"Tutu, look here, the birds are flying over—"

"Ahh

Seeing that the stinky boy was finally willing to open his mouth and eat the rice cereal, my heart finally fell to the ground. Ten days ago, my father and mother did not come back after going to sea, leaving me and Tutu behind.

The village chief and his relatives helped to handle the funeral of his father, and there were many people in the village who were swallowed by the sea every year, and no one could find them, so they took his father's clothes and made a grave.

The village also left a tael of silver as usual, and every family that was swallowed by the sea could get a pension of one or two silver, which was a little bit of heart from the villagers, and it was also a blessing. Because no one knows if it will be their family's turn next, if they die one day, this silver can also make their family feel better.

So, Tutu and I survived on this money. It's just that this kid refuses to eat rice cereal, I have been cheeky enough to go to Aunt Zhang's house to ask for milk for three days, and Uncle Zhang's face is already ugly. Fortunately, this kid finally understands his brother and me.

"Tutu - you, you call Tutu! On the way! ”

"Poof—"

...... "Well, poof, too!" ”

"My name is Chaotian, the road is Chaotian, the road is Chaotian!"

"Poof—"

……

"Tutu, stay there obediently, Brother go out to pick up the blind snail." In the blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed, and the journey will be able to walk, and it will also babble and shout. But I had to tie him up at home and go and pick up the conch myself. There was no one at home to take care of him, and I couldn't go to sea with my uncle in the village, so I had to pick up some blind snails on the beach that others couldn't look at.

This kind of conch is not fresh and difficult to get, and it is necessary to break the shell, pick out the fine meat and marinate it for about ten days before it can be eaten. However, he knew that there was an old man in the bazaar who liked this kind of snail meat and wine, so every three days, he would send one for ten cents.

"Ahh ”

The small hand with a fine wound pushed and made me feel distressed to watch, which was scratched on the ground when he was home alone. The um-ah in his mouth said he didn't want to be tied up.

"Good way, Brother will be back soon. I'll be back and buy you candy to eat! "I had no choice but to go to the sugar jar and scrape a grain or two of sugar and stuff it into his mouth. It was his only recklessness. A penny can be coaxed for a month.

Seeing that his eyes were squinted by the sweetness of the tip of his tongue, my eyes were swollen and I wanted to cry.

"Ahh

Although I would tie strips of cotton cloth to the rope every time, his delicate calves were still a blood-red from the rope. At this moment, I couldn't stop crying anymore, and I hugged Tutu and cried loudly.

After crying, I put the rope down and dragged him out the door.

"Ahh He had been running and running on the beach on his short legs, his shirt was soaked with sweat, and he was still laughing and shouting.

I would look at him from time to time, and then look down to pick up a few conchs. In this way, until it was almost dark, the blind snail in the back basket was only half of the usual. But seeing this kid asleep on my shoulder and still laughing out loud in his dreams "Ahhhh

However, I was still reluctant not to buy him candy. It didn't take long for this little rabbit cub to learn to climb into a chair and go to the sugar jar by himself, dip his little fist in a hand of sugar, and then put it in his mouth to instigate the "horn" sound.

"Little Ancestor! Your fingers are calloused! I patted him on the head, but he smiled at me and shoved his fist into my mouth, "Ahh

I dodged away in disgust, but he had to come and almost fell out of his chair.

"Whew!" I grabbed him and slapped him twice on the buttocks, "Are you afraid?" ”

He flattened his mouth, then shoved his hand into my mouth again, and persistently shouted "Ahhhhhh

I had to take a symbolic sip and poof! It's all this kid's sticky saliva.

"Ha-" Tutu saw me eat, but laughed again. When he laughed, I laughed angrily.

"Stinky boy! Pick up the conch! "I went out with a basket to pick up conch.

In winter, Tutu will already help pick up conchs, although the little short legs are still unstable on the beach, but he stubbornly insists on following out, "Brother-give!" The sand conch was thrown into the basket, and I looked at him with a forced smile.

The old man who ate the conch was sick, not to mention the conch, and he couldn't even drink water. I still pick it up every day, but I don't know who I'm going to sell it to. There wasn't much silver left in the house, and I looked at the kid in front of me who was clumsily squatting, and my heart was depressed.

"Brother, eat!" When the little guy flatteringly stretched out his sugar fist in front of me again, I thought it was well hidden, but I couldn't escape this clear and translucent heart. He may not understand what money is, but he understands that I am not happy.

"Ahh

"Ahh I opened my mouth wide to reach him, but he "giggled" and dodged away. "Don't run, the shark is coming—"

"Giggle...... "The little short legs ran around the room quickly, and the crisp laughter seemed to dissolve the heaviest things in the heart.

Spring had not yet arrived, and news from the bazaar said that the old man who ate the conch was gone. Tutu was also a year older, and we started looking for more things to make money together. Seaweed, snails, drunken crabs......

When Tutu was four years old, I was twelve. Many of the older boys in the village will follow the adults to the sea when they reach the age of twelve. Tutu was already sensible at this time, and he knew that we were going to make money, but he refused to leave me. In this way, at the age of twelve, I took him to the sea in a small boat at the age of four.

"Brother, the sky is really big, bigger than the sea!"

"I see, it is your heart that is the greatest!" I pulled him back from the bow of the boat and patted him on the head, "Don't you see a wave coming in front of you?" Knock you over and feed the sharks! ”

"Plop-" The stinky boy stuck out his tongue and began to sit down obediently in the boat, but after a while he jumped up again and looked around.

"Sit down for me! All day long! I laughed and cursed, but ignored him, concentrating on putting away the nets.

Ever since I was a child, I didn't treat him too harshly, so much so that I always regretted it later. Is it because every time I talk about danger, I am a hippie smile, so in the face of those bad guys, it is fun for him not to feel scared, so when I was abducted by human traffickers, I didn't hear his loud cries for help.

I often wake up in the middle of the night crying and scolding him, "Make you so greedy, make you love sugar so much!" Someone must have hooked you away with sugar! ”

"Tutu—" When I finally found him after a lot of hardships, he no longer had the hippie smile he had when he was a child. I know that he must have gone through a lot of hardships over the years to have such an expression that he forgot to laugh.

"Tutu, it doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, my brother finds you, and he will never leave you again-"