Chapter 56 - A pinch, a yip. (2/2)
“Awoo.”
“Higher than a thousand?”
“Awoo!”
Lin Mu stood outside the crowd and was stunned for a long time, before he finally realized why there were so many people in front of his stall.
He wasn’t in a hurry to enter, and stood outside the noisy group, and listened to Uncle Zhao haggle with Milky over the price of the large orange blossom bonsai.
That price was a couple of hundreds higher than the price he had previously told Milky.
When Uncle Zhao called for someone to move this large bonsai, the crowd had made a path, and Yan Xuanjing looked up to see Lin Mu standing outside the crowd.
Lin Mu was amazed as he looked at the pile of fluff that was sitting upright. Yan Xuanjing didn’t feel that anything was wrong, and after he saw that Lin Mu had returned, he slowly laid back down.
Uncle Zhao also saw Lin Mu who was standing outside the crowd.
He grinned, “heya, Lin Mu, is this your dog?”
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Lin Mu raised his hand to push the trolley, walked into the crowd, and nodded.
The ones who came early were regulars from previous years, had fixed booths, and could be considered familiar with Lin Mu.
They took advantage of their early admission and began to look at the goods that Lin Mu brought in this time so that they could get their hands on it early. As they rambled on, they talked about the puppy that Lin Mu had left his store to.
Qin Chuan grabbed Di Wu’s wrist with his tail and whined, “Di Wu, don’t go! Don’t not want me anymore wuwuwu!”
“Your dog’s too smart, aren’t all Samoyeds supposed to be dumb?” Uncle Zhao rubbed his hands, “where did you find this puppy?”
Yan Xuanjing glanced at his father, frowned, and said, “no.”
Lin Mu unloaded his goods and replied very honestly, “I picked him up.”
Qin Chuan sniffled, held back a big amount of tears and hemmed and hawed, “why are you leaving without seeing me at all?”
Uncle Zhao knew about Lin Mu’s situation with his two uncles, so he mentioned some stuff about them.
“You go away.” Di Wu shook his hand and tugged at the Dragon Vein, “such a big dragon like you crying, won’t you be ashamed?”
He said that things were going well on both of his uncle’s sides. The connections his first uncle had accumulated over the years weren’t little, and he started a company by himself. His second uncle was in charge of mediation, and his work was also quite stable.
Lin Mu nodded as he listened, and Uncle Zhao paused for a while after he had finished, the looked at Lin Mu who had emptied the trolley and said, “would you like to work for your first uncle? I remember that you majored in accounting, right?”
Lin Mu instantly knew that this was his first uncle’s idea. Maybe it was because he didn’t know how to ask, so Uncle Zhao simply said it for him.
Lin Mu thought so, expressed his gratitude and shook his head, “thank you, Uncle Zhao, but I’ve already taken the civil service exam, and the current unit I’m in is pretty good.”
Uncle Zhao wasn’t surprised to hear him say this.
After all, ultimately, Lin Mu had arranged his mother’s funeral by himself, and never thought of asking his kin for assistance.
His uncle felt that even if he said it, he would be rejected, but when he thought that his nephew might be a little short of money, he wanted to help, so he had always been uncertain.
“Okay.” Uncle Zhao nodded his head, and didn’t say much after helping his friend ask. He patted Lin Mu on the shoulder and carried his sleeves as he wandered off to the other stalls.
Lin Mu squatted beside Milky, lifted him up, and asked, “why didn’t you bark when I coaxed you in the past?”
Yan Xuanjing heard his words, swished his tail without hesitation and squeaked out a ‘yip’.
Lin Mu choked for a couple of seconds, and couldn’t help but pinch Milky’s soft face.
Yan Xuanjing felt that this technique was a bit familiar. It was what Lin Mu did when kneading the toys that would bark.
Yan Xuanjing fell silent for a long while, and finally, he cooperated with Lin Mu, and with every pinch, he ‘yip’-ed.
“……”
Lin Mu felt like he was going to die.
His cause of death would be because Milky was too cute.
He used up all of his self-control to place down the pile of fluff in his hands, and finally moved all the goods before the exhibition official opened and sat on the side of the stall.
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Yan Xuanjing laid between Lin Mu’s legs and yawned. He let Lin Mu pat him whenever he wanted and thought about the conversation between Lin Mu and Uncle Zhao just now.
He felt that those two human relatives of Lin Mu’s weren’t that bad. After all, compared to monsters who always followed their hearts, it was very easy for humans to hesitate before making a decision, and this was especially true for humans with a family and career.
“En? What?” Yan Gui couldn’t react.
Yan Xuanjing said, “you can’t abdicate.”
For those that were able to care for other humans amongst those two things, in Yan Xuanjing’s eyes, were considered the good ones.
The scattered families murmured as they came over and registered with drooping heads.
But it was a pity.
When all the red had faded, Da Hei shook his head and raised his eyes to look at the scattered families that had wandered far away, and said, “what are you standing so far away for? Let me tell you, punishment can’t be escape!”
Lin Mu would probably abandon the Central Plains.
Yan Gui paused, and his heart made an ‘oh’, “I also can take him through the Great Wilderness!”
When time continues to pass, but Lin Mu hadn’t grown old, he would have to find a place to hide his abnormality.
Yan Xuanjing shook his head, “I promised Lin Mu to take him around the Great Wilderness.”
Other than the Great Wilderness, there wasn’t a more suitable place.
There was a strange look on Yan Gui’s face, “you didn’t say that before.”
Besides, Lin Mu’s real and actual father would return to the Great Wilderness.
Yan Xuanjing laid on Lin Mu’s lap, looked at the endless stream of human beings in front of him, and started to think what places were worth visiting in the vast Great Wilderness.
A strategy was needed before travelling.
If they randomly ran all over the place without planning, their end might just be like Di Wu’s, and they would crash and burn without any warning.
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Yan Xuanjing closed his eyes and pondered about the Great Wilderness Travel Guide, and then Lin Mu suddenly pulled his ears.
He raised his head and looked at Lin Mu.
Lin Mu was frowning slightly as he looked around. After he noticed at the fox spirit who was resting on his thigh opened his eyes, he whispered, “Milky, I think somebody is watching me.”
Yan Xuanjing heard his words, squinted and examined the people around them carefully, and scanned outwards for over three kilometres away, but didn’t notice anything unusual.
The fox spirit turned to look at Lin Mu, and after realising that he really felt uneasy, also frowned.
Lin Mu glanced at Yan Xuanjing, and his voice was very low, “there’s someone really looking at me, staring at me all this time.”
Yan Xuanjing shook his head to indicate that he hadn’t found anything.
Lin Mu pursed his lips, frowned as he sold everything out, and asked, “are we still going home?”
Yan Xuanjing thought for a moment, and let Lin Mu book a room outside tonight.
With the current situation of their home, they couldn’t exactly bring something odd back.
After all, there was a fragile and weak sacred tree who had just merged his soul, and a whole nest of little monsters and spirits. Although staying in the yard could be considered an impregnable fortress, a being that Yan Xuanjing couldn’t detect could actually be able to threaten the small yard.
Not to mention if they really fought, Lin Mu’s small yard wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
Naturally, Lin Mu listened to Yan Xuanjing’s opinion on such matters.
If they randomly ran all over the place without planning, their end might just be like Di Wu’s, and they would crash and burn without any warning.
Yan Xuanjing closed his eyes and pondered about the Great Wilderness Travel Guide, and then Lin Mu suddenly pulled his ears.
He raised his head and looked at Lin Mu.
Wu Gui seemed to have given tacit approval for Yan Xuanjing to always be by his side.
Lin Mu felt a little pleased as he said that, and looked down at the bracelet on his wrist, stared at it for a while, and then took back his sight.
“Wu Gui probably meant to ask me to be more careful.” Lin Mu rubbed the small fox’s round body and squeezed his two little paws.
Yan Xuanjing nodded his head to indicate that he understood.
Because this small exhibition wasn’t opened to large businesses, it had always been a good place for enthusiasts to communicate.
The organizer of this exhibition was the big boss Zhao that Lin Mu knew.
Because Lin Mu was introduced by him, he had gotten the tickets, and also met a number of bosses in this small exhibition, and made a lot of money from it.
This time, Lin Mu routinely asked Uncle De to bring the bonsais and flowers that he was going to sell.
He called home, and the one who picked it up was the little Ginseng.
When the little Ginseng heard that Lin Mu wasn’t returning tonight, he first made a sound of agreement, then after hanging up the phone, he hugged the phone and ran into the small yard, to find Di Xiu to complain.
The little Ginseng pouted and complained in a childish sounding tome, “Lin Mu said he wasn’t returning tonight. It’s the weekend today, is he secretly going out with Milky to play without us?”
Di Xiu’s figure slowly manifested. He gently blinked and said, “probably not.”
The little Ginseng pouted, “then why didn’t he bring us? Qin Chuan’s fine, but I’m obedient and not unlucky.”
“En, this……”
Di Xiu rubbed his chin in contemplation, recalled the two juniors who had been sleeping together intimately every day for the past few days without anything happening, and finally understood why nothing had happened.
They were probably shy.
Di Xiu thought so and raised his hand to touch the little Ginseng’s head. He smiled and said, “they didn’t take us with them, probably because they’re going to do what adult monsters do.”