Chapter 91: Transformation
Late at night, the study was brightly lit.
A person was sitting at the desk, engrossed in reading. The sound of pages turning could be heard from time to time.
When Yu Chujin came to a part she didn’t understand, she would take out her phone to search for it. When she was confused, she would hold the book in one hand and rub her chin with the other, thinking.
“So that’s how it is. It’s quite profound.”
Yu Chujin’s face was serious, and the book in her hand had four large words written on it.
Parenting Tips.
Raising Qingli, how was that not raising a child? Rounding up, Qingli was also her child.
She had to learn more about the relevant knowledge and quickly raise this “child” well, so that she would not go astray.
It was fine if other children went astray, but if Qingli went astray, that would be a little scary. After all, a person who controlled absolute power, if they did not use these powers correctly, they would cause very terrifying destructive power.
Yu Chujin had to be responsible for her. She didn’t want Qingli to cause trouble everywhere. When the time came, if a righteous protagonist appeared like in a TV series and killed Qingli, this chaotic and rebellious monster.
No, no. That was too scary.
Raising Qingli, she had to start now, to win at the starting line!
Following the book, she studied it carefully and found that Qingli and a child had many similarities.
For example, a strong ability to imitate, direct emotions, straightforward expression, strong curiosity, strong desire to explore, and so on. All kinds of situations were similar.
That’s right. It was the child, Qingli.
Although this child seemed to be a few hundred years old, was she a few hundred years old? She didn’t know the specific age. Yu Chujin had asked her her age before, and the final result was that she didn’t know.
Qingli only knew that she had been on the island since she was born. At the very beginning, she had lived with her mother, but later her mother had passed away, and she had been living alone on the island for a long, long time.
This “long, long time” had no concept of time.
Such a clingy snake. Who knows how she, a single snake, had survived those lonely times on the island?
Or, perhaps, a snake did not have the concept of loneliness. Whether a person appeared or not, she was quite happy living on the island.
Yu Chujin shook her head. She didn’t want to think about these things. The most important thing now was how to raise Qingli well.
She had to study it carefully. While correcting her three views, she could not correct them too much, lest she go out and act like a righteous messenger, nagging passersby to educate them non-stop.
It was a good thing that others couldn’t beat her. Otherwise, she would have been beaten long ago…
“Sigh,” Yu Chujin shook her head as she read, and said to herself, “Raising a snake is really not easy. Who would have thought that one day I would be studying these books?”
“What book?”
A response came from behind her, startling Yu Chujin, who was reading, and making her shoulders tremble.
With a rip.
Her hand trembled, and a page of the book was torn.
Yu Chujin looked at the torn page and immediately turned her head to glare at the person behind her, “You suddenly ran behind me without a sound and said a sentence. Do you know that people can be scared to death by people?”
Qingli’s ears drooped, “I wasn’t silent. You were too engrossed in your book. You’re wronging me.”
After speaking, she showed a wronged expression.
Yu Chujin beckoned to her, and Qingli obediently lowered her head.
Yu Chujin patted her head, “Alright, my attitude was bad just now. I apologize. You should also be a little more generous and not hold it against me.”
Admitting her mistake in time. She couldn’t be too arrogant and unreasonable in front of a child. She had to lead by example, be strict when she needed to be, and be gentle when she needed to be.
This was also learned from the book. Yu Chujin was now also a “parenting expert.”
In fact, this move was also very effective. Qingli’s grievance was swept away. She was very much enjoying being patted on the head, and a comfortable “hiss” came from her throat.
This reminded Yu Chujin of the neighbor’s cat. When a cat was comfortable, a purring sound would come from its throat. It was similar to the hissing sound that Qingli made.
“You like being patted on the head that much?” Yu Chujin laughed in spite of herself, her patting action not stopping.
“Hiss hiss,” she liked it so much that she didn’t even speak human language, her throat hissing non-stop.
After patting for a long time, she stopped.
“Alright, you can go and play by yourself. I’m going to continue reading,” Yu Chujin sat up straight, her gaze returning to the book.
Qingli’s face showed dissatisfaction. She wished she could be patted for a whole day to be satisfied.
Although she was dissatisfied, Qingli did not leave. She squatted on the side, her chin resting on the desk, her head tilted to the side, and she stared at her without blinking.
Yu Chujin turned a page and glanced at her, “If you want to stay with me, you can go and get a stool to sit on. Aren’t you tired of squatting on the ground?”
Qingli: “I’m not tired. Qingli likes to look at you like this.”
Yu Chujin smiled, “From this angle, from bottom to top, you can probably see a person’s double chin. Can it be pretty?”
“It’s pretty. Yu Chujin is pretty.”
“You have a lover’s eye. I’m just average-looking. How can I be as beautiful as you say?”
“A lover? Oh right, you’re my lover. Yu Chujin is Qingli’s lover!”
Yu Chujin’s action of flipping through the book paused for a moment. She turned her head and glared at her, “You snake are quite good at finding keywords.”
Qingli: “Yu Qingren, hello. I love you.”
“Don’t just make up such strange nicknames.”
“I know, Yu Qingren.”
Chattering. This snake was never quiet. She was very talkative. Even if she didn’t pay attention to her, she could talk by herself for a long time.
“Alright, I’m reading. I need quiet. How can I read if you keep making noise?”
“Then don’t read. Look at me. Qingli is prettier than a book.”
Yu Chujin picked up the book and gently tapped her on the head, “What am I looking at you for? We live under the same roof every day, inseparable. I’m tired of looking at you.”
Qingli was terrified, “You’re tired of me?”
“No, aiyo, look at your wronged look,” Yu Chujin pinched her face, “Stop making noise. I’m going to continue reading. If you’re bored, you can play on your phone or watch TV. If you really can’t, you can go and learn a couple more words.”
Qingli obediently nodded, “I know. I won’t be noisy. Yu Chujin can continue to read.”
She had agreed like that on the surface, very obedient, but her actions were the complete opposite.
One second, she had agreed not to be noisy. The next second, she had reached out to paw at her book.
“What are you doing?” Yu Chujin’s tone had a hint of helplessness.
“I’m looking at what book you’re reading,” Qingli directly snatched the book away.
Yu Chujin: “…”
Qingli very seriously studied the cover of the book, tilting her head, and identifying the words on it.
“Do you know how to read these words? If you don’t, why don’t you hurry up and study?”
“I know. I’m not illiterate. Yu Chujin, don’t look down on me. I know a lot of words now.”
Qingli pointed at the cover and read word by word, “Raising, child, tips.”
After she finished reading, she looked at her proudly, “See? I know them all. I know all the words.”
It was a bit of an exaggeration to say that she knew all the words, but Qingli had indeed made great progress during this period. Not to say that she knew all the words, but she knew most of the commonly used words.
She was no longer the illiterate snake from before. She barely had some culture.
“Wow,” Yu Chujin used the knowledge from the book. A child should be praised when they should be, “Qingli is so amazing. She can actually recognize so many words. So smart. You have to continue to study well in the future.”
Qingli was proud, “Of course!”
After being proud for a moment, she came to her senses. She looked at the book, then at her, her face showing confusion.
“Yu Chujin, you want to raise a child?”
Yu Chujin was stunned for a moment. She understood that she had misunderstood. Just as she was about to explain, she heard her say, “If you want to raise one, then I’ll give you one. I’ll give you a little Yu Chujin.”
Yu Chujin smiled helplessly, “What do you mean, give me one? Have you forgotten? We’re both girls. We can’t have children. And we’re not even the same species.”
The snake squatting on the ground stood up with a whoosh.
“We can!”
“Huh?”
Before she could be confused for too long, Qingli directly and intuitively explained what she had just said.
In the blink of an eye, the clothes on Qingli’s body fell off, and she turned into a one-meter-tall child.
But the child had an adult’s face. To be precise, it had Yu Chujin’s face.
“See? Do you like it? I’ve given you a child. It looks just like you. It’s your biological child.”
The child in front of her had the same face as her, but the voice was Qingli’s.
How should she put it?
Bizarre.
Very bizarre.
Yu Chujin closed her eyes, a little unable to look, “Hurry up and change back. Don’t always do these morbid things.”
The child with Yu Chujin’s face tilted its head left and right.
Even more bizarre.
“Hurry up and change back!”
“Alright, it seems Yu Chujin doesn’t like this child.”
Yu Chujin was choked. This kind of thing, could she like it? Not to mention like it, she felt like she was watching a real-life horror movie.
“If you don’t like me giving you a little Yu Chujin, then I’ll give you a little Qingli.”
“You’re not allowed. You’re not allowed to give me any more, whether it’s a little Qingli, a little Yu Chujin, or a little anything. You’re not allowed to give me any more. No, I’ve been led astray by you. That’s not called ‘giving birth.’ That’s called ‘transforming’.”
Qingli was a little disappointed, “Alright, then forget it. I won’t transform.”
Qingli had transformed back. She was finally normal. It was just that all the clothes on her body had fallen to the ground. Just now, when she had shrunk, her clothes had fallen off. After she had gotten bigger, her clothes were still on the ground.
Yu Chujin was used to it. This creature was always like this. They were already “old wives.” She would no longer blush because she was suddenly naked.
She skillfully picked up the clothes on the ground and wrapped them around her.
“There’s no one else in the house. Why do I have to wear clothes? This thing is uncomfortable to wear. I don’t want to wear it.”
“You have to wear it even if there’s no one else. How can you walk around naked? Have you forgotten? You have to be a civilized snake. You can’t play the naked running game.”
Qingli looked at the clothes on her body, unwilling, but she still chose to compromise and did not peel off her clothes.
“Do you really not want to see little Qingli? I’ll give you one,” Qingli did not give up.
“That’s transforming. Also, I don’t want to see it!” Yu Chujin glared at her.
Seeing that she really did not want to see it, Qingli had to give up.
Yu Chujin thought of something, and her gaze returned to Qingli. She sized her up and down and raised an eyebrow.
“Although I don’t want to see you transform into a child, I’d rather see you transform into something else,” Yu Chujin’s eyes were full of expectation.
“What?” Qingli blinked her eyes.
Yu Chujin took out her phone, entered the word “panda,” found a photo, clicked on it to enlarge it, and showed it to the snake.
“You transform into this, this, this. I want to see you transform,” Yu Chujin urged with expectation, “Quickly, quickly.”
Qingli looked at the photo, “So ugly. Not pretty. I’m not transforming.”
Yu Chujin clicked her tongue.
Qingli: “Tsk.”
Yu Chujin gave a deathly smile, “Where is it ugly? Pandas are so cute. I’ve discovered that your snake’s aesthetic is really strange.”
“You don’t think it’s pretty when you should, but you think it’s very pretty when you shouldn’t. It’s over. You think I’m pretty. I can’t be strangely shaped, can I?”
Yu Chujin ran to the mirror, looked at herself from left to right. She didn’t seem to be strangely shaped. She was a normal person.
Oh, she had almost forgotten. She was red in her eyes. She thought red was pretty, not that she was pretty.
Yu Chujin was relentless and continued to persuade her to transform into a panda.
She disagreed and insisted that it was ugly.
Yu Chujin put her hands on her hips and offered her ultimate trick, saying, “I know. Qingli, you can’t transform. You can’t. Forget it, forget it. If you can’t, then you can’t. It’s not something to be ashamed of.”
Reverse psychology was very useful, because Qingli’s eyes widened.
“Who can’t! I just think it’s ugly. How can I not? I’ll transform if I want to!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the clothes on her body burst and scattered. A person transformed into a panda in the blink of an eye.
Yu Chujin’s pupils dilated. She was shocked for a moment, and her eyes were full of excitement. She circled this panda, letting out a sigh from time to time.
The giant panda lifted its chin and spoke in human language, “See? I can transform. I can transform into anything. There’s nothing I can’t transform into. I’m so amazing.”
Yu Chujin gave a thumbs-up, “So great, so great. So amazing.”
Yu Chujin reached out her hand, wanting to pet its fur, full of expectation. She had thought she would be petting a fluffy ball, but the touch that came from her hand was slippery.
Yu Chujin was very silent. She had clearly seen a fluffy ball, but when she touched it, it was the slippery skin of a snake.
So it was just the shape that had changed, but the touch had not.
Although she couldn’t touch a fluffy ball, to be able to see a giant panda up close and not have to worry about safety, not have to be afraid of being attacked, this feeling was novel and interesting.
Before, she could only see pandas from a distance in a zoo. Now, there was a big one right in front of her.
Yu Chujin circled this panda a few times, looking left and right, and touching it.
Qingli winked ambiguously, “Yu Chujin, you keep touching me. Are you thinking…”
Yu Chujin: “I’m not thinking about anything. You be good.”
The giant panda was aggrieved and angry.
So cute! Even when it was angry, it was cute!
An hour later, Yu Chujin was fickle, “This is not fun anymore. You change into another one. This time, let’s transform into a Siberian tiger. A big tiger is also very good.”
Saying that, she immediately found a picture, showed it to her, and asked her to transform.
Qingli’s face was full of disgust, “I don’t want to transform. This is very ugly. It’s even uglier than the panda just now. They’re all ugly monsters.”
Yu Chujin: “Are you not able to? I know. You just can’t.”
Qingli was agitated, “I can!”
Reverse psychology, a hundred times effective.
Soon, Yu Chujin got a Siberian tiger. Besides the touch being wrong, from the appearance, there was really no difference from a tiger.
She patted the tiger’s butt, grabbed the tiger’s tail, and rubbed the tiger’s head.
So fun, so fun. Yu Chujin was so happy she forgot to go home.
“Such a big tiger. So majestic,” Yu Chujin praised sincerely.
The big tiger’s ears pricked up, and it spoke in human language, “I’m majestic. Yes, I’m super majestic!”
The big tiger was very happy and proud. However, she soon realized that something was wrong. She looked down at her tiger body.
“What? How can this ugly thing be majestic? Yu Chujin, you praised it wrong. I’ll show you a real majestic and strong one.”
Qingli was about to transform back into her original form.
But just as she was about to transform, she stopped. The space was not big enough. She would damage the furniture later.
Qingli now had the awareness of not dismantling the house. And then, she saw a big tiger, walking upright, pushing the sofa away, pushing the coffee table away, busy.
Yu Chujin was dumbfounded. With the appearance of a tiger, she was moving furniture everywhere. This scene… was a little hard to describe.
The big tiger did not feel at all that her current behavior was wrong. She diligently cleared a space and finally cleared a large enough space.
With a whoosh, she transformed back into her original form.
A large giant python, more than a meter wide and more than five meters long.
She swung her snake head, her tail raised, and struck a strong pose, “I’m majestic like this. Yu Chujin, isn’t your mate super majestic, super strong?”
It had been a while since she had seen her original form. At first glance, she was a little ugly. Not only was she ugly, but she was also very scary…
Of course, she couldn’t say the truth. Yu Chujin laughed awkwardly, “It is indeed very majestic and strong. Big, particularly big. But, can we transform back into a panda or a tiger?”
The giant python hissed and spoke in human language, “Why do you want to transform into an ugly thing? Don’t you like my current appearance?”
Yu Chujin walked over and put her hand down.
The giant python immediately understood, lowered its head, and let her pat it.
Yu Chujin rubbed her large snake head, “Forget it. You’re also quite pretty like this. We won’t transform into a panda or a tiger. You’re also quite ugly-cute like this.”
“Ugly-cute?”
“It means you’re cute.”
“Then why is there the word ‘ugly’?”
“Don’t be a stickler for words. Anyway, I’m just saying you’re cute.”
Qingli questioned, “You’re lying to a snake. Do you think I’m ugly?”
Yu Chujin denied it, “No, absolutely not!”
***
Da Huang had been particularly anorexic during this period. The anorexic state had already lasted for a week.
But to say that it was sick, it was quite energetic when it went out to play. It was just that it didn’t eat much. Even fresh raw meat, it didn’t seem to like it very much.
Yu Chujin raised her dog very roughly and was not very meticulous. But seeing that it was not eating, she couldn’t help but become anxious.
After thinking for a moment, to be on the safe side, Yu Chujin planned to take it to the hospital for a check-up. Mainly because it had not been eating, and she couldn’t force-feed it. It was quite worrying.
Just as she took the dog leash, Da Huang, which had been listless, immediately shot out of the doghouse, barking happily, and nuzzling against her pant leg.
“You won’t eat when I ask you to, but you’re so energetic when you go out to play,” Yu Chujin gritted her teeth, “Later, whether you’re sick or not, I’ll have the doctor give you two shots. Let’s see if you’re still happy then.”
Da Huang didn’t understand. It only knew that it could go out to play, and it was barking non-stop.
Qingli narrowed her eyes and looked at this yellow ball that was constantly nuzzling her pant leg with an unfriendly expression.
She couldn’t stand it anymore. She took three steps in one, walked forward, and snatched the dog leash.
“I’ll do it. You don’t have to deal with the yellow ball,” she took the dog leash and began to educate the dog, “You have to be a good concubine. You can’t seduce people. You can’t be a vixen.”
Yu Chujin was not surprised and just pretended not to hear. Anyway, she often educated the dog like this, and the dog didn’t understand.
Because this time she was taking Da Huang to the pet hospital for a check-up, she did not bring the neighbor’s dog with her. But just as she left the yard gate, she heard barking from the next house.
This was a protest for not being taken along.
Listening to the barking from the next yard, Yu Chujin couldn’t help but think of Ji Yingran. A month had passed, and there was no news from her.
Yu Chujin looked at Qingli and confirmed with her, “Is Sister Yingran really red? She really won’t be in trouble? She really won’t be in life-threatening danger?”
Qingli nodded, “She’s red. Yu Chujin doesn’t have to worry. She’s very safe.”
Yu Chujin hummed in agreement, but her slightly furrowed brow still did not relax. Although she knew that she was not in life-threatening danger, it had been a month. It was inevitable that she was still a little worried.
“I hope she can go home soon,” Yu Chujin sighed.
“She will,” Qingli comforted her.
Yu Chujin took a deep breath and cheered herself up again. It was useless to worry about these things here.
“Let’s go. Let’s go to the pet hospital first,” just as she finished speaking, her phone in her pocket vibrated.
Yu Chujin took out her phone and saw the caller ID on the screen. It was Auntie Yang, Ji Yingran’s mother.
Yu Chujin quickly answered the phone, “Hello, Auntie Yang. How’s the situation on your side? Has Sister Yingran been found?”
Auntie Yang’s voice was no longer as tired and anxious as it had been the last few times she had called. It was much calmer.
“She’s been found. Thank God. But she’s also suffered a lot during this period. She’s at the hospital for a check-up now. I’m calling you to let you know that she’s safe, in case you’re worried…”
“It’s good that she’s been found,” the stone that had been pressing down on her heart was completely lifted by this phone call.
“Snake.”
“The snake is here.”
Yu Chujin showed her a big smile, “She’s fine. She’s been found. It seems our Qingli’s special ability is very accurate.”
Qingli: “Of course my special ability is very accurate. I won’t see it wrong.”
After learning that Ji Yingran was fine, Yu Chujin’s whole person relaxed. The thing she had been most worried about during this period was this.
Of course, besides this, there was also.
Yu Chujin’s gaze fell on Da Huang. And this dog, it was usually a glutton, eating non-stop. But the glutton was not eating.
The two of them came to the nearest pet hospital.
Through the glass, Qingli saw that there were many cats and dogs in the hospital, locked in cages. Her eyes widened.
She held her and would not let her in.
“No, no. That’s a vixen’s den. You can’t go in.”
Yu Chujin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “We’re here to take Da Huang to see a doctor. I won’t have contact with the other cats and dogs.”
Qingli was suspicious, “You really won’t have contact? You like to pet them very much. You’re fickle.”
Yu Chujin’s mouth twitched, “I promise. I won’t look at any other animal.”
Qingli was skeptical, but in the end, she still compromised. But from the first second she entered the pet hospital, Qingli was on full alert.
Her overly powerful aura made the cats and dogs in the cages uneasy. The timid ones even shrank into a ball and hid in the innermost part of the cage, peeing themselves in fear.
“Put away your aura. Although I promised not to have contact with the animals inside, you can’t scare them either.”
“I know.”
Qingli restrained her aura, and the uneasy cats and dogs in the cages clearly relaxed a lot.
Yu Chujin shook her head helplessly. This snake was really something. She was always jealous in some strange places.
Yu Chujin arranged a full-body check-up for Da Huang. Da Huang’s personality was relatively timid. Although some of the check-ups were very time-consuming, Yu Chujin did not leave and accompanied him the whole time.
It took two hours to complete all the check-ups, but the results would only be available two days later.
Yu Chujin squatted down and rubbed Da Huang’s head, “It’s been a long day of check-ups. You’ve been very good. I’ll chop some meat for you when we get back. You have to eat it. You, you’re not even eating meat anymore. You’re getting more and more picky.”
Yu Chujin was squatting on the ground, petting the dog. For a rare occasion, Qingli did not stop her. Instead, she stood behind her, tilting her head, her gaze on Da Huang, not knowing what she was thinking.
Yu Chujin looked back at her, “What? I’m petting it. Are you planning to sell it again?”
Qingli shook her head, “I don’t need to sell it anymore. It’s not necessary.”
Yu Chujin stood up, “Not bad. Your awareness has improved. You’re finally not thinking of selling it anymore. That’s right. The three of us are a family.”
Qingli stared at Da Huang. After a moment, she said, “No, what I mean by ‘it’s not necessary to sell it’ is because, it’s about to die.”
Yu Chujin was stunned.
Qingli said, “The concubine has turned green. It’s about to die.”
Noooo the concubine can’t die!