Chapter 196 (Catching Bugs)
In the end, He Fang couldn't bear it anymore, so just like she taught Yunmian yesterday, she took the straw from Xie Jinan's hand, easily lit it, and stuffed it into the stove.
The gradually burning flames finally stopped producing thick, suffocating black smoke.
He Fang glanced at Xie Jinan and sighed, "Let Mianmian light the fire. If we delay any longer, lunch will become dinner."
Xie Jinan: “…”
Xie Jinan's face and hands were covered with pitch-black soot. He did not have the same elegant demeanor as he had in the morning. After changing his clothes, he looked like a beggar.
Yun Mian hid behind the door and watched this scene with a smile on her face. She didn't even remember the embarrassment she felt after her sister gave her a cold look yesterday.
Xie Jinan had not expected that he would make such a fool of himself in front of the two children. He stood up awkwardly and gave the small wooden stake to Yunmian, only to find that the little guy was just paddling the whole time. He took a piece of straw and played with it in his hand for a long time after lighting it, but he didn't make a good fire at all. He had to rely on the older He Fang to help add firewood from time to time.
The point is, this little girl named He Fang seems to have a bit of double standards. To her, it's "don't waste time", but to Yunmian...
He even broke very thin branches himself, for fear that the branches would break and hurt the children's fingers.
To be honest, Xie Jinan felt that He Fang was not taking care of her sister, but more like taking care of her daughter.
The attitude towards her is completely different!
Xie Jinan, who always thought that the villagers were very enthusiastic, finally felt a little bit of the coldness of human nature with He Fang.
But watching He Fang skillfully cooking, preparing meals and washing pots, she felt that the environment and character settings in this game were too real.
If details like these are so realistic, one can imagine that this so-called "nightmare game" is definitely not just some minor prank.
Xie Jinan still doesn’t quite understand why she was chosen by the game, but she wasn’t a good person to begin with and could survive anywhere, so she was the one who adapted the fastest among the five.
After watching He Fang cook the dishes without putting anything inappropriate in the dishes, Xie Jinan used the excuse that the plate was hot to take over the job that should have belonged to Yun Mian.
Yunmian: "Uncle System, this sister must be a very good person!"
Although my sister may sometimes make things worse, it doesn’t matter. Mianmian won’t dislike stupid people!
system:"……"
After Xie Jinan left, He Fang scooped the little bit of soup base left in the pot into a small bowl, and put it on the innermost part of the bottom shelf of the cupboard. She closed the door so that no one would find it.
When there were guests at home, the two girls were not allowed to eat at the table. Yunmian would move a small wooden stake to the side of the cupboard, and while eating rice soaked in vegetable soup from a bowl, she would guard the cupboard like a treasure.
After dinner, when the two children were washing the dishes, Xie Jinan actually went into the kitchen again.
This time she didn't help with anything, but stood by the stove and chatted with the two children.
Xie Jinan found that he had underestimated the situation in this village.
She felt some very strange resistance.
Especially when she wanted to ask about some information, she would always be interrupted, or just like when she was eating at the table just now, no matter what she asked, as long as it slightly touched upon the probing part, the family would become extremely alert and then abruptly change the subject.
It's very strange, and there's an indescribable discomfort.
In this inexplicable behavior of avoiding the topic, their originally enthusiastic smiles and attitudes became a little hypocritical and stiff.
This way, it looks more like an NPC set in the game.
The three people, including the kid named He Jiarong, were very vigilant. After the meal, Xie Jinan did not get any useful information from them.
So after dinner, she finally decided to try again using these two little girls as a breakthrough.
Different situations will lead to different mentalities, and different mentalities will affect a person's reaction to different topics.
But Xie Jinan was still afraid of causing resistance and defensiveness from the two children, so she started with some daily topics.
However……
"How old are you this year? Are you studying?" She smiled and said, "I am a teacher at the village primary school. I will report in a few days."
system:……
He Fang: “…”
Her question successfully plunged the kitchen into an odd silence, with only the sound of running water and the clatter of dishes and chopsticks to be heard.
Yunmian looked at Sister He Fang who was washing dishes with her lips pursed and without saying a word, and then looked at Sister He who seemed to realize that something was wrong and was trying to remedy the situation. She tilted her head and asked Xie Jinan curiously, "Sister, are you a great teacher?"
The dull atmosphere was broken, Xie Jinan silently relaxed his tense body, and replied with a smile: "It's just average, not particularly great."
Yunmian nodded thoughtfully: "Can my sister write?"
"Of course." Xie Jinan rubbed Yunmian's head with amusement: "If I can't write, how can I be a teacher?"
Yun Mian looked up at her and smiled sweetly. She didn't hide when her head was touched. Instead, she rubbed it gently on her palm. She curved her eyes and asked softly, "Can you teach me how to write? I want to learn how to write my own name~"
This request was simple, and Xie Jinan had no reason to refuse.
She easily found He Jiarong's paper and pen, and took the three children outside to learn to write under the pretext of helping He Jiarong with his homework.
He Guizhi and He Yonghong both said that the family could only afford to send He Jiarong to school, and the other two couldn't write, so they shouldn't waste her time.
Xie Jinan ignored it and said with a soft smile, "It's okay. Just teach them to write 123 and their own names. It won't take much effort."
Since she said so, He Guizhi did not stop her. She just coldly taught the two girls not to disturb He Jiarong's studies, and then took a hoe and went to work in the fields.
He Yonghong sat and watched for a while but felt it was boring and went off to play cards.
After they all left, Yun Mian stopped writing, rested her chin on the eraser of the pencil, and stared at He Jiarong who was doing his homework with his head down. It was unknown what she was thinking.
Soon, the system knew what the little guy was thinking.
"Uncle System, if I hide He Jiarong, will they let my mother go?" Yun Mian's voice was light and soft.
The system was stunned: "Mianmian, you want to exchange He Jiarong for your mother?"
No, why did you suddenly think of this?
But without giving it time to analyze the possibility, Yunmian shook his head and denied the idea.
No, that big dog can smell something, it will definitely find He Jiarong, and he and his mother can’t run far.
There was a small round dent on Yunmian's chin from the eraser of the pencil, but she was still imagining scenes of herself rescuing her mother in her head.
The child doesn’t have any special abilities, and is sometimes dull and not smart enough, but as long as it involves her mother, she will always think very hard.
Mom can’t walk, and Mianmian is too small to carry her on her back and run.
The other end of the iron chain in Mom's hand was nailed to the top beam of the cowshed. Neither Mom nor Mianmian could reach it, so they had to ask others for help.
There are bad guys everywhere in the village. It is not enough to just ask He Yonghong's family to let my mother go. All the bad guys must be prevented from taking any action.
Moreover, you can't get out of this place. You can't get out with your mother, and no one else can get out either. You can only get out after the player finds out the truth about the village.
But Yunmian still doesn't quite understand what the truth is after watching the plot...
"Mianmian, what are you daydreaming about?" Xie Jinan tapped the little girl's head gently with a pencil. When she came back to her senses, he pushed the notebook he had written in front of her and said, "Look, this is your name. This character is Renyun, and the character at the back is Renmian."
Next, Xie Jinan wrote He Fang's name, and then held Yun Mian's hand to teach her how to write her name on the paper stroke by stroke.
However, Yunmian stopped after writing once.
"Sister, writing is so difficult... I don't want to write anymore." The five-year-old child developed an aversion to studying the first time he wrote. He slumped on the paper with a wrinkled face, his face pressed against the paper with a blank stare, looking like a complete elementary school loser.
Xie Jinan: “…”
Let me sigh again, the NPC settings in this game are so realistic.
On the other hand, He Fang, who was standing next to him, held the pencil clumsily, and wrote every stroke carefully and vigorously.
Yunmian had no interest in writing herself, but was very interested in watching others learn. She crumpled up the piece of paper with her name on it and put it in her pocket, ready to destroy it at any time. She stretched her neck and got close to her sister He Fang, watching her attentively as she wrote the two crooked words on the notebook.
"It's so ugly~" Yunmian secretly shared with the system: "It's as ugly as what I wrote, uncle, is it true that all pretty children write ugly words?"
system:"……"
You really know how to flatter yourself, kid.
And why don’t you unfold your own paper ball and see which one looks better, your crooked handwriting or He Fang’s?
You think others’ handwriting is ugly, but at least their handwriting will be complete!
However, the child who is full of self-confidence doesn’t care about that. She admits that her handwriting is ugly, but it must be as ugly as her sister’s, so no one can expect to look good!
Of course, Xie Jinan didn't stay here just to accompany the child to write. She only had seven days. The first day was about to pass, but she had not found any news about the truth. She didn't even know what the so-called "truth" was.
After sitting at the table and thinking for a while, she reached out and picked up the idle and unstudy kid Yun Mianmian to her side.
"Mianmian, how about I play a fun game with you?" Xie Jinan leaned over to look at the child at eye level.
Yunmian: “…Okay.”
Although she feels that this sister doesn’t look very kind now, Yunmian herself is a kind child, and kind children are unlikely to refuse invitations from others.
The system squatted on the host's restless head, watching the protagonist Xie Jinan use his professional skills to coax the child, and also watching Yun Mianmian patiently coax Xie Jinan to play.
Before entering the game, Xie Jinan was a psychologist in a mental hospital. In the plot, after entering the game, she relied on this professional skill to easily discover many opportunities and dangers that ordinary people could not detect. But this time after she entered the game, she was frequently seen through in front of Yun Mian.
But this is not because Xie Jinan’s professional ability is not strong enough, but after Yun Mian’s growth in so many mission worlds, her soul strength is far beyond before, and the child’s weird intuition is really too strong. She doesn’t need to distinguish facial expressions and micro-movements like Xie Jinan, she can perceive the changes of the other party by intuition alone.
So every time Xie Jinan tried to trick Yunmian, he was actually discovered.
But Yunmian, this "kind" kid, just refused to expose the other party. She would cooperate seriously every time and was so obedient and stupid that she did not arouse Xie Jinan's suspicion at all.
Yunmian: clever, silly, and gullible.
Xie Jinan: The characters are all game characters. The game has something interesting.
System: Big fool and little fool.
There’s still time in the middle of the night. I won’t feel sleepy if I don’t have a midnight snack today!
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
1 Xie Jiayou;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Gulp 220 bottles;
Crazy, Xiao Xie Jiayou 10 bottles;
5 bottles of Mars, Jingqi, and Continue to Smile;
Lingqinjiu! , Shangguan, 28281713, Super Lucky der, Seventeen 1 bottle;
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