Yaohi Hill

It's about Chung Tai.

Shi Kui discovered that Yong Tai claimed to be the son of the old woman in the room, but the way they got along was not like a normal mother and child at all.

Although his appearance is as young as a boy's, but there is no trace of childishness in what he said, giving people a strange sense of disobedience, as if a middle-aged man possessed a boy's body.

Moreover, he would often look at the aging woman with a gentle and nostalgic look. That kind of loving look was not the way a son looks at his mother at all.

So, what is the relationship between them...?

The more Shi Kui thought about it, the more confused she became, but the countless possibilities she thought of were rejected by the facts one by one.

Is it just my own cranky thinking?

Speaking of which, during the period when Yasha was in a coma, Shikui discovered the hardships of life and the preciousness of food.

It is normal for people in this era to not have enough to eat. Natural disasters are frequent, monsters are rampant, and nobles oppress the people. People are living a life of precarity and barely surviving.

Yasha used to go to a wealthy village or a noble’s house to find some food for her to bring back, but Yuta obviously didn’t have that ability. At first they ate the food brought back by Yasha, and then they ate more and more. It's simple, eating wild vegetables all day long.

Being a vegetarian every day caused Shi Kui to see all kinds of beef, pork, and chicken in her dreams. This kind of life almost drove her crazy. After eating for so many days, she still couldn't get used to it.

But Chunta and his mother, who had something to eat, were already very satisfied, just watching a wrinkled old woman nibbling wild vegetables, this tragic scene made Shikui very sad.

She wants to eat meat and rice, but no more wild vegetables and radishes...

Her incompatibility also attracted Yongta's attention, and he suddenly said one day when he was out collecting herbs with her: "Miss Shikui is a female family member of a noble family, right?"

Shi Kui was identifying a herb that was said to be useful for wound healing, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange when he heard his words: "Why do you say that?"

Yong Tai replied seriously: "It's just a guess... Well, I feel that you are different from ordinary civilians."

She looks as good-looking as the beauty in the painting, and her taste is particularly picky. The disgust for common people's food is almost instinctively revealed...

He is very soft-hearted, and although he doesn't know anything, he is willing to take the initiative to learn some skills.

Although I don't know why she got mixed up with a monster, but Yuta thinks that she should be the lady of a noble family with a good heart as everyone said.

Shi Kui didn't answer his question, she thought the other party was complaining about her pickiness about food.For this, she is also very sorry, after all, no modern person can bear such a thing.Tokioi also knows that poor people like Yuta can only eat wild vegetables on weekdays, and that ancient Japan did not have the habit of raising livestock. They did not eat meat, and resources were scarce, and their living standards were appallingly low.

Suddenly she understood how precious the rice that Yasha brought back to her was.

In the evening, they returned to Yongtai's residence.

Shikui pushed open the door and went straight in, and saw Yasha lying down at a glance, his eyes were still tightly closed, but his expression was not so entangled, and his brows were loosened.

She walked to his side, sat next to him and helped him take off the bandages round and round. Her movements were very light, as if she was afraid that the blood would be very painful if the bandages were torn together.

Then she applied herbal medicine to his wound as usual, and after finishing this series of things, she sighed to Yasha's face: "When will you wake up?"

Hearing this, Yasha's eyebrows seemed to wrinkle.

Yasha hadn't woken up yet, and Yongtai didn't come to check on Yasha's injuries on time as usual today. She felt a little strange, so she walked out of the room, and when she walked to the door, she suddenly heard an old voice, it was Yongtai's. Mother: "Although I've said it many times, I'm really scared, head of the house."

Shi Kui stood in front of their room door, holding her breath.She was very surprised, who was Yongtai's mother talking to when she was called "the head of the family"?

"It's been 40 years, I'm so old, but you are still as young as we first met..."

And another voice also sounded: "If possible, I don't want to do this either."

It was Yongtai? !

Shi Kui didn't expect the truth to be like this, Yongtai and the old grandmother are not a mother and son at all, but husband and wife, but why...

"It's because you ate mermaid meat that you can live forever, Mrs. Yong."

"Not only will you live forever, but even if you are seriously injured, you will recover in an instant." Yong Tai's voice was a little low, full of regret. "Sometimes, I am also very scared. I feel like a monster, but I am not a monster."

"Why do you still stay by my side?" the old woman said, "I hope you don't see me getting old, every day now I'd rather die, especially when you're still so young... "

"No matter what, I will never leave you."

"Recently, I always feel that I shouldn't live long. After I die, you can go find the mermaid."

Yong Tai was a little shocked: "Don't say such things... Also, why do you want me to look for the mermaid?"

"I don't know. You became like this because you ate mermaid meat. That thing must exist. Maybe the mermaid can help you."

Yong Tai didn't speak, his mood fell into a trough.

After a long silence, he opened his mouth: "Can you turn into an ordinary human being after seeing a mermaid?"

Hearing this, Shi Kui fully understood why Yongta would claim to be the old woman's son.

He and she are the same, they are both human beings who eat mermaid meat without aging or dying.

Through Yuta's experience, she seemed to see the ending of her future self.

Because he was too shocked, because he didn't notice that Mrs. Yong had walked out of the room, and had already found her standing outside eavesdropping, his expression was a little disbelieving, probably because he didn't expect that there would be a second person who would discover his secret.

"...Miss Shikui?"

Shi Kui looked at him and asked, "How long has it been?"

Yong Tai didn't understand: "How long has it been..."

"How many years have passed since you ate mermaid meat?" Shi Kui realized that her attitude seemed a little agitated, "I'm sorry, because I've heard of this kind of thing before, so..."

Mrs. Yong waved her hand and said she didn't mind: "It's okay, I know, because many people have heard that eating mermaid meat can make you live forever, so many people have been looking for this thing."

"It's been over 50 years since I was a fisherman."

He sighed: "One day I picked up a strange piece of meat from the sea, and everyone was very excited, saying that it was the legendary mermaid meat, and after eating it, you would live forever."

"It would have been nice if I hadn't touched it at the time. Unfortunately, everyone was confused by the myth of immortality. People who ate mermaid meat died one by one, and even turned into terrible monsters before they died... I was very scared. But I'm the only one who didn't die."

"I thought it was nothing at first, but you have also seen that, except for myself, there is no human being who can accept me. Even my beloved wife can't bear my appearance that has not changed for decades."

Shikui looked at the wry smile on his lips and the deep loneliness in his eyes. She didn't know if she would become like him in the future, but she would not return to live with humans after following a monster. .

She didn't want to imagine what it would be like in the future, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that mermaid meat was really a terrible thing.

She remembered that in the original body's memory, the village also brought back a piece of mermaid meat suddenly, and then bad luck came.

Yong Tai said suddenly: "Actually, I thought about immortality before, it should be good. After all, it is a luxury to live these days, but I don't think so now."

"Human, after all, you are not a monster, and you can't stand being alone for such a long time anyway."

"Are you going to find a mermaid?"

Yong Tai took a deep look at the old woman in the room: "She is getting older and older, maybe she will leave at any time... I will guard her until the moment of death, there is nothing I care about, I think I'll go find the mermaid and find a way to become a normal person."

Shi Kui always felt that one day in the future, she might be like him too.

When there is no nostalgia for the human world anymore, I will find a way to crack immortality alone.

When she left, Yong Tai begged: "This matter has always been my biggest secret, I hope Miss Shi Kui, you don't tell others."

Shi Kui could understand his thoughts very well, and said seriously: "Don't worry, no one else will know about this matter except myself."

In fact, even if it is told, others may not believe it, most of them are dubious and listen to it as a false story, but Chung Tai thinks this is the source of his pain, and he is not willing to tell this secret to others.

Shikui returned to the room where Yasha was recuperating with mixed feelings. In fact, there were only two rooms in Chungta's residence, one for him and his wife, and the other for Yasha to heal.

She went there and found that Yasha had opened his eyes. He seemed to have just woken up from a nightmare, with a hesitant expression on his face.

"Master Yasha, you finally woke up!"

Shi Kui was so happy that she almost wanted to applaud. After all, this period of time was a torment for her. Not only could she not eat well, she couldn't sleep well, but she also had to worry about it all day long.

Fortunately, I was with Yongtai during this time, and I didn't encounter any monsters.

Yasha hummed, and was supported just as he was about to stand up. He looked down and noticed the bandage on the wound on his body.

His voice was low, with some indistinct emotion.

"Are you taking care of me these days?"

Shi Kui nodded: "You were seriously injured at the time, Mrs. Yong took me to the mountains to find some herbs, and applied it to your wound, it seems to be quite useful..."

Yasha was not as fierce as before. He seemed to be thinking about something, and his state was very different from usual. After a while, he said softly, "Would you like to go to the West with me?"

He didn't look at Shi Kui, but turned his face to the other side, but Shi Kui saw that his face seemed a little red.

"Go to the West Country?" Shikui didn't know where it was, "Is it the place you want to go, Master Yasha?"

Yasha stammered and said, "That's right... the monsters there generally don't harm humans, and the leader is also... a very powerful big monster."

In fact, what he wants to say is, if it is the place I want to go, will you still accompany me?

But Yasha felt that this was too nasty, so he wouldn't be able to impress this guy because he was so kind to him. He was only so abnormal because he had no one by his side for too long, right?

However, he still couldn't help looking at the girl's face. For some reason, the more he looked at her, the more pleasing she was to his eyes, and she was prettier than all the humans he had ever seen.

"Then go to the West Country, as long as Master Yasha wants."

The author has something to say:

Fell into a panic of running out of manuscripts. .Yuta is the heroine of Takahashi Rumiko's manga Mermaid Forest. Because of eating mermaid meat, she has been looking for a way to become a normal person for hundreds of years. .