Chapter 35.2

The Mantis Stalking The Cicada (2)

Looking at the wood that was gradually taking shape in his hand, Zheng Mei was a little surprised.

“You know how to make puppets?”

She had never seen a blind man who could make a puppet, and this man was more than just a vase.

Lu Zhi Yao answered absentmindedly.

Zheng Mei sat beside him, her back straightened, and she glanced at the puppet.

“Most people who know how to make puppets are kind. Li Ruo Shui told me to beware of you when I went out just now. It really is nonsense.”

Lu Zhi Yao’s hands paused. He seemed to feel the weight of stepping on his legs and heard the bell again.

“How did she say it?”

“She asked me to bring servants and guards with me and said that you would push me into the water. Isn’t it funny?”

The corners of Lu Zhi Yao’s mouth slowly curled up. His eyebrows unconsciously relaxed, and he let out a chuckle.

“Funny.”

He had always found Li Ruo Shui interesting.

“Do you know why I like you?”

Lu Zhi Yao continued to carve puppets and did not respond to her.

“It was before the martial arts competition.” Zheng Mei looked at the lake as if recalling the past.

“That day I went to the street to see the venue. Perhaps it was a gift of fate, and I happened to see you smiling.”

Zheng Mei had never seen such a person. His eyebrows and eyes were not like ordinary people. His smile was gentle but still charming. Just at first sight, she could not look away.

“You hit me with a red fruit that day, and it left a scar here.”

She rolled up her sleeves, revealing a bean-sized scar, but suddenly remembered that he couldn’t see, so she sighed and put down the sleeves.

If he wasn’t blind, she would definitely like him more.

Lu Zhi Yao was pulling a few silver wires between his fingers and was polishing the fine details of the puppet when a few strands of forehead hair fell on his eyelashes and were brushed away by him.

“It’s you.”

In fact, he didn’t remember, but he remembered what Li Ruo Shui told him about how to end a conversation.

As expected, knowing that he still remembered her, Zheng Mei didn’t continue this topic.

“I then thought, you are so good-looking, so naturally you should match me.”

“Is that so?”

Zheng Mei looked outside the decorated boat while chatting with him.

Through the veil blown by the wind, she saw a decorated boat not far away with several luxuriously dressed women standing on it.

Zheng Mei laughed involuntarily.

There was a reason why she was so eager to go on a lake tour with Lu Zhi Yao today. It wasn’t only because she liked him, but also because she had already made appointments with other sisters long ago to let them see Lu Zhi Yao today.

“Mr. Lu, let’s go out and have a look.”

“I can’t see.”

Lu Zhi Yao’s hands did not stop, but his mouth was perfunctory as usual.

The ladies on the other boat waved to him, but Lu Zhi Yao was still playing with the puppet all the time and didn’t give them any of his attention.

She had bragged that they were in love with each other, but she didn’t dare to really lead Lu Zhi Yao there, so she excused herself and said that he was shy and it was good for everyone to meet from a distance.

“Mr. Lu, you promised me to come for the lake tour today.”

Lu Zhi Yao touched the prototype of the puppet’s facial features and bent his eyes in satisfaction: “Aren’t we here?”

Seeing the decorated boat slowly leaving, the sisters standing at the bow of the boat whispered something to each other. She didn’t know what they were talking about. Maybe they were laughing at her.

Zheng Mei bit her lip and looked at the puppet in his hand.

“The puppet you carved is really ugly!”

She snatched the puppet violently and threw it into the lake.

The yellow-white puppet was thrown over the boat. Afterwards, its round joints clicked and turned around, and it was pulled back by the silver wire wrapped around it before it fell into the water.

Lu Zhi Yao caressed the puppet’s joints, and a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes. His smile was like the spring breeze that moved the willow branches.

“It seems that you like to enter the water very much. How about playing a little?”

Lu Zhi Yao put the puppet away. He then pulled off a piece of the lotus-colored veil and wrapped it around her wrist skillfully.

Before Zheng Mei could react, she had already tumbled out of the window and fell into the lake on the other side.

The icy lake water instantly soaked her body and wet her carefully painted makeup.

At this time, the only connection between Zheng Mei and the decorated boat was the veil, and she was almost dragged forward by it.

The boatman who was rowing the oars turned pale with fright. He wanted to come forward but stopped when he saw Lu Zhi Yao’s smile, so he could only slow down the boat and wait for the guards to come from the back.

“How dare you treat me like this!”

Lu Zhi Yao was leaning against the window, concentrating on carving the puppet in his hand with a smile on his lips, and turned a deaf ear to her threats.

Zheng Mei yelled in the water, seemingly with great momentum, but her eyes were fixed on the veil.

The lotus-colored veil was soaked by the lake water and was no longer as delicate as before.

After her struggles just now, the veil wrapped around her slowly loosened, and she might sink into the water at any time.

Zheng Mei knew how to swim, but after being dragged by the veil and struggling for so long, most of her physical strength had already been exhausted. The veil had now become her lifesaver.

She didn’t understand why it suddenly became like this when everything was fine just now.

The veil on her wrist was slowly loosening, but she didn’t know when it would be completely taken off. This kind of unknown fear tortured Zheng Mei, but she was unwilling to ask for help.

“You help me up, and I’ll give you as much silver as you want!”

Lu Zhi Yao was leaning against the window. His long eyelashes caught the sunlight and cast sparse shadows. He shook the puppet at her quite leisurely.

“Do you think it’s ugly?”