Chapter 67 p1: Scavenger Snake
Yu Chujin was negotiating with the boss about what kind of flower seeds to buy, picking and choosing.
Qingli, on the other hand, was following her step by step and listening intently like a proper person.
But soon, Qingli felt that it was not very interesting and began to look around.
The snake observed the various flowers in the shop. As she observed, she walked outside.
She took a fancy to one of the largest and most brilliant flowers and subconsciously reached out to pick it. Halfway through, she pulled her hand back.
“I can’t pick it,” Qingli mumbled, “I’m a civilized snake. A civilized snake doesn’t pick flowers randomly.”
She looked at the flower with desire.
After hesitating for a moment, she was about to run back to ask Yu Chujin if she could buy it, but just as she took a step, her attention was attracted by the corner on the left.
She looked over curiously. When she saw clearly, her eyes widened.
“Wow!”
Qingli was extremely excited. She didn’t want the flower anymore and ran over, skipping.
A couple was hiding in a remote corner, hugging, kissing…
The two of them were so engrossed in their kiss that they didn’t notice a face coming close to them.
Qingli was at close range, staring at them intently.
The couple was so scared that they immediately separated, retreated, and awkwardly touched their faces and scratched their heads.
“Who are you? What are you doing!” After recovering from the shock and embarrassment, the couple began to get angry, “Why are you so close? Haven’t you ever seen people in love kissing?”
Qingli didn’t feel at all that there was anything wrong with her and even urged anxiously, “Why didn’t you continue? You guys continue. I want to see. You guys continue. I like to watch.”
The couple looked at each other, speechless for a moment. After being speechless, they became even more angry, “Haven’t you ever seen other people kiss!”
“I have. I’ve seen it on TV, but I’ve never seen it in person. I’m curious. You guys continue.”
“Are you crazy?”
“Why are you scolding me? I’m not crazy. You’re not civilized. Yu Chujin said that people should be civilized.”
Qingli, who was staring at others kissing at close range without any sense of boundaries, was actually telling others to be civilized. It was ridiculous.
The couple was about to laugh from anger.
Qingli was not satisfied and shouted loudly, “Why aren’t you kissing? Kiss quickly. I like to watch. Hurry up.”
This shout was not low. It was originally a corner, and no one was paying attention. After one shout, all the surrounding people looked over.
An old lady next to them was amused, “I say, you’re a young girl. Aren’t you ashamed? Why do you like to watch others kiss? Haven’t you ever kissed before?”
Qingli shook her head, “I haven’t. I’m curious. Can’t I be curious?”
As she was speaking, she even began to ask for advice, “You’ve kissed before. How do you kiss? How did your mate agree? What if your mate doesn’t agree? I’m very troubled.”
One question after another, the old lady was so stunned that she was speechless.
“I want to kiss!” Suddenly, without any warning, she howled at the sky, “It’s uncomfortable. I’m uncomfortable. My whole body is uncomfortable. A kiss. Wuwuwuwuwu…”
The passersby on the side were all dumbfounded.
Yu Chujin was not far away and had witnessed her watching others kiss at close range. She had originally wanted to pretend not to know her to avoid being embarrassed along with her.
But now, listening to the “wolf howl” over there, Yu Chujin’s scalp was already tingling.
If she had known, she wouldn’t have pretended not to know from the beginning, but should have stopped her in time. Now, it was even more embarrassing.
It wasn’t even a matter of embarrassment anymore…
She didn’t dare to delay any longer, for fear that this snake would shout out some more shocking words. She hurriedly ran over.
She grabbed her hand and was about to pull her away from here as soon as possible.
So embarrassing!
“Yu Chujin, what are you doing? I don’t want to leave yet. I want to see a kiss. You won’t let me kiss. What’s wrong with me watching?”
Now, it was good. Originally, everyone was just looking at Qingli with a strange look as if she were a fool. Now, they were looking at Yu Chujin and Qingli with a strange look as if they were fools.
Sure enough, she had been dragged into it.
Qingli didn’t want to leave, so of course she couldn’t pull her. She was fixed on the spot like a statue, and she couldn’t be pulled.
More and more people were watching the show on the side, pointing and whispering from time to time.
Yu Chujin was covered in sweat. Seeing that she couldn’t pull her for a long time, she directly used her hands and hit her on the head.
“Are you leaving or not? Are you leaving or not!”
Qingli covered her head and whimpered, “I’ll go, I’ll go. Why did you hit me again? So fierce. You’re a fierce girl.”
After a great deal of effort, she finally pulled this snake away from the place of trouble.
There was no one surrounding them and pointing anymore. Yu Chujin let out a long sigh of relief.
“Are you crazy? Why do you have to go and watch others kiss? You can watch, but you still have to go up to them and watch them in the face. Are you afraid they won’t notice you?!”
“I want to see it clearly.”
“What are you looking at so clearly? And, why did you shout at the sky that you wanted to kiss or something?”
“I just wanted to. You wouldn’t let me. You wouldn’t even let me think about it. I just wanted to. It’s uncomfortable.”
Yu Chujin was choked, “I see you’ve gone mad from watching TV. You learn everything. You’re a snake. What are you kissing for?”
Qingli retorted, “I’m a person!”
Looking at her stubborn appearance, Yu Chujin was so angry that she didn’t know where to start.
Qingli had learned to be smart. Before she could make a move, she had already covered her head and run away.
Looking at the snake that had run two meters away, Yu Chujin’s mouth twitched, “You’re afraid of being beaten, and you still cause trouble every day. Every time I go out with you, you make me socially dead. Not only are you going to be famous, but I’m going to be famous with you.”
Qingli: “Then we’ll be big stars together.”
Yu Chujin: “…”
Sooner or later, she would be angered to death by a snake.
Yu Chujin turned and left. Qingli, who was hiding far away, immediately followed.
She didn’t dare to get too close for fear of being beaten, but she still had to follow, just keeping a distance.
She returned to the shop, paid, took the selected flower seedlings and seeds, and walked towards the exit of the flower and plant market.
Behind her, Qingli followed, not too far and not too close.
She came to the motorcycle, hung the bag with the flower seeds and seedlings on the handlebars, and swung her leg over the motorcycle.
Qingli, who was following behind, became anxious. She stared at her and stomped her feet on the ground.
She was afraid of being left behind, but she didn’t dare to get close. She was anxious and whimpered.
Yu Chujin sat on the motorcycle, her hands on the handlebars, her feet on the ground, and turned her head to look at her.
Seeing her anxious and panicked look, her heart immediately softened.
“What are you standing there for? Come over. You don’t want to go home?” Yu Chujin said.
“Go home. I want to go home,” Qingli trotted over.
Qingli stood by the motorcycle, her face obedient. Under her obedient eyes, there was a hint of panic. It was the helplessness of being afraid of being left behind.
Yu Chujin felt a little uncomfortable. This snake hadn’t done anything wrong. She was just curious and had come over to watch people kiss. She had just shouted at the sky that she wanted to kiss.
But so what? It was a little embarrassing, but she was a snake. How could she know what was embarrassing or not? She hadn’t been a person for long. How could she understand human thinking?
Yu Chujin couldn’t bear to really blame her. Seeing her panicked look of being afraid of being left behind, she couldn’t bear to say anything to her even more.
Not only could she not bear it, but she also felt a little apologetic.
Yu Chujin patted her on the head, “Alright, alright. Arguing with you is one thing, but I won’t really leave you behind.”
Qingli shook her head, “We didn’t argue.”
Yu Chujin chuckled, “How did we not argue? Weren’t we just arguing just now?”
Qingli shook her head like a rattle drum, “No, no. I don’t argue with Yu Chujin. You were just angry. You love to get angry. I can just coax you.”
“Your way of coaxing me is to not dare to get too close?”
“If I get too close, you’ll get even angrier. Don’t be angry, don’t be angry. It’s my fault. I apologize.”
Yu Chujin looked at her, her feelings slightly complicated.
Qingli might not really understand where she was wrong, but she was willing to lower her head and admit her mistake for her.
Just like she had learned to speak, write, and be a person for her, and to abide by the rules and be a civilized snake.
The snake seemed to have made many, many compromises for Yu Chujin. The snake was actually not suitable to be a person, but in order to be with Yu Chujin, she was willing to slowly adapt.
Yu Chujin often thought, Qingli was willing to come to the human world to be a person for her. Was she willing to go to the island to be an animal with Qingli?
The answer was no.
She did not want to go back to the island to live, even if she had Qingli to accompany her on the island.
She liked Qingli, but not to the extent that Qingli liked her.
Qingli’s affection was too heavy, too heavy. No one could do it, but Qingli was not a person to begin with.
“Yes, we didn’t argue,” Yu Chujin offered her the helmet, “How could our cute snake argue with me? I’m the only one who’s unreasonable. You’ll always give in to me, right?”
Qingli took the helmet and held it, her small head nodding, “Yes, yes. You can be naughty. I’ll give in to you.”
Yu Chujin smiled, “Hurry up and put on your helmet. The seeds have been bought. Let’s go home and plant flowers.”
“Go home, go home!” Qingli put on her helmet, her voice excited.
The one-hour journey. Who knows if it was because she hadn’t ridden a motorcycle for a long time, but after only an hour, her hands began to feel a little sore.
This kind of soreness in her hands was something that had only happened when she had just learned to ride a motorcycle and had been riding for a long time.
After not riding for a while, the problem of her hands getting sore had come up. She still had to exercise more and not always stay at home.
It wasn’t because there was Qingli to accompany her at home that she had no thoughts of going out at all.
“Since we’re already out, let’s go to the supermarket and replenish our supplies,” she had been staying at home during this period and had been replenishing her supplies with takeout and delivery.
“Have you ever been to a supermarket?” Yu Chujin turned her head to look at the person beside her.
“I have,” Qingli said with certainty.
“You have?” Yu Chujin was puzzled, “When have you been? I don’t remember taking you?”
Qingli said seriously, “I’ve been on TV.”
Yu Chujin’s mouth twitched, “That’s not called ‘been.’ That’s called ‘seen on TV’.”
“It’s the same, it’s the same.”
“Silly snake.”
“Silly girl.”
Yu Chujin’s eyes were full of suspicion, “How do I feel that you’re deliberately using this title to scold me back?”
She parked the motorcycle by the roadside. There was a supermarket nearby. The two of them walked over.