Chapter 66 p1: Embarrassment
“Hurry up and put your tail back!”
In the underground parking lot, people would pass by from time to time.
Yu Chujin looked around nervously. Fortunately, there was a pillar blocking the view. Otherwise, she would have been exposed. After all, this cyan tail was too unique, and one could tell at a glance that something was wrong.
“Did you hear me? Put your tail back.”
The usually obedient snake had become extremely uncooperative.
When she was told to put her tail back, not only did she not put it back, but she also coiled it tighter and tighter.
A tight pain came from her waist.
“It hurts,” Yu Chujin’s brow furrowed.
Qingli’s eyes were dark and dangerous. She came closer and licked her face.
The wet, soft, and sticky touch, and the breath on her cheek, all felt a little scorching.
The current Qingli was very different from before.
Yu Chujin pushed the snake away and wiped her licked face, “What are you doing? It’s not enough to coil around my waist, you’re also licking me.”
Being pushed away, Qingli let out a dissatisfied hiss and came closer again.
Yu Chujin narrowed her eyes and threatened, “I’ve been gentle and patient with you for a rare occasion and haven’t hit your tail. Do you have to make me hit you?”
Qingli’s voice was low and hoarse, with a hint of stickiness, “Don’t hit me. Qingli likes you, likes you, likes you…”
Yu Chujin: “I know you like me, but now is not the time for ‘like’ or ‘dislike.’ The problem is that we’re outside. Hurry up and put your tail away. I don’t restrict you from showing your tail at home, but you can’t do it outside.”
Qingli turned a deaf ear, pressed her face against her, and nuzzled, “I like you. You should like me too~”
Her nose was filled with a rich grassy scent.
In the past, the grassy scent on Qingli had only been faint, but today it was a little different, exceptionally rich.
Even the originally fresh scent had a hint of aggression.
Before she could carefully distinguish what was wrong, she saw that someone was approaching.
“Someone is coming. Hurry up and put your tail away,” Yu Chujin urged anxiously.
Qingli didn’t listen, and a low, hoarse hiss continued to come from her throat.
Seeing the passerby getting closer and closer, how could Yu Chujin still care about being gentle or not? She raised her hand without any politeness.
With a smack.
Her hand slapped the tail.
Qingli was startled and shot her tail back with a whoosh.
Qingli’s eyes instantly filled with tears. She looked at Yu Chujin with a look of being abandoned by the whole world.
“You’re a bad snake. You hit my tail. Wuwu, it hurts so much,” Qingli’s eyes were teary, and her eye sockets were red.
Yu Chujin’s heart softened. Just as she was about to coax her, the passerby who had come from a distance had already come closer.
The passerby was a girl in her twenties, with a mullet wolf cut, and a touch of green at the ends of her hair.
“Is this motorcycle yours? I’ve been paying attention to it for a long time. When I saw that it was covered in a layer of dust, I thought its owner didn’t want it anymore,” the girl looked at Yu Chujin with a slightly surprised expression.
“It’s winter,” Yu Chujin laughed awkwardly and replied casually, “so I haven’t been riding it.”
“This is an xx model motorcycle, right? It’s already out of print,” the girl circled the motorcycle, her eyes full of envy.
If it were in the past and she had met a fellow enthusiast, she would have definitely chatted for a few sentences. But in this situation, it was not good to chat too much with others. After all, there was still a crying snake beside her.
The girl asked tentatively, “I see you don’t ride it much. Let me ask a presumptuous question. Are you selling this motorcycle? I’ll buy it at a high price!”
Yu Chujin shook her head, “I’m not selling it.”
The girl was dejected. Although she felt it was a pity, she did not insist and just said, “Then can I touch it?”
Before Yu Chujin could answer, the crying snake beside her, seeing that Yu Chujin’s attention had fallen on this stranger, immediately became even more angry.
She was crying and obedient to Yu Chujin, but to other people who were not Yu Chujin, that was not her attitude at all.
This passerby was so annoying. Go away!
Qingli narrowed her eyes and, without any warning, suddenly bared her fangs at the girl.
The girl’s hand, which had just reached out to touch the motorcycle, was immediately scared back.
“Hiss!”
Qingli bared her fangs at her, and a dangerous, low growl came from her throat.
Yu Chujin came to her senses, quickly reached out, and pressed down on Qingli’s baseball cap, covering her fierce, bared fangs.
As she was pressing down on her hat, she explained to the girl, “Her throat is uncomfortable, and she’s hissing and coughing. Her face is twitching, so she’s baring her fangs a little, haha.”
Yu Chujin laughed awkwardly.
The hat completely covered her vision. Qingli didn’t like it and wanted to raise her head.
Yu Chujin directly and impolitely patted her on the head, warning her to be good.
Qingli covered her head and was forced to be quiet.
The girl looked at Yu Chujin, then at Qingli, whose face was covered by a hat, and clapped her hands, “I know her. This is the person who fell asleep on the spot at the community entrance. I heard people say that her brain…”
Halfway through her words, she forcefully stopped.
Yu Chujin: “…”
The girl smiled awkwardly, “Well, I don’t mean any harm. I just heard some rumors.”
Yu Chujin didn’t want to talk too much about these things and just wanted her to leave quickly. Her attitude was inevitably cold.
The girl sensed her cold attitude, shrugged, looked at the motorcycle with some reluctance, and finally left dejectedly.
Seeing the girl walk away, Yu Chujin breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Qingli, whose hat was pressed down low.
She straightened her hat and met her red eyes, which were still teary from crying.
“You bullied me,” Qingli’s tone was full of a crying voice.
“Someone was coming. You didn’t put your tail back. What do you want me to do? Let others discover you? Then you’ll be sent for research, and you’ll never be free again. Then we’ll be separated and will never be able to see each other again.”
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a dead silence.
“No, no, no,” Qingli was anxious and stomped her feet, “We won’t be separated. We have to see each other. We have to see each other every day.”
Seeing that the scare had worked, Yu Chujin nodded in satisfaction, “That’s right. Do you still blame me for hitting your tail? I did it so that we wouldn’t be separated. My intentions were good. Whose fault do you think it is?”
Qingli: “My fault. It was my fault. I’m a bad snake. You’re a good snake.”
Yu Chujin suppressed a laugh.
Qingli seemed to have become smarter and not so easy to fool, but in essence, she was still that easy-to-fool silly snake.
Yu Chujin rubbed her nose, “Alright, as long as you know you’re wrong. I won’t hold it against you.”
Qingli: “Yu Chujin is generous, so generous. She’s a good snake.”
Yu Chujin sighed, “Who would have thought? You’re famous now. Even a random person I meet knows you.”
“I’m famous?” Qingli tilted her head, trying to understand.
“Yes, you’re famous,” Yu Chujin glared at her.
Qingli straightened her head, having successfully understood, “I’m a big star!”
Yu Chujin was choked, “You’re a big star? Do you think this is a good thing? Everyone in the community knows that you fell asleep on the spot at the community entrance and that you’re a fool with a screw loose.”
Qingli’s straightened head tilted again, trying to understand again.
Two seconds later, she understood again, “Of course not. My brain is good. I’m a smart person.”
Yu Chujin chuckled and shook her head, “I hope you can get smart soon.”
Qingli: “I will. I’m smart and clever, full of wisdom and resourcefulness.”
She was even using idioms. How could she not be considered smart?
“Alright,” Yu Chujin took the helmet from the motorcycle, “It’s time to go. Put on your helmet.”
Qingli looked at the black round ball in her hand.
She knew this. It had to be worn on the head. Yu Chujin had taken her for a ride before, and Qingli had seen her wear this black round ball.
“Is it called a helmet?” Qingli asked curiously, “Why do I have to wear it?”
Yu Chujin offered the helmet to her and patiently explained, “To protect the head. Riding a motorcycle is very dangerous. You have to take safety precautions.”
Qingli nodded, seemingly understanding. She looked down at the helmet and studied it from left to right.
She saw a hole at the bottom of the round ball. She should be able to stuff her head in from there.
Qingli lowered her head and tried to stuff her head in, but no matter how she tried, she couldn’t. She was so anxious that she whimpered and even mumbled, “What’s going on? Why can’t I put it on?”
Yu Chujin looked at her silly and dazed appearance and couldn’t help but laugh.
“You’re still wearing a baseball cap on your head. The brim is so long. Of course you can’t put on the helmet,” Yu Chujin reached out and helped her take off the hat.
Qingli successfully put on the helmet, “Oh! I put it on! Yu Chujin, you’re so smart!”
Yu Chujin was amused.
“But it’s so heavy, so stuffy, and uncomfortable,” after putting on the helmet, who knows what happened, but it suddenly affected her balance, and she began to sway left and right.
She swayed back and forth, on the verge of falling.
Yu Chujin hurriedly supported her.
Qingli: “It’s okay. I’m steady now. It’s so uncomfortable.”
Yu Chujin: “Even if it’s uncomfortable, you have to wear it for now. You’ll get used to it after a while.”
“Your voice, why is it also muffled? Are you sick?”
“You’re wearing a helmet, which is blocking the sound, so it’s muffled.”
“Really?” Qingli took off the helmet and found that the outside world’s sound had returned to normal, “Yes, it is. Oh, Yu Chujin, you’re so smart.”
Yu Chujin sighed, “Silly snake.”
Successfully triggering the keyword, Qingli immediately followed up, “Silly girl.”
Yu Chujin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. After “tsk,” the snake had gotten another keyword, “silly snake” corresponding to “silly girl.”
“The silly girl is setting off,” she might as well just join in. She swung her leg over the motorcycle and patted the back seat, “Get on, you silly snake.”
Qingli: “I know. The silly snake is riding the silly girl’s motorcycle.”
“Alright, hurry up and get on,” Yu Chujin said irritably.
She wanted to join her, but she really couldn’t. This title was really hard to describe.
Qingli copied Yu Chujin’s action of getting on the motorcycle and also swung her leg over.
“Hold my waist,” Yu Chujin turned her head slightly and said to the person behind her.
“Hold your waist!” Qingli’s eyes, hidden under her helmet, lit up.
Yu Chujin quickly added, “With your hands, not your tail.”
Qingli was disappointed.
But when her hands were on her waist, she was suddenly not disappointed anymore. They were so close. She liked it, she liked it. She was so happy.
And then, this snake frantically nuzzled behind her, her hands also stroking her waist.
Yu Chujin couldn’t stand it anymore. She grabbed her hand, held it down, and turned her head to glare at her, “I just told you to hold on, not to touch!”
Qingli: “So fierce, so fierce. A fierce girl.”
“Behave yourself. Otherwise, you can go home and stay with Da Huang,” Yu Chujin said.
“It’s this concubine. I’ll be good,” Qingli was very tactful.
She started the motorcycle, twisted the throttle, and the engine’s “rumbling” sound was particularly deafening.
She drove out of the underground parking lot and onto the wide street. The speed increased, and the wind whistled in her ears.
Yu Chujin had been obsessed with the thrill of this speed before and would ride her motorcycle everywhere whenever she had nothing to do.
She had had an accident once. In order to avoid a car that had suddenly turned, she had made an emergency turn and had fallen.
At that time, a truck had happened to pass by, and her head had almost grazed the truck’s tire.
Although she hadn’t been seriously injured, she had had a close brush with death.
Despite this accident, Yu Chujin still hadn’t given up her hobby of riding a motorcycle. Almost as soon as her injury had healed, she was riding her beloved motorcycle and racing everywhere again.
At that time, she felt that it was impossible for her to give up this hobby. Even if she died because of this hobby, she would not hesitate.
But it was strange. She had been so passionate about motorcycles before, but now she could go for a long, long time without touching them, letting them collect a layer of dust.
Even, in such a long time, she had not thought of riding a motorcycle at all. If it weren’t for the fact that she had to go out today, this motorcycle of hers would probably still be collecting dust in the underground parking lot.
Not only the motorcycle, but also skydiving, paragliding, skiing, and wingsuit flying. These sports that she had been obsessed with before, she now had no thoughts of them at all.
The person sticking to her back, although her temperature was very low, her presence was exceptionally strong.
Perhaps, the reason she couldn’t think of these extreme sports was not because of anything else, but simply because of the person behind her.
Because of Qingli, the ways she used to get happiness had become dispensable.
“Snake,” the sound of the wind covered her call.
But the person behind her still heard it. She leaned into her ear, “The snake is here.”
Yu Chujin smiled. Her laughter was carried away by the wind, but she knew that no matter how strong the wind and rain were, the snake behind her would always be there, and would always respond to her.
