"How about...I carry you home on my back?"
These words tumbled across the table and into the soft ears of An Nuannuan, causing the girl's peach blossom eyes to light up.
"But... Aunt Xiang told me to wait here for her."
"Then why don't you give her a call?"
An Nuannuan thought about it and decided to make a call to Aunt Xiang, who at first was against the idea.
But in the end, for some reason, she suddenly agreed, and An Nuannuan handed the phone to Xu Musen.
"Uh, Xu Musen, please take good care of An Nuannuan, and when you get to her house, please be sure to come in for a cup of tea,"
Aunt Xiang said on the phone.
"Rest assured, I'll call you as soon as An Nuannuan gets home,"
Xu Musen replied with a smile.
Aunt Xiang gave An Nuannuan a couple of instructions, and she hung up the phone with an unusually expectant look on her normally expressionless face.
Xu Musen skillfully squatted in front of her: "Let's go then."
An Nuannuan was also adept at lying on his back, her snow-white arms lightly circling his neck, their warm cheeks almost touching.
This little girl was so light, yet her strength was no small matter.
It seemed that her usual nutrition had been sensibly allocated to the right places.
But really, this girl had no guard against him, leaning so openly against him.
Upon inspection, definitely not a trust fraud!
"Xu Musen..."
"Hmm?"
"Stop swaying; I'm feeling a bit chesty."
An Nuannuan looked a bit flushed from behind, for some reason she always felt her heart pounding.
"Ahem, shall we head out then?"
"Mhm~"
...
Meanwhile, Aunt Xiang, who was monitoring the fingerprint identification results, had already dialed another phone call.
"Liang Lao, are you really letting that boy carry Nuannuan back home?"
"It's alright, I actually want to meet this young man myself. Nuannuan only has this one friend, and I should keep an eye on him," came the kind and amiable voice over the phone.
"Alright..."
Aunt Xiang nodded, but she couldn't help feeling as if there was a vibe of testing Nuannuan's boyfriend.
On the way, An Nuannuan's eyes were curiously scanning around, especially when she saw some street snacks, she would subconsciously shake Xu Musen.
"Craving a snack?" Xu Musen asked with a smile.
"I want to eat that."
An Nuannuan pointed at a fried sausage vendor.
Xu Musen walked over and bought one from the vendor. An Nuannuan held it in her hands but didn't rush to take the first bite.
Instead, she offered it to Xu Musen's mouth first.
"You eat. I'm not hungry."
Xu Musen politely declined at first, but An Nuannuan still extended it towards his mouth, and he relented by taking a bite.
Only then did An Nuannuan begin eating contentedly, while Xu Musen watched her nonchalantly eating where he had bitten.
He couldn't help asking, "Doesn't it feel strange to you to eat where I've bitten?
In a Japanese drama, this would be called an indirect kiss.
An Nuannuan blinked her clear eyes and said seriously, "The biology teacher said that human lips and saliva are just a layer of cells in the body, essentially no different from a handshake."
Xu Musen was left speechless for a moment.
So, could I shake hands with your lips?
Throughout the journey, An Nuannuan's little mouth never stopped: takoyaki, stir-fried cold noodles, fried yogurt, ice cream...
Xu Musen really didn't know if she had an interdimensional pocket in her small stomach.
In the end, she wanted a skewer of candied haw.
Her agile tongue dissolved the caramel, and with a gentle push, she lifted a hawthorn berry and bit half of it into her mouth.
Sweet and tasty, An Nuannuan happily squinted her eyes, but the sourness of the hawthorn almost made her lose control of her expression.
"So sour..."
"The quality of hawthorn in roadside booths is generally mediocre, of course it's very sour,"
Xu Musen commented, watching her cute little face scrunch up as he chewed on one, unable to suppress a laugh.
An Nuannuan was a bit conflicted. She really liked the outer layer of sugar coating but felt it was a waste to discard the hawthorn inside.
In the end, she turned her gaze towards Xu Musen: "Don't you find it sour?"
"It's alright; actually, I quite like sour things," he replied.
"Then..."
An Nuannuan's eyes sparkled: "Can I eat the sweet outside part and you eat the sour hawthorn inside?"
"It's possible, but how do you plan to separate them?"
Xu Musen was in the middle of asking when he saw An Nuannuan about to bite down again, gently biting off the crisp sugar coating in her mouth.
Then she took it out and handed it to Xu Musen.
"Here."
Although An Nuannuan bit very carefully, only taking off the sugar coat, after all, it had been in her mouth…
Looking at her delicate pink lips, now tinted with a bit of sugar, they were like a layer of sweet lip balm, exuding a faintly enchanting scent.
Are you serious?
I'd had my fill of living off women in my last life.
Do I have to eat the sugar-coated delicacies chewed by a rich lady in this life too?
"An Nuannuan, there's something I have to say to you seriously."
"Hm?"
"Your hand is too far away, I can't bite it."
"Oh~"
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Xu Musen found that it was quite a distance to An Nuannuan's house. He got a bit tired and had to take a bus.
At last, they arrived at a villa community on the outskirts of the city.
Xu Musen looked at the villa community in front of him. Although they were all villas, the ones here were clearly more stylish.
It felt like the yards of the villas here could be several hundred square meters, indeed large enough for planting and such.
Although Xu Musen had guessed that An Nuannuan was a well-concealed rich lady, he hadn't realized she was so wealthy.
Looking at the current situation, her family might be even richer than Yao Mingyue's.
No wonder she could raise a girl with such a quirky personality and way of thinking.
"Why aren't you walking?"
"I'm just amazed that your house is so huge."
If someone else were to befriend her, they would probably feel a lot of pressure.
Xu Musen chuckled, turning his head to look at An Nuannuan.
The young girl's eyes were pure and naive, and she was still clutching an unfinished candied haw stick and a grilled sausage in her hands.
She didn't look at all like a rich lady.
Walking into the community, they stopped in front of a villa.
In this villa area, this villa was decorated with a lot of charm.
It wasn't that European style of glittering extravagance, but a vintage Chinese style.
You could see a small pavilion within the walls, a stream, corridors laden with grapevines, reminiscent of the rockery layouts of Suzhou gardens, and even a bamboo forest.
It looked antique, clearly belonging to the home of an old leader or a senior scholar.
"This is your house? The decor is really nice."
Xu Musen remarked with some admiration.
"Yeah."
An Nuannuan nodded and reached out to press the doorbell.
"Who is it?"
The intercom at the door soon emitted a voice, a sweet and crisp voice of a young girl.
"Nannan, it's me."
"Sis!"
The little girl shouted happily.
Then the sound of running feet thudded from the other end.
Soon the villa's main door swung open, revealing a girl about twelve or thirteen years old with pigtails who resembled An Nuannuan, with the same peach-blossom eyes, although this little girl was clearly more mischievous, her big eyes sparkling, and her delicate features like a little porcelain doll.
"Sis, you're back..."
The little girl bounced as she opened the door, words still tumbling from her mouth when she suddenly saw the unfamiliar boy standing in front of her, with her sister lying on his back.
An Nuannuan flashed a smile.
"Nannan"
"Hello..."
Xu Musen also displayed a very sunny smile.
The little girl stared blankly at Xu Musen and her sister for a second, then suddenly turned around and yelled loudly.
"Grandpa, Grandma! My sister brought a man home!!"
The little girl ran off shouting.
"Little sister, wait a minute!"
Xu Musen's face turned dark. What kind of outrageous statements are these?
He retracted his previous thoughts.
Neither of these sisters has a normal way of thinking!