Chapter 73 Chapter 10 “I’m sorry, I should have shown up earlier…

In the morning, Sheng Qing woke up from his soft bed and saw a room decorated with great care and refinement. He twitched his ears slightly and heard the faint sound of light footsteps, but pretended not to notice.

One hundred meters... fifty meters... ten meters...

Only three meters... there was a knock on the door.

Shengqing immediately closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

After losing his sight, his already extraordinary hearing became even more acute. He heard the door outside being pushed open silently, and heard the footsteps continuing to walk inside, all the way through the corridor, through the living room, and straight towards the innermost bedroom, until they stopped in front of the bed, and the footsteps stopped.

"You haven't woken up yet."

The man's voice was filled with undisguised ridicule.

Sheng Qing wanted to continue pretending to be asleep, but the breathing sound was getting closer and closer, and the hot air was completely sprayed on his face. His eyelashes trembled and he had to open his eyes.

An enlarged face suddenly came into view.

The man was standing beside the bed, half leaning over, looking at him carefully, their heads less than twenty centimeters apart.

Too close, too close. Shengqing could clearly see the lines in the human's pupils and smell the sweet scent emanating from him. He knew it meant he was happy.

"You really haven't woken up yet, you're so dazed..."

Shengqing blinked slowly.

"Why are you acting cute again?"

Shengqing didn't move.

Yan Hao's smile deepened. He could feel his usually silent heart thumping in his chest, almost as if it was about to burst out of his throat.

Why is it so noisy? I wonder if the little snake heard it. Yan Hao thought so. And the little snake, as if it could read his mind, suddenly pointed at Yan Hao's chest.

"You...here...so fast."

The main reason why Shengqing didn't talk to Yan Hao before was not only because he was worried about scaring him, but more importantly, he knew that his tone of voice was strange and he was worried that he would be laughed at.

But ever since he discovered that people would become incredibly happy whenever he spoke to them, he wasn't so afraid anymore. In recent days, he'd been learning from the little black box that people had found for him, and sometimes when people were free, they'd teach him. Like a baby learning to speak, his language skills were improving day by day, no longer halting like when he first started.

When you learn a new skill, you naturally want to show it off. Sheng Qing has been talking a lot lately, unlike his usual silence of several days.

"Yan Hao...why...it's so fast here..."

Shengqing, who is in the process of learning human language, always remembers the correct pronunciation and he pronounces every word very clearly.

"Are you sick? Are you sick?"

“…Are you sick?”

"Will it hurt?"

As the snake's injuries improved, the smell of the medicine powder on its body became weaker and weaker, with a slightly bitter taste mixed with a freshness from the jungle, like moss wrapped in morning dew after rain, quietly drifting into the air.

Yan Hao stared at his lips that kept opening and closing.

“…”

Shengqing stared at him with a pair of misty eyes. Such clear and penetrating eyes could invisibly reflect all his dirty and unspeakable thoughts.

"…What's wrong? What's wrong with you?"

"How...faster."

Yan Hao's Adam's apple rolled, and he felt a sense of shame for no reason. At the same time, he was worried. Wasn't the little snake's vigilance too low? He was so close, and he didn't even make a move to resist?

"Listen, if another human approaches you like this in the future, you must push him away, understand?" Yan Hao stood up and said seriously, "Humans are all very bad people, they can't be trusted..."

ah?

Why are you suddenly talking about this?

The little snake looked confused, but subconsciously wanted to refute: "But..." But you are different, you are so good to me...

Before Shengqing could finish his sentence, the human interrupted him: "No buts."

"Including me." Yan Hao paused for two seconds, his expression becoming more serious. "Even if it's me, I'm not a good person. If one day I do something or do something that makes you uncomfortable, you must push me away, okay?"

The smell on the person is still sweet, but there seems to be a smell mixed in with the sweetness.

Shengqing was not unfamiliar with this smell.

He remembered that when he was still living in the mountains, every spring when animals were breeding, he could smell this special smell in the air, sticky and hot.

Shengqing nodded, not quite understanding.

"I'll apply the medicine for you. I'll be out soon. You stay home and take care of yourself, okay?"

Shengqing nodded.

He knew that people must be very busy recently. Although he didn't know what they were busy with specifically, as long as humans stayed at home for a while, the thing called a mobile phone on their body would always buzz non-stop.

The voices from inside were sometimes male and sometimes female, and without exception they all asked him where he had been, saying that reporters were surrounding him outside. At such a critical moment, why wasn't he, the next head of the family, here?

don't know…

In short, people are really busy, and every time they come back from outside, they have an unconcealable fatigue on their bodies, and the smell of their bodies is like dead branches and rotten leaves...

Even so, he would take the initiative to apologize to Shengqing. That was on the first night of Shengqing's stay at "our house". Since Shengqing had always eaten with humans in the hotel before, he waited like that.

He waited for a long, long time, until it was completely dark outside, and then the man came back. He was already lying on the bed and fell asleep when he smelled a familiar scent approaching quickly.

What did people say back then?

He said, "I'm sorry, I was a little too busy today and didn't spend much time with you."

He said, "I heard from the housekeeper that you have been waiting for me to have dinner this afternoon, right?"

He said, "I'm sorry..."

It was Seung-kyung's first time facing an apology from someone, and his response was, "...Why?"

The little snake's emotions were very simple. He didn't feel dissatisfied because of the long wait. He just thought that they had eaten together before, so he waited.

Wait...wait...

But I just waited a little longer than usual.

There wasn't even a trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes. He couldn't even imagine that he could be dissatisfied. People should have seen it, but he still said, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

Thoughts swirling, Sheng Qing shifted his gaze to Yan Hao in front of him. He was opening a small first aid kit and picking out several ointments of different colors, a bottle of disinfectant, a bottle of spray, and a pack of disinfectant cotton swabs.

He lifted the quilt, and his big hand expertly grabbed Shengqing's curled-up snake tail and straightened it out bit by bit.

Before applying the medicine, he needed to observe the injury. He leaned in and carefully observed the old wounds on the snake's tail that had become faint marks, and gently touched the scars that no longer hurt with his fingertips.

"sorry…"

People say this again.

It's so strange. The culprit who caused those scars was obviously not the person in front of me, but every time he applied medicine to Shengqing, the smell on his body became particularly weak.

"I'm sorry, I should have shown up earlier..."

“…”

He has been very busy since returning to Binhai, but no matter how busy he is, even if he is so busy that he has no time to eat, Yan Hao never forgets to apply medicine to the little snake every morning and evening.

After humans applied medicine continuously morning and evening and took medicated baths every night, the scales on Shengqing's body had almost healed and he no longer felt any pain.

And he actually still asked: "Will it hurt?"

A cotton swab soaked in disinfectant gently rubbed Shengqing's waist in circles. There were many wounds here before, the most serious ulcers oozing pus, with few intact scales left.

Now, the ulcers and pus have completely disappeared, and new scales have grown from the waist. They are no longer dull as before, but very shiny. You can tell at a glance that they are very healthy.

To make it easier to apply the medicine, Shengqing, like every time before, held up the hem of his shirt and spoke clearly, "It doesn't hurt."

After disinfection, squeeze out a soybean-sized amount of light yellow paste and apply it evenly on the wound.

The person asked again: "Does it hurt?"

Shengqing continued to repeat: "It doesn't hurt."

Before, I felt pain every time I applied the medicine because the wound was serious. Now that the wound is much better, I only feel a cool touch, and at most a little heat.

It's not the medicine, it's the human breath.

People carefully apply a layer of antibacterial medicine, a layer of antipruritic medicine, and a layer of repair medicine to each wound, layer by layer. To prevent the medicine from being rubbed off and affecting the effect, they finally spray a layer of spray to form a transparent protective film on the skin surface.

The person painted it carefully, and Shengqing could see it just by looking down.

Even though he had seen the scene before him many times, Shengqing still couldn't believe it every time he saw it...

I couldn't believe that those ugly scars on my body would one day be treated so gently by a stranger I had never met.

…

People don't know that among the many wounds on Shengqing's body, tail, and even elbows, only a very small part were directly caused by the trainer, and most of the wounds were actually caused by himself.

There was no way. The dirty environment caused him to suffer from skin disease. People who were hiding from others had a lot of problems, so what were the problems with animals?

In the past few years of wandering, in countless days and nights, the excruciating itching and pain in those wounds constantly eroded him...

It was so itchy and uncomfortable that he didn't know how to relieve it. He could only rub it continuously, bite himself, hurt himself, and use pain to suppress another pain.

While Shengqing was lost in thought, the medicine had already been administered. Breakfast had just been delivered to the dining room by the servants. Yan Hao put away his medicine box and went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

Shengqing stared at his carefully treated wound in a daze. Could it be so gentle?

…

The sudden feeling of weightlessness brought Shengqing back to his senses. Before he realized what was happening, his hand had already rested on the person's shoulder as usual.

Yan Hao picked him up, skillfully placed him on a wheelchair, and slowly pushed him out of the bedroom and towards the restaurant outside.

Today's breakfast is still very rich.

Although he was still very busy, he still ignored the buzzing cell phone and slowly accompanied Shengqing to finish breakfast. He took out a white napkin and slowly wiped off the little residue stuck on his lips.

It was already late.

There was a deep reluctance on people's faces.

"I have to go out."

He raised his hand and touched Shengqing's head, and promised him solemnly: "I will definitely come back early tonight...um...to our home."

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The sound of people's footsteps gradually faded away.

He left.

After a long while, until the roar of the car could no longer be heard, Shengqing turned his head and began to think seriously about what he could do at this time.

I have been living in this new territory for almost five days.

The servants in the villa treated him very well. Meals were delivered to his door and his room was cleaned regularly. If he didn't call them, no one would come to disturb him.

In five days, the new territory was marked, the pinyin table was memorized, and the flowers and plants in the garden, as well as the two cats and a few birds, were all familiar to me...

He actually started to do nothing.

A month ago, he would never have imagined that he would one day live such an idle life...

How long has it been? Thinking about those days in the circus, his friends in the circus, and his previous life, Shengqing felt as if he was in another world, as if it had been a long, long time.

No one had told Shengqing about the news about the previous circus, but he had his own unique source of information.

He learned from some of the animals along the way which circus had disbanded for unknown reasons. He still didn't quite understand the rules of human society, but he did know where some of the animals had gone: some went to the zoo, and some died.

Dead.

He had wanted to die very badly before.

If I hadn't met Yan Hao...

Speaking of people, Shengqing remembered what he had said before. If it was in its childhood, maybe it could really be curled up into a ball and thrown into his pocket, and he could take it with him wherever he went.

As he was thinking, Shengqing felt hungry again.

He's been hungry lately, even though he just ate a meal and then he's hungry again. People have said before that if anything's wrong, you should tell him, but is getting hungry quickly and eating a lot also wrong?

Sheng Qing instinctively felt that he was about to enter a period where he needed to stockpile a large amount of food.

But what is it?

The confused little snake knew nothing about his own growth. While waiting for food to be delivered, he took out the mobile phone someone gave him, secretly looked around before unlocking it, and then carefully entered the passwords one by one.

The mobile phone homepage is very clean. The first page is a few simple small games, almost all of which are enlightenment and puzzle games. The first software on the second page is a green social application.

He clicked on the message list and found that apart from the messages that came with the software, there was only one contact.

The dialog box remains at the content posted yesterday.

Shengqing is still in the stage of learning pinyin, and is not very good at typing, so there are always some typos, so a large part of the dialog box is voice.

【Voice Message】

“I’ve learned…”

【Voice Message】

"Oh my god, that's amazing."

…

Shengqing listened to the voice in the white voice box over and over again, just like a primary school student learning to speak from his teacher, listening and learning again.

When he learned it for the third time, he smelled the aroma of food again. He did not leave immediately, but waited until the servant's footsteps gradually faded away, then controlled the forward button of the wheelchair and slowly left the bedroom.

While chewing the steaming piece of fresh meat, the little snake suddenly thought about the future. This was an incredible phenomenon, as he had never thought about the future before.

Later, I think someone told him before...

What did he say about the future?

I can't remember clearly.

The aroma of food filled his nostrils. Sheng Qing swallowed a mouthful of meat and drank a glass of juice.

Let’s go outside and take a walk.

The weather is so nice, you can bask in the sun.