Chapter 79: Searching for Relatives (I)
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is early winter. The weather is getting colder day by day. Lu Ren will shiver in the wind when he rides his electric scooter in the morning without wearing a down jacket.
Recently, due to the punishment, Qilinzi has been taking bus No. 444 every morning to do voluntary labor in Bai Ze Hospital for a month. Qilinzi will work hard in the hospital for a day, and then wait for Lu Ren to get off work in the afternoon, and then pick him up to go home together.
Although the Qilin cub was already 200 years old, much older than Lu Ren, Lu Ren always took care of him as an ordinary child. However, the adult age of a creature like Qilin is 500 years old, so the Qilin cub is indeed still a child.
Adult Qilins cannot stay in one place for too long. As auspicious animals, Qilins need to travel the universe to spread blessings and cannot stay in . Moreover, even if they are just cubs, they are still Qilins. If two Qilins appear in the same place for a long time, they will definitely destroy the balance of fortune and misfortune there and cause serious harm.
Favoritism is a taboo in the way of heaven.
Due to the above reasons, the time that Qilin cubs can stay with their parents after they are born is very short.
In fact, the unicorn cub has never seen his parents. He grew up wild in Wushan. When he was hungry, he picked wild fruits to eat. When he was bored, he caught a monster to play with. The unicorn cub 's home in Wushan is a hollow century-old tree. He filled the tree hole with fallen leaves. It was dry and comfortable. Although it was not spacious enough, his life was acceptable.
Only occasionally, when there was thunder in the middle of the night, he would hold his head and shiver. For a cub, darkness and thunder were really scary. The Qilin cub had been trying to overcome it, but he had not succeeded yet, until he met Lu Ren.
Kirin cub likes A-Ren very much.
As the weather got colder in winter, it got dark sooner. The time it took for Qilin and Lu Ren to get home from the hospital was not short. Every time they got off the bus on their way back, it was already dark. Because the infrastructure of the old residential area where Lu Ren lived was relatively simple, the street lights on the way home were always sometimes good and sometimes bad, usually the bad ones. There was a 500-meter stretch that had been without lights at night for the past six months.
Every time he walked here, Lu Ren would always stop first, then bend down and ask the Qilin cub: "Do you want to hold hands?"
When Qilin cub heard this question for the first time, he was even stunned for a moment. He stared blankly at the hand that Lu Ren stretched out to him: "Hand in hand?"
In fact, the Qilin cub hadn't realized what "holding hands" meant at that time, but he still subconsciously reached out to Lu Ren. Then Lu Ren smiled and held his hand. The large palm of an adult human wrapped around the Qilin cub's small hand, and a burst of warmth came in the cold night.
"Your hands are a little cold." The Qilin cub heard Lu Ren say softly.
The Qilin cub couldn't help but look up at Lu Ren's profile. The not-so-bright light in the distance illuminated Lu Ren's outline. At this moment, he was looking firmly ahead.
Lu Ren has a pair of gentle eyes.
Before meeting Lu Ren, Qilin Cub had never seen a human. He didn't know if all humans were like Lu Ren. Lu Ren didn't like to cause trouble for others, but he would help others without fear of trouble. Lu Ren would smile at him, make him delicious food, and hold his hand to walk through the dark road.
"Aren must be the best person in the world." Although Qilin Cub had not met many people, he thought, "It would be great if I could do something for Aren."
As December was approaching, Qilinzi finally finished his voluntary labor. After the last labor, Qilinzi was sitting on a bench in the hospital corridor waiting for Luren to pick him up.
Lu Ren was late today because he missed the bus.
At this time, Dean Bai Ze and Nurse Xiao Jia were making rounds and passed by the Qilin cub.
Bai Ze still looked like a goat. Due to the busy work of the dean, he was always out of sight. This was the first time he met the Qilin cub during his voluntary labor. Bai Ze greeted the Qilin cub who was sitting obediently: "Qilin, long time no see. It seems that today... Oh, today is the last day of your voluntary labor."
The Kirin cub nodded: "Yes, I'm waiting for Ren to pick me up."
"Very good, very good. By the way, how are you doing in the human world?" Bai Ze was still quite concerned about this junior.
The Kirin cub answered this question fluently: "I'm having a really good time! Ah Ren is so nice to me!"
"That's good, that's good." Bai Ze was quite satisfied with Qilin cub's answer. Just as he was about to leave, he turned back as if he remembered something.
"Oh, by the way, a raccoon had an amputation surgery today. After the surgery, he gave me the amputated leg as a token of gratitude."
Lili is a monster that looks like a pig, but his hooves are not pig trotters, but chicken feet. The Lili who had surgery today had a human-faced sore on his thigh. Human-faced sore is a kind of curse. As the name suggests, the cursed person will have a human face that looks like the curser appear on his body, and then this face will keep swearing until the cursed person has a mental breakdown because he can't stand being scolded all day.
Moreover, this curse has no solution. Even if the caster is killed, the curse still exists. Someone once tried to dig out the human-faced sore, but in the process of digging, blood and tears would flow from the eyes of the human-faced sore. As long as the blood and tears dripped on the place, a new human-faced sore would grow on the dripped place, and it would be difficult to eradicate it. Therefore, the 18th Hospital generally chooses to directly cut off the part parasitized by the human-faced sore.
Of course, this is not the only way. Another way to deal with the human face sore is to endure it. It's just dirty words, not fatal. As long as you are strong enough, you will get used to it after listening to it, and your life will pass quickly.
Of course, among the many cases of human-faced sores, there is also a more extraordinary one. It was thousands of years ago, there was a human living in the mountains and forests. After being parasitized by a human-faced sore, he didn't know what it was, nor did he know how to deal with it. So he thought about it and finally decided to practice swearing. From then on, whenever the human-faced sore spoke swear words, the human would respond with even swear words, and eventually the human-faced sore was speechless.
This human finally succeeded in living out his old age. However, his success cannot be replicated, and few people can practice swearing to such a level of perfection.
Today, after discovering that he had a human face sore, the amputated Li Li chose conventional surgery. After all, he has children and does not want his future living environment to have an adverse effect on his children. As for the lost leg, he will be able to grow it back if he insists on taking the medicine prescribed by the hospital.
When Li Li's legs were cut off, the human-faced sore lost its energy supply and died, so it could be easily dug out. Li Li wanted the face back, and he planned to use it to find out who the evil ghost who cursed him was. As for the legs, Li Li insisted on giving them to his chief surgeon, Dean Bai Ze, as a gift.
In Li Li’s own words: “Doctor, you’ve worked really hard, but you must accept it. Although our Li Li doesn’t have any other advantages, it does taste good.”
Dean Bai Ze couldn't refuse Li Li, who was very confident in his taste, so he could only accept Li Li's broken leg with reluctance. When Bai Ze, who was a vegetarian, was worrying about what to do with the leg, he happened to meet the Qilin cub who was waiting for Lu Ren.
So Bai Ze said to the Qilin cub: "Take this raccoon's leg back with you. It can be used as a thank you gift. The human should be very happy too."
When he heard that A-Ren would be happy, the Qilin cub quickly agreed.
So, when Lu Ren came to pick up Qilin cub, he found Qilin cub was standing in the hospital corridor waiting for him with a smile on his face, carrying a pig leg that was taller than him.
When he saw the leg, Lu Ren was stunned for a moment: "What is this?"
Kirin cub said to Lu Ren with a "quickly praise me" expression: "It's a gift from the dean! It's delicious!"
I have to say that the surgeon is really good at handling organ tissues. The incision on this leg is smooth and the fur was removed very cleanly.
Although there were some doubts about the food safety of the pork leg, because the baby Qilin looked very excited, Lu Ren did not spoil his fun. He just touched the baby Qilin's head and asked with a smile: "Did you thank the dean?"
The Qilin cub was so happy that he didn't say thank you: "Ah!"
But the great Qilin would never admit his mistakes easily. He said with a wandering look, "I did."
Then, Qilin Cub put his legs down and said to Lu Ren: "Ah Ren, I'm going to the bathroom, definitely not to make up for it and say thank you!"
Lu Ren couldn't help laughing, but he managed to hide his smile well. He coughed and said, "Okay, okay. I'll wait for you here."
After getting a positive answer, Qilinzi immediately ran to the duty office. But after walking a few steps, he felt uneasy again and turned back to Lu Ren and said, "Don't peek!"
Of course Lu Ren would not peek, he readily agreed: "No, no."
Qilinzi then felt relieved to go find Dean Bai Ze. When he found Bai Ze, Dean Bai Ze was discussing the condition of today's inpatient with Nurse Xiaojia.
Qilin cub stood at the door of the duty room and knocked. Seeing that the two people inside were looking at him, he quickly said, "Dean Bai Ze, thank you for your gift! Goodbye, Dean Bai Ze, and goodbye, Nurse Xiaojia." After Qilin cub finished speaking eagerly, he ran out eagerly to find Lu Ren.
Nurse Xiaojia and Bai Ze were left in the duty room in a daze.
Then, Nurse Xiaojia looked towards the door and said, "Master Bai Ze, I finally understand why you insisted on letting Master Qilin go with that human. Master Qilin seems to have become more sensible and gentler."
Bai Ze didn't answer. He just looked in the direction of the door and smiled with relief.
Lu Ren was miserable, carrying a 20-pound pig leg on the bus. Fortunately, it was dark and people didn't notice that the pig leg had a chicken claw, otherwise it would definitely be on the front page of the news tomorrow as a new type of genetically modified food.
Lu Ren took great pains to finally move the pork leg to the door of his house. But just as he took out the key to open the door, it opened from the inside.
At the same time, a familiar female voice sounded: "Aren."
Ah Ren looked carefully and saw that the person who opened the door was a mountain ghost.
