Chapter 110: Side Story: Little Jiaoren Raising Little Fish 6
A merman cub’s sleeping posture was not good.
He would flick his tail from time to time, and roll over and over on the soft, large giant clam shell. Occasionally, he would curl up his body, hug his fish tail, and sleep soundly.
But he didn’t know if it was because he was too tired during the day, but the little silver Jiaoren was not woken up. Gradually, the silver Jiaoren cub who was lying on the outside was squeezed more and more to the edge, and then with a “splat,” he fell outside the shell bed.
The feeling of being suspended instantly woke the little silver Jiaoren, who had fallen into a deep sleep. His silver tail fin subconsciously swayed once, allowing him to balance himself in the seawater.
The little silver Jiaoren’s sense of crisis was not as strong as when he was older. He held onto the shell bed, swayed his fish tail and reacted for a while, then silently looked at the merman cub who had been inside the shell bed before he had gone to sleep, and was now outside the shell bed after he had woken up.
He had to know that this giant clam shell was two to three meters large. How had Xixi managed to roll over the entire shell bed while he was asleep?
The little silver Jiaoren glanced outside. The cave was no longer so dim. It should be morning now.
The rising sun on the surface of the sea had sprinkled its light into the ocean. The golden threads passed through the currents, and the seabed also became bright.
The light was very soft. It was a time when he could go back to sleep.
The little silver Jiaoren glanced at Xixi, who had rolled over again on the shell bed and had rolled inside. His silver eyes were still a little sleepy. The cave was very quiet, with only the sound of the merman cub letting out bubbles.
The silver Jiaoren cub’s fish tail was winding on the ground inside the cave. He leaned back against the outside of the giant clam shell and slowly closed his eyes.
He was still more used to this sleeping posture.
When Xixi woke up, the first thing he saw was the little silver Jiaoren who was sleeping on the ground. He then looked down at himself, who was occupying the entire bed. His residual sleepiness instantly flew away.
The merman cub was so guilty he didn’t dare to move. It seemed that he had squeezed his brother off, and that’s why his brother was sleeping on the ground.
The ground was cold and hard. How could his brother have fallen asleep?
Xixi rolled over several times on the shell bed, and his little tail was even curled up in a knot. He didn’t know whether he should wake his brother up.
Although he had been very, very sleepy last night, Xixi still remembered that in the end, it was his brother who had swum for a long time before they had returned home.
His brother must be very, very tired now.
The little silver Jiaoren’s skin was very pale, and a faint dark circle could be clearly seen under his eyes. Xixi stared blankly for a while before he cautiously got up, moved lightly, and swam out.
It was better to let his brother sleep a little longer. Xixi thought, he would find a shell bed for his brother, so that he wouldn’t squeeze his brother off!
Mmm!
Xixi nodded his head.
When Xixi had swum out of the cave, he had not seen the little dolphin. But as a good friend of the merman clan, his inherited memories had also recorded the living habits of the dolphin clan.
Xixi remembered a little bit.
Dolphins could not stay in the deep sea all the time. They needed to regularly swim to the surface to breathe. Therefore, most dolphins preferred to stay in the shallow sea, where it was more convenient to breathe regularly.
The little dolphin was also like this.
Every little dolphin that had just been born from its mother’s belly would be nudged by its mother’s head, dragged by its fins, and brought to the surface of the sea to take its first breath of life.
If it were a little later, the newborn little dolphin would die from lack of oxygen.
So in fact, every little dolphin, when it was born, had been given two lives by its mother.
Xixi had been alone when he had hatched. His concept of relatives was very vague, but when he thought of this, he could understand why, after the dolphin mother had gone to the sky, even though its bones had rotted and stank, the little dolphin would still linger and go to catch fish every day for the motionless dolphin mother to eat.
He also had relatives now.
Xixi thought of the big brother who was sleeping in the cave, and his blue eyes curved.
The little dolphin was also his new friend.
Xixi raised his head to look at the distant sea surface above. Because the light had penetrated to the bottom of the sea, he could vaguely see a small, dark blue shadow swimming on the surface of the sea.
Soon, the small black shadow seemed to have noticed something, and dived under the surface of the sea, swimming towards the bottom.
Xixi blinked his clueless blue eyes.
The small black shadow enlarged bit by bit, and the figure of the little dolphin gradually became clear.
Before he could react, the little dolphin had swum to his side, nudged his face with its head, and was about to let out a low cry to greet the merman cub.
The moment Xixi had discovered the little dolphin’s intention, he had frantically covered the little dolphin’s mouth with his small hand.
The merman cub’s two palms added together were not as big as the little dolphin’s mouth. Xixi shook his head and said in a small voice, “Good morning, little dolphin, but you can’t speak.”
“Brother is still sleeping. We can’t wake him up.”
The little dolphin understood and rubbed against the merman cub’s face as a greeting.
Xixi continued to soften his voice. “I want to find a big shell for brother to sleep in! Little dolphin, do you know where there is one?”
The little dolphin rubbed against Xixi.
Xixi understood, and his blue eyes lit up. “Then can the little dolphin take Xixi to find it?”
The little dolphin circled around Xixi, swam under the merman cub, and gestured for Xixi to grab its fin.
The golden-haired, blue-tailed merman cub was riding on the blue and white little dolphin, swimming towards the distant current.
On the way, Xixi had even pulled up a stalk of seaweed to make a clump as his breakfast, and was biting the clump mouthful by mouthful.
Because a cub’s teeth had not yet fully developed, and his mouth was too small, Xixi ate very slowly. By the time he had finished the clump, the little dolphin had also arrived at its destination.
That giant clam shell was not as big as the shell that Xixi slept in, but for a cub with a smaller body, it was already enough.
Yes, this large shell could fit two Xixis.
So, the merman cub stared blankly at the shell bed in front of him. A question slowly came to his mind. He had found the shell, but Xixi seemed to be unable to move it back.
What should he do?
The merman cub tried to push it, pull it, and drag it.
The shell bed did not move at all.
Xixi lowered his head in disappointment. “Brother doesn’t have a bed to sleep in.”
Because he couldn’t move it.
But then, the little dolphin swam forward and, imitating the merman cub’s actions, used its head to nudge the heavy, large shell bed.
The giant clam shell was slowly pushed.
Wow! The bed moved!
The little dolphin is so amazing!!
Xixi’s eyes lit up. “Go, dolphin, go!”
He cheered for the little dolphin.
The giant clam shell was pushed bit by bit by the little dolphin. Just as it was about to fall off the reef, the little dolphin stopped its movements. It very cleverly swam under the giant clam shell, swayed its fins and slowly swam upwards, carrying the entire giant clam shell on its back.
Xixi…
Xixi was stunned.
The little dolphin was clearly having a hard time carrying it. It was also just a cub fish, and its swimming speed had slowed down.
But it was still slowly swimming forward.
It was carrying the shell bed that Xixi had found for the little silver Jiaoren on its back and was swimming in the direction they had come from. When it saw that Xixi was not moving behind it, it would let out a low cry, urging the merman cub to hurry.
Hurry up.
The little dolphin let out another cry.
Xixi followed the little dolphin, at a loss. To lighten the little dolphin’s burden, he did not swim onto its back again and held its fin to swim.
The merman cub clumsily cared for it.
“Is the dolphin tired?”
The little dolphin let out a short cry, answering no.
“The dolphin is so amazing.”
“Go, dolphin, go!”
“Dolphin, shall we rest for a while?”
“I’ll pull up a clump for the dolphin to eat.”
“Xixi thank you, dolphin.”
“Mmm… brother also thank you, dolphin!”
With every sentence the merman cub said, the little dolphin would respond with a low cry, some long, some short.
When they had reached the abyss of the inheritance ground, the little dolphin and Xixi had tacitly stopped talking, because the little silver Jiaoren might still be sleeping.
The silver Jiaoren cub had been woken up by the noise. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a slowly moving giant clam shell.
The cave they were living in was very large. The little dolphin’s current body size was still relatively slender, and it had very easily pushed the giant clam shell in with its head.
By the time the little dolphin had finished pushing the shell and had left, the merman cub was exposed behind. “Brother! You’re awake?”
Xixi swam over. “Brother, look, this is the bed that me and the dolphin found for brother.”
Before the little silver Jiaoren could react, the merman cub’s blue eyes were magnified before his eyes. Xixi, who had swum in front of him, said with some guilt, “Brother, I’m sorry. I squeezed brother off.”
“But brother can’t sleep on the ground. The ground is cold and cool, and you’ll get sick.”
“Brother, sleep in the bed.”
The little silver Jiaoren looked at the newly moved in giant clam shell. This shell bed was very beautiful. The inside of the shell was blue, and it gradually faded into a pearly white color.
It was also very large inside and looked as soft as the giant clam shell he had slept in last night.
After a long time, the little silver Jiaoren finally asked in a low voice, “Is this for me?”
Xixi nodded his head vigorously. “Mmm!”
“Brother gave Xixi a fishie cake, and Xixi gave brother a bed to sleep in.”
The little silver Jiaoren’s voice became very soft, and his tone was stiff. “Thank you.” It seemed to be his first time saying it, and he was a little clumsy.
He’s not that stupid after all.
The little silver Jiaoren thought, and the corners of his lips imperceptibly lifted, revealing a very faint smile.
Xixi’s blue eyes widened. “Brother is happy.”
Big brother is smiling.
The little silver Jiaoren’s expression quickly turned cold again, and he turned his face away. “Have you had breakfast?”
Xixi secretly said in his heart, brother is shy again.
The merman cub obediently replied, “I ate a clump!” Then he “ah”-ed. “I forgot to bring a clump back for brother to eat.”
The little silver Jiaoren frowned. “I already said not to eat that.”
Xixi blinked his eyes.
The little silver Jiaoren swam up and took the initiative to hold Xixi’s hand. “What about that dolphin?”
Xixi replied, “The dolphin is on the surface!”
The silver Jiaoren cub: “Call it down. We’ll go and catch fish to eat.”
Xixi “hmm”-ed.
They had settled down in the inheritance ground. The silver Jiaoren cub would take Xixi to catch fish every day, and his hunting skills became more and more proficient with each passing day. Sometimes, he would also catch a little fish for the little dolphin to eat.
A merman cub’s energy was not very strong, and he would rest after not being active for long. He was also very clingy and wanted the little silver Jiaoren to accompany him.
When Xixi was not around, the little dolphin would not stay on the seabed all day.
The little dolphin, who had left its mother’s embrace, had to learn the key points of hunting by itself.
But the little dolphin would come back every night to eat dinner with the merman cub and the little silver Jiaoren.
So Xixi would habitually wait for the little dolphin for a while before he ate fish at night. But today, he had waited and waited, until the sky was almost dark and the deep seabed had become pitch black, but he had not waited for the little dolphin to swim back and eat dinner with them.
