cut the waves

Lunch break, Wutong path behind the gymnasium.

Yu Yu finished his meal early and went to the school gate to pick up a bunch of rock sugar strawberries. Just out of the oven, the rock sugar juice still smelled of hot caramel. The strawberries were red, as if frozen in an ice shell. festive.Su Liao stared at the bunch of strawberries in front of him, and was stunned: "Why are you buying this for me?"

In fact, Yu Yu dare not say "Happy Birthday".He was afraid that the mention of the word "birthday" would blow up Su Liao again like last year.Simply not to mention it, Yu Yu forced a bunch of rock sugar strawberries to Su Liao's lips, with a hint of nervousness hidden in his tone: "Let's eat something sweet today."

It was only then that Su Liao realized that the rock sugar strawberry was actually a birthday present.

"Eat something sweet, and your heart won't be so bitter." Yu Yu reminded in a low voice, "You said it yourself."

Su Liao has a long-standing, almost paranoid "hatred" towards his birthday.In fact, Su Liao himself knew that it was not good, but he didn't know what kind of psychology it was, it was probably self-punishment, Su Liao was willing to let himself be arrogant and paranoid in this matter, and refused to accept any friendly blessings.

And Yu Yu's careful concern, like a toddler cat, wobbled into Su Liao's heart.He has a hard armor in his heart, and he has resisted thousands of troops, but he gave up all resistance under that deep and shallow pad.

The rock sugar shell was blown in the early winter wind for a while, and it became as cold as ice.

So sweet.

Yu Yu looked at him expectantly: "Is it delicious?"

With a big strawberry stuffed in Su Liao's mouth, his cheeks were puffy: "It's delicious."

Yu Yu's eyes lit up, he stretched out his hand to hold Su Liao's hand holding the bamboo stick, leaned over his head, and tried to snatch one from his hand without looking out of sight.Yu Yu wore less clothes, his hands were always exposed, and his skin was a little cold.The big strawberry was fixed on the bamboo stick by the rock sugar. He tried several times but failed, and the rock sugar scum fell down.The cool wind swept across the alley, and in the small space where the two faced each other, the breath was warm and filled with the sweet strawberry fragrance.

Su Liao lowered his eyes gently, and his eyes fell on Yu Yu's mouth.The corners of his mouth were still dipped in rock sugar, and his lips were bright red, just like the strawberries smeared with sugar, making people want to take a bite.

His Adam's apple rolled up and down——

But at this moment, there was a sudden noise from the green belt behind Su Liao, and the two took a step back vigilantly. Su Liao turned his head and saw a fat three-flower jumping out.

The cool wind suddenly woke up Su Liao, and he stopped thinking.

After sharing the strawberries one by one, the two walked back to the teaching building before the start of self-study in the afternoon.

Su Liao's sweet and good mood lasted all day.In the evening, he clicked on the mailbox as usual, and as expected, he received the No. 17 birthday video recorded by his mother from his father.As before, Su Liao dared not click on the video, but saved it in a folder and deleted the email.

However, Su Liao calmed down a lot this time.

Maybe it's because the bunch of rock candy strawberries covered some bad memories, or maybe it's because of what Yu Yu told him last time - love is free and should not be a bondage.

There seemed to be enough power in that sentence to make him feel healed.

In the blink of an eye, the end of the year came, and the Challenge Cup provincial station and the final exam came as scheduled.

The No. 4 Middle School has a new specialty student, the 100*[-] men's freestyle relay is even more powerful, won the provincial championship without any suspense, and entered the national competition in May.On the other hand, since Yu Yu started the corrective training, for some reason, his grades did not improve but he retreated, and he was extremely resistant to training.When he started training full-time during the winter vacation, he was scolded bloody by Yan Zheng after the test.

The "bad" habits formed over the years cannot be changed overnight. Yu Yu has never been able to find the feeling of "balance between left and right", and every day in the swimming pool is very tormented.Even if Tao Zebo assured him that the price of not doing correct correction is future strain surgery and rehabilitation after surgery, rehabilitation training is [-] times more painful than correction training.

But for Yu Yu, it is a kind of torture not to find the feeling of "freedom" in the water.His enthusiasm for training suddenly dropped to freezing point, and sometimes he wondered why he still took this path.

A few days after the winter vacation, a big event happened in the team——

The 23-year-old Thomas Fullerton from Australia, who won four gold medals in men's swimming in last year's Olympic Games, came to the team for an exchange visit, as well as a 200m free friendly match.The swimming pool was cleared early in the morning, and the leaders and various media were in place. Yu Yu didn't like to join in the fun, so he went back to the next door for training.

Su Liao also came today, it was Yan Zheng who called for him specially.There is no other reason, Thomas also brought a 19-year-old brother Michael with him this time.In Australia, Christmas and New Year's Day are summer, which is equivalent to the summer vacation there. I don't know if I came to China for vacation.

Different from his elder brother's humility and friendliness, Michael was taciturn, with a dark face all day long, as if everyone in the world owed him money.Naturally, professional translators accompanied the gold medal winners throughout the process. Yan Zheng considered that Su Liao was Michael's same age and his English was so good, so he recruited him to accompany the guests.Yan Zhengyou vaccinated Su Liao - this Michael is not very friendly, so be careful not to cause friction when getting along, so as not to have a bad influence.

Su Liao felt that Yan Zheng's "not very friendly" did not match the facts.This motherfucker is "too unfriendly".

After learning that Su Liao's name is "SULIAO", Michael may find it difficult to remember the name, and his tone is quite impatient: "Don't you have an English name?"

Su Liao asked calmly: "I am Chinese, why do I use an English name?"

Michael shrugged and said you sound like an American.

Out of politeness, Su Liao didn't roll his eyes at people.

"Can we go somewhere else?" Michael pointed to the bustling swimming pool, where the media were snapping photos everywhere, Thomas was having a friendly exchange with the coaches, and there were crowds of athletes everywhere, "It's really too noisy here gone."

Su Liao had no choice but to take people out, trying to find some common topics: "Do you also swim?"

"Swim." Michael nodded indifferently, "But I only swim in open water, and I have crossed the English Channel before."

When Su Liao heard this, he turned out to be a genius, so he hurriedly dragged him to the swimming pool next door to find Yu Yu: "I'll take you to meet a man, he is also an open water marathon runner."

Michael sneered with some disdain: "There are no excellent open water athletes in China."

Su Liao really wanted to scold people, but he didn't want to get angry because of face, so he just said: "The one I took you to meet is a very good open water athlete."

It is rare that the team is lively, most of the athletes have gone to the next door to watch foreign friends, and there are not many children who are still training.Yu Yu went ashore and greeted someone awkwardly, and after learning that the other party's project was the same as his own, he asked if he wanted to exchange ideas.

Michael looked him up and down, then turned around and chatted with Su Liao a lot.The general meaning is that Yu Yu is too thin, and his body doesn't look like a professional athlete.He doesn't intend to bully kids, he only competes against professional athletes.

Su Liao: "..."

Yu Yu's "dumb English" can read and write well, but his listening ability is relatively weak. Coupled with Michael's native Australian Tasmanian accent, it is a double blow to Yu Yu.He looked at Su Liao in a daze: "What did he say?"

Su Liao knew that Yu Yu was very frustrated when he was stuck in a bottleneck recently, so he couldn't directly translate what Michael said, so he made an excuse: "He said he didn't have swimming equipment, the competition will be another day."

Although Yu Yu didn't understand, he could tell the length of a paragraph. Michael had just babbled a lot, so why did Su Liao just repeat a sentence?

"What else? I seem to have heard him say muscle? What happened to my muscles?"

Su Liao twitched the corner of his mouth stiffly, saying that he praised you, he praised you for your good figure, well-proportioned muscles, very beautiful, you can be seen as a great athlete.

Yu Yu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly showed a shy smile, not daring to look at Michael, thinking that foreigners are open, how can they say such things to strangers.He whispered to Su Liao, "Thank him for me, just say... he looks... great too."

Su Liao turned his head and scolded Michael mercilessly: "He said screw you, douchebag."*

Michael didn't take it as disobedience, but laughed out loud.

Yu Yu didn't know why, so he smiled at him twice in a daze.

Michael's eyes fell on Yu Yu, and the corner of his mouth was slightly hooked: "What's your name?"

Yu Yu's eyes lit up, and finally heard a question that he could answer!If he couldn't answer this question, Ye Jing might beat him to death directly.Yu Yu was a little excited, but also a little apprehensive: "Orca. Myname is Orca."

Michael squinted his eyes suspiciously, his eyes flicked back and forth between Yu Yu and Su Liao: "Orca? Ocra??"

Yu Yu gestured twice in the air with his hand, and then made a gesture of jumping out of the water, and finally imitated a whale and called twice: "Orca!"

Only then did Michael react, with a rare look of surprise on his face: "OhhhKillerWhales!"

The Latin literary name of the killer whale is "Orcinusorca", which is the English name Yu Yu gave himself.

Unexpectedly, student Michael is also a fanatical killer whale fan. He quickly took out an ID bag from his backpack, and there was a killer whale keychain hanging on it.It is said that a common interest is the best way to break the ice. The two of them obviously had a language barrier, and they danced and gestured for a long time. With the help of photos in their mobile phones, body movements, and onomatopoeic words such as "嘿嘤咖啪", they had a lively chat and overcame the communication barrier.

Michael, who spoke quickly and pulled his face from the moment he entered the door, deliberately spoke English slowly and standardly in order to take care of Yu Yu's hearing.

Su Liao: "..." Good guy, there's nothing wrong with him.

It turned out that there was a bay near Michael's house, and he could see a lot of orcas at a fixed time every year. He was able to swim with the orcas when he was young.There is also a killer whale observation institute near their home. They will number and name the killer whales according to their physique and pattern characteristics. Michael hates swimming pools, but loves swimming in the sea. His dream is to conquer all dangerous channels.

Michael found a few photos of himself swimming with killer whales from his mobile phone, and Yu Yu was so envious that he wanted to pack himself into his suitcase back to Australia.

At this moment, cheers erupted from the swimming pool next door.It should be the friendly match between Thomas and several top sprint players in the team.

"They all went to see my brother." Michael glanced at Yu Yu, "Why don't you go?"

Yu Yu held Michael's mobile phone to look through the photos, his eyes sparkling: "What's so good about being an Olympic champion? It's better to become an Olympic champion than to see an Olympic champion."

Michael let out a "Yo" quite unexpectedly, and raised his eyebrows: "Spicy.Ilikeyou, dude."

Yu Yu understood this sentence.He doesn't understand the language habits of foreigners, and he thinks it's enough to repeat such "polite" words, such as "Howdoyoudo", or "Nicetomeetyou", and add "too" at most.

Yu Yu raised his head and decided to be a warm and friendly Chinese: "Ilikeyou, too."

The corner of Su Liao's eyes twitched: "..." You are like a fart!

Soon, there was thunderous applause next door, and cheers erupted again, presumably it was the end of the 200m freestyle.After the game, Michael should go back. Before leaving, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and wrote his address and email on it: "If you come to Tasmania, I can take you to see the killer whales. .By the way, if you send me the address, I can send you a killer whale postcard when I go back."

Yu Yu was suddenly flattered.

Su Liao led the people away, Yu Yu held a small note in his hand, and suddenly fell into reverie.

The world is so big!

The sea he has seen is only the area of ​​Huaxi.

This is just a small corner of the earth, isn't it?

If only he could swim in different seas all over the world...

Just this thought was enough to make him tremble with excitement.

but……

If he wants to swim to the world, he must first stand on the top of China!

Yu Yu circled his shoulders left and right, and slowly sat down by the pool. Suddenly, he felt a surge of strength in his heart—how could the little killer whale, who wanted to stand on the top of China, be defeated by such a small difficulty?

Afterwards, Yu Yu went to Su Liao with the note and asked him if he could allow him to climb over the wall and use Google Maps.

Su Liao's face darkened: "What's the matter with your killer whale?"

Yu Yu was puzzled: "What's wrong with me?"

"This Tu-Australian idiot is so arrogant, and even said that China has no outstanding open water athletes." Su Liao pointed out seriously, "It's fine if you say you like him, and now you need to google his name and address."

Yu Yu: "...I don't?"

"You said it. You said Ilikeyoutoo."

Yu Yu: "...I'm just trying to be polite to someone!"

Su Liao propped his face with one hand, a malicious smile flashed in his eyes: "Then why don't you be polite to me?"

The author has something to say: I often feel that when I write a love story, I prolapse

*Su Liaoxin Daya translation: He said you can pull it down, idiot.

*Selling has no other meaning~Ilikeyou generally means to appreciate you, not to express your love.Su Liao was purely teasing the fish.

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Yilu Nikuanglu; 10 bottles of Yizhong;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!