Chapter 190 No lie.

Shu Lan answered seriously, "The first layer is chocolate, the second layer is mango, and the third layer is strawberry. Come, Mommy will cut a piece for you."

“…I won’t eat it. It’s sand.”

The occasional details he discovered went through his mind, connecting the cause and effect. Li Yanli's eyes darkened, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Shu Xiaolan."

Shu Lan lowered her head to shovel sand and replied casually, "I'm here."

"You changed your name again?"

Shu Lan said: "My real name is Shu Lan."

"Which two words?"

Shu Lan wondered, "You don't know which two characters?" But she still cooperated and pushed out a flat piece of ground. She used a branch she had picked up to write her name on it, stroke by stroke, and then wrote "Shu Maomao" below.

"This is my name, this is my son's."

Li Yanli looked at Shu Maomao, who was bending down to wet the sand and helping her build the house. She said "Oh" meaningfully, bent down and said to Shu Maomao, "Nephew, since the outcome between you and me is decided, I will go home. Auntie is reluctant to leave you. Do you want to shake my hand and say goodbye before you go?"

Shu Maomao didn't even raise his head and said disdainfully, "No."

Li Yanli suddenly understood.

Yes, that’s the right attitude.

Shu Maomao never interacts with anyone except his mother, and he would fight to the death. But before, she suddenly came over and wanted to shake hands with him, which touched him for a long time. It turned out that she wanted to read his mind.

It was all in vain.

What was he thinking when he shook hands with Shu Maomao?

It seemed as if he was not thinking of anything other than surprise and confusion, otherwise why would the mother and son not behave in any unusual manner afterwards?

Or did the mother and son already know some of the facts but were working together to deceive him?

Very likely.

Li Yanli, filled with doubt, looked at Shu Lan, who was digging a sand pit. She said excitedly, "Baby, put your legs in here. Mommy will make you a mermaid's tail. Sister, don't leave yet. Make me a fish tail too. I want to take a picture."

Li Yanli: "..."

She doesn't look like someone who knows a lot of secrets.

Two mermaids, one large and one small, were freshly created. Shu Lan pressed the camera into his hands and said, "Make sure to find a good angle."

Li Yanli, who had agreed to leave, reluctantly picked up the camera and helped take pictures. After putting it down, Shu Lan looked at her expectantly with sparkling eyes, "Sister, can you help me fix the generator in the villa again?"

Li Yanli, who was totally unable to refuse, followed her to the villa.

After the villa was powered on, Shu Lan pointed at the swimming pool and said, "Sister, can you swim? If you can, could you please teach me and your eldest nephew? I've never learned to swim in my life."

So he, the only one who could swim, started working as a swimming coach again, and kept putting off returning home as planned.

Li Yanli couldn't go into the water because the wound on his neck bitten by the zombies would never heal, and he was afraid that the virus in the wound would spread through the water.

He stood by and gave instructions: "Relax your whole body and feel the buoyancy of the water."

Shu Lan is a typical incompetent but playful girl. She struggled on the swimming ring for a while and then said she was hungry and wanted to go back to her room to change clothes and cook. But Shu Maomao, who had just learned to swim, was still paddling in the water like a little frog.

Li Yanli glanced back at the people busy in the kitchen, squatted down by the pool, and asked in a low voice, "Boy, did you use your telepathic ability to steal some secrets from me?"

Shu Maomao swam to one end of the pool using breaststroke, then swam back on his back without any instruction, saying, "I can't read minds."

"Really? Children shouldn't lie to others, or their noses will get longer and longer."

Shu Maomao said, "I didn't lie."

The one who has the ability to read minds is his mother Shu Lan, not him. He reads memories.

Li Yanli saw that he answered so clearly and concisely, and her doubts were greatly dispelled. "Then I'll be leaving. Tell your mother."

Shu Maomao asked, "Why don't you go and tell her yourself?"

It was already dark, with only a little light left. Li Yanli had his back to the light in the house, his face hidden in the darkness, and his expression could not be seen clearly.

After Shu Maomao asked, he was silent for a while, then smiled softly: "Anyway, I'm leaving first. Don't play in the water for too long, your skin will get wrinkled."

Shu Maomao said nonchalantly, "Bye."

"Bye-Bye."

Two minutes later, Shu Lan shouted from inside the house, "Sister, a crab has escaped from the pond! I can't catch it because it might pinch my hand. Help!"

Shu Maomao flashed into the house from the swimming pool, his body wet. He picked up the crab and threw it into the pool, saying, "Mom, he ran away too."

Shu Lan looked outside, the light in her eyes slowly dimming. She lowered her head and continued slicing ginger, muttering, "You always run away so fast after meeting. If someone didn't know me, they'd think I was a zombie and you were human."

The person flying in the night slowed down, stood alone in the middle of the dead city, and looked back.

The only lighted house on the beach was too far away to be seen.

But he could hear her say, "Shu Maomao, change your clothes before you help Mommy, or you'll catch a cold."

Shu Maomao said, "No, I released the water. I just need to let them go back into the pool, you see."

"Wow, they dried up in no time! Amazing! Dead crabs are coming out again! I'm really impressed. They want to live so badly. Tie them up and steam them first!"

Even if there are only two people, there is a lively and lively atmosphere that is never dull.

Li Yanli listened quietly for a while. He had no other choice but to leave without saying goodbye.

He simply couldn't bear to leave.

…

After playing for two consecutive days and checking in at the beach, Shu Lan returned to the base with a lot of photos and videos and shared them with the sisters in Ji Lan's office. As expected, she received a lot of praise.

"What a lovely pair of mermaids! Commander's swimsuit is so beautiful."

"Huh? Is the beach so clean? I thought it would be full of dead fish."

Su Zhen noticed the details: "Commander, there seems to be another figure here..."

Shu Lan had already picked out the photos that included Li Yanli, but she didn't expect that there were still some that slipped through the net.

She said calmly, "Oh, that's the shadow of the coconut tree. It looks like a person. It's still too lonely for me and Master Maomao to go out and play. Next time, we should go as a group."

Ji Lan hesitated and said, "But we have to pay everyone's salary every day, it seems we can't leave."

Shu Lan raised an eyebrow. "If I say we can leave, then we can leave. We had statutory holidays before, and we still have to have them now. But don't make it too many. How about a collective day off for every seven days of work?"

Everyone's eyes lit up: "Great!"

Lu Qinghe asked excitedly, "Commander, will you go to the beach next time? I want to play in the water too."

"A day trip to the beach doesn't seem like enough. How about going to the river?"

Shu Lan was just about to suggest that the riverside might be a good place to go, that she could create an artificial beach with a few coconut trees pulled from space, when the intercom rang. Zhou Dahu said, "Commander, the Zombie King has specifically requested you."

When the three words "Zombie King" were heard, the office immediately became quiet.

Even though peace has been established for several years, the shadow cast by zombies on people is still profound, and people can't help but shudder when they hear about it.

Shu Lan reached out to Shu Maomao. Shu Maomao took out a small pair of headphones from the space and placed them in her palm. Just as he was about to jump off the chair, Shu Lan pushed his shoulder and said, "Don't move. Just sit there and continue eating your watermelon. I'll go to the door and come back after I finish talking."

Shu Maomao then sat back, picked up the spoon again, and buried his face in the watermelon.