The Lost Mermaid [Zhongyingmei]

"Have you made up your mind?"

As soon as Doris entered, she heard 1900's flat and calm inquiry.

The maid Mary came up to meet her, holding a thick blanket in her hands, and hugged Doris.Doris' hands were cold, but her face was flushed with heat.When Mary's fingertips touched her arms that were exposed in the air, she couldn't help rubbing the blanket back and forth against her body to generate heat.

Doris wrapped the blanket around her body, shook her head at Mary, and signaled her to back off.

Doris raised her head and looked at 1900 who was sitting on the sofa.He leaned back on the couch, one leg folded over the other, a cup of hot tea in his hand, looking at himself.

Doris steered the wheelchair towards the sofa and said, "Did you see? Carl and I..."

"Yes." 1900 did not deny it.

Doris asked again: "I thought you hadn't come back yet, why didn't you turn on the light?"

The living room was very dim, only the candles flickering in the wind could barely illuminate one side of the world.

"The circuit broke down on a rainy night. Patrick and I have already found a worker and will come over to fix it tomorrow." 1900 made a gesture and asked Mary to find some more candles. Klee at the door...intimacy."

Doris pursed her lips.

"No, even if you are right next to me, I will do that." Doris lowered her eyes, the corners of her mouth uncontrollably raised, "I've already figured it out. Brother, I've made up my mind—— I want to face all this together with him, as long as he stands by my side, no difficulty can separate us."

1900 sighed and did not speak for a long time.

He looked at Doris in the wheelchair. She was thin and looked like she could be blown away by any gust of wind.But he knew that this was not a weak girl who could be manipulated by others.

She finally complied with her nature and desire/desire, and embarked on a road of no return.

Looking at her clear blue eyes, 1900 felt a sense of guilt in his heart: "If, I mean if, I didn't tempt you and bring you to land..."

"No if, brother." Doris came to him, looked at his unclear face in the candlelight, and whispered, "I didn't have the desire to come to the ground after listening to you. If Without you, I would also go ashore at this time because of my longing. Maybe the person I met then would not be Carl, maybe he would be another 'liar', maybe another 'angel'. Who knows? Anyway , I will definitely meet someone."

"So, in your opinion, Cal Hockley is an angel?"

Doris imagined his arrogant and passionate deep eyes, and couldn't help pursing her lips.

When 1900 saw her appearance, he understood everything.

"I'm not against your decision, Doris." 1900 sighed again, put his legs down, leaned forward, and let himself face Doris, "I'm very happy for you, but, I also Worrying about you. How can you know that Hockley is the best for you if you haven’t been in contact with others or compared with others?”

Doris shook her head, her eyes glowed under the candlelight: "Brother, I believe that he and I are destined...Is that what you said? Fate?"

"Otherwise, how could it be that the first person I fell in love with happened to be a descendant of a mermaid?"

"That's why you can't stay sane."

"I'd rather believe that it's fate." Doris twitched her fingers under the blanket, "No human being knows mermaids and me better than him."

"He will also know your weakness."

Doris shook her head: "Brother, before today, I had the same worries as you. But Ruth and Mary—ah! She is your friend Patrick's 'fiancée', they are just weak human beings, Trying to save myself. As a mermaid, I have the strength to resist without so many constraints, can't I be braver than them?"

1900 didn't expect her to say that.

He looked at her, and the fear and worry in her eyes had completely disappeared at this moment, replaced by a determination he had never seen before-this word was used to describe Doris, something he had never dared to think of before. of.

"If he betrayed you..."

"I will kill him."

Doris lowered her eyes, but her heart throbbed because of this guess.

She bit her lip, and said in 1900's shocked eyes: "I don't need to be afraid anymore, brother. I know those tragedies, so I won't be forced to compromise by that nature."

"But any guesses are just guesses, and I don't want to impose guilt on him casually."

"I believed him until he actually betrayed me."

I hope that there will be no such day; but even if it does, even if it hurts my heart, I will plunge a sharp knife into his heart.

When I choose him, I choose freedom.

"Don't you agree with my approach?" In a sense, 1900 is Doris's "guide" and "guardian", and Doris cares about his opinion very much.Her eyes were fixed on 1900's mouth, and she held her breath.

"I bless you, Doris, I just want you to be free and happy."

1900 stood up, bent down and hugged her.

"If he dares to betray you, even if you don't do it, even if I want to be hated by you, I won't let him go softly! Doris, are you willing to give me such power?"

"of course."

The next morning, Doris was awakened by the sound of tinkling under the window.

The night before, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep. Carl's flamboyant smile, deep black eyes, and usually thin and slightly drooping corners of his mouth were all circling in her mind.She almost scolded herself, her heart was beating so ridiculously fast.

She forced herself to calm down and fall asleep quickly, but when she was about to fall asleep, she woke up with palpitations.

'It's a sweet annoyance. ' thought Doris.

Doris didn't fall into a deep sleep until the sky turned pale.

Awakened by the messy noise in a state of insomnia, Doris opened her eyes irritably and with difficulty, looked out of the window, and groaned involuntarily—she felt stuffy in the middle of the night, so she opened the window.

No wonder the noise outside is so clear!

The sound continued, and even if Doris wanted to sleep for a while, it was impossible.She had no choice but to crawl out of the thin velvet quilt dejectedly, her feet slowly landed on the ground, frowning at the numbness from the soles of Ninja's feet, and slowly moved to the window.

She vigorously tore open the flowery double-layer lace curtains, and the soft and warm morning sun shone in.

Staring at the sun, she narrowed her eyes and looked down.

The path leading from the gate of the manor to the front was paved with a long black line. A few workers in gray uniforms carried shovels and other tools and jumped off the trailer in twos and threes.

A worker wearing a special uniform hat looks like a supervisor. He is standing on the side of the road and Mr. Patrick Crawley, the owner of the manor, is explaining and pointing at the drawings.

Patrick nodded frequently.

Doris looked at the fluffy nightgown on her body, but still drew the curtains.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and the voice of the maid Mary came from the crack of the door: "Miss Doris, I heard the sound of you opening the curtains, are you awake?"

"Yes, please come in." Doris turned around and replied.

The door was opened, and Mary had already dressed as a maid, but before her hair was tied up, she was holding a tray with some bread, bacon and fried eggs on it, and a pot of tea.

"Mr. Boardman said that today Mr. Crowley contacted the workers to fix the wiring. If you don't want to see the workers, you can stay in the room. The workers may walk up and down the corridor and troubleshoot the fault. .”

Doris nodded: "I'm not planning to go out—where's brother?"

"Mr. Boardman said that he would go to the tavern to meet with friends at noon to discuss some matters, and he would not come back for dinner. Mr. Crawley would also leave after repairing the wires."

Doris guessed that her brother was going to discuss with his friends about forming a band again. If all went well, his new members would be employed as musicians by the Titanic for a short period of time and go to the United States together.

Doris told Mary to put the breakfast on the table and let her go.

She finished the simple breakfast by herself, and Doris had nothing to do, so she focused her gaze on the piano in the room.There is a handwritten score on the piano, which is exactly the notes she recorded in her free time when she was recuperating some time ago.

Doris sat down and opened the piano cover, gently resting her hands on the keys.

The rhythmic and powerful piano sound poured out like thunder. At this time, even if the outside was noisy and clanging, it was covered by this magnificent sound.

She hasn't thought of a name for this song yet, but she has a vague feeling that it has something to do with the ocean.

In Doris's mind, the scene of the Titanic advancing at high speed and riding the wind and waves during the trial voyage that day, the sea breeze, petrels, dolphins, and waves formed beautiful and magnificent scenes.

Then, the sound of the music became silent and resentful, and Ruth's gray-blue eyes suddenly appeared in Doris's mind, and she told Doris jokingly that she was about to act in a play with Carl Over that damned Joeylov, and her mother, and that sinful old Hockley.

However, Carl has promised not to have anything to do with the Bucket family, what will Ruth do?

Doris couldn't help feeling ashamed that she had temporarily forgotten Ruth's situation, and Karl became a bad businessman because of their relationship.

Will Ruth still go to America on the Titanic with them?

And that day, the debate about the lifeboat, is there a result now?

The movements of Doris's subordinates slowly stopped and fell into thinking.The sound of the music gradually stopped, and the sound of the workers working outside the window had also stopped. Instead, the sounds of workers talking and unscrewing screws for repairs could be heard from the aisle.

Doris listened to the noise, imagining what they were doing.

She steered the wheelchair to the door, leaned over and listened.

Suddenly, the sound of a sharp object passing through the door startled her.Doris straightened up and took a step back.

She suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something in the crack of the door below, blocking the light from outside.

"Huh?" Doris slightly opened the door suspiciously.

There was no one in front of the door, Doris looked to the ground——

A small cloth bag lay quietly at his door.

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-05-2101:54:15~2020-05-2217:16:40期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: when will one be forgotten;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!