Chapter 75 Shui Shui and Xiao Yu
When the fisherman touched the safe underwater, he knew that the situation was probably not optimistic. When he saw the appearance of the safe clearly, his mood instantly sank to the bottom.
The humans present fell silent at the same time. The atmosphere was very cold, but the blind fish was very happy. It jumped up and fell down from the water countless times, splashing small water flowers, and kept saying, "That's great, that's great. Shui Shui is finally saved!"
She didn't seem to know that humans are different from fish and cannot breathe underwater.
The blind fish said happily: "It's really worth it that I grab food for Shui Shui every day and stuff it into the gap between the safes."
"Yes, thank you, Xiaoyu." Another little girl's voice came from the safe. Her voice was very calm and precocious.
The fishermen were shocked, but they probably guessed what was in the safe.
Qi Gu and Mu Xingchen worked together, and the five of them pulled the safe to the shore. The lock had been severely corroded by rust, so Qi Gu simply used the purple gold gourd to smash the lock.
No one knew what the gourd was made of, but after hitting it several times there was no sign of damage, and it actually managed to knock the lock off.
The safe was opened, revealing a small, damaged skeleton, as well as many mud snails, fish bones and silt.
Shui Shui's pale soul curled up beside the white bones. Her eye sockets were empty and she could see nothing, but she vaguely felt that the environment she was in seemed to be getting warmer.
"Little fish?" Shui Shui asked tentatively.
"I'm here." Blind Fish jumped into her arms.
"You've grown a lot. I should call you big fish from now on." Shui Shui said, stroking the blind fish in her arms carefully.
"Shui Shui hasn't grown much. Is it because I found too little food?" The blind fish looked at her thin appearance and seemed disappointed.
"It's not your fault that I can't grow up..." Shui Shui seemed to be relieved and said to the blind fish, "Because I'm dead."
"Why did you die? Don't I give you food every day?" The blind fish then noticed the human bones in the box, and raised his head to look at Shui Shui in disbelief.
"That's because I'm not a fish. If I stay in the water for too long, I will die." Shui Shui said.
She had not told the blind fish that she was dead because she was afraid it would be sad.
After all, it has been trying very hard to support its owner.
If I remember correctly, the year she died, the blind fish was only as small as a finger. It took a lot of effort for such a small fish to grab so many mud snails and stuff them into the gaps of the safe one by one.
[Ahhhhhh damn it, it's obviously someone else! 】
[How could this happen? Xiaoyu has been trying so hard! 】
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Many years ago, it was a midsummer with the sound of cicadas and the rich scent of camphor.
The shade of the tall camphor tree casts its shadow on the windowsill on the second floor of an old residential building, where a rough vase is placed with a small silver fish swimming in it.
"What a sin! That family started beating the children again."
"That's right. The child was born to that woman after she ran away and had sex with a strange man. Now that she sees her husband is rich, she shamelessly runs back to her husband. This man is quite affectionate and still wants her. It's just that the child is unlucky..."
"When a man looks at her, it's like looking at a cuckold hanging in front of him every day. How can he feel good?"
"I heard that the wild man was not a good guy either. He took the woman's money, so the woman treated her daughter so badly."
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The little fish was swimming in the water and heard the door open.
Shui Shui came in with scratches on her face, and asked quietly and anxiously, "Did they beat you again?"
"Yeah." Shui Shui said calmly, as if she had already gotten used to all this. He didn't even express his emotions. He just took out a few colorful fish feeds from the side and sprinkled them on the water.
"It's delicious." The little fish smelled the food and jumped up to eat it. As it ate, it said, "Give me your eyes. If you give me your eyes, I will take you to another place where no one will beat you anymore."
Shui Shui looked at it with her long eyelashes lowered.
She knew that this strange talking fish just wanted to deceive her eyes, and its methods were not very clever, but it was willing to care about her, even if it was just for show.
"Wait a little longer, maybe they will be nice to me tomorrow." Shui Shui responded casually, and then said, "Don't you feel bored staying here all day?"
"It's boring, but I don't have eyes, I can't see anything, it's dark wherever I am."
"Too."
"Aren't you going to school? Is it fun to go to school?"
"It's okay. Some of the idiom stories in the book are quite interesting." Shui Shui said.
The little fish stood up with his fins, a little excited: "Then tell me one, I want to hear it too."
Shui Shui thought of the story Ye Gong loves dragons that she had just learned today, but considering that the little fish is a fish and has no eyes, it is too difficult to describe the appearance of a dragon to it.
"Then let me tell you a story about Ye Gong who loves fish." Shui Shui said.
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As the days passed, the little fish gradually urged Shui Shui less and less to use his eyes to exchange for a safe place with him.
Because there were several times when Shui Shui came up from downstairs, her whole body was swollen, her cheeks were bruised, there was blood at the corners of her mouth, and she walked with a limp... Xiaoyu couldn't see it of course, but he could hear that something was wrong from her heavy and different footsteps.
Xiaoyu used to feel a little happy every time he heard Shuishui being beaten.
——This means it is one step closer to getting the eye.
Now, it just felt blocked in its heart, as if something was about to burst out of its eye sockets at any time, but it had no eyes, so the emotion was suppressed in its heart.
Another day, Xiaoyu heard the sounds of smashing, smashing and cursing downstairs.
It couldn't help but think, if it really had that much ability, it would be great if it could provide Shui Shui with a safe place to stay.
That day, a long, long time passed and Xiaoyu didn't hear the door opening.
It swam anxiously on the windowsill, but to no avail.
The sun went down, the temperature dropped, and the little fish became more and more anxious... In the past, Shui Shui would have returned by this time.
Click.
Finally, the familiar sound of the door opening was heard.
Xiaoyu stood up excitedly. Before he could say anything, he heard a rough and fierce male voice: "Hurry up and pull the safe over here... and this stupid fish, throw it away too."
The little fish didn't dare to speak anymore.
It felt like it was being scooped up and thrown into something very stuffy, and then something kept hitting it.
Slowly, it realized that these seemed to be Shui Shui's clothes.
Why throw clothes at it? Why are you looking for a safe?
The lack of oxygen caused the little fish to instinctively open its mouth and try to breathe. Although it was a fish monster, it would die if it lacked water for a long time.
Fortunately, after a long period of bumps, the little fish felt that it was thrown into the water. It struggled to break free from the clothes that were pressing it down and crawled out from the gap. It could feel the water flow and swam towards the direction of the rapidly falling safe.
Anxiously asked: "Shui Shui, are you there, are you there?"
No one answered it.
The safe fell into the reservoir mud, dully and silently.
A tiny crack was smashed into one corner.
The little fish swam around the safe for many times and finally found the tiny gap. It tried hard to squeeze itself in, but it had grown a little bigger due to being fed by the water recently and couldn't squeeze in no matter what.
Just when it was extremely anxious, Shui Shui spoke.
Shui Shui said: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
"Are you okay? Does it hurt... I'm sorry I lied to you. I don't have the ability to take you away. I just wanted to take away your eyes." The little fish said sadly. The emotions accumulated in his heart were getting heavier and heavier, but he didn't know how to express them.
"It's okay. I knew it a long time ago. You're so stupid. You don't really think you can fool me." Shui Shui said, passing two round objects out of the gap. "This is for you."
The little fish took it and held it in its mouth, but the moment the thing touched its mouth, it seemed to melt and disappeared into its body.
It discovered that it could see.
Looking at the dark bottom of the water and the safe in front of me that cannot be opened no matter what.
The turbulent emotions that had been pent up for a long time finally burst out at this moment.
Tears kept rolling down Shui Shui's eyes, dissolving in the water, but burning the little fish's body.
"Why, give me eyes?" asked the little fish.
"Haven't you fulfilled your promise and brought me to a place where I will be safe forever?" Shui Shui said, "Well, I didn't give you my eyes for nothing. You have to go hunting and find something for me to eat, otherwise I will starve to death."
"Don't worry, I'm here to raise you tall and strong. No one can bully you anymore. When you grow up tall and strong and won't be bullied anymore, I'll find someone to fish you out of here." The little fish patted his belly with his fin and said seriously.
Many years passed, and Xiaoyu felt that it was time to release Shuishui. With balanced nutrition, Shuishui would surely grow tall and big, and her biological mother and stepfather would not be able to bully her anymore!
And Shui Shui must have felt very uncomfortable having to stay in a small box for so many years.
But Shui Shui didn't seem to want to leave.
Xiaoyu thought she was still afraid, and tried to persuade her many times.
After Shui Shui finally agreed to Xiao Yu's request, Xiao Yu discovered that the reservoir was located in a remote area and few people came here normally.
Occasionally, one or two would be scared away as soon as it opened its mouth.
After doing this several times, the little fish finally waited for a group of three fishermen.
However, just when she was about to step forward to ask for help, a female ghost in red appeared, scaring the three people so much that their faces turned pale and they were about to run away.
The little fish was unwilling to see the hope that had just arrived slip away again, so he drove many fish to the hooks of the three fishermen.
They come here to fish, so as long as it gives them fish, they won't run away, right?
Later, it tied another person's fishing hook directly to the safe.
But even those three people combined couldn't lift the safe with the weight-free fishing rod.
So in the end, the little fish took the hook on its own.
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The little fish in Shui Shui's arms was crying so hard that it almost fainted. Shui Shui helplessly stroked its tail fin and said, "Be quiet for a while. I want to talk to them."
The little fish couldn't calm down at all. After pausing for a few seconds, it jumped back into the water and started crying.
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