Early the next morning, before dawn, Lu Qingyang drove the car from the factory.
As the car drove out of the city, the road gradually became bumpy.
The scenery outside the window also changed from urban buildings to a vast wasteland, and the air began to be filled with a salty and moist smell.
"Do you smell the sea?" Lu Qingyang asked with a smile as he carefully controlled the steering wheel to avoid potholes.
Shen Mo sniffed hard and nodded, her eyes full of anticipation: "Well, is this the smell of sea breeze?"
The car drove for a while, and finally, at the end of an open area, she saw a thin, blue line.
As the car got closer, the line became wider and wider, and finally turned into an endless expanse of water, sparkling with thousands of golden lights in the morning light!
"Ah! The sea! It's really the sea!" Shen Mo almost pressed her face against the car window and couldn't help but exclaimed.
The words "vast and boundless" and "magnificent" in the book now have extremely real and shocking annotations.
Lu Qingyang parked the car on a gravel open space.
"Just in time to see it."
The coast before my eyes was completely different from the tourist area that was later developed. There was no whole beach, no boardwalk or hotel.
There is only a wide, somewhat muddy mudflat, a rough gravel belt in the distance, and even further away is the real sea water.
Several simple wooden docks extend into the sea, with some small fishing boats parked on them.
This is a very primitive and even somewhat desolate fishing village.
Several low gray-tiled houses are scattered along the shore, with fishing nets drying in the sun everywhere.
Some dark-skinned and poorly dressed fishermen were busy sorting out their boats and catches.
Although it was completely different from the imagined blue beach scene, this primitive, rough, and real ocean scene full of vitality had a greater impact on Shen Mo.
She couldn't wait to open the car door and jumped out, taking a deep breath of the salty yet incomparably fresh air.
"Let's go, let's go to the beach."
The two walked along the rugged path towards the sea.
Chen Mo is like a child, full of curiosity about everything.
She watched the tiny crabs scurrying across the mudflats, the bizarre shells and seaweed washed up by the waves, the magnificent sight of the ocean in the distance, and listened to the relentless, relentless roar of the waves. She felt her heart expand.
The sea water here is very clear and has not been polluted.
Nearby, the water is transparent and light green, with white foam and clear and rolling fine sand.
A little further away was the deep blue, and in the farthest distance, it merged into the brilliant golden light.
"So the sea is so... so big." She murmured to herself.
Lu Qingyang was in a good mood as he looked at her excited and glowing face.
He bent down and picked up a relatively intact white conch and handed it to Shen Mo: "Here, take it back as a souvenir."
Chen Mo took it as if it were a treasure, put it to her ear and listened: "There really is a humming sound."
We walked along the beach for a long time. Occasionally, some fishermen would look at us curiously, but they would soon go about their own business.
Lu Qingyang used a bit of stiff Cantonese to ask an old fisherman who had just come ashore to buy some freshly caught shrimps, small fish, oysters and other things, which he had just caught. He strung them together with straw ropes and prepared to take them back for a snack.
As the sun rose higher, the golden light on the sea became more brilliant.
Chen Mo stood on the shore, letting the sea breeze blow her hair and clothes, staring at the endless blue for a long time.
"Are you in a better mood?" Lu Qingyang asked.
"Yeah!" Shen Mo nodded vigorously and turned around.
"Qingyang, thank you. I never thought that I would be able to see the sea in this life."
She originally thought she would live in the mountains forever.
Lu Qingyang smiled and put his arm around her shoulders: "Yes, the sea is very vast. In the future, your life will become wider and wider, just like the sea."
The two of them explored the beach with great interest for a while.
Chen Mo was like a child who had discovered a new world. She carefully drew on the wet sand with her fingers, and picked up the strange shells and pebbles that had been polished smooth by the waves.
Just as Shen Mo was squatting on the bed, carefully comparing two shells of different colors, she suddenly felt a few drops of cold water dripping on her forehead.
She subconsciously looked up and saw that the sky, which had just been filled with a few white clouds, had quickly become filled with dark clouds.
"Oh no, it's going to rain." Lu Qingyang responded quickly and pulled Shen Mo up, "Hurry back to the car, it rains so suddenly at the beach, and it's quite heavy!"
Just as they ran a few steps, bean-sized raindrops fell down intensively, instantly forming a rain curtain, and the world became white.
The sea breeze brought rain and hit me head-on, blurring my vision.
The thin clothes they were wearing were soaked almost immediately.
We ran back to where the car was parked, but found that in just a short while, the dirt road that was firm just now had become muddy, and the edges of the truck tires were covered with sticky mud.
Lu Qingyang tried to start the car, but the wheels spun and slid in the mud, splashing mud and water. The car only shook slightly and could not move forward at all.
"No! The road is too slippery and the car is heavy. We might get stuck!" Lu Qingyang turned off the car decisively, wiped the rain off his face, and said loudly to Shen Mo.
"This rain won't stop anytime soon. We can't be stuck here. I remember when I came here just now, I saw a village over there. It's probably the nearby production team. Let's go there to take shelter from the rain."
Shen Mo nodded calmly: "Okay!"
Lu Qingyang took out an old but thick oilcloth raincoat from behind the driver's seat and wrapped it around Shen Mo without saying a word, while he only wore an old straw hat.
They locked the car and walked towards the house they remembered, taking one step forward and one step back, in the wind and rain.
The rain blurred my vision, and the muddy road sucked at the soles of my shoes.
Lu Qingyang held Shen Mo's hand tightly, half supporting and half hugging her as he led her, trying to choose a place that looked a little easier to walk on.
By the time they finally stumbled to the eaves of the nearest cottage, they had both become mud men, soaking wet and in a miserable state.
This really looks like a production team settlement.
Several rows of gray-tiled houses were arranged in a relatively neat row, with some blurred traces of slogans painted on the walls.
The rain was so heavy that there was hardly anyone outside.
Lu Qingyang protected Chen Mo and quickly walked to the eaves of the nearest house whose gate seemed to be open, and knocked hard on the half-closed wooden door.
"Excuse me, is there anyone here? Fellow countryman? We're passing by and it's raining, so we can't drive anymore. We'd like to borrow a place to take shelter!"
After a while, the door creaked open, and an old man in his twenties, wearing a coarse cloth coat and with a simple face, poked his head out and looked at the two wet strangers outside in surprise.
"Who are you..." the old man asked doubtfully with a thick Dang accent.
Lu Qingyang quickly explained: "Uncle, we are here to do some work at the factory. We just went to the beach and didn't expect it to rain so heavily. The road is slippery and the car can't move. We want to take shelter here with you. We will leave when the rain stops. We won't disturb you at all!"
As he spoke, he took out a wrinkled cigarette case from his wet pocket and handed him a cigarette.
The old man looked at them for a few times, then stepped aside to open the door. "Come in quickly. It's raining heavily outside, don't get wet. The room is narrow, don't mind."
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