world without empathy

The sound of police sirens tore apart the tranquility of the night, and the alleys with red lights and green wine were mottled alternately with red and blue colors. I, who is proficient in Chinese, could not understand what they were talking about, but I understood the mournful sound of glass breaking through stones.

This is a neighborhood in South Korea where foreign laborers gather. The bars and karaoke bars that can be seen everywhere have turned the residential area into a red-light district.During the day, there are men and women in twos and threes joking and joking, and at night it is a group of demons dancing wildly.Drinking and making trouble here is a common occurrence, and the police naturally became frequent visitors.Many people here have settled here illegally, and it is difficult to make ends meet with meager income in their hometown, so they enter the country with tourist visas, and when they expire, they hide and refuse to go back.The police also know that it is not easy for them, so as long as there is no trouble, they will turn a blind eye. However, in today's situation, I am afraid that they will be sent back to the country.

I turned on the shower head and wet myself from head to toe, smeared facial cleanser and shampoo on my face, messed up my hair with shampoo, and rinsed it off with water.I always feel that I should be a fish. Although the reality tells me that there is no fish in the Chinese zodiac through countless channels, the subtle sense of belonging in my heart every time I swim makes me believe in it.

When it comes to my relationship with water, I need to go back to the summer when I was 13 years old.I just graduated from elementary school and followed my cousin who was two years older than me to take the train to the capital to visit relatives. Since I was young, I was unlocked the skill of motion sickness when I took the train for the first time since I was a child. The □□ that tossed me has endless aftertastes.

Later, my cousin said that she wanted to learn swimming, so she dragged me into a crash course, and I didn’t realize it until the day of the official class. All the students in the class were elementary school students, and I stood in the front line as a matter of course.On the first day of class, the coach asked us to lie down by the pool and paddle with our legs to find out the feeling. The group we signed up for was breaststroke. A bunch of people were lying on the bank and hanging half of their bodies to imitate frogs. It was really spectacular.Feeling that we had almost found it, we started to give out subsidy props. We tied our waists and backs and floated with floating boards in our hands to look at the coach with a green light.Then the coach looked at the team with satisfaction, then looked at me standing in the front row, and said, "Shen Ru."

I am here!"

Coach: "Jump down."

I:"......"

I looked at the swimming pool and saw the confident look of the coach, as well as the eyes of the children behind me who were joining in the fun. I closed my eyes and jumped down.

This is the first time I have been in such close contact with water. The water mixed with the smell of disinfectant poured into my chest, nasal cavity and ears without accident.In line with the instinct of survival, I quickly grabbed the floating board thrown by the coach and stuck my head out of the water again. At this time, the coach took the two-meter-long stainless steel iron rod prepared earlier and inserted it into a hollow in front of the floating board. In the cave, I thought that someone saw me floating up and wanted to take the floating board away, so I hugged the board with all my strength.I saw the coach walking slowly along the edge of the pool, dragging me with an iron rod to float back and forth in the pool.This is the first time I have floated on the water. The water in the pool is cool, gentle and comfortable like the silent sky in the middle of the night, and I feel pretty good.I climbed to the surface of the water and stood at the end of the line. At this time, I noticed the thin figure beside me. She is my Shaonan, my water.

It might seem contradictory to say that she was skinny but not ugly like everyone else, but she was.The fair skin was ignited by the sun, leaving only a golden halo. When I found out that she was about the same age as me, I couldn't help but gasp. How could a 13-year-old girl be so short? She looks like this.

And the first time I talked to her was during diving training.The so-called diving training is to stand in the deepest place, stand on the shore and jump into the water, and then come up after swimming around.The coach said that my posture was wrong and asked me to connect with the flat ground long jump. I have never liked sports and couldn't figure out a beautiful landing posture. When the coach said to do it again, I could only grit my teeth and take a deep breath to jump hard again.And this jump went wrong, I forgot that the combination of the tiles on the edge of the pool and the water flowing down the swimsuit can be the most simple murder weapon, and the moment of landing, it hit the tailbone impartially.

"Pfft!" When I couldn't find Bei because of the pain in my back, two people burst out laughing at the same time as if they had made an appointment.The always serious coach held back his smile and asked me to rest on the chair next to him, then adjusted his expression and went to watch other people practice, leaving me with a flushed face and Shaonan, who was laughing and trembling beside me.

"Hahaha, is your butt still there?" Shao Nan asked gloatingly from the side.

"...Do you know that you are very rude like this." I was a little unhappy with a straight face.

"Hahaha, but the way you fell just now was really funny... well, I apologize."

"Hmm." I replied vaguely, "Why don't you practice?"

"I passed it in one jump, and it's more fun for me to take care of injuries."

"..." I made a mistake! ! !

"You're not from here, are you?" Shaonan said.

"Huh?" I was a little confused.

"The accent doesn't sound like it."

"Well, it's a holiday, and I'll come to my uncle's house for a month. What about you?"

"Don't tell you."

"..." I suddenly felt that I was in a passive state throughout the chat——|||

"Assembly!" The coach's voice stopped my black line generation work while I was still messing in the wind. "Everyone has worked hard, so let's call it a day and disband." As soon as the words finished, everyone went to the bathroom, and I also went to the bathroom near me and closed the curtain.Because of the rest, the swimsuit dried a lot, and the tailbone didn't hurt so much.I took off my swimsuit and put it beside me to turn on the hot water. I turned around and prepared to take advantage of the water temperature to warm up my body. I was stunned when I saw the thin figure in front of me.

"Hi." I saw someone leaning against the wall inside the bathroom and waving at me calmly.

After a few seconds of silence.

"Ah!!!!!! Mmm... Mmm..."

Seeing that I suddenly burst into a pig-killing cry, she hurried over and covered my mouth: "Don't shout, don't shout, I'm not a hooligan."

"Then what are you doing here? Isn't there a room for one person?" I broke free from her embrace, stretched out my hand to cover the key parts and looked at her vigilantly.

"I saw that you fell so badly just now, I came here specially to give you bruises." After speaking, he squeezed my chin with a wicked smile and said, "By the way, let's see how your figure is."

I looked down at her trying to stand on tiptoe with a blank expression and said, "Drink more milk, grow taller." Then I ignored her face that suddenly turned cloudy and lifted her up and put her outside the bathroom, then stepped back and pulled it on again. curtain.

The author has something to say: the first draft of the newcomer, please give me more advice~