The Old Man and the Mermaid

After packing himself up, Aigle took Royce to Professor Nice again.To his surprise, the professor did not choose to dine in the restaurant in the town, but went to the market to buy fresh ingredients, and was busy in the kitchen of the rented villa.

"God, I can't cook." Royce smiled awkwardly, "but I can help with things."

"Stand there and watch." Aigre took off his coat and put it on the back of a chair at the door, and walked into the kitchen to help Professor Nice start preparing lunch.

Those guys seemed to be quite drunk last night. Although they woke up once early in the morning, they fell asleep again after eating breakfast.The professor didn't have any tasks scheduled for today, so let them go.

"For the sake of the sincerity of their apology yesterday, let's take a look." Professor Nice explained to Eigre, "If they dare to do anything again, I won't continue to worry about my old man." My friend's face and mood are gone."

Aigre recalled how his alumni apologized to Mrs. Irene before dinner yesterday, and nodded silently.

After lunch, Professor Nice only left Royce to help, and sent Eigre away. The reason was that Aigre's major was completely different from their research topic, and he would not be of much help if he stayed.What's more, although the weather has been good recently, Aigre still can't leave the lighthouse for too long without anyone replacing him.

"I'll pick up my luggage in the afternoon." Royce tiptoed and stretched his legs and said to Eigre, "Since the professor needs my help, it's better for me to be a good student who will do my duty 24 hours a day. Do not bother you."

"I'll come and have a look every day." Aigre replied with a nod of his head, "If you need anything, you can contact me directly at any time."

"Do not worry."

After leaving the town, Aigre first went back to the market not far from the lighthouse.Although he did watch with his own eyes yesterday that those guys apologized to Mrs. Irene and promised to pay compensation, and Mrs. Irene also had no choice but to accept Professor Nice's intention after several times of evasion to no avail. , but after thinking about it, he decided that it would be better to come here first to see the situation.

The atmosphere in the market is still the same as before.Although it occupies a small area, it is much more lively than the center of the commercial street. Even though many shop owners choose to take a nap after noon, it does not prevent the rest of the shop owners who do not like to sleep to chat with each other.

When Aigre walked into the market, Mrs. Irene was standing at the entrance of the market, chatting and laughing with the female shopkeeper selling fabrics opposite.When the young woman saw Aigre, the smile on her face suddenly widened, "Little Iger! Good afternoon."

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Irene, Mrs. Leidy." While responding to her greeting, Egrele walked over to take the heavy objects from the hands of the two women, and put them in the corresponding places of the shop for them.

"Hello, Aigre." The female owner of the fabric store is not young, she is almost 50 years old, but it is probably because she is not very tired at ordinary times, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes are not too many, so she smiled. At that time, he looked younger, "Thank you for your help - I saw those troublemakers came to apologize last night. The old professor looked very serious. It seems that the children still have their elders by their side. You should be much more well-behaved."

"That's not true." Mrs. Irene leaned on a pillar next to the shop, took out a handkerchief and wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, "To be honest, I was terrified last night! I heard what Little Iger said earlier. Finally, although I expected that the professor would come over to apologize, and even thought up the excuse to refuse his compensation, but I didn't expect that he would bring those children - I'm really not good at dealing with this kind of situation .”

Aigre took a few glances at Mrs. Irene's expression at this time, saw that she was relaxed and didn't feel too unhappy because of this incident, then smiled and said to them: "I'm sorry, this time it is indeed us As long as you don’t mind the academy’s negligence and mistakes.”

"Although I was really angry at the time, but when I think about it later, it's really not a big deal, oh! By the way—" Madam Irene finished with a light smile, then walked quickly into the shop and took out a small bag of apples and handed it to Aigre said, "This is a newly arrived apple. I planned to give it to you yesterday, but I was so frightened by the serious and polite old professor's attitude that I completely forgot about it. "

Aigre took a look at the bag of apples, nodded his head and expressed his thanks. After chatting with the two ladies for a few more words, he turned and left the market.

Since Royce won't be living in the lighthouse for two weeks, he will have enough time to study the text that Mr. Mermaid translated for him.Although Aigre knew that Mr. Mermaid had a thorough understanding of human language, he also understood that translating a language was definitely not as simple as it seemed on the surface.Since Mr. Mermaid was willing to spend time helping him, he naturally couldn't waste Mr. Mermaid's thoughts.

——Especially when he opened the door of the lighthouse and saw Mr. Mermaid sitting at the dining table and continuing to translate the text, this thought became more firm and stable.

It only took Mr. Mermaid one morning to finish all the dried fish in that jar.

He still wasn't used to the novel taste, but he seemed to be a little addicted, and he watched the transparent tube bottom out before he knew it.These gadgets basically can’t relieve hunger at all, and the feeling of eating them is as inconspicuous as drinking saliva, so Mr. Mermaid doesn’t mind dealing with these snacks during non-meal time.

He heard the young man's footsteps as Aigre came up the hill.However, because he was busy translating and recording those words, and Aigre didn't bring any guests back this time, he didn't stop at all.

The content of this book is definitely not small, and it is also a new kind of knowledge for Egre, so he wrote down every sentence in as much detail as possible, and added his own explanation where necessary.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fish." The young man didn't thank him over and over again this time, but sat directly at the other end of the dining table, put down the bag in his hand, and greeted him gently ,"Have you had lunch yet?"

This sounds like a somewhat strange question.

The mermaid stopped what she was doing and looked up at him.When Aigre came back at this time, he should be sure that he had eaten lunch.

He thought about it, but still chose to shake his head truthfully.

"If you don't mind, I'll go and make you something to eat." Aigre said as he picked up the bag he put aside, took out an apple from it and walked towards the small kitchen, "But I suggest you taste the apples in our town first. The apples on the table - I'm not sure where they got them, but I just tasted one and it was pretty good."

Apple.

Mr. Mermaid looked at the remaining apples placed in the bag, and slowly recalled what this common fruit in the human world was.He seemed to have tasted this kind of food a long time ago, but he didn't really remember the taste much.

After Aigre washed the outer layer of the apple briefly, he took it out and handed it to Mr. Mermaid, "I don't know your taste very well, so I didn't peel it, let's try it first."

Mr. Mermaid nodded, and while taking the apple, he put down the pen in his hand, and handed the few pieces of paper on which the words were written to Eigre.

"Actually, I don't really know how to express my gratitude." Aigre picked up the few pieces of paper with a helpless expression on his face, "Because I can't do much for you. Apart from always welcoming you to visit at any time, I have to think about other thank you gifts slowly."

You don't need thanks.Mr. Mermaid replied to Aigre on another blank piece of paper.

"I will think about it carefully. It is a very pleasant thing for me to prepare a thank you gift." Aigre shook his head, still insisted on his own thoughts, and pointed to the apple in Mr. Mermaid's hand again, "Taste Try it, I think it's quite sweet."

As long as you can communicate with me in a pleasant mood, it is already a pretty good experience for me.He continued to add in his heart, and took a bite of the apple under Aigre's gaze.

...so sour.