The avant-garde quietly tasted the red wine in the glass, the bright red liquid swaying in the transparent goblet, and the oozing cold air fogged the container. Her fingers, as soft as a willow, grip the base of the cup, like an artist, appreciating the beauty of the artwork little by little.

She sat in the back of the car, with soft cushions behind her, golden sand appeared out of the window, avant-garde twisted her head and sipped the cold wine in her glass, and under the flat lenses were bright golden eyes.

"Packa, what do you think of him?" Qianwei asked, this trip to the town guard mansion made her experience a different feeling, like seeing a blooming green lotus in the mud, and the whole world was the lotus fragrance he emitted.

"It's weird, it's not like an admiral, it's like a rotten good guy." Paccar gave his opinion.

"Rotten good guys?" The avant-garde shook his head, "You didn't appear in front of him, you just gave your opinion on the side." He's not the bad guy you call it, because I see a different picture in his eyes. ”

"What do you see in his eyes?"

"I saw the calm sea, but I also saw his turbulence." Avant-garde smiled, "Have you ever seen that vast sea of stars?" That's what he sees in his eyes, there are ethereal stardust and fragmentary starlight, and most importantly, he has some power that you can't fathom. ”

"So he's going to be dangerous for us?"

The avant-garde shook his head, "He is dangerous to the enemy, but to his ship, he is a harbor that cannot blow into the slightest wind and rain." He's like the patron saint of the ship's mother, you treat him well, even if it's an insult to him, it's a joke, once you reach out and touch his ship's mother, you will be treated with waves and undying. ”

"So he's friend or foe to us?" Paccar asked.

"Who knows?" The avant-garde smiled, like a trembling flower branch, "Because he will be my new admiral, whether he is friend or foe is not my final say, but him." ”

"Secretary-General, are you sure you're not joking?" Paccar had some hard time believing his ears, for fear that he had heard it wrong.

"Nope. I'm never joking. Her tone was categorical, word for word. He's the one I'm sure of. ”

In fact, after Cecikar broke off the contract with her, there was only a friendship between the avant-garde and the man. She knew what she wanted, and she knew what she was waiting for, and it was such a clear spring, and the cool light and shadow shone in the water.

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night

"Commander, Commander, you lose, you lose." Saratoga excitedly threw the cards out of her hand, a smug smile on her childish and lovely face.

This is a card game played by Ji Qi and the Lexington sisters, and whoever has the lower hand is the last loser. Of course, as punishment, the loser's face had to be stapled with a note, and now Jiqi could no longer see the full picture in front of him, and could only see Saratoga like a little devil through the gap.

"Oops, Saratoga is really powerful, the Admiral has lost and is about to go bankrupt." Jiqi raised his hand to signal surrender, the white stripes on his face were dense, looking like a mummy out of the coffin, and he was fiercely wrapped around the white bandages.

"It's just, Commander, you're too weak, and you haven't won against me and my sister once." Saratoga smug the note of punishment in her hand and pressed it to his face.

Lexington on the side also covered her mouth and smiled, her white face was bare, and there was not a single white stripe. Because the losers are all Jiji, the notes used as punishment props are all covered with his delicate face, and there are many of them, and they are all pasted.

"The Commander has no note now." Saratoga's palms were empty, and she suddenly realized that the tools of punishment had long been depleted, and ran to the face of the commander in front of her. "I can't play the game anymore." Speaking of this, she was a little depressed.

"If you can't play, it's time to sleep," Jiqi tore off the two white strips in front of him, revealing his two black eyes. "I remember we said okay, after consuming the note, the game should be over and you should go to bed." He stroked Saratoga's little head and motioned for her to be obedient.

"Uh-huh, got it, Commander." Saratoga nodded obediently, and jumped barefoot on the floor onto the soft mattress, burrowing into the thin sheets, poking out her cute little head. "Can the Commander tell me a story?" Her eyes were pitiful, like a kitten in need of comfort.

"Okay, good," Jiqi shook his head and sat down on the edge of the bed. "So what story would you like to hear Saratoga? Is it a beautiful fairy tale or a fantasy myth? ”

"Commander, Commander, I want to hear beautiful fairy tales." Saratoga replied excitedly with a raised hand.

"Well, then let's listen to a fairy tale called 'The Daughter of the Sea' today." Ji Qi thought a little and made a decision, this story was seen in the library's fairy tale collection, although he didn't know why there were children's books in the library, which is known for its rigor and seriousness, he still carefully read all the stories in it, and the most impressive thing was this-the daughter of the sea.

"Once upon a time there was a luxurious palace in the deep sea, in which lived the family of sea kings and mermaids. The elderly king had six lovely little granddaughters, each of whom was beautiful. He spoke.

"Then do they have a beautiful sister?" Saratoga asked curiously, pointing to Lexington, who was listening.

"Of course not, your sister is the prettiest one." Jiqi turned his head to look at the cute girl who lowered her head and teased her ears, and felt that her whole heart was in the hands of this girl who was so beautiful that everything could live, and her every smile and every move touched people's hearts.

"And after that?" Saratoga asked.

"And then there's the story of the mermaid, the youngest of the six granddaughters." Jiqi retracted his gaze and continued, "She is the youngest of all the sisters, and the most beautiful. When she was fifteen years old, she came out to see the beautiful world, when the sun had just set, and the afterglow of the setting sun was scattered on the sea, half the world red, and at the end of the sea she saw a huge sailing ship, with the brightest lights and the most lively cheers. She leaned on the side of the ship and looked through the window and saw a handsome prince, dressed in a rich royal robe, with a diamond-encrusted knife at his waist, striking blonde hair, and a pair of talking eyes on the bridge of his nose. ”

The mermaid girl watched the handsome prince gradually fall in love with him, and she followed the ship into the night. Jiqi paused, "At night, a strong wind blew on the sea, and the whole ship was torn apart in the wind, and all the people on it fell to the bottom of the sea in their sleep, and died in the sea, and the mermaid girl, who had been following her, found the unconscious prince in the terrible waves, and he was pale and soaking wet, and seemed to be in danger of dying at any moment. The mermaid girl desperately held his head and swam towards the shore. When she came ashore, the girl kissed the prince and hoped that he would wake up quickly, but she heard someone shouting in the distance, and she quickly dived under the water and secretly observed on the shore. ”

"The people who came were the soldiers who came to the rescue, and they found the unconscious prince and took him back to the palace. After waking up, the prince vaguely remembered that someone had saved him, and he was still a beautiful girl. So he issued a proclamation that whoever could find the girl in his memory would be rewarded with a gold ingot, and that the girl would be her wife. ”

After the proclamation was issued, the whole kingdom began to search for the beautiful girl, and many people sent their daughters to the palace for a reward and glory, saying that this was the girl who had saved the prince's life. But how could it be so easy, every time the prince went away in a happy mood and returned in disappointment, and found that every person he found was the girl he remembered, so the prince took the trouble to look for it every day, but never found it. ”

At this time, the mermaid girl at the bottom of the sea knew that the prince was looking for her own story and wanted to go to the human world to be with the prince forever, but because she was a mermaid, she did not have human legs, only a fish tail covered by scales for a day, so she hesitated to find her maternal grandmother, Aquaman. She told her grandmother that she wanted to be able to walk freely on the sea like humans, and her grandmother said that this could be done but at a certain cost, and that once you become human, you will forever lose your long life as a royal family, and you will be born, old, sick and die like humans. The mermaid girl did not hesitate to agree to her grandmother's exchange. ”

Later, Aquaman cast a spell and turned his granddaughter's fishtail into human-like legs. In this way, the mermaid girl became a human and came to the royal palace on the coast, where she saw the prince she loved, and he sat in a chair with a sad face, but when she saw the mermaid girl, the gloom on the prince's face disappeared, and was replaced by a smile like a rainbow. The two of them embraced each other in the palace, and the mermaid became the love of the prince's life, ruling the kingdom with him until his death. ”

Speaking of which, the story has come to an end, and Jiqi did not say that the mermaid girl was really the ending as written in the book, but changed the plot halfway through, turning this tearful tragedy into a beautiful story. He didn't want others to cry because of the mermaid girl's infatuation after listening to it, and he didn't want to be sad because of their misses, and he was a little sad that he just knew it alone, and there was no need to let others bear it together. He sighed slightly, and looked down at Saratoga, whose eyes were closed, the girl's small hands clutched the sheets in front of him, and the sound of steady breathing mixed with the cold wind blowing from the air conditioner overhead, as if he was immersed in a dream.

He got up with a smile and walked to the door lightly, pinching the doorknob and slowly opening it, ready to leave the sisters' room. But just as he was about to step out of the door, he was hugged tightly behind him, and the concave and convex body line outlined on his back, making his breathing a little heavy.

"What happened to Lexington?" He turned his head slightly to look at the beautiful girl in white short sleeves behind him, not understanding what she wanted to do.

"Commander, let's go out, I have something to tell you." The girl's voice was glutinous, her little head buried in Jiqi's back, and her face was pink and red, like a blooming rose.