Chapter 06 Chapter 6

"Why don't you just eat a bite of fish food to show it, don't disappoint the child..."

Assistant Xu realized that he had said the wrong thing after he finished speaking, so he tried to make up for it: "What I mean is that the food may not suit its appetite, so we gave it to others!"

Wen Ming's eyelashes cast a shadow on his eyelids, and he listened.

"There are several types of trial food in the warehouse, I'll get them right away." Assistant Xu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "I hope it can stimulate the mermaid's appetite."

...

That night, Mu Mu saw Wen Ming carrying several bags of fish food, and the whole fish was in a bad state.

"!?" Buy so much!

You should spend it sparingly. Don't you know how much your family financial resources are? Is the family completely in dire straits, and this is the last dinner?

Wen Ming opened the packages one by one, poured a little into his palm, and tested Mu Mu's preference.

But Mu Mu kept swimming around the pool anxiously, not eating a single bite...

Wen Ming took the mermaid's whining as "not to his taste" and continued to try.

"This one..."

Wen Ming picked up the last bag and his movements slowed down:

"The company's newly formulated mermaid food is not selling as well as the previous flavors.

During the test, each ingredient was popular with the mermaids, but after it was launched on the market, consumers reported that the palatability was average. I don't know why."

His tone was indifferent, which was in line with the state of a worker who "didn't care about the boss's life or death."

The little mermaid that was swimming around suddenly stopped:

It turned out that the company where his owner worked sent him to improve the taste of the product!

It instantly no longer rejected the fish food.

Mu Mu swam to the edge of the pool and approached Wen Ming's hand.

"Do you like this?" Wen Ming's eyebrows twitched slightly, "The sales volume did not meet expectations, and it is ready to be taken off the shelves."

Mermaids express themselves in a very simple way.

If they like it, they eat it, and if they don't like it, they ignore it. They won't tell humans "why".

Therefore, Wen's can't adjust the formula of the new fish food, and can only overturn it and start over.

Wen's new product suffered a disastrous failure, and its monopoly position is also precarious.

Competitors have launched new flavors of fish food, hoping to squeeze out Wen's in one fell swoop.

Just like Qi Xuan's family, Qi's Mermaid Supplies Company...

Mu Mu pulled Wen Ming over and sniffed the new fish food in his palm.

A strange smell was mixed in it.

"Oh!" No wonder the sales volume is not good!

Wen Ming:?

I always feel like I'm being scolded by my own mermaids?

Mu Mu licked off his favorite food bit by bit, leaving a shrimp freeze-dried, and looked up at Wen Ming eagerly.

Wen Ming weighed the freeze-dried shrimp and recognized that it was the mermaids' favorite shrimp.

Mu Mu shook his hand, gurgling in his throat, as if he wanted to say something important.

The vocal cord structure of mermaids is different from that of humans, and there is currently no way to decipher mermaid language in the interstellar space.

Wen Ming listened patiently: "Not full?"

"..." Stupid master.

Wen Ming estimated the little mermaid's nutritional intake today, and poured it some new flavor of fish food.

Mu Mu knew that words wouldn't work, so he switched to acting.

He first picked out the dried shrimps, took a big bite, and then put the dried shrimps back into the fish food, sticking out his tongue and shaking his head:

"Yue!"

Wen Ming said in surprise: "Why doesn't the dried shrimps taste good when mixed with other ingredients?"

The little mermaid Meimei, who had superb acting skills, ate the rest of the food: "Huh."

Smart master!

'Its ability to guide is too weak, it's useless to you, change it to a high-level mermaid. '

Mu Mu put his face close to the back of Wen Ming's hand and rubbed it, his eyes shining as if he could speak:

I'm quite useful, don't replace me, okay?

Wen Ming's heart softened inexplicably.

He moved his fingers and brushed the tip of Mu Mu's ear.

The lower part of the mermaid's ear is similar in shape to that of a human, but the auricle narrows upwards and is pointed like an elf.

The skin at the tip of the ear is very thin, and Mu Mu shook his ears because it itched, but he did not dodge.

Wen Ming intentionally or unintentionally glanced over there again, watching the white skin at the tip of its ear turn red little by little...

Mu Mu was annoyed, turned around and bit his wrist, then sank into the pool without saying a word.

The speed at which the little mermaid bites is very slow compared to the fighting on the battlefield.

Wen Ming could have easily avoided it, but with a thought, he let Mu Mu leave a circle of teeth marks on his wrist.

There was no bleeding, no broken skin, and the teeth marks were very shallow, and it was obvious that he didn't bite hard at all.

Wen Ming chuckled and picked up the bag of new flavored fish food.

His mermaid trusts him, and he can trust his mermaid too.

*

"Do you want to adjust the formula?"

Assistant Xu was doubtful and said, "We have already lost a lot of development funds for this product, so it is better to stop the loss in time than to make a mistake in trial and error."

Wen Ming handled the documents at hand without changing his expression: "Adjust one ingredient, frozen dried shrimp cannot be mixed with other ingredients."

Assistant Xu was stunned for a few seconds: "Where did this conclusion come from?" "

My mermaid. "

"Mermaid?"

Assistant Xu's glasses slid down in shock: "Admiral, you can't trust low-IQ mermaids!

Mermaid experts have not been able to crack their language so far, and most of their behaviors are unknown and illogical..."

Wen Ming raised his eyes indifferently between turning pages of documents.

Assistant Xu's remaining words froze in his throat and he immediately lowered his head:

"I'll call a meeting now."

For a while afterwards, the entire company was busy looking for ingredients to replace frozen dried shrimp.

Mu Mu has become an unofficial contributor to the company...

Every day, after eating the food that Wen Ming feeds him, he turns into a picky piranha and helps adjust the recipe.

At the beginning, Wen Ming would only put two alternative ingredients and let him choose which one he likes more.

But Mu Mu showed extraordinary aura of a mermaid when it comes to eating.

Not only can he choose the ingredients, but he also suggests fine-tuning the proportions of each ingredient, and even strongly requests that the dried vegetables be made into the shape of dried fish. He

is simply a picky gourmet!

On the day when the final recipe was finalized and put into testing, the employees of Wen's company were restless.

"This is the first time I've seen a project that progresses so quickly. Is it going too smoothly?"

"Smoothly? Wait until we get feedback from the tests before we consider whether we can use this word!"

"I believe in the admiral. Although I don't understand the intention of his proposals for improvement, he has always been reliable!"

Special Assistant Xu came out of Wen Ming's office and heard the employees' discussions. He clenched his teeth:

The reliable admiral is now slacking off and learning how to maintain a mermaid's tail!

Special Assistant Xu adjusted his glasses, as if he had turned on the complaining switch, and muttered in a low voice:

"He has a dead face when reviewing documents in meetings. He has read the Mermaid Breeding Manual eight hundred times, and he still studies it seriously and attentively.

The most outrageous thing is to let mermaids who know nothing participate..."

"Feedback received!" someone exclaimed.

The employees rushed to read the trial feedback of the new flavor of fish food:

"It is very palatable. My two mermaids rushed to eat it. It was the first time for them to eat so deliciously. Great!"

"It has to be Wen's mermaid food. After the mermaids at home finished eating, they were so satisfied that they took the initiative to comfort each other."

"Making vegetables into the shape of small dried fish should be applied for one of the greatest inventions in the universe! Mermaids who don't like vegetables thought they were all meat and ate them all."

100% favorable evaluation rate

Special Assistant Xu: OoO

is worthy of being a mermaid who can become an admiral mermaid.

He quickly returned to Wen Ming's office: "Admiral, the adjusted product is very...successful."

The electronic screen at the door of the office showed: clocked out.

"It turns out that admirals also leave work on time." Assistant Xu said numbly, "His main job is to raise his baby mermaids, and his side job is being a president..."

*

The first thing that President Wen did when he got home after leaving work on time was to go to the mermaid room to say hello:

"Mu Mu."

"!" Mu Mu was bored at home and developed a series of new skills. When he heard his master's voice, he was so excited that he performed a series of forward rolls.

Welcome home!

Wen Ming put a few small boxes on the wall of the pool, and Mu Mu immediately came over and opened his mouth wide:

"Ah——"

Another new flavor, let me try it!

"This is scar repair ointment." Wen Ming loosened his tie with one hand, "Wait for me a moment."

He walked out of the mermaid room while taking off his suit jacket.

Scar repair ointment?

Mu Mu turned his head to look at his tail—

the wound no longer hurt, but the scales were still half-fallen off. If it continued like this, it would leave a scar.

Mu Mu shyly poked the scar repair cream a few times:

Is this thing expensive?

The sound of Wen Ming talking on the computer with someone else came from outside the door.

Mu Mu stretched his neck and breathed lightly, only to hear a few vague words:

"Well, the upgraded version is officially launched on the Wen's official website... hard work... reward."

Its eyes turned friendly when it looked at the scar repair cream.

This is the company's reward for the owner's hard work!

When Wen Ming changed his clothes and returned to the mermaid room, he saw the little mermaid lazily resting its tail on the edge of the pool, and its tail fin "slapped" against the tiles, as if urging:

Come on, rub it on for this fish!

Mr. Wen unpacked the expensive top-level repair cream and obediently stepped forward to "serve" the fish.

The man and the fish have already developed a tacit understanding in applying the medicine.

Wen Ming dipped the repair cream, and Mu Mu hung up the fish tail and stuck to it, with the rhythm just right.

Mu Mu adapted to the thin rope in Wen Ming's hand. It was as itchy as it was at the beginning. It was as addicted now. It lay on its back on the water, squinting its eyes and enjoying it.

It was so comfortable that it felt sleepy. It heard something falling into the water beside it, and opened its eyes to see -

a translucent little fish.

Snack!

Mu Mu was half asleep and half awake, and grabbed the little fish in one bite.

The taste was not right when it took a bite, and its sleepiness disappeared. It shuddered all over:

something is wrong, why are fish snacks transparent?

Wen Ming didn't notice this. He closed the box of cleaning beads and looked up to find...

The Mermaid Breeding Manual wrote:

'Mermaid tails have the function of dredging the spiritual sea and decomposing impurities. They don't need to go to the toilet. After decomposing the nutrients in the food, the gaps between the scales automatically excrete impurities.

Therefore, it is best to clean and maintain the tails of mermaids at home regularly. The method of maintaining fish tails is as follows...'

The gel beads used to clean fish tails are one of Wen's most popular products. The delicate fish shape can reduce the mermaid's sense of resistance and make the cleaning process smoother.

The only drawback is that it is easy to slip.

Wen Ming slipped one of them from his hand, but the surface of the pool was empty and no floating beads were seen.

He parted Mu Mu's hair, thinking that the gel beads were mixed in.

"Baji, baji..."

Wen Ming's expression froze, and he quickly pinched Mu Mu's chin: "Spit it out."

The condensed bead melted as soon as it slipped into his mouth. Mu Mu wanted to cry but had no tears:

I want to spit it out too!

When he opened his mouth, he didn't say anything to complain, but burped instead.

A colorful bubble suddenly blew out of his mouth, and it burst with a "pop" sound.

The greedy little mermaid's face turned pale: That's bad...