Suddenly, I decided to travel. Actually I've never been to travel. In fact, this time I resolutely decided to go on a trip, for one reason, that is, I was recently kicked by my girlfriend, so I thought, instead of being depressed and heartbroken at home, it would be better to go out for a walk, maybe this can quickly forget her.
I'm going to see the sea. In fact, a long time ago, I had this idea, but the wallet has not been promised, this time, I don't care anymore, I have made up my mind, against all odds, even if I spend all my savings, I will not hesitate; if I am really desperate, I will go to the sea.
In fact, the sea is not far away from me, it only takes half a day's drive. Actually, the sea is just what I imagined, but not all of it, it smells a little bit fishy.
I don't like the famous Silver Beach, it's so crowded that it's a waste of money, and I'm so upset.
I think of a place where there are not many people, preferably not alone, that allows me to look at the sea quietly, quietly. So I walked along the beach, around a bunch of red men and women, until I looked back and saw that they were as small as ants.
I finally found a small village. I crossed it in the middle and then went around to the back of it. On the back of it, it happens to be the sea.
It seems that this is exactly where I want to be, and there really doesn't seem to be a single person, a few trees that are quietly and obliquely, and that's exactly what I want.
Although there was wind, the sea still looked like it was asleep at the moment, and it was so calm that I was a little disappointed, but it took a long time before a shallow wave slowly poured in, and then spread out on the beach like a lover.
Probably because I got used to it, the fishy smell of the sea seemed to be much lighter. I sat quietly on a reef. Although I looked like I was looking at the sea, my brain was not.
Why did she leave me? Didn't we once swear to the mountain alliance, didn't we say that the sea withered and rotten stones did not change their hearts? ah! Why am I still thinking about her. hi! Why is the sea so big? Why is the sea blue?
Just as I was thinking about it, suddenly, I saw what appeared to be a figure on the beach. It was indeed a shadow, it was a little girl, only about eight or nine years old, just now she had been bending over to collect shells, and I had been intoxicated in my dreams, so I didn't even see her, and now, she stood up and stretched out a lazy waist, although she was very short, in the end I still found out. She was facing me head-on, so she saw me too.
"Uncle, you also came to collect shells?" The little girl looked at me with wide eyes and said loudly from afar.
"Shells? oh...... Right! Hearing her say this, I even felt inexplicably stand up and roll up my pants legs as I walked down. When she got closer, she found that she had picked up a small half basket of shells, colorful, all the size of a thumb.
"Uncle, I don't seem to have seen you." The little girl continued to bend down in search of the shell, and she turned her face to look at me and said. Only then did I find her with two small arguments, straight into the sky; her face was a little tanned, childish but with a hint of maturity.
"But I seem to have seen you." I laughed and said a lie.
The little girl didn't seem to care too much about my words, and she then asked, "Yes, uncle, why do you come to pick up shells? "
How can I pick up shells? God, just two minutes ago, I didn't have that kind of thought. However, I did not answer her question directly, I said: "Uncle has a secret, and I can't tell you yet." So, how do you come to pick up shells, what do you do with shells? "
"Pick it up and sell it." Grandma said that as long as I pick up a vacation, I can sell a lot of money. The little girl said.
"Grandma? What about your mom and dad? I asked.
"They... They are divorced. The little girl spoke very quietly and lowered her head, so I don't know if she had tears in her eyes.
I had to be silent, because I didn't know it was going to be like this. And the little girl has been silently bowing her head, so her small bamboo basket has four or five more small shells. It took about a few minutes before I asked, "So, what about your mother now?" "
"She went on a tour." The little girl said, suddenly raising her head. Only then did I see that there were tears in her eyes, but compared to her smiling face, it was nothing.
tourism? I was shocked: Aren't we all here to travel now, so where is she traveling? At this point, I finally understood that the so-called tourism was just that you thought of me here, and I thought of you.
"So, who did she go with?" I asked again.
"She and her uncle. Go to Huangshan. The little girl didn't seem to care at all.
uncle? Now I finally understood. Before, since we didn't find happiness, why shouldn't we look for it again? Suddenly, I seemed to understand why my girlfriend left me, maybe I was too poor, not only the poverty of money, but also other poverty.
Just as I was guessing, suddenly, there was an exclamation from the little girl:
"Emeralds! Emerald! Uncle, come and see, I picked up an emerald! "
Emerald? I was confused, but I walked toward her anyway.
"Uncle, you see, is it emerald?" The little girl looked up at me with her head held up a shell in her small hand. I took a look, and indeed, the little shell was green all over, but that green was not an ordinary green, the green came out from the inside, crystal clear, like jade, and like emerald.
"Grandma said that someone who has picked up a shell all their life may not have picked up an emerald." The little girl said proudly.
"So, it must be worth a lot of money?" I say.
"Grandma said it's worth fifty dollars."
Fifty pieces? I was secretly amused, I really did not expect that someone would pick up an emerald that I had never picked up in a lifetime of shells, and it was only worth fifty dollars, which was incredible.
"Uncle, do you like it?" If you like it, send it to you. The little girl said very seriously.
I really liked, to be honest, that ever since I saw this emerald shell, I felt as if it symbolized some kind of meaning that I had never realized before.
"Like, of course I like." As I spoke, I took my hand to my trouser pocket, and I believed that there must be at least fifty dollars left in it.
"Uncle, don't take it, I already said to send you." The little girl said, "Didn't you say you had seen me?" So, we're friends now, right? And, surely I'll pick up emeralds again, can you believe it? "
Why not believe it? I believe so much that this little friend I have just met, since she has already picked up an emerald, will definitely pick up a second, a third... I am convinced of this.
The coconut trees are quiet and oblique; the sea is still so calm, it is only a long time before a gentle wave is lifted, and then gently spreads on the beach...
Now, on top of the stack of books on my desk in front of my bed, there was the emerald shell that the little girl had given me. At this moment, under the illumination of the light, it is even more brilliant. It was it, this emerald shell, that soothed the inexplicable irritability and uneasiness in my heart, and finally brought me back to peace and composure. Although I still can't forget the girlfriend who has left me, I am already relieved, I have understood, just like this emerald shell I understand, although it is only worth fifty dollars, in my heart, it is more like a priceless treasure.
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