Chapter 420

Wait a second, it seems like there's a problem somewhere.

The background of that ape reconstruction image really does look quite a bit like Moon Tide Lake.

F*ck, this monkey is me.

No wonder this kid said he made me look thirty thousand years younger!

This isn't looking younger, this is regression!!!

The woman took back her phone. Even though her hands were clenched white, she still forced a smile and thanked Lin Li, almost through gritted teeth: "It... it's not bad."

After all, Lin Li was helping out for free at her request; there was really no reason to give him a cold shoulder or blame him.

She could only blame herself for making the wrong choice—knowing a person's face doesn't mean knowing their heart.

"Ma'am, you don't have to say such insincere things. It's mainly because I'm not used to using your phone, and I don't know if there's a problem with the phone's light sensitivity; as soon as I adjusted the brightness, it went straight to the lowest setting. Otherwise, it wouldn't have turned out like this."

Lin Li usually didn't study photography; the reason he could always take perfect photos of Chen Yuying was simply because she was Chen Yuying, but he couldn't say it like that, so he tried to salvage the situation with some apology:

"How about I take a few for you with my phone? This time I guarantee it'll look like a person!"

Lin Li really wasn't used to shooting with other people's devices.

Recording might be a bit better, but the lady needed photos, not videos.

"No need, no need," the lady waved her hands repeatedly, embarrassed but still polite, her smile becoming increasingly strained, "I actually... don't really want to take them anymore..."

It seemed he had completely lost the lady's trust.

Lin Li didn't mind, but Chen Yuying, standing to the side, smiled and stepped forward: "Ma'am, how about I take them for you?"

"Can you? Then please, young lady!" The light returned to the lady's eyes.

With Chen Yuying taking over, the results went without saying. The lady soon regained her human status. Looking at the photos on the phone with their excellent composition, lighting, open background, and clear subject, a genuine smile finally bloomed on her face, and she thanked her repeatedly.

After comparing, these photos looked pleasing no matter how she viewed them.

"You're welcome."

After bidding the lady farewell, Chen Yuying returned to Lin Li's side, continuing to feed grain into the lake or by the railing.

Lin Li hummed an off-key tune, admiring the mountain and water scenery before him. What they were doing didn't matter; as long as Chen Yuying was by his side, it was cozy and comfortable enough in itself.

"Do you two want to feed them too?" The sound of Chen Yuying asking someone other than himself caught Lin Li's attention, and he followed the sound.

He saw that beside Chen Yuying, two four- or five-year-old girls had appeared out of nowhere, dressed and looking exactly the same, as if carved from the same mold.

They must be identical twins.

They were standing on tiptoes, their little hands gripping the railing posts, their round eyes shining as they watched the little ducks and fish happily scrambling for food.

Hearing Chen Yuying's gentle inquiry, one of the little girls looked up and nodded vigorously: "Mm!"

"Then you two feed them too." Chen Yuying squatted down, handed the feed bag to them, and said gently.

"Thank you, big sister!"

Watching this scene, Lin Li felt that Lin Shouying and Lin Ziwei would have a wonderful childhood.

What about Wu Min? Learn from this!

Seeing the two little girls excitedly start feeding the fish, their movements and expressions both very cute, Chen Yuying couldn't help but touch one of the girls' heads: "Are you two twins?"

"Mm!"

"Then which one of you is the older sister?"

"It's me, it's me! I'm the older sister!" One of the girls immediately raised her hand excitedly, not forgetting to carefully wipe her hand, which was stained with some feed powder, on her clothes first before raising it high, her face full of pride.

Watching this scene, Lin Li sympathized with Wu Min; he wasn't this cute when he was little.

He bent down beside Chen Yuying, his gaze landing gently on the other little girl who hadn't said much, his voice becoming even softer: "Then which one of you is the younger sister?"

The other girl looked at Lin Li upon hearing this: "Big brother, are you a f*cking idiot?"

Lin Li, Chen Yuying: "(; o_o)?"

The next second, Chen Yuying: "(*▽*)!"

—Haha, how awkward~

If Lin Li hadn't asked that question, Chen Yuying, who also thought the two little girls were cute, was about to ask the exact same thing~

Good thing Lin Li asked first~

"..."

Among the four people present, the first to make a sound was still Chen Yuying.

"Pfft—"

An extremely short, muffled laugh leaked out from the girl's tightly pursed lips.

But seemingly feeling that mocking her own boyfriend wasn't very good, Chen Yuying raised both hands to cover her mouth and the lower half of her face, trying to seal the surging laughter back in.

However, with the twin sister's innocent eyes still visible in front of her, written with "Is this big brother really a f*cking idiot?", humans simply cannot hold it in.

That gaze didn't even have a hint of malice, only innocent confusion and a trace of... pity.

Her shoulders shook uncontrollably, and even the corners of her eyes were forced to produce physiological tears.

"Mm... hng... hehe..."

Laughing until her whole body went limp, Chen Yuying tipped over to the side, her forehead bumping into the side of Lin Li's leg with a thud. She instinctively reached out her arms, wrapped them around Lin Li's calf, and pressed her cheek and forehead tightly against it.

But she was still laughing, still laughing!

Chen Yuying really wanted to look up and see Lin Li's expression at this moment, but she was afraid that if she looked, her sanity would truly be gone.

Lin Li: "..."

Baby, your laughter is a bit noisy to the sensitive, insecure, and fragile me.

At this moment, Lin Li's expression even maintained the same smile as before; the only difference was that it was now stiff.

"Little one, using bad language isn't very nice, you know." Lin Li tried hard to maintain an awkward but polite smile, attempting to provide gentle education.

"Sorry, big brother, I couldn't help it just now." The little girl apologized immediately.

Lin Li: "..."

Hey, you brat, you're being even more excessive like this, you know that?

Speechless for a moment, only Chen Yuying's restrained light laughter remained.

The twin sister also seemed to sense the weird atmosphere, stopped feeding, and holding the feed bag, she and her sister looked somewhat uneasily at the stiff-smiling Lin Li.

Lin Li slowly squatted down, one hand pressing on a shoulder and the other around a waist, forcibly lifting Chen Yuying up—"You two keep feeding, the rest is all for you to feed! Big brother and big sister have things to do, we're leaving first!"

He understood Wu Min now; actually, spanking kids is human nature, especially when the abstract kid is your own child.

Anyone who can hold back from spanking them is a god-tier person.

But you can't spank other people's children, so Lin Li decided to spank the wind.

So... run away!

And Chen Yuying, who let Lin Li carry her away, saw Lin Li choosing to flee and could no longer hold back; her unreserved, bright laughter echoed along the lakeshore.

"Still laughing!" Lin Li patted Chen Yuying in annoyance, "We're in this together, we share the glory and the shame, and you're still laughing?"

"Ya—!"

Chen Yuying straightened her back abruptly as if scalded, the blush that laughter had painted on her face deepening and spreading in a flash.

Lin Li had patted her butt (へ╬).

But seeing Lin Li still anxiously running away, Chen Yuying didn't know if Lin Li had done it on purpose, intentionally, or deliberately.

"You—"

Chen Yuying reflexively wanted to spit a few words at Lin Li, but the aftershocks of the laughter that had swept through her whole body were still surging within her, not yet dissipated.

Shame and the urge to laugh uncontrollably fought violently within her, ultimately causing her expression to present an unusually vivid distortion.

Yay, the impulse won.

A few pats on the butt are just a few pats on the butt; compared to being shy and angry, Chen Yuying wanted to mock Lin Li even more right now.

Therefore, the young girl reached out and patted Lin Li's butt in retaliation. While the thought 'it's much, much harder than my own' surfaced in her mind, she laughed and teased: "~Brother~ are you a f*cking idiot~"

Chen Yuying rarely used bad language; it was rare for the words "f*cking idiot" to come out of her mouth.

But it would be even better if it wasn't scolding himself.

Having already moved far away from the viewing platform, Lin Li slowed his pace slightly and turned his head to look at Chen Yuying. Although Lin Li was also smiling, while smiling, he didn't forget to bite his lower lip with his upper teeth to show his "annoyance."

"Still imitating, huh?!"

Lin Li prepared to make a move again, but unfortunately, he was anticipated: Chen Yuying had already covered her strategic high ground with her palms facing outward.

After successfully blocking, Chen Yuying pursed her lips and hummed a smug, light laugh. Her pair of smiling eyes were written with "a pervert is indeed a pervert," and carried a bit of provocative smugness.

"Why are kids these days all like this? Not joking, the time I started using bad language was at least in preschool, a year later than them."

Lin Li was thick-skinned; being looked at like this, his expression remained natural, and he turned to lament this terrible world again.

"Someone who started using bad language in preschool has no right to look down on them!" Chen Yuying said irritably.

"It was at least a year later, isn't that a big difference? Besides, back then, if I learned bad language, I definitely wouldn't have dared to say it in front of adults—to be precise, I still avoid it now." Lin Li argued strongly.

Even the demon-child Lin Li wouldn't have said "Brother, are you a f*cking idiot?" to a big brother when he was little.

"That's true." Chen Yuying acknowledged this point.

"I can only say that kids these days are exposed to the internet too early." Lin Li couldn't help but start worrying about the country and the people.

Nowadays, so many kids are addicted to the internet. Everyone says the internet has pros and cons; Lin Li currently only saw the cons the internet brought them, but what about the pros?

Oh, remembered, the pro is setting off bombs in Genshin Impact.

Then let's modify that: these kids currently only see the pros of the internet, but what about the cons?

Oh, the con crashed the plane.

Eh, then only Klee is left on the internet.

"No, I think kids should be exposed to the internet more." So Lin Li corrected his thought.

Chen Yuying: "?"

Why, in less than three seconds, did Lin Li start refuting himself?

But she was used to it. Chen Yuying smiled and shook her head, gently pushing Lin Li toward the bicycle: "Alright, keep riding. Let's just treat this as children speaking without taboos, and besides, the question you asked was indeed... hmm."

"''Hmm'' what!! This is just human nature for adults teasing kids, right! Normal people would say that too, right?" Lin Li complained while hopping onto the bike.

But considering these two were little girls, it was indeed taboo-free, so Lin Li forgave them.

"It's rare to hear a normal ''normal person'' from your mouth, eh." Chen Yuying smiled and wrapped her arms tightly around Lin Li's waist, then gestured with her chin toward the front:

"If we ride for another ten minutes or so, there should be a small pier for renting small boats. Let's go play on the lake, it'll also let your legs rest."

"Okay."

"Boating on Moon Tide Lake, all worries disappear!"

Just as Chen Yuying said, after riding for another ten minutes or so, they saw vendors on the shore shouting.

Parking the bike, the two came before the vendor: "Boss, rent us a boat."