The Little Duck 69p2

Chapter 69 p2

Xin Xin outside was still in a daze, but Cauliflower was the first to puff out its chest, and with its little wings on its back, it strode with an “I-don’t-recognize-my-own-kin” gait, passed by Yan Lu’s feet, and entered this strange house.

Seeing this, Xin Xin looked up at its owner, and seeing that its owner did not stop it, it also followed in with a wagging tail.

“Change your shoes, change your shoes,” Huang He said, and with a face full of smiles, she followed behind Xin Xin.

“My mom really likes dogs,” Jian Xin said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and pointed to a purple cotton slipper on the floor.

The cotton slippers were brand new, and they had been specially chosen for Yan Lu’s size.

Yan Lu closed the door behind her, crouched down, and changed her shoes.

“Is your dog friendly?” Huang He asked on the side, and Jian Changjiang also came out of the bedroom, and like an old cadre, with his hands behind his back, he looked down to observe the two little ones on the floor.

“Not necessarily…” Before Yan Lu could finish her sentence, she looked up and saw that Huang He was already petting the dog.

It had to be said that Xin Xin was really giving her face. The first time it saw Huang He, it was very well-behaved. It didn’t make a fuss or bark when its head was petted, and it even put on a very enjoyable look.

“Xin Xin is so cute,” Huang He said, petting the dog until she couldn’t let go.

“…” Jian Xin pouted, her face full of “forget it, so be it, a duck doesn’t have to compete with a dog for favor.”

Jian Changjiang glanced at the door, and as before, he greeted Yan Lu, “You’re back.”

Yan Lu: “Mmm!”

After a simple greeting, he didn’t say much more, just put his gaze on Cauliflower.

“What does Xin Xin usually like to eat?”

“And what does a duck eat?”

“How long do you have to walk Xin Xin a day?”

“Does a duck need to be walked?”

“Does Xin Xin poop and pee at a fixed point?”

“Can a duck hold its poop?”

The two elders, one was concerned about the dog, and the other was concerned about the duck—as for Yan Lu, it was as if she were a family member who had been working outside for a long time and had come back for the New Year. A simple greeting was enough.

This casualness made Yan Lu suddenly breathe a sigh of relief.

So many years had passed, and even the decoration of the house had changed, but her aunt and uncle were still the same to her.

Many of the things she had been worried about had all disappeared at this moment.

Instead, there was a sourness in her nose, and many familiar yet strange feelings hidden in the subtle details.

Jian Xin came closer, greeted Xin Xin and Cauliflower, and then took Yan Lu for a tour of the redecorated house.

She said that the house had changed a lot, and many of the old things were no longer there.

For example, the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room that would chime on the hour, and the long desk in the bedroom that could accommodate the two of them writing side by side.

Now they were all gone.

Yan Lu also found that the furniture in the house had all been changed and was no longer the way she remembered it.

Despite this, she still felt a very reassuring feeling here.

It was the familiar layout, it was the Jian Xin in front of her, and it was the sound of her aunt and uncle teasing the duck and dog outside.

This was once her home, and no matter how much time passed, it was a home she would often dream of.

That night, Huang He made her signature dish—the sweet and sour fish that Yan Lu had been missing for many years.

After so many years, the taste of this dish was still the same as before, so delicious that she couldn’t stop eating.

At the dinner table, the family chatted idly.

Xin Xin and Cauliflower were also eating from the same bowl on the side.

This bowl was all cooked and chopped by Jian Xin herself.

The duck at home was a little picky, but the dog was not. What the duck could eat, the dog could basically eat, so it was very convenient to make it together.

Huang He seemed to really like the two noisy little ones that Yan Lu had brought back. When she saw them quack, she would immediately go over and ask what was wrong.

She was clearly a person who was about to retire in the second half of the year, but in front of cute little animals, she also had to speak in a high-pitched voice.

But if she had to say who she liked, Huang He definitely liked Xin Xin a little more.

Xin Xin had been trained to poop and pee at a fixed point. Although it had changed to a new place, after it had peed once, Yan Lu had pressed its head down, let it smell the pee on the floor, and then had led it all the way to the bathroom, and had pointed to the squatting toilet and said with a serious expression, “No matter whose house you’re in, you have to find this kind of place to poop and pee, you know?”

The little one had let out an aggrieved “awoo,” and through some of a dog’s wisdom, it had immediately known to go to the bathroom the next time it had to poop or pee.

The only thing that was a little headache was that a duck really couldn’t hold its poop. As long as it ate something, it would poop and pee anywhere.

And Cauliflower was very repulsed by duck diapers. Every time she wanted to put one on it, it would flap its wings and fly far away.

Yan Lu had no way around it and could only watch it walk and poop all the way, and its walking posture was particularly “I-don’t-recognize-my-own-kin.”

To prevent her own mom from disliking Cauliflower, Jian Xin chose to follow closely behind Cauliflower right after it had finished eating, and started a chase of “it poops, she picks it up.”

Yan Lu followed on the side with a suppressed laugh, holding a pack of tissues, ready to hand them over.

“This duck is not easy to raise,” Huang He said, watching from the side.

Jian Xin: “It is!”

Yan Lu: “It is.”

The two of them said in unison.

After a brief silence, they looked at each other and couldn’t help but laugh.

Yan Lu told Huang He that although a duck can’t hold its poop, as long as it’s fed at a fixed time and has a relatively fixed activity range, it’s not so difficult to clean up the poop.

Cauliflower was not familiar with this place and was running around all day, so the poop was everywhere.

Usually at home, this little one’s activity range after a meal was basically in the study. It would occasionally go to the living room for a walk, and the poop was concentrated, so it was relatively convenient to pick up.

Huang He sat on the sofa, holding Xin Xin in her arms, and while stroking it, she nodded. “So that’s how it is.”

Xin Xin was so comfortable being petted by her that it didn’t even bother Cauliflower.

On the first day the two little ones came to the house, they didn’t have a duck nest or a dog bed to sleep in, so Jian Xin had gotten a large cardboard box, and had put a soft and fluffy cushion inside, and had made it a temporary home for them.

She didn’t know if Cauliflower was not very satisfied with this treatment, but it squatted in the duck nest and let out an unhappy “quack.”

Yan Lu was sitting on her bed at this moment. Their relationship had become different now, and it was a rare occasion for them to be in the same room. All she wanted to do was to test Yan Lu’s wishes, and she really had no mood to serve a duck.

So she sat down beside Yan Lu, gazed into her smiling eyes, and took a deep breath.

—Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly felt her vision go black and then bright again. When she looked up and opened her eyes again, she saw “herself” fall limply into the surprised Yan Lu’s arms.

“Hey, Jian Xin…” Yan Lu subconsciously shook the person who had just fallen in her arms.

Jian Xin: “Quack!!” I’m here!

Yan Lu: “…”

It can’t be so sudden, can it?

Yan Lu looked down and met the duck’s eyes in the cardboard box for a while—after confirming the look, it was Jian Xiaoya herself.

She was a little at a loss for words for a moment. She gently placed the Jian Xin in her arms flat on the bed, took off her shoes, took off her jacket, pulled up the quilt from the foot of the bed, and tucked her in tightly.

Finally, she got up and walked to the side of the cardboard box, crouched down, and patted the duck’s head, muttering, “How did you just change like that?”

“Ugh ugh ugh—”

This is so unfair. I didn’t even say anything!

“Xin Xin, Xiao Lu.”

Huang He’s voice came from outside the door. The little dog that was lying on the side lifted its head, and the little duck closed its eyes helplessly.

Yan Lu quickly got up and opened the door. Seeing that Huang He was holding a large bowl of cut fruit, she quickly took it with both hands.

Huang He subconsciously glanced into the room and couldn’t help but frown. “It’s only so late, how long has it been since dinner, why are you lying down already?”

Jian Xin on the bed did not reply.

Yan Lu: “Ah, she just fell asleep…”

Huang He: “Like a little pig, she eats and then sleeps, and then wakes up and eats.”

Jian Xin: “Quack…”

Xin Xin: “Woof woof!”

Huang He glanced at the two little ones in the nest and pointed to Jian Xin on the bed. “Don’t be like her, sleeping all day, and not even talking to Xiao Lu for a while after she’s back.”

Yan Lu couldn’t help but laugh out loud with a “pfft.”

Huang He didn’t say anything more, just glanced at the fruit. “Then you can eat it yourself. If you can’t finish it, put it in the fridge.”

Yan Lu: “Mmm-hmm!”

The door closed again, and Jian Xin sighed, flapped her wings, and flew onto the bed.

Xin Xin tilted its head, its gaze on the duck a little hurt, as if to ask—are you not going to play with me anymore?

Jian Xin just half-deadly leaned against Yan Lu’s thigh. “Quack ah…”

“I don’t understand.”

“Quack…” It’s nothing, it’s just that I can’t sleep with you.

Just as the little duck was feeling sad, a small piece of apple was passed to her. She looked up and saw that Yan Lu was looking at her and smiling.

Eat it, you’re idle anyway.

To eat this piece of apple, and to be able to stay on the bed, she, with Yan Lu’s help, put on the light blue duck diaper.

It was ugly, and a little embarrassing for a duck, but what did Cauliflower’s face have to do with her, Jian Xin?

…

On the first night Yan Lu came home, Jian Xin, in the form of a duck, slept by her pillow.

How should I put it, on her left was Yan Lu, and on her right was “herself.”

And she, she was snuggled in the crack of the pillow between these two heads. When she opened her eyes, she could, with the little bit of light that came in through the crack in the curtains, see two very familiar faces.

For a moment, Jian Xin felt that this scene was very magical.

—It was so magical that it was a little creepy!

Who would, in the middle of the night, from a duck’s perspective, watch themselves and their just-reunited girlfriend lie peacefully in the same bed, with a duck in between, hey!!!

Great Duck Spirit, may I ask where I have offended you?!

How will you ever let me go?!

Jian Xin shouted silently in her heart with a speechless expression.

Suddenly, a voice sounded in her mind.

—The promises you’ve made must all be fulfilled!

What’s going on?

The little duck instantly tilted its head up and looked around.

The room was quiet, and outside the window, it was so quiet that there was only the sound of the wind.

The voice just now didn’t seem to be a hallucination.

Could it be that the Great Duck Spirit had really sent down some kind of oracle?

The promises you’ve made must all be fulfilled…

Jian Xin couldn’t help but tilt her head and fall into a deep thought.