"Brother Lin... where is my sister?"
"My sister has returned to her hometown."
"Brother Lin... Has my sister arrived home yet?"
"Well... I don't think so yet..."
“Oh~~~” The little fox demon lowered its head, its tail weakly hanging in Lin Xun’s arms, its little mouth drooping.
The courtyard fell into a brief silence, but soon, the little fox demon sitting in Lin Xun's arms raised its head and looked up at Lin Xun's chin.
"Then Brother Lin, when will my sister come back..."
"Emmm... ... he should be back by the 32nd day of July." Lin Xun said after thinking for a while.
"But Brother Lin, doesn't July only have 31 days?" Yaya blinked at Lin Xun.
"Uh... It's okay. As long as Brother Lin says there are thirty-two days, then there are thirty-two days. Except for your sister Qing'er, no one dares to oppose Brother Lin."
"Brother Lin is so awesome~~~"
"That is."
"Brother Lin."
"Um?"
"Sister... Is it true that sister will be okay?"
"No, Yaya's sister will be fine."
Lin Xun rubbed her little head. He didn't know how many times he had rubbed Yaya's little head today. He felt that if he continued like this, Yaya would be bald because of him...
"Really?"
"real."
"Oh~"
The yard returned to silence. The scholar sat on the stone bench and the little fox demon sat on the scholar's lap. Together they watched the peach tree in the yard swaying gently in the summer breeze.
Two days have passed since Chu Yaoyao left, and Yaya has already begun to miss her sister.
“Brother Lin… ..”
"Um?"
"Is my sister really going to be okay?"
"No." Lin Xun hugged the little girl and held her hand. "Brother, I put something in Sister Yaya's storage bag. If Sister Yaya is in danger, that thing will protect Sister Yaya."
"Thank you, Brother Lin~~"
"No big deal." Lin Xun pinched Yaya's little face, "So... Yaya, don't worry. Yaya, you need to eat and drink well. When sister Yaya comes back, Yaya will grow up to be a graceful young lady and surprise her sister."
“Yeah!” Yaya nodded like a little chicken, “When I grow up, Yaya will marry Brother Lin!”
“Uh…” Lin Xun put his big hands under Yaya’s armpits and picked her up.
Yaya faced Lin Xun, with her two cute little feet in white tabi stepping on Lin Xun's thighs.
"Yaya, when it comes to getting married, you should marry the person you love."
"Yaya likes Brother Lin."
"Uh.....the liking that Brother Lin is talking about is not this kind of liking, but another kind of liking."
"Another kind of liking?" Yaya tilted her head.
"Well, how should I put it... This kind of love is to give everything for the other person. If he is happy, you are happy too. If he is sad, you are sad too. As long as he is not around, you will think of him from time to time. You are willing to give him the things you like. Well, this is pretty much this kind of love."
After thinking about it, Lin Xun added another sentence.
"It's like the way Brother Lin likes Sister Qing'er."
“Hmm~~~” Yaya lowered her little head and fell into lovely contemplation.
Lin Xun also knew that although Yaya was actually 1,500 years old, her mental age was only that of a five or six-year-old. It was indeed too early for Yaya to understand what "love" really was.
But there is no rush. When Yaya grows up, or when Yaya recovers to her previous physical and mental state, she will naturally understand.
But Lin Xun felt that compared to restoring the body and mind of a 1,500-year-old, the probability of Yaya growing up naturally was much greater...
After all, Lin Xun had used a bit of spiritual power to check Yaya's physical condition.
The secret method of the Nine-tailed Sky Fox clan is really like rejuvenation, even the bone age has changed.
It's not that this secret method cannot be removed, it's just that the method to remove it has been lost...
"Brother Lin, this is for you."
"Um?"
While Lin Xun was still thinking about the fox tribe's secret technique, Yaya took out a lollipop from her small purse storage bag.
Standing on Lin Xun's knees, Yaya held the stick of the lollipop in her two little hands and raised her short arms straight up:
"Yaya doesn't know what Brother Lin is talking about, but Yaya loves lollipops the most, so Yaya wants to give the lollipop to Brother Lin."
"Little fool." Lin Xun rubbed Yaya's head gently, "Your lollipop was made by your brother."
“Mmmm… ..” Yaya lowered her head.
"Okay, don't think about it." Lin Xun pinched Yaya's soft and smooth face and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Brother Lin won't leave Yaya, and Yaya doesn't have to worry about Brother Lin leaving."
"Hmm~~~"
With her little head lowered, Yaya's little feet took a small step on Lin Xun's thigh. Her little hands gently pinched Lin Xun's collar, and tears flashed in her eyes.
"Big brother, is this true? Big brother will never leave Yaya?"
"Yes, really, big brother promises that he and Yaya will wait for sister Yaya to come back." Lin Xun wiped Yaya's crystal tears, "So, Yaya, can you trust big brother?"
"Yeah." Yaya's tears fell more and more like pearls, but crying at this time was much better than crying secretly in the quilt.
Yaya was actually very nervous about her sister's departure, but she was sensible and knew that she should not hinder her sister from doing things.
But Yaya is, after all, just a little girl with the mental faculties of a five-year-old.
After her sister left, she only had her big brother to rely on.
Yaya was worried that she would leave too, leaving Yaya alone...
During the past two days, although Yaya has been as optimistic, cheerful, well-behaved and cute as usual, Lin Xun knows that the uneasiness in her heart is still there.
But Lin Xun didn’t know what to say.
So today, Lin Xun was not really just holding Yaya in the yard and staring blankly, but was thinking about how to talk to Yaya first so that she could really feel at ease and treat this small courtyard as her home.
Although Lin Xun still hadn't figured out how to start, he didn't have to think about it now.
He wiped away Yaya's tears, pinched Yaya's slightly red nose, and held Yaya in his arms.
The two, one big and one small, continued to sit in the courtyard, looking at the peach tree and the sky.
"Brother Lin."
"Um?"
"What kind of tree is this?"
"peach."
“Do peach trees grow peaches?”
"Yes."
"Yaya likes to eat peaches."
"Me too. I, your brother, miss Taozi every day."
"Brother Lin."
"Um?"
"Yaya likes Brother Lin too."
"When Yaya grows up, she probably won't like Brother Lin anymore."
"Why?"
"Because by then Yaya will have someone she really likes. I guess by then, Yaya will forget about me, Brother Lin."
“Mmm~~~~”
“Brother Lin… ..”
"Um?"
"Yaya doesn't want to grow up anymore."
"Hmm? Why?"
"Yaya doesn't want to forget Brother Lin..."