Chapter 369 (1/2)

Chu Yunsheng tightened his clothes, then crouched down next to the little plant girl. He habitually reached his hand into his pocket searching for the half cigarette that Old Sun had given to him and then used the fire starter that was made by the people in this forest to light the cigarette.

“Oh, sorry, uncle, I forget that you can’t speak. But it’s okay, you can write on my leaves, sis does the same thing when she teaches me how to write Chinese.” The little plant girl reached out a big yellowish leaf and said. Perhaps she didn’t have enough nutrition, that’s why the color was like that.

Chu Yunsheng bit on the cigarette and carefully held the leaf and wrote slowly, “I also haven’t talked to anyone for a very long time.” The leaf was soft and tender like a piece of cotton cloth.

Since he became an insect, he also hadn’t chatted with any human beings like this for a very long time. The feeling of loneliness made Chu Yunsheng couldn’t refuse the little girl’s request.

Whenever Chu Yunsheng wrote something on the leaf, the leaf would emit a faint phosph.o.r.escence light forming a blurry Chinese character on it.

“Uncle, you also have a very unfortunate life, just like my sis, both of you can’t talk. But my sis was not born with it. She lost her voice because of me.” the little plant girl tilted her head and carried on.

“When I was young, I was very naughty. One day I sneaked out of the house after sis went to work. I sneaked into a place that had many Zhiwu people to play. I didn’t know that those Zhiwu people are that bad, they turned me into a lamp plant. I was very scared when I woke up because I lost my body. I cried a lot that day…”

Listening to a kid telling a story about when she was young might sound a little bit funny, but Chu Yunsheng didn’t laugh. Instead, he quietly listened to every word she said while smoking his cigarette. Other people might not be able to understand how panic and how scared the girl was when she found out that she had lost her body, but Chu Yunsheng had personally experienced almost exactly the same situation. The difference was that at that time, he was an adult who had seen and experienced many unfortunate events, but she was still a kid.

The little girl rolled up her leaves and said angrily, “sis told me that she almost lost her mind when he found out that I was not home. She asked many people if they had seen me, and went through many places in the forest trying to find me. Eventually, she found me in a group of lamp plants.

Those lamp plants are very very bad, they didn’t want to let me go. They even want to turn my sis into Zhiwu people. My sis is just an ordinary human being, she doesn’t have any abilities. So begged them to let me go, told them that I was just a kid, and couldn’t join the fight.

I remembered that that day it was snowing very heavily, and sis was kneeling on the field constantly kowtowing, but those bad Zhiwu people ignored her.”

Chu Yunsheng quietly listened. Through the little girl’s childish tone, he could clearly feel the mute girl’s feeling at that time. It was the feeling of wanting to protect someone but did not have any abilities to do it.

“Then, there was a good lamp plant aunty who sympathized with my sis. She helped me to get out after all the bad guys were asleep. But I couldn’t find my body anymore. Even if I find my body, aunty told us that it couldn’t be attached together anymore. Later on, sis found a flower pot and planted me there and hid me in the house all day. Only when it gets to the late night am I able to get out of the house to see the sky.

I was saved, but sis was poisoned by those bad plant people, they secretly emitted poisonous gas to my sis… she was exhausted, she didn’t even eat anything that day. After she transferred me into the pot, she collapsed outside the house. Luckily, Grandpa He noticed it, and brought a pill from outside to save my sis… Later on… she lost her voice…”

When she finished the story, Chu Yunsheng also finished his cigarette. He stroked the girl’s little head and wrote, “you have a good sister.”

“Uncle, don’t stroke my head, I don’t like people stroking my head, I am not a kid anymore!” The little girl immediately said while brandis.h.i.+ng her leaves.

Chu Yunsheng smiled and nodded his head.

“Uncle, I have already told you my biggest secret. Now, it is your turn. You need to be honest.” The little girl looked at Chu Yunsheng excitedly. It seemed like she was very “eager” to know someone else’s secret.

Chu Yunsheng adjusted his position and then wrote, “when I was as big as you, the biggest secret I had was that I once hung my school princ.i.p.al’s pants on the flagpole.”

The little girl was dazed for a second and said, “uncle, that doesn’t count… That is not a secret at all… Emmm, I only went to the nursery before, uncle, is school fun? Do you have many friends? Are there any candies like lollipops? How about comics? Are there many comic books?”

Chu Yunsheng didn’t know how to answer her questions. If he says no, she would definitely be upset. If he says yes, but she could no longer see them anymore. So he sighed and planned to change the topic, “Let me tell you the biggest secret I have. In this world, you are the third person who knows it.”

“Okay, okay, quick, tell me.” The little girl nodded her head and said.

Chu Yunsheng paused a second and then wrote, “a long time ago, because of an accident, I was turned into an insect, you know those insects that spit things.”

“Yes, yes, I know, sis told me that mom and dad were eaten by those things, uncle you can carry on.” the little girl urged.

Chu Yunsheng looked at the sky, took a deep breath and then briefly wrote down what he had been through as an insect. He had changed the story a lot, made it sound like a fairytale. So it would be easier for the girl in front of her to understand.

“… later on… it died, and I became a human being again.”