A week passed in a hurry. Although she didn't see it with her own eyes, Mrs. Hudson basically confirmed that there was a woman hiding in Wang Xu's living room...
She didn't say much in front of Wang Xu, but these aunts' gossips are the same all over the world, so this young gentleman, Mr. Atkinson, was arrested by the neighbors in just a few days. The neighbors are called: Atkinson, the playboy who lives indiscreetly. Of course, it doesn't matter to Wang Xu, he is thick-skinned after all, and he still has a slightly strange feeling in his heart, maybe it's just a little bit of complacency...
The sea monster brought back from the sewer by Wang Xu was named Eleanor. The rotten skin and raised fish scales on her body began to recover soon after the curse was lifted, but her body was still very weak.
In the past few days, Wang Xu has been taking care of her very carefully, serving tea and water, making the bed and making the quilt is no problem. He sleeps in the reception room every day and lets others sleep in his living room.
Every day he asked Mrs. Hudson to prepare a double portion of food, and then he took it to the room himself, watched Eleanor finish the food, and then packed it up and brought it out. Some people may think that Wang Xu's thoughtfulness is a bit abnormal, but his real thinking is very ridiculous. He believes that as long as he supervises Eleanor to eat nine full meals a day, he can crawl out in the middle of the night and swallow her The probability of own brains is minimized...
Finally, after a week of recuperation, or in other words, under Wang Xu's meticulous care, Eleanor recovered. She put on the clothes Wang Xu bought for her, and walked out of that room for the first time in seven days.
Master Cat was sitting there reading the newspaper, while Wang Xu was still fiddling with playing cards boredly. When they saw Eleanor walking out, neither of them showed any surprised expressions.
She walked up to Wang Xu and said, "Thank you, sir."
This was the first time she spoke since the night she met Wang Xu. That night she told Wang Xu her name before falling asleep, and these days she only communicated with Wang Xu by nodding and shaking her head. The sugar-like voice is absolutely different from the original rough and hoarse voice.
"Ah... nothing, we have an old saying in China, which basically means that saving a life is better than building a seven-story church."
"Well... I really don't know how to repay you..." She also glanced at Master Cat: "And you."
Master Cat shook the newspaper: "This is similar to taking in stray cats, and it is not noble, so it is even less likely that we will need anything in return from you." He paused: "The drawer on my left Here, I have prepared a certificate and some money for you, which is enough for you to live for a while, you take those, go out of this door, and then, according to our Chinese saying, you and us are like a well Like the water in the river and the water in the river, there will never be any intersection."
Eleanor really didn't expect the other party to say these words. In any case, these words seemed very cold. She looked at Wang Xu with pleading eyes: "Mr. Atkinson, is this what you mean?"
Wang Xu didn't look up at her at all, and continued to play cards: "Yes, but I just want to give you a piece of advice, if you continue to eat people in the future, our relationship will become like that of hunters and prey, which I don't want to see Arrived."
Eleanor bit her lips tightly, her eyes were dim with tears, she seemed to have suffered a lot of wronged, she just stood there, staring at Wang Xu.
This silent and suffocating atmosphere lasted for a full minute, and then she walked to the desk next to Master Cat, took the things in the drawer, and walked straight out of the door of the reception room.
The light footsteps went away along the stairs, Wang Xu raised his head: "Why does she have feet..."
Master Cat said: "She has the ability to change her appearance, of course, just like when you first saw her, she was dressed as a policeman. This is a survival skill for siren hunting."
"I said... don't we seem a little too unfeeling like this? If she ignites hatred for all human beings because of this..."
Master Mao smiled sinisterly: "Hey... If you can't bear her... then chase her out, there's still time."
Wang Xu put on an indifferent expression: "Cut! How is this possible? Chase him out? Do I look like someone who would do that kind of thing?"
"Huh... this is the best, you must pay attention, if there is any emotional entanglement with an existence like the siren, it will be bad. In the story of Odyssey, Parse Loper, the eldest of the three siren sisters, deeply Deeply in love with Odysseus, the result was that the other party tied himself to the boat and asked all the other crew members to plug their ears with wax. The sea area of the island of death that he successfully left was not hooked by the siren's singing, and the ending was... that big sister committed suicide..."
Wang Xuxu focused: "Don't worry, I don't think it will happen that a woman dies for me..."
Master Cat seemed to think of something suddenly, he said: "By the way, do you think this Eleanor looks familiar?"
Wang Xu replied: "I noticed it a long time ago, but I just can't remember where I saw her before. I saw that you didn't mention it, so I thought it was my own illusion."
Master Cat said: "Tch... I saw her once on the day she came. At that time, my face was still swollen like a ball. I didn't take a close look at her when I went in to take pictures of her yesterday to apply for a certificate. I just discovered her just now." It's really familiar."
Wang Xu thought for a while: "We don't know any foreigners... Besides, she is still a fairy from more than a hundred years ago... It is even more impossible for us to meet each other. Is it because all the beauties in the world are somewhat similar?"
Master Cat obviously wouldn't agree with Wang Xu's mediocre explanation, but the sound of horseshoes on the street interrupted his thoughts: "It seems that our client has visited again."
Wang Xu also heard the sound of the carriage. He used his spiritual sense to detect it, and it was indeed Elstein. At this time, he had stepped out of the carriage and rang the doorbell.
Five minutes later, the client, who was still dressed vulgarly, stood in front of Lord Cat and Wang Xu again, but his attitude was definitely not as respectful as when he left last time.
"It's been a week, Mr. Logan! I haven't heard from you yet. I go to the post office every day to wait for your telegram of the latest progress. I come back disappointed every day! With all due respect, I doubt it very much. You Did you really use all your talents and energy on my case, or are you simply not qualified for this job."
Master Cat smiled: "Actually, I think this job belongs to me, and I don't do a bad job." He took out a pen and paper, and said while writing: "At seven o'clock tomorrow night, you can let Your coachman takes you to this place, it's a nice restaurant, their violinist is excellent, and of course the food is delicious... Anyway, by then my work is all done and you'll get what you want something you want."
Elstein calmed down and squeezed out a smirk: "Well, Mr. Logan, I hope everything can be resolved satisfactorily tomorrow... But I want to explain in advance, if all this is just your prevarication and delay policy, then..."
Master Cat continued his words: "Then, you will have other ways to solve the matter, am I right, sir?"
Elstein snorted coldly, and a ruthless look flashed in his eyes: "Goodbye, Mr. Logan, good luck!" After he finished speaking, he slammed the door and left.
Wang Xu said: "Look at the stupid thing you did... You spend all your time chasing girls and not doing your job properly, even the plan to slow down the army just now was easily seen through by others."
Master Cat said: "Oh? Why do you think I was just delaying time? Do I need to lie?"
"What? You mean it's done?"
"Hey... It's not difficult to see through the truth of the whole thing. The key point is how to satisfy everyone, and finally get the reward I asked for and deserved..."