Chapter 134: You’re Still Young
The bamboo tube rice was indeed super delicious!
When she was alone at home again, Huai Yu grabbed a machete and went to the bamboo forest. With no outsiders around, Kuang Biao (the bamboo spirit) didn’t care at all if a few bamboo shoots got chopped.
What it brooded over was something else entirely—
“Why didn’t you give me any face in front of outsiders today?”
“I told you, I have dignity!”
“Are you trampling on me?”
Huai Yu: …
She silently put her foot down from the bamboo stalk and then curiously asked, “Kuang Biao, you grow bamboo shoots, but why do you talk like a man?”
“Sister Xing Xing said only men care about saving face.”
“And if they save too much of it, they deserve a beating.”
This question stumped Kuang Biao too, “Ah… about gender…”
It racked its brains, dropping a bunch of bamboo leaves, but still had no answer, “I don’t know why I feel like I’m male… maybe because my original owner was a man?”
That made Huai Yu even more puzzled, “But you know so many stories and so much gossip. If your owner was a man, shouldn’t you turn into a woman to date him?”
“All the love stories in books are written like that.”
Kuang Biao was dumbfounded.
The entire bamboo forest fell still, not even the wind was blowing; all the bamboo seemed weighed down.
After a long pause, it muttered in frustration, “I forgot…”
Huai Yu sighed, “No wonder I don’t feel like dating you… you can’t even take advantage of opportunities right in front of you. Kuang Biao, you’re still young.”
She was different though. She had learned a lot, experienced a lot, and was almost a mature adult now.
…
The next morning, Huai Yu brought three more tubes of bamboo rice for Zhou Qian. While he was eating with relish, she happily said, “Zhou Qian, I’ve made a new friend now.”
“Call me brother,” Zhou Qian said coldly.
It had been several days, and the scar on his face showed no sign of healing; it probably wouldn’t ever fully recover.
When he was expressionless, he looked quite fierce. Huai Yu immediately felt timid and softly added, “Brother Zhou Qian.”
“Mm,” Zhou Qian finally responded, satisfied, “Tell me about this new friend. How did you meet? What do they do? Male or female?”
Huai Yu brightened up, “You know too! It’s Chen Xing from that business card, Sister Xing Xing!”
“Wow, she’s so cool! She can punch someone’s face into a rainbow of colors, and she doesn’t hesitate at all.”
“And Sister Xing Xing really likes me. She said I’m her kindred little sister and gave me a huge pile of daily necessities and furniture. I haven’t even had time to organize them yet.”
Zhou Qian put down the bamboo rice, “She gave you daily necessities and furniture—how did she deliver them? To your door? Did your connection to the Rose Corridor get exposed?”
Huai Yu: …
What do you mean by ‘connection to the Rose Corridor got exposed’?
Huai Yu huffed, “It’s been exposed for a while! Didn’t you help me build a house before? There were so many people there.”
Zhou Qian was about to argue that that was different, but after thinking… forget it. With so much stuff, it wasn’t like Huai Yu could drag it all back by herself.
He remembered how tired she was hauling that huge bunch of pinecones before, sweating all over. A girl living alone was really tough.
Realizing this, Zhou Qian buried his head back in his food and casually muttered, “Chen Xing’s a good person, straightforward.”
Knock knock.
The door was knocked, and a nurse came in with IV supplies to change his medicine. Seeing Huai Yu bringing food again, she couldn’t help but praise, “Little sister bringing you food again today?”
“No wonder you have such a strong will to survive, managing to pull through such serious injuries. With such a good little sister, you wouldn’t bear to leave her alone to be bullied, huh?”
Zhou Qian “mm’d” and nodded in agreement.
Huai Yu blinked and couldn’t help but mutter, “What will to survive… Zhou Qian’s life was saved because I took out that egg-shell blade.”
But Zhou Qian seemed to know what she was about to say and once again added: “Chen Xing’s a decent person, you should keep in touch.”
“Mm,” Huai Yu nodded in agreement too, “It’s just her taste in men is bad. Her boyfriend is awful, but Sister Xing Xing said beating him up twice will fix it.”
She spoke with a girlish tone, “In the future, I want to find a boyfriend I can beat too. If I tell him to do the laundry, he’ll do it. If I tell him to farm, he’ll farm. And if he doesn’t listen…”
Huai Yu clenched her fist, “I’ll beat him up!”
Zhou Qian glanced at her thin arm and chuckled, “If he can’t even beat you, how useless must he be? He probably couldn’t even wring out the laundry.”
Huai Yu thought about it and realized that was true!
She became a bit gloomy, “Then what do I do… I can’t just not date, right? I’ve never dated before.”
Tsk!
Zhou Qian couldn’t help scratching his head: as expected, girl problems were such a hassle! Back when Zhou Ning was in middle school, she also had a crush on a boy in her class.
He thought about it and seriously suggested, “How about this, I’ll make you a workout plan first so you can build up your strength.”
“Once I recover, I’ll teach you real combat techniques.”
“That way when you have a boyfriend in the future, you can actually hit him during arguments.”
The nurse, who was hanging up the IV bag nearby, kept glancing at the siblings, thinking: no wonder they’re from a military family!
For the little sister to date, the prerequisite is she has to know how to fight…
Although it sounded a bit bloody and violent, for some reason, it actually gave her a huge sense of security!
The nurse looked at Huai Yu enviously. Hearing Zhou Qian’s training plan, her eyes sparkled too—
Wow!
She wanted to ask Zhou Captain’s sister if she could copy that workout plan sometime too. She wanted to get strong too.
Besides, after a few years of disasters, she had carried plenty of people and corpses around as a medical worker. Her arms were probably stronger than this little sister’s!
But since the family was chatting, she quietly packed up and left.
Huai Yu, however, immediately shook her head, “No, no, training is so hard, and I don’t even eat well. Forget it.”
She made a firm decision, “At worst, I just won’t date in the future.”
Zhou Qian laughed, “Come on, last time you told me about your ‘ex-boyfriend.’ Have you remembered anything else recently?”
“Better think it through—otherwise, if you actually date someone and that guy shows up later saying you’re his side chick, won’t that be embarrassing? Won’t that piss you off?”
Huai Yu imagined the scene and couldn’t help clenching her fists again, “Sister Xing Xing was right, women really need to be able to fight!”
She couldn’t handle physical training at all, but she could still keep practicing her supernatural abilities when she had time!
Both of them were wood-type—why was that annoying Wu Yue so strong? Just because he could instantly root and sprout?
Sooner or later, she’d master that too!
