Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Gu Yunzhi clearly couldn’t believe it. After he had spent all that time telling me about his pitiful, little-waif suffering from childhood to adulthood, my story was over in two sentences.
The look in someone’s eyes when they wanted to stab you could not be hidden. Gu Yunzhi stared hard at me, as if, unless I gave him a few more lines, I was heartless, faithless, and completely unreasonable.
I could only pull out a handful of sunflower seeds and slap them into his palm.
Then I lowered my voice and told him, “My dad said he suspects the poison at the chicken farm was put there by your second uncle…”
My words successfully brought our secret little talk to an end.
“Never mind. It’s all in the past.”
I smiled. “Don’t be like that. Let’s hash it out a little more.”
Gu Yunzhi hurriedly changed the subject.
“Why did President Shen run out alone in the middle of the night?”
Only then did I remember. I had come out to play with snap pops!
And I had swiped them from my cousin’s son.
I immediately handed Gu Yunzhi a box.
“Here. Ever played with snap pops before?”
A trace of disdain flashed through Gu Yunzhi’s eyes. “Who hasn’t? But those are for kids. Don’t you think they’re childish?”
I said, “For children, maybe they’re childish. But for an adult like me, they’re just right.”
As I spoke, I threw one at him.
The snap pop exploded with a sharp “pop!”
Gu Yunzhi froze.
Seeing him stunned, I threw a few more at him.
He had refused to eat with me last time, so I threw a few to vent my anger.
This was where the villain’s crooked grin should appear: If I can’t have him, I’ll destroy him! Hahahaha!
Gu Yunzhi finally reacted and tried to get revenge by pelting me back.
But how could I give him that chance?
Before he could make a move, I turned and ran, my cotton slippers slapping against the ground, pia, pia, pia.
I even provoked him in an especially punchable tone.
“Come chase me! You can’t catch me!”
As I said that, I kept attacking him with snap pops.
These things exploded the moment they hit something. If they hit him, I was happy. If they hit the ground, they could still scare him.
Gu Yunzhi chased after me and attacked too, but I was nimble. He couldn’t hit me, and before long, he was fleeing with his head in his hands.
“Stop, stop, stop. Truce. I’m out of ammo.”
Only then did I realize I had swiped three boxes in total. I had given him one, so I still had two.
Now his were used up, but I still had mine.
I stopped, planted my hands on my hips, and laughed wildly.
“Hahahaha…”
Just as I was laughing smugly, a child ran over from who knew where, holding a Gatling-gun-shaped firework.
As the child ran, the muzzle went “rat-a-tat-tat,” spitting blue flames.
My eyes went fixed at once. I was so jealous it hurt.
Seeing me stare blankly at the firework in the child’s hand, Gu Yunzhi asked, “Want one?”
I answered with particular shamelessness, “I want to steal it!”
Realizing what I had just said, I hurriedly explained.
“I don’t recommend such a young child play with dangerous flammable objects like that, because I never got to play with one when I was little.”
Gu Yunzhi held it in for a long while, but in the end, he couldn’t help letting out a snort of laughter.
He got up, walked to my side, and tugged on my sleeve. “Come on!”
I was puzzled. “Where?”
Gu Yunzhi said, “I’ll take you to buy one.”
Although I was already a child of more than two hundred and eighty months old, who could refuse someone buying them fireworks to play with?
Especially when that person was particularly good-looking.
I agreed at once.
“President Gu, I don’t accept private bribes…”
Gu Yunzhi’s finger pressed against my lips, and he leaned close to my ear, lowering his voice. “Shh. Didn’t we agree not to call me that? Just call me Gu Yunzhi.”
“Then what should I call President Shen?”
The corners of my mouth shot up uncontrollably, and I took the chance to pinch his lips too.
Soft, and so nice to pinch.
“Call me Shen Xuan.”
Gu Yunzhi, whose mouth I had pinched into a little chicken beak, said indistinctly, “Mm… okay. Let go…”