There's a mermaid in my bathtub

It took half an hour to take a taxi home. With crutches and handicapped legs, the enthusiastic driver insisted on sending Jin Sheng to the community, and stopped temporarily to help people bring things to the unit door before leaving.

The taxi driver was a cheerful and talkative uncle. He kept talking about topics all the way home, and asked a few words about Jin Sheng's seafood and the cakes that didn't go well with them.

The six-inch chocolate cake can't be eaten by one person twice, and leaving it in the refrigerator will affect the taste. Taking advantage of the freshness, Jin Sheng saved two evenly cut cakes for the driver.

It didn't feel good to not eat something that I had been looking forward to for a long time, but Jin Sheng really didn't want to share it with those two.Whether it's stingy or stingy, anyway, he doesn't want to have anything to do with the 'past' anymore.

"I'm back." He was no longer alone in the big house, he was carrying big and small bags, and he turned the key three times to open the door. He was in a good mood when he got home, until Jin Sheng saw the shallow water stains left on the floor.

Where did the mermaid go?

Throwing the things in his hand at the porch, he walked into the living room with a cane, and when he wanted to find the mermaid, he realized that he didn't know what to call him, "...are you still there?" After hesitating for a moment, he chose this name, There was no response.

Taking a deep breath, Jin Sheng approached and pushed open the outer door of the bathroom. Jin Sheng held his breath and hesitated to open it.The mermaid who had a headache before might have 'disappeared', and there was a sense of emptiness in my heart.It's probably because all he's been thinking about all day is the guy who broke into his life, and he brought back a big bag of seafood, and of course, half a cake.

Hanging his eyes back, he ridiculously lost the courage to open the door, but suddenly there was a sound of water in the bathroom.

Sensitively catching the sound, Jin Sheng's eyes lit up, he pressed down his hand, and pushed open the door.

The mermaid still stays in the bathtub. The narrow bathtub can’t accommodate all the fish tails. The translucent tail fins that are half outside are rippling with the color of the sunset outside the window. The dark blue eyes look over slowly, very calm and reassuring, just like him Knowing everything, the slightly raised corners of his eyes laughed at Jin Sheng's hesitation in not opening the door just now.

"I looked outside... Cough, I thought you left by yourself. After all, you came suddenly, and it is possible to disappear at any time." Avoiding the eyes of the mermaid, I happened to see the food I packed up in the morning and put it by the bathtub. didn't move.

"You don't eat? Are these unappetizing or...you're not worried about me being poisoned, are you?"

The mermaid couldn't speak, and Jin Sheng could only come to a conclusion through continuous guesswork. While waiting, his eyes met, but the mermaid didn't give him a corresponding answer, but it seemed that the guy's situation was not optimistic.

It's not an illusion. After leaving for a day and returning home, the mermaid's bloodless cold white skin is even paler, exaggerated to the point of transparency. For Jin Sheng who is "ignorant" in this regard, this color is really terrifying, like a mermaid. It will disappear as transparent.I don't know if it has something to do with his 'burn' and his refusal to take in nutrition.

The mermaid must have something to eat, or he would die in his house before he sent him back to the sea.

Leaving the bathroom with the processed seafood, this time, Jin Sheng didn't close the door.

In the early summer season, although it is not too stuffy and hot, the ingredients that need to be stored at low temperature have been exposed to the air for a whole day. It is difficult for inexperienced people to judge whether they can continue to eat, and Jin Sheng is obviously the inexperienced one.

What a waste.

Before throwing it into the trash can, I held it under my nose and sniffed it again and again, desperately wanting to rescue it again, but unfortunately all I could smell was a disgusting fishy smell, and I couldn't figure out why.

Jin Sheng doesn't advocate such a food waste behavior of dumping the fruits of labor in the morning into the trash can at all, not to mention that he didn't bother to buy a new big bag at night.

'Da da da--'

A hollow sound came into the kitchen, and the speaker was close to his ears.

Jin Sheng was stunned for a moment, there was no one around him one second, maybe there was no fish, and the next second the humidity around his body rose, and he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye, it was the mermaid.

The state of always standing and lying down together created an illusion. When the mermaid left the bathtub and put her tail fin on the ground, she stood up and stood beside her, only then did Jin Sheng realize that he was much taller and stronger than him.

Unlike a muscular wrestler, the naked upper body has well-proportioned and smooth muscle lines, pleasing to the eye and even pleasing to the eye, but the fishtail on the lower body...

"You..." Why did you appear here?Even though he was still in the bathroom just now, how did he descend in an instant without making a sound.

The second half of the sentence was stuck in his throat, anyway, even if he asked, he couldn't get a specific answer.Jin Sheng saw faint blue veins on the mermaid's skin again, but this time the veins were extremely shallow and fleeting.

"Let's have something to eat at night. If you are worried, let's eat together? I can send you back this weekend. Today is Monday, and there are still a few days left. How can you survive if you don't eat?"

Persuading again tirelessly, under the illusion that he was teaching a disobedient child, but this time the mermaid listened intently, he lowered his head and glanced at the 'expired food' in the trash can, then looked back at Jin Sheng, his eyes lingering on his face , and finally locked on the soft, shallow lips, and the bottomless eyes.

The mermaid who inexplicably broke into his house was stupid except for the terrifying aggressiveness released at the beginning.

Shrugged, came to such a conclusion.

The sky was sinking early, and I was a little hungry. Considering humanitarian considerations, the diplomat didn't care about the reaction of the mermaid for the time being. He returned to the entrance and brought the big and small bags of seafood into the kitchen.

The strong gaze sticks to her body from beginning to end, and Jin Sheng's attitude towards this gaze has also changed from "terrified" at the beginning to "indifferent" now.

No matter what, no matter what method is used, the mermaid must eat the food tonight.

After making up my mind, I packed up the ingredients in front of the mermaid, and cooked mackerel in braised mackerel for a long time.One person and one fish were in the kitchen, and when the busy humans didn't realize that they were choking on the onion juice, the mermaid who was too focused on his movements also blinked.

After preparing the human dinner, he raised his head and glanced at the mermaid, who was also looking at him, his dark pupils were choked with a layer of mist from the onion juice—it turned out that this guy's immunity was not very high.

Showing their kindness to each other, and knowing the weakness of mermaids, the human beings in their own territory gradually let down their guard.

Take out the whole salmon that you bought for a huge sum of money, carefully remove the fishbone, and cut it into pieces.I don't know what the mermaid eats, but based on the various stories I've heard before and the setting of this creature, it can only be seafood.He doesn't want to eat the whole fish, so let's cook it separately and try it. If the mermaid is afraid of being poisoned by him, Jin Sheng can prove that he can eat two bites of sashimi.

Packed the whole salmon into slices and put it in the refrigerator for the time being. Jin Sheng washed his handles and was about to start the fire when he suddenly remembered that a certain fish would be paralyzed by the high-temperature hot water, so hot things should not touch it.Just in case, Jin Sheng, who was temporarily acting as a 'human diplomat', pushed the mermaid who got in the way out of the kitchen without saying a word.

Without much entanglement, they left very cooperatively, the fish tail landed on the ground, and the way it moved forward slowly was a bit funny.After the 'cooperation' was reached, the mermaid never launched an attack again, and their attitude changed surprisingly quickly.

Yan Shi closed the door and started to concentrate on cooking. He didn't plan to eat much for the evening, and there was half a cake outside, so Jin Sheng only fried one dish.The braised Spanish mackerel was put on a plate and let it cool down. The frozen fish fillets were taken out and neatly arranged in a small plate, and they were taken out of the kitchen with each plate in each hand.

"Come and eat, there are shrimps, scallops and kelp. If there is no food for you, I will put it in the refrigerator?"

"..."

Ask and ask in vain.

The mermaid glanced at the hot and cold dishes on the table, and looked away. She didn't respond to "eating" as always. If it hadn't been verified many times, Jin Sheng would have suspected that the mermaid wouldn't listen at all. understand what he said.

I don't use crutches at home, and I would rather jump on one foot than toss twice.Gu Zi sat down and pushed the small plate of sashimi to the mermaid standing at the table, "I really don't know what you eat, but... let's eat some, even if it doesn't suit your appetite, you can't be too hungry. I have prepared a lot. , this kind of fish is very expensive, anyway..."

Shaking his head.

I finally got the answer, but unfortunately it negated all Jin Sheng's efforts.

"In the end...why? Are you not hungry or..." No matter how good-tempered he was, Jin Sheng couldn't hold back the anger that came out of his throat. He really didn't know what to do with this mermaid.

If he chooses 'protection' at the beginning, he must protect it to the end. No matter what happens to this foreign guest, he is responsible for it.

Blank for a while, staring at the bursts of steam from the braised fish, Jin Sheng suddenly recalled the attack he encountered when he first met the mermaid, and suddenly raised his head to meet the other party's gaze, and said uncertainly: "You...would you want to eat me?"

Mermaid: ...

Keeping eye contact with Jin Sheng, he denied this dangerous idea before his eyes became terrified.

"That's good." He breathed a sigh of relief, put the most plump fish in his mouth, and it melted in his mouth, affirming his cooking skills, "Then why don't you eat? You don't need to take nutrition or... you guys Not allowed to accept... help from humans or other species?"

Not expecting to be able to ask the answer, the mermaid nodded slowly.

Putting down his chopsticks, he shook his hands under the table, the mermaid was still too unfamiliar to him.Jin Sheng doesn't understand their rules, and his behavior is self-righteous, which may be a kind of contempt for these natural hunters and predators.

"I don't mean anything else. I didn't despise you by doing this. I just hope that you can save your energy until the day you leave... Or, you can temporarily regard me as your companion, or, these can be regarded as compensation for my accidental injury to you ?”

"In short... I hope you can accept my help temporarily."

Another rejection.

"Why do you eat?" Negotiations were fruitless, even if the other party was a mermaid, Jin Sheng felt frustrated, "Don't you want to go home? Even if you go on like this, you may not have the strength to go back to your home. It’s just to prepare for going home, isn’t that okay?”

Before he knew it, he was facing a mermaid who couldn't be more ferocious, but he naturally adopted a coaxing tone for the child, making Jin Sheng dumbfounded: "Or, how do I cooperate?"

Cooperate?

There was a gleam of light in the dark blue eyes, and then it was fleeting and merged into the deep sea.The inexplicable gaze of the mermaid gave Jin Sheng goosebumps, and at the same time, his almost transparent slender fingers picked up a piece of salmon, gently put it in his mouth, and chewed slowly, as if he was eating more than just salmon.