079 A Whole New Life
A snake that is not content will swallow an elephant.
The greedy snake had many things she couldn’t bear to leave.
But it wasn’t until this very moment that Yu Yourong finally told herself clearly in her heart that what she couldn’t bear to leave was not the scenery of the park, but the time she spent walking in the park with Qin Ren.
What she couldn’t bear to leave was not the magical pearl milk tea, but the first warmth Qin Ren had brought her in this world.
What she was used to was the daily life with Qin Ren.
What she was addicted to was the life with Qin Ren.
In this world, there are too many emotions that don’t need to be profound to be unforgettable.
“Ge… Yourong can’t bear to leave you…” Classmate Yu Yourong was like a pear blossom bathed in rain. Qin Ren’s shoulder was damp.
“Mhm, I know.” Qin Ren’s arm wrapped around her waist and back. He could feel the unique softness of the snake clan girl’s body. His nose twitched slightly.
…
To be honest, Qin Ren had never known that the cool fragrance in Yu Yourong’s hair was so pleasant.
The feeling of being held by the snake clan girl was different from the Pixiu.
Luo Yao would burrow into his arms like a rag doll, feeling similar to Tuantuan.
When Yu Yourong held him, what Qin Ren felt more was a kind of warmth.
It wasn’t the sweetness that only lovers have, like when he used to embrace Cheng Siyun. It was more like a real younger sister who had been wronged outside and came back to her older brother to cry. If he had to say, it was a bit close to the feeling of holding his older sister.
The play had become real, as if she had really become his younger sister.
“Huh? Why did you change your slippers?” Qin Ren suddenly noticed this detail.
“I’m going to wash that pair,” Yu Yourong sniffled softly. If it had been the Pixiu, she would have been much louder, as if afraid Qin Ren wouldn’t know how hard she was crying.
“This pair is still here? It’s been so many years.”
Two fair, jade-like feet were dangling in the big, ugly, and old sandals. It was simply…
“A waste of a heavenly creation,” he couldn’t help but sigh softly.
“Hold and lick… what?”
“A heavenly creation.”
Yu Yourong hadn’t learned this idiom yet. She didn’t know what a heavenly creation was, nor what kind of heavenly creation would make someone want to hold and lick it, until Qin Ren asked her.
“Why did you change into these slippers? They’re so old and ugly.”
Only then did Yu Yourong understand what Qin Ren was talking about. After a moment of silence, she buried her face in his shoulder.
“Does it matter? Anyway, Yourong is just painting a snake and adding feet…”
“…”
Lu Xun once said that a girl’s growth often happens overnight. Qin Ren felt that it was actually even faster. For example, right now, classmate Yu Yourong seemed to have suddenly, without a teacher, learned how to… act cute?
Whether it counted as acting cute or not, Yu Yourong wasn’t being cloyingly sweet, nor was she fussing and whimpering like the Pixiu. But Qin Ren still found her very pitiful and endearing. He reiterated.
“Yourong, this was really just me making things up. Look, actually… if I have to say, there are many good words for you, like ‘may you have fish every year,’ ‘a strong dragon can’t suppress a local snake,’ and so on… and there are many bad words for me, like ‘fickle,’ ‘a beast in fine clothes,’ and so on…”
“The ‘qin’ in ‘qínshòu’…” Yu Yourong silently recalled. The character seemed to be wrong.
Knock, knock, knock—
“!”
At this moment, three unhurried knocks suddenly came from outside the bathroom door. Qin Ren was startled and subconsciously held Yu Yourong a little tighter.
He held her tighter, not immediately let go.
It was probably because he had a faint feeling of who had come. So this subconscious reaction of Qin Ren’s made Yu Yourong’s heart feel a little warm.
“Who is it?”
“Me.”
It was Gu Qing’s voice. Qin Ren finally remembered that he had been holding Yu Yourong for a long time and should let go. He freed his hand and opened the door.
“Jie, I thought you were asleep?”
“I just woke up.”
Gu Qing’s face indeed still had a sleepy look. Her pink nightdress was a little loose. She looked at her little brother with a bland expression, then at Yu Yourong behind him.
“What are you two hiding in here for…”
Yu Yourong lowered her head slightly, first hiding behind Qin Ren. After thinking about it, she came out and didn’t hide anymore, but her head was still lowered, not wanting Gu Qing to see the tear tracks on her face.
And when Qin Ren saw his sister rub her eyes and her face start to cool down again, he reminded her with a meaningful tone.
“Jie, it’s nothing. It’s just that Yourong was hiding in here crying just now, and I found her.”
“Ge, you…”
Yu Yourong didn’t expect Qin Ren to suddenly say that. Her heart panicked, and she simply grabbed the loofah and fled.
Gu Qing’s gaze paused slightly. She looked at Yu Yourong’s back, opened her mouth as if to say something, and then felt a warmth on her waist. She looked up and saw her little brother half-pushing, half-hugging her. His gaze was still gentle, but it had a touch of extra seriousness.
“Jie, Yourong is a good girl.”
“…”
Gu Qing’s aura weakened a little under her little brother’s gaze. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly. Soon, the clattering sound from the kitchen reached her ears, mixed with some of Yu Ling’er’s voice. She turned her head to look towards the kitchen door.
“…The fight is over. What’s there to cry about…”
After looking for a few seconds, Gu Qing stammered a couple of words, then pulled her thoughts back and turned to pinch her little brother’s waist.
“Qin Ren, you scumbag.”
“?”
Qin Ren held up his hands.
“Jie, the context is wrong. My relationship with Yourong is a pure brother-sister friendship, transcending dimensions and even species. In the eyes of foreigners, it’s a stack of buffs, very noble. What does it have to do with being a scumbag?”
“Hehe, you can save that for the Cheng girl.”
Of course, it would be best to say it to his older sister.
But now, with Yu Yourong inside and Cheng Siyun outside, as long as her stupid little brother could really, as he had just coaxed her, put his older sister in the most important place in his heart, Gu Qing could be more or less a little satisfied.
“Move.”
“What for?”
“I…”
What else can you do in the bathroom? Gu Qing glared at him.
“I need to pee!”
“Oh, okay.”
Qin Ren quickly closed the door, then turned his head and found his sister’s face was red, and she was glaring even more fiercely. He immediately slapped his forehead.
“Right, right! I’ll go out first…”
“…”
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Edison once said: “Learning makes one progress, peeing makes one sober.”
After wiping herself clean, Gu Qing returned to her bedroom, unable to sleep.
It was the kind of thing where she would yawn one after another, but as soon as she closed her eyes, all sorts of miscellaneous thoughts would float in her mind.
Gu Qing got up, opened her closet, and reopened the suitcase that was lying flat at the bottom. She searched for a while among the various skincare products, small boxes, cards, wet wipes, and other miscellaneous items, and finally gave up helplessly.
“I didn’t bring it…”
The bottle of melatonin she occasionally used for insomnia seemed to have been left in the dorm.
Gu Qing gently patted her delicate and round bottom, sat down on the edge of the bed in frustration, and twirled a strand of hair, randomly glancing up and down the closet. Then her gaze stopped on a slightly oversized white shirt.
“…”
Her little brother’s shirt. It was obviously put there by mistake.
Without the help of melatonin, an insomniac who wants to sleep peacefully must first tire their muscles and skin. To put it bluntly, they must release their energy. When the energy is released, they will naturally fall asleep…
But to be fair, for a method like playing on the phone, does releasing energy come relatively slowly…
…
Gu Qing guiltily considered another more effective method of hypnosis.
But…
Tsk, this is not a dorm room with only one person. Is this a bit…
No, no!
This is her home. A home is a place where you can do whatever you want!
…
People, once some desires are aroused, they really can’t be stopped. By all means, like ants crawling.
For example, Gu Qing’s sleepiness at this moment.
So, in order to fall asleep quickly, Gu Qing, of course, immediately figured it out. She tiptoed to lock the bedroom door, and then started to rummage through her suitcase again.
This time, she was not looking for melatonin. She took out a photo frame, a pack of Vinda, a wet wipe, and an glasses case.
Gu Qing didn’t wear glasses, but she had a very sturdy-looking black glasses case.
After opening it and gently unwrapping a piece of glasses cloth that was rolled up like a spring roll, a very delicate-looking fountain pen was revealed from inside.
When everything was almost ready, Gu Qing took out the white shirt of her little brother from the closet…
…
In the end, as expected, after some necessary tossing and turning, Gu Qing slept very soundly.
When she woke up, it was already 7 in the evening. She could vaguely hear the sound of activity in the dining room. She touched her stomach but wasn’t very hungry.
Strange, I don’t think I ate much at noon…
Mmm…
Not really. On second thought, although she hadn’t eaten much rice, the tofu and beef brisket at noon, and the rice jelly, because they were really delicious, almost on par with her little brother’s level, Gu Qing had still eaten a little more, about ninety percent full.
“A cultivator is also cooking…”
As the saying goes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Gu Qing couldn’t help but suspect that a certain little snake had deliberately learned it from somewhere. After some images of her flashed in her mind, she shook her head, changed her clothes, and walked out of the bedroom with a not-so-hungry stomach.
The house smelled of green bean congee. Gu Qing poked her head out from the hallway. The first thing she saw was Yu Yourong and Yu Ling’er by the dining table.
A snake clan girl, and a snake clan “young matron.”
The girl and the “young matron” sat side by side. The “young matron” had a dictionary on her left, a tablet on her right, and a pen in the middle, writing and drawing in a small notebook. The girl, on the other hand, was holding an unsheathed sword, looking at her notebook seriously like a teacher.
Are they studying…
Gu Qing was also a student, a graduate student. She silently looked at them for a couple of seconds and said nothing. She turned her head to look at the living room, and the scene was completely different.
“Qin Ren, Qin Ren.”
“What is it now, my little ancestor…”
Her little brother, Qin Ren, was modeling on the computer, whether it was for overtime or something else. And in his lap sat a dewy, pretty little girl, humming and tugging at his beard. She was holding a half-eaten piece of seaweed, her little bottom wiggling uncomfortably.
“Seaweed… this seaweed is bullying this eminence.”
“You’ve come to life, and it’s come to life too, is that it?”
“No, no. It’s playing hide-and-seek in my mouth. It’s so uncomfortable…”
…
Hide-and-seek?
Gu Qing was bewildered, but her little brother was very familiar with this. He held Luo Yao’s little face.
“Open your mouth.”
“Ahh—” White little teeth, a pink tongue. The High Immortal’s body always had a sweet, fragrant scent.
“Mhm, the seaweed is stuck to the back of your palate. Just go and rinse your mouth.”
“Yay~”
Hearing “rinse your mouth,” Luo Yao jumped down from his lap and pattered to the fridge.
“Don’t use Coke to rinse your mouth!”
Qin Ren shouted in time. Only then did Luo Yao resentfully turn around and go to the bathroom. As she passed by Gu Qing, she looked up at her.
“You’re awake?”
“Mhm…”
“Oh.”
The older sister’s “deterrent power” over the High Immortal had dropped extremely quickly. From the initial apprehension to now, Luo Yao could already treat Gu Qing and Little Fish as equals. After a lukewarm question, she continued to patter to the bathroom to rinse her mouth.
A Pixiu…
Does she also have scales or something on her stomach?
Is her tongue also eighteen centimeters long?
Gu Qing looked at her petite back, her eyes a little complicated. After waking up and thinking back on what had happened since she came home, it always felt a little unreal…
