After Feng Qi handed Feng Yuan over, he walked alone in the direction of the water’s flow.
Li Sheng held his son in his arms and looked down at him.
The next second.
He stuffed the child into Wu Jin’s arms.
“Take Yuan Yuan back. I’ll go look for Feng Qi.”
As he spoke, Li Sheng took a few long strides and caught up with Feng Qi.
When Feng Qi saw him following, he frowned. “Why aren’t you watching Yuan Yuan?”
“Wu Jin’s watching him.”
There were plenty of people keeping an eye on Feng Yuan—some older, some younger—so there was no shortage of care.
But beside Feng Qi, there wasn’t a single person.
Li Sheng knew his health wasn’t good, so he didn’t dare let him go off alone.
The two adults walked side by side into the distance. The little one, still wrapped in a coat, lifted his small face, gazing pitifully at Wu Jin.
“Let’s go back to the castle,” Li Si spoke calmly. “Give Yuan Yuan a bath first, and change his clothes.”
The water here wasn’t clean.
Since Feng Yuan had been in it, he had to be washed right away.
Wu Jin gave a hum of acknowledgment. This time, he didn’t avoid entering the castle to dodge people.
Some of the children in the castle had already left.
A few braver ones, whose parents hadn’t come to pick them up, were still staying here.
Lily was staying here tonight as well.
“Yuan Yuan, I’ve prepared the best room for you.”
Lily accompanied Feng Yuan into the room.
Once inside, she hesitated and asked, “Are you going home later, or are you staying here?”
“Staying here.”
Feng Yuan had no intention of going home.
Before leaving, he had already told his sister that he wanted to stay here tonight.
Although a small incident had occurred just now, it didn’t affect him.
“Alright then, you take a bath first. I’ll go prepare a delicious dinner for you.”
“Mm!”
The bathroom had a luxurious bathtub. It even came with a massage function.
Feng Yuan’s curiosity got the better of him. Only after realizing the bathtub could massage did he ask his sister to turn it on for him.
“Hehe hehe hehe.”
Feng Yuan scrambled around in the bathtub as the massage function turned on.
He was ticklish.
This bathtub was meant for slightly larger people. Feng Yuan was too small, so even with the function turned on, he couldn’t really use it properly.
After splashing around for a while, Li Si turned off the switch.
Qin Xun went to get Feng Yuan’s backpack and helped him find clothes to change into.
In the bathroom, Wu Jin was helping Feng Yuan bathe.
The child who had been so shy in front of others just moments ago was no longer embarrassed in front of his sister.
When he stayed in the dorm with his older cousins, his small naked body had already been seen countless times.
“Wu Jin, aren’t you leaving?”
Almost finished with the bath, Feng Yuan looked up with his small face and asked Wu Jin.
Wu Jin nodded. “Not leaving.”
Tonight, he was going to keep a careful eye on Feng Yuan.
Soon, Feng Yuan’s bath was finished.
Wu Jin helped him put on clean clothes and even slipped a new pair of shoes onto his feet.
At the same time, Lily had arranged for dinner to be set up outside.
A few other children who hadn’t gone home yet had already gathered around the dining table.
Everyone sat together. The atmosphere was lively and cheerful.
Feng Yuan liked this kind of liveliness.
On his plate was a neatly cut steak. It was cooked medium-well, still carrying a faint trace of blood.
Having grown up eating Chinese food, Feng Yuan looked at the reddish beef and clenched his chubby hand around the fork.
He didn’t quite dare to eat it.
“Yuan Yuan, eat this instead.”
Qin Xun knew his food preferences, so he served him a new plate of rice.
The steak with blood streaks was taken away by Qin Xun, who ate it himself.
Lily noticed the scene and smiled as she placed some grilled meat onto Feng Yuan’s plate.
“Yuan Yuan, welcome to stay the night here. There’s a screening room on the second floor. After dinner, we can go there to watch Ka Tu Tu’s Anniversary Movie.”
Feng Yuan: “!”
Feng Yuan exclaimed, “Ka Tu Tu!“
He had already watched the entire Ka Tu Tu animated series, but he had never seen the movie before.
Lily smiled and said, “Ka Tu Tu’s movie hasn’t been released yet. You’ll be the very first child to see it.”
When Feng Yuan heard that, he got so excited he almost couldn’t finish his meal.
His pair of beautiful, round eyes sparkled brightly as he looked at Lily.
Lily was gazed at with such adoring, worshipful eyes by the little cub that a surge of pride rose in her heart.
She revealed, “The Ka Tu Tu movie was made by my father’s company.”
Lily’s father was ranked among the top thirty on the list of the world’s wealthiest people. The industries under his name were far too many to count.
The film and television industry was one of them.
“Oh, right! I also prepared a lot of Ka Tu Tu merchandise for you.”
Lily said. “After we finish watching the movie, you can take the merchandise back to your room.”
Feng Yuan: “Okay!”
His childish voice rang out loudly. After answering, he even leaned his little face forward so that Lily could give him a kiss.
Lily had always wanted to kiss him.
But in the past, Feng Yuan only let his family kiss him. He didn’t like being kissed by others.
Right now, however, the gifts Lily gave were simply too irresistible for the little one.
So he deliberately offered up his plump little face.
Lily got her wish and kissed his soft cheek.
It was smooth, fragrant, and tender.
Even more wonderful than she had imagined.
If it weren’t for Li Si’s deathly glare cast in her direction, Lily truly wouldn’t have wanted to pull away.
“Yuan Yuan, having you in this world is truly the most wonderful thing ever.”
Lily cupped her own face in her hands. She didn’t even eat her meal anymore. She just stared at Feng Yuan with full attention.
Feng Yuan felt a little embarrassed under her gaze.
At the table, all the children tacitly avoided mentioning Charles’s disappearance or Sheriff Smith’s visit.
They talked about lighthearted topics and shared delicious food together.
After dinner, the group went to watch Ka Tu Tu.
For the older kids, Ka Tu Tu was already a bit childish, and they didn’t really watch it anymore.
But since Feng Yuan liked it, the others stayed and watched the entire movie with him.
The Ka Tu Tu Anniversary Movie had a very simple story.
Ka Tu Tu finally found his mother, but his mother was sick and about to die.
To save her, Ka Tu Tu went to gather medicine.
However, an evil dinosaur had claimed the area as his territory, taking all the herbs that everyone used to share.
Ka Tu Tu bravely defeated the bad dinosaur.
In the end, the story closed with Ka Tu Tu carrying the medicine in his mouth, running toward his mother.
The plot was so simple and childish that the older kids didn’t feel much from it.
But Feng Yuan’s eyes were brimming with tears as he watched.
When the movie ended, he was still sitting in his seat, sniffling softly.
“Ka Tu Tu’s mom is so pitiful.”
Normally, when children watch this kind of movie, they would put themselves in the protagonist’s shoes.
If they did, they’d probably think the protagonist had it rough.
But Feng Yuan, instead, felt that Ka Tu Tu’s mom was the pitiful one.
After losing Ka Tu Tu, the mother never gave up searching for her child.
It was precisely because she kept looking for Ka Tu Tu that she fell ill.
Feng Yuan watched the dinosaurs on the screen. His tears fell drop by drop.
Qin Xun saw this and handed him a tissue to wipe them away.
“Yuan Yuan, don’t cry. Ka Tu Tu will live happily ever after.”
As Qin Xun gently wiped Feng Yuan’s tears, he coaxed softly, “Do you still want to see Ka Tu Tu’s merch? I just saw a pillow with Ka Tu Tu printed on it.”
Feng Yuan: “!”
Feng Yuan finally stopped crying.
He jumped down from the chair and wiped his little face on his own.
“Yuan Yuan wants to see the pillow.”
“It’s next door.”
Lily had noticed long ago that Feng Yuan was crying, but since she didn’t know how to comfort kids, she didn’t dare to speak rashly.
Now that Qin Xun had managed to coax the little one, Lily immediately stepped forward and led the child to the next room.
The room next door was filled with all sorts of Ka Tu Tu-related items.
There were pillows, schoolbags, stationery, clothes, bedsheets, water cups…
So many things printed with Ka Tu Tu that Feng Yuan’s eyes were practically dazzled.
He stood there with his mouth wide open, looking just like a little country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
“Wow!”
The little bumpkin wandered around the room, touching a water cup here, patting a pillow there.
It was plain to see how much he liked everything.
Lily, being generous, said, “Yuan Yuan, everything here belongs to you.”
All the items piled up in this room were gifts Lily had prepared for Feng Yuan.
Normally, when a child like Feng Yuan visited someone’s home, he should be the one bringing a gift.
But in Feng Yuan’s case, the gifts he received far outnumbered the one he gave.
“Thank you!”
The overjoyed little one thanked Lily again and again.
Seeing how happy he was made Lily happy as well.
Time slowly ticked away.
It was also Feng Yuan’s bedtime. He actually wanted to stay up all night playing with everyone, but both his sister and Qin Xun wouldn’t allow it.
Wu Jin had been in the bedroom the whole time and hadn’t come out.
When Qin Xun brought Feng Yuan back to sleep, the little one kicked off his tiny shoes and climbed right onto the bed.
As soon as he got up, he leaned against Wu Jin’s chest.
At the moment, Wu Jin was chatting with Yu Yi.
Feng Yuan watched the two of them chatting for a while.
But he couldn’t understand a thing.
The two weren’t using voice chat. They were typing.
Feng Yuan didn’t know many characters yet, so the words in the chat box were still too unfamiliar to him.
“Wu Jin.”
Since he couldn’t read the words, Feng Yuan simply started chatting idly with Wu Jin instead.
He asked Wu Jin if he knew what kind of demon the one from tonight was.
“Zheng.”
Wu Jin replied. “Very ugly.”
When saying the word ugly, Wu Jin deliberately emphasized it.
Feng Yuan found the scent of that Zheng quite familiar. Hearing Wu Jin say that, he nodded his little head in sudden understanding.
“It’s Zheng.”
“Mm. He’s very ugly. Because of his appearance, he’s often gossiped about and criticized by other beasts. Over time, his mind became twisted as well.”
Wu Jin paused, then summed it up: “Ugly face, ugly heart.”
Feng Yuan thought about how he had caught those children earlier and nodded in agreement.
“So ugly!”
The big one and the small one both talked about Zheng’s ugliness, while Qin Xun took his clothes and went to wash up.
Li Si lived next door, not with them.
The sound of running water came from the bathroom.
Feng Yuan glanced toward it, then turned his little face back and continued chatting with Wu Jin.
The two of them began talking about today’s battle.
Both the big one and the small one felt that they hadn’t performed as well as they could have.
“Next time, when we go fight him again, we have to catch him!”
“Mm.”
Wu Jin responded, then reminded Feng Yuan, “Zheng is narrow-minded. He might come looking for us himself.”
The reason Zheng ran away tonight wasn’t because he was afraid of Feng Yuan and Wu Jin.
He was hiding from Feng Qi.
“Yuan Yuan’s not afraid. Yuan Yuan is really strong now.”
During today’s fight, Feng Yuan had flapped his little wings and actually managed to fly.
That had completely gone to his head.
He decided that once he got back home, he would gather the whole family together.
He was going to perform a little “flying show” for everyone.
The big one and the small one grew more and more excited as they chatted, while Yu Yi, whose messages had been ignored, simply gave up sending any more.
He lay on the bed on his side and fell asleep by himself.
Then Feng Yuan suddenly brought him up.
“Uncle Yu Yi can have a baby, right?”
The question came out of nowhere, leaving Wu Jin a bit dumbfounded.
Wu Jin instinctively asked back, “Why do you ask that?”
Feng Yuan made a small “mm” sound, then confessed honestly, “Uncle Yu Yi said so himself.”
“He told Grandpa and Grandma that he was pregnant. He said it several times, too.”
“Wu Jin, does Uncle Yu Yi want a baby?”
Wu Jin’s Adam’s apple moved as he swallowed, but he didn’t answer.
There was an unreadable emotion flickering in his eyes. After a long pause, he finally said, “I don’t know. I’ll talk to him properly when I get back.”
“Mm!”
Feng Yuan’s topics always jumped around.
One moment, they were still on Zheng. Next, they could switch to Yu Yi.
After one line about Yu Yi, the little guy could loop right back to Zheng’s problem.
“Zheng keeps changing and changing. He’s so hard to catch, Wu Jin. Let’s figure out a way to lure him out!”
“Okay.”
Wu Jin agreed, then suddenly remembered something.
“Yuan Yuan, Zheng’s got a tough life. He’s hard to burn to death.”
“You might have to spit those little flames for longer.”
If they wanted to kill Zheng, they could also try finding his sworn enemy.
Zheng’s arch-enemy was Taotie.
There was a deep grudge between them. When Taotie caught Zheng, he’d kill and bite him to pieces.
He didn’t just want to bite. He wanted to eat Zheng outright.
Taotie ate everything. For other ferocious beasts, if he could beat them, he’d eat them. If he couldn’t, he’d lie low and wait for another chance to eat them.
If he and Feng Yuan could find Taotie and then tame him.
Then with Taotie around, Yuan Yuan would be even safer.
Thinking of that, Wu Jin’s desire to find Taotie grew even stronger.
The big one and the small one chatted for a long time, until Feng Yuan grew so sleepy that he kept rubbing his eyes.
Qin Xun came over, carried him off to wash up, and then put him to bed.
That night, Feng Yuan slept beside Qin Xun. The two little ones slept soundly.
Wu Jin didn’t sleep.
He watched Feng Yuan. He watched him the entire night.
Feng Yuan had fallen into the water earlier. Though he’d taken a bath after coming back, Wu Jin still worried he might catch a cold.
Fortunately, Feng Yuan slept peacefully all night and didn’t develop a fever.
The next morning.
Feng Yuan woke up full of energy, looking perfectly healthy.
He didn’t stay at Lily’s place to play any longer. He went home later that morning.
Before he left.
Lily packed up all of the Ka Tu Tu merchandise for him to take along.
The car that came to pick him up was almost too full to fit it all.
Feng Yuan, returning home with his arms full of stuff, had a face brimming with joy.
Since it was Saturday, all the adults at home happened to be there, too.
Feng Qi and Li Sheng weren’t home.
Feng Yuan called his dad and learned that he wouldn’t be back for a while.
But Feng Yuan couldn’t wait any longer.
He gathered everyone. Grandpa, Grandma, uncles, and aunts.
Once all the adults at home were present, the little one proudly lifted his chin and declared, “Yuan Yuan flew yesterday.”
“Today, Yuan Yuan’s going to fly again for you to see!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Frida immediately told Li Ting to fetch the video camera.
The camera was turned on and started recording.
Under the expectant gazes of all the adults, Feng Yuan turned back into a fluffy little ball of fur.
The chubby ball spread his wings with full confidence.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—”
The sound of flapping wings echoed clearly through the quiet living room, where no one dared to interrupt.
A minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
Several minutes passed.
The soft, pale-yellow little puffball was still standing in the same spot, flapping his wings with all his might.
His short, stubby wings were flapping so fast they almost left afterimages, yet his round, chubby little body remained completely still.
“Chirp!”
The anxious little cub’s face flushed red from the effort.
As the atmosphere began to grow awkward, the fluffy ball, unable to get off the ground no matter how hard he tried, suddenly flopped down with a thud, collapsing to the floor in despair.
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