monster he just wants to be a good guy

What a monster you are.

When Lu Xiaoan woke up the next day, the sun was already high, and he didn't know how long he had slept.When I went out, the living room was empty and no one was at home.

"Are you awake?" Lu Man's voice came from outside the house, "There is lunch left in the pot, we've eaten it all." Lu Xiaoan lifted the lid of the pot, and inside were simple scrambled eggs with tomato and stir-fried cabbage sum.His empty stomach rumbled like thunder, and he realized he was hungry enough to eat a cow.

Lu Xiaoan cheerfully brought it out and prepared to feast on it, then picked up a dish and ate it into his mouth.

"Lu Man—you're in the kitchen again?!" Shocking roars erupted in the room.Lu Man, who was chopping wood by the chicken coop, trembled, and almost cut his finger with a flick of the knife.

He stood up, with the smell of being warmed by the sun on his body, Lu Man put the unformed doll in his hand into his pocket.

"What's the matter?" As soon as he entered the door, Lu Man saw the remains of the vegetables that Lu Xiaoan spat on the table.He picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the egg. "It's delicious."

Lu Xiaoan ignored him and decided to simply order a bowl of noodles for himself.

"Why aren't my father and the others here?"

"Auntie is still helping the wounded. I heard from Brother Zheng that they encountered a lot of monsters this time. Many uncles in the hunting team were more or less injured. The monster we encountered yesterday was following The hunting team, it’s too late to stop the ones being let into the village.”

"Uncle Lu repaired the drains in the village, followed me to see the situation in the swamp, and then hurried out of the village."

"I just came back and stayed for a long time... and went out of the city again? It's so dangerous outside now, and my father is not Brother Zheng. He just engages in technology, and he can't fight his shoulders or resist. How can he resist monsters?" Although Lu's father often Going out of the city alone, but this time Lu Xiaoan was more worried.

As a new generation after the "Great Cataclysm", he was born and grew up inside the wall.Although since childhood, all adults will emphasize to them the dangers outside the wall-there are monsters outside the wall who can eat people and don't spit out bones, and they will catch mischievous and disobedient children, who don't like learning, or picky eaters who don't eat vegetables... But Lu Xiaoan still has no idea what kind of danger exists outside the wall.

Yesterday was the first time that Lu Xiaoan knew what kind of monsters existed outside the fence, and the first time he understood what kind of danger the hunting team took to bring back supplies for the village.

"Uncle Zheng sent brother Zheng to escort him out, it's all right."

Lu Xiaoan felt relieved after hearing this, and took the freshly cooked noodles out of the pot.

The afternoon of the second day after returning from hunting is often the time to share the spoils.

Except for public goods such as bullets, gunpowder, and medical supplies, basically every household will be equally distributed with some basic living supplies, and the rest will be distributed according to work, and whichever hunted will go to whichever one.

Under the sun, Zheng Qingmiao's clean head shone brightly, and the earrings on her ears were particularly dazzling.Others also wore all kinds of earrings, but Lu Xiaoan felt that no one could look more energetic than Brother Zheng.

Every time I come back from hunting, the area of ​​the Zheng family is always the most conspicuous.This time is no exception.Zheng Qingmiao was carrying a deer and threw it on the ground. The various trophies of the Zheng family had piled up into a hill, higher than ever before. It seemed that the Zheng family had gained a lot this time.

Lu Xiaoan looked enviously at the direction of the Zheng family, and followed his brother to share the spoils of his family.

This time, what their family received was still the same as usual, only some basic materials that everyone had, vegetables, fruit seeds and saplings needed for farming, sickles, gloves, working boots and so on for labor.There are also a few pitiful rabbits.It's good that his father can hunt rabbits and voles.

Lu Xiaoan looked left and right, looked at his friends' homes which were in full swing, counting the quantities and carrying them back and forth, and then looked at his home's trophies that could be counted on both hands and could be moved in one trip, and sighed.

Just as they were about to turn around and go home with their things, Aunt Zheng, who was distributing supplies, stopped them.

"Hey, Xiao Lu, wait a minute, your family still has some."

She handed a small thing into Lu Man's hand.

It's so small, it can't be the little doll he wanted... His dad finally got the hang of it? !Lu Xiaoan curiously grabbed his brother's hand, wanting to see what kind of treasure he held in his hand.

Lu Man spread out his hands, in the palm of which lay a small, round white bead.

"What is this? Jewelry for my mother?"

Lu Xiaoan asked puzzledly, Lu Man also looked puzzled, and the two brothers raised their heads to look at Aunt Zheng, hoping to get an answer from her.

"I don't know what it is, but Lao Lu said it's for Xiao Man."

When I got home, Aunt Lu had already returned.Lu Xiaoan held out the round, bright white bead as if offering a treasure: "Mom, this is what Lao Lu brought back for my brother!"

Lu Xiao'an and Lu Man didn't research and understand what this round bead was used for all the way. Aunt Lu took a look and woke up the dreamer:

"Xiao Man is almost 15 years old, and it's time for her ears to be pierced and earrings." She put away the beautiful bead, turned around and searched in the room.

Lu Xiaoan was still a little jealous of his father's partiality, but all of a sudden the little jealousy in his heart dissipated.He knows the importance of earrings to every child.

There is a tradition in the village that every child, male or female, must have their ears pierced and wear earrings at the age of 15.Girls wear it on both ears, and boys wear it on one ear.

Qingmiao Village is outside the male-dominated village and inside the female-led village.After the boys are 15 years old, they have to start a three-year training to learn hunting, tracking, hiding and other skills. After that, they can join the hunting team to go out to resist monsters and collect supplies.After the girl is 15 years old, she will start to learn planting, sewing, breeding, etc. from the mother-in-law in the village to prepare for various affairs in the village in the future. Those who are interested in hunting also join the training with the boys of the same period.

And earrings are a farewell gift for every child to say goodbye to the carefree childhood.Every family will prepare the most beautiful earrings for their children. For example, the two sons of Zheng’s family wear colorful and eye-catching peacock hair earrings. It is said that they were picked up from the nests of rare birds outside the village. of.

The advantages of using feathered bird feathers as earrings are that they are easy to obtain, light in texture, and not easy to get wet with water.Most boys in the village wear feather earrings, while girls wear all kinds of earrings, including emerald, turquoise, agate...all kinds of radiant jade, many of which Lu Xiaoan can't name.

This small white round bead, Lu Xiaoan's mother said it was a pearl, Lu Xiaoan knew the name, he had read it in a book before, pearls are formed by shellfish living in the sea river, when foreign matter like sand and gravel invades and stimulates, Shellfish will wrap the core layer by layer to form crystal pearls.

Lu Man was still messing about with the chicken coop outside, as if he didn't care about making his earrings.

On the contrary, Lu Xiaoan was very thoughtful, dragged a small chair, and sat beside him holding his breath, watching his mother pinch a shiny silver bowl earring with small tweezers, dipped it in glue, carefully picked up the pearl, and put it on the earrings. It sticks to the stud.

Don't do anything, now that the earrings are done, the ear piercing should be done by the way.Aunt Lu called Lu Man from outside the house.

Lu Man was sitting on the chair with her back straight, and she saw Aunt Lu taking a needle with a thick and long hole from the drawer, rubbing Lu Man's earlobe with her fingers with a gentle smile on her face.

Lu Xiaoan swallowed, feeling that his brother was sitting on the chair like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

In fact, he is more afraid of his mother than his father, and there are almost no children in the village who are not afraid of his mother.After all, when you get an injection when you are sick, she will smile and talk to you softly, while sticking the needle in her hand without hesitation. Seeing her smile like a spring breeze, all children will feel a dull pain in their bodies reflexively.

Lu Man's face didn't change, he didn't blink and his heart didn't beat, the needle was hanging by the lobe of Lu Man's right ear, Lu Xiaoan's palms were already sweating and his heart was beating like a beating, and his heart was hanging on his throat.Looking at the shining needle tip, he was a little dizzy and nauseous. The doctor's child actually fainted from the needle, and he himself was ashamed to tell his mother about it.

Aunt Lu used her hands to pull away the earlobe that had been heated by her rubbing, pinched the needle, aimed at the thinnest part of the earlobe, and pierced it hard.

"Oh——" Lu Xiaoan covered his ears in a playful manner, as if seeing his own tragic fate three years later.Lu Man didn't frown, as if he didn't feel any pain at all.

"Does it hurt?" Lu Xiaoan asked him lightly.

"Aunt Lu's technique is very good, and it doesn't hurt at all." Seeing Lu Xiaoan's frowning face, Lu Man suppressed a smile and blinked at him.

In the next second, Aunt Lu picked up the pearl earrings, pulled out the needles, and was about to replace the earrings.

Lu Xiaoan saw that his mother had bent over and fiddled for a long time without putting on the earrings, and she was puzzled. Many children in the village came to his mother for their earrings. As an experienced ear piercer, she almost always It took three seconds every time, why did it take so long this time.

Lu Man was also a little confused. The tip of the earrings felt itchy when they touched the earlobe. He tried his best to keep his body still and asked, "What's wrong?"

Aunt Lu shook her head and sighed, "It's healed."

Lu Man and Lu Xiaoan fell silent.

"Do you want to come again?" Lu Man suggested.

Aunt Lu was not discouraged, she gave up looking for the pierced ear that no longer existed, and turned around to disinfect the piercing needle.

Until the end, Lu Xiaoan watched the needle pass through the earlobe, as if seeing a knife chopping pork, and his heart was as still as water, without any waves.The acupuncture fainting problem is cured, but his brother's ear piercing has not been done yet.No matter how fast Aunt Lu was, Lu Xiaoan even saw his mother's movements so fast that afterimages would appear, but as soon as the needle was withdrawn, his brother's ear healed extremely quickly.

"Why don't you just put the earrings in. I don't feel any pain." Lu Man sat quietly and obediently on the chair and let Aunt Lu play with his earlobe, and finally proposed such a move.

"The stud earrings are short, so it's not easy to bear the force. And it will be more painful, Xiaoman, please bear with it."

She cut the tip of the earring with scissors, aligned it with the ear hole, and stuck it down.

The blood dripped out and stained the pure white pearl.

This time it was finally done, Aunt Lu and Lu Xiaoan both heaved a sigh of relief.

Before putting on the earrings, Lu Man suddenly frowned and took off the earrings. "Shua—" Suddenly, a white shadow flashed in front of their eyes and flew out of the door.

"The system has been bound, and resources are being loaded...Hi, I'm Xiaoai, and I'm happy to serve you." Even though the earrings had been removed, the voice still lingered in his mind.

"Shut up, it's dangerous." He protected Aunt Lu and Lu Xiaoan, who were confused, behind his back in a protective gesture, and narrowed his eyes towards the direction where the earrings were thrown.

There was no one outside the door, the earring fell into the chicken coop, and the old hen was circling curiously around the earring, and even had a long neck to give it a hard look to see if it could eat it.

Like Lu Manfeng, he ran out, and took their only chicken back to a safe house before the chicken and the earrings reacted.

After that, Lu Xiaoan hugged the chicken, and the three of them stood behind Lu Man, watching him hug them back like a hen guarding its chicks, as if confronting an invisible monster.Seeing that Lu Man's expression didn't look like he was joking, the two of them looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and chose to keep silent by coincidence.

"It has been detected that the owner is under the age of 18. Do you need to turn on the youth mode?" The voice was sweet and emotionless, and it sounded directly in the back of my mind. Lu Xiaoan and Aunt Lu obviously didn't hear it.

"What kind of monster are you?"

"I'm not a monster. My name is Xiao Ai. I'm the latest smart housekeeper, the best partner of mankind. If you want to know more about monsters, I can introduce you... Please wait a moment, my resource library is still available. Why can’t I connect to the Internet after loading it?”

The author says:

Xiao Ai: What about my internet?What about my big network?

It may be that the signal in the chicken coop is not good.

Brother Lu: Hehe.

A cheat in the non-traditional sense, to brother Lu, ta is just an emotional navigation tool XDD