It was something he would never forget. Even if the sky is wasted and the earth is old, even if the vicissitudes of life.

Things have to start from many years ago......

How many years ago? Zero Zero Three didn't know exactly, but he remembered that it seemed like a long, long time had passed since now, and time was just a number to him. It can be very long or very short. He never counted how many minutes a day there were, how many seconds a minute there was, like a mortal. Because that's a completely pointless thing!

The sun is full of sunshine during the day, and the stars are spread over at night.

When I wake up, I travel thousands of miles every day, and the cicadas are sparsely lit in the forest.

Zero Zero Three loves days like this.

In this long life, he has wandered the world many times, he has experienced many dynasties, he has seen many people, and he has used different identities and names.

He had always thought that he was like a witness to time, and if he hadn't met that woman, he might have thought so all the time......

That day, he found a dying woman near the entrance of the Peach Blossom Garden.

The woman looked to be in her mid-twenties, half of her body submerged in water, her long hair fluttering like aquatic weeds.

The woman's clothes were half soaked and clinging to her waist.

Zero Zero Three walked over, and he was surprised to find that the place where the woman was immersed in the water was not two legs, but a long fishtail!

The tail is cyan, and the scales that cover the tail shine in the sunlight with water. Zero Zero Three walked to the shore, crouched in front of her, looked down at her, and said, "Are you a fish?"

"No, I'm a merfolk. The woman said. Her voice sounded very pleasant.

"What's your name?" Zero Zero asked, but he thought for a moment and added, "You, do you have a name?"

"Of course, my name is Lotus. The mermaid said, "I'm just like you, and since you have a name, why don't I?"

"Lotus?" Zero Zero Three looked at her and asked, "How did you know I had a name?"

Lotus looked at him strangely and said, "Don't all people have names?

This sentence seemed to touch Zero Zero's heart, and he smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, people, they all have names. I should have a name too. My name is Ling Laosan. ”

"Ling Laosan?" Lotus said.

"What are you doing here?" asked Zero Zerothree.

"I'm waiting here for someone, and he said he'll come back to me, and if I'm gone, he'll come back and won't find me. So I've got to wait for him here. Lotus said.

Zero Zero Three smiled slightly, the fish didn't seem to have much of a heart. He suddenly thought of the story of the letter of the pillar.

There is a story recorded in "Zhuangzi and the Thief": The tail life and the woman are under the beam, the woman does not come, the water does not go, and she hugs the beam and dies.

There is also such a sentence in Li Bai's "Long Trunk Journey": Always hold the pillar letter, how can you go to the Wangfu Tower.

Zero Zero Three suddenly felt that the mermaid in front of him was like a tail who was about to die by holding a pillar.

"And who are you waiting for?" Zero Zero asked her.

"I'm waiting for a fisherman. Lotus said.

"Hah, you're a fish, you're waiting here for a fisherman, are you waiting for him to catch you with a fishing rod, or are you waiting for him to catch you with a fishing net?"

"I'm not a fish, I'm a mermaid!" Lotus re-emphasized.

"Is there a difference? Cats only see your tail in their eyes. Fishermen and cats are actually the same. Of course, you're still pretty and maybe he's not going to kill you, but he'll cut off your tail and put your unboiled upper body still in a chair at the table, and maybe he'll be chatting with you while eating your tail. ”

The lotus flower suddenly shuddered, and the water rippled in circles around her. However, in an instant, she said firmly, "No, it's different! Even if the other fishermen are all the same as cats, I believe that he is different!"

"You're so confident in him?" asked Zero Zerothree.

"That's right, I'm sure he'll be back!" Lotus said. She wagged her long tail with some excitement, and a hint of red swayed through the waves.

"Are you hurt?" asked Zero-Zero-Three.

He glanced back at the entrance of the Peach Blossom Garden and asked, "Why are you here alone?"

"I'm ......" Lotus hesitated for a moment and said uneasily, "Someone is chasing me......"

She also glanced towards the entrance of the Peach Blossom Garden, and the uneasiness in her eyes became more obvious.

"Who is chasing her?" asked the little sister.

Later, I learned that the person who was chasing her was ...... Our people there. Zero Zero Three said.

"Why?!" Xiaomei asked.

"Why? I didn't know why until I met her......

"Who?"

"Eight hundred bhikshunis. Zero Zero Three said.

On that day, the weather was not very good. Zero Zero Three was walking down the road with a paper umbrella when he was confronted by a woman.

The woman's clothes were dirty, her hair was messy, and her eyes looked a little glazed.

The woman didn't hold an umbrella and was drenched like a chicken in soup.

Pedestrians on the street, with or without umbrellas, were in a hurry, and no one cared about this sloppy woman.

However, every passerby who passed by the woman, the woman would grab the woman and ask anxiously, "Do ......you see the lotus?"

She repeated this question, and everyone who was held by her threw her away in great panic and disgust, and they hid away like a plague god.

The woman still persevered, asking questions along the way.

Hearing the woman's question, Zero Zero's heart moved. But how is this possible? The last time he saw Lotus was two hundred years ago, and this woman shouldn't look like someone in the Peach Blossom Garden, she looked like she was only in her twenties at most.

It must be someone with the same name and surname, right?, Zero Zero-Three thought.

Suddenly, his arm was heavy, and the woman grabbed him. Zero Zero-Three's sleeves immediately had a few more mud watermarks on it.

Zero Zero Three didn't shake her off, and he didn't say anything. He glanced at the woman, who was looking at him.

For a long time, women have grabbed many people by the sleeves, but everyone she has ever caught has thrown her away mercilessly, sometimes even to the ground. It's as if she's something ominous.

The woman was suddenly stunned and looked at Zero Zero Three stupidly.

"Is there something wrong?" asked Zero-Zero-Three.

The woman came back to her senses, but she was even more surprised.