Walking from the east of the city to the west of the city is like going from prosperity to ruin.
Small buildings turned into low huts, and the street changed from a clean bluestone road to a dusty yellow mud road. If one didn't pay attention, the heel of the shoe would sink into the deep mud puddle. 1 came out, and the shoes also blended in perfectly with the mess around here.
"... Fifty rupees a month, if there is no certificate from the mayor, I will not rent it to you." The landlord gave them a bunch of keys, and walked away cursing. Before leaving, he couldn't help but glance at the little wife next to the man, she was so beautiful in a small town.
Unfortunately, in the west of the city...
There's nothing I can't hold back.
The landlord shook his head and left with emotion.
Liu Yu raised his head and looked at the house in front of him. It was a stone house with only one floor, with a small crooked window.
Looking in from the window, there is a bed, a chair, and on the other side opposite the bed, there is a hearth made of stones, and some moldy straw is placed against the wall, as if no one has lived in it for a long time .
Really...
"Berry, you can still regret it."
"Regret? No, never."
Liu Yu took the lead and opened the door with a key.
As soon as the wooden door was closed, blocking the prying eyes of the surroundings, he sighed slightly: The house is desolate.
"One rupee is gone...Mr. Leslie, the rice jar is empty, no wheat, no milk, and no lamb chops."
"However," she picked up a dusty cloth from the table, "fortunately, we still have rags and buckets."
She smiled at him:
"Dear Mr. Leslie, let's clean up."
The girl's smile is as dazzling as gold in the dim room.
He snatched the rag from her hand and pushed her aside to sit down:
"Sit down, dear Mrs. Leslie. A gentleman is determined not to let her lady use a little finger."
"You mean... I'm sitting and you're working?"
"Yes, Belle..." He squatted down, held her shoulders, and looked at her eye level, "Little girls only need to be responsible for playing and being happy."
Liu Yu looked at him for a while, then suddenly said:
"You're going to spoil me, Gaia."
"If you can, Belle, you can be a little bit worse."
He patted her, got up and left.
Liu Yu lost his mind slightly.
There were a dozen colorful happy candies on her knees, which were given to her when he pushed her to sit down just now. He really coaxed her like a child...
She looks into the distance.
In the gray streets, there are no green mountains, green waters, or magnificent palaces in the west of Tetris Town. There is only a wide, fat, inconspicuous man. He wears ordinary clothes and carries an equally wide, fat man. The fat bucket went to the river to fetch water.
The setting sun cast a soft light on his body, making his back look firm and warm.
Although the stone house was not big, it was already late at night when the inside and outside were cleaned.
Everything is silent, only the dogs barking on the street one after another.
There is only a narrow wooden bed in the room, the chair is also made of wood, only one leg is limped, and the moldy straw is thrown outside the door.
Liu Yu stood by the window, looking at the moon outside the window:
"So it's the full moon..."
A shadow fell over her.
Gaia stood beside her and also looked up at the moon:
"What are you thinking?"
Liu Yu looked to the side, only to realize that at some point he had returned to his original appearance.
The large black gold silk robe was blown up by the wind, the black hair was hanging down, almost to the ground, and on the deep and pale face, a pair of green eyes were like a forest in the mist. He stood beside her like a king who controls everything in the dark night—
It seems to have become distant again.
She didn't like this feeling very much, and covered his eyes with her hands.
"What's wrong?"
"As soon as you transform back... I feel like a person from another world."
"Not used to it yet?"
He took her hand.
"Yes, I can't get used to it." Liu Yu looked straight at him, "You are incomparably beautiful."
He seemed to be pleased by her directness.
He bowed his head and kissed her palm: "So, Mr. Leslie, who is incomparably beautiful, can we ask for a further step in our relationship?"
Liu Yu: ...
She pulled out her hand with a smile: "It depends on your performance."
The young man was not annoyed, he just turned his head and looked out the window:
"So, Belle, look... the confusion of appearance is only temporary, and it can't shake you."
Liu Yu did not deny it.
Looking at his face, she can give birth to desire, but one step further...
She also looked out the window.
"...When I first came to this world, it was also full moon." She seemed to be lost in memory, "I was very scared at that time, I was afraid that I would not live long."
"Are you still scared?"
"I'm afraid, I'm not afraid..."
"How to say?"
"As long as people have expectations and something they want to hold in their hands... they can't help but be afraid."
The young man turned his head.
In the moonlight, the girl's eyes were extremely clear, and there seemed to be a lake of thoughts in them.
The atmosphere suddenly fell into silence.
"Then what are you looking forward to..." The young man paused, "Is there me?"
Liu Yu didn't speak.
After a while, he suddenly laughed: "When I was a child, I never imagined that one day in the future, I would choose to ask for trouble... You know, I hate bugs, mice... Oh, and darkness, and hunger."
The little girl who was locked in the dark room dangled in front of Gaia.
He raised his hand and gently pressed her head:
"Because she's grown up."
The conversation suddenly changed:
"Well, do you want to do something else?"
Liu Yu: ...
She straightened her face and refused coldly:
"Sorry, Mr. Cannon One, I don't want to sleep with you for now—"
"—No, Belle, I'm afraid you've misunderstood me. I'm not courting you."
The young man smiled, his green eyes shining in the moonlight, like a sparkling lake: "I just want to draw a picture... Of course, if you want to invite me before painting, I can cooperate."
Liu Yu's face turned red.
She turned her head:
"No, I don't want anything."
The girl's bulging cheeks looked like a cute dolphin.
He kissed her, pushed her again, let her sit on the edge of the bed, and adjusted her posture:
"Well, very good, sit here...that's it."
"So, Gaia...do you want to draw me?" The girl grabbed his hand, preventing him from getting up, and sat in his arms, wrapping her hands around his neck, "but Uncle Octopus said...you never Don't draw people."
The young man lost his mind slightly, and after a while he said:
"Mrs. Leslie is certainly different from other people."
"What's different?" The girl's fingers ran all the way down from his chest, "Here? Here..."
The black gold toga scratched her fingernails with a slight sound, all his movements stopped, there was no oil lamp, no candles, only the moonlight. In the extreme silence, she suddenly grabbed her, and he let out a muffled snort, which was extremely sexy.
Liu Yu heard this, and his body began to heat up:
"Still here?"
He pressed her hand, and his voice was extremely weak:
"No Belle..."
She seemed satisfied.
Smiling and throwing away his hands, he brushed his hair back: "Okay, respected Mr. Painter, you can paint."
The air froze, like a string being stretched.
The next moment, it was broken by a low gasp:
"Gaia!"
The ankle was pulled, and he bullied over:
"No, Mr. Painter wants to try it on Mrs. Leslie first. . . painting."
The voice came to the ear, low and hoarse.
"Hey!"
She kicked him and was torn apart.
"… Well."
As if caught off guard, he lowered his head and kissed her, his slender fingers were like a magician's baton, causing a strange tremor.
"Very good, my girl..."
"That's it, like now..."
She seemed to be caught in a spring hallucination, in a daze, only to see the gods take off their cold robes, entangled by greedy vines, and their black hair turned into sticky snakes, swimming around her, mist He also dyed his green eyes into the sea of chaos, and he sank together with her in this sea of madness and confusion of lust.
"Look at me." He lifted her chin, "I will always remember this moment... I am the one who owns you."
She stretched out her hand, wanting to touch his eyes, but in the end she dropped it powerlessly.
The night was deep.
The moon is deep.
The breathing of the people around him calmed down, and the young man opened his eyes.
He looked out of the window quietly, and after a while, he put on his robe and got out of bed.
There is nothing in the stone house, it is empty.
Like a wandering spirit, he walked around the house for a while, waiting for the first ray of light to enter the room in the morning—after the girl's eyelids moved, he stretched out his hand, and a ray of black light fell:
"Sleeping spell."
The girl fell asleep again.
The young man pushed the door and went out.
When stepping out of the eaves step by step, the tall and slender body began to become short and fat, the gorgeous black and gold robes turned into gray civilian clothes, and the gorgeous and delicate face was also hidden under the ordinary and vulgar.
The civilians are starting to wake up and run for their livelihoods.
The number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased, dust and smoke rose from the straight chimneys, and the air was filled with the aroma of food—
Mostly unattractive.
Gaia walked slowly along the street, his face was always calm, not moved by the sudden vitality, as if looking at the mediocre creatures on the street as if evaluating something.
Cold and emotionless.
Finally, it seemed that the observation was enough, and I stood in front of a wide gate.
The street was neat and clean. There were two servants standing in front of the gate. They wore black vests and white shirts, and cotton trousers were loosely stuffed into black riding boots. When they saw him coming, they stretched out their hands to drive him away: "This is Viscount Owen's house! Where are the commoners?" How dare you stand in front of Lord Viscount! Go! Go!"
"I'm looking for Viscount Owen."
"Do you think the viscount will see everyone?" The attendants wanted to rush, but when they met those green eyes, all the contempt disappeared unconsciously, and they lowered their heads respectfully, "Yes! My lord, this I'll let you know."
Viscount Owen was combing his moustache beautifully at this time, and when he heard the porter's report, he was going to be chased away, but the words he said turned around and turned into:
"Okay, okay, sir, please come in, come in."
As he said that, he personally welcomed the person to the VIP room.
"My lord, what instructions do you have?"
Viscount Owen stood respectfully, watching the commoner sit in the first place.
"I'm short of rupees."
"My lord, if you want a rupee, give me an order, and I will send a servant to deliver it to you immediately."
Viscount Owen bent even lower.
"No, she said she wants to be like an ordinary person." The person in the first place said something that Viscount Owen didn't understand, paused, and asked suddenly, "You...are the richest person in Terris Town."
"Are there any missing paintings?"
"Painting? What painting?"
"Buy my painting." He said as a matter of course, "Pay labor and get paid... Yes, this is not a violation of the rules."
"My lord, do you want to draw a portrait of me? I have many."
Viscount Owen said embarrassingly, he found that the person in the first place looked at him with green eyes, his heart trembled, and he was about to accept it, but saw that he took out a piece of white paper, a brush, and a paint plate from nowhere.
With a swipe of the pen, after a while, a picture suddenly appeared in front of him...
Lord Viscount blinked his eyes:
"Green Mantis?"
In the center of the painting, there stands a big mantis, which is valiant and high-spirited, and is shiny green.
Viscount Owen and the green mantis stared back and forth with their big eyes.
"Buy it, ten thousand, no, five thousand rupees."
The commoner frowned, his expression seemed to be sold cheaply.
"Steward, bring me five thousand rupees."
When the commoner leisurely walked out of the gate with the rupee, Viscount Owen suddenly patted his head like crazy:
What happened to him just now
How could you just bow your knees to a commoner and spend five thousand rupees to buy a pair of... green mantises
Crazy, really crazy.
But look, the brushstrokes of the green praying mantis... are really masters.
For some reason, Viscount Owen respectfully hung the green mantis in his bedroom, staring at it every morning and night.
*****
The next day, Liu Yu woke up to the smell of food.
Hot cocoa, strawberry shortcake, and... basil leaves with pine nuts
Standing up halfway, I found that the house had changed a lot. There were many more things. The wooden bed that was "squeaky" last night turned into a solid white carved bed with golden tassels on the bed curtain. On the stone window, A white rose is inserted in a transparent vase.
The towel rack, sink, two chairs, and the table have also become more beautiful.
Gaia was clumsily holding a pair of silver chopsticks, as if she was about to take the strawberry pie out of the pan.
"Did you become a thief last night?"
She got out of bed.
"Mrs. Leslie, do I remind you what Mr. Leslie did last night?"