Chapter 1413: Chapter 821: Foolish
Sui Yi glanced at her and asked the three of Gong Jiu, "Is it bitter?"
The three of them naturally said it wasn’t bitter!
Then Sui Yi took a ladle of Pu Qinghan’s pot of medicinal soup and added some to their bowls.
"Loyal, aren’t you?"
The three: Damn! That’s not fair!
But can we say we’re not loyal!
No way!
The three of them aren’t the type to just nod along, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon have always been the most loyal...
Gong Jiu: "Qinghan, it’s not that bitter, right?"
Flower Demon: "Whether it’s bitter or not doesn’t matter, we’re not that afraid of bitterness, after all, I’ve endured hardships with those ice-cold beauties for years..."
Uh, maybe you shouldn’t say that.
Pu Qinghan was momentarily stunned, seemingly surprised, yet found the two rather amusing, "This is sweet, actually."
What!
"Maybe yours is a bit more bitter," Pu Qinghan said with a serene and graceful smile, making it seem like Sui Yi was favoring her, giving her a soup that wasn’t bitter at all, while Gong Jiu’s trio had extremely bitter soup...
Alright then!
That’s not fair!
Gong Jiu and his two companions, along with Ye Chunan, didn’t linger any longer, the three of them downed it together...
And then...
Three perfectly synchronized bitter melon faces appeared freshly out of the oven.
They all glaringly stared at Sui Yi and Pu Qinghan.
– These two damned ones! Such tricksters!
The expressions made everyone present burst into laughter.
However, amidst the laughter, they couldn’t help but marvel at Pu Qinghan’s excellent acting skills.
They had forgotten she was a movie queen indeed.
Of course, being able to endure it was something that made them rethink her even more.
Bear in mind, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon are martial artists, yet they couldn’t endure such bitterness, but she did.
Because of the bitter medicine soup, the mood inside was quite good—except for the three poor souls who came home weary, only to fall victim to the whole team’s pranks.
But while they were laughing, Wang Qing came downstairs to get some hot water and was taken aback by the strange medicinal smell in the hall, glancing around a few times, prompting the conversation to shift as she arrived.
"Sui Yi, we feel that Zhouzhou’s real name, whether Wang Qing or Zhou Zhiruo, is not very convenient. It easily affects others’ judgment of her, especially since they’ll definitely start investigating, and the name stands out, making Zhouzhou the first target."
So that’s it?
Neither Wang Qing nor Zhouzhou will work as names.
The former sounds too spiritual, and Gong Jiu and the others aren’t used to it, thinking it’s a bad omen, after all, she has already left the nunnery.
The latter... doesn’t match her aura.
Zhouzhou sounds too cute.
SO!?
"We’ve collectively thought of a new name for her. Can you guess what it is?"
Sui Yi smiled slightly, glancing at Wang Qing who was silently drinking water, "What is it?"
Gong Jiu: "Zhou Zhi."
Flower Demon: "Zhou Ruo."
Yhan Qingwu: "Last time, I think you mentioned Zhou Ruo Zhi."
Not willing to change it entirely, just slightly adjust it to show respect for the name Zhou Zhiruo, but...
Moreover, someone else chimed in out of nowhere: "Sui Zhiruo?"
The person in question investigating: "...."
The other person with the surname Sui: "...."
Can you first agree on a collective understanding of this concept?
Sui Yi lightly coughed, holding a teacup in one hand while gesturing with the other hand, a dictionary flew out from the bookshelf, landing in her hand, which she then handed to Wang Qing, "Why don’t you pick one yourself."
Heh, Wang Qing glanced at her. She had long finished watching all movie, TV, and novel versions, adding up to seven or eight in different years...
So, she was clear about what her name truly meant.
Putting aside whether those people would associate it with a mind-boggling Heaven Slaying Dragon in another realm, it simply sounds kind of...,
Although it’s not to the point of changing names, since she once received the spiritual name Wang Qing upon entering the monastery, why would she care about the name Zhou Zhiruo, so when Gong Jiu and others brought it up, she agreed—as for Sui Zhiruo...who brought it up anyway? Can I slap them?
Wang Qing took the thick dictionary, flipped it open at random, glanced over, and slid her finger across a line.
"Let’s go with this."
The nearest Su Zimu looked over.
There were some characters in between, but with a light scratch linking them.
"Li Luo."
Su Zimu’s voice was soft and pleasant, and this utterance of Yu Li sounded especially exquisite and captivating, as if melting into silk at the tip of the tongue...
Clang!
The teacup fell to the ground.
And shattered.
Those who had been focused were all dumbfounded, watching Sui Yi bend down to pick up the shattered pieces, no one saw her expression at the time, only noting she was as composed as ever when she stood up.
No one present was foolish, so their gazes became a bit odd.
Sui Yi faced their eyes, slightly apologetic: "Sorry, my hand slipped."
Hand slipped, heh!
Sui someone’s way of brush-off seems to be consistent even after ten years.
Yet probably no one would expose Sui Yi’s unease.
After all, Sui Yi...
"Is there a problem with this name?"
Wang Qing looked at Sui Yi, her expression calm, seemingly pondering...
Sui Yi looked at her, silent for a moment.
This moment carried a remarkably intense unusual air.
As they suspected, Sui Yi and Wang Qing indeed had unresolved ties.
Not just a friend brought back from another world.
Sui Yi’s attitude was not hidden, yet not obvious, as though considering something, making everyone incredibly curious.
Truly, they were dying from suspense.
Fortunately, Sui Yi did respond.
"Not as nice as Sui Zhiruo."
Wang Qing, astute beyond the ordinary person, immediately sensed she might have been teased again by the one who abducted her.
Meanwhile, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon were furious.
For god’s sake, we already took off our pants, and you make us listen to this?
Just wash up and go to sleep.
Everyone still washed up and went to sleep.
In the night, the bedroom lights were slightly warm, the room cold and desolate.
A sheet covered someone on the bed, this person seemed asleep, yet also seemed plunged into a hopeless situation...
It was a barren, yellow place, vast land, where piles of stones accumulated into hills due to time, forming small to medium-sized ravines. If these ravines were roads, then the earthen holes dug at the foot of the hills must be homes.
These homes were so ancient and rustic, but one corner stood out, where grapevines thrived in dry terrain, a small fence, a little table, and two little chairs in the yard. Two people might live behind that door, and if one were to push it open...
The door suddenly swung open, and a person led another slightly shorter and thinner person, taking advantage of the night, quietly and cautiously squeezed through the narrow path, branching out in all directions, going from walking briskly to running...
"Did you understand what I said?"
"You are so dumb, so dirty, so ugly, yet so foolish. If you’re utterly useless, what use do I have keeping you by my side? You’ll just make people laugh at me. Don’t cry... okay, you can’t even cry..."
"See over there, go past it, over three mountains, there’s a big village. Inside the village, there are candy figures made of pachyderm yellow sugar, I’ve wanted to eat those for a long time."
"If you can’t bring it back, then don’t come back."
"If you can bring it back, then wait for me at the place where I used to take you to play. I’ll come find you... If I don’t come, just follow the river... Clean yourself up, change your clothes, come find me... Understand?"
Running while speaking, panting heavily, the person behind even more so, unable to utter a word, only remembering to run, run, run...
Once they ran out of the narrow place...
She tugged at her sleeve.
"Ah Luo, Luo, Ah Luo.. I don’t want to go.."
She turned back, her gaze so deep, seemingly angry.
"Did you not hear what I said?"
"Huh, what?"
"Forgot again.. you little fool.. If you keep being this foolish, I really won’t like you in the future. I just asked you to bring a sugar figure, can’t you even do that?"
"Um.. Um, will you wait for me? Wait for me to come back... sugar figure!"
"Yeah, I’ll always wait for you, as long as you don’t foolishly get abducted... Don’t trust others, especially those good-looking ones."
"But you’re good-looking too."
"Except for me... Remember, when you come back, don’t go into the village... The people in the village aren’t good, they’ll blame me for being with you again... If you don’t want my parents to scold me, you mustn’t go back."
"Oh oh."
"Foolish, you’re really a fool."
She laughed, touched her head, her eyes seemed like they were falling into endless stars, so bright, yet so distant.
Then she pushed her forward, reached the pebble path by the river...
"Go ahead.."
"Ah Luo.."
"Go!"
"Then you must wait for me to come back.."
"Yeah, I’ll wait for you, hurry up and go..."
Under the moon, the person by the river pointed to the opposite bank, urging her to go...
Turns out, Ah Luo was so gluttonous, is the sugar figure really that delicious?
Turning around, hugging the heavy package, carefully stepping on the smooth stones across the river...
With each step, she glanced back.
"One"
"Two"
"Three.."
....
She counted silently in her mind.
On the eighth step,
"Eight"
She turned her head.
Pitch dark, only the moon and stars sparsely scattered over the land, that person who always flicked her forehead calling her fool was gone.
"Ah Luo..."
"Ah Luo.... Luoluo..."
She called softly a few times, standing dumbly on the stones, gazing at the other side of the river, instinctively stepping back to the seventh stone, but seemed to hear her instructions...
Go... sugar figure!
She had to bring back those tasty sugar figures for Ah Luo!
Yeah, two sugar figures!
In the end, she turned around.
Eighth, ninth, tenth...
Crossed the last stone, she instinctively glanced into the river.
Glittering, like a mirror.
A face, dirty and silly...
Foolish.
That’s what everyone called her.
But Ah Luo wouldn’t.. she always called her Foolish.
Foolish sounds better than silly...
Tilting her head, she hugged the package and walked away.
Three big mountains, it would take a long, long, long time...
Finding that village also took a long, long time...
And those sugar figures, even longer...
When she returned, she waited for a long time again on the small dirt hill.
Ah Luo wasn’t there, Ah Luo didn’t come...
"Does Ah Luo not want me anymore..."
"I’m too dumb, couldn’t find the village.... It took too long.. she must be angry."
"Luoluo really doesn’t want me anymore"
She drew circle after circle in the sandy soil... squatting until her legs went numb...
But she didn’t come.
