Walking the Path of a Workaholic in Cliché Novels (QT) Chapter 103

An Yinong looked at him, and the sound of his heartbeat became louder.

“Are you ok?”

A clear voice, like the sound of broken jade, brushed past his eardrums, causing him to tighten his fingers and wrinkle the smooth silk shirt.

When An Yinong came to his senses, he found that they were very close to each other. A pair of beautiful phoenix eyes were looking at him. The person was smiling, highlighting a scarred eyebrow, which gave him a hint of evil charm.

“Sorry.” An Yinong quickly stood up straight, forcing himself to ignore the strange feeling of being supported on his waist.

The man was wearing a Chinese-style double-breasted jacket made of black satin. His fingers were slender and his thumb was wearing a emerald green jade ring, which had just touched his waist.

His skin was a little pale, and his lips were a little bloodless, but he looked very noble. Even though his expression was a little stunned, he still had a powerful, calm yet distant aura. It would be somewhat inconsistent for a young man in his twenties to wear a black satin Tang suit, but the man in front of him wore it very tastefully, and there was a special classical flavor.

No matter how good-looking he was, he was still a stranger. Why did his heart beat out of control when he saw this person? An Yinong raised his eyes to look at him, but unexpectedly this person was also looking at him. Their eyes met, time stood still, and peach blossoms flew everywhere.

“…” An Yinong waved away the peach blossoms with some instinctive resistance.

As if noting An Yinong’s resistance, the man took a step back, leaving enough social distance.

An Yinong asked: “I didn’t pay attention, sorry sir, did I hurt you?”

“No.” The man reached out and touched the scar that crossed his eyebrow, frowning slightly. “Are you scared by my appearance?”

“How could that be? Sir, you are so handsome.”

“Really?” The hostility between the man’s eyebrows dissipated, with a smile on his face, and the faint scent of sandalwood drifted over. His eyes brushed across An Yinong’s earlobe, where there was a small ear hole: “See you next time, lovely beauty.”

“What?” An Yinong didn’t understand at first. When he realized what was happening, the man had already walked to a black car, and a man who looked like a driver and bodyguard opened the car door.

He reached out and touched his earlobe and felt a little hole. It was where the original owner had it pierced when he was a child. He was often sick when he was young and was raised as a girl for several years.

“Wait! I…” But the car had already driven away.

“I was scared to death.” Zhang Wei walked over, “This man is so scary. I couldn’t even breathe.”

“Scary?” An Yinong felt strange. “What’s scary about him?”

Zhang Wei was particularly surprised: “Don’t you think this guy is a big shot that you can’t mess with? And on the waist of his bodyguard… I’m sure it must be a gun. You actually flirted with him just now?”

“When did I tease him?”

“Didn’t you just say he was handsome?”

An Yinong: …That couldn’t be considered flirting, right? Objectively speaking, he was quite good-looking, mature, experienced, and elegant, with a scar on his eyebrow that told a story. Okay, he was only slightly inferior to his husband.

“Awei and Agang, do you think I look like a girl?” An Yinong thought about it, how could he look like a girl?

Zhao Gang didn’t say anything, but Zhang Wei was already feeling uncomfortable when he was staring at him, and when he heard him utter some doubtful words in that soft, neutral voice, he touched his nose and blushed.

“…I see.” He will go back and practice the martial arts he had learned.

Because of the fall just now, the three of them changed their waiting place. They walked to a bench outside the cinema and ate while waiting. The soda was not too large, so he finished it in a few sips and returned the bottle. An Yinong also bought a roll of melon seeds.

“The spiced ones are delicious.” An Yinong ate melon seeds, “But I prefer the sweeter ones.”

“Beauty! Beauty!” Along with a strange accent and the sound of birds flying, a bird fell from the sky and landed steadily on An Yinong’s shoulder, scaring him.

“Bird?” Zhang Wei and Zhao Gang both stretched out their hands, “Tiantong, don’t move!”

An Yinong didn’t dare to move his shoulders.

Zhang Wei and Zhao Gang stretched out their hands, as if trying to grab the bird.

“Wait a moment.” An Yinong asked the two of them not to act rashly. He took out a melon seed and tentatively placed it next to his shoulder.

The bird tilted its neck and actually ate it. An Yinong then discovered that the bird was a native parrot with a bean paste-colored face.

“Where are you from? Do you have an owner?”

“No, it’s delicious, give me some more.” The little parrot made a sound to ask for more. Judging from the way it answered fluently, its logical thinking ability was comparable to that of humans.

Voice of the heart? This was the second animal he had encountered that could hear the “voice of the heart”. What a coincidence, it was a parrot?

He fed it another small piece and asked tentatively, “How about I buy you some melon seeds?”

“Okay, okay.” The little parrot spread its wings, “Wait a minute, beauty, I’ll go call my friends!” Then it flew away without waiting for An Yinong’s response.

Zhang Wei and Zhao Gang were very disappointed: “He ran away.”

“He will be back in a while. I’ll go buy some melon seeds.” An Yinong went to buy some more melon seeds. The vendor rolled up a cone with newspaper and poured the melon seeds into it. He asked for a large portion, and the vendor filled it up.

“Why did you buy so many melon seeds?”

“Feeding the parrot.”

“Tiantong, you are so naive. You don’t think the parrot will come over again, do you? That was an accident just now.” Zhang Wei said.

“Yes, this little parrot is obviously wild, how could it come back? You bought so many melon seeds and you can’t eat them all yourself.” Zhao Gang also shook his head, still regretting that he didn’t catch the parrot.

Zhang Wei and Zhao Gang both believed that the little parrot would never come back, but they were soon slapped in the face. A few, no, a group of birds flew over. In addition to the flower-headed parrot just now, there were also common birds such as sparrows, red-eared bulbuls, magpies, robins, kingfishers etc.

The little parrot perched on An Yinong’s shoulder, and other birds landed on the ground or flew in the air. The large number of them alarmed the people waiting to watch the movie nearby.

They were surprised and talked about it: “Is it a street performance?”

There are also children pointing here: “Mommy, I want it too.”

The little parrot waved its wings, pointing at its kingdom like a domineering president: “Beauty, these are all my good friends.” An Yinong stretched out his hand and let the little parrot jump onto his finger: “You have invited so many friends, what should I do if I don’t have enough melon seeds? Or you can be a little bit wronged and give them to other birds?”

The little parrot raised his head and thought seriously: “Then I eat it and they watch it, is that okay?”

He couldn’t help laughing. An Yinong bought three big bags of melon seeds and treated the little parrot and its friends well.

There were so many birds of various kinds, but he could only hear the parrot’s “inner voice” and communicate with him. An Yinong guessed that this golden finger had a trigger condition. At least ‘smart’ should be one of the reasons, as parrots were one of the smarter species of birds. This discovery made An Yinong very happy. He didn’t really want to become a “beast language master”, at least not now.

“None of them ran away!” Zhang Wei and Zhao Gang were so immersed in the joy of being able to pet real birds that they almost didn’t want to watch the movie anymore.

Anyway, they can watch movies anytime, and it’s not often that they can touch so many birds.

“Tiantong, you are so awesome! Are you a wizard in fairy tales? How can you call so many birds?” These were a group of wild birds, not pigeons in the square that had long been fed by humans.

“It wasn’t me who called it, it was this little parrot.” An Yinong stretched out his hand to show them the little parrot that was eating happily on his finger.

“Do you want to keep it?” Zhao Gang asked.

“No, just be friends.”

Half an hour passed quickly, and the next movie was about to start. Just at this time, the melon seeds were all eaten, and An Yinong raised his hand, and the little parrot flew up, and the other birds also flew up.

“Beauty, I’ll come see you next time.”

“See you again if we’re lucky.” He smiled and waved to the flock of birds.

“Come on, wash your hands.”

“Wash your hands again?” Zhang Wei and the other man looked at their hands.

“Of course you have to wash it, after touching a wild animal.”

After the three of them washed their hands, the movie they were waiting for finally began. The trio checked their tickets and entered the theater. When almost everyone was there, the lights in the cinema dimmed and a beam of light passed through and hit the screen in front of them. An Yinong only felt a flash in front of his eyes, and a few large, angular characters appeared on the grainy canvas: Dragon and Tiger Hall.

Then, the scene changed and several men in shorts appeared fighting, and the speakers on all four sides played the opening music and sound effects that were very characteristic of the era.

“Great! It’s Aying!” An excited male voice came from behind him.

“Hey, please keep your voice down.” There was also a soft female voice.

After the exciting fighting scene, the main film began with a small border town. Merchants wearing hats passed by with a camel, and behind them was an incredibly blue sky. An Yinong was stunned for a moment. Although the background and props were very rough, at that moment, he seemed to see the Northwest.

This was a martial arts movie, and what everyone was most looking forward to were the fighting scenes and the adrenaline-pumping plot.

“The actors are really hardworking. They can roll down such a high slope in no time.” Zhang Wei exclaimed, still immersed in the fight scene.

Zhao Gang, who had another idol standing beside him, also nodded repeatedly.

Nowadays, martial arts actors fought with real guns and swords. He hit the tree stumps several times on the way down, and it was painful just watching. Moreover, the movements were beautiful, clean, neat and powerful. One can tell at a glance that they have been specially practiced. Maybe they were learned from the boy’s kung fu.

They were all discussing the plot of the movie, but An Yinong was suddenly reminded of many memories.

The setting of the movie was very similar to the Xizhou he had visited. Passers-by were wearing coarse cloth clothes and hats, the background was a single-story house made of earthen bricks, and occasionally there was desert scenery.

The “Storybook County Magistrate” had been on the move all his life, staying in a place for three years and leaving just when he got familiar with it. But he never felt lonely because home was always by his side. In the darkness, An Yinong’s eyes were covered with moisture, and he suddenly felt a little sad.

“Sir, the day after you left, I missed you.”

It was said that time was the best medicine, which would dilute many things in life. One day in the future, would he also look at the past and Gu Zhengzhong with such a calm attitude?

He had an urge to write down his past feelings, even if it was just as a souvenir. However, thinking of the original owner’s terrible dyslexia, An Yinong gave up this plan.

“In fact, if I can’t write it, I can draw it.” An Yinong suddenly thought, “Just like the original owner’s dream, to be a cartoonist.”