There were quite a few bare-armed men and women on the beach. They ran to the shallow sea to soak for a while, then got up and sunbathed on the beach for a while. Feeling hot, they went back to the sea again, over and over again, guided by how comfortable they were.
Xu Mei brought Shi Lan to the beach. They were all strangers. They didn't know anyone and didn't need to say hello. She only noticed the surprising behavior of a young man with a green mustache. The man would occasionally take out one or two oysters from the shallow sea and hold them high, as if to demonstrate his skill, attracting people's attention.
Xu Mei and Shi Lan both watched intently as he threw fresh oysters onto the beach, making a pile of them. A young woman wearing a three-point suit was guarding the beach. Whenever she found a naughty oyster crawling a certain distance, she would kick it away with her feet. For particularly restless oysters, she would give them a hard kick, which would damage their vitality even if they did not kill them. As a result, they became as motionless as if they were dead.
Xu Mei was also excited and prepared to go into the sea to catch some oysters. The weather was also very hot and going into the sea was like taking a shower. She and her child were standing here, sweat was pouring from their foreheads, as if they were being boiled by the sun, and their whole bodies were heating up.
There happens to be a red house on the beach that specializes in renting out men's and women's swimsuits and lifebuoys. At this moment, Xu Mei led Shi Lan and walked over. There was a gatekeeper at the door, a middle-aged man. He asked Xu Mei to pay five yuan before he was allowed to enter the women's locker room. The door to the women's locker room was closed, and there was someone inside.
Xu Mei knocked on the door a few times before it opened a crack, and a fat woman walked out of the door. Except for the swimsuit that covered the very tempting parts that should not be seen, the other parts were exposed. .
The children also had to follow their mothers in and were held back by the gatekeeper. The child stared at the gatekeeper with confusion and dissatisfaction. Xu Mei said, Shi Lan, mother will come out later. Shi Lan felt a little flustered when he saw his mother go in and close the wooden door tightly. He took one hand out of the gatekeeper's hand and tried to push the wooden door, but it couldn't be pushed open.
The gatekeeper said, don't push it, you can't tell the gender? It’s time for you to study! What grade are you in? Shi Lan didn't answer. The gatekeeper didn't know that the child was mentally retarded. Seeing that he was still pushing the door, the gatekeeper shouted loudly, "If you push it again, I will send you to the police station and punish you as a gangster."
The gatekeeper said as he pulled him over and smelled the stench of sweat on his body. Shi Lan was a bit stubborn, crying and shouting, "I want my mother..." After a while, a woman in a swimsuit came out, not her mother, and he was still crying. When the snot and tears came, my mother came out in a swimsuit.
Xu Mei's fair skin shone in the clear sunshine, looking very sexy. Shi Lan didn't understand this. He was surprised, as if he didn't recognize his mother anymore. She still had the same round face, and her eyes were still full of love when she looked at him. .
Suddenly, Xu Mei noticed that the gatekeeper was glaring at her body. She pretended not to care, stretched out her palm to wipe Shi Lan's nose and tears, and asked him to take off his clothes and expose himself in the sun.
She took Shi Lan's clothes and handed them to the gatekeeper and said, put them here. There were many lifebuoys piled under the umbrella at the door. Xu Mei randomly picked one and put it around her neck. She took the child with a smile on her face and walked on the silvery beach covered with fine sand, preparing to go into the water. Go fishing for oysters, embrace the blue ocean, and pan for gold in the ocean.
Walking to the beach near the waterline, Xu Mei put a life preserver around Shi Lan's neck and led him into the water. When the sea water submerged his navel, a refreshing coolness surged throughout his body. He shouted with joy, and smile lines rippled on his face like ripples on the sea surface.
Xu Mei wanted to catch oysters and told Shi Lan to play in the shallow sea and not swim in the deep water. She thought it would not be safe even with this lifebuoy. Shi Lan didn't care and didn't care about what his mother said. Although he was wearing a lifebuoy, he couldn't feel its effect. He was still standing in the shallow water and didn't need to use the lifebuoy. He even felt it was a burden, so he took it off. Take it off your neck and let it float on the sea.
Her mother didn't notice that Shi Lan had thrown away the lifebuoy and just went into the sea to touch the oysters. She learned how to swim when she was a girl and could hold her breath for 2 to 3 minutes. Now she dived into the water all at once, dipping into the slightly shallow sea floor and touching the uneven sea bones below. Apart from being able to grab a handful of sand, she couldn't find any oysters, not even a single shell.
She couldn't hold it in anymore, and when she wanted to take a breath, she came out of the water, her face dripping with water. When she opened her eyes, she became extremely nervous. She saw the lifebuoy floating on the sea in front of her, but Shi Lan was not there. She turned her head and looked, and saw a head scurrying down in the water in front of her. It was him, it was Shi Lan. Drowning.
The sixth sense made her swim over instinctively and quickly. She grabbed one of Shi Lan's arms and held it up. Shi Lan's face was white and her mouth was pale. She didn't know whether it was tears or sea water, and her black lips were filled with choking water in her throat. He leaned his neck forward, vomited out a stream of turbid water, and then cried loudly. Xu Mei picked him up and walked to the beach step by step.
The gatekeeper also noticed it. He rushed over. He didn't pay much attention to how Xu Mei put her mouth to the child's mouth to suck out the turbid water in her belly. Instead, he paid attention to the lifebuoy that was drifting farther and farther away. Seeing that Xu Mei had no time to pay attention, He asked another swimmer to go over and get it back.
Later, Xu Mei gave up the idea of picking up shells and fishing for oysters. Occasionally, a matchmaker would match her with middle-aged men who were divorced or widowed, some older than her or younger, but she just refused. After being cheated into marriage, she developed a kind of phobia of men. All men sneer at it and deny it psychologically.
But in her early years, because she married a husband who made a fortune from smuggling, she had some small savings, her life was basically comfortable, and she was too lazy to learn this and that, so she naturally developed a kind of inertia. When you reach middle age or even old age, you are even less in the mood to realize your sweet dreams. The child gradually grew up, but was mentally retarded and could not rely on him for anything. She gave up all hope.
What do you rely on to survive? Now she plans to sell a villa left by her ex-husband to her and her son. Even if the villa is depreciated, the price at that time can be sold for 700,000 to 800,000 yuan, and she will spend another 100,000 yuan to buy a suite of less than 100 square meters. Not bad, and there should be no problem in using the remaining several hundred thousand yuan as living expenses for the rest of his life.
But when she thought of her mentally retarded son Shi Lan, she frowned and didn't know how to deal with him. Xu Mei told a nearby mother about her desire to sell her house and her worries about her children. The mother came up with an idea, why not find a capable wife for Shi Lan? It can not only keep the villa for sale, let the daughter-in-law find something to do, earn a salary to support the family's life, but also solve Shi Lan's worries about having no one to take care of her in the future.
