Who Moved My Mountain

      Poor baby Yan~~~ XD getting bullied by the ladies of the Lu family. No more fish meals, no birds…. ahahhaa

15 minutes later, Jiang Yan arrived at the Lu residence. When he entered the main entrance, Lu Hua Nian was coming down the stairs and got a fright upon seeing him. She sized this nephew of hers up and down a few times before speaking: "Jiang Yan, what"s going on with you? Is your mother preparing to send you to the army?" 

Jiang Yan"s maternal grandfather was a commanding officer in the army. Their family had a tradition of sending their male descendants to the army for training. That"s why Lu Hua Nian said so. 

"Nothing like that, I just… just wasn"t satisfied with the previous appearance so I"m changing my image. What do you think, aunt? Isn"t it more manly?1 Jiang Yan touched his own head in embarra.s.sment while feigning to be especially satisfied with his current appearance. 

Satisfied your fart!

Since he ran into that White Bone spirit last time, he didn"t go out the door for a few days. He trembled with fear every time he went to sleep. Once he closed his eyes, he recalled all the words of love he spoke to Luo Feifei. 

After pondering his painful experience, Jiang Yan felt that looking too handsome invites disasters. While his mind was still hot, he went and shaved the hair on his head to a crew cut look. Those flashy clothes at home were also put away. When he went out today, he only wore a simple T-shirt and a pair of trousers. 

Is image more important than life?

"Manly? I think you resembled a parrot2!" Lu Hua Nian had an astonished expression as she looked at Jiang Yan. She poked his forehead and spoke: "Did something irritate you recently? Broke up with a girlfriend? Rejected by the girl you confessed to?"

If nothing happened to him, how could he suddenly change so much? This nephew of hers was previously a refined boy ah. Now with this crew-cut hair, his attractiveness index had gone down by a half.

Also, don"t know if he could still perform?  Lu Hua Nian thought in her mind and showed a dislike expression towards Jiang Yan.

Girlfriend?

Jiang Yan"s expression changed when he heard this word. In the future, n.o.body could mention the word "girlfriend" to him. Once it was mentioned, he had a conditioned reflex, the tip of his nose seemed to be flooded with a fishy odor and a satiny greasy sensation.  

"Aunt, I"m still young. I should place my thoughts on my career. How can I think about these male and female relationships every day? Moreover, I think marriage is not a necessary stage in a person"s life. So for the time being, I"m not prepared to find a girlfriend." 

Jiang Yan spoke in dead earnest.

Lu Hua Nian looked suspiciously at her nephew, feeling that he was a little strange at this time. This youngster, because he looked good since young, plus he studied music, he had been very popular since senior high school.

His character was such that, the higher the opinions, the more unrestrained he became. His methods of flirting with girls were endless, but he was never serious to anyone. Today why was he so abnormal, Lu Hua Nian knitted her brows and asked: "Jiang Yan, you wouldn"t suddenly discover your own s.e.xual orientation and actually like men, right?"

Jiang Yan"s face turned black: "……. aunt, just say, what you are looking for me for?"

"Aunt just wants you to help with something." Recalling the matter, Lu Hua Nian also no longer made fun of him and her face showed a kindly smile. 

Jiang Yan subconsciously contracted his neck and spoke cautiously: "Aunt please instruct on the matter. If I can help, I will definitely lend a hand. No need to request politely ah. Isn"t this something that a nephew should do?"

Jiang Yan still remembered clearly the last time Lu Hua Nian exposed such a smiling expression. It was 10 years ago during winter. At that time, the Lu family and him went together to the countryside to worship the ancestors. When pa.s.sing through a pool, Lu Hua Nian incited him to go and catch the huge goose by the roadside. As a result, before he could even touch the big goose, his thigh was already clamped by the big goose"s beak.  

Afterward, he was chased by the big goose for 2 miles. The shrieking sounds were all covered by the noise from the firecrackers. Up til now, he still didn"t dare to eat the bird species like chicken, ducks, goose, all these things. If he happened to come across anything with wings, he would make a detour. How much injury was done to his young mind?

That"s why now that he saw Lu Hua Nian expose this kind of smiling expression, Jiang Yan automatically trembled. 

"Actually it"s a small matter." Lu Hua Nian"s smile turned even gentler. She pulled Jiang Yan and spoke: "Come, let"s go upstairs and talk. It just happened that this matter is related to your grandmother."

Jiang Yan relaxed a bit when he heard that Jiang Shu Hua had something to do with this matter. This grandmother treated him quite well and wouldn"t deliberately tease him.  

The two people arrived at the rooftop. In the villa, Jiang Shu Hua made a hanging garden with a gla.s.s covering the top. Whenever the weather wasn"t good, they would go up to the rooftop to drink tea. When the weather was good, they would go to the courtyard. At this time, she was in the middle of having afternoon tea.  

She jumped in fright when she saw Jiang Yan come over and was stunned for two seconds before speaking: "Jiang Yan, your style is not good ah."

Jiang Yan felt his mind was like a double-edged sword. Several people already said that he didn"t look good but he couldn"t explain that his good looks would attract people to commit crimes. For his own safety, he could only dress up uglily. 

Jiang Yan forced a bitter laugh and spoke: "Grandmother, why did you call me over?"

"Sit down first and talk." Hearing him mentioned this, Jiang Shu Hua immediately became excited and pointed to a chair. "Jiang Yan ah, we want to ask you to a.s.sist us in performing a play." 

Jiang Yan stared blankly for a moment before speaking: "What play?"

QwQ Jiang Yan you"re not the only one feeling miserable, me too… I am now afraid of opening the windows for fear that beetles will come in flying, I need to keep my sanity… who asked them to come out with the nice weather and to be able to fly T^T

Footnotes:

1: his manly here actually means, lean, tough like a martial artist.

2: here it"s a word play, manly : 英武, parrot : 鹦鹉 sounds the same: yīngwǔ.