Rabbit and My Neighbor Totoro
Shuanzi took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and waded through the water barefoot. He stepped on the stones, half-bent over, and called out, "Hey, brother, move a little."
The man's eyelashes trembled slightly, and it was obvious that he was pretending to be dead.
Shuanzi and Guanzi looked at each other from a distance, and began to persuade each other.
But after much persuasion, the man remained indifferent.
The widower lost his patience first. "Brother Shuanzi, if he refuses to get up, we two can't carry him alone... My sister-in-law is still waiting for us over there, so let's just forget it. Look at his delicate and pretty face. He lives a much better life than us. I really don't understand how a man like him could be so depressed that he would commit suicide. I'm not a child anymore, and I still don't have a child. My wife still has to pay for one. What can I say? If everyone in our village was as cowardly as him, wouldn't someone jump into the river every day..."
Not knowing what he heard, the man's eyelids moved and he suddenly opened his eyes.
Such fair and regular features on an Alpha's face are indeed more attractive than those of Shuanzi and others.
"Heh, you? I told you so much just now, but you were like a mute. Now you are more excited than miserable." The widower saw that there was a chance, so he started to play the victim again.
The widower explained in detail why his wife was disobedient, how she scolded him, bit him, kicked him, and glared at him with deep hatred.
After a long time, the man nodded, indicating that he really didn't want to die.
Shuanzi then used some strength to pull the man out of the gravel, mud and water.
Wait until they help the rescued people walk back to the donkey cart.
Lin Shu was seen sitting cross-legged in the car with his head down, holding a dogtail grass in his hand, and slowly weaving a grass mouse.
"Sister-in-law," the widower called out.
"......" Lin Shu stopped and raised his head, quickly glancing at the new Alpha, and said indifferently: "He wants to go back to the village with us too?"
"Yes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda," the widower said as a matter of course, "He has nowhere to go, so he can stay with me first. Brother Shuanzi will then ask the village chief to give me a little more food rations at the end of the month."
Shuanzi listened to what the widower said and nodded in agreement, "It's a small matter."
Lin Shu then moved to the side, and then watched with a smile as the Alpha, whose head was still bleeding from time to time, climbed onto the donkey cart.
"If you feel dizzy, lean on me. It's okay. I'm very strong." The widower offered his back and said to the newcomer.
Looking at the widower's thick back, the Alpha who got into the car raised his hand to wipe the blood from his forehead, then lowered his head and stared at the blood on his fingers and hesitated for a few seconds before he seemed to have made up his mind and leaned on the widower's back.
"Don't you want to deal with it?" Lin Shu asked, sounding concerned.
"I can't die," the man said with his eyes closed in a mournful tone, as if life is good and death is also okay.
The group then quieted down.
The donkey cart moved forward for another half a quarter of an hour.
Then.
A male Omega, probably in his fifties and dressed in tattered clothes, suddenly jumped out from the reeds and stopped the donkey cart.
"My husband's surname is Gu. He used to work for the vampire master, but later..." The Omega started to cry as he spoke. "At my age, I can't find a job. My family members are all dead, and now I'm lost. I can't survive."
When the widower heard and saw this, an expression of disgust immediately appeared on his face, but picking up one is the same as picking up two. He exchanged a few glances with Shuanzi secretly, and still held his nose and let the Omega get in the car.
With a place to go, the Omega came back to life like a dead fish in the sea. He looked here and there, but he didn't look directly at Lin Shu. His eyes seemed to reveal a hint of contempt. He only glanced at Lin Shu sideways, then stared at Shuanzi enthusiastically and said in a friendly manner, "My surname is Gu, my given name is Sao, and I can do anything. Just give me a living. Is that what you guys call me?"
"Just call me Shuanzi. The one next to me is my younger brother: Widow. The one behind me is my wife, and as for the one over there..." When introducing the Alpha that he and Widow rescued, Shuanzi realized that they didn't even know his name?
"A Luo," the man said softly.
"Yes, his name is A Luo, and his life was saved by me and the widower," Shuanzi emphasized again.
"Then you are really good people. No wonder you are willing to take me in in this remote mountain area," Gu Sao immediately flattered them, making Shuanzi and Guanzi laugh.
Afterwards, the originally silent atmosphere on the donkey cart was broken by the new arrival Gu Sao, and the whole journey was filled with laughter and joy again.
After taking a detour for about three hours, the group finally entered the village.
"Why is there another person?" Diao Fen had originally run over excitedly to see what was happening. As he got closer, he realized that this pretty boy named A Luo was actually an Alpha. His expression instantly fell, and he muttered in disappointment, "Why is it an Alpha?"
"I'm born to like Alphas, you can also use me as an Omega." A Luo was originally sullen, but when he heard Diao Fen dislike him so much, he actually smiled, "Little brother, do you want to try it? The taste of Alpha is no worse than that of Omega."
"Ah?" Shuanzi and Guanzi looked at each other. They didn't expect that the person they rescued had such a hobby.
Diao Fen was very young and curious about everything. He immediately went over and smelled it.
Luo had a light scent of perfume on him, and the smell of his pheromones wasn't particularly offensive. His skin was fair and tender, very different from the sweaty, rough-hewn men in their village. Diao Fen's heart rippled, "You...you're really not an Omega?"
"I'll live with you and show you at night?" A Luo's smile had a kind of seductiveness that was very good at controlling an Alpha.
Shuanzi, Guanzi, and Diao Fen were all stunned.
"The village chief is here," an Alpha called out to them.
"Shuanzi, come here," the village chief stood not far away, stroking his beard. He glanced at A Luo, then at Gu Sao, and finally said nothing and called Shuanzi over.
After a while, Shangcun held another meeting as usual.
During this time, Lin Shu took Gu Sao back to take a bath, while A Luo was taken by Diao Fen to the house where he usually had meals. When the two newcomers were packed and led to the front of the ancestral hall, the meeting inside had just ended.
A Luo is thin and small, and at first glance one might think he is an Omega. He is also fair and well-behaved. After washing himself and taking a closer look, he is indeed quite handsome and is the kind of person who has the capital to seduce an Alpha.
At this moment, A Luo was being stared at by the villagers with all kinds of looks, but he was not afraid. Instead, he stuck out his tongue suggestively and swept it counterclockwise from right to left across his upper lip. His eyes suddenly became watery, and then he slightly blinked his eyelashes. He looked... no other Omega was as coquettish as him.
The villagers had obviously never seen this world before. The people who came one after another in the past few days were constantly pushing their limits, making these frogs in the well swallow their saliva. They all hated themselves for being so stupid in the past, and were so stupid as to spend money to buy an ungrateful "ungrateful" who was neither tamed nor tasty.
"Village chief, A Luo can live with me," Diao Fen spoke first.
"Live at your place? What will we eat?" Others were dissatisfied.
The scene suddenly became a little chaotic.
Compared to A Luo's popularity, no one cares about Gu Sao, the Omega.
Gu Sao curled her lips and cursed softly, "My nominal husband was a boss when he was alive. I was fed up with so many people fawning over me back then. And my adopted son, you know, all those Omegas he found were beauties. Pick any one of them and they'd make the rest of you look ugly. Even so, if you want to enter my house, you still have to see my approval. Oh, you have to treat me well and serve me well. You have to take me along when you invite my son out to play and accept my scrutiny. Otherwise... how could I have ended up in this situation? You people are really looking down on others."
Lin Shu could vaguely hear Gu Sao's mumbling amidst the loud shouts of everyone clamoring for A Luo. She gently stroked the scattered hair on her temples and smiled barely audible.
On a mountain not far away, Su Liu was like an audience watching a thrilling drama live, watching with such gusto that he didn't even bother to eat. In his arms were two rabbits twisting their buttocks.
"Why is the fur of the rabbit on the left so fluffy and soft?" Su Liu said as she pinched its small body. "Hey, it's so thin. How can rabbits shrink their bones?"
Then, Su Liu touched the one on the right again and immediately felt that the one on the right was much fuller.
"The one you are holding in your left hand is a chinchilla," Qi Fengling brought dinner to Su Liu. At this time, the sun was setting and the pool below the cave entrance was emitting a bright light.
"Can chinchillas make friends with rabbits?" Su Liu held the two little ones in front of her eyes and looked at them carefully, only to find that the one on the left was indeed not a rabbit.
It’s really a Totoro?
"It feels so soft. Can its hair be shaved? I can collect it and make a small blanket for Cuicui," said Su Liu.
The chinchilla's shiny black eyes immediately showed a look of great grievance, and it was obvious that it understood what Su Liu was saying.
"...It's not quite appropriate," Qi Fengling said with difficulty.
Su Liu laughed. He had never raised a chinchilla, but he had some understanding of their habits. It was said that this kind of animal was very afraid of heat and would easily suffer from heatstroke as long as the outside temperature was above 24 degrees Celsius, so most of them liked to stay in natural environments with high altitudes.
This biological common sense can be attributed to Qi Fengling’s last novel: Midnight Snack Street.
The protagonist of this book has a terminal illness. When he got the pathology report from the hospital, he happened to see someone jumping from the outpatient building. Without thinking much, he used his body to block the attack, and he died as expected, while the person who jumped from the building was only slightly injured.
After his death, he saw the result and thought it was not bad.
The man who was rescued suffered a deep emotional wound and was suffering from severe depression. He was completely destitute and helpless, with no friends or family left. His lover had broken up with him, and he simply couldn't bear to live. If there was anything in the world that could have kept him together, it might have been his pet, his only companion: his chinchilla. After being rescued, he attempted suicide several times, but only after the community management brought his pet to the hospital to see him did he calm down.
Afterwards, by chance, the protagonist's soul merged with the pet of the person he saved who jumped from the building. From then on, the protagonist looked at this human world that he was familiar with before but suddenly became unfamiliar from a completely new perspective through a pair of animal eyes.
Scum who plays with sincerity, opportunistic hyenas who pass off inferior goods as good ones, workplace cancers who take credit for their work by insulting their subordinates, educators with beastly hearts...
This protagonist is skilled at controlling dreams. When the midnight bell rings, a street called "Midnight Snack Street" slowly emerges from the thick fog in the dreams of those targeted by the protagonist. Those dragged here will have all their past bad karma inflicted upon them...
Su Liu hinted with her eyes: The protagonist?
Qi Fengling sighed. Who else could the beige hair with the iconic "heart" shape on the chinchilla's forehead be if not the protagonist of the midnight snack street?
Su Liu looked at the chinchilla in her hand and scratched the little thing's chin with interest. Then she changed the subject and said, "Lin Shu's current strength is less than 30% of her original strength. She has obviously restrained herself a lot."
"She knows the difference between working for the king and personal heroism." Qi Fengling took the rabbit from Su Liu's right hand, making it easier for Su Liu to knead the chinchilla, which looked the same size as the rabbit but felt much more bony.
This story begins some time ago.
At that time, the "Revelation of Disaster" gave Su Liu a choice. If there was no prior intervention, Lin Shu would have slaughtered all these people on the evening of the third day after arriving in Pin Village.
The bloody scene caused the system screen to be covered in mosaics for a while...
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