mesbooks Chapter 821 Are you lying to me?
Chapter 821 Are you lying to me?
"Daughter-in-law! Wife-in-law!"
Lu Chusheng watched as the ugly toad hopped all the way to Yu Shijiu's side, handing her the bag of grass and leaves he was holding. "Hurry up! Eat quickly, you must be very, very hungry, right?"
Lu Chusheng: "..."
Why is this guild tournament dungeon so "disgusting"?
Players weren't tormented enough by those twisted, humanoid monsters, are they now being disgusted by toads too?
Lu Chusheng was extremely annoyed, but he could only sit there and sulk.
Whose memories are these from this guild tournament dungeon? It's absurd and disgustingly ridiculous.
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Lu Chusheng's complaints in the live broadcast square went unnoticed. Yu Shijiu sighed when he saw the toad hopping over with a bag of grass leaves.
Do we really have to eat those weird things?
The toad, completely unaware that beneath Yu Shijiu's smiling exterior lay a deep-seated irritation, happily opened the grass-leaf cloth bag and pointed to the things inside, saying:
"Come on, take a look. Choose whatever you want to eat or play with. You can choose anything, and it's all yours."
It grinned as it spoke, "It's really delicious! I even saw some humans eating chicken, so I secretly took a piece and brought it back when they weren't looking."
Yu Shijiu's gaze fell on a chicken bone in the grass bag that looked like it had been gnawed on, and he remained silent for several seconds, which was unusual for him.
In those few seconds of silence, the toad became unhappy. Its mood changed very quickly. It glared at Yu Shijiu, stuck out its tongue unhappily, and made a sticky, wet splattering sound.
"Hurry up and come over here! Why aren't you coming to choose? You were just giving me that look that said I was lying to you and wouldn't give you anything good, but now you've changed your mind so quickly? Were you trying to fool me—"
"how could be?"
Yu Shijiu quickly interrupted the toad, took a step forward, knelt down, and carefully examined the "food" and "good stuff" in the straw bag.
"It must have been really hard to steal this piece of chicken, right?"
Yu Shijiu sighed with heartache, picked up the "chicken bone," and whispered under the toad's gaze:
"Here, eat. You've been working hard for a day and a night. This is good food, so you should definitely eat it."
The toad froze, its mouth agape in disbelief. Yu Shijiu swiftly stuffed the chicken bone inside, and as the toad's eyes widened, he quickly threw all the "food" from the grass cloth bag into its gaping mouth.
"...Quack!?"
The toad choked and let out a deafening cough, then quickly rolled its eyes and croaked incoherently for a while.
It took the toad a long time to recover from almost choking. He stretched out his tongue and licked the empty grass bag, his eyes flashing with coldness and suspicion.
"Don't you want to—"
"Great."
Yu Shijiu knelt on the ground, holding a bag of grass leaves, and began to sob again, her head bowed as she choked out her sobs, interrupting the toad's doubts.
"You looked so tired, you must have regained a lot of energy after eating this, right?"
Yu Shijiu: "I'm actually not hungry. I can wait until after the wedding to eat. Oh my god, you probably don't believe it, but just thinking about marrying such an amazing frog like you makes me so happy that I can't eat a single thing..."
"It's because you're just too outstanding..."
The boy's words of praise kept reaching the toad's ears. Under the praise, it unconsciously puffed out its plump white chest, and its eyes began to dart around proudly.
"You're right! Quack!"
The toad puffed out its chest and said, "I am the best toad!"
Yu Shi blinked, and continued to boast without blushing or panting:
"Yes, you are the most outstanding and bravest toad I have ever seen."
"Quack! Actually, no! Quack! No, you're right! Quack!"
After a barrage of praise, the toad was so overwhelmed with admiration that it became completely dazed and started jumping around in the center of the lotus flower.
It jumped up and croaked, jumped up and croaked again, and finally happily barked at Yu Shijiu.
"You're right. Don't worry, I will definitely live a good life with you from now on, and have many, many little toads with you! We will live happily ever after!"
"..."
Yu Shijiu's expression remained unchanged. He smiled and nodded, completely ignoring the complicated gazes from the surrounding players, and said:
"Of course, we will definitely be able to live happily together forever in the future."
The toad jumped up and down happily, "Great! Don't worry, Mom and I will pick you up an hour before the wedding starts tonight and take you to the wedding venue!"
"Mom and I have prepared a really nice new house and clothes for you, quack quack!"
"..." Yu Shijiu's eyelids twitched. He raised his eyelids and glanced at the room without making a sound, and said, "The new house and clothes?"
"Yes, yes!" The excited toad proudly raised its head. "It's the clothes Mom wore when she got married. It's a tradition of our toad clan. New brides need to wear their mothers-in-law's old clothes when they get married!"
"..."
Satisfied with the new clue, Yu Shijiu's feigned gaze towards the toad softened with genuine gentleness.
"That's just wonderful."
Yu Shijiu smiled and said, "I really want to see with my own eyes what kind of clothes my mother-in-law used to wear."
"Almost there, almost there!"
Completely oblivious to the excitement in the boy's tone, the toad jumped into the pond with a splash, poking its wet toad head out of the water and croaking.
"Wait for me. I'll come to pick you up when the wedding banquet starts, even if it's late at night."
“Okay,” Yu Shijiu nodded obediently and said gently, “I’ll wait for you and Grandma to come pick me up.”
The toad jumped away happily.
"..."
Only after watching the toad disappear into the distance did Yu Shijiu turn his gaze away and realize that the surroundings were eerily quiet.
"?" Yu Shijiu's obedient smile remained unchanged. He tilted his head in surprise and asked, "Why are you all looking at me?"
Yes, it's unclear when it started, but whether it was Xu Han, An Jie, and the other players, or Fang Youhua and the other players, they all silently watched Yu Shijiu, and it's unknown how long they've been watching.
He Lingling looked somewhat distraught. She was standing in the center of the lotus pond, constantly wiping her hair and face with a towel, and was the first to speak upon hearing this.
"You're amazing, Shi Jiu."
He Lingling's face was a little pale. She vigorously wiped the sticky, foul-smelling liquid from her head and face, closed her eyes, and muttered:
"How can I become as good as you...?"
Xu Han sniffed, his face equally pale, and whispered:
"Shi Jiu, where did you learn those impromptu lines you just said? They sound familiar."