Chapter 27 What a big surprise
The big lobster was thrown off the blade by Lu Qingmian, hit the corner of the wall, and became dizzy, crawling slowly there.
Jiang Jinyue had never eaten a lobster before and had only seen it on TV. When he suddenly saw the living creature, he thought it was so big and scary, and it looked so terrifying that he shrank his tail and wanted to stay away from the lobster.
Compared to the deep blue water rippling in the bathtub, Lu Qingmian was more concerned about the wound on Jiang Jinyue's tail.
The place where a scale was missing was particularly conspicuous and was bleeding all the time. Blood beads flowed down the tail, dyeing a small piece of glass-colored scale red. It was painful just looking at it.
Since they couldn't stay in the bathtub for the time being, Lu Qingmian brought a chair, picked up Jiang Jinyue and put him on the chair, carefully examining his wound.
"Does it hurt?"
Jiang Jinyue nodded, frowning slightly, but his eyes kept glancing at the big lobster in the corner from time to time. He was afraid that the big lobster would crawl over. He really didn't like this creature with many legs and no hair.
Lu Qingmian saw Jiang Jinyue's fear and said, "Wait for me."
He stood up, stabbed the lobster with the knife again, walked out of the bathroom, and soon came back with trauma gel and cotton swabs.
The chair that Lu Qingmian brought over was not high, a bit like a recliner. Jiang Jinyue sat on it. Lu Qingmian half-knelt in front of Jiang Jinyue, letting Jiang Jinyue put his tail on his legs.
Jiang Jinyue saw that Lu Qingmian's pants were soaked by water while he was kneeling on the ground, and his tail unconsciously lifted up. His cold and smooth tail fin gently brushed Lu Qingmian's arm, as if trying to please him.
Lu Qingmian carefully and gently applied medicine to Jiang Jinyue's wound. The gel was cool and had an analgesic effect, so Jiang Jinyue didn't feel too uncomfortable.
He looked at Lu Qingmian's long eyelashes as she lowered her eyes, his fingertips tugging at the wet hem of his clothes, his lips opening and closing, and he finally asked, "Lu Qingmian... aren't you going to ask me what's going on?"
Lu Qingmian smeared a thick layer of trauma gel on Jiang Jinyue's wound. At the end, he blew gently on the wound, fearing that Jiang Jinyue would feel pain. Hearing this, he raised his eyes and glanced at Jiang Jinyue calmly, "Can you explain it clearly if I ask you?"
Jiang Jinyue pursed his lips and shook his head. He really didn't understand the situation yet.
"Besides, aren't there enough strange things happening to you?" Lu Qingmian added.
Jiang Jinyue felt even more ashamed. She lowered her head with her chin almost buried in her chest. She didn't dare to look at Lu Qingmian. Her slender white fingertips nervously wrung out the water from the wet corners of her clothes.
Lu Qingmian noticed it and said, "Just say it if you have something to say."
Jiang Jinyue immediately let go of his hand, and placed his hands in front of him at a loss. His voice was very soft and low, as if he was afraid of being disliked. "Lu Qingmian, don't you think I'm troublesome?"
In his past life, Jiang Jinyue's biggest fear was causing trouble to others. Ever since he began to have those terrible hallucinations, he always caused trouble to others, to Wang Xiaoya, to strangers. Every time the stress reaction of PTSD passed, Jiang Jinyue was like a lone boat in the ocean. Looking at the eyes of others, he clearly realized that he had caused trouble to others again and made others dislike him again.
After coming to H City and meeting Lu Qingmian, Jiang Jinyue thought he had caused Lu Qingmian a lot of trouble in just over a month.
He was afraid that one day Lu Qingmian would look at him with disgust and hatred, just like those who had seen his stress reaction.
Lu Qingmian didn't answer. He carefully packed up the trauma gel, threw away the used cotton swab, wiped the water on the ground, and then walked over.
Jiang Jinyue's heart became more and more panicked. He lowered his head and dared not look at Lu Qingmian again. In these few short minutes, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, none of which were good. He even had the illusion that Lu Qingmian would immediately tell him to get out.
"Jiang Jinyue." Lu Qingmian's voice sounded above his head.
Jiang Jinyue shuddered but didn't look up.
Lu Qingmian said again: "Raise your head."
Jiang Jinyue's eyes were hot and his vision was blurred by tears. He shook his head gently. He didn't dare to look at Lu Qingmian's face, for he was afraid of seeing a look of disgust.
A soft sigh was heard.
Lu Qingmian bent down, pinched Jiang Jinyue's waist with both hands, and lifted up the sensitive and timid mermaid with force. He held her above his head and looked up at Jiang Jinyue's face. The little face was milky white, but her eyes were red, her mouth was tightly clenched, and she looked aggrieved.
Jiang Jinyue was startled when she was suddenly lifted up, and tears fell down, turning into pearls and hitting Lu Qingmian's face.
Lu Qingmian frowned when he was hit. Jiang Jinyue immediately wiped away her tears with her hands, her voice choked with sobs: "Lu Qingmian, please don't hate me..."
"Jiang Jinyue." Lu Qingmian called Jiang Jinyue's name very seriously.
Jiang Jinyue stopped talking and just kept sobbing.
Lu Qingmian kept holding Jiang Jinyue high, his thin lips slightly curled, revealing a very gentle smile, "Jiang Jinyue, how can you be a trouble? To me, you are a surprise."
Surprise himself quietly put down his hand, and the little pearls began to crackle on Lu Qingmian's face again, "Surprise?"
"Well, a huge surprise." Lu Qingmian put down his arms and put Jiang Jinyue back on the chair.
"Thanks to this big surprise of yours, we'll have lobster tonight," Lu Qingmian said.
Jiang Jinyue was savoring the word "surprise" when she heard Lu Qingmian mention eating lobster. She frowned and said, "Eating that... that's too scary..."
Lu Qingmian didn't care: "I'll peel it, do you want to eat it?"
Jiang Jinyue nodded vigorously: "Eat!"
Jiang Jinyue felt that one big lobster was definitely not enough to eat, so he called Lu Qingmian over. The two of them gathered together at the bathtub, staring at the rippling deep blue water.
The laptop was still dutifully playing a promotional video about the ocean in Continent A. Jiang Jinyue listened to the sound of the waves and pointed to a ripple on the bathtub's surface. "Here, here! Lu Qingmian, over here!"
Lu Qingmian took the knife and moved quickly and swiftly. After a loud rustling sound, a large lobster was stuck on the tip of his knife, which was even bigger than the previous one.
Jiang Jinyue dodged to the side, staying away from the ugly lobster, then began to observe the bathtub again and continued to point out the location for Lu Qingmian.
After catching three lobsters in a row, Jiang Jinyue was obviously not satisfied. Lu Qingmian went to find a pair of tongs. This kind of lobster would die quickly if stabbed with a knife, but could be caught alive with tongs.
He found a large bucket, filled it with sea water from the bathtub, and then followed Jiang Jinyue to catch large lobsters from Asia in the bathtub.
After an afternoon, the big bucket was full. Lobsters, one bigger than the other, were crowded in the plastic bucket. The crowds were so dense that it made Jiang Jinyue's scalp tingle. The water in the bathtub also returned to normal at this time and became crystal clear.
Jiang Jinyue looked at Lu Qingmian with a smug expression, wanting to take credit for the success, and said, "Lu Qingmian, there must be enough to eat with all these ugly things, right?"
Not only is it enough to eat, it’s enough for twenty more people.
Lu Qingmian looked at the bucket of ugly things and suddenly said, "Jiang Jinyue, do you know how much each of these ugly things costs?"
Although Jiang Jinyue had never eaten lobster, he knew it was expensive. However, his concept of expensive food was obviously very limited. He wanted to say 80 yuan per piece, but after thinking it over, he said something higher: "Over 100 yuan per piece?"
Lu Qingmian smiled: "Probably more than two thousand..."
Jiang Jinyue straightened his back, sat upright, and said with shock on his face: "This bucket?"
Lu Qingmian: “One.”
Jiang Jinyue turned around abruptly and grabbed the edge of the bathtub, wishing he could turn it back into sea water. "Catch! I want to catch lobsters here every day!"
He swore that he would never call lobsters ugly again. At over 2,000 yuan a piece, how could they be ugly? They were simply adorable!
Seeing Jiang Jinyue's money-grubber look, Lu Qingmian smiled. He didn't tell Jiang Jinyue that judging from the texture and color of the small pearls he cried out, the price of one of them would be at least twice that of this lobster.
He was afraid that if he told Jiang Jinyue, she would cry herself blind tonight.
For dinner, Lu Qingmian prepared a large table of lobster feast. The method was simple, either steamed or with garlic sauce. Because Jiang Jinyue had a wound on his big tail, Lu Qingmian did not make it spicy.
But Jiang Jinyue was not picky, as long as there was something to eat, it was fine. After all, Lu Qingmian cooked it and peeled it, and Jiang Jinyue was responsible for eating it with a small spoon.
When he first started eating, Jiang Jinyue kept thinking that this was a huge lobster that cost more than 2,000 yuan, so he ate it very carefully and seriously. It was indeed delicious, but after eating too much, it felt just so-so. As soon as this thought came to his mind, Jiang Jinyue immediately slapped his forehead and warned himself that extravagance is not a good thing!
After dinner, Jiang Jinyue, with a bulging belly, was blindfolded by Lu Qingmian again, and then wrapped in a quilt and sent back to 1203. Before leaving, Lu Qingmian did not return the key to Jiang Jinyue's house to him. He did not say it, and Jiang Jinyue did not even think about it.
With the experience of turning into an angel last time, Jiang Jinyue felt no pressure when sleeping at night. He guessed that the mermaid tail should be like angel wings, disappearing by itself while sleeping. Probably when he wakes up tomorrow, the mermaid tail will turn back into legs.
Jiang Jinyue slept very comfortably and relaxed. He slept until the sun was shining on his butt and he just felt a little awake.
He turned around and squinted at the sunlight outside the window. His light-colored pupils were crystal clear in the sunlight, like a pair of expensive gems.
"I remember I pulled the curtains..." Jiang Jinyue murmured, his gaze slowly moving downwards, and he saw a pair of black eyes full of teasing.
Lu Qingmian brought a chair and sat beside the bed, supporting his chin with one hand, staring at Jiang Jinyue with his black eyes without blinking.
Jiang Jinyue thought he was still asleep and rubbed his eyes, "Lu Qingmian?"
Lu Qingmian didn't move, but just blinked slowly.
Jiang Jinyue rubbed his eyes again, but Lu Qingmian in front of him did not disappear and was still sitting there.
“It’s not a dream!”
Jiang Jinyue sat up suddenly, and because he stood up too quickly, he felt dizzy for a moment.
While groping for his phone under his pillow, he asked quietly, "Lu Qingmian, why are you here?"
At this time, Jiang Jinyue didn't remember that Lu Qingmian still had the key to his house. He only knew to ask Lu Qingmian why he was here, but didn't know how Lu Qingmian got in.
Jiang Jinyue touched his phone and checked the time. It was 9:30 in the morning.
He lifted the quilt again and found that his legs were still in the fish tail position and had not changed back.
Lu Qingmian watched the whole process of Jiang Jinyue going from sleep to wakefulness, and seemed to be in a good mood. He picked up a bag from his feet and placed it beside the bed.
"I'm here to surprise you."
Jiang Jinyue didn't react: "Huh?"
Lu Qingmian slowly unzipped the bag, grabbed a handful of pink coins from it, raised her arms and scattered them into the sky. The pink coins fluttered down and landed on Jiang Jinyue. Then Lu Qingmian grabbed another handful and scattered them, handful after handful. Jiang Jinyue was dazzled by the pink coins flying all over the sky and didn't know where to look for a moment.
Lu Qingmian didn't open the bag until all the money was scattered. At this time, money was scattered all over the bed and the floor in the bedroom.
"I sold all the pearls and lobsters." Lu Qingmian said.
Jiang Jinyue came back to his senses and was grabbing the money one by one. He soon had a thick stack in his hand, but there was still so much scattered on the bed!
Lu Qingmian continued, "Two hundred thousand."
Jiang Jinyue took a deep breath. He had never seen so much money in his life!
Seeing Jiang Jinyue happily picking up money with his tail lifted up, Lu Qingmian took out the ointment for external injuries from his pocket, pinched Jiang Jinyue's waist, dragged him in front of him, put Jiang Jinyue's big tail in his arm, and began to apply ointment to Jiang Jinyue's wound again.
Jiang Jinyue was busy picking up the money, his big tail fin flapping, and soon the fish tail moved from Lu Qingmian's arm to Lu Qingmian's shoulder. His eyes were now full of a pink ocean of coins, and he didn't care what Lu Qingmian did at all.
After Lu Qingmian finished taking the medicine, Jiang Jinyue had almost collected all the money beside him. He directly gave Lu Qingmian a large part of it and stuffed it into his arms: "Here you go!"
Jiang Jinyue knew that without Lu Qingmian, he wouldn't be able to find a way to sell these things even if he wanted to, and there was a greater chance that he would be cheated.
Lu Qingmian pushed the stack of money aside and said indifferently, "You can keep this little money for yourself."
Compared to the money Jiang Jinyue handed over, Lu Qingmian was obviously more concerned about the wound on Jiang Jinyue's tail. His fingertips gently touched the wound where the scales were missing and asked, "Does it hurt?"
Jiang Jinyue's heartbeat quickened, his breathing became irregular, and he couldn't even care about the money in his hand. His fingertips tugged at the bed sheet helplessly, his eyelashes drooping as he whispered, "No, it doesn't hurt anymore."
"Next time this happens, be careful and don't get hurt by lobsters or crabs." Lu Qingmian warned.
Jiang Jinyue nodded continuously, and his tail fin gently lifted up and rubbed Lu Qingmian's neck.
The next moment, Jiang Jinyue felt that the fish tail suddenly became dry and tight, a faint light emerged, and the fish tail became blurred in the light. When the light disappeared, a pair of straight, thin and white legs were placed on Lu Qingmian's arms, and the feet were on Lu Qingmian's shoulders.
Jiang Jinyue has been wearing the big shirt Lu Qingmian gave him as pajamas when he goes to bed recently. Last night, he turned into a mermaid again. He only wore a big shirt and no pants.
At this moment, the fish tail suddenly turned into a pair of legs, and she was not wearing anything underneath, only the long hem of the big shirt barely covered the base of her thighs, which was barely visible.
Jiang Jinyue obviously didn't expect such a sudden thing to happen. She was so shocked that her whole body stiffened. Her round and white toes curled up and rubbed against Lu Qingmian's ears.
Lu Qingmian: "You..."
Jiang Jinyue felt weak all over, one leg slipped from Lu Qingmian's shoulder, leaving only one foot on Lu Qingmian's shoulder. The corner of his large shirt hung down and fell in the middle, feeling cold.
A heat rushed through his body. Jiang Jinyue found strength from nowhere and stepped on Lu Qingmian's shoulder and kicked him away. Lu Qingmian staggered back two steps before stopping.
Jiang Jinyue pulled the quilt over her legs and huddled up to the head of the bed. The heat made her head dizzy, and she couldn't react except to stare blankly at Lu Qingmian. All she could hear was the sound of her own pounding heartbeat.
"Hehe..." A flat and provocative laugh suddenly appeared in Jiang Jinyue's mind. "Super Invincible Mary Sue - the golden finger is here! Right now! It will provide the host with a surprise Mary Sue function, so please check it out!"
Just as the voice of the golden finger disappeared, a strong wind suddenly blew in the bedroom, and a sweet song suddenly rang in the ears of Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue.
"The wind is gentle, I hear your voice~"
As the song played, a strong wind blew open the tightly closed windows of the bedroom, and the curtains fluttered in the wind.
The song continues, "You warned me to pay attention to my mood."
One after another, the chubby and round little sparrows suddenly flew to the bedroom window, lined up in an orderly manner on the windowsill, and began to chirp along with the singing.
"Chirp! Chirp, chirp, chirp! Chirp!"
Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue looked at the little sparrows chirping non-stop by the window and fell silent.
The little sparrows not only have to sing along with the singing, but also have to gather in pairs, turn their heads to make kissing gestures, and kiss to the beat.
Jiang Jinyue was shy, nervous and embarrassed. His brain was constantly brainwashed by the song, and he was struggling to find a way to ease the inexplicable atmosphere at the moment.
"Lu Qingmian..."
Jiang Jinyue hugged the quilt and moved forward, "I didn't mean to kick you..."
Realizing this wasn't a good topic, Jiang Jinyue immediately changed the subject: "Well... I also wanted to give you a surprise. This song is quite nice."
Just as the song entered the second verse, Jiang Jinyue hummed along softly:
"The rain is gentle, I hear your voice, you come closer with an umbrella, shielding me from the wind and rain..."
As Jiang Jinyue hummed, the pink banknotes on the bed and the floor suddenly floated up. Pairs of white wings grew out from behind each banknote, and then they flew around the two people in a very regular manner, rising and falling with the singing, surrounding Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue in a heart-shaped circle made of coins.
Jiang Jinyue stopped singing immediately. He hugged the quilt, his face flushed, his ears red as if bleeding, his voice getting smaller and smaller: "Didn't you say I was a surprise..."
Lu Qingmian raised his hand and mercilessly grabbed a pink coin that was fluttering with its wings. The coin seemed to be frightened and let out a shrill scream:
"Ahhhhhh!!! You rascal, let go!"
Lu Qingmian's hand shook, and the coins immediately flew far away.
When the song ended, the chirping sparrows lined up and flew away again. The winged coins also fell to the ground one by one as normal, and they fell into a pile considerately. The top one even folded itself into a heart.
Lu Qingmian finally spoke, his voice devoid of emotion, his eyes as dark as the abyss staring at Jiang Jinyue:
"It's quite a surprise. This is the first time in my life that I've seen money flying."
Jiang Jinyue took a deep breath. This was the first time he had seen this.
Lu Qingmian added calmly, "And he called me a stinking hooligan."
Jiang Jinyue slowly lay down on the bed, pulled the quilt up to cover his head, and pretended that he was a small quilt. It didn't matter what he was, as long as he was not a human being.
If you are not a human, then there is no embarrassment!
The quilt was pulled up, and the toes were exposed. Jiang Jinyue's toes turned pink, and all ten toes moved back and forth, showing the owner's messy mood at the moment.
Lu Qingmian lowered his eyes and noticed it. He took the coin folded into a heart shape and stuffed it between Jiang Jinyue's toes.
Jiang Jinyue got nervous and immediately clamped the heart-shaped coin tightly. Because he couldn't see, he had no idea what he was holding.
Under the quilt, Jiang Jinyue was sweating profusely, her eyelashes trembling constantly, and she finally couldn't help but whispered:
"Lu Qingmian...what are you doing with my feet?"
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