Seeing Tangtang's puzzled face, Teacher Yu explained: "Grandpa is old, if he doesn't go back to the water every day, he will age very quickly."
There is a distant legend.
Legend has it that mermaids are descendants of humans and fish.
So there are a lot of human traits stored in genes.
Even if they are on the bottom of the sea, they can survive for hundreds of thousands of years.
As long as you land on the shore, you will be born, old, sick and die just like human beings, according to human reincarnation.
Therefore, even if many mermaids are greedy for the human world, they will not stay for too long.
When the body shows signs of early aging, it will quickly return to the ocean to resist aging.
Teacher Yu has been ashore for many, many years.
Before he came to this small village to become a teacher, he also wanted to go back to the sea as soon as he was old.
But whenever he wanted to leave, the substitute teacher in the village who took over his class couldn't come for various reasons.
He couldn't let go of the children in the village, so he stayed there day after day.
Everyone in the village has heard his catchphrase: "I'm leaving soon."
But after talking for decades, he still stayed here and didn't go anywhere.
Teacher Yu gradually felt exhausted, and her hair became thinner and thinner...
He had no choice but to sink to the bottom of the water in the dead of night to nourish his aging body.
The use of fishing nets is also a last resort.
Rivers are not as deep as seas.
The river was fast-moving, and after Teacher Yu fell asleep once, he happened to encounter a mountain torrent, flooding, and was washed away to another county in a daze.
In order to catch up with the daytime class, I had to borrow money to take a car all the way back. It was really embarrassing and frustrating, and it almost made the whole village know it. (Whisper beep: wear clothes borrowed!)
With this fishing net, Teacher Yu can sleep more at ease.
Between mermaids, as long as both parties are willing, they can know everything in each other's heart through the magnetic field.
At this moment, Tangtang and Teacher Yu opened their hearts and exchanged information. Tangtang knew the reason why Teacher Yu sank to the bottom of the water, and Teacher Yu also learned the truth about her leaving the ocean.
As someone who has experienced it, Teacher Yu advised her: "Xiao Tangtang, you go out to play and go home early, don't be like me, coveting too much, you will waste your time."
The little guy nestled in the arms of the mermaid grandpa, and rubbed his head in his arms: "Grandpa didn't! Grandpa hin is great~~~"
If it wasn't for human children, grandpa wouldn't have wasted his best years.
Teacher Yu smiled and patted the little guy's head: "You are only a hundred years old, and you are still a baby, what do you know!"
He sighed: "Grandpa knows you like this place, and he also knows that Mo Heng is very kind to you, but...you have to be obedient, little guy, go home early, you know?"
Tangtang nodded obediently.
Teacher Yu said again: "Grandpa has something else, I want to remind you."
"Boom?"
Teacher Yu said earnestly: "Although you have met good people now, it doesn't mean that all you meet are good people. In human society, there are many people who want to catch us mermaids for research, and want to know the mysteries and wealth of us. You have to be more careful and don't get caught by them."
Tangtang understood half of what he heard, and asked, "Grandpa~~What is wealth?"
Teacher Yu pointed to the pearl in her hand: "It's like your tears~~~ For human beings, it is a fortune!"
Tangtang spread out her palm and took a look at this little pearl.
Beads like this, in the ocean world where she lives, are like rubbish. They are thrown everywhere on the bottom of the sea. For human beings, they are actually a fortune
(end of this chapter)