Chapter 6 Can I help you secretly call the police?
At 5:30 human time, little Xingxing ate steamed buns and a can of fragrant and sweet milk.
I yawned while eating, and rubbed my eyes to wipe away the physiological tears.
I was so sleepy that I almost fell into the plastic bag containing the dumplings.
Zhou Xiangyang found it funny, and when the kid was pinching and eating half of the bun, squinting his eyes and lowering his head sleepily, he quickly reached out and put some padding on the edge of the table.
Xingxing's forehead hit her father's big hand, but she didn't wake up. She just held the bun that she had taken two bites of, buried her head, and her breathing became heavier.
It's as if I want to make up for all the sleep I missed all at once.
Zhou Xiangyang carefully took the bun from his son's hand, and without disdaining his son's saliva, he stuffed it into his own mouth with his backhand. Then he slowly raised the hand that was supporting his star-like forehead, adjusted the child's posture, and then held him in his arms and stuffed him back into the still warm quilt.
Qiuqiu stood at the head of Xingxing's bed, watching the Sunflower Dad busying himself in the small house like a diligent big bee. After everything in the house was tidy, he slowly closed the door and left home.
After finishing the housework, Sunflower's father goes out to earn money to support the family.
When the footsteps gradually disappeared, Qiuqiu yawned in an anthropomorphic way, and curled up in Xingxing's quilt, and went back to sleep with him.
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As the sky grew brighter, the shabby little building became increasingly bustling and noisy.
There are women shouting at the top of their lungs to get up and eat, men coughing and spitting, children running around, quarrels, hawking, going up and down the stairs...
There was no peace in the ears anymore. Even though I had wrapped myself tightly in the quilt, those sounds still penetrated into the ears of the child who was trying to stay in bed.
Finally, Xingxing pulled a stern face, lifted the quilt and sat up, cold all over.
Qiuqiu retreated secretly: "...baby, don't be grumpy when you wake up."
The stars turned their heads and stared at it.
Qiuqiu immediately said: "...It's okay, good morning."
The child, who suddenly became grumpy about waking up, lay on the bed with the messy quilt in a daze for a while. When he calmed down enough, he slowly slid down the edge of the bed.
Clothes, pants, socks, shoes...
Xingxing pursed her lips and carefully followed the steps her uncle once used to dress her, but she failed at the step of brushing her teeth.
It accidentally swallowed some of the bubbles in its mouth.
The ball was so scared that it started to glow all over the place, and while glowing, it frantically searched for related entries such as "Will a three-year-old cub die after accidentally eating toothpaste?"
Xingxing held a toothbrush and a cup and waited for Qiuqiu to find the answer.
A few seconds later, Captain Qiuqiu breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay. They said that it's not serious if you swallow it accidentally. You just need to spit out the toothpaste foam in your mouth and rinse your mouth quickly to prevent a second bite."
"Oh yeah, and drink more water!"
Hearing this, Xingxing tilted her head in confusion while holding the mouthwash in her mouth: the toothpaste was swallowed into the stomach, and then a lot of water was drunk, and it was shaken... wouldn't the stomach be filled with toothpaste bubbles?
"That shouldn't be the case..." Qiuqiu wasn't particularly sure, so he guessed, "Maybe toothpaste is edible? Otherwise, why would humans make toothpaste taste so sweet?"
Xingxing also thought it made sense and nodded seriously: "Yeah."
My uncle said that humans eat everything. If you were to pull out a list of foods that humans eat, it could circle the planet three times!
After Xingxing finally managed to clean himself up with the help of Qiuqiu, he put the key in his pocket, closed the door and walked out.
"Sunflower's father gets off work at 2:30 every afternoon, gets home at 3, and goes to sell vegetables at 4:30..."
Qiuqiu counted Zhou Xiangyang's travel time and said, "Xingxing, it's 8:47 in the morning now. We have about five hours of free time!"
Qiuqiu's words fell with the sound of the door closing.
Xingxing looked at the empty corridor, took the key and a piece of chocolate she got yesterday, and went out penniless.
Qiuqiu squatted on Xingxing's head, and the light screen showed the child the surrounding map navigation. No matter where Xingxing wanted to go, he only needed to locate himself and he would never get lost.
But the stars are not destined to be the children on a happy voyage today.
As soon as he walked out of the alley, he was stopped.
A...child.
Xingxing looked at each other, and the child's complicated expression was reflected in her clear eyes.
After looking at each other for a moment, Xingxing tilted his head in confusion, then walked around each other and prepared to move forward.
He is very busy and wants to experience the world seriously. Today is just his first step out.
But before he could take this step, the child ran over and grabbed him again.
Xingxing wrinkled her face, broke free from the other person's hand, took two steps back, and used her eyes to ask the other person what he wanted to do.
"Is your name Zhou Chenxing?" The kid, who was dressed very handsomely and whose clothes looked expensive and exquisite, asked him his name right away.
Xingxing recalled Uncle Hu's advice in her mind: "Many human traffickers will use children as bait to trick you into playing with them, then take you to a deserted place, knock you out and steal you away..."
Xingxing looked at the child with a more alert look and took another step back.
The child seemed a little confused when he saw this. His face was wrinkled like a little adult, and he muttered softly: "Why aren't you talking? Are you a little mute?"
Xingxing heard every word clearly, but the child did not refute, and naturally did not want to speak anymore.
"Are you Zhou Chenxing?" The child continued to try and help him think of a solution: "If you are, nod your head. If not, shake your head."
Xingxing shook her head.
"Then do you know a kid named Zhou Chenxing?" the child continued to ask.
Xingxing stared at him for a moment and finally nodded.
The child was delighted and quickly said, "Do you know where he is? I'm his classmate, I came here to play with him!"
Star:"……"
The child secretly complained to Qiuqiu in his heart: "This human cub is so stupid."
Qiuqiu nodded vigorously.
That’s right, Sunflower’s father hasn’t even saved enough money for Xingxing to go to kindergarten, so where would Xingxing get classmates from?
The child couldn't hear the whispers in the two little ones' hearts, otherwise he would not have done what he did afterwards.
He asked Xingxing to take him to find "Zhou Chenxing".
He also stuffed another piece of chocolate into Xingxing's hand.
It’s not the same brand as last night, but it seems more expensive and more exquisite.
Xingxing put the chocolate in her pocket, turned around and walked home with the child.
Qiuqiu scanned the information of the strange child and was stunned after seeing his name and identity.
...The male lead?
Ah? Why is he looking for Xing Xing instead of being the fake young master who is loved by everyone?
Moreover, why didn’t the original plot mention that this young male protagonist was...reborn for the second time?
Qiuqiu was stunned.
After Qiuqiu told Xingxing the identity of the male protagonist, Xingxing was also confused.
The child who was leading the way in front suddenly stopped, and Cheng Qian had to stop as well. Then the star in front suddenly turned his head and looked at him.
Cheng Qi'an was confused by the look and asked, "What's wrong?"
After asking the question, he remembered that the child was mute. Sure enough, the child stared at him for two seconds and then shook his head dejectedly.
Looks very unintelligent.
Xingxing continued to lead the way in front, communicating with Qiuqiu in his heart.
"Was he picked up, too?"
Is it just like how Zhou Chenxing was picked up by Sunflower’s father on the roadside?
Qiuqiu flipped through the plot and shook her head: "Of course not, he was switched to the Cheng family. Little Zhou Chenxing was maliciously switched at birth. Cheng Qian'an is the child of the Cheng family's nanny's younger brother."
"How could he be reborn?" Xingxing was even more curious about this. Including this life, he was reborn twice.
"Let me look through..."
Qiuqiu flipped through the original novel frantically, analyzing every metaphor between the lines and some foreshadowing that the author himself might have forgotten, and said uncertainly: "He was originally swapped, but was discovered by the Cheng family before he was three years old, and then they found little Zhou Chenxing. Later, Cheng Qian'an's life was always compared with Zhou Chenxing. The better Zhou Chenxing lived, the more Cheng Qian'an hated his fate."
"Until his death, Cheng Qi'an was unwilling to accept his fate, so by chance he was reborn for the first time. That was... the life when little Zhou Chenxing died of a high fever at the age of three. He was discovered much later. At that time, his biological parents had already died in an accident, so the Cheng family treated him as their own child and doted on him."
"The second time was when you, Xingxing, appeared. The world line did not go back to the time when he was reborn, so his rebirth was a predetermined process on a predetermined timeline and could not be changed. However, he only had the memory of his first life and did not know the plot."
It was a very long speech, and although Qiuqiu tried to explain it as clearly as possible, Xingxing still found it a bit confusing.
But this does not affect his ability to quickly capture the key points hidden in Qiuqiu's words.
When entering the small building, the child stopped and, urged by Zhou Qian'an behind him, he climbed up slowly, holding on to the wall.
But in her heart, she whispered to Qiuqiu, "He was the one who killed little Zhou Chenxing."
The tone is firm.
Qiuqiu was silent for a moment, then looked across the stars at Cheng Qian'an, who looked nervous and excited. His round body floated up and down twice, and he said sullenly, "Well, if nothing unexpected happens, little Zhou Chenxing will have a high fever and die... It should be because of him."
How else could one explain why Cheng Qi'an, who had never been seen before, would appear here at the time when Zhou Chenxing died? And why he was looking for stars with a clear purpose?
He can only be harboring evil intentions and want to get rid of Zhou Chenxing in advance to prevent Zhou Chenxing from being found and taken back by the Cheng family in the future, and then letting Cheng Qian'an repeat the mistakes of his first life.
"Xingxing, be careful. If things really don't work, I can help you secretly call the police." Qiuqiu became nervous after realizing it belatedly.
But Xingxing continued to move upwards, carrying Cheng Qian'an, who didn't know his identity, to the dirty toilet.
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