Deep sea mermaid head-to-head strategy

Seven years ago, Kline crashed their conversation on Sweet's birthday.

Since then, he has never been to the big house next door.

Sometimes when he went out or came home, he would see Butler Patton in the yard next door, and Butler Patton always treated him kindly and politely.

Recalling the incident some time ago, Klein found that Butler Parton actually helped him relieve a lot of embarrassment.

Out of politeness, although he has drawn a clear line with Sweet and Sweet's friends, when he meets Butler Patton, he will still say hello to him. If Butler Patton needs his help, he will Will not refuse.

He also ran into Sweet twice later, the first time in the morning, when he casually glanced into the next door as he was going out, and saw Sweet appear in the yard to inspect the withered bicolors.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Sweet turned his head to look over, and Klein lowered his head and left without thinking.

In his memory, Sweet had never appeared so early before, perhaps there was some special reason for appearing in the yard that day.

Even so, in order to avoid running into Sweet again, he deliberately moved his departure time half an hour earlier.

After a week like this, one night, when he came back from the beach with his back to the red clouds in the sky, he saw Sweet reading a book on the balcony on the second floor of the big house.

Sweet folded his legs, put the book on his lap, pressed the page with one hand, and propped the other hand on the table next to him, his eyes were downcast, and he never turned the page.

At this time every day, Sweet is either playing the piano, reading a book or chatting with friends in the room.

So Klein wasn't quite sure whether Sweet was still outside reading a book or thinking.

He was inclined to the latter, after all, the sky was already dark at that time, even if he wanted to read a book, he would not be able to see clearly due to the weak light.

In the past, he only hated that he had to work every day and couldn't spare time to go to the next door. If he met Sweet at an abnormal time, he would feel lucky and he had to go up and chat forcibly.

But that day he approached from a distance, always looking ahead, constantly reminding himself to manage his sight, and returned to his yard without saying a word.

After entering the house, he didn't go upstairs immediately, but looked in the direction of the next door through a wall.

For a moment, he had a strange thought - Sweet is still outside so late, perhaps, is waiting for him?

As soon as this thought came up, Klein smashed it to pieces in horror.

He scolded himself viciously in his heart, adjusted his expression, shouted "Grandpa, I'm back", and handed over the wages he earned for the day to his grandfather.

Klein tossed and turned that night. For some reason, he obviously had good reasons to break off relations with Sweet, but when he really encountered a situation where he was speechless and passed by Sweet, he would feel embarrassed and guilty.

It's as if... In the bottom of his heart, he still feels that Sweet shouldn't be treated coldly.

For someone like Sweet, being ignored is tantamount to being humiliated.

And Klein never thought of humiliating anyone.

But after a little shaking, he remembered the mocking words of a few people on Sweet's birthday night, and immediately built a city wall, completely cutting off the possibility of communication with the next door.

He thought, no matter what, he couldn't have anything to do with Sweet again.

After that day, Klein simply got up earlier, returned home later, and was busy outside all day, getting more and more wages, and sure enough, he never saw Sweet again.

Once or twice, Butler Parton probably wanted to mediate, and tried to talk about the birthday night, but Klein pretended to inadvertently change the subject.

Butler Patton figured out his thoughts from his attitude, and gradually stopped mentioning it.

During that time, Klein was very relaxed, because all the distracting thoughts in his mind were removed, and his goal was unprecedentedly clear—he wanted to earn money to buy his own boat, and take his grandfather out to sea to see the outside world.

In order to achieve this goal early, he even secretly picked up pearls behind his grandfather's back, and found a partner who helped him disperse and sell pearls.

Everything is going in a good direction, but unexpectedly, bad luck will come at this time.

When he was on the power car, Klein couldn't help crying, and the hand on his grandfather's wrist was shaking uncontrollably.

Sweet sat opposite him, opened the small grille on the carriage, and said to the elf outside: "Hurry up."

When he looked at Klein, he frowned slightly, swept Klein's trembling hand, paused, and comforted him strangely: "You have to calm down, you'll be fine."

After getting off the car, Klein followed to the emergency room.

Sweet was there at first. He stood not far away and thought for a while before walking towards Klein.

However, in the middle of the journey, the blue veins on his forehead suddenly started to throb, and the back of the hand covering his chest was bulging, and there was an ear-piercing squeeze sound from inside his body.

In the end, he only raised his eyes to see the decadent and trembling figure squatting by the wall, and turned around quickly and walked out of the hospital.

A long time later, when Klein accepted his grandfather's death and began to tidy up the things in the old house, he accidentally remembered this scene. But at that time, Sweet had already moved out for more than a month.

Later, he thought that although the result was not good, but on the power car, Sweet's firm words did give him great comfort.

He didn't like to owe people, but he didn't know anything about Sweet.

It wasn't until Mephides appeared that he found a chance to repay.

Not only for myself, but also for grandpa.

So in his opinion, it was only natural to be nice to Mephides.

"It's because I'm too capricious."

Facing Nata's questioning, Klein began to reflect, "I didn't make a distinction between public and private. If similar things happen in the future, I may still not be able to stand idly by. That might affect the Pearl, so—"

Nata's eyes flashed, and she quickly interrupted him: "So your sister is our sister! Well, I get it, I won't ask any more questions in the future, you'd better stop thinking about those messy self-moving things!"

Klein's words were blocked back, and the other crew members were at a loss.

He couldn't help but look up at Nata—Nata really knew him very well.

"Okay, don't stick around outside, what about breakfast, Captain?" Nata said.

She deliberately emphasized the word "captain", and when she mentioned breakfast, other crew members immediately echoed.

Klein smiled and said, "It's not ready yet, Rambo is here to help me."

Rambo is that thin bamboo pole. He is the cook on the Pearl, and Klein learned many of his skills from him.

When his name was called, he immediately rolled up his arms and sleeves, eagerly following Klein into the room.

Before entering the kitchen, Klein heard Nata's voice warning the other crew members not to enter the bathroom.

He didn't finish his sentence—after all, the Pearl was the brainchild of Nata and her younger brother, and he couldn't just rely on his own willfulness and ignore the interests of the Pearl.

If Mephides' family members failed to find her before the departure of the Pearl, he would be prepared to miss a voyage.

The author has something to say:

Mephides: I closed two chapters in the bathroom!

Author: Don't worry, the next chapter, you will come out in the next chapter~