The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 52

Chapter 52: Buying Clothes

Si Jisheng did not take Deng Xi home immediately, but instead went to the central shopping mall in the imperial capital.

The flying channels of the central shopping mall were interconnected, with flying ships coming and going, and the flow of people was extremely large.

“So many people.” Deng Xi couldn’t help but tug at the corner of the little mute’s clothes, afraid that he would get lost again when the crowd became congested.

Si Jisheng did not walk in front. The flying chair flew very slowly, and he also walked very slowly, maintaining a balance where he could see Deng Xi with a downward glance. “This is where humans shop in the real world, and it’s also the center of the mall.”

Deng Xi nodded his head in understanding. “Can we buy lots and lots of things?”

Si Jisheng nodded slightly.

Deng Xi looked around and suddenly, his glasses lit up. “That’s so pretty.”

Si Jisheng followed his gaze.

By the side of the street was a small stall with many butterfly wing balloons. The colorful balloons were also wearable.

Si Jisheng: “Which one do you want?”

Deng Xi hesitated for a moment before choosing. “I want that one, the one that’s the same color as Little Mute’s tail.”

The silver butterfly wing balloon was quickly bought by Si Jisheng. He bent down and put it on for Deng Xi.

The golden-haired youth in the flying chair had exquisite features. The bright silver wings on his back trembled with every movement in flight, attracting the attention of countless people.

Especially since the youth was accompanied by a man with a cold and solemn temperament.

There were very few reports about Si Jisheng, and almost no videos of his face except for that trial conference. After the video of the trial conference was blocked by the Empire, the public’s recognition of him had also greatly decreased.

He could go shopping with Deng Xi freely without having to cover his face.

As the sky ladder ascended to higher floors, the number of flying ships and pedestrians outside the sky ladder became fewer and fewer. By the time they stepped onto the highest floor of the shopping center, there were very few human figures left.

Si Jisheng skillfully walked to the custom-made center where he usually bought his private clothes.

The sales assistant quickly came up to greet him respectfully. “Do you want to have it custom-made now, or take a ready-made one?”

Si Jisheng gestured to the flying chair beside him and said concisely, “Ready-made, his size.”

Deng Xi looked at the dazzling array of clothes inside and asked curiously with his blue eyes, “Are we buying new clothes?”

Si Jisheng: “Mmm, want to take a look?”

Deng Xi nodded his head.

The sales assistant watched as this youth, who had long, curly golden hair but a small Adam’s apple, started the flying chair and went straight to the women’s section, stopping in the long dress area.

The way she looked at the Marshal was no longer right.

As a sales assistant who had worked in this store for many years, she naturally knew the Marshal’s identity. In an instant, the way she looked at Deng Xi was like looking at a good child who had gone astray.

She faintly condemned the Marshal.

After Si Jisheng was slightly stunned, he followed. “You don’t have to wear a dress now.”

Deng Xi was stunned for a moment. “Do I have to have a tail to wear it?”

He looked down at his bare feet, which were exposed outside the Jiaoren silk dress. After he had finished practicing walking, the cotton slippers had been put in the small box in the flying chair to prevent them from getting wet from the sprayed water mist.

Si Jisheng explained patiently, “Dresses are for human females.”

Deng Xi thought carefully for a moment. “Can boys not wear them?”

“They can.” Si Jisheng did not hesitate. “As long as you like it, you can wear anything. But shall we try other options?”

Deng Xi looked at the biulingbiuling sequined little dress he had chosen with some reluctance before he nodded his head. “Alright.”

The sales assistant’s gaze on the Marshal finally returned to normal. She bowed. “Please follow me.”

Deng Xi looked back at the little mute. After seeing the little mute nod, he followed.

Because Deng Xi was still young, the sales assistant chose some clothes suitable for young people. The colors of the clothes were more eye-catching.

A tender yellow hoodie, a few round-necked short-sleeved shirts, and even a shirt with a cartoon character printed on it and a small vest that accentuated his figure, several pairs of overalls, and even a soft woolen hat.

Deng Xi was dazzled. He said yes to almost everything this human sister said.

The sales assistant thoughtfully packed the matching clothes into a package. It wasn’t until she asked about loose-fitting home clothes that she boldly asked, “This is a new set of couple pajamas that we have just launched. Do you need it?”

Si Jisheng glanced at it. The fingertips of his mechanical gloves were slightly stiff. He was silent for a moment and was about to ask the sales assistant to change it.

Deng Xi, who still didn’t understand what “couple” meant, pointed at the cute, water-spouting whale graffiti on the pajamas and said, “It’s Big Whale!”

Si Jisheng sighed slightly. “Pack it up.”

Deng Xi looked at the pajamas being packed with longing eyes, wishing he could wear them right now.

After choosing more than a dozen sets of private clothes, home clothes, and formal clothes, Si Jisheng asked the sales assistant in a low voice, “Do you have any undergarments?”

The sales assistant was stunned for a moment before she reacted. “Your lover is… what size?”

Si Jisheng’s face stiffened slightly. After a long while, he finally said, “I’ll choose them myself.”

Si Jisheng chose some plain “undergarments” according to his own size. He thought for a moment, then turned back. Considering Deng Xi’s height, he specially chose a size smaller.

After they finished shopping.

Si Jisheng had the sales assistant send a dedicated person to deliver them to District A. Just as he was about to leave, Deng Xi pulled at his fingertip and blinked his blue eyes. “Can I buy things for Little Mute too?”

It had always been the little mute buying things for him. He also wanted to buy lots and lots of beautiful clothes and nice little toys for the little mute!

Si Jisheng: “You can.”

Deng Xi: “Can I use my comm too?”

He still remembered the online store from when he had chosen the flying chair.

Si Jisheng bent down, opened Deng Xi’s comm, and after setting the address and contact information, he replied, “If you see something you like, you can just buy it directly.”

The deposit paid to the skull had been confiscated long ago after the operation ended, but Si Jisheng had still withdrawn that one hundred billion and had a supplementary card made, which was bound to Deng Xi’s comm.

It was a small private fund that he had prepared a long, long time ago, before Deng Xi had even decided to stay in the human world.

After Deng Xi understood, he didn’t even care about the little wings behind him on the way home. He was constantly thinking about what he wanted to buy for the little mute. He still hadn’t figured it out by the time he got home.

After dinner, the empty side bedroom was cleaned up by the mechanical butler. After taking the elevator to the third floor, Si Jisheng took Deng Xi to his room.

The decoration style was simple, just like the rest of the manor.

Deng Xi held onto the little mute’s arm and slowly stepped out of the flying chair himself, landing steadily on the ground. He happily raised his head. “Little Mute, look, I succeeded—”

Before he could finish, the swaying Deng Xi fell forward. Si Jisheng glanced at the bed that was so close to him and slightly loosened his hand.

Deng Xi fell into the soft, large bed. The soft mattress almost made his entire body sink in. The scared little merman cautiously opened his eyes and subconsciously rubbed against the smooth surface of the quilt.

So comfortable.

It was so much softer than the seaweed bed he had in his shell bed.

The unease of not being able to sleep in the ocean tonight slowly dissipated. Deng Xi propped himself up. “A human’s bed is as comfortable as a shell!”

Si Jisheng nodded.

But Deng Xi looked around and didn’t see a second bed. He asked curiously, “Where is Little Mute’s bed?”

Si Jisheng: “Next door.”

Deng Xi blinked blankly. “Isn’t Little Mute sleeping with me?”

Si Jisheng’s breath hitched slightly, and he also sat on the bed. “There’s only one bed in each room.”

Deng Xi picked at his hands, at a loss. He looked at the bed he was sitting on, and his glasses lit up. He gestured with his fingers. “But this bed is so big. Little Mute can sleep with me!”

His blue eyes blinked, looking at the silver-tail expectantly.

Si Jisheng: “Will you be scared?”

Deng Xi: “A little bit.”

Because it was his first time not sleeping in the ocean, if Deng Xi were alone, he would be a little scared.

More than that, it was because Deng Xi wanted to be with the little mute.

There was no other reason; he just wanted to be together.

Being together wouldn’t be boring, and he would be very happy.

Si Jisheng paused for a moment and pressed his brow. “Just this once.”

Deng Xi did not push his luck. He obediently nodded his head.

Si Jisheng: “Go take a shower.”

Deng Xi was stunned for a moment. “What’s a shower?”

Because a merman was constantly washed by the waves in the ocean, occasionally wiping his tail with seaweed was already very clean.

But today Deng Xi had turned into a human and had even gone out once. It was necessary for Si Jisheng to teach Deng Xi how to clean himself like a human.

He found a video of a kitten being bathed and had Deng Xi watch it. “Just like animals licking their fur, and us cleaning our tails, humans also use bathing to clean their bodies.”

Deng Xi watched as the kitten in the video screeched and wailed, wishing it could jump out of the water, only to be cruelly pressed back in by the human, who then squeezed out bubbles and lathered its entire body.

He was stunned for a moment and asked weakly, “Can I not take a shower? I’m very clean.”

Si Jisheng glanced at his comm and changed the search from “kitten” to “puppy.” The puppy stood obediently in the pool, its fur hanging down, wet. Besides occasionally shaking the water off its body, it was very well-behaved.

Deng Xi said hesitantly, “Alright.”

Si Jisheng helped Deng Xi up. By the time they actually reached the bathtub, half an hour had passed, but he still told Deng Xi to go slow, and that it was okay if he fell.

Deng Xi sat on the edge of the bathtub by himself, touched this “little pool,” and watched as the little mute activated some kind of mechanism. The water in the pool then began to rise, bit by bit. Unlike the cold seawater, it was warm and gave off steam.

Because Deng Xi had always lived in the deep sea, Si Jisheng did not adjust the water to be too hot. Instead, when he touched it with his hand, it felt a little warm.

Only after Deng Xi said it was acceptable did Si Jisheng instruct him, sentence by sentence, “Put your clothes here.”

It was the whale pajamas that Deng Xi liked very much, and they had already been dry-cleaned.

Si Jisheng spoke very carefully, “And the bath towel to wipe the water droplets off your body.”

They were all placed in a place that Deng Xi could reach even when he was lying in the bathtub.

The water in the bathtub was constantly flowing, so he didn’t have to worry about it getting dirty. He taught Deng Xi how to turn off the water in the bathtub after he had finished washing.

The bathtubs of the interstellar age also had a drying function. After Si Jisheng had set everything up, he showed Deng Xi a video of a mannequin being dressed in a full set of clothes before he left.

Although the door was tightly closed, Deng Xi could see a blurry black shadow behind the door, quietly waiting.

Deng Xi slowly took off his Jiaoren silk dress and threw it on the floor, then fell into the warm water in the bathtub. He squeezed out some bubbles and clumsily lathered them on his body. The bubbles did not stay for long before they were washed away by the flowing bathtub.

The hot steam steamed the naked body in the bathtub. The more Deng Xi washed, the pinker his body became. After he had finished cleaning, he turned off the water with a red face.

Humans were so strange.

Why did they even have to scrub that place?

The warm air from the dryer evaporated the water droplets in the bathtub and most of the water droplets on Deng Xi’s body. Deng Xi wiped the remaining water stains with a bath towel before he sat in the dry bathtub and slowly put on his clothes.

The Big Whale pajamas were very cute, but the buttons were very troublesome. It took Deng Xi a long time to deal with the five buttons on his body. He picked up a piece of white, triangular cloth that was several times larger than his palm and clumsily put it on his legs.

Because it was too big, it took Deng Xi several tries to figure out which was the right direction. After everything was on, he proudly curved his eyelids and shouted at the closed door, “Little Mute! I’m done washing!”

The black shadow that had been leaning against the door finally moved and turned away. Si Jisheng walked in with a pair of pajama pants that had just been dropped. Because Deng Xi’s legs had no strength, he had to help him with the long pants.

Deng Xi held onto the little mute’s shoulder and neck and slowly stood up from the bathtub. The moment he got up, he felt something slowly sliding down. He uncomfortably curled his pink toes. His thighs were covered by the long pajama hem, only revealing a pair of pale calves and pink knees.

Si Jisheng bent down. “Lift your leg.”

Deng Xi propped himself up on the little mute’s body and struggled to lift his weak foot. The moment he moved, the already loose cloth could no longer hold on.

The small white triangle slid down from the base of his thigh and hung on the bathtub. The other side was still hooked on the tip of Deng Xi’s raised foot, swaying precariously.

Deng Xi was momentarily dazed and said cluelessly, “It fell off.”

The already stiff body under his hands instantly tensed.