The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

In the distance of the sea, the water is so blue, like the most beautiful cornflower petals, and at the same time so clear, like the brightest glass. However, it is very deep, so deep that no anchor chain can reach the end. To reach the surface from the bottom of the sea, there must be many church steeples connected one after another. People on the bottom of the sea live here.

But people must not think that there is just a seabed covered with white sand. No, the strangest trees and plants grow there. Their branches and leaves are so soft that as long as the water flows slightly, they will shake as if they were living things. All the big and small fish swim among these branches, like birds in the sky. The deepest place in the sea is where the Neptune Palace is located. Its walls are made of coral, and its high pointed windows are made of the brightest amber; but the roof is covered with black clam shells, which can automatically open and close with the flow of water. This is strange and beautiful, because every clam shell contains brilliant pearls. Any pearl can be the main decoration on the queen's hat.

The Sea King who lives there has been a widower for many years, but he has an old mother to manage the housework for him. She is a clever woman, but she is always incomparable to her noble origin, so she always wears a dozen oysters on her tail-the rest of the nobles can only wear half a dozen each. Otherwise, she deserves great praise, especially because she loves those little sea princesses very much—some of her granddaughters. They are six beautiful children, and among them, the smallest one is the most beautiful. Her skin was light and tender, like rose petals, and her eyes were blue, like the deepest lake.

However, like other princesses, she has no legs: the lower part of her body is a fish tail.

They can spend their entire long days in the palace, in the hall with flowers growing on the wall. Those big windows with amber inlays are open, and fish swim towards them, just as swallows fly in when we open the window. But Yu'er kept swimming towards these little princesses, looking for something to eat in their hands, and let them touch themselves.

There is a large garden outside the palace with many fiery red and dark blue trees growing inside; the fruits on the trees are bright like gold, the flowers bloom like a burning fire, and the branches and leaves are constantly shaking. The ground is full of the finest sand, but it is blue like a flame of sulfur. There was a strange, blue light shining everywhere. You can easily think that you are high in the air instead of on the bottom of the sea. There is a blue sky above your head and feet. When the sea is very quiet, you can catch a glimpse of the sun: it is like a purple flower, emitting various colors of light from its calyx.

In the garden, every little princess has her own little place where she can plant as she pleases. Some have arranged their flower beds like a whale, and some feel that it is best to arrange their flower beds like a little mermaid. But the youngest one arranged her flower bed round, like a round of the sun, and at the same time she only planted flowers that were as red as the sun. She is a weird child who doesn't like to talk very much and always thinks about something quietly. When other sisters decorate their gardens with the strangest things they got from the shipwreck, except for the bright red flowers like the sun in the sky, she only wanted to have a beautiful marble statue. This stone statue represents a beautiful man. It was carved out of a white stone and sank to the bottom of the sea with a distressed ship. She planted a weeping willow as red as a rose next to the stone statue. The tree grows very lush. Its fresh branches and leaves hang down from the stone statue to the blue sand bottom. Its reflection has a purple-blue hue. Like its branches, this shadow is never static, and the roots and tops of the tree seem to be playing a game of kissing each other.

Her greatest pleasure is to hear some stories about the human world above. Her old grandmother had to tell her all her knowledge about ships and cities, humans and animals. One thing that made her feel particularly beautiful was that the flowers on the ground gave off fragrance, but the flowers on the bottom of the sea could not; the forest on the ground was green, and what people saw was swimming between the branches. The fish will sing so clearly and nicely, which makes people feel happy. The "fish" that the old grandmother said was actually a bird, but if she didn't say that, the little princess would not understand her story, because she had never seen a bird before.

"When you turn fifteen years old," the old grandmother said, "I will allow you to float on the sea. Then you can sit on the rocks under the moonlight and watch the huge ships sail by your side. You too. You can see the woods and the city."

In the year that is about to come, one of these sisters has reached the age of fifteen; but what about the others—Meet, they are one year younger than the other. Therefore, the youngest princess had to wait five years before she could float up from the bottom of the sea and take a look at our world. But each promised the next that she would tell everyone what she saw and discovered on the first day, because what their grandmother said was really not enough-they really didn’t know what they wanted to know how many!

None of them was as eager as the younger sister, and she just had to wait the longest, and at the same time she was so silent and thoughtful. I don't know how many nights she stood by the open window, staring up through the deep blue water, watching the fish waving their tails and wings. She also saw the moon and stars-of course, the light they emitted was a little faint, but through a layer of water, they looked much larger than in our eyes. If something resembling a dark cloud floats under them, she knows that this is not a whale swimming over her, or a boat carrying many passengers. But these travelers never imagined that there was a beautiful little mermaid below them, extending her pair of white hands toward the keel of their ship.

Now the oldest princess is fifteen years old and can rise to the surface.

When she came back, she had countless things to talk about: but she said, the most beautiful thing is when the sea is calm and the waves are calm, lying on a sandy beach under the moonlight, clinging to the coast and staring at the big city as bright as countless Star-like lights, listen to music, noises, and the sounds of carriages and people, watch the round towers and steeples of the church, and listen to the jingle bells. Just because she can't get there, she wants these things most.

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Ah, how fascinating the youngest sister is! When she stood by the open window at night, looking up through the deep blue water, she thought of the big city and the hustle and bustle of it. So she seemed to hear the church bells floating towards her.

In the second year, the second sister got permission to surface and swim anywhere. When she jumped out of the water, the sun had just set; she thought the sight was really beautiful. She said that at this time the entire sky looked like a piece of gold, and the clouds—well, she really couldn't describe their beauty! They passed over her head, turning red and purple. However, flying faster than them, like a long veil, is a group of wild swans flying over the water. They flew towards the sun, and she also swam towards the sun. But the sun went down. A rosy sunset slowly disappeared between the sea and the clouds.

After another year, the third sister appeared. She is the most daring of them, so she swam into a big river that flows into the sea. She saw some beautiful green hills with rows of grapes planted on them. The palace and the country estate were faintly exposed in the lush woods; she heard how beautiful the birds sang, and how warm the sun was, she sometimes had to sink into the water so that her hot face could get A little cool. In a small creek she met a group of small children; they were swimming naked in the water. She really wanted to play with them for a while, but they were taken aback and ran away. So a little black animal came over—this was a puppy, a puppy she had never seen before. It barked her so fiercely that it made her scared, and quickly fled to the sea. But she will never forget the magnificent forest, the green mountains, those cute little babies who can swim in the water-although they don't have tails like fish.

The fourth sister is not so bold anymore. She stayed above the desolate sea. She said that the most beautiful thing is to stop at sea: because you can look far and far around from here, while the sky hangs above it like a huge glass clock. She had seen ships, but they were far away from her and looked like a seagull. She had seen happy dolphins turning somersaults, and huge whales spewing water from their nostrils, as if countless fountains were surrounding them.

Now it's the fifth sister. Her birthday happened in winter, so she could see things that other sisters hadn't seen when they first surfaced. The sea was stained green, and huge icebergs moved around. She said that each iceberg looks like a bead, but it is much larger than the church tower built by humans. They appear in all sorts of weird shapes; they shine like diamonds. She once sat on one of the biggest icebergs, let the sea wind blow her slender hair, all the boats, rounded the place where she was sitting, and avoided far away in panic. But at dusk, a dark cloud suddenly appeared in the sky. The lightning flashed, and the thunder blasted. The huge black waves lifted up entire ice cubes, making them gleam in blood-red lightning.

All the ships took their sails, creating an atmosphere of panic and horror, but she sat quietly on the floating iceberg, looking at the blue network power, flexing into the reflective sea.

Any one of these sisters, as long as it is the first time to rise above the sea, is always very happy to watch these fresh and beautiful things. But now, they are already big girls, they can float to where they like to go, so these things no longer arouse their interest too much. They are eager to come home. A month later, they said: It’s better to live in the sea—how comfortable is at home!

At dusk, these five sisters often float up arm in arm and line up on the water. They can sing good songs-more beautiful than any human voice. When the storm was about to come and they thought that some ships were about to have trouble, they floated in front of these ships and sang a very beautiful song, saying how lovely it was under the sea, and told these sailors not to be afraid of sinking to the sea; These people do not understand their lyrics. They thought it was the sound of a giant wind. They also didn't think they would see anything beautiful on the bottom of the sea, because if the ship sinks, the people on it will drown, and they can reach the palace of the sea king only as dead.

One night, when the sisters surfaced so arm in arm, the youngest sister stayed behind alone, looking at them. It seemed that she wanted to cry, but the mermaid had no tears, so she felt even more uncomfortable.

"Ah, how I wish I was fifteen years old!" she said. "I know that I will like the world above and the people who live in that world.

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In the end she really reached fifteen years old.

"You know, you can leave our hands now," said her grandmother, the Queen Mother. "Come on, let me dress you up like your sisters."

So she put a wreath of lilies on the little girl's hair, but each petal of the flower was half a pearl. The old lady asked eight big oysters to be attached tightly to the princess's tail to show her noble status.

"It makes me really uncomfortable!" said the little mermaid.

"Of course, to be beautiful, one should suffer a bit," the old grandmother said.

Hey, she really wants to get rid of these decorations and throw this heavy wreath aside! She wears the red flowers in her garden much better, but she dare not do that. "Farewell!" she said. So she was light and bright like a blister, coming out of the water.

When she stretched her head out of the sea, the sun was already down, but all the clouds were still glowing like roses and gold; at the same time, in this reddish sky, the big white star was blinking beautifully and brightly. Eyes closed. The air is mild and fresh. The sea is very calm, and there is a big ship with three masts parked here. There was only one sail on the boat, because there was no wind. The sailors were sitting around the mast line and on top of the sail.

There is music and singing here. When the dusk gradually became dark, all kinds of lanterns lighted up together. They look like flags of various countries in the air. The little mermaid kept swimming towards the ship window. Every time when the waves lifted her up, she could see many gorgeously dressed men standing inside through the window glass like a mirror; but the most beautiful of them was the prince with **** eyes : Undoubtedly, he is less than sixteen years old. Today is his birthday, and it is for this reason that today is so lively.

The sailors danced on the deck. When the prince came out, more than a hundred rockets shot into the sky at once. The sky was illuminated like the day, so the little mermaid was very frightened and quickly sank to the bottom. But after a while she stretched out her head-at this time she felt as if stars were falling towards her in the sky, and she had never seen such fireworks. Many huge suns huffed around, and dazzling big fish leaped into the blue sky.

All this is reflected in this clear and calm sea. The whole body of the boat was illuminated so brightly that even every small rope could be seen, and of course the people on the boat could see clearly. Ah, how beautiful this young prince is! When the music slowly faded away in this glorious night, he shook hands with the sailors, laughed, smiled... It was late at night, but the little mermaid could not take her eyes from this ship and this beauty The prince put aside. The colorful lanterns went out, the rockets no longer fired into the air, and the sound of artillery stopped. But there was a buzzing and rumbling sound in the depths of the sea. She was sitting on the water, floating on the ground together, so she could see what was in the cabin. But the ship speeded up: its sails were all opened. The waves rose, heavy clouds rose, and lightning struck in the distance. Ah, the terrible storm is coming! The sailors all took off their sails. The huge ship swayed forward on the violent sea. The waves are rising like a huge black mountain. It wants to break the mast. But the boat was like a swan, and suddenly it plunged into the Hongtao, and then raised its head on the high waves.

The little mermaid thought this was a very interesting voyage, but the sailors did not think so. The ship was cracking now; its thick slabs were bent by the incoming sea waves. The mast broke off at the mid waist like a reed. Then the ship started to tilt and the water rushed in into the cabin. Only then did the little mermaid know that they were in danger. She also had to beware of the beams and wrecks of the boat drifting on the water.

The sky became dark immediately, and she couldn't see anything. But when the lightning struck, the sky appeared very bright again, allowing her to see everyone on the boat. Now everyone is trying to find a way out for themselves. She paid special attention to the prince. When the ship cracked and sank into the depths of the sea, she saw him. She immediately became very happy, because he was coming to her now. But she remembered that human beings cannot live in water, unless he becomes a dead person, he cannot enter her father's palace.

If not, he must not be allowed to die! So she swam past the floating beams and wooden planks, never thinking that they might crush her to death. She sank deeply into the water, then floated up high in the waves, and finally she finally reached the prince's side. In this raging sea, he never had the power to float again. His arms and legs began to lose support. His beautiful eyes have been closed. If the little mermaid hadn't come in time, he would have drowned. She lifted his head out of the water, letting the waves carry her and drift anywhere with him.

At dawn, the storm has passed. The boat didn't even have a fragment. The bright red sun rose, shining brightly on the water. It seemed to breathe life into the prince's face. But his eyes are still closed. The little mermaid kissed his delicate high forehead and straightened his drenched long hair back. She thought his appearance was very similar to her marble statue in the small sea garden. She kissed him again, hoping he would wake up.

Now she saw a piece of land unfolding in front of her and a group of blue mountains, and the gleaming white snow on the top of the mountain looked like a sleeping swans. Along the coast is a beautiful green forest, in front of the forest there is a church or a monastery-she doesn't know what it is called, it is always a building anyway. Some lemon and orange trees grow in its garden, and tall palms stand in front of the door. The sea forms a small bay here. The water is very calm, but from here to the vicinity of the rocky cliff with a lot of fine sand, it is very deep. She held the beautiful prince to swim there. She put him on the sand, very carefully putting his head high in the warm sun.

The bell rang from the majestic white building, and many young women came out through the garden. The little mermaid swims far into the sea, and swims behind a few big rocks that are on the surface. She covered her hair and **** with a lot of sea foam, so that no one could see her small face. She was staring here to see who would come to the poor prince.

After a while, a young woman came over. She seemed very surprised, but it didn't take long, so she called many people. The little mermaid saw the prince gradually awakening, and smiled at the people around him. But he didn't make a smile at her: Of course, he didn't know she was the one who saved him. She felt very sad. So when he was carried into that tall house, she jumped into the sea sadly and returned to her father's palace.

She has always been a quiet and thoughtful child, and now she has become even more so. Her sisters all asked her what she saw when she rose to the surface for the first time, but she couldn't say anything.

Many nights and mornings, she surfaced and swam to the place where she had left the prince. She saw that the fruit in the garden was ripe and picked; she saw the snow on the top of the mountain melt; but she could not see the prince. So every time she comes home, she always feels more painful. Her only comfort was sitting in her little garden, holding a beautiful marble statue similar to the prince in her hands. But she never took care of her flowers anymore. These flowers seem to grow in the wilderness, spread all over the ground: their long stems and leaves intersect with branches, making this place very dark.

In the end she couldn't stand it anymore. But as long as she tells one of her elder sisters, the rest of them will know. But apart from them and one or two other mermaids (they only shared the secret to a few of their confidants), no one else knew. One of them knew who the prince was. She also saw the celebration held on the ship. She knew where the prince came from, and where his kingdom was.

"Come on, little sister!" the other princesses said. They put their hands on each other's shoulders, and they rose to the surface in long rows, swimming to a place they thought was the palace of the prince.

The palace was built with a kind of luminous pale yellow stone, and there were many large marble steps in it-one step still stretched into the sea. Ornate, golden round towers stretched into the air from the roof. In the middle of the columns surrounding the whole building, there are many marble statues. They look like living people. Through the bright glass of those tall windows, one can see some magnificent halls, with precious silk curtains and brocade hanging inside, and large pictures on the walls-just looking at these things is also very pleasant thing. In the center of the largest hall, there is a huge fountain spraying water. The water filaments shot straight to the glass dome above, and the sun shot down through the glass, onto the water, onto the plants growing in this large pool.

Now she knows where the prince lives. She spent several evenings and nights on the water here. She swam far to land, farther than any other sister dared to go. Indeed, she even swam into the narrow river, until below the magnificent marble balcony—its long shadow reflected on the water. She was sitting here, looking at the young prince, who thought he was the only one in the moonlight.

For several nights, she saw him riding the gorgeous ship with many flags floating in the sound of music. She peeped above the green rush. When the wind blew her long silver mask, if anyone saw it, they always thought it was a swan spreading its wings.

For several nights, when the fishermen set their torches to go fishing, she heard them saying many words of praise to the prince. She became happy, and felt that when the waves hit him half-dead, she came to save his life; she remembered how his head was lying tightly in her arms, and how passionately she kissed him . But he didn't know these things at all, and he wouldn't even dream of her.

She gradually began to love humans, and gradually began to hope that she could live among them. She felt that their world was much bigger than hers. Indeed, they can travel on the sea by boat and climb the towering mountains. At the same time, their land, including forests and fields, stretches out, making her endless. She wished to know a lot, but none of her sisters could answer all her questions. So she could only ask her old grandmother. She really knew the "upper world"-this is the proper name she gave to the maritime nations-quite well.

"If humans don't drown," the little mermaid asked, "will they live forever? Will they die like the people we live in the sea?"

"Not bad at all," said the old lady. "They will also die, and their lives are even shorter than ours. We can live to three hundred years old, but when our lives here are over, we It becomes foam on the water. We don’t even leave a tomb to our beloved here. We don’t have an immortal soul. We never get a life after death. We are like that green seaweed As long as it is cut off, it will never be green again! On the contrary, human beings have a soul; it lives forever, even if the body turns into dust, it is still alive. It rises to the clear sky, and it rises to those shining The stars! Just as we rise to the surface of the water and see the world on earth, they rise to the mysterious and gorgeous places that we will never see."

"Why can't we get an immortal soul?" the little mermaid asked sadly. "As long as I can become a human being and can enter the heavenly world, even if I only live there for one day, I am willing to give up the hundreds of years of life I can live here,"

"You must never think about it," the old lady said. "Compared to the humans above, our life here is much happier and better!"

"Then I will only die and become foam floating on the water. I will never hear the music of the waves, or see the beautiful flowers and the bright red sun? Is there no way I can get an eternal soul?"

No! "Said the old lady. "Only when a person loves you and treats you as a kinder person than his parents: only when he puts all his thoughts and love on you; only when he makes the priest Put his right hand in your hand and promise to be loyal to you now and in the future, his soul will be transferred to you, and you will get a human happiness. He will give you a soul, and at the same time his own soul can remain immortal. But such things never happen! What we think is beautiful on the bottom of the sea—your fish tail—and they think it’s very ugly on land: they don’t know what beauty is. In their place, if a person wants to look beautiful, they must have two stupid pillars-they call them legs! "

The little mermaid sighed and looked sadly at his tail.

"Let's be happy!" the old lady said. "During the three hundred years we can live, let us dance and dance. After all, this is quite a long time, and we can rest happily in our grave in the future. We will be in the palace tonight. Have a dance party!"

It was a magnificent scene that people would never see on land. The walls and ceiling of this spacious dance hall are made of thick, transparent glass. Hundreds of grass-green and pink giant shells stood in rows on the four sides; they burned with blue flames, illuminating the entire ballroom, illuminating the walls, and thus illuminating the sea outside. People can see countless schools of fish, big and small, swimming towards this crystal official. Some of the scales are glowing with purple light, and some are lit up like silver and gold. A wide torrent passes through the center of the ballroom. The men and women in the sea sing beautiful songs and dance on this torrent. People who live on land cannot sing such a beautiful song.

Among these people, the little mermaid sang the most beautifully. Everyone applauded her; she felt very happy for a while, because she knew that only her voice was the most beautiful on land and in the sea. But she immediately remembered the world above. She could not forget the beautiful prince, nor could she forget the sorrow caused by her not having an immortal soul like his. So she secretly walked out of her father's palace: when it was filled with singing and happiness, she sat sadly in her little garden. Suddenly she heard the sound of a horn coming from the water. She thought: "He must be sailing on it: he—I love him more than my father and mother; he—I miss him all the time; I put the happiness of my life in his hands. I will sacrifice everything to win him and an immortal soul. When my sisters are dancing in the palace of father, I am going to visit the witch of the sea. I have always been very afraid of her, but she Maybe you can teach me some ways and help me."

The little mermaid walked out of the garden and walked towards a frothy whirlpool—the witch lived behind it. She had never walked this way before. There are no flowers or seaweed here, only a smooth gray sandy bottom stretches towards the whirlpool. The water swirled here like a noisy waterwheel, turning everything it hits to the bottom of the water. To reach the area where the witch lives, she must walk through the vortex of rapid rotation. There was a long journey through a hot muddy field: the witch called this place her peat field. Behind this there is a terrible forest, and her house is inside. All the trees and bushes are full of polyps-a kind of half plant and half animal. They look a lot like multi-headed snakes emerging from the ground. Their branches are all long, slimy arms, and their fingers are all soft like worms. They quivered from root to top. They hugged tightly what they could grasp in the sea, and did not relax at all.

The little mermaid stopped in front of the forest, very panicked. Her heart jumped with fear, and she almost wanted to turn around and go back. But when she thought of the prince and the soul of the man, she had courage again. She wrapped her long fluttering hair firmly around her head so that the coral insects could not catch her. She pressed her hands tightly to her chest, so she was like a fish jumping in the water, jumping forward among these ugly polyps, and these polyps only waved their soft long arms behind her. And fingers. She saw that each of them had grasped something, and countless small arms wrapped around it like a strong iron ring. Those who drowned in the sea and sank to the bottom of the sea, exposed white bones in the arms of these coral insects. They hugged the rudder and the box tightly, the bones of land animals, and a little mermaid that was caught and strangled by them-this was the most terrifying thing for her.

Now she came to a slimy clearing in the forest. The big, fat water snakes were turning around here, revealing their pale yellow, ugly belly. In the center of this land is a house made of dead bones. The witch of the sea is sitting here, feeding a toad with her mouth, just as we feed a little canary with sugar. She called those ugly, fat water snakes her little chickens, and allowed them to crawl around on her fat, soft chest.

"I know what you are here for," said the witch of the sea. "You are a stupid thing! But, my beautiful princess, I will let you achieve your goal, because this thing will give you a tragic ending. You want to remove your fish tail and give birth to two pillars , So that you can walk like a human being. You want that prince to fall in love with you, so that you can get him, and therefore an immortal soul." Then the witch laughed in disgust, mad and The water snakes all rolled to the ground and crawled around. "You came just in time," said the witch. "Tomorrow after the sun comes out, I can’t help you. I have to wait for a year. I can take the medicine and give it to you. You take this medicine and swim to the land before the sun comes out. You sit on the beach. , Eat this medicine, so your tail can be divided into two halves, shrinking into what humans call beautiful legs. But this is very painful-it is like a sharp knife slashing into your body. Anything you see Your people will definitely say that you are the most beautiful child they have ever seen! You will still keep your steps like swimming, and no dancer will dance as soft as you. But every step you take It will make you feel as if you are walking on a sharp knife, as if your blood is flowing out. If you can bear the pain, I can help you."

"I can bear it," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice. At this time she thought of the prince and her wish to obtain an immortal soul.

"But remember," said the witch, "Once you acquire the shape of a human being, you can no longer become a mermaid, and you can no longer go into the water and return to your sister's or your father's palace. Coming. At the same time, if you can’t get the love of that prince, if you can’t make him forget his parents for you, love you wholeheartedly, and ask the pastor to put your hands together to form a couple, you won’t He will get an immortal soul. On the first morning he married someone else, your heart will shatter and you will become foam on the water."

"I'm not afraid!" said the little mermaid. But her face was as pale as death.

"But you still have to pay me!" said the witch, "and what I want is not a tiny thing. Among the people on the bottom of the sea, your voice is the most beautiful. Undoubtedly, you want to use this. The voice fascinates him, but you have to give this voice to me. I must get the best of you in exchange for my precious medicine! I must put my own blood in this medicine to make it sharp It's like a sharp knife!"

"But if you take my voice away," said the little mermaid, "then what is left of me?"

"You still have a beautiful figure," the witch replied, "you still have light steps and expressive eyes. With these things, you can easily fascinate a man's heart. Well, you are already Have you lost your courage? Stick out your little tongue, I can cut it off as a reward, and you can also get this strong potion."

"Just do it," said the little mermaid. The witch then prepared the pot of medicine to decoct the magical medicine.

"Cleaning is a good thing," she said; so she tied a few snakes into a knot and used it to scrub the jar. Then she scratched her chest and let her black blood drip into the jar. The vapour of the medicine rose into the air strangely, seemingly scary. Every once in a while, the witch added something new to the pot. When the medicine boiled to the boil, a cry like a crocodile floated out. In the end, the medicine was fried. It looks like very clear water.

"Take it!" said the witch. So she cut off the little mermaid's tongue. The little mermaid is now a dumb, unable to sing or talk.

"When you go back through my forest, if the coral insects catch you," said the witch, "you just need to sprinkle a drop of this potion on them, and their arms and fingers will break into pieces. Flying all around.” But the little mermaid didn’t have to do this, because when the coral insect saw the shining potion-it shined like a shining star in her hand-they were there in her He drew back in fear. In this way, she quickly walked through forests, swamps and turbulent vortexes.

She can see her father's palace. The torches in the large dancing hall have been extinguished, and undoubtedly, the people inside have fallen asleep. But she didn't dare to see them again, because she was a dumb now and was about to leave them forever. Her heart seemed to be broken into pieces with pain. She secretly walked into the garden, plucked a flower from each sister's flowerbed, flew a thousand kisses with her finger to the emperor, and then he emerged from the deep blue sea.

When she saw the prince's palace, the sun had not yet risen. She walked up the marble steps solemnly. The moon shines transparently and is very beautiful. The little mermaid drank the strong potion. She immediately felt as if a knife that was fast on both sides had split her slender body. She fainted immediately. Falling down as if dead. She woke up when the sun hit the sea, and she felt a sharp pain. At this time, a young and beautiful prince was standing in front of her. His jet-black eyes were looking at her, making her bow her head embarrassedly. At this time, she found that her fish tail was gone, and she obtained a pair of the most beautiful little white legs that only a girl had. But she didn't wear clothes, so she used her thick long hair to cover her body. The prince asked who she was and how she got here. She looked at him tenderly and sadly with her dark blue eyes, because she could no longer speak. He took her by the hand and led her into the palace. As the witch had told her before, she felt that every step was like walking on an awl and a knife. But she would rather endure the pain.

She took the prince's arm and walked lightly like a blister. He and everyone looked at her gentle and light steps, surprised.

Now she is wearing expensive clothes made of silk and spun yarn. She is one of the most beautiful people in the palace, but she is a dumb and can neither sing. Can't speak either. The beautiful female slave, dressed in silk and gold and silver ornaments, came up and sang for the prince and his parents. There was a slave who sang the most charming, and the prince couldn't help clapping and smile at her. At this time, the little mermaid felt a sorrow. She knew that sometimes her singing voice was much more beautiful than that kind of singing! she thinks:

"Ah! I only wish him to know that in order to be with him, I sacrificed my voice forever!"

Now the slaves danced gracefully and lightly to the wonderful music. At this time, the little mermaid raised her beautiful, white hands, stood on toes, and danced lightly on the floor—no one had ever danced like this before. Every movement of her brings out her beauty. Her eyes are more touching than the songs of slaves.

Everyone was fascinated, especially that Wang Yu—he called her his "orphan". She kept dancing, although every time her feet touched the ground, she seemed to be walking on a sharp knife. The prince said that she should always be with him from now on; therefore, she was allowed to sleep on a velvet cushion outside his door.

He asked someone to make a set of men's clothes for her so that she could accompany him on horseback. They walked through the fragrant woods, the green branches swept over their shoulders, and the birds were singing behind the fresh leaves. She and the prince climbed the mountain. Although her slender feet were bleeding, and everyone saw it, she still laughed and continued to accompany him until they saw the clouds moving underneath, like a group of birds flying to distant countries until.

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In the prince's palace, after everyone was asleep at night, she walked to the wide steps. In order to make her fever feet feel a little cool, she stood in the cold water. At this time she couldn't help but think of the people living on the bottom of the sea.

One night, her sisters floated arm in arm. While they were swimming on the water, they sang sad songs. Then she waved to them. They recognized her; they said how sad she had made them. After this time, they came to see her every night. One night, she saw the old grandmother and the sea king wearing a crown, who had not been out of the sea for many years. They reached out to her, but unlike her sisters, they did not dare to swim close to the ground.

The prince loved her more than a day. He loved her like a good, affectionate child, but he never thought of marrying her as a queen. However, she must be his wife, otherwise she would not be able to get an immortal soul, and she would become a sea foam in the first morning of his marriage.

"Among all people, do you love me the most?" The little mermaid's eyes seemed to say so when he took her into his arms and kissed her forehead.

"Yes, you are my dearest person!" said the prince, "because you have the kindest heart among all people. You are the dearest to me, you are like the young man I have seen sometime Woman, but I will never see her again. At that time I was sitting in a boat—the boat had sunk. The huge waves pushed me to the shore by a temple. There were several young women working there. Pray. The youngest of them found me by the shore and saved my life. I have only seen her twice: she is the only person I can love in this world, but you are very like her , You almost replaced the impression she left in my soul. She belongs to this temple, so my luck especially gave you to me. Let us never separate!"

"Ah, he didn't know that I saved his life!" thought the little mermaid. "I lifted him out of the sea and sent him to a woods where the temple was. I sat behind the foam, watching if anyone would come. I saw that beautiful girl—he loved her more than me. "At this moment the little mermaid sighed deeply-she couldn't cry. "That girl belongs to that temple—he once said. She will never walk into this human world—they will never see each other. I am with him and see him every day. I Take care of him, love him, and give my life to him!"

Now everyone is saying that the prince is about to get married, and her wife is a daughter of a neighboring king. He specially equipped a beautiful ship for this. On the surface, the prince said he wanted to go sightseeing in a neighboring kingdom, but in fact he wanted to see the daughter of a neighboring monarch. He will go with a large number of attendants. The little mermaid shook his head and smiled. She can guess the prince's thoughts better than anyone else.

"I have to travel!" He said to her, "I have to see a beautiful princess. This is my parents' order, but they can't force me to take her home as my fiancée! I will not love Her. You are like the beautiful girl in the temple, but she is not. If I want to choose a new wife, then I will choose you first-my dear, with a pair of eyes that can speak Dumb orphan girl."

So he kissed her bright red lips, stroked her long hair, and pressed his head to her heart, making her heart dream of human happiness and an immortal soul.

"Aren't you afraid of the sea, my dumb orphan?" he asked. At this time they were standing on the gorgeous ship, which was heading towards the neighboring kingdom. He talked to her about the storm and the calm sea, the weird fish living in the sea, and what the diver could see on the bottom of the sea. She only smiled slightly for such stories, because she knew better than anyone about the seabed.

In the moonlit night, everyone was asleep, only the helm stood by the helm. At this moment she was sitting on the side of the boat, staring at the clear water below, she seemed to see her father's palace. Her old grandmother, wearing a silver crown on her head, was standing high on the top of the palace; she looked at the keel of the ship through the rapids. After a while, his sisters all floated to the surface of the water, they looked at her sadly, and painfully twisted their white hands. She waved to them, smiled, and wanted to tell them that everything is beautiful and happy now. But at this moment, a waiter on the boat came to her. Her sisters immediately sank into the water, and the waiter thought that the white things she saw were nothing but sea foam.

The next morning, the ship sailed into the port of the magnificent imperial city of the neighboring country. All church bells rang, trumpets were blown from many tall buildings, and soldiers saluted with flying flags and bright bayonets. There is a banquet every day. The ball and the party were held in turn, but the princess had not yet appeared. People say that she was educated in a remote temple, learning all the royal virtues. Finally she finally arrived.

The little mermaid eagerly wanted to see her beauty. She had to admit her beauty, she had never seen a body more beautiful than this. Her skin is so delicate and white; behind her long black eyelashes are a pair of smiling, loyal, dark blue eyes.

"It's you!" said the prince. "When I was lying on the shore like a dead body, you were the one who saved me!" So he hugged the shy bride tightly in his arms. "Ah, I am so happy!" He said to the little mermaid, "The best thing I never dared to hope for has finally become a fact. You will be happy for my happiness, because you are the most People who like me!"

The little mermaid kissed his hand. She felt her heart was breaking. The first morning after his wedding will bring her to destruction, and will turn her into a sea foam.

The church bells rang, and it was good news that people rode horses in the street to announce their engagement. On every altar, fragrant grease burns in precious oil lamps. The priests waved the incense burner, and the bride and groom held hands to receive the bishop's blessing. The little mermaid was wearing silk, gold ornaments, and holding the veil of the newlyweds, but her ears could not hear the joyful music, and her eyes could not see the sacred ceremony. She remembered the morning when she was going to die, and everything she had lost in this world.

On the same evening, the bride and groom came to the boat. The salute rang, and the flag was flying. A golden and purple royal tent was erected in the middle of the ship, with the most beautiful cushions in it. Here, the beautiful newlyweds will spend their cool and quiet night.

The wind is blowing the sails. The ship sailed gently on this clear sea, without great fluctuations.

When the twilight gradually fell, the colorful lights came on, and the sailors danced happily on the deck. The little mermaid couldn't help thinking of the scene when she first floated to the surface, and remembered the same gorgeous and joyous scene she saw then. She danced and flew, just as a swallow being chased was flying. Everyone was cheering and praising her, she had never danced so beautifully. The sharp knife seemed to chop her delicate feet, but she didn't feel the pain, because her heart hurts even more than this.

She knew that this was the last night she saw him-for him, she left her family and family, she handed over her beautiful voice, she endured endless pain every day, but he did not at all do not know. This was the last night she could breathe the same air with him. This was the last night she could see the deep sea and the sky full of stars. At the same time, an eternal night without thoughts and dreams awaits her-she who has no soul and cannot get a soul. Until the middle of the night, everything on the boat was still joyful and pleasant. She was smiling and dancing, but she had dead thoughts in her heart. The prince kissed his beautiful bride: the bride stroked his shiny black hair. They took their hands and went to rest in the gorgeous tent.

The boat is very quiet now. Only the helmsman stood by the rudder. The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the bulwark and stared to the east, waiting for the dawn to appear-she knew that the first sunlight would kill her, and she saw her sisters emerge from the waves . They are as pale as herself.

Their beautiful long hair is no longer floating in the wind-because it has been cut off.

"We have given the hair to the witch, hope she can help you so that you will not perish in the future. She gave us a knife. Take it, you see, how fast it is! Before the sun comes out, You have to insert it into that prince’s heart. When his blood flows on your feet, your feet will join together again and become a fish tail, then you can restore the original shape of the mermaid, you You can come back to the water here; in this way, you can still live for three hundred years before you become a lifeless salt water bubble. Get your hands on it! Before the sun comes out, it’s not that he died. , You are dead! Our old grandmother was so sad that her white hair fell off, just as our hair fell on a witch's scissors. Stabbed that prince to death, and come back quickly! Do it! You didn’t see When it comes to the red light in the sky, after a few minutes, the sun will come out, and then you will surely perish!"

They let out a strange, deep sigh, and they sank into wave prayer.

The little mermaid opened the purple curtain on the tent and saw the beautiful bride sleeping with her head in the prince's arms. She bent down and kissed the prince's delicate eyebrows, and he stared at the sky—the morning glow gradually became brighter. She glanced at the sharp knife, and then dropped her eyes to the prince; he was muttering the name of his bride in a dream. Only her exists in his thoughts. The knife trembled in the little mermaid's hand. But at this moment, she threw the knife far away into the waves. Where Wanzi sank, the waves emitted a red light, as if many blood drops splashed out of the water. She cast her bewildered gaze at the prince again, and then she jumped out of the boat into the sea, and she felt her body melt into foam.

Now the sun is rising from the sea. The sun shone softly and warmly on the cold foam. Because the little mermaid did not feel perished. She saw the bright sun, and countless transparent and beautiful creatures flew above her. Through them, she could see the white sails on the boat and the colorful clouds in the sky. Their sound is harmonious music. But it is so illusory that human ears can hardly hear them, just as the eyes on the ground cannot see them. They don't have wings, they just float in the air with their light body. The little mermaid felt that he had acquired a shape like them, and gradually rose from the bubble.

"Who shall I go to?" she asked. Her voice was the same as these other creatures, vain, and no music club in the world could be compared with it.

"Go to the daughter of the sky!" answered another voice. "A mermaid has no immortal soul, and there will never be such a soul unless she has the love of a mortal. Her eternal existence depends on external power. The daughter of the sky does not have an eternal soul, but They can create a soul through kind behavior. We fly to a hot country, where the epidemic air is hurting the people. We can blow the cool breeze~www.ltnovel.com~ can smell the flowers. Spread in the air, we can spread a healthy and happy spirit. Three hundred years later, when we have done our best to do all the good deeds that we can do, we can obtain an immortal soul and share all the eternal happiness of mankind .You, poor individual fish, like us, have been fighting for that goal wholeheartedly. You endured pain; you persevered; you have risen into the world of elves. Through your kind work, After three hundred years, you can create an immortal soul for yourself."

The little mermaid raised her shiny arm to the sun of God, and for the first time she felt tears coming from her eyes.

On that boat, voices and activities began again. She saw the prince and his beautiful bride looking for her. They looked at the churning foam in mourning, as if they knew she had jumped into the waves. In the dark, she kissed the newlyweds on the forehead and she smiled at the prince. So she went up into the sky along with the other children in the air, riding on the rosy clouds.

"In this way, three hundred years later, we can ascend to heaven!"

"We may not have to wait that long!" a voice whispered. "We flew into human houses invisibly, and there are some children living in them. Every day if we find a good child, if he brings happiness to his parents and is worthy of his parents’ love, God can Shorten the time of our trials. When we fly over the house, the child will not know. When we smile at him happily, we can subtract one year from the three hundred years; but when we look When a naughty and wicked child has to cry out sadly, then every tear will add another day to our trial."