"Thank you, Uncle! You've really helped Yan Yan a lot!"
Xiao Xinyan raised her little face to look at the dark figure who walked up to her. Her eyes were bright and sparkling, like a pool of water, clear and clean.
Her sweet, soft voice was innocent and naive.
"I have no way to repay you, so I can only offer myself to you!"
The little dumpling is simple and innocent, and has no idea what it means to repay someone with one's body.
But the character Xiao Xinyan in the TV series often says this.
So the little one started imitating, and she seemed to think that was the right way to say it.
Upon hearing the sound, the dark-skinned uncle was clearly frightened. Although his facial expression could not be seen, his voice changed, giving the impression that he had been so frightened that his voice cracked.
He wouldn't dare ask her to give herself to him!
"Little one, you can't just say things like that!"
If one could see his face, he would be completely speechless right now. He coughed lightly to cover his embarrassment and changed the subject:
"Just remember our agreement. Now you owe me a favor, so you'll have to help me complete a task later."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yanbao's eyes curved slightly, like crescent moons, making her smile even sweeter.
"Uncle, don't worry! Yan Yan keeps his word. A gentleman's word is his bond!"
The little dumpling was full of confidence, with a sweet and adorable babyish voice.
The dark-skinned uncle seemed charmed by her; his tone softened considerably as he joked:
"Wow, you can even use idioms!"
Xiao Xinyan immediately became proud and said confidently, "Yanyan knows a lot of things, all of which Grandpa taught Yanyan!"
She is now the most prized apprentice of the Li family patriarch.
The two, one big and one small, one black and one white, chatted and laughed as if no one else was around, completely ignoring the presence of Li Muchen beside them.
Li Muchen felt like he was just a wisp of air, the kind that could be blown away by a gust of wind.
He couldn't help but want to make his presence known.
"Little guy, who exactly is he?"
Li Muchen glanced at the all-black figure in front of him and asked Xiao Xinyan beside him.
Hearing his question, Xiao Xinyan seemed quite surprised, her eyes widening slightly as she asked in return:
"Oh my, Second Brother can actually see Uncle?"
Upon hearing this, Li Muchen was taken aback. Could it be... that he shouldn't have seen him?
Thinking about it, he glanced at the dark figure in front of him again, and immediately felt a chill run from the soles of his feet, which then surged through his body like an electric current.
Could he be like that man from before, not from this world...?
Very likely!
After all, he could make that ghost vanish in an instant.
Li Muchen felt a chill run down his spine, and a look of obvious fear returned to his face.
The child was really frightened.
At the same time, the dark figure turned its head toward Li Muchen and seemed to glance at him.
He turned to Xiao Xinyan and said, "When I want him to see it, he will naturally see it; when I don't want him to see it, he won't see anything."
Before Li Muchen could even react to what was happening, the dark figure in front of him casually waved his wide sleeves and disappeared.
Like a magic trick, it left Li Muchen dumbfounded.
So surprised was he that he staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"Where is he? Where is the person who was just here? Where is that dark-skinned person?"
How could it have suddenly disappeared?
At this moment, Li Muchen felt as if a whole new world had been opened to him, and his face turned deathly pale.
In his extreme fear, he even instinctively hid behind Xiao Xinyan, trembling uncontrollably.
That scared me to death!
The little dumpling, however, remained calm, completely unfazed, and even soothed Li Muchen's emotions in a childish voice:
"Second brother, don't be afraid, Uncle is not a ghost."
Although he lives with many ghosts, he doesn't seem to be a ghost in essence.
Ultimately, it seems that his level is much higher than those ghosts.
"If he's not a ghost, then what is he?"
Li Muchen's face was filled with terror, and his heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was about to jump out of his throat.
If he wasn't a ghost, how could he appear out of thin air and then disappear just as suddenly?
And it completely annihilated the ghost, making it vanish like smoke.
Today is the Ghost Festival, a day when ghosts are said to roam.
Li Muchen was convinced that the dark figure was also a ghost, and a very powerful one at that.
He was sweating profusely, and his fingers unconsciously gripped Xiao Xinyan's clothes, pulling them tightly.
The once unruly and arrogant Li Muchen now only dared to hide behind Xiao Xinyan.
It was as if this little dumpling, only three and a half years old, could bring him endless security.
In Xiao Xinyan's eyes, her second brother looked like a frightened stray dog who needed comfort from his owner.
She unconsciously softened her voice, speaking in an even softer, sweeter tone: "Second brother has never believed in ghosts, so it's good that you're holding firm to what you believe now."
Before the words were even finished, and before anyone could react, the dark creature that had disappeared suddenly reappeared.
Completely caught off guard, Li Muchen was so frightened that he screamed on the spot, his heart stopped for a moment, and he almost passed out completely.
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