Who can provide me with a beautiful essay by an author suitable for middle school students to extract?

Xi Murong

I found a small shell at the seaside. The shell is small, but very hard and delicate. There are small dots in the middle of the vortex pattern. If you look carefully, there are complex patterns around each dot. No wonder ancient people made coins out of shells. It is really a work of art lying in my hand, a treasure I don't want to exchange with others!

When I found this shell at the seaside, the soft little body that once lived in it was dead. Under the scouring of sunshine, beaches and waves, the traces of life in shells have completely disappeared. However, for such a short and tiny life, for such a fragile and humble life, how delicate, careful and meticulous it is to build a residence for it!

Can I stay in this world longer and longer than my life in an empty shell? Should I also use my ability to make what I can do more exquisite, careful and meticulous?

Please let me also leave something precious and amazing.

After a thousand years, maybe someone will watch and play with my traces again and again, and can't help but sigh gently:

"What a stubborn and simple heart this is!"