clown clown fish

Shen Dong settled in the water, watched the clownfish swim up to him, swung its tail and circled around him again, and finally pressed his mouth against his finger lightly, the scar on the clownfish's back made him He came back from the state where he had thrown aside his breathing.

The most important thing for diving without equipment is to be calm and free from disturbance. As usual, the time to go into the water is less than one-third of the time, but he suddenly feels suffocated and can't breathe.

He didn't care that the clownfish was still circling around him, stepping on the water and going upstream, it was easy to choke on the water at this time, even if he choked on the river water, choking on the seawater would make life worse than death.

After poking his head out of the sea, Shen Dong took a deep breath. After adjusting his breathing, he sank down to see if the clownfish was still there.

I just dived into the water, and when I opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything clearly, and there were bubbles of all sizes around me. If it weren't for the strange situation now, the feeling of being surrounded by countless bubbles is still very comfortable.

The sea water around him seemed to be stirred up, and then Shen Dong felt someone pulling his arm, he was startled, and then returned to the surface of the water.

Cao Mu appeared in front of him with a smiling face.

"Why did you jump down?" Cao Mu raised his hand from the water, holding the shirt he just took off, "The clothes are all wet."

Shen Dong ignored him, turned his head and swam towards the shore. After climbing onto the shore, he didn't care that his pants were soaked and wanted to fall down. After panting for a long time, I finally said: "Here, here, what the hell...what, what, what happened!"

"I've said it all, and I'm still asking," Cao Mu squatted down a little depressed, tapping his fingers on the stone beside him, "You don't believe me, don't you?"

"Say, talk, talk..." Shen Dong used to like to chatter when talking to people, but now he was shocked, and his tongue couldn't move smoothly no matter what.

"I said I'm a fish!" Cao Mu raised his head and shouted at him, "Fish! Clownfish! I was the one you threw back into the sea with your tail every day a few days ago! I think you're a nice person, so I'm telling you, but You don't believe it!"

Shen Dong didn't speak any more, but continued to maintain the gesture of pointing at Cao Mu.

There was a man with no clothes who suddenly and mysteriously appeared.

The man said he was a clownfish.

Said that he was thrown back into the sea every day.

Fisherman and goldfish?

Where is the cornucopia hidden?

"What's wrong with you?" Cao Mu asked after seeing that he had been silent for a long time.

"I think I should go back to sleep." Shen Dongmi retracted his hand in a daze, turned and left.

"Hi! Shen Dong!" Cao Mu shouted behind him, with a smile in his voice, "You don't stutter anymore?"

"Huh?" Shen Dong reflexively wanted to find a stone to throw his hand back when he heard the word stammer, stuttering you uncle!

"I said you stopped stuttering, you didn't stutter just now." Cao Mu happily ran over and followed him.

"I, I just, no... no..." Only then did Shen Dong realize that he seemed to be speaking quite fluently just now, but now he started talking again, and he simply shut up.

"Your voice is nice when you don't stutter." Cao Mu followed closely behind him, holding his wet clothes and the one he took off before.

"Oh." Shen Dong continued to walk forward with his head buried.

"But why do you stutter?" Cao Mu was a little curious, "Is it natural? There is a sister in Anshang Village who also stutters, she is born..."

Shen Dong was distracted by Cao Mu's stammering and stammering, and slapped him on the arm back: "Shut up!"

"Hitting someone again!" Cao Mu yelled, and jumped back a few steps, "Correct your faults, someone else would have fought back!"

"You, you return, return one..." Shen Dong narrowed his eyes as he watched him, fight back?I can't kill you!

But after a few seconds, he quickly realized that the biggest problem he was facing now was not whether he was stuttering, or whether Cao Mu did not fight back, but——Cao Mu is not human!

Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out from Shen Dong's forehead, and he didn't care about saying anything else to Cao Mu, so he turned his head and ran away.

"Shen Dong! Shen Dong!" Cao Mu called his name from behind.

Shout out! Shout out!Shen Dong didn't look back and didn't stop, he could hear the sound of Cao Mu running barefoot behind him, he turned a corner inexplicably, and worried for a while, Cao Mu just walked barefoot on the island with many sharp gravels Will running on the road cut my feet?

But Cao Mu's speed was no slower than his running in shoes. Of course, his shoes were filled with water and he couldn't follow his feet, and he had to free his hands to carry his trousers that were always slipping down, which seriously affected his running speed.

When Shen Dong rushed into the room, he was definitely in the same mood as someone behind him holding a kitchen knife and trying to hack him. He slammed the door and immediately locked it, leaning against the door.

Before he got angry, the door had already been slammed, and Cao Mu's voice came from outside: "Shen Dong! Open the door."

"No." Shen Dong answered very simply.

"I was wrong." Cao Mu tapped on the door again, his voice lowered.

"Ah?" Shen Dong was stunned, wrong?

"I'm not a fish, I lied to you," Cao Mu didn't knock on the door again, as if squatting down, the voice came from below, "I... just live, um, in the village on the shore, I'm not a fish .”

Lie to a fool!

Although Shen Dong hoped from the bottom of his heart that what Cao Mu said now was true, what he saw before had made him no longer fantasize about it.

Cao Mu's explosive power when he jumped into the water, the fact that he disappeared in just a few seconds, those dense air bubbles like clouds, that clownfish that circled around him and pressed his mouth against the scar on his back... …

The impact of these things together on Shen Dong cannot be explained by Cao Mu's "I lied to you" anyway.

He doesn't know what to do with himself now.

"Open the door." Cao Mu said again, and he sat directly at the door when he heard the sound.

Shen Dong didn't speak.

"I'm really not a fish, just kidding you," Cao Mu's voice was still very low, as if he was talking to himself, "Don't you like hitting people, I'm kidding you, come out and hit me, stutter."

Shen Dong suppressed the urge in his heart to open the door and kick his feet, and leaned against the door without moving.

"Stutter, Shen Dong, stammer, I'll keep talking if I don't come out, stammer, stammer..."

Hearing Cao Mu's words, Shen Dong almost lost his temper.He really can't bring up the matter of stuttering. Anyone who wants to mention it will get angry. But now he has no time to get angry with Cao Mu. Apart from the fact that Cao Mu is probably not human, he has another matter I didn't figure it out, that's why Cao Mu clung to him and followed him like a debt collector.

"Stuttering Dong," Cao Mu was still muttering outside, "Shen Dong, come out and hit me, I've told you to stutter a dozen times, aren't you angry?"

Shen Dong ignored him, leaned against the door and slowly sat on the ground, his head was in a mess, everything was like a dream, he remembered that when he wanted to pick up a mermaid when he was a child, he never made a wish with any fairy, how could this happen? Did the child appear?

He felt that he didn't have to think about it anymore, and couldn't think of a reason.

So Shen Dong sat on the ground and listened to Cao Mu's voice and became dazed.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Cao Mu stopped speaking outside, and could not hear other movements. Shen Dong stood up slowly, moved his stiff body, took a breath and let it out slowly, then turned around He opened the door.

There was no one outside the door, and Shen Dong suddenly felt a little unspeakable. He guessed that Cao Mu might have left, but he still felt a sense of loss when he opened the door and saw no one.

He didn't know why Cao Mu had been following him so persistently, but he could feel that Cao Mu had no malice. Before, Cao Mu had always wanted him to open the door. His silence might have hurt...a fish?

What a mess!

Shen Dong stepped out the door, thinking about what to do now, when Cao Mu's voice suddenly came from the side: "Shen Dong."

"Well," Shen Dong replied, turned his head and saw that Cao Mu was still there, and he had put on the suit he found for him. He was sitting against the wall of Chen Shugai's chicken coop, looking a little helpless. "I thought, I thought you, you go, go..."

"Let's go?" Cao Mu leaned against the wall without moving, just stared at him for a long time before sighing and lowering his head, "I forgot what I was doing sitting here."

"Wait for me to come out, come out and beat, beat...you." Shen Dong said so much that he wanted to sigh, or he didn't want to talk to people, it was really hard work, but he had to say it to Cao Mu.

"Really?" Cao Mu frowned and thought for a while, then patted his leg and smiled, "Yes, that's right, so are you going to beat me up now?"

"No." Shen Dong sighed, and sat down on the stone outside the house.

"Are you chatting?" Cao Mu asked him with great interest. He wanted to stand up, but he wobbled and leaned back against the wall.

"Yeah." Are your legs numb?Shen Dong glanced at him and said nothing else.

"I'm a little tired," Cao Mu stood up against the wall, and smiled at him with some embarrassment, "I'll soak in the water before coming back. Don't go back to the house, okay?"

"Yeah." Shen Dong nodded, and then stood up, he was going to go all out on this matter, and he wanted to follow Cao Mu to see how the bubbles in the backwater are.

Cao Mu walked slowly towards the beach, not paying attention to Shen Dong following behind him unhurriedly. When he reached the beach, he took off all his clothes and threw it on the rock, and jumped into the water.

This time he didn't go into the water as much as before, and there are fewer reefs here.

Shen Dong stood on the shore and looked at him, but he knew why this man didn't want to wear clothes anymore. After a while, he went into the water two or three times.

But when Cao Mu got into the water, Shen Dong's mind was fixed and he couldn't turn it around.

At the place where Cao Mu entered the water, countless bubbles appeared in the sea again, floating towards the surface as if boiling, and the crystal clear sea water was almost turned white by the bubbles.

And Cao Mu was completely wrapped in the air bubbles, and he was completely invisible.

Shen Dong felt his palms sweat a little, staring at the bubbles and their surroundings, he didn't see Cao Mu swim out of this range, he just waited to see what would happen after the bubbles dissipated.

After the bubbles in the water dissipated slowly, Shen Dong squatted down slowly.

The last illusion of extricating myself from this unthinkable thing was also shattered.

Cao Mu was gone, and there was a brightly colored clownfish wagging its tail and turning around in the water.

Shen Dong saw the scar on its back at a glance.

In fact, even without that scar, it would be meaningless to him, anyway, the result would be the same.

If you make a phone call to the newspapers and TV stations to break the news, it will definitely cause a big earthquake.

Not necessarily, it is more likely to be regarded as a neuropathy.

It can only be regarded as a dream.

I knew it was like this, it was like a dream...

Shen Dong didn't wait for Cao Mu to come up again, he turned around and went back to the house, unpacked a pack of cigarettes, sat outside the door and lit one.He seldom smokes, usually when he is on duty, and now he needs to be quiet.

After smoking a cigarette, he saw Cao Mu walking over there, looking much more energetic than before entering the water, with a smile on his face.

"I thought you entered the house again and closed the door." Cao Mu found a rock opposite him and sat down. He seemed in a good mood, his hair was still dripping, and the water droplets on his face reflected the light in the sun.

"You," Shen Dong pinched out the cigarette, looked at him with the end of the cigarette in his hand, and slowed down his speech, "Why... why... one, all the time, follow... me."

"There is no one else here," Cao Mu smiled, "Only you."

"Oh." Shen Dong coughed lightly. The answer was very solid. He was the only long-term resident, including all the surrounding islands. Uncle Chen still went home every now and then. It's like dying here.

"I didn't chat with anyone before," Cao Mu narrowed his eyes facing the sun, "I always chat with grandpa, we are always together."

"Ah."

"But I haven't seen Grandpa for many days, maybe he's dead."

When Cao Mu said this, he was very calm, and there was no pain or sadness on his face, which surprised Shen Dong. Even if the person called Grandpa is not close, he can't be so calm, right?If Uncle Chen were to disappear, he would probably die in a hurry.

"He's old and swims slowly," Cao Mu looked down at the ground, "Maybe he was eaten or fished out..."

Shen Dong pressed his forehead: "Your grandfather is also a fish?"

"Well," Cao Mu looked up at him, "You don't stutter anymore? Why do you stutter for a while and stop for a while?"

"No, I don't know, I know..." Shen Dong frowned. Although he seemed to have never stopped stuttering in front of people, Cao Mu had been focusing on his stuttering compared to the sudden stop of stuttering. Not stuttering made him want to get mad.

"Grandpa may not come back," Cao Mu stood up, walked to Shen Dong and sat on the ground, "I've been alone these few days."

Shen Dong didn't speak, he felt that he could almost understand why Cao Mu was so persistent in following him and couldn't drive him away.

He looked at Cao Mu's face, how old is this man?

I was less than 20 years old when I went to the island, and I never felt that there was anything wrong with being alone, and I never thought about finding someone to accompany me. On the one hand, it would not take half an hour to put together all the words spoken.

"How many do you have?" Shen Dong couldn't judge Cao Mu's age. Cao Mu looked a few years younger than himself, but his eyes were surprisingly clean. What impressed Shen Dong the most in the past two days was that he seemed to have some kind of scheming None of the eyes.

"How old is it?" Cao Mu was stunned, and after a long silence, he smiled embarrassedly, "I don't know."

Shen Dong was also stunned, although sometimes he had to think about it to remember how old he was, but after thinking for a long time, he still didn't know how old he was, this was the first time he met someone.

"You..." Shen Dong remembered the small piece of scales he saw before. He knew that there were something similar to the growth rings of a tree on the fish's scales, and he could judge the age based on that, "Yes, are there...scales?"

"Not now," Cao Mu touched his arm, and then opened the collar to look inside the clothes. "Sometimes there will be one or two pieces, but they will be gone as soon as the water is flushed. Why do you want that?"

"Look, how many and how big you are." Shen Dong hadn't said so much for many years, and in just half a day he felt that what he said could surpass what he had said in the past few years, and it took a lot of effort.

"Then I'll show you a piece later." Cao Mu smiled.

"Well," Shen Dong casually responded, he was starting to feel very sleepy now, and wanted to sleep, "You...live, where do you live?"

"Over there," Cao Mu pointed to the south, "Do you have time to play there?"

"Oh." Shen Dong followed Cao Mu's hand and looked over there. There are several small islands in the south, which can be connected together when the tide is low, but become small isolated islands when the tide is high. Uncle often passed by there when he went fishing, but he never thought that there would be people living there.

"Do you want to sleep?" Cao Mu asked suddenly.

"Yes." Shen Dong nodded. From last night until now, he has not closed his eyes, and his mind has been stuffed with all kinds of unbelievable content. Right now, he feels that if he closes his eyes, he will plunge his head into a deep sleep on the ground. don't wake up.

"Go to sleep," Cao Mu stood up, "I'm leaving."

"Ah?" Shen Dong didn't expect that Cao Mu, who had been pestering him to chat all this time, would say that he wanted to leave so simply, and didn't react immediately.

"Let's go," Cao Mu waved at him, then turned and walked towards the beach, walked a few steps and then turned back, "Do you remember my name?"

"Cao Mu."

"I also remember, your name is Shen Dong."

It took a long time after Cao Mu left before Shen Dong came back to his senses and entered the house. He lay on the bed and didn't have time to think about today's affairs. He didn't take off his shoes, and didn't change his trousers with sea water on him. He fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Shen Dong seldom dreams, he can only dream when he thinks day and night. Normally, he has nothing to think about during the day, and naturally he can't dream about anything at night. At most, he dreams that the lighthouse light is off again. Go up to repair with strong wind.

But when I closed my eyes today, I felt as if I hadn't had any dreams in the past few years and had to make up for it. The dream was full of wind, even the sound effects were brought on, and all kinds of messy things came out.

Shen Dong felt helpless in the dream. He even dreamed about things from his childhood, things that he didn't remember at all, his parents, relatives, and it wasn't very beautiful. Everyone was crying, which made him feel uncomfortable but I don't know why...

It wasn't until he heard a very real knock on the window in the haze that he struggled to return to reality from the dream.

It was already dark outside the window, and I didn't know what time it was.

Someone knocked rhythmically on his windowpane. Shen Dong was startled at first, but when he turned his head and saw Cao Mu's face outside the window, he realized that he was not the only one on the island now.