IHOEAYSTTTIW Chapter 11

Chapter 11: After Touching the Truth, U-Turn and Speeding in the Opposite Direction

Lin Yan picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.

As expected, the meat bought outside wasn’t as good as what he made himself. Lin Yan chewed it and swallowed it with effort. He disgustedly put down his chopsticks and looked at Yun Qi, who was buried in his food, and asked seemingly casually, “What hero have you been playing recently?”

Yun Qi paused, barely maintaining his composure: “Um, just… playing a little of everything?”

Lin Yan watched Yun Qi carefully pick up a piece of ginger, narrowing his eyes slightly: “Is that Number 7 strong?”

“So… so-so, I guess?” Yun Qi’s attitude was perfunctory, as if all his attention was on the food.

Lin Yan watched him stuff the ginger into his mouth, chew it twice, and then spit it out with a grimace, “Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey.”

“Oh?” Lin Yan handed him a glass of water, and only after watching Yun Qi drink it did he say slowly, “But Number 7 is still in the testing phase, how did you play it? In your dreams?”

The water in his mouth was almost deadly. Yun Qi coughed twice, barely steadying his breath: “Um… I just miss seeing him Go online too much.”

Seeing that Lin Yan was unmoved, Yun Qi could only resort to his trump card. He sighed, muttering with a pitiful expression: “It’s just… I can’t go back, and I won’t get to see the day Number 7 goes Go online.”

This trick was indeed effective. Lin Yan stopped pressing the issue and instead comforted Yun Qi, who was almost growing into a cluster of mushrooms: “It’s okay, you’ll be able to go back sooner or later.”

“Yeah.” Yun Qi nodded obediently and started clearing the table: “Big Brother, leave it, I’ll do the dishes.”

Yun Qi took two steps towards the kitchen, then suddenly turned around. He pointed towards the vegetable patch and said weakly, “Big Brother, your potatoes seem a little wilted, could it be that they need water?”

Lin Yan treasured his potatoes the most. Hearing Yun Qi say this, he immediately walked towards the vegetable garden: “I’ll go take a look. You play less on your cellphone.”

Watching Lin Yan walk away, Yun Qi’s heart relaxed a little.

Lin Yan circled back and returned to the house. He took out his cellphone and opened his frequently used apps one by one: “I’m going to see what this kid’s been up to every day.”

The game history was all losses, the battery level was a landslide, and the usage time was close to four hours. Lin Yan didn’t give up and searched for another half a day, but still couldn’t find anything of value.

“That’s really strange.” Lin Yan threw the cellphone aside and hummed softly, “Forget it, what’s the point of thinking so much? He even knows the rule of ‘odd changes, even remains the same’, how could the transmigrating be fake? Maybe he just has a bad memory, a special experience, a rough background…

If there weren’t anything special about him, how could he have transmigrated?”

Lin Yan unexpectedly touched the truth, but quickly turned the car around and sped off in the completely opposite direction.

Yun Qi finished cleaning the dishes and ran over to ask for his cellphone to play with: “Big Brother, I’m done cleaning up. Can I…”

“No, you’re almost turning into an internet addict.” Lin Yan tapped his fingers on the table, trying to put on a serious face, but he couldn’t help but laugh as he spoke, “If this continues, I’m going to have to turn on… youth mode for you.”

“What you…” Yun Qi coughed lightly and walked towards the door in a dejected manner: “Okay… then should I go back first?”

The lunch wasn’t really to his taste, and Lin Yan was the type who couldn’t sit still. Spending the entire afternoon at home, he felt like he was going to get moldy. He planned to take the growing mushroom out to bask in the sun and buy some ingredients at the same time: “What do you want to eat for dinner?”

Yun Qi didn’t know if the previous topic had been dropped, but he didn’t mind adding another layer of precaution: “Eat… River Bottom Hot Pot? Drink Fatty Joy… drink milk tea, maybe?”

“Okay, okay.” The little bit of doubt that Lin Yan had left disappeared completely after hearing the words “River Bottom.” He jumped off the bed and put his arm around Yun Qi’s shoulders, “Let’s go, let’s go SHOPPING.”

After Yun Qi’s household registration was settled, his identity was considered legitimate. Usually, he would be teased when he went to farm, let alone going to the market with Lin Yan to buy things like this.

As they walked along, Yun Qi had more and more things in his hands, and his face became increasingly red, on the verge of being ripened.

Mutton, beef, mushrooms, vegetables, meatballs, scallions, sesame sauce, minced ginger… With the auxiliary ingredients almost bought, only the hot pot base was left.

Lin Yan turned around and finally stopped in front of a beef store.

Lin Yan was a regular customer at this store, and the proprietress was particularly enthusiastic: “Yo, Brother Yan, what delicious food are you making for your Xiao Qi again?”

Lin Yan walked around the store, his eyes falling on the beef bones placed in the corner: “Third Sister-in-law, give me some beef bones.”

“Old Zheng, come out and chop the bones.” The proprietress shouted to the backyard, then sat back in the store, looking at Lin Yan and Yun Qi, who had grown as tall as him in three months, and clicked her tongue twice: “Beef bones are very nourishing, can that little body of yours handle it?”

“What are you saying?” Lin Yan waved his hand, his fair face flushed red, making his dimples especially pretty. He affectionately rubbed Yun Qi’s hair and said softly, “Xiao Qi is still young.”

“Seventeen isn’t young.” The proprietress shook her head and casually cut a piece of beef short rib: “Have you two set a date?”

“What date?” Lin Yan’s brain stopped for a moment, and he quickly realized that the proprietress was talking about the child bridegroom thing. He casually said vaguely, “Oh, oh, not yet. I’ll give you an invitation when it’s set.”

“Okay, Sister-in-law will remember it.” The proprietress threw the beef bones on the table and patted them hard: “If you forget, you’ll be in trouble.”

Lin Yan took out money to pay: “How could I? I can’t forget anyone, especially you, Sister-in-law.”

“You’re just sweet-talking.” The proprietress poked Lin Yan’s forehead and threw the beef short rib that she had just cut into Yun Qi’s arms, “Here’s two more pieces of meat for you.”

“Thank you, Sister-in-law.” Lin Yan cupped his fist in thanks and left the store with Yun Qi.

The two walked a long way before Lin Yan leaned close to Yun Qi’s ear and whispered, “Don’t mind it, that was all to fool them, all for the sake of the household registration.”

The warm breath brushed against his ear, and Yun Qi’s temperature, which had just cooled down, rose again. He nodded and whispered, “We have a telepathic connection, Big Brother doesn’t need to say more.”

That’s what he said, but Yun Qi didn’t think that way in his heart.

The way Big Brother looked at him was filled with affection, different from how he looked at those other people. For him, Big Brother was willing to take the risk of harboring a prince, Big Brother told him everything, Big Brother was obedient to him in every way, Big Brother…

In short, he was different. Big Brother was just putting on a tough act, how could he possibly…

“Come here, White.” Lin Yan picked up White from the ground and scratched its belly affectionately: “You’ve grown into a big fat cat in three months? Look at this fur, look at this meat…”

Yun Qi suddenly felt a little uncertain.

The way Lin Yan looked at White was exactly the same as how he looked at him…

He had always thought that Lin Yan was raising White like a pig, so, Big Brother was also treating him like… stop it, stop it.

It was White, this little enchantress, causing jealousy, seducing people. It looked lazy, but it was actually tempting, look, it was even winking.

White, who was forced to walk for an entire afternoon and was now so sleepy that it couldn’t even open its eyes: Are you being polite?

Although he had a lot of things in his hands, he didn’t mind one more big fat cat.

“Big Brother, let me hold it.” Yun Qi picked up White, holding it in his arms with only technique and no emotion.

White felt uncomfortable being squeezed and twisted like a live fish. It struggled out of Yun Qi’s arms, rolled around in a mud puddle, and meowed at Yun Qi.

The big black cat turned into a big mud cat.

The look in Lin Yan’s eyes towards White was no longer loving, only disgusted. He opened his mouth with difficulty: “Should we… go back first?”

Yun Qi nodded and went to pick up White from the ground again.

White dodged Yun Qi’s hand, rubbing against Lin Yan’s trouser legs. Lin Yan took a few steps back but couldn’t avoid it, and his newly bought pants became camouflage.

Lin Yan took a deep breath and looked at the culprit, gnashing his teeth: “When we get back, I’m going to boil water and then make Iron Pot Stew Big Cat.”