At dusk, the mainland.
A small village at the foot of a mountain in Qinzhou.
Niu Dawu was chopping wood in the backyard when he caught a flash of light flying towards him. He waved his hand and caught it. It was a messenger crane.
The crane in his hand uttered a friend's voice, "Brother Niu, I have a great opportunity here. It's on a small island near the mermaid tribe in the East China Sea. Come quickly."
Niu Dawu sighed. Ever since he found it difficult to repair his chain, he came to the small mountain village where he lived before his transformation and became a farmer, quietly waiting for the end of his life and taking care of the descendants.
His good friend Ye Qingyi did not give up. He would go out to sea every year at this time to look for the trace of Penglai Island. He didn't know what was going on, and he was really worried about his friend.
Niu Dawu closed the door and went to a neighbor's house to ask him to look after his crops for a few days. He walked out of the village along the main road, walked to a deserted place, and hurried to the beach.
The bottom of the East China Sea.
Although the mermaids live in the deep sea, there is no darkness. Bioluminescent plants are planted on both sides of the road, and various bioluminescent fish swim among them.
Coral and the other two quietly sneaked back home, but as soon as they reached the intersection, they were blocked by Coral's mother Lingyun.
The three of them were feeling guilty when they saw Lingyun standing there with a cold face. The youngest Haicao was so scared that he blurted out all the stories about how they had seen humans and eaten human candy in the past few days.
The surrounding mermaids heard that there were humans on the nearby island and gathered around, chattering and asking a few small mermaids.
Lingyun saw that this was not a solution and suggested taking Shanhu and the others to the patriarch's yard.
The clan leader happened to have nothing to do at the moment, and when he saw so many clan members coming to him, he asked curiously what had happened.
Lingyun pushed Shanhu and the other two out and said, "Chief, the other day these children met a human on the island who had a supermarket."
The tribe leader Tianchi was still a child when the mermaids were massacred by humans. He was shocked to hear that there were humans. Could it be that some humans had discovered the place of the mermaids?
He hurriedly called the guard captain Feng Ting and ordered him to take half of the guard team to see if there were any humans near the island, and the remaining half to protect the tribe's land.
Tianchi needs to ask that human what happened.
The three mermaids were talking back and forth, unable to explain the human's intentions. All they could hear was Coral and Seaweed saying that the human's supermarket had everything.
There was no way Tianchi could let the most steady Zhenzhu speak alone.
Zhenzhu couldn't explain it clearly, so she could only take out the water-repellent beads and put out all the things she bought from the supermarket that day and put them on the table.
"The human the other day said she was lost and asked us where we were. She also said she was selling things and that her house was full of new and interesting things. She also sold us a lot of candy and snacks."
Tianchi looked through the things on the table and became more and more frightened. He had never seen these things when he went to the sea market last year. Could it be that those humans were deceiving the mermaids? No, even if the mermaids were easy to deceive, those monsters were not easy to deceive, and those humans were not that bold.
Tianchi picked up a glass bottle filled with colorful sugar balls. This bottle had no impurities or bubbles at all. Even if humans were given 100 years, they would not be able to produce something as beautiful as this.
The candies in the bottle were covered in a layer of red icing sugar. I'd seen them at the market last year. A merchant from the Western Regions brought them and asked for a dou of shark pearls for one tael. But for all the candies they'd bought, they only got a handful, or at most a dozen, of shark pearls.
I opened another transparent bag and took a bite. It was made from finely ground wheat flour, with a soft texture and added sugar and vegetable oil. It was so extravagant, only a human emperor could afford to eat it. But Pearl said there were several shelves of these cakes in that supermarket.
Who would do a losing business? What was that human doing? Could it be some master playing around with the human world? Tianchi rubbed his head, a headache aching.
At this time, the captain of the guard, Feng Ting, came to report that they had checked the area around the island and found no extra humans. "Should we evacuate them?"
Tianchi waved his hand and said, "No, let them take turns monitoring the humans on the island. I will go meet that human in person tomorrow morning."
The mermaids are having a very hard time now, they are almost starving and drinking blood.
Tianchi remembered that when he was a child, the mermaids lived no worse than the nobles of humans. If they were forced into the deep sea by humans, they would be safe, but there were only fish in the deep sea.
Except for salt and seafood, everything is in short supply.
The annual sea market is the mermaids' only chance to obtain daily necessities. Those humans know the mermaids' plight and try their best to lower the price. The mermaids have no choice but to bite the bullet and accept it.
According to Shanhu and the others, there are grains, spices, seafood, etc. in that "supermarket". As long as the price is not too high, we can exchange some daily necessities with her.
Tianchi looked at the mermaids in the courtyard and said, "Let's all go away for now. Let the children put away the things."
The mermaids saw that their leader was worried and tried to comfort him.
"Chief, if that doesn't work, we still have Senior Turtle."
"Chief, I'll take people to kill that human, and everything will be fine."
"Chief, there are so many of us mermaids, we are not afraid of her."
"Chief, I want to buy some candy too."
Someone else took the opportunity to say, "Chief, please give those candies to everyone."
Tianchi's headache intensified after hearing these words. Senior Turtle was the spirit that protected the mermaids of the East China Sea. Given the current situation, he relied on sleeping to resist the decline of his spiritual energy. He would only wake up when he took them to the sea market every year to protect them and exchange daily necessities with humans.
Tianchi said angrily, "Do you know the identity of that human? And don't disturb Senior Turtle easily. Do you hear me?"
"And you, you're just greedy. If you want candy and pearls, go buy them."
Seeing that the chief was angry, the mermaids fell silent.
Lingyun took out a piece of candy and bread and handed it to the chief, saying, "Chief, take these and feed them to the children at home. We will leave first."
Tianchi did not refuse. He took the bag and went home happily.
The mermaids swarmed to Lingyun's house, taking handfuls and exchanging them for candies with Shanhu and the others. If Lingyun hadn't stopped them, Shanhu wouldn't have had any candies left.
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