Chapter 26 Bathtub
Lu Qingmian cursed, and Jiang Jinyue stopped crying. The little pearls that had been clattering onto the bed stopped falling. The fish tail in Lu Qingmian's arms curled up in dissatisfaction, and the tail fin swept across Lu Qingmian's chin. Her brows knitted tightly, and her eyes, which had become pale and almost glassy, looked at Lu Qingmian accusingly, and whispered:
"Lu Qingmian, how could you scold me? You scolded the patient. You have no medical ethics."
The beautiful tail fin was softer than the finest silk, and it felt smooth and cool when it brushed against the skin. Lu Qingmian turned his head away, avoiding Jiang Jinyue's fish tail, tightened his arms around the fish tail, and dragged Jiang Jinyue closer to him.
Jiang Jinyue's body slid a distance on the bed sheet, making the already messy bed even more messy.
He looked at Lu Qingmian's face who was suddenly approaching, and his mouth immediately closed tightly, and he stopped talking, and even subconsciously held his breath.
Lu Qingmian lowered his eyes, and his fingertips slowly slid upwards along Jiang Jinyue's fish tail, as if to confirm whether this beautiful big tail was real or fake.
As the fingertips moved upwards, Jiang Jinyue's fish tail began to tremble, almost turning into waves. He put one hand on Lu Qingmian's arm, wanting to stop Lu Qingmian but feeling that Lu Qingmian was concerned about him, he could only lower his head, revealing his red ears, not daring to look at Lu Qingmian.
The scales under the fingertips are slightly cool, just like the tail fin, and the tentacles are smooth like touching delicate jade.
Suddenly, Lu Qingmian's fingertips stopped, and he found a scale that was softer and more delicate than the other scales. The scales nearby were even slightly warm.
Jiang Jinyue, who had been lowering her head, suddenly looked up, and grasped Lu Qingmian's arm tightly with her fingertips. Her light-colored eyes widened, and a beautiful blush appeared at the corners of her eyes. The tail that was lingering softly in Lu Qingmian's arm suddenly shook Lu Qingmian's shoulder hard.
"Don't touch it! Don't touch there!" Jiang Jinyue said as he tried to retract his tail. With his other hand, he pushed away Lu Qingmian's fingertips. His tail twisted and retreated on the bed in a hurry, and small beads of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose.
Lu Qingmian paused, his eyes becoming subtle. He simply withdrew his hand and stood up, standing by the bed. He watched Jiang Jinyue trying hard to hide his tail, and said in an inexplicable tone, "That's good. No need to put on pants."
Jiang Jinyue clutched the bed sheet tightly, obviously a little angry because Lu Qingmian touched the small scales there.
He pulled the bed sheet more and more tangled, and the little pearls piled in the folds rolled everywhere and hit Jiang Jinyue's fingertips.
Jiang Jinyue was so shocked by the sudden transformation into a mermaid that he only then noticed the small pearls.
Jiang Jinyue was born in Ze County and had never left that small county before. His mother, Wang Xiaoya, had never owned any jewelry. Jiang Jinyue's knowledge of pearls came from television.
Picking up the round, white pearl, Jiang Jinyue was momentarily stunned and asked, "What is this? How did my tears become like this?"
Lu Qingmian looked down at Jiang Jinyue who was sitting on the bed and said, "It's Pearl."
"Pearls?" Jiang Jinyue picked up a few pearls and placed them in her palm. She fiddled with them for a moment, and her eyes suddenly lit up. "Are pearls valuable?"
Lu Qingmian curled his lips: "It's valuable."
Jiang Jinyue immediately put aside the thought of Lu Qingmian touching his scales, carefully picked up all the small pearls on the bed and held them in his palm, looking at Lu Qingmian in surprise: "Lu Qingmian, I'm rich!"
This little money-grubber acts so calmly that he doesn't seem greedy or annoying at all, but rather very cute.
Lu Qingmian was just about to say that he could help Jiang Jinyue find a buyer to sell these pearls when he saw Jiang Jinyue raise his hand and pinch his arm hard. His arm immediately turned bruised. Jiang Jinyue gasped in pain, his clear eyes narrowed, and his tail couldn't help but slap the bed twice, obviously in great pain.
"What are you doing!" Lu Qingmian pulled Jiang Jinyue's arm and looked at the bruises on it, his face darkening.
Jiang Jinyue looked up at Lu Qingmian, his eyes narrowed in grievance, "I want to cry! I want the pearls! I wanted to cry again while the PTSD illusions were still there, but it hurts so much... I can't even cry!"
Lu Qingmian took a deep breath, as if trying to calm down his anger. "If you want to cry, I have plenty of ways to make you cry. There's no need to pinch yourself."
No matter how you listen to it, these words are not good, but Jiang Jinyue looks at Lu Qingmian expectantly, his tone brightening: "Really? Can you really make me cry? I want to cry so hard, the kind that I can't stop crying!"
The two people were very close at this time. Jiang Jinyue was sitting on the bed and Lu Qingmian was standing beside the bed. The difference in position allowed Lu Qingmian to clearly see Jiang Jinyue's neck exposed when he raised his head. It was slender and white, as if a slight grip could take Jiang Jinyue's life.
The violent emotions in his heart kept churning, but Jiang Jinyue dragged her tail closer to him again, and the arm he held obediently rested on it. With her other hand, she grabbed the hem of Lu Qingmian's clothes and looked at him with trust: "You said you would make me cry, you can't go back on your word!"
Lu Qingmian let go of his hand, took a step back, and then another step back, until he was standing at the door, as if Jiang Jinyue was some kind of monster.
The undercurrents churning in his dark eyes were suppressed. He frowned slightly and abruptly changed the subject: "Aren't you hungry? Do you want to eat?"
Of course Jiang Jinyue was hungry. Not only was he hungry, he felt even more thirsty at this moment. Not only was he very thirsty, but his tail was also very dry and uncomfortable.
"I'm so hungry and thirsty. I want water, lots and lots of water..." Jiang Jinyue said as he moved towards the bed. However, because he was not used to the fish tail that had just appeared, he fell off the bed. His shoulder hit the corner of the bedside table and he fell to the ground. He looked like he was stupid and didn't move for a long time.
The incident happened suddenly. Lu Qingmian didn't catch Jiang Jinyue. Instead, he bent down and picked him up from the ground. He lowered his voice and sounded fierce: "Jiang Jinyue, what the hell are you doing? Just because you have a fish tail, does that mean your brain has become a fish brain too?"
Lu Qingmian's tone was very serious. Jiang Jinyue stopped talking and just leaned quietly in Lu Qingmian's arms. Her tail was stiff, her long eyelashes drooped listlessly, and she pursed her lips, looking particularly aggrieved. But one of her hands was still grabbing Lu Qingmian's sleeve, and her white fingertips were shaking a little, as if she was frightened by Lu Qingmian's fierceness.
"Does it hurt?" Seeing this, Lu Qingmian's chest softened and his tone slowed down.
Jiang Jinyue finally nodded, her voice small, as if she was afraid of being scolded by Lu Qingmian again, "I want water, lots and lots of water."
Jiang Jinyue raised his tail fin to signal Lu Qingmian, "It's very uncomfortable without water."
Lu Qingmian simply carried Jiang Jinyue to the bathroom, placed the chair in the living room under the shower, adjusted the water temperature, and let Jiang Jinyue sit on the chair to be showered with warm water.
When the shower was turned on, Jiang Jinyue was drenched by the water and he looked much better.
He slightly closed his eyes, raised his neck, and let the water slide down his cheeks. Soon, the thin shirt on his body was soaked by the water and became almost transparent. It stuck to his skin, and the milky white color could not be hidden at all.
Lu Qingmian immediately turned around and said, "I'm going to go back and take a shower and buy some food. You just wait for me at home. I'll take your house key first."
Jiang Jinyue now had water and no longer cared much about Lu Qingmian. He said "hmm" softly, and the glazed fish tail became more dazzling under the water.
Lu Qingmian didn't close the bathroom door. He took the key to Jiang Jinyue's house from the cabinet at the door and walked out.
He was afraid that something might happen to Jiang Jinyue, a stupid fish, at home alone, so he moved quickly. He didn't even take the elevator, but ran up the stairs in three or two steps, quickly took a shower, changed clothes, and went out again.
When Jiang Jinyue just woke up, she said she wanted to eat stir-fried crabapple flowers. Lu Qingmian remembered it, but it was really difficult to buy this dish in a restaurant in H City. In the end, Lu Qingmian ordered a bouquet of crabapple flowers from a flower shop, sent it to the restaurant, and asked the restaurant to stir-fry it directly.
The flower delivery guy looked as if he wanted to kill someone when he saw the kitchen staff take the flowers, unpack them neatly, pluck the flowers, wash them, and throw them into the pan to stir-fry.
When Lu Qingmian came back from buying some delicious food, Jiang Jinyue was still taking a shower in the bathroom. However, after so long, the hot water in the electric water heater could no longer keep up with the demand, so he was showering with cold water. However, Jiang Jinyue was still very happy, even humming a cheerful tune.
Lu Qingmian put the food on the table, went to the bedroom and found a shirt of Jiang Jinyue, and then found a bath towel, and then went to the bathroom.
The bathroom door was open. Jiang Jinyue was facing Lu Qingmian, one hand lazily supporting the armrest of the chair, humming a song with his eyes slightly closed, and his tail fin was relaxed and twitching.
After Lu Qingmian left, Jiang Jinyue dug out a basin from somewhere, placed it on the ground and filled it with water. He put his tail fin in to soak it, and as his tail fin moved around, splashes of water kept coming up.
Because he was worried about Jiang Jinyue, Lu Qingmian hurried all the way. For some reason, his impatient mood slowly calmed down when he heard the tune Jiang Jinyue humming.
He raised his hand and knocked on the bathroom door beside him. Seeing that Jiang Jinyue noticed him, he walked over and turned off the shower. His eyes lightly swept across the transparent shirt that was tightly attached to Jiang Jinyue's body and immediately moved away. He shook out the bath towel, wrapped Jiang Jinyue in it, picked him up and left the bathroom.
Because Jiang Jinyue was now a mermaid, Lu Qingmian held her upright like a child. Jiang Jinyue placed her hands on Lu Qingmian's shoulders and looked at the basin of water reluctantly, "Water..."
When Lu Qingmian heard this, he paused and asked him, "Do you want to take a bath in the tub?"
Jiang Jinyue immediately turned to look at Lu Qingmian, "Yes!"
Lu Qingmian: "I have one at home."
Jiang Jinyue arched her body excitedly, and the towel wrapped around her body loosened a little. "Can I go? You didn't let me go to your house before."
Lu Qingmian gathered the towel around Jiang Jinyue and said, "You can go, but..."
Jiang Jinyue moved closer to Lu Qingmian's face and looked carefully into his eyes. He seemed to be unaware of the close distance between them, and his mind was full of thoughts about taking a bath in the bathtub.
"but?"
Lu Qingmian didn't rush to answer. He put Jiang Jinyue on the bed in the bedroom and placed a clean shirt next to her. "Change your clothes first."
Jiang Jinyue wanted to take a bath in the bathtub, and since she felt that she had something to ask of Lu Qingmian, she was particularly obedient and started to unbutton her clothes.
Lu Qingmian turned around, walked out of the bedroom, leaned against the wall beside the door, and didn't look.
Changing his shirt was quick. Jiang Jinyue didn't even have to put on pants, which saved him a lot of trouble. After changing, he immediately called Lu Qingmian: "Lu Qingmian! What did you say yet?"
Lu Qingmian turned his head to look at him and said, "I want you to blindfold yourself and not see anything. Do you still want to go to my house to take a bath in the bathtub?"
Jiang Jinyue tilted his head and thought for a moment, "That's it?"
Lu Qingmian raised his eyebrows: "That's it."
Jiang Jinyue said firmly: "I want to go!"
Lu Qingmian suddenly lowered his head and smiled, his fine black hair covering his eyebrows and eyes. From the side view, the curve of his thin lips was particularly handsome and a little bad.
He walked over, opened Jiang Jinyue's wardrobe, picked out a piece of his own black clothes, took it out, took out a folding knife from his pocket, and cut the clothes neatly, cutting out a long strip of cloth.
When Jiang Jinyue saw Lu Qingmian cut a piece of clothing, a look of heartache appeared on his face.
Lu Qingmian threw the remaining tattered clothes into the trash can without caring, then walked towards Jiang Jinyue with the black cloth and asked, "Are you ready?"
Jiang Jinyue wasn't afraid at all. He nodded quickly, slapping the bed with his tail, looking quite expectant: "Hurry up, hurry up."
Lu Qingmian paused for a moment and said no more. He bent down and approached Jiang Jinyue, covered Jiang Jinyue's eyes with the folded black cloth, and then tied a knot behind Jiang Jinyue's head.
Jiang Jinyue's vision went dark. He reached out and groped, grabbing Lu Qingmian's fingers. "Is it okay now?"
Lu Qingmian looked at Jiang Jinyue, whose eyes were covered with a black cloth, and an inexplicable emotion rose in his chest.
He exerted force with his hands and suddenly pushed Jiang Jinyue down on the bed. Jiang Jinyue screamed softly, but lay obediently on the bed and did not get up. His demanding look made Lu Qingmian's dark eyes darker and darker.
"Lu Qingmian?" Jiang Jinyue couldn't see anything, and Lu Qingmian suddenly stopped talking again. He was a little panicked.
"Yeah." Lu Qingmian's voice had no fluctuations.
He pulled the quilt over and carefully wrapped Jiang Jinyue's fish tail, all the way to Jiang Jinyue's head, wrapping him up like a quilt roll.
Jiang Jinyue arched his body, and suddenly his body was lifted into the air and was held in Lu Qingmian's arms.
Lu Qingmian held Jiang Jinyue in his arms, put the food bag on his wrist, and left Jiang Jinyue's house.
Jiang Jinyue had a corner of the quilt covering his forehead, his chin resting on Lu Qingmian's shoulder. Although his eyes were covered with a black cloth, he could still see messy illusions in front of his eyes.
The number of times he and Lu Qingmian touched each other today was really excessive. Jiang Jinyue put his ear against Lu Qingmian's cheek, breathing in and out gently, trying to calm the stress response caused by the PTSD touch.
Lu Qingmian understood Jiang Jinyue's situation and gently stroked her with his hand on the quilt.
Just as the two took a few steps, the elevator beeped and a person walked out.
The person who came had conspicuous pink hair, and was sipping milk tea with her head down, holding a bag in her hand. It was Chen Keai.
Chen Keai was obviously looking for Jiang Jinyue, but when he looked up, he saw Lu Qingmian holding a huge quilt roll, which looked like there was a person wrapped inside.
"Puff—" The milk tea in Chen Keai's mouth spurted out, "Fuck, Lu Qingmian, are you making such a big deal out of this?"
Lu Qingmian's eyes were slightly cold. Jiang Jinyue, who was lying in the quilt, heard Chen Keai's voice, poked her head out, and looked towards the source of the voice: "Chen Keai?"
Chen Keai opened her eyes wide and saw Jiang Jinyue looking at her with a black cloth covering his eyes. She didn't know whether he was wearing any clothes under the quilt.
Lu Qingmian walked straight past Chen Keai and went upstairs without stopping.
Chen Keai came to her senses and quickly ran to Lu Qingmian, blocking his way. She looked at Jiang Jinyue and asked anxiously, "Jiang Jinyue! Were you forced by this big bad wolf? If you were forced, just say a word!"
Jiang Jinyue was a little confused: "What do you mean by forced?"
Chen Keai's facial features were distorted: "It was Lu Qingmian who forced you to go to his house! He even forced you to blindfold yourself!"
Jiang Jinyue understood half of what he said, shook his head, and answered seriously: "No one forced me. I wanted to go to Lu Qingmian's house, and I asked him to blindfold me."
Chen Keai's expression fell apart, and he froze in place. For a moment, he felt a mixture of emotions, as if his delicious cabbages were growing clean and white in the ground one second, and then being eaten by a wild boar the next.
Lu Qingmian glanced at Chen Keai coldly, walked around him and went into the stairwell.
Chen Keai finally came back to her senses and quickly caught up with him, handing him the bag he was holding. "Hey! I brought you some milk tea!"
A porcelain-white arm stretched out from the quilt and took the bag. "Thank you."
Chen Keai looked at the arm and was certain that Jiang Jinyue was not wearing any clothes under the quilt.
His heart beat faster and his face turned red.
Only after Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue had vanished did Chen Keai come to his senses. He slapped himself lightly and muttered, "How could a veteran like me, H, blush just to see a little girl like Ling?"
In fact, Jiang Jinyue was wearing a shirt, but it was wrapped in the quilt and was twisted around, with the sleeves sticking up.
He was completely unaware of Chen Keai's inner shock and was looking forward to soaking in the bathtub.
Lu Qingmian had long legs and walked fast, and soon he brought Jiang Jinyue into 1303.
Unlike the simplicity of 1203, although 1303 has little furniture, the walls and floors look very new, and the bathroom has also been renovated and can accommodate a large bathtub.
The blindfolded Jiang Jinyue had no idea that Lu Qingmian was carrying him past a pile of horrific simulated human specimens with ragged skin and flesh. Lu Qingmian didn't intend to let him know and directly carried Jiang Jinyue to the bathroom.
Until he put Jiang Jinyue into the bathtub, closed the bathroom door, adjusted the water temperature and started to fill the bathtub with warm water, Lu Qingmian did not remove the black cloth on Jiang Jinyue's eyes, but just put the quilt wrapped around him aside.
If Lu Qingmian didn't let him pick it, he would just stay put and not touch it. His slender white fingertips rested on the edge of the bathtub. He couldn't see with his eyes and sniffed around like a puppy.
There was a light mist floating in the air, and a faint, sharp fragrance, which was the smell of Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian placed a small table next to the bathtub, put the milk tea bought by Chen Keai on it, and also put the food he bought on it. This was not enough, so Lu Qingmian took out a laptop and put it on the table.
After preparing all this, Lu Qingmian did not rush to take off the black cloth in front of Jiang Jinyue's eyes. Instead, he sat on the edge of the bathtub and looked at Jiang Jinyue quietly.
Jiang Jinyue had already smelled the fragrance of the food and his stomach was rumbling, but because the fish tail was completely soaked in water, he was not in a hurry to fill his stomach.
Under the clear water, a beautiful glass-colored fish tail swayed gently, flashing brightly under the incandescent light in the bathroom. As the fish tail swayed, the light changed into different colors, as if Jiang Jinyue's fish tail was colorful.
Lu Qingmian watched for a long time, so long that Jiang Jinyue was so bored that he put his chin on the edge of the bathtub and yawned.
The water soaked the hem of the shirt, and the wet marks quickly spread along the hem, and soon the lower half of the shirt was soaked.
Lu Qingmian raised his hand and gently touched Jiang Jinyue's eyes with his fingertips through the black cloth. "Aren't you going to take off the blindfold?"
Jiang Jinyue lifted his tail out of the water and swung it, his tone filled with natural trust: "You didn't ask me to pick it."
Lu Qingmian's eyelashes trembled, and his dark eyes reflected the beautiful and silly mermaid lying in his bathtub. He said, "It really is a fish brain."
The next second, Jiang Jinyue's eyes lit up and the black cloth was taken off by Lu Qingmian.
The sudden brightness made him squint his eyes. After adjusting for a while, he immediately looked at the small table beside him. When he saw the rich preparations on the table, his eyes sparkled.
Lu Qingmian handed him the chopsticks and said, "Eat quickly."
Jiang Jinyue took the chopsticks and picked up another pair of chopsticks and handed them to Lu Qingmian, "You eat too."
The two of them had a meal together in the bathroom. Jiang Jinyue ate a lot and fast, and his belly was slightly bulging under the water.
He leaned back in the bathtub contentedly, drinking his milk tea slowly.
Lu Qingmian opened his laptop and briefly taught him how to operate it, then cleared the lunch boxes on the small table. "I'm going to take out the trash, you stay here."
Ever since Jiang Jinyue turned into a mermaid, Lu Qingmian felt like he had a pet.
Jiang Jinyue nodded and began to search impatiently for videos about the ocean on his laptop.
He had never been so interested in the sea as he was now.
Lu Qingmian went downstairs to throw away the garbage.
Jiang Jinyue played a video about the sea. The video was full of foreigners, and it looked like the sea somewhere in a foreign country.
Listening to the sound of the waves, Jiang Jinyue sighed comfortably, leaned against the bathtub with a cup of milk tea in his hand and closed his eyes to rest.
He didn't notice that shortly after he closed his eyes, the water in the bathtub gradually became darker, its color becoming closer and closer to the blue of the sea, and ripples began to form on the calm water surface.
The ripples grew larger and larger. Jiang Jinyue, who had his eyes closed, suddenly frowned and slowly opened his eyes. "How strange..."
He just felt something touch his tail, but there shouldn't be anything in the bathtub.
Jiang Jinyue gently swung his tail and looked down, only to find that the color of the water surface had become darker. Before he could be surprised, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his tail.
Jiang Jinyue screamed, holding onto the edge of the bathtub with both hands, and struggled to climb out. He fell to the bathroom floor and subconsciously looked for Lu Qingmian:
"Lu Qingmian! Lu Qingmian! Something in the water is biting me!"
Lu Qingmian, who had just thrown away the garbage, heard Jiang Jinyue's miserable cry as he entered the room. He rushed to the bathroom and saw Jiang Jinyue lying on the ground. His little face was pale and there was a small wound on his beautiful fish tail. A piece of fish scale had fallen off for some reason and the wound was bleeding.
Jiang Jinyue's tail fin trembled in pain, his eyes filled with fear. He pointed at the bathtub and said, "There's something in there... It looks like a big bug!"
Lu Qingmian's face was cold. He walked to the bathtub and immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the water in the bathtub.
He narrowed his dark eyes slightly, searching the surface of the bathtub water, and quietly grasped the folding knife in his hand, with the blade already swung out.
The next second, Lu Qingmian suddenly made a move. There was a sound of splashing water. Lu Qingmian raised his arm. Under the incandescent light, he saw a huge lobster struggling on the blade!
How could there be a lobster in the bathtub?
At this moment, a classic translation voice rang out from a nearby laptop: "State A has a beautiful blue ocean and abundant lobsters, making it a perfect tourist destination..."
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