蝦子一點也不瞎

下午走在黃昏市場裡，有個人特地從他的攤位裡走出來，俯身從地上撿起一個透明的東西，仔細一看，原來是蝦子。古有魚躍龍門，今有蝦跳水盆；我想，這隻蝦子大概期待可以一躍入水回老家，無奈，等著它的是硬梆梆的柏油路，蹦地硬聲落地。雖然它不甘願留在原地，任人宰割，卻還是被老闆發現了，但至少他努力嘗試過了。Someone stepping out from his stand picked up a transparent stuff— a shrimp when I was walking around the afternoon market. In old days, there was a Chinese idiom: a fish was leaping over the dragon gate. And nowadays a shrimp was jumping out of the plastic container. The shrimp might look forward to jumping into water and going home happily but only the hard ground was waiting for him. Although he was unwilling to be someone’s dish, unluckily, it was caught. He has tried!