The feeling of waking up in the morning to see a little demon with disheveled hair…
Ji Huan gently touched Hei Dan’s head, who buried his little head in his uncle’s armpit again, arching his little buttocks, making him look even more round.
Gently pulling out his arm, Ji Huan habitually stuffed the frog doll from the bedside into Hei Dan’s arms for him to hold. However, he soon realized that the doll was already gone, and his hands had habitually touched the place where he used to keep the doll.
But when he felt that familiar touch, Ji Huan’s head immediately turned around.
Then he saw the familiar little frog.
With its two eyes open, one large and one small, its mouth was tilted upward, looking as if it was smiling. The back and forelimbs are green, while the belly is white.
When Ji Huan looked at the little frog, the frog also seemed to be looking at him.
The original prototype of this frog was a frog doll given to Hei Dan by Wang Xiaochuan. Hei Dan still remembered the puppet that accompanied him for the first few months of his life, and “sewed” this frog doll like the original one.
However, the “stitches” on this doll are very dense, and the frog’s eyes are also uneven, with one big and one small. This is more like the little frog that Ji Huan sewed on Hei Dan’s pants.
The earliest frog dolls were thrown away before they could have a name. Now this frog is called ‘Guagua’, because grandpa told Hei Dan that the sound made by frogs is called “gua”.
“Guagua?” Ji Huan suddenly called out the doll’s name.
Guagua looked at him with a smile without making a sound.
“Guagua!” A crisp little voice suddenly came from the side. Ji Huan looked over and found that Hei Dan had also woken up at some point. The little demon with disheveled hair looked very happy when he saw Guagua.
Ji Huan picked up the frog doll and wanted to hand it to him, but as soon as he picked it up, he found that the belly of the doll was broken, with a long cut.
“Ah! Ah!” Hei Dan anxiously tugged at his uncle’s t-shirt with his little paws, looking eagerly at Ji Huan.
“Alright, I’ll stitch it up for you.” Immediately realizing what the little guy meant, Ji Huan got out of bed, put on his slippers, and took out the needle and thread from the cabinet before returning to the bed.
“What color of thread do you want?” Taking out all the thread balls, Ji Huan asked Hei Dan.
Hei Dan is getting bigger now, and Ji Huan has started to train his ability to make his own choices.
For example, Ji Huan has started talking to Hei Dan more frequently, asking for his opinions, and asking him to do some simple multiple-choice questions on his own.
“Green! Green!” Sure enough, when it comes to colour selection, Hei Dan will always choose green without hesitation.
Ji Huan: “…”
“Hei Dan, look again, what color is Guagua’s belly? Is green really suitable?” Ji Huan guided him to think more.
Hei Dan looked at his uncle, then looked down at the ball of thread, and finally at Guagua’s belly.
Guagua’s belly is white, and the cotton inside is also white.
Hei Dan stared at Guagua for a long time, and finally, as if he had made a difficult decision, he turned around, stretched out his little paw, and grabbed a white ball of thread from the bed, handing it to Ji Huan.
“Hmm, I also think white is better.” Ji Huan took the ball of thread and pointed towards the pigsty outside the window: “This is white. ‘Bai’ of ‘Da Bai’ means ‘white’, and Da Bai’s color is also white.”
Hei Dan likes Da Bai very much, and hearing that Da Bai could be associated with this color, the little demon became happy again.
Then Ji Huan started to thread the needle.
Today is his day off, and he can spend it relatively leisurely.
When Ji Huan caught the frog doll, his heart suddenly moved: it was a very wonderful feeling.
Guagua looks like a doll made with needle, thread and cloth, which seems to be nothing. This is okay, because Hei Dan made Guagua based on the doll he once owned, but at first, Ji Huan couldn’t touch Guagua.
In the beginning, Hei Dan always placed Guagua on Ji Huan’s body, but Ji Huan couldn’t touch it. Occasionally, he could touch it, which was also a very weird feeling, as if… touching the air?
However, a while ago, Guagua’s body became more and more like a doll. Ji Huan put Guagua on the bedside every day, and after waking up early, he would stuff Guagua into Hei Dan’s arms.
The body of the frog doll is soft, becoming more and more like the original doll.
But today——
Just as Ji Huan grabbed Guagua, for a moment, the tentacles felt slippery and moist… He almost thought he was touching a real frog!
Guagua’s two eyes, one big and one small, stared straight at him.
Ji Huan grabbed it without changing his expression and put it on his lap. He closed the big hole in its belly and started to sew it up.
Hei Dan lay obediently on his uncle’s knees, watching without blinking, as the needle in Ji Huan’s hand pierced through Guagua’s belly.
“Hoo! Hoo!” He was still babbling.
“Quack!” Then the frog on Ji Huan’s legs suddenly let out a cry.
Ji Huan’s finger was pricked as he couldn’t hold the needle firmly in his hand.
“Jiujiu!” Hei Dan quickly crawled to Ji Huan’s side and grabbed the injured finger with his little paw, frowning.
He then lowered his head and took Ji Huan’s finger into his mouth.
Then Ji Huan suddenly felt a slippery feeling.
Hei Dan’s mouth seemed like a black hole, and Ji Huan couldn’t touch anything until Hei Dan’s little tongue licked it slowly.
Cold, a feeling of soaked in water.
Not a single little tooth touched him.
Finger in Hei Dan’s mouth gently shook, but Hei Dan continued to lick. When he finally spat out Ji Huan’s finger from his mouth, he even puffed up his small mouth and blew hard.
“Alright, thank you Hei Dan.” Ji Huan raised his finger and looked at it, but after searching for a long time, he couldn’t see the wound that should be there.
The wound… seems to have healed.
He was stunned for a moment, then started sewing Guagua’s belly again.
This time, Guagua stopped shouting, and Ji Huan’s sewing work was not interrupted again..
When his finger was pricked earlier, a small piece of thread was stained red with blood, which Ji Huan didn’t notice at the time. It wasn’t until he finished sewing that he saw the red mark on the frog’s white belly.
That is the commemoration of Ji Huan’s “injury” this time.
The wound on Ji Huan’s finger had already healed, but the red spot on Guagua’s belly became the only evidence that his finger had been pricked.
“Guagua!” Hei Dan was extremely satisfied as he held the doll with a white centipede on his belly.
Putting Guagua on the bed, he took out two green hair bands from under the pillow. Yes, there are two, two identical hair bands, just like before.
When Ji Huan took out the hair ties, he froze again.
When Hei Dan returned yesterday, there was only one hair band left on his head, and the remaining one couldn’t be found. It must have been taken away by the robber, so Ji Huan only tied one braid on his head. But now the hair tie that can’t be found is back again.
Ji Huan looked at the hair tie carefully, and he quickly discovered the difference: the pattern on one of the hair ties was gone.
There was a pattern on one of them, but part of the pattern on the other was missing. If the hair ties were not made of the same material and color, Ji Huan would have suspected that Hei Dan had picked them up from somewhere else.
The disappeared part of the pattern seemed like… wandering away– when Ji Huan saw the blank hair tie, this thought suddenly came to his mind.
However, Hei Dan didn’t seem to notice the difference yet, so Ji Huan quickly picked up the comb and combed his hair.
Hei Dan’s hair was a little longer now, but it was still very soft. Ji Huan thought about the possibility of shaving his head bald after a while.
After carrying Hei Dan to the yard and washing his face, Ji Huan placed Hei Dan on Da Bai and started working.
Da Bai is a very docile pig. When Hei Dan sits on its back, it happily carries Hei Dan everywhere in the yard. Occasionally, when Hei Dan was about to fall, Miss Eroka next to him would grab Hei Dan’s clothes with her fangs, and then throw him back onto Da Bai’s back.
Pigs themselves are very smart animals. After coming here, Ji Huan always felt that Da Bai’s IQ seemed to have evolved a lot.
While the couple was watching Hei Dan outside, Ji Huan cleaned the pigsty for them.
He shoveled out all the dirty hay inside, but didn’t throw it away. After collecting and burning it to ashes, it becomes a good fertilizer.
Then it’s time to prepare some new hay.
The source of the hay was the “weeds” originally planted in Ah Jin’s yard. He now knows that those grasses were specially planted by Ah Jin. Although they were specially planted, they were not taken care of. Those weeds grow very quickly, and Ji Huan cleans them up once a week to ensure they don’t grow everywhere.
When cutting off some of the weeds that were about to grow into the vegetable field, Ji Huan suddenly noticed that there was an extra “knot” in the clump of “weeds” in the farthest corner.
As he crouched down to observe carefully, he suddenly realized that it was actually a flower bud!
The plants Ah Jin planted are finally about to bloom!
Ji Huan’s mood suddenly improved for no reason. He had originally intended to tell Ah Jin the news immediately, but he soon had a better idea: he decided to send the sprouted weed to Ah Jin.
Thinking that Ah Jin might be happy to see the flower bud, Ji Huan’s strange mood from the morning suddenly improved.
Grandpa also woke up not long after, and just as they finished eating their simple breakfast, Naji also knocked on the door. Ji Huan had a day off today, but their stall didn’t.
Hei Dan hesitated between Grandpa and his uncle, but finally chose to go out to do business with Grandpa.
As the only reliable cashier, Hei Dan has a strong sense of responsibility.
Although he really want to read a picture book at home with his uncle, Grandpa and Naji really make Hei Dan worried~
But before leaving, Hei Dan left Guagua behind.
I don’t know what Hei Dan and Guagua talked about. Throughout the morning, wherever Ji Huan went, Guagua followed him.
“Go and play by yourself.” Only after Ji Huan said this that Guagua finally stopped moving.
Then it turned around and ran away, finally jumping into the hot spring pool of Ji Huan’s house.
As Ji Huan was transplanting the budded plant in the corner, the sound of a frog kept coming from the side.
The small courtyard has become even more lively because of this.
After transplanting the flower buds, Ji Huan did some more housework. At noon, when the work at home was almost done, Ji Huan went to the kitchen to cook. He baked a lot of pancakes and rolled the vegetables inside the pancakes, making it easy to eat anywhere.
Then he took the pancakes to visit Grandpa and Naji at the stall.
He saw Mr. Asimu at Grandpa and Naji’s stall.
Mr. Asimu was talking to Grandpa, or to be precise, he was talking to Hei Dan in Grandpa’s arms.
With his fingers on Hei Dan’s pigtails, these two long-haired enthusiasts were probably discussing some strange topics.
I don’t know how Mr. Asimu always has a pleasant conversation with Hei Dan who doesn’t even know how to speak a full sentence.
“Mr. Asimu, I was just planning to call you this afternoon.” Ji Huan greeted him.
“Oh? Do you have anything to send?” Mr. Asimu obviously came to the market to buy something. He also had a big pumpkin in his hand, which was obviously bought at their stall.
“Hmm.” Ji Huan nodded.
“When is it convenient for you? I’ll go to your house to pick up the package.” He didn’t ask what was being shipped nor did he ask where it was going to be sent. Mr. Asimu just asked Ji Huan when he could pick it up.
After making an appointment with Ji Huan to pick up the package tonight, he “chatted” with Hei Dan with a few more words, and then said goodbye to Ji Huan and others.
Taking Hei Dan from Grandpa’s arms, Ji Huan let Grandpa and Naji have lunch. When Ji Huan habitually arranged Hei Dan’s pigtails, he suddenly discovered that the pattern that had disappeared on Hei Dan’s left hair tie… had returned.
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