Free Web NovelTurn left out of the Hua City Fifth People's Hospital gate, cross the road via an X-shaped pedestrian overpass to the opposite street, then turn right, and there's a small convenience store that has been open for many years.
The convenience store's facade is small and a bit dilapidated, inconspicuous among the many shops facing the street. People passing by don't even give it a second glance, just as they wouldn't pay attention to the little girl and the young man sitting on the steps in front of the convenience store, eating ice cream.
Qingji and Wang Yingying finally went to the hospital and had a thorough physical examination.
After all, Wang Yingying's appearance at the time was simply too terrifying, and the kindergarten teacher and the middle-aged woman dared not neglect her in the slightest.
In simple terms, it was a huge success in extorting money!
Although Qingji's understanding of modern society's life was still very limited, when it came to extorting people, he was hundreds of years ahead.
You see, as early as when he was eighteen, he had already extorted the elders and disciples of Da Chunyang Palace several times over, not to mention the time he spent traveling down the mountain.
At that time, on the turbulent land of Z Country, without some skills that now seem a bit despicable and shameless, it would be very difficult to survive, even for a Psychic!
Qingji unwrapped the ice cream and handed it to Wang Yingying, saying, "Here, the strawberry-flavored ice cream you wanted."
After he finished speaking, a gentle smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
This scene reminded him of a long time ago when he took Yu Bo to the street to buy popsicles.
Popsicles back then were still hand-cranked, and the ingredients were only sugar water and a small amount of fruit...
Later, the father and son stopped buying popsicles on the street because they were too expensive. It was better to make them at home using a Spell. With a casual flick, tens of kilograms of ice would appear, truly making Yu Bo the coolest kid on Peony Street for several summers.
Wang Yingying reached out her small hands, took the ice cream with both hands, took a sip, frowned with a look of disgust, then looked up at Qingji and complained, "This isn't what I wanted... I wanted that one... um, the twelve-yuan one."
"We pinky-swore, and we said liars are puppies!"
As she spoke, her small face was exceptionally serious, and it was not hard to see how fixated she was on that twelve-yuan ice cream.
"Little one, don't falsely accuse me!" Qingji gently patted Wang Yingying's small head and said, "We agreed that you would pretend to be sick to scare that old hag, and after it was done, I'd reward you with an ice cream. But you almost gave it away just now, you know?"
"I've heard of people being beaten to internal injuries, but I've never heard of people being beaten to develop rheumatoid arthritis and fatty liver."
Thinking back now, Qingji still felt his brain throbbing when he recalled the expressions of the middle-aged woman and the Doctor when they saw the examination results. If he hadn't reacted quickly enough and swapped the examination reports in time, this matter might have ended up on Hua City's evening news.
Tsk, Yu Bo, that silly boy, is easier to fool. Qingji thought.
"..." Wang Yingying blinked her watery eyes, staring at Qingji for a few seconds, then shook her head and said, "I don't understand."
"But Grandpa Li and Uncle Ma also have this kind of illness, so why don't they...'spiral'?"
"It's 'give it away,' not'spiral'!" Qingji said, holding his forehead, "How old are they, and how old are you? Can that be the same? What four or five-year-old child gets rheumatoid arthritis and fatty liver?"
Wang Yingying, "..."
Although she still didn't understand why children couldn't get those two illnesses, she didn't continue bickering with Qingji.
She stuffed the ice cream back into Qingji's hand, then stood up, scurried to the convenience store's freezer, stood on her tiptoes, pressed her face against the glass, and stared longingly at the "Handmade Strawberry Cheese Carnival" ice cream inside, constantly licking her lips until the convenience store owner came over to ask.
"Little friend, do you want to buy ice cream?"
Wang Yingying looked up, staring blankly at the convenience store owner, not saying a word.
"Little friend?"
It wasn't until the convenience store owner spoke a second time that Wang Yingying reached out, pointed to the "Handmade Strawberry Cheese Carnival" ice cream in the freezer, and asked, "Auntie, have you eaten this ice cream before?"
"Yes, little friend, do you want to buy this one?"
"No, my family doesn't let me buy it." Wang Yingying shook her head and continued to ask, "Then, Auntie, is this ice cream delicious? Is it especially sweet?"
"Uh... it's quite sweet."
"Oh." Wang Yingying nodded, her face serious, "Then you must be very happy, right? To be able to eat such sweet ice cream..."
Listening to this... you're not happy? The convenience store owner hesitated, looked at the expressionless young man not far away, then looked at the exquisite little girl in front of her, full of expectation. Suddenly, it was as if she had a hallucination, and a voice shouted loudly.
"Sell it to her! Sell it to her!"
However, when she looked at the young man not far away again, preparing to voice her thoughts, her eyes widened.
He ran off, not looking back, his expression cold.
It was as if the little girl at the convenience store entrance had nothing to do with him at all.
Seeing this, the convenience store owner froze for a moment, then shouted after the young man's back, "Hey! Your child is still here!"
"What? She's not my child, I don't know her. Don't come to me for this kind of thing, or maybe you should call the police?" Qingji's voice came from afar.
As soon as his voice fell, Wang Yingying's eyes quickly reddened, and then, before the convenience store owner could react, she burst into tears with a "wa" sound.
For a moment, passersby stopped, casting their gazes and commenting.
Convenience store owner, "???"
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Meanwhile, after watching the entire process through the Retainer Mark, Lu Yibei expressionlessly raised her hand and rubbed her slightly throbbing temples.
Although buying whatever a child wants isn't necessarily a good thing, isn't it a bit too much for the Ancestor to just abandon Wang Yingying on the street like that?
What if it leaves the child with childhood trauma?
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Wait, since when did I start treating Wang Yingying completely as an ordinary child?
Realizing the key point, Lu Yibei's tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and she suddenly felt much more at ease about Wang Yingying's safety.
However, she still held her opinion that Qingji should buy Wang Yingying that ice cream.
For no other reason than the fact that the Invasion Beast, which originally ate anything regardless of race or material, now only wanted to eat a slightly more expensive ice cream, which was truly a huge improvement.
But then again, as it currently stood, there seemed to be no communication barrier between the two of them, and Wang Yingying didn't seem as much like a "silly child" as imagined...
In that case, having Wang Yingying help convey my thoughts should work!
Lu Yibei thought, then got up to check the Nanling Yaohua's condition, before sitting back down by the bed, concentrating, and establishing contact with Wang Yingying through the Retainer Mark.
"Wang Yingying, Wang Yingying..."
She called out softly twice through the Retainer Mark, waited a few seconds, and then heard Wang Yingying's voice.
"Eh? Is that Xiao Bei?"
Lu Yibei, "..." This address, she probably learned it from the Ancestor, right?
"What Xiao Bei, you should call me Fa... uh, you should call me Master, understand? Don't be so disrespectful!"
"Oh oh, got it, Xiao Bei Master!" Wang Yingying replied, "Xiao Bei Master, where are you? Why can't I see you? I miss you so much, the Ancestor won't buy me ice cream."
If possible, it's best not to add strange prefixes before 'Master'... Lu Yibei muttered to herself, but listening to Wang Yingying's wronged and dependent tone, she didn't correct her. Instead, she patiently explained, "It's a long story, I'm in a very distant place right now..."
"Are you dead?" Wang Yingying said abruptly, "Um... Wang Zichen's mom in our class died, and then his dad told him that his mom turned into a star and went to a very distant place."
"Did you also turn into a star?"
"I..." Lu Yibei was speechless for a moment.
She suddenly realized a serious problem: there was no communication barrier between Qingji and Wang Yingying, but there might be a slight barrier when [N O V E L I G H T] she communicated with Wang Yingying.
Fortunately, this level of barrier was still within controllable limits.
"I'm not dead, nor have I turned into a star. I'm just trapped and need your help to get out. Once I'm free, you'll be able to see me, so... are you willing to help me?"
"No!" Wang Yingying said seriously.
"Why?" Lu Yibei asked, startled, "Don't you want to see me?"
"Um..." Wang Yingying thought for a moment and said, "If you do something wrong, you should be punished!"
"Did something wrong?" Lu Yibei asked, puzzled, "What did I do wrong?"
"I don't know." Wang Yingying mumbled, "But, only if you do something wrong do you get trapped and then your family comes to pick you up, right? That's what happened when I did something wrong at kindergarten."
"You have to stay there obediently, don't sneak away, or the Ancestor will spank you. Last time I was kept in the office by the teacher, I secretly ran away, and when I got home, the Ancestor spanked me."
"So, just be a good child and hold on! I can see you later too, I'll go home and wait for you now, bye-bye!"
"..."
In silence, Lu Yibei temporarily cut off contact with Wang Yingying.
She felt that she needed to calm down before continuing to communicate with Wang Yingying, otherwise, the breath stuck in her chest wouldn't go down.
She suddenly understood why there was a saying, "Children are vengeful spirits who come to collect debts from a previous life," because one wrong move and you could really be angered to death, even if they weren't your own biological children.
And the occasional cuteness children displayed was just a halftime break set up so you wouldn't be angered to death all at once.
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Ten-odd minutes later.
Wang Yingying, eating the "Handmade Strawberry Cheese Carnival" she had gotten for free by being "cute," skipped back to the Lu Family Old House.
With half-eaten ice cream in her mouth, she tiptoed, pushed open the main gate, and upon seeing the scene in the courtyard behind the door, her eyes widened.
In the courtyard, "Lu Yibei" was tied there, as if someone had poured water on her, completely drenched, her head bowed. On her slightly pale cheeks, faint tear stains were visible, and her eyes were swollen, as if she had just cried a lot.
After observing for a few seconds, she suddenly seemed to understand everything and patted her small head.
No wonder Xiao Bei said she was trapped just now and wanted my help. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
So she really did make a mistake and was locked up!
Thinking of this, Wang Yingying took a few more glances at "Lu Yibei" in the center of the courtyard, then looked down at the unfinished ice cream in her hand. After a slight hesitation, she scurried forward and held the ice cream to "Lu Yibei's" mouth.
"Here, you eat it, but you can't tell the Ancestor!"
Although she couldn't help the "Lu Yibei" who had made a mistake get out of her predicament, she was still very willing to share her ice cream.
After several consecutive meals missed and being "interrogated" by Ji Yunpei with almost perverted methods, Gu Qianqian was in a daze and almost broken.
In this state, a cool sensation came to her lips, and the sweet scent of ice cream wafted into her nostrils. Without thinking, she swallowed the entire remaining ice cream in one bite.
The next moment, an earth-shattering wail erupted.
Following the cries, Gu Qianqian saw Wang Yingying rolling on the ground, crying and making a fuss. She tilted her head, her brows slightly furrowed.
What... where did this brat come from? So annoying!
