one
The sea breeze is particularly cold tonight, and the wet gas comes over and sticks two or three locks of hair on my cheek in disorder.
I struggled to throw the net again, pulled out a hand and hurriedly wiped the sweat oozing from my forehead.
If you can't return home with a full load tonight, I'm afraid you won't be able to pay off your debts this month, and the village bully may come to trouble again.
The debt was owed by my father before his death, but unfortunately my parents left early, leaving me and my two-year-old brother in this small fishing village, living alone.
The recent harvest is surprisingly poor, as are all the fishermen in the village. As life has become more difficult, I have to sail farther, just to get more food, while my brother is still waiting for me at home hungry.
A prodigal son came along, and in the sinking night, I vaguely saw the Na Pianhai area ahead, which was called "Devil Sea" by the villagers. It is said that the sea is rough and there are sea monsters.
I don't believe in sea monsters. Sea monsters only appear in fairy tales, but I'm not sure about this moody wave. So, I quickly turned around and just wanted to leave here far away.
But it's too late-
My boat just turned my back and I saw a prodigal son calling. The raging waves opened their mouths and swallowed my fishing boat in an instant.
It was dark in front of me, and I could only hear the roar of the faint waves hovering overhead, getting farther and farther away from me-
two
When I woke up, I was lying on the gravel by the sea. I heard the sound of the sea, so gentle, as usual.
I couldn't help coughing a few times and choked out the seawater that poured into my throat. I wonder why I am here. When I looked up, I saw him.
The boy with crystal blue eyes like the sea, a head of black hair swaying like wet grass in the sea, rippling slightly in the sea breeze, he was half immersed in the sea and leaned out to look at me, wearing only a tattered white T-shirt.
That's a strange but beautiful face.
I rubbed my eyes, which were a little sour by the sea. "I, why am I here-"
The man stood up slowly from the water, playing with the stone in his hand and didn't answer my question. "Don't go so far, I won't save you next time." Say that finish, he corners of the mouth oblique hook, shallow a smile.
He saved me? I looked at him strangely and didn't know what to say at the moment. I saw him staring at the sky-the full moon hung in the night sky, but a cloud had gradually covered its corner.
He frowned, with some complaints in his tone. "Because of you, I can't go back."
"Ah?"
I looked at the sea, which was like a deep, silent and unpredictable eye. The wind and waves faded away and the waves were calm.
"I can't go back, what do you mean?"
I asked, "Where is your home? Is it far? "
He didn't answer, but pointed to the distant sea.
"The sea? Is it from the sea? " I sloped a smile.
"You don't believe it?" He looks a little angry, but he doesn't seem to be lying.
"Oh, I believe, I believe." I tried not to laugh.
He easily believed me, saying that he came from the sea where I almost died, and he could only become a human figure at the full moon every month to explore the overseas world, but it happened that I was dying. In order to save me, he missed the opportunity to return to the bottom of the sea.
I pretended to listen with relish, but I thought to myself, I'm not a three-year-old child and I won't believe this fairy tale.
He was silent in the sea breeze for a while, and suddenly he secretly took a gasp.
I asked "what's the matter", but I saw bright red blood dripping from his tattered clothes. I must have been hurt trying to save me.
I was suddenly a little worried, but there was nothing to stop the bleeding, so I pointed to the small room in the distance. "Come to my house, I have gauze to stop the bleeding."
There was a flicker of hesitation in his eyes, but after all, he replied gently, "Good."
three
The dim light tore a crack in the darkness, and the flickering candlelight swayed strongly in the cabin by the sea.
My younger brother Ayu saw me and ran quickly: "Sister, what's wrong with you? Why did you come back so late? "
I breathed a sigh of relief and touched his head gently. "It's a long story. Ayu, help your sister find gauze medicinal liquor first. "
She poked her head out and looked at the stranger who followed. She asked warily, "Who is he?"
I was stunned and had to say, "I'll tell Ayu later to help my sister find something first."
I walked away from my brother, only to see him looking around all the time, as if everything was quite new. I laughed and joked, "Since you are from the sea, you must have never seen these things?"
He nodded.
She found the medicine cabinet, and I put the things on the ground as usual. He looked at me suspiciously.
"Sit down." I'm getting a little impatient.
I slowly lifted his sleeve, only to see the crimson scar spread all the way to his back like a red centipede, and the gurgling blood kept pouring out, and there was a bloody smell in the air that smelled like the sea.
My heart trembled and I felt a little ashamed. After all, he was injured for me.
I carefully applied the medicine to him and looked up and asked, "Does it hurt?"
He didn't answer, but frowned. He should hold back the pain.
When my hand touched his back, my face was a little red and a little hot. I looked at him and kept staring at me. My heart was in a mess, and my hand shook and I spilled a pool of medicinal liquor. "Hey, what are you looking at!"
"Ah, it hurts!"
I quickly suppressed my anger and wiped off the extra medicine.
"It serves you right. Who told you to look around?"
four
Finally decided to keep him.
Although I don't believe the story he made up, I am convinced that he is a poor tramp, his own savior, and he was so badly hurt.
When he got up in the morning, he slept soundly. Even though his light blue eyes are closed, he is still so beautiful and angular, and there is a smell of sea wind and mud in the middle of his broken hair.
I took the freshly washed clothes out to dry, just in time to choose some decent clothes for my brother to wear.
"Sister." She stopped me, her voice a little serious. "You know, the villagers are superstitious and don't welcome outsiders."
I froze for a moment and pulled out a smile in embarrassment. "No, he is a good man."
She sighed, but her heart suddenly seemed to have a knot in one's heart-the villagers hate strangers most, if they want to hurt him-
I dare not think. I just think it's better to avoid it in the future.
I sat alone on the reef, feeling a little depressed, blowing the cold sea breeze, as if I could wake up.
I didn't hear any footsteps, but he had appeared beside me, sitting quietly on another reef.
He also gawked at the distance, unable to see the sadness and joy. Unlike me, he had something on his mind, but in his eyes, there was nothing but a piece of Wang Yang.
I waved it in front of his eyes and he woke up.
"What, are you looking at home in the sea again?"
He gave a light "hmm" and didn't recognize my joking tone.
I turned my head and looked into my eyes: "Don't look, from now on, this is your home, and I am your family."
He stared blankly, his eyes full of doubts. "By the way, don't you have a name? Hey-since you always smell the sea breeze, call it Feng! A Feng, ok? "
He paused and silently read his name "Feng, Feng-"
"What happened? Good-looking? "
He didn't answer, for a long time, the corners of his mouth slowly evoked a beautiful arc, revealing a few faint white teeth. Shining in the sun.
The first time I saw him smile, it was so beautiful, like a warm wind blowing in and seeping into my bones.
His eyes looked at me as clear as spring water.
"Today, I have a family and a name for the first time." He looked at me. "Thank you."
He held me in his arms, and I saw the distant waves rise and fall with my heartbeat.
"A feng-"
five
He insisted on going fishing with me, but I couldn't refuse him, so I had to let him follow.
Strangely, today, fish enthusiastically follow one another, just like one after another.
Jump straight into the net.
Incredibly, I opened my mouth wide, only to see A Feng's mouth upturned and smiling.
There were no strong winds and waves that day, and there were so many fish that they didn't even arrive at noon, and the fishing boat was forced to return.
I stared at him with a question mark on my face. "How did you do it?"
He raised his eyebrows and smiled without a word.
The next day, I begged him to go fishing with me.
Every day is early and late, full and full, and life seems to be "swishing" from the beginning of his appearance.
At night, sitting on the rocks by the sea, playing with water for the first time, the fine waves all over the sky splash like gentle snow, wrapped in a little happiness.
One more day will be the day when creditors collect debts on a monthly basis, and my happiness will be over.
A Feng asked me what was going on, so I told him in detail.
He smiled and touched my head gently.
"Don't worry, I'll pay your debts before I leave."
My heart thumped and I was unhappy, but the word "go" suddenly reached my heart like a dagger.
"Will the Arab Summit go?"
He was silent for half a ring, just like when I first saw him, looking at the endless ocean.
? "Next full moon, I should go back."
My heart was suddenly empty, like a child who lost his partner. This is the first time I've been so upset and scared.
six
Days are like running water, so they pass away gently and decisively from your hands. Go fishing together in the morning, sit by the reef at night and watch the sea, listen to the jump of petrels and the whisper of sea breeze. I really hope that the days will go on like this forever, and I will always be with Feng. ......
Until that day, all the laughter stopped abruptly, only the roar of the waves and the silence of the forest on the shore.
That man, the debt collector, came with a few people angry. They grabbed her by the collar, making her cry "Sister, Sister-"in pain.
I snapped; "Let him go!" Then desperately turn out the money for selling fish in the cupboard and throw it in front of them.
The man smoked a cigarette, counted the money, hooked his mouth and sneered, "Not bad, girl, not bad at all."
"Take the money and get out."
"Hey, don't worry." The man approached me with malicious intent. "Grandpa, I changed my mind."
You! '
"Since you are living well now, little girl, should our interest be increased?"
"You scoundrel!" I glared at him.
He grabbed my chin and tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing irregular yellow teeth. "Otherwise, did you follow me? These debts have all been written off! "
Everyone else laughed.
I stared at him angrily and kicked his leg. He screamed "Ouch".
When the others saw it, they all shook their fists at me. "I have no patience, little girl!" "
"What are you doing?"
Just then, Feng made a dash for the door. He just picked up firewood and came back, leaving a bamboo basket with a burning fire in his eyes.
His blue eyes turned into sharp blades in an instant, and his heroic spirit was threatening.
"Who is this little boy? Stop it! "
A Feng knocked the nearest man to the ground with one punch.
"Let her go!"
People got a fright and retreated in succession.
The man holding my neck shouted, "What are you afraid of? There are too many of us to deal with him? "
Hearing this, one by one rushed to Feng, and my heart tightened. I only shouted over and over again in my hard breathing, "Feng, Feng, leave me alone-"
A Feng is like a crazy beast, bursting with cold, and his eyes are blocked by oblique bangs.
Only a few screams and falling to the ground were heard. He came to me and said, "I repeat, let her go."
That hoarse but hard melody, like a dusty cello, is a tone I have never heard before.
"I, we won't let you go! Brothers, let's go! "
Seven.
That's them! A cry and the footsteps of a group of people broke the long silence by the sea.
No one has been here for a long time.
I hurried out, only to see my creditors leading the whole village in a mighty way.
The old man with white beard and crutches is the patriarch.
My heart jumped into my throat. Never let him see Feng. Never.
It's too late, A Feng has followed out, exposed to people's eyes, causing an uproar.
The patriarch frowned.
"Chief of the fathers, that's him! He's just a monster. Look at my wound, here, here, and here, and.
It's all his fault that brother got hurt! "
"Ah, Xi, is this true?"
I opened my lips slightly, but my words got stuck in my throat.
"This foreigner must be a monster in the sea. Our harvest this time is pitiful, but it's just
Ah, Xi's family always comes home with a full load-"
"Yes, this demon man and demon woman, the patriarch, they will never tolerate it."
My heart keeps climbing like countless burning ants, and I have to shout helplessly over and over again: "No, Feng isn't-".
A ferocious smile broke out on the leader's face. "Folks, kill this demon male and female, kill them!"
As a slogan, the overwhelming "kill them" swept towards us. They came to us as if possessed, waving knives and sticks.
Feng held me in her arms and bowed her head to protect me.
I heard him say softly, "Don't be afraid".
One knife, one knife, all cut on his back, dripping with the old blood on my arm, and my tears poured down like a flood. Feng, why are you so stupid?
Suddenly, I saw a blue light suddenly coming out of generate. The weapon-wielding hand suddenly stopped-pieces of silvery scales, glittering and translucent as diamonds, bloomed from his back, each like a sharp knife, piercing his white shirt and Yin Hong's blood, enchanting in the sun.
He lowered his head and his light blue eyes were like a raging sea.
He said, "Don't be afraid. ――"
Like a soul's body being evacuated in an instant, I fell into his arms, my eyes full of amazement.
"Demon, demon!"
Then, there was the metallic sound when the weapon landed, and then the footsteps of people fleeing.
I always look into his blue eyes-
Feng, are you really a monster?
eight
It was the third day after Feng was arrested.
The patriarch led the young people in the clan, and everyone rushed towards us with torches.
Fire and water are incompatible. Did they find his weakness after all?
He was gripped by two men, holding two torches behind him. I heard Feng's crazy roar and the sound of broken fish scales, one by one, and I wanted to cut them.
He struggled, like a grilled fish on a charcoal fire, trying his best, but helpless.
I can only see his vague figure and the fire all over the sky in vague tears.
The roar of the sea-
The patriarch came up to me and lifted my chin with the end of his cane.
"Ah, Xi, it's time to end this."
He said that A Feng was locked in an iron cage, surrounded by raging fire.
Like a door of life and death, he is inside, I am outside, and our hearts are dead.
I asked the patriarch, "If I promise, will you let Ah Feng go?"
The clan sighed, "Now, why are you still stubborn?"
I giggled three times. I know this is the end, don't I?
nine
The ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sea is scheduled for five days.
The gongs and drums are loud and the waves are rough.
The wizard's order sang in the flickering candlelight: "Poseidon, I am willing to give you the evil witch, forgive my people, and let her kneel at your feet, and there will be no reincarnation."
Dull drums are like more and more urgent rain.
I heard the rope break and my raft was sent to Wang Yang.
Look up at the full moon, just like that night Feng, should you go home?
Feng, let me accompany you home!
Just let me have a look at the world again, plants, insects, fish, flowers, trees, birds and animals, and my brother. I'm sorry-
The prodigal son is getting bigger and bigger, and I am floating like a leaf in this Wang Yang.
Suddenly, a sudden storm, the sky suddenly dropped a thunderbolt, deeply tearing the night in two, and for a time, it was as bright as day.
A huge wave rushed in and drowned me.
"Don't be afraid." It's that gentle voice again, whispering in my ear.
Is it an illusion?
No, it was a pair of powerful hands that dragged me out of the water ―― I opened my eyes in a panic and saw dark clouds surging all over the sky, and the whirlpool on the sea was like a giant mouth leading to an endless abyss.
There was another Feng, who gently put me on the raft and smiled faintly.
"Feng-"
"Feng, is that you?"
He stood in the middle of the whirlpool, with cold light all over him. Behind him, it was a demonic flame licking his body-he was melting bit by bit.
"Don't, don't-"
"I'm sorry, I should go home-"
At the same time, Lan Huo, who burned his eyes, was lifted to the sky like a pillar reaching the sky.
The last scene in my memory is seeing his beautiful pale blue eyes staring at me, evoking a beautiful arc and scattering it into bright smoke in the flames all over the sky.
The next second, darkness falls, my tears are lost in the torrent of the sea, and gradually rolling in the deep.
ten
When I woke up, I was lying on the gravel by the sea, and the gentle sound of the sea devouring the waves was in my ear.
"Elder sister, elder sister are you awake?" It's her voice. He ran to me anxiously.
"Why am I here?"
"Elder sister, have you forgotten? You came back from fishing too late yesterday, and you were there when I came out looking for you! "
"Fishing? Sacrificial ceremony to the sea? Where's feng?
"What sea gift, what wind?" He looked at me doubtfully and smiled again. "You're not stupid enough to hit a stone, are you?"
Everything, it's gone?
I went home with Ayu. Strangely, the charred seal at the door has disappeared, and even the traces of his existence have never existed.
I sat alone on the reef, listening to the jump of sea geese and the whisper of sea breeze.
Everything is like a dream, as if nothing had appeared and nothing had been left.
But in my memory, he was clearly here, hugging me for the first time, smiling like a sunrise and staring like a star.
It's like I told myself countless times that this is just a fairy tale he weaved. This is not true. One feng won't go, and the other won't go. ......
But what if it's not a fairy tale?
eleven
"Sister, look!" I ran to me.
He has a fish in his hand, a fish with a bright sky blue.
I remember that every piece has scales like diamonds, and I still remember that long scar.
I held it in my arms stupefied.
Is that you, Feng? Are you back?
It slowly tilted its head. It was light blue eyes, eyes like the sea.
My tears fell.
It's like going back to the day when I first met him. He stared at me quietly, his eyes gentle as the sea.