Chapter 1: Dreaming Back to Youth
The sea embraces all rivers, tolerance is great, the greatest thing in the world is the sea, and there is no more than the sea in terms of fantasy and treachery, danger and unpredictability.
The ocean outside Yanyu Island is very docile, like a loving mother, raising the children of this side, on the calm sea, the sea breeze blows gently, and the afterglow of the sunset is like flowing gold, sprinkled on the layers of waves, like thousands of beating mirrors, reflecting the soft light of gold.
Several seagulls flew down from the clouds, flapping their wings over the place where the sea and the sky meet, making the whole picture appear more peaceful.
A small boat full of seafood, swaying and undulating on the sea, several seagulls in the shape of a meal, stopped on the side of the boat, kept pecking, but ate very particularly, only picking fine shrimp and dead fish to swallow, it seems to give the owner face.
Suddenly, a young man suddenly drilled out of the sea, splashed a foot-high splash, revealing bronzed skin, his sword eyebrows raised, his eyes were like stars, and he was simple with a bit of heroism, and he was only twelve or thirteen years old.
The young man shook his head vigorously, held a small blue fish like a petrel in his right hand, grabbed the side of the boat with his left hand, turned over and rolled onto the fishing boat, lay on the boat and looked at the small fish in his hand, and couldn't help but be full of joy: "It's really good luck today, this petrel fish should weigh two catties!
The seagulls on the side were greedy, and couldn't help but come forward to taste the taste of petrelfish, but the young man retracted his hand and said, "Don't make trouble, Xiaobai! This is not for you to eat." The seagull seemed to be quite humane, and when he heard this, he retracted his head stupidly and continued to peck at the tiny fish and shrimp.
The boy put the petrel fish in the boat and grabbed a few fat fish to feed the seagulls. smiled: "Today's harvest is good, and I will also give you a tooth sacrifice." "The boy was very simple by nature, and several seagulls were very familiar with him, and always came to his boat to peck at the small fish, and they were very well-behaved, and never touched the fat fish and prawns without the boy's consent.
"You're all here, it's getting late, it's time to go home. The boy stood up as he spoke, wearing only a pair of shorts. Revealing a thin body. Hold on to the oars and row the boat back.
Within half an hour, the boy docked the boat and filled a large bag of fish and shrimp on the shore. Tie the bag with a rope. Like a slender man. Strap the other end of the rope over your shoulder and drag the bag across the sand, leaving a long trail of trails behind you. It was washed away by the waves and soon disappeared.
The inland sea near the swallow fish island is rich in petrel fish, the shape of this fish resembles the petrel, so it is named, it is a precious ingredient of the famous blue country, the meat is tender and delicious, it has always been the best delicacy used by the royal court, and because it is extremely difficult to catch, the price of the petrel fish is ten times more expensive than gold, and the name of the swallow fish island is from the petrel fish.
The boy dragged the fish bag, walked hundreds of meters on the beach, walked into a dense forest, carried the fish bag on his shoulder, and zigzagged forward in the dense forest.
The valley was very secluded, and the boy and his grandfather lived in it, and no stranger ever came in, and when the boy was twelve or thirteen years old, he saw only his grandfather, and never saw anyone else.
The young man walked out of the valley, and saw his grandfather sitting in front of his house from a distance, an old man in sackcloth with a broken right arm, smoking a dry cigarette, the young man quickened his pace, stepped forward, and said happily: "Grandpa, I caught a petrel fish today, and I will bake it for you in a while!"
The old man in Mai was thin, his face was wrinkled, his face was very kind, and while smoking a dry cigarette, he smiled at the young man: "Our Ah Sheng is filial, and it is not in vain that grandpa has worked hard to pull you up." ”
The young man smiled and said, "Grandpa, you sit down first, and I'll cook the dishes." The old man in Mai took a breath of dry smoke, and when he heard this, his face suddenly changed, he choked on the smoke, coughed a few times, and waved his hand again and again: "Don't ...... Cough, cough, Ah Sheng, you are tired of fishing, go and rest, let grandpa come to cook, be obedient and obedient. ”
The young man said strangely: "Grandpa, why don't you always let me cook? Last time I roasted the fish for you, you still said it was delicious!"
The old man in Mai thought to himself, this is the first time that the good grandson made something to eat, and he couldn't say anything to the good grandson, so he had to bite the scalp and eat the whole fish in front of the young man, and praised the deliciousness while eating, and then the old man in Mai didn't have the appetite to eat for three days.
Since then, the old man in Mai has come to a conclusion that he must not let the young man cook again, otherwise he will have to be tossed to death sooner or later, because when he heard that the young man was going to grill fish again, the old man in Mai suddenly couldn't sit still, laughed dryly, and said: "Ah Sheng, it's not that grandpa won't let you cook, you have more important things to do, huh...... Grandpa gave you the book "Domination of the Eight Directions", have you finished reading it?"
The boy shook his head and said, "Not yet." The old man in Mai smiled and said, "That's right, you hurry up and go to read a book, and let grandpa come for cooking." ”
"Okay, then I'll go read a book, grandpa, you can cook. The boy didn't think much of it, smiled slightly, put down the fish bag, and went back to his room to read.
The old man in Mai wiped the cold sweat on his head and whispered to himself, "It's dangerous, it's dangerous...... I'm a good grandson who is smart and clever, and I can learn everything as soon as I learn it, so how can I learn not to stir-fry......? I can't let him touch the stove anymore!" he packed up the fish bag and went to cook without mentioning it.
After a while, the old man in Mai made the meal, called the young man out to eat, the petrel fish naturally became the treasure on the table, when the two finished the meal, the night was already dark, the grandparents and grandchildren cleaned up the cups and plates, sat on the big bluestone outside the house, looked up at the night sky, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, the sky seemed particularly clean, the old man in Mai took a puff of dry smoke, exhaled a long breath, and said: "Good grandson, you are almost thirteen, right?"
The boy nodded and said, "It's still three months away." The old man in Mai was slightly stunned and muttered, "Is it only three months away...... It's almost ...... It's almost ......"
The young man said, "Grandpa, what's fast?" The old man in Mai smiled slightly, stroked the top of the young man's head lovingly, and said, "The time for my good grandson to fly into a dragon is almost here." The young man didn't know why, and he was puzzled: "Grandpa, what kind of flying dragon?"
The old man in Mai took a puff of dry cigarette and said, "You will know in the future." The young man lay on the bluestone, looked up at the starry sky, and said in a daze: "Grandpa, I am almost thirteen years old, but I don't know who my father and mother are?
The old man in Mai shook his head and said, "Good grandson, don't ask about your father's mother, there are some things that you still know less, and grandpa is also for your good." ”
It's this sentence again, every time the teenager asks about his parents, the old man in Mai is always so prevaricating, and the young man gradually gets used to it, and when he is silent, he says: "Grandpa, you have told me a lot of things outside, when can I go out to see......"
The old man in Mai touched the young man's head and smiled slightly: "When you can win against grandpa, grandpa will let you go out ......" (to be continued......)