A corner of the middle.

Sun, sand, seawater, shells, silhouettes.

The turquoise sea, the shallow sand, and the salty smell of the gentle wind blowing in the air. Not far from the sea, there is a smooth flat land like a calm, and those smooth ground are often seven or eight zhang square, and the flat ground is as flat as a mirror, even if it is a carefully crafted jade, it may not be so smooth.

That's Yantian, the elderly head of the village, who is out** Later, after seeing other villages make a fortune with this salt pan, I had some rough calculations in my heart, and after I came back, I called on all the families in the village to get a few places, because the village is close to the sea, and it is more convenient to attract seawater, this salt pan does not take much effort to organize, and the price of salt in the market is ridiculously high now, the villagers listened to the advice of the village chief, felt that there was a profit to be made, and they all expressed their willingness to join, so the so-called salt pan was formed in this small village near the sea.

Introduce seawater into the salt pan, and after drying, scrape off the salty soil, turn it into brine, and then gradually dry it into salt grains, and put it in a jar, so that the salt that is usually eaten will also become.

On the sea in the distance, on the reef, a few children and babies, barefoot on the smooth stones, bustling around the oldest old man in the village, have asked the old man to tell a story, the old man because of his age, his face has some dark spots, his body is a little bent, his face is slightly pale, at this moment the old man "let's ...... it" smoking the dry tobacco in his mouth, he puffed up the cigarette pouch, swallowed a mouthful of smoke, and let out a long breath in the haze of smoke, revealing a look of enjoyment.

The mild-faced old man glanced at a group of children who were squatting on the reef and shouting, smiled softly, revealing a row of uneven and loose teeth, and said with a smile: "Okay, a group of leather children, don't make any noise, grandpa will tell you a kappa story today." ”

"What is Grandpa Kappa?"

It was a five-and-a-half-year-old baby, with thin eyes and small pigtails in her hair, and when she heard the old man's words, she asked in a somewhat immature voice.

Some people say he's a monster, others say he's a haen's child, and there are many different theories, so today Grandpa will tell you about two more reliable ones. The old man's dark face showed a little melancholy, and his voice was a little wrizen, and he smoked a cigarette silently after speaking.

"What is the relationship between him and the one-eyed monk who was blue last time, because he was too lazy, he still needs to knock on the wooden fish after he dies, and continue to practice, if he encounters a child who has not returned home at sunset, he will catch the child and go to the wild temple or the cave to teach a lesson?"

The old man knocked on the smoke pot, took back the dry tobacco gun and pinned it to his waist, looked at a group of serious little babies, and finally put a slightly cloudy gaze on the sweet little girl, and slowly said: "This kappa has something to do with the owner of the same green workshop, some people say! This kappa is a water monster, but also a young child, with a bowl of water on his head, usually alone in the bottom of the sea lonely** Unaccompanied, and afraid that he would not dare to come out in the daytime, he would not come out and walk around only at night, and he liked to play with children who did not come home at night, and finally tricked them into the sea as companions. ”

A group of young sea babies on the reef, when they heard what the old man said, they were suddenly frightened and at a loss, jumping and shouting, and they would never sneak out at night again.

The old man looked at them amusedly, and when they had had enough trouble, his emotions calmed down, and then he continued: "There is a more popular saying, yes! There was a young handsome man who fell in love with the daughter of the sea, because the sea often flows, so the couple who love each other can not always be around, and later I heard that the young handsome man tried to keep the woman of the heart, so he forcibly changed some order, so he was arrested, and never appeared again, and the legendary kappa is the child of the young handsome man and the daughter of the sea. ”

"Abba...... Abba...... They went out to sea and came back......"

The old man was talking about the wonderful place, a group of children were listening with relish, suddenly heard the shouts of the little boy with pigtails, one by one the children suddenly broke away from the wonderful story, looking at the sea in the distance, raising the white sails, one by one dancing and waving their little hands.

Flowing water waves, deep seabed, corals, goldfish, aquatic plants, a little girl about ten years old, white and flawless looks like an angel, she looked up with a pair of eyes full of holes, and above her head was placed a small cyan bowl, no more, no less, exactly half a bowl of water.

Next to the fireplace, the young boy, sweating profusely in the wind, the water in the iron pot from the lid of the pot made of grass and trees, revealing a trace of white smoke, the boy's face was white and cold, of course, it was indispensable to the immaturity he had at this age, he stayed by the fireplace for a long time, his face was steamed by the flames in the fireplace, steaming a little red.

Lift the lid of the straw pot, and suddenly the white gas in the iron pot is thick, after the white gas is sprayed, I see that there is boiling water in the iron pot, and the center of the water is a copper kettle, the little boy carefully clamped out the copper kettle with the iron tongs on the side, grabbed the handle of the copper kettle with a white towel, and poured out the pungent potion in the copper kettle.

The dilapidated wooden house, the uneven wooden door, was gently blown by the wind, making a crisp sound squeaking, "cough cough ......" The room was dark, because the room was not the morning sun, and it was very tight, it was difficult for the light to shine in, and the coughing sound of a woman came out in the house.

The little boy was in the kitchen on the side, heard the woman's cough, hurriedly held the boiled medicinal soup, and hurriedly ran into the wooden house, there were a few fishing nets and the same oars, clothes, and the hard ** of the mound, a haggard middle-aged woman was coughing sickly, the handkerchief in her hand was coughing out a trace of blood, and hearing the sound of Suo Suo in the house, the middle-aged woman hurriedly put the handkerchief under the bed.

"Mother's medicine is cured......"

The voice was crisp, and the little boy came to the middle-aged woman's side with a bowl of hot medicinal soup, urging her to drink it quickly.

"Qiu'er, where is your father?"

The middle-aged woman took the medicinal soup handed over by the little boy and put it on the bedside table, and asked in a somewhat weak tone.

The little boy's face revealed a trace of unnaturalness, as if he was very uninterested in the middle-aged woman's mouth, his so-called father, he hesitated for a moment and said: "It seems that I went to the gambling house in the town to gamble again, and I guess I will get drunk and drunk again when I come back." ”

The middle-aged woman's desolate and sickly face revealed a trace of self-pity, she sighed and said with distress: "Qiu'er, it's all to blame for my mother's bad feelings, if it weren't for my mother's illness, you wouldn't have to follow your mother to suffer this sin, do the scars on your body still hurt now?"

"No...... It doesn't hurt anymore......"

The middle-aged woman stretched out her hand to pull his shirt, the little boy resisted unnaturally, and finally the loose shirt was still removed, only to see that his thin body was covered with hideous wounds, those wounds looked dense, some of them were already scarred, and of course there were a few new wounds.

"Does it hurt?"

The middle-aged woman, looking at the wound on the boy's body, was mixed with a trace of choking in her voice, and her heart hurt.

"I've rubbed the medicine......"

The boy's voice was surprisingly calm, as if he was immune to this kind of pain, and that cold little face had a coldness that did not belong to his age.

The gray sky, the sea breeze turning, with a salty taste, the young man in the distance, a pair of eyes like stagnant water looking at the man returning from the sea in the distance, carrying his son around the neck of the cheerful scene, as if he touched something in his heart, he felt that his chest was faintly uncomfortable, and deep in his heart was a kind of violence for no reason.

The oppression of the environment has chosen to give in and compromise, but at the same time, there will be a seed of humiliation planted in your body, and that seed will wait until you suddenly find it, and then you will be in a trance, and he has distorted your surname.

The tide was raging, lapping against the reef, startling the waves, and the boy's thin body walked alone in the sea breeze, his figure getting longer and longer, and then drowned in the night.

At the bottom of the sea, inside a crystal coffin, the coffin lid floated up gently, a little girl in the crystal coffin, her body slowly stepped on the seawater, and floated out from the bottom of the sea little by little.

The little girl is more than a meter tall, her face is ** and exquisite, she is wearing a white dress, she looks like a delicate porcelain doll, the only fly in the ointment is her eyes, those eyes have no trace of brilliance, empty and godless, there are two antennae on the top of her head, stuck in the middle of the blue bowl on the top of her head.

The light body fell on the shore, the little girl stood quietly, looking at the boy's back, he was a little distracted, the boy seemed to feel something, he looked back at the girl on the shore, a trace of gentleness was revealed between the cold complexion, he slowly let out a breath, and said in a childish voice: "Little boy, are you out again?"

Hearing this, the girl on the opposite side nodded slightly, and her ** feet, gently stepping on the soft sand, approached the boy little by little. (To be continued.) )