Because she had visited the Forbidden City the day before, Ruan Ruan slept until almost 10 a.m. the next day. After eating something casually, she and her cat curled up alone on the sofa, lost in thought.
"Host, would you like to go out for a walk?" 520 looked up at Ruan Ruan and asked.
"I'm not going out. I walked too much yesterday, and I don't want to move at all today." Ruan Ruan sat cross-legged, staring blankly out the window. 520 lay on his knees, listlessly returning to his seat.
"Host, aren't you curious about the gossip outside?" 520 tried to lure Ruan Ruan out by using some recent events.
"Not curious," Ruan replied weakly.
"Aren't you curious about the outcome of You Jiajia's interrogation?" 520 continued to unleash her ultimate weapon.
"What's there to be curious about? They're only after what Qian Gong has. Now that they've found the person, it's up to Grandpa and the others. I'm just a weak woman; I won't get involved."
If this had happened before, Ruan Ruan would have already taken up arms and sent those shameless scumbags who were coveting her things to their deaths. Even the enemy says it's better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free. But that won't work now, so she'll just stay home and lie there.
"Host, I beg you, please go out for a walk!" 520 started to play the pitiful card when it realized it couldn't persuade Ruan Ruan.
"Just tell me what you want me to do outside. If your request is reasonable, I'll consider it." I don't know what's wrong with me today. Usually, when I wake up, the cat is nowhere to be seen, but today it keeps trying to get me to go outside. This cat is acting crazy.
I want you to take me out.
"Don't you usually go out by yourself? What's wrong today?" Ruan Ruan asked, puzzled.
“Your man said he’s going to the military base today and won’t be back until the afternoon. He told me to stay with you until he gets back,” 520 said, sounding aggrieved.
"Oh, I see. But what does that have to do with whether I go out or not?" Ruan Ruan said that she hadn't seen anyone when she woke up today. It turned out that he had gone to the army with them.
After Huo Haocheng got up in the morning, he told Ruan Ruan that he was going to the army with Ruan Chuanji and the others. However, Ruan Ruan was sleeping too soundly and could not be woken up at all. Worried that she would wake up and look for him, he asked 520 to stay at home with Ruan Ruan and also told her where he was going.
"I made plans with Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei from the compound to play together today, but it's been so long and I still haven't gone. They'll definitely say I broke my promise."
In the past few days, 520 has been running around the compound every day, getting to know all the cats and dogs around there, and also learning a lot from these animals, including the specific missions of the spies.
"Go ahead, I'm not going out today." Hearing that a cat had made so many new friends in just a few days, and thinking about herself, Ruan Ruan felt completely out of place. This was actually quite good; it saved her a lot of trouble. Good, keep it up.
"No, Huo Haocheng said that if he comes back and doesn't see me, he won't give me any yellow croaker to eat."
"How can a system like you be so delicious? Is that reasonable?" 520 is the food that Ruan Ruan likes the most among all the system novels she has read. If someone had told her before that there was a system that liked to eat human food, she would have said "I don't understand". But now that this has happened to her, it is also quite incomprehensible.
"That makes sense. I'm a cat. Cats eat fish, that's normal. Host, let's go for a walk," 520 said in a high-pitched voice, mimicking how Ruan Ruan and Huo Haocheng acted coquettishly towards Ruan Ruan.
"I'll sit in the yard and read a book for a while. You can go find your friends to play by yourself, and come back by yourself when it's time, okay?" Moving from the room to the yard, keeping herself in his sight, was already her biggest concession.
“Okay, let’s go then.” With that, 520 jumped to the ground, and Ruan Ruan followed behind him. They first went to the study to get a military book, and then lay down on a recliner in the yard. It was the perfect picture of a retired old lady’s life, unlike Grandpa Ruan and Grandma Ruan who were living like this.
After having lunch with her grandparents, Ruan Ruan went back to bed, claiming that with the sun so bright, whoever wanted to sunbathe could. She herself wouldn't go out in the sun. Wasn't lying down more pleasant?
Ruan Ruan, who was just eating and sleeping all day, seemed to be going too far. Should they find her something to do? You see, Ruan Ruan used to be busy 24 hours a day, sometimes wishing she could split herself into several parts. This was the complete opposite of her current idle life.
We told her to come here to enjoy life, but this isn't how you're supposed to enjoy it. She's just lying around like that.
In the afternoon, when Huo Haocheng returned, he saw Ruan Ruan lying weakly on the edge of the sofa. In front of her was a Go board, and the old man was holding a black piece, thinking about where to place it.
The old man's chess skills were really too poor, so Ruan Ruan taught him to play Gomoku. However, two hours passed, and although the old man understood the rules, he still cheated and took back his moves.
"Grandpa, Ruan Ruan, I'm back."
"You're finally back." Seeing Huo Haocheng return, Ruan Ruan felt a renewed sense of hope.
"Playing chess with Grandpa?" Huo Haocheng stepped forward, hugged Ruan Ruan, and patted her back to comfort her. He hadn't seen her all day and wanted to kiss her, but he didn't dare because the old man was looking at him.
"Hmm," Ruan Ruan pulled Huo Haocheng to sit down, picked up the kettle from the coffee table, and poured him a glass of water. "Hurry up and drink some water to cool down."
Huo Haocheng took the water glass and downed it in one gulp, finally feeling a bit better; the weather was just too hot.
"This is what Dad asked me to bring back for you," Huo Haocheng said, taking out a small document from the file bag and handing it to Ruan Ruan.
“Dad hopes that when he comes back, you will have already finished translating.” Ruan Ruan took the document, opened it, and looked at it. It was a fragment printed on three sheets of paper, in English, Russian, and German. In other words, Ruan Ruan needed to translate these three languages.
“Okay, I’ll go translate now. You and Grandpa chat for a while.” With that, Ruan Ruan went back to her room to start translating.
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