Chapter 1153: Memories of Seven Breaths
She is a little girl whose mother died and who has no father's love.
From the moment she was sensible, at night, she had to cover herself with the quilt, and during the day, she had to carefully avoid the house where her father was, because once they met, she saw her father's indifferent gaze.
The indifference in that gaze seemed to complain about why she didn't die cold, and even though she was still a child, she understood......
She has no friends, only the son of Mr. Teach, who grew up together, is her childhood sweetheart's partner, if you add one, maybe it is the Mr. Teach, he taught himself to do good, taught himself to read, and did what should have been his father's doing.
As she grew older, she stopped crying at night, because she knew why her father didn't like her, and why she killed her mother, all because of herself.
She rarely leaves the courtyard where she is, and she is reluctant to go out, because every time she goes out, when she comes back, her father's gaze seems to contain resentment, and the resentment is asking why, why is she coming back, why...... Don't die outside!
She was very scared and timid when she lived in such an environment since she was a child, but today, she decided to go out, because yesterday in Mr. Teacher's class, she heard that saving a life is to do good, and she was going to go to the fisherman like her childhood sweetheart, and begged the fisherman to let the fish go.
So, even though there were dark clouds in the sky, and it seemed that there would be heavy rain for several days in the evening, she still ran out secretly, and came to the fishing platform by the lake, and saw the fisherman sitting there, and the fishing net hanging on the pillar beside it. A big fish struggling in the lake.
"Grandpa, can you give me this fish?"
The little girl whispered to the fisherman, who was fishing with his back to her.
"It's so pathetic. You don't want to eat it anymore. Please, give it to me, let me let it go home......" the little girl begged.
The fisherman turned. This was an old man, an old man with a very kind appearance, and he looked at the little girl and laughed.
"You little dolls. A few days ago, a little guy came to beg to let the fish go, and today you also came, but if the fish is let go, the old man will still have to live. The old fisherman smiled and retrieved the rod, put the bait on it, and threw it into the lake.
"Grandpa, you're talking about my brother. You told him to let the fish go before, and promise me one more today, it's pitiful, and its parents must be in a hurry...... "The little girl took a few steps forward. Look down at the fish in the net by the pillar.
"Who said I let him go, and when the little doll saw that I didn't agree, she ran away in discouragement. The old fisherman said with a smile.
The little girl was stunned for a moment, but her expression was firm, and behind the fisherman, she simply raised her little hand and knocked on her juniors, looking very cute.
"Please, old man. ”
Time passed slowly, and the little girl's plea lasted for more than an hour, and the fisherman shook his head with a smile, and looked helpless, got up and walked to the pillar where the fishing net was hung, and threw it open, and immediately the fish in it swam into the water, and in a flash they plunged into the water, and disappeared.
"Alright, let it go, that's it. The fisherman smiled and patted the little girl on the head, and with the little girl smiling, he turned and went on fishing.
With a happy smile on her face and a laugh like a silver bell, the little girl ran away.
At such a young age, she had no idea that when she left, the fisherman's rod was lifted violently, and I don't know if it was just released, or if it was another, but in short, another big fish was caught, and put in the net from before, and hung again on the previous post.
The little girl ran back to the county seat with excitement, passing by a noodle stall, and didn't notice that on the big stone there, an old man was sitting on the big rock, looking at the little girl's distance with complicated eyes, and gently knocked on the cigarette pouch on the ground.
Under this knock, the little girl who had already run away, her steps suddenly stopped, she saw that the world in front of her was reduced to pieces, rolled into a whirlpool, and her body was also integrated, I don't know how long passed, when the fragments in the whirlpool were regrouped, it became a deep lake.
The fish, swimming in the water of the lake, the water is very deep, I don't know where it leads, the fish is shaking in the water, as if swimming back and forth unconsciously.
It's a fish that has survived for many years in this lake, and it doesn't have much memory, but if it does, it may have seven breaths.
It only remembered seven breaths of things, and the rest was blank.
Day after day, year after year, you like this, it swims in this lake, sometimes through the water, looking at the wind and snow in the outside world, watching the passage of spring, summer, autumn and winter, there have been some times, it wants to rush out of the water, go to the outside world to see the sky, look at the earth, but this thought often just emerges, before it can be put into action, it has become a memory, more than seven breaths of time, so that it is ...... Forgot.
It only remembers it in seven breaths, and it does not know what sorrow is, nor does it know happiness, because the time of seven breaths is too short, so short that even if it is sad, it is at most seven breaths, and it will forget why it is sad.
Even if it's fast, it's seven breaths at most, and I forget why I'm happy.
So most of the time, its mind is blank, no memory, no thoughts, only instinctively swim in this lake, looking at its companions, looking at the darkness, looking at the distance where there is no future.
Until one day, a bait sank into the lake and was seen by it.
It knew what it was, but it still stepped forward and bit it, and when its body was caught by the hook and thrown up, it saw the blue sky, and saw the world beyond the water, but unfortunately...... Its memory is only seven breaths, and when it is loaded into a net, hung on a pillar, and can only struggle in the water in this net, it can only struggle for seven breaths at most, because ...... It forgot that it was caught by someone else......
I also forgot that the lake where I was located should not be only the size of a square inch, and there should not be such a net that it could not leave, so it swam in that net very leisurely.
Until the net, after being lifted, it left the water, and in the constant struggle and suffocation, it saw a little girl, who was carrying the net, and was the culprit who made it so uncomfortable.
It stared at the little girl viciously, and in this constant struggle, in the passing of time, it forgot why the little girl was lifting the net it was on, and it only remembered that it was the little girl who caused it so uncomfortable.
Although this memory is only seven breaths, until it breaks free from the gap in the net that was suddenly opened, he forgot that he was fished out of the lake, forgot that he was put into the net, forgot that the net was not its home, it only remembered that in the first breath of memory, the little girl brought pain to himself, so, after returning to the water, it jumped up again, and it did not know why its body could instantly become larger, and dragged the little girl into the lake in one bite......
Time seemed to pass slowly, and it never knew how much time had passed, maybe only seven breaths, in short...... At this moment, it saw the hook hanging from the lake.
Forgetting the danger of the hook, and as if it knew what it was, it bit again, was fished out of the water again, was loaded into the net again, and was put into the limited water of the lake, it forgot the beginning of the story, and only remembered the end.
This time, it did not see the little girl, but not long after, the moment the net opened, the moment it swam out of the net and returned to the lake, it peeked out of the water, and glanced at the old man standing next to the old man on the fishing platform, who seemed to be looking at him......
It watched the little girl go away until the seven breaths had passed, and then it swam in the water, but this time, it seemed to be trying to think of something, until it bit the hook again, and was fished out again...... It was not until the moonlight came and left the water that it forgot the beginning and the end, and was carried by the fisherman to a noodle stall, until this time it opened its eyes and saw through the fishing net an old man with a cigarette pouch, weaving a straw puppet with leaves, looking at it.
"You are what I see, the sixth self ......" This is the old man's words, this word with vicissitudes, slow words, said a full seven breaths of time, so that the fish heard completely, became the eternity of memory, turned into a roar, as if remembering something, followed by the collapse of the whole world in the eyes of the fish, the collapse of the fragments formed a whirlpool, this whirlpool roared, took away the last consciousness of the fish, it could not see the recombination of the fragments, could not see a world, and appeared in front of it again.
Zhang Wenwen, this is his name, a name that looks vulgar, but in fact has a little charm, this name was given by his father, as the son of a teacher, Zhang Wenwen thinks this name is not bad.
At the very least, at a glance at the name, you know that he is a scholar.
But in fact, he doesn't like to read very much, what he likes is some handmade food, such as boiling soup, such as making some pasta, maybe it's the reason for this hobby, as his body grows up, he is not the kind of weak as his name, but has become a slightly chubby young man.
His round face looks a little honest, but the light in his eyes can be seen by others, this person is a little smart, but that's all, after all, the intelligence that can be seen by others may often be deliberately revealed, that is a kind of self-esteem that does not want others to feel that they are not smart.