It is strictly forbidden to fall in love

500 years ago, at sea.

As soon as Zhong Qing turned around, he saw Tang Hui lying back under the quilt with her legs curled up on her side.

Zhong Qing noticed that there was a book beside her bed, it was "Legend of Monsters", half-opened, with a piece of red maple as a bookmark.This kind of book is somewhat like the ancient version of "One Thousand and One Nights". It combines the local customs and customs of Tianshui, Kyushu, and fabricates many weird and interesting stories. From the frayed corners, it can be seen that this book has been read countless times.

Zhong Qing sat down and asked her: "What disease are you suffering from? How long has it been?"

"For many years, I don't know what the disease is, but I have it since birth."

"The Tang family should have hired many doctors for you. Did you say why?"

Tang Hui shook her head.

Tang Hui noticed that Zhong Qing's clothes were wrinkled and scratched, so she couldn't help staring at them.

Zhong Qing said: "There was a storm at sea last night, and the ship almost sank. Several of us struggled all night, but fortunately, we met your fleet early this morning."

Tang Hui nodded and said, "Last night, I heard it while I was half asleep and half awake. It was indeed heavy rain. It has been raining for half an hour."

When Zhong Qing heard this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't realize what it was for a while, "You also encountered a storm last night?"

Tang Hui said, "Yes."

Zhong Qing got up and walked to the table, scratched on the table twice, calculated the position silently, and asked: "You just said, you were sleeping on the bed at the time, and when you heard the rain outside, it stopped within half an hour. gone?"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

Zhong Qing looked at the blank desktop and fell into deep thought, how is it possible?He looked back at Tang Hui, and found that Tang Hui had already sat up and looked at him suspiciously, "Ah, it's nothing." Zhong Qing said to her, "It's nothing, I just asked casually, you should sleep well."

Tang Hui seemed to suddenly think of something at that moment, she said: "Oh, I may have misremembered, I slept soundly last night, and I actually can't remember exactly how long it rained." Sitting together, she He coughed violently again, and unconsciously looked at the "Legend of Monsters" beside the bed.

Seeing that she was coughing badly, Zhong Qing poured her a glass of water, Tang Hui drank some, relieved a little, and said "thank you" to Zhong Qing.

Zhong Qing said: "Go to sleep first."

Tang Hui nodded.

Zhong Qing walked out of the room, turned around, and found Yun Jue was leaning against the door and looking at him.

Zhong Qing raised his eyebrows, raised his hand to support the door frame, and asked happily: "Are you waiting for me?"

Yun Jue didn't speak, just looked at him with appraising eyes.

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhong Qing stretched out his hand to hug him, Yun Jue suddenly raised his hand to block Zhong Qing, there was a very small thing between his fingers, shining blue light.

Zhong Qing stopped, "What is this?"

Yun Jue said, "Fish scales."

Zhong Qing glanced at Yun Jue unexpectedly, "Since when did you fall in love with picking up junk?"

Yun Jue: "..."

Zhong Qing suddenly realized, "Oh, did you give this to me? A beautiful gift from the sea, for the one you love the most."

Yun Jue was silent for two or three seconds, "...I found it by the window."

Zhong Qing took the thing in his hand and looked at it. The semicircular blue scales couldn't tell what their origin was.Yun Jue took out another blue scale from his sleeve, Zhong Qing glanced at it, "What is this?" Suddenly he seemed to think of something, and compared the one in his hand with the one in Yun Jue's hand , one new and one old, one large and one small two scales are shining strange blue light in the sunlight.

Zhong Qing frowned and stared for a while, his eyes suddenly sharpened.

Zhong Qing: "Merman?"

Yun Jue nodded.

Bai Gexing was dragged by monk Taiwei to talk for a long time, and he finally got out. As soon as he got outside the cabin, he saw Zhong Qing and Yun Jue standing in front of a window discussing something. listen.

"On the other side of the window is the ship's side, and below is the sea."

"There is a driftwood at the bottom to control the amount of sinking water. It grabbed the rope on the driftwood and climbed up along the ship's side. It was a long night ago, and there was no light on the sea. It crawled in at night, and there would be no one. Notice it. What is it for?" Zhong Qing walked diagonally to the window, looked in the direction the window was facing, then stopped suddenly, and said, "This window is just facing Tang Hui's room."

Zhong Qing was thinking, "Last night there was a big storm at sea, and their fleet was only less than ten nautical miles away from us, but it is said that it was just a little rain, and it stopped after half an hour."

Bai Gexing asked, "What is it?"

When the sound suddenly rang, Yun Jue and Zhong Qing looked back together, and Bai Gexing was looking at them curiously with his hands propped up.

The monk lowered the sail, threw the rope tied with driftwood into the sea, and blew out the lights, leaving only the dim yellow light at the bow. The night watchman sat on the deck and cut the tarpaulin, and everyone on board fell asleep. down.

The boat was floating on the sea, and after a while, the sky became gloomy, and it began to rain. Dark clouds pressed low on the sea surface, as dark as everlasting night.

When even the night watchman began to doze off, a small hand stretched out from the spare second boat at the bottom of the ship without a sound, followed by a disheveled hair.

The hand grabbed the rope hanging at the side and climbed up the driftwood. It moved quickly, and when it reached for the second wobbly rope, a hand suddenly grabbed Its waist dragged it whole into the sea, and with a plop, it was submerged in the sound of violent rain, without disturbing anyone on board.

The rain was splashing, and in the pitch-black sea, a merman, about five or six years old, opened his blue eyes wide and stared blankly at another merman in the water. She seemed surprised.The merman grabbed her hand and dragged her to another direction. She still struggled and turned to look at the ship drifting away. The next moment, her wrist was grasped even tighter, and she clearly Feeling the opponent's anger.

The three of Zhong Qing stayed in front of the window for nearly seven hours that day, but nothing happened. Bai Gexing turned his head to look at Zhong Qing and Yun Jue, "Didn't you say there were sharks?"

Zhong Qing touched his nose, "Wait a little longer."

The three of them squatted for another six or seven days, not to mention the sharks, but they didn't see a single fish.Bai Gexing maintained his original posture and squatted motionless on the deck. The wind and rain came and went. After 1 years, he slowly turned his head to look at Zhong Qing.

"Where's the shark?"

Facing the young master's deafening questioning, Zhong Qing was silent at first, and after a while, he finally couldn't help stretching out his index finger and scratching his head, "Maybe, maybe there is still something wrong."

Bai Gexing looked at Zhong Qing. As a countryman who had never seen the world, he had never seen shark beads. In his world, he did not believe that there were sharks with human heads and fish tails, just like him. I don't believe Zhong Qing said that there is a colorful bird on Tianheng Mountain that can speak human language with its mouth open. How can a bird speak human language?How can a fish grow a human head?Even Long, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe it.Now Zhong Qing's words have cast another layer of dust on his mind that did not believe in natural science.

Zhong Qing explained: "Maybe it got lost?"

Bai Gexing's eyes are very straightforward: Then I think you are lying to me.

Zhong Qing also didn't know what to say, thinking, this is a bit strange.

At this time, on an island.

The little merman was sitting on a rock, opposite her was a merman two or three years older than her, staring at her with a sullen face, she was silently picking at her fingers, and finally She tried to speak to the other party, "I..."

Many years later, the blood tide caused by this disaster swept across the Taoist sect, killing countless people, and the turmoil caused was enough to rewrite all history. Compared with the subsequent violence, the beginning of this story seemed so insignificant, even a little gentle and dreamy a feeling of.Even when the mermaid recalled it, the first reaction that came to her heart was not hatred and anger, but a long-lost, trance-like pleasure like Zhuang Sheng's dream, which passed slowly by.

Merman is said to be a person who drowned in the sea. His unyielding will moved the heavens, and the real dragon appeared to resurrect him. From then on, they dragged their long fish tails and lived in the sea forever, guarding the dragon's tomb, just like before. , They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, while weaving water into silk and shedding tears into beads.In other words, they feel that they are also human beings. They call the land across the sea a distant hometown, and exhaust the best fantasies about that land and the people on that land.

Xiaoyuren's name at that time was Ye Mi, but everyone liked to call her Ami, and she had an older brother named Ayesi who was a few years older than her.Ami and Ayesi used to be two celestial characters, one means "longevity" and the other means "the sun in the daytime". Ami doesn't like Ayesi. There are very few brothers and sisters who have a harmonious relationship in this world. At least, most brothers and sisters grew up strangling each other's necks, and the mermaids were no exception.

Ami often sits alone on the island, looking at the endless sea. She inherited her mother's fantasy traits, and she has a beautiful expectation for the distant place since she was a child. Her mother told her stories, saying that the people there live in heaven. In their house, a pill stove more than ten feet high was burning, and the room was hung with gold and white jade. When they slept every night, the gold and white jade above their heads made a pleasant sound of jingling.Ami was stunned every time she heard it.

Sharks have their own sea area. Although they fantasize about life far away, they will never leave this sea area. Mother explained to her from the legend of sharks that drowned people cannot return to their hometown. Dragon, leave the bones in the sea, and leave endless thoughts to the distant homeland.Singing is the way they express their thoughts.The sharks are naturally good at singing, and at sea, except for the singing of specific parts, it is almost impossible to convey messages in other ways.

Day after day, listening to the singing full of affection, Ami had a bold idea, she wanted to go to the other side of the sea to take a look, just, take a look.

So that day, taking advantage of everyone's unpreparedness, Ami sneaked out of Haiyuan.

She suffered a lot at sea.She never met any fleet at sea, nor saw anyone, everything was inexplicably terrified, she hid on an isolated island to avoid the tide of giant fish migration, listening to the terrifying sound of the ocean, beside her was the Rotten whale falls.

Suddenly one night, she heard a strange voice in her sleep. She woke up and listened to the man telling a story. Snow, the waves destroy the silver mountain..."

She followed the source of the sound, and there was an unprecedentedly large fleet parked outside the isolated island. The crystal candles made the ships on the sea look like splendid palaces in a dream, and the sound came from the nearest She was fascinated by seeing and listening to the sound coming from a ship, and couldn't help getting closer, and then getting closer. It started to rain, and she raised her hand to cover her head from the rain.

Zongmen's fleet came to the isolated island to avoid the storm, but it ran aground accidentally, and had to wait for the next high tide to set off.

Tang Hui was sitting on the bed, with the book "Legend of Monsters and Monsters" spread out on her lap, reading the stories on it, she didn't know what attracted these stories like One Thousand and One Nights.

The little shark just hid under the boat and listened to it for four nights. She was completely attracted by these wonderful stories that she had never heard before. The voice was gentle and gentle, telling so many beautiful stories. It seems to be a dream at night, and the talking girl is sitting in the dream and telling stories.

On the fifth night, the girl on the boat told a story about the merman. She read: "There is a merman in the South China Sea. He has a human face and a fish body. He is nine feet long and is dressed in silver. out……"

After listening for a while, the little shark suddenly seemed to come to his senses, and looked down at his own reflection in the water.

"The eyebrows are like lacquered wood, and the eyes are like holes of fire."

The little shark raised his hand and stroked his eyebrows.

"Four fingers together, with green webs in the palm."

The little shark looked at his palm.

"The sound is like a child crying at night, and like the whimpering of the wind."

The little shark subconsciously touched her throat, and the next moment, she suddenly looked up at the screen window lit by candlelight, her eyes flickered, and then her eyes fell on the rope beside her.

Tang Hui was turning the pages of the book when she heard a strange sound. Looking back, her voice of reading the story stopped.

There was a vague shadow outside the window, and the window lattice made some rattling noises, as if it had been scratched twice, and with a sudden bang, the window was pulled up forcefully.Ami looked inside, just rolled her eyes a few times, then suddenly stopped moving.She stared blankly at the girl sitting on the bed, the golden glazed gauze was shaking gently, and the spices were burning in the stove, as if all this was far more beautiful and extraordinary than she had imagined.

"You look so pretty."

Tang Hui heard the other party speak in a daze, and she said: "What?" The night outside the window was too dark for her to see clearly, she could only vaguely see that it was a little girl.

Tang Hui was about to ask who she was, when suddenly there were footsteps on the boat, and a monk was walking over with a lamp, startling the little girl outside the window, and disappeared after turning her head.Tang Hui didn't have time to ask further questions. When the monk walked into the room, she looked at the empty window and thought that what she saw just now was a hallucination from her trance.

On the second day, Tang Hui still started to read. Once again, she saw that small shadow reflected on her window, she paused, and then continued to read slowly.

Every night after that, Tang Hui still read that book, and every night someone would watch outside her window on time.

One Thousand and One Nights tells a thousand and one beautiful stories.

Weird, bizarre, sad, warm.

The story transcends everything, just like this sea, which contains everything and interprets everything, from which beautiful and sincere emotions are born.

Another night, Xiao Yuren swam to the side of the boat, and the room was still lit, but she waited for a long time, but no sound came out.In the dead of night, she capsized on the boat, leaned on the window and opened the window to look inside.Tang Hui was lying on the bed coughing violently, her face turned gray and blue, and the vomited blood was stained on the bedding, she seemed to have fallen into some kind of beautiful hallucination, her face suddenly glowed with some kind of brilliance, she faced the void Chu softly begged: "Can you tell me a story? Just one." Then she told herself, and blood gushed out from her mouth and nose.

The little shark immediately closed the window with a snap, and she turned back to the sea.

Because of Tang Hui's illness, the ship that was supposed to set sail ran aground on an isolated island for several days.Tang Hui was supposed to die on that ship. She drove away all the monks and waited for the end of all the pain, but as soon as she closed her eyes, the window was thrown open. She looked over and suddenly opened her eyes wide .

The little mermaid held a handful of seaweed in her hand. She stuffed the seaweed into her mouth, chewed it quickly, and crawled to the side of the bed. Flesh with scales, she handed the meat to Tang Hui's mouth, and muttered something to her in a low voice.

Tang Hui was almost unconscious, she swallowed the piece of meat slowly, and she didn't even feel sick, the little shark supported her head with his hands, and pushed her to the inner side of the bed, she lay on the side Look, until Tang Hui wakes up again.

The little shark folded its fish tail and looked down at Tang Hui, lying on the edge of the bed. When Tang Hui woke up, he immediately raised his head and looked closer at her.

Tang Hui propped herself up, staring in amazement at the incredible scene beside her bed.

The little shark was pushed out of the window. She turned her head to look at Tang Hui in amazement. She was so frightened that she didn't react. There was blood on the corner of Tang Hui's mouth. She stared at her, "Never come back!"

The little shark reached out to grab her, Tang Hui held her arm with both hands, "Get out of here! Don't let anyone see you!"

The little shark let go of her and stopped holding her. He glanced at her again, turned his head and jumped into the sea.

Tang Hui leaned on the window and looked at the splash of water. After a while, she coughed violently, and suddenly fell back to the ground.

At this time, on the coast, the little merman Ami was squatting on the ground, under the gaze of the other party, suddenly she dragged the fish's tail and arched forward, and then deliberately fell into the water with a slap, fell to the ground and couldn't get up .

"I fell."

"..."

"Brother, I fell down."

"..."

She sat up cross-legged, "Brother, shall I tell you a story?"

"..."