The Fat Little Prodigal
The incident during the journey did not disrupt the group's plans.
They still followed their previous plan and arrived at the ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River.
There was drizzle and hazy mist, and everything seemed so soft.
The boat moved, and the birds that were originally perched on the top of the bamboo and wooden boat were startled and flew away. Ripples appeared on the green water, and a few drops of clear water appeared on the bamboo pole.
"Wow……"
Sitting on the small boat, watching the waves slowly dissipate beside him, Lu Qinghe felt happy and satisfied. Then he looked at the old man with gray hair but still a muscular body at the bow, and his eyes were filled with amazement.
"Miss Lu must be thinking again. She is indeed a person of the world." Ye Shuyu, who was lying flat on the other side, dangling a piece of horsetail grass that she had picked up from somewhere in her mouth, muttered softly, "I don't know how many stories made up by storytellers she has read. Before getting on the boat, she asked me to be careful, saying that the boatman might be a hermit."
Taoist Master Qing Heng was sitting at the side, and he replied seriously: "This old man has no internal strength, but he is physically stronger."
Ye Shuyu smiled: "Of course I know, but in order to satisfy the eldest lady's admiration, I still acted along."
However, such an innocent young lady is quite cute.
Whenever she saw beautiful scenery along the way, she would recite beautiful poems that she had no idea about, and she would actively help when preparing food. It didn't seem like a young lady hiring someone to protect her, but rather like she was inviting a good friend to travel together.
We should be considered friends now, right?
Then after this commission is over, I will find a chance to invite Miss Lu out to play~
“Chirp!”
The fat bird jumped back and forth on her chest, as if amused by the swaying ponytail grass. It shook its long black tail excitedly, and then it swooped down and hit the girl right under her nose.
Of course it won't hurt if a tiny bird hits you, but it will still be uncomfortable if its short beak pricks you.
"You fellow, I call you a cat but you really think you are a cat!"
Holding the bird in one hand and rubbing his philtrum with the other, Ye Shuyu sat up helplessly: "Finally you feel refreshed?"
The temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is actually not low, but it is always foggy. When the sparrow flies around casually, its down feathers are covered with a thin layer of water vapor, which makes it extremely unhappy. Since yesterday, it basically stops flying and just jumps around on people with its two thin claws, like a chicken that cannot fly.
Fatty: “Chirp!”
It curled up obediently in the girl's palm, not feeling the familiar heat. It pecked at the girl's fingers that were stroking it unhappily, until Ye Shuyu reluctantly used her inner strength to generate heat. Only then did it curl up contentedly in her hand, its down feathers gradually swelling up.
Really...
There was little fighting along the way, and all his internal energy was used to keep Que'er warm.
"When the time comes and the sisters ask me why my inner strength has improved, I will be laughed at if I say it's because I want to keep you warm!"
Ye Shuyu found it a little funny, but still touched her indulgently.
The Taoist priest who seemed to be meditating but was actually observing secretly: …
What is the deep meaning of the psychic's behavior?
Is it because he really is not skilled enough that he admitted his mistake?
The Taoist priest is also doubting himself today.
After riding on the bamboo boat, although Lu Qinghe did not see the battle between the hidden masters as described in the storybooks, he was still very happy.
Ye Shuyu was so curious that he couldn't help asking, "So, what does the storybook say?"
Lu Qinghe said cheerfully: "The people sitting on the bamboo boat will hear the flute playing by the people on the shore. The two of them will exchange a few words, and suddenly they will start to fight with each other by picking flowers and flying leaves. Finally, they will find that they have the same aspirations as each other, and they will become good friends after getting off the boat~"
Ye Shuyu held up his face and said, "Picking flowers and flying leaves... How deep is the inner strength to be able to do this! Such a great man should have known each other for a long time, right?"
Lu Qinghe: "Well, is there such a saying?"
The world of such big shots was not something that a rookie like Ye Shuyu could fathom, so she told the truth:
"I'm just guessing! But since he has such a strong ability, he must be free and unrestrained. It's not surprising that he would do anything. Who knows, maybe he really made friends on that boat?"
"Alas, it's a pity that my strength is average, so I can't show Miss Lu."
Ye Shuyu sighed in a pretentious manner.
"No, no." Lu Qinghe quickly shook his head, holding Ye Shuyu's hand, and said seriously, "I am glad that I can be with Miss Ye. The stories in the storybooks seem amazing and exciting, but in fact they are dangerous and unpredictable."
She covered her chest and spoke softly, "We are all just small people. It's good enough that we can enjoy a peaceful life for half a day without being affected by danger."
The fat chirp on her shoulder tilted its head to look at her, saw the two girls holding hands, and chirped happily: "Chirp~"
Narrator:
"The prodigal son was relieved that the two women around him could live in peace with each other."
"After all, it would be a pity to ask him to give up any one of them."
[After all, the heroine is a self-heating branch, and the eldest lady is a branch with beautiful pearls and jade hanging on it ()]
[Besides, the Northern Long-tailed Tits are small birds that live in groups. Since they consider humans as their companions, they can't live without anyone! ]
[Priest: The world isolates me...]
[Haha ...
[By the way, are there only two harems in the original work? It feels a bit too little. 】
[Have you forgotten Miss Li Er by Daming Lake? Oh, and that cool sister from Qijue Pavilion! ]
After walking for a while, the group smelled a fragrance coming from deep in the alley.
Lu Qinghe hesitated to speak.
Ye Shuyu: "What did you think of, Miss Lu?"
Lu Qinghe: "Well, it's written in the storybook that if there's a strange fragrance in an alley like this in the Jianghu, there must be a master who disguised it as poison!"
Ye Shuyu: "...The author of the storybook is really thoughtful. Taoist priest?"
Taoist Qing Heng: "No problem, it should be just an ordinary pastry shop."
The few of them then walked in and indeed saw a narrow shop at the end of the alley. Although the shop was small, it looked quite clean.
I wanted to buy the cakes and leave, but the old man was very enthusiastic and kept saying that customers could make their own cakes and they would be baked immediately.
The three of them had nothing else to do and it was early to return to the inn, so they agreed.
"Chiu~"
The fat bird was placed in a place alone, with a thin layer of powder under its claws that looked like crushed snow.
It tilted its head, and some genetic instinct awakened, and it began to peck at the powder where there were no insects, as if it was rehearsing foraging for food in winter in advance.
The little tail trembled from time to time, and the whole bird looked like a small glutinous rice ball that was trembling with chopsticks stuck in it.
"This guy." Ye Shuyu took a break from his busy schedule to look back at it, and saw the back of the cat seriously hunting. He couldn't help laughing, "It's not like it's short of food on weekdays, but now it looks like it's been hungry for a long time."
Lu Qinghe also smiled when he saw it. He put down the cake in his hand, took out bird food from his purse, walked over to add some rewards to the "snow field", and then came back to continue.
"Hoo~!"
From this moment on, the background could be heard from time to time of the little fat bird's joyful sounds of successfully catching prey.
Hehehe~
Look, I'm going to scare you.
Ye Shuyu had evil intentions as he aimed at the chubby figure and shone the light on the dumpling in his hand.
Lu Qinghe came over and gave instructions: "The tail needs to be thinner."
Ye Shuyu was a little surprised: "Miss Lu is done? Wow, well done! I didn't expect Miss Lu to be good at this."
There were a few spots of powder on Lu Qinghe's pretty face, and her sleeves were rolled up high. She took off her earrings because she felt they were hanging down and making a scene.
She now looked completely different from the dignified young lady I first saw. She had become much more lively, and even her initial sickness had faded a lot.
"In fact, I have liked these since I was a child." Lu Qinghe helped pinch Que'er's mouth and said softly, "Some family members support it, saying that it can please the husband; some oppose it, saying that it is lowering one's status and flattering."
Ye Shuyu blinked: "But you just like it yourself, what does it have to do with others?"
Lu Qinghe's eyelashes trembled slightly: "It would be nice if I could really say that... Here, my mouth is fine."
The eldest lady finally started talking about her life experience, but she stopped after just one or two sentences, which made Ye Shuyu feel a little uneasy.
It sounds like Miss Lu’s family rules are very strict!
Then how can we invite Miss Lu to travel more often?
She was seriously worried.
Ye Shuyu turned around to look at Taoist Qing Heng. He was wondering whether he should go ask the Taoist priest something, but he saw that the Taoist priest, who was good at kneading pastries, was violently kneading the ingredients into the gradually expanding dough ball. It no longer looked like a pastry but a ball-head hammer.
Feeling the gaze, he turned his head, with no sadness or joy in his eyes.
Ye Shuyu: ...
This is not normal, forget it.
Too lazy to think about those distant things, she continued to make cakes with great interest.
When the fat chiu cakes were out of the oven, she approached the happy little guy in a wicked way and said quietly, "Are you having fun?"
Fatty didn't even turn his head: "Huh~!"
The little fat bird, which has fallen in love with this familiar foraging way engraved in its DNA, was foraging in the "snow" seriously, but suddenly bumped into something when it turned around.
When it looked up, it saw a white body, dark brown wings, and cute little eyes. It was exactly its companion that looked like it.
Fatty:!
The fact that it met a familiar companion was enough to shock it, but what shocked Feiqiu even more was that Ye Shuyu actually placed this big cat in the palm of his hand and touched it.
Fatty: ! !
Ye Shuyu couldn't help laughing, and turned around and called Lu Qinghe to come over and play with the bird together. Now both of them were touching the strange bird.
Fat Chu: Chu! !
The claws scratched a mark on the powder, the delicate short beak opened slightly, and the fat chirp's anger value increased——
【Jiujiu, didn't you recognize that this is just a pastry?】
[The overall shape is quite similar, and they are still warm right out of the oven. Plus, Chubao is a bit stupid, so he probably mistook goose for goose! ]
[Oh no, the branch has been stolen! ]
The narrator slipped out at this time and said that this was a conspiracy between the heroine and the eldest lady, and they wanted the prodigal son to feel a sense of crisis.
[It’s so funny, a stand-in, right? ]
[Well, how come making cakes together doesn't count as collusion? ]
[It can be seen that Chubao has a strong sense of crisis. What is he going to do? Is he going to fight for favor? 】
[Great! I want to see Fatty act cute! ]
But the narrator says:
"The prodigal son rejected such temptation and left in anger."
“Chiu!”
At the same time, the nervous little bird in the camera chirped, and before anyone could react, it flapped its wings and took off, suddenly disappearing in the store.
Ye Shuyu:!
Lu Qinghe:!
Taoist Qing Heng thought thoughtfully: "It was like this before when it was locked outside the window. It has a very bad temper and can't stand jokes."
Looking at the two panicked people in front of him, he calmly analyzed: "So, when it feels abandoned, it will not think about fighting, but will just leave in style... eh?"
"Ah, ah, I know. I really know this time!" Ye Shuyu grabbed his collar, "Stop analyzing and let's find the bird together!"
"Bring the cakes too! I guess we have to let that ancestor vent his anger again..."
"I'm sorry for messing up your shop! I'll leave the money here!"
The old man sitting in the rocking chair, watching the young people leaving in a hurry, and then thinking about the particularly smart bird, couldn't help but shake his head and sigh:
“What a special group of kids.”
It is impossible to make Feichu jealous and act like a spoiled child.
The audience is now acutely aware of this.
[Jiubao flew away as soon as he said so. He was not afraid of freezing to death outside. 】
[Perhaps because it had lived alone before, it was more sensitive and didn’t want to be abandoned, so it took the initiative to leave…]
[But the two girls' original intention was just to tease the bird. We can only say that everyone is still getting used to each other~]
[Wow, wow, poor Jiujiu, come to your aunt’s arms, I won’t tease you. 】
The fat chickadee in the camera was flying very fast. The bird itself was small, and there were still dark yellow leaves on the trees in the south of the Yangtze River, so even the audience found it difficult to capture the fat chickadee's figure for a while.
After finally stabilizing itself, I saw the fat bird standing on a high branch, jumping around and chirping vigorously.
The audience speculated that Xiao Niao might be cursing now.
It seems that Feichu is still reluctant to let go.
[Just wait, since we have the Compass Taoist, we will definitely be able to find it.]
[After watching it for a while, I felt like I understood bird language. This rapid and incoherent call was just Jiubao cursing at people. 】
[This is so funny. I wonder if Chubao is thinking: No wonder you asked me to practice winter hunting. It turns out you have already found a new Chubao! ]
[Hahahaha stop talking, the more you talk the more miserable Jiubao gets! ]
But as time went on, the audience found it hard to laugh anymore.
Because there was a big bird circling in the sky, it suddenly swooped down towards the little fat chick on the branch and almost caught the bird in its mouth.
The fat bird hid in panic, kept falling, and finally could only fly low in the low grass. A lot of water got on its feathers and it shivered.
It’s no wonder that such weak birds need to live in groups to survive. A single bird can hardly survive in the wild.
Either they were eaten by big birds, wild cats or poisonous snakes, or they froze to death.
Seeing the cute plump bird turned into a shriveled bird a few minutes ago, the audience was heartbroken:
[Damn it, blame the heroine who always teases Chuchu for a minute. ]
[Wow, how pitiful! You should just treat the bird well and don’t let it get angry.]
[It turns out that Fatty is in such danger in the wild... He looks so pitiful. ]
At this moment, the narrator suddenly spoke:
"The prodigal son who left in anger did not have a good time at first, but soon he met another person who protected him."
【! Great! 】
[Probably the harem of the original work... But it doesn't matter, come and protect Jiubao! ]
【Prayer has inner power, it can keep Jiubao warm.】
Jumping around alone in the wet grass, keeping an eye on the sky, Feiqiu suddenly heard a soft whistle.
At the source of the sound, under a tree a few meters away, a woman in black reached out to it. Although her expression was cold, her movements were very gentle.
"Come."
Feiqiu shook his body, but failed to shake off the moisture on his feathers. He didn't know whether he should get closer to the person in front of him. For a moment, he was like a sculpture, not daring to move.
Then, a gust of hot wind was sent to it.
Feichu's eyes lit up.
“Chirp~”
After finally finding the bird, Ye Shuyu saw it jumping on a stranger, and he felt mixed emotions.
So the heroine is not the real warm-up person, but the air-chirping person ()
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