In Sanya!

It shone so sluggishly on the sea of Sanya, making me feel very weak, indeed! For me, there is no attraction to Sanya anymore! Everyday I got up early, surf the Internet, just a way of living. Do I go on being idle?

One day, my pal asked me on the telephone: Do you want to go fishing or not?

I had not been to the sea! I want to sail into the deep, deep sea! And see if it is a different world!

So we rented a boat. Our captain was a Jiangxi Native, a thin and open-minded man. In a few minutes we had agreed upon a reasonable price.

And we sailed into the deep, deep sea! I sat leisurely on the fishing boat, as it broke the surface of the seawater. Sail on! I began to get excited for no reason, as if I were going to travel to a remote place!

Generally, I would loose my sense of direction totally on the sea. So I started a conversation with Captain Cheng, and he told me this kind of boat was made to sail short distances and bring people into the sea. Sometimes he served to send people to the beach when the large sized ships could not reach the shore. A sea transportation vehicle as convenient as a taxi J

We were not sailing at a quick speed. Just wavering slowly. About 20 minutes later, we had arrived at a fixed area of the sea. The captain said there were plenty of fish underneath! On the boat there were fishing tools and some bait, and our task was to make good use of them and get some fish onto the boat!

My pal was fishing very attentively, but I was not meant to fish anything. So I held the fishing pole and wondered everywhere, as the little boat went shaking in my pace! The captain began laughing, my pal was scolding me, and I was enjoying my own mischief! A happiness of daring to do anything! Obviously the spirits in the sea were not willing to leave the water surface: All the bait was bitten away but not a single fish loomed up! ---my pal said I was not fishing, but feeding the fish!

I knew I could never succeed fishing anything, so I put the fishing pole away, to lie on the fishing boat. In the sea wind I peeped at my pal who was many times waving the fishing pole. And I murmured repeatedly: "Fish, fish, be hooked up! Fish, fish, fish, you'd better be very big, small ones are OK, anyway!" My pal turned to me and said softly: ¡°One more word, I will push you into the sea!¡±

Nonsense, then I had a sleep! The islands at the front were looming. I suppose that no people were on the island. Let me analyze the geographical features of these islands! I thought at high tide none would be above the water surface! There was a reef beneath the island. I didn¡¯t think it was in anyway inferior to Tianyahaijiao (Border of Heaven and the corner of the sea). Tianyahaijiao was simply a stone engraved with four Chinese characters. I could write some characters onto this stone and make it as famous as Tianyahaijiao. Maybe decades later I would become an ancient figure, and what sort of a place of interest might this stone become? Gaga!!

The sky was so very clear, transparent and blue. White clouds were hanging onto it! Dots and patches of them! Even the sun's rays were not unbearably hot. Are they also on vacation, and fishing in this area? The sea surface in the remoteness, surprisingly, was not as blue as the legend went, but greenish blue, with different depth of colors! Squinting and staring, I was considering why there was not a shark's fin popping up?

I slide into a slumber, in a dream of fighting with a shark. The breeze on the sea blew so comfortably over my skin! The fishing boat was wavering as softly as my boat in my childhood. My pal gave a scream! I woke up to his sound in fears. "Look! I have hooked a fish!!!" I opened my miserable eyes. My God! It was definitely a big fish as long as 15cm! I leaped up to celebrate the victory with my pal. Then I put it into our basin!

He continued fishing as I went on sleeping! From time to time he cheered and I was wide-awake to his voice! How I was amazed of his advancing skill of fishing! And in the mean time, how I pitied the unfortunate little fish!

At dusk, it was time to sail back! This time the captain drove faster. The boat was still the boat, the captain was still the captain, and the fish were still the fish. However, the fish had come from the sea to our basin.