Chapter 978: Awkward
Suddenly there is one more person in the family, this kind of thing seems to be a very familiar thing for my family, in the words of Lin Xue's complaint, that is, I am used to a certain unserious guy picking up a sister and daughter at home every three or five or so on, and both the son and the mercury lamp said that the pressure is quite high. But this time, the extra members of the family still seem to be a little too heavy, even the family members who have become accustomed to it feel incredible in the face of Xiaoxue.
This should not only be because of Xiaoxue's magical time-traveling origin, but more importantly, her unique identity: the only one in the current group of daughters in the family who is truly related to the guardian by blood.
This caused a not-so-honest little girl to start complaining about the embarrassing situation of me and Lin Xue, such as Lilina.
Her research focuses on how a pair of young lovers who have never rolled the sheets suddenly enter the role of standard parents and begin to learn to take care of their daughter, and in the process, how to deal with their relationship between couples who have suddenly lost their two worlds. If this research project can be completed, I think Lilina can at least apply for an ethics award.
Little Bubbles seemed more happy, although she couldn't say it, but how to say that I was also her father, and there was a mother who could translate Little Bubbles in real time, and it was still easy to understand the little girl's current thoughts. Her ability to understand her status as an older sister and her welcoming future sister made her feel like she had become quite a great guy - an adult who could eat three pieces of cake per meal.
It's always interesting to think about it, because strictly speaking. Little Bubble is the first one in her group of daughters, judging from the "birthday" in the first family, she is the natural eldest sister, but the intellectual development of this little girl is too gradual. Not even in a hurry to the point where I sometimes think there is something wrong with the little one's head, she is three years old, and she can't say a few complete words, which is said to be a defect in the language module, but at the same time she can assemble a production line for building a spaceship with her eyes closed, which is as easy and pleasant for her as building a small house with building blocks, and she still retains all the good qualities that every three-year-old girl should have, including the fact that she has a face when she eats. Crying when she wants something but can't say it, and biting anything she can see and put in her mouth, all kinds of characteristics make her always treated as the youngest child at home, and even Xiao Qijing, who is not yet a year old, can pat Little Bubbles' head and pretend to be a little adult. It's a tragedy.
Not to mention the mercury lamp that was already a big kid when he came to the house.
But now it's good that there's finally a guy who can take her seriously, and call her sister.
Xiaoxue is a quirky child, no matter what advantage she has is that she is very sensible, no matter what timeline she is currently in, she feels that she should treat Little Bubbles as a sister. After all, in the history of her birth, "Sister Paul" was the sister who played with her from childhood to adulthood, and she has always been very good to herself, although this sister was shorter than herself after Xiaoxue was six years old......
Today is the second day of Xiaoxue's arrival at this home. The first family, who has been tempered with resilience through all kinds of wonderful events, continues to go about their daily lives step by step, even though we have one more person. Xiaoxue openly occupied an empty room on the second floor, next to my room. She said that until the years after she was born, her family lived in the big house. And her room is right next to her father's room. At that time, the city outside was already a thing, but this big house was moved into the Shadow City as it was, which shows that maybe my sister and I are very nostalgic people in our bones.
It seems to be just a strange girl with more energy, except for her origin, Xiaoxue is actually exactly the same as a normal girl, at first I thought her arrival would change everything, but in the end, I found out that in fact, she did not intend to and could not affect the course of history, what we are experiencing is not in her memory, and in order to avoid some unpredictable troubles, she doesn't seem to have any intention of exchanging future information with us - of course, no one else has this idea. I was playing chess with Uncle Kense, while looking up at the little bubbles and Lilina and a large group of rose girls playing in the living room, just like every nervous parent who watched his child at a frequency of five seconds while reading the newspaper, Lin Xue was right, daddy is born, there is a kind of person, when a Lori appears next to him, he can always find a bottle and lollipop from his body, either to blame uncle or daddy.
But obviously, Miss Lin, who is my counterpart, has not yet become a wet nurse.
Out of habit, Xiaoxue often greets Lin Xue very naturally: "Mom, help me see how to get this!" "Mom! What to eat at noon! "Mom, I want to watch TV!"
Of course, every time she called this, Lin Xue, who was still a big child, would always look around very innocently and embarrassed, and then clumsily communicate with her daughter who fell from the sky, and most of the people around her were watching unscrupulously, as for the culprit of all this, she would only stick out her tongue to indicate that she had accidentally forgotten that she was already in another timeline, and then continue to do what she should do.
I'm glad that Xiaoxue is not at the age when she is still breastfeeding, otherwise there is really no one in the family who can meet her requirements except for Sister Bing, who can provide some psychological comfort on props.
In Xiaoxue's eyes, there is no difference between the current Lin Xue and the future Lin Xue, a little time problem is obviously not enough to make our young and beautiful prophet eldest lady become an aunt with basically the same length, width and height......
Thanks to the vastness of the universe and the infinite world realm, of course, the most important thing is to thank the convenient interstellar colonization technology, otherwise the life quota system and the life renunciation bill together will definitely not solve the population problem. Even if the fertility rate of a higher civilization is low, it is the same.
"It's your turn." I turned my attention away from Xiaoxue and glanced down at the chessboard in front of me, it didn't take much skill to play chess with Uncle Kense, who was opposite, despite his long lifespan. Despite his majestic appearance, even though he was regarded as the God of Creation or the God of Light in the Seven Worlds, and despite his knowledge of the four ways to scrambled eggs with tomatoes, none of these combined could change the fact that he was a stinky chess basket, and the result of my thirty seconds of wandering every step was that I had won six games in a row so far.
"Very good, very good." Keseer glanced at the chessboard and nodded slightly, "You've won again." β
All right. It's a seven-game winning streak, but I don't have much sense of accomplishment, and a sense of being invincible is slowly creeping in, maybe I shouldn't play chess with a stinky chess basket. This can only make people sigh the loneliness of invincibility, but no one in the family is willing to play with these chess pieces with them, even if it is a mercury lamp.
The main reason is that everyone thinks that backgammon is really a very naΓ―ve game.
Speaking of mercury lamps, where did the little girl go?
I threw down the chess pieces and looked around, but I didn't see the little goth girl in my field of vision. And her sisters are fighting for TV with Little Bubbles. At this time, the mercury lamp came down early to participate in the fight of a group of little girls.
I got up to look for the little doll, but I couldn't find it on the first floor, and there was no one on the second floor. Just as he was about to ask if anyone else had seen where the mercury lamp went, a black feather suddenly fluttered down from the window at the end of the corridor on the second floor. Looking up from the window, I saw a pair of little feet dangling in princess shoes outside the guardrail above.
This large house is actually divided into three floors. The first floor is a place for family activities and meals, and there are guest rooms.,The second floor is everyone's room.,The third floor hasn't been used much.,It's always been used as a place to pile up sundries.,Shallow always has some strange ideas.,The accompanying product is that she will get a lot of unclear collections from many equally strange places.,Including the tentacles replaced by the octopus people and the stone ball bread baked by the Gong coca people with sand and mud.,These messy things were piled up on the third floor after she got tired of playing with them., On average, Anvina went up to clean up once a week, and the rest of the family rarely went to the third floor except for the little ghost maid and shallow herself.
I walked through a mess of suspicious objects, except for a few load-bearing columns, there was no partition wall on the third floor, it looked like a warehouse, such a strange house structure can only be transformed by us, and the little rose girl sat at the end of the warehouse on a small balcony sticking out of the wall, the open-air balcony, extending less than a meter from the ground, and the edge was only a circle of half-human high metal guardrails, The 92.3 goth girl sat on the guardrail, hugging the metal pillar next to her and looking into the distance, her calves dangling in the air, and constantly kicking iron slag into the grass downstairs - well, it seems that this inconspicuous place was forgotten when the house was renovated, and the guardrail here was still iron and rusty.
I approached from behind and suddenly pressed the puppet's head: "What are you doing here, don't you like warehouses?" β
Originally, I wanted to scare her, but I obviously underestimated the vigilance of the mercury lamp to the outside world and the familiarity with his own breath, and the mercury lamp was not shocked at all, just shook his head lazily: "I don't like this environment, a lot of discarded things are piled together, it's terrible." β
"Feeling bad?" I tried to hold the little one on my shoulder, but the latter stubbornly twisted his body and avoided his arm: "There's nothing wrong with it, I just want to find a quiet place." β
I looked at the warehouse behind me that was collected by the shallow collection of various worlds and tattered warehouses like a garbage station in the south of the city, and the hideous and strange shapes of the otherworldly wastes were piled together, and many of them still had traces of being transformed by graffiti in the shallow and shallow places, and I felt that in this kind of place, in addition to poets, only artists remained. To be honest, this kind of environment is definitely not a good place to relax, especially for mercury lamps: she is not afraid of the dark, not dirty, not afraid of the dead, but she hates the garbage dump, and of course, the various waste recycling stations, which are related to the environment in which she was born, and it is difficult to change it in the future. But in this case, she still has to be alone in the warehouse on the third floor, and she says that she is in a good mood, who believes it.
"Why don't you play with your sisters? Weren't you quite elated two days ago," I took the mercury lamp off the railing again. This time, the other party didn't struggle, and I slapped off the rust on this girl's buttocks: this kid is not too dirty to run around, and it is difficult to evolve into a bear child. "Little Bubbles is so happy, don't you feel just as happy that you finally have someone to call her sister?"
The little puppet immediately opened its glasses and looked at this side, wanting to say something but stopped talking, and finally turned its face awkwardly: "What does that have to do with me, it's your biological daughter anyway......"
Sure enough, I knew that the only reason why this little guy might be awkward. It's Xiaoxue.
I smiled and held the mercury lamp in front of me, holding it high in the sun, as if I were holding a lightweight work of art. The little doll has an instinctive resistance to lifting high, probably because she thinks it will make her look rather shameless, but this time, the little one is unusually quiet, just symbolically pinching my wrist. I put her on my shoulder and asked with a smile, "Are you afraid that I won't want you anymore?" β
"No," the mercury lamp seemed to hesitate for a moment, then grabbed my hair. "I'm not that stupid."
"That is, I am worried that the family will not care about you, and Lin Xue and I will focus on our real biological daughter. Well. You feel like you're going to be Cinderella. β
The mercury lamp was silent for a few seconds before he muttered, "What does that have to do with me." That's your own business. I...... I'm ......"
"Say, what are you?" I tilted my head sideways and reached for the puppet's cheek, "What do you think you are at home?" β
"I'm sick of it! Sick of it! I don't know what to do! How can there be so many words! How many words! How to talk so much! β
"By the way, when can you call me Dad?" I sighed leisurely, this little guy's tangled place is really easy to imagine, it's nothing more than worrying about being helpless again, she has been abandoned once, and it's the unforgettable kind, and then because of a series of misunderstandings, it was "betrayed" by Zhenhong, two times in a row, it's easy to make the lack of heart out of the anti-human mentality, anyway, this leads to a heart that is more sensitive than anyone else under the cold shell of the little doll, she doesn't like to contact with strangers, and doesn't want to show too much emotion, I'm not interested in participating in any "troublesome activities", the reason is to refuse the next possible injury, but after such a long time together, the family has melted her shell, and the mercury lamp has become an ordinary child who can get along well with her family, although sometimes it seems a little withdrawn, but that is only a matter of character.
And this time, Chen Xiaoxue's appearance probably made her feel a sense of crisis again.
Although he doesn't say it, Xiao Deng still knows his vague position at home, a child, ordinary, a child who is loved by adults, there is a father who doesn't know if Lu Dao is a father, and there are many mothers who don't know if Lu Dao can call her mother, everyone calls her "girl" or "little light", countless people in Shadow City are used to calling Her Royal Highness the princess when they see her, these things are for mercury lamp, from the initial resistance and refutation, to the later unaccustomed not to accept, and then to the current acquiescence, has made this little puppet subconsciously determine the identity of her "daughter", but Xiaoxue's special existence really makes her feel dangerous.
However, judging from her performance, this girl is not entangled to the extent that she is worried about being lost, but she just feels that Xiaoxue is coming, and I am afraid that the child she picked up will become a little princess and become Cinderella. Maybe I should suspect that I really have some problems in education, thinking that Chairman Shui, who was so smart and icy back then, how could he really let himself be trained into a child's temper.
The mercury lamp also made me very embarrassed by a word, no matter how to acquiesce to the current situation, she still can't let go of her mouth, let alone call Dad, until now this girl has not removed the two "stupid" in front of my name, so the little guy reached out and grabbed my hair and pulled it violently: "What are you talking about!" What are you talking about! What do you say! β
Then there was another burst of chickens and dogs, and the mercury lamp fell off a chicken feather, and after a few minutes of calm, I found that the little puppet's face was already cloudy and clear: this is the method of psychological counseling for this girl that I have summarized for a period of time, that is, to make a fuss, which is more effective than talking, and she will be honest when she is tired.
"Okay," I poked the clockwork controller behind the little puppet that was panting on my arm, making the latter tickle for a while, "Silly girl, Xiaoxue called you Sister Deng when we first met, and you don't want to think about it, can you be estranged in the future?" β
Mercury Lamp's face suddenly became strange, he looked up at the sky and thought for a long time, and suddenly became angry: "Why didn't you remind me earlier!" β
Me: "......"
I didn't know that this stupid girl really didn't expect this from the beginning!
"I don't care, you have to be responsible anyway," the little puppet's mood seemed to finally brighten, and he took the initiative to climb to the royal throne on my shoulder, pulling the hair of the "adoptive father", and his tone was full of emotion, "This is what you said, you can't leave me, you can't ignore me, you have to treat everyone equally, or ...... Or I'll run away from home! β
I thought about it, and I couldn't understand it: "Where to leave?" The whole world is not the king's land, and no matter how far you run, it is from the south house to the north house to me......"
"You're cheating!" The puppet girl was immediately furious, "Have you listened to me properly!" β
"Okay, okay, who made me your father."
The puppet girl was silent for a moment, as if she had been entangled for a long time, before pinching my ears and hesitating: "What, this...... I'll decide when to call you later, depending on my mood...... bar. β
This time it was my turn to express surprise.
But before I could continue to tease the little puppet who was already annoyed and angry, suddenly a shallow shout came from the second floor: "Ah Jun! Jun! There are guests! Great guests! β(β¦β¦)