"Is that because the girl sees you as a cultivator, so the lion opens her mouth?"
Letian shook his head again:
"She's not greedy."
Hearing Lotte deny her conjecture again, the Mermaid Queen became even more confused:
"Why is that? Since she is not seriously injured and is not a greedy person, why would she put forward such a request as a betrothal gift that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve?"
"I don't know either."
A look of surprise appeared on the Mermaid Queen's face:
"You don't know? Aren't you two deeply in love?"
Lotte replied:
"I do have a deep love for her, but I don't know if she thinks the same way as me."
The look of surprise on the Mermaid Queen's face became even stronger, but mostly she was still deeply curious.
Not only the Mermaid Queen, but also Lan Yunxin and Fa Ming had the same look on their faces after hearing this conversation.
Although they had known for a long time that Lotte came to get the Merlin Teardrop for a woman named Qinglian, Lotte never talked about what happened between him and Qinglian in detail.
They subconsciously thought that Lotte was willing to go deep into the arctic ice field to find snow lotus for Qinglian, and traveled thousands of miles to the South China Sea to find the shark's teardrops. They must have fallen in love with her to the extreme.
But now hearing what Lotte said, it seemed that the truth was not what they thought, so they were naturally a little surprised and couldn't help but want to find out the whole story.
As long as we are human, we will never lack the desire for knowledge.
After hearing Lotte's answer, the Shark Queen said thoughtfully:
"Oh? It's not because you pestered others out of your own wishful thinking and made them annoyed that you put forward such an almost impossible request to make you give up, right?
Or maybe someone has someone they love, but they can’t bear to reject you directly, so they want to use this method to make you give up?
Or maybe the girl actually has a blood feud with you, but she can't beat you, and you are greedy for other people's beauty, so she wants to take advantage of this to make you die on the road while looking for these treasures?
or......"
"Stop, stop, stop! Sister Jiangzhu, please stop talking!"
Hearing these more speechless inferences from the Mermaid Queen, Lotte hurriedly interrupted her to prevent her from saying anything shocking again.
"Where did you hear these stories? Why are they all so..."
Lotte really didn't know what to say anymore.
The Mermaid Queen didn't think there was any problem at all. Seeing the strange reactions of Letian and Bu Xiaotian, she replied with some confusion:
"Did you read it from the storybook? Don't you have many such storybooks in the human market?
It's like a scholar falling in love with a female ghost, causing the demon king to chase him, and then encountering a Taoist priest who slays demons to help him.
When the fairy came down to take a bath, a man peeped at her. The two were entangled in love and hate, so they violated the law of heaven. The emperor blocked it with the Milky Way, so they could only look at each other across the bank.
The Emperor of Heaven's sister became a mortal's concubine, which made the Emperor of Heaven furious. He sent out heavenly soldiers and generals to kill the man who dared to touch her sister, and then personally pressed his sister under the sacred mountain. Many years later, his sister's son grew up. , making a big fuss in heaven, trying to save his mother, but watched helplessly as his mother was killed by the gods.
Another down-and-out scholar was rescued by a fairy, and a secret love developed between the two. However, when the child was less than one year old, the fairy's brother came and killed the fairy and pinned the fairy under the sacred mountain, leaving only the man and their son. They depended on each other for life, and when the children grew up, they made a big fuss in heaven to save the birth mother.
Oh, the Jade Emperor's nephew in the previous story and the fairy brother in this story are still the same person.
Why do you think you are obviously alone? After you suffered the separation of life and death from your mother, why do you want your nephew to have such an experience? "
When the Mermaid Queen said this, she couldn't help frowning and thinking.
Letian couldn't help but be stunned when he heard these words. Bu Xiaotian wanted to laugh but couldn't really laugh, so he had to endure it quite hard.
Even Lan Yunxin, whose expression had not changed much, couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly.
Only Faming calmly moved the rosary beads in his hand and recited the scriptures silently. However, if you observe carefully, you will find that he recited the scriptures intermittently.
Seeing the reactions of several people, the Mermaid Queen was confused and asked:
"What's wrong? Is something wrong?"
Several people shook their heads, but refused to tell the reasons for their behavior.
Seeing that they all just shook their heads but did not answer, the Mermaid Queen had a pretty face and looked at Bu Xiaotian who was suppressing a smile:
"Brother Xiaotian, tell me!"
Seeing that the Mermaid Queen seemed really angry, Bu Xiaotian tried his best to suppress his smile, and then explained:
"Sister Jiangzhu, these stories are made up by folk storytellers to tell others, they cannot be taken as true!"
After hearing Bu Xiaotian's explanation, the Mermaid Queen didn't believe it:
"You mean these stories are all fake? That's impossible? The words written in the book are obviously so true and touching, how could they be fake?"
Lotte also reacted. Seeing that the Mermaid Queen You didn't believe it, he also said:
"Sister Jiangzhu, those storytellers make a living by telling these stories. If they don't make these stories more real and touching, how can anyone listen to them?
What's more, no one has ever actually seen gods. Even if there are gods, how can these things be known to mortals and recorded in such detail? "
"Is that so?"
The Mermaid Queen also knew that what Lotte said was indeed true, and she believed what he said, but she still couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and the look in her eyes couldn't help but dim a bit.
But immediately she raised her head again and asked:
"The virtuous daughter-in-law was kicked out of the house by her evil mother-in-law because she could not have children, and was forced by her family to marry someone else. However, she and her husband stayed together until death. Finally, before they got married, they drowned in a river. After death, it is always true that a person hangs himself on a southeastern branch and turns into a mandarin duck after death, right?"
Lotte shook his head:
"Fake."
The Mermaid Queen still refused to give up and asked:
"Isn't that right? This story is not about gods and mortals falling in love, nor is there any gods descending to earth. Moreover, humans do value their offspring, and there are indeed mandarin ducks. How could this story be false?"
"Yes, there are indeed no gods in this story, but what you said is true, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.
But Sister Jiangzhu, if you think about it carefully, if the two people in the story are really committed to death, how come one agrees to marry another person and the other agrees to marry another person as his wife?
And mandarin ducks do exist, but there are countless mandarin ducks in the world. Are they all turned into such people after death?
If this were the case, there would be too many tragedies in this world. "
"Then the story about White Snake repaying a favor is also false?"
"False. Not to mention whether you can still find your original benefactor after being reincarnated more than ten times. Even if you find it, how can the white snake demon see through other people's past and present lives with a mere 1,700 years of cultivation?"
"How about the white fox repaying the favor?"
"It's fake. If you really meet a fox demon, the scholar will be scared to death!"
"What about the story of the unpopular little daughter who met the lord of the city at a banquet and left a glazed shoe? In the end, the lord of the city found her with the glazed shoe, and the two spent their lives together?"
"False. If the shoes really fit, how could they fall off?"
"What about the story of being turned into a toad by a witch's spell, and then being kissed by the city lord's daughter and turned back to his original form?"
"False. The toad is so disgusting. The city lord's daughter took the wrong medicine and wanted to kiss it?"
"What about the story about the wife of the city lord who was jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty and tricked him into eating a poisoned apple, causing him to fall into a deep sleep?"
"False. If you have that chance, wouldn't it be safer to feed her Hedinghong?"
"Where's the little girl the size of your thumb?"
"It's fake. Ordinary people would have thought they were monsters and beat them to death if they saw such a small person."
"A white swan egg laid in a duck's nest?"
"It's fake. If you don't eat during the winter, you will have starved to death, and you will turn into a white swan? Have you become a spirit?"
"The shark girl fell in love with the young city lord... Well, we, the shark clan, have never heard of such a thing!"
"..."
In this way, the Mermaid Queen and Lotte asked and answered questions, while the others watched them silently.
It wasn't until half an hour later that the Mermaid Queen realized that none of the stories she read from the storybook were true, and finally shouted angrily:
"ah--
Is there not a single story in this book that is true? "
Lotte still looked indifferent:
“There are so many stories in this world that have a miserable journey, but yet have a happy ending.
But it’s all people’s imagination.
Most of the lives of ordinary people are dull. Even if they are really treated unfairly, they don't have the chance to change their destiny.
Such things are rare, and most of them end in tragedy.
These happy endings are just an imagination used by people living in pain to comfort themselves and others. "
Seeing that the Mermaid Queen fell into silence in frustration, Bu Xiaotian changed the topic:
"Sister Jiangzhu, where did you get so many story books?"
The Mermaid Queen glanced at Bu Xiaotian listlessly:
"I got it from your human race."
"In exchange?"
"Isn't it strange? Although our sea tribe has had many battles with your human race before, but since we discovered that we can't stay long even if we go ashore, we have no interest in conquering land again.
Anyway, the sea is boundless, which is enough for us to survive.
And when you humans find out that we are no longer attacking them, you will no longer confront us tit for tat.
You like things in the sea, and we also want some things on land, so gradually there are some exchanges between us.
I used to get those booklets from some human races who came to go to sea. You can get one for a clam bead of this size, which is very cost-effective. "
As she spoke, the Mermaid Queen stretched out her hand and took out a pearl the size of a broad bean.
Clam beads are pearls. When several people heard that the Mermaid Queen exchanged pearls the size of broad beans for a storybook, they were a little stunned. Even Fa Ming was so surprised that he forgot to continue reciting the scriptures silently.
Lotte suddenly felt that his mind was a little hard to turn around:
"You mean you would trade such a big pearl for a storybook?"
The Mermaid Queen said truthfully:
"Yes, there are many clam beads like this in the sea."
After confirming that the Mermaid Queen was right, Lotte covered her chest with a heartbroken look on her face:
"What a huge loss! Do you know that such a big pearl can be exchanged for thousands of these storybooks in the city?"
The Mermaid Queen seemed to understand something, but there was no look of regret or distress on her face. She was still immersed in her previous frustration and said calmly:
"Oh, no wonder those people are so happy every time they exchange."
Seeing the unconcerned look of the Mermaid Queen, Letian was a little worried:
"My sister Jiangzhu! You have suffered such a big loss, why don't you even have any reaction? Don't you feel bad?"
The Mermaid Queen said:
"There are so many clam beads in the deep sea, but they are of no use. And I have lived here since I was a child. When I was a child, I didn't dare to go elsewhere because of my insufficient cultivation. Later, my parents died in the hands of the sea monster. , I became the leader of the shark clan, and I can’t live without this place.
There's nothing but the sea here, and I'm tired of seeing it here.
Reading those story books is my only pleasure when I have nothing to do. What's there to feel bad about exchanging these useless beads for some interesting story books? "
After the Mermaid Queen finished speaking, everyone fell silent.
Indeed, although the sea is vast and vast, they felt a little bored after only seeing it for a few days when they were on their way. However, the Queen of Mermaids had to guard it for the rest of their lives and could not even leave. You can imagine the loneliness and boredom in their hearts. And know.
Although she is the head of a clan, she is actually a miserable woman locked in fate.
"Sister Jiangzhu, it's getting late, it's time for us to leave."
