lying down

"Where are you? - Dad -" A clear and clear child's voice pierced through the waves and spread to the distance, Youyou stood on the reef by the sea and shouted hard.A small black sea turtle the size of a palm came out of his arms, poked its head out to look at its master, blinked its bean-sized eyes twice, then retracted its head and slipped into his arms.

Yuan Mengxin was standing behind another huge reef not far away, she couldn't hide the sadness and sadness in her eyes, and those childish shouts seemed to hit her heart like a huge wave hitting a reef.

It has been more than two years since she and her son came to this unknown world—she used the most primitive woodcut method to record every moon set and sun rise, even the sudden tsunami did not break this habit, because she Always remind yourself that this is not a dream, but a real time travel.

Her son Yoyo is over three years old. In her memory, children of this age are still acting coquettishly and mischievously in the arms of their parents or grandparents, or laughing and making trouble in the palm-sized children's playground mixed with skyscrapers.But now the child shows a maturity far beyond his age. As he grows older, this maturity becomes more and more prominent, and that is the longing for his father.Although it is certain that there are not many fathers in Yoyo's memory, it seems that the life continuation called "inheritance" in the blood has played a role. Once he is free, he always pesters himself to tell about his father's past. Even after listening to it countless times, he can still concentrate on it.As if he wanted to complete the incomplete image of his father in his memory, his big black and white eyes radiated a strange brilliance once he heard his father's story.

Before the tsunami nearly a year ago, the mother and son were used to shouting on the cliffs by the sea. After the tsunami, the cliffs were completely destroyed by the force of nature, leaving only the reefs dotted around this coast.After those few days, Yoyo came to the largest reef by the sea every morning and yelled the same sentence.After shouting, hold the little turtle rescued from the beach and tell it the story of his father.

An hour later, the mother and son walked hand in hand in the dense forest. Although the tall and short vegetation in the forest was dazzling, the two of them walked leisurely as if they had entered their own back garden, and they were very familiar with each other.

"Mom, why isn't dad coming?" Yoyo didn't speak all the way, but suddenly this question that has been asked countless times popped up.

Mengxin felt a pain in her heart, her face was full of motherly love, she squatted down and touched her son's curly black hair: "Dad came back, maybe he is building a boat, otherwise how can he survive if the sea is so big?"

"Hmph, mother is lying! I saw it when Uncle Wuda was building a boat. Didn't he just cut down a big tree and hollow out his heart? Uncle Wuda built a small boat in less than five days. I saw him row the boat with my own eyes. Going in the water with a boat! Does father want to build a boat for a year?" Youyou pursed her lips, tilted her head and stared at Mengxin, with a dissatisfied expression on her face.

Mengxin opened her mouth, but found that she could no longer make up any reason. She had told her son many, many reasons until she had no reason to use. "Tell him the truth?" A thought like this just popped up in my mind, but I immediately dismissed it.In desperation, she could only: "Uncle Uda is drifting in the inland river, which is far different from the sea water. The boats needed for sea water drifting are much larger than that. Do you understand?"

"Hmph!" Yoyo was dissatisfied with her mother's answer, and seemed to be tired of her mother always giving the answer.She shook off her mother's palm vigorously, and walked ahead alone with her little buttocks pouted.This made Yuan Mengxin very distressed, she couldn't always make up all kinds of reasons to coax Yoyo all her life, he would grow up after all.