"You can rest here for a bit. I'll have the auntie arrange a guest room for you later. If the weather's nice tomorrow, I'll take you home."
Seeing that she was about to leave, the woman quickly grabbed her hand, "Where are you going, sister?"
"My cat hasn't come back yet, I'll go look for it again."
The woman held onto her hand tightly, saying, "Stop looking."
"..." Shen Wuqiu turned around and looked at her strangely, "That's my cat."
The woman blurted out, "That's me..."
"You are? You are what?"
Realizing she had misspoke, the woman bit her lip, but still held onto her hand tightly. "I just thought that your cat is so smart and beautiful, it would definitely know how to come home."
Shen Wuqiu had no doubt about this, but with the torrential rain outside, she couldn't help but worry about her little darling getting wet. "I'm not at ease until I see her."
“I promised my sister that she would definitely come home tonight.”
Shen Wuqiu couldn't help but chuckle: "You guarantee it? What guarantees do you have?"
"If my sister's cat doesn't come back, I'll become my sister's cat."
The little girl has such a sweet tongue. Shen Wuqiu looked at her rosy lips, restrained the urge to kiss her, looked for two seconds, and then looked away. "Shen Wuqiu."
"Um?"
"My name is Shen Wuqiu. What's your name?"
“Lingyu, Gu Lingyu. But, sister, you should call me Mianmian.”
"Hmm? Mianmian?"
“Mianmian is my nickname. According to the clan rules, my older sister should call me by my nickname.”
"Why?"
Gu Lingyu's eyes darted around. "You'll find out later, sister."
Shen Wuqiu didn't press the issue. "If you're bored staying in the room, you can look at my tablet. I'm going to check on my cat..."
"Don't you trust me, sister?" The woman held onto her hand tightly. "Or do you not want me to be your cat?"
"..."
A note from the author:
Chief Gu: Meow, I finally have a name. Since I'm appearing so late, I need to come up with two names for myself.
Love you all, muah!
Chapter 20 Ginger Soup
In the end, Shen Wuqiu was unable to go out and continue looking for the cat. Besides the obstruction of Gu Lingyu, the clingy human-shaped cat, her father also forbade her to continue searching.
It looked pitch black outside, but it was only seven o'clock. There wasn't much of a nightlife in the countryside. People who liked to socialize would visit each other after dinner to digest their food. On rainy days like this, everyone would stay at home.
Before long, Su Yunzhi had finished making the ginger soup.
Shen Wuqiu drank a bowl herself and was about to bring a bowl upstairs to Gu Lingyu when Su Yunzhi stopped her: "Invite your friend down to sit down. We're all family. Tell her not to be shy."
Since their big argument at the dinner table a few days ago, Su Yunzhi's attitude towards her has changed subtly, but such genuine enthusiasm as she is now is truly rare.
Shen Wuqiu was puzzled, and her father chimed in, "That's right. It's rare for you to have friends come from afar. Don't let them stay cooped up in their rooms. Come down and chat or watch TV."
Shen Wuqiu actually didn't really want to be alone in a room with someone. After all, she was at the age where she was full of desire, and this eighteen-year-old girl was so good at flirting. It was inevitable that something would happen between the two of them, who were alone together.
So she nodded and carried the ginger soup upstairs.
Inside the room, Gu Lingyu was extremely disgusted with her conventional shirt, especially the row of tiny pearl buttons on the front. Taking advantage of Shen Wuqiu going downstairs, she began to fiddle with those buttons.
To her surprise, these buttons were so fragile that she just casually tugged at them, and three of them fell off in a flash.
"..." She was actually quite speechless. She had only intended to unbutton the one around her neck, but now her shirt had burst open all the way to her chest.
Shen Wuqiu pushed open the door and saw this incredibly alluring scene: her breasts half-exposed.
After a few seconds of eye contact, Gu Lingyu felt a little guilty, but she tried to save face by saying, "These buttons are really terrible. I just touched them and they all fell off with a clatter."
Shen Wuqiu withdrew her gaze expressionlessly. "Come here and drink this bowl of ginger soup."
Seeing that she didn't comment on her shirt with the missing button, Gu Lingyu secretly tampered with it again, and the few remaining buttons on the shirt really fell off with a clatter.
"Sister, see, I told you these buttons wouldn't work."
"..." Shen Wuqiu's lips twitched, his gaze slowly moving up from the open shirt, finally settling on Gu Lingyu's face, which was overflowing with excitement, and he had no idea how to react.
After a dozen seconds, she took a deep breath and said, "Okay, then you can wear it like that."
Gu Lingyu had no objection to this at all, and happily sniffed the bowl in her hand, then frowned deeply: "What is this? It smells terrible."
"Ginger soup, it's the easiest time for cold to enter the body at this time of year, drink it quickly."
"No, I won't drink it. It looks awful..."
"Whatever you want." Shen Wuqiu glanced at her, then placed the bowl on the simple desk they used to use.
Gu Lingyu instinctively felt that the person in front of her was angry. She glanced at the steaming ginger soup, then looked at Shen Wuqiu, and decided to back down: "Then sister will feed me."
Shen Wuqiu looked at her, "You really treat me like your own sister?"
Gu Lingyu quickly shook her head, "That won't do."
If it were her own sister, that would be incest, and her parents would skin her alive.
Shen Wuqiu shrugged. "I've never even fed my own brother a single drop of soup."
Gu Lingyu was momentarily confused. "What does that have to do with this?"
Shen Wuqiu's peripheral vision caught her blinking eyes, and a strange feeling of "she's so cute" rushed to her head. Under the control of this feeling, she couldn't help but raise her hand and poke the other's forehead. "So, little sister, you have to drink it obediently."
Gu Lingyu pouted, thinking she would obediently drink the soup, but when she saw the dark soup, she felt disgusted from the bottom of her heart and struggled to say, "What if I don't drink it?"
"If you don't want to drink, then don't. It's not like I'm the one who's sick and feeling unwell."
That sounds like something said in anger.
Father said that a mythical beast that makes its partner angry is not a happy mythical beast and is likely to die alone.
So Gu Lingyu gritted her teeth, picked up the bowl, and downed it in one gulp. Then she turned to others to show off, saying, "Sister, I've finished drinking."
Judging from that appearance, Shen Wuqiu even suspected that the other party was hiding something.
But she's so cute.
Shen Wuqiu lowered her eyes and smiled, but her gaze lingered on the soup on Gu Lingyu's lips.
The little girl is so sloppy.
Despite his best efforts to restrain himself, Shen Wuqiu couldn't resist and reached out to wipe her lips.
"elder sister?"
"You have soup on your lips."
As soon as Shen Wuqiu finished speaking, the finger she had just pulled away from the other person's lips fell into their mouth.
"..."
"Sister, look, I didn't waste a single drop."
"..." Shen Wuqiu felt that if she stayed with these people any longer, she might really do something outrageous.
So, Shen Wuqiu kept a straight face, trying hard not to lose her composure, "My dad and the others asked if you wanted to go to the living room to watch TV..."
Halfway through his sentence, he noticed the other person's clothes and added, "Why don't you rest here for a bit? I'll go arrange a room for you right away..."
He spoke quickly and urgently, and then fled in panic.
This left Gu Lingyu, who hadn't had time to react, stunned in place, blinking as she pondered: Why did my sister suddenly blush?
Shen Wuqiu leaned against the wall at the turn of the stairs, rubbed his face, and his heart was still pounding because all he could think about was the image of the woman in his room...
So, this is actually her retribution for ruining the white cat's ability to reproduce!
Because of her meddling, the white cat stubbornly clung to her, then ran away from home on this awful day, and at this particular time, she ran into this troublesome cat. And to make matters worse, this troublesome cat was incredibly alluring. And not only that, all the signs indicated that she could only look at this troublesome cat but not touch him...
Everything is predestined.
"Sis, what are you doing here?"
Just as Shen Wuqiu was lost in thought, Shen Wujun came upstairs, soaking wet.
Shen Wuqiu was genuinely startled and blurted out in a panic, "What are you doing here?"
Shen Wujun looked her over and frowned. "I went upstairs to change my clothes, and you couldn't find the cat either?"
"No."
Shen Wujun was somewhat disappointed. "I didn't find any either. By the way, I just heard from my mom that you have a friend visiting?"
Shen Wuqiu nodded absentmindedly, "Go and change your clothes."
Shen Wujun glanced down at himself, said nothing more, and went upstairs to change. After taking a few steps, he seemed to remember something: "Don't worry too much. If you really can't find one... I'll go buy you one another day..."
Shen Wuqiu looked up at him, her face full of surprise.
Feeling a little embarrassed by her gaze, Shen Wujun turned his head away and walked away quickly.
Shen Wuqiu stood there for a while, then smiled and went downstairs.
Various fruits and dried fruits were already laid out on the coffee table in the living room. When Su Yunzhi saw that only she had come downstairs, her enthusiasm dimmed a bit. "What, isn't your friend coming down?"
"She's not feeling well, so she's resting upstairs," Shen Wuqiu casually made up an excuse, then asked, "Auntie, are there any guest rooms ready?"
"Yes, the guest rooms are all cleaned up there. We just need to change the sheets and duvet covers. Is this for your friend? Should I put the bed in the upstairs room?"
"No need, I'll go." After saying that, Shen Wuqiu went upstairs by herself.
Su Yunzhi didn't rush to help. Only after everyone had gone upstairs did she whisper to Shen's father:
"I heard from Junjun that Wuqiu is going to introduce him to an internship. I wonder if it's this friend of hers? Lao Le, did you get a good look at that girl? I only glanced at her, and she's really pretty. I wonder if she's got a boyfriend yet. It's a pity our Junjun is a bit too young. I wonder who will be so lucky..."
“You women just love to talk about these things behind people’s backs…” Mr. Shen said impatiently. “When people come to visit, you shouldn’t keep talking about these trivial matters.”