The hottest sun of the day hangs in the blue sky, and the white clouds are scattered in the air like playful children, not at all afraid of this neighbor who shines with a rainbow of orange.

I jumped into the water, splashing everywhere.

One second, I felt stuffy and hot, and the next second, my body and head snorkeling underwater seemed to be chasing the breeze. As far as I'm concerned, as long as there's water, everything is fine.

I also grew up in coastal cities. This may have something to do with my natural ability to be watery. Growing up, the happiest time was when I swam in the water.

My father used to say that I was self-taught, and that the small doughnut-like swimming ring on my body became a burden to me. Still, my father would be around me, and no matter how much I pounced, I couldn't swim out of what he saw safe.

Those beautiful memories, about my father, about those happy days underwater, I covered them with beautiful candy wrapper. I kept it carefully in order to take it out and relive it when my thoughts spread.

I remember the first time I followed my father to the beach. I still remember my father's broad shoulders supporting little me, he walked in the water, the water had already overflowed his lower abdomen, his steps began to slow down, he gently grasped my feet, my hands on top of his head. I looked down at my father, his face reflected the warm sun, he suddenly raised his head, the original lonely expression was suddenly swept away, he smiled, his deep eyes soaked in a soft sea breeze.

Vara swam beside me, several times rounder my physique, but ten thousand times more dexterous than me. The slippery tail swings up and down, and the fat body of the fish seems to be loaded with a never-ending enthusiasm, and it only needs to float gently to swim unhindered. I kicked my chopsticks at an accelerated pace, less than half a minute of speed. But Vara will always deliberately slow down its pace, and it likes to wrap around you, gently circling around you.

By nature, they are both smart and kind children.

Before I chose to pursue this career, I had learned a lot of negative information from the news. The takeaway from these news stories is that the underwater creatures that live in aquariums aren't happy. Humans treat them with extreme cruelty. This is especially true for species that have been domesticated, such as dolphins, killer whales, beluga whales, sea lions and seals. By cruelty, we don't mean that they are subjected to corporal punishment during training, but that domestication itself is an act of coercion.

Intensifying their lives while depriving them of their liberty is a disservice to the animals.

Despite the lack of food and clothing, and without the threat of natural predators, can the sea creatures living in the invincible tank really be able to live in themselves? I can't give a proper explanation.

All I can do is treat it with my heart. In fact, I've always thought of Vara as my own child. It's not just me, it's every colleague in the library that's doing it.

This news really made me unhappy for a long time, and I was lost for a long time. I almost burned my domestication certificate. But in the end, I decided to stick to my original intention and become an aquatic mammal trainer.

I often reassure myself that while those arguments are well-founded and reasonable, there are always inequalities in the world, and many problems are real and mostly irreversible. As a grassroots human being, I can only stick to my principles and do what I can.

Always be sincere with the animals around me.

In my opinion, Vara and her friends are doing well, and they are well received with the best food rations and good care at the place where I work.

Vara had only just returned to training and it was clearly out of shape. It may have forgotten the rule that today's work should be done today. It doesn't want to understand any of your gestures, it doesn't even bother to fix it in front of you and look at you seriously for two seconds, it will run away with impunity, quickly go to the corner where you can't see it, and suddenly rush in front of you in an instant.

When Vara wasn't doing her job properly, I didn't want to have lunch.

One person, one dolphin, stumbling to the end.

Vara was certainly not hungry, and in the morning, in addition to eating a regular "seafood set", he also cheated a lot of reward fish from me. It's its favorite frozen Yokosawa fish.

I knew Vara was playing tricks on me. Because I had been feeding penguins for half a month in the terrestrial department, I had very limited time to be close to them at that stage, and Vara probably wanted to spend more time with me in this way. Therefore, I am also confident that the performance task in the afternoon will be completed as well as the previous days.

I poked my head out of the water, my wet hair covering my goggles, and I brushed my hair and looked for the tip of Vara's round head on the surface, its gray skin was easy to hide in the water, and if it deliberately dived a little further, you wouldn't have seen it at all.

"Vier!"

I heard someone calling me, and I looked up and saw a group of four people standing at the top of the stands. I saw someone waving at me, I took off the diving goggles and stuck them on my head, only to see clearly that the person waving was Minister Zhang. He is dressed a lot like a traditional office worker today. He actually put a fuchsia tie on his half-sleeved shirt, which looked very much like the outfit of a village and town leader going to a symposium in the county.

I guess that he attaches great importance to his work image today is mostly because of the two middle-aged people standing next to him. The two middle-aged men were dressed in formal suits, the older one wearing a thin-rimmed silver-rimmed glasses. And what caught my attention the most was the young man standing next to the three of them.

The boy was a tall boy with a large build, dressed as if he were a student who had not left school.