Chapter 978: Awkwardness

Suddenly there is an extra person in the house. This kind of thing seems to be quite accustomed to my family. In Lin Xue's words, it means that I am used to some unscrupulous guy coming there every now and then. After picking up a little sister or daughter from home, both Xiezi and Huiyin Leng expressed a lot of pressure. But this time, the extra members in the family seemed to be a bit too much. Even the family members who were accustomed to it felt incredible when facing Xiaoxue.

This should not only be because of Xiaoxue's magical origins of traveling through time and space, but more importantly because of her unique identity: among the girls in the family, she is the only one who is truly related by blood to her guardian.

This led to a certain little girl who was not very honest, such as Lilina, to start complaining about the embarrassing situation between Lin Xue and me.

Her research topic is how a pair of young lovers who have never had sex suddenly enter the role of standard parents and begin to learn to take care of their daughter. In the process, the relationship between the couple who suddenly lost their world How should I deal with my love relationship? If this research project can really be completed, I think Lilina can at least apply for an ethics award.

Little Paopao seems relatively happy. Although she can't say it out loud, I am also her father, and there is a mother who can translate Little Paopao's language in real time. It is easy to understand the little girl's current thoughts. She understands her identity as a sister and welcomes her future sister, which makes her feel like she has become a pretty great person - an adult who can eat three pieces of cake with every meal.

I always find it very interesting when I think about this, because strictly speaking. Little Paopao was the first among his daughters to appear. Judging from her "birthday" in the first family, she was the natural eldest sister, but this little girl's intellectual development was too gradual. She is so calm that sometimes I think there is something wrong with the little girl's head. She is three years old and still can't speak a few complete sentences. It is said that this is a problem with the language module defect, but at the same time she can keep her mouth closed. Using her eyes to assemble a production line for manufacturing spaceships, it was as simple and enjoyable for her as building a small house with building blocks. At the same time, she still retained all the good qualities that every three-year-old girl should have, including putting rice grains in her hands when eating. Dip your face. She cries when she wants something but can't say it, and bites any new thing she can see and put in her mouth. These characteristics have led to her being treated as the youngest child at home, even now. Little Qijing, who is not yet one year old, can pat Little Bubble on the head and pretend to be a little adult. What a tragedy.

Not to mention that Mercury Lamp was already a full grown child when he came to the house.

But now, finally, there is a guy who can seriously call her sister.

Xiaoxue is an eccentric child. Regardless of her other advantage, she is very sensible. No matter which timeline she is currently on, she feels that she should treat Xiaopao as her sister. After all, in the history of her birth, "Sister Pao'er" had been with her from childhood to adulthood, and had always been very good to her, even though this sister became shorter than herself after Xiaoxue was six years old...

Today is the second day Xiaoxue came to this home. The first family, who have developed a tenacious resilience in various wonderful events all day long, continue to go about their daily lives step by step, even though there is one more person in our family. Xiaoxue openly occupied an empty room on the second floor next to my room. She said that her family still lived in this big house until after she was born. And her room is right next to her father's room. At "that time", the city outside had changed, but this big house was moved into the Shadow City intact. This shows that maybe my sister and I are very nostalgic people at heart.

It seems that there is just a strange girl with more energy. Except for her origin, Xiaoxue is actually exactly the same as a normal girl. At first I thought her arrival would subvert everything, but in the end I found that she actually didn’t intend to and couldn’t. Affecting the course of history, what we are experiencing is not in her memory, and in order to avoid some unpredictable troubles, she does not seem to have any intention of exchanging future information with us - of course, no one else has this idea either. I sat on the wicker chair and concentrated on playing chess with Uncle Kense. I looked up at Little Bubble, Lilina and a large group of rose girls who were playing in the living room, as if each of them was reading the newspaper and reading the newspaper every five seconds. Just like a nervous parent who frequently observes his or her children, Lin Xue is right, baby daddy is born. There is a kind of person who can always take out a baby bottle and lollipop from his body when a loli appears next to him. It's either my uncle or my dad.

But obviously, Miss Lin, who corresponds to me, has not yet realized how to become a nanny.

Out of habit, Xiaoxue would often greet Lin Xue very naturally: "Mom, help me see how to do this!" "Mom! What are you having for lunch?" "Mom, I want to watch TV!"

Of course, every time she calls out like this, Lin Xue, who is still a big child, will always look around innocently and awkwardly, and then clumsily communicate with her daughter who fell from the sky. Most of the people around her are acting unscrupulously. Looking around, as for the culprit who caused all this, he would just stick out his tongue to express that he accidentally forgot that he was already in another timeline, and then continue to do whatever he was supposed to do.

I'm glad that Xiaoxue is not at the age where she is still breastfeeding, otherwise no one in the family would be able to meet her requirements except Sister Bing who can provide some psychological comfort with props.

In Xiaoxue's eyes, there is no difference between Lin Xue now and Lin Xue in the future. A little time problem is obviously not enough to turn our young and beautiful prophet lady into an aunt with basically the same length, width and height. I can imagine that in Far enough into the future, you should often see a scene like this on the streets of the empire: several young people who look like brothers and sisters walking side by side. From left to right, they can basically cover more than ten generations of grandparents and grandchildren...

Thanks to the vastness and infinite world of the universe, and of course, the most important thing is to thank the convenient interstellar colonization technology, otherwise the life quota system and the life abandonment bill together will definitely not be able to solve the population problem. No matter how low the fertility rate of advanced civilizations is.

"It's your turn." I turned my attention away from Xiaoxue and glanced down at the chessboard in front of me. Playing chess with Uncle Kenser opposite didn't actually require much skill, even though he had a long lifespan. Even though he looks majestic, even though he is regarded as the God of Creation or Light in the seven worlds, and even though he knows the four ways to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, these combined cannot change the fact that he is a bad chess player. Every step I take The result of being distracted for thirty seconds is that he has won six games in a row so far.

"Very good, very good." Kenser glanced at the chessboard and nodded slightly, "You win again."

All right. Now he has won seven games in a row, but he doesn't have much sense of accomplishment. A feeling of being overwhelmed by the high position slowly spreads. Maybe he shouldn't play chess with a bad chess player. This can only make people lament the invincible loneliness, but no one at home is willing to play with these chess pieces with him, not even the mercury lamp.

The main reason is that everyone thinks that backgammon is really a childish game.

Speaking of mercury lamps, where did that little girl go?

I threw down the chess piece and looked around, but I couldn't find the little Goth girl in my field of vision. And her sisters are competing with Little Bubble for the TV. Normally at this time, Huiyin Deng would come down early and join in the fights of a group of little girls.

I got up to look for the little doll, but I couldn't find it on the first floor and there was no one on the second floor. Just when he was about to ask if anyone else had seen where the mercury lamp had gone, a black feather suddenly fluttered down from the window at the end of the corridor on the second floor. Looking up from the window, I saw a pair of little feet wearing princess shoes dangling outside the guardrail above.

This big house actually has three floors. The first floor is considered a place for family activities, dining and guest rooms. The second floor is everyone's room. The third floor is not used much. It has always been used as a place to pile up debris. Qianqian always feels a little weird. The accompanying product is that she will get a lot of unexplained collections from many equally strange places, including the tentacles replaced by the Octopus people and the stone ball bread baked by the Gong Coca people with sand and mud. , these messy things were piled up on the third floor after she got tired of playing with them. Anweina would go up to clean them up every week on average, and except for the little ghost maid and Qian Qian herself, the rest of the family rarely went there. On the third floor.

I walked through a mess of suspicious items. Except for a few load-bearing columns, there were no partition walls on the third floor. It looked like a warehouse. Only we can transform such a weird house structure. And the little rose girl was sitting on a small balcony that poked out of the wall at the end of the warehouse. The open-air balcony extended less than one meter from the ground, with only a half-person-high metal guardrail on the edge. The 92.3cm Goth girl Sitting on the guardrail, hugging the metal pillar next to me and looking into the distance, my calves dangling in the air, and constantly kicking iron slag on the grass downstairs - well, it seems that this inconspicuous thing was forgotten when the house was renovated. In this place, the guardrails here are still made of iron, but they are all rusty.

I approached from behind and suddenly pressed the little doll's head: "What are you doing here? Don't you like warehouses?"

Originally, I wanted to scare her, but it turned out that I obviously underestimated Mercury Lamp's alertness to the outside world and familiarity with her own breath. Mercury Lamp was not surprised at all, and just shook her head lazily: "I don't like this environment, there are so many wastes. Things were piled on top of each other and it was terrible.”

"In a bad mood?" I tried to put the little guy on my shoulders, but the latter stubbornly twisted away from my arm: "There's nothing wrong with it, I just want to find a quiet place."

I looked at the warehouse behind me that had been collected by Qian Qian and decorated with rags from all over the world. It looked like a garbage dump in the south of the city. The scraps from other worlds with hideous and strange shapes were piled together. Many of them had been transformed with graffiti that had been inspired by Qian Qian's interest. I think the only people who can feel at home in this kind of place are poets and artists. To be honest, this kind of environment is definitely not a good place to relax, especially for the mercury lamp: she is not afraid of the dark, dirty, or dead people, but she is extremely disgusted with garbage dumps, and of course various waste recycling stations. This is different from It is related to the environment when she was born, and it is visually difficult to change in the future. But under this situation, she still wanted to be alone in the warehouse on the third floor. Who would believe her when she said she was in a good mood.

"Why don't you go play with your sisters? Aren't you quite happy the past two days?" I once again took the mercury lamp off the railing. This time the other party didn't struggle, so I patted the rust off the girl's butt: "This kid doesn't feel dirty running around, maybe he will evolve into a naughty kid." "Little Bubble is so happy that she finally has someone to call her sister. Don't you feel equally happy?"

The little doll immediately opened his glasses and looked here. He wanted to say something but hesitated. Finally, he turned away awkwardly: "What does that have to do with me? She is your biological daughter anyway..."

Sure enough, I knew that this was the only reason why this little guy was getting into trouble. It’s Xiaoxue.

I smiled and held the mercury lamp in front of me, holding it high, as if I was holding a weightless work of art and slowly admiring it in the sun. The little doll has an instinctive resistance to being lifted up. Maybe she thinks that doing so will make her look quite shameless, but this time, the little guy was unusually quiet and just pinched my wrist symbolically. I put her on my shoulders and asked with a smile, "Are you afraid that I won't want you anymore?"

"No," Mercury Lamp seemed to hesitate for a moment, then grabbed my hair. "I'm not that stupid."

"That's because I'm worried that gradually the family will not care about you, and Lin Xue and I will focus on our real biological daughter. Well. You feel like you are going to become Cinderella."

Mercury Lamp's silence was obvious this time, and he muttered after a few seconds: "That has nothing to do with me. That's your own business. I...I just..."

"Tell me, what do you think?" I tilted my head and stretched out my hand to pinch the little doll's cheek, "What do you think your status is at home?"

"It's so annoying! It's so annoying! I don't know! Why do you talk so much! Why do you talk so much! Why do you talk so much!"

"By the way, when can you call me daddy?" I sighed leisurely. It's easy to imagine what this little guy was struggling with. It was nothing more than the worry that she would be helpless again. She had already been abandoned once. , and the kind that is unforgettable, and then was "betrayed" by Zhenhong because of a series of misunderstandings. Unforgettable twice in a row, it is easy to make Que Xinyaner have an anti-human mentality. Anyway, this leads to the little doll's Beneath the cold outer shell is a heart that is more sensitive than anyone else. She doesn't like contact with strangers, is unwilling to show too many emotions, and has no interest in participating in any "troublesome activities". The reason is to refuse the next possible harm, but so After being together for a long time, her outer shell has melted away, and Huiyin Leng has become an ordinary child who can get along well with her family. Although she still seems a bit withdrawn sometimes, it is just a matter of personality.

But this time, Chen Xiaoxue's appearance probably made her feel the sense of crisis again.

Although she doesn't say it, Xiaodeng still knows her vague position in the family. She is a child, an ordinary child who is loved and cared for by adults, with a father who doesn't know whether he is a father, and many other things. I don’t know if I can call her mother, but everyone calls her "girl" or "little lamp". Countless people in Shadow City are used to calling her "Princess" when they see her. For Mercury Lamp, from the initial resistance and rebuttal, to Later, she was not used to it, and now she acquiesces, which has made this little doll subconsciously confirm her identity as her "daughter", but the special existence of Xiaoxue really makes her feel dangerous.

However, judging from her performance, this girl is not worried enough to worry about being thrown away. She just feels that Xiaoxue is coming, and she is afraid that she, the picked up child, will turn from a little princess into a Cinderella. Maybe I should suspect that I really might have some problems in education. How could Chairman Shui, who was so smart and ice-cold back then, really allow himself to be trained to have the temper of a child?

The mercury lamp also made me very embarrassed with just one sentence. No matter how she acquiesced to the current situation, she still refused to let go when she was tough. Let alone call me daddy. Until now, this girl has not mentioned the two "idiots" in front of my name. "Remove it, so the little guy reached out and grabbed my hair and pulled it out hard: "What are you talking about? What are you talking about! What are you talking about!"

Then there was another tremor, and chicken feathers fell off the mercury lamp. After a few minutes, everything calmed down, and I found that the clouds on the little doll's face had turned sunny: This is what I have summarized over a period of time to do this girl's psychology. The way to calm her down is to play with her, which is much more effective than talking. Once she gets tired of playing, she will be honest.

"Okay," I poked the clockwork controller on the back of the panting little doll lying on my arm, causing the latter to itch. "Silly girl, Xiaoxue called you Sister Deng when we first met. You I don’t even think about it, will the relationship between you two be estranged in the future?”

Mercury Lamp's expression suddenly became strange. He looked up at the sky and the earth and thought for a long time. Then he suddenly became furious and said, "Why didn't you remind me earlier!"

I:"……"

How did I know that this silly girl really never thought of this from the beginning!

"I don't care, you have to be responsible anyway," the little doll's mood seemed to finally brighten up, and he took the initiative to climb up to the royal throne on my shoulders, pulling the "adoptive father's" hair, and said in an arrogant tone, "This is what you said , you can’t abandon me, you can’t ignore me, you have to treat everyone equally, or...or I will run away from home!"

I thought for a while, but I couldn't understand: "Where are you going? Isn't it the king's land in the world? No matter how far you run, to me, it's all from the south room to the north room..."

"You are cheating!" The doll girl was immediately furious, "Did you listen to me carefully?"

"Okay, okay, who made me your father?"

The doll girl fell silent immediately. She seemed to be struggling for a long time, then she pinched my ear and said hesitantly: "What, this... I will decide when to call you later depending on my mood..."

This time it was his turn to express surprise.

But before I could continue teasing the little doll, which was already getting angry from embarrassment, a faint shout suddenly came from the second floor: "Ajun! Ajun! We have a guest! Big guest!" (To be continued) )