“…. Finally, Ah Jin booked the train tickets for us, and we came back.” Ji Huan briefly summed up his “first business trip”. He didn’t dare mention that he went to the fighting arena to work as a temporary waiter nor did he mention little grey devil’s experience of being abducted—— the reason for his business trip was to purchase the stones for the testing area instead of rescuing the little grey devil.
However, he felt that the matter of the little grey devil had to be discussed with Grandpa in order to make him more vigilant and increase his interest in learning. Therefore, he used the excuse of “what he heard” to share his experience.
“There are many methods of recruiting fighters for those fighting arenas. One is a contract that you voluntarily sign up for, which is relatively easy to escape, one can do it just by submitting the resignation. The other is fighters being privately recruited by the fighting arena.”
“Those bosses go to very remote places and sign some young demons at very cheap prices. The low salary is still a small matter, but the key is that the contract is extremely unequal. Once a demon gets involved, he can hardly escape, it’s similar to trafficking. Most of the signed small demons are from the countryside and illiterate, and they are almost sold there as soon as they sign the contract. The vast majority of them die in the fighting arena, and only a few can grow up there….”
Ji Huan didn’t mention anything about the little grey devil, but——
“It’s so pitiful, just like the abducted children in our world.” Grandpa said: “When you were on a business trip, Eroka went hunting, and I put all the hooves and other parts in the refrigerator. Although there are no pig feet here, the feet of other monsters are not bad. Tomorrow, let’s stew a pot of monster feet noodles for the little grey devil to eat, right? But there’s no noodles here, should I roll out some noodles?”
Pig’s feet noodles is a traditional dish to remove bad luck in Ji Huan’s hometown. Grandpa brought this dish up, did he realize something?
Grandpa is not a very sensitive demon, but when it comes to his grandchildren, he is extremely meticulous.
“Well, tomorrow I will stew the monster’s feet, and grandpa will roll out the noodles.” Ji Huan responded in a muffled voice, and shrank back into the water.
In the following time, Ji Huan shared with Grandpa what he had seen and heard during his trip.
He spoke in great detail, from the appearance and clothing of other demons to the local scenery, from prices to specialty food. Due to the excessive detail, Ji Huan’s story was not very meaningful, but this did not prevent his Grandpa from listening very happily. Ji Huan spoke in such detail that Grandpa felt as if he had also been there.
After listening to the story told by his grandson with relish, Grandpa was the first to leave the hot spring pool: the pool at home is not big, and Grandpa especially takes up a lot of space. His grandson must be feeling uncomfortable soaking in such a small space, and there is also Hei Dan lying between the two. So after enjoying the family time for a while, grandpa was satisfied and crawled out of the pool, then went to get some water and poured it into the pool.
As the cold well water slowly poured into the hot spring pool, Ji Huan felt very comfortable. With the help of Hei Dan, the water temperature in the hot spring pool soon rose to its previous temperature. As grandpa, who occupies the most space, went out, the area in the hot spring pool suddenly became much larger, and Hei Dan floated to the water surface.
Hei Dan’s body is still very small, and he hardly grew up in Bade Town. It can be said that Hei Dan’s development was basically stagnant during that time. After coming here, his eyes looked much bigger.
Hei Dan is swimming happily.
Now Hei Dan can swim very well even without the little yellow duck swimming ring. He also learned how to paddle without anyone teaching him. After swimming for a while, he turned his head to look at his uncle and Grandpa, then continued swimming.
Ji Huan is very supportive of his habit of swimming in the hot spring pool every day. For Hei Dan, who cannot walk yet, swimming can effectively move his arms and legs, which can strengthen his body.
Hei Dan is a very good helper when Ji Huan’s family has to soak in the hot spring pool. As long as he is there, the water in the pool will never be cold.
It’s just that——
Soaking together with Hei Dan requires certain psychological preparation.
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Hei Dan is too black.
The hot spring pool of Ji Huan’s family was dug in the vegetable garden. It used to be deserted, but now thanks to the diligent care of Ji Huan and his grandpa, it is full of lush vegetables, but this place was originally quite dark. In addition, Ji Huan’s family mostly soak in the pool at night. Even with a light bulb, the pool still remains very dark.
When Hei Dan soaks in the hot springs, he basically merges with the pool water. In addition, he occasionally turns his head and smiles back at Ji Huan. In the dark pool water, with a pair of white eyes, the effect was similar to a horror movie.
Perhaps only Hei Dan thinks that he is beautiful.
Look, he turned around and looked back at Ji Huan again.
In the darkness, there is a pair of huge white-ringed eyes, and a small red mouth that seems to be split. If you look carefully, you can still see the sharp fangs inside…
Ji Huan who went home to watch horror movies again: “…”
He waved to Hei Dan, indicating that he saw it.
Then Hei Dan continued to flutter happily.
He is now highly skilled in swimming, not only mastering dog paddle, but also backstroke. Occasionally diving is not a problem. Regarding this final stroke, Ji Huan, who first discovered that Hei Dan had learned to dive, was almost scared to death. He thought Hei Dan had drowned!
However, Hei Dan just learned a new skill.
In front of Ji Huan, Hei Dan’s white-ringed eyes disappeared for a while on the water surface. Soon, the water surface in front of Ji Huan’s chest darkened, and then… a handful of water plants bloomed there.
Ji Huan was startled——
But he quickly calmed down.
Hei Dan firmly stretched out his hand to pick up the handful of “water plants”.
Originally bald with little hair growing on his head, Hei Dan now gives off a water ghost effect when swimming.
The horror movie has been upgraded.
Ji Huan:”….”
“You…” Ji Huan sighed softly as he poked Hei Dan’s forehead.
Hei Dan just giggled.
The uncle and nephew soaked for a while, and seeing that Hei Dan was swimming pretty well, Ji Huan refused to let him leave, he grabbed him in his hand, and gave him a scrub.
Because Hei Dan soaks in hot springs everyday, he wasn’t dirty at all, but he likes his uncle to scrub his body, which is a kind of skin to skin contact. At this time, Hei Dan particularly stays honest.
The dry towel was on the side, Ji Huan crawled out of the water with Hei Dan, and wrapped himself in a large towel. With Hei Dan on his chest, he walked into the house.
Grandpa had already prepared the water for them. Ji Huan picked up the cup and took a sip to make sure the water temperature was right before offering it to Hei Dan.
Hei Dan has now learned to drink water from a cup.
There is no practice cup here for the babies to learn to drink, so he drinks from his uncle’s cup.
The little paw covered the uncle’s hand that was holding the cup, and Hei Dan’s white-ringed eyes stared down at the cup, drinking water in small sips.
Ji Huan tilted the cup in cooperation until Hei Dan was almost full.
“Ah.” After drinking enough water, Hei Dan sighed contentedly ← This is something he learned from his grandpa, who would sigh like this every time he drank water after soaking in the hot spring.
This was an expression to show comfort and satisfaction.
After Hei Dan finished drinking, Ji Huan drank the rest of the water in one go.
“Do you want more?” Grandpa asked from the side.
“It’s enough.” Ji Huan replied, and immediately ran to his bedroom on the first floor with Hei Dan in his arms.
While being naked, Ji Huan first dried Hei Dan who was also naked, and wrapped his lower body in a semi-wet towel. When Ji Huan came back with a small jar from the cabinet, Hei Dan was already spreading out his limbs and waiting.
“Jiujiu~” This is to apply the ointment! One of Hei Dan’s favourite steps after soaking in hot springs.
The ointment was naturally bought by Ah Jin, and it has a very comfortable fragrance, not too strong, but a faint smell of roses. No wonder Hei Dan likes it, even Ji Huan, who usually doesn’t prefer essence, likes it.
Ji Huan applied the ointment on Hei Dan’s small face, neck, body, and he didn’t forget the little butt either, and finally it didn’t take long for Hei Dan to become smooth and fragrant all over.
The little demon lay on the soft quilt, squinting his eyes.
At this moment, Grandpa also brought over the comb that was sent by Asimu, and Ji Huan picked Hei Dan up and combed his hair gently. In the end, for some reason, he still braided the hair in two little pigtails.
Hei Dan stretched out his little paw and touched the little knob on his head, then raised his head and burst into laughter.
Ji Huan: … I really want to shave his head bald.
Then Ji Huan took Hei Dan out to tidy up the two boxes of luggage he brought back.
One and a half boxes are practical daily necessities, and the other half box contains some strange things.
Including some photo frames.
One was an oil painting, which was not very big in size, and the content of the picture was a green summer forest. Considering that Hei Dan likes green, Ji Huan hung this painting in the bedroom where he and Hei Dan sleep.
Hei Dan really liked it and kept staring at it.
And other photo frames are…
One of them was a photo he saw in the showroom of the Saroye Fighting Arena.
Ah Jin seems to have not only brought the contract, but also brought back all the photos there.
As he flipped through the frames one by one and got to the middle, Ji Huan saw the photo that made him stranded for a long time.
It was a photo of the man who was referred to as the “devil king” by his seniors in the fighting arena.
Holding the photo in his hand, Ji Huan was startled.
Finally, he put away all the other photos, except for that one, which he put on his bedside table.
Thinking of Ah Jin, Ji Huan remembered the ring. He quickly got dressed, then took out the ring.
Under the light, the ruby on the ring was shining softly.
By the way, he needs to call Ah Jin.
Ah Jin said that he wanted Hei Dan to call him.
Thinking of this, Ji Huan reflexively looked at Hei Dan.
After soaking in the pool and rubbing the ointment all over his body, Hei Dan has long been lying on the bed. He stopped looking at oil paintings after a while, and is now lying on a picture book. Hei Dan is very accustomed to reading every night before going to bed.
Seeing his uncle looking at him, Hei Dan happily stretched out his little paw and patted the book underneath.
Until Ji Huan took out his phone.
The moment he saw the phone, Hei Dan’s attention immediately turned to the phone.
His uncle hasn’t been home in the past few days, and Hei Dan hasn’t touched this toy called ‘mobile phone’ for a few days.
Looking at Hei Dan who couldn’t wait to play with his mobile phone in a comical way, Ji Huan changed the phone wallpaper to Ah Jin’s video call request page, and then handed the phone to Hei Dan.
Hei Dan, who couldn’t wait to play with the phone for a long time, just tapped lightly, and the call request was sent out.
After a while, the black-haired demon that Hei Dan was most afraid of appeared on the phone.
“Good evening, Hei Dan.” The other party actually spoke.
The little paw trembled, and Hei Dan froze.
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