I heard that the missing mermaid is back

  The villagers who heard that the little mermaid was back rushed to the scene, with those who arrived first sitting down and those who came later standing. The dimly lit hut was packed to the brim. The old folks started talking one after another:

  "Sure enough, it's Little Mermaid Whale Whale back! How could such a thing happen! Whale Whale, where did you go all those years ago? Seventeen years have passed and you're actually back! Unfortunately, your father, Blue Ocean Alliance, is already gone... Poor child!" Luolian didn't speak, secretly calculating that she and Little Mermaid Whale Whale were actually the same age.

  "After you disappeared, your father searched for you everywhere in the streets like a madman, finally exhausted to death on the beach."

  "Poor kid, lost his mom at two and his dad at six."

  "He went to school to make money for you, and after fishing in the morning, he had to go to the aquarium to work. As a result, no one took care of you, so you got lost. Your little friends said that the last time they played with you was by the sea, and we all thought that you had run into the sea yourself and never came back. Later, someone said that they saw you turn into a mermaid in the sea, thinking it was also a comforting result."

  "In fact, Meng didn't need to work and earn money. Your mother was a top student at the Mingyue Academy of Fine Arts in America, leaving behind many valuable paintings that people were willing to pay high prices for. If they had really sold them, Meng and Jingjing wouldn't have had to live such difficult lives, and there would have been no need for him to work so hard. And Jingjing wouldn't have gotten lost either! But Meng was too stubborn, refusing to sell the paintings, saying he'd rather take on a few more jobs than sell them!"

  "Speaking of your mother, she was truly a celestial being, even the heavenly gods wanted her, that's why they took her life." Whenever the elderly mentioned Little Mermaid Whale's mother, they all felt warmth and nostalgia in their hearts, everyone's reminiscence of this "celestial being" poured out, speaking enthusiastically.

  "She had a pair of deft hands, and apart from painting, she decorated this house to make it different from any other resident's house around here," the old man looked up at the current scene with a sigh, "People left, and the house also lost its luster."

  "She was so beautiful, everyone in Xian Nü Bay and even people from surrounding areas within tens of thousands of meters knew her. The first time she appeared on this small island, she was 19 years old, wearing a long white dress, standing at the foot of the Meng family house, right there!" The old man pointed to the flat ground below the stairs outside the window, "She was painting this house, the sea breeze blowing her waist-length hair, your father walked out of the house and stood there stupidly for half a day, not just us, but everyone who saw her thought they were dreaming..."

  "She is not only beautiful, but also kind-hearted, she treats all of us well."

  Everyone here knows her, and people from afar have heard of her and come to see her. The whole island knows about it. This place was originally called Moon Bay, but because of her, it was renamed Fairy Bay. Her name is 'Luò Fán Chén', which naturally refers to a fairy.

  "Luò Fán Chén?" Luò Lián repeated the immortal woman's name, suddenly thought of something, and pondered in her heart: Luò Fán Chén... Luò Fēn Lěi... Luò Lián? Could it be that she also has the surname Luò? Is it possible that there is some connection with the Luò family? The whale on the painting really looked too much like herself, how could there be so many coincidences in this world?

  "Whale, you haven't said, where did you go that day? How have you been all these years?" The old people interrupted Luolian's thoughts. Luolian fell silent, she didn't know, she only felt dizzy and disoriented.