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“It’s raining again. . .”
Lin Yuzu sat cross-legged on the porch and sighed while looking at the dreary sky.
It was also a drizzling wet day today.
The flowers that bloomed on the giant trees in the center of town had fallen off and after the weather slowly turned hot, it ushered in a long rainy season that didn’t clear up for a long while.
This left Lin Yuzu with an unusually troublesome problem – the laundry that could only be hung in the living room, waiting to dry in the shade. Not only is it slow, but it ends up not being fresh and dry when not exposed to the sun.
“Quack Quack!”
“Quack!”
Xiao Qing1 and Xiao Bai2 urged her with their quacks. Lin Yuzu then came back to her senses, “It’s my turn? Well, let me see. . .”
She held her chin with her uninjured hand, looked at the tower of blocks in front of her that was almost emptied, and pulled out a block near the bottom.
The tower swayed with her movements, but it eventually maintained its delicate balance and didn’t collapse.
The wooden block in Lin Yuzu’s hand was polished smoothly with different flower patterns engraved on both ends. It was an educational toy that Xiao Xiao spend all morning making to relieve her boredom.
Is she being treated as a child. . . Although that’s what she thought, she’s still having fun.
The hanging vines that circled the tower twice, carefully rolling up a building block and pulling it out. . .
“Ah. . . you lost again Xiao Hong.”
Halfway through the block tower couldn’t hold on much longer and collapse. The vines wrapped around the blocks engraved with hyacinths and hung alone in midair.
The carnivorous flower at the corner of the courtyard was originally sluggish because of the constant rain and now the desolation is almost materializing.
Lin Yuzu was re-stacking up the building blocks again and hurriedly touched it when she saw it sulking, “Well, yeah, you’ve been working very hard.”
The two birds leaned against each other and quacked. Xiao Qing also patted the drooping vines with their intact wings.
Lin Yuzu and played two more games with them and thought that she should play mahjong or poker or something else. They could also play three kingdoms if they could. . . She believed that with the IQ of this group of mutant creatures, they should be able to get the hang of the games in no time.
When noon approached, the rain was getting stronger and heavier with no signs of stopping.
Lin Yuzu worried about Xiao Xiao outside and began to get distracted. She frequently looked in the direction of the open courtyard door, trying to distinguish movements outside the noisy rain.
Although it was caused by the atmosphere that they said something embarrassing and shy words like ‘together forever’, it was impossible for them to be together all the time. After the treatment she gave Lin Yuzu, Xiao Xiao started farming the next day.
The group died, leaving two vehicles of supplies taken from a base. Lin Yuzu wouldn’t give them up just because it was wrong.
When they took inventory of the times, in addition to the food that took up most space, there was fuel, firearms, medical items, and so on. Of course, the most valuable thing in Lin Yuzu’s eyes was the various kinds of seeds.
This solved a lot of problems and the two fields that Xiao Xiao opened immediately came in handy, She has been running both at home and in the fields for a while.
Lin Yuzu felt tired when she thought about it, but she didn’t know if it was because of her passion for farming or because she’s a zombie king that’s why Xiao Xiao looked very energetic.
Lin Yuzu wanted to help, but she was forced to stay put in the name of recuperation and was ordered to take a good rest.
In fact, under the influence of her ability, her injury has almost healed and one hand is enough to do housework, but Xiao Xiao obviously wasn’t going to listen to her ‘justification’.
It was easy to adapt from having a simple lifestyle to an extravagant lifestyle, but it was difficult to change from an extravagant lifestyle to a simple one. If this goes on, one would eventually become lazy and Lin Yuzu’s dilemma gave birth to this sweet distress.
She held the clock-flower-patterned building block and wasn’t able to regulate her strength as she was distracted thus toppling down the block tower, scattering the blocks all over the floor.
One block rolled twice and fell off the porch. Lin Yuzu moved to reach down, but another hand was one step ahead of her and picked up the wet wooden block.
Lin Yuzu looked up and saw the zombie king in a fluorescent poncho with her eyes bent under the hood.
She then unconsciously smiled along, “Welcome back. You were a little later than usual, did something happen?”
“Took a detour.” Xiao Xiao replied. While walking up to the porch, she took off her poncho and shook the water off it away from her.
The nearby vines consciously took the poncho and hung it up while the two slender-necked birds quacked twice, receiving some petting.
“Detour?”
“Mhm.” Xiao Xiao’s eyes lit up as she pulled out something wrapped with broad leaves from her jacked, “A gift.”
Eh?
Lin Yuzu took it and opened it, “Ah! It’s strawberries! Did you make a detour for this purpose?”
“Mhm, like it?”
“Like!” Lin Yuzu picked one up and placed it in her mouth. It wasn’t fully ripe and was sour. She met Xiao Xiao’s expectant eyes and fed her one, “Ah~”
Xiao Xiao lowered her head and gently ate the plum along with Lin Yuzu’s fingertips.
“. . .”
The plum on her hand was taken away and Lin Yuzu curled up her fingers, wiped off the scarlet juice that stained her fingertips, and smiled, “Where did you find these? If there are more, we can use them to make dried strawberries. . . Speaking of which, the green plums should also be ripe by now. . .”
Pick some, bring them back, and process them. When the weather is hot, cooking sour strawberry soup can also relieve the heat. After all, it’s an era without air conditioning. . . It’s great that there’s sugar in the supplied! Their many suddenly enriched.
When that have time to develop seasonings and spices, Lin yuzu mulled over various kinds of food and her expression inadvertently showed some satisfaction.
Xiao Xiao tilted her head and looked at her for a while and curved her lips, “Will pay attention to it. What for lunch, you want to eat?”
“How about tomato stew?”
Xiao Xiao had no objections. Every mealtime, Lin Yuzu always felt good about being able to feed her.
Thinking that Xiao Xiao had never eaten a proper meal before she met her, she couldn’t help but reveal a compassionate gaze, “Okay, go wash your hands. I’ll put away the blocks.”
Xiao Xiao then responded, “Want to go together.”
. . . Okay.
After what happened during the last incident, Xiao Xiao seemed to have been affected in some way that increased her level of clinginess.
Lin Yuzu had no reason to refuse, rather, she enjoyed it. With Xiao Xiao’s help, she packed up the scattered block two to three times faster and went to wash their hands together.
The soap they previously mentioned before is ready. Although it isn’t grapefruit flavor, Xiao Xiao carved flower molds to set its shape.
Lin Yuzu often wanted to sigh. This person is good at everything. . . except for cooking.
During Lin Yuzu’s injury, Xiao Xiao took over cooking their three meals, however, letting her play freely will result in her making strange things so Lin Yuzu must always watch from the sidelines.
“I’m almost healed, right? Xiao Xiao, do you remember what my ability is?”
After the meal, Xiao Xiao washed the dishes as usual while Lin Yuzu tried to help only to end up failing. After being stuffed with a small bottle, Xiao Xiao touched her. . . face, and under Lin Yuzu’s gaze, she pushed her out the door.
I’m being pampered.
Lin Yuzu touched her face, only to find that the corners of her lips were curled upward. Although no one would see it at all, she was more or less embarrassed. She coughed lightly to collect her expression and looked at the small bottle in her hand.
What’s this?
Lin Yuzu unscrewed the cap, “. . . bubble water? She’s really treating me like a child . . . “
It’s probably an additional product that Xiao Xiao thought of when making soap. She lifted it up and blew on it. The transparent bubbled floated out from the small circle, reflecting the colorful light.
Then one by one, they floated into the rain and popped by raindrops.
. . . Rainy days are so annoying.
Lin Yuzu, who’s gotten bored with the damp weather brought by the continuous heavy rain, thought so as she perseveringly blew more bubbles to make them fly around the porch.
By the time she noticed it, she had been playing with it for quite a while.
It turns out that it was true when people say you turn into the person you like. . . She was infected by Xiao Xiao’s childishness according to Lin Yuzu’s reflection.
There was some rustling outside the wall and the familiar cat’s head emerged. Its fur was completely wet, her ears were pulled back like a plane’s wings, and his face was depressed.
Lin Yuzu greeted him with disgust, “Zhaocai, you’re wet again? I told you not to go out and play these last two days.”
Zhaocai wailed and leaped over the wall. . . and was coldly tripped by the vines from the wall and fell on the ground hard.
. . . The result was a loud thud that Lin Yuzu looked at him in pain and gasped, “Are you okay?!”
The stunned Zhaocai shook his head and sat up. Xiao Qing, and Xiao Bai, who have been back in the house at some point, poked their heads out the window.
“Pu,” The one who pulled the prank had no conscience and let out another ‘Pu Pu’ as it finished its taunting, shrinking back its main body and leaving its vines twisting around outside to fight against the big angry cat.
“. . .”
Lin Yuzu was already used to it and didn’t bother to break the fight apart.
Before they broke into the family property, Xiao Xiao, who had finished washing the dishes, came out of the kitchen and interrupted the pleasant battle.
“Listen to Yuzu.” Xiao Xiao, who had rolled up her sleeves for the sake of washing the dishes, had a stern look and crossed her arms, admonishing the two, “No fighting at home.”
“Quack Quack” The two birds on the windowsill echoed.
“Mm-hmm” Lin Yuzu agreed, pressing the big cat to the ground with a towel to wipe its fur.
Zhaocai purred under her hands. It was particularly pampered after it matured and as if aware of Lin Yuzu’s indulgence towards it, regained the temperament that cats should have.
“Meow.”
When Lin Yuzu rubbed his buttocks, Zhaocai rolled over and gently stomped her with his hind legs while making a charming sound.
Lin Yuzu touched it, “Okay Okay, be a good boy. Don’t you feel uncomfortable when wet?”
“Mew-meow~”
“Mmmmm, good boy.”
Xiao Xiao, “. . .”
Lin Yuzu kind of wanted Xiao Qing to act as a hair drying for a bit, but when she saw it fighting against Zhaocai, she also found a long wound on its body.
This is very common, after all, it isn’t peaceful outside and mutant creatures would eventually hunt and fight each other.
The cat felt distressed while at home and Zhaocai wanted to see its wounds clearly, but Zhaocai acted as if he wanted to slash its claws and was extremely uncooperative.
Lin Yuzu couldn’t help but ask for some third-party assistance, “Xiao Xiao. . . huh?”
Xiao Xiao was nowhere to be found.
Lin Yuzu was at a loss. The door of the room that was originally a guest room was opened and Xiao Xiao came out from inside, holding a bottle of spray in her hand.
“What’s this. . .?”
A few days ago, they would store some experimental equipment they would occasionally find from nowhere that Xiao Xiao would visit once in a while.
Xiao Xiao blinked, “Medicine.”
“Medicine?” Lin Yuzu watched as she walked over and sprayed the bottle of medicine against Zhaocai’s face.
Ah, this familiar scent.
Lin Yuzu covered the lower half of her face when it was sprayed at close range against Zhaocai. He wanted to purr but couldn’t and was forced to close his eyes and quiet down.
Xiao Xiao gave her the bottle, “Self-defence.”
“Did you make it specifically for me?” Lin Yuzu’s heart went soft that even her gaze was soft, “I won’t get hurt easily in the future.”
“Mmm. . . Won’t let Yuzu get hurt.” Xiao Xiao slightly leaned over. The pupils of her ice-blue eyes looked at her intently, “Hug?”
Okay, hugs.
Lin Yuzu touched Xiao Xiao’s head that leaned over and accepted the zombie king’s straightforward desire for some pampering.
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Xiao Xiao, the first zombie king who wants to compete with cats.