look at the sea

At four o'clock on a certain day in late autumn of a certain year.

An inland town.

The world is still awake, and there are occasional cock crows.

Xiao Yi packed up the bed, threw the door key into the crack of the landlord's door, and left the door empty-handed.

When the car door was closed, the flimsy window rattled and shook. He started the car expressionlessly, let go of the clutch, and started on the road.

Before dawn, it was pitch black everywhere, and the tree shadows flashed quickly under the high beam, leaving blurry residue.Entering the tunnel, when meeting with a car, the other party honked his horn to express his anger.

There were very few vehicles on the road, and there was no one except the driver.When the sky was about to brighten, Xiao Yi had passed through the eighth town.The mountains overlap and fall behind, and the front is the transition zone that must be passed before entering the desert. Xiao Yi stepped on the accelerator and drove towards a further destination.

A seven or eight-year-old girl was carrying a pink schoolbag, standing far away at the entrance of the village, waving towards the approaching pickup truck.Xiao Yi didn't want to stop, but seeing her skinny and sloppy, she hesitated for a moment, and pulled over to stop the car.

He rolled down the car window with great effort and looked at her. She looked back at him with big wet eyes, timidly.

"Uncle, can you take me for a ride?"

"where are you going?"

"I want to go to the beach in X City."

"Where are your parents?"

"They're just over the sea."

"Who usually takes care of you?"

"My grandfather, he was buried yesterday."

Xiao Yi didn't know what to say, and looked at her with his hand on the car window.

The little girl reached into her trouser pocket and took out two brand new hundred-yuan bills, "Uncle, I have money, so you can take me to the beach to find my parents, okay?"

"...Get in the car."

The little girl sat in the back row and leaned forward, offering to give little Yi Lufei, but he refused.

"No, I'm going to the beach too."

"Uncle, do you eat bread?"

Xiao Yi, who hadn't swallowed anything all day, stretched out her hand, and she handed over a loose-sized red date cake. Xiao Yi unwrapped it and ate it with mineral water.

When driving past the breakfast stand, Xiao Yi stopped to buy her steamed buns and breakfast milk, and asked in detail about the working address of the little girl's parents, but only got the vague name of the fishing village.

"Uncle, where do your parents live?"

"I don't have parents."

"how could be?"

Xiao Yi didn't answer and focused on driving.

move on.