"My story? I don't have any stories to tell. I'm just an ordinary shark, living an ordinary life. In order to survive, I have to work harder than other sharks, that's all."
Qi Ying still didn't turn his head, and cast his eyes on the middle of the coral bush.
Such an expression made Xie Meoyun feel that he was running away from something.
Xie Mojun continued to stare closely: "Xia Qi, turn your head."
Qi Ying turned his head and glanced to the side.
Xie Mojun smiled: "Why don't you dare to look at me now? What are you afraid of?"
"What do I have to be afraid of?"
Qi Ying shrugged.
There was a rustling sound coming from the coral bush next to it. It was fish swimming in it. Normally, this kind of sound would not be heard, but it was so quiet. Even if a drop of water fell on the ground, it would sound like thunder.
After a long period of silence, the atmosphere became a little scary.
"Tell me your story." Xie Miaoyun suddenly smiled mischievously, "I feel like I scared you."
"How can you scare me? Just you, ten of them are not enough for me to hit with one hand."
"Eh? Did you drink some wine before you told me?"
"What does it have to do with drinking?"
"Didn't you say that you tell the truth after drinking?" Xie Yaoyun chuckled, and then a small wine jar appeared in his hand, "This is the wine 'Drunken Pearl' that I asked Xie Yao to get. Why don't you drink with me?" Sample?"
"A daughter of the sea cannot drink."
"I'm not the daughter of the sea yet."
"Okay, let's drink some."
The two found an open space among the coral bushes and sat down.
Qi Ying picked up the small wine jar and squinted: "'Drunken Pearl'... Do you know the story behind the 'Drunken Pearl' wine?"
"have no idea."
Xie Mojun shook her head. She didn't know much about wine. She just heard that Drunk Pearl was a good wine, so she asked Xie Yao to buy it.
"'Drunken Pearl', its name originates from a Mermaid girl named Pearl." Qi Ying said slowly, "The reason why this Mermaid girl is called Pearl is because she is very good at collecting pearls and soaking them with pearls." Put it in wine to keep the luster of pearls. Later, people discovered that putting pearls in a kind of wine for a long time will make the wine ferment again, giving it a special fragrance and taste. The pearls become soft after soaking in the wine, just like being drunk. It's the same, so it's called 'Drunken Pearl'."
"It turns out it's so magical! This Pearl girl is really a genius."
"Yes. But Miss Pearl is a very pitiful person. She is just an ordinary shark. In order to practice cultivation, she secretly took pearls and went to the sea market on the human side to trade. Once she was caught by a bad human cultivator. He will be sold as a slave."
"Ah? Human beings are so bad! What happened to Pearl Girl? Did any Mermaid heroes go to save her?"
"No Merman hero appeared. But a kind-hearted human youth saved her. The human youth bought her from a slave trader, then took her to the seaside and let her go."
"It turns out there are good people among humans."
"After Pearl Girl returned to the bottom of the sea, she did not dare to continue collecting pearls and sell them in the sea market. But without the money from selling pearls, she did not have enough cultivation resources to support her brother who wanted to enter the Crystal Palace. And she also discovered one thing."
"What's up?"
"She fell in love with that young man from the human race. When she was awake, she thought of him, and when she fell asleep, she dreamed of him. When she was collecting pearls, she would suddenly think of him. When she was playing with the little fish, She would also think of him all of a sudden. That human youth would appear in her mind every minute and every second, as if growing in her soul. She could always think of the human youth's thin body and pale but hanging A face with a gentle smile.”
"But, the sharks and humans cannot..."
"Yes. So the distressed Pearl Girl went to ask the old wise man in the clan."
"The old wise man told her that as long as she collects the purple pearls from the bottom of the sea, he will tell her how to be with the human youth and help her brother practice in the future."
"Purple Pearl? Is there such a thing? Legend has it that it is a natural treasure that grows in sea clams at the deepest seabed."
"Yes. And Pearl Girl relied on her rich diving experience to actually collect a purple pearl. The old wise man used his magical power to turn her mermaid tail into human legs. With legs The Pearl girl was very happy. After bidding farewell to her brother, she went to the human world. She found a human youth there again and lived with him."
"Ah, what a good story. Much better than the legend of the daughter of the sea that turned into foam."
"Don't worry, the story is not over yet."
"Um."
Xie Miaoyun was mesmerized and listened attentively.
"Miss Pearl lives with a human young man. Although the human young man is a good person and kind-hearted, he is born with a sickly constitution and coughs every day. Miss Pearl looks very distressed. His family prays for him in various ways. The doctor asked for medicine, and finally found a radical cure."
"What method?"
"The method is to obtain the treasure of heaven and earth on the seabed, the purple pearl."
"ah?"
"So Pearl Girl was very happy. She felt that she could finally do something useful for human youth. She came to the sea again, swam in, and went to the bottom of the sea to get the purple pearl."
"Then did she get the purple pearl?"
"What do you think?" Qi Ying shook her head, "Girl Pearl, there is no fish tail anymore, and her legs are as soft and weak as a human girl. She can still breathe like a shark, but she has no ability to go deep into the deep sea and swim again. Come up. Miss Pearl dived into the deep sea with all her strength, but could not escape the rapids on the bottom of the sea. She was swept into a group of sea beasts and was eaten by the sea beasts."
“…”
"It's really a sad story, isn't it?" Qi Ying poured a sip of Drunken Pearl into his mouth, "So Drunken Pearl is a kind of sad wine. People who drink it will always think of their own sad things."
Xie Maoyun raised her eyebrows and said, "Then Mr. Xia Qi is now drunk with pearls. Does he think of his own sadness?"
"Who doesn't have a few sad things in life?" Qi Ying smiled, "Instead of missing the past, it's better to be the best version of yourself now."
"But, do we have to forget the past?"
"Yeah, just forget it."
"But can it really be forgotten?"
"If you can't forget, you have to forget."
"Then what is it that makes Mr. Xia Qi want to forget it so much?"
Qi Ying's hand holding the wine jar froze, and he smiled bitterly: "Are you so persistent, do you want to know about me?"
Xie Mojun stared at Qi Ying closely: "Of course, I want to know, I want to know."