Chapter Ninety-Three: Qingge
Yuqin walked to the door and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Your Highness Qingyi, my friend is just a little uncomfortable because he is locked up here, and he is not targeting you." ”
"It's okay, it's true that my mother was wrong first. Qingyi smiled and waved her hand, indicating that she didn't care.
"Well, can I ask why your mother hates people who ask for shark pearls so much?
"This ......" Qingyi looked embarrassed.
"Well, if I can't say it, I haven't asked. "Yu Qin didn't expect that he was really said by Mo Li, there is really a hidden secret that no one knows.
"Not really, it's just that this matter is a long story!" Yuqin's disappointed eyes made Qingyi feel a little unbearable in her heart, so she changed her words.
"It's okay, anyway, I have time now, Your Highness Qingyi, you can talk slowly. Yuqin found a comfortable position and sat on the ground, ready to listen to his story.
"Don't be so polite, just call me Qingyi. Inexplicably, Qingyi didn't like her to call herself Your Highness, and she seemed quite alienated from herself.
Yuqin is as good as a streamer, "Okay, my name is Yuqin, you can also call me Yuqin directly." ”
Qingyi lowered his body so that Yuqin didn't have to look up at him, "Our merman clan has never had many heirs. My mother was the only one with me. ”
Qingyi's sister is called Qingge, and she is the most beautiful merman under the sea. Like all mermaids, she loves music. When you hear beautiful music, you will always sneak close to the shore.
One day, my sister heard the sound of a flute on the shore, so she secretly ran to listen. The moonlight shone on the fisherman's body, making his whole body seem to glow. My sister has been different since she came back that day, and she put down half of her hair and turned it into a daughter.
Sharks have no gender until they meet someone they like, and at this time their hair is half coiled up and half down. When you meet someone you like, you become the opposite gender.
Yuqin couldn't help but cover her mouth when she heard this, she looked at Mo Li and Ximei behind her, and the two of them also looked incredible. Yuqin thought at first that Qingyi's hairstyle was different from everyone else because of her identity, so Qingyi hadn't met anyone she liked yet, so she was still in a neutral state, no wonder she felt that Qingyi was difficult to distinguish between male and female.
Qingyi took in the looks of several people, and couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, "Did it scare you?"
"No, no!" Yu Qin shook his head repeatedly, "How could it be?" we had only heard of it for the first time, and we had never seen such a handy record in a book, so we couldn't help but be a little surprised. ”
Qingyi looked at Yuqin intently, until she confirmed that she was indeed as she said, but she was surprised, and did not feel that they were monsters, and then continued to talk. Yuqin doesn't have the ability to read minds, so he doesn't know what he thinks in his heart, if he knew that Qingyi thought like this, he would probably say, "I'm a monster myself, how can I be embarrassed to think that others are monsters." ”
Queen Qingmiao knew that Qingge was transformed because of a mortal, and she was against it. Unlike humans, mermaids have always been monogamous, while many human men have three wives and four concubines, hugging left and right, and she can't bear that her children will suffer the pain of sharing their husbands with others in the future. What's more, the merman is already difficult to have an heir, and if he is combined with someone, it will only be more difficult. Even if the man could accept not having children, the man's family might not be able to.
But the mermaids have always been dead-eyed, they only love one person in their lives, and once they are identified, they will not change. In the end, Queen Qingmao compromised and let Qingge pursue her own happiness.
The merman woman is already more beautiful than the human woman, not to mention the most beautiful song in the merman world. So Qingge captured the heart of the fisherman Meng Ling without accident. In the first days, the two of them were also very affectionate, but no matter how beautiful the fireworks were, they were only for a moment, and no matter how happy their lives were, they couldn't beat the rumors.
At the beginning, people would say that Qingge had some hidden disease, so he couldn't have children. Meng Ling will defend her and speak for her.
Later, people said that she was a hen that could not lay eggs, and Meng Wei gradually stopped arguing for her.
Later, Meng Ling's mother was planning to marry Meng Ling again, although Qingge was sad, she couldn't stop it, because she knew that the heir was very important to human beings, but what saddened her the most was that Meng Ling never had a word of explanation for her. Pity her at that time, she even cried behind people's backs, because she was afraid, afraid of being seen by others. At that time, I'm afraid that there will be another one more infamy, youkai.
Qingge has always been a smart woman, so she thought that since she couldn't continue, she let it go. Even if you can't forget it in the future, you just have to keep it in your heart.
At this point in the story, Qingyi looked at them with infinite sadness, "In fact, if my sister comes back because of this, my mother will not blame the Meng Ling family for this." After all, the heir is indeed a big deal, and the mother was afraid that there would be such a change, so she repeatedly blocked her sister. It's just that my sister was determined to go at that time, and she took a moth to fight the fire, so her mother had to soften her heart and agree to her. Only later ......"
The three of them remained silent, quietly waiting for him to continue. They knew that this "later" must be bad.
Qingge proposed to go down to the hall by himself, but Meng Wei squeaked but did not say half a word of obstruction. Strangely, Meng Ling's mother firmly disagreed. It turned out that she inadvertently spied Qingge's secret one day. Qingge's tears turned into pearls when they fell. She was scared at first, thinking that the person in front of her, who had been her daughter-in-law for many years, was actually a monster. Then he became greedy. Qingge is the most beautiful merman princess, and the pearls her tears turn into are naturally the most beautiful. She thought that since there were such valuable pearls, why did she and her son work hard to fish, isn't Qingge just a cornucopia.
She secretly found someone to make chains, and put ** in Qingge's diet. In the end, the sleeping Qingge was locked at the head of the bed with a chain.
After Qingge woke up, she thought that her home had been robbed, but later she found that it was her mother-in-law who had been calling her "mother" for many years. She cried and begged Meng Ling, Meng Ling just stood behind her mother, repeatedly saying something, "The order of parents cannot be violated", "Filial piety comes first", and then comforted her that her mother would not harm her. She wanted to say, how could it not hurt her even if it was already like this. But she just laughed, laughing at her own stupidity, laughing at her own stupidity, laughing at her own eyes. But smiling and laughing, tears fell, and they fell into pearls.
Meng Yun's mother never said a word, and then smiled and turned her tears into pearls, collected them one by one, and put them in a box. At that moment, she was struck by lightning, and she also understood that the real intention of their mother and son was just to keep themselves as a cash cow.
She looked at the mother and son in front of her in front of her for many years, and it was so strange at that moment, as if she had never seen it, and at that moment she wished she had never met the boy who played the flute under the moon. She didn't know if time had changed him, or if she had never seen through him. They used the silver money exchanged for her tears, and they married a lady for Meng Ling. She had never seen the woman before, and when she was bored, she wondered if it was a kind woman they had tricked in, or if she was a snake and mouse like them.
Slowly, all the sadness that pressed down on my heart turned into hatred. She doesn't cry anymore because it's not worth it. She just laughed, laughing like crazy.
Later, Meng Ling's mother couldn't get the pearl, so she took a leather whip to beat her, hoping that she would cry in pain. But even though her eyes were red and her lips were bitten in pain, she refused to shed half a tear. She didn't want to cheapen them.
At the beginning, she had a fantasy that even if Meng Ling loved money, she also had some real affection for her, and Meng Ling must not have known that her mother beat her like this. But then she realized she was wrong. For she saw through the crack in the door his gown, the blue gown he used to wear. She saw him standing outside the door for a long time, watching coldly how his mother was abusing his former wife, but she never said a word. Her heart seemed to have been pierced by ten thousand needles, and the pain was unbearable, but even if her eyes were sore and bloodshot, she refused to let the tears fall.
Qingge usually has to go back to the bottom of the sea every six months. She has been in captivity for almost half a year. She originally wanted to wait for her to reach the juncture of half a year, and her mother would definitely find her if she didn't see her go back. When the time comes, you can help her remove the chains and save her. She also tried to break the chain by herself when people were not paying attention, but the merman's cultivation was not high, and she couldn't open it no matter how hard she tried.
In the end, Qingge still couldn't survive that time, because she couldn't get the pearl later, Meng Ling's mother beat her badly day by day, the old injuries were not healed, and new injuries were added, she finally closed her eyes and never had to look at the dirty mother and son again.
After waiting for half a year, there was no news of Qingge, so he sent someone to look for it. At that time, Meng Ling's mother and son said to outsiders that Qingge had already been divorced.
Qingmiao didn't believe that her daughter would be so willful that she wouldn't go back if something so big happened, so she didn't hear from her. So she found out after many investigations that her daughter was killed by them like that, and then buried casually in a barren mountain, without even a coffin or a tombstone. Qingmao took her daughter back to the bottom of the sea and buried her next to her favorite red coral.
Qingyi sighed after speaking, "Since then, my mother has decreed that mortals will not be accepted in the Crystal Palace, especially those who come to ask for shark pearls!"
The three of them just guessed that there was a hidden story at the time, but they didn't expect it to be such a tragic story. They don't know how to comfort them, and they don't know how to convince them that they're definitely not bad people.
The atmosphere became a little quiet for a while, and the silence was a little scary.
In the end, Yuqin opened his mouth, "Later, what happened to the mother and son?"
Later, my mother caught them and fed them to the fish at the bottom of the sea. ”
What Qingyi didn't say was that when Qingyi was helping his daughter rebury, he saw how desperate his daughter cried because of the wounds on her body that was beaten and festered and then bitten by insects and ants, he had never seen such a grief-stricken mother.