Chapter 41: Little Pig and Little Dog

They were walking in the opposite direction of the crowd.

The throngs of people slowed their pace significantly, and Lu Xiaoxi, in order to avoid bumping into passersby, dodged left and right, struggling to keep up with Li Mu.

She pursed her lips and directly grabbed the hem of Li Mu’s shirt.

She felt much safer.

Li Mu was like the bow of a ship, helping her cut through the surging waves.

Under the alternating cold and warm lights,

Lu Xiaoxi’s pupils trembled slightly, and her heartbeat quickened.

In that moment,

everything seemed magnified.

Or rather—

she felt smaller.

Li Mu also felt smaller.

With one hand holding a large bag of potato chips and the other tightly clutching the hem of Li Mu’s shirt, she pressed closely against his back, looking at his silhouette and calling out in a childish voice—

“Brother Mu…”

“Mm? Did you call me?” Li Mu suddenly turned around, and a little person, not paying attention, bumped into him. He instinctively wrapped his arms around her.

Lu Xiaoxi’s pupils constricted sharply as she felt warmth enveloping her, her heart fluttering slightly.

She suddenly broke free from the warm embrace and took two steps back.

She couldn’t hear anything; the world was left with only the sound of her heartbeat.

“What do you want to eat?” Li Mu asked, his eyes slightly different in size, not knowing what was wrong with this girl.

Lu Xiaoxi blinked her beautiful big eyes, her long eyelashes dyed blue under the light of the billboard.

Oh no!

She had momentarily been distracted by memories and had inexplicably called out a childhood nickname!

What if this guy heard it?!

Lu Xiaoxi had already imagined what would happen if Li Mu heard her say “Brother Mu.”

“Ah, Little Pig Lu classmate called me brother, then I’ll just call Little Pig Lu classmate Little Sister from now on.” “Little Sister Xiaoxi, what are you doing? Hurry up and cook for Brother.” “Little Sister Xiaoxi can’t even use a computer, so lame!” “Little Sister Xiaoxi, come warm up in Brother’s blanket…”

!!!

What am I thinking?!

Especially the last one!

Lu Xiaoxi panicked, her face turning red, feeling completely flustered.

“Are you deaf?”

“…What?”

“What do you want to eat?”

Lu Xiaoxi glanced at the sign, which read “Old Soldier Fried Skewers.”

“It seems there’s no barbecue nearby, but fried skewers are fine too.”

“I… I want chives and corn grilled sausage squid.”

“Okay.” Li Mu turned around to place the order.

“Did you hear anything just now?”

“There are too many people; I must have misheard. I thought you called me.”

Lu Xiaoxi breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed Li Mu hadn’t heard those four words just now.

That makes sense.

With Li Mu’s carefree and somewhat mischievous personality, if he had really heard it, he definitely wouldn’t be so calm; he would probably tease her.

“Boss, how much is it?”

“Let me count… thirty-five yuan. Young man, do you want chili?”

“…Can I get a small bag to hold some chili powder?”

“Sure, sure.”

While paying,

Li Mu noticed that Su Wen had just sent him five hundred yuan.

She even added two thumbs up as a note.

Li Mu was puzzled and replied with a GIF of Kun Kun drawing a heart.

His mom thought he was out of money, huh? That was really overthinking it.

The two of them ate and strolled, arriving at the center of the square, where there were many stalls for children to play.

“Look, there are rabbits.” Lu Xiaoxi stopped at a stall, pulling Li Mu back just as he was about to walk forward, pointing at the little rabbits confined in a cage, her eyes sparkling.

“Don’t you already have Little Fatty at home? You want to raise rabbits too?”

“I’m not going to raise them; I just think they’re cute.”

“Do you want to play ring toss?”

“I don’t know how to play.”

“It’s just tossing rings; you just need hands… Boss, give me ten rings!”

After getting ten rings from the boss,

Li Mu glanced around; there were all sorts of small trinkets, with rabbits and little birds as pets placed in the front, toys or dolls in the middle, and bottles of alcohol at the back, which Li Mu couldn’t identify but looked quite expensive based on the packaging.

Only the items in the middle were the easiest to toss.

“I’ll demonstrate once; watch closely.” Li Mu stuffed the food into Lu Xiaoxi’s hands and aimed the ring at the little pig doll in the center.

Recalling the ring toss tutorial he had seen in a video, Li Mu smiled confidently, feeling capable.

The boss beside him smirked and shook his head secretly.

He was still too young.

The arrangement of his prizes was quite meticulous; it wasn’t easy to win a prize.

After tossing seven rings in a row, Li Mu began to doubt the tutorial he had watched was a scam.

He tossed another one, and the ring brushed past the little pig doll.

“Are you even capable?” Lu Xiaoxi was getting anxious, snatching the last two rings from him, casually aiming, and tossing them out.

The ring landed perfectly on the little pig doll’s head.

The second ring landed on the nearby little dog doll.

Li Mu: “……?!”

Boss: “……?!”

“Wow, Little Pig Lu classmate, have you mastered some skills?”

“Huh? What skills?” Lu Xiaoxi didn’t understand what Li Mu was talking about.

The boss beside them was shocked.

A practitioner? This little girl got two rings on two prizes; did she come here to stock up?

Realizing this, the boss was startled and quickly brought over the two dolls, “Hehe, we can only play with ten rings this time.”

“What about him?” Lu Xiaoxi pointed at another tourist whose arms were full of rings, at least thirty or forty, who had been tossing since they arrived and still hadn’t finished.

“He’s a plant I hired.”

……

Lu Xiaoxi and Li Mu didn’t continue playing.

Ring toss was thirty yuan for ten rings, with an absurdly high profit margin.

Winning one was not a loss, winning two was a huge profit.

“How long are you going to hold on to them?”

“What for?”

“My money bought the rings.”

“But I tossed them.”

“Then one for each of us.”

“Li Mu, you still want the dolls? I didn’t expect you to have a little girl’s heart.” Lu Xiaoxi teased him in a high-pitched voice, deliberately mocking him.

Lu Xiaoxi hugged the two dolls, which were as big as her arms, and could only use her pinky to hold the bag of fried skewers, struggling to walk, while the person beside her showed no intention of helping.

Li Mu looked at her mischievously.

It was almost written on his face: ‘If you beg me, I’ll help you.’

Lu Xiaoxi angrily bumped her little head against him.

“Which one do you want?”

“You are Little Pig Lu, so this pig belongs to you.”

“Then you must be the dog.”

“Uh, how about I keep this pig after all?”

“Then you admit you are a pig.”

They bantered back and forth without any surprise.

In the end,

Li Mu held the little pig doll, following behind Lu Xiaoxi, the tables had turned.

Lu Xiaoxi squeezed the little dog doll, occasionally picking it up to take a look.

With two ears, two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, it looked just like Li Mu.

There were also many fried skewers; she tucked the doll under her arm and happily devoured the skewers, getting oil all over her mouth, but thankfully there were napkins in the bag.

When Li Mu wanted to eat a fried skewer, she would pass the bag over, and the trash would go from her hand to Li Mu’s hand.

Hmph, I, Lu Xiaoxi, am really too clever!

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