Chapter 167 - 134: You’re Still Young

Chapter 167: Chapter 134: You’re Still Young

The bamboo rice was indeed super delicious!

When Huai Yu was the only one left at home again, she took out her machete and went to the bamboo forest. Without outsiders present, Kuang Biao didn’t care at all about a few bamboos being chopped.

What it was brooding over was another matter.

"Why didn’t you leave me any dignity in front of an outsider today?

"I already told you I have my dignity!

"Are you trying to trample all over me?"

Huai Yu was speechless. She silently took her foot off the bamboo stalk she had been stepping on, then asked curiously, "Kuang Biao, you can grow bamboo shoots. Why do you sound like a man when you speak?"

"Sister Xingxing said only men need others to protect their pride.

"If you protect it too much, they’ll just end up asking for a beating."

This question stumped Kuang Biao. "Ah... this gender thing..."

It racked its brains, causing many bamboo leaves to gently fall, but it still couldn’t come up with an answer. "I don’t know why I think I’m male, either... Maybe because my previous owner was a man?"

That made even less sense to Huai Yu. "But you know so many stories and so much gossip. Since your owner was a man, shouldn’t you have become a woman to date him?

"That’s how all the romance stories in books are written."

Kuang Biao was dumbfounded. For a moment, even the wind stopped blowing in the bamboo forest, and the entire grove fell into a gloomy state.

After a long while, it said in frustration, "I forgot..."

Huai Yu sighed. "No wonder I don’t want to date you... You couldn’t even grasp such a golden opportunity right in front of you. Kuang Biao, you’re still too young."

But she was different. She had learned a lot and experienced a lot by now. She was almost a mature adult.

Early the next morning, Huai Yu brought three portions of bamboo rice to Zhou Qian. While he was eating with relish, she happily said, "Zhou Qian, I have a new friend now."

"Call me brother," Zhou Qian’s voice was extremely cold.

Several days had passed, but the scars on his face showed no signs of healing. They would probably stay like this forever.

When he was expressionless, he looked rather fierce. Huai Yu felt intimidated just looking at him. She could only hem and haw as she added, "Brother Zhou Qian."

"Hmm," Zhou Qian replied, finally satisfied. "Tell me about this new friend of yours. How did you meet? What do they do? Male or female?"

Huai Yu cheered up. "You know her too! It’s Chen Xing from that business card, Sister Xingxing!

"Wow, she’s so cool! She can beat someone’s face black and blue with a single punch, and when she says she’ll beat someone up, she does it without hesitation.

"And Sister Xingxing likes me a lot too. She said I’m a little sister she gets along really well with. She even gave me a massive pile of daily necessities and furniture, but I haven’t had time to sort through it all yet."

Zhou Qian put down his bamboo rice. "She gave you daily necessities and furniture? How did she deliver them? Right to your door? Was your connection to the Rose Corridor exposed?"

Huai Yu fell silent, wondering what he meant by her connection to the Rose Corridor being exposed.

"It was exposed ages ago!" Huai Yu hummed. "Didn’t you help me build my house? There were so many people there."

Zhou Qian originally wanted to say that his men were different, but on second thought... never mind. With so much stuff, he couldn’t just let Huai Yu struggle to haul it all back by herself, right?

Back then, she had been sweating all over just from carrying that large string of pinecones. It really was tough for a girl to live alone.

Having figured this out, Zhou Qian buried his head in his food again, mumbling in passing, "Chen Xing is a decent person. She’s a straight shooter."

KNOCK KNOCK. The door was knocked on, and a nurse came in carrying an IV bag to change his medicine. Seeing that Huai Yu had brought food again, she couldn’t help but praise her.

"Your sister came to bring you food again today, huh?

"No wonder your will to live is so strong. You survived such severe injuries. With such a good sister, you wouldn’t bear to leave her alone to be bullied."

Zhou Qian hummed in agreement, nodding his head.

Huai Yu blinked and couldn’t help muttering, "What will to live..." Zhou Qian’s life was clearly carved out by her with an eggshell knife.

But Zhou Qian seemed to know what she was about to say. He spoke up again, "Chen Xing is alright. You can interact with her more."

"Yeah," Huai Yu nodded in agreement. "She just has bad taste in men. The boyfriend she found is terrible, but Sister Xingxing said beating him up a couple of times would fix it."

Speaking of this, she revealed a bit of girlish longing. "In the future, I want to find a boyfriend I can beat in a fight, too. If I tell him to wash clothes, he’ll have to wash them. If I tell him to farm, he’ll have to farm. And if he doesn’t listen..."

Huai Yu clenched her fists. "I’ll beat him up!"

Zhou Qian glanced at her thin, slender arms and scoffed. "Someone who can’t even beat you? He’d have to be completely useless. He probably wouldn’t even be able to wring out the laundry, right?"

Huai Yu thought about it and realized he had a point!

She grew depressed. "Then what should I do? It’s not like I can just never date anyone, right? I haven’t even dated once yet."

"Tsk!" Zhou Qian couldn’t help but scratch his head, thinking that girlish thoughts were indeed too troublesome. Back when Zhou Ning was in junior high, she had also harbored a secret crush on a boy in her class.

He thought for a moment before earnestly suggesting, "How about this? I’ll make a workout plan for you first, so you can build up your physical fitness.

"Once I recover, I’ll teach you specialized fighting skills.

"That way, when you find a boyfriend in the future, you’ll be able to beat him up when you argue."

The nurse, who was hanging the IV bags on the stand nearby, couldn’t help but glance at the "siblings" again and again. She thought to herself that he was indeed worthy of being from the Defense Army! The prerequisite for his sister to date was that she had to be able to fight. Although it sounded a bit bloody and violent, for some reason, it gave off such a strong sense of security!

The nurse cast an envious look at Huai Yu. Upon hearing Zhou Qian mention the workout plan, her eyes couldn’t help but light up. Wow! She would have to find a chance to ask Captain Zhou’s sister if she could get a copy of that workout plan. She wanted to train and become strong, too.

Besides, as a medical worker during the years of the catastrophe, she had carried her fair share of people and corpses. Her arms were definitely stronger than this little girl’s!

But since the family members were chatting right now, she simply packed up her things, gently closed the door, and left.

Huai Yu, however, immediately shook her head. "No, no. Working out is too hard, and I don’t eat well enough for that. Let’s just forget it."

She made a painful decision. "At worst, I just won’t ever date."

Zhou Qian burst out laughing. "Never mind the future. Remember that ex-boyfriend you told me about last time? Have you remembered anything else about him lately?

"Try to think about it when you have time. Otherwise, if you actually find a suitable guy later on, and this ex shows up claiming your new guy is the other man, wouldn’t that be awkward and infuriating?"

Huai Yu imagined that scenario and couldn’t help clenching her fists again.

"Sister Xingxing was right. Women really do need to be able to fight!"

She couldn’t train her physical fitness at all, but she could definitely practice her Superpower more when she had free time!

They both had the Wood Element, so why was that unlucky Wu Yue so powerful? Wasn’t it just instantly taking root and sprouting?

Sooner or later, she would be able to do that too!