Hearing Old Zhang's words, Xiao Wu, still struggling with the carrot, turned her clear yet foolish gaze to Ye Qiu.
"Grandpa Zhang, isn't this inappropriate?"
Ye Qiu was somewhat embarrassed. This was a 100,000-year-old soul beast! More importantly, there was only one bed in the house!
Before he could explain further, Old Zhang interrupted.
"What's wrong with it? They're all children! Besides, you're here to give money, right? Why are you so particular? Take this money back, and take the girl back too. Consider it her food allowance!"
"This is a bit..." Ye Qiu's expression became somewhat unnatural upon hearing this. To be honest, he was somewhat tempted.
"You still don't want to?" Before he could finish speaking, Old Zhang interrupted him.
"No, no, Grandpa Zhang! You misunderstood." Ye Qiu rubbed his hands, smiling somewhat embarrassedly.
"What I mean is, this money isn't enough; we need more money!"
"More money!?"
Hearing this, Old Zhang almost ripped off his beard.
"Look how much she eats, this amount of money isn't quite enough!" He pointed in Xiao Wu's direction and helplessly spread his hands.
"I...I don't eat that much!" Xiao Wu glared at Ye Qiu with wide eyes.
"Uh~" Suddenly, a long burp escaped her lips, and she quickly covered her mouth, her face turning red with embarrassment.
Feeling the gazes of Old Zhang and Ye Qiu, her eyes became somewhat evasive.
In the end, Old Zhang agreed to pay more and made an appointment with Ye Qiu and Xiao Wu to send them to Notting City Soul Master Academy about a month later when it started.
Under Old Zhang's watchful gaze, Ye Qiu naturally took the rabbit home.
Along the way, Ye Qiu went first, and Xiao Wu followed behind.
Unlike Xiao Wu's lively and playful nature, Ye Qiu was silent and focused on the journey.
"Hey! How much further?" Xiao Wu jumped to Ye Qiu's side and asked, tilting her head.
"I'm not calling you 'hey'." Ye Qiu pouted, expressing his displeasure at the impolite rabbit.
"My name is Ye Qiu. There's still a distance to go, hang in there."
"Hmph! What's with the attitude? Be careful, Sister Xiao Wu will beat you up!"
Hearing this, Ye Qiu didn't say anything more, rolled his eyes, and thought to himself, 'They're really hard to tame.'
They walked in silence until night fell.
Bathed in the faint starlight, Ye Qiu finally returned home.
"Wow! What an adorable little rabbit! I didn't know you kept pet rabbits!"
Seeing the little rabbit in the cage in front of the stone house, Xiao Wu felt like she had found her tribe and rushed over to tease it.
"That's not a pet." He muttered, and as soon as he entered the house, Ye Qiu pointed to the bathroom area separated by wooden boards and demanded of Xiao Wu, "Go take a shower quickly, you smell really bad!"
"You're talking nonsense, I don't smell anything." As she spoke, Xiao Wu sniffed her sleeves, her voice getting softer and softer, and her face flushed.
"Can you smell it? You smell like carrots, and hmm, it seems like there's a bit of a rabbit smell too."
Ye Qiu also walked over and sniffed next to her.
"Ah, what are you doing? I'm not a rabbit!" Xiao Wu quickly covered her chest, moved away from him, and looked flustered.
'What a stupid rabbit!' Ye Qiu shook his head and said irritably, "I never said you were a rabbit, go take a shower!"
Watching her go into the bathroom, Ye Qiu began to make the bed.
Since the silly rabbit didn't have any extra clothes, Ye Qiu had no choice but to throw his own clothes to her.
He hung the clothes on the wooden board and gave her some instructions inside.
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"Just wear my clothes for now, I'm going to rest. The other end of the bed is yours!"
"What! We're going to sleep together?"
"Sleep together what? We're miles apart!" Ye Qiu shouted into the room.
"Why are you being so fierce? Fine, let's sleep!"
After a relatively amicable exchange, both of them quieted down, with only the sound of running water remaining.
When Xiao Wu came out, Ye Qiu was already lying across one side of the bed. Seeing that the bed was a decent size, big enough to fit five or six Ye Qius sideways, she didn't cause any more trouble.
But after looking around, she couldn't help but call out, "Hey!"
No response after her call, Xiao Wu snorted and spoke again, "Ye Qiu, do you have a mirror here?"
"No, see the water tank under the window? Just make do with that!" With that, Ye Qiu rolled over.
Xiao Wu pouted and carefully took a small comb from her pink handbag, as if holding some precious treasure.
She approached the water vat, using the moonlight streaming in from the window and her reflection in the water to carefully comb her hair, her crimson eyes revealing deep longing.
Once her hair was almost dry, she carefully put away the comb, slowly climbed to the other end of the bed, and placed her small handbag beside her pillow.
Seemingly still somewhat worried about Ye Qiu, she didn't forget to utter a harsh threat before falling asleep, "Hey! Don't cross the line, or I'll deal with you!"
She was met with silence, which made her grind her teeth in anger. Thinking he was already asleep, she could only lie down resentfully. As
the night deepened, and Xiao Wu's breathing became steady, a red light shone in Ye Qiu's eyes as he looked at her through the darkness.
He hadn't actually slept at all; he simply didn't want to deal with the silly rabbit. He sighed inwardly.
'Sigh... I don't know if bringing her back was the right thing to do. For now, I'll just let things take their course! A 100,000-year-old soul beast... is still a long way off.'
Ye Qiu believed that once his Sharingan fully awakened, his achievements would be extraordinary!
A purple aura rose from the east, and the sky gradually brightened.
Ye Qiu, slowly waking up, looked at Xiao Wu lying on top of him, his eyes twitching.
'She's turned over even from this distance, rabbits are always so restless in their sleep!'
He gently pulled her off, slowly got up, and looked back at her fair, rosy face and delicate appearance. A protective instinct rose in Ye Qiu's heart.
After watching her for a while, Ye Qiu covered her with the blanket and placed the small handbag next to her.
Click! The door opened, and Ye Qiu went out to prepare breakfast. Xiao
Wu, who was still lying in bed with her eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Seeing Ye Qiu's departing figure, she covered her burning face with her hands and burrowed into the blanket, turning into a wriggling maggot.
A muffled sound came from under the blanket, "So embarrassing... ah!"
The embarrassment didn't last long before it was interrupted by the protest of her stomach. After a quick wash and retying her original scorpion braid, Xiao Wu finally went outside.
"You're up?" Ye Qiu's hurried voice came from afar.
"Yeah, what are you doing?" Seeing Ye Qiu sprawled on the ground, Xiao Wu couldn't help but squat down and ask.
"Plank, a way to exercise."
"Oh, that's strange." Xiao Wu muttered, rubbing her stomach, hesitant to speak.
"Hungry? I've already bought carrots, they're on the table, just wash them and you can eat."
"Really? You bought carrots!" True to her rabbit nature, her eyes lit up at the mention of carrots.
"Why would I lie to you?" Ye Qiu stood up, gave her a speechless look, and led the way into the house.
(End of Chapter)