In the next second, Hei Dan made a very strange move:
He reached down with his little paw and touched his skirt pants.
After touching for a while, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Ah Jin lowered his eyes as he watched the little demon’s movements, and asked after a while, “What is this for?”
Hei Dan looked at him anxiously, assuming that he couldn’t understand such a complicated question. Then he nervously raised his head and looked at his uncle.
So Ji Huan’s voice came from beside him: “I think he wants to check if his skirt pants are wet.”
No one knows his nephew better than him, and Ji Huan immediately understood what’s going on in the little demon’s head.
“I don’t know what’s wrong, but Hei Dan always wet himself as soon as he sees you.” Ji Huan revealed the news.
“It was okay when we had diapers before, but now that we have run out of diapers, there’s nothing else to use as a substitute. Once he accidentally wet himself…” Ji Huan paused, and when he spoke again, his voice was tinged with a hint of a smile: “Now that we don’t have any diapers, once he accidentally wet his pants, Hei Dan’s clothes get all ruined and dirty.”
“There are also bed sheets.”
“Although I always wash it for him and don’t feel the smell after washing, Hei Dan still seems to be able to smell something. Even if he is willing to wear washed clothes and lay on washed bed sheets, he would always look unhappy.”
Just like when grandpa was raising Ji Huan and his sister, all the good things were given to the siblings. Whatever good thing the elder sister had, she would give it to the youngest Ji Huan. Now that he has Hei Dan, as the youngest member in the family, Grandpa and Ji Huan will use the limited resources and the best things will be given to Hei Dan.
The most comfortable fabric would be used for Hei Dan’s clothes, and all the green things would be reserved for Hei Dan. Although materially poor, the love that Hei Dan receives is not barren at all. Dressed in clothes made by his uncle and lying on the green sheets, Hei Dan looks beautiful every day.
These things are very rare, and Hei Dan seems to know it, so he has always cherished them. After he ended up peeing on a few of his favorite underpants, Hei Dan would rather sleep with his butt naked than wear underwear. Now his favorite dress is the little skirt, no, wait, skirt pants that Ah Jin gave him. He especially cherishes these clothes, and refuses to wear them frequently, only occasionally wearing them when he goes out.
Well, he is usually covered in a cloak when he goes out. Only God would know how he remembers to change clothes when he goes out.
“He still picks out his own clothes to wear every morning. God knows that his clothes only include three pieces, underpants, a T-shirt and this pair of skirt pants.”
“I don’t know who he wants to look like by being this meticulous when he’s so poor.”
Ji Huan’s voice continued to come from the other end of the screen.
Ah Jin: “…”
After a long while, he spoke again: “I think this is quite good. It shows that he has enough self-control and knows how to use his demeanor to guide others’ impression of him.”
This time it’s Ji Huan’s turn: “…”
Alright, this shameless way of showing off can still receive such lofty words of praise.
However, he suddenly remembered that what he had said just now seemed familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere… Ji Huan suddenly thought of the revelation made by the old demon Adan about Ah Jin in the afternoon.
Thinking of Ah Jin’s habits that were revealed by the old demon, the corners of Ji Huan’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up.
It’s a good thing that his face doesn’t appear on the screen right now.
Fortunately, the current protagonist on the screen was still Hei Dan.
No matter how scared he was, Ji Huan never moved the screen away from Hei Dan.
Hei Dan sees only a few people now, and Ji Huan never misses any opportunity to let him communicate with others.
Ji Huan doesn’t have any dissatisfaction with his own growth process and the environment he lived in, which was the best that grandpa could provide him. However, from the perspective of a parent, he knows that his own personality is too dull.
From childhood to adulthood, it seems that teachers have never liked him, and the parents of his classmates often remind their children not to play with him.
Ji Huan thought it was probably because he was too gloomy.
He also knows that only children with a lively and lovely personality can be loved by most people, making it easier for them to go out.
So he always tries his best to make Hei Dan more lively.
So, Hei Dan, who was bearing the weight of such high hopes of his uncle, could only look at Ah Jin in horror.
He kept looking back at his uncle, but his uncle only looked at him encouragingly.
Well, Ji Huan’s expression of encouragement was a bit stiff. If it was an ordinary child, he would probably have been scared to cry. Fortunately, Hei Dan loves his uncle and has long understood the meaning of this expression. Therefore, with his uncle’s encouragement by him, he could only bravely face the terrifying demon on the other side of the screen.
“Jiujiu…” Trying to persist for 30 seconds under the gaze of the big demon, the little demon finally couldn’t help it, he turned around as if asking for help, and muttered the words he had just learned.
“Well, I’m Jiujiu, Hei Dan is right.” Ji Huan praised him, but soon put forward higher demands for him.
“Hei Dan, say hello.”
Staring at the screen, Hei Dan pursed his lips, and after a while he finally managed to choke out two words: “Bye, bye.”
Ji Huan: “…”
Ah Jin: “…”
This greeting really reflected Hei Dan’s mood at this moment.
Ji Huan decided to save the situation, so——
“Haven’t Hei Dan learned a lot of words recently? How should Hei Dan call the uncle on the screen?” Ji Huan especially gave a hint.
It’s a pity that Hei Dan didn’t understand it.
“Grandpa!”
Ji Huan: “…”
Ah Jin: “…”
“Grandpa is next door.” Ji Huan shook his head.
So——
Staring at the big demon on the screen, Hei Dan finally squinted his eyes, and called out to the opposite side in a crisp voice: “Jiujiu…Mmm!”
I don’t know if it was because he grew up with his uncle who had high standards and strict requirements. Hei Dan is very serious about his studies and immediately realized that his pronunciation of the word wasn’t very good, so he repeated it again.
“Aunt !”
Alright, maybe it’s because he’s too nervous. Yesterday, he had successfully shown the word “aunt” to his uncle, but Hei Dan trembled twice before saying it. Moreover, he pronunciation advanced from the informal “Auntie” into a more formal “Aunt” without a teacher.
Ji Huan: “…”
Ah Jin: “…”
“It’s not aunt, it should be uncle.” The young man with thin skin was a bit embarrassed, and hurriedly corrected his nephew’s mistake.
Unfortunately, Hei Dan was particularly firm. No matter what Ji Huan said, he strictly called the word “aunt” firmly, and his pronunciation improved every time. In the end, his pronunciations of “aunt” became extremely clear according to Chinese.
Note: The kinship here is very simple. There are no such words as ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ in the local language. Ji Huan directly teaches him Chinese.
After demonstrating this word, Hei Dan continued to recite other words he could say.
Every day, Hei Dan is asked by Grandpa to present something remarkable. Nowadays Hei Dan treats speaking as a performance, and it is a one-stop continuous performance: “Uncle” is followed by “Grandpa”, and “Grandpa” is followed by ” Aunt”, the word “Hua Hua” also comes up randomly, and then “Dan Dan”…
He has memorized the whole sequence.
Ji Huan was a bit embarrassed, but Hei Dan happily recited the whole sequence.
Finally, it was Ah Jin who changed the subject in a considerate manner. He saw the two small pigtails on Hei Dan’s head: “Did Asimu give that hair band?”
Ji Huan was taken aback for a moment: He can even tell the source of a hair band. Is Ah Jin too observant, or…
Grasping a small braid, Ji Huan glanced at the hair band: If you look closely, you can find that this hair band is not ordinary green, and there seem to be some strange patterns on it…
“Hehe, there’s no problem with the hair band, it’s a good thing, let him wear it.”
“Asimu grew up with long hair and always needed to tie them up. So, he always hoped that others would be like him. He often gave people hair bands, but the ones who really used them….”
It seems that there is really only this little demon in front of him.
The little demon with the pigtails also feels that he looks very…beautiful?
Hei Dan has been particularly satisfied with his new look recently. He was still afraid at first, but as soon as his uncle touched his pigtail, he immediately leaned his head towards him, as if he wanted his uncle to pay more attention to it.
“Show Ah Jin your little pigtail.” As Ji Huan said this, Hei Dan showed a terrified look again, but even though he was scared, under his uncle’s gaze, he still shook his little pigtail in front of the screen.
Ah Jin: “…”
“Well, it looks beautiful.” Ah Jin praised him in a reserved manner.
Hei Dan understood the word “beautiful”, and stared at Ah Jin with his white eyes for a while. Then his small red mouth slightly opened, and Hei Dan showed a small smile.
Well, it’s really easy to coax a baby.
In the following time, Hei Dan was still a bit scared of Ah Jin, but probably because the praise just now worked, he didn’t seem as scared as before.
In other words, Hei Dan has found other ways to get along with Ah Jin.
Looking away from Ah Jin’s face, Hei Dan’s eyes fell on Ah Jin’s clothes: Ah Jin on the screen was dressed very formally, I don’t know if he is going out or just came back from somewhere. His shirt collar was tied to a second collar, and the empty part was ironed into two flat pieces, separated outwards in the shape of a triangle. The first button below was green, and the color of the other buttons below was different. This button was made into an ornament by the designer. Using green gemstones, inlaid with golden precious metal patterns, it looks both like a button and a brooch.
Hei Dan carefully looked at the button, and blurted out a sound after a while.
“Д!”
This is the first sound of the word “beautiful” in the local language. There are a lot of syllables in the word, and Hei Dan hasn’t learned the full pronunciation. However, he has heard this word too many times, so he ended up learning the first one.
Ah Jin is a very intelligent person. After being stunned for a moment, he soon understood what the little demon meant.
“Oh, you can talk now.”
Hei Dan grinned at him again.
In the following time, Hei Dan’s attention was on Ah Jin’s buttons, then he also successfully praised Ah Jin’s shirt, coat, cuffs…
But the praise contain only one sound: “Д!”
Previously, due to being too scared, Hei Dan didn’t observe carefully. However now when he looked at it, he realized that all the things on the demon across from him (except for his appearance) were so beautiful!
Seeing this, Hei Dan, a country bumpkin, who has loved beautiful things since he was a child, was shocked!
Ji Huan thought that Ah Jin must have just returned from a trip, as he actually continued to “chat” with Hei Dan like this.
“Thank you. The shirt was customized at a handmade clothing store in Namei City.”
“This is green fluorite, but the metal on it is the common gold, which is the purified product of the precious metal that is used to make gold bars.”
“The cuffs are also made of green fluorite, cut from the same gemstone.”
Ji Huan: “…” Well, I don’t understand the world of these fashionistas.
However, Ji Huan was also very curious about how Hei Dan understood such complicated words, even if he himself couldn’t understand it, it was even more impossible for Hei Dan to understand it.
But Hei Dan looked as if was listening carefully.
He also shakes his head every once in a while, as if responding to the words.
Ji Huan felt a bit funny, but seeing Hei Dan and Ah Jin’s “chatting happily”, he felt a little relieved, just a little…
Ji Huan couldn’t tell what it felt like, but he thought that it’s good.
Finally, when Ah Jin said that he had something to do, Hei Dan reluctantly said “goodbye”.
This is really the first time!
After Ah Jin hung up the phone, Ji Huan saw Hei Dan still holding the phone reluctantly, so he quickly took the ring that Ah Jin gave and handed it to Hei Dan.
“It was given to you by that uncle just now.” Ji Huan explained.
Hei Dan stared straight at him with his white-ringed eyes for a long while——
“Aunt?”
Ji Huan: “…”
The little demon immediately lowered his head, and went to play with the ring on his hand, both liking and disliking it.
Ji Huan strung the ring together with a rope, and hung it around Hei Dan’s neck.
That night, Ji Huan, who hadn’t had a dream in a long time, dreamt again.
In the dream, there was a mobile phone in front of him.
It’s his cell phone.
Then, the screen of the phone suddenly lit up.
In the dark night, the bright light of the mobile phone screen seemed a bit eerie.
I don’t know why but Ji Huan in the dream didn’t hear the phone ring, only the lit phone screen showed that he had an incoming call.
Ji Huan wanted to answer the phone, but when he found that he couldn’t do it, he didn’t bother.
He felt that the phone could finally picked up by him
Just as he picked up the phone, an extremely terrifying demon appeared on the screen.
Ji Huan widened his eyes—
He woke up in a cold sweat from a nightmare, and found the phone beside the bed. He hesitated for a moment before picking it up.
The screen was naturally black.
Ji Huan stood up and put the phone on the nearby cabinet.
He put it next to Ah Jin’s photo.
He went to the kitchen and drank some water. He didn’t lie down on the bed until the image of the terrifying demon in his dream faded a little in his mind.
Who knew…
The dream continued.
It’s still the same mobile phone, it’s still the same demon, but Ji Huan felt as if he wasn’t scared at all in the dream.
Staring at the bright green button on the demon’s collar, Ji Huan was stunned.
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