When Rong Gui managed to store three baskets of earth beans, Xiao Mei also figured out how to make yellow dye.
Rong Gui happily painted the petals drawn on the flower pots yellow immediately on that same day. And not only so, on the next day morning, Xiao Mei always felt that Rong Gui somehow looked a little different than usual. The third time he cast his eyes on Rong Gui, the latter scratched his head shyly, and, after a long while, asked Xiao Mei timidly, “You’ve finally noticed?”
The next second, his shyness turned into cockiness. Rong Gui gloatingly pointed to his big head: “Look! Last night when you were sleeping, I used the remaining yellow dye to dye my hair yellow!”
The hair referred to by Rong Gui was clearly the splice gap on the back half of the robot’s head.
But the part painted yellow by Rong Gui obviously covered a little larger range.
“I always felt that my current hairstyle resembled the landscape of the Mediterranean Sea – losing hair on the crown of the head, and I have minded that for a very long time since I saw our photo. The red dye you produced before, Xiao Mei, was not enough, and what had been left over was all green dye. I…I always felt that green hair would look like a green hat* if handled improperly, so I didn’t have the courage to do it. Yesterday you finally came up with the yellow dye, which made me so happy!” Rong Gui said, rotating his head 365 degrees so that Xiao Mei could appreciate his “new hairstyle” without any blind spot. The original parting line of the head didn’t look aesthetically pleasing to Rong Gui, so he carefully designed the position of the hairline before coloring.
*Green hat: in Chinese, when someone is said to “wear a green hat”, it means that he is made a cuckold by his wife.
The so-called new hairstyle was actually a painted color block, or a color shape. Rong Gui put all his heart into painting it, that there wasn’t any uneven coloring at all.
From a distance, it actually looked like a perky crew cut from the ACG world!
For this “innovation” of Rong Gui, Xiao Mei’s response was still a trail of ellipses.
However, seeing that the other person still looked at him excitedly after showing his own hairstyle, without knowing why, Xiao Mei suddenly had an extremely ominous feeling surging up in his heart.
As expected, the next second –
“Don’t worry, I’ll never do anything just for myself.” Putting his two mechanical hands on Xiao Mei’s shoulders, Rong Gui approached all of a sudden, “I used more dye on you than I did on myself. Xiao Mei, you now have hair, too!”
Upon hearing these words, Xiao Mei the robot immediately felt a thump in his body. He swiftly grabbed the only mirror in the house (which Rong Gui implored him to make) and looked into it. Oh god! What did he see?
A robot with straight bangs and a bob cut?!
Not only that, why is there a flower painted on the left side of his head?!
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As if hearing Xiao Mei’s inner voice, Rong Gui said next to him: “Wasn’t there a red patch on the left side of your head? I always felt that it resembled a small flower, but its shape wasn’t nice. Yesterday when I was painting your hair, I remembered that there’s still some red dye left, so I used all of it on your head. What do you think? Isn’t my painted small flower pretty?”
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What could he do? In times like this…there’s only one way out: to dye the whole body in one color.
Yet –
Under the circumstance here, he currently only had two colors to choose from (Note: the red dye could not yet be mass-produced). However, whether it’s to paint his body all green or all yellow… he…he didn’t feel like he could accept it…
Standing still rigidly, Xiao Mei the robot thought expressionlessly for a while whether to choose green or yellow. Since he liked neither, he simply decided not to care.
He couldn’t see his own looks anyway.
(Hey!)
After quickly accepting his new looks, Xiao Mei once again became the usual calm and composed robot.
He was very busy recently.
After checking the earth beans that Rong Gui was in charge of storing and organizing, he poured them out from the baskets and dismantled the three baskets made of metal wires. Then he added some more metal wires and rewove all of them into two large baskets. He also made two bands attached to the baskets which seemed to be shoulder straps.
After he finished weaving the baskets, he also let Rong Gui try them on.
It’s a little ridiculous to see a tiny robot carrying a basket almost as tall as himself, and it’s a little unsteady, too. Xiao Mei had Rong Gui put down the basket so that he could readjust it and let Rong Gui try again. This time, Rong Gui could stand steadily.
And then, Xiao Mei went back to work.
Rong Gui had been watching him busy around all the time, until Xiao Mei went back onto the charger at 10 o’clock at night on time. With a “click”, Rong Gui connected himself to Xiao Mei. And then – “hehehe,” he let out three laughs again.
Xiao Mei turned around slightly to look at him.
After adjusting his posture leaning on Xiao Mei, Rong Gui spoke again. This time, he said something unexpected by Xiao Mei.
“Xiao Mei, you finally want to leave?”
The little robot being called looked at him quietly.
“Actually, you didn’t want to leave in the beginning, did you? You wanted to stay here alone, am I right?”
“…So you could see that.” Up till this moment, Xiao Mei spoke at last.
Even though Rong Gui kept talking about “going to the city”, Xiao Mei never made any statement about it. Everything was Rong Gui’s self-talk – that’s Rong Gui’s plan, not his.
He didn’t say anything, and didn’t think that carefree person would find out. Who knew that this time, Rong Gui’s reaction once again exceeded his expectation.
“That’s because you never responded to my words~” Rong Gui continued, “Although I was a stunt double, I read all scripts for the main actors, and even the director would praise me that my acting performance was better than many main actors~”
“People say that those who act well are always rich in emotions and have a strong sense of empathy! To tell you a secret, since childhood, I have always been laughing and crying when I read a book, and I would follow the emotions of the characters in the story all the time.”
Speaking of which, Rong Gui paused for a moment: “I always feel that this is the trait of a natural-born actor.”
“No, although acting is not bad, my dream is still to be a singer. Entering into the showbiz was just the first step to approach my dream. Giving constant brilliant performances in acting may allow me to get more opportunities to sing. My goal was to become a famous actor to attract record companies to release albums for me, so that eventually I could successfully complete my career change from an actor to a great singing star!”
“I had no choice, because no one wanted me as a singer. I don’t know how to read the staff and the music sheet.”
“Ugh, why do we have to understand the staff? Isn’t it enough as long as I can sing well?”
“Xiao Mei, do you have a dream? My dream is to be a singing star! Those who can release their albums and hold their concerts, those extrreeeemely big concerts, which can attract thousands of audiences!”
While speaking, the tiny robot even spread open his arms, but he obviously forgot that Xiao Mei was connected to him. Once he spread his arms wide – wham! – Xiao Mei got hit.
Xiao Mei, who got hit, stared at him coldly.
“Ah…sorry, I’ve hit you. Does it hurt?” Quickly retracting his arm, Rong Gui hurriedly gave Xiao Mei a rub. Since then, he had stayed motionless obediently.
“Please forgive me, I went off topic just now. Well, my dream is to be an artist! You know…umm…the thinking process of artists is always a bit divergent…” He explained in a few sentences.
“What I wanted to say was that, because I am good at understanding the heart of characters, I also know what you were thinking in your heart. So…you wanted me to leave here alone at first, right?”
Quietly gazing at Xiao Mei, Rong Gui at this moment…for the first time, could truly be described as “quiet”.
The robot called Xiao Mei didn’t answer his question.
And then, Rong Gui turned his head back.
“I knew that even if you wouldn’t tell me. I just knew it.”
“But what does it matter? I know that you are planning to leave with me now, that you are making preparations for the leaving.”
“Ah…to be able to go out with Xiao Mei to see the outside world, I’m looking forward so much to it…”
After finishing this sentence, Rong Gui stopped talking.
He had shut down and fallen asleep.
Author has something to say:
Xiao Mei and A Gui~
It’s like a farmer and his lovely wife
Haha!
I finally caught up!
This is so hilarious I CAN’T QAQ
Xiao Mei with a straight bangs and bob cut… looks cute.
I really admire Xiao Mei’s patience.
I’m reimagining Xiao Mei adjusting the basket on Ah Gui’s body as XM fixing Ah Gui’s clothes (˵¯͒⌄¯͒˵)
We get to know more of these two cuties. Ah Gui and his dreams…
Oh my, is their departure from that place coming near? A new adventure?
The farmer and his lovely husband going into the market to sell produce
Thank you very very much for this chapter! I hope you’re well! （＾－＾）
Haha, yes, they are about to set off for new adventures, which is what this book mainly about!