good night my mermaid princess

Magical disappearance, magical return.The statue returned unnoticed that night.

The big stone in the eel steward's heart finally fell, and he could have a good sleep.It's just that he can't sleep well, because once bitten by a snake, he is afraid of well ropes for ten years.

He would turn back to have a look from time to time, even after the garden was locked, he didn't dare to take it lightly.

After the disappearance incident, Neptune Palace ushered in a monthly routine cleaning, which will be thoroughly cleaned every half a month. The fish maids not only have to clean the entire palace and change the bedding as they do daily, but also clean up for everyone. The room is filled with flowers that the princesses planted themselves.

The vases in the grandmother's room are the most beautiful in all the rooms, many of which are human vases from the sunken ship.What is worth mentioning is the transparent vase placed on the window sill, which was brought by Tuoyu from a long distance away. It is truly transparent and integrated with the environment. The flowers inserted in it seem to grow by the window. Has a unique aesthetic.

The fish maids hold carefully selected flowers and carefully insert them into vases one by one.

The new fish maid inserted the yellow flower into the transparent bottle, and the fish maid next to her saw it and pulled it out:

"I just said that most of the vases can be inserted casually, except for the transparent vases, which were specially reserved for Princess Ariel by Anxi's grandmother. Princess Ariel doesn't like to trouble others when doing things, and she doesn't worry about others Man, she inserts the flowers by herself every time."

He said it, but this time it was not Princess Ariel who came in with her bouquet, but a human being.

Most of the fish maids were very surprised. Some time ago, although they heard that a human came to the palace, they had never seen it in person.

"Hello everyone."

Su greeted them kindly. Although it had been a while, she still felt like a dream when she came to this palace. Compared with the humanoid mermaids, fishes and shrimps had shown kindness to her, and she would occasionally It's ridiculous to think, seeing such a group of lovely marine animals, what should I do when I go back, and whether the fish and shrimp can still be eaten.

"It's not a tail." One of the fish maids seemed to be very scared and hid away.

"Is it so scary?"

Su thought, compared to the legs, it was the tail that was more terrifying.

A more courageous fish maid eagerly asked, "Can I touch it?"

Su smiled and nodded.

The whole process can actually be said to be an epoch-making physical contact between mermaids and humans. Unfortunately, because of being too emotional, the fish maid lost control of her strength and turned into a slap and a fierce strangulation. The pain was so painful that Su thought die.

What's even more frightening is that with such a bad example, the other fish maids started gearing up.

"Why are you all around? Don't you do anything?" The head maid who just came in was furious.

The fish maids dispersed with an "ah", and Su happily fled to the window, carefully arranging the flowers.

"Where is the princess?" The head maid walked to Su's side. She had seen this human being during Princess Ariel's meal time.

"There are a lot of flowers to be placed, Ariel told me to come first, and she will go to other rooms."

"It looks like the princess trusts you."

Even the flowers in grandma's room can be handed over to her. It's the first time the head maid has seen the princess so reassuring to others.

"is it?"

How did Su know that Ariel was naively looking forward to the supernaturalness of human beings, and wanted to see if she could pull out some blockbuster new tricks...

"Do it well." The head maid patted Su on the shoulder and went out.

If you are highly anticipated, you will really want to do it well, but Su is not satisfied with it.

Su looked left and right, and finally understood why, it was all red, without layers of color.

"Can you give me a white flower?" Su said to the fish maid beside her who was also arranging flowers.

"Huh? You want to insert white, it's better not to do this, the princess will be angry."

"Huh? Angry?"

"The little princess likes red flowers. Well, since I came to this palace, the princess's flowers have always been red. I don't know why, but she prefers this color."

Another maid also chimed in: "That's right, that's right, every time I insert it, it's a lot of red."

Su lowered his head and looked at the red flowers in his hand, then at the large bunch of red flowers in the transparent vase, thought for a while and said:

"Then it's better to do it like this."

***

At dusk, when the cleaning was coming to an end, Anxi's grandmother's room was almost empty.

Ariel quietly came to grandma's room, tiptoed to the window, and carefully observed the flowers in the vase.

There is a red flower by the window, shrouded in the evening light, the golden sunset light stained on the petals, mixed with the red bottom of the flower to reveal a warm orange.There are lighter shadows on each of the five petals, and the small shadows form Ariel's name: Ariel.

Ariel touched the petals, um, it wasn't engraved, the letter A appeared on her hand, it should be some mystery on the window.

She touched it again, and found that there were some particularly small bumps on the window. Looking carefully, it seemed that there was something very small stuck to it.

"It's not easy to do this." Ariel squatted down and said to Su who was sleeping deeply in the corner.

The sunset was beautiful, and the cross protruding from Su's neck was shining brightly.Ariel found that there seemed to be engravings on it. Looking closer, it was SUE, and there were a few scratches that she didn't recognize. At the bottom was the date, May 5rd, a day a week later.

Ariel recited the date twice in her heart, then carefully and lightly tucked the cross into Su's collar.

"Ariel, are you done yet? Let's have dinner together."

At this time, Ariel's third sister came in, Princess Gwendolyn (Gwendolyn).

Ariel glanced at Su who was sleeping soundly, and shook her head: "It's still a little bit worse."

Gwendolyn saw it right away. She was actually a little jealous of the human who got a little closer to Ariel recently. She was already the closest to Ariel among the other five sisters, but their sisters were so close. For many years, the choice of eating together has been given priority to others. This is really a bit sad. She held Ariel's hand on purpose and said:

"It's so late, what else is there, leave the rest to the servants, let's go."

Ariel tried to pull her hand, but she was held tightly. While being dragged, she looked back at Su worriedly.

"Ariel, do you want to be so reluctant?"

Gwendolyn was speechless.

"I'm a little worried that she'll catch a cold..."

"I asked the servants to bring a quilt, and I told them to send her back by the way."

"She probably hasn't eaten yet..."

"Then I'll tell them to go to the kitchen and get her something."

"...she said she'd tell me about the shore at dinnertime..."

On the shore, on the shore, no wonder, the mermaids in Neptune's Palace know that the things and people on the shore are what little princess Ariel likes and yearns for the most.

Facing Ariel's step and turn back, Gwendolyn had no choice but to surrender:

"Wake her up, let's eat together."

Ariel showed a happy smile, quickly pulled out her hand and ran back, softly called Su's name, and gently shook her.

"You move so lightly, how could she wake up, Annie outside the door, come in for me."

Annie is Gwendolyn's personal maid, she is very loyal and strong...

Annie moved her joints while standing in front of Su, and shook violently until Su Bai rolled her eyes, and her whole body almost fell apart.

This kind of pain lasted until eating, several times Su could feel his hand holding the spoon tremble due to the inertia that hadn't disappeared yet.

Reluctantly stuffing a spoonful of soup into his mouth, Su swallowed it down, and then continued talking about the shore.

The topic of the meal was very specific, and it had always revolved around the various creatures and customs on the shore. Now the topic came to the birds.

"What is a bird? A bird is a bird. It has wings, can fly, can sleep, all kinds, some are big, some are small, some are scary, some are cute, some bird behaviors It looks weird, like woodpeckers, they keep pecking at trees, which feels ridiculous, but it's actually to eat the bugs inside."

"Su, what kind of birds are you talking about? I don't quite understand, and I can't imagine what they look like. Is it the same as the insects in the sea that eat insects? If not, what kind of plankton are they? Same? What are wings? Are they like fish fins? Do they sleep too? Do they sleep with their eyes open like our fish?"

The dining table has become Ariel's questioning session. There are some things that I have never seen before, and it is difficult to explain. Ariel wants to know very much, so she will ask a lot of weird questions.One question after another will be endless.

Gwendolyn yawned. She was interested in things on the shore, but not so much. In fact, among the six sisters, Ariel was the only one who was obsessed with it.

Su explained for a long time, and then Ariel finally understood: "I see, it's the 'fish' on the shore that my grandmother told us, they can sing clear and pleasant songs, which makes people feel happy."

Su Chang heaved a sigh of relief, and his grandmother was more capable, so an analogy would do the trick.

"Why do you like going ashore so much?" Su asked Ariel.

Ariel seemed a little embarrassed to say it.

Gwendolyn also came over: "Ariel, tell me, I only know that your 11-year-old answer is that you think the shore is beautiful, because the flowers on the ground can emit fragrance, but the flowers under the sea can't, The forest on the ground is the green color you like, you can see it with your eyes, and there are those cute 'fishes' who will 'swim around' in it. After three years, has there been any growth?"

Gwendolyn teased, she still wanted Su's opinion:

"It's still like this at the age of 11, isn't it naive?"

"No, it's very cute. It's very similar to when I wanted to know what's under the sea." Su smiled.

Ariel was very happy to hear such praise, she murmured:

"Because the older sisters I've met all said that the scenery on the shore is beautiful, I want to go and see it."

Anxi's grandmother stipulated that the age to leave the palace and float to the sea must be 15 years old. At that time, Ariel was the youngest, and she had to wait for 5 years, while the oldest sister only had to wait for less than 1 year. It's enough to listen, and they don't know how much they need to know, so they met in private, and everyone who left the palace would tell everyone the most beautiful things they saw and discovered on the first day.

What Ariel remembers most clearly is when she was 9 years old and the day when her eldest sister rose to the surface at 15 years old.When she came back, she said she had countless things to tell; but she told Ariel that the most beautiful thing was lying on a sandy beach in the moonlight, close to the shore, and gazing at the great city, when the sea was calm In the light that shines like countless stars, listen to the music, the noise, the voices of carriages and people, look at the domes and steeples of the churches, and listen to the tinkling of bells.And just because she couldn't go there, that's why she craved those things most.

It was the first time she heard something different, and Ariel was fascinated by it, and she thought of it many times when she stood by an open window at night, looking up through the dark blue water. The big city and its noisy sounds.She seemed to hear the church bells wafting towards her.

Gwendolyn looked at Ariel immersed in her imagination, and felt a little sad. To be honest, none of them was as eager as the youngest sister, and she just had to wait the longest, and at the same time she was So silent and thoughtful.

There was a faint smile on the corner of Ariel's mouth: "Also... I want to get to know the people on the shore..."

Gwendolyn teased her: "There is nothing to understand about the people on the shore. They are all foolishly living happily. I'm afraid you want to see the real body of the prince statue."

Ariel blushed instantly and shook her head quickly.

Gwendolyn asked her, "You're shy, why are you shaking your head?"

"I just thought the statue was beautiful, and I didn't really want to find someone like that."

"If it exists? If it is met? If it exists, it must be a very handsome prince, a living sculpture."

"Well, but I like his smile more than his handsomeness. He seems very happy. He also looks very warm."

Gwendolyn said with a smile: "Ariel, you think everyone thinks too much and has so many troubles like you. It is said that human beings are very contented and happy, and two points of happiness can be turned into eight points."

"That's because I'm having a good time, smiling from the bottom of my heart. In my grandmother's story, the land sounds like heaven."

Heaven?

The soup spoon in Su's hand touched the bowl and gave a light ding.

"Actually, there are also many bad things on the shore."

Ariel and Gwendolyn looked at Su in unison.

"The life on the shore is actually not that good. There are places with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, and there are also dilapidated and rotten corners. There are kind people and there are hateful people. In fact, your life under the sea is really good, very good..."

Su didn't want to break Ariel's longing for the terrestrial world, and at the same time, he didn't want to weave false beauty to deceive her.

Whatever the world is like, it should be restored to its original state without any embellishment or slander.

"Haha, in fact, people everywhere think that something is not good, and they become numb after staying for a long time. It's like Ariel doesn't think that the good things on the bottom of the sea are good, and there may not be so many bad things on the shore. Come on, this dish It is the head chef's specialty dish, and the people on the shore must have never eaten it, so come and try it."

Gwendolyn said with a smile, turning the subject elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong, Gwendolyn is not an optimist, and her words are actually a bit deliberate.For Gwendolyn, Sue's words stirred up a thousand waves in her heart. The other sisters, Gwendolyn didn't know what they were thinking, but she did hide a lot of terrible things and didn't say anything. She couldn't bear to destroy Ellie. son's longing.And, speaking of humans... she was one of the few people who accidentally knew the secret of 20 years ago.

This is wrong, and she knew it, but seeing the pure twinkle in Ariel's eyes, she really couldn't say such a thing.

However, no one can guide other people's thinking. Ariel has her own views on this. She doesn't agree with anyone, but just thinks silently.

The atmosphere became very awkward, and everyone seemed to not know what to say for a while.

After a while, Ariel spoke, and she looked at Su seriously.

"...Su, if you have time, tell me about the land you think someday. I want to hear what you know, the land you have seen with your own eyes."

Hearing this, Su's reaction was shock, while Gwendolyn was full of expected sadness.

The other sisters came to the surface and learned the beauty of the land, but ultimately loved their home.But for some reason, Gwendolyn felt that Ariel would not. She was so persistently yearning for the shore, but what she yearned for most was not those things that could be seen. What she wanted to pursue was too dangerous, and she was too persistent...

However, he couldn't stop Ariel.Gwendolyn's sadness is here, she feels that no one can stop her, she stares at Su with a sense of crisis, and deeply feels that this human being will accelerate Ariel's separation from them...

The author has something to say:

His Royal Highness uses his statue to secretly create a sense of presence, haha.