no one has left for a long time, and weeds grow between the stone crevices, but the stone is still clean and beautiful, as if it has just been paved. "Where is this?" Caicai felt more and more strange as she walked forward. "This is Wanghai Ridge. The place where the cows grazed just now is their field. Let's go find their well now. The water here is sweet and delicious, much better than our well." "But what about them? Where did they go?" "They are all gone. There are many ghosts in the house. You must not run into other people's houses." Jiang Caicai's face turned pale with fright, and she tightly grasped Cousin Ling's sweater. Suddenly, a feral cat jumped out of a door and nearly hit her foot. "Ah! There's a ghost!" She was so frightened that she threw herself into Cousin Ling's arms. Cousin Ling couldn't stand still and sat down.The rain hadn't dried up last night, and the two hugged each other on the ground, covered in mud. "Let go! Don't do it! Ghosts are coming!" Cousin Ling shouted while laughing. However, Jiang Caicai was so frightened that she couldn't let go of her hands.The two rolled on the ground, and she felt nervous and funny, and finally couldn't hold it back, and laughed too.The two rolled into the grass, laughing out loud. The well was drilled under the old tree at the head of the village. It was a very old well. The edge of the well was covered with leaves. When the leaves were pulled away, the green bricks were covered with moss.Caicai approached the well, and put her head to the mouth of the well, only to see a lot of grass growing from the gaps in the well wall, through the gaps in the grass, she saw several toads sitting on the broken stones on the well wall, He stared at her with wide eyes, as if he was very dissatisfied with her interruption.Looking further down, she saw the well water, which was steaming and bottomless, and there seemed to be a huge eye in the well water, which was also looking at her. Caicai turned her head to look at the old tree beside the well.It was a very old tree with a rough and strong body, and I don't know how many years it had grown.She walked along the tree and looked up, and saw that the branches and leaves of the old tree were sparse, and there was a big honeycomb on the branch. Many bees were lying on the honeycomb, and many buzzing and flying non-stop.Caicai was taken aback, held her breath, and dared not make a sound. Cousin Ling put her index finger to her lips: "Shh...don't speak loudly—look at mine——" She took out a small wooden bucket tied with a long rope from somewhere, and slowly lowered the wooden bucket into the well. The bucket passed through the overgrown grass, and at the moment it touched the water, Cousin Ling suddenly shook it vigorously, and the mouth of the bucket was buckled in the water. When she lifted it up again, it was already full of clean water. Cousin Ling brought the barrel to her mouth, gulped down half of the barrel, and handed the remaining half barrel to Caicai.Caicai raised her neck, gurgling, gurgling, the well water was warm and sweet, it was really extraordinary. Although the sun was shining everywhere, Cousin Ling repeatedly emphasized that people from Wanghailing smuggled to Hong Kong collectively ten years ago, but they left in a hurry, and some people had no time to close their doors.But out of some unknown awe they dared not go into those houses. Caicai wandered around the house, and after a while she found a peach tree with pink peach blossoms blooming sporadically. She climbed up the tree and wanted to break off the flower branches, but cousin Ling stopped her, saying that she still didn’t want to pick them. In hot weather, I have to eat peaches. After a while, she found another big stone mill. Although the wooden handle was rotten, if it was moved back to Jiangcun, wouldn't it be usable if my father installed another one?Cousin Ling stopped her anyway, she said, such a big stone mill, not to mention moving it back to Jiangcun, even if it moved out of Wanghailing, I'm afraid I'd have to vomit a few mouthfuls of blood. Later, Caicai found a nest of eggs in a messy firewood nest!She was very happy, thinking that although her family also raised a few hens, most of the eggs laid by her mother were sold by her mother in exchange for rapeseed and oil and salt, which could be eaten by her. several.She wanted to take off her sweater and wrap the egg back, but Cousin Ling still stopped her: "Don't take it! If the road is broken, their land god will blame it." Caicai had no choice but to leave those houses and run towards the little scalper.This time, they saw a group of half-grown chickens looking for food in the barren field. When they saw them approaching, they all fluttered their wings, half-flying, half-running into the tall grass. When they returned to the shade of the tree, the cow was still grazing, but the cow's belly was already bulging.They took the clothes off the tree and drove the cattle to the pond below the mountain stream.On the opposite side of the pond, there is a citrus tree with white flowers.Caicai followed Cousin Ling's instructions and looked over. The citrus tangerine tree was no taller than Jiang Caicai's.Caicai looked at it for a while, and found nothing unusual, thinking that it was far from as good as Cousin Ling said. "Sister Ling, let me get the eggs, just take one, it won't break..." "Don't go - in the past, there were tigers in Wanghailing." Cousin Ling said seriously, "There was a girl who was so greedy, she kept arguing for eggs all day long - and kept arguing in the middle of the night. Her mother Push her outside and say to her: "You greedy cat, let Lantern eat you." After finishing speaking, her mother closed the door. The little girl cried for a long time, and suddenly she raised her head and saw On the far mountain road, there were two lantern boys walking towards her. She was frightened, and with all her strength, she knocked on the door vigorously: "Grandma, the lantern boy is here! The lantern boy is here!" Her mother thought she It’s a lie, no matter how much she shoots, she won’t open the door. The little girl was taken away by the tiger. The next day, her mother looked for her everywhere—of course she couldn’t find it, only a pair of red embroidered shoes were found on the mountainside.” "It's obviously a tiger, why is it called Lantern Boy?" "Everyone says your mother is smart, why did she raise you so stupid! I won't tell you, I want to go myself." Cai Cai thought about it, but after thinking for a long time, she still couldn't figure it out, but the sun slowly climbed up from the hillside. Cousin Ling tied the little ox under the shade of the tree, and the two of them walked on the mountain road when they came. .When they came to the end of the uphill road, Cai Cai saw the sea head-on.At this time, the wind is calm, the sea is blue and wide, the sun falls on the water surface, and there is a piece of golden waves. So many waves splashed and sank again, like so many small smiles-why does the sea keep laughing today? "Look at the mountain island over the sea, that's Hong Kong." Caicai walks down the mountain all the way, and you can see the sea all the way, and Hong Kong doesn’t seem far away at all—it doesn’t take long to walk down to the sea from here, swim all the way to Hong Kong, right? "Sister Ling, did the people at Wanghailing swim across Hong Kong?" "Fool, it's so far away, how can I swim? I'll take a boat back and catch them all at once." "It's boring to take a boat, but it's so fun to swim." "'It's better to bully the mountains than to bully the water'. The sea is so dangerous. Many people who swam in the water before can never come back." "Why don't you come back?" "Some couldn't catch their breath and drowned; some encountered sharks and were eaten." They walked into the pine forest at the foot of the mountain, the sea was out of sight, and the sunlight leaked sparsely from the branches and leaves.Jiang Caicai thought of the sea, of Hong Kong where the shops were full of sweets, of the sharks with sharp teeth in the sea, of those who died in the sea, and somehow thought of Pai Chai Kok, which was full of conch and sea urchins.She also thought about the depths of the sea, how mysterious and interesting it is in such a deep and wide place.Thinking about it, she was so greedy, if she could get fresh conch and sea urchin tomorrow, how wonderful it would be!She gave up the idea of ​​swimming across Hong Kong, and decided to go to Paizijiao instead. That time, Cai Cai failed to go to Cheng Pai Zai Corner.Even though Cousin Ling pleaded for her, the mother was still determined to take her home.Before leaving, my uncle took out two sets of new clothes from a big bag, one was my brother's and the other was hers.Cousin Ling also packed a few old calico clothes into her mother's luggage bag. She wore beautiful new clothes and sat on the train home, with the shell necklace given to her by her cousin Ling hanging around her neck. She thought of the sea urchins in the crevices of the water and rocks at the corner of the row, and the soft kelp and seaweed growing beside the sea urchins; Thinking of the toads squatting on the warm and sweet well water of Wanghai Ridge; thinking of the sea that kept laughing at noon that day... the train was driving faster and faster, and she knew that she could not get close to them, so she closed her eyes and held them in her heart. Restoring their appearance - one picture after another, until she knew every detail by heart, she leaned on the seat and fell asleep in peace. (3.6 Revised Draft)