Miss Star, spoiled by her father and brother

Chapter 236: The Red-Tailed Mermaid Who Pulled Off Her Scales

"Uncle, how are these pools of water distributed? Why don't some mermaids have any? Can't they bathe together?"

McQueen glanced at the mermaids and said, "The pool is a naturally formed landform, connected together in a honeycomb shape, and the water inside comes from the underground sea. The mermaids pay monthly rent to obtain the right to use it."

"The mermaids without pools either didn't get any or couldn't afford the rent, mainly the latter. As for why they don't squeeze in, of course it's because they don't want to affect business."

"You have to share not only a comfortable resting place, but also divide the booth area and customer flow. And the open space is not big to begin with."

McQueen had seen a lot, and didn't have the compassion that Xu Weiwei had. He just calmly stated the facts, "Most of the people setting up stalls in these marginal areas are the elderly, the weak, women and children, and they are the weak among the mermaids. They can't live well whether in the sea or in the main city."

Xu Weiwei was in a low mood. It seemed that no matter how glamorous a place was, there would always be vulnerable groups and dark sides. The Boguang Market was huge. It took them an hour to walk from the main street to the end of the alley. It was like traveling through time and space, and seeing two completely different worlds.

In front of us, there is a mermaid with radiant skin and glittering scales, and it is obvious that she is living a good life. The items on the stall are not cheap. The mermaid at the back is covered in dirt and looks like a grilled fish in the sun. The items on the stall are also simple and cheap, and are filled with the desire to "come and buy them."

Xu Weiwei didn't want to go on shopping. Looking at more would only make her feel worse. She wasn't stupid enough to be a "money-giving boy" to "save all living beings". Doing so would only cause trouble to her relatives and friends who were traveling with her. The change would only be temporary.

Just when Xu Weiwei was about to turn back, she saw a pair of siblings, or sisters or some other combination. It was always difficult to tell the gender of mermaid children. It was just that Xu Weiwei herself had three older brothers, so it was easy for her to think of them as siblings.

Both of them were red mermaids, with messy hair that wasn't long. They were about the same size as her and Ryan, two small creatures, hugging their knees and curling up together, holding a piece of cardboard on their heads to block the sun.

Especially the older one, his lips were pale, his brows were furrowed, his complexion looked very bad, and his health condition was worrying.

No matter what kind of creature it is, it will always have an extra desire to protect its cubs. Seeing the "old and weak woman", Xu Weiwei could still be hard-hearted and pretend to ignore it, but when she saw the child, she really couldn't bear it.

Xu Weiwei's gaze may have made the little boy feel that there was hope of making money, and he began to muster up the courage to greet him in a low voice.

"Selling scales, beautiful scales..."

I couldn't even look at them while I was talking.

Xu Weiwei walked over, squatted in front of the stall, and asked, "How much are the scales?"

The little boy was very happy that he finally had business. However, he was obviously not familiar with the task of doing business. He asked in a negotiating way: "How about one... eight hundred?"

Before Xu Weiwei could speak, the boy said anxiously, "I know the price is a bit high, but I looked at other stalls and they are all marked like this. I didn't mean to cheat you. Although it's a bit small, my scales are smoother than theirs, really!"

To prove himself, the boy took off his pants.

Xu Weiwei hurriedly closed her eyes and turned her head away. When she opened her eyes again, she saw that the boy's legs had turned into a fish tail.

There were a few bloody spots on it, and the scales had disappeared, revealing the tender white flesh with red blood underneath, which was painful just by looking at it. The size of the gap and the color of the scales were exactly the same as those on the ground in front of him.

Xu Weiwei's heart suddenly tightened.

She remembered her mother had told her that mermaids shed their scales between the ages of thirty-five and seventy. The scales in front of her were undoubtedly plucked by the boy in advance.

"Are you short of money? Where are your father and mother?"

The boy's eyes dimmed instantly, and he lowered his head and said nothing. The little girl next to him whispered to Xu Weiwei: "Dad was eaten by a shark a long time ago, and mom was injured while hunting."

Xu frowned slightly, then asked as gently as possible: "Does your mother know that you are out selling things at the stall, and you still hurt yourself?"

The boy looked at the ground without saying anything, but Xu Weiwei already knew the answer. Few parents would be willing to let their children do this. The fact that the two of them could do this meant that their mother was already unable to move, so she was still unaware of this.

"You buy one. I can give you a discount. Only five hundred star coins is okay? I want to take my mother to see the priest. If you don't like these--" The boy stuck out his tail.

"Look at the piece on my tail. Which one do you like? I'll pull it out for you now."

"elder brother……"

The little mermaid girl next to him hugged her brother's arm worriedly. Even though she was afraid, she still transformed her own tail and said while wiping her tears, "Pull out mine. You can pull out mine too."

Xu Weiwei stood up and ran away quickly.

The boy lowered his head in disappointment, his eyes dull. He hadn't sold any of the items yet, so how long would it take for his mother's injury to heal...

Suddenly, the familiar skirt appeared before my eyes again.

Xu Weiwei returned with a package in her hand. She had just gone back just to get this.

"What kind of injury did your mother suffer? ... Never mind, I'll give you a bottle anyway. Don't worry about using it. This is the medicine of your mermaid tribe. There is a label on it. You should be able to read, right?"

The boy nodded blankly.

"And these scales, I'll take them all at the price you mentioned."

Xu Weiwei wanted to say that she should not hurt herself like this again, but she swallowed the words back when they came to her lips.

How can a child this young make money? She can't just stand there and talk without any pain, and tell others to do what they have to do.

"Really? Do you have so much money? How about I give you a cheaper price?" The boy said at a loss.

Xu shook his head slightly. "No, can you accept the transfer? I don't have any cash."

"No, I don't have a laptop." The boy said distressedly.

"Then wait a minute. I'll go ask the adults at home if they have any cash."

Xu Weiwei ran to McQueen and said, "Uncle, do you have any cash on you? I have my eyes on some mermaid scales, but I can only pay with cash."

McQueen simply pulled out his wallet and pulled out a stack of pink plastic bills with wave patterns printed on them.

Fearing that Xu Weiwei would feel unsafe with so much money, McQueen accompanied her.

The mermaid boy became nervous when he saw McQueen, fearing that the other party was looking for trouble.

After McQueen squatted down, the boy involuntarily moved back with his sister.

But McQueen ignored the two of them and picked up a scale and took a look at it in the sun. It was crimson in color, with a smooth surface, and there seemed to be gelatin flowing inside.

After throwing it back casually, he said, "It's a little small, but it's in good condition, with almost no flaws. He must have pulled it out himself."

"Well, uncle is so smart, he saw it at a glance." Xu Weiwei counted out enough banknotes and handed them over.

"You gave me too much. I don't have change for you. Do you have any change?" the boy asked awkwardly.

Xu Weiwei looked at McQueen.

McQueen opened his wallet, which was filled with pink.

Seeing this, the boy gritted his teeth and said, "I'll pull out another one for you now."

As he said this, he put his hand into the gap between the scales and prepared to take action.

Xu Weiwei was horrified and hurriedly stopped him: "No! I don't want it! Don't do it!"

"How about this, you let me touch your tail, and I'll use it as a compensation for the extra money?"

The boy's face suddenly turned red, and after a while he stammered, "You, touch it, touch it."

Xu Weiwei stretched out her hand. The boy closed his eyes tightly, his fish tail was bent into a bow shape, and his tail fin was raised. He looked very nervous.

Xu Weiwei thought that the other party was afraid of pain, so she deliberately avoided the wound and placed her hand on the lower side of his waist and abdomen.

The moment she placed her hand on him, she could feel him tremble violently.

After remaining motionless for a few seconds, Xu Weiwei began to slide her palm, stroking up and down like smoothing hair.

The feel is amazing and smooth. Although the scales are hard, they are not painful at all. Instead, you can feel the bouncy texture of the flesh underneath.

Xu Weiwei touched her more and more, and her hands moved more and more casually. The boy suddenly grabbed her wrist and stammered, "It's enough, it's enough..."

Xu Weiwei pulled her hand back reluctantly, then stood up: "We are leaving. I wish your mother a speedy recovery. By the way, don't forget to apply some medicine to your wound. You don't want your family to worry about you, right?"

The boy looked up at her, as if he wanted to imprint her appearance in his mind, and then smiled: "Yeah."

The backs of Xu Weiwei and her group disappeared. The boy also withdrew his gaze, transformed his legs, and carried his sister away.

"Brother, she is so nice. Can we see her again?"

"I don't know. I don't think so. We don't even know her name."

"Ah~" the little girl cried out regretfully, "But she touched your butt, she should be with you... with you..."

The boy pinched his sister's mouth and said, "She is not from here, so she doesn't understand these things. Besides, many mermaids don't follow these rules now."

"All right……"

Here, Xu Weiwei met up with her brothers with a bag of scales.

"Weier, what good things did you buy again?" Kane came over and asked.

"Some beautiful red scales. Show them to your brother when you get back." Xu Weiwei said.

The boy was wrapped in dried seaweed leaves, and now that they were unwrapped she couldn't put them back together.

"Well! Let's go to the exit. Mom and Dad are going there too."

"it is good."

After waiting for about ten minutes at the separation point, Mrs. Seaforth and Mrs. Wolfhard appeared with their arms around each other, looking very happy, like generals who had won a battle and plundered the enemy camp, followed by their "cart giants" loaded with supplies.

"Come and help, it's about to collapse..."

Meilin, Adjutant Qiu and McQueen hurried forward and took away all the things piled in Sifos's arms and hangings. Sifos then breathed a long sigh of relief and said weakly: "I should have called someone else earlier. They almost hung me around the neck too."

Everyone laughed and returned home with a full load.

It was still morning when we went out, and it was already noon when we returned to the hotel.

Xu Weiwei opened the door and found that her luggage had been neatly packed. Her clothes were hung in the cloakroom and her electronic products were placed on the bedside table. The staff who packed her luggage also left a note, clearly stating where everything was placed in case they couldn't find it.

Xu Weiwei couldn't help but sigh that as long as you have money, everything will become simple.

Since we visited two places non-stop in the morning, we were very tired, so everyone had lunch in the hotel at noon.

During the meal, McQueen told everyone: "Linlin sent me a message saying she will get off work early today, around 4pm. We can pick her up then and go out for dinner together."

"Then we'll have dinner and take a nap and then we'll leave directly from the hotel to pick her up from the crew and give her a surprise," said Mrs. Sivers.

Everyone agrees.

After lunch break, at 3pm, everyone prepared to go to the filming location. Xu Weiwei and her daughter, Mrs. Wolfhard, and Meilin all changed into the mermaid costumes they bought in the morning. They looked like they were completely Mengmed people.

On the way, Mrs. Sivers bought a bouquet of flowers. When they were almost there, she asked Xu Weiwei to hold it and give it to Jiang Linlin when they met.

At 3:50, Jiang Linlin took off her makeup, changed into casual clothes, and left the crew.

McQueen stepped forward to provide cover and distract his wife by chatting.

"Come on, they're already at the hotel, I'll pick you up."

"Are we there yet? Then let's hurry up, we still have to buy a gift for Wei'er on the way. Why did you let my sisters go so early? It would be so rude to keep them waiting."

"What does it matter? We are all family. It doesn't matter if it's a little earlier or later. We all know you are busy with work."

"Of course you're okay, oops——!"

"Aunt! Happy getting off work! Hehe." Xu Weiwei suddenly appeared with flowers, scaring Jiang Linlin.

Jiang Linlin patted her chest and pretended to be angry: "Okay, you guys colluded, did you do this on purpose?"

"Come and let your aunt hug you and kiss you, my sweet baby. You miss your aunt so much." Jiang Linlin squatted down and rubbed Xu Weiwei's face, then picked her up with both her and the flower.

"I also brought flowers for my aunt. Thank you~ You are so considerate!"

"Did your uncle bring you here?" Jiang Linlin asked as they walked.

Unexpectedly, a group of people suddenly jumped out from the next corner, scaring her so much that she stepped back on McQueen's foot.

McQueen cried out in pain, and it was hard to tell which of the couple's screams was louder.

"Foot, foot! You stepped on my foot! Your shoe!"

Jiang Linlin quickly moved her high heels away. Others had not expected this to happen, and they did not know whether to laugh first or show concern first. In the end, human feelings prevailed.

"How's it going? Are you okay?"

"Is it swollen?"

McQueen grimaced in pain, and he became even more angry when he saw their expressions. "Go away, your concern is so hypocritical."