They all said the school grass likes me

Groups of seagulls hovered on the water, as if revealing some kind of prophecy.

Zhou Yu immediately remembered what Little Huangmao's sister said: Look for the place where the seagulls are circling, and the whale is there.

His heartbeat accelerated for a while, and he stuffed the telescope into Zhong Yue's hand, pointing to the direction where the seagulls were swarming: "Look over there!"

Zhong Yue was stunned for a moment, then reacted abruptly, and quickly moved the binoculars to his eyes, and in about two or three seconds, he stood up awkwardly.

see it?

Zhou Yu's heart suddenly became excited, Zhong Yue took down the binoculars and made a "get up" gesture to him, Zhou Yu stood up, he put his arm around Zhou Yu's shoulder, and handed him half of the lens tube.

Zhou Yu leaned forward knowingly, the two of them were shoulder to shoulder, face to face, looking out of the telescope, to the other side of the sea.

The first thing I saw were the seagulls circling and flying in the deep blue sea, and the strange ripples on the tidal water.

Before Zhou Yu could figure out what happened, a huge, blue-gray whale tail surfaced unexpectedly, like a scene that can only be seen in picture books.

The blue-gray whale tail is like an anchor, shining with metallic luster in the sun. With its slapping, large white waves rise on the sea surface, seagulls fly and circle, and the fine water droplets diffuse like light mist on the water.

After the whale's tail hit the water, it sank into the water and disappeared. Zhou Yu thought that this short and pleasant meeting was about to end. Suddenly, accompanied by a burst of white waves, the gray whale slowly surfaced with its head upward.

It looks a bit strange, with a pointed head, like the end of a spindle, and some gray-white marks on the gray-black skin, like shellfish attached to it. It slowly opens its huge mouth, and the water flows into a vortex. Swallows countless small fish and algae.Waterfowl are constantly circling, trying to snatch food from the whale's mouth.

It didn't take long for the whale to surface. After a second breath, it swam on the surface of the sea for a while.

The gray whale has no dorsal fin, and the sun shines on its bare/naked gray-black back, like a mysterious isolated island floating in the sea. The isolated island sank and floated on the sea level for a while, and then completely submerged underwater.

Only the sun was shining brightly on the water, and the seagulls circled and dispersed.

"That's right." Zhong Yue muttered in Cantonese, his voice trembling slightly.

He wrapped Zhou Yu's shoulder with his right hand leaning on Zhou Yu's side, and squeezed him vigorously, "It's so pretty, isn't it?"

"Yes." Zhou Yu murmured.

Frankly speaking, he didn't have much interest in whales, but when such a huge creature appeared on the sea surface, looking at its gray-black body, and its mysterious and slow movements, it seemed like a god from ancient times, telling the story of the vast sea. He still felt an indescribable emotion after keeping the secret for hundreds of millions of years.

"It's so beautiful." Zhong Yue said repeatedly, and put down the binoculars. Only then did the two of them suddenly realize that they were standing now.

Shoulder to shoulder, face even to face, Zhou Yu could feel the soft and warm touch of Zhong Yue's cheek.

Without the interference from the outside world, Zhou Yu suddenly had evil thoughts in his heart. He stepped aside in a panic, his face was scorched hot by the sun: "No... I'm sorry."

Zhong Yue glanced at him, then turned his eyes to look at the sea.

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment, then peeked at him, only to find that the corners of his mouth were slightly bent.

After seeing the whale, Zhong Yue was obviously in a good mood. That night, he posted several Moments in a row. The picture of the whale coming out of the water was taken from a distance by his mobile phone, and he received a lot of likes.

After that, Zhong Yue still wanted to watch whales every day, but Zhou Yu didn't follow him anymore.

After Zhong Yue sat in Jinlong Bay for two days on the weekend, he added a lot of material to post on Moments. It seems that Tong Qing and the others followed him to see the gray whale.

Zhong Yue came back to class obediently on Monday, and then he went to Jinlong Bay every two days.

Zhou Yu originally thought that life would go on like this, until the gray whale left the bay.

Unexpectedly, two weeks later, he got a very bad news from Zhong Yue.

"Xiao Jin is gone." Zhong Yue said, "Sister Liu has not seen any news of it for ten days."

Xiao Jin is the name of that gray whale.

Sister Liu is the little yellow-haired sister of the scientific research team.

"Disappeared?" Zhou Yu was taken aback for a moment, "What does that mean? Has it returned to the open sea?"

"It's possible, but not necessarily." Zhong Yue said, "Their scientific research team has been tracking and observing the gray whale and sending signals on it, but because they use external signals that will not cause damage to the whale, with Seawater flushing signal tracking can only last about 24 hours, and new tracking equipment must be continuously placed on the whale when it comes out of the water."

"The gray whale was last seen in Jinlong Bay ten days ago. The location is a few hundred meters away from the coastline in the inland sea. This location is already very, very shallow for whales." Zhong Yue added, "At that time they placed signals on it. However, since then, it has not surfaced for about a whole day, and the scientific research team has no way to place a new annunciator on it, so after the old annunciator fell off, no news of it has been observed.”

Zhou Yu didn't quite understand, but he felt something was wrong from Zhong Yue's expression. He thought for a while and asked, "Does it mean that the gray whale hasn't come to the surface to take a breath? Or has it gone to some hidden place?"

Zhong Yue was silent for a while, and said, "It may be worse than those situations."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Yu's heart tightened.

"Sister Liu told me that gray whales are oceanic cetaceans, and they spend most of their time in the open sea. They come to the offshore area and do not return for a long time. The most likely reason is that the sonar or other systems in the body are disordered, so they circle in the offshore area. It has been too long to find a way back to the open sea. Although Xiaojin looks healthy from the outside, in fact, as long as the gray whale appears in the offshore, it means that it has some problems." Zhong Yue said.

"There have been such cases before." Zhong Yue was silent for a while, "The baleen whale that strayed into the bay disappeared for a while and was observed to die in the offshore area. After the autopsy, the cause of death still cannot be determined."

"Then now..." Zhou Yu was also a little depressed, "What should I do now?"

"The scientific research team is going to find a ship to search the open sea, but this is really a needle in a haystack. We can only expect it to return to the open sea by itself within ten days." Zhong Yue said, "If it stays in the offshore area for such a long time , but has not been observed, it is really bad luck."

The next day, the scientific research team’s boat set off. Sister Xiao Huangmao and Team Guo searched in Jinlong Bay in a carpet-like manner. In fact, they were prepared to see whales if they were alive or corpses if something happened to them. The captain and the others would Lead the team to the open sea.

Zhong Yue tried to ask little sister Huangmao if he could follow her on board, but she was firmly rejected, saying that sailing out to sea was very risky, not to mention that it was very hard work without docking for many days, and there was no way to take care of his safety.

Zhong Yue also tried to find a relationship with the fishermen contacted by the scientific research team, because he basically knew the fishermen who often go out to sea in the local fishing port, but when the boss of other boats heard that he wanted to go with the boat, he immediately refused, saying that it was not safe and he wanted to stay on the boat Ten days and a half months, I can't explain to Lao Zhong.

"It's useless for you to go, it's just an extra mouth to eat." The boss of the boat finally said, "Ah Yue, stay safe on land. If there is any news, we will notify you as soon as possible."

There is no signal at sea, so these words are just comfort, Zhong Yue already knew that he couldn't help.

But even though he knew the consequences of not being able to follow the boat, he was still irritable.

Zhou Yu could feel that Zhong Yue tried his best not to show his bad mood. When he talked to Zhou Yu, he still had a pleasant smile and even asked him considerately what he wanted to eat and drink as usual. Tong Qing and the others yelled, "Brother Yue is so gentle!"

When talking with other people, although Zhong Yue was lazy to deal with it, his attitude was quite good, and no one could see his anxiety.

Only occasionally, for example, when Zhou Yu found that he was trying to concentrate on the question, but scratched the answer sheet with the tip of his pen in agitation, did he know that he was still worrying about the gray whale that had no news.

They tacitly did not mention the topic of gray whales, and the days passed like this for another seven days.

On the new Monday, it was raining heavily in the small town, and there was still no news of the gray whale. Fortunately, the little yellow-haired sister and the others had searched [-]% of the waters around Jinlong Bay. No body was seen.

That is, at least there is hope.

Although based on historical experience, the hope is relatively slim.

The sun has been out for a month, and today it is probably tired, hiding in the clouds wearily.

Zhou Yu didn't really want to encounter this kind of weather, because Zhong Yue was very sad recently, and cloudy days would make people more mournful, but it seemed that he couldn't make Zhong Yue happier.

Throughout the day, Zhong Yue was still by his side, taking classes together and eating in the cafeteria together. Until the last class in the afternoon, Zhou Yu found that he was holding his chin with one hand and his eyelids were clenched.

He suddenly realized that Zhong Yue's eyes were bloodshot today.

Zhou Yu wrote a small note and passed it to Zhong Yue.

- didn't you rest last night?

Zhong Yue quickly wrote a few strokes on the paper and sent it back.

- sleeps late.Checked some information.

Zhou Yu didn't ask any more information. He probably knew that there should be videos related to whales strayed into the shallow sea, stranded, or sonar systems in history.

Zhong Yue has been watching these for the past few days. The life and death of the gray whale is uncertain. He can only rely on these videos to try to give himself an answer.

Zhou Yu replied.

-Then go to bed first, I will buy you something to eat after class.

Zhong Yue drew a small smiling face to express his agreement.

Even when this person is irritable, his writing is still gentle. These days, he has hardly revealed any negative emotions to Zhou Yu.

So Zhong Yue fell asleep for a class, and remained lying on the table until after school, while Zhou Yu left to buy him dinner.

He thought about it for a while and decided to go to Taifa to roast meat. He himself liked it very much, and felt that Zhong Yue liked it too. In today's rainy weather, he had to eat some oily meat to make people feel good.

When he got to the window, he was stunned, and found that Fadi, who was usually here to settle accounts, was not there, and he had a new face.

"One serving of roasted duck, one crispy squab, two bowls of white porridge, take it away." Zhou Yu scanned the QR code while talking, and after the little brother calculated the price for him, Zhou Yu took the receipt and went into the store to wait. .

It was raining outside, and there were not many people in the shop at this point. Looking at the continuous rain outside, Zhou Yu thought that Zhong Yue should be sleeping, and hoped that he could have a good dream...

"Get out!" A roar suddenly sounded in his ear.

Zhou Yu was startled and raised his head.

The shop owner, Uncle Tai, came out angrily, looked at him with raised eyebrows, and said again: "You, get out!"

The people who were eating next to him looked over one after another, and Zhou Yu was dumbfounded.

It wasn't until now that he was sure that Uncle Tai was murdering him, but he didn't understand why, did Uncle Tai get the wrong person?

He hadn't done anything, and Uncle Tai was still Zhong Yue's friend.

He thought for a while and stood up: "Uncle Tai, I..."

"Get out!" Uncle Tai roared again, pointing at the door, "I won't do your business!"

Zhou Yu took a step back in a daze, and asked unwillingly, "Uncle Tai, is there some misunderstanding?"

"There's a ghostly misunderstanding!" Uncle Tai yelled again, "It's you who abducted my son to Guangzhou! You want me to meddle in other people's family affairs? He doesn't reply to my messages now, if something happens, can you take responsibility! young!"

Zhou Yu was dumbfounded, his mind went blank, only Uncle Tai's roar echoed.

He finally understood vaguely.

That day, Fadi came over to ask him how to buy a high-speed rail ticket, and he answered, seeing that the stall has changed, and Uncle Tai came to scold him, probably Fadi really left.

But... even if Fadi left, why scold him.

Uncle Tai's anger must have been suppressed for a long time, and he switched to Cantonese to swear. Zhou Yu didn't quite understand what he said, only that he pointed at himself and kept spraying.

Zhou Yu didn't even have time to get angry, because everyone was dumbfounded by the scolding.

Is it his fault that his son is gone?

He also specifically asked Fadi why he wanted to buy a ticket, and Fadi said that he wanted to take his parents to Guangzhou to play.

Why can it still be blamed on him.

Seeing that Zhou Yu didn't respond, Uncle Tai rushed over to drive him out. He regarded Zhou Yu as a sinner for his son running away from home.

Zhou Yu watched him coming, but didn't move, because he couldn't understand what happened, he was a little stunned.

Seeing that Uncle Tai's slap was about to be pushed over, he didn't even want to hide, but without warning, someone hugged his shoulders from behind.

The man took Zhou Yu and took a step back. The position of his fingers on his shoulders and the faint fragrance on his body were familiar. Zhou Yu had already guessed the identity of the person without turning his head.

He didn't have time to tell whether it was more grievances or more surprises at this moment. Before Uncle Tai spoke, the young man had already snatched half of his body lightly and protected Zhou Yu behind him.

Under the warm lights of the roast meat shop, Zhong Yue stood in front of Zhou Yu and confronted Uncle Tai silently.

"Uncle Tai, are you crazy?" This was the first time Zhou Yu heard Zhong Yue's voice suppressing his anger, "I can solve my own family affairs by myself, so what's the point of blaming others?"