The Mermaid of the Deep Sea

Of course, there are day and night in the deep sea, and their division is defined by the sunlight that shines into the sea.

But in the dark night when most of the mermaids fell asleep, Lei Boding was tossing and turning on the bed and couldn't fall asleep. His mind was always thinking about the things about Derby that Ivor and Ralph told.

Derby is a flawed female mermaid.

The mermaids in this deep-sea world are not divided into male and female, but male and female.

Male mermaids are good at fishing, and female mermaids are good at weaving gauze.The appearance of female mermaids is also very different from that of male mermaids. Female mermaids have poorer eyesight than male mermaids, but to make up for this, they will have a brow bead on their forehead. Before the age of six, the brow bead of female mermaids is gray, but after six At the age of one year, the female mermaid will use her tears to wash the eyebrow beads to make them emit the original soft light, and in that year, the tears of the female mermaid can also become beads.

But Derby has problems in these aspects. He has eyebrow beads, but he can only emit a dim light that is almost nothing. His tears can't even form beads. Such defects are fatal to a female mermaid. , is enough to make other mermaids look at Derby with strange eyes.

What makes everyone point to Derby is that not only does he have the above two fatal flaws, but his hands do not have the thin film that connects the five fingers that all mermaids have.

This is simply a monster - this is what all the mermaids think, but most of them are still very qualified and don't say it, but the eyes are uncontrollable.

Gradually, the smiles on Derby's face became less and less, and he began to withdraw from the mermaid group slowly. Finally, the mermaids suddenly found that Derby almost never appeared in front of them again, just silently. I keep knitting gauze at home.

Well, this is also very good, at least we don't have to pay attention to what to hide because of his presence - this is another thought in the minds of most mermaids, they are satisfied with Derby's outlier, but they still follow their nature to keep with Derby With a bland connection.

And some mischievous male or female mermaids who are in the rebellious stage like to make little trouble for Derby.

Such an almost ignoring attitude and finding fault with good intentions, although not malicious, just made Derby more withdrawn and cowardly. He began to be afraid of facing his own clansmen, and occasionally had to go out at a very fast speed. Flashing in front of everyone, anyone who greets him will scare him, and he always gets no response for a long time when he asks a word, or the voice of his answer is so low that he has always been confused by his hearing. The proud mermaids are distressed.

"Also, it's incredible that Derby would come into contact with orcs on land! We mermaids never come into contact with orcs! So Derby is real! Very strange!" This is Ivor's concluding remarks, staring Large eyes and waving hands are enough to show how intense their owners are.

But now Lei Boding can only laugh out loud in retrospect, what a strange world this is, women have never appeared, men give birth to children, besides mermaids, there are orcs with furry tail ears, what an adventure remember.

Regarding the strange things about Derby that Ivor and Raffle said, Lei Boding didn't feel anything at all. The physical defects were beyond Derby's control, and the unconscious alienation and strange eyes of the tribe drove him away. The tribe, Derby's father and Daddy died under the sharp teeth of the shark. When you are lonely, you will inevitably want to find a friend to talk about. If the tribe doesn't want to get close, then you have to find friends elsewhere.

Knowing these things, recalling that slender, introverted young boy with eyes as blue and moist as sea water, a certain part of Lei Boding's heart suddenly felt a little soft and sour, but after a while, Lei Boding smiled silently, but only met today, why is the shadow of the mermaid in his mind, is he really dissatisfied with desire?

Lei Boding turned over, closed his eyes again and fell asleep.

But when Lei Boting stood at the door of Derby's house with a few fish again the next day, he himself had to admit that it was probably those warm blue eyes that prevented him from ignoring this lonely boy. Be nice to him, be nicer.

As usual, he knocked on the door for a long time and couldn't open it, but it was hard for the accustomed ruffian Lei Boding, he leaned on the door of Derby's house with his tail wagging, and said lazily, "Hey, Derby, if you don't open the door, I will stand there." Don't leave at your door, please don't doubt my patience, I mean really—"

Before he could utter the words, the door had already opened, and Lei Boding, who had put all his weight on his upper body, twisted several times in embarrassment before he stabilized his figure.

"Are you willing to open the door?" Occasionally, the word "shame" does not exist in Lei Boding's dictionary. He smiled and looked at Derby who was looking at him with a puffy face.

Derby feels in a terrible mood now, he has never seen such a rascal mermaid!

But our simple little Derby, even if he was full of displeasure, he couldn't say anything bad, and he blushed and waited for the scoundrel leaning against the door for a long time, and he just threw out such a sentence, "You , You, didn't I tell you to go home and rest? Why are you here again?"

"My injury is almost healed, but I think your injury should be more serious than mine. This is caused by me. How can I not show up?" Lei Boding gestured to Derby for the weapon in his hand. Fresh Fish, "Look, the technology is much better than yesterday."

Derby stared at the fish in Lei Boding's hand, was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly, "My wound is also healed, really, thank you, let's go."

"Really?" From the moment we met, Lei Boting noticed that Derby hid his arms back like last time. Taking advantage of his inattention, Lei Boting pulled Derby's arm and looked at the white arms that appeared Lei Boting paused his hand for a particularly hideous wound, and then his face sank, "Is it okay if it's so serious?"

"I, I..." Derby was pulled by Lei Boding's arm unexpectedly, and he wanted to pull it back, but he couldn't break free. Derby's eyes were a little red, "Slowly it will get better on its own, really .”

Lei Boting looked at Derby's frightened and aggrieved look, and in his heart he didn't know whose anger was directed at him, "How slow is it? Look at this wound, the flesh is turned out, nothing can be seen." If you don’t do it, how long will you wait for it to heal? Your hand is hurt like this because of me, how do you go fishing? That’s it, you still want to reject my fish, you have thought about my heart How uncomfortable is it?"

"No, I didn't miss you..." Derby raised his eyes and looked at Lei Boding, who no longer had a hippie smile but a serious face, struggled slightly and whispered, "I didn't think you were uncomfortable."

"Since you don't want me to feel bad or feel guilty, then accept my fish." Lei Boting said without rejection, "I know you don't like me appearing in front of you, I promise, when your wound heals , I won’t appear in front of you, okay?”

Derby, who has a soft personality, always has nothing to do when he meets someone who is much stronger than him. When he met Lei Boding's firm gaze, he could only nod, "Okay, okay."

Derby nodded, and Lei Boding, who had a serious expression on the other side, immediately returned to his face with a naughty smile, "So, why don't you invite me in?"

"Oh, yes." After the tossing just now, Derby's little mind began to feel a little dizzy, he nodded quickly and turned to let Lei Boting come in, "Please come in."

As a result, Lei Boding became the first guest in a house that hadn't entered an outsider's house since Derby was six years old.

Derby's home is also very simple, except for the general bed and the table where things are placed, there are only tools for weaving gauze, but even so, Derby also tries his best to make his home look warmer, for example, put some things he picked up Little things are dotted in it.

Lei Boting's first evaluation of Derby's house was the flat-packed house, but even this kind of paper-packed house Lei Boding had to admit that it was more like a home than his rough house.

"Drink some water, please." While Lei Boding was looking around, Derby brought him a glass of water.

Lei Boding, who was interrupted, turned his head and glanced at Derby whose ears were red and eyes looking in other directions, and smiled, "Thank you."

After taking a sip, Lei Boding raised his eyebrows and said, "Hmm, the taste is very good."

"Really?" Such an ordinary compliment made Derby's eyes light up.

"Of course," Lei Boding nodded, took another sip and asked, "How is it made? I've never drank it before."

"It's sweet sea leaves." Obviously, this is a small exclusive secret recipe belonging to Derby, and the sparkling eyes show the little pride and excitement in its owner's heart, "It's that small, thin, lavender leaf. The leaves grow in the gravel, pick them and soak them in water for a few days, and then you can drink them!"

"Wow, this is really amazing." Lei Boding found that he liked to see this slender mermaid boy with a flying look, and he wanted to see a little more, and a little more, "How did you find out? ?”

"I also discovered it by accident." It's been a long time since anyone had said so many words to me in a peaceful manner, so the restrained mermaid boy let go of his vigilance and sensitivity, "I didn't catch any fish that day, but I was very hungry again, so I planned to get some seaweed to eat, but when I brought it back, I realized that there were two sea sweet leaves in it..."

Listening to Derby talking about how he discovered the sea sweet leaf, Lei Boting felt a little sour in his heart. Female mermaids are not good at fishing. God knows how much effort Derby has to put in every day to fill his stomach, and how much time he needs to spend nothing. How about eating seaweed, which mermans absolutely dislike?The pain in my heart seems to be more.

Of course, Lei Boting didn't show such emotion on his face, he just listened with interest to Derby with a smile on the corner of his mouth, how he processed sea sweet leaves into "tea in the sea" that can be soaked in water to drink.

On this day, Derby said a lot of words, which made him very happy. The reason for his happiness was that there was someone who was willing to listen to him patiently and even with interest in so many plain and trivial things. After that silent movement, he whispered in Derby's ear mysteriously, "This is really a big secret. It's a great honor for you to tell me. I will guard this secret that only the two of us have. of."

Because of such actions and such words, Derby let out a long-lost giggle.

On this day, Lei Boting was no longer driven away by Derby, but was watched by Derby after making an appointment with Derby to leave the hut standing alone.