Quanzai Cone

The waves rolled foam past my ankles, leaving snaking tide marks on the sand.

I was carrying a backpack, pressed down my baseball cap, and waved to the old man behind me: "I'm off!"

"Is the flashlight on?" he shouted angrily.

"Bring it!" I responded with my hands clasped into horns, "I've got gloves—"

The relieved old man waved his hand, left me alone, and continued to pay attention to his fishing rod.I turned my head and jumped over a big shell, and walked to the cave by the sea according to the original route.

The information about this very hidden cave where various ores can be found comes from my grandfather who I met because of fishing together.Knowing that I was looking for stones for gift making, he kindly hand-painted a map for me and lent me his weather-beaten compass.

I took the map and compared it with the compass, and found it in the shallow bay where the seagulls circled through the beach, woods, and cliffs.

This is a rather deep cave, and the sea water probably does not reach your calf, so you need to be very careful when walking.I held up the flashlight and fumbled around, and found many beautiful and strange ores in the intermittent, star-like fluorescence.

I don't know how long it took, but the backpack was a bit overweight, and I needed to reserve enough energy to return, so I stopped, and looked deeper with some regret.

Among the ore found, there is no one that satisfies me.Maybe I should do it again...

I grabbed the strap and walked out, turned the corner, and the flashlight slipped from my wet hand, and fell to the ground—a beam of light penetrated the rippling ocean current at the bottom of the cave, and hit a red shadow directly.

I knelt down to pick up the flashlight, and I paused.

My fingertips left the flashlight shaking slightly with the water waves, and I slowed down and walked gently towards the red.

"...It's agate."

The palm-sized ore lay in the palm of my hand, and the outer skin was worn away, revealing a deep red color.In the light shattered by the sea water, the drops of water dripping from its stone body are like tears.

In the blink of an eye, Zhijun's kite-colored eyes flashed across his heart.

I gripped the onyx tightly, picked up the flashlight, and laughed as I walked out of the cave.

That's it!

【Zhijun, next month is my birthday on the 22nd!Look forward to it a little bit! 】

I sent a text message to the other party without thinking, and I hummed a song to open the tool box that I had prepared at the grocery store before.

The fine cold rain in autumn flew to the window, blocked by the glass, leaving slanted marks.It was dark at dusk in the rain, I turned on the desk lamp and sat down on the desk, and clapped my hands together facing the onyx ore that was being placed on the table.

"The goal is a success!" I set a goal for myself, and I picked up the small chisel with great enthusiasm.

The sound of "Ding Ding Dang Dang" overwhelmed the notification on the phone, and I didn't see Zhijun's reply until late at night.

【Are you asking for a gift? I have nothing to give. 】

With my hands hurting and my waist sore, I made several typos, so I had to go back and edit them before sending them: 【The gift I want, Zhijun must have.Good night. 】

Switching to the monitor, Zhijun has already turned off the lights, and the [sabot] placed by the bedside lights up silently for a few seconds, then turns off again.

I fell into the bedding, breathed a sigh of relief, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

There are still 21 days... Carving is much more difficult than I imagined, I hope it can be completed smoothly... Come on.

Once you get serious about something, time flies by in an instant.With the temperature getting colder and colder, November quietly came to the end of the month. When I remembered to look at the desk calendar, it was already the morning of the 21st.

Shocked, I quickly speeded up, and finally sent the packaged gift before the courier point got off work.

I slept until noon the next day.Although it's my birthday, only the watchman has seen the date written in the file, and he absolutely can't care about it, so no one came to me today, and I let me sleep through lunch and yawn profusely Eat off a sandwich.

Turning on the phone, Zhijun uncharacteristically sent several messages in succession, and the last one was: 【Why did you give me a gift?Isn't it your birthday? 】

I answered the letter with my second sandwich in my mouth, squinting my eyes.

[The moment Zhijun accepted the pendant, I got the gift! 】

Quit the text message and click on the monitoring interface. Zhijun is standing in front of the window, staring at the thing in the palm of my hand—I have failed countless times and used the ore that was originally about the same size as the palm of my hand until it was only about the size of a knuckle. agate pendant.

The thick dark red agate was carved into the shape of a four-leaf clover, shining brightly in Zhijun's palm.The lamp on the desk next to it was on, illuminating the crooked small words on the leaves: "The luck that comes to you will never disappear."

I put my chin on my cheek and smiled, my fingertips jumping across the screen.

[This "only 50 years of eternity", entrusted in stone, is given to you together with my wish for this year——]

Wonderful, sweet happiness filled every corner of my body, and my smile swelled like cotton candy. I looked out the window at the snowflakes falling with the drizzle, and typed the last few words.

【Zhijun, Happy Xiaoxue! 】

Switching back to the camera, Zhijun raised his eyes, and the broken shadows of snow flakes were reflected in his eyes through the window.

Under the warm light, his somewhat melancholy side face has an incredible, poetic temperament.The agate four-leaf clover was held in the palm of his hand with five fingers together, leaving only the light blue hanging rope swaying in the air.

A short message pops out of the notification bar.

[Let's meet. 】