On the dark green sea, there are many thick clouds in the sky, and the black shadows cast by the sun are obvious. A small fishing boat with folded canvas drifts on it with the flow of the sea.
A young man with a messy beard rushed out of the water with a net bag on his back. His long years of seaside life made him look very vicissitudes of life, and his appearance was not commensurate with his actual age. He supported the side of the boat with one hand and put the black balls in the net bag.
Pour sea urchins and other seafood into the compartment.
When he was about to dive again, an old man on the boat who was observing the trawling situation pulled him back. The old man's hair was a little gray, his beard covered the lower half of his face, there were many and deep wrinkles, and his skin was as dull as the young people in the sea.
Sun-burned black and red.
"Lev, don't touch it anymore, get ready to go back!"
"Grandpa Matvey, are there many big rocks below? I also saw a blue lobster. This time I want to go down and catch it."
"Lev, don't get lost in the richness of the water. The danger is approaching you. Come up! Let's collect the trawl net and go back. The weather will change at any time."
The sails with many holes and patches slipped off. With the help of the wind, the drifting ship gained sailing power and was heading towards a black spot ahead. Lev and Matvey pulled the trawl back and pulled the boat hard.
winch.
"This is really heavy! Grandpa Matvey, it seems that we have gained a lot today."
"I hope so! We have to go back with or without it. The darkness and storm are brewing in the distance."
After speaking, the two of them turned the rusty winch on the ship with all their strength. The thick rope was tightened and retracted to the winch frame. The old wood bearing the weight creaked and looked like it was about to fall apart at any time.
The trawl net that gradually returned to the side of the boat caught a large group of things, which looked like kelp and seaweed, with some fish, shrimp and other invisible things entangled in it.
"Would you like to get on the boat and take a look? There are a lot of seaweeds and kelp, which is really strange. The sea here is not too shallow! Where did there come from so many?"
"It's better to just open the knot and throw it back into the sea! It's all seaweed and kelp."
"Grandpa Matvey, look, there's a blue lobster inside. It's such a big one."
Lev saw the familiar pliers trying desperately to squeeze it out. So the two of them pulled up a large mass of the trawl net and put it back into the boat, and the old wooden supports finally freed themselves.
After untying the trawl net, some unknown fishes scattered out, and seaweed and kelp were pushed together. Lev caught the blue lobster, which was slightly smaller than his own arm, and put it in another compartment.
Matvey, who was pulling off the kelp and seaweed, yelled. Lev quickly turned around and found that the kelp and seaweed were tightly wrapped in a white cocoon, like a pupa. The silk threads at one end were sparse, and the inside could be vaguely seen.
The pale and painful face, with eyes tightly closed and hair disheveled, was exactly the part where Matvey pulled away the seaweed.
After the two cleaned up the debris, they also saw the original appearance of the thing clearly. It was about one meter and seventy meters long. The sticky white silk thread arched into a pupa shape. At the slightly transparent top, you could see that it was wrapped inside.
A dark-haired woman who looked about eighteen years old. Her appearance was unclear, but she looked very beautiful.
"Grandpa Matvey, have you ever encountered such a situation? Could it be a noble and wealthy lady whose body was dumped by pirates?" Lev looked away, and found that the more he looked at the people inside, the more he was attracted to him, and he couldn't help it.
stepped forward.
"It doesn't seem like pirates would just kill such a beautiful woman and throw her into the sea. And this layer of things can even isolate the sea water. I haven't seen it before."
"Then what should we do with this? Throw it back into the sea?" Lev asked, and suddenly found that the painful expression of the person inside the white pupa had disappeared, and the whole face turned into a peaceful and sleeping look.
"Grandpa Matvey, I see her expression has changed. Is she still alive? How about taking her back for treatment."
"This" Matvey frowned. He also noticed that something was wrong with the people inside, but he was very embarrassed. He had to worry about the person whose origin was unknown and who could survive in the sea.
"Grandpa Matvey, if the other party is really in trouble and misses the noble lady, wouldn't we be able to get a rescue fund? You know that I am not young anymore and I need money to start a family and start a business."
Lev was persuading Matvey, and Matvey looked at Levi. He is his brother's grandson, and he is indeed quite old. The fishing village on the island is backwatered, and no one is willing to follow you if you don't have any savings.
.
"Do you really want to take her back? Maybe she will leave when she wakes up and get nothing in the end. Or maybe she will disappear on her own one day like those legends in the village."
"It doesn't matter, just think of it as saving people."
Matvey went back to control the sail. He didn't know whether he should be cruel and throw it into the sea. He didn't know whether this was good or bad.
"Sister, have you decided to be promoted to the Iron-Blooded Knight? In that case, will you be my sister, or will you become a brother?"
"This is the fate of our family. Don't you think dad is still our dad? You will also experience this in the future."
"No, I don't want it, and neither do you, sister. You have a choice. You can choose the witch."
"Do we have a choice?"
"Mom has changed, do you want to change too?"
"Since the death of our ancestors, our family has become more and more difficult, and I haven't seen my father for a long time. We are just people who can't help ourselves in the torrent of time."
The girl in the dream cried to a heroic woman with red hair, and hugged her tightly as she spoke. The red-haired woman stroked the girl's same red hair.
The images in the dream are constantly changing, including scenes of a child being punished for being naughty at school, and scenes of a man with red hair riding a horse, and the figures in them constantly overlap and freeze.
"Sister, I didn't expect you to come."
In front of him was a handsome red-haired man holding a rapier, pointing at the girl who fell to the ground. Her hair had turned black, and she looked at the man in front of her with a little weakness.
"Go quickly! The law enforcers are coming." The handsome man urged the girl on the ground expressionlessly.
"Sister, can I still come to you in the future?"
"No, since you have made your own choice, you have to bear the corresponding price. Leave quickly, otherwise you won't be able to leave."
At this time, Hermione's memories were all mixed together, and she was experiencing her life over and over again in her dreams. Sometimes she was peaceful, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and sometimes crazy.
The village of Maggiore where Lev and Matvi are located is on a small island with cliffs on one side and steep slopes on the other. The main part of the village is built on one side surrounded by beaches. It belongs to the semi-autonomous coastline that separates Roon and Feneport.
After the small country of the Principality of Faroe and the southern countries split off, the small countries, autonomous territories, and free cities here militarily unified and joined the common defense led by Ma Xi, and politically maintained their independence and autonomy.
The fishermen who returned from fishing carried the fishing nets and fish home to dry in twos and threes, or carried the fish to the docked ships to exchange for supplies and general currency, Loen currency, and Fenebaud's metal currency. There was also some circulation.
"I heard that that boy Lev picked up a beautiful woman."
"Which Lev? There are so many Levs in the village, just like your Lev. And you say every woman you see is beautiful, how should I believe you?"
"Lev of the Dori family, this is true. I peeped and saw it. He was lying on the bed in the house, wrapped in layers of white things."
"You said it was wrapped, so how do you know whether it floats beautifully or not? If you have this time, go catch a few more fish and earn some money so that your children can go to the church in the town."
"So this is why I already have a child and you don't have a wife yet."
"You deserve a beating, right?"
Two men wearing original-color linen tops and loose brown pants started fighting, and people around them cheered.
Above the village near the steep slope, there is a yard surrounded by several trees and wooden sticks. Except for the wooden houses next to the side of the road, the other sides are full of trees and fruit trees. The view here is wide and the terrain is high, almost
You can see half of the village.
In front of several connected wooden single-story buildings, an old woman with gray hair was mending fishing nets, and a lot of cut and flattened fish were drying in the yard.
Lev shouldered the sack and carried a mesh bag, which contained some cheese, cabbage, beets and other vegetables that had been exchanged. Matvey carried the things back to the yard in the lower left corner.
"Mom, I'm back. I brought back a bag of rye flour."
Lev talked about today's events with his mother in the yard. Lev's father and grandfather both died in the violent storm at sea. Only he and his mother were left in this family. With Matvey's help, life was still going well.
It's passable.
"Lev, are you sure the woman you picked up is still alive? She hasn't eaten in the past few days. Is she really a human?"
"Mom, she is really a person. Now that I have picked her up, there is nothing I can do. I can't throw her back into the sea."
"We still have to be careful. If it's a siren, our village will be doomed. And this woman is so coquettish that she is not suitable for our family. Let's send her to the church in the town! The one in the village cannot be trusted. Vasily can't be trusted at all.
Not a servant of God.”
Mrs. Dori was worried that disaster would come, and the charm of the man lying inside fascinated those who saw it, and they fell into it unconsciously.
"Mom, stop talking, these things will not happen. Village Chief Vasily is a guy who cares about money but not God. You should talk less, lest he come to put on our shoes." Lev went in and put things away.
In the next room, the white chrysalis lay there quietly. The silk threads became more crystal clear, making the people inside more clear. The shirt and coat on the chest seemed to have been violently torn apart, and the two buttons from the collar of the clothes were missing.
, the remaining threads prove that they once existed, and the chest occasionally shines with a trace of blue light, and is covered with black and white lines.
Lev came here and pulled the white silk thread, but it didn't loosen at all. He tried to cut it with a knife, but the edge of the knife was erased instead. Looking at the sleeping beauty inside, he had no choice but to save it.
Awake.
"Lev, didn't you notice? She suffered atrocities and was abandoned at sea. Let's put her back into the sea! Otherwise, what will happen if her enemies find her here?"
Mrs. Dori also saw the changes, and she could see a little more clearly inside. She was devout in her faith and was obviously not able to accept foreign objects.
