22. Garden Talk (4)
"Qiu Yueze ......"
In order to match what he was going to say next, Gao Ran restrained his expression and asked Qiu Yueze in a rare and serious manner, "Don't you never wonder why I don't look like many girls my age at all? !
She knew that Qiu Yueze must have been curious, but he never planned to ask her, but thought about finding the answer he wanted through his own observations in the future......
It's just that this time, it was she who took the initiative to clarify the problem first.
She believed that as long as she took the initiative to throw the bait, Qiu Yueze would definitely seize this opportunity to get an answer directly without losing the opportunity and "naturally".
Sure enough, Qiu Yueze didn't say anything, but the eyes he looked at Gao Ran rarely failed to completely hide his excitement at the moment.
Gao Ran felt that this seemed to be the first time she could feel a trace of his true feelings from his eyes......
Qiu Yueze looked at Gao Ran's eyes, extremely serious and flashing with a strange light—as if he was afraid that he would miss any of her subtle changes in expression.
"Hooked!" Seeing this, the corners of Gao Ran's mouth rose slightly, and he showed Qiu Yueze a fox-like cunning smile without concealment.
She knew that she had whetted his appetite at this moment.
And at this moment, he may have mistaken her calculating smile for her inadvertent expression of confidence......
And where did her so-called "self-confidence" come from?!
Of course, it comes from the "special" in her eyes in Qiu Yueze......
Gao Ran knew that Qiu Yueze had already unconsciously been gradually affected by his own special impression of her......
And Gao Ran, not only discovered this, but she also lost no time in taking advantage of his weakness - using her "special" in his mind.
"This was a secret! Originally, I wasn't going to sue anyone...... However, since I have chosen you as my 'partner', then I will not change people casually. Because I'm lazy. It's rare to find someone who suits my heart, and I don't want to change people casually -- I'll be troublesome! That is to say, as long as we work together happily, I will only find you to cooperate with my ideas in this life! You should know what this means......"
"Heh, is it?!That's really my honor!" After Qiu Yueze heard this, he didn't react much, but only replied half-ridiculously.
But his tone was full of half-belief in Gao Ran's words.
Gao Ran could naturally hear that he didn't fully believe what she had just said.
"Oh, believe it or not! Anyway, as long as you do what you promised me, I will naturally use my actual actions and time to prove that what I said is true. But that's all for later! What I want to say now is that since I have chosen you, it is necessary for me to let you know this 'secret' in order to show my sincerity!"
"Okay, you don't talk around the bush anymore! Just tell me straight! What the hell is the secret?!" Qiu Yueze began to be a little impatient to continue to go around the bend like this endlessly with Gao Ran.
"Okay, then I'll tell you the truth! This 'secret' is ......."
Gao Ran unconsciously clasped her hands behind her back, and where Qiu Yueze couldn't see, her hands were clasped tightly together—a habit she had developed in her previous life—and whenever she was about to start brewing a lie that would hypnotize herself to the point of almost believing it, she would have such a habitual self-soothing little action......
In just a moment, she had brewed the love she needed, and then, she calmly continued, "I am actually the one chosen by the 'gods'!"
Gao Ran's tone of voice was so natural that it was impossible to tell that she was actually lying.
"What?!"
When Qiu Yueze heard this, his eyes suddenly became a little contradictory.
He knew that the moment he heard the secret, his first reaction was that he didn't want to believe it!
It's not that he doesn't believe it, it's that he doesn't want to believe it - and yet, in fact, his heart has believed it completely and completely in the first place!
And Qiu Yueze's reaction, Gao Ran had already expected - just because she knew how "special" she was to him, just because she knew, he couldn't find any more convincing reason to explain her "special".
It is precisely because she clearly knows this qiē that when Gao Ran speaks, she has more confidence - their current state is as if she already knows his "hole card", but he is still kept in the dark by her......
"You should have thoroughly investigated me, right?! In that case, you should know that a few months ago, I almost died because of my congenital infirmity...... But then, I miraculously came back to life! And after I came back to life, my temperament and preferences changed significantly...... Don't you think it's weird?!"
Qiu Yueze didn't speak, but his brows furrowed.
He acquiesced to Gao Ran's rhetorical question—he was indeed puzzled by this......
Seeing him frowning, Gao Ran knew that he was not far from "success"!
She hastened to make persistent efforts to continue, "Actually, this miracle is the masterpiece of the 'god'! When I was dying, the 'god' suddenly appeared in my dream! It told me that I still had an unfinished mission, so I could not leave! In addition, because it chose me to fulfill the mission it had given me and required me to fulfill as a 'person', it said that after the passage, it would dream to me at the right time and teach me something that I had never heard of before. See the knowledge and skills that I have never seen, and then let me find the 'destined person' to help me complete the mission assigned to me by the 'god' in my dream!"
Speaking of this, Gao Ran slowly put down the hands that had been behind his back since just now.
It's just that, at this moment, she has entered the best state of "making up stories" - even she herself has almost completely believed what she just said.
She approached Qiu Yueze, looked up at him, and continued, "Actually, the night before I went down the mountain, I dreamed of the 'gods'. Then, it dreams of me and tells me that I will meet my 'destined person' tomorrow. After that, I need to cooperate with him to develop the paper industry for the benefit of the people! After that, he will decree that I will instantly master the production technology that is better than our current papermaking technology!"
"Do you mean to say that I'm the 'destined person' mentioned by the 'gods' when they dreamed of you?!" Qiu Yueze suddenly interrupted Gao Ran's words, and asked with some unconcealed excitement.
"Hmm!" Gao Ran was very satisfied with his reaction, so he nodded at him very firmly.
Didn't someone say it?!
The highest level of lying is to believe that it is true!
In the face of someone like Qiu Yueze, who Gao Ran couldn't see through at all, although she knew that it would be risky to do so, she still chose to tell him a lie that even she almost believed to be true.
In order to do this, she subconsciously hypnotized herself before lying, brewing her feelings, and making herself completely believe all the lies she was about to tell.
At least, in the next short period of time, when Gao Ran told Qiu Yueze about the so-called "secret", she had to treat all the lies she said as true facts!
She knew that only in this way could she tell the lie as if it were true—and even so "true" that Qiu Yueze, who had always been meticulous as dust, could not detect any flaws in the lie.
It's just that, in Gao Ran's opinion, the biggest victim of telling such a lie is actually herself......
Gao Ran feels that only when he really experiences it will he really understand that while "self-deception", it often confuses his memory a little......
If she tells too many such lies, or continues to lie for too long, she thinks, then she is likely to not be able to tell the difference between what is true and what she has made up herself?!
Because he is well aware of the dangers of such a "superb" lying technique, under normal circumstances, Gao Ran would never lightly choose to "deceive others at the same time, but also choose to deceive himself" in such a way that is harmful to others and not beneficial to himself, to coax others.
If it weren't for this time, she would be facing a person who is not simple...... And lying, but it is the most effective way for Qiu Yueze to deal with it that she can think of now.
She wouldn't choose to tell him such a "clever" lie even though she knew she was taking a risk - but the price was that while she was deceiving others, she was also deceiving herself......
"Listen to you...... I finally got it!"
When he said this, between Qiu Yueze's eyebrows, it was rare to unabashedly reveal his sudden enlightenment at the moment.
"Everything I had noticed that puzzled me now has a reasonable explanation! yes!
Speaking of this, Qiu Yueze looked at Gao Ran with bright eyes, and laughed heartily, "Haha, I knew that you were special! Unexpectedly, you were really 'special'! Unexpectedly, you were actually a messenger chosen by the gods and sent to help us!"
Saying that, Qiu Yueze's attitude towards Gao Ran unconsciously became much more respectful.
He took a step back very solemnly, and then, clasping his hands into fists, bowed deeply and respectfully to Gao Ran, "In the future, whatever you say, I will do it!"
Seeing that Qiu Yueze's attitude towards the "gods" was so devout, Gao Ran felt a little sorry for him because he had deceived him, and at the same time, he felt a little funny because his attitude towards himself had changed so much in such a short period of time......
However, no matter what she thought in her heart, at least on the surface, she still had to try her best to play the posture she "ought" to be as a "messenger sent by the gods......
She hurriedly said politely "as a matter of course", "Hehe, you don't have to be so formal! Actually, even if I am the one chosen by the 'gods', I am only a person after all! I am the same as you! It's just that from time to time, in my mind, there may be some more advanced technical knowledge that the 'gods' have dreamed of me and let me master...... Hehe, in fact, I am just a 'communicator' at best! It is the 'destined person' who can really put these technologies into practice and make the results truly benefit the people, not me!"
As she spoke, she approached Qiu Yueze again, raised her hand and patted his arm, "And this time, the 'destined person' I'm looking for is you! Therefore, the responsibility you have to bear is actually much heavier than mine! This is the 'Mandate of Heaven'! You are actually much more important than me! Therefore, you must not be presumptuous!"
Such old-fashioned and official-like words came from the mouth of a five-year-old girl......
Qiu Yueze knew that he should actually feel strange......
But the strange thing is that since he believed that Gao Ran was the messenger chosen by the gods, his mentality has completely changed - he actually feels that all the "abnormalities" in her that he found before are actually very "normal"!
Or, in other words, in the eyes of Qiu Yueze today, Gao Ran, as the "messenger chosen by the gods", if she is too "normal" and almost no different from ordinary people, it will be a kind of "abnormality......
Now, in Qiu Yueze's eyes, Gao Ran's "abnormality" has become "natural" nature. He didn't feel any sense of disobedience between her excessive age and her young age?!
It's just that he, who has always been quite keen, didn't notice it in time at this time, and his mentality towards Gao Ran had already quietly undergone earth-shaking changes......
It can only be said that the hypnotic effect of Gao Ran's lies is really not to be underestimated!
Qiu Yueze really fully believed that she was by no means an ordinary person, but a "messenger" assigned to the world by the "gods"! Moreover, while he was believing, his own perception ability had become a little dull unconsciously -- although this was not what Gao Ran expected......
However, having said that, it was precisely because Qiu Yueze was convinced of this that even though Gao Ran still showed the same speech and demeanor as she did before but very different from the women of this era, when he saw his eyes, it became all natural—even taken for granted!
And when Qiu Yueze finally realized that his mentality seemed to have changed, he was not surprised at all, but immediately gave himself an explanation for his change in mentality, which he thought was very reasonable: "Since she is a messenger appointed by the gods, then she will be different, which is naturally reasonable and natural!"