God's Gift

Yu Youyou and Lu Keming stared at each other for a while, and suddenly she stretched out her paw and patted Lu Keming's face, saying:

"What are you talking about?"

Lu Keming's eyes curved, revealing a smile, and he immediately changed his words: "Then I won't say anything."

Shen Minghua looked at Lu Keming's attitude towards Youyou, and his expression was indescribable.

Lu Keming's current attitude towards Youyou is really too...

He coughed lightly and said, "A Chou's feelings for Chen Qingqiu are a bit too extreme. Pay more attention to her in the future."

Lu Keming then raised his eyes and glanced at Shen Minghua indifferently.

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In the next few days, Chen Qingqiu still went to school and the rumors were still circulating in the village, but he seemed to have gotten used to it. He turned a blind eye to the villagers' discussions and silently did what he was supposed to do.

Achou would go to see him every day, and the love letters outside the window would still appear on time. At first, Chen Qingqiu would just sigh, put away the love letters silently, and repeat to Achou day after day that he did not like her.

Ah Chou lowered her head and listened to Chen Qingqiu's refusal, but like a hard and stubborn stone, she still insisted on doing what she usually did.

She would give Chen Qingqiu the fruits she picked from the mountains, prepare a meal for Chen Qingqiu when he went to school, collect the eggs that had just been laid by the hens at home and then give them to Chen Qingqiu. She would appear at the first moment when Chen Qingqiu needed anything.

She didn't say much, just followed from a distance like a shadow.

Chen Qingqiu did not want to accept her things at first, but Ah Chou was too stubborn. She told Chen Qingqiu that those were the tuition fees that Chen Qingqiu had paid for her, and she had no money so she could only use these things to pay him back, so Chen Qingqiu had to accept them.

The children in the school began to hate Chen Qingqiu. Many students did not want to come to class, and some parents even took their children back home.

Chen Qingqiu looked at the fewer students and spoke less and less.

Until he wanted to tell the village chief that he would leave Lijia Village in a month.

When he heard the news, Achou sat in the classroom alone for a long time, and then appeared in front of Chen Qingqiu as if nothing had happened.

Until the night of Buddha Worship Festival came again, Ah Chou put the love letter that was trampled by the crowd in front of Chen Qingqiu. Chen Qingqiu called her and returned the love letter to her.

Fang Ziang and Yu Youyou squatted side by side at the intersection, staring furtively at the two people standing in the moonlight.

"How many times do you think Ah Chou will be rejected before he gives up?" Fang Ziang pulled two pieces of dry grass from a pile of grass on the side and held them in his mouth, one on the left and one on the right, as if he had grown two fangs.

Yu Youyou tilted her head and looked at the dry grass in Fang Ziang's mouth. Her eyes turned and fixed their gaze on the dry grass.

Fang Ziang turned his head to look at Yu Youyou, then pulled out two more pieces of grass and stuffed them into Yu Youyou's mouth.

Yu Youyou grinned happily, imitating Fang Ziang's nonchalant manner, holding the dry grass in his mouth one on each side, and asked in return:

"Why would she give up?"

"Although she likes Chen Qingqiu, she will definitely be disappointed if she keeps being rejected like this. If she keeps being disappointed, she will want to give up." Fang Ziang held his chin, his voice a little melancholy.

"Oh, I see." Yu Youyou tilted her head and thought about it carefully. This concept has never been abandoned in her family's tradition.

Although it seems that no one among our ancestors has ever failed.

"She's already brave enough." Fang Ziang sighed, "I don't even dare to confess my feelings, I'm not as brave as her, and she's still in this state."

"What's the situation?" Yu Youyou looked at Fang Ziang in confusion after hearing this.

"Her face..." Fang Ziang looked at Yu Youyou's confused expression and patted her head.

"How come you don't understand anything? Although everyone can comfort her and tell her not to care about her appearance, when it comes to yourself, who can really not care?"

"This world is very cruel." Fang Ziang spat out the dry grass in his mouth, held up his chin and said:

"Even liking someone depends on appearance. Because of her face, no one in the village likes her, so she inevitably becomes a loner."

"But this is making things worse. If someone like her pursues Chen Qingqiu, gets close to Chen Qingqiu, and gives Chen Qingqiu gifts, it's called harassment."

"If she changes to someone good-looking, that's called deep affection. Even if the person she likes doesn't like her all the time, others will think that the person she likes is ungrateful."

"No way." Fang Ziang spread his hands, looked at Ah Chou over there, and said again: "This is how the world is."

Yu Youyou listened to Fang Ziang for a long time and finally understood that people like Achou were not good-looking among humans.

Humans care a lot about appearance.

That's why the people in the village treated Achou like that in the past.

It’s still better in the sea, everyone looks weird and no one discriminates against anyone.

As Yu Youyou was thinking about this, she suddenly remembered her flamboyant father. When he became a human, he always made himself look pretty, just to show off in front of her mother.

No wonder mom likes dad the most instead of her, it’s because she is not a human being!

Thinking of this, Yu Youyou felt a little disgusted. Looking at the human Ah Chou, she said sincerely, "I think Ah Chou is pretty good-looking."

When Fang Ziang heard this, his eyes widened and he immediately turned to look at Yu Youyou, "Are you serious?"

"Really?" Yu Youyou nodded very seriously, thinking about the shapes of the fish in the deep sea, and compared them with Ah Chou and commented:

"Look at Ah Chou's nose, it's right in the middle, not off. And her eyes, not too many, not too few, just two, and they're the same size. Her mouth is not too big or too small, it's right under her nose, and her teeth aren't exposed, they're all neat and tidy. Isn't this pretty?"

Fang Ziang stared at Yu Youyou in a daze and asked, "Does it look good to you if it has a nose and eyes?"

"Yes." Yu Youyou nodded, thinking that this was much more beautiful than the fish in the sea.

She looked at Fang Ziang and asked, "What else?"

"If you really think so." Fang Ziang looked at Yu Youyou for a long while, his eyes full of admiration, "You are the one with the highest realm! Ah Chou shouldn't like Chen Qingqiu, she should like you instead."

"That's not necessary." Yu Youyou quickly shook her head and said a few words modestly.

While the two were whispering, Chen Qingqiu, who was outside the house, looked at Ah Chou who didn't say a word and sighed.

"You should go see the wider world instead of focusing on me."

Ah Chou shook his hand but did not respond. Chen Qingqiu looked at Ah Chou and continued:

"I am just a passer-by in your life. I am only helping you at this point. I will leave one day."

"But your life should not stop here. You still have infinite possibilities and a future. You can spread your wings and fly high, escape from this place that has no good intentions towards you, and make your life more vast."