After eating at the feast for the brats in the ancestral hall, Ansheng returned home and cozied up with Yu Xueqing on the sofa, scrolling through short videos on the Note platform.
In his spare moments, Ansheng occasionally threw a wary glance at Yu Zhenghong.
Yu Zhenghong looked at his daughter and the fox, with a face full of words unsaid.
His face seemed to read: My dear daughter, can you lend your fox to your father for a bit? Our family’s villa and luxury car next year are counting on him!
Every time Yu Zhenghong tried to get close, Ansheng would timely raise the little fox paw in a ready punch stance.
"Still watching! We should head back and open up the shop!" Chen Peipei came out of the kitchen, wiping her hands dry, and seeing her husband’s sulking face, she rolled her eyes and snapped:
"He always says, despite waving incense sticks for years, Master Fox still doesn’t want to work for him; do you think bringing him back will make him bless your business?"
"If a good-natured Master Fox has to work like a beast at the tea estate, then that’d be ghostly luck!"
"Let’s go, let’s go!"
Chen Peipei dragged Yu Zhenghong out.
On the way, Yu Zhenghong kept mumbling incomprehensible things, like "You don’t understand", "You can’t take rhymes as metaphysics", "You’re into feudal superstition".
"Whether the fox is magical or not, how would you know without trying?", "Four thousand bucks in pure profit each day".....
At this, Chen Peipei directly pushed her money-grubbing husband into the pickup truck.
Didn’t you see Master Fox’s face? He guards against you more than a thief!
If you keep pestering the fox, who knows if Master Fox would summon a thunderstorm to strike you down.
But biting you, making you get five rabies shots, is an absolute certainty.
"In anger and humiliation, Ah Qing’s old chap chooses humiliation....."
Accompanying Yu Xueqing at the door as they watched Yu Zhenghong and Chen Peipei leave for work, Ansheng wore a mocking expression as the old, shabby pickup truck disappeared into the distance.
Occasionally helping out at the tea estate, Ansheng didn’t mind much.
After all.... Earning money can improve living conditions, and though the old chap likes to act mysteriously, he’s genuinely generous.
The last time they helped earn over four thousand, Yu Zhenghong was willing to spend about two thousand on a treat, and afterward, even gifted three incense sticks worth roughly a thousand.
But if required to help out every day....
Ansheng feels he might grab a broom and dustpan to sweep the old chap straight out.
I mean, in my past life I planted fields and sold tea; now even without human form, I’m still planting and selling - what’s the point?
"Xiaolan, wanna go take a dump together later?" Yu Xueqing said with a beaming smile:
"Just now Aunt Lingling asked if you want to run up the mountain at the Youth Palace and poop with Ah Bai."
Upon hearing Yu Xueqing speak, Ansheng couldn’t help but shiver, a look of satisfaction spreading over his face.
Yu Xueqing’s Mandarin is pretty standard, but people from Xia Dong Region all have a language BUG.
When they say reduplicated words, the first syllable of the word, regardless of tone, is always pronounced in the third tone.
The words just now, Lingling, and auntie - all said in reduplication - from Ah Qing’s mouth, sounded like normal words, yet mixed with the Xia Dong people’s language bug, it produced a voice akin to a coquettish sweet Treasure Island girl.
"Ah Qing, don’t be so creepy....." Ansheng’s ears softened momentarily but quickly returned to normal, raising his hand to pat Yu Xueqing’s cheek:
"Acting cute won’t work, you need to livestream tonight to earn our meal money. Good, let’s not indulge and become useless....."
Thirty-six-degree weather.
Running up a mountain, pooping in the wild?
I’m afraid the moment I try to poop, the ground’s high temperature will evaporate the moisture, leaving me blocked up!
No, no, I want to stay home, enjoy the air conditioning, scroll through Note platform’s cyber body Bodhisattvas, and trick group friends.
The upright words from the little fox’s mouth, when machine-translated through Yu Xueqing’s brain, suddenly changed.
’Boo hoo hoo～ Foxy listens to the master, but if the master takes Foxy out hunting, yet at night faces the livestream monster alone, won’t it be super exhausting?’
’Foxy won’t go, Foxy will just stay home, Foxy is still too young to help with hunting.’
"Wow—Xiaolan is so thoughtful!"
"See, no dog food goes wasted."
After hearing the machine translation, Yu Xueqing was pleased, smothering her little fox with kisses on its small face.
The little fox slowly formed a question mark.
The mountain running plan was thus set.
However, it wasn’t to happen immediately, but around 4 PM in the afternoon.
Around two, the sun was too scorching, barring any urgent matters, no one wanted to step outside.
Yu Xueqing went back inside, opened WeChat to share the bustling scene of Changxi Town with her girlfriends.
Then, looking like a thief, she glanced around the room and opened the shopping platform, preparing to hand over the ancestral hall video to professionals.
The reason Yu Xueqing looked like a thief while opening the shopping platform.
In fact, it had something to do with Ansheng to some extent.
Not long after adopting the fox, just as Yu Xueqing had a little spare money, she thought of buying a fox cosplay costume to take a set of mother-and-son theme photos with her fox.
But as soon as Yu Xueqing typed in the keyword for fox cosplay attire on the shopping platform.
Ah Qing’s shopping platform went utterly berserk.
An avalanche of various adult costumes inundated Yu Xueqing’s shopping platform homepage.
And those fox cosplay costumes were anything but proper.
At a glance, they made Yu Xueqing blush crimson, as if opening the door to a brand-new world.
Ansheng was sitting on the sofa initially, but when Yu Xueqing opened the shopping platform, she placed him on the ground.
Thinking a bit, Ansheng greeted Yu Xueqing before preparing to head out.
"Going to find Lai Foo again? Make sure to come back soon!" Yu Xueqing nodded understandingly and agreed to her little fox’s words.
A little fox living in the city.
Is indeed quite lonely.
Ah Qing, before taking up the live streaming business, frequently had to head over to the Tea Mountain.
The little fox often stayed home alone.
Yu Xueqing, after pondering this, decided to find a companion for her fox.
But after thoroughly searching on the internet, she suddenly found a very serious problem.
Common pets like birds, flowers, fish, and insects are mostly on the little fox’s menu. The pets off the menu were beyond Yu Xueqing’s financial reach.
...Fox friends paired with dog pals, isn’t that nice too?
She’s already familiar with Lai Foo and can ask him to look after her fox, so it won’t be bullied by dogs.
Yu Xueqing kept browsing the shopping platform, editing the village chief’s video, secretly searching for fox cosplay information on the search page.
However, in front of the fox cosplay search, Yu Xueqing added the limiting term [ancient costume].
Ah Qing, though an adult, still finds certain bizarre items extremely embarrassing.
And the little fox had already leaped over the wall, wagging its big tail, heading towards Lin Ying’s place.
So, what happened to those two crocodiles?
Sister Lin Fu, please satisfy my curiosity!