The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 114

Chapter 114: Side Story: Little Jiaoren Raising Little Fish 10

“Brother!” The golden-haired, blue-tailed little merman was lying on the side of the reef and shouted behind him, “The dolphin has brought back a lot of fishies!”

He was now in front of the tunnel that led into the abyss. The little dolphin was dragging a large fishing net with its fins, which was tied with a lot of fish, and was leisurely swimming towards the little merman.

That fishing net was woven by hand from tough seaweed. Under a cloudless, clear sky, it would be cast on the surface of the sea, tied to a reef, and in the evening, the little dolphin would be sent to collect the net. The food for the family of three for the day would be enough.

Sometimes, the silver Jiaoren would swim out to hunt and catch some sea creatures that the little merman loved to eat.

For example, sweet sea urchins, crabs that were bigger than his face, deep-sea lobsters that were as long as his arm, oysters that could be eaten directly after being pried open, etc.

The little merman rarely went hungry and had to eat some tasteless seaweed clumps anymore.

The deep-sea current carried the cheerful merman’s language far away.

Not long after, an adult silver Jiaoren with silver hair and a silver tail slowly swam out of the tunnel.

The light in the tunnel was scarce, and his silver eyes were extremely sharp in the dimness. When he met the little merman’s gaze, he would let down his guard, and his silver tail fin would also relax and sway slowly.

The little merman was a little dissatisfied with the silver Jiaoren’s swimming speed. He swam back to the silver Jiaoren’s side, pulled the silver-tail’s arm, and swam towards the entrance of the tunnel. “There are really a lot of fishies!”

“Mmm.” The silver Jiaoren squeezed out a low response from his nasal cavity. His voice was magnetic. After the already-grown dolphin had waved away the seaweed that was covering the entrance of the tunnel and had swum in, he untied the fishing net that was wrapped around the dolphin’s fin.

The fishing net, which was difficult for the dolphin to even carry with its fins alone, he easily lifted with one hand and said in a low voice, “Let’s go home first.”

The little merman nodded his head. “Mmm!”

Although the inheritance ground was safe, it was also very barren. Xixi had considered a long time ago that after he had finished eating the nearby seaweed clumps, he should move to a new lair.

But now he didn’t need to move, and he could also have fishies to eat every day. For the sake of safety, the little merman and the silver Jiaoren had been living in the inheritance ground.

Their cave had been beautifully decorated by the silver Jiaoren.

He would have the little dolphin move a smooth reef. After he had cut it into a suitable size with his sharp claws, it would become a table that could be used for eating. On the walls were also many exquisite small shells that Xixi had found. On the table was also a small conch shell that could hear the sound of the ocean.

Besides weaving a fishing net with seaweed, he had also made a hair tie to tie his hair. Xixi had also clumsily learned his brother’s technique and had used a fishing line to string a few small shells to make a shell necklace for him and his brother.

They had changed to a huge giant clam shell. This was what the silver Jiaoren had found after searching for several days. He had pushed it back to the lair with the little dolphin, bit by bit. On it was a layer of soft seaweed, which could let the little merman and the silver Jiaoren sleep together.

Besides that, the silver Jiaoren had also used fluorescent grass to make a ceiling lamp and had hung it on the top of the cave. Even at night, when the sunlight could not shine into the seabed, the lair at night still had light.

Xixi carefully checked to see if the little dolphin, which had brought back the fishing net, was injured. After confirming that there were no wounds, he affectionately moved closer and rubbed the little dolphin’s head. “The dolphin is so amazing!”

The little dolphin let out a low cry, and its fins swayed even more happily.

The silver Jiaoren, who had heard this, also quickened the pace of his tail fin’s swaying without a word. He held the fishing net and left the little dolphin and the little merman far behind.

The little merman said to the little dolphin in a small voice, “Brother is angry again.”

The little dolphin also let out a small cry and nudged the blue-tail with its head, signaling that he should not be bothered for now.

Xixi flicked his tail fin, surpassed the fishing net, and then swam in front of the silver Jiaoren. He turned over, faced the silver Jiaoren and swayed his fish tail, and swam backwards. “It’s all thanks to the fishing net that brother made that the dolphin could bring back so many fishies.” He observed the silver Jiaoren’s expression and thought for a moment. “If it weren’t for brother finding a safe sea area with a lot of fishies to cast the net last night, the dolphin might not have been able to bring back a single fish today.”

Only then did the silver Jiaoren’s swimming speed slightly slow down.

The little merman raised his arms, hugged the silver Jiaoren’s neck, and rubbed his brother’s face. “Brother is the most amazing!”

A hint of a smile appeared in his silver eyes, and his deep voice once again replied with a light “hmm.” He asked, “What do you want to eat tonight?”

The little merman tilted his head and thought seriously for a moment. “What is brother eating?”

The silver Jiaoren looked back at the sea creatures in the fishing net. “Crabs?”

Xixi nodded his head. “Mmm!”

The golden-haired, blue-tailed youth merman was hanging on the silver Jiaoren’s body, being led forward. It wasn’t until they had reached the bottom of the inheritance ground that he let go and quietly watched as his brother divided the fish in the fishing net into two large halves. The other half was for the little dolphin, and the other half was for him and his brother.

The larger half of the other half was his brother’s own. The little merman’s appetite was at most one fishie plus a few small crabs and sea urchins.

After they were done, the Jiaoren, the fish, and the dolphin all began to eat.

Xixi eagerly waited for his brother to mix the sea urchin and the crab roe together, and then pour it into the bowl that the silver Jiaoren had made with a shell. The little merman used a small shell to scoop it up and ate it in small mouthfuls.

After being taught by his brother, Xixi rarely used his hands to grab and swallow a whole fish raw anymore.

The fresh and sweet taste exploded on his taste buds, and the little merman’s blue eyes curved in enjoyment. He hadn’t had enough, so he scooped up another spoonful and placed it by the silver Jiaoren’s mouth. “Brother, you eat too.”

They did not mind sharing the same utensil at all.

His thin lips slightly pursed and took the food that the little merman had fed him. Xixi’s eyes were filled with anticipation. “Brother, is it delicious?”

The silver Jiaoren raised his hand and gently wiped the food that was stuck to the corner of the little merman’s lips with the pad of his finger. “It’s delicious.”

Xixi’s lips curved.

They were so intimate that they fed each other until the meal was over. The feelings that had grown from being together since they were young made the silver Jiaoren and the little merman feel that this was a very normal thing.

They were each other’s only companion in the ocean.

No matter how intimate they were, they would not feel that it was too much.

On the contrary, they felt that it was only natural, too normal.

After dinner, the silver Jiaoren took the little merman to the surface of the sea to digest their food. Xixi found a reef that protruded from the surface of the sea, lay on it, and watched the stars and the moon above his head, feeling the sea breeze.

The starlight also made the surface of the sea sparkle. The silver Jiaoren, like the little merman’s exclusive guardian, was always by his side.

The ocean at night was no longer dangerous.

The little merman dived into the surface of the sea, and then leaped up and jumped onto the silver Jiaoren’s back. He wrapped his arms around the other’s neck and tilted his head to look at his brother’s side profile. “I want to hear brother sing.”

The silver Jiaoren skillfully supported the little merman behind him with his palm. He also turned his face and, facing Xixi’s direction, the tip of his straight nose rubbed against the blue-tail’s soft cheek. He said in a low voice, “I don’t know how.”

Because they were too close, the cold aura also wrapped around the blue-tail without any scruples.

Xixi thought for a moment. “Then I’ll sing a line, and brother will sing a line, okay?”

The silver Jiaoren also thought for a moment. “Just a few lines.”

The little merman’s blue eyes gently curved.

The blue-tail gently hummed with the sea breeze. The carefree tune floated freely on the boundless sea, a boundless joy.

Xixi would hum for a while, then stop for a while.

He was signaling for the silver Jiaoren to also sing along with him.

“Brother sang it wrong. It should be a little higher here, like this…”

“Brother is a dummy. You’re wrong again.”

“This time it’s right.”

The silver Jiaoren had only sung a few lines before he refused to open his mouth again. “I don’t sing well.”

The little merman’s blue eyes widened, as if he were not convinced. “Who said so? It’s clearly very nice to hear.”

“The ocean thinks it’s nice to hear, and I also think it’s nice to hear. Then what brother sings is nice to hear.”

“The sea breeze is also willing to carry brother’s song to the far, far away sea.”

“I heard it all.”

The little merman said softly.

In the end, it was the silver Jiaoren who carried the tired little merman back to the lair. He placed the blue-tail in the shell bed, tidied up the small shells and small conch shells that the little merman had played with today but had not put back, and then bent down to untie the shell necklace that was on Xixi’s neck and placed it on the table, so that he would not press on it when he was asleep.

The little merman on the shell bed turned over. He seemed to have been pricked by the fluorescent grass lamp in the lair and was half-asleep. He drowsily mumbled, “Brother.”

His voice was sticky with sleepiness.

The silver Jiaoren also replied in a soft voice, “Wait.”

The little merman “hmm”-ed and did not move again.

The silver Jiaoren also lay down in the shell bed. The moment the shell lid was closed, it blocked the light of the fluorescent grass from the outside. Before he could lie down properly, the sleeping blue-tail on the side had automatically moved closer and hugged the silver Jiaoren’s arm.

As if it were not enough, he had even drilled in, letting the silver Jiaoren also turn around and hold him in return. If he didn’t hold him, he would keep humming.

The blue-tail also affectionately wrapped around the silver-tail.

The silver Jiaoren was already used to it. He held the little merman and, listening to the blue-tail’s shallow breathing, he quickly fell into a deep sleep.

In the middle of the night.

Xixi was woken up by the heat. He drowsily opened his eyes and subconsciously rubbed against the cold body in front of him.

Why is it so hot?

The little merman thought in a daze in the darkness.

He seemed to be burning up all over.

He always felt that he had forgotten something…

It was…

It was—shell-hatching day!

The little merman’s eyes widened. He instantly remembered that today seemed to be his eighteenth shell-hatching day. He had been telling himself two days ago that he had to remember, but today, when he had gone to the surface to play, he had forgotten everything.

So sleepy, so hot.

Xixi struggled to blink his eyes. Not long after, he was dragged into a chaos by his subconscious. In a daze, he seemed to have sensed the silver Jiaoren, who had been woken up by his heat, looking at him with some worry through his blurry vision.

And then he was completely plunged into darkness.

In the depths of his sea of consciousness, there seemed to be a distant and near voice asking him something, an ancient language, a gentle tone.

The little merman thought in a daze, what did he want to do after he came of age? Of course, he wanted to become a fishie as amazing as his brother!

A very amazing male merman?

Xixi nodded his head in his heart.

The little merman cluelessly underwent a three-day differentiation.