The red fish

It had already been 4 hours since he left the city and wang hadn't drank a single drop of water. To compensate on the loss of hydration, he kept of swallowing his saliva. His house was far in the mountains so he had to walk to the city to bring essential materials. a few steps ahead and wang heard a sound, it was the sound of water flowing.

"Finally!" wang cheered inside as he could not speak up due to the loss of energy. He ran towards the sound as it got louder and louder until reaching the stream. He put his bag on a rock nearby and went forward to form a bowl shape from his hand to hold in some water so that he could gulp it all down at once and provide his cells with some hydration.

While he was drinking the water, he saw something on the bank. It wasn't visible at first because it was far away but as wang went closer, It became clear. It was a fish! not an ordinary one, but one with bright red scales and golden spots that shined brighter than anything. admiring its beauty from the tail to the head, wang saw a red spot.

It wasn't visible directly as it as smartly camouflaged into the scales but on further inspection, it was blood. To confirm it, wang put the fish's tail in the water and what happened was the same as what wang had predicted. The red spot slowly dispersed into the water like ink in water. It was sure blood. If he had left it there itself, then it would further go down the stream crashing on the rocks and eventually dying.

Feeling a sense of pity, he decided to take it back home with him. He lived alone and didn't need any permission to keep the fish. He quickly went to get his bag and took out a water bottle. The fish was small so it could easily fit inside his bottle. he also filled it up with some river water to let the fish have some space.

After reaching his home, The first thing wang did was to transfer the fish into a bowl enough for its present size. He didn't have any medical or veterinary knowledge on how to treat it and decided to just let it heal itself. At first the fish just lyed at the bottom of the bowl but afterwards, slowly started to try to swim. Wang watched the fish for hours and hours. "what should I name you?, I don't know if you are a boy or a girl"wang mumered to himself. How about chun, because you remind me of cherry blossoms, beautiful and elegant!