The sea is what Xiang Yu has seen the most since he was a child, since the day he remembers, every day he will sit on the big stone at the top of the west mountain and look at the sea in a daze, while waiting for his father's boat to return from fishing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This hill by the sea, the legend is that a huge whale died here a long, long time ago, when Xiang Yu was a child, Xiang Yu often sat in front of the old village chief with a group of children, listening to him tell these stories, ten years have passed, he is now grown up, and he no longer listens to stories with a group of children, but the village chief is still there, and it still seems to be like that, with a white beard, and the wrinkles on his face have not increased. Thinking of these Xiang Yu couldn't help jumping off the big rock, stepping on the hillside a few times, as if to confirm whether the whale was still alive, shaking his clothes, looking back at the sun on the horizon was faintly about to fall below the horizon, he turned around and saw his father's boat wobbly back, and a few seagulls hovering around the boat.

Ran down the hill with a smoke, through the village, scared two chickens cooing and fluttering away, Xiang Yu ran to the edge of the small dock in the village and waited for his father's boat to come to the shore, and soon, you could see the smiling face of his father on the boat, after a while, getting closer and closer, the boat came to the front and stopped on the shore, his father threw the rope to Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu pulled the rope and jumped back a few steps to pull the boat to the shore, and his father jumped up from the boat, pulled the rope and tied a knot on the anchor post on the shore.

"Dad, why did you come back so early today, what about the rest of the village, why are you alone. ”

Xiang Yu asked as he straightened the rope

My father said with a look of joy on his face

"I'm lucky today, I don't know how I met a group of deep-sea fish, usually there are only one or two in a big net, today the whole group is ah, I caught a lot of this net, and I looked like I came back early."

As soon as Xiang Yu heard that he had caught a good fish, he was immediately overjoyed

"Hahaha, Dad, are you going to the market tomorrow if you catch a good fish?"

"Yes, you kid thinks about going to the market all day long, and when you're a teenager, you don't know how to help your mother do some work"

Father laughed and scolded.

"Isn't it like I'm coming here every day to help you take care of the fishing boat?"

Xiang Yu was a little shy, with a festive face, he knew that his father would definitely take him with him when he went to the market tomorrow. After cleaning up the fishing boats, the fishing boats of the other people in the village returned to the port one after another, and said hello to everyone, and the father and son rested while walking, carrying a large basket of fish home.

When I got home, I sat the basket in the vat. The father went to fetch water and wash, and Xiang Yu ran to the kitchen to report the good news to his mother, who was cooking. After hearing this, my mother was also very happy, and touched Xiang Yu's head with a smile and said:

"Yong'er, it is estimated that these fish caught by your father should be able to sell for a lot of money, plus the savings over the years, and when the spring hits next year, I will send you to the school on the set to study, just learn a few words from me at home is not enough, you are a teenager, if you can read some books as a buddy with those business shopkeepers or go to the big families in Lingzhu City to be a small servant, no matter how bad it is, if you go fishing like your father in the future, you will not be calculated when you sell fish, so no matter what, you still have to let you study." 。 ”

"Okay, mother, I listen to you, and when I become a buddy or a little guy in the future, I will honor my father and you two when I make money!"

Xiang Yu was very happy, he also wanted to get in touch with the bigger world and see what the people and things in the stories told by the village chief were like. As for going to school, he subconsciously boiled it down to something that happened by the way.

"Okay, your mother is right, you don't have to wait until next year's spring, I'll send you to school after the monthly break of the private school next month. ”

Xiang Yu's father also walked into the kitchen, and the family of three stayed in the small room, looking a little crowded, but all three of them had happy smiles on their faces.

Early the next morning, Xiang Yu was called up by his father, his mother was already busy in the kitchen, and his father packed the fish in two big louzi and put them on top of the trolley. After drinking a large bowl of fish soup, one person went out, came out from the north side of the village, went around the hill, and went up to the official road to the market, on both sides of the official road were two rows of tall trees on one side, and the wind of late summer and early autumn blew warmly on the face and had a little salty smell of the sea breeze. Xiang Yu followed behind his father, holding a straw in his hand that he didn't know where to fold, waving it back and forth in his hand, poking the road from time to time, and asking his father if he didn't know any flowers and plants. In the middle of noon, the two of them went to the market.

From the houses that began to appear on the side of the road one after another, to the wooden attics on both sides of the road, the most prosperous part of this nameless town appeared in front of Xiang Yu, this is his favorite place to come, there are bearded people who sell roast chicken, there are old men who sell sugar gourds, there are men in Tsing Yi who blow candy, and beautiful women in a high attic and so on. The father stopped the trolley, put two big men in a vacant lot at the corner of the street, spread a straw mat that he had brought over, and put a few fat and fresh fish on the straw mat and sold them.

"Fresh deep-sea fish, eat one on top two, fat, juicy and delicious"

Xiang Yu also followed his father's shouting and selling.

After a while, a small man in Tsing Yi who didn't look much older than Xiang Yu appeared in front of the stall, he squatted down and turned over the fish on the ground

"How do you sell this fish?"

"Sixty Wen a catty"

The little man jumped up and down, his face flushed

"You two are simply robbers, how can you sell such expensive fish"

However, this little man in Tsing Yi is not a fool, after some explanation, he knew that this is a deep-sea fish that is not easy to catch, and it is pure luck that they can catch so many at once this time, and they may not encounter it a few times in their lives. Speaking of which, in the end, it was sold for fifty wen a catty, and the little man bought four fish for a total of sixty-three and a half catties, and finally only gave three taels of silver, which is equivalent to giving up a fraction of three and a half catties, but Xiang Yu's father and son didn't care too much, after all, it was the first business, and it was a good start. Three taels of silver, if you buy rice, a family of three can't eat it for two months.

"Xiang Yu, I saw that little man just now, that is the little servant of the gentry in this town, who is responsible for purchasing food, what you see is not very good, if you go to Lingzhu City, there are really a lot of rich people there, even such a small shop has to wear silk, you will go to school in the future, if you become a servant of a big family, you don't have to worry about it in this life, remember?"

Listening to his father's words, Xiang Yu couldn't help but smack his tongue, nodded, and said remember.

The fish sold by the two people is indeed a good fish, so the business is also very good, and the sun has just passed noon, and the two big Lou fish are sold only two small fish. After calculating the accounts, a total of sixteen taels of silver and four hundred and eighty yuan were sold, which was an unprecedented bumper harvest, and the two small fish were simply not sold, and the two of them packed up their stalls and prepared to go home.

On the way back, I walked around the town, spent 20 yuan to buy a roast chicken to take back, and spent 2 yuan to buy a sugar gourd for Xiang Yu, which is also the biggest purpose of Xiang Yu to follow his father to the set today, the sweet and sour sugar gourd is the best thing he has ever tasted.

Squeaky, accompanied by the sound of the cart, Xiang Yu sat on the trolley, happily licking the sugar gourd. The official road in the afternoon was a little stuffy, and there were two stops on the road, and Xiang Yu helped his father push a section after eating the sugar gourd halfway. When I got home in the afternoon, it was already evening, and at dinner, my mother burned the remaining two small fish, plus the roast chicken bought in the market, and a wild vegetable, the crispy of the roast chicken, the tenderness of the fish pieces and the fresh fragrance of the green vegetables, Xiang Yu ate three bowls of rice in one go. Xiang Yu's mother looked at him with a smile and said to his father

"Yong'er is getting more and more able to eat, it seems that she is going to grow taller"

After speaking, he looked at him with a smile.

"Dad, mother, when I grow up a little more, I can make money, you two don't have to work hard, wait to enjoy the happiness"

After speaking, he smiled a little shyly, threw the bowl on the dining table, and ran out to play with the children in the same village.

"When the private school in the town is over next month, I will take him to Mr. and let him see if he is the material for studying."

Xiang Yu's father said to his mother.

"Well, the child is not young, if he doesn't study, he will be talking about family affairs in another two years. Mother echoed his father's words.

At night, Xiang Yu waited until it was completely dark and came home, and found that his father and mother were still talking, and when it was time to sleep, he saw that the lights in his father's house were still flickering and on. He knew that this was the two of them discussing their own schooling, the moon outside was already more than half round, and the silver glow was shining on his small bed, which was exceptionally bright, Xiang Yu had insomnia that night, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, and he was going to school in more than half a month, and he could only go home once a month, who would help his father tidy up the fishing boat, in fact, it would be good to go fishing like his father in the future. He didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he dreamed at night, he seemed to see the bright moon and become a man, smiling at him, and he seemed to dream that he had caught many, many more good fish, much more than his father had sold today, and there was a fish with sharp teeth that was terrible, and he dreamed of many, many things??????

During this time, Xiang Yu had to accompany his father to tidy up the fishing boat every day, and there would be fewer such opportunities in the future, and he even accompanied his father to sea once, if it was in the past, his father would not let himself go to sea with him. Every night after dinner, his mother would call himself to his house and tell him some polite truths about getting along with his classmates and husband, Xiang Yu firmly remembered in his heart, in his memory, his mother was a person who was busy with the vegetable garden, kitchen, laundry and other things every day, but in the process of educating himself, he found that his mother was actually a very cultivated person.

More than half a month passed quickly, Xiang Yu spent this half month in the entanglement of anticipation and reluctance, on the first day of October, the chicken just crowed for the first time in the morning, Xiang Yu was woken up by his father, and went to the town with his father with two hot eggs prepared by his mother in his arms. In the morning, when there are not many pedestrians on the road, they arrive at the town where houses appear one after another, and when they arrive at the school hall in the west half of the town, the whole market has come to life, all kinds of shouting, the voices of the surrounding residents, the crying of children, endlessly, turn a corner, these sounds suddenly become farther away, the clearest thing to hear is the chaotic and neat and orderly sound of reading, the whole alley to the end of the middle of a school gate, the door of the school hall on both sides of the two sentences

"Accept students from all over the world and cultivate talents for all generations"

His father pulled Xiang Yu across the gate of the school, and he saw at a glance that there was a painting on the screen wall facing him, a white-clothed scholar holding a scroll of Tao Te Ching, under the towering cliff, facing the waterfall flowing down, and a tall and strong pine tree behind him, which seemed to be reciting. I don't know why, seeing this painting, Xiang Yu seems to be able to hear and feel the water vapor standing on the pavement and the rumbling waterfall, as if he feels the coolness, he can't help but shiver, but he seems to be able to hear the reader's recitation, which is not loud, but it seems to be echoing in the ears like the sound of the waterfall, and slowly becomes as if it echoes between heaven and earth, and finally the sound is getting louder and louder, until he finally woke Xiang Yu up from his daze, he shivered again, felt a burst of warmth on his back, turned his head to look at the sun, and muttered that he didn't know what to do。 I looked left and right, my father was not around, I should have been standing here for a while, the ground paved with bluestone slabs was smooth as a mirror and with a sense of vicissitudes, the walls on both sides of the yard were a row of flower beds, planted a few small pine trees, and there were some shrubs below, with green leaves but no flowers, I think it was not the season. Bypassing the screen, I saw that in the large living room facing the screen, my father was sitting on a stool talking to a middle-aged man in a gray robe. He walked over respectfully, stood behind his father with his head bowed, and called out to his father.

"You are Xiang Yu, right?"

The father didn't speak, and the middle-aged man in gray next to him spoke first.

"Mr. Hui's words, junior Xiang Yu. ”

"Haha, good"

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he took a sip of tea, Xiang Yu was a little confused, and he didn't know what the middle-aged man was embarrassed to say. At this time the father spoke.

"As soon as I entered the school hall just now, Mr. saw the two of us, you looked at the painting on the screen at that time, I was just about to call you, Mr. grabbed me, no, I just came in and sat down, made tea, and you came over. ”

"What do you see in the painting?"

The middle-aged man asked Xiang Yu

"Back to Mr.'s words, I only felt that the waterfall seemed to splash on my body, and then only the sound of reading became louder and louder, and finally the deafening suddenly relieved my senses."

The sound of reading seemed to be imprinted in his head, Xiang Yu said as he recalled.