Chapter 2340 Descendants of the Mermaid God?
Su Jiuyao wanted to correct her, saying that it couldn't be simply called the God of the Sea, and calling it the Mermaid God would be more accurate. But after thinking about it, she thought that the mermaid might be a kind of Sea God. It didn't matter what she called it, as long as she understood it.
So Su Jiuyao continued to speak...
Two months later, on the full moon day.
The man has not returned yet, but the seventh girl has been put into a pig cage because the villagers think that she has behaved improperly and is not worthy of living in this world.
Because at that time, the girl was already pregnant, and the child was conceived in the cave that night.
As for the person who exposed her, it was the young man who proposed to the girl. He told the village elders and all the villagers about her secret meeting with the man and her pregnancy.
In that ancient era, in that secluded little village, if a woman became pregnant before marriage, it was a capital crime.
The villagers were ashamed of this and, according to the rules, they would drown such unchaste women in a pig cage.
They built a bonfire, lit torches, and performed a ritual, after which the girl would be thrown into the sea and drowned.
The girl cried and asked for help from her parents and brothers. Her father didn't want to look at her any more. Some of her brothers looked at her with disgust, while others turned away with reluctance, but no one pleaded for her.
The mother is still soft-hearted and loves her the most.
The mother knelt in front of her daughter's pig cage and said to her with tears in her eyes, "Didn't you say that the man was a god in the sea? If he really is a god, you should pray quickly and wait for him to save you when you are thrown into the sea!"
After hearing what her mother said and looking at her father and brothers, the girl finally gave up hope. She knew that her beloved family would not save her.
She even regretted not leaving with the man.
The girl closed her eyes and waited quietly for the ceremony to be completed, waiting to be sunk into the sea.
But when she closed her eyes, a storm suddenly arose on the sea, and the sea breeze was howling, like the angry roar of her lover.
This unusual wind and waves did not wake up the people on the shore, but instead made them believe that they were right. Look, this unfaithful woman has angered the heavens!
So the elder gave an order, and the four executioners put the girl in the pig cage on a small boat. The boat sailed against the wind toward the sea for dozens of meters, stopped when it reached deep water, and threw the pig cage with the huge rock on it into the sea.
The moment the girl was thrown into the sea, a flash of lightning seemed to split the sky, and then another flash of lightning fell on the boat, splitting the hull into two halves and igniting a fire. The four executioners fell into the water one after another.
Before everyone could react to what was happening, a marine creature they had never seen before appeared on the sea. It was neither human nor fish, with a deep and cold gaze, looking down at everyone like a god.
His upper body was floating above the water, and in his arms was the girl who had just been thrown into the sea.
Everyone knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly.
However, the god disdained to accept this worship. He turned and left, and his huge fish tail slapped the sea surface, raising a huge wave of more than ten meters, rushing towards the people on the shore.
After the girl left, the fishermen in the village where she used to live had no harvest for three years and could not even catch a small fish the size of a palm.
The elder who had nailed her to the pillar of shame had a fish bone stuck in his throat on New Year's Eve. He was unable to eat or swallow all day and finally died of starvation in the first month of the lunar year due to malnutrition.
The young man who exposed her also had a fish bone stuck in his throat, but his death was even worse than the elder's. The fish bone punctured his esophagus and caused bacteria to infect his entire body, making his death painful and ugly.
As for the seventh girl, she survived and was taken to a bay by the man. The two went ashore together, and the man built a small house with seaweed with his own hands, and the two lived there from then on.
A year later, the girl successfully gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
A thousand years later, their descendants have built a new village in the original bay and named it Nanwan.
It is said that there is still mermaid blood in the village, but after thousands of years, no one knows which family is outsiders and which is indigenous. Anyway, the residents of the small fishing village are all very good at swimming, and some of them have a natural skill, which is that they can dive into the seabed to collect pearls without any equipment.
This is a dangerous job, but accidents seem to rarely happen to the people in this small fishing village, so everyone jokingly calls themselves descendants of mermaids.
This is the legend of the small fishing village where Su Jiuyao’s grandmother lives.
After Su Jiuyao finished speaking, Xiaoyu immediately hugged her arms, blinked her eyes, and looked at her with admiration. "Xiaojiu, no wonder you are so good at swimming, it turns out you are a descendant of the Mermaid God."
Su Jiuyao stroked her forehead and smiled, "Those are all legends. If you take a walk along the beach, you'll find that every village has its own legend."
Xiao Yu said paranoidly, "But I think this story from your village is true, because you can really hear them singing, and you miraculously survived after falling into the sea. These are all evidence."
Seeing Xiaoyu looking at her expectantly, Su Jiuyao knew that if she didn't admit it, Xiaoyu might keep giving examples to prove it. So she said, "Okay, next time you two go to the sea, remember to bring me, your mascot, with you. I'll make sure you're safe."
"Good idea! It's settled!"
As she spoke, Su Jiuyao remembered another thing. The last time she fell into the sea, she did have hallucinations when she was on the verge of death. She saw a mysterious and beautiful creature. Thinking about it, it really looked like the image of the mermaid her grandmother had described.
Just as he was lost in thought, Xiao Yu asked again, "But I have a question. Does the mermaid brother have the same lifespan as humans? Can they live together until old age? Will one of them become an old lady while the other is still a young man in her twenties?"
Su Jiuyao said that according to legend they grew old together.
Xiaoyu was finally satisfied and breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Jiuyao added, “After the girl died, the man left the small fishing village. Someone saw him walking alone into the sea. Since then, every year on the anniversary of the girl’s death, sad songs can be heard from the sea.
Xiaoyu suddenly felt melancholy again: "Immortality is really not a blessing but a curse! I guess I better stop praying for immortality and just die of old age."
Seeing Xiaoyu sinking into sadness, Su Jiuyao hurriedly said: "While you are not busy now, I will tell you a story. On such a happy day, don't say such unlucky words. We are human beings, we just need to live well."
Xiaoyu nodded in agreement, looked at Gu Hanye again, and asked Su Jiuyao, "Have you told this story to your Mr. Gu? Isn't he afraid that you will turn into a mermaid and swim away one day?"
Su Jiuyao smiled and said that she had never heard Gu Hanye worry about this. As for the story, she had of course told it to Gu Hanye.
When she heard the mysterious singing on the island, she told Gu Hanye that maybe the singer was a mermaid.
Unfortunately, her husband, Gu, is also an atheist. He used some physics knowledge that she couldn't understand to forcefully explain the phenomenon. He said that there was a strong magnetic field nearby, which, under certain conditions, could act like a tape recorder. The sound might have been left by a fisherman who loved to sing.
As for the old lady who said she had also heard singing, she was too old and had a bit of Alzheimer's disease. Gu Hanye said that the people who knew the old lady's story were no longer on the island. Her past experiences were all based on her own imagination. What she said today and tomorrow would be different, so her credibility was very low.
Cheng Xiaoyu clicked his tongue twice, looked at Gu Hanye and Shi Chenyuan, and whispered to Su Jiuyao, "No wonder they are good brothers, they are not romantic at all."
Su Jiuyao sighed inwardly, who said it wasn’t?
Shi Chenyuan suddenly looked over and looked at Xiaoyu with a half-smile: "Cheng Xiaoyu?"
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