Chapter 51
Shen Yan looked sincere when he spoke, and there was no trace of guilt at all.
Chen Wen groaned, touched his chin, and couldn't help wondering:
"What a coincidence? The chef has already prepared the meal?"
Chen Yan had a calm expression and was wearing a neat suit, as if he had just come out of some important meeting.
He nodded in response:
"You were not at home the past two days, so I asked the chef to come over to make lunch, but I couldn't change it in a short time. Now that the chef is here at noon today, it's not convenient for him to go back."
This reason was very reliable, so Shen Wen had no choice but to nod and sigh.
"I see. It looks like Xingnuo won't be able to eat the egg custard made by dad for lunch today."
Xing Nuo was standing at the entrance, wearing a pair of green crocodile slippers. Hearing this, he couldn't help but raise his head and asked:
"Why? You want to do this."
This little fool of his ran to the kitchen to take a look, and saw that the chef had really cooked the meal, and his brows furrowed.
"Uncle Chef, can you please discard the rice and let my dad cook it?"
Xingnuo puffed out his chest, full of confidence in his father's cooking skills.
“My dad is a great cook!”
The chef uncle looked at the little curly-haired kid with a smile on his face, wiped his hands, brought the meal to the table, and pretended to be embarrassed.
"That won't do. The chef can't eat so many dishes. Only Xingnuo can eat them."
Xingnuo immediately lowered his head, sighed in frustration, and ran back like a microphone to report to his father.
"Dad, the chef said he couldn't do it any better."
Shen Wen picked up the little one who praised his cooking skills and pinched his little face.
"Then there's nothing I can do. I can only do it for my son next time."
Xingnuo sighed and held his little face in sorrow for a minute. Soon his attention was attracted by the sweet and delicious food, and he buried his little head in the bowl while eating.
Shen Baizhou threw his schoolbag into the bedroom, turned around and saw Shen Yan folded his arms, leaning against the door frame with a half-smile, and couldn't help but cough lightly.
"Well, thank you for today."
Shen Yan shook his head, his lead-gray eyes showing some surprise.
"It's not easy, you actually said thank you."
He thought that Shen Baizhou, this brainless idiot, would just get so angry that he would swing his tentacles at people.
Shen Baizhou snorted lightly and touched his nose.
"What's the big deal? I'm a polite and good student now. I was even praised by the teacher in class."
Shen Yan became interested and asked:
"praise?"
Is the teacher blind?
When Shen Baizhou thought of this, a light blush appeared on his fair neck.
He scored a double-digit number in the physics test this time. The physics teacher was so excited that his face was flushed. He patted Shen Baizhou on the shoulder and praised him:
"Chen Baizhou, I can tell from the fact that you studied hard. The score on this test is much higher than that in chemistry!"
It’s already in double digits!
The whole class burst into laughter, and the sports committee member slammed the table wildly.
Shen Baizhou cursed in a low voice, then sat back down, holding his paper in his hand, feeling extremely frustrated.
But fortunately, at least I don’t have to face Shen Wen’s dark cuisine at noon today.
Xingnuo took a bite of the blanched prawns, his cheeks bulging from chewing. When he saw his brother coming over, he put the prawns on his brother's plate like offering a treasure.
"Brother, that's great!"
Shen Baizhou took the shrimp, peeled off the shell in a few seconds, and stuffed it into Xingnuo's mouth when he opened his mouth.
"If it tastes good, eat more."
Shen Baizhou lived in the sea and had eaten a lot of small fish and shrimps, so he was not greedy for this.
Xingnuo squinted his eyes, swung his short legs, and ate the shrimps with relish.
After dinner, he took off his bib and was carried by his father to wash up and take a nap.
Listening to his father telling the new adventure story of the little knight, Xingnuo was very focused and didn't feel sleepy at all.
With his little face buried in the pillow, Xingnuo looked at his father, who was full of tenderness, without blinking, and stretched out his little hand to touch his father's smooth long hair.
"Dad." Xingnuo called out.
Chen Wen hummed softly, put the storybook away, lowered his head and kissed the baby's soft face.
"What's wrong, cub?"
Xingnuo propped up his little face, tilted his head, and a hint of doubt appeared on his face.
"Dad, why hasn't the cub grown up yet?"
Xingnuo felt that a very long time had passed since he and his father came to their new home.
Why is he still so small?
Xingnuo couldn't figure it out, so he buried his face in the quilt and looked at his father, waiting for an answer.
Shen Wen thought about it for a while, then smiled and pinched Xingnuo's cheek.
"Maybe it's because Dad likes to stay with the little Xingnuo, so time passes so slowly."
Xingnuo couldn't help but curl his eyes, Le chuckled a few times, and then tilted his head and asked:
"What about when the kid grows up? Will dad still love the kid well?"
Chen Wen continued to nod, raised his hand and patted Xingnuo's back, coaxing him to fall asleep quickly.
"Don't worry, time will only deepen Daddy's love for you."
Xingnuo groaned, his eyelids gradually became heavy, and he mumbled:
"But, but what if daddy doesn't recognize me when I grow up? If I become ugly, daddy won't like me anymore."
Chen Wen laughed and patted the little head of Zizi, which always came up with strange ideas.
"How could that be? No matter what Xingnuo becomes, Dad will recognize him at the first sight."
Xingnuo finally felt relieved. He closed his eyes and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
***
Xingnuo seemed to have just fallen asleep for two minutes when he was woken up.
He opened his eyes sleepily, and was blinded by the bright light, so he couldn't help but blink a few times.
An extremely angry voice immediately came from the side:
"How can you blink! We are dolls, we can't blink!"
Xingnuo wanted to speak, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he found that his voice became extremely hoarse.
He was startled for a moment, then hurriedly closed his little mouth and wanted to stretch out his arm to feel if his throat was swollen.
But it took a lot of effort for Xingnuo to barely lift up his short round hands.
In an instant, Xingnuo's eyes widened.
How did his arm become like this!
Where did the five short fingers go?
Xingnuo stared at his arm which had changed drastically for a long time, and in a panic, he wanted to call his father and brother.
But the moment he raised his head, Xingnuo saw the glass window in front of him.
The bright and clean glass window reflected Xingnuo's appearance at the moment——
A rag doll that is only slightly bigger than an adult's palm, short and ugly, with frizzy hair.
"ah!"
Xingnuo screamed and turned his head, wanting to find someone to ask what was going on.
How did I become an ugly rag doll in the window?
But after searching for a long time, Xingnuo found nothing beside him except the green-headed doll that had just told him not to blink.
Xingnuo was so scared that his little body was shaking. He wanted to cry, but he found that he had become a rag doll and could not shed tears.
He could only ask in an unpleasant and hoarse voice:
"Little green doll, do you know why I became like this?"
The green-headed doll uttered a puzzled sound, leaned against the window glass in a funny way, and crossed its legs with difficulty.
"Are you stupid? Xingyuan, how long have we both been turned into rag dolls?"
Xingnuo shook his head vigorously, and his hairy head seemed to look even more messy.
"My name is not Xingyuan, my name is Xingnuo."
The green-headed doll didn't seem to care what Xingnuo's name was. He just said "oh" and stared at the window outside with boredom.
"Whatever you want, any name is fine."
As he spoke, the green-headed doll began to sigh again.
"Tell me, all the dolls in the glass window were bought, so why are there only two of us left?"
Then, the green-headed doll took a look at his own and Xingnuo's appearance and couldn't help but be shocked by their ugliness.
"What's wrong with being ugly?! I was ugly when I was a human, and I'm still the ugliest one as a doll!"
Any other dolls that looked good had already been bought by others.
The green-headed doll said this, feeling somewhat depressed.
"If it's not sold, the store manager will throw it directly into the trash can."
What awaits them then will be being crushed and burned by the machines in the garbage dump, or being shredded into cloth and turned into something else.
Xingnuo was confused when he heard what the green-headed doll said.
He touched his round belly and the fluorescent orange clothes he was wearing with his fingerless little round hands and hummed.
"Xiaolu, I can't be a rag doll. I want to go home to find my dad and brother."
The green-headed doll laughed out loud after hearing this.
"You are so stupid. After we fail in the dungeon, we will never be able to turn back into humans!"
Xingnuo only understood half of what he heard and asked doubtfully:
"Why?"
He is a human being. The most wrong thing is that he turns into a rag doll!
The green-headed doll heard Xingnuo asking foolishly. The two black little eyes on the rag doll's face were inexplicably clear and pure, and it couldn't help but hissed softly.
Raising his hand, the green-headed doll touched Xingnuo's forehead.
"You don't have a fever, do you? Oh no, we are dolls, we don't have fever."
The green-headed doll withdrew his hand and looked at Xingnuo curiously for a while, feeling that he seemed to have become dumber than before.
"You always kept your head down and didn't say anything before. When there were many dolls in the window, everyone was chatting, but you kept a sullen face and didn't say a word every day."
The green-headed doll thought of something and sighed.
"Now he seems to be more polite than before, but why is his brain still not working well?"
Xingnuo tried hard to understand what the green-headed doll said, but found that he still couldn't understand, so he had to continue asking:
"Xiaolu, how can I turn back into a human and go find my father and brother?"
The green-headed doll was bored seeing Xingnuo being so persistent. Of course, it was also because there was no other doll that could talk except this stupid doll.
"If you want to turn back into a human, there is only one way."
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