The mermaid still propped up her body, tilted her head and looked at Ye Zheng without blinking, as if she was expecting Ye Zheng's praise for it. It learned the three words Ye Zheng taught it, and according to Ye Zheng's previous practice, it should be able to praise it with a smile.
Ye Zheng, who was still blaming himself for being stupid, put on a smile, and decisively stretched out his hand and rubbed the mermaid's head: "Great!"
The mermaid's head shook, and Ye Zheng's hand slipped from its head, and the mermaid looked a little angrily and turned over. It lay down with its back to Ye Zheng, looking unhappy.
Is it because she didn't compliment it in time? Ye Zheng had been thinking about things for too long, but he didn't remember to praise the mermaid in time.
Ye Zheng changed his posture and sat on the sand on his knees, holding the mermaid on the back of the fins with one hand, while looking down at the mermaid, "Okay, don't be angry anymore, eh?"
The mermaid was unmoved and lay firmly on the ground. Ye Zheng could only shake the mermaid's body with his hands, and then shake it again. Ye Zheng put his mouth close to the mermaid's ear and said in a low voice, "You did a really good job this time. I will definitely praise you in time next time, okay?"
The girl's unique crisp voice echoed in the mermaid's ears, the mermaid's ears moved, and her face turned proudly, squinting at Ye Zheng's smile.
Ye Zheng's bright eyes looked at the mermaid, and with a slight movement of his hand, he shook the mermaid's body again.
The mermaid finally turned around, raised his head, and gently stretched out his tail to pat Ye Zheng. Then it helped Ye Zheng to stand up again. After seeing Ye Zheng sitting back on the ground again, the mermaid lay on Ye Zheng's lap again.
Although there was a little awkwardness, language teaching had to continue.
Since Ye Zheng doesn't understand the language of mermaids, she herself can't directly explain too abstract words to it. Ye Zheng feels that the pronoun "you, me, and him" should be a difficult word for mermaids to understand.
After removing the word "I", she gestured for the mermaid to look at herself, and then pointed at herself with her index finger and repeated the word "Zhengzheng", trying to make the mermaid understand that she was called this.
The mermaid stared at Ye Zheng, as if she didn't understand why the rhythm and number of words that Ye Zheng uttered were different.
But the mermaid quickly uttered the words "sound" again, and this time it was much clearer than the last time.
Ye Zheng couldn't help but rubbed the mermaid's head and laughed happily.
The mermaid paused for a while, and then called out again in its high-pitched voice, "Clang". Ye Zheng then rubbed the mermaid's head again and gave it a positive reaction.
After calling it several times, Ye Zheng lowered his head and asked it in a low voice: "Now you know my name is Zhengzheng, so what is your name?"
The mermaid looked at Ye Zheng with eyes of unknown origin, and Ye Zheng pointed to himself, "Zheng-Zheng."
"Zheng-Zheng." The mermaid answered quickly.
Then Ye Zheng pointed to the mermaid again.
The mermaid closed her mouth, raised her claws and held Ye Zheng's index finger, apparently not knowing what Ye Zheng meant.
Ye Zheng shook his head, pulled out his hand, and pointed at himself again, "Zheng, Zheng."
The mermaid quickly repeated, "Zheng, Zheng."
Then he looked at Ye Zheng's index finger again and fell silent. Two times of poor communication, Ye Zheng also became a little anxious. She held the merman's paw, trying to make a fist of several of its fingers, then stretched out one of the merman's fingers and pointed at herself, "Zhengzheng ."
Ye Zheng folded the mermaid's arm back again, and let its finger point at itself.
The mermaid repeated Ye Zheng's actions, it stretched out its finger and pointed at Ye Zheng quickly, "Zhengzheng," and then pointed at himself.
The mermaid maintained this action, was silent for a while, and tapped its tail lightly on the ground, and finally said a word in a lower and higher voice than its usual cry.
The mermaid's cry has always been thin and high-pitched. Now it's a bit like when a human speaks, the tone of voice has dropped, and the voice comes out of the mermaid's mouth like flowing water, soft and smooth. I have to say that when the mermaid let go and called out, Ye Zheng would sometimes have a tingling scalp, but this time the mermaid's voice sounded much more pleasant to the ears.
Seeing that Ye Zheng just looked at himself and didn't respond, the mermaid flicked its tail and repeated the sentence that just came out of his mouth, as if hoping that Ye Zheng would also like the way it taught "Zhengzheng", the sentence it said. Say it repeatedly.
Ye Zheng could only smile bitterly, the rhythm of what the mermaid just said was extremely long and full of rhythm. Ye Zheng doesn't have much talent in language. In this brand new language, except for the beginning of the sentence she heard for the first time, it was difficult for her to remember the pronunciation behind the mermaid.
Ye Zheng was silent the whole time, and the mermaid was also a little anxious. It lifted its head from Ye Zheng's thigh and supported its body.
The mermaid held Ye Zheng's face, its big eyes approached and looked at her, "Zhengzheng."
It called her, then pointed a paw at itself, repeating what it had just said a third time.
Ye Zheng finally said tentatively: "Anju?" She used the English pronunciation of Andrew, and Ye Zheng felt that if he forced a similar word to say in Chinese, it would sound very blunt.
Ye Zheng looked at the mermaid anxiously, worried that it would be unhappy. After all, in such a long string of words, Ye Zheng could pronounce the first few syllables.
What she didn't expect was that the mermaid seemed particularly happy when she heard Ye Zheng's pronunciation. When it was happy, its tail tapped the ground quickly and slightly, and the fins in front of it trembled slightly. It even stretched out its head and gently rubbed Ye Zheng's chin, and then lay down contentedly, still looking at Ye Zheng with wet eyes.
Ye Zheng instinctively reached out and rubbed it, and began to think. When she hadn't learned what the mermaid just said, the mermaid's performance was very anxious. But when she only said the first paragraph of the sentence, with English pronunciation and a name in English, the mermaid seemed very happy, and was not unhappy because she only learned half a sentence.
Combined with the mermaid who called her name just now, and pointed at himself and said such a long string, Ye Zheng guessed that such a long sentence would be just a name for the mermaid? So Ye Zheng only recited the previous section, but instead he seemed more intimate, and the mermaid was happier? If this is the case, the word between the mermaids is really long enough, no wonder it can quickly accept Ye Zheng's pronunciation, and the rhythm of Ye Zheng's speech is completely correct. For it, Ye Zheng's own language is much more simple and boring
Ye Zheng was still a little uncertain, and called it again in English: "Andrew?"
The mermaid responded very quickly. The mermaid, who was rubbing his head comfortably by Ye Zheng, turned his gaze from the fire to Ye Zheng's face. It patted his tail gently and skillfully, and gave Ye Zheng a low cry.
"Andrew." Ye Zheng insisted on calling it that. Maybe she will have a chance to know how to pronounce its full name in the future, but for now, she will name it this first.
The mermaid shook its tail again, signaling that he heard it, and Ye Zheng suddenly felt that the mermaid was closer. For Ye Zheng, who was born in modern life, the name is a very important thing. In Ye Zheng's view, the name will inevitably become a brand on a person, as if a name can make the people he knows more three-dimensional. .
She has always called this mermaid a mermaid, and when she wants to communicate with it, she often makes a "hey" or "hello" to make it notice her. Now, this mermaid is no longer just a mermaid, it is finally completely different from other mermaids. Nor is it "that merman" or "this merman."
It's Andrew.
"Andrew." Ye Zheng couldn't hold back, and called him softly again, the name twirled on the tip of her tongue and overflowed from her mouth, with her joyful emotions.
The mermaid flicked her tail, raised her head and responded to her gently, "Clang".
Ye Zheng looked down at the mermaid and couldn't help but smile brightly.
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