Mermaid cubs may lose their scales at the age of one to five years old. This is not due to illness or unhealthy reasons, but is just a normal phenomenon of mermaid cubs growing up.
For example, it is a bit similar to the situation of human children changing their teeth.
Generally, when the scales are about to fade, the cubs of the mermaid will feel it.
In order to collect the first scale that falls, merman cubs usually instinctively stay in a fixed body of water when they are conscious.
This will make it easier to find after the first scale is dropped.
The mermaid cub will carefully put away the first scale it finds, and then hand it over to the parent for safekeeping when it sees the parent.
The first scales dropped by the cubs are of great commemorative value, so normally, parents will be very happy when they receive the small scales held by the cubs at home.
Although for the cubs without parents, the staff in the cub care branch is indeed their guardians, but there is still a difference between the guardians and the parents that the cubs consider in their hearts.
Like the mermaid cub, only the first scale it dropped was handed over to Xie Luan, but not to the other nurses in the branch.
Knowing about the scales of the mermaid cub from other people, Xie Luan stayed for a second, and then he reached out and reached into his pocket.
His fingers touched the small cub scale in the pocket that was smooth and cool to the touch, a bit like jade flakes. Xie Luan couldn't help but take this scale out of the pocket.
Under the eyes of everyone around, Xie Luan lowered his eyes and looked at the mermaid scales, and was speechless for a while.
The ice blue scale dropped by the mermaid cub looked particularly transparent and beautiful in the indoor light. Xie Luan planned to keep this scale well, but now that he knew the importance of this scale, Xie Luan took it. The action of this scale is even more careful.
The little mermaid took him as a parent...
Looking at the ice-blue scales on his hands and thinking about this, Xie Luan suddenly felt that the small scales in his palm seemed to have added weight for no reason.
At the same time that this small scale became a little heavier, Xie Luan suddenly thought of another thing—
Because the mermaid cub can't speak normally, the sound it can usually make is at most a single tone with a very low volume. This single tone is still mixed with aura, and it requires careful listening to hear it.
What Xie Luan thought for no reason was that this mermaid cub usually spoke to him the most, and it was the syllable that spoke the clearest and hardest...
After feeding the cubs with the other three nurses, Xie Luan first returned to the staff dormitory and put the ice blue scales in his pockets into a wooden box.
In the wooden box, there were still a few spar the size of rice grains. After Xie Luan put the scales in, he re-buttoned the wooden box and placed it at the head of the bed.
After carefully putting away the scales, Xie Luan went back to the indoor pool in the house again. He wanted to confirm one thing.
Hearing the familiar footsteps, the mermaid cub in the pool quickly swam in the direction from which the footsteps came. Because it couldn't go ashore, the mermaid cub leaned against the edge of the pool, staring straight at the blue eyes without blinking. The human youth approaching here.
When Xie Luan really approached the edge of the pool and crouched down, his left hand was touched by the mermaid cub.
The little hand dipped in water touched the back of the young man's left hand, and the mermaid cub with only light blonde short hair gently grabbed one of the young man's fingers.
"a?" Looking at the young man's left hand, and then at the young man's right hand, the mermaid cub grabbed the young man's finger and shook it back and forth, making a low, unintelligible expression. gas sound.
It's hard to understand just by the sound, but Xie Luan can at least understand the pronunciation that is asking him a question, and through the cub's actions, Xie Luan probably understands what the mermaid cub is asking him.
"It has been put away, put it in a wooden box, and the scales will be kept for Garr." Xie Luan explained in a slow voice, without withdrawing his finger that was lightly grabbed by the mermaid cub, freeing up another Run a hand over the pup's soft short hair.
"a~"
The small fish tail covered with ice blue scales swayed under the water, especially when the tail fin moved left and right, the mermaid cub quickly made a single sound of happiness.
The parents accepted the first scale they dropped and said that they would keep it well, which is also a happy thing for the mermaid cubs.
Because from this matter, the cub can feel the parent's love for it.
And because of this feeling, the mermaid cub now wants to make a sound to the young man in front of him.
“pa…”
The first sound was made, and the sound of anger accounted for most of the sound. The mermaid cub stopped, and after a few seconds, it opened and made a second sound.
"Pa—" The blue eyes are still watching the youth, the mermaid cub tries hard to make this single sound, and after making this sound, it quietly waits for the youth's response.
It can be heard that this sound is made more forcefully, so it is much clearer, but this seems to be the limit of what this mermaid cub can do so far.
It's not that Xie Luan didn't think about the meaning of this syllable before, especially when the mermaid cub made an extra effort to pronounce this single syllable to him, Xie Luan seriously thought about what the cub was expressing to him.
Because this mermaid cub would look at him with a look of anticipation every time after the mermaid cub uttered this monophonic to him, which made Xie Luan always misunderstand whether the cub wanted something. thing…
Not being able to figure out what the mermaid cub wanted, Xie Luan had been worried about this matter until today.
He was afraid that he ignored some important need expressed by the cub, which would lead to some bad consequences.
Now, Xie Luan finally figured it out.
"Yeah." Nodding to the mermaid cub who approached the edge of the pool, Xie Luan bent down at the cub who looked at him with expectant eyes.
Hearing the response, the caudal fin of the merman cub swayed more happily from side to side. The hand that grabbed the young man's finger was a little harder than before, trying to pronounce the two syllables more clearly and coherently: "pa... a... "
It can be seen that the cub has worked very hard. Although the second syllable was not successfully pronounced, Xie Luan understood it now.
This mermaid cub wanted to call him "papa" and looked at him expectantly after making a sound, but he just wanted him to respond verbally...
"Yeah." With a warm voice, Xie Luan nodded again and responded for the second time.
When he first realized that the mermaid cub wanted to call himself "papa", Xie Luan actually felt unprepared.
But now seeing the cub trying so hard to pronounce these two syllables to him, Xie Luan quickly softened.
Even when the sound is continuous, the mermaid cub can only pronounce one syllable correctly, and he will definitely respond when he hears it.