The first time he met her was in the medicine test field at that time. Back then, he could call out his name without thinking when he found anyone on the island. He is too dazzling, like a bright moon in the night, as long as he appears, everything around him will lose its luster in an instant, it's just that he never feels happy, the pride in his bones and the talent in his head make him look down on everything, he has never smiled, he will always have a cold expression, even to his relatives, even to his teachers.

There is no perfect thing, and his character comes from the constraints of his family. The biological mother who only exists in the portrait, the father who takes pleasure in beating and scolding him. A marriage without emotion. The best praise and expectations of the people on the island are a cage inlaid with gold and jade for him, and as an eagle, what he really yearns for is the vast world outside the island. It's just that since he was a child, this idea has always been hidden deep in his heart and has never been said to anyone.

On the island, if you say that you want to leave the island, there is only one end———— you will break the tendons and veins of your hands and feet, pour bone broth, and throw them into a dark cave on the island full of poisonous insects and weeds, and feed the demons full of fangs and stingers.

"What's your dream?" Once at the beach, he asked the best buddies.

"I," the companion on the side stood up and smiled at the waves, "I want to become the greatest medicine master on the island, the Medicine Saint!" ”

"Pretty good." He looked at the sea and smiled, but said no more, looking at the waves.

"What about you?" The partner turned to him and asked.

"I'm going to leave the island" in a calm and impermanent tone, as if talking about something commonplace. "Go and see the outside world."

The partner's eyes changed suddenly, and he hurriedly looked around, and after making sure that there was no one, he said with a serious face: "Don't say this kind of thing again in the future!" ”

"Why?" He raised his head nonchalantly and looked at his partner in front of him with a nervous face, "Staying on this island for generations, living in a fence like a pig, this is not the life I want." What I wanted, on the other side of the sea. He stretched out his hand and pointed to the horizon where the sea and the sky meet: "The people there may be dressed in completely different clothes from us, live in completely different houses from us, and may even speak a completely different language from us." I want to find them and learn everything about them. ”

When he said this, he had long forgotten that the little friend on the side had already turned pale with fright, and he kept stepping back, and when he stopped talking and turned his head to look, the little friend who came out to see the sea together was long gone.

"Your father is just like you." When the second master talked about the old man, he couldn't help but sigh: "I think about some strange things all day long, and I think about leaving the island all day long." ”

"Father—" The boy had never heard of his father, and for as long as he could remember, the islanders had avoided it, consciously or unconsciously. Now when I heard it, I didn't know how to react. "And then?"

"Later," said the second master, "and gradually, he no longer had any friends." ”

That's when he met him. It's not that I'm attracted by her appearance, it's not that I'm fascinated by her words, it's a very simple reason. She and he tied for first place in this year's drug trial.

"You're amazing." After the show, he walked up to her and said.

"Thank you." She smiled back politely: "It's just not close." ”

"Huh?" He frowned slightly.

"The birds on the island are beautiful." She stuck out her tongue, "But there are more beautiful birds beyond the island." ”

His heart moved slightly, and he wanted to say something, but he saw her suddenly squatting down and opening her arms, and was wondering, when he saw a girl of a few years old staggering from not far away, and behind the girl, there stood a strange man who was as old as himself.

"Do you miss your mother?" She smiled and picked the girl up, and when she saw his strange appearance, she smiled and explained, "What? I got married a little earlier, but I don't have to be so weird, right? Dolls are like this. ”

"I see." He nodded. Watching her walk away with her daughter and a strange man, he was a little distracted, and suddenly felt that someone was pulling the corners of his clothes, and when he looked down, it was a little boy of four or five years old.

"Daddy." The boy spoke: "Mother told you to go home quickly after the race, don't run around." ”

"Hmm." He nodded slightly, took the little boy's hand, and walked in the direction of home together.

"Maybe that's the time." The second master sighed slightly: "The cause of everything probably starts from this game." Your dad has been thinking about that girl all the time. Even if they already have their own families with each other. ”

"I—" Through the curtain, the young man's voice was a little strange: "I don't know why, I can understand my father." Second master, go on. ”

"Alas, if the two of them don't have that damn baby kiss, this may be a good marriage." The second master shook his head and said, "But now, this is destined to be only a bad fate." ”

"What do you do all day besides dispensing medicine?" The plate flew out of the back room, and with the roar of his wife, it smashed on his forehead, and instantly shattered in half, he was expressionless, and the blood on his forehead blurred his vision. "Drug test, drug test! What's the use of taking the first? The wife's angry roar continued: "Do you have any money?" How many patients are there on the island? How many can't grab medicine? If you dispense medicine every day, can you make money to support your family? Without the help of my mother's family, can you eat? ”

He doesn't speak, he doesn't want to speak, and he doesn't need to. His forehead was still bleeding, and he felt a little dizzy. The corner of his clothes was pulled slightly, but he looked down and saw the little boy's scared and worried expression, the little boy held the medicine bottle with both hands, he knew that it was the medicine to stop the bleeding.

"I'll take the kids out for a walk." Picking up the medicine bottle, by the way, he took the child's immature hand, and he said without waiting for his wife to answer. And he walked out the door.

"Let's go!" The people in the house were still angry: "You'd better not come back!" ”

"Will Dad take you to the beach?" He looked down and asked the child, and what he got was naturally the child's excited look.

"I..." The oil candle in the room suddenly flickered, and the young man was stunned: "I remember this scene." ”

"You must have been three or four years old at the time." The second master said.

"That's right." The boy muttered, "It seems that it was at the beach that my father met that woman again." ”

"Daddy, why is there a soldier on this beach every other section?" The little boy asked as he picked up the shells and looked at him as he stared at the sea.

"Because—" He turned his head to look at the soldiers on the high platform not far away, but suddenly asked the little boy, "Why do you have to fence those chickens and ducks when you raise them?" ”

"Because I'm afraid that the chickens and ducklings will run out." The little boy said.

"That's right." He suddenly frowned and said, "Only animals will be raised." ”

Seeing him frowning suddenly, the little boy was slightly frightened, and he didn't know how to answer, but suddenly shouted happily: "My sister is here." ”

"Sister?" He was a little surprised, and he didn't know what his son was talking about. followed her son's gaze, and at a glance, he saw her walking towards her daughter a hundred steps away.