CH 9.2

I took my eyes off Li Weiwei and saw the face of a child. The little boy blinked at me with a pair of translucent, obsidian eyes. I couldn’t believe it was this boy who said those words just now.  

“Little sister’s eyes are so beautiful. It must be because of that that her drawings are also beautiful.” 

What!?

Wait a minute! This kid! This kid is simply…

“Oh my, I can’t help but blush when a beautiful lady is staring at me. So embarrassing!” The little boy then buried his head on my lap, but  just as his forehead was about to rub against me, a pale hand behind him picked him up by the back of his collar.

Li Weiwei narrowed his eyes on the boy. “You’re already old. Stop selling meng[1] to take advantage of others.”

“Huh? Uncle, what are you talking about? I don’t understand.”

Li Weiwei stared at him with disgust. He waved his hand and the boy was thrown against the wall like garbage. I cried out, thinking that the little boy was going to break his head and bleed on the spot. However, the child held his head in the air and spun several times, his feet were firmly on the wall, his waist and abdomen were twisted, like those gymnasts players seen in the Olympic Games, and then perfectly landed on the ground.

He was barefoot and a bell was tied around his ankle, but even after those movements, the bell didn’t make a sound.

“Don’t just look at his face. This guy is in his 40s or 50s already. He’s old enough to be your uncle, so don’t look at him as if he’s a child prodigy.” 

“Huh? Forty or fifty?” That’s really surprising. “Tianshan Tong Grandma?”[2]

“No, I’m really just a little boy.” With a smile on his face, he introduced himself. “My name is Yu Shao. Little sister can call me Little Shao or Little Yu. I am a corpse catcher and I am going home with little sister today.”

“It’s just a building, don’t think too much about it.” Li Weiwei cut in.

“I’m going to live in the same building with such a beautiful little sister today, and I feel so happy just thinking about it. Foreign zombies are unsightly though.“

“If you’re not happy, you can continue sleeping in here the office building.”

Yu Shao didn’t look at Li Weiwei. Instead, he walked up to me and held out his hand. “We’re leaving. The front is so dark, I’m afraid I can’t see it, I want little sister to lead, otherwise I can’t walk.”

I looked at him quietly, then at Li Weiwei. When he nodded, only then did I put my hand in the palm of this strange child. But the moment he held my hand, his cute and innocent eyes sharpened. “Little sister was bitten by a zombie a few days ago and had been having nightmares since, right?”

“Well…”

“Then be careful these days.”

My heart raced. “Be careful of what?”

“Be careful of being taken away by zombies when you dream.”

Damn that’s scary. My legs immediately went limp, and seeing how frightened I am, he laughed while leading me along then said, 

“But little sister, rest assured, your building already has an enchantment against zombies. Although I don’t want to admit it, he is really powerful. Those few disobedient zombies are not capable of breaking in…” He briefly mentioned, and then changed the topic. “However, no matter what kind of zombies, now that I will also be in that building, I will not let such a beautiful little sister play with them. If you want to play, you can only play with me.” 

Hearing this, I figured out that this corpse catcher turned out to be a guard that Li Weiwei had found.

“Did you drive away those lost zombies?”

Yu Shao smiled lightly. “Little sister, I haven’t personally driven away corpses for a long time, those are all made by my subordinates, but this time I ran into trouble. I was asked to come over from Xiangxi to clean up the mess. It just so happens that I haven’t come to Chongqing for a long time, and I miss the spicy old hot pot here.” He pointed to the side, “Thanks to this stingy workaholic uncle, I’ve been working in the basement for two days without letting me go out to play.” 

During the conversation, we had already left the underground office building of the Vampire Association, and in the flash of the magic array, we came to the room that we had walked into in the afternoon.

Yu Shao pushed the door open and walked on the street of Ciqikou with ease. It’s no longer early in the morning and compared to daytime Ciqikou, it really looked like an ancient town at night, but the traces of commercialization are still evident. Occasionally one or two stores take advantage of the night to catch up on renovation. While other shops were closed, there were a few bars with musicians playing folk songs with their guitars.

The spring breeze was no longer cold, and with the humidity from the river, it gently brushed my face bringing drowsiness in me.

“If it’s a hotpot, come upstairs another day and we can buy vegetables and make our own.” I yawned, then saw that a shop selling mahua[3] on the side of the road was about to close. When I was a child, my parents would buy mahua for me. Even now, it’s still a hot business during the day and it would take at least ten minutes to queue up, but since it’s late, there’s no one there. I walked over, still feeling sleepy, and bought two packs of mahua with cash since my phone’s battery is only at 3%.

“Xiao Shao Shao, come here. Here’s a gift.” I gave him a bag, “I’ll trouble you to take care of it later.“

“Wow! Little sister, you are so nice!” Yu Shao happily took it, tore it open and ate one. His eyes squinted in delight and praised the delicious food. The seller next to me saw it and called Yu Shao over. They grabbed two handfuls of mahua and stuffed it into his hands saying, “Children like to eat more.”  

Cute and talkative children are really popular.

Yu Shao continued praising the owner.

I turned to Weiwei, who was staring at the cat on the roof, and handed him a bag of mahua. “This is for you.” 

Only then did Li Weiwei look down at me and said, “You gave him a first meeting gift, and you’re giving me a… Protection fee?”

“Then will you take it?”

Li Yi was silent for a moment, then raised his hand, and lifted a little mahua.

I stressed: “Now that you have the protection fee, you have to protect me.”

The protection fee was collected, but it was to protect me.

He glanced at me, and when Yu Shao ran back holding a mahua, he softly said, “Draw as much as you want.” 

Author has something to say:

Will be ~ freshly baked chapter ~ Hong Kong Zhen, before writing this article, I never thought that I would really run to Ciqikou at eleven or twelve o’clock in the evening… This time, I did!

The ciqikou at night really feels quite good ~ and during the day like two worlds ~ recommended that the girls in the same city have time to go to see.

TN:

1. Selling meng means to fully display one’s cuteness in public in order to draw attention or benefit oneself. ↵

2. Tianshan Tong Grandma is a character in Jin Yong’s martial arts novel “Dragon Babu”, whose real name is unknown, the master of the Spirit Vulture Palace of the Ethereal Peak of Tianshan Mountain. She’s also the eldest disciple of Xiaoyaozi, the former head of the Xiaoyao faction, and the senior sister of Wuyazi and Li Qiushui. But she still looks like an eight- or nine-year-old girl despite that. Her martial arts skills are extremely high, and she is one of the highest female masters of martial arts in the Dragon Babu. ↵

3. Mahua or Fried Dough Twist is a Chinese dough twist that is fried in peanut oil. It is prepared in various ways with different flavors, which range from sweet to spicy, and usually has a dense and crisp texture.↵