Chapter 30 - Ill Listen to You, Young Master (1/2)
Gu Nianbin wanted to take Du Xiaoxian to eat western food, but he changed his mind on second thought. She would resist unfamiliar things out of instinct. He took her to a Chinese restaurant and asked for a quiet private room. He gave her the menu to order. Du Xiaoxian held the exquisite menu in her hand and flipped it over lightly. Then she returned it to him and shook her head shyly. She had never eaten any dish on it before. What if she ordered something that the young master didn’t like to eat?
Gu Nianbin didn’t force her and took the order. While waiting for the dishes, he slowly told Du Xiaoxian what he had being thinking along the way. There were so many things he wanted her to know. She just listened quietly and occasionally nodded with a blink of her big eyes. Gu Nianbin was rarely so talktive, even himself found it hard to believe. Finally, he stopped and asked, “Xiaoxian, do you understand what I said?”
Du Xiaoxian pursed her lips and said softly, “I’ll listen to you, young master.”
Well, she was still too submissive. After so much talking, she answered everything in one sentence. “Will you listen to whatever I say?” Gu Nianbin asked her.
She hesitated for a moment, and nodded.
“You have to eat more from now on and gain some weight. You are too skinny.”
“OK.”
“Be brave and make some friends.”
“OK.”
“Speak more and laugh more.”
“OK.”
“Take whatever I give you. Don’t refuse.”
After a moment of hesitation, she still nodded, “OK.”
“Don’t take anything from others.”
“OK.”
“Be attentive in class.”
“OK.”
“Just like this, answer me with ‘OK’ instead of ‘Yes, Sir’.”
“OK.”
Gu Nianbin paused for a moment, suddenly an extremely sinister thought popped up, he said, “Take off your clothes.”
“OK.” She replied out of reflex and was stunned for a moment.
He looked at her silly face. Before he could say “just joking”, Du Xiaoxian had already crossed her arms, grabbed her shirt and was about to take it off in the next moment. He hurriedly pressed down her hands and said, “I’m teasing you. Don’t take it seriously.”
Du Xiaoxian blushed. She believed the Young Master was a good person. Even if she took off her clothes, he would not do anything to her. Although his request was too much, she wanted to show her loyalty by obeying.
“Xiaoxian, don’t take off your clothes no matter who asks you to, including me. Understand?” Gu Nianbin panicked just now. He didn’t expect her to be so slavish.
Du Xiaoxian nodded and lowered her eyes with her thick eyelashes softly flickering. Gu Nianbin suddenly became worried. Her mother had taught her so many things, why didn’t she teach her that men and women should keep distance? Maybe she had gone too early to teach her. Then her second aunt next door should have taught her about this. Otherwise how could she rest assured to let her come all the way to G City alone?
Gu Nianbin told her how to distinguish men with bad intensions. She said immediately, “I knew about this. Second Aunt said that if a man praises me for being beautiful, he must have bad intensions. I have to hide far away from this kind of guys.”
“Your aunt was right.” Gu Nianbin nodded when he suddenly remembered that he had praised Du Xiaoxian’s beauty more than once. He was embarrassed for a moment and wondered if he needed to declare that he was an exception.
However, Du Xiaoxian seemed to have read his mind and said, “But you are different. You are a good person and will not harbor ill intentions towards me.”
“Sure,” Gu Nianbin agreed hurriedly, “Of course not.”
At this time, the door was opened. The waiter pushed the cart in and listed the names of the dishes while placing them on the table one by one. “The dishes are ready. Please enjoy your meal.”
Gu Nianbin waved his hand and asked her to leave. He assumed that Du Xiaoxian didn’t understand one single name the waiter had said, so he introduced the dishes to her one by one. Du Xiaoxian listened very carefully and ate whatever he asked her to.
After she tried all the dishes, he stopped giving orders and let her eat whatever she liked.
Du Xiaoxian looked tiny and cute, but she did not eat slowly. Before soon, she had finished two small bowls of rice, but the dishes on the table were barely touched.
“Are you full?” “Why didn’t you eat more from the dishes?”
Du Xiaoxian put the chopsticks on the bowl neatly to say she had finished, “My mother asked me to eat more rice and less dishes and stop when I’m seventy percent full. Eating this way will keep me full for a longer time.”
Gu Nianbin’s heart ached hearing this, “You won’t be starving again from now on. You can eat until you’re full every meal. Let me get you something more, okay?”