The Old Man and the Mermaid

The feeling of swimming in this cave is amazing.Eigre could feel that the sea water around him seemed to be different from the sea outside, but perhaps because of the diving suit, he couldn't fully tell where this strange feeling came from.

While constantly observing the surroundings, he followed Mr. Mermaid and dived down—until he saw what Mr. Mermaid wanted him to see.

In a corner in front of them, two corpses were hugging tightly.One of them is a female, her skin is old and shriveled because of lifelessness, her hair is also dull, and the scales on the fish tail are extremely fragile, but judging from her still beautiful and distinct facial features, one can know She must have been as beautiful as any mermaid in life.Hugging her was a man, who looked older than the woman in his arms, and seemed to be no different from the appearance of human beings when they were old.Such a gap makes the woman in his arms seem to be much younger than him, but Eigre intuitively believes that there should be little difference in age between these two mermaids who will never open their eyes again.

"Our race is not easy to grow old." Mr. Mermaid explained on the side, "We will experience aging and death, but the years will not leave marks on us so easily—unless we have witnessed the departure of our loved ones. "

Aigre's throat rolled slightly, but he couldn't speak, so he could only listen to Mr. Mermaid's voice quietly.

"When I came back here the other day, he had just brought the love of his life to this place. He looked dazed, his face was haggard, and he looked like he couldn't feel the outside world anymore, but when he hugged his wife When he lay down, his expression was very calm. Since then, he has never opened his eyes again." Mr. Mermaid finished speaking slowly, noticed Aigre's gaze, and added: "Two days ago That idiot wanted to challenge you, so I stopped him and asked him to fight with me first, and when the fight came close to this place, I just took a look."

Aigre guessed that he was probably talking about the curly-haired gentleman, so he nodded to show his understanding.Afterwards, he turned his eyes back to the couple who were still embracing each other tightly even though they died. Although there was not much emotion on their faces, he deeply felt that the scene in front of him was even more shocking than that. The feeling he had just entered this stone cave.

"We live in no fixed place until we find someone who can spend our whole life with us." Mr. Mermaid finally said, "From then on, we will never be separated from our partner until nature re-accepts the life that gradually dissipates from our body. "

Until they got back to the shore, Mr. Mermaid didn't say anything else.

After climbing up to the beach with his hands on his hands, Aigre pulled off the breathing mask on his face, closed his eyes and felt the slightly dazzling sunlight in the morning, and at the same time called softly: "Mr. Fish."

"Ok?"

He opened his eyes again, half-closed his eyelids to adapt to the strong light, and said with a smile: "When I am gray-haired and wrinkled, if you leave before me, I will go to the sea for the last time and take you with me." Take your body, find a way to bury you in the small open space next to my grandfather and parents, and then tell other residents on the island to let them also bury me next to my family with you." He finished After this, he couldn't help but widen his smile, "If we are discovered by then, maybe we will be able to make headlines again."

Like [A mermaid skeleton was found in a cemetery on a small island] or [Shocked!The previous lighthouse guardians, the Payer family, are actually mystical biology researchers? ! 】This type of title?

Mr. Mermaid didn't speak, but he laughed along with Aigre, and imagined several possibilities at the same time.

"If I leave first—" Aigre continued after laughing twice, "If I leave first, please ask Mr. Yu to bring my bones to this place. No matter where I sleep, I will Hopefully I'll be by your side in the end."

His eyes looked happy and content, without fear of death, or some difficulties caused by their racial differences.

Mr. Mermaid looked intently at his smiling and peaceful eyes, and replied softly but firmly, "Okay."

They still have many years to go slowly, no matter what the final outcome will be, this journey is destined to be warm and happy.

By the time they returned to the lighthouse, their emotions had fully recovered.Aigre even took out the big bag of jelly that he bought earlier, solemnly introduced some of their normal and popular flavors to Mr. Mermaid, and invited Mr. Mermaid to taste them.

Mr. Mermaid first expressed some doubts about Aigre's seemingly serious words, then took the jelly in his hand and tasted it, only then did he fully believe that Aigre did not use the strange trick of cheating and abduction this time. Induce him to be fooled.

In addition to the use of desserts, there are indeed some strange usages worth exploring, so when Aigre flipped twice in front of the computer, then turned around with a slightly unnatural expression, threw a jelly into his mouth, and lowered his head. When he kissed his waist and abdomen with his head, Mr. Mermaid suddenly realized what the other gratifying ways of playing that Aigre had mentioned before were all about.

Human knowledge is indeed broad and profound.

Not long after that day, Dusk Island ushered in another heavy rain, and until the sky completely cleared up again, Eigre never met that curly-haired Mr.

"Didn't he say he was interested in me last time?" Eigre asked Mr. Mermaid with a smile, "And he accepted my challenge. Could it be that he was stopped by you once before, so he was frightened?"

"An idiot will not be frightened, nor will he give up lightly after being teased once or twice." Mr. Mermaid blankly recalled the arrogance of Curly Hair when he challenged him before, and judged unceremoniously , "He probably encountered other things he was interested in, so he didn't have time to take care of this for the time being."

"I've been looking forward to it for a long time." Aigre picked up his coffee cup, put the quilt under the coffee machine, and pressed a few buttons on the controller, "Although Mr. Fish is very powerful, he is fighting with you. After so many close combats, I'm pretty much familiar with your fighting habits—so if I'm looking for excitement and difficulty, Mr. Curly would probably be a pretty good choice."

"There are no fighting fans on the island?" Mr. Mermaid asked casually while looking sideways at the coffee machine beside him, listening to the sound of boiling water in the coffee machine.

"Unfortunately, no." Eigre replied with a soft sigh, "Most of the people who are interested in fighting are young boys. Although they may not be much younger than me, they have never learned fighting systematically. The number of fights since I was a child is pitifully small, so I can't drag them to fight to the fullest."

... This sounds like a standard line for Hollywood tough guys before they beat up the villains.

Mr. Mermaid couldn't help thinking, nodded at the same time, and said, "Let that other gentleman be your opponent next time."

"Is that girl's husband?" Aigre said with a smile, "Although the way you communicate and talk to each other is different from that of humans, the fact that your tribe doesn't call each other by name will not affect you, but being a mermaid This problem is completely magnified when we get a human friend—I sometimes don't even know what to call them."

"You called me 'Mr. Fish'," Mr. Mermaid recalled the teasing tone of Aigre when he called himself that for the first time, and felt that he was in a very happy mood both at that time and now. "This title is easy to distinguish. As for the other few "Ms." or "Miss" is polite enough, but for the other two men, just call them A and B."

Aigre: "..."

This is really quite lack of compatriot love.

"Anyway, they don't understand what you're talking about." Mr. Mermaid smiled, and handed him the coffee cup from Aigre. "I'll give you an appropriate title."

"You know, I have always believed in you without reservation." Aigre shook his head, sat down beside Mr. Mermaid, and after a few seconds of silence, he said, "The weather is fine today."

Mr. Mermaid's hand holding the coffee cup paused, "...Isn't that something you say when the topic is dead?"

"What I mean is," Aigre took a sip of his coffee, looked at Mr. Mermaid, and asked, "It seems that I haven't driven my small boat for a long time. Take some time in the afternoon to try to see if it can still operate smoothly?"

Mr. Mermaid looked at him for a while, then smiled and asked, "Mermaid B may come over anytime."

"I believe that Mr. Curly won't disturb us so rudely." Aigre first said something, and then couldn't help laughing: "You really call him Mermaid B?"

"very suitable."

Aigre stopped after chuckling a few times, remained silent for a few seconds, and then said with a smile in his eyes: "Let's go after lunch is settled."

……

Key words: ship capsizing plan

……

Mr. Mermaid's guess was indeed very accurate. The little curly boy who had been forcibly named "Mermaid B" found him again after three or four days, and brought a lot of money accumulated over the past few days to Aigre. The spoils that come down are used as bets—yes, for him, every fight is like a gamble, and this kind of innocuous personal gambling method happens to exist among the mermaids, even though the mermaids do not normally We meet often, but this form of sparring seems to be quite popular.

Unfortunately, when Curly Hair visited, Aigre was chatting with Mrs. Irene at the market, so he was forced to fight with Mr. Mermaid again.

The situation of the battle was tragic and cannot be described in detail.

Mr. Eigre, who didn't know about it, was counting several new fruits on the fruit stand at this time, and by the way, he was talking with Mrs. Irene who was just found out to be pregnant with her second child.

"So you and your mysterious lover, Mr. I can't even see you, are quite stable now, right?" Mrs. Irene asked Aigre as she patted her stomach affectionately and tenderly, " Has anything interesting happened recently?"

"Our usual life is actually quite ordinary, probably no different from other lovers." Aigre replied with a slight smile.

"I can probably guess it." Mrs. Irene smiled softly, "Although I don't know why he can't show up, but now he should... well, he should live in the lighthouse with you, right?"

Aigre didn't hesitate much, and nodded frankly, "It is."

"Don't worry, I won't ask." Mrs. Irene stuck out her tongue, "It happened on the island before. There was a gentleman whose wife suffered from a hidden disease, so he couldn't meet people. He married her on the outer island. After that, because the wife didn't want to see strangers, she never let anyone in or out of their house at will - although I don't know if this is right or not, but they are said to be very happy. And we are like now Living happily is not just to feel happiness?"

"Yes." Eigre responded, and then returned the account book that had been recorded to Mrs. Irene.

Mrs. Irene took the account book, blinked her eyes a few times quickly, and said: "I haven't seen your particularly happy smile for a long time, but after that you gradually recovered, probably Because I met that gentleman?"

Aigre recalled his mood when he first returned to Twilight Island, but in the end he only recalled a blur of light and shadow, so he nodded noncommittally and said, "If I really changed, maybe I did meet Because of that gentleman."

Mrs. Irene looked at him with a smile, and after a while, she asked softly: "Then are you happy now?"

Aigre picked up the bag he had brought all the way from the market, and before saying goodbye, he showed a sincere smile to Mrs. Irene, and replied, "Very happy."

When he expressed his affection to Mrs. Irene, Mr. Mermaid was fighting with Curly Hair in the nearby waters. During the period, they even broke several hard trees on the bottom of the sea, and tore off countless innocent seaweeds. In the end, it was still evenly matched.

Mr. Mermaid quickly made a circle and stopped at a position a little far away from the curly hair. He had to admit that although this guy was an idiot, his fighting ability was top-notch. Even if he was thrown into the siege of a group of fierce sharks, he would probably be safe and sound. to escape.

Curly came here hungry all the way, and had a fight with Mr. Mermaid when he first arrived, and he inevitably felt quite tired at this time, so he waved his hand, stopped torturing himself, and lay down on the beach like a salted fish No matter how Mr. Mermaid pokes him on the back with his tail fin, there is no longer any response.

In the end, he was awakened by a lollipop in Aigre's hand—yes, a lollipop, the kind that the group of little ones who studied hard in elementary school usually kept in their mouths.

Mr. Mermaid gave him a slightly disgusted look, and then asked Aigre: "This candy can only replenish energy, right?"

"Yes, it just tastes better, but any creature will be hungry when it is hungry, isn't it?" Aigre looked at Curly, who was staring at the lollipop in his hand as if he had discovered a new world, with a rather happy look. Son, said with a smile, "I saw it at the market just now, and thought that this gentleman who obviously didn't grow up might come soon, so I bought some spares, but I didn't expect it to be just in time."

"That's good, replenish your energy," Mr. Mermaid looked at the curly hair that was cautiously looking back at him, and said in a flat tone, "It's easy to get beaten."

Aigre shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, and waited quietly for Curly to finish eating the lollipop, and then finally started the fight that had been set for a long time ago.

However, to Eigre's surprise, the process of their struggle this time was very...unspeakable.

Curly didn't know how long it had been since he hadn't eaten, or maybe it was because he had exhausted his energy during the fight with Mr. Mermaid just now, so when he was fighting with Aigre, his whole body was limp.This situation made Eigre feel like he was bullying a fat little prince with no hands, so in the end he could only withdraw his hand dumbfounded, and after discussing with Mr. Mermaid, he decided to invite him to Dinner at the lighthouse.

This meal was a happy meal for both guests and hosts—Egre and Mr. Mermaid have long been used to the good time of having dinner together, so they can completely automatically block the existence of the N-watt light bulb next to them.As for Curly, he has long been overwhelmed by the delicious meal in front of him, and regards the blind couple in front of him as the most benevolent people in the world.

After dinner, Curly returned to the sea contentedly, while Mr. Mermaid did not leave for a while, sitting on the beach with Aigre, feeling the sea breeze that had gradually mixed with a lot of chill.

"I've been thinking, if my grandfather met a real mermaid Mr. or a mermaid girl, would his first reaction be to pick up his harpoon, or to hold onto the side of the boat and talk to him?" Eigre While talking, he glanced at the small warehouse behind him, "The boat is still parked in the warehouse at that time, but I won't take it out anymore."

"Probably pick up a harpoon." Mr. Mermaid replied, "Isn't that how you treated me back then?"

Aigre froze for a moment, then recalled the scene where he threw Mr. Mermaid back into the sea with brute force, laughed twice, nodded and said: "Grandpa probably won't be that kind of gentle person—although he He will indeed treat every friend politely and attentively, but in that case, his subjective consciousness as a fisherman may be stronger."

"It's understandable that any creature would be wary of the unknown." Mr. Mermaid looked down at Aigre's hand that was playing with his tail scales, and grabbed his wrist. "Both of them should be very heroic."

Aigre smiled again, and after a moment of silence, he spoke again: "I got the contact information from the publishing house before, but I never had a chance to plan it. Now is the time to start writing something. At least, I also want to record everything my grandfather has paid for me over the past twenty years."

"Want to be an interpreter?" Mr. Mermaid asked.

"translate?"

"Mermaid script." Mr. Mermaid looked at him and said, "If our people never hide anything from each other, you should be the only human who can understand part of the mermaid script."

"It can be considered." Aigre said again, "but before that, I still want to read the historical document that Mr. Yu brought me before. I am not familiar with the mermaid writing, and that history should help I accept this new type of writing more quickly."

Mr. Mermaid looked at his quiet and peaceful expression at this time, and felt that his heart was also at peace, as if human beings have been looking for the paradise they are attached to for so many years, and they have settled in their paradise without them being aware of it. In my heart, this peace was directly and deeply imprinted on my soul.

He saw the constantly revolving brilliance of the lighthouse, and even the afterglow that occasionally swayed on them shone like stars, releasing warm breath in the cold but gentle embrace of the night, making them almost unable to feel this autumn the cold.

"If you have time in the future, how about going to see the sea farther away?" After a period of silence, he asked Aigre.

"Happy to accompany you at any time," Aigre replied with a smile, "Mr. Fish."

【THAN】

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