Girls who are in love always have strange little ideas, such as: Why does he like me? When did he fall in love with me? Will he always like me
All in all, this series of careful thoughts come and go just around the word "like".
Of course Ye Zheng also has such small entanglements, and sometimes she feels uneasy: she had already prepared to get along with the mermaid slowly, and then tried every means to make it like her long-term preparation.
But she didn't expect that Andrew would sing the love song of a mermaid to her not long after she made up her mind. Before that, except that he became more agitated, there was almost no warning.
Are we in love? Ye Zheng sometimes thinks like this, after all, the two of them have been going to the sea with each other, kissing and hugging each other.
That kind of intimacy even Ye Zheng could feel was a completely different way of getting along with the previous intimacy.
But the mermaid never said it out - although he sang it, Ye Zheng could also feel the affection in the tune, but Ye Zheng always felt as if he didn't ask, there was always something in his heart.
On this day, Ye Zheng finally couldn't help but ask Andrew: "Do you like me?"
As soon as the words came out, Ye Zheng also felt a little funny. If this is a love between human beings, how can we be together without confession? Is it too hypocritical to ask such words again after being together
After asking, I was a little embarrassed and a little nervous. Ye Zheng lowered her head and didn't say a word, and didn't look at Andrew at a glance, but her ears were sensitive and wanted to hear Andrew's answer as soon as possible.
"like?"
Andrew repeated these two words.
Ye Zheng was overjoyed when he heard Andrew say "like", and then realized that Andrew was just repeating her question, and he still didn't understand what the word liked meant.
"Like..." Ye Zheng pondered for a moment, finally took a deep breath, and explained, "Like is... just..."
From the time he started teaching Andrew to speak, Ye Zheng found that Andrew's understanding of abstract vocabulary was very difficult. Even modern people rely on continuous accumulation of the environment to gradually master those words by listening, speaking, reading, writing, and writing. Just relying on Ye Zheng's explanation, it was difficult for Andrew to understand what she meant.
Ye Zheng has been "just" for a long time, but he still can't find a suitable way to express it. Fortunately, Andrew has always been patient, he still looked up at Ye Zheng, waiting for her to explain his confusion.
Under Andrew's eyes, Ye Zheng was in a hurry and blurted out a sentence,
"Just as I like you."
After saying this, Ye Zheng couldn't help but want to hide her face: she obviously wanted to use Andrew's words, why did she say it herself
"Clang... like... Andrew?"
The mermaid asked earnestly, and then quickly replied, "Andrew likes to be loud."
"...It's not like this," Ye Zheng was both sad and happy when he heard Andrew's answer. Her explanation just now had no effect other than revealing her heart. She didn't know how Andrew understood that word, but maybe in his opinion, even if Ye Zheng treated him, he would treat her that way.
Ye Zheng exhaled slowly, "If you like it, you will be happy when you see it. If you want this," she lowered her head and kissed Andrew's mouth.
"I want this," she held Andrew in her arms, and the mermaid hugged her back gently.
"I want to be together forever." Ye Zheng explained in a low voice.
Andrew thought about what Ye Zheng said carefully, raised his head and kissed Ye Zheng's mouth, "I like it."
Then the arms around Ye Zheng tightened again, "I like it."
In the end, it was difficult for Ye Zheng's third sentence: "Forever?"
This is another abstract new word, which abstracts into countless human poets, and the writers have used countless words and works to explain it in detail.
Ye Zheng thought about it and decided to explain it in the way that Andrew could best understand, "From sunrise to sunset, from sunset to sunrise, from sunrise to sunset, from sunset to sunrise..."
She repeated this sentence many times, trying her best to make Andrew understand that it was all the time. In the end, she couldn't count how many times she repeated it. She felt that it was a bit silly to repeat it, and she couldn't help laughing.
In the end, Ye Zheng stopped smiling and said solemnly, "In this way, I want to see Andrew."
When Ye Zheng was doing this stupid thing, Andrew still looked at Ye Zheng gently and listened carefully to her explanation.
After a while, Andrew nodded, "I like it."
"Thank you." Ye Zheng lowered his head and kissed Andrew, and he kissed back quickly.
Ye Zheng's anticipation and apprehension at the beginning of asking this question died in the explanation of the two new words. She put down Andrew, stood up and said to it with a smile, pointing in the distance: "Food."
After the two of them moved to the new island, they had formed a tacit understanding that Andrew carried Ye Zheng to another island to hunt, then went to hunt by himself, and brought Ye Zheng home in the middle of the night.
After all, the environment of the new island is different from that of the old island. Most of the surrounding sea water is extremely deep, so Ye Zheng cannot easily go into the water. The biggest advantage of this island is that it has a freshwater lake formed by rain and a cave that shelters from the wind and rain.
Ye Zheng also knew that it was inconvenient to not be able to move freely, but she was satisfied that she could stay with Andrew for a while and have a more secure home.
Ye Zheng quickly put this matter aside for the time being, and concentrated on managing his life and that of Andrew.
A few days later, when Ye Zheng rode on Andrew's back and was taken all the way back to the island by it, he found that there were dozens of hard-shelled creatures holding claws on the island where they lived.
The two large claws of those hard-shelled creatures are flat, and on their backs are tall shell-like hard shells with blue-gray messy patterns on them.
"This is... ... "
Ye Zheng stared at the group of uninvited guests in a stunned manner, and found that they were not running around in a disorderly manner, but were busy digging for something. A waterway leading from the coast to the cave stood straight in front of Ye Zheng, and she also saw this hard-shelled creature shoveling the sand out of the cave where she lived.
Andrew put Ye Zheng down, glanced at her proudly, and swam to the side again, only then did Ye Zheng realize that there were two mermaids wandering near the sea.
Andrew joined them, and they were swimming in the water together.
This scene was so weird, Ye Zheng couldn't help but narrowed his eyes and carefully observed her mermaid.
Only then did she realize that Andrew's mouth was opening and closing all the time, as if he was singing, but Ye Zheng couldn't hear the frequency of his singing at all.
Ye Zheng was puzzled, and his eyes turned to the group of busy digging animals. They were digging deeply along the edge of the unknown bone fragments in a very orderly manner.
Ye Zheng suddenly had an epiphany: Is Andrew driving them? She quickly remembered the first time she heard the mermaid sing, when the adult mermaid sang a song that made her go into the sea in a trance... It shouldn't be just the sound. relationship, but sound waves affected her brain.
Ye Zheng felt that she understood. She stared deeply at Andrew who was constantly on the move. How many wonderful things were there in him that she didn't know
By the time it was getting dark, it all looked like it was coming to an end.
Ye Zheng watched Andrew sing silently and approached the island. The animals also stopped, and stayed in place eerily. Ye Zheng also found a big claws holding a shovel, and the big claws were still on it. There is sand.
Andrew swam down the excavated waterway to the cave, breaking the heads of the animals along the way.
Ye Zheng shuddered and watched as the animals were dragged into the sea by Andrew's companions. The sea washed into the waterway and left, taking some of the animals with it.
Andrew and his companions quickly cleaned up everything. In the dug out channel, the water was crystal clear, about two or three meters deep and two or three meters wide, allowing Andrew to come and go freely. The continuous rushing in and out of the sea water can ensure that the water quality of the waterway remains unchanged.
Andrew only left two or three very large ones, and the rest were either dragged away by his companions or thrown into the sea. He let Ye Zheng taste these excavated animals. The yellow meat in their shells is very fragrant, and when roasted with the oil made from walruses, it still tastes like pork belly.
Ye Zheng didn't know that Andrew got these animals from here, but looking at the reactions of those companions, maybe the mermaid was used to driving them
Andrew let these animals dig a huge puddle in the cave to connect the waterway. When Ye Zheng went to bed, Andrew immersed in the water beside her bed.
"clank."
Andrew explained to her seriously in the water: "From sunrise to sunset, ask for food, from sunset to sunrise, be together."
Ye Zheng was busy making the bed, when she heard Andrew's words, her movements suddenly stopped.
Ye Zheng heard his head crunching, thinking hard about Andrew's meaning: he meant that he needed to hunt during the day, but at night he could stay together all the time.
He still remembered Ye Zheng's explanation!
Ye Zheng covered her mouth with her hands subconsciously, and looked at the mermaid who was still immersed in the water and looked at her seriously.
He still remembered that Ye Zheng said, "To be together forever." Although he may not yet understand, always refers to a more distant future, which was an ethereal description at that time. But he remembered something more realistic, that is, what Ye Zheng said was to go from sunrise to sunset, from sunset to sunrise...
Ye Zheng felt as if something was blocking his throat, and he could hardly speak. Andrew is a mermaid, and as an aquatic creature, he can't stay ashore for long. She had always known that before when he fell asleep, he would crawl back into the sea. But now that he dug a puddle out, there was no need to crawl back into the sea.
Suddenly, Ye Zheng felt that everything was not important. Does it matter if Andrew understands what "like" is? What if the merman's way of thinking about emotions might be different from that of humans? He has always treated her so well, remembering what she said, and finding ways to fulfill her wishes.
Ye Zheng's hands trembled. She patted the hay on the stone bed, smoothed the seal skin, and used these actions to calm herself down.
Ye Zheng lay down, and through the slightly shining pearl light, she could see Andrew's eyes clearly, and there was always her likeness in those big wet eyes.
"Andrew..." In the dimness, Ye Zheng lay on his side and reached out gently.
A paw quickly grabbed the hand she handed over, and then clenched it tightly, one man, one fish and ten fingers clasped together.
Ye Zheng held Andrew's paw and fell asleep.
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