pappabearbooks Chapter 514 Look, there’s a mermaid (2)
Chapter 514 Look, there’s a mermaid (2)
In the end, she coaxed the mermaid out with some persuasion. Yun Qian quickly took a battle bath, fearing that the fish outside would turn into a dried mermaid due to lack of water.
It turns out that mermaids will not turn into dried mermaids. Muir studied the kitchen faucet and stretched his head and opened his mouth to drink water.
Yun Qian's smile solidified: "..."
I don’t know if the principle that people can’t drink raw water applies to mermaids.
She stepped forward and turned off the half-twisted faucet handle, closing Muir's mouth manually.
"Don't drink water randomly."
Because he couldn't distinguish the emotions of human beings when they spoke, Muir immediately stopped: "Now...you won't even let me drink water?!"
Yun Qian raised her hands to cover her face: "..."
Let's throw this fish back into the sea early tomorrow.
Yun Qian and Muir explained why you shouldn't drink the water from the faucet, "...that's it, you are not allowed to drink water."
Muir realized that he was thinking too much and said "Oh" dryly.
"Okay, you go into the bathtub." Yun Qian pointed to the bathroom behind him.
"Have you finished washing?" Muir tilted his head and asked.
Yun Qian nodded and watched Muir move into the bathroom little by little, then poked his head out again after a while, his blue eyes widening slightly.
"Then... where are you going now?"
"Go to sleep." Yun Qian replied.
Muir pulled himself up a little higher, "Into a shell?"
Most mermaids sleep in large shells.
Yun Qian: "??"
Yun Qian: "We humans don't sleep on shells, we sleep on beds."
"…bed?"
It was another new word pronunciation, and Muir learned it a little awkwardly, like a baby just starting to learn to speak.
"Well, it's a bed for sleeping." Yun Qian said, imitating Muir's way of speaking.
Muir came out of the bathroom, "Then I want to sleep on the bed too."
Yun Qian looked at Muir's long fish tail with water beads and said firmly: "No."
"Why?" Muir frowned.
"Because you are too big to fit in my bed, and there is no water in my bed. I don't want to wake up the next morning and find a large ready-to-eat dried fish on the bed."
Muir: "..."
The sentence was too long and I didn’t quite understand it, but it felt a bit offensive.
After successfully convincing Yu, Yun Qian pushed Muir into the bathroom, and then closed the door for him very considerately.
"Okay, it's getting late, go to bed early."
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When the clouds lightened up the next day, the fish in the bathroom was still asleep, with most of its tail exposed outside the bathtub, its head already submerged in the water, and a series of regular bubbles popping up as Muir breathed.
It's so pitiful and funny, Yun Qian thought.
Yun Qian leaned against the bathroom door frame and thought about how to send people back to the sea. Such a big fish tail couldn't just walk on the road like this.
Remembering that one of the residents upstairs had a wheelchair, Yun Qian went upstairs to borrow one, and then dug out a larger thin blanket from home.
Muir poked his head out of the water with sleepy eyes, his long silver-white hair rippling along with the water ripples.
He squinted and saw Yun Qian busy at the door, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm preparing something to send you back to the sea." Yun Qian said without looking back.
Muir's confusion when he just got up was gone because of these words. He opened his eyes wide, filled with disbelief: "You want... to send me away?!"
Yun Qian: "...??"
Yun Qian: "I'm sending you back to the sea, not sending you away."
"Isn't this the same!"
Yun Qian turned around, "Although it's almost the same, but you said that..."
Yun Qian paused strangely for a few seconds, and then held back three words: "Unlucky."
Muir: "..."
"I don't care. Sure enough, what they said is right. Human beings are just slapped once and given two more slaps." Muir said in an accusatory tone, looking like he was about to shut down.
Yun Qian was stunned by the messy slang that Muir had learned from nowhere, and was speechless for a moment.
"Obviously... I've done that kind of thing before," Muir muttered in a low voice, and finally suddenly raised his voice and said to Yun Qian: "Human beings are all bad people."
Yun Bad Guy Qian didn't hear the first half of the fish's murmur, and only heard that he was accused of being a bad guy again.
She wondered whether she should laugh or cry: "Ancestor, where did you come from?"
"Ancestor?" Muir was confused for a moment, then shook his head seriously: "I am not an ancestor."
"........."
It's so serious that it's a little cute.
Yun Qian pushed the wheelchair aside, walked into the bathroom, turned on the shower and poured water on Muir's fish tail.
"I don't mean to keep you here, but this bathtub is too small and there isn't much water. Your beautiful fish tail is almost dry and the scales have fallen off. And you are lying in such a small place by yourself. Are you comfortable?"
Every sentence was on point. Muir's head drooped, and his chin sank into the water until it reached the tip of his nose.
Yun Qian felt a little itchy, and she didn't suppress her thoughts. She raised her hand and touched the mermaid's head. As a result, Muir's whole fish almost bounced.
"No...you can't touch my head." Muir spoke with a string of blisters and his eyes were as fierce as a cub's.
Not a deterrent at all.
But it was clear that the last time the sea encountered wind and waves, this mermaid could have such a solemn emotion in her eyes.
It's like a high-altitude god looking down on the entire world.
.........
Muir was sitting in a wheelchair, his fish tail was rolled up by Yun Qian and hidden under the thin quilt. Before going out, he was repeatedly told by Yun Qian not to expose his tail.
There were not many people on the streets during the day, so Yun Qian found a shortcut to the beach.
When Muir came last night, his only target was Yun Qian's house. He was busy walking along the way and didn't have time to look around.
Now someone pushed him, and he could sit and enjoy it. Muir began to look at the unfamiliar environment around him with novelty.
Although Yun Qian found Muir a loose sweater to wear, Muir's long silver-white hair and beautiful facial features were too eye-catching.
When we stopped and waited for the traffic light, two girls ran over excitedly and asked, "Young lady is so beautiful. Are you cosplaying? What character are you cosplaying?"
Because the two men looked at Muir with too much enthusiasm, Muir leaned back and pressed against the back of the wheelchair, looking a little helpless.
"What...Kusi? I'm not...sister, don't...look at me like this..."
The two little girls mistook Muir for someone who was doing a cosplay. Yun Qian smiled and explained to the helpless mermaid: "No, he is a boy. His hair and eyes are natural, not a cosplay. .”
Recognizing the boy as a girl, the two little girls were a little embarrassed: "Ah... I'm sorry, I'm sorry to bother you."
"It's okay." Yun Qian smiled and shook his head.
The red light turned green, Yun Qian pushed Muir and the two little girls to go their separate ways.
After walking more than half way, Muir's ears were red and his hands were folded in front of his chest. Yun Qian couldn't see Muir's expression.
I only heard him say: "Don't think that I can't hear you because you are holding back your laughter."
"...Ahem, the wind is too strong, you heard wrong."
"I'm a fish, but I'm not stupid!"