The Mermaid of the Deep Sea

In any case, in such a situation where silence can drive people crazy, Derby can sneak to see him, which is enough for Lei Boding to feel comforted.

Lei Boting looked at Derby who was looking around curiously, and asked, "Have you taken your medicine today?"

"Huh?" Derby withdrew his gaze, nodded, and held out his arm for Lei Boting to see, "Fuck, look, it's almost healed."

Lei Boding was quite satisfied, "That's good, you have to persevere, so that you can get better sooner."

"Understood." Derby nodded and responded.

The two of them had nothing to say for a while, and Lei Boding also wanted Derby to stay with him for a while, so he didn't mention Derby's leaving. When he noticed Derby sitting on the table outside the confinement room with his hands propped on both sides of his body, he couldn't help but said, "Your fingers are very beautiful, thin and long."

But such a compliment did not make Derby, who is usually shy, blush, but turned pale, quickly hid his hands behind his back, and bit his lips with his teeth.

For Derby's sudden change of face, Lei Boding didn't react for a moment, and asked blankly, "What's wrong?"

The pale-faced Derby didn't answer, just got up and whispered, "I'm leaving." He wanted to turn around and leave.

At any rate, Lei Boding's mind was not too slow, and after he realized it, he wanted to slap himself, "Derby, wait."

But Derby didn't stop because of Lei Boding's words, he just turned around and swam towards the place where he came, his figure seemed so eager.

"Derby, Bibi, that's not what I meant, don't go." Lei Boding was in a hurry, he didn't know what kind of damage would be caused to their relationship if Derby left Bibi with a misunderstanding today, so Lei Bo Ting understood that Derby could not go now, he grabbed the stone railing and shouted at Derby, "I just think your fingers are beautiful, this is my truth, trust me? I swear!"

Perhaps hearing the urgency and anxiety in Lei Boding's tone, Derby finally stopped softly, but he didn't turn around, just whispered, "I know my hands are ugly without webs, but please Don't make fun of me like this, okay?"

"I'm not joking." After Lei Boding finished speaking, he felt that this sentence caused ambiguity, and he wanted to slap himself again, "I mean, I never thought that your hands are ugly without webs, I really just I simply thought your fingers were beautiful, that's why I said that."

"How can such fingers be beautiful?" Derby couldn't hide the sadness and depression in his tone, "My hands are different from everyone else's. How can such strange hands be beautiful? I think it is ugly. Others The mermaids also think it's ugly, although they didn't say it, but I can understand their eyes and know that they think so." After speaking, Derby turned around and took a quick look at Lei Boting, "I really Let's go, rest early." After speaking, he put his hand on the small rock, ready to move it away and leave here.

"Haven't you heard a saying that the sea god is fair to all its people, and what it takes from you will be compensated to you on the other hand. Although it takes away the fins that should belong to you , but you didn’t realize that it gave you other compensation?” Lei Boting was anxious, and blurted out.

No one has ever said such a thing to Derby, which made him stop again, and turned his head to look at Lei Boting with some sadness, "Another compensation? What compensation?" Although Derby felt that Lei Boting said these things It's just to comfort himself, but such hands have made Derby sad and inferior for a long time, so long that even if it's just comforting words, he wants to listen to them, as long as he can comfort himself for a moment.

Seeing that Derby stopped again, Lei Boding let out a small breath in his heart, and waved to Derby, "Come here and let me tell you, although there are no mermaids guarding the outside, you are not afraid of anything but just in case."

Hearing what Lei Boting said, Derby hesitated for a while and swam towards him, but this time he did not stand by the window of the confinement room, but kept some distance from Lei Boting, "Speak."

Originally, the original sentence was said out of desperation, but now it is really difficult for Lei Boting to say that he is ugly from the inside, and his eyes keep looking at Derby's hands Slip, suddenly Lei Boding's eyes lit up, and he said, "Look, although your hands are different from mine, don't you think your hands are very flexible?"

"Flexible?" Hearing Lei Boding's words, Derby looked down at his hands carefully, then shook his head, "I don't think so."

"How come you don't think so," Lei Boding was now flickering, trying to make Derby forget about the shadow, "There are so many things you can do with your fingers without webs."

Derby still had that sad expression, "What my fingers can do, other mermaid fingers can do as well."

"Who said, some things can only be done by your fingers, even I can't do other mermaids." Lei Boding vowed.

Derby's curiosity was aroused by Lei Boding's decisive words, "For example?"

"For example..." Lei Boding thought for a while, and asked Derby, "Do you know the hand shadow?"

As expected by Lei Boting, Derby shook his head, "I don't know, what is that?"

Seeing Derby shaking his head, Lei Boding was proud, and waved to Derby, "Come here, I'll tell you what the hand shadow is."

The simple and honest Derby approached Lei Boding again obediently.

Lei Boding waited until Derby swam in front of him, then stretched out his hands to him, "Give me your hand."

Derby hesitated, then complied.

Lei Boting held Derby's hands, borrowing the light from there, and explained softly while slowly leading Derby's fingers to move, "Look, let's put two thumbs together, and then the other Slightly swing your fingers, does it look like a bird flying on the sea? And this one, pinch the tips of the thumb and index finger together, and straighten the other three fingers slightly bent. Move it, you know it’s What? I heard that there is a bird called a peacock on land. It looks like this. It has long and colorful feathers, which are very beautiful when they are unfolded..."

Derby let Lei Boting hold his hands and make various movements with his fingers. The shadows of his hands were cast on the reef by the light and changed into various shapes. Hearing Lei Boting's deep voice, Derby felt as if he really saw To those animals and birds that can only be seen on land and only in the sky.

This is also the first time that Derby knows that his fingers can make such complicated movements. Only he, only himself can do it, and no mermaid can do it. They can't conjure such a variety of patterns with their fingers. They don't know It turns out that the picture projected by fingers on the reef is so interesting... Derby's eyes shifted from the projected reef wall to the people around him. The movements were so soft, and his voice was so mellow. Seeing Lei Boding's concentration, Derby suddenly felt a sour and slightly sweet feeling in his heart.

Lei Boding, who was playing hand shadow with Derby, noticed his gaze, and turned his head to grin at Derby, "Interesting?"

The corner of Derby's mouth also curled up, "Well, interesting, I never knew it could be like this before."

Lei Boding made another silent movement, "This is a small gift secretly given to you by the Sea God, and it belongs only to you."

Looking at Lei Boding with a sly smile in his eyes, Derby nodded lightly, "I like this little gift."

Lei Boding knew that Derby really let go of the unhappiness just now, he couldn't help reaching out and rubbing Derby's soft blond hair, "Because it was a small gift secretly given to you, so the other mermaids don't know, it's okay, As long as you know it, isn’t it enough? Before others love you like you, you have to learn to love yourself and like yourself.”

Obviously it was just a short movement, but Derby felt that Lei Boting's palm seemed to be warmed up, just like the afterglow of the setting sun that he occasionally sneaks onto the sea to feel, perhaps in the eyes of those people on land. It has brought some chill, but Derby feels that it is warm enough.

I don't know why Derby showed such a satisfied and happy smile, Lei Boting only knows that he likes to see Derby happy, "I see, Sea God gave you a small gift."

"What is it?" The smile on Derby's face did not dissipate, and he looked at Lei Boding with crooked eyebrows, wondering what little surprise he would bring to him.

Lei Boting groaned, and put his index finger on his chin, pretending to be inscrutable, "Sea God also gave you the most beautiful smile, which makes people feel good when they see it."

Didn't wait for the little surprise as imagined, but made Derby blush, "Wh, what." Facing Leibertin's narrow smile, Derby's face turned even redder, and he wagged his tail helplessly. , and then quickly swam to the place I came from, "It's too late, I have to go, good night."

This time Lei Boding didn't keep Derby any longer, just smiled and watched the mermaid with light blue fish scales disappear from his sight as if his butt was on fire.

Shaking his head and returning to the rocky bed with nothing, Lei Boding's previous boring, empty and lonely emotions all disappeared, humming a little tune and bringing Derby's blushing little face back to sleep again.

Little guy, his face turns into a red tomato when he is shy, so cute.