Mr. Zhan went to Wuxi, Jiangsu for a meeting. A few days later, when he returned home from doing business, it was dark at night. As soon as he entered the door, he took something out of his pocket, wrapped it gently in porous gauze, and handed it to me with great excitement. Then he looked forward to my surprise with a mysterious smile.

It is five inches long and three inches wide. Not heavy, touch wet. Opening it, a circle of green shadow flashed into my eyes. Looking carefully, it was a large ball of soft green hair, like velvet. Suddenly, the fox saw a round head sticking out from the green hair, with two small eyes like mung beans. It just looked at me timidly, and the whole head quickly retracted into the hard shell like lightning.

Well, this is a rare green turtle among turtles. The green turtle is a treasure of China. Together with the white jade turtle, the two-headed turtle and the snake-shaped turtle, they are known as the four rare turtles. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, turtles were popular. Many documents have detailed records of green turtles, such as "Tortoises grow in Yin" and "Turtles grow in Yin for thousands of years and are not available". Green turtles were listed as one of the five treasures in the palace in the Tang Dynasty and were a precious aquatic animal.

I fell in love with this cute green turtle at first sight. This green turtle flew to our home from Wuxi and became our pet ever since.

I decorated a beautiful home with a large glass jar. When it travels comfortably, it is green, like long emerald hair, like hair blown by the breeze, floating gently in the clear and bright water, with indescribable elegance.

My daughter named it "Treasure Turtle". Regular sea turtles are vegetarians, but green sea turtles eat meat. It eats fish and shrimp. The quantity of food is not much, but, the food is good. Throw the fish and shrimp meat into the jar, put it in your mouth first, then hold it with both hands, bite, chew, swallow, and eat with relish, as if you are tasting a rare delicacy that is rare in thousands of years.

He loves to see how he is eating, so everyone in the family makes feeding him the best pastime in life. Every night, the family gathered around the glass bottle, eating, watching, and laughing. The greatest charm of the green turtle lies in its spirituality.

When I first came to my house, he was shy, maybe homesick. It always shrinks its head into a hard shell. It's dull, quiet, silent. It was underwater, like a lifeless hairball. At the time, when I looked at it, I felt so sorry and wanted it to go away. However, its home and homeland are thousands of miles away. I have too much heart.

Slowly, it wanted to open up and adapted. Its original lively nature was gradually exposed.

Knowing its beauty, it often swims in the water confidently, almost ostentatiously, with dark green hair, dyeing the entire pot of water into a beautiful green.

My 8 year old daughter loves it like jewelry. When you go to school, don't forget to say goodbye to him; when you come back from school in the afternoon, say hello to him again; when you have something to do, you always stand next to the glass bottle and call affectionately: "Baogui, Baogui!"

Oddly enough, if you shout too much, it will "react" - not with words, but with actions. As soon as her daughter called "Treasure Turtle," she floated up, stuck her head out of the water, and looked at it. At first, we thought it was a coincidence, but then, the next time, we learned that the turtle was indeed spiritual.

Even better: it responds equally strongly to music. Her daughter placed her portable radio next to the glass jar and played the Christmas song "Silent Night" at her. A few times later, when music came from the radio, she put her head out of the water again and wiped her mouth gently, as if smiling. The two round eyes also glow softly.

I have never owned, loved, or disapproved of pets, but I was fascinated by this little green sea turtle. When they were idle, mother and daughter gathered together to watch the turtles playing and feed them to the smiling turtles. As for what kind of inner life a turtle has, we don’t know—we never knew and never thought we should know.

Soon after, a distant relative visited Malaysia. My cousin has two daughters, aged 7 and 8 respectively. My daughter is the same age as the "acquaintance". Suddenly, the three became "like-minded friends." Adults chatted in the lobby, and children watched sea turtles in the backyard.

Watching turtles in the water is not an addiction. The children did not know the depth of the sky and the earth. They reached into the tank, caught the green turtles and played on the ground.

They braided the green hair on the hard shell of the green turtle, tied it into strange shapes with rubber bands, and then laughed; they tied the wool on the green turtle's front feet and dragged it hard. , seeing its clumsy appearance, laughed loudly; they made red plastic mud into gloves and shoes, put them on the hands and feet of the green turtle, and made it helpless and sleepy.

I was sitting in the hall and heard laughter from time to time. I was secretly glad that the three of them got along well. Little did I know that they were ignorantly basing their happiness on the pain of the green turtle! After the guests left, I cleared away the messy cups, plates, and trays in the hall and walked into the backyard. At first glance, the whole person was suddenly shocked as if he was electrocuted.

The green sea turtle lay dying on the ground. Her originally smooth and beautiful green hair was tied randomly with rubber bands; her hands and feet were tightly wrapped in gloves and shoes made of red plastic mud. She stood stiffly with her hands tied with wool, like a prisoner convicted of a serious crime.

It was motionless, like a mummy dried by the air.

"Treasure turtle, treasure turtle!" I shouted crazily, rushed over and picked it up. Its head retracted into the shell and did not look at me. At that moment, an ominous thought flashed through my mind. Scholars would rather die than surrender. The humiliated green turtle lost its life that day.

It lay in a shiny glass jar, melancholy and lifeless.

The fish and shrimp were thrown into the fish tank, intact. Call it what it is, it won't go blind. My daughter knew what was wrong and wanted to change. She begged me to take Baogui to see a doctor. She cried, but I knew that "heart disease also requires medicine." Baogui needed psychological treatment. A few days later, the green sea turtle was floating sideways in the water, motionless and out of breath.

Take it out and it will be out of gas. Watching turtles in the water is not an addiction. The children didn't know the depth of the sky and the earth. They reached into the tank and caught the green turtles and played on the ground. They braided the green hair around the turtle's hard shell and tied it with rubber bands in St. Louis.

Extended information:

You Jin is good at writing travel novels. The style of his works is delicate, real, sincere, and sincerely reflects the people, things in real life, and Sanmao has a completely different way of writing, paying more attention to real life.

Main works include "The Little White House in the Desert", "The Lost Rainy Season", "That Distant Love", "Romantic Journey", "The Sun Refuses to Go Back", "The Compilation of You Jin's Novels", etc. . Mr. Liang Yusheng once commented on his works: The ancients said that Wang Wei's poems are paintings within poems, and I can also say that You Jin's novels are travel notes within novels. Now writes a column for Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao.

Among them were selected into the Shanghai Educational Edition: "The Green Turtle", "The Water Seller in Syria", etc.

You Jin’s creative genres can be divided into four categories: sketches, novels, travel notes, and essays. The sketches are divided into life sketches and travel sketches.

The novel proceeds in two directions: one type of novel is set in Singapore and uses the younger generation as the target of description. Through their spiritual world and emotional world, they reflect various existing social problems in Singapore. Another type of novel uses foreigners as the subjects of description and writes stories about foreigners.

In terms of prose, You Jin draws writing materials from real life rooted in the soil, actively reflects the glorious and bright side of life, and attempts to inspire readers to be good and upward through literary works.

When reflecting human nature, it deeply explores the true, sincere, and kind side of human nature, affirms and praises it, and strengthens readers' confidence in life. She strictly abides by the creative principles of "truth, goodness, and beauty", advocates that literary works must "speak with substance", and opposes "writing to convey Tao".

The travel notes were written by You Jin using the opportunity of traveling abroad twice a year to collect information. So far, You Jin has left his footprints in more than 80 countries on the earth. Ninety percent of the travel notes written focus on "characters". [1]?

You Jin’s works can be found in newspapers and magazines in Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, the United States, and Europe. You Jin now writes a column for Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao.

To date, You Jin has published more than 110 works*** at home and abroad. Among these works, more than 40 were published in Singapore, and more than 60 were published in China and Taiwan.

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