Tired, really tired, Wang Ling had a dream, he dreamed that his sister Wang Nan was squatting in a dark hut, surrounded by barking dogs, she had been afraid of dogs since she was a child, and would always hide in his arms. She was crying so sadly that the vicious dogs seemed to be about to rush up and tear her to shreds......

"Fourth brother, wake up." Seeing him waving his hands and frowning, Lao Pi guessed that he probably had a nightmare. Just now, he had already taken the gun in Lao Xing's hand, and now the wind and rain had stopped, and Lao Xing had just taken a few sips of wine, and his face was still red and snoring slightly.

At the vigil, Wang Ling rubbed his eyes, and when he saw that the rain had stopped outside, he struggled to get up, and as soon as he left this leeward place, he was suddenly blown by the sea breeze, and the thought that he might have to live in such a place for the rest of his life, his heart felt more and more lonely and uncomfortable.

"Don't think about it so much." Lao Pi seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with some self-deprecation: "This place is estimated to be hungry, I heard that this sea is very rich, producing the best quality seafood in China, compared to those educated youths assigned to the Loess Plateau, we can still take advantage of it." One of my brothers, who had been there half a year before me, sent me a letter saying that he was so hungry that he was going to gnaw on the bark of a tree. ”

"Do people live just to eat?" Wang Ling asked rhetorically, "Then what is the difference between us and animals?" ”

"It's true to be alive now," Lao Pi said: "I know you want to say that famous saying, some people live to eat, and some people eat just to live, the great rivers and mountains of the motherland need us to exert our residual heat, believe me, even at the end of the world, you will still have a vast world, great achievements." ”

Listening to his speech, it seemed that he was somewhat cultured, and Wang Ling was curious: "You are a person who has some meaning, you can play with guns and talk so many philosophies, how can you fall into the company of someone like me." ”

"You?" The two young men finally began to talk about their respective backgrounds, it turned out that this old skin's grandfather was a founding general, his father was a colonel, and his mother was a university professor. Such a family is now a sight to behold and envy, but in that time of turmoil, they were extremely vulnerable to impact.

"I don't know how they are now," Lao Pi said: "I guess I'm still a lot more comfortable here than my parents, and only if I live can I have a chance to see them again, fourth brother, your mind is too heavy." ”

Chatting and chatting, this time passed slowly, and no one paid attention to the surroundings, and they didn't know when a layer of mist had fallen. Fog on land, which is relatively common, especially in late autumn and early spring, when the air humidity is high. It is not uncommon for fog to appear on the surface of the sea, and they often come without warning, because there is no shelter on the surface of the sea, and the water vapor can reach where they want to go like a ghost with the monsoon.

The fire was a little listless, and the wind could still be heard whistling against the rocks, and the weather was reminiscent of the winter in the north, when the old leather tightened his clothes and leaned against the stones to nap for a while. After a while, Wang Ling saw some stars appear on the sea in the distance, and these "starlight" were glowing with a faint yellow color, blinking like fireflies in the middle of summer in his hometown.

Are there fireflies on this sea? Such a strong wind......

Thinking about it, he got up and wanted to take a look, only to get up half of his body but found that he had been pulled by the corner of his clothes, looked down and saw that Lao Xing was dragging his clothes and half-squinted his eyes and said, "Don't care about what you shouldn't care, don't look at what you shouldn't see." ”

"I ......" Wang Ling wanted to speak and stopped, maybe he, a kid from the inland, had indeed never seen anything strange on the sea, thinking of this old Xing's strange temper, he half-squatted down again, and Lao Xing let go of his hand and continued to sleep by the fire and snored rhythmically, as if the conversation between the two just now had not happened at all.

Wang Ling hadn't been with his peers for a long time, looking at these faces as big as himself, he couldn't bear to wake up the old skin who was quite a bit of a match, and it was easy for people to urinate when it was cold at night. After making sure that the fire would not be extinguished, Wang Ling got up and wanted to go to the back of the mountain to make it easier.

Tiptoeing around the leeward stone, suddenly there was an open space in front of me, this was just the beginning of the second half of the night, it should have been a pitch black scene, but leisurely discovered that the sea in front of me was brightly lit, and there were countless small basins like candles floating on the sea......

In this scene, Wang Ling only felt that his back suddenly cooled, he was from Zhejiang, what did his ancestors do? Lao Wang's family is dealing in funeral supplies, what is this thing? The first reaction in his mind was the lantern that was placed in the river during the Midyear Festival. This lantern is lit and put into the slowly flowing river, representing the living people's sacrifice to the dead, the burning candle is a dead soul, this thing he is too familiar with, with bamboo to make bones, with colored paper tied into the shape of a lotus plate......

Suddenly, he was slapped on the back, and Wang Ling was so frightened that he didn't dare to move, and even his calves trembled slightly. When he was a child, he heard the saying that there was a "ghost on the shoulder" in the countryside, saying that the living people who were walking outside at night met some wandering ghosts, and they stretched out their claws to put them on the shoulders of the people, and as soon as the people were put on the shoulders, they turned around to check, and the wild ghosts would take the opportunity to blow out the yang fire on their shoulders......

"Turn around," a voice said coldly, "don't care what you shouldn't care, don't look at what you shouldn't see!" ”

It's Lao Xing, Wang Ling breathed a sigh of relief in his heart but became nervous, he also said these words just now, why did Lao Xing get up again, did he get into trouble by himself, did he do something wrong? He turned around tremblingly, Lao Xing was already standing sideways with him, and said in a commanding tone: "If you want to be convenient, solve it here." ”

Where did Wang Ling still have the urge to urinate at the moment, he was already so frightened that he held back, and said in a low voice: "No...... There is no ......"

"What's running around without you?" Lao Xing seemed to be very dissatisfied with his recklessness, and sighed again and said, "Young people who can't hold their breath will suffer a big loss sooner or later. With that, Lao Xing walked back with him on his shoulder, and said: "In the past, in the era when there was no naval radar, fishermen and merchant ships in this sea area usually did not go to sea, because behind the fog, a few hazy yellow lights often appeared, and then pirates with various weapons appeared......"

"Pirates?" Wang Ling felt that this word seemed to be very far away from him, more like a legend and a story, and he asked a little puzzled: "Now that the people are not in charge, will there be pirates here?" ”

Lao Xing was probably a little amused by his serious appearance, and rarely smiled, grinning and revealing a mouthful of dark teeth: "Now it's naturally gone, but it's hard to say, back then, *** occupied this sea, there are thousands of islands like this sea, and after the defeat of Taiwan, there are still some remnants of soldiers who are unwilling to surrender, and they will take advantage of the fishermen's unpreparedness to do some robbery with guns in their hands, but that is two or three years after liberation." ”

"Then it must be none now." Wang Ling's mind began to appear with the bearded men armed with muskets and broadswords, waving their hands and shouting to kill the small fishing boats that surrounded them.

"There is no now, but there was in the past," Lao Xing pointed to the sea channel: "In the past, there were hundreds of thousands of pirates active here, they drove ships faster than the wind, they had artillery that could destroy everything, they were both heroes and bullies, they burned and looted all kinds of evil, and they also repelled the invading Franc machine people again and again, in short, there are many stories about this sea." ”

"And what are those lamps ......," he was still curious.

"That's probably the dead soul, can't you see such stars on the old graves in the mountains? It's almost the same reason. Lao Xing didn't seem to want to say any more, so he took Wang Ling back to his original residence and continued to fall asleep......

Revenant? Wang Ling's mind once again appeared in the appearance of the swollen corpses soaked in the sea water floating in front of his eyes, will they jump up and drag themselves, when he thought of the scene of going down into the water today, he shuddered a little, and the sleepiness on his body suddenly disappeared......

This night was the sleeplessest night for Wang Ling in so many years, the first time he left "home", the first time he lived with so many strangers, what kind of life would he have to face, would it be like the dim charcoal fire or like the newly added firewood?

The light of the sea began from a haze, and as the temperature rose, the fog slowly dissipated, and this night he always turned his head towards the burning fire, and last night he vaguely heard the shouting of killing and the roar of artillery fire mixed with the sound of the wind. The strange sounds swirled around his ears all the time, and he gently picked up the gun in Old Skin's arms, and if anything strange appeared beside him, he decided not to hesitate to pull the trigger.

Fortunately, the restless night was finally over, and when the sun came out, the young people cheered and jumped to meet the sacred moment of the bright moon rising at sea level. No one cared about Wang Ling's red and swollen eyes, and no one experienced the same horror as he had experienced last night. Lao Xing got up early in the morning to check on his boat as if nothing had happened, and Lao Pi was a little embarrassed to explain to Wang Ling that he was asleep, and he said that he was probably really tired.

Li Xin handed Wang Ling half a steamed bun and a pot of water, and she glanced at the young man's haggard face, and now there was no one else around them.

"Yesterday...... Thank you......" She looked a little shy with her head down, she knew that this teenager had jumped desperately yesterday, and she had heard the girls describe the scene of yesterday to her.

"I ......, no, it was Lao Xing who saved you." Wang Ling also touched his head a little embarrassed, he did not behave well in yesterday's incident, and he was so embarrassed that he almost didn't even get up.

"You're so stupid," Li Xin suddenly "giggled" and laughed: "What if you fall down and drown, then wouldn't I be a burden to my comrades, and I won't be allowed to do such a dangerous thing in the future." ”

"Jingjing," a girl over there shouted, "Jingjing, come here, come and see how beautiful it is here......"

"Hey, it's coming!" Li Xin quickly got up and ran towards that side, and when he turned around, the red glow on his face seemed to be more beautiful than the clouds in the sky......