Lin Yu approached, still asking the obvious question.
With the polite insistence of an elderly person, he invited:
"Sister Shanshan, why not come inside?"
"Everyone's here, it'd be nice to come in and chat."
"Since you're already here, come on, let's go in together?"
Xia Xiashan waved her hands repeatedly, refusing while walking towards the rear car door:
"I better not go in. I have to go to the martial arts school later."
"I came by now because I wanted to give you... your birthday gift in advance."
"I didn't know your preferences, so I picked a collectible based on my own taste."
"I hope you like it..."
As she spoke.
Xia Xiashan opened the rear car door and pulled out a not-too-wide black box from the back seat.
The box indeed wasn't wide.
But it was...
Long!
So long that just when Lin Yu thought she was done pulling it out, Xia Xiashan was still extracting more of it!
Lin Yu leaned closer to the car door, looking on with astonishment.
Is the inside of a G-Class this spacious?
It can fit something this long!
A martial arts master giving such a long gift... it couldn't be... a pool cue, could it?
Lin Yu: "..."
Xia Xiashan finally pulled it out completely, holding it in her arms.
She looked at Lin Yu somewhat sheepishly and said:
"It's not very portable, but it's a token of my feelings."
"Lin Yu, please accept it."
Xia Xiashan offered it to Lin Yu.
The smile on Lin Yu's face was extremely unnatural, and he kept saying:
"Thank you, thank you, I really appreciate it."
"Sister Shanshan, inside... it's not a sword, is it?"
Xia Xiashan looked at Lin Yu with shocked expression:
"You...!!!"
"How did you guess?"
Lin Yu: "Heh ha, it was hard not to guess. I did attend six years of elementary school Chinese, after all."
After saying that.
Lin Yu looked down at the gilded characters on the box:
"The edge of a precious sword is honed from grinding!"
Xia Xiashan followed Lin Yu's gaze.
She slapped her forehead in sudden realization:
"Oh right!"
"I forgot about that. Should have changed the box."
Lin Yu was speechless: "..."
Is changing the box really the issue here?
Finding such a big box couldn't have been easy either!
She's really giving me a big sword?
Might as well have given Lin Yu a membership card to a "big sword" spa—at least he might use that someday for a change of pace.
What scenario could this thing possibly be useful in?
At tonight's Hongmen Feast?
Or when he sees someone he doesn't like, pulling it out for a round of...
The era of cold weapons ended ages ago!
Living with this group of girls every day.
Broadens the career development paths for Lin Yu more and more.
If he really can't make a living in the future, he could still become a professional complainer, and doing manzai comedy would also be a viable path.
"Sister Shanshan, this gift truly leaves me a bit... astounded."
"No one has ever given me a weapon before. I'll treasure it properly."
"I'll open it and take a look after I bring it home later."
Xia Xiashan nodded in agreement:
"Mm, better look at it at home."
"It rained yesterday, there's a lot of mud on the ground. Opening it outside might get it dirty."
Lin Yu nodded with a kind smile: "..."
Mud outside?
It's that there are too many police around here!
If a big sword were to suddenly slide out with a shing.
He might well get taken away for causing trouble.
The two stood there awkwardly for a moment.
You look at me, I look at you.
Lin Yu wondered, didn't she say she had to leave? Why isn't she going?
He couldn't possibly be the one to urge his sister to leave, right?
That would be so impolite!
Looking at Xia Xiashan, she seemed to have more to say.
But couldn't find the right moment to start, or perhaps hadn't organized her words.
Where did that once straightforward and confident dojo master sister go?
Once fear sets in, this is actually the kind of reaction she has!
It truly caught Lin Yu off guard.
If he had known.
Lin Yu really should have hit her earlier.
She's even easier to handle than Sister Ruirui after the Hundred Beasts Order.
Finally.
After several failed attempts to organize her words.
Xia Xiashan pointed to her luxury car and said:
"Hurry and go inside. I'm heading back first."
Lin Yu, holding the large gift, replied affirmatively:
"Alright, get in the car, Sister Shanshan. Drive safely."
"Come over early after you're done, chat and hang out with everyone."
Xia Xiashan kept nodding continuously.
Then.
Under Lin Yu's watchful eye, she got into the back seat of the car and closed the door.
"Thud!"
Lin Yu: "???"
If Lin Yu's eyes weren't deceiving him...
Unless the latest Mercedes model isn't that advanced yet...
The driver's seat should still be in the front!
Is she really that nervous?
Has Lin Yu killed someone, or eaten someone?
Would he really pull out a big sword on the street and chop at her? No way!
"Knock knock knock!"
"Knock knock knock!"
"..."
Immediately after.
Urgent knocking sounds came from the back seat.
Lin Yu looked through the glass.
A thoroughly embarrassed Xia Xiashan was pointing at the door lock, waiting for Lin Yu to open it for her.
Lin Yu: "..."
Someone without kids, why have the child lock on in the back?
Who are you trying to kidnap, preventing them from getting out?
Lin Yu maintained his composure, calmly opened the rear door.
And cracked a cold joke he couldn't resist:
"Ah heh heh, Sister Shanshan, after getting in the car, did you discover... hey, where's my steering wheel?"
Xia Xiashan's face was completely flushed, red as if burned.
She explained at a rapid pace:
"Just now I was going to check the back seat to see if I left anything behind."
"I forgot that last time when Aunt Ruxue came, she turned on the child lock."
Lin Yu: "Oh~ I understand, I understand..."
This reason for turning on the child lock...
Was it to prevent Aunt Ruxue from getting out?
Or to capture a cat at Aunt Ruxue's request?
Xia Xiashan smoothed the hair by her ear, did it twice but felt it wasn't like her usual style at all, and quickly put both hands behind her back.
Putting them behind her back felt too pretentious, so she let them go again, hanging awkwardly by her sides.
Lin Yu: "..."
Are those newly grown arms? Or untamed prosthetics?
After standing still for a few seconds, Xia Xiashan waved her hand, quickly slipped into the driver's seat, and fled the scene.
Even after driving two blocks away, the blush on her face still hadn't faded.
Inside the car.
"Bang! Bang bang!"
At a red light, Xia Xiashan pounded the steering wheel furiously, self-deprecatingly lamenting:
"Xia Xiashan, you big failure!"
"So you lost once? Is it that hard to face?"
"Damn it!"
"A complete joke... seen through entirely!"
The driver of a small pickup truck waiting next to her.
Peered through the window, looking at the neighboring G-Class again and again.
After a long while.
Muttered:
“That G-Class is so damn handsome!”
Of course.
The luxury car with tinted privacy glass, and it being summer.
Why would the windows be open?
...
(First update of the day. There will still be a bonus update for everyone tonight, not too late. Hope you all can give more power support! Thank you, thank you!)
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