Lin Mu looked at the rest of the gaudy beds and wasn’t sure what to do.
The little Ginseng and his three friends stood at the door, staring at the cute little toys inside.
“It’s so beautiful,” the little mimosa said softly.
“Yeah, it looks so good.” The little Ginseng held his small dudou in his hands and looked in that direction.
The little potato, looking at the bamboo dragonfly in the little wooden man’s arms, said enviously, “I want to play too.”
Lin Big Mimosa followed, nodding.
The four little monsters exchanged glances, pushed each other around, and eventually pushed the little Ginseng to the front.
Lin Ginseng shouldered the expectations of his three friends and pursed his lips. He whispered, “but Lin Mu didn’t say he would give it to us.”
The three little monsters dropped their heads, disappointed.
Although Lin Potato appeared to be a youngster just starting to grow, the oldest of the four little monsters was the little Ginseng.
He tried to act like an older brother, saying in a childish tone, “Lin Mu took us in, bought a slide for us, and is good enough to give us juice and snacks every day.” “We cannot be greedy.”
That is what he said, but the way he looked at the toy boxes was not convincing.
Yan Xuanjing glanced back at them.
The four little monsters shrank back their heads and hid.
Lin Mu heard the movement from over there. He tilted his head, looked at the little wooden man rubbing the bamboo dragonfly, and whispered to Yan Xuanjing, “Can I let them play with their toys?”
After all, Yan Xuanjing had purchased it, so Lin Mu naturally sought his opinion.
Yan Xuanjing expressed no opinion at all. He nodded and watched Lin Mu hold the box and distribute the toys to the children before turning to work on the ground-level doors.
Lin Mu always seemed to have something to do and led a lively life. He did not appear lonely at all.
Always busy, like a little spinning top.
Yan Xuanjing noticed the sound of clanging and turned away to see Di Xiu, who was sitting on the ugly bed, had put down the bamboo dragonfly and was jumping around while holding the tambourine.
Di Xiu saw that Yan Xuanjing looked over, and waved him over.
Yan Xuanjing went over and sat down.
Di Xiu pointed at Lin Mu, then at his own face, and finally raised his hand to place it beside his face.
Yan Xuanjing paused, and asked, “talk about Lin Mu?”
Dixiu nodded quickly, sat down, held the tambourine, and rubbed his hands together, as if embarrassed.
It felt strange to learn about his own child from others.
But Di Xiu had no idea what to do, and Lin Mu clearly didn’t know how to deal with him.
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Lin Mu himself wasn’t the kind of person who could effortlessly keep a conversation going. Di Xiu couldn’t answer him, so after he had finished speaking about the topic, he didn’t know what to say. Instead, he would then divert his attention to doing something for Di Xiu.
For example, making some small toys for him or a small bed, showing him the sunrise, helping him plant some spiritual medication, and similar things.
Di Xiu felt a bit anxious, but he understood that worrying about such matters was futile.
He had to collect enough of his soul and body back, then at least he could speak.
However, this wasn’t a big problem. Di Xiu shook his tambourine, listened to its clanging sounds, and observed Lin Mu in the courtyard.
They still had plenty of time to spend together.
“Lin Mu……” Yan Xuanjing thought over his words for a while, and after some time, could only utter out this dry sentence, “is a pretty good half-monster.”
Di Xiu: “……”
“……”
He fell silent for a long time, and gave up thinking.
“He lived a very lively life, different from the type of lively that my father liked to cause.” Yan Xuanjing’s tone of speech was as calm and clear as usual, so peaceful that one couldn’t discern any hint of disparagement toward his father. “He still lives a human lifestyle.”
For monsters like them, for things like fixing doors, just using a spell would be enough. Trivial matters were typically handled by subordinates, or there were highly convenient methods available, and there were very few things that needed them to do it by themselves.
Thus, they were very idle and had nothing to do, and their life would be like stagnant water, without any fluctuations.
Even Yan Xuanjing had to admit that such a life was undeniably dull.
Therefore, many great monsters would end up choosing to sleep for tens or hundreds of years to kill time, but there were others that didn’t do such things, like Yan Gui.
Although Yan Gui was always seen to be lazily lying on the roof of the palace and basking in the sun, but he never chose to sleep. He liked to run all over the Great Wilderness, seeking out excitement wherever it could be found, resulting in a wide array of friends scattered across the land.
But Lin Mu, who grew up as a human, was different from them.
He was used to doing everything by himself, rather than doing it with a spell, he was always very busy.
After a pause, Yan Xuanjing added, “but it didn’t seem like this from the start.”
It wasn’t like that at first.
Yan Xuanjing looked at Lin Mu, who was humming away in the courtyard, and remembered when the two of them met, the whole house was quiet and empty, and even Lin Mu himself didn’t like talking too much.
Probably because he didn’t have anything to talk about when he was alone.
“When I first met him, he was thinking of keeping a dog to accompany him.” Yan Xuanjing recalled what Da Hei had told him, and said, “his colleague said that because he had no parents, he had been alone for many years and was quite lonely, so he wanted a dog — at first, he thought I was a stray dog that had awakened spiritual wisdom, and was always looking forward to the day I attained spiritual awareness.”
After gaining spiritual awareness, their life expectancy would become long.
Then, he would be able to accompany him for a long time.
Yan Xuanjing understood this very well, for it would be difficult to be alone for a long time.
Friends, partners, or families, there should always be someone to accompany one another.
This was also why most monsters didn’t like to get close to humans.
Because human beings had almost the same intelligence and emotions as them, yet their life expectancy was extremely short.
They weren’t suitable to be friends, and were less suitable to become partners or family.
Yan Xuanjing talked about Lin Mu in bits and pieces, and only then did he realise that he knew Lin Mu quite well.
But true, how old was Lin Mu? He was young and didn’t have much experiences, and his short life brought him a character that could be seen at a glance.
An ordinary human.
He was kind enough, but also had his own temper, had things that he couldn’t forgive, but was also willing to reconcile with those who had recognised their wrong.
His character was a little softer than the monsters that grew up in the Great Wilderness. After all, a lot of things had happened to them, and before they could reach the point of reconciliation, it was already at a state of ‘if you don’t die, I will’.
After all, for monsters, aggressiveness and fighting were carved in their bones.
If he was Lin Mu, and he had been fooled in such a manner, he would most probably hate and bear a grudge.
But Lin Mu forgave him.
Yan Xuanjing wondered if that all monsters who originated from plants were that good.
The nine-tailed fox sighed, and when the day became dark, he walked into Lin Mu’s room with a dog bed in his mouth.
Then the dog bed was thrown out of the room along with the fox.
The little seedling stood at the door and smiled at him, revealing two sweet little dimples, and then mercilessly closed the door.
Yan Xuanjing: “……”
How could this happen?
There were clearly two Relaxed Emperor, and the sun essence and moon essence should have been doubled, along with happiness.
Why was he chased out of the room after there were two Relaxed Emperors?
The nine-tailed fox who was thrown into the corridor laid in the dog bed for a while, then carried the dog bed to the yard.
Forget it, Yan Xuanjing placed the dog bed under the window of Lin Mu’s room, looked at the misty moon essence in the yard, and felt that getting some leftovers would be enough.
……
When Lin Mu got up the next day, Di Xiu had already gotten up.
The little Ginseng had made shumai today, and it was being warmed in the pot, but he wasn’t in the kitchen at all.
Lin Mu grabbed a shumai and opened the door, then saw his father, Milky, and the four little monsters jumping around playing jump rope.
To be exact, the only ones jumping around were Lin Ginseng and Di Xiu.
Lin Ginseng was teaching, and Di Xiu was learning. The size of Milky’s paws was just right for the rope. He probably got drafted, and held an elastic band on his front leg, with the other end on a stool. He laid on the ground and grabbed with his claws, yawning sleepily.
Di Xiu followed Lin Ginseng, but because of his body’s unbalanced ratio, it wasn’t going that well. When he saw that Lin Ginseng had jumped through a whole set, he would raise his arms and clap.
He realised that Lin Mu had woken up, turned and waved his arms at him, looking very lively and happy.
Lin Mu held the shumai and watched them play, and after he had finished eating, he went to wash the bowl before heading into the yard to check on the field of spiritual medication. He turned and glanced at the other little monsters who were rubbed soap on their hands and blowing soap bubbles, and couldn’t help but smile.
Lin Mu washed his hands and pushed the electric scooter out, “I’m going to work!”
The little Ginseng answered an ‘okay’ in his childish voice, and ran to Lin Mu with Di Xiu in his arms.
Di Xiu raised his hand.
Lin Mu smiled and bent down, then lowered his head.
Di Xiu patted Lin Mu’s head.
If he could speak, he would probably say something like ‘have a good trip’, or ‘return home early’.
Lin Mu thought of the voice that he had heard in the Relaxed Emperor’s fruit, reached out with his finger and nudged the shoulder of the little wooden man twice and stood up, “I’m going!”
“Okay~”
“Lin Mu, be careful on the road!”
Yan Xuanjing shook his ears, looked up at Lin Mu and glanced at the white rope on his wrist. After confirming that he was wearing it, he took back his sight, yawned, and continued to fall asleep.
Lin Mu was used to coming into the office early, although recently, he was the only one in the office.
He cleaned the office that had been empty for a weekend, then opened the window to ventilate it. He thought for a bit, and went to the reference room to get some information about about Wandering Veins to see if he could help Di Wu.
He came down from the second floor with a stack of information, and as soon as he opened the staircase door, he saw a person with a cap and sunglasses, wearing a full set of sportswear pushing the door open.
Lin Mu put down the information, and during this time, his ability to accept strangely dressed people and monsters had improved.
“Hello? Excuse me, are you here to……”
That person took off his sunglasses and asked, “hello, have you seen my Di Wu?”
Lin Mu paused, “eh?”
“I just felt his aura, you……” The person finished, then his eyes fell on Lin Mu and brightened. He strode over and reached out with his two hands to grab Lin Mu’s, shook them hard and said excitedly, “hello, hello, hello little seedling. Would you like to come home with me? Or I can go home with you! Of course, if you can help me find Di Wu, it would be best if both of you came home with me!”
Lin Mu pulled out his hand and looked at him, on alert.
The person’s eyes were bright, and Lin Mu inexplicably felt that if he had a tail, it would be spinning like an electric fan.
Probably aware that his actions were too abrupt, he came closer and introduced himself, “I’m a Dragon Vein, you can call me Qin Chuan.”
!! a Dragon Vein….. is a cutie? akxbsjdh a weirdo cutie
My Di Wu??? Oh my so will uncle have a love life too hehehe
Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter!
oooh when uncle mentioned meeting the dragon veins before i didnt expect him to have this kind of relationship 🤭