Chapter 361: The Duplicity Kid
"Come on, I'll take you to eat something delicious." Xie Yingmian took Xiaokui to the Zhaixinglou that she had been longing for, and ordered all of the Zhaixinglou's signature dishes.
Xiaokui was so happy that she jumped three feet high.
The dishes at Zhaixinglou are very expensive.
Just because an adult has money doesn’t mean he is wealthy.
Adults don’t care much about food and only come a few times a year.
Therefore, he didn't come to Zhaixing Tower to eat very often.
Xiaokui was small after all, and after eating a lot for a while, her belly became very round.
He burped and touched his belly: "I wish I could turn into a cow. Cows have four stomachs."
"That way, I can have four large meals."
Xie Yingmian: "Cows can only eat grass, not meat."
Xiao Kui: "That's right."
Xiaokui gave up the idea of turning into a cow.
"Did you remember anything?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Xiao Kui tilted her neck: "It's very familiar, I must have seen it before, probably when I was little."
"I remember things very early. Normal children have almost no memory before the age of three, but I am different. I can remember things after the age of two."
"I can't remember this pattern, which means I saw it before I was two years old."
Xie Yingmian asked, "When did you come to Shen Tingsi?"
Xiao Kui: "Probably when I was six years old."
"I don't remember anything before I was two years old, and I don't know where I was."
"From the age of two to six, I wandered with my father. After my father died, I was almost starving to death. An adult saved me and took me in."
"Who is your father?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Xiao Kui was surprised and said, "Of course my father is my father."
Xie Yingmian said, "I wanted to ask what your father's name is."
Xiao Kui shook her head: "I don't know."
"My father never told me that as far as I can remember, he and I have been wandering around, and he was always sick and in very poor health."
"In my memory, he was very tall and thin, carrying a strange, broken sword on his back. He was holding me and walking all the time, and I didn't know where he was going."
"He was very weak, coughing frequently and vomiting blood, as if a gust of wind could blow him down."
Xie Yingmian: "Why are you and your father wandering around?"
Xiao Kui: "I don't know."
"I was too young at the time, and my father refused to tell me anything."
"But I guess it has something to do with a woman."
Xie Yingmian raised her eyebrows: "What woman?"
"A very beautiful woman." Xiao Kui's face wrinkled up. "I've noticed a few times that after I fell asleep, he would secretly take out a portrait of a woman and look at it."
"Laughing while watching, and then crying while laughing, that kind of look is not worth the money."
"I suspect he's wandering because he molested that beauty and was hunted by her family, so he had no choice but to flee."
"Ah, I'm the only one who doesn't despise him. I wander around with him and make the world my home."
The veins on Xie Yingmian's forehead twitched several times.
She snapped her fingers at Xiao Kui and said, "Fool, is there a possibility that the beauty is your mother?"
Xiao Kui widened her eyes: "No way."
"The woman in the painting is extremely beautiful, as pretty as Sister Tianxian. My father looks like that, and Sister Tianxian fell in love with him even though she was blind."
Xie Yingmian: ...
You are truly a filial son to your father.
"Do you have any impression of your mother?"
Xiao Kui pouted and shook her head: "I have no impression at all."
"I asked my dad, but he always remained silent. Later I stopped asking. It doesn't matter if I don't have a mother. I have a father, which is enough."
When Xiao Kui said this, her expression became obviously lost.
Later he even lost his father.
When he was adopted by adults, he always missed his father.
He even secretly called adults "Dad", but was spanked by the adults and told to call them "Brother".
No way.
Adults are like his fathers. He dislikes them a little but also likes them very much.
Xiaokui misses her dad.
He lowered his head and tears fell down.
Xie Yingmian rubbed his head and asked, "Do you miss your dad?"
Xiao Kui secretly wiped away her tears, raised her head, and said stubbornly and proudly: "No."
"I don't despise him enough, that's why I don't think about him."
Afraid that Xie Yingmian wouldn't believe him, he tried to make amends by explaining:
"I'm not lying to you. I really, really dislike him. He's always so sickly and skinny, almost like nothing but bones. He always carries me around, moving from one city to another. Even if I really like a city, he doesn't want to stay."
"I don't understand. He's already in that state, why can't he stay? Why can't he find a beautiful place with clear water and mountains to recuperate?"
"He's so stupid, so dumb and stupid. I hate him so much."
Xiao Kui had turned her back, her shoulders twitching.
Xie Yingmian gently put her arm around Xiaokui's shoulders and asked, "Have you ever thought about going over and investigating what your father is looking for?"
Xiao Kui: "I don't want to know."
"I……"
He sniffed. "I don't know where to start investigating."
Xie Yingmian: "You can ask Shen Tingsi, or look for the relics your father left for you."
"The adult doesn't know anything." Xiao Kui said, "He doesn't even know my father. He just took me in because he felt sorry for me and saw that I was about to starve to death."
"As for my father's relics, all he left me was a rusty sword. I despised it and never took it out to look at it."
"Can I take a look?" Xie Yingmian asked.
"What's so good about a broken sword?" Xiao Kui curled her lips.
After a while, he said again: "Sister Princess, do you really want to see it?"
"If you really want to see it, I can show it to you."
"Yes, I want to see it." Xie Yingmian smiled.
Xiao Kui brought Xie Yingmian to his room.
He lifted the quilt, opened the special grid at the head of the bed, and took out a sword from the small grid.
"It's this sword, all rusted and ugly. No one wants it even if I sell it for scrap metal."
Xiao Kui said with disdain, but her hands were very gentle, and she was very careful when handing it to Xie Yingmian.
Seeing Xie Yingmian taking it casually, his eyes were filled with heartache.
Xie Yingmian found it funny: "Don't worry, I won't break it for you."
Xiao Kui's thoughts were exposed, and she grumbled uncomfortably, "I'm not afraid of you breaking it, I'm afraid the rusty sword will stain my house if it breaks."
Xie Yingmian chuckled.
The little brat who says one thing and thinks another, can't even hide his tsundere nature.
The sword was indeed rusty.
It was covered in rust, and the rust was unusual, looking like it had been corroded by something.
"Have you sharpened this sword?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Xiaokui widened her eyes.
This is the only thing his father left him.
It's so rusty it looks like it'll rot soon.
He was reluctant to grind it.
Although he despised his father and this broken sword.
But he couldn't bear to throw it away, let alone damage it.
"Grind it a bit." Xie Yingmian said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be an exceptionally fine sword."
Xiao Kui: "No way, it looks so broken..."
"Believe me," Xie Yingmian said, "it's only its exterior that's been corroded."
"Once you remove this layer of rust, you can see its true appearance."
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