Restricted fantasy invasion

Chapter 10. Try to connect basketball and chicken

If you lost something as a child, how did your parents handle it?
If it’s not so important, maybe they’ll blame you for losing something and remind you to be more careful next time?
If it's something particularly important, like a house key or a bank card, I'm afraid a meal of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots or mixed doubles will be unavoidable.

Of course, the situation of each family is different, this is just Yan Huan’s impression.

In any case, it is impossible to drive back to the shopping mall and help your child find the lost item without any blame just because you lost a key chain.

However, Ye Lan did just that.

After hearing Ye Shiyu's request, she asked the driver to turn around and take them back to the shopping mall where they had eaten previously.

Ye Shiyu got out of the car as soon as it stopped, forgetting to even take her coat which she had taken off earlier because the heater was on in the car.

Yan Huan glanced at the coat, silently picked it up and got out of the car.

After getting off the car, Ye Lan talked to the driver for a few words. It seemed that the driver also wanted to come down to help her find it, but Ye Lan asked her to go back first.

After a while, the car finally drove away.

Although the lights are still on in the shopping mall at around eight or nine o'clock in the evening in early spring, it is inevitably chilly.

Ye Lan, wearing a coat and high heels, smiled helplessly at Yan Huan who was walking in front of her and said,

"Let's go. Xiao Huan, please help Shiyu find it. She should be able to walk along today's route while recalling it, right?"

Following today's route
Yan Huan blinked and looked at Ye Shiyu who was walking in front.

She stood on the outskirts of the shopping mall, looking at the oceanarium in the distance with the lights turned off and blending into the night, wondering what she was thinking.

"Sister Shiyu."

Hearing Yan Huan's voice, she turned around expressionlessly and looked at the clothes Yan Huan handed over.
"It's cold at night, put on some clothes."

She looked at Yan Huan's hand holding the clothes, which just touched the label with her name on it.

"Thank you."

After a slight pause, she took the clothes but did not put them on.

Yan Huan did not force it, but came to her side and analyzed it carefully.
"Sister Shiyu, do you remember when you opened your bag? Was it at the aquarium or at the shopping mall?"

"I haven't opened my bag since I bought the keychain today."

"what?"

Yan Huan raised his eyebrows and looked at Ye Shiyu, who was thinking and speaking with a very firm tone.

"Did the bag leak?"

Ye Shiyu picked up the handbag and checked it, then shook her head.
"No."

That's strange.
supernatural event?

He did see her put her name on the keychain and put it into her bag in the morning. Or did she open it herself and then forget about it?
".The aquarium is closed. I'll look for it along the way to the shopping mall."

Ye Shiyu's face turned slightly cold, she took the clothes and turned away.

Seeing this, Yan Huan and Ye Lan had no choice but to follow her and replicated the route they took to enter the shopping mall at noon.

"Dear tourists, the shopping mall will be closed in 20 minutes. Except for the cinema area, tourists stranded in the shopping mall are requested to leave as soon as possible."

"At that time, all passengers are requested to take the 7A elevator at the cinema on the seventh floor to the first floor or the underground parking lot. The rest of the elevators will be closed."

The broadcast echoed in the shopping mall. The lights in the seven-story shopping mall gradually dimmed, and the sounds of shop doors closing and rolling shutters were heard one after another.

Yan Huan came down from the escalator on the second floor and saw Ye Lan sitting on a bench on the first floor, taking off her high heels and rubbing her ankles.

Her long skirt spread out like petals, and there was some fatigue in her eyes.

Seeing Yan Huan, she raised her head and asked with a smile,

"How's it going, Xiao Huan, have you found it?"

Yan Huan shook his head and said,

"I've looked for it several times, and asked at the lost and found office, but the staff didn't see it either. Then we split up and looked for it, but we still couldn't find it."

"Well, this is really strange."

Ye Lan pouted, moved the high heels away from her feet, and patted the seat next to her.
"You must be tired, sit down and take a rest. Sorry to bother you, Xiao Huan. We are here to have fun, but I still ask you to run around to help your sister find things."

"No, I've already played it, Auntie."

Yan Huan walked over to Ye Lan and sat down, watching her hugging her knees and massaging her calves and feet.

At this moment, her ankles were all red. After all, she had been walking in high heels all day, otherwise she wouldn't have let the two of them look for it now. She sat here to rest.

Yan cheered and looked at the shopping mall which was gradually becoming quiet, his eyes moving slightly.

Ye Lan beside him looked at his profile, holding his chin, and suddenly asked,
"Will Xiao Huan think this is too exaggerated?"

"exaggerate?"

Yan Huan came back to her senses and looked at Ye Lan, but her smile remained the same.
"It sounds a little stupid to run back for an hour just to look for a small keychain, doesn't it?"

"fine."

Yan Huan blinked and said,
"I thought you would send a bunch of your men here to reopen the aquarium if it's closed, and then have a bunch of people help Sister Shiyu look for it."

Ye Lan covered her mouth, finding it very funny.

"You are exaggerating!"

"Is it an exaggeration? I've seen novels that say this."

Yan Huan smiled slightly, then acted like a domineering CEO, pointed his finger, and ordered,
"If I can't find her things, I will bury you all with me!"

"Hahahaha!"

Ye Lan laughed so hard that she covered her stomach and swayed on her toes in the air.
"You're so cool! You really should go make a movie, Xiao Huan~"

Yan Huan smiled at Ye Lan, then she reached out and knocked on Yan Huan's head, scolding him.

"But it's just a keychain. How could it be possible to waste so much labor?"

Yan Huan covered her head and dodged Ye Lan's weak fist.

"So it's just a plot in the novel. But Auntie, you are similar to the CEO in the novel who makes millions an hour. Isn't it the same for you to spend time looking for a very cheap keychain?"

Seeing this, Ye Lan smiled even more. She reached out and rubbed Yan Huan's hair, but didn't mess it up.
"Shiyu rarely loses things. If no one touches them, she will basically not neglect them. Although it seems troublesome, it actually doesn't happen very often. And you should have noticed that besides dolls, her favorite thing is jellyfish."

"Yes, but we just checked the surveillance and no strangers approached her bag along the way."

"Yeah, that's why it's so strange this time. Maybe she really dropped it in the aquarium by mistake? But I can't possibly trouble others with such a thing."

Ye Lan touched his head with a smile and said to Yan Huan,
"The things she lost were important, things she cherished and had her name on them. I know that anything with her name on it cannot be replaced by buying another one, but this was just between me and her.

“To others, it’s just a cheap keychain.

"I am willing to come back to help her look for it because I am her mother, so I also consider things that are special to her special. This kind of specialness cannot be measured by money, and I don't have anything else to do tonight.

"How can I ask others to come and work on this kind of thing late at night on a weekend just because they are special to me? So, I feel really sorry for bothering Xiao Huan to accompany us to visit Auntie so late at night."

Yan Huan didn't really care. After all, going back later could avoid being hypnotized and attacked by Ye Shiyu.

But the temperature around was gradually warming up, I don’t know if it was because of Ye Lan’s smile at this moment.

"No wonder, driver Liu just now said he wanted to get off to help, but Auntie refused."

"Yeah, originally she only needed to send us home before she could go off work, so she should take a good rest after get off work, so let's take a taxi home later~"

Today is the weekend and the driver is working overtime. In fact, he only needs to send Ye Lan here in the morning and pick her up in the evening. He doesn't need to be on call all day to get a day's overtime pay.
For some reason, Yan Huan suddenly felt like tearing up when she heard Ye Lan say this.

Maybe it was because he died suddenly from working overtime in his previous life. At this moment, when he heard about a leader who would not give orders after the normal working hours, he suddenly had the illusion that he had met him too late.

"Auntie, I will definitely work under you if I have the chance in the future."

When the emotion reached its peak, Yan Huan suddenly said this seriously.

If auntie doesn't give up, I would like to become your leader?

"Ha ha ha ha."

Ye Lan was amused by Yan Huan's serious look again. She rubbed Yan Huan's head lovingly and said,
"Well, considering your level of excellence, it shouldn't be difficult. But don't regret it when the time comes, Xiao Huan. Because Auntie is lenient in this respect, but not in other aspects."

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Looking at Ye Lan's smile which suddenly turned a little sinister, Yan Huan didn't know if it was too early to say this.

But he is only in the first year of high school, and he is not yet at the stage where he needs to make an urgent career choice. It doesn't matter if his mind is full of possibilities of choosing a future life path.

It’s a bit like “Grandpa and grandma, I want to be an astronaut when I grow up.”

Just as Ye Lan was rubbing Yan Huan's head, Ye Shiyu came down the escalator with an expressionless face and a bad look on her face.

The result was obvious, she still didn't find it.

Seeing this, Yan Huan stood up and took the initiative to suggest,

"Sister Shiyu, can I go up and look for it again?"

Ye Shiyu glanced at him, then turned her eyes slightly to look at Ye Lan who was rubbing his feet.

His mother had been walking around in her high heels for the whole day, and he had been following her many times looking for her.

Besides, it's just a keychain. Although I like it very much, it would be useless even if I throw it away and give it to someone else.
Thinking of this, her brows suddenly frowned slightly. She didn't know why this idea suddenly popped up in her mind.

The thought was very faint, just a fleeting thought, but she clearly valued everything she owned the most.

In the past, Ye Shiyu also lost something, but she gave up the idea of ​​looking for it because she felt sorry for her mother and didn’t want to trouble her.
but!

But there is no such situation that the desire for the treasured things will be reduced. Instead, it will feel more regretful after losing them.
Because of the sudden thought that popped into her mind just now, her face became extremely cold and angry, as if she was nauseated.

The cell phone in her hand suddenly lit up, this time with an evil deep purple light.

Yan Huan raised his eyebrows upon seeing this.

Are you angry?

Just because you can't find that keychain?
But why is the modifier also lit up? Who can you hypnotize if you can’t find anything?

Seeing her unhappy expression, Ye Lan put on her high heels again, fastened the straps and stood up.
"The mall will close in twenty minutes. How about Xiao Huan and I help you look for it again?"

The cold expression on Ye Shiyu's face faded slightly after she heard her mother's gentle voice. Then, she shook her head and said,

"Forget it, Mom, let's go home."

"Then mom will buy you another one tomorrow."

"No, let's go."

Ye Shiyu shook her head and prepared to leave, while Ye Lan looked at Yan Huan beside him helplessly and said doubtfully,

"Today your sister is even more irritable than before. She wouldn't be so angry before even if she couldn't find something."

Yan Huanze kept staring at her back, not knowing what he was thinking about.

It was a bit unpleasant to end the day's cheerful atmosphere with something like this, and the atmosphere even became more silent in the taxi.

After returning home, Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu went upstairs to rest. Aunt Chen was in the laundry room on the first floor, preparing to wash the clothes that the driver had brought back earlier.

Seeing this, Yan Huan was a little curious.

Ye Shiyu has already put her name on it, what should she do if she washes it? After watching for a while, I found that Aunt Chen would take off the name stickers first.

Aunt Chen saw that he was interested, so she explained,

"These name stickers are only temporary. She will sew her name on them later. Shiyu is very good at sewing. The lady hired a very good tailor as her teacher."

While sorting Ye Shiyu's clothes and preparing to put them into a separate washing machine for washing, Aunt Chen said,
"The clothes on the dolls in Shiyu's room are all made by her. Hey, Xiaohuan, you haven't seen them yet, right? Let Shiyu take you to see them tomorrow."

"Okay, if there's a chance."

Yan Huan smiled and said a few perfunctory words, but in fact he felt that it was unlikely that Ye Shiyu would agree.

The coat she wore before was just because I touched it and she would never wear it again. I didn't see that coat among the clothes I gave to Aunt Chen for washing.
She really hates other people touching her things.

At least that's the case for outsiders like Yan Huan, but it would not be the case at all for Aunt Chen and Ye Lan.

Aunt Chen can wash her clothes. The clothes Ye Lan was wearing before were also Ye Shiyu's.
Thinking about this, Yan Huan also prepared to go back to his room to rest.

"There's milk in the kitchen, Xiao Huan, remember to take it and drink it."

"Okay, thank you Aunt Chen."

Carrying the milk, Yan Huan went up to the room on the second floor.

Turning on the light in the room, I saw a black cat sitting there elegantly on the sofa.

"Meow~"

"Nyan-chan."

"You're back, how are you today?"

After putting the milk away, Yan Huan fell onto the sofa with a tired body, causing some shock, but because Miao Jiang was very fat, he was not moved at all.

"What else can we do, just like that."

Turning around, Miao-chan had already jumped on him, looking at him and asked,
"What happened?"

"Well, how should I put it?"

Just as he was about to say something, Yan Huan's expression suddenly changed.

So he hurried to the door and locked it.

"Click."

After doing all this, he relaxed a little, walked back and lay down on the sofa again.

While drinking milk and looking at the black cat with its head tilted in front of him, he asked,

"Nyan-chan, what do you think is the connection between the doll and the jellyfish?"

“Is this a riddle?”

"It's Ye Shiyu. The host of this modifier has two favorite things. One is a doll, and the other is a jellyfish. Is there any connection between them?"

Miaojiang tilted her head and asked,
"Have it?"

"Should I ask you or should you ask me?"

"But, the things humans like are very complicated, and there is not necessarily a necessary connection between the things we like."

Yan Huan drank the milk in one gulp and sighed.
"She is not a normal person. Her love for dolls and jellyfish obviously exceeds that of ordinary things, so I always feel that there is a reason. Also, it was strange to go there today, as if there were ghosts."

Ye Shiyu's things were suddenly lost. Ye Lan said that she was very careful in keeping her things and seldom lost anything. Ye Shiyu thought about it several times and felt that she had not opened the bag.

But the keychain disappeared inexplicably.

Although it is possible that it fell into the aquarium, I still feel like something is wrong.

This day
Ye Shiyu's favorite dolls and jellyfish.

The inexplicable loss of the jellyfish keychain and her inexplicable anger.

The two are like basketball and chicken to each other.

It seems like they have nothing to do with each other, but if you connect them, you can vaguely see a strange figure in overalls.
That's probably how it feels.

At this moment, Yan Huan suddenly thought of something and picked up his mobile phone to take a picture of Miao Jiang next to him.

"Click."

The cute little cat appeared and was recorded by the camera. Yan Huan opened Plane and sent the message to Vice President Sakuramiya, whose avatar was a white cat.

After sending an emoticon pack of "This is today's friend fee", Yan Huan typed and asked,
"Vice President Sakura, are you free now? I have something to ask you."

Vice President Sakuramiya loves kittens and is very knowledgeable about them, so you'll usually get something out of asking her.

After waiting for a few minutes, the name on the other end first changed to "the other party is typing", and then Yan Huan's screen went black and turned into caller ID.

Yan Huan turned on the Bluetooth headset, put it on and clicked to answer the call.

He smiled slightly and asked the person on the other end of the phone,
"Isn't it cute, kitty?"

"Yeah, very cute. Is it the cat that Aunt President keeps at home?"

The female voice on the other end of the phone came softly, as smooth as silk.

"No, it's a stray cat I picked up and I've been raising it lately. I call it Meow-chan."

Miao-chan beside him yawned loudly when he heard this.

"so."

Sakuramiya Hitomi did not comment on the good name Yan Huan came up with, but instead guessed the real topic of Yan Huan's speech.

"President, would like to ask how to raise a cat?"

“Ah, no.”

Yan Huan smiled and asked:

"I want to ask, Sakuramiya, why do you like cats?"

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There was a sudden silence over there.

"Vice President Sakura?"

“Because it’s cute.”

Just when Yan Huan wanted to ask further questions, Sakuramiya Hitomi suddenly spoke without any frame, catching Yan Huan off guard.

"emm"

Cats are cute, but are jellyfish cute?
It seems to be okay, but I always feel that it is not the correct answer.

The illusory figure in overalls gradually disappeared, as if telling Yan Huan that this was not the correct connection between basketball and chicken.

"Besides this?"

"President, you mean to ask, besides their appearance, what qualities do I have in cats that make me like them?"

Yes, could it be related to some quality of jellyfish?
"Hmm, what qualities does Sakuramiya like in a cat?"

"Well, because cats are very independent, but they can act like a spoiled child to their owners when they need them. They are strong yet fragile, just like children. They are independent individuals, but they have to rely on their parents. Besides being cute, this is the only reason."

Vice President Sakuramiya sighed and explained,

“But, President, everyone likes something for different reasons.

"Maybe there is something in it that they desire and lack, maybe the thing itself is similar to them, maybe it makes them feel safe and comfortable, and so on.

“So, there are always a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Rather than saying that people like the object itself, it is better to say that they like themselves who reside in the object.”

Listening to the pleasant voice of Vice President Sakuramiya, Yan Huan suddenly had an inspiration.

The nature of the deficiency
The image of Ye Shiyu's beautiful profile as she watched the jellyfish today emerged unconsciously in his mind.

She stared blankly at the fluorescent jellyfish in the tank, watching them move in the water by spewing water.

Exercise, that lively exercise.

The black eyes reflect the glowing jellyfish in the tank, like tears.
It seems like the chicken feet are exposed.

"Thank you so much, Sakura."

Yan Huan sat up suddenly and said this to the female voice in the Bluetooth headset.

Although it was just a guess, it finally gave him some idea.

Of course, that is also something that should be done tomorrow.

After hearing Yan Huan's thanks, the female voice on the other end of the phone fell silent.

Then, Sakuramiya Hitomi guessed again,

"President, why do I feel like what you really want to ask is not why I like cats?"

"I'll remember that, Sakura."

Yan Huan is also a good learner, and she learned how to speak from zero frame.

"what?"

"I remember why you like cats
Sakuramiya Hitomi sighed helplessly.

".Well, forget it. Anyway, it's related to your family affairs, so I shouldn't comment on it. Go to bed early, President. I'm glad I can help."

"You too, goodnight."

"Ah."

After hanging up the phone, he took off his Bluetooth headset and looked towards the door.

Well, there was no knock on the door.

It looks like tonight is Christmas Eve?

This shouldn't be the case. Yan Huan thought that she would definitely vent her anger on him because of the loss of something tonight.

The result is nothing?

There is no better way, who wants to be hypnotized.

Yan Huan shook his head, stood up, stretched his muscles, and prepared to wash up and go to bed.

Outside the stairs, Ye Shiyu, who had changed into pajamas, was coming up from downstairs with a cell phone and milk.

When she reached the second floor, she glanced in the direction of Yan Huan's room.

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She seemed hesitant, but after a moment's silence, she turned and walked towards the third floor.

Because she had other things to do tonight.

(End of this chapter)