Chapter 21: The Beach Beggar
This is the real sea, its blue and deep, as far as the eye can see, calm at the moment, the sea gently caressing the sand in the morning sun, which stretches along the long coastline and along which countless seafarers line it. www.biquge.info They are dressed in all kinds of clothes, holding small rakes the size of palms, carrying large and small wooden barrels, squatting or standing or bending over, or picking up fish, shrimp and shells in shallow water, or shaving crabs and clams in the sand.
Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea. Compared with the higher danger of going out to sea to fish, catching the sea is a relatively safe means of making a living, as long as the hands are fast, as long as the hard-working and hard-working, grasp the time of the ebb and flow of the tide, there will be a lot of harvest every day. The seafood in this sea area is extremely abundant, even a child of seven or eight years old can harvest half a bucket of crabs and oysters in two or three hours at sea, and no matter how poor people are against the sea, they will not starve to death, and this is an inexhaustible natural pasture.
Under the leadership of He Ye, several children soon came to the beach, this untidy team was disbanded on the spot, the children each took out a small rake, rubber gloves, sunshade straw hats or bamboo hats from the barrel, quickly armed themselves, each found a place with few people, and began to dig and pick up.
Lin Du came to visit the beach out of curiosity, and he didn't bring any tools, and the children ran away from each other, leaving him alone and standing in place. The shore is flat and unshaded, and the July sun is scorching hot.
He watched curiously as He Ye skillfully dug open a sand hole with a small rake and pulled out a crab with teeth and claws, and threw it into the bucket with a raised hand, while a little girl next to him picked up a fan-shaped clam from the fine sand. The black bean ran and jumped behind He Ye, sniffing non-stop, suddenly stopped and shaved a few times in the sand with his little paws, took out a white clam, pressed it on the ground with his paws, scratched left and right, but couldn't open the hard shell, and was so anxious that he turned in place with his little tail.
Lin Du looked at it, and his heart itched. He wasn't interested in digging up any seafood, he just thought it was a fun thing to do. He took off his shoes and walked barefoot into the shallow water, the water was a little warm, and the feeling of fine sand kissing the soles of his feet was particularly comfortable. Suddenly, he felt the itch on the soles of his feet again, leaned over and touched his feet, and pulled out a half-finger-long shrimp, and at the same time, through the clear and shallow water, he saw a group of small shrimp fleeing from his feet like deer.
Lin Dui carried the shrimp, looking at the sun with great interest, observing its translucent body, and He Ye's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Lin Dusk Lin Dui, you have to be careful to pierce your hands when catching shrimp, otherwise it will hurt very much." He turned around and saw He Ye standing on the beach behind him with a wooden barrel on his back, taking off the rubber glove from his right hand, and then she handed him the glove that had been removed, and said, "Oh, wear this, it can protect your hands!"
Lin Du waved his hand and refused, "I don't need it, you wear it yourself." ”
He Ye squinted his eyes in the sunlight and shook his left hand: "I still have, you see, one for each of us!" As she said that, she took two steps closer, slapped the glove into Lin Dui's hand without saying anything, and then took off the worn sunhat from her head, and put it on Lin Dui's head like a sister caring for her younger brother: "This is also for you!"
Lin Du looked at the tanned skin on He Ye's face, and quickly took off his hat and buckled it on He Ye's head: "You will be very tanned if I wear this, or you wear it." ”
He Ye pursed his mouth slightly, pulled off his hat and put it on Lin Dui's head, and said a little angrily: "My skin is very sun-resistant, how can you compare? You were brought by me, and I am responsible for you!"
Lin Du couldn't resist the powerful aura of this little black girl, so she had to obediently put on her hat and put rubber gloves on her hands. He Ye grinned at this time, revealing a mouthful of jagged teeth, and admonished: "You can catch shrimp and clams in the shallow water, don't go too far, otherwise you will be photographed by the waves of the high tide." It's a lot of tide here!" With that, she turned and ran towards the black beans that were shaving left and right on the beach.
Lin Dusk had gloves and a sunhat, and a small rake and a wooden barrel were missing. If you catch shrimp in shallow water, you won't need a small rake, but you still need one for a barrel. He straightened up, held his hat in one hand, and looked around, and saw a small wooden barrel floating on the surface of the sea a little farther away, as if someone had discarded it. He was overjoyed, and hurriedly rolled up his trousers and walked into the distance.
After walking more than ten meters into the sea, the sea water gradually deepened, but it was only below the calf. The water is crystal clear, and you can see fish, shrimp and shellfish swimming beneath your feet. Lin Du only felt that the sea water was not very deep, and he didn't see anything strange, so he dared to go further. When I grabbed the little barrel in my hand, the water was just below my knees. The small barrel was only missing a piece on the top edge, and the bottom could hold a lot of things. He happily took a few more steps back, catching shrimp and clams in the water as he went.
He was in high spirits, but there was a commotion on the shore more than ten meters away. He threw a beautiful shell into the small wooden barrel, straightened up and wiped the sweat that was about to run into his eyes, and squinted his eyes to see two children wrestling together on the shore. His eyes were very good, and he could clearly identify one of the children as a boy in He Ye's team, his name was Zhao Hai, and the other child was only seven or eight years old, slender and thin, and the clothes on his body were tattered and had a few patches, like a little beggar.
Not far from them, a small wooden barrel was dumped on the beach, crabs and shrimp were crowded and crawled and jumped, and a group of children were scrambling to throw them into their barrels. Obviously, it was the two who knocked over the other person's barrel, and the argument began.
Two children were rolling on the beach, surrounded by a group of children who were making a noise, and the adults were far away, as if they had noticed that there were no children of their own, so they didn't bother to stop them. Only He Ye leaned over and tried to pull the two apart, while shouting in a sharp voice: "Don't fight, don't fight! Zhao Hai, if you bully people again, I really won't take you next time! You let go, let go!"
The little black girl's words really worked, and as soon as her words fell, the two children separated, but with the other child getting up, Zhao Hai, who fell to the ground, let out a ghost cry wolf howl, and then cried wow. His bare right shoulder was red, apparently wounded, and the corners of the other child's mouth were also bloody, and he opened his mouth to spit a small ball of blood on the ground, as if he had bitten off a piece of the other's flesh. The surrounding children were stunned when they saw this scene, and many of them unconsciously took a few steps back, and the noisy and coaxing stopped abruptly, leaving only Zhao Hai's heart-rending cry.
People are not jackals, tigers and leopards, they don't have such sharp teeth, how can ordinary children bite off a bite of other people's flesh and blood when they fight? How ruthless is this?
Lin Dui's heart was very shocked, and he couldn't take his eyes off for a while, and followed the little wolf-like child closely. The child's face was covered in mud and sand, and a blood line was drawn on the back of his hand, because Zhao Hai was holding a shell with spikes in his hand. But he parted the crowd as if nothing had happened, picked up a tattered hat and put it on his head, picked up the empty barrel that had fallen to the ground, found an open space, squatted down, lowered his head and continued to dig the crabs. It didn't take a few clicks before a child suddenly ran over and slapped him on the buttocks, then ran a few steps to hide into the crowd. The boy stood up and turned his head to look out into the crowd, when an older child pretended to pass by, stretched out his foot and kicked over his barrel, and swaggered away. The surrounding children let out bursts of laughter again.
Lin Du didn't know why these children were bullying people like this, so he walked a few steps to the shore and wanted to go over to help the child, but saw the child pick up the bucket that had fallen on the sand again, and turned around and walked towards him. He rolled up his trousers and stepped into the water, walking step by step into the depths of the water, as if he wanted to avoid the unscrupulous children on the shore and find a quiet place to pick some seafood in peace. The lower part of his ankle and calf were tanned reddish-brown, but the skin on the upper half of his calf was white and snowy. He walked more than ten meters from the shore step by step before putting the small wooden barrel on the water and began to lean over to catch shrimp and crabs.
At this time, the two were only a few steps apart. After seeing the scene just now, Lin Du had already felt pity, and walked up to the other party with a tattered wooden barrel. The boy raised his head at the sound of the rushing water, and stared at him very vigilantly, his big eyes, which were surrounded by mud, were dark and watery, and his cheeks were faintly delicately outlined. Lin Du inexplicably felt a little familiar, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then he showed a kind smile, caught a bucket of shrimp shells at the bottom of his own bucket and poured them into the other party's bucket, and said, "I don't need these things, I'll give them to you." But I haven't caught much, if you want, I'll give it to you later. ”
The kid didn't seem to expect Lin Dui to do this, and looked at him stunned with big eyes, but there was no joy or emotion in those eyes. Lin Du didn't expect the other party to thank him, grinned at him and turned away, but as soon as he turned around, he heard a dumpling-like sound behind him, and turned back in amazement, only to see that the child was carrying the wooden barrel upside down, the barrel mouth was down, and all the shrimp, crab and clams he gave him were poured into the sea.
Lin Dui's mouth opened slightly, and he couldn't help but freeze in place. Didn't he come to catch the sea? Why did he dump all those shrimps and crabs? Lin Du couldn't figure it out for a while. The boy didn't look at him anymore, and walked a few steps away from the side, still leaning down to pick up shellfish and shrimp as before. His wide gray shirt was covered with countless small holes, bare small patches of white and tender skin, and a large hole was even broken in the crook of his slender arm, revealing a bright red blood mark from the scratch he had just been in the fight.
Lin Du looked at the child's figure and scratched his head a little embarrassed. Although I don't understand why the other party threw away those seafood, even a fool can see that people don't have the slightest intention of being close to him. But soon, he forgot about this little unpleasantness and indulged in the pleasure of catching shrimp and fishing. He didn't go further into the depths of the sea, only wandered more than ten meters from the coast, but he was really happy and forgot the time, and didn't realize that the people on the shore had already walked seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and the little girl He Ye, who claimed to be responsible for him, helped the wounded Zhao Hai back early to deal with the wound, and accidentally threw him here alone.
A turbid current suddenly swelled in the clear water, like a fog suddenly filled with a clear day. Lin Du couldn't help but be stunned, he subconsciously took two steps back, but the mist still quickly spread over his legs. Looking back at the beach, he found that the lively crowd had been cleaned, he was confused for a while, and then a strong sense of crisis surged in his heart. More than ten meters away, the beggar-like child was the only one who remained on the beach, he had just waded out of the water, and was about to leave, when he turned around and saw Lin Du still standing in the water, he couldn't help shouting at him: "It's going to be a high tide, go quickly!"
Lin Du also wanted to go ashore quickly, but he couldn't take a step. When he saw that there was no one on the shore, he thought about fleeing the sea, but something seemed to be entangled in his legs in the muddy water under his feet, making him unable to move. This unknown danger is the most terrifying, even if the things under his feet do not hurt people, if he never escapes, once the tide comes, he will be swallowed by the waves. His heart was beating wildly, his little face was white with fright, he tried to break free of his legs but almost fell into the water, and when he heard the child's shout, he had to shout to him, "No, I can't move!"
The little beggar did not seem to understand what he said, and when he saw that he had not moved, he became a little anxious, threw the barrel on the ground, threw off his steps and stepped into the water, and ran towards him without hesitation, and shouted as he ran, "Run! The tide is rising, and you don't want to die?"
The voice of the little beggar is like a clear spring dingdong like a spring mountain rain, obviously very different from a boy, and a lot of the sea water splashed in the rush rushed to the little beggar's face, a little bit washed away most of the mud, revealing a piece of immature and white, and finally restored a childish and stubborn face, which is a face that belongs to a little girl.
This little beggar who was bullied by people in the sea alone, the little beggar who rolled and fought with boys all over the beach and beat each other to cry, he was not a boy, but a beautiful and lovely girl!
And this face, Lin Dui has seen! She is the little girl who gave chocolate in the park and was later taken away by the old grandfather! But now she is not at all as weak as she was at the beginning.
It's just that this is meaningless to Lin Du at this time, he can't care about whether the other party is a man or a woman, and he doesn't care who the other party is, this stupid guy actually didn't call people but ran towards him, he was afraid that the two would be buried together in the tide, so he hurriedly waved his hand and kept shouting: "Hurry up! Don't come here, there's a monster here!"
The little girl finally heard his words clearly, and suddenly stopped, with a look of fear and hesitation on her face. She tried to turn around and run back to the beach, but as soon as she heard the faint sound of the tide in the distance, she turned back and turned her way again. She ran wildly towards Lin Dusk, and her innocent face had a look of determination that did not match her age.
Anyway, she still has a good impression of Lin Dui, but he wants to help her when the children are bullying her, and she doesn't want to see such a person washed away by the sea. As for the monster he was talking about, where was it? Obviously, the sea was still calm, maybe his feet were numb or he was tripped by the water and grass, and it must be too late to help him run back to the shore together!
By this time, the sound of the tide had become clear and audible, and the rumbling sound turned into a soul-inducing drumbeat, and the sound was terrifying. Two girls, one big and one young, were running towards the beach, and the little black girl who was running in front kept calling Lin Dui's name, and the two girls who followed behind were panting and her feet were sore, and she was already so frightened that she had no strength at all. It's just that their calls are drowned out in the rising tide, and Lin Dui is leaning over to pull out the things wrapped around his legs, and he has no intention of looking at them.
Lin Du grabbed a slippery and soft tentacle that seemed to be thicker than his arm, and it was wrapped around his legs. He had already dropped the barrel in the water, and leaned over to fight with the tentacle with both hands, but instead of letting go, the tentacle rolled up with all its might, leaping out of the water like a vine and a tree wrapped around him. The little girl was running in front of Lin Dui, reaching out to pull him, but she was caught up in the other tentacle and couldn't move, and then the third and fourth tentacles also popped out of the water, rolling the two of them together, and binding them tightly together.
The sound of the tide is mighty, like angry thunder rolling, like ten thousand horses galloping. The two-meter-high wave is like a black ridge, whistling from far and near, and it will engulf the two small bodies in the blink of an eye. The hastily found Su'er on the shore suddenly sat down on the ground, her eyes were full of high waves and the little young master entangled by the tentacles of the octopus. He Ye was also frightened, and the black skin on his face was faintly glowing with white light. The black bean in her arms struggled to jump off the beach, screaming and rushing into the sea, but as soon as she took a step, she was dragged and picked up by He Ye.
Su'er's long hair was messy and her eyes were panicked, she got up from the ground and looked around, and kept muttering "cuttlefish, cuttlefish, where are you, come and help me, come and save the young master, save the young master", in the higher and higher tide, she finally couldn't help but shout loudly with the sharp and crazy characteristic of women: "Cuttlefish-!You dead wood! Where are you dead at this time? Don't put wood anymore, I beg you, please save the young master, save the young master!" (To be continued.) )