"Hey, Guan Qing?" I shook my hand in front of his eyes, "What are you talking to yourself?"

Guan Qing pushed my hand away and looked at You Zhen intently, "It's really a double pupil cut... Ye Ke, this girl is your girlfriend?"

"Of course not..."

"That's good. Putting the electric hot pot in his hand on the cash register, Guan Qing walked in the direction of You Zhen seriously, not paying attention to the pearl under his feet at all, I saw him slipping by the pearl without suspense, and sat on the ground.

"Ah, what is on the ground!" he picked up a pearl and looked at it, his eyes showed a hint of surprise, and then he said to me loudly: "Ye Ke, you are a tyrannical thing!"

"Ahh

"Where did you get such a good pearl? And you spill it on the ground so casually! My grandmother will kill you if she sees it." "Guan Qing also began to help me collect pearls on the ground.

"What does the old lady have to do with pearls..."I'm trying to figure out a way to get Guan Qing to leave quickly, don't delay things here.

"Don't you know? My family is in the jewelry business! The old lady would be eighteen years younger with joy to see such fine quality beads. Guan Qing stopped suddenly, and he remembered that there was another girl in the house, "Uh... Hello, my name is Guan Qing, and I am Ye Ke's classmate. He pretended to hold out his hand.

You Zhen didn't know that he wanted to shake hands with her, and looked at Guan Qing with big eyes flickering, "What are you going to do?"

It's okay not to speak, as soon as she spoke, Guan Qing was completely conquered by her soft voice, her face was full of admiration, and she completely ignored the matter of pearls, I hurriedly blocked in front of him and You Zhen, and handed him the box full of pearls, "Here, take it back and let your grandma identify it, if it's really good, give it to your grandma." ”

“... Ye Ke, your brain is squeezed by the door, this is a very valuable thing. Guan Qing touched my head, "You don't have a fever." ”

"Don't ask so much, you take it back to your grandmother and she will understand, go quickly." I put the box in his hand and pushed him out of the door, "After listening to your grandmother's suggestion, you can come back, we will have hot pot in the evening, you remember to buy some food." With that, I locked the door mercilessly, and let him close the door and shout outside. With a sigh of relief, I returned to You Zhen.

"I'm sorry, this guy usually does this. Let's continue what we just said, why are you looking for Mida, who wrote to you?"

"I was originally a weaver girl at the bottom of the sea, and I specially weaved shark silk for the royal family, a bit like your human yarn. We mermaids will briefly surface on moonlit nights and sing for the moon, and the people on the beach cannot see us, but can only hear our songs, so we sometimes sneak to the shore to eavesdrop on human conversations. Before I met Mida, I always thought that the song of the mermaid was the most beautiful language in the world, but after meeting Mida, I changed my mind. You Zhen stretched out her hand and gently stroked the letter on the table, "The day I met him, he was reading a book on the shore alone, I secretly hid behind the reef and looked at him from afar, he looked very charming when he read a book." ”

"He should be able to see you, too, otherwise how could there be a later letter. "I remembered the news the other day, if that guy named Mida could really see a youkai, then I really wanted to meet him.

"Well, as you said, he noticed me a long time ago, but he was afraid of scaring me, so he kept pretending not to see me, and then one day, instead of sitting there quietly reading, he began to recite some sentences that I had never heard before, and I was so absorbed in those beautiful words that I walked up to him before I knew it, and that was the first time he smiled at me, and he said hello to me, and he said that he had been waiting for me for a long time, and he said that the sentences he read, you humans call poetry. You Zhen's soft voice made people want to pity her, "I told him that I liked it very much, and he said that since you like it, I will write it to you every day." Since then, every moonlit night, he has been there on time, he has taught me to read, and your human writing is so beautiful, and after I can read simple texts, he has started to write to me, telling me all kinds of stories, which is what I show you. ”

I looked at my watch, she had been sitting here for almost an hour, and I had to hurry, "Let's make a long story short, how did you lose touch after that?"

"There is a tradition of the mermaid people, when they meet their intended person, they will personally weave the shark silk that only belongs to that person, as a love object. Ordinary shark silk is woven by us with plants on the bottom of the sea, and the love of the shark silk will be mixed into our hair, this kind of shark silk will have different colors in different weather, extremely beautiful, it is soft but tough, will never be damaged, meaning that the feelings between themselves and the person they want will last forever, this kind of shark silk can only be done once in a lifetime, which also means that the shark can only fall in love with one person for a lifetime. When I received the three hundredth letter he sent me, I decided to compile a love book for him. She stroked her seaweed-like hair, "But when he accepted the mermaid that he had made a promise, he disappeared with the letter." ”

"He probably doesn't want to contact you anymore. I said bluntly, "Humans are different from youkai, and they shouldn't be in love, so don't look for him anymore, go back." ”

"No, Mr. Yeck, that's what I thought of the original. You Zhen said softly, "So I took the medicine that can turn into a human and went to the land to find him, because the merman can understand the human language, and he taught me to read, so it didn't take much effort to find him, before I saw him, I told myself that I would go back to my shark silk, and then go back to the sea, but as soon as I saw his face, my tears remained, and I couldn't stop it." She smiled slightly, "Few sharks know what tears are, and when I saw Mida again, I suddenly understood why there are always beautiful and sad words in the poems he wrote to me, human feelings may be like this, there are expectations, there are joys, there are sorrows, and this is not the case between sharks, they have been together since they fell in love, they will not be separated, and naturally they don't know the feeling of tears." ”

I didn't speak again, and my gut told me that things were never a simple love story.

"Mida didn't expect me to go ashore to look for him, nor did he expect me to become human, and I didn't expect me to cry, I felt his surprise, he came up and hugged me, and said that he had to leave me, because I was a merman, and he was human. Just when I thought it was time for it to end, he told me to wait for him in the sea for a year, and in a year he would marry me, and in a human way, he asked me if I would like to leave the sea for him, and I didn't have time to react, and I agreed. Love, it should be like this, not by thinking, but by intuition, unconsciously doing something. ”

"But you have come to me now to prove that he is still gone. I asked, flipping through the letters.

"Hmm... A year is a very short time for the merman, but for me, it seems to be longer than a lifetime, I waited by the reef every day, I waited and waited, hoping to see him, but I didn't see him once, I could only occasionally find the letter left for me on the shore, I read his letter over and over again with tears in my eyes, feeling the breath of the letter related to him, but even then I was very satisfied. But half a year ago, the letter suddenly broke, I thought it was swept away by the wave, or someone took it, so I waited from sunrise to sunset, and waited until my skin was dry and cracked and did not wait for the desired result. Her voice seemed to be much weaker than it had been before, and her breathing became rapid.

"How do you stay human?"

"The sorcerer of the merman has a medicine, he is not allowed to eat or see the sun for fifteen days after taking it, otherwise his life will be shortened, and he will become a human after fifteen days of torment, but only during the day he is a human being, and he must be soaked in water for at least three hours at night to ensure that he survives, otherwise he will suffocate to death, and the effect of the medicine will disappear after returning to the sea, this medicine is very rare, in order to marry him in human form, I can't go back to the sea. ”

"Your wizard won't give you such a medicine for nothing. "I'm a little worried about her.

"That's for sure, but it's just an exchange of something, it's nothing. Her voice grew weaker and weaker, as if she was using all her strength with every word.

"You go back and rest first. I couldn't bear to look at her so uncomfortable, "I'll help you try to find the person you're looking for, where do you live, do you need me to send you?"

"Thank you. I'll just go back on my own, and if something comes to me, I'll go to Lake M, and I'll show up as soon as you call my name. She struggled to her feet, insisting that I would not be allowed to send her, and her pale face was full of smiles, as if the man would fulfill his promise if he found Mida.

Back on the chair, I looked at my watch, it stands to reason that Guan Qing should come at this time, but it doesn't matter, he can be quiet and quiet when he comes to the store later. I was just about to turn on the radio and listen to the news, maybe I could hear about Mida, when I remembered that the old man had taken it to fix it, and it was getting dark, so I had to wait until dawn to find Mida. Glancing at the old man's "Naturalist", thinking of the discussion of "the heroes see the same thing" in the morning, I also took out my own "Naturalist" and read it.

After several hours passed, Guan Qing still didn't come, so I decided to take advantage of the old man's absence to order a takeout, and accidentally touched the book while holding my mobile phone.

"There are mermaids in the waters of the South China Sea, and the water dwells like fish, and their eyes can cry beads. ”