return to sea

"Listen." I took the conch from Cang Yang, and the sun rising from the east and setting in the west left golden lines on the surface of the conch, "The sound of the sea is all in it."

"It sounds good!" I smiled and returned the conch to him, but he stuffed it back into my hand.

"I heard that you are going to the city."

"Ah."

We are children who grew up by the sea, with purplish red skin, shiny teeth, and a bright smile. After many years, only I was picked up and left, because... my mother left, and I waited for five or six years. The weather changes and the wind blows, but I haven't survived the disease...

"Why? I can't leave here?"

I opened my mouth. Aunt Hui from the house next door said that Cang Yang’s father had gone far away and was taken away by a thunderstorm, and blamed him for turning over the fish when he ate it...

Cang's mother cried loudly. Cang Yang had a high fever that night, and was finally sent to the county hospital by my father. Sitting in a tricycle originally loaded with fish, with a fishy smell all over his body, I stayed with him all night.

"Dad..." Holding his hand, I felt his high heat that almost melted me, just like the sea oysters we fried, sizzling, and the color of the already red and black face became more and more strange.

"It really looks like a god statue in a temple." The face was drawn, with fangs bared and a horn in hand.

I think it was my voice, or Cang Yang's voice too frequently, which disturbed the old man dozing off on the opposite bed, "Stop making noise."

"Old man, why do some people say that his father can't come back?"

"Dead."

The word 'death' hit my head in such a hasty way, but Cang Yang didn't hear it. If he knew, maybe it wouldn't be so uncomfortable.

The conch in front of him swayed, and Cang Yang was wearing a shirt that was so washed that it almost had a hole. It was unreasonably big. It was his father's clothes. "Take it away, you can't see the sea in the city."

I handed the conch over, "Say something inside, I'm afraid I won't remember it in the future."

Cang Yang hesitated for a moment, and seriously thought about what he should say, "What are you talking about? I don't know."

"My mother said, if you want someone, say you love him." I fiddled with the sea water at my feet, which was salty and sticky, and covered the insteps in a thick layer, "Just say, you love me."

Cang Yang grinned, turned sideways, the warm golden sun fell on his skin, and shouted at the conch.

——Cang Yang loves the sea.

It was the first time in my life that I rode on a vehicle other than a tricycle, and a puff of black smoke followed the car's buttocks. It was so hot that I sweated and pushed my brain out of the car window.

"Yu Hai! Yu Hai! Remember me! Come and see me..." Cang Yang took off his shoes and ran behind the car for a long time, "I love you!!"

"I love you too!"

The driver chuckled, "Two boys, why do you love each other?"

I punched the back of the chair, "My mother said, love means thinking!"

Maybe because of my bad attitude, the driver let out a mouthful of smoke, "Okay, little brat." The figure behind had turned into black dots, and then went downhill, Cang Yang disappeared, My nose was sore, and I howled without hesitation, "Don't cry, oops! Why don't you just come back and see him later?"

"Cang Yang has no father, and no me, what should I do if I have a fever again!"

The driver listened to me crying, and put the tattered and painted earphones into his ears. The singing of ghosts and wolves covered my voice. I covered the conch and stuffed it into my arms. The sound is covered!"

My dad took me away...

Entering the city, there is purple flashing there, there is more red there, what sign is still moving on it?

I watched completely different scenes, and the speed of the flow was more turbulent than the waves.

"The sea is still beautiful."

"Cang Yang's smile is still pretty."

Holding the conch close to my ear, the sound of "Cangyang loves the sea" echoed in my ear, and my heart almost jumped out of my throat before I pressed it back.