under the sea

Ever since He Zexi left that day, Pan Wuyi thought that he might never have the chance to meet He Zexi again.

But he didn't expect that the second meeting would come so quickly and be so embarrassing.

Looking at the empty plastic bottle in front of him, He Zexi silently withdrew his hand, "Brother Wu Yi, you go first."

Pan Wuyi: "...You saw it first, so pick it up."

He Zexi held a big plastic bag in his hand, and stood in front of Pan Wuyi. His face was paralyzed, making it impossible to see his inner emotions, but Pan Wuyi believed that at this moment, He Zexi The mood must be quite embarrassing.

He Zexi: ... Really not.

"Hey!"

A pair of black hands suddenly stretched out from the side, quickly grabbed the mineral water bottle that He Zexi and Pan Wuyi were pushing each other, threw it into his green net bag, pulled the rope, and tied it tightly up.

"You two don't want it, I want it, thanks~" After finishing speaking, the half-grown child who snatched the water bottle smiled at the dumbfounded two standing there, and walked away happily humming a ditty out of tune.

He Zexi looked at the back of the dirty and unrestrained leaving, and after a long while, he opened his mouth and said, "...the competition among peers is so fierce."

"Yeah, it's not easy for us to do this business. If we are a little slower, we won't be able to catch anything."

Especially for this kind of children who have lived a more miserable life than them, even if they know that they are grabbing the bottle, they can't afford to teach them a lesson.

Pan Wu Yi vicissitudes lit a cigarette, turned to look at He Zexi, and wanted to ask something, but seeing He Zexi's face pretending to be calm, he felt unable to speak.

He was afraid that he would hurt He Zexi's self-esteem. After all, as an elite-level intellectual, even if he was written into a novel, he still exists like the protagonist. Now he has fallen to the point of picking up garbage like him. Is it plausible?Whose protagonist is picking up trash, how embarrassing it is to say it!

Didn't you say to call the professor? Why haven't you come to pick him up yet?Thinking of this, Pan Wuyi felt a little strange.

Pan Wuyi kept silent, but his expression was a bit complicated when he looked at He Zexi.

He Zexi guessed what Pan Wuyi was thinking right away, with his eyelids downcast and his face still calm, "The professor seems to have changed his phone number, I can't reach him."

He didn't want to pick up junk either, but almost all the little money Pan Wuyi gave him before was used to fill his stomach, and now He Zexi fell into the predicament of having no money again.

He Zexi, a black worker restaurant that accepts smugglers, considered it, but finally gave up, because it was a bit messy inside.Picking up junk is also pretty good, it's safe, and it's not easy to get into trouble... It's just that the income is a little less.

Yesterday's results were not enough for him to buy two fresh small fish for Huazhi, and he didn't know when he would be able to save enough for the travel expenses to R City.

City R is the capital of country A, and the embassy of Yang country is stationed there.

He Zexi decided to seek help from the embassy, ​​but L City, a seaside city, was too far away from R City, and it was impossible for him to take a ride along the way like before.

Sitting on the bench on the street of L City with Pan Wuyi, He Zexi felt a little sad in his heart.

"I'm not kidding you."

Pan Wu patted He Zexi on the shoulder, thinking he had figured out the reason for He Zexi's sorrow, and felt more and more distressed for He Zexi in his heart.

What a big gap, he must be very uncomfortable now.

He Zexi didn't explain anymore, he already got a lot of money from Pan Wuyi, and if he said it, he might have to give it again... After all, Pan Wuyi didn't have much money.

The two were speechless.

After a while, when Pan Wu remembered something, he turned his head, looked at He Zexi's empty hands, and asked suspiciously, "By the way, where is that cute little color-changing squid you raised?"

"Not with me." He Zexi replied, and before he finished speaking, he saw Pan Wu who was sitting next to him stand up with a whoosh, raised his voice and asked, "What?? Not with you?? Not with you Where is this-"

Suddenly thinking of those vendors who bought beautiful and exotic ornamental fish at high prices, Pan Wuyi turned his head suddenly, stared at He Zexi suspiciously, and asked, "Will you sell that little squid!! "

"...No." He Zexi raised his head and tried to explain calmly, "Brother Wu Yi, don't get excited, just listen to me."

However, now Pan Wuyi couldn't listen to He Zexi's words at all. He patted his thigh with a distressed expression on his face, "Why are you selling it... What a pity, what a beautiful little squid, what do you want?" If you really lack money and don’t want to raise it, selling it to me is better than selling it to someone else..."

"..." He Zexi stroked his forehead helplessly, and raised his voice, "Brother Wu Yi, calm down, I didn't sell him!"

Even if He Zexi sold himself, he wouldn't dare to sell him.

"...not sold?"

Pan Wuyi calmed down, and looked at He Zexi suspiciously, "Where did you put it if you didn't sell it?"

……

...

Looking up at the huge shopping mall, Pan Wuyi asked He Zexi who was standing next to him, "Did you put it in there?"

"Yes." He Zexi nodded.

After entering the mall, He Zexi came to the store locker in the cramped space of the elevator on the first floor, and then took out a small ticket from his body, and scanned the barcode at the scanning port of the locker.

"Drip-click-"

The door of a storage box in the lower left corner popped open, and Pan Wuyi squatted down with He Zexi, and then saw the small fish tank locked in the small box—and the body in the fish tank was tightly attached to the glass, separated by a transparent layer. Glass glared at their pretty little squid.

Really didn't sell it... Pan Wuyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Tearing herself off the glass jar, Hua Zhi turned around and snorted coldly.

Today is also a day when I don't want to talk to He Zexi.

He Zexi brought out the flower branch helplessly, and said to Pan Wuyi who was staring at the flower branch curiously, "He's been held back for too long, he's in a bad mood."

Pan Wu nodded, "Understood, you are a very intelligent little squid. By the way, how long have you been raising it?"

In the small fish tank, Huazhi sneered.

Two or three days... He Zexi was silent for a while, then raised his head and smiled meaningfully at Pan Wuyi, "You may not believe me, but he was the one who raised me before."

"Hahaha..." Pan Wuyi really didn't believe it, and laughed at He Zexi's words.

Holding the flower branches out of the mall, He Zexi and Pan Wuyi stood on the street for a while.

Looking at the hurrying pedestrians coming and going in the city, Pan Wuyi lit another cigarette, frowned and asked He Zexi what his plans were next.

He Zexi looked at the flower branches in his hand, and felt that his immediate plan was to pick up garbage in exchange for money to buy seafood, and feed the naughty flower branches to his full...

It's so worthless... He Zexi silently spurned himself in his heart.

After thinking for a while, He Zexi said to Pan Wu, "I'm going to work in a black worker restaurant for a while, and then I'll leave after saving enough money for the air ticket back to China."

Pan Wu thought about it and thought it was okay, he said to He Zexi with a cigarette in his mouth, "I don't have much money to help you, I can only rely on you, but it's messy there, you should be careful, if someone bullies you I’ll go directly to Old Wu’s, I’ll go to him every now and then, and I’ll come if I tell him.”

"Thank you Brother Wu Yi." He Zexi nodded.

"It's all my brothers, thank you for what you say." Pan Wu waved his hand, suddenly thought of something, turned his head and said to He Zexi, "But if you insist on thanking me, the little squid in your hand is very good, give it away How about giving me?"

[He dares to covet me, he wants to die! ] Flowering branches emerged from the water in a shadowy manner.

"You're tired from carrying it around, and I'll take care of it for you." Pan Wuyi looked expectant.

[I'm not afraid, I want to eat him! ]

The flower branches began to crawl out, with a gloomy tone.

"You see, it likes me quite a lot, and it even got up and looked at me, Mengmeng, keep climbing!" Pan Wuyi was a little excited, licking the flower branches without blinking to cheer him up.For some reason, he somehow felt a chill all over his body.

[He called me Mengmeng! ! ! ! ]

Hua Zhi was furious immediately, and her flaming body changed colors crazily due to anger.

He Zexi hurriedly hugged the small fish tank tightly, pressed the angry flower branch into the water, and showed his white teeth to Pan Wuyi, "Brother Wuyi, goodbye."

"mean."

Pan Wuyi wasn't angry when he didn't ask for his favorite little squid, and after instructing He Zexi again, he left with his big and small bags.

He Zexi breathed a sigh of relief.

Hiding in a quiet corner with no one in the arms of the flower branches whose colors had become like a revolving lantern, He Zexi reprimanded in a low voice: "What did you want to do just now?"

"Hmph, eat him." Huazhi gritted her teeth and said with a dark face, "A trash picker also wants to support me?"

"..."

After a long silence, He Zexi reminded Hua Zhi, "Actually, I'm also a junk picker now..."

As soon as He Zexi finished speaking, Huazhi floated up from the water angrily, furious—"He still dares to call me Mengmeng!"

"He's expressing his love," He Zexi hurriedly comforted Hua Zhi, "Normally people don't get such a title."

Huazhi sneered twice, staring at He Zexi with contempt, "Then I'll call you Mengmeng?"

"..."

Forget it, let's skip the cute stuff.

He Zexi squatted down, took out the flower branch from the small fish tank, put it in his palm, and whispered: "This is on land, you are not allowed to mess around."

Seeing Huazhi snorted coldly, and her body color was still black and red, He Zexi held it up helplessly, and coaxed softly: "Okay, don't be angry, how could I send you out."

Kissing the flowering branch lightly, He Zexi's indifferent face frowned, showing a little tenderness, "What do you want to eat today, fish or clams?"

There was a warm touch on her body, Huazhi was stunned for a moment, then her body instantly turned pink, and she said angrily, "You think I'm so easy to coax?!"

"Then what do you want to eat today?"

"Clams..." After Huazhi finished speaking, she awkwardly returned to the small fish tank.