On the way home, Bai Yao took Mu Muer to the market along the way to buy his favorite durian egg tarts and dried fish, and let him eat them while strolling, as compensation for taking away the macarons.

But after walking this way, Mu Muer remained quiet.

This kind of Mu Mu'er is a bit abnormal, he usually sees delicious food, and he will jump on it, just like a greedy cat, but today there is no such thing.

Bai Yao stared at him from the corner of his eye, wondering what he was thinking secretly.

The little thing lowered his head, as if he had something on his mind.

"Yaoyao." After a few minutes, Mu Muer finally couldn't help but speak.

Bai Yao responded, "Huh?"

He thought that Mu Muer was tired or wanted to ask what to eat tonight, but he heard him whisper, "The baby in my sister's stomach is so big, it's like a pumpkin." He thought for a while, and added another sentence , "Where did the baby come from?"

Bai Yao never thought that Mu Muer would suddenly ask this.

How to explain this.

After knowing that Mu Mu'er was not born with mental retardation, Bai Yao thought several times how much he really understands about many things, whether he knows what a boyfriend means, and the concept of "together".

It's clearer now.

Bai Yao deliberated for a long time before opening his mouth, worried that he had said the wrong thing, "When two people like each other very much, they can stay together, live together, and see each other every day."

like.

This concept is easy for Mu Muer to understand, and at the same time, it seems that there is a layer of separation. He asked carefully: "How much do you like it?"

"I like it very much, and when I feel that I can't like it any more..." Bai Yao paused for a moment, narrowed his eyes and thought for two seconds before saying, "You can kiss and hug."

"Oh." Mu Mu'er seemed to understand, but she didn't seem to understand, she fell silent, lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking.

After a long while, he asked again: "Then... what do you mean by kissing and hugging?"

"Kiss and hug." Bai Yao chuckled, raised his hand to remove a leaf from Mu Mu'er's head, "Does the little sea otter understand?"

Bai Yao suddenly remembered the first time he was learning physics at school. The physical education teacher was talking about the physical structure of boys and girls on the podium, and also played a PPT with detailed pictures. The pointer clicked on the screen.

A group of men in the class were stunned when they heard this, and the girls lay on the table with their heads covered. The whole class looked like they were being tortured.

He pulled up the corner of his mouth a little, raised his hand and pinched Mu Muer's arm, and let him look at him, "Don't worry about it, little thing, and Muer doesn't have to worry about it. This is just a situation where both of you are willing to become The baby's father and mother."

Bai Yao didn't know who would be lucky enough to accompany this little sea otter for the rest of his life. He hoped that it could be him, and it would be good to be by Mu Muer's side in any capacity.

"Doesn't the baby have a father?" Mu Mu'er was very good at grasping the point of Bai Yao's words, "Where did father go?"

Jing Xiaoqing lost contact with that man a long time ago, who knows where that man went, it's fine if he doesn't come back, otherwise Bai Yao might have the urge to beat him to death.

Bai Yao was thinking about how to explain to Mu Muer, but he went on talking on his own.

"It's okay, Mu'er will be the baby..." He thought for a while, and then announced loudly, "Be a big brother!"

Bai Yao pressed down on Mu Mu'er's upturned head, and said with a smile, "I don't even think about whether I want you to be my brother."

The two walked on the cobblestone road in the small town, there were no people around, and the surroundings were quiet. Bai Yao was already thinking about the next thing, but Mu Mu'er suddenly spoke in a very serious voice: "Mu'er is too."

His tone at this time was inconsistent with usual, as if a child had stolen an adult's clothes and imitated his parents' way of speaking.

This sentence has no beginning or end, and Bai Yao didn't understand it at all. After thinking about it, he still didn't know what he meant, so he asked at a loss: "What is it?"

After asking, Mu Muer didn't speak again, he played with the snack bag containing dried fish in his hand, a little absent-minded, as if he wasn't the one who spoke just now.

Bai Yao knew him well, so he was reluctant to say it. But he wanted to hear it, so he pinched Mu Muer's cheek and encouraged him, "Say it."

"I like Yaoyao so much."

Still nothing.

Bai Yao thought for a long time before he understood what he meant, his heart was as soft as a long-standing peach. But he still said: "Wait a minute, you shouldn't like me like this now."

The words were soft, Bai Yao didn't intend to let Mu Muer hear, but the boy heard it clearly, and asked curiously: "Why?"

Mu Muer sincerely didn't understand, seeing that Bai Yao didn't speak, he asked, "Why not?"

There is more than one reason.

Two years ago, Bai Yao met a White Rabbit Spirit who moved to live in the town. That person was young, and he looked like he hadn't even graduated from college, so he told Bai Yao that he came to experience life on the island.

The two dated for almost half a year and lived together for two months. Bai Yao had never had a boyfriend before, but when he met someone he liked, he almost gave his heart away.

Later, Bai Yao accidentally heard the quarrel between Wen Yue and his father on the phone, and realized that there was not a single truth in the rabbit's mouth.

Wen Yue saw that she couldn't keep lying, so she confessed to Bai Yao.

He only dated Bai Yao because Bai Yao was a snow leopard spirit.

The point is that Bai Yao is not human, and it is not only Bai Yao, as long as he is not human, anyone can do it, just to blackmail his old man and prevent him from getting involved in the modeling industry so that he will never find a human partner in his life.

When Wen Yue confessed, she couldn't see any trace of guilt, and she packed up her things and left the next day without even saying hello, as if she had never been here.

Bai Yao was completely deceived. From then on, he thought that he would never look for an animal spirit as a partner in his life, and should find a human being, like most small animals in the world. Hiding his identity, he lived a life no different from ordinary people.

Snow Leopard and White Rabbit have no future at all.

What about snow leopards and sea otters?

He was worried that he would hurt Mu Mu'er, that he didn't understand the complicated details, and that there was someone better than him who could accompany this boy outside.

He was most worried that Mu Mu'er didn't understand anything, and that he would accidentally hurt him.

But if someone really came suddenly and took Mu Mu'er away, Bai Yao's heart would feel as painful as swallowing a sharp needle just thinking about it.

Bai Yao thought for a long time but couldn't come up with an answer that could make Mu Muer understand and be satisfied. Finally, he gently rubbed the boy's hair and continued walking.

After a while, there was a "cracking, licking, licking" sound from behind, like a little hamster holding melon seeds. Those who didn't know it thought Bai Yao was followed by a little mouse.

Mu Muer happily ate his small dried fish behind Bai Yao's back, and didn't care that the question she asked didn't get an answer.

For him, whether Bai Yao let him like him is not in his consideration at all. It is one thing for him to like Bai Yao, but it is another thing entirely to let Bai Yao not let him. They do not interfere with each other at all.

Bai Yao didn't let him still like his Yaoyao.

Before he knew it, he had already reached home, and Mu Muer was about to open the door. He was full of thoughts that there was still half a watermelon in the refrigerator that he hadn't finished eating yesterday, and he wanted to eat it with a spoon.

Before he could enter the courtyard, Bai Yao stopped him: "Mu'er, go, accompany me to the beach."

Mu Muer was puzzled and looked back at the restaurant. At this time, Bai Yao is usually ready to open a shop. Usually, he wants to play with Bai Yao, but he is not free.

But he was a thousand willing to go out to play, and he had no objection at all.

"Okay." He jumped and took two steps, took Bai Yao's open hand, and took the initiative to walk to the long staircase by the sea.

In fact, as long as he is with Bai Yao, Mu Muer is very happy no matter what he does, he doesn't care where he goes at all, he only cares that the people around him are his favorite Yao Yao.

After going down the stairs to the beach, Bai Yao asked Mu Muer to take off her shoes, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to get sand in them. The sand has been exposed to the sun for a day, and the bare feet feel warm when stepping on it. It feels delicate and comfortable, and the whole body instantly relaxes.

Bai Yao held his own and Mu Muer's shoes in his hands, so that the boy could free up his hands to eat the egg tarts and dried fish that he hadn't finished. He squatted down to help Mu Muer roll up his trousers, and arranged them at a height that was just enough to splash water on the shore.

In the distance to the left of the beach, there seems to be some crew filming, with several cameramen surrounding the backdrop. There are several light stands on the sand, and two staff members holding reflectors stand at the side. The sunlight just refracts to their positions, which is a bit dazzling.

There were not many people, and there were no actors to be seen. It might be a small low-cost film.

Usually TV dramas or movies come to Qiaohai Town to take pictures, which is not a big deal, after all, the seascape in autumn here is as beautiful as a fairyland.

Bai Yao glanced casually and then looked away.

There was a filming crew on the left, so Bai Yao took Mu Muer to the right, looking for a quieter place for a walk.

Now there are hardly any tourists coming to the beach, and no one can be seen for a day. The weather is getting colder and winter is about to enter. In the off-season of tourism, there are only two ferries to distant islands every day, and there are basically no people on it.

There is a little salty taste in the sea breeze, and the sound of waves rolling and washing the beach is in my ears.

The wind at the beach was strong, and Mu Mu'er was so blown that she couldn't open her eyes, she moved a little behind Bai Yao, and instinctively looked for Bai Yao as her shelter.

This is the place where Bai Yao met Mu Mu'er for the first time.

He couldn't be more glad that he chose to peel potatoes outside that day, and he was more than glad that he chose to help the soft and poor little sea otter by letting him stay in his diner.

Mu Mu'er has a strong observation ability, sensitively aware of where Bai Yao was looking lost in thought, he looked in the direction Bai Yao was looking at, and remembered the day he saw Bai Yao.

He carefully looked up at Bai Yao's face, licked his lips, and whispered, "Mu'er usually doesn't go ashore."

"When you go ashore, you will be bitten. Mu'er will hide in the water, and wait for them to leave. After they leave, Mu'er will come up to bask in the sun." He couldn't stop talking at the beginning, and the words became more and more.

"Other sea otters are very stingy. They eat a lot more than Mu'er, and give them all the scallops Muer finds."

He didn't mean anything in particular, he just wanted to share these things. Because these things happened before meeting Bai Yao, Bai Yao didn't know, so Mu Muer wanted to tell him, just like telling a story.

"Mu'er has been thinking about it for a long time and still can't figure out why there are so many suns, why they don't want to part with Mu'er."

Even the sun is not given to him, Mu Muer always thought that the sun is something that anyone can have, but he doesn't have it, and he has to be careful if he wants to bask in the sun.

"That day, Mu'er was really hungry. All the scallops I found were taken away, and I couldn't find anything to eat after swimming far away." There was a bit of grievance in his voice that couldn't be concealed, "No Seaweed, think, think about lying on the sand for a while."

Mu Mu'er spoke very slowly, and would stop for a while after finishing a sentence, thinking about it before continuing.

This kind of slow and gentle speech is very soft, Mu Muer speaks without haste or rashness, and there is an imperceptible aura in her voice, which is clear and clean.

Bai Yao felt that the time around him seemed to slow down, all his attention was attracted by the soft boy in front of him, he didn't say a word, he didn't even want to blink, for fear of missing his every move, he quietly listened to Mu Mu'er slowly talked about his past.

He is willing to listen to Mu Muer's talk, it doesn't matter if he talks for a day or a night, he is willing to be his only audience.

"I'm too hungry to swim, so I'll take a rest. Come up and have a rest." Speaking of this, Mu Muer subconsciously went to ask Bai Yao's hand to hold it, and without looking back, she instinctively reached out and groped without questioning Bai Yao's hand. Definitely hold your own hand.

Bai Yao switched all the shoes he was carrying to his left hand, freed his right hand for Mu Muer to hold, and lightly squeezed the boy's hand.

Mu Muer lowered her head and glanced, her eyes revealed unconcealable joy, happily watching her hands being wrapped by Bai Yao's broad palms.

He was depressed because of thinking of unhappy things one second, and immediately became happy the next second.

He found that Bai Yao's palms and fingertips had a layer of not-thin-thick calluses, which should have been ground from years of hard work, and he felt a bit itchy and numb when touched in the palms of his hands.

Mu Mu'er quietly touched the cocoons on Bai Yao's fingertips twice, but didn't dare to touch them too much, for fear that Bai Yao would find out.

These hands are very beautiful, Mu Muer thought so. Not only is it beautiful, but it is also very safe. When you are held by it, it is like finding a sturdy log cabin in a storm. After hiding in it, you find that the fireplace inside has a small flame that is just right.

Seeing that Bai Yao hadn't spoken for a long time, he frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said hesitantly, "Yao Yao is not sad."

"If you don't go ashore, you won't see Yaoyao."

Bai Yao looked down at him, let go of Mu Muer's hand, put his arms around his shoulders instead, and pulled the person closer to him: "Well, I'm not sad."

After being quiet for a while, Mu Muer couldn't help it anymore, and started to make up stories to coax herself to play. The protagonist of each story is a little sea otter, and the little sea otter in each story is doing different things.

In the first story, the little sea otter met a bad-tempered seagull and quarreled with it.

In the second story, the little sea otter was chased and bitten by a shark in the deep sea, and managed to escape. The right web was bitten with a deep wound, which was very painful and bled a lot.

The third story tells that the little sea otter found a big and fresh oyster, but before he could find a place to hide it, he was snatched away by a particularly fierce sea otter. It could only go to bed hungry that night.

…

But the stories are not all sad. In the sixth story, the little sea otter meets a very nice person, who takes it home and gives it scallops to eat.

From the first night I met that person, this little wandering sea otter has had a home ever since.