Chapter 410: Cannon fodder merman in ancient Chinese literature 6
Chapter 410: Cannon fodder merman in ancient Chinese literature 6
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Yun Wu regretted her decision with a squeak, and looked at Lu Jingzhi cautiously. She thought he would laugh at her, but unexpectedly he calmly carried her on his back and walked towards the main hall.
Yun Wu and Lu Jingzhi sat face to face on both sides of the dining table in the main hall. Qingluo quickly brought the people from the kitchen to bring up breakfast.
Yun Wu looked a little curious. The food in this mortal world was very different from the food in their sea.
Qingluo placed the wooden chopsticks in front of Yun Wu, and then waited by the side to serve the food.
Yun Wu was a little puzzled when looking at the pair of chopsticks. She vaguely saw mortals on the shore using these things to eat, as a tool for eating.
But she is not very good at using...
"You should step back first."
Lu Jingzhi said, Qingluo bowed and saluted, then retreated with the two maids.
Yun Wu and Lu Jingzhi were the only two people left in the hall. He picked up the pair of wooden chopsticks silently.
Then he naturally held Yun Wu's slender hand, placed the chopsticks in her hand, and then slowly adjusted her chopstick holding posture.
"I'll teach you what you don't know. You have to learn it quickly, so that others won't find out."
Lu Jingzhi's voice was soft and very pleasant. He patiently adjusted Yun Wu's way of holding the chopsticks.
He could feel the touch from her fingertips, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at her scallion-like fingers, which were white, tender and white.
Looks delicious...
Lu Jingzhi silently withdrew his hand, took the chopsticks and demonstrated to Yun Wu, then picked up a piece of Liangzhou City's specialty salted fish and put it in her bowl to go with the light white porridge.
Yun Wu followed his example and picked up the food. Although her movements looked a little clumsy, they were done smoothly.
"I know."
She raised her bright eyes and looked at him timidly, then shook the food on her chopsticks.
There was a hint of smug joy in his slightly timid eyes, as if he was saying that he was learning very quickly.
Lu Jingzhi smiled, and that handsome face looked especially beautiful when he smiled, but there was a darkness in his eyes that made Yun Wu's heart tremble.
"What were you doing outside the study just now?"
Yun Wu was startled, and the movement of holding the chopsticks to pick up the food became awkward again. Then she lowered her eyes guiltily and said:
"I just don't want to disturb the young marquis, so I don't dare to go in..."
"If you need anything important in the future, just call me, so you don't almost fall like today."
Lu Jingzhi said lightly, eating breakfast leisurely.
"Thank you, young marquis..."
Yun Wu spoke in a weak voice, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she was a poor mermaid who had just learned how to use chopsticks, and how could she be a spy and eavesdrop on news.
Lu Jingzhi didn't seem to doubt it. He just looked up at her and asked:
"How did you get caught?"
"That day I saw a fisherwoman who had no money to buy medicine for her relatives, so I gave her some pearls. She wanted to swim back, but she was caught in the end..."
Yun Wu spoke softly, her head drooping. Then she thought of what Lord Tang had asked her to say, and continued with some hesitation:
"Fortunately, I met the young marquis who brought me back, otherwise I don't know what to do."
This is what Lord Tang wanted her to say. In short, she must not reveal Lord Tang's true purpose.
"In that case...I'll let you go, okay?"
Lu Jingzhi spoke, with a hint of smile in his eyes that did not reach his eyes, and his hand holding the chopsticks slightly clenched.
Yun Wu quickly shook her head. No, no, she couldn't leave now.
"Since I was rescued by the young marquis, I am naturally his person. Besides, if I go back now, what if...what if I get caught again?"
She blinked her bright eyes and spoke carefully, fearing that Lu Jingzhi would let her leave now.
"Um……"
Lu Jingzhi's voice was low, with a hint of smile in his eyes, as if he was very satisfied with what Yun Wu said.
The little mermaid who won't leave him is so good...
"Young Marquis, eat..."
Yun Wu diligently picked up food for Lu Jingzhi, but she was not very skilled in using chopsticks.
"I'm going to patrol the coast tomorrow. If you're bored in the palace, let Qingluo take you around."
Lu Jingzhi said, Yun Wu paused while eating breakfast, then asked hesitantly:
"Can I go with the young marquis tomorrow?"
Yun Wu was still a little afraid that Lu Jingzhi would not take her with him because he had to deal with official business, but her task was to stay by Lu Jingzhi's side at all times and find out information.
"I just want to stay with the young marquis."
She spoke weakly, recalling a mortal couple she had seen while hiding behind a reef.
The wife wanted to buy more expensive sea lanterns, so she pulled her husband's robe and waved him around, and the husband bought her three at once.
Yun Wu also imitated him and grabbed Lu Jingzhi's sleeve and shook it gently, looking at Lu Jingzhi pitifully with her watery eyes.
"Little Marquis..."
Lu Jingzhi pursed his thin lips, his eyes so deep that Yun Wu's heart trembled a little.
But for the sake of her mission, she still mustered up the courage to continue looking up at Lu Jingzhi, as if she was acting coquettishly and wanted him to take her with him.
"Follow me closely tomorrow and don't get lost."
Lu Jingzhi said this as if compromising, his Adam's apple rolled twice and he picked up the cup to cover it up.
He didn't know where this little mermaid learned the skill of acting like a spoiled child, but...
He just benefits from it.
If I could kiss him again... ahem...
Yun Wu ate a lot of delicious food today. The food of mortals was really delicious.
She ate a lot for lunch and dinner, and she especially loved meat, which was much more delicious than the small fish and shrimp she had eaten in the sea.
Is this a blessing in disguise?
At night, Yun Wu tried the mortal people's bath for the first time.
In the reddish-brown wooden bathtub in the bedroom, Yun Wu was sitting with only her little head exposed. Her long hair was tied up by Qingluo, with some strands of hair hanging down and stained with water.
"Miss Yun is really fair."
Qingluo, who was adding hot water to the bathtub, couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, and then added hot water from a distance for fear of scalding Yunwu.
The water just covered Yun Wu's collarbone, and the half of her shoulder that was exposed was dazzlingly white, her skin was fair and clear, and her delicate little face above was made white and pink by the heat.
"Would you like some more soap, girl?"
“Use, use…”
Yun Wu nodded confusedly. In short, she would agree to whatever Qingluo said.
If this was a bath, then she would bathe in the sea every day. Sometimes she would imitate other mermaids and apply deep sea mud on her body for maintenance.
Occasionally I can hide in a lonely little corner and bask in the sun, and life is so comfortable.
However, this mortal "bath" was also very comfortable. Yun Wu comfortably passed through the warm water, but she felt that her legs seemed a little itchy.
It was not until Qingluo turned around to get her clothes that Yun Wu's originally slender and white legs suddenly turned back into fish tails!
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