novelraw Chapter 183
Chapter 183
Chapter 183: Do you prefer a dragon’s tail to a dragon’s butt?
The goose that Lucia just caught was stewed by her aunt who rushed home.
Her aunt is married to the next village, which is less than ten miles away. It only takes a few minutes to get there by electric bike. She likes to go back to her parents’ home when she has nothing to do. Today, Fang Xia rarely brought her child back, so she wanted to show off her skills.
Just as she was about to go to the backyard to catch a goose, her aunt pushed open the fence and saw a pretty little girl standing there. The little girl was grabbing the goose’s neck with one hand, and no matter how the goose flapped its wings, she was not afraid at all.
She thought it was a girl from another family who had entered the wrong yard. But after seeing Xia Li, the misunderstanding was automatically cleared up.
“Are you afraid?”
“I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid.”
Her aunt was butchering the goose beside her, pouring wine, bleeding it, boiling water and plucking its feathers.
It was the first time Lucia had seen a human butchering an animal, and she stood by and watched with relish, swallowing her saliva from time to time.
“This goose is a gosling I bought from the market last year. I didn’t expect it to grow so fat. Your grandma can fatten up any animal she raises. It’s amazing, isn’t it?……By the way, Little Lu, Xiao Xia said you’re from out of town, how do you deal with geese in your town?” Xia Li’s aunt was also a very sociable person, and she started chatting with Lucia very familiarly.
Lucia squatted on the concrete floor and thought for a moment before saying, “We eat them raw……”
“She’s from the mountains, she’s never seen a goose before.”
“Oh, right, I’m from the mountains, I’ve never seen a goose before.”
Fortunately, Lucia reacted quickly. As soon as Xia Li reminded her, she immediately realized that she couldn’t say this kind of thing.
“Auntie, why do you give the goose liquor?” Lucia cleverly changed the subject in her own way, “Do you give it a little before it dies?”
“Haha……”
Her aunt was amused by Lucia’s words.
“It’s easier to pluck the goose feathers after pouring liquor, and it can also remove the fishy smell to a certain extent.”
When the blood was almost drained, her aunt cut open the goose’s belly and took out all the internal organs.
Xia Li brought a basin of boiling water to help out from behind. He plucked the feathers quickly, and Lucia’s eyes were fixed on him.
She had always thought that the Brave Hero was skilled at handling fish……
Now it seems that the Brave Hero is also good at killing birds, so he must be good at killing dragons too……
“Your mom said you’ve changed a lot lately.”
Her aunt looked up at Xia Li. Her short permed hair was very bouncy, and her lips, painted with lipstick, had a retro beauty of the 70s and 80s.
Reaching out to pinch Xia Li’s arm, her aunt said again, “Not bad, you’ve grown muscles. Have you been working out lately?”
“Yeah, I’ve got a girlfriend now.” Xia Li replied with a smile.
Her aunt looked at Xia Li and then at Lucia, who was squatting under the eaves staring at the goose. The smile in her eyes deepened, and she said with emotion, “Ah, you’ve grown up in a blink of an eye……You’re still so small in my memory.”
Her aunt gestured with her hand to indicate the height.
As soon as Lucia heard that there was a story about a younger version of Xia Li to listen to, she immediately turned her attention over.
“Xia Li used to come back to his grandma’s house during summer and winter vacations,” her aunt continued, noticing Lucia’s interested gaze.
“Grandma used to grow rice in the fields, and Xia Li would come back during summer vacation to help with a sickle. He was small and weak when he was a kid, and he always ended up sitting on his butt in the mud when he was cutting rice. He would be scolded by Fang Xia when he went back, hahaha……”
As she reminisced about the past, her aunt became more and more cheerful, with a smile on her face that she couldn’t hide.
Young people like to look forward to the future, while older people like to reminisce about the past.
Lucia also laughed along, and she could automatically imagine the scene of little Xia Li rolling around in the mud pit in her mind.
Isn’t that just like her when she was a kid……
“He liked to run around naked when he was a kid,” her aunt added in a low voice.
The smile on the dragon’s face deepened.
The image of little Xia Li rolling around in the mud pit turned into a dirty little Xia Li running around without any pants on.
Seeing this, Xia Li quickly pulled the two of them away, preventing the topic from continuing.
The dragon was still reluctant to be pulled away by him, her mind filled with fantasies.
“Naked……”
“Tsk,” Xia Li clicked his tongue.
“Every kid has run around naked. You didn’t even have all your dragon scales when you were a kid, wasn’t that basically being naked? Shame on you.”
“I’ve had scales since I was born,” the dragon retorted.
“Do those soft scales count as scales?” Xia Li gently tugged at the dragon scales on her face, “Scales like this don’t even count as a human’s bellyband, do they?”
“Hmph……”
The dragon covered her scales, protesting Xia Li’s analogy.
“Look at your naked butt.”
Lucia wouldn’t let go of any opportunity to embarrass the Brave Hero.
Xia Li glanced at her, and the two of them walked aimlessly along the muddy path. The surrounding rapeseed was lush green, with dew that hadn’t completely dried yet.
“I’ll show you when we get back, don’t you dare not look then,” Xia Li said confidently.
“I’ll definitely look.”
“Then I want to see yours too.”
“I won’t show you.”
“Why not!”
“Because dragon butts are not for show.”
“Do you think you’re a tiger?”
“You don’t want to see a dragon’s butt, you want to see a dragon’s tail, right?” Lucia said, narrowing her eyes.
She remembered the folders she saw on Xia Li’s computer, all filled with foreign girls.
In those pictures, the most impactful thing wasn’t their eyes or movements, but the horns and tails of those foreign girls……
She knew the Brave Hero’s little fetish, didn’t she?
“Hiss……”
Xia Li gasped.
“How did you know?”
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When it was time for dinner, Fang Xia called the two back into the house.
The shout of “Dinner’s ready!” coming from the other end of the open field was particularly familiar to Xia Li, audible even from afar.
For a moment, it felt like he was back in his carefree childhood. The sound of insects in the summer, the forest path under the moonlight, the frost on a winter morning.
The air in the countryside was cold.
Lucia’s face was flushed red from the cold. After returning to the house, Fang Xia pulled her to the fireplace to warm up, then turned and ordered Xia Li to add rice to the steamer.
Xia Li pouted, having nothing to say about his declining status in the family.
At noon, his uncle also returned.
His uncle, busy with a day’s farm work, still greeted Xia Li warmly when he saw him.
Today’s lunch was quite a feast, with several large bowls of meat filling the small wooden table.
Xia Li explained that this was how New Year’s was celebrated. A large table of food was prepared for one day, and then they would eat it for several days until the meat and vegetables could no longer be eaten.
Seeing that there was enough food today, Lucia didn’t hold back and finished the large bowl of rice that Xia Li had served her.
The elders loved girls who could eat like this.
She seemed capable and not delicate, and most importantly, healthy.
After the meal, it was time to wash the dishes.
Unsurprisingly, Xia Li was responsible for this unskilled chore.
“Do you feel that this place is very backward?”
Xia Li was washing the dishes in the iron pot, and Lucia was rinsing them beside him.
The well water was warm in winter, which was quite amazing.
“It’s not backward…” Lucia thought for a moment and shook her head. “I think it’s normal.”
In her mind, this was what human civilization should be like.
On the contrary, the modern metropolis seemed a bit too advanced for her.
“Does Grandmother live here alone?” Lucia asked again.
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She actually wanted to ask another question, but she didn’t know how to phrase it.
“Mm. ”
“What is the corresponding term for ‘grandmother’?”
“Grandfather,” Xia Li paused for a moment, “Just like ‘wife’ corresponds to ‘husband’.”
Lucia automatically ignored the second half of the sentence and said, “Then where is grandfather?”
“Grandfather is gone.”
“Where did he go?”
Xia Li slowed down his movements and looked into Lucia’s innocent eyes, couldn’t help but smile slightly.
“Gone means gone. He left in the second year after I was born. When you came in through the main door, did you see the black and white photo in the living room? That’s my grandfather.”
“Oh……”
“Gone means he died,” Xia Li added.
Hearing this, Lucia looked at him.
Lucia had glanced at the photo in the living room, originally thinking it was just casually placed there, but she didn’t expect the photo to carry such weight.
Perhaps it was placed there to remember loved ones……
Recalling the lonely figure of the grandmother leaning on a walking stick, Lucia felt a bit sad.
As she thought about it, her mood became heavier and heavier.
The lonely shadow slowly engulfed her, which reminded Lucia of her own past.
“I’m going out for some fresh air.”
The kitchen was stuffy, the burning firewood was competing for oxygen in the air, Lucia felt a bit carsick, and she went outside alone to cool off.
Xia Li glanced at her but didn’t say anything.
Even evil dragons need to grow……
She had been on Earth for so long, was this the closest she had come to facing the death of a human in this world?
“Mom, I need to talk to you about something.”
Xia Li washed the dishes, stacked them aside, and went to the yard to talk to Fang Xia.
Fang Xia was cracking sunflower seeds, chatting with her aunt with a smile on her face.
The grandmother sat quietly listening, although she couldn’t understand much of the content, she still cooperated and smiled along.
Xia Li dragged over a small stool, grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds, and started cracking them.
“I found a job for Little Lu, she’ll start after the New Year,” Xia Li said.
“So soon?” Fang Xia dropped the sunflower seed shell and asked in surprise, “What kind of job?”
“An intern at a pet hospital.”
“Isn’t that the one you mentioned last time?”
“Yes.”
“You…”
Fang Xia paused for a moment and laughed in exasperation, “You found a job for Little Lu, what about you? Are you going to stay at home and do nothing?”
“I…”
Xia Li was about to speak, but Fang Xia, who was always assertive, didn’t give him time to refute.
“You don’t even have a job, why are you in a hurry to find one for Little Lu?”
“This is what she wants to do…”
“Don’t get me started.” Fang Xia threw a sunflower seed shell at Xia Li.
The sunflower seed shell hit Xia Li’s forehead and fell down.
Little Lu was good in every way, but looking at her own son……
No.
He himself wasn’t in a hurry to find a job, how could he be in a hurry to let his girlfriend go out to work?
What kind of talk was that!
“I’m reading books… For more than a month, I’ve read several books, and I’ll take the exam in March,” Xia Li patiently explained.
Fang Xia stared at him and took another bite of sunflower seeds.
She knew better than anyone that her son was a man of action, and he would do what he said.
He said he was studying and reading books, so he must be.
Xia Li rarely lied, so his words carried weight with Fang Xia.
“I heard about your plans from your mother, work hard, everyone in the family supports you.”
The aunt chimed in at this time, she was probably talking about Xia Li’s entrepreneurial plans.
“Next year is the Year of the Dragon, it would be great to have a dragon baby,” Fang Xia said again.
The two sisters’ topics weren’t even on the same page.
Xia Li knew that Mrs. Fang was anxious, and as soon as Lucia was not around, she showed her true colors.
But thinking about it, the aunt’s granddaughter was already in elementary school, so Fang Xia couldn’t help but be anxious.
“Mom, the Year of the Dragon is very popular… Six years later, elementary school will be extremely competitive, and the college entrance exam eighteen years later will be even more difficult. The child and the parents will suffer together, why bother?” Xia Li looked at his mother and said.
Fang Xia was surprised, “You’ve thought this far ahead?”
“I’ve thought about it no less than you.” Xia Li sighed.
The people in the yard were talking animatedly, and Lucia, who was getting some fresh air outside another door, also came over.
Lucia was holding a large beetle in her hand, grinning mischievously as she was about to tease Xia Li with it, but when she saw so many people here, she instantly threw the bug aside.
“… Hello, Auntie, hello, Grandma.”
The evil dragon restrained the mischievous expression on her face and greeted them politely.
“Some insects bite very painfully, especially a kind of caterpillar, we call it ‘living chili’ here. After touching it, your whole body will itch and hurt… Be careful, if you are curious about anything, let Xia Li handle it.” Fang Xia naturally saw Lucia’s childlike side and said to her with a smile.
Xia Li glanced at his mother.
No, I’m your own son, Mrs. Fang.
He felt like there was no place for him in this family anymore.
“Okay, Auntie, I’ll be careful next time…”
Lucia instantly became obedient, much more obedient than when she was with Xia Li.
Xia Li scoffed at her pretentious behavior.
He knew that Lucia was uncomfortable in front of elders, so he directly took her for a walk in the fields.
This dragon, once released into the fields, was like a wild monkey, Xia Li couldn’t catch up with her, so he could only find a rock to sit down and let the evil dragon frolic there.
It felt like taking care of a child.
When he was a child, he used to run around in the fields, and his parents would watch him from the side like this.
“Don’t step on the pea seedlings in other people’s fields… That’s broad bean over there, don’t break the flowers on it! Come back here!”
The evil dragon was so mischievous that Xia Li was so angry that he wanted to stamp his feet.
Lucia actually came back after being scolded by him, holding something mysteriously in her hand, and then stuffed it into Xia Li’s pocket.
Xia Li wasn’t afraid of insects when he was a child, it seemed that children were fearless of insects, but after growing up, his genes awakened, and he was afraid of everything.
Watching Lucia stuff a handful of earthworms into his pocket, Xia Li almost let out a sharp scream.
“Don’t put earthworms in my pocket!”
“Hehe, I worked so hard to catch them…”
“Throw them away!”
“Take them to feed the chickens.”
“Chickens are vegetarian, they don’t eat meat!”
“You’re lying to me, chickens definitely eat worms.”
“Put them in your own pocket.”
“They’ll fall out of my pocket, you keep them for me… Turn around, put some in the other pocket too.”