Listening to the sea

03

All memories swept over, the mother's death, the speeding car, the skateboard falling from the sky, and the bright red blood under the boy.These are all the memories of Mo Zixi when he was five years old.Since then, he has not spoken for a full year.Even after opening his mouth, he spoke very little. He stopped laughing and crying, and he was not as quiet as a child.

In this way, he has grown up until now, watching his father marry a new wife and wipe away everything that belongs to his mother.So he was domineering at school, bullying his classmates, fighting and violating all school rules.Due to the huge sponsorship of the school by the Morse Group, the dean can only turn a blind eye to him.

He sometimes wonders, if the boy who saved him saw him now, would he regret saving him.

He looked at the thin boy who was straightening his collar, and couldn't take his eyes off his collar for a long time, until he pulled his shirt to cover the mole.Mo Zixi then turned his gaze to his face, trying to find a familiar shadow, but it was in vain. The boy in front of him was far more beautiful than the boy before, and his eyebrows and eyes were not the same as before.

"What's your name?" Mo Zixi asked as if asking for proof.

"Shen Bei."

"Shen... Pei?!" Mo Zixi blurted out.

Shen Bei smiled: "No, Shen Bei, the north of the north."

It turned out that he still remembered himself, but if he really remembered, why didn't he enjoy life to the fullest, he shouldn't be the kind of person who bought it with his own life.

"Shen Bei..." Mo Zixi said it silently several times in his heart before he could distinguish it from the name in his memory.How could it be him, who saw him being sent to the cremation furnace with his own eyes at that time, it is impossible to still be alive in this world.He smiled wryly, and said to Shen Bei: "Why meddle in other people's business, you have to know, just relying on you, they can send you to the hospital without any effort."

"Because you can't be that kind of person."

"Can't?" Mo Zixi found it funny, "There's nothing I can't do."

"Why did you bully him?"

"No reason, if you don't bully him, can you just bully you?" Mo Zixi approached him abruptly as he spoke, Shen Bei was startled, and took a step back subconsciously.The others laughed immediately, and Shen Bei felt a little annoyed, the aura he had managed to control lost his kung fu when he was frightened, which was a bit embarrassing.

Seeing Mo Zixi molesting the young man with great interest, the group of gangsters shouted and shouted strangely, pushing and shoving forward to cheer.Mo Zixi squinted his eyes and gave them a cold look, the group of people were frightened and scattered immediately.The bullied boy got up from the ground and saw that Mo Zixi had no intention of embarrassing him anymore, and ran away tremblingly.

Mo Zixi was five or six centimeters taller than Shen Bei, and he still kept leaning against the wall, squinting his eyes to look at the person in front of him, and his eyes fell on the school badge on the right chest of the school uniform Shen Bei was wearing: "Sheng Nan's?"

Shen Bei glanced down at his school uniform, knowing that Mo Zixi had mistaken him for a student of Shengnan High School, but he didn't know how to explain it, so he could only remain silent.Seeing that he didn't answer, Mo Zixi assumed that he was acquiescing, so he said again: "Why have I never seen you?"

"There are so many people in the school, and you haven't seen everyone." Shen Beidao, while speaking, he also saw Mo Zixi's school badge, and added, "So your name is Mo Zixi."

Mo Zixi raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and was about to say something more, but saw the little girl who had been hiding behind Shen Bei tug at Shen Bei's sleeve, and timidly said: "Brother Xiaobei, let's go."

Shen Bei didn't want to get too entangled with Mo Zixi at first, as long as they stopped their bullying behavior, so he grabbed Yu Jia's hand and said to Mo Zixi, "Let's go first."

Mo Zixi raised his chin, signaling them to be free.Shen Bei took Yu Jia's hand and left quickly.Mo Zixi stood where he was and looked at their leaving back, thoughtfully.

It was already evening when Shen Bei and the others returned to Granny Wen's residence. Granny Wen and his wife were not at home. Yujia was a little tired after a day of shopping, so she slumped on the sofa and rubbed her legs, and blamed Shen Bei: "Xiao Bei Brother, why are you meddling in your own business today? What if they suddenly beat you up? Grandma Wen said that she wants us to avoid conflicts with humans."

But Shen Bei didn't seem to listen. He stood at the door and looked at the endless sea, thinking of his life before his death, and thinking of the present. Finally, he looked at Shengnan's school uniform and said to Yu Jia: "I want to go to school."

"Go to school?" Yu Jia was a little surprised, "We mermaids are already smart enough to acquire a lot of knowledge without going to school."

"The meaning of going to school is not to acquire knowledge. I don't want to stay underwater all my life."

"But we are mermaids, where can we go if we don't stay under the water? Although we can transform into a human form, it is still not enough to live on land all the time. Like Granny Wen, now I have to go to the bottom of the sea to stay for a few days every three months. , there are so many people in the human school, it's too dangerous."

Shen Bei naturally understands what Yu Jia said, and he understands that he can no longer live as he wants on land as before.However, since God has given him a chance to be reborn, he must take good advantage of it and complete his unfinished life.

After returning to the bottom of the sea, Shen Bei briefly described the human world to Qiu Shui, and then swam back and forth on the bottom of the sea with his fish tail.He remembered that Shen Pei didn't know how to swim very much in the past. Every time he had swimming lessons at school, he could only exercise his muscles and bones in the shallow water with a swimming ring on, but now he can move freely in the water.In the past, Shen Pei didn't have such a glamorous appearance, he was a boy who could only be regarded as handsome, but now he has an appearance that is rare for ordinary human men.In the past, Shen Pei was very ordinary in every aspect. He was quiet and introverted, the kind of ordinary person who would not be found if he was buried in the crowd.

However, an accident caused him to be reborn with earth-shaking changes.With the memory of his previous life, he longed for the life of human beings, but he couldn't do so.The more he thought about it, the more upset he became, Shen Bei flicked the tail of the fish in circles in the water, the surrounding sea water was stirred up by him, and some other fish fled in fright.

Seeing his son's preoccupation, Qiushui recalled what Yujia told her just now, sighed softly, turned and swam away.

When Qiu Shui came back, Shen Bei was sitting on a huge stony coral, staring at his fish tail in a daze.Qiu Shui swam over and handed him a bag made of clothes. Shen Bei saw that there were many living deep-sea fish and precious gemstone corals in the bag. Some of these deep-sea fish were beautiful, and some looked strange. He does not know.He was puzzled and looked at his mother suspiciously.

Qiu Shui said: "You take these to Granny Wen. I often see Granny Wen going into the sea to catch these things and sell them in the human world. After these things are sold, they should be enough to pay for your tuition. Let her find a way to give you one." Identity, you go to school."

"How do you know me..." Shen Bei was a little surprised.

"Yujia has already told me. I know that once a mermaid has the ability to transform into a human, they will not be willing to live in the sea. Granny Wen is like this, Yujia is like this, and you are the same. You all yearn for Human life, although I don't have the opportunity to experience it, but I think it should be a very beautiful world, so since you have the opportunity, I will fully support you."

Shen Bei was very moved by Qiu Shui's words. He came down from the stony coral and wanted to give the mother mermaid a hug, but he was a little shy and could only express his feelings by wagging the fish's tail excitedly.

Seeing that his son was happy, Qiu Shui couldn't help but also smiled, and said, "You must remember that you can only survive on land for half a month and then return to the sea for two days, and you must not throw away the shark beads at any time."

"Well, I remember. But why can Granny Wen stay for three months?"

"The ability of shark beads varies from person to person. If she lives on land long enough, her shark beads will last longer. When you become a human, the shark beads will last for a shorter time."

"I see, thank you mom." Shen Bei thanked Qiu Shui happily, and swam towards the shore with the bag of deep-sea creatures.

Granny Wen listened to Shen Bei's clarification of her intentions, she thought for a while and accepted the things. She said to Shen Bei: "The matter of identity is a bit difficult. I'll ask my old man and ask him to help you find a way. You will be notified as soon as we get the news.”

"Thank you, Granny Wen."

"Thank you, no need, but there is one thing I need to explain to you. You live in the human world, no matter who you are with, you can't tell your true identity. Human beings have a strong curiosity about us mermaids. Their curiosity Sometimes it kills us."

"Then you and Grandpa Wen didn't tell each other?" Shen Bei asked carefully.

"He's different." Granny Wen said, unconsciously smiling.

Shen Bei looked at her and knew that she was living happily in the human world.He bid farewell to Granny Wen and went back to the bottom of the sea to wait for the news. Swimming among the fish, he began to think about his previous life again.Naturally, Mo Zixi came to mind.

In his last memory, Mo Zixi was still a five-year-old child, running out of a big villa with a mermaid doll in his arms, looking very sad.Shen Pei, who was in a bad mood at the time, was skating out to relax. When he saw a child running out alone, he followed him quietly. He heard the child running and crying, and the little back was full of sadness and despair.Shen Pei couldn't figure out what could make a five-year-old child so desperate, and when he was about to chase after him to comfort him, a big car drove towards the little boy at high speed, the child was so frightened that he forgot to dodge, Shen Pei instinctively I slid the skateboard hard and rushed over to push him away.

In the ambulance, Shen Pei's eyes barely opened a crack, and in his last waking consciousness was Mo Zixi's blank face.

Now, he has grown to such a big size.For Shen Bei, it was just overnight, but for Mo Zixi, it was 12 years.Thinking of the hostile Mo Zixi he just saw on the street, Shen Bei not only began to wonder about his life in the past 12 years.

Since he was so unhappy, he wondered if he would feel that his act of saving him was superfluous.

Shen Bei smiled wryly, decided not to think about it anymore, and fell asleep lying on a coral.