Chapter 76 p1: Teaching
At six in the evening, it was a rare moment of leisure and quiet in the day, because there was no clingy snake by her side.
Qingli was performing her daily fixed task: watering the flowers.
So many flowers were planted in the yard. To make them survive, someone had to take care of them. But unfortunately, Yu Chujin was not a patient person.
Buying and planting flowers was a whim. To really spend time and effort to raise them, that was three days of fishing and two days of drying the nets.
Watering the flowers once in the morning and once in the evening. Yu Chujin would often forget. Naturally, the task of watering the flowers fell on Qingli.
But fortunately, this laborer snake was very active in her work. When she was asked to water the flowers, she would happily do it every day, on time, and never late.
At this moment, Qingli was watering the flowers in the yard, while Yu Chujin was lying on the sofa, her feet on the back of the sofa, swinging, and leisurely playing on her phone.
When she saw a funny video, she would laugh “hahaha.” When she saw a sad video, she would silently wipe away a tear.
As she was engrossed in watching, the sound of people talking came from outside the yard.
Yu Chujin’s finger tapped the screen, pausing the video, and she pricked up her ears to listen.
She could vaguely hear a human voice. It should be Qingli speaking. Was she talking to Da Huang?
This snake would often catch Da Huang and educate it, educating it that a concubine should have the virtue of a concubine and not seduce people, and so on, and that she should be content with her lot, and so on.
She would chatter and educate non-stop, with one set of principles after another, although they were all messy principles.
Da Huang just thought she was chanting a sutra. Anyway, It couldn’t understand. It was a typical case of a chicken talking to a duck.
No, it was a snake talking to a dog.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual in the sound outside the yard, Yu Chujin lay back on the sofa and continued to leisurely watch videos.
The sound outside was intermittent, and she could vaguely hear other sounds.
Yu Chujin frowned, paused the video again, sat up, and pricked up her ears to listen.
This time, she heard it clearly. Besides Qingli’s voice, there was indeed another voice.
Was Qingli chatting with someone else?
Yu Chujin put on her slippers, put her phone in her pocket, and walked outside.
When she reached the door, she saw Qingli lying on the fence, talking to the neighbor sister next door.
The way they were asking and answering, at first glance, looked quite proper.
As long as Qingli didn’t do anything embarrassing, Yu Chujin would not stop her from talking to others. She would just treat it as training her to speak.
At present, their conversation was quite normal.
“What are you doing?” Qingli asked curiously, looking at the neighbor sister’s actions.
The neighbor sister was holding a bag of powder and was sprinkling it along the wall.
As she was sprinkling it, she explained, “Didn’t a snake get into my house yesterday? I specially bought this powder online. It’s said to be able to prevent snakes. I don’t know if it will work.”
Qingli listened intently, “I see. I know.”
After speaking, Qingli suddenly reached out her hand and held it out in front of her, “Give it to me.”
Looking at the outstretched hand, the neighbor sister had a puzzled expression, “What do you want?”
Qingli urged, “Let me see. Isn’t it for preventing snakes? Let me see what effect it has.”
The neighbor sister suddenly realized, “You want to see my snake-prevention powder?”
Qingli nodded, “I’ll help you see if it can prevent them. Pour it on my hand.”
Yu Chujin, who was calmly observing from behind, was immediately no longer calm when she heard this.
She ran over and at the same time, shouted, “Don’t give it to her!”
However, it was too late to stop her. The neighbor sister had directly placed the bag of powder in Qingli’s hand.
Just as she had placed it, Yu Chujin rushed over.
Although she didn’t know the specific effect of the snake-prevention powder, and although Qingli was a little monster that could transform, Yu Chujin was still subconsciously worried, worried that this powder would harm Qingli.
She rushed over and the first thing she did was to grab Qingli’s hand and knock the bag of powder from her hand.
After knocking it off, she carefully checked her palm. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, she was slightly relieved.
“Does your hand hurt?” Yu Chujin asked.
“It doesn’t hurt. Yu Chujin, you’re concerned about me. I’m happy!” Qingli grinned, showing a mouthful of large white teeth.
“You’re still smiling? Are you really stupid? You dare to take anything. That’s snake-prevention powder,” Yu Chujin glared at her.
On the other side of the fence, the neighbor sister’s voice came, “Well, I saw that she wanted to see it, so I gave it to her.”
Yu Chujin knew that she had been a little out of line just now and explained to her, “No, no. I don’t mean anything else. It’s just that my friend’s brain is not very good. I was afraid that she would eat all of this powder in one go.”
The neighbor sister came to her senses and said apologetically, “Yes, I was not being considerate. I forgot that her brain is not good.”
Yu Chujin quickly waved her hand, “No, no. I don’t mean to blame you.”
“What!” Qingli had been listening to their conversation for a while and was not happy, “Why do you say my brain is not good? I’m smart! You’re talking bad about me!”
Yu Chujin glanced at her, “Yes, you’re a big smarty.”
Qingli thought she was being praised and grinned.
“This snake-prevention powder of mine should be useful. Why don’t you sprinkle some in your house too?” the neighbor sister asked.
“Hmm…” Yu Chujin looked at Qingli, “I don’t need it on my side. I probably won’t use it.”
“You don’t seem to be afraid of snakes at all.”
“It’s okay. I’m just used to it.”
“You’re used to it?”
Qingli on the side actively joined in, “Yes, she’s used to it. I’m so cute.”
Yu Chujin nudged her with her elbow, “Stop with the crazy talk.”
The neighbor sister smiled and didn’t take it to heart. She continued to sprinkle the snake-prevention powder, along the base of the wall. The amount she sprinkled was particularly large, and she didn’t miss any corners, for fear that another snake would enter her house.
“I hope it’s effective,” the neighbor sister said.
“It will definitely be effective,” Qingli squatted by the fence and poked the snake-prevention powder with her hand.
Yu Chujin was speechless. What a “it will definitely be effective.” This was too effective. It was unknown if it was preventing anything, but anyway, that snake was playing with this snake-prevention powder.
After all the snake-prevention powder was sprinkled, the neighbor sister let out a long sigh of relief and finally felt a little sense of security.
The neighbor sister said, “This should be about it. The snake will definitely not come to my house. It’s best if there’s no sign of a snake within a kilometer.”
Qingli replied, “It will definitely not appear.”
Yu Chujin was speechless again. What a “it will definitely not appear.” It was unknown if there was a snake within a kilometer, but anyway, there was one right in front of her, and she was even chatting with her.
The neighbor sister: “Then I’ll take your auspicious words. I hope there won’t be any snakes nearby. That thing, a snake, is too terrifying, too ugly.”
Qingli, who had been leisurely poking the snake-prevention powder, her action paused when she heard this, and she abruptly raised her head.
“Hiss!”
She bared her fangs, her eyes full of ferocity.
“Who are you calling ugly? Who are you calling terrifying? I’ll bite you to death!”
Qingli, who had been chatting friendly just now, suddenly changed her attitude. Her bared fangs scared the neighbor sister back a step.
Before the situation could escalate, Yu Chujin urgently covered her mouth, covering Qingli’s bared fangs.
“Hahaha,” Yu Chujin laughed awkwardly, “She’s going crazy again. I’ll take her home. I’ll take her home right away.”
She dragged and pulled, and finally got this snake back home.
Qingli was still indignant, “She called me ugly, she called me terrifying. A rude person. I’ll bite her to death, I’ll eat her!”
Yu Chujin poked her between the eyebrows, “She wasn’t talking about you.”
“She was talking about me.”
“Alright, let’s just say she was talking about you. So what if she said it? Didn’t I often call you ugly before?”
Qingli’s ears drooped, and she was very aggrieved, “I’m not ugly. I’m cute.”
Yu Chujin was so charmed by her appearance that she was speechless, “I called you ugly. Why did you never bare your fangs at me? When others call you ugly, you immediately get angry.”
“I don’t get fierce with you. You’re Yu Chujin. Others can’t.”
“Yu Chujin has special privileges?”
“Yes, Yu Chujin has special privileges. I love you.”
Recalling it carefully, no matter how fierce she had been with Qingli in the past, Qingli seemed to have never bared her fangs at her.
No, Yu Chujin remembered that she had been bared at by her once.
At that time, Yu Chujin had been curious and had touched the scale behind her ear. She had subconsciously and instinctively turned her head and bared her fangs at her.
Being scolded by a snake, at that time, Yu Chujin had even been angry with her. But in the end, she had forgotten about it and had slept until dawn. The poor snake had been punished to stand under a tree for a whole night, thinking that she had made a huge mistake.
Recalling this matter, Yu Chujin became interested. She circled behind the snake and looked at the scale behind her ear.
Even after transforming into a human, the scale behind her ear still existed. It had just gotten smaller. A small piece was lying on the back of her ear, glowing with a faint, pale green fluorescence.
The scale was very beautiful, so beautiful that Yu Chujin had the urge to reach out and touch it again.
She subconsciously reached out her hand, but halfway through, she silently pulled it back and gave up.
Her scale could not be touched randomly. Although Qingli had a good temper, she could not take advantage of her good temper and touch her forbidden zone.
It was a little regretful. Yu Chujin still wanted to touch the scale. She didn’t know what it felt like.
“You can’t just bare your fangs at people in the future,” Yu Chujin instructed.
“I didn’t just bare my fangs randomly. She was the one who scolded a snake first. A rude person,” Qingli’s expression was resentful.
Yu Chujin looked at her helplessly and didn’t say anything more. She silently turned on the TV, changed to the legal channel, and let her learn the basic legal knowledge.
“Watch it. You have to watch it for an hour every day. Strive to be a law-abiding snake.”
“I don’t want to watch it. It’s not good.”
“If you don’t watch it, then you won’t be allowed to watch melodramatic dramas in the future.”
“I love to watch this! I want to learn the law!”
Qingli immediately changed her tune, taking “a wise man submits to circumstances” to the extreme.
Yu Chujin looked at her with a smile, “It’s not enough to just watch it. You have to watch it seriously and take it to heart. Do you understand?”
Qingli: “I understand. I’ll be a civilized snake, a law-abiding snake.”
“That’s more like it. Watch it seriously.”
“I know.”