In the dark, the perception of the passage of time is slightly weak.

I just felt as if I had waited for a long, long time, until I had finished my fifty-eighth yawn, and I felt a sudden pause beyond the darkness.

"Uh, is it there?" I stretched, wiping the wetness from the corners of my eyes.

"Yes, auntie, stand firm, I'll send you out. Seventeen's voice sounded more joyful than ever.

I stood up, and there was a burst of light in front of me, as if ten thousand golden flowers were blooming all around, and they were dissipating in an instant.

It wasn't until I regained my sight that I could see where I was.

It was pitch black all around, and the glow of the stars flickered in the darkness, like fireflies in the night sky, but like the eyes of a fish.

The mud was littered with algae and shells, as well as gold and silver ornaments, watches, eyes, necklaces, and so on.

Directly in front of it is a crystal ball-shaped palace, which sits round on a flat rock, and the surface is shiny like a river of stars, like a small pearl born in a shell.

Overhead, large patches of algae spread across the palace, intersecting and growing at the top of the palace, like a dome covering them.

If Seventeen hadn't brought me into it, I wouldn't have been able to identify the palace from the outside world.

"Auntie, what are you looking at?" Seventeen asked.

I watched him transform into a human form, which was the same as in my previous dream, and I couldn't help but ask, "Seventeen, did you have a dream two hours ago?"

"Nope!"

Seventeen shook his head and smiled coquettishly and cutely: "Seventeen is a fish and can't dream." ”

Belch?!!!

"You didn't see the snow in the underworld, and then you called me in the river, and then you ...... You killed a female ghost?" I asked in disbelief.

Seventeen's eyes faintly gathered water, and his thin lips pursed slightly, quite aggrieved: "Auntie, Seventeen don't kill ......"

"Ghosts are not considered living. ”

"Seventeen doesn't kill ghosts ......"

"Okay. ”

I nodded, estimating that there was always a truth or falsehood in that dream, and the illusion was deliberately created by Ye Dingxi's guy.

At this time, while chatting, Seventeen and I stood in front of the palace gate for a long time, but there were no other Fish Clan compatriots around, and it was very cold.

"Why aren't there any fish near this palace?" I asked.

Seventeen smiled and said: "Auntie doesn't know, the palace is hidden, it is the residence of the fish king, and other fish can't get close." ”

I see.

"Then take me to the palace. ”

"Auntie, please come with Seventeen. ”

Seventeen came forward to show me the way, and I was half a step behind him, and I found that he was much taller than before.

Bai Yudan can still grow tall, it seems that I have to talk to the old Hades about it.

When the two of us walked to the gate of the palace, there were two fish-headed people, holding tridents, and fish demons dressed as guards stepped forward and saluted: "His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Seventeen raised his eyelids, which was a response, compared to the attitude of getting along with me, he really looked like a prince of the fish clan at this moment.

I walked with him all the way, and in the distance I saw the old fish king sitting on a golden throne.

The throne was so dazzling that it looked like a seat was piled up with countless golden objects, and there were many gold teeth, gold chains, and gold bracelets scattered on the ground around it.

"Is that your father?" I asked secretly.

Seventeen nodded: "Auntie, my father's memory is not very good, please forgive me." ”

Older creatures will always have a little problem, and the old Hades also have a bad memory, and I'm very used to it.

"It doesn't matter. ”

I whispered.

The king of fish wore a crown of pearls, and his golden and silver robes looked very luxurious, but he did look very old, with a vicissitudes of life, a few deep furrows on his forehead, white hair scattered, and long silver whiskers hanging down, like a silver snake that had been winding down to the bottom of the three steps.

"Seventeen is back!" he smiled kindly, and slowly turned his gaze to me, "Who is this?"

I politely saluted the Fish King and said, "The female ghost of the underworld is leaning eastward, and I have come to greet the Fish King." ”

On the side, Seventeen nodded, pointed at me, and said, "Father, this is the aunt I mention to my father every day." ”

"It turned out to be my aunt......"

The king of fish smiled and looked very cute and kind.

Seventeen was also very happy and said, "Father, my aunt has come to the palace as a guest, and I want to take her around." ”

"Good. ”

The king of fish nodded, but looked at me again and asked, "What do you call your aunt?"

Belch?

I was slightly stunned, and subconsciously replied: "If you go back to the fish king, my name is Xiang ...... East...... Tilt!"

"Oh, East, what a name!"

The Fish King nodded in satisfaction, and the silver whiskers flowed with his movements, exuding a shiny sheen.

On the side, Seventeen quietly grabbed my sleeve and said, "Auntie, Seventeen will take you to another place?"

"Good. ”

Naturally, I nodded in agreement.

On the other side, the fish king looked at Seventeen, then at me, and asked very suspiciously, "Seventeen, who is this?"

“......”

This fish can only be remembered in three seconds!

When I came out of the main hall of the palace, I couldn't help asking, "Seventeen, how did your father write you down?"

"When the fish kings of the past came of age, their memory deteriorated, and it became more and more serious as they grew older, but they could only remember the next prince until they died. ”

"Don't even remember your mother?"

"Hmm"

Seventeen nodded and said, "In order to remember the queen mother, my father carved her portraits all over the palace, and the patterns on the pillars and screens that my aunt saw before are my queen mothers. ”

What?!

I jerked hard from my cheeks.

Fang just came out of the main hall, passed through the nine-curved eighteen corridors, and the mural screens along the road, all carved with the same fish, that is the mother of seventeen?

The question is...... There is no outline of a human face on that pattern!

"Where is your queen mother now?"

"He died a long time ago, and his father was sad, but Seventeen did not tell his father the truth, but fortunately he could not remember who the fish on the screen was, so he was spared the pain of grief. ”

Unexpectedly, Seventeen's background is so pitiful.

I couldn't help but stand on tiptoe, touched the top of his head, and comforted, "Auntie will take good care of you in place of Seventeen's mother." ”

"Auntie......"

Seventeen pouted and shook his head: "Seventeen don't want to be taken care of by my aunt, Seventeen must take care of my aunt forever!"

"You stupid boy. I smiled and said, "In the future, after you inherit the throne of the king of fish, the memory will also dissipate day by day, and at that time, you don't know who my surname is, how to take care of it." ”

"No, it won't!"

Seventeen frowned, never so seriously: "Auntie, Seventeen can forget everyone, everything, but not Aunt!"

"That's what I said......"

I was about to start from theory and combine it with reality to educate Seventeen, when I suddenly heard a hurried voice behind me.

"Prince, it's not good! there's a cat outside the palace!"