Chapter 7 Coaxing the Little Girl
Chapter 7 Coaxing the Little Girl
A few minutes after the two people by the mountain path left, a man and a woman emerged from the bushes.
The woman's clothes were a little disheveled, her pretty face flushed, while the man's expression was calm, except for a stinging handprint on his left cheek.
Lu Ren retracted his earlier judgment; to some extent, Miss Shen and Pineapple Bun could still compete.
At least in terms of feel.
He looked down at his palm, which was rounded and so big and beautiful. He thought about going to the river on the weekend...
Shen Yaoxing turned to look at him, exclaimed, and said, "You're actually still reminiscing about it!"
"Was it Miss Shen who told me to quickly think of a solution...?"
What is a fake Silver Horn, and what is a real Silver Horn? In the end, Miss Shen's Silver Horn is already quite impressive. If you ask him to come up with a way, can he possibly make his Silver Horn sound better than Shen Yaoxing's? What kind of life do you want Silver Horn to lead?
Shen Yaoxing raised her fist, her face contorted in a constipated expression. After a long pause, she finally forced out, "Sorry, does your face still hurt?"
The first thing he did was admit his mistake?
Lu Ren was also stunned for a moment; she was completely different from the spoiled young lady he had imagined.
He shook his head: "It didn't hurt, but I almost thought I was going to be killed."
"Weren't you afraid of dying just now?"
"I'm scared."
"Then you still dare?"
If this argument continued, it would never end, so Lu Ren could only smile apologetically and remain silent.
"You bastard!"
Shen Yaoxing sometimes felt that this person was too fake, like now, his fawning smile was too fake.
She wasn't that angry at first, but now she's actually getting a little angry. Thinking about what she just did, she's getting so angry she's itching to bite her.
Lu Ren quickly asked, "Miss, were those two people who came to rescue us?"
Shen Yaoxing coughed and said, "Who...who knows what's going on? Maybe it's someone sent by the clan to frame me. Anyway, I won't trust anyone who approaches me now!"
"Is that so..."
"That's it!"
Since she had already said that, what could Lu Ren say? The two continued down the mountain path.
The girl snorted. Lu Ren thought she would still be angry, but the girl was a bit carefree and quickly forgot about it.
Moreover, this young lady was very carefree and seemed to be in a good mood, humming a few tunes from time to time.
She would squat by the roadside trying to catch the fireflies, and then jump onto the mountain road railing, maintaining her balance as she swayed left and right without fear of falling.
Ever since waking up in the bandit's den, Lu Ren felt that this person was a bit strange, very...lively?
He really is acting like a little kid right now.
Wait a minute, Lu Ren suddenly remembered that he had just seen Shen Yaoxing's talent [Ominous Star].
It was described like this: Under the starry sky, her attributes and recovery speed are greatly enhanced, but her self-control and rationality will decrease.
He looked up at the night sky.
A sky full of stars, dazzling and romantic.
Is that how it is?
Occasionally, Lu Ren would see a struggle in her eyes before she obediently returned to his side.
But after a while, he couldn't resist and started hopping and skipping as he walked.
They would also spread their arms and, like a spoiled child, run down the hillside in the evening breeze.
"Don't I look like an airplane?"
Miss, did you drink fake alcohol?
No wonder she said she couldn't get anything done without a partner. If she's like this every night, she's sure to cause trouble.
"Is it a helicopter?"
"It's a fighter jet!"
"It's a fighter jet..."
After a while, she flew back, pretending to hold a microphone in both hands and held it to Lu Ren's mouth, asking:
"Let's do an interview!"
"What?"
"What do you guys feel when you do this? How do you feel?"
When she said "like this and like this," she raised both hands in front of her and made a very wicked grabbing motion in the air.
"...Didn't you say you weren't going to pursue it?"
"I never said that! I preserved Longyou's chastity for eighteen years, and now it's all fallen into the hands of a nobody like you! Ah! Wouldn't you say we've outdone him? Hehe!"
Shen Yaoxing is a wonderful person with an open-minded personality and a quirky way of thinking.
"A Minotaur theme?" Lu Ren pondered for a moment.
"I don't think so, since he doesn't like you."
He regretted it as soon as the words left his mouth, feeling that he had said something hurtful. He thought the other person would make a scene, get angry, or be upset, but nothing happened.
Upon hearing this, Shen Yaoxing calmed down, simply looking down at the cement path of the mountain trail, kicking a small pebble as she walked down the trail, 'plop, plop'... The two stopped talking, she stopped catching fireflies, stopped jumping onto the railing, and stopped pretending to be a fighter jet. The mountain trail was quiet at night, with only the occasional 'plop' sound of pebbles being kicked and rolling.
"Really? Doesn't that count?"
She didn't know how far she had kicked the pebbles, but she suddenly asked this question, her voice very soft, more like talking to herself.
Lu Ren didn't even hear him clearly: "Huh? What did you say?"
"It's nothing, I just suddenly realized..."
The wind was strong at night, and a gust of mountain wind happened to whistle by, making the girl's hair and clothes flutter, while the sea of trees behind her rustled.
Shen Yaoxing looked up at the shattered starlight of the Milky Way, and said uncertainly, "Am I heartbroken?"
Lu Ren looked at her, then tilted his head and looked up at the sky, saying, "Yeah, that's right."
He dared to answer so boldly because he saw that the young lady seemed to have figured things out. But just a second ago, the girl who looked like she had seen through the world suddenly had tears welling up in her eyes as she looked up at the night sky.
Tears bloomed in the night like the Milky Way shattering.
Then she pouted and started crying uncontrollably.
Before Lu Ren could stop her, she suddenly burst into tears.
"Cough cough cough!"
"I always thought, I always thought I would marry Ayou, Ayou."
"I was here first! What about my seventeen years here?!"
She cried all the way, and while crying, she started hiccuping. Her eyes were red and swollen, and her nose was snotty. She asked Lu Ren for a tissue to blow her nose.
Where could she find tissues in this desolate wilderness?
"Long, Long You, no matter when, *sniff*, he always carries tissues with him when he goes out, *sniff*, he said he would always be by my side, you heartless man! *sniff*"
Lu Ren was at a loss; he really didn't know how to comfort her in this situation, so he could only silently stay by the girl's side.
"Say something! I'm crying like a fool all by myself. As a guard, shouldn't you try to comfort me when my master is crying like this?"
"..." Do servants have such tasks? Lu Ren tentatively asked, "Then should I join you in cursing him?"
Shen Yaoxing said anxiously, "Don't scold him. Actually, Long You is a very good person, you have no idea..."
This is too much trouble, let's just destroy it!
Just thinking about how this job pays over a thousand yuan a day made Lu Ren smile with relief.
Back when he was a corporate slave, he was practically licking his boss's shoes. Now, what's a little girl to him? With such a high salary, he'd do anything to lick Shen Yaoxing's feet.
He's actually very good at coaxing little girls. In his past life, he had a bunch of nieces. His eldest brother and sister-in-law abandoned them after they were born, so he raised them all by himself.
Before he transmigrated, his youngest child was already sixteen or seventeen years old. After raising all his children, he was already over forty years old. Only then did he decide to go on blind dates and get married. However, before his unborn child could arrive outside the delivery room, he was suddenly transported to this world.
Life is unpredictable. I hope his nieces will help take care of his wife and children for his sake.
In his eyes, Shen Yaoxing was just like his nieces, a child who needed to be taken care of.
But none of his nieces seemed to have been in relationships, so he really didn't know how to comfort a heartbroken girl. After thinking hard for a while, he said, "How about I tell you a joke?"
"W-What joke?"
He held up his left little finger and asked, "Do you know why Beethoven never used this finger when playing the piano?"
Shen Yaoxing was halfway through her tears when she was asked, bewildered, "Why...why isn't he...not used to it?"
"Because these are my fingers."
Shen Yaoxing couldn't help but chuckle, but she was too upset to stop crying, so she looked really silly.
Lu Ren then asked, "If a fish spends all day sunbathing on the beach, what do you think it will say to its friends?"
"Say what? What should I say?"
"I'll do it, you can do whatever you want."
Shen Yaoxing laughed again, snot bubbles even coming out of her nose, but she was really heartbroken right now, so all she could do was laugh and cry at the same time while cursing him:
"Why are you like this? None of this is funny, stop talking!"
Even though you laughed, you still say it's not funny.
The two had already come down from the mountain and entered the urban village. He was afraid that if they didn't talk, the atmosphere would be too quiet and the girl would start crying again, and he would have to comfort her again. So he wanted to take the initiative to find something to talk about with her.
But he couldn't think of any good topics to talk about for the time being.
"Actually, I'm a time traveler," he suddenly said nonchalantly.
"What kind of joke is this?"
This time it was Lu Ren's turn to look up at the dazzling stars and say, "I'm not joking, I am a transmigrator. The other world is very similar to this one, or rather, exactly the same. However, that world doesn't have a virtual realm, nor does it have anything like professional beings."
"What are you talking about?"
"Uh, I don't even know what I'm saying..."
Lu Ren said, "I'll sing for you, and you'll stop crying when you hear me sing, okay?"
"Sing? What song? Are you going to sing me something to comfort me?"
"Hmm, I sang?"
"Sing, sing!"
"Slowly, kiss kiss..."
Lu Ren took a deep breath and softly sang the music from his hometown in this strange world: "Hakimi oh, North and South Green Beans, Ashiga ya, Hakuna Long, oh..."
Shen Yaoxing had stopped crying. Listening to his comical tune, she laughed and said, "What are you singing? Is that Japanese? What nonsense is this?"
Lu Ren just smiled, but there was a hint of helplessness in his smile, because he knew that no one in the world knew what he was singing anymore.
"Keep singing! I want to hear more!"
"Okay, let me think of what to sing..."
He pondered for a moment, then casually sang:
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
The sky is full of little stars
Hanging in the sky to shine brightly
It looks like many small eyes…
Shen Yaoxing was stunned for a moment. She had never heard this song before, but she could tell that it was very beautiful.
Lu Ren is a good singer. This was the only skill he could be good at in his previous life that was unrelated to being a corporate slave. Every year at the company's annual meeting, he would go on stage to sing for the leaders and make them happy. Oh, and he still does that now.
However, Shen Yaoxing is a pretty young girl, so Lu Ren will be in a good mood.
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