Chapter 59 No more holes in your clothes
The foreign man's eyes held longing, but also fear. "I saw a mermaid! I never imagined the legend was true. Mermaids, this magical species, really exist!"
The female boss glanced at him and said, "Stop making up stories. Do you think I'm one of those little girls you used to fool?"
Seeing that the female boss didn't believe him, he was so anxious that he tried to grab her and have a serious talk with her, but the female boss dodged him.
Seeing the heavy abacus in the female boss's hands, the foreign man could only keep his distance from her, but when he spoke, he still unconsciously leaned closer.
According to his description, it was a very bright moonlit night.
The cargo ship sailed on the dark sea. A foreign man stepped onto the deck, tilted his head back and took a swig of strong liquor, gazing at the vast sea and thinking of his family far away.
Suddenly, on a hidden reef, he saw a figure sitting on it, but the pale moonlight could not illuminate the shadow.
He rubbed his eyes and discovered that it was a woman with long, waist-length hair and a graceful, slender figure...
"Ouch!" The foreign man cried out in pain, clutching his forehead.
It turned out that the female boss had finally started tapping the abacus, interrupting his daydreaming.
"Get to the point, are you sure you weren't drunk at the time?"
"I only took one sip, how could I get drunk so quickly? Then I saw that figure jump into the sea from the reef. I saw it clearly with both eyes. She was dragging a fish tail as she flipped over!"
"You should get your eye problem checked when you have time, or find a Taoist priest to take a look."
The female boss was not easily swayed by men's nonsense, and when she saw another customer arrive, she went to greet them.
"Hiss." The foreign man rubbed his forehead and muttered, "I really saw it with my own eyes, how come no one believes me?" Even a fleeting glimpse counts as seeing it, right?
He turned around and saw a child staring at him with big, round eyes.
Meanwhile, the golden monkey calmly ate a banana, clearly having heard the story from the man many times before.
"And then what? And then what? Did you see any more mermaids after that?" Xie Mianmian asked eagerly.
The foreign man grinned, revealing his white teeth, and muttered, "So it really is a story; only children like to hear it."
He said to Xie Mianmian, "Then, the ship quickly sailed out of that sea area. After that, I stood on the deck countless times at night, gazing at the sea, but I never saw that beautiful figure that haunted my dreams again."
"Wow!" Xie Mianmian stared at him in a daze, clearly absorbed in the story.
The foreign man looked at the golden monkey and said in surprise, "I've never seen Ma Lou so close to anyone before."
He had spent several months in South Vietnam and learned that monkeys were called "Ma Lou" in the Vietnamese language. The foreign man found this amusing and named the golden monkey "Ma Lou".
Although Ma Lou is pleasing to the eye, he never approaches a person easily.
Xie Mianmian said, "Ma Lou is very well-behaved; it helped Mianmian a lot."
After saying that, the child took out two small gold leaves from her purse. Xie Mingyi put them in a bag for her. It was very light and convenient. She told the child to buy whatever she liked.
She handed the little gold leaf to the foreign man, saying, "From now on, I'll take care of all of the little monkey's banana fries."
This is the banana line the child promised the golden monkey; she will fulfill her promise and give it a magnificent banana mountain.
The foreign man chuckled and stuffed the child's gold leaf back into her purse. "I'll buy bananas for Maluo. On the contrary, I haven't given you any money yet after hearing my story."
"Huh?" Xie Mianmian scratched her head. Did she have to pay someone to tell her a story?
Just then, a commotion came from outside the door. The child recognized the voices as those of the men in black.
Xie Mianmian was so frightened that she quickly hid the golden monkey under her skirt.
"You!" The man in black entered, pointing at the female boss who was fiddling with an abacus, his voice rude, "Have you seen a small golden monkey?"
"There are people coming and going in the store, how would I know?" the female owner replied lazily.
"You!" The man in black was furious. He then searched around the shop and accidentally shoved Xie Mianmian, who was fortunately caught by the foreign man.
"Did you find it? If not, get out of here!" The female boss wasn't afraid of him; those who could open shops on the second floor were all people with powerful backgrounds.
The man in black noticed nothing amiss, gave a cold snort, and hurriedly moved on to the next room.
Xie Mianmian hung her head and said to the foreign man, "I'm sorry, Mianmian and Ma Lou have caused trouble."
The man chuckled and ruffled the child's hair. "It's nothing. Ma Lou is naughty and always gets into trouble. I'm used to it."
The female boss walked over and forcefully slapped his hand away, saying, "Get out of here, don't bully children."
The foreign man put his finger to his lips and blew a peculiar whistle. Then, the horde leaped onto the man and disappeared into the hem of his clothes, making it impossible to tell anything was amiss from the outside.
Just then, Xie Mingyi came over, took the child away, and said, "The boat is about to dock, let's go."
Before Xie Mianmian left, she vaguely heard the foreign man saying, "Why didn't you expose me? Does the beauty like me that much? Ouch, ouch, ouch!"
Xie Mingyi pulled the child to stand on the deck, looked at the boy explaining the mechanism to someone not far away, and nodded in satisfaction.
It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. It seems that He Chuan's life won't be too difficult in the future. Hopefully, when I see him again, his clothes won't have any more holes.
Recalling the boy's embarrassed attempt to cover the hole he had accidentally made, Xie Mingyi couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh. He thought his movements were discreet, but in reality, they were extremely stiff, and she couldn't bear to watch it.
He Chuan was absentmindedly talking to others about how to play the rearranged nine-square grid, but his eyes kept glancing at Xie Mingyi.
Seeing the woman's smiling eyes crinkling, He Chuan couldn't help but smile back, even though he didn't know what she was laughing about.
At this moment, the Third Prince also came to the deck, but he was in a bad mood and just frowned as he looked at the rolling river, not noticing the people around him.
Damn it, he had just hurriedly sent a small boat into the river to retrieve the lost silver, and with great difficulty they pulled up a wet bag.
The moment the Third Prince saw the brocade pouch, he was as excited as if he had taken some kind of magic pill.
Not wanting to wait for his men to deliver it, he impatiently jumped onto the small boat, only to find that the boat capsized, and he fell into the water without getting the goods.
The river water was still extremely cold in late spring. This chill penetrated to the bone, making him shiver and feel even worse.
Adding to the earlier impact to his forehead, the Third Prince felt his head buzzing and his temples throbbing violently.
When he finally got his hands on the brocade pouch, he first squeezed it with both hands, feeling a vague sense of unease.
He suddenly opened the bag and took a look!
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