good night my mermaid princess

Ariel knocked lightly on the door of her grandmother's room.

"My little cutie, are you coming to play with grandma today?"

"grandmother……"

"What's the matter with this expression, who bullied you? Come on, tell grandma, grandma will help you."

An Xi welcomed Ariel in, put her arms around her and lowered her head to ask.

"Grandma, what's the matter with you and Grandpa Simon?"

An Xi raised his forehead: "This old guy..."

"?"

"Come on, let's have dinner first."

Even if the relationship is already known, it is still quite laborious to tell such past events.

Eat first to be strong.Anxi has always been like this.

Just have that story for dessert.

……

He had prayed.

If possible, let the memory of that period pass like this.

But there are always those times when fate recurs, and it happens to others like it’s laughing at you.

"Hi, I came to apologize to you." Simon finally found Su. In that garden, she was lying on the gravel, looking up at the starry sky.

"Sorry, I know you're not joking."

"Hey, what's going on here?"

"I just need to be alone," she said.

Gone is the anger at the truth, replaced by extreme calm.She is more sensible than any of her peers, because the constant pain makes her grow too fast.

"Do you still need someone now? Do you mind if I lie down together? Surprises come too fast, maybe I can take a rest too." Simon asked.

"If you're not a doctor, if you don't make it hard for me to face myself."

"Relax, I'm just telling a story at best."

Simon was lying beside her, the stars at night were very bright, and the sea today was so gentle.

"Did you see my bottle last time?" He turned his head and asked her. The sand in the garden was very soft and didn't make people uncomfortable.

"En." She was a little embarrassed.

The bottle was carefully preserved and engraved with the name, except for the number with unknown meaning, everything else is very clear.

He smiled: "In this case, we have to have a good talk. Because you accidentally know my secret."

"Is that a secret?" Su said, "Everyone in the palace knows about it."

"No, no, you are smarter than them. I think you have discovered more than that."

"Is that a bottle?" she asked.

"Yes," he readily admitted, "thinking about it a little deeper, this is a communication medium that is not needed in the sea."

Sensing the change in his tone easily, she waited for his statement.

Simon said: "When I was a little boy, I picked up such a drift bottle at the seaside when I was [-] years old. There was a letter in it. The letter said that her name was Anshi Saiweide, a mermaid, and she wanted to follow her. Make friends with the humans in the bottle."

"You're human." Su couldn't believe it. She pointed to his tail and said, "Then why do you have a tail?"

Simon patted her on the head: "The story is not long, you will know it soon."

"At that time, I was very surprised and told my parents about it. They told me that this must be some little girl's prank. Mermaids are characters that only exist in fairy tales. Children are good at fantasy. I dismissed her rhetoric, I believed she was a real mermaid, and since then I have started correspondence with her."

"I still remember her second reply. She said that she had placed 150 and six drifting bottles. When she was about to release 157, she received my reply. It came from her [-]rd drifting bottle. This is her receipt She will cherish the first one that arrives."

"She changed a new bottle to communicate with me. This time the bottle was different. It had her name on it and a number [-] below it. She said it was specially prepared for me. At first we asked each other where I talked about my own anecdotes about my own situation. Slowly, it turned into mutual support and talk. I also changed from a [-]-year-old boy who believed in the existence of mermaids to a [-]-year-old boy who began to doubt. "

"I began to want to know what the real bottom of the sea is like, instead of hearing it from other people, I wanted to confirm it myself. So I learned to swim and tried to dive into the bottom of the sea, but at that time we didn't have a decent diving suit there. The deepest time I reached was only tens of meters. After all, the human body cannot withstand the pressure in the sea, nor can it accumulate more oxygen. My mother was very annoyed by this, thinking that I was not doing my job properly, and often ridiculed me. Once, my When my mother saw the letter I just wrote, she said that she was writing to your mermaid friend again. Her ridicule made me angry, so I added at the end of the letter——If you are a mermaid, please let me meet .”

"But she rejected me. She said she was too young to leave the palace, which is the rule of her palace. I'm sorry, but I can't come to see me. I'm [-] years old, although I'm growing up, I'm still a child, and there's no proof of that It was like believing she was a mermaid. Because she refused to meet with me, I decided that she was a mischievous little human girl."

"I wrote to her and said she was a vile liar. I said I would never correspond with her again and smashed all the bottles she drifted over. But she still insisted on sending me letters, and the number on the bottle also disappeared. From [-] to [-]..."

"After that, it was interrupted, and the serial number did not continue. I never received her No. [-] bottle."

When talking about this sentence, Simon showed an obviously sour expression, just like he was still that boy.

"No, I should feel at ease. But it's not like this. I always walk to that beach from time to time, looking at the sea in a daze, and I'm expecting her reply? At that time, I felt special about my thoughts Shame, obviously I said that I want to break up the relationship, but the result is such a longing. It is like struggling unwillingly. I said to myself, as long as there is another one, I will forgive her. But, after waiting for a year, there is no one that can fulfill my excuse and face. Afterwards, I finally couldn’t take it anymore, and used all my pocket money to buy a lot of bottles that were very similar to the previous drifting bottles. After destroying [-] of them, I finally carved a bottle with her name on it. Engraved the number [-] on the bottom, put the letter of apology inside, and said I'm sorry. Anyway, I shouldn't contact you like this. In fact, it doesn't matter if you are a mermaid, as long as you are An Xi, the girl I know Just fine."

On the other side, the story is also being told and going on.

After dinner, Anxi led Ariel back to her room, and struggled to reach the upper level of a cabinet with her feet, and took down a bottle that was very similar to the bottle in Ariel's hand.

An Xi stroked the small bottle and smiled: "You know, I never thought I would receive his bottles again, except for the first bottle, the original bottles for him were all secretly delivered to the beach by the fish postman Yes, ask the fish postman to take it back again. It will be canceled later, and the fish postman will never go to that beach again, so his bottle will be wandering around after that, and he might not be able to see it if he is lucky."

Ariel looked at the bottle carefully. It was different from the one in her hand. The name engraved on it was crooked, and it was impossible to see it without trying hard to identify it. The number was also different, 203.

An Xi chuckled: "He told me that he actually carved far more than this, and would break a lot of them every time. It is said that it is very fragile glass..."

"Didn't Grandma ever break a bottle?"

"Of course, mine was made by magic. Who carved it with a knife. He found out later and said I was cunning." An Xi rarely laughed so heartily, as if she had returned to her ignorant and fearless youth.

"Savid is my grandmother's original name?" Ariel asked.

"Well, before I got married, the original family name."

"I remember, it seems to be mentioned in a history book..."

An Xi smiled: "Of course, it was an amazing family at the time."

Ariel was curious about what happened afterwards: "Did grandma write back to him after that?"

"No."

"Why?" Ariel was puzzled.

An Xi patted her head: "Because—"

If you don't talk about it this time, you will forget it in your memory. Those yesterday, like flowers floating on the water, will go away with the passage of time.

Simon said: "It's been three or four years since then, and when I didn't expect it, she showed up again."

He remembered that it was an early morning filled with thick fog, and the visible range was very small, less than ten meters.

He would wake up earlier than his parents every day, not to hide from them and continue to release the drift bottle. At that time, he had already given up, after waiting for a long time for no reply.

However, mixed with the sound of the sea tide, the figure that appeared in front of him simply stunned him. The girl's smile was like the morning light, gently touching his heartstrings.

"Hey, it's me. It took him a few minutes to realize I called him that."

The shocked and stiff boy's face in Anxi's memory was different from what she had imagined before. It was not standard handsome, but very delicate.

"I don't know why, but I think it's her. It's not a girl from the neighbor's house who just moved here. Then I noticed the tail. I don't know why. I was surprised, but I felt like crying. "

"It's impossible for me to accept that statement. Why did I deceive him? I am obviously a real mermaid. I want him to see it with his own eyes."

In Anxi's narration, there was also a tone that would never appear on weekdays, and a girl's characteristic expression of dissatisfaction appeared on her face:

"It's just that you know that mermaids can only go ashore after they are 15 years old. The wait is too difficult. I appeared in front of him that day. I planned to throw a tantrum at him, but when I saw his face , Anger fades its shadow, leaving only joy."

"My name is Anshi Seveld. She said to me, if you have forgotten my name, then I will have to lead you to feed my friend shark. Always, always so naughty."

Simon's eyes had never been brighter, the eyes you get when you think of someone you love.

Those early mornings when we met, those dreamy nights, you really tricked yourself into forgetting, and you can even recall the smell of the sea breeze when you close your eyes.

go love.

Both he and she remember the heartbeat, deafening and unprecedented.

"That's why..." Su, who hadn't interrupted all this time, spoke.

"Because I'm too incompetent."

Teenage love is easy to start, but what after?No one knows.

The people around laughed at his 'dream talk': How could it be possible to fall in love with a mermaid? !

The mermaid next to her ridiculed her seriousness: falling in love with humans?Forget it, your races are different, and the age you can live is different.

No one knows how much drag the clenched hands can withstand.

Just like irony, when Simon insisted on realizing this dream to the end, he received her letter of resignation.

The No. 53 bottle is used, which is the bottle he has kept in the medicine cabinet.

After so many years, they still can't be calm, and the heart-piercing grief of those years still remains in their voices.

"She said that the meeting with you was discovered by the family, and because something happened at home, I'm sorry, I probably won't be able to meet and communicate again."

"I said, I'm getting married."

Simon said: "At that time, I was so angry that I almost overturned everything. I just vented my anger. I didn't think much about it, and I accepted her statement without resistance. I thought she was simply compromising like that."

He went on to say:

"I felt like I was going to die. I hated her, hated her very much. Then I met a witch at the seaside. She said that she was called by Anxi, and she could take me to see her. I refused angrily. And After a while, I still hate, but the hate can no longer suppress my miss, I think she was crazy, the witch appeared in front of me again, I decided to go to her, and turned into a mermaid. It's a pity that I went too late She has already become someone else's wife..."

"I betrayed him." An Xi said.

Simon suddenly covered his eyes with the back of his hand and whimpered like a child:

"But the truth, it's not like that, she didn't betray me, I was useless. That day was the night when you first arrived at the palace, I had a talk with her, and after we broke up, I was so disheartened that I remembered On that day, I opened the unopened bottle, and the air inside was released. I took out the paper and wanted to tear it off, but the truth of the year emerged like this. Through the water, I saw the hidden under the paper. The truth, she said, but she didn't want to, can I come and take her? She has made a deal with the witch and will come to me that day and won't tell me the truth, but if I promise to see her, The witch will help me. It's all my fault!"

The last letter sent was reviewed by her father, and she had no choice but to write it in a hidden way. The paper that touched the air, and then put it back in the water, would reveal what she really wanted to write. She hoped that she had told him Once placed in the water, the real magic will appear, and she also hopes that he will use all her memories to deny it because of his trust in her.

An Xi touched Ariel's head: "Do you think it's not Grandma's fault? No, it's my fault. I didn't really believe him either. Even if I couldn't find out the truth, he loved me so much. Use your life, even at the cost of becoming a mermaid."

Simon said: "Since becoming a mermaid, I have no tears, and I have almost forgotten what it feels like to cry."

An Xi said: "I had tears after that, but I didn't want any..."

In the end, he, Simon, said: "If only I had realized earlier..."

Finally, she said: "If only I could wait for him a little longer..."

This is a story that is just a little bit staggered, but completely staggered.

The tears that fell at that time, the happy smiles, the happiness I experienced, and the despair I felt all swept along with the memories.

There will always be times when unwanted memories come back to life again, when black and white are once again filled with bright colors.

"It's just a story. It's an old man who put himself in such a mess."

This unbearable outburst of emotion seems to have lasted for a long time.

Anxi & Simon in different places let out a sigh of relief at the same time, and finally finished speaking.

Su thought for a while: "Grandpa Simon, you told this story out of selfishness, right? You haven't told anything for more than ten years..."

Simon said: "Go little guy, I just want to show that I am an elder who has lived a long time and has seen a lot of things and can give a lot of opinions."

Or maybe it's just an excuse, you just want to participate in other people's stories, and use the excuse of helping to recall it again, you know you haven't forgotten that incredible figure in the coastal mist, that smile that only belongs to her.

Even if the heartbeat is not as sonorous and powerful as before, you will never forget it.

Su looked at the night sky: "I'd better sit down for a while."

On the other side, Ariel held her grandmother's hand: "Grandma, don't be sad, Ariel will be with you tonight."

Simon & Anxi: "Stop acting like a sad old man in need of company!"

The author has something to say:

There is a story behind everyone.