As Liu Ying says, her hometown is a coastal fish village further south of Binhai City.

When I was a child, my parents were busy, I went out to sea every day to fish and sell fish, and I also contracted my own fishing farm to raise fish, and the family conditions were acceptable, but the price was that she rarely saw her parents, and she was brought up by her grandmother since she was a child, and she also developed her introverted personality.

Grandma's legs and feet were inconvenient, and she didn't worry about letting her go outside to play with other children, because at that time, there was a lot of trouble with human traffickers in the neighboring village, and there were always rumors that the foreign Huazi had wandered to the neighborhood and abducted several children from the neighboring village.

Xiao Yanagi Ying felt that her grandmother was somewhat patriarchal, maybe if she was a boy, her grandmother would take the child out to play even if her legs and feet were inconvenient.

There is nothing to play at home, the TV is not wired, and you can only rely on cracked satellite receivers to watch a limited number of TV stations, among which there are also foreign language speakers, but the signal is not good, often a snowflake.

Liu Ying was bored at home, always pestering her grandmother, letting her tell stories and letting her grandmother play with her.

Grandma may be entangled a little annoying, delay doing housework, especially grandma has a heavy mahjong addiction, every afternoon must go to play cards with other elderly people in the village, rain or shine, so one day, grandma brought back a few small fish for her, let her raise her own play, she locked the courtyard door, hurriedly went to play cards, worried that there was no place to go late.

The so-called small fish are actually a few crucian carp and loaches, which were probably caught by my grandmother from the small river at the edge of the village.

At that time, it was quite easy to catch fish from the river, roll it into a pocket with a gauze net, put some rice grains or steamed bun residue in it, sink into the river, and within a few minutes a stupid crucian carp will get into the net.

Later, the industrial enterprises on the edge of the village became more and more polluted, and there were basically no fish in the river.

Fishing in the river has always been the exclusive play of the boys in the village, and Liu Ying, who got the small fish, was very happy, she had a new playmate, and the afternoon when her grandmother was away from home was finally no longer lonely.

There was a small water tank in the yard, which was empty, and Xiao Yanagi filled it with water and put crucian carp and loaches in it.

Crucian carp and loach are very leathery, the kind of fish that are difficult to die as long as you don't toss too much, and you can live by throwing a few rice grains or steamed bun dregs into the water tank every once in a while.

"Looking back now, I didn't keep them as pets at all, I just used them as a tool to dispatch loneliness, and even did very excessive things to them because I was really bored......," Liu Ying said apologetically.

There was a two-cent fish hook in the village shop, and she asked her grandmother for money to buy a fish hook under the pretext that she wanted to eat a popsicle, and then tied the end of the hook with a cotton thread used for a sewing machine, and tied a grain of rice to the tip, and followed the example of other people's fishing.

Whether it is a crucian carp or a loach, it is easy to take the bait, and even fight for the grain of rice like a starving ghost, and soon a crucian carp bites the bait.

Xiao Yanagi Ying excitedly lifted the cotton thread, but she didn't expect the crucian carp to struggle very hard, and her strength was beyond her imagination, she broke the cotton thread and fell to the yellow earth, constantly stiffening, covered with mud, just like coating the fish with a layer of flour before frying the fish in the pot.

She hurriedly tried to pick up the crucian carp and throw it back into the tank, but the scales were very slippery, and the crucian carp was dying and struggling so badly that she did not hold the crucian carp steady, but was stabbed in the finger by the hook on the fish's mouth, and the sting was quite deep, and the dark red blood gushed out at once.

She cried out in pain, and as soon as she let go of her hand, the crucian carp fell back to the ground and struggled a few times to move.

There was no one at home, and no one came to comfort her after she cried for more than ten minutes.

The crucian carp on the ground was already dead, and the wounds on her fingers were no longer bleeding.

She gradually stopped sobbing.

She lied and bought the fish hook with the money she used to buy popsicles, so she didn't dare to tell her parents and grandmother about today's incident, for fear that they would call her naughty, so she quietly hid the matter and only said that a fish died.

However, it's not that simple.

Within a few days, she suddenly began to have a headache, dizziness, and fever, and her parents thought it was a cold, but the medicine did not work, but it became more and more serious, and even spasms all over her body.

Her parents took her to the hospital in the town overnight, and the doctor said that she had tetanus and that it might be dangerous if she was sent half a day late, and asked her if she had suffered any injuries recently.

Under the pressure of her parents, she cried and told the story of her finger being stabbed by a fishhook.

If it weren't for the seriousness of her condition at the time, what would have been waiting for her would have been a violent beating.

Later, when she recovered, she returned home from the hospital to find that the water tank was empty, and neither the water nor the fish were gone.

She didn't dare to ask her parents, who were already angry because they had spent a lot of money on her treatment.

To her surprise, after this incident, her grandmother seemed to feel sorry for her, thinking that her own negligence caused her to fall seriously ill, so a few days after she was discharged from the hospital, she bought her a fish tank from the temple fair - a real fish tank, about 40 centimeters long, crystal clear, and a small house for landscaping.

From this time on, grandma did not go to play mahjong again, years of card addiction seems to have quit quitting, although there are often cards playing together to greet the card friends, grandma has all refused, even if it is three missing one.

"Yingying, do you want to raise fish together?" asked Grandma, who had countless deep wrinkles on her face and rubbed the top of her head with a smile.

Xiao Yanagi Ying was really a little overwhelmed by the change in her grandmother's attitude, so she just nodded blankly.

For some time after she was discharged from the hospital, she was scared of anything sharp, and the preparation for fish farming was done by her grandmother.

Grandma carried buckets from the sea to bring seawater, and pushed a wheelbarrow to dig up sand, pick up reefs, and arrange them in a fish tank, and a crude fish tank world gradually took shape.

Grandma bought not only a fish tank, but also an oxygen pump, with a pair of clownfish.

Compared to the gray-black crucian carp and loach, the clownfish is much more beautiful, almost like the contrast between the ugly duckling and the swan, which makes Xiaoyanagi very happy.

She and her grandmother began to raise fish together, pondering what the clownfish eat, lying on the side of the fish tank with their chin on their knots every day, admiring the elegant swimming posture of the clownfish shaking its head and tail in the water.

This period was Liu Ying's happiest days, and for the first time, she felt that her grandmother was so close, and she was no longer the grandmother who rudely let her play by herself.

However, problems followed, and the clownfish became ill and covered with a white membrane.

She and her grandmother were helpless.