Chapter 10010 Tell me, where did you learn this?
After Nezha's resurrection, I was the only fish left in the lotus pond. He often squatted by the shore, feeding me lotus seeds. If I wanted lotus roots, he would hold out his arm and let me take a bite. I thought about it and decided to give up. It wasn't because I felt bad, but more because I felt uncomfortable.
Alas, I feel like my life as a fish has lost its hope. When I learned I was reincarnated as a carp, I imagined being an ordinary fish, living out my retirement in an ordinary way, and then finally dying. Later, I met Little Lotus, and upon accidentally learning it was Nezha, I longed for its swift resurrection. As for the dream flow, it was completely unexpected. I think maybe spending so much time with Little Lotus had some influence on me. In short, I can't say for sure.
I swallowed the lotus seeds, looked at the flying Hun Tian Ling wrapped around his arms and the golden ring around his neck, and said, "Your master has returned the magic weapon to you. Are you going down the mountain?"
Nezha was peeling lotus seeds leisurely. After hearing what I said, he said, "King Zhou is ruthless, and the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods is approaching. My master has asked me to go to Xiqi to assist Uncle Jiang in restoring the Zhou Dynasty and defeating King Zhou, thus completing the Conferred Gods project."
I asked, "Is there no other reason?" and then took the lotus seeds he fed me again.
Nezha paused, lowered his brows, but never said anything.
I consoled her, "Since you're going down the mountain anyway, why not go see your mother? Even though you're not in the flesh, you should have nothing to do with Madam Yin. It's just that it's not logical to go along with it."
He will definitely go to see Madam Yin. Maybe he is too embarrassed to say it, or just too embarrassed to say it in front of me.
Let me put it out there for him. After all, it's normal for teenagers to be a little rebellious.
Nezha didn't say anything good or bad, but his expression looked a little strange. After a moment, he suddenly smiled and said:
"I know. But you must not leave the lotus pond until the Conferred God Tribulation is over."
I looked at him helplessly and said, "Brother, I'm just a fish and I can't fly. What can I do to leave the lotus pond?"
Besides, it’s such a mess outside, how could I dare to leave?
Perhaps he saw my depressed expression, he patted my head with a smile, "Wait until I come back, but I... forget it, let's talk about it when I come back."
If the person before me wasn't Nezha, I'd consider this statement a flag. But because it's Nezha, I have no doubt he'll return. It's just that the next time I see him, he might have already become a deity.
Oh my God...
I suddenly felt dazed, and the scene of the young man confronting the gods suddenly appeared in my mind.
"Then be careful."
There's nothing much to say. This is his destiny, following fate.
What about my destiny... Thinking of Taiyi Zhenren's words, I felt a sense of powerlessness. They wouldn't really let me leave Qianyuan Mountain and accumulate merit, would they?
...It’s really worrying for people, no, it’s really worrying for the fish.
I just want to be an ordinary fish. It’s very tiring to accumulate merits.
Nezha quickly left Qianyuan Mountain. After Nezha's resurrection, the lotus flowers in the lotus pond blossomed all at once, creating a scene of peace and prosperity after the evil bully left.
I still stayed in the pond, basking in the sun during the day, gazing at the stars at night, and chewing lotus stems or seeds when I was hungry. For some reason, these lotus stems and seeds were really boring to chew.
If being picky about food is a disease, then I am probably sick.
A few months later, I received a letter from Nezha—or rather, a letter, carved into a wooden tablet. It was brought by Nezha's junior apprentice, Jinxia Tongzi. It was my first time meeting him, and he was also meeting me, and he was incredibly curious. He politely stuck the tablet into the mud on the shore, which filled me with mixed emotions. But even more so, I didn't recognize the words on the tablet.
After reincarnation, I also became illiterate.
Jinxia Tongzi and I stared at each other, and then the crane beside us patted his head with its wings and said, "You idiot, it's a fish, it can't recognize the word ball!"
The boy Jinxia suddenly realized what was going on, then bowed to me and picked up the wooden slip stuck in the soil.
He said, "That's also due to my inconsiderateness."
Xianhe: "I told you to read it, but you still don't recognize it. I told you to read it, can you do it?"
Jinxia Boy glanced at the contents on the wooden slip, quickly averted his eyes, and then awkwardly turned the slip over, his tone flustered and shy: "I, I'm embarrassed..."
If I didn't know Nezha's character, I would really think that there was something unspeakable written on the wooden slip.
The boy Jinxia looks to be about eleven or twelve years old, but he is a cultivator after all, so his actual age cannot be judged by his appearance.
"Forget it, give it to me. I think I can understand it myself."
Of course, it doesn’t matter if you can’t understand it. According to Nezha, the content on the wooden slip is nothing more than a report of safety.
Hearing what I said, Jinxia Tongzi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then carefully handed the wooden slip to me. I bit the wooden slip and swam to a lotus leaf. The lotus leaves in the ninth-grade lotus pond are not from the mortal world after all. Even after several months, they are still growing very well, but the taste is not very good.
As soon as I put the wooden slip on it, the crane landed on the lotus leaf, stepped lightly on the lotus leaf, raised its head and laughed.
"You idiot, you little treasure! He's so embarrassed!"
I:……
I don't understand it, but it doesn't affect my knowing that it is laughing at me.
"Would you mind replying to my letter, please?"
I gave the wooden slip a push, pushing it into the pond. Then I dove in too, away from the chattering crane.
Ever since it started speaking Sichuan dialect, it's no longer the crane I imagined. It's strange, too. The two times it spoke, it didn't even open its mouth. I thought cranes couldn't talk. But when it did, it bombed.
Regarding its joke about being "very shameless", I still think it is an exaggeration. After all, it is fun to watch the fun.
The wooden slips are not easy to preserve, but if they are kept at the bottom of the pool, just like those shipwrecks, they should be able to be preserved for a while.
After that, Nezha's letters arrived once a month. Except for the first one, which was delivered by the boy Jinxia, the subsequent ones were brought by cranes. They dropped the wooden tablets on the lotus leaves and then circled above them, shouting in their long beaks.
I have gone from helpless to numb and am too lazy to pay attention to it.
If I meet Taiyi Zhenren one day, I can complain to him.
I said so too, but He laughed and said that Taiyi Zhenren was no longer in the Jinguan Cave on Qianyuan Mountain.
I thought about it and wasn't surprised. I just didn't realize that Taiyi Zhenren didn't bring his mount with him when he went down the mountain.
I looked at the crane, and it seemed to know what I was going to ask. It flapped its wings and was about to speak when a row of cranes flew by in the sky, exuding such a fairy-like air.
I looked back at it and couldn't help but laugh:
"So the real person also dislikes your chattering."
…
Just kidding, real people naturally don’t mind its chattering, it just acts as a “postman” for humans.
As more and more wooden slips appeared at the bottom of the pond, I gradually began to understand the meaning of the inscriptions. The oracle bone inscriptions on the wooden slips were spoken by He in Sichuan dialect, and while I wasn't very fluent in Sichuan dialect, as the saying goes, "A red flower becomes redder when it is near a red flower, and a black flower becomes blacker when it is near a black flower." After spending time with He, I figured it out, too. So, I gained some understanding of the meaning of the oracle bone inscriptions.
In reality, the words carved on the wooden slips didn't carry the kind of romantic and affectionate meaning Crane had suggested; they were simply ordinary messages about safety or urging me to cultivate. I don't know what Crane was thinking; ultimately, it was the boy Jinxia who had started the bad example. Why was there such a coyness about such ordinary content? I still can't figure it out.
As Nezha sent me more and more wooden tablets, I saw the wooden tablets standing at the bottom of the pond, which looked like some kind of underwater tombs, so I asked He to convey a message.
"Don't send the wooden tablets next time. If you have anything to say, let's wait until he returns victorious. I'll be staying here anyway."
The crane delivered it.
But for some reason, I felt a vague worry. Would the crane really not exaggerate when delivering the message?
In reality, my worry was only fleeting. The crane's beak was on its body, so I couldn't control what it said, but it wouldn't say anything too extreme.
A few days later, the crane returned. This time, it didn't have a wooden tablet in its mouth, but a red hairband. This was the one I used to play with the crocheting game.
Suddenly, I understood something. Nezha never seemed to ask why I, the little carp, appeared in his past, even though the answer had long puzzled me.
The crane loosened its hairband, and it fluttered down to the center of a lotus leaf. I sighed. What good is it to bring a hairband to a fish?
So I asked the crane to bring the Golden Cloud Boy to tie the hairband on my tail.
I've never been sure what kind of koi fish I am, but I have a big, long tail and fan-shaped fins that float like feathers in the water. I really like my tail; it helps make up for the flaws in my eyes.
As expected, the crane brought Jinxia Tongzi with him. Upon hearing my request, Jinxia Tongzi agreed without hesitation. I held the hairband between my teeth and handed it to him, then turned around. Jinxia Tongzi reached into the water, holding the hairband, and tied it around my tail in a bow.
The headband is not too tight, but not too loose either. It won’t fall off after a few days of swimming. I quite like it.
Since delivering the hairband, He has never left Qianyuan Mountain. As a result, I have no idea how far the war in the human world has progressed.
The other day I was chatting with the crane. It had been to so many places and seen so many things, and everything sounded so new and interesting. Although its accent always made me feel a little distracted, at least the boring time passed quickly.
That's how accidents happen.
That day, the crane and I were chatting, as usual, about mountains and rivers, about the savages who ate raw meat and drank blood. We were in the thick of it when the water in the pond suddenly became restless, and I was swept into the center of the whirlpool. The crane tried to rescue me, its long beak grabbing me, but the lotus leaves in the pond entangled its feet as well.
We were both sucked into the vortex.
Everything happened so fast that I didn't even have time to scream. My body was like being thrown into a washing machine, being rolled all over.
After reincarnating as a fish, I didn't want to be rolled up, but I was still inexplicably rolled up...
After all, why would a whirlpool appear in the Ninth Grade Lotus Pond? It's just a pond.
In comparison, I am more inclined to believe that the disaster was caused by a magic weapon of some god, although I don’t know why the other party did this.
When I woke up, I didn't see He. We were separated. I lost consciousness after being sucked into the whirlpool, so naturally I had no time to care for He. But after all, He was caught in the vortex to save me, and this always made me feel guilty.
Therefore, the most urgent thing is to find the crane first.
It was a modest river, calm and unhurried. The vegetation on both sides was lush and verdant, so dense that even the wind could hardly penetrate. Near the water, willow branches swayed, their long silk threads drooping toward the surface. I poked my head out. The air here wasn't as clear as that of Qianyuan Mountain; it was tinged with a hint of foul air.
This is the human world.
Not only that, I can transform. Although my tail is still a fish tail, the red hairband flutters with the swing of the fish tail. I calmly accept my current identity - a mermaid.
I haven't had enough of being a fish, but I've had enough of being a human. Now, as a compromise, becoming a mermaid isn't such a bad thing.
Besides, I didn't do anything and I was already lucky enough to transform half of it. It's better not to be so pretentious.
Just as I was diving, a voice came from the shore. The voice was a little excited and trembling.
"Girl!"
I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young man clutching a pile of clothes. When he saw me looking at him, he took a step back in fear, then stumbled and fell to the ground, but the clothes in his hands were still tightly clutched in his arms.
"You called me?"
I swam forward a bit and saw the clothes in his arms, and raised my eyebrows slightly.
The young man said nervously, "I see that the young lady is as pretty as Qingnv Su'e, and I am very attracted to her. I wonder where she lives? I will send a matchmaker and come to her house with proper etiquette to ask for marriage someday."
I smiled and asked, "What if I don't?"
His expression froze, he glanced at the clothes in his hands, and said with his neck stiff, "That girl's clothes..." He took a few steps back, as if he wanted to run away.
I'm the only one in this river, and this dress isn't mine, so whose is it? Besides, I don't know how this world views a woman's innocence. If he spreads the word about her dress...
Then there is no way this matter can be resolved peacefully.
"I'm just kidding. Come here and let me take a good look at you..." I smiled at him.
Then she swam over, and when she passed by the weeping willows, she raised her hand and broke off a few branches. When he came over happily, she wrapped the branches around his neck.
Facing his horrified expression, I chuckled and said, "Tell me, where did you learn that?"
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