Chapter 95p1: Home
The house was a mess. She couldn’t stand it anymore. Yu Chujin spent a whole day giving the entire villa a major cleaning.
She didn’t know until she started cleaning that doing housework was really quite tiring.
Just simply tidying up the first floor, not cleaning it very meticulously, and she hadn’t even started on the second floor, her back was already aching.
Yu Chujin held her waist, her hands on the mop, and rested for a moment.
Even if she wanted to do a major cleaning, she didn’t actually have to finish it in one day. She could have done it in batches, for example, cleaning a little today and a little more tomorrow.
But Yu Chujin didn’t know what was wrong. She suddenly became single-minded and had to finish cleaning today, had to finish it all at once.
Perhaps cleaning was not the point. She just wanted to find something to do. If she found something to do, she wouldn’t fall into a low mood.
Lying by the bed all day, looking at the snake, and crying. That was not right. Yu Chujin didn’t want to live like that.
She had once prided herself on having many hobbies: motorcycles, paragliding, skydiving, bungee jumping, skiing, and wingsuit flying. She had dabbled in all kinds of sports.
She had so many hobbies, so wide-ranging, but when she really needed to find something to do to pass the time, she found that she had nothing to do.
In the end, she could only use cleaning and doing housework to pass the time.
Fortunately, the house was big enough. She could clean for a long time and have a lot of things to do.
She didn’t want to be idle, and she didn’t dare to be idle.
After finishing the first floor, she climbed up to the second floor. She first started by wiping the windows and the glass, then she swept the floor, and finally, she mopped the floor.
The corners, where the mop couldn’t reach, Yu Chujin put down the mop and moved the cabinet.
“Whoosh.”
Something fell from the top of the cabinet and hit her on the head, covering her in an instant. The world went dark.
Yu Chujin was startled. She frantically pulled off the thing that was covering her head. When she saw clearly what it was, her expression froze.
It was a set of bedsheets.
She had felt that a set of bedsheets was missing before. She couldn’t find it no matter how she looked. She had pressed Qingli to ask if she had hidden it, but she had refused to admit it.
Sure enough, it had been hidden by that snake.
Yu Chujin shook her head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. It had been hidden on top of the cabinet, and it had been hidden quite well. If it weren’t for the fact that she had to move the cabinet to clean, she really wouldn’t have found it.
She picked up the bedsheets, wanting to put them in the washing machine to wash them. But just as she had walked two steps with the bedsheets, her footsteps paused again.
She lowered her head and sniffed the bedsheets, then shook her head and laughed in spite of herself, “You stupid snake. What’s the use of hiding it? It’s been so long. The scent is long gone. So silly.”
Yu Chujin looked at the bedsheets in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally turned back.
She found a stool, placed it by the cabinet, stepped on the stool, and put the bedsheets back on top of the cabinet, returning them to their original place.
After putting the bedsheets away, Yu Chujin jumped off the stool, put her hands on her hips, and looked up, saying to herself,
“Forget it. I won’t wash them. I’ll keep them. In case that snake wakes up and finds that the things have been washed, she’ll be aggrieved and pitiful again.”
She chuckled in a low voice, but as she was laughing, her smile slowly froze, and the corners of her mouth turned down, dejected.
“If you don’t wake up again, I’ll really wash these bedsheets. When the time comes, it will be useless for you to pretend to be pitiful. After all, they’ve already been washed, and they can’t be restored.”
Yu Chujin shook her head, collected her thoughts, picked up the mop that was leaning against the wall, and continued to work.
She kept working, kept cleaning. She couldn’t stop. As soon as she stopped, she would start to overthink again.
She didn’t find anything unusual when she was cleaning the first floor, but when she was cleaning the second floor, she found a lot of things.
It was like finding something with every step.
Ten minutes ago, she had just found the bedsheets on top of the cabinet. Now, under the bed in the guest room, she had found the long-lost clothes.
Yu Chujin pulled out the clothes from under the bed, looked at them from left to right. It was Yu Chujin’s pajama.
Then, under the sofa, she found the missing towel. It was the face towel that Yu Chujin had been using and had suddenly disappeared.
And then, under the bookshelf, she found the missing shoes. It was the one slipper that Yu Chujin had left.
…Socks.
“No, is this snake crazy? She even stole socks!”
Yu Chujin had thought that she only stole clothes, but unexpectedly, besides clothes, she didn’t miss anything else.
As long as it was an item related to Yu Chujin, she would steal it all, collect it all. It was so exaggerated that Yu Chujin even found the old cup she had thrown away.
Yu Chujin looked at this old cup, speechless for a moment, “Didn’t I throw it in the trash can? How did she pick it back up?”
Besides the cup, there were also many other things she had thrown away. They had all been picked back up by Qingli and hidden in various places on the second floor.
They were all garbage, hidden everywhere. Yu Chujin wanted to find them all and throw them away at once.
That’s what she wanted to do, but after thinking for a moment, she gave up and put all the things she had hidden back in their original places.
Forget it, forget it. She had no way to deal with Qingli. She would just keep them all.
Before, she had known that Qingli liked to hide these things and had even specially cleared a room for her to use as a safe room for hiding things.
Unexpectedly, she had hidden a lot in the safe room, but there was still no less outside.
Not to mention tidying up a room for her to hide things. With her frequency of collecting and her habit of not being picky, even if she were to prepare ten more rooms for her, it probably wouldn’t be enough for her to hide things.
Yu Chujin bent down and stuffed the old cup she had just found back under the cabinet.
Yu Chujin shook her head at the cabinet. Who said she had no tricks up her sleeve? She had a lot of tricks up her sleeve.
This snake was sometimes quite clever. She didn’t hide things on the first floor, but all on the second floor.
Yu Chujin was often active on the first floor, and people rarely went up to the second floor. The possibility of being discovered on the second floor was very small. But if she hid them on the first floor, she would have to bear the risk of being discovered and thrown away.
She walked to the window and looked down at the yard.
Who knows if there were things buried in the yard? She could often see her digging in the yard. She probably had hidden a lot of things in the yard.
“You’re digging in the dirt again. Your two claws are so dirty, and you’ve gotten dirt all over your body. Stop digging.”
“I’m not dirty. I’ll be clean after I wash.”
This kind of conversation had often occurred before. At that time, it was just ordinary.
Suddenly, she had no interest in continuing to clean. She threw the mop to the side, went straight downstairs, went to the bathroom to take a shower, washed off the sweat from her body, returned to her room, and the first thing she did was to walk to the bedside.
She squatted down, her chin resting on the bedside, and looked at the small green snake sleeping on her stomach.
She reached out her finger and poked her small head.
“Still sleeping? The things you’ve hidden have all been exposed.”
The response to her was the endless quiet in the room.
“You’re not waking up, are you? I’ll throw away all the things you’ve hidden, pack them all up at once, and throw them far away, so that you can never find them again!”
“Also, didn’t you also bury a lot of things in your yard? I’ll dig them all up and throw them all away for you!”
Her tone was fierce, and she was seriously threatening her.
Half a minute later, she sighed again, “I was scaring you. I didn’t throw them away. I’ve put them all back in their original places. I haven’t thrown a single one away. Don’t worry. As long as you like them, I’ll keep them all for you.”
“But stealing socks is a bit too much. You’re not allowed to steal this next time. Also, underwear and panties are not allowed. Even if you like my things, you have to have some boundaries. You can’t just take everything.”
“Alright, you can take them if you like. At worst, I’ll just buy a few more.”
“Hey, I’ve already made so many concessions. I’m so accommodating to you. Are you sure you’re still not going to wake up?”
Yu Chujin cautiously reached out her hand and placed her finger under her nose. She felt a slight breathing. Yu Chujin’s tense nerves relaxed slightly.
She was so afraid that this snake would suddenly stop breathing while she was asleep.
In the month that she was in a deep sleep, Yu Chujin would often go and check her breathing. Every time she checked, it was as if her heart were hanging in the air. Only when she sensed that her breathing was still there could her suspended heart briefly land and be at ease.
Yu Chujin turned around, sat on the ground, and leaned against the bed, in a daze.
She suddenly remembered something and quickly took out her phone from her pocket.
She sent a message to a person with the online ID “Xuan.”
[Master, are you free now?]
The message failed to send. A large red exclamation mark appeared at the end of the message.
She had been blocked.
Yu Chujin scrolled up the chat history. A day ago, she had just transferred 200 to the other party.
Yu Chujin had been so desperate that she had been randomly asking for help from these “charlatans” online, trying to find a way to help Qingli.
However, the final result was naturally that she had been deceived again and again.
That’s right. This was not the first time she had been deceived. This time was still good. She had only been deceived of 200. The last time, she had been deceived of 1,000.
What a sucker.
Being deceived, Yu Chujin was not too angry. She had known early on that these people were unreliable. Most of these charlatans were also liars. But Yu Chujin always thought, what if?
What if among these people, there was really one with real talent, really one who knew about this, really one who could help Qingli?
Yu Chujin was using a very stupid method to bet on this “what if.” Obviously, she had bet wrong.
Without exception, these people were all liars. And Yu Chujin, who could be deceived by these people, was also like a fool, so stupid.
Yu Chujin silently reported them, threw her phone aside in annoyance, took a deep breath, and made up her mind not to believe in these damn things again in the future.