Chapter 70

Chapter 70

In the huge sea city, there is a large group of colorful corals in the central city. They are colorful and can be found in almost any color.They live closely together like flowers, forming colorful "flower seas" on the coral reefs.【Note】

On this coral reef, there is a group of luminous spiritual fish with luminous devices distributed in their bodies.At night, when they wander in the sea city in groups, they are like a river of stars, dreamlike.

Spirit fish love clean waters, and as the "cleaners" of the sea, they take on the task of cleaning the waters.Every night when the fish are quiet, they will emerge from the coral groups and suck up the debris in the sea water to keep the water clean.

Dongchen held up Han Zhan's fish tail and ran his fingers over the cold scales. He was about to clean the scales, but Han Zhan grabbed his hand.

Han Zhan frowned, his expression showing a bit of disapproval, "I'll do it."

Dong Chen blinked, "Why?" He pressed Han Zhan's scales with his palms and said seriously, "When I was a child, my brother cleaned my scales all day long, and I also want to clean my brother's scales."

He still remembered that he loved to play when he was a child. He often got into the seaweed with Dongkui and others to play, and every time he came back with his scales dirty.However, the elder brother was not angry at all. He gently picked up his fish tail and cleaned the dirt on his scales.

Brother, he is the best fish to him besides his fathers.

In the past, his brother took care of him, but now that he has grown up, he can be kind to his brother.

Staring into Dongchen's stubborn eyes, Han Zhan slowly let go of his hand, "Be careful not to hurt your hand."

The scales of adult fish are very hard and sharp. If you are not careful, you will be cut by the scales.

"It's okay, I just need to be careful." There was a smile on Dong Chen's lips. A spiritual fish happened to swim in front of him. The faint light shone on the side of his face, making his clear face look comfortable and beautiful.

His fingers flexibly stroked the scales, and his pink fingertips hooked up a small piece of black dirt. Before Dongchen could see clearly what it was, he saw the spirit fish swimming over and opening its mouth to suck up the dirt.

Dongchen looked up at Han Zhan, thinking that his brother must have gone to wallow in the mud at the bottom of the sea, otherwise how could his scales be stained with sea mud.

Dongchen knew in his heart that his brother was a mermaid who wanted to save face, and he definitely didn't want other mermaids to know about it, so he wallowed in the mud.

Dongchen pretended not to know and continued to clean the remaining scales for him silently.

When the cleaning reached a certain point below the lower abdomen, Han Zhan's body shook violently and he grabbed Dongchen's wrist. His voice was slightly hoarse and he said, "That's it."

Dongchen felt the scales under his palm protrude and slowly open. He suddenly thought of something, and a blush appeared on the tip of his ears, spreading to the roots of his ears. He quickly let go of his hand and stammered: "I, I didn't mean it."

Han Zhan's body became inexplicably restless. After the reproduction period, he rarely felt this way.This time when Dongchen touched the scales at that location, a fire suddenly lit up deep in his heart, burning his blood.

But no, Chenchen is still underage, he can afford to wait.

"It's okay." Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Dongchen's red ears, and his heart started to beat rapidly. He looked away uncomfortably, "The scales have been cleaned, I can go back."

"Okay." After saying that, Dongchen looked at Han Zhan's protruding scales, quickly turned his eyes away, and whispered, "Brother, don't you need to deal with it?"

In his memory, humans would relieve themselves if they stood up, but he seemed to have never seen a mermaid relieve itself.

Confusion flashed in Han Zhan's eyes, as if he didn't know what Dong Chen meant.

He was slightly embarrassed and said, "It will go away after a while, don't worry about it."

Well, it turns out that mermaids don’t know how to relieve themselves.

The two fishes returned to the hut silently, and then went to their rooms to sleep.

In the winter morning, I was tossing and turning on the stone bed, unable to sleep. I flicked my tail fin unconsciously and made waves.His mind kept thinking about the protruding scales on the black fish tail he saw tonight.

After a long time, Dongchen covered her face, but she didn't know that the tips of her ears were already red with embarrassment.

Han Zhan leaned against the wall, listening to the movements in the next room, his dark eyes getting darker and darker.

It snowed heavily all night. When they woke up the next day, the mermaids found that the sea was covered in ice.

Dongkui was so happy that he could go skating again. He couldn't wait to ask Suotu and Yuanxi to go skating.

Suotu lifted the tip of his ear and said, "You think about playing all day long, but you don't look at your weight. Can the ice support you?"

"It hurts, it hurts!" Dongkui was so angry that he grabbed Suotu's hand and bit it hard.

Suotu frowned and shook his hand, but failed to shake it off. He calmly said: "Let go."

Dongkui glared at Suotu and refused to let go.

Dongchen sighed and said, "Dongkui, you have to remember that you are no longer the little mermaid you used to be. Be good and open your mouth."

Yuan Xi also persuaded him for a long time before Dongkui reluctantly opened his mouth.

An obvious tooth mark appeared on the back of Suotu's hand, faintly oozing with blood.Dong Kui didn't bite hard, otherwise with the sharp teeth of the mermaid, Suo Tu's hand could be bitten off in an instant.

"Hmph!" Dongkui snorted heavily and ignored Suotu.

However, the two fishes were at odds again, and neither one paid attention to the other.

Yuan Xi patted the wilted Dong Kui and said, "How about we wait until the ice gets thicker and we can go play again."

Yuan Xi asked Suo Tu again, "Are you going to hunt today?"

"Go," Sotu said.

They didn't return to Haicheng until winter came. Although they caught many sea beasts in the Great Trench, they still weren't enough to last until the end of winter.So they have been hunting outside for the past two days and preparing to store more food.

Passing through the dense kelp forest outside Haicheng, they saw a black-tailed mermaid swimming over dragging a large sea beast.The black-tailed mermaid narrowed her eyes, raised the corners of her mouth, and waved to them with a lazy smile, "Dong cub, are you out to catch fish?"

Dongchen's voice had the unique clearness of a young man, and he said angrily: "Uncle Ai Rui, you agreed not to call me Dongzai."

Ai Rui patted his forehead as if he was in a daze, "Didn't I forget?"

Yuan Xi next to him smiled warmly, "Uncle Ari."

"Yuan Xi is here too." Ai Rui threw the sea beast he was dragging to him, "Take it back to eat."

The big sea beast was still alive, swishing its tail violently, and was about to escape. When Ari slapped it back with its tail, it turned on its belly and pretended to be dead.

Yuan Xi pursed her lips and said shyly: "Uncle Ari, no need, I will catch it myself."

"Your father Long Hui caught this." Ai Rui raised his hand and rubbed Yuan Xi's hair. "He asked me to bring it back to you."

"Really?" Yuan Xi couldn't help but be happy to learn that his father still cared about him, but soon he became worried: "Is dad's food enough?"

"That's enough." Ai Rui turned to look at Dongchen and the others, "You guys should go back too. It snowed heavily last night, and those sea beasts had already hid. I went out and walked around, and then I saw this one..."In the middle of speaking, Ari realized that he had let something slip and stopped quickly.

Yuan Xi said "Hey" and asked in a low voice: "Uncle Ari, isn't this the sea beast that dad caught?"

"Don't think nonsense." After his lie was exposed, Ai Rui didn't blush. He said calmly, "Go back quickly. Lei Zhe knows that you will come back late, so he left food for you. If there is not enough food, go find it."That’s fine with him.”

After saying that, Ai Rui drove them back this winter morning.

It had been snowing heavily for several days. It finally cleared up and the weather became warmer.Han Zhan asked Dongchen if he wanted to go for a walk on the island.

Dongchen nodded briskly and said, "Okay, I'll call Dongkui and the others."

Han Zhan took his arm and said, "Let's go."

"ah?"

Han Zhan said firmly: "It's just the two of us, no one else."

Realizing that Han Zhan's palm seemed to be injured, Dong Chen suddenly grabbed his hand and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with your hand?"

"It's okay." Han Zhan wanted to put his hand away.

Don't want Dongchen to hold his hand and hold on, "Let me see."

Looking down and taking a closer look, Han Zhan's slender fingers had distinct joints and he clenched his fist tightly.

Dongchen opened his fingers and saw blisters on the palms of his hands, which were obvious signs of burns. Dongchen couldn't help but become anxious, "Brother, why are your hands burned?"

Han Zhan said nonchalantly: "A little injury."

"Brother doesn't cherish himself too much." Dongchen pursed her lips and looked angry.

Han Zhan raised his fingers and gently wiped the corners of his eyes, "It's my brother's fault. Don't cry Chenchen."

"I'm not crying." Dongchen immediately argued.

"Well, Chenchen didn't cry." Han Zhan took his hand, "Let's go, I will take you to the island to play."

Dong Chen shook his hand and saw that Han Zhan didn't want to let go of his hand, so he didn't mention it either, so they held hands and swam to the surface of the sea.There was a thick layer of ice on the sea surface. Han Zhan broke the ice and said, "Wait for me, I'll go up first."

Han Zhan jumped onto the ice, and the black fish tail turned into legs, standing on the ice.The ice is so thick that an adult fish would have no problem walking on it.

Han Zhan reached out and pulled Dongchen up from the water.

Dongchen's eyes happened to be on the area under the scales. Thinking of what he touched that night, he turned his face subconsciously. In the past, even when his brother transformed into legs, he would not pay attention to the scales under his lower abdomen. I don't know.What happened recently? It seems that since that night, his eyes have always fallen on those scales inadvertently.

Dongchen lowered his head and did not dare to look into Han Zhan's eyes. He struggled in his heart and despised himself. How could he do this.

Suddenly, a cold touch came from the tip of his ears, and Dongchen raised his head in fear.

"What are you thinking about? Your ears are so red." Han Zhan's always cold voice sounded from above his head.

Dongchen fanned herself and blurted out, "It's too hot."

too hot?

Han Zhan had a strange expression. He grabbed Dongchen's arm and pulled him out of the water.

Dongchen transformed his legs and walked unsteadily on the ice. It had been too long since he had used his legs to walk, and he was a little unaccustomed to it. "Brother, where are we going?" As a result, he didn't pay attention, and his feet slipped.He hit Han Zhan in front of him on his back.

Dongchen hugged Han Zhan in a hurry.

Feeling the strong muscles under her hands tensing up, and her back covered with scars of all sizes, Dongchen couldn't care less about being shy, and felt more distressed.

A clearing was cleared on the island's beach.

Han Zhan said: "Wait for me here."

He returned to the water and caught two big-headed fish, knocked them unconscious and disemboweled them.After doing this, he walked into the island, took out dry branches, and held two flints in his hands.

Seeing Han Zhan skillfully lighting a fire with flint, skewering fish with branches, and grilling them on the fire, Dong Chen had an incredible guess in his mind, "Brother, shouldn't you be learning how to grill fish these days?""

The blisters on my brother's hands were probably caused by fire burns.

He suddenly remembered that a few days ago, he said he wanted to eat grilled fish, so his brother specially learned to make a fire to grill fish for him.

Dongchen's eyes were filled with moisture. How could he be so stupid and treat his brother so well?