But after he thought for a while, the sounds of people walking around outside easily interrupted his thoughts.
The cub stood there blankly, hugging its tail for a while.
He rolled over and saw the figures of humans walking around again, then began to think...
What was I thinking about just now?
At this moment, Qi Ranzhi returned, carrying a plate of fish paste in his hand.
The boy immediately forgot his previous thoughts again.
He opened his mouth, wanting Qi Ranzhi to feed him. Qi Ranzhi fed him very carefully, afraid that he would choke.
I don't know how long the cub had been hungry, but it was in such a hurry, wolfing down its food, almost burying its face in the spoon.
The baby licked the fish paste in the spoon, making a satisfying gurgling sound as it did so.
It's like a small engine.
However, it didn't make a sound for long, at most half a minute. The short fish fry had eaten its belly until it was round and full, and it lay there rubbing its white and tender belly.
Even when eating, they only eat tiny bits of food; it's just incredibly cute.
Qi Ranzhi couldn't help but cover his face with his hands and let out a deep sigh.
Agali, seeing his expression, wondered what was wrong, but then the other person said quietly:
"So cute."
I knew mermaids were beautiful, but who could have imagined how deadly the fry could be?
Qi Ranzhi felt he couldn't face such adorable creatures. He clutched his chest and rested for a while before standing up again to observe the fish fry.
At this moment, the little fish fry were already fast asleep, their round bellies tucked under their arms.
It's still a reassuring and adorable baby sleep.
Qi Ranzhi observed silently for a while, and after being charmed once again, he still felt something was off. After thinking it over, he suddenly slapped his forehead and asked Agali next to him:
Have you ever seen a fish that sleeps belly up?
He was sleeping so soundly, like he was dead.
"No……"
This fish fry is one of a kind.
But Agari didn't say it; in fact, Agari was also secretly charmed by the cub's sleeping posture.
"Should we give him some water? It doesn't seem like this water is enough to moisturize his tail."
Qi Ranzhi glanced at it and agreed wholeheartedly. As a result, the cub was lifted up by the buoyancy of the water while it was sleeping.
The short tail swayed slightly with instinct after the cub fell asleep, but when the cub woke up, it forgot the factory settings and the tail became taut and straight.
He looked at the water that had submerged his body, opened his mouth, and drank many mouthfuls.
Miao Miao, the mermaid, almost drowned.
This is absolutely a huge joke; it's so funny it'll make people laugh their heads off.
But this absurd thing actually happened in front of Qi Ranzhi and his group.
Qi Ranzhi was startled and quickly scooped the cub into his hands. He watched as the cub choked on water and suffered for a long time before finally catching its breath.
Fish fry that can't breathe underwater, clumsy fish fry that can't swim.
Qi Ranzhi felt that he had found the real reason why he had picked up the cub.
The cubs may have been abandoned.
Agali looked at the excited look in Qi Ranzhi's eyes and didn't understand what he was thinking, but Qi Ranzhi would make him understand.
Qi Ranzhi grabbed Agali's shoulders and shook him violently:
"He is so different from others; he may have been abandoned by the merfolk! I can raise him openly and honestly!"
Agari was so flustered by his shaking that she couldn't even form a complete question mark: "?~~?"
He even said that the ideas he had just suggested were stupid, but it turned out that Qi Ranzhi's idea was even crazier than his suggestion: a human actually wanted to raise a mermaid.
Agari had to admit that the mermaid cubs did indeed possess such charm that several humans were captivated by them and flocked to them. However, Qi Ranzhi was powerless and without influence, and raising mermaids would only be a huge burden for him.
If someone were targeting him, Qi Ranzhi would have no power to resist.
Agali couldn't help but feel a little worried.
However, this was just a hypothetical scenario. In reality, Qi Ranzhi and Agali were both students, struggling to support themselves, let alone raise a cub. Even now, they couldn't abandon their studies to care for Qianyuan, so they could only leave the cub with plenty of food before departing.
Hopefully, the cubs won't be too scared.
The child, however, was not afraid.
Even if you're afraid, you'll forget about it in the blink of an eye.
He's so forgetful now, easily distracted by anything, and has trouble concentrating. Is it because mermaids only have a seven-second memory?
The cubs can't think of it; knowledge can't enter their tiny brains.
The kitten, who had just woken up, had apparently forgotten whether he had eaten or not. Qi Ranzhi placed food around his bowl so that he could eat from anywhere, while the greedy kitten sat in the middle, turning around to eat.
After he had eaten and drunk his fill once more, he sat there gazing into the distance, his tail wagging high.
Besides eating and sleeping, all he does every day is think about whether he has eaten or slept, and what he was thinking about.
Finally, the cub's idea was put back into practice.
These two humans don't want to be his father.
The cub also remembers that one of the humans used words like "abandon" or "leave behind".
It's not surprising that the cub is like this; he still has some difficulty understanding what others are saying, and these are the only words that can make him sensitive.
The cub thought, "Maybe it's because the cub doesn't have legs, only a tail."
Abandonment always happens because the child is different from other children.
The cub sighed softly, picked up the last bit of food Qi Ranzhi had left for him, climbed onto the edge of the fish tank, and then unfolded the thin gauze between his arms to use as a parachute.
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