Chapter 39 blue sea and silver sand

After school, the four children ran to the beach. They squatted by the sea and lined up in an uneven line. Mountain springs built castles, stones built palaces, mud piled up many hills like steamed buns, and peanuts in red clothes molded sand into various shapes. There are all kinds of pigs, including dancing pigs, pigs with glasses, and pigs with wings. At some point, a strange little boy appeared on the beach. His hair was shining golden, the buttons on his jacket and trousers were shining silver, and he was wearing a small colorful shell on his chest. His whole body reflected the setting sun The brilliance is beautiful.The little boy was squatting by the sea, also concentrating on making sand and playing.

"Look at Peanut, the sand man he made is exactly like yours!" Niba glanced aside by chance, and suddenly clapped his hands and shouted. The children stopped what they were doing to see the strange boy's work. "This is the spring, and that's the mud—this one I'm making—it's me!" said the stone. "Who are you? Why do you want to make sand people like us?" The sunset fell on the little boy's face, and his pretty little face was painted with a layer of shyness, as if he had made a huge mistake. He timidly explained in a low voice: "I, I just... want some friends .”

"But they're just sand, they can't talk or play." Peanut said enthusiastically, "You might as well just make friends with us—we'll definitely be good friends!" Peanut held out his hand to him. "Huh-huh-" The sea breeze blew, and a few fine sands were blown into the eyes of the children. When the children opened their eyes again, the little boy was gone. "What happened just now, that little boy with blond hair is really like a dream." The sun had already set, and the sky was full of colorful clouds. As we were walking home, Peanut talked about that strange little boy again.

"It's not a dream, it's real! The four sandmen he made are still there—how resembling they are!" "He also said he needed friends." "Well, he seems shy!" The boys went home separately, and Peanut lived the farthest. She had to walk past an old banyan tree full of magpie nests, and a land temple—the land father-in-law and his wife lived in the land temple, and there was a couplet written in front of the temple: "My father-in-law is very fair, and my mother-in-law is very kind." Peanut's home is next to the Earth Temple.Seeing the land father, Peanut thought of the little boy on the beach again. Perhaps, like the land father and his wife, he came from another world.It must be lonely to be alone in this strange world!Peanut pushed open the door, and a sea-blue postcard fell through the crack of the door. There was a line of words written in silver sand on the postcard: "Sincerely invite you to come to the beach when the moon rises." The boy's shy face—isn't it the little boy I met on the beach just now?

The beach under the moonlight is a peaceful world made of silver—the waves are silver, and the beach is also silver. Those beautiful colorful shells are scattered on the beach, like flowers that can sing all over the place. Peanut quietly hid in the shadow of the cloud. After a long time, a little boy with blond hair appeared where the sea and sand meet. "Sand elf! Sand elf!" The little shells on the beach called out in unison. "Well! Here we come, here we come, the game is about to begin." Sand Elf's voice was as sweet as silver.He clapped his hands three times: "Crack! Crack! Crack!"

"Quick, quick! Sand pig, wake up! Quick, quick! Sand child, wake up!" First there was the dancing pig, who put down his dance steps, shook his head, and came alive.Then there was the pig with eyes, who took off his glasses, flapped his ears, and came to life.Then there's the winged pig, which takes off its wings, stomps its feet, and comes alive. Then, the mountain springs, stones, mud, and peanuts made of sand all clapped the sand in their hands and came alive. "Run, run, I want to catch up with you!" The three pigs started to run, they were so fat, and the sand was so soft, they swayed to and fro, and they ran very funny, just like the funniest clowns in the circus.The four sand children clapped their hands, laughed, and shouted, and ran after them, just like in physical education class. The stone ran the fastest, surpassing the three little pigs, and ran far, far away——Sand The elf ran after him!

At the beginning, the stone ran very fast, and the two opened a long distance.But gradually, the stone got tired of running and slowed down.The sand elf is like a robot with sufficient electricity, he doesn't take a breath, he doesn't sweat a drop, the wind blows his golden hair, and his smug laughter spreads far and far: "Aha! Aha! Got it—" The moment the stone was caught, he turned back into a sandman again, turning into a pile of loose sand and falling on the beach. The sand elf turned and chased the mud, and the mud ran around the sand hill a few times and into the castle.There are no windows in the castle, and it is dark inside, and there is no sound at all.The mud ran in and seemed to disappear.The sand elf waited outside the castle for a long time, but no mud came out, so he decided to go in and take a risk.However, he didn't find any mud. After a while, he came out alone, and the two children and three pigs who were watching the excitement around the gate of the castle scattered and fled in all directions—the pig with glasses moved the slowest, and the sand elf pulled it away with one hand. When it caught its tail, it yelled "Aww", turned into a sand pig again, fell to the ground, mixed with the sand, and disappeared.

The sand elf ran under the stone palace, dug up the sand under the palace, and dug out a shining night pearl. "Haha, this time, let's see where you hide." He held up the luminous pearl, like holding a small golden sun, he walked into the deep castle, and the castle immediately became bright. "Caught it! Caught it!" It turned out that the mud was hiding behind the gate—needless to say, he was turned into a pile of loose sand as soon as he was caught. The sand elf turned around and chased towards the mountain spring.The clever Shanquan quickly rode on the back of the pig beside him, it was the dancing pig!Although it walked crookedly, its steps were unexpected, and it was about to catch up, but it stepped behind the sand elf in one step, and when the boy turned his head, it ran to the left rear again.

Shanquan sang on the pig's back: "Ride a dancing pig, we don't study; ride a dancing pig Let's go to war! " Peanut picked up the pig's wings on the ground and put them on the back of the winged pig, and the winged pig flew up with her. Peanut also sang on the pig's back: "Riding a winged pig we don't read; ride a winged pig Let's go to war! " The sand elves couldn't catch up with them, so they turned around in a hurry.Shanquan bent down to pick up the shells on the beach and smashed them on the little boy. Peanut reached out to pick off the stars from the sky and threw them on the little boy's hair.But it's strange, the shells "chucked" and laughed, sticking to the little boy's clothes, and couldn't fall off; those beautiful little stars, sticking to the little boy's hair, blinked brightly.After a while, the little sand elf was covered with shells and stars all over his head. He started to run, and the shells and stars laughed "chuck, giggle".

"Haha, that's great, that's great!" Sand Elf opened his hands, "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" turning in a circle.The shells and stars "jingle jingle" kept ringing, like a serene serenade. Shanquan jumped off the dancing pig's back, and Peanut jumped off the winged pig's back. He took the pig's wings, pulled the pig's tail, held the sand elf's hand, and formed a strange team, kicking Tap and dance to "Looking for Friends" taught by Teacher Huang.And the shells in the sand and the stars in the sky came and sang to them: "Look, look, look, look

found many good friends, hold hands and dance Always good friends. " After a while, the singing of stars and shells stopped, the circle dancing on the beach stopped, and the laughter of friends also stopped—the peanuts made of sand and the mountain spring all turned back into sand people, fell on the beach and disappeared . The sand elf fell on the sand, and the shells and stars on his body left him, half back to the sky, half back to the sand. The sand elf cried softly. At this time, Peanut walked out of the dark cloud shadow, walked under the beautiful moonlight, bent down, patted him on the shoulder gently, and told him gently: "There is still me - we will always be good friends." Before Peanut finished speaking, a gust of wind blew from the sea, and a cloud floated over, blocking the moonlight on the beach.A few grains of fine sand were blown into Peanut's eyes—when Peanut opened his eyes again, the little boy was gone. They have never seen the sand elf again, but the children all know that the sand elf is by their side and will always be their good friend.