Lizard Keeping Diary

In the sea, it is difficult to tell day from night.No matter when, the outside of the glass window is a deep blue.

Shatz sat by the window blankly, and the surroundings were extremely quiet.Earlier, he had a heavy sleep accompanied by the magic music of the mermaid, and after waking up for some reason, he still remembered what Anantis had said to him by the shell.

Anantis told him that from the first time he met him, everything was in Anantis' expectation.

Anatis, who possessed the rare ability of "foreseeing", knew long ago that he would meet him one day.

Before the separation of the island, Anatis once again foresees the future, and they will be reunited in the palace under the sea.

"That's why I'm willing to leave you," Anantis said. "Every time we see each other, it means that our relationship has entered the next stage. Things have gradually developed in the direction I foresee, until now, you are completely mine. gone."

Schatz didn't understand what this sentence meant.He cannot belong to anyone.As long as he still has an independent personality, it is impossible.

The door opened without wind, Xia Ci looked back, and a group of warblers and swallows floated in, each wagging their tails and making laughing sounds.

"Oh, look, it's him!" A mermaid pointed at Schatz.Then all of them came rushing over, chirping.

"It's a male mainlander! The rumors are true!"

"The foundation is not bad, but there is still a long way to go before passing."

"The sitting posture is not dignified enough, there is no smile on the face, and the dress is too strange."

"That's right, you have to have decent clothes, and you can dress up here..."

While they were talking, Schatz grabbed the slate and fish scale pen on the coffee table, quickly wrote a line, and showed them, "Sorry, you seem to be talking about me, right?" 』

They stared at the slate and nodded.

So Schatz wrote, "But I kinda don't get it, what the hell are you talking about? 』

"Oh, isn't that clear?" they said in unison. "Of course we're talking about how to turn you into a good bride!"

New... new what?

The hand holding the pen froze.

The mermaids giggled, as if amused by his reaction.

Before Schatz came back to his senses, the playtime was over.The mermaids started to get busy.

First take him to wash up, then two comb his hair, two wipe his face and thrush his eyebrows, and the rest are choosing clothes.

There was a cloakroom at the back, which was full of... let's say clothes, which they showed him.

Xia Ci just glanced at it, and even Hun'er almost flew away in fright. What is this called clothes?Sexy lingerie is more or less the same.

The mermen were visibly displeased with his reaction. "What's the matter, isn't this beautiful?"

One of the girls was holding two hollow metal rings, with silky streamers hanging from the front and back, but nothing else.

"This is the most popular style of bottoms in the palace this year. It is unisex and must-have. Even the soldiers outside like it."

Schatz wrote firmly, "I wouldn't wear this.Unless I die. 』

So I found some more clothes.One piece is hotter than the other.In order to persuade Shatz to try them on, these girls who claimed to be palace maids tried to prove that mermaids were dressed so coolly, but Shatz still refused to touch those clothes.

"This is blasphemy. ’” he wrote, “on land, neither man nor woman should expose their bodies too much. 』

Faced with his reticent attitude, the female officials looked at each other and began to discuss a solution.

"I can't keep wearing that dress all the time. Anyway, on the wedding day, he has to change into our dress, otherwise it's nothing like that."

"That's right. The dress is the most important part, so don't be careless."

"But our clothes are like this, according to his words, revealing. What else can we do?"

"Just ask the tailor to make him a new one, using our material to imitate the landman's style."

"That's a good idea! Let's do it!"

So, without consulting Schatz, the ladies reached a consensus.

They immediately rushed out to pick out their favorite material, as if the dress was made for themselves.

Before leaving, they told Schatz not to go out casually, the mermaids outside the palace are warriors, full of aggressiveness, only inside the palace is safe.

Meaning, are there only female officials in the palace?

Schatz's question was met with ridicule.The female officials said, of course not, the male officials are generally quiet and not talkative, and they are craftsmen like tailors.There are also many mermaids who choose to stay outside and become fighters, but they think that life is too boring, and they would rather enrich everyone's spiritual life.

Of course, some female officers are different.Taking the female officers around Annalize as an example, Schatz thought they were warriors, because of their skill and agility, it was not surprising for him to think so.However, it turns out that they are still a minority.

The room was empty, Schatz wanted to go out, but there was a crab guard outside the door, and when he saw him, he put up a fork.

Schatz couldn't tell if it was one of his previous crab brethren, and to speak of speciesism, crabs all look alike.

With nothing to do, Schatz wandered around the room, collected a few new slabs, and unexpectedly discovered a secret passage.Going forward along the passage, you will meet another door, which has a lock, but it seems that you forgot to lock it. You can go out directly and come to a strange corridor.After walking out of the promenade, there is a garden with more plants, which are colorful and separated by glass windows.The entire botanical garden is full of sunlight, and the crystal columns exude natural light.

There was a rustling sound in the distance, someone should have taken care of this area, Schatz went back quietly.

As soon as he returned to the room, Schatz bumped into Annalize, and the frowning mermaid yelled, "Where have you been?!"

Schatz quickly picked up the slate and wrote, 'I was in the locker room. ’ I hope I can get away with it.She didn't seem to see which direction he came from.

Annalize looked at him hesitantly for a moment, and finally pointed to the side, ordering him to sit down and listen to her lecture.

"Starting today, I'm going to give you a week-long emergency bride training."

"Why? ’ Schatz wrote.

"Because my brother has already decided to marry you, a mainlander, next week, hmph." Annalize said unhappily, "It's fine if it's another mermaid, my brother is the current chief, and he must not have a vulgar and ignorant bride , making him a public embarrassment at the wedding and becoming the laughing stock of the whole clan.”

Shatz was speechless, and quickly wrote, "I have a good way, which can guarantee to eliminate your troubles." ’ After a pause, ‘That is, don’t, let, you, brother, marry, me. 』

Annalize looked at the comma on the slate, "You think I didn't dissuade him? Hmph..."

The nasal sound at the end was quite aggrieved, obviously because of this, I was reprimanded by my brother.

In a blink of an eye, Annalize put on a fierce expression again.

"Okay, listen carefully to me!"

Annalize's first lesson for brides: Always put your husband before yourself, and think about your husband's troubles first.

Annalize's bride's second lesson: keep the house tidy at all times, so that her husband can have a good mood when he returns.

Annalize's bride's third lesson: Make sandworm soup for her husband every day, a full cup, which symbolizes a happy marriage and family.

Before Annalize could say more, Schatz held up the slate, "What is sandworm soup?" 』

Annalize looked at him, floated out, and came back after a while, holding a fat worm as thick as a finger.

"These are sandworms," ​​she said slowly. "To make soup, you have to tie them into a bunch of little sausages..."

Schatz wasn't listening, all his attention was on the worm.It was flesh-red on the surface, and the top was still white, a little transparent, like a thick and long earthworm. At this time, Annalize pinched it, and struggled and twisted it a few times, which instantly made Schatz's goosebumps rise.

It was embarrassing to say so, but he had never liked such an animal, only disgusted and frightened.

As if sensing his emotion, Annalize bent down and brought the sandworm closer so that he could see it more clearly.

"Then squeeze them, squeeze hard, make them eject sand, but it doesn't help. They burst under the pressure and come out with a milky thick paste, and you have to collect the thick paste and taste it. Spend……"

Schatz turned his head away and began to retch.

Annalize straightened up, showing an overjoyed expression, "I'm just joking."

Then she talked about the real method of making sandworm soup.First spread the sand worms and dry them in the sun, and wash the sand inside the body in advance. This process must be careful and patient, and the intestines must not be damaged, otherwise the sand will seep into the meat and cannot be picked out, and the dry worms will be destroyed. up.Finally, the processed dried insects are steamed together with water and spices to form a natural and delicious dish.

"Don't you guys not eat cooked meat? 』

"Who said that? Only those warriors like to flaunt that they don't eat cooked meat, saying that it's original and full of fishy smell, that's all dolphin fart. The mermaids in the palace think that it tastes better if it's cooked."

On the plus side, at least he doesn't have to eat sashimi.

Under the guidance of Annalize, Schatz endured his nausea and took a basket of sandworms to the drying room.It was a huge stone room with no windows, and it was completely enclosed. Once you walked in, it was like being in a stove, and it was so hot that Schatz took a deep breath.

The drying room is full of shelves, lining all four walls, and laying things underneath.

Schatz could only put the worms in the top row, the hottest row.

The ceiling was at least two meters above the ground, Schatz couldn't reach the shelf, and was looking around, Annalize brought him a ladder and asked him to climb up with the basket.The shelf on the top floor is quite spacious, and it is also very strong. After he climbs up, he can lie on the shelf directly without worrying about maintaining balance.

In this sweltering environment, Schatz worked hard.The basket was soon empty, and he spread out the dead sandworms neatly.Although this job is disgusting, Schatz still has a fresh sense of accomplishment after finishing it.

Schatz then crawled back, stretching his legs underneath, ready to step straight up to the second rung of the ladder.

He thought he must remember the location of the ladder, but he didn't want to miss it.The ladder has been removed.

Shatz fell from the top floor, and the pain hit him instantly. He wanted to shout out, but there was no sound in the drying room.

It wasn't until a long time later, when Xia Ci was so painful that he was about to pass out, and he was paralyzed on the ground that he couldn't move, that he heard someone approaching.

There was a noisy, chaotic and slight sound, and the snow-white pearls shone coldly.

"The bride's fourth lesson, be prepared to be tricked by me at any time..."

In the upside-down vision, the destroyed face gradually emerged.

"Because I really hate people like you."

Cold sweat continued to ooze out, Schatz felt that he was soaked in water, combined with the hot air around him, his whole body was unbearably wet and greasy.He wished he'd lost consciousness so he wouldn't have to experience the pain again, but the reality was that he was forced to look up at Annalize's face, to see how she let out smugness and filled the space with shrill laughter.

She thought she had won, but Shatz just wanted to sneer, and even felt a little sympathy.

Because he could imagine how miserable a person would do such a thing.

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Thanks to Lin Yan for the landmines in the past two days & Zhexi for the mines.

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Countdown to Kourou's return 3.