Huang Kangjun: Manatee

A large manatee, as swarthy as a small sampan, lay heavily in the mud in front of him, half of his body arched obliquely out of the water, snorting heavily, whimpering one after another, and on the side of his big head, there was a big black eye with tears, looking at me and my sister pitifully like a dying old man. Obviously, it has been paying attention to our movements for a long time. Ouch, it's my sister's silent call. Hurriedly stepped forward, I felt that my eyes were burned by something, and I saw that it was the side of the big fish's head, and there was a black and shiny fish dart obliquely inserted, and the bright red blood was bubbling around the fish dart, and the blood flowed to the muddy water and mixed it into purple yellow, and there was a three- or four-foot-long nylon rope that was torn off with the fish dart...... Someone is chasing it! The fifteen-year-old sister gently tugged at me with her hand, and the words were like a gossamer. A September tide has flooded my heart, and the thirteen-year-old Hai Tsai is still the first time to bump into such a big cargo, and now I can catch the capital to boast to my father! Hehe, sister, you first block it with a net, and I'll go back and drive people here! Don't move my brother, my sister suddenly stopped me in a cold and unfamiliar tone, and showed her usual puzzling look. Ignore me, my sister is not happy about this, she always likes to infect your emotions with something indescribable, but I can still like this sister, I feel that there is nothing wrong with this, people are not the same, right? Brother, have you seen the eyes of the cow fish, my sister said quietly, take a closer look. I'm in a hurry, sister, don't be sluggish, wait for the cow and fish to nourish enough spirits and slip away. My sister looked at the big fish sadly, with a look on her mother's face when she coaxed her child to feed, how could this fish be so familiar, I think it looks like a person. Thirteen-year-old Hai Tsai was suddenly puzzled by his sister's speech, and felt that this Hai Mei was always nervous and liked to talk about ghosts and monsters. I said, sister, I'm leaving. As he spoke, he trampled on the mud, brushed aside the branches of the mangrove forest, and turned in the direction of the fishing village.

A very old and majestic voice, I can't allow you to hesitate to throw it, and my fifteen-year-old sister bit me tightly with a look full of resentment and sorrow, and I found myself measuring the footprints I had just left behind and slowly rubbing in front of my sister. Listen to my sister's words, just this time brother. After a pause, he asked in a low voice, didn't my sister scare you? Ah Di shook his head. I said that the person I love and care about the most is my sister, and she is so kind to me, which is described in detail in the novel called "Snow Fish" that I told about my childhood life, and I don't lie to you at all. Brother knows that it is always happy to be with his sister, so he invited his sister to come to the ass net happily this Sunday. This is a unique sea-mining technique at the shallow water, the buttocks mesh is dense and small, the net is crossed by two short bamboo poles, there is a belt wrapped around the waist, when the net is picked up, the person is facing the net, the butt is facing the front, the person retreats and pulls the net forward, those fish and shrimp are so ignorant and bumps into the net, and after a while the net is pumped up, and I see those damn fish and shrimp fall into the net. The mangrove bay on our island is a half-sand and half-mud harbor trench, with many migratory fish and shrimp, and my sister is absolutely beautiful when she picks up her buttocks. As for me, I waited on the beach with a fish basket and pouted buttocks, and was responsible for picking up the seafood mixed with pebble snail shells and sea olive leaves that she picked up, which was always enjoyable. To this day, I still say that, she is majestic when she is a little sea, and I am majestic when I read.

Okay, my sister has been pimpling in my heart today, don't you blame me? The fifteen-year-old sister seemed to be preoccupied at the time, and she was almost like this all morning. Half an hour ago, while she was holding the net, she suddenly let out a scream, and then fell to her knees in the shallow water. When I rushed into the water to help her, she had already climbed up, and the net was deflated. She just smiled bitterly and said, It's okay brother, just now there was a sudden stabbing pain in my heart, now it's okay, let's go to the mangrove forest to rest. After the break, Brother and his sister began to walk back along the mangrove forest and the hazelnut line. I remember that after walking about ten steps, my sister suddenly stopped, snorted and asked me, Brother, smell it, what is the smell right now. I also quickly pouted my nose, there was a faint smell, I can't tell the smell for a while, just a little similar to the smell of sweat. My sister nodded, yes, it's sweaty, you come with me. Ah Di inexplicably stepped on his sister's footprints. Before I could wake up, the big fish like a small sampan under the trench suddenly broke into view, and my sister and I knelt down almost at the same time at the same time, whether it was surprise or joy, I can't say. This is strange enough, and I still wonder when I recall those fragments: how did my sister find this manatee with the smell of sweat as accurately as if she had already seen a big fish lying there?

Brother, let's cultivate our minds, and don't be greedy for this money. My fifteen-year-old sister suddenly opened her eyes wide, and said categorically, I always feel like a person. Sister, don't scare my brother, how can I be like a person, my sister always likes to tell ghosts and monsters to others, and the thirteen-year-old brother muttered dissatisfiedly. No, it's really a brother, you see it's begging for us. Hey, sister, you can say whatever you like, anyway, this manatee is worth a lot of money, we have to call Dad quickly. My sister suddenly turned her face, stomped on the mud, and stared at me viciously: Tell you, if you don't listen to my sister today, see if I don't beat you flat!

I'm just going to keep quiet, and I'll learn to be good once. The sister raised her hand decisively to her brother. I hesitated, but obediently took the knife from the basket and handed it over. The fifteen-year-old sea girl holding the fish knife was full of nerves and looked like a crazy woman, which made people move closer to the manatee for no reason. At this moment, we saw at the same time that the sad and friendly eyes of the manatee suddenly turned towards us with the innocence of a baby. I was silent. Bastard, I want to see what kind of tricks you play. At the time, the thirteen-year-old Hai Tsai thought, anyway, our sister and brother, You are not afraid of losses, I am too lazy to be greedy for money, there is nothing to pass, and then there is this big fish and it is your first discovery The credit will naturally belong to you, and if my father praises me, it will definitely not be my turn. But I didn't make myself happy or angry when I thought about it, I am. At this moment, the fifteen-year-old sea girl was already touching the long snout of the manatee, and I saw the manatee's long nostrils covered with steel wire exhale, and at the same time two lines of saliva slid down both eyes, which were the tears of the big fish. With a strong smell of sweat, it suddenly rattled like locusts in the sky, and it almost smoked people down. The sister seemed to be completely oblivious to everything else, she reached over and gently stroked the eyes of the big fish, and the fellow obediently closed his eyes, like a patient undergoing head surgery, and the manatee lay quietly and in pain. My sister raised her hand to my brother again, signaling for help, I really didn't know what this fifteen-year-old Haimei was going to do. Brother, hold down the head of the cow fish, I will open the knife and take out the fish dart, otherwise, it may not survive today, and it will die. I wondered how I was suddenly infected by my sister's bodhisattva heart, and I obediently stepped forward to help hold the head of the cow fish. My sister began to use the knife to stick to the edge of the dart and gently cut it to the sides, and the manatee spasmed violently, and it must have been in pain. The dart is barbed, and if the fish rolls after inserting it, it is equivalent to condemning itself to death and guillotine. The half-cut nylon rope with the dart left on the creature's head showed that it had escaped by stupid recklessness, and perhaps it understood that if it didn't shake off the deadly weapon in its head, it wouldn't want to live, and it would be very clever. Seeing that my sister was holding her breath like a surgeon's fart, Ah Di carefully but neatly removed the sides of the fish dart, and held the fish dart firmly with her other hand. Pay attention, Adi, be careful of cow fish rolling. Ah Di made a reassuring look and nodded. I saw my sister stop the fish knife, hold the fish dart with both hands, and with a fierce sound, a bright red spurted out along with the evil fish dart. Well, the dart was taken out. Fifteen-year-old Haimei's forehead was soaked with sweat, and she rubbed a few strands of sticky Liuhai with her elbow, and she gently breathed a sigh of relief. With my sister arched up, she grabbed a branch of red and white olive flowers with one hand, bleeped a handful of flower leaves, put them in her mouth and chewed them quickly, and then spat out a handful of sticky flower mud, and carefully applied it to the manatee's head, while holding it tightly with both hands without worry. Soon, the wound on the manatee's head stopped bleeding.

At this time, the thirteen-year-old brother saw that the manatee's eyes had quietly opened, and he glanced around with a frightened gaze as if he had woken up from a nightmare, and then froze at him. To this day, I can still remember the beautiful atmosphere that unfolded in that moment. I looked at the manatee in a friendly way, communicating, I think you are grateful to my brother, hehe, you don't need it, you are ashamed of me, I am not your life-saving benefactor, you have to see it clearly, I just came to my sister, I help her, just to show that I have always respected her according to my habits, this is not to lie to you, you can't take me, right? But the sister let herself straddle the manatee's waist where she couldn't see her, and still held down the wound with hemostatic medicine. At this time, there was no movement from the wound, so the sister let go of her hand, stepped to the left side of the big fish, and signaled to the elder brother again, and the elder brother hurriedly hugged forward, and the elder sister worked together to slowly pull the manatee down. At this time, the manatee was like a sensible child, and he flicked the fins on both sides to help us exert our strength together, and soon, with a sigh, the damned manatee left the mud and slid into the swinging water.

Brother and sister let out a long sigh at the same time.

I saw that the guy who had escaped death struggled to flick his fins, turned his head obliquely, and seemed to nod gratefully to me and my sister. My sister raised her hand, and my brother also raised her hand, and I saw the manatee rolling gracefully like a ballet, buried in the water, and after a while, it came out of the water again, and said in a friendly way, I think you are reluctant, you lucky guy, You should remember your savior, that is, my sister, it's not too much, Okay, Lao Tzu will let you go this time, you get out, Lao Tzu will never see you again, you are a fucking valuable commodity after all, but bastard sister...... Ahem, forget it, fuck off, you goggle that makes all the Krakees drool. In a few moments, the damned creature swam towards the winding trench and swam out of the bay in the habitual way of exhaling once out of the water in half an hour, and in a few moments the ochre-black back was slowly gone.

My feet and stomach are sore, my sister.

Oh yes, brother, you're so good today.

Why did you release it, I don't understand, sister.

I don't understand, but that's all I can do.

What would Daddy say about us if he found out?

No, no, we must not tell Dad, including anyone.

Why, learn from Lei Feng to do good deeds without leaving a name, right?

You don't care, you're right to listen to your sister.

The fifteen-year-old sister picked up the fish dart and asked Ah Di to put it in the fish basket, and then picked up the butt net herself. Ah Di took the fish dart and looked at it, this fish dart is so sharp and beautiful, no wonder it is so fierce and sharp that it can go straight to the head of the cow fish. Suddenly, I felt a little familiar, and I saw a "medium" symbol engraved on the tip of the dart, ah! Sister, why is it our fish dart! I sent it to my sister, and my sister took it and looked at it, and said very calmly, yes, it is my father's fish dart. I saw that my sister ran forward a few steps without hesitation, bit her lower lip and shook it hard, and the fish dart drew a very beautiful arc, like a paper harrier with a broken line, and staggered down into the mangrove forest to the east. I asked why I threw it away, and my sister made a gesture to stop me from talking. I remember it clearly, At that moment, there was a sound of footsteps coming towards me in the mud, and a hukee hurried over, and I looked at it intently:

Ah, it's Daddy!

You swear brother, don't mention this to anyone, including Dad!" my sister lowered her voice and warned me fiercely.

"Hey, it's you two, why are you guys picking up your ass nets here—" My father roared as he ran, a little panting, "See a manatee with a dart?"

"What manatee, Daddy!" the fifteen-year-old sister was very calm. You're going to pretend to be my sister, I think.

My father's muscle-covered hand was still holding a long nylon rope, and his eyes were shining with a fierce light: "Lose that mother, that thief has been hit by Lao Tzu's dart, ah, lean to death!" He shook the rope that was broken in his hand, and his face was full of remorse and anger. My father went out to sea at dawn to pull shrimp nets, and it seemed that it was the damned manatee we had just rescued, who had struggled to escape from under his darts before, and he searched everywhere, and now he has found this side.

"We're going to go home after we've finished digging the net," my sister said casually, "I just came here, and I didn't see any manatees." The thirteen-year-old brother was secretly glad in his heart that this sea girl was wise just now, if the fish dart was still kept, it would have become a lice on the monk's head now.

"What is this?" "What is this?" said my father, who pushed my sister and me away, revealing the mess and bloodstains that were hidden behind us, "What is this?"

"yes, what is this?" the fifteen-year-old sister also made a look of surprise.

"The thief's blood! It's the thief's blood!" The father became angry, and shook his nose desperately, sniffing, "The smell of the thief is still there!"

"Yes, have there been manatees?" the fifteen-year-old sister was still calm, but I already felt a little bit of a thief.

"Hmph, you two bastards!" The father suddenly stepped over and grabbed Ah Di's hair, "Decrepit boy, what about the manatee?"

I was suddenly hit by something, I was not afraid at all at the moment, let alone begging my father for mercy, in fact, you know that I usually lose my temper with the majesty and love of my great father, but now I am like a different person, I let myself break away from my father's big hand on my head, and learn from the tone of Liu Hulan's answer in the book when facing the enemy's interrogation: "No-know-——!"

"Hahahaha!" "My father's hand grabbed my hair hard, and I gnawed on, and fell to the mud, "You won't wipe your mouth when you steal food," my father pointed to the small footprints scattered on the beach, "You want to lie to Lao Tzu?"

That's when we found out that it was those fucking bastard footprints that had betrayed us.

"Don't shout and drink, frighten my brother, my mother wants to settle accounts with you. The fifteen-year-old sister gave her father a fierce look, "What if you see it, we also saved the big fish, but it's gone, you don't want to catch it." ”

"Huh?" the father stomped heavily in anger, splashed a string of old and high mud soup, and roared, "You two listen, Lao Tzu will kill you later-" Then he turned around, threw us off, and trampled on the mud with a loud bang, and rushed down the trench on the right.

"Gegege-" The sister made a gesture, and the sister and brother raised their faces and laughed wildly. The father, who had walked more than ten steps, thought that he was being teased, so he stopped curiously and turned around. The fifteen-year-old sister must have been in a hurry, deliberately pointed to the trench on the right, and said a lie: "Dad, that's right, just this trench, let's find it......"

The father hesitated, apparently not believing his daughter to tell the truth, so the reef-like Krakee turned around and chose to stumble towards the trench to the left. As he walked, he angrily threw down a string of cruel words: "Bastard, I can't catch that thief, come back tonight to clean you up!"

Looking at the figure that was gradually moving away, I suddenly remembered a familiar scene I saw in the movies "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" and "Beacon Boy".

"I wish that poor fellow slipped away...... "My sister said quietly, looking at the crooked trench on the right. I nodded approvingly.

In our island bay, in the southwest wind weather in April and May every summer, there are herds of manatees rushing to fill the bay as if they were rushing to the market. I remember when I was a child, we always liked to stand on the edge of the bay and clapped our little hands happily, jumping and jumping up and shouting: Manatees into the bay! You know that the Gulf of Tonkin is the bay with the most manatees on the mainland. The manatee grows only in shallow tropical seas, never going to the depths of the sea, let alone coming to shore, and is an uncontested marine mammal that can laze its days in the warm, shallow waters where it only needs to chew seaweed, hyacinths and other seaweeds. If the manatees are out of the water, they are as timid as children and keep crying, and the "tears" will continue to flow down, but what comes out is not tears, but its unique "salt water" to protect the eyeballs, and the islanders will often use this to trick the strangers, calling the manatee a "mermaid", and the tears that come out of its sadness will become pearls when the blessed person receives it. Adult manatees are generally two or three meters long, weigh about half a ton, and look cute and cute, that is, baby manatees, and there are fifty or sixty pounds in their lives, which is even more strange and painful. I bet there is no other animal in the world that is gentler and more humble than the manatee, and even our national treasure, the panda. Unfortunately, it is not a national treasure, and it can still be found in the shallow tropical waters of the world, and I have been unhappy for many years. It wasn't until later that I understood the meaning of "rare things are precious" that I understood why the manatee was not listed as a national treasure, but only the foolish panda who ate bamboo leaves. In fact, the manatee evolved from the four-legged animals on land 60 million years ago, and was originally a "resident" on the land, a distant relative of the elephant, only because of the changes in nature nearly 100 million years ago and was forced to go to the sea to make a living, and still maintain the habit of eating grass after entering the ocean, which is a rare marine mammal in the world. The manatee in ancient times has always been mistaken for a mermaid, but it is not too much at all, it does have a unique clumsy beauty, a unique elegant demeanor. You don't know that it always likes to keep arching its head to change its breath when it swims in the water, and the breath "Whew-" squirts very loudly and is very good; after changing the breath, it burrows into the water again, and arches its head out again to breathe, and dives into the water slowly, usually always swims slowly and tirelessly, and sometimes loves somersaults, but its movements are slow, it really looks like a stupid cow, if it is naughty, it will also stand up vertically on the sea surface, and from a distance, it really looks like a mythical human fishtail monster, very cute. Manatees are cheerful and open-minded, frank and open-minded, how to live, unlike other sea fish, which are mysterious and unpredictable, and hide at the bottom of the sea forever and dare not see people. As soon as it swims, it exposes itself so that you can see and even touch, it is not very afraid of people, you like to go into the water to stroke it, it will hug you with its clumsy fins, give you a heavy and wet kiss, absolutely sexy and hot. You're going to play with it twice, and it's going to snowball on the spot or something, or two manatees rubbing each other's bellies with each other, and they're going to chirp and squeak and you're going to hear them squeaking and squeaking, and they're funny. So the American zoologist Pat Ross said: "Some people think that manatees are stupid and dull, but in fact they are more docile, respectful and tender than dogs." "The islanders never attacked manatees before, and it is said that there are two reasons: one is that this fish has something to do with our ancestors, and the other is that the meat of this fish is really not very tasty, and it is too fishy. But in the past few years, every summer, 357 seafood boats on the mainland stop in the open sea to buy seafood, and the value is amazing, it is actually manatees and another kind of seafood called horned snails, and even abalone and sea cucumber, which have become popular in previous years, have been squeezed behind. The devil knows how the mainlanders are so greedy for manatees. I remember the first year, the island goat went crazy and caught more than 400 manatees, more than 400 manatees, more than 400 (It is reported that there are only a few hundred left off the coast of Florida, which is famous for its large number of manatees, for which the government declared manatees to be a special protected animal in the state, and those who harassed or killed manatees were sentenced to prison.) Over the years, manatees have become scarce, because a female gives birth to an average of three to five years old. Nowadays, it is really "rare is expensive". (But don't worry, it won't be able to beat the national treasure panda.) Thinking about it, my father must have been so happy that he was about to jump into the sea when he met this manatee today, so it was no wonder that he gave up pulling shrimp nets and rushed to the trench to search for them. The trench is generally too narrow to fit into the boat, and most injured manatees have to jump into the trench to hide and recuperate. Of course, this common sense can't fool my famous fish thief father. However, this time, his old man was coaxed by his own Liu Hulan's soldier Zhang Ga and took the opposite route. Hee-hee, my lovely father, you're a idiot, you don't even know if you're a stupid sea pig?

My sister and I couldn't say happy or unhappy, and we didn't say anything all the way, and we stepped on the afternoon sun and returned to my compound. However, no matter how many years have passed, I will always remember what happened in my compound that afternoon: a strong smell of sweat in the dark, like thousands of blue sharks trapped in a net, rampaging and roaring in the courtyard, choking people to tears, hard hair, difficulty breathing, and even sneezing. At a glance, I saw my grandfather lying in the yard, with all four legs like a dying lobster, surrounded by the unbearable devastation of a violent life-and-death struggle. My mother knelt beside my grandfather in a daze, gently shaking the big sunflower fan for him, and chanting words in a panic......

"Grandpa——!" The sister spread her feet and threw herself at her grandfather in the courtyard. My mother was stunned and found out that we were back, like a drowning person who had caught a life-saving straw, grabbed my hand and sobbed desperately: Oh no, no, Ah Gong came back from fishing, and just entered the door and fell, holding his head and rolling his eyes, shouting that he was dead of pain, so scary, I didn't know what to do, and hurriedly shouted for help, but you were not there, and then I poured a bowl of sugar water into Ah Gong, and slowly got better...... I saw that my mother was still sweating profusely, and her cheeks were clinging to the mess and palpitations. My sister had gently hugged my grandfather into her arms. Grandfather was evidently beginning to breathe, and looked at his grandchildren amiably with a smile on his face full of vicissitudes washed by the waves. Somehow I had a flirtatious snort, and suddenly a strange feeling slipped into my mind, yes, a strange feeling, I seemed to have seen this scene just now, but by no means from my grandfather's face, I thought that my grandfather was now learning from someone, as if he was playing a game of hide and seek with us, I swear I had seen it from someone and it seemed like it was not too long, but I couldn't remember who it was. It wasn't until the second night that I remembered the previous scene, when my sister and I rescued the manatee, and the guy looked at us like my grandfather for a while before he slowly walked away. Ah Di wondered how he could have brought these two things together, but he would never suspect that his nerves were abnormal, and this was indeed the case, although it is not easy for you to understand or even say that Ah Di was too sentimental and thoughtful, really, I dare to swear this is how I actually felt at the time. At this time, my grandfather grinned his teeth and looked at my mother, who was still palpitating, and whispered, "Sister-in-law, I scared you." The sister-in-law was immediately relieved, and she took a long sigh of relief when she unloaded the jack of nets, and then smiled lightly, Master, didn't you break it, don't you go fishing for any more fish, wait for my brother and his father to come back, maybe it will kill me, you just stay at home and let me wait for your old man. It's okay, it's okay, Grandfather pretended to be indifferent, sister-in-law, don't help me talk, Unless I fall down like just now, I have to soak in the sea to be comfortable, You don't know Dad's temperament. Okay, my sister will help my grandfather, and we'll get up and cook the fish. The grandfather supported the floor with his hands as he spoke, and the sister who hugged him carefully helped and slowly helped the grandfather to lie down on the net bed.

I found that until now, my fifteen-year-old sister had stared at my grandfather with a very strange and worried gaze, but had never said a word. When the mother brought the plate of fat grouper that my grandfather had caught to the table at dinner, my sister first picked the largest oily grouper and put it in my grandfather's bowl, and politely asked my grandfather to eat more, as if she was afraid that she would not be able to eat the second meal. I remember my grandfather was very happy at that moment, and said that my two grandchildren were good, and he arranged for my brother to be clean. To this day, when I think back to what my sister did at that time, I am amazed at how my sister is so familiar with her role as a good director, which has always puzzled me. Until the end of dinner, my father has not come back, of course my mother does not dare to eat with us, no matter how late she is, she always has to wait for her husband to come back, about this, since I was born, I have not seen this woman make an exception, she is such a woman who fears her man.

My sister and I followed the rules together, and from the beginning to the end, we didn't say a word about the mangrove trench to save the manatees. By this time, the night had crept into my compound like a pirate. After the meal, his grandfather seemed to be full of energy, and he asked while smoking a hookah, "Brother, your father hasn't returned yet, the shrimp must be prosperous, right?" Brother was about to answer, but his sister had already said it for him. When my grandfather heard this, he gently exhaled a string of smoke, and said slowly, "You don't know what it is, well, it's not too early, go to the dock and wait for Dad." My sister sneered and said that you don't have to worry about it, Daddy is not a child, we are tired of picking up the net today, and we want to sleep. It's okay, the little guy boy (child) goes to bed early. Grandfather accommodated in one bite. My sister said again, Grandpa will wait for my father to come back, and you will say that we are sleeping, don't let him knock on our door, uh? Grandfather smiled, filled a hookah, nodded and muttered, ghost girl is so tricky for you. Then, my sister and I went to sleep separately in unison. Ah Di knows that this is the fifteen-year-old sister's best at dealing with his evil shark temper, and you know that no matter how fierce the father is, he will not beat and scold his sleeping child, right? I said that I serve my sister This is also a reason, she has a lot of ghost ideas. I remember when we went separately to our room, I heard the sister behind me say to my mother word by word: Mom, you, call, father, don't, kill, that, sea, cow, want, no, he, day, later, want, regret, of. It's the mother's inexplicability: what sister, which manatee do you say, what's going on...... But I heard a loud sound of "muffled" closing the door, sandwiched by my sister's cold voice: You just do what I say......

I swear, it is as dangerous as the Cantonese opera "Sou Shuyuan" Xie Bao's collection of Yahuan Cuilian, the moment we just lay down in bed, the door of the courtyard outside squeaked, followed by the loud shouts of my father: "Sister, brother! How to sleep, Lao Tzu has to clean them up before he can relieve his hatred. Then I heard my grandfather shouting: "Wild boy, what are you roaring at the third watch in the middle of the night, what are you roaring like a crazy dog!" It was my father's voice that immediately softened: Daddy, you are good, you have dinner, I am late. The old man and the girl have eaten, but it is the mother who answers, just wait for you, tired, rest, I will go to the hot food. Then there was a long series of sighs from my father, as if he was very tired and unhappy. Is the sea better today, and the shrimp more prosperous than yesterday? My grandfather was asking. It's okay, but, but the net bag is broken, and Bai pulled a trip to the sea. The father used a slow tone to cover up. Why? You are scraping the mud net again? Grandfather suddenly raised his voice, and he could hear that he was a little angry. Under the "mud scraping net", refers to the kind of mesh dense, heavy lead sinker, close to the bottom of the mud layer to drag the net, that is even the fish larvae shrimp hair does not want to miss the shrimp fishing technique, this technique is the most able to catch seafood, but too cruel, but also damage the net, most of the island Yankees dare not use it with conscience. There is no bottom reef in that Haipo, I just wanted to try the net, but I didn't expect it...... My father hurriedly explained. Ahem, boy, how many years have I taught you, but you just don't listen, you, you, cough, cough...... Grandfather was so angry that he coughed continuously, and he couldn't say any more. In fact, my father would not easily listen to his father's antiques, I know that. As early as more than 10 years ago, my father's reputation for going to the sea was higher than that of his father, and he became a well-known "fish thief" on the whole island, and he was all-encompassing in all kinds of sea work such as nets, fishing, darts, and forks, and he caught more than 40 manatees in the summer of the whole island, and he alone caught more than 40 fish darts, which was almost majestic enough! As for my grandfather, he disdained to mention his son and so on, and always said that his son was too ruthless and desperate, but he was just muttering to himself, and he was helpless. It is said that the laws of life are irresistible, right, who in this world is still compassionate and merciful? In contrast, my father is really a dignified man with enough courage, courage and blood. At least that's what I thought until I was thirteen. By the way, don't forget that my father is also a typical filial son, he respects his ancestors and respects his father. I remember that three years ago, he finally persuaded my grandfather to go ashore, and my father respectfully said to his father, "Daddy, you will sit aside and enjoy the blessings, and you will not be able to support you in this sea kung fu?" At this time, the soft voice of my mother calling my father for dinner began to come from outside, and I heard my father respond urgently as if he had found a rescuer: Come on——! and then the compound fell silent. I suddenly realized that there seemed to be an omission somewhere, and after thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly remembered, by the way, why didn't my father say a word about chasing and killing that manatee today?

After getting up, the sun was already diagonally propping up to the tops of the coconut tree, and it was eight or nine o'clock the next day. The courtyard was quiet, and my father must have gone to the sea early in the morning. I noticed that my grandfather had also gotten up early to-day, but had made an exception and had not gone to sea, and it seemed that he had heeded my mother's advice yesterday and was concentrating on sharpening his hooks in the corner of the yard. The old man's fishing has always been made by himself, and each piece is extremely exquisite. Grandfather was a man who only trusted the things he made with his own hands, such as nets, forks, etc., and this was his personality that no one could control. If I'm not mistaken, just when I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I heard a squeak from my sister's door, and I thought about why my sister couldn't sleep lazy today, and I made an exception to go to Xiaohai. I turned my face sideways, and I saw my fifteen-year-old sister with unkempt hair and wilted expression, dragging a pair of clogs slowly, slowly rubbing into the yard, followed by an expressionless voice: Grandpa, rest, don't get tired. It is Ah Gong's very persistent humming. While the old man was grinding the hook intently, he slanted his sister with the eyes of a kind elder, and nodded obediently, but he had absolutely no intention of stopping. At this moment, with a deep groan of "Hmm-", like a gull bird that had been shot suddenly, the grandfather fell to his knees! I tried to pull my legs and run over, but my legs fluttered as if they had been sawed off, and I couldn't move, and I must have been paralyzed with fear. I saw that my sister had already grabbed my grandfather and picked it up, and it took a few shakes to hold it steady. When I crawled up to the old man, I saw my grandfather's mouth and nose bleeding profusely, and suddenly red coral was brilliant. The old man desperately pouted the corners of his bloody mouth, probably trying to say something but couldn't make a sound, his eyes were wide but still kind and kind between his brother and his sister. It's the first time I've seen my grandfather like this when I'm thirteen years old, and I must have been frightened at that time, and I wanted to call my grandfather but couldn't. In the blink of an eye, Ah Gong's moaning stopped, and there was no breath at all.

At this time, a familiar smell of sweat suddenly overflowed my compound like a September tide, and I was completely floated by this strong smell, and I couldn't help but look around, and I suddenly remembered my mother, what about my mother? Finally, I cried out a melodious sound. I don't know what she means, I just think that my mother rarely leaves the house on weekdays, she always keeps us to wash our faces and fill breakfast no matter when I sleep, why is she not at home today? This makes me even more panicked. At this moment, my sister calmly stretched out her slender fingers and gently stroked both of my grandfather's eyelids, one closed, and the other closed. Then I heard my sister say in a tone so heavy that I couldn't spit out:

"Daddy, bastard, killed that manatee. ”

I was dragged by my sister and slammed towards the bay, and the southwest wind was so strong and damp that I wanted to cry out loud. I remember that when my brother and sister just rushed to the dock, they saw from a distance that the shrimp boat they were familiar with had returned to port, and my father was holding the helm handle at the moment and slowly moored the boat closer. With a very familiar and strong smell of sweat coming to my nose like locusts, I suddenly heard myself cry in my heart, "Not good!" At this moment, I saw a behemoth dragged under the port side of the shrimp boat, yes, I really saw it, it was the big manatee, the wound where the fish dart was taken out by my sister yesterday, and the flesh was turned white, and the mouth and nose were gushing with wisps of blood......