Female Master: Why doesn’t my wife love me yet?

Chapter 228: Catch a Lot of Fish for You

But the mermaid was still arguing with her.

"You see, I don't have those two things you call legs, but I can still walk."

As he spoke, he once again used his tail to support himself on the ground with some effort, then hopped a few steps away from where he was.

When he looked at Gu Qingyuan again, his face was full of pride.

So Gu Qingyuan went over and pushed him gently.

The mermaid, who had been relying on her tail to maintain balance on the ground, fell directly to the ground.

“Ahhhh why did you push me!?”

All he heard was the mermaid's terrified voice, and his body fell to the ground, the pain making his eyes tear up.

The fish's tail swung uncontrollably on the ground, and perhaps because of lack of water, the color of the fish's tail began to fade slowly.

Gu Qingyuan was afraid that something might happen to him if he left the water, so she bent down, picked him up, and planned to throw him into the water.

She put her hands on his waist and picked him up. When she lifted him up, the mermaid lay in her arms and said excitedly, "Are you going to take me away? I'm willing to go home with you."

"...I was overthinking it. I just saw that your tail looked a little dehydrated, so I put you back."

After Gu Qingyuan easily picked him up, she walked to the riverside and then suddenly let go.

The mermaid was ruthlessly thrown into the river by her. He paddled with his hands, trying to get to the shore.

As soon as he climbed up, Gu Qingyuan threw him down.

He climbed up again, and was thrown down again.

He was unwilling to give up and wanted to go up, so Gu Qingyuan simply threw him some more in. After that, he clapped his hands with a relieved expression.

Only the mermaid in the river looked at her resentfully.

"Can't you really take me with you?"

"If other people saw you like this, they would probably faint from fright."

"Am I ugly?"

He wore shells and conchs on his head and ears. The shells reflected light, making his skin appear flawless and white. Because he had always lived in the water, the creatures he usually saw were river creatures, which looked clean and simple.

Gu Qingyuan looked at him seriously and shook his head.

If he is considered ugly, then there is no good-looking person in the world.

"Then why don't you want me?"

His ears were drooping, and he looked pitiful and innocent.

"I just saved you. Besides, if someone else or some fish or shrimp was stuck there, I would save them too."

It's just that some of them will be saved in her belly.

"I don't care. Since you saved me, I'm going home with you. We're going to have lots of cute fish babies together."

Gu Qingyuan remembered that fish lay eggs, and she shuddered at the thought of a nest of fish eggs appearing in her home.

But mermaids aren't fish, so they shouldn't have that many eggs. Ugh, what was she thinking?

She said seriously, "I've already told you that the only difference between you and humans is that you don't have legs. If you insist on coming ashore with me, I'm afraid someone will catch you and make you into fish soup."

"In addition to fish soup, fish can also be made into steamed fish, braised fish, sweet and sour fish, spicy fish, and dry pot fish..."

"Well, you don't want to become a dish on someone else's table, do you?"

The mermaid lowered her head and thought. Gu Qingyuan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him thinking. She thought that since she had scared him so much, he should give up, right?

But he actually thought for a while and then raised his head and asked her, "Do you want to cook me as a dish too?"

"No, no, no, no." Gu Qingyuan quickly waved her hands.

The mermaid suddenly smiled, and her smile made Gu Qingyuan's mind confused for a moment.

"Since you're not going to use me as a cooking tool, then I have nothing to fear. Besides, if you want to eat, I can catch you lots of fish."

After saying that, he lowered his head and dived to the bottom of the river. After a while, when he came out of the water, he was holding a big carp weighing nearly 20 kilograms in his hand.

He handed it to Gu Qingyuan like he was presenting a treasure, with an expression that seemed to be asking for her praise.

"Look, I can catch fish this big!"

Gu Qingyuan held the carp that kept moving in her hand, and the mermaid was in front of her, looking up and waiting for her to speak.

"Just take me back, okay? When you want to eat fish, I'll catch some for you. I know where the fish are most abundant and fat."

"But I think," Gu Qingyuan said slowly, "you are still suitable for living in the water."

The light in the mermaid's eyes dimmed, and she cried, "I don't want to be separated from you. You were the first person I saw when I woke up, and you also saved me."

"Wake up?" Gu Qingyuan heard this key word.

"Well, I was originally sleeping in the sea. But suddenly I woke up and floated here from far away."

"So how long did you sleep? Do you remember?"

He tried to recall. "Maybe more than ten years ago. I haven't seen my parents since I was born. When I was hungry, I ate mud and sand because I didn't know how to catch fish back then. Other sea creatures also bullied me."

"Then I discovered that sleeping could relieve hunger, so I found a cave and slept in it."

But later, as time passed, the cave where he once lived was long gone, and he had no choice but to learn hunting.

Gu Qingyuan listened to him while the carp in his hand continued to flap.

"This fish said he wasn't tasty and asked us to let him go."

"Eh?"

Gu Qingyuan didn't hear the carp talking, but she didn't expect that the mermaid actually heard it.

"He also said he knew it would rain again in an hour, and more fish would come to the surface to breathe, so we could go catch them."

Gu Qingyuan patted the carp's back and looked at the mermaid again.

"You said it would rain in an hour. How can you be sure it will rain?"

"If you don't, just eat me up. I have no complaints."

It was strange. The carp didn't say anything, but Gu Qingyuan seemed to hear his words in his mind.

When she looked again, the mermaid was actually smiling at her.

An hour later, there was a loud noise in the sky. The mermaid shrank back in fright. The sky suddenly became gloomy, and then rain began to fall.

Gu Qingyuan's eyes suddenly widened.

This fish can even be used as a weather forecast! It would be a shame to eat it.

Although the mermaid was very afraid of thunder, she still mustered up the courage to stick her head out of the water in order to see her.

"Just take me home, and I will try my best to live on land."

Gu Qingyuan looked at him, then looked at the carp in her hand. After being out of the water for a while, the fish rolled its eyes at her.

Now it rained on it and it seemed to come back to life.

"How about I won't lie to you?"

"Well, did you know it's going to rain again tomorrow?"

"It will be sunny tomorrow, but it will rain tonight."

The mermaid was a little anxious. "Don't talk to that dead fish for now. Please consider me."

"It's not impossible to take you back..."