Chapter 125 Dinner
After sending the message, Yu Sheng went downstairs and waited patiently while cooking in the kitchen - Little Red Riding Hood was always online, and even if she was in class, her wolf would be responsible for carrying the phone to receive new messages at any time.
However, the other party did not respond for a long time.
Yu Sheng was not in a hurry, because the girl would definitely come back anyway.
He fried the meat sauce skillfully, and then cut a large plate of cucumber shreds while the water was boiling - fried noodles with soybean paste are simple and quick to make, and Hu Li also likes it very much.
The kitchen door was carefully pushed open, and a pair of big furry white ears poked in first, shaking twice in the air cleverly. Yu Sheng turned his head and saw the fox girl sniffing with her nose stretched out, with light in her eyes.
"It will be ready in a moment. We'll have noodles with soybean paste tonight," Yu Sheng said casually. He then glanced at the nine-tailed fox's tails that were almost leaving an afterimage, and asked, "Are you greedy?"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but be curious - how did this girl manage to make all nine tails swing in different directions without getting tangled?
Hu Li nodded immediately, and the tail behind him swung directly into a silver-white background wall.
I could still vaguely hear Irene exclaiming, "Fuck, why is it windy in the restaurant?!"
Yu Sheng casually filled a small bowl with fried sauce and a cucumber, and handed it to the fox girl with golden eyes: "Take it and eat it - you don't need to bring the bowl later, you can use it to eat rice."
Hu Li went out happily holding the fried sauce and cucumbers.
At almost the same time, Yu Sheng felt the vibration of the mobile phone in his trouser pocket, and a pleasant incoming ringtone rang at the same time.
He took it out and saw Little Red Riding Hood's name, not surprisingly - she didn't send a message, she called him directly.
Yu Sheng answered the call. Just as he put the phone to his ear, before he could speak, he heard the girl's urgent and nervous voice from the other end: "I just wrote a long message but I think it would be easier to explain it directly over the phone. What's going on?! What you just said is true..."
"Those things can't be made up out of thin air, you know." Yu Sheng had expected Little Red Riding Hood's reaction. He interrupted her with a calm and steady tone, "Don't be anxious, listen to me, do you remember what happened in the museum before? A wolf came out of your shadow and bit me - remember?"
Little Red Riding Hood on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "Yes, of course I remember."
"It touched my blood - I ate it," Yu Sheng put his phone under his neck, put a handful of noodles into the boiling water, and said casually while cleaning up the chopping board and kitchen knife he had used to cut the cucumber. "The amount may not be too much, and it's indirectly absorbed, so you don't have any reaction now, but based on my experience, it will have a 'delayed effect' on you sooner or later. As for the current stage... it seems that I have established a connection with the 'curse' in you first, or to put it another way..."
Yu Sheng paused, thought for a moment and then said, "To put it another way, first establish a connection with the wolf part of you."
Little Red Riding Hood didn't speak for a while, but she could hear her sudden rapid breathing.
With her intelligence and experience as a spirit detective, she should be able to understand what Yu Sheng meant, but she was obviously still a little confused.
"You see, you finally 'took a bite', although the process was a bit unexpected," Yu Sheng stirred the noodles in the pot and continued while waiting by the stove, "Don't worry, I know you must be a little nervous at this time, but don't be afraid, there will be no harm - before that, I want to talk to you about the Black Forest."
Little Red Riding Hood was silent for a long time before she spoke: "What do you want to know?"
There was a kind of resigned helplessness in his tone.
"That squirrel, do you know where it came from?"
"I... don't know. It was there when I first fell into the forest, but I was very confused at that time and don't remember how it appeared," said Little Red Riding Hood. "It told me a lot about the Black Forest. In my opinion, it should also be a special entity generated in the Black Forest, another embodiment of the 'fairy tale' rules."
She paused for a moment, as if she was organizing her thoughts, before continuing, "There must be bad people who hurt children, and there must also be friends who help children. Fairy tales are like this, do you... understand?"
"It's easy to understand. Although I didn't stay in the Black Forest for a long time, I can roughly feel its pattern," Yu Sheng said, and suddenly hesitated. "Also, the squirrel was eaten by the wolf... Well, the situation was very chaotic at the time, and I didn't stop it. If it is also an entity generated by the Black Forest, it should be fine, right?"
"Don't worry, it has been eaten by wolves more than once," Little Red Riding Hood's answer confirmed Yu Sheng's guess, "including me, I have been chased by wolves many times - the squirrel will be fine, it will appear near the path next time."
Yu Sheng hummed, then he hesitated for a moment and asked directly: "Tell me the truth, are you about to have a 'big problem'?"
"…The squirrel even told you that?"
"It's talking incoherently, but it's not hard to understand," Yu Sheng turned off the fire, took out the noodles and rinsed them with cold water, then leaned against the cupboard, "The Black Forest is gradually swallowing you, and you're not the first Little Red Riding Hood... Is this the curse you mentioned? What will happen next? What about the other fairy tale members? Is it the same?"
Little Red Riding Hood didn't speak for a while.
But Yu Sheng didn't care about it. After waiting for two or three seconds, he calmly asked, "How much time do you have left?"
Little Red Riding Hood remained silent, but this time she finally spoke: "...Next month, it will be my eighteenth birthday."
Yu Sheng took a deep breath instantly.
This answer left him a little confused - he had thought that Little Red Riding Hood's situation might be bad, but he didn't expect it to be so bad!
"I may not die. Doctor Lin said that my case is the best one," Little Red Riding Hood quickly added, "My chances of successfully growing up are very high, and I have been hiding very well. The number of times I have been caught by the wolf..."
"The squirrel said that the most dangerous thing is not being caught by a wolf, but becoming a member of a wolf pack," Yu Sheng interrupted him, his expression and tone becoming particularly serious, "We have to meet and talk. I want to know everything about the forest - not only the forest, but also the 'fairy tale'. As I understand it, the 'fairy tale' should include more than just a dark forest, right?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone. After a few seconds, the girl's voice came from the receiver: "Why are you so concerned? This matter has nothing to do with you... I don't mean to say that, I'm just a little curious."
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "How much are we friends?"
"We've only known each other for a few days. If we don't count the time in the valley, we've only been together once," Little Red Riding Hood said seriously. "I don't think that can be considered a friendship - at least not worth taking so seriously."
"...Don't be so rigid at such a young age. I am more lively than you as an adult," Yu Sheng said casually. "I always do whatever I want to do. There is no need for so many excuses. Besides, you have helped me a lot. Besides, the wolf in your shadow came out and bit me. Now I am also tied to the Black Forest. What can I do? I can't hide."
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Obviously, Yu Sheng's last sentence was extremely convincing.
The girl on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment and then sighed: "Yes, then let's meet tomorrow. I'll give you an address. It's our home. You can... come and see us."
"good."
The phone was hung up.
Yu Sheng stood by the stove, absent-minded for a few seconds, then sighed and picked up the stainless steel basin containing noodles.
"It's time for dinner - Hu Li, come and help get the food."
"Why!"
It’s time for dinner.
Little Red Riding Hood put down her phone and stood there in a daze for a while, then she felt someone patting her from behind.
"What are you standing there for?" A short girl with short hair said to her, "It's time for dinner - come and help."
Little Red Riding Hood finally woke up and looked up at the long table in front of her.
The youngest children were already sitting in a row across the table, and the older children were helping to serve the food. At the end of the long table, next to the steaming pot of soup, Cinderella and Dorothy were helping the children serve soup, with smiles on their faces, while paying attention to whether any overly naughty brothers or sisters would get under the table.
It was now night time. According to regulations, the employees sent by the council to help left early before the sun went down - after nightfall was the most active time for "Fairy Tale". Although the "employees" here had also received training, they did not have to take risks in the orphanage after nightfall unless it was necessary.
Little Red Riding Hood breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to help the youngest children correct their chopstick posture. At the same time, she paid some attention to the girl sitting at the end of the table who looked a little nervous and didn't say a word.
The child looked only six or seven years old. She was very cute, with slightly curly black hair. She was wearing an old dress and sitting among a group of children of similar age with her lips pursed, looking reserved and alert.
Little Red Riding Hood actually didn't go to school this afternoon - she took half a day off.
Because there is a new child in the family today, as a "parent", she has to come back to host the welcome party.
(End of this chapter)
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