Chapter Forty-Six: Can You Swing Taller Than Me!
"Okay, Xiaobai put the fish basket here...... It's still okay to take it home from the door, thank you for your help today, come, take this fish. β
An old woman smiled charitantly, she handed a fish to Ji Mubai, Ji Mubai waved her hand and refused: "No thanks, grandma, you still call me next time you go out, you can't hold the fish basket alone." β
Ji Mubai went out to the city to buy vegetables at noon, and met Granny Xu who lived next door on the way, and she went to the city to sell fish every day. But there is no young adult at home, only a six-year-old child can't help, Granny Xu's business is average, every time there will be a lot of fish left, she is reluctant to throw it away and can only take it home to eat herself.
Now that she is older, it takes a long time to walk from a small fishing village by the sea to the city, not to mention that Granny Xu still has to carry a big fish basket, and Ji Mubai met on the road and helped Granny Xu carry the fish basket back.
"Okay, Grandma remembers, you are the same as your sister, you have helped Grandma a lot, your sister helped me take care of my grandson for another day today, this fish is caught by Grandma from the sea, take it home and cook it." Granny Xu directly stuffed the fish into Ji Mubai's vegetable basket, and she covered her fish basket with an expression that she was not allowed to return it.
Seeing this, Ji Mubai couldn't excuse himself, he accepted the fish and thanked Granny Xu.
Seeing Granny Xu move the fish basket back to the yard, he walked back to the small courtyard he and Qi Huan rented with confidence, and heard the sound of children frolicking before he entered the door.
"Sister Qi, just let me play too, please!"
"Yes, yes, Sister Qi, you are beautiful and kind, please, let's play with that big one?"
"Sister Qi~"
"Sister Qi~"
As soon as Ji Mubai entered the door, he saw a group of children surrounding Qi Huan, pulling Qi Huan's clothes and coquettishly.
Qi Huan, who was held by the stars, was coaxed very happily, but she refused with a smile, "No, you can only play the small one, the big one I gave to Brother Xiaobai, and you can only play if he agrees to you." β
"What do you want me to agree to?" Ji Mubai put down the vegetable basket and walked over, he stood beside Qi Huan, and the child suddenly scattered like a frightened bird.
Although Brother Xiaobai often helps Granny Xu and occasionally plays with them, Brother Xiaobai's expression is really a little cold, especially when they are making trouble around Sister Qi, his eyes are like Mr. Teacher in a private school, and he feels that his palms are about to hit the board in the next moment.
Everyone stood obediently on the side and quieted down, only the grandson of Granny Xu's family smiled and showed two big teeth, pointed to the other side of the yard and said, "Sister Qi built a big swing for Brother Xiaobai, but Sister Qi only let us play with the small one next to us." β
Ji Mubai turned his head to look at the other side, and saw two swings, one large and one small, placed in the yard, and there was no shadow of the swing when he went out at noon, how did Qi Huan build two swings in one afternoon?
"For me?" Ji Mubai asked.
Qi Huan nodded, she saw curling smoke floating in the air, and immediately hugged the children and walked to the door: "The family is going to call you home for dinner, go home quickly, come to my sister tomorrow to play, if you are disobedient, my sister will not let you come to my house in the future." β
The children were reluctant to leave, but when they heard Qi Huan say that they would not be allowed to come again, they immediately obediently went back to their respective homes.
Ji Mubai grabbed the grandson of Granny Xu's family, and the child shrunk his neck and smiled: "Is there something wrong with Brother Xiaobai?" β
"Xiaoyu takes the money home to her mother-in-law, and she can't use it to spend it indiscriminately." Ji Mubai put a piece of broken silver in the palm of Xiaoyu's hand.
Xiao Yu looked at the broken silver in his hand and frowned and thought, and soon he returned the money to Ji Mubai, shaking his head and speaking like an adult: "We can't accept this money, since my mother-in-law confiscated Brother Xiaobai's money, then Xiao Yu can't take it either." β
After speaking, Xiaoyu broke away from Ji Mubai's hand and ran home, Ji Mubai was stunned at the door with the silver, and suddenly his shoulder was patted.
"Xiaoyu's father and mother left early, and it was Grandma who single-handedly pulled him up, although Xiaoyu is young, he is sensible."
After Qi Huan finished speaking, she picked up the vegetable basket and took a look, yes, she bought all the vegetables she wanted, and there was a fish, it must be Xiaobai who helped Granny Xu, Granny Xu sent it, eat fish tonight!
"Hah! The children were finally gone, the world was at peace, and the deities could come out to breathe. When the demon lord noticed that the courtyard was quiet, he walked out of the room with his head held high, and he was a good dog again.
These days, his ears are tormented by children, and he is even a ten-year-old or eight-year-old dog, and he doesn't know how Qi Huan played with those children.
No one paid attention to him, and the Demon Venerable was bored with himself, so he walked to the swing and tilted his head to look at Qi Huan: "You made a swing by knocking and beating in the yard?" β
Qi Huan put the vegetable basket into the kitchen, and she replied while lighting a fire, "Well, I was playing with the children today, and suddenly I wanted to make a swing to coax them." β
There are very few swings in seaside fishing villages, and only some houses in the city have swings. The children in the village had never played, so Qi Huan simply asked 502 for the drawings, and spent a little money to ask the carpenter in the village to send some wood and tools.
Under the remote guidance of 502, she studied for an afternoon and finally successfully completed the task of two swings. The success of the mission is also inseparable from the children's credit, they are sensible and obedient, and they will help her hand tools, wipe her sweat and water, take turns hammering twice to make a force, and so on.
Ji Mubai walked to the big swing, he touched the rope and looked a little confused: "Why does my sister want to make another one for me?" β
And don't let other children play, do you have to give him permission?
Qi Huan boiled the pot, poured water and covered the pot, and when the water boiled, she walked out of the kitchen and walked straight towards Ji Mubai: "You haven't played on the swing either, have you?" Other children have it, and of course my little white has it. β
Ji Mubai was forcibly pressed by Qi Huan to sit down on the swing, and the woman smiled delicately, "Hold it firm." β
He sat on the swing and was slowly pushed by Qi Huan, rising little by little, floating back and forth in the air, he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he saw other princes in the imperial garden surrounded by palace ladies, and their concubines stood aside to accompany them on the swing.
These long-term memories were already very vague, and he should have been a little envious at the time, but the queen's task overwhelmed him, and he soon forgot these envy and yearnings.
But now, he has a swing and someone to be with him.
Sitting on the swing with the swing swinging in the air, fluttering, this is completely different from the feeling of running in the air with his own light skills, his mood seems to be reverberating with the swing, the more comfortable and relaxed, and slowly only happiness.
"Xiaobai, do you want my sister to push it a little higher?" Qi Huan shouted behind him.
Ji Mubai looked at the expanding blue sky in front of him and responded, "Well, I still want to be a little higher." β
In the past, he would not have done such a childish thing, let alone ask others to push the swing for him. But in front of Qi Huan, he is a fifteen-year-old younger brother, who can make requests, be taken care of, and swing.
"Sit tight." Qi Huan rolled up his sleeves and sighed at his hands, and pushed hard.
The swing swinged high, and Ji Mubai laughed happily in front of Qi Huan for the first time, and would ask her to push it higher and push it higher like a real child.
Qi Huan pushed more than a dozen times and couldn't stand it, the nineteen-year-old adult who was running two couldn't push the fifteen-year-old Ji Mubai, who was nearly one meter eight, she crossed her hands on her waist and panted, "You...... You can figure out how a person swings higher and higher, it's very simple, I'll go and see if the water is boiling. β
Qi Huan's back was a bit of a desert and fled, she couldn't push it, so let's slip away as soon as possible.
Demon Venerable's big round eyes followed Ji Mubai's figure back and forth, and after a long time, he retracted his gaze, and jumped on the small swing on the side and swayed gently.
"Ji Mubai, look at how naΓ―ve and stupid you are now, such an adult is still swinging, and his ability is also supported by rough people to buy vegetables, he is not majestic at all, learn from the deity, and be steady and domineering......"
Ji Mubai on the side seemed to have realized the trick of swinging, he swinged higher and higher, and raised his eyebrows at the Demon Venerable: "Can you swing higher than me?" β
"......" Demon Venerable swung twice hard, almost not falling himself down, he bared his teeth, "Are you interesting, compared to a dog?" β
Ji Mubai turned his head disdainfully, humming a little song higher and higher.