The tide rises and falls, and the sun and the moon alternate.

A hundred years of time passes silently, for most human beings, a hundred years is a long time, or a lifetime, but for the merman, it is just a carefree time.

Ling Yue yearns for the human world, either curious, or rebellious in her bones.

She has spent countless sunrises and sunsets, and she has also looked at the east countless times, quietly planting a seed in her heart.

As she grew older, the seed sprouted and grew.

Finally, one day, she secretly swam past the reef where she often stayed, and in the sea where she had never been, her heart was pounding nervously, but there was also a hint of joy and excitement.

Ling Yue quickly returned in a panic, sitting on the reef, the guilt of breaking the rules arguing with her curiosity about the outside world, but what she didn't even notice was that she liked the feeling.

She hadn't been here for days, but when she came again, she swam farther away from the reef.

Ling Yue went on like this for a long time, I don't know how many days have passed, and she has swam farther and farther, and she is deeply immersed in this pleasure.

Until one day, far away in the sea, she saw a fishing boat with a young man and a woman, human on board.

Ling Yue was taken aback at first sight, and dived into the depths of the sea. But when she calmed down, she secretly regretted that she had just run so fast.

She waited here for several days, but the ship never came, and she was a little expectant and a little disappointed.

Ling Yue swam forward again, and finally one day, he saw the ship again. This time she didn't run, but hid in the distance and watched secretly.

The young man and woman on the boat, in the sea breeze and under the sun, cast their nets to catch fish, always with a cheerful smile on their faces, talking.

Ling Yue was curious about what they were talking about, but her voice was silenced in the sea breeze, but she couldn't hear it.

She couldn't help but get closer, only to hear the young man and woman talking about extremely ordinary things.

"I heard that Old Man Wang caught a big fish weighing dozens of catties yesterday......"

“....... Okay, let's go back tonight, we'll ......."

Ling Yue didn't understand the human world, but just listened as if she didn't understand. Later, she listened a lot, and learned that the man and woman were originally a couple in Canghai Town, Canghai Town relies on the sea, and the townspeople have mostly gone to sea to fish for a living.

She waited for the ship to appear under the sun, and then at sunset, she watched the men and women snuggle up to the bow of the boat, gradually disappearing, as if it had become a habit.

Ling Yue looked at their simple and happy appearances, listened to the life in the world described in their mouths, and felt for the first time that human beings were actually not as bad as the clansmen said, and they were even quite interesting.

Unconsciously, her mood also changed with the man and woman, she would laugh silly because she heard a funny thing, and she would feel sorry for hearing a sad thing.

She put herself in it, as if she were a human being, and the trivial things that men and women talked about were all she was experiencing.

Ling Yue yearned, but under the ancestral training of the merman clan, she still had no real contact with humans.

Until, the appearance of another person is also the beginning of her tragedy.

Ling Yue couldn't remember when there was an extra boy of seven or eight years old on the ship, and every time he would go to sea with the couple.

Her curiosity also shifted to this new member.

"Aquatic life, you stand inside, be careful of falling into the sea!" this was the first time the little boy appeared, and the couple said to him.

"It turns out that his name is Shuisheng. Ling Yue thought so.

The little boy would cheer excitedly on the sea, and would ask the couple curiously: What kind of fish is this, what kind of fish is that?

Ling Yue was overjoyed, human beings are not so greedy!

"Aquatic, come and pick up the fish!"

"Aquatic, pull daddy!"

"Aquatic, quick, close the net!"

With the call of the sea, the work of the aquatic life on the boat became heavier and heavier, and the little boy who used to be was gone, grew much taller, and became a teenager.

Ling Yue knew that he had grown up and was happy for him. But Ling Yue found that there were more wrinkles on the couple's faces.

Day after day, year after year, all these changes became the most interesting thing in Ling Yue's boring long days.

Later, the couple grew a lot of gray hairs on their heads, and even the nets that had been pulling for decades suddenly became difficult. Naturally, all this heavy work also falls on the aquatic body.

The aquatic body is strong, his eyes are resolute, and he is even more powerful than the man of the year, but he will no longer scream excitedly at the sea, nor will he do anything to secretly release small fish into the sea.

Ling Yue saw it in his eyes, but he didn't understand why.

Later, the woman never appeared again, and there were only two people left on the boat, and both the aquatic and the old man seemed to be gloomy for a long time.

The old man was getting older and older, his waist was bent down, his body was also very thin, and he could no longer even stand steadily in the bow of the boat.

Ling Yue knew that the young couple who were snuggled in the bow of the boat at dusk and sunset in the past would never come back.

She seems to have experienced a life that does not belong to her, experienced birth, old age, sickness and death, which is also a real sadness for her.

In the vast sea, the old fishing boats that have been repaired countless times, and only one person is left in the water.

There is no laughter, and no one calls the name "aquatic" anymore. Shui Sheng casts and collects nets alone, and sits alone on the bow of the boat looking at the sea, and can be silent for a long time.

But what he didn't know was that in his far corner, there were still people who were silently accompanying him, with his joys and sorrows.

The aquatic life rarely smiled, as if he had lost much more vigor, and even sometimes it was dusk, and he was still sitting in a daze, but no one reminded him.

Ling Yue wanted to be like the young couple before, calling him: "Shui Sheng, it's time to go back!" and even wanted to sit on the bow of the boat and accompany him for a ride, like the young men and women many years ago, disappearing at the end of the sky.

But she didn't dare, she reluctantly glanced at the old fishing boat she had looked at for decades, turned around and swam into the depths of the sea.

Suddenly it was dark, black clouds covered the whole sky, the wind gradually rose, and the sea water was constantly surging.

The torrential rain came down without warning, like a tear in the sky, accompanied by a sudden strong wind, roaring, as if it could not be lived.

The sea also set off huge waves, one layer after another, making people tremble.

I don't know, that person, did he get home safely?

The reef group, Ling Yue drilled out of the sea, glanced at the manic and turbulent sea, and swam towards the distance.

The dilapidated fishing boat is like a leaf in the churning sea, swaying left and right, and every time a wave hits, it is about to turn over.

In the storm, the water was helpless against the bow of the boat, the huge waves hit, the fishing boat was crooked, he fell into the endless sea, slowly sank, and closed his eyes.

I don't know how long it sank, Ling Yue swam over, she forgot the ancestral rules of the clan at this moment, and picked up the aquatic life.

She looked at the familiar yet strange person in her arms. Is this what human beings feel?

Shui Sheng was saved, and when he woke up, he was lying on an island in the middle of the sea, and his fishing boat was also leaning against the shore, but the difference was that at this moment there was a girl in green clothes sitting on the bow of the boat, and her legs were casually pulled down and swaying gently.

Ling Yue noticed the movement, her smile was exceptionally clear and innocent in the soft sunlight, and she said happily: "Shui Sheng, you are awake!"

Shui Sheng looked at the strange woman in front of him, stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "Girl, do we know each other, how do you know my name?"

Ling Yue was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a long time, he forced himself to say, "Hmm....... Well, I guess!"

Shui Sheng was stunned, but looking at the fairy-like girl in front of him, he didn't get too entangled, and asked, "Girl, why are you here, did you save me?"

Ling Yue didn't know what to say, so she prevaricated: "Hmm....... I've been washed here just like you!" said her, jumping from the bow of the boat and coming barefoot.

Shui Sheng was born in a seaside town, how could he have seen such a beautiful and innocent woman, facing her at this moment, he actually believed it, and said, "That's the case, girl, then what's your name?"

"My name is Ling Yue. ”

"Ling Yue?" Shui Sheng said silently in his heart, and then found that she was barefoot, stepping on the stones and sand everywhere, so he hesitated, took off his shoes, and said, "Miss Ling Yue, if you don't dislike it, you can wear it first, I have rough skin and flesh......."

Before he finished speaking, Ling Yue took it, glanced at it curiously, and then loosely put it on his feet and walked a few steps on the ground, "Thank you!"

Shui Sheng also smiled, and then the two chatted a few more words, but Shui Sheng was very strange, this woman seemed to know everything about herself. However, the immediate priority is to get out of the island as soon as possible.

Shui Sheng spent most of the day repairing the fishing boat, and said to Ling Yue, "Miss Ling Yue, let's leave here together." ”

When Ling Yue heard this, his heart trembled inexplicably.

In the end, she sat on the bow of the dilapidated ship, and stepped into the world with the water.

Ling Yue was ignorant of everything, when she first arrived in Canghai Town, the townspeople would take a few more glances at this beautiful and immaculate woman in green, which made Ling Yue a little more afraid and timid in her curiosity.

When she arrived at the aquatic home, when there were no strangers, she let down her guard, and everything in this house seemed to attract her.

Ling Yue was as happy as a child.

It was her first day in the world.

As she was leaving, Shui Sheng asked her, "Miss Ling Yue, can we see each other again?"

Ling Yue looked at Shui Sheng and said with a smile, "Yes." ”

Ling Yue, who returned to the sea, still waited for the dilapidated fishing boat every day, looking at the water from afar.

Ingenious, she will occasionally set foot in Canghai Town to learn everything about human beings. Later, she gradually became familiar with this place, and it became a very common thing to come here, and she mixed in with it and enjoyed herself.

The townspeople of Canghai Town also know that there is a person named Shui Sheng in their town, and I don't know if it is a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes.

Ling Yue would go to sea with Shui Sheng, and the two of them would sit on the bow of the boat, sing the fish ballad that Shui Sheng had taught her, and leave the shore and sail into the deep sea.

It's like the pair of young men and women who disappeared in Ling Yue's memory.