Stop Thinking Chapter 9: How to teach

Chapter 9: How to teach

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Since he taught Gu Xiuhan to establish a spiritual barrier, Gu Xiuhan’s state had been so smooth that spiritual healing had not needed to be done much.

He could not be of much use in this area.

Maintenance of the robot arm needed him, but once a month maintenance was sufficient.

The rest was just a trivial matter of food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

Most of the ordinary people living in the capital star had robots to do most of the work, but the soldiers stationed outside would face a variety of environments, and some border stars were not even in the most basic survival environment transformation, not to mention the comfortable life of food and clothes.

Ruan Yu saw Gu Xiuhan’s wet training uniform, which was wrapped around his waist, and hesitantly said, “I can wash your clothes…”

“You can?” Gu Xiuhan appeared to be calm.

In fact, the construction of that energy star was quite easy, and there was nothing that Ruan Yu really needed to do when he went there.

He was just a ghost… want to ask a question.

“I can learn, you can teach me.” Ruan Yu proudly hooked his toes, “I couldn’t walk before, but I learned in a few days.”

Last night’s dream finally chiseled a crack in the gate that was on the verge of collapse.

Thoughts were the most uncontrollable things in the world.

And at this moment, it had become more and more difficult to control…

Ruan Yu had thin skin and tender flesh, and when learning to wash clothes, his hands were dipped in the slippery warm water dissolved with soap, and he would be soaked to a powder, boneless and soft.

In order to learn how to rub off the stains on the clothes, these hands were gathered left and right in Gu Xiuhan’s palm covered with thin calluses.

Wheat color wrapped around snow white.

Not only the hands, but also the thin body was nestled shallowly in the arms of the upright, sharp man.

He looked thin, but somehow all the soft flesh was in his arms.

The hot air behind him was gradually clouded and his ears were red, Ruan Yu would squeeze towards the sink in front of him as if nothing had happened, trying to distance himself from the charcoal-like body burning in the dark behind him.

But there was very little room to hide, and the submissive little mermaid didn’t dare to say so explicitly, not even understanding where the awkwardness was coming from, and would only beg him to take a break before teaching him…

–In Ruan Yu’s perception, he couldn’t penetrate the mental barrier yet, a scene out of the ordinary and hidden fantasy images, like a small group of boiling tar.

Burning.

Pungent.

Ruan Yu couldn’t hear, couldn’t see…

What a mess.

Gu Xiuhan quickly returned to his senses and erased the images in his head that were only fleeting in length.

The mind was not guilty, but the inner morality would judge him.

If the lower limbs were still fishtails, the tip of Ruan Yu’s tail would have been wagging like a puppy at this moment.

Gu Xiuhan’s cold jawline tightened and he spoke again, still in a solemn and ascetic manner, “No.” After a pause, a different angle to deny, “there is bad security.”

In terms of security, of course, no place was as good as the capital star, but the places other than the capital star and the border star were actually similar.

Besides, Ruan Yu considered himself no longer baby Ruan Yu, self-preservation measures remain.

“I can protect myself, last month I went to the research institute for a test, even Auntie Shen said I am very powerful now…” Ruan Yu’s voice was at first uplifting, but glancing at Gu Xiuhan’s unmoved indifferent look, the more he said, the more demoralized, the corners of his mouth drooped sadly, “… Even if I meet a Star Pirate, I have nothing to fear.”

Gu Xiuhan certainly knew how powerful Ruan Yu was, as he had seen the research institute’s test video.

But the security issue was originally a cover.

Gu Xiuhan lowered his eyes, the black pupils surging with cold air.

He didn’t wait for him to say anything, but Ruan Yu already slid down the sink and out of the bathroom, saying glumly, “I know, forget it.”

…

Ruan Yu said “forget it”, but in reality, he couldn’t.

He has been spoiled since childhood, how can he stand such an unreasonable cold and hard rejection?

But it was a tactical retreat, not to let Gu Xiuhan severely veto, leaving some room for compromise.

On the surface, Ruan Yu had cooled down on this matter, never mentioned it, and did not cling to others.

But these days when Gu Xiuhan and Ruan Yu meet eye to eye, they could read a kind of “if you don’t change your mind, I will come back later to hint you again” from the round eyes that pretended to be calm but could not hide half of the emotions.

And wherever Gu Xiuhan went, there was a small tail that thought it was hidden a few meters away, looking for something to say.

Gu Xiuhan, who could deduce the route of the alien species from several light years away, “…”

His hands were itching to pick him up.

But he could only pretend not to notice.

It was only when Gu Xiuhan began to pack the luggage to be taken away the day after next that the little tail finally pressed on and suddenly emerged from behind the bedroom door.

“Brother Xiuhan,” Ruan Yu knocked on the half-open door, probing as a passerby, with just the right amount of surprise in his tone, “packing your bags so soon, huh?”

If it weren’t for the professional soldier’s strong sense of anti-surveillance, he might have fooled him.

“Hmm.” Gu Xiuhan nodded his head.

He had always packed his things two days in advance, the antonym of procrastination.

Ruan Yu slowly came over to him, looking for something to say, “Do you need my help?”

“No, go play.” Gu Xiuhan got up and went to the checkroom to look for replacement training clothes. After looking for two sets, he turned around. Ruan Yu disappeared, and the original open suitcase lid was inexplicably closed, but the buckle was not completely fastened, as if the box was stuffed with a large item, and could only be half open and half closed.

Gu Xiuhan walked over, knife edge thin eyelids lowered, condescendingly, looking at the suspicious suitcase.

The right half of the box was stacked with several pieces of clothes folded into tofu blocks, while Ruan Yu sat carefully in the left half, the closed lid of the suitcase buckled on his head, the slender white little mermaid hugged his knees, like a pearl hidden in a clam shell.

“Look, your suitcase is quite big, I can sit in it.” Ruan Yu’s voice was extra soft because of his weakness, and he laughed awkwardly twice, “Haha.”

For fear of stepping on the suitcase, Ruan Yu kicked his slippers to the side, and corrected his problem of walking around barefoot, wearing socks on his feet. The forefoot gently stepped on the inside of the suitcase, the summer fabric was light and breathable, and could faintly glimpse a little foot’s slender outline.

Feeling Gu Xiuhan’s eyes suddenly become dangerous, Ruan Yu thought he was going to be angry, not daring to pave the way for the next half of the conversation, “…. Or you can just pack me away.”

“Ruan Ruan, come out.”

After a moment of silence, his tone of voice was clear.

But there was no need to observe his mental body to know that he was not angry.

Ruan Yu who immediately mustered up the courage to struggle more, not only did not go out, but also struggled to squeeze into the suitcase, muffled, “You were gone for so long, I want to go too ah. There is only aunt and uncle at home, they have to work, and there is no one to keep me company during the day…”

The words ended with Ruan Yu’s head being lifted off the lid of the suitcase, and a pair of arms were placed under his ribs, and the whole person was gently “taken” out of the suitcase.

“The start of the school year will be very good, there are many students.” Gu Xiuhan’s voice was low, “Behave.”

Ruan Yu was picked up like a cat, so he royally stuck into Gu Xiuhan’s arms, “But there are still more than three months before school starts.”

Perhaps it was because he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to stand up, Gu Xiuhan gave him a hug.

It’s the same as imagined, looking thin, but inexplicably soft.

I don’t know where all the meat is hidden.

A taut string was almost broken with this hug from Ruan Yu.

“This matter will not be discussed.” Gu Xiuhan suddenly withdrew his arm around Ruan Yu’s waist and took a step back.

The soft lining of the luggage still had traces of Ruan Yu’s sitting on it.

He was so good and pleading. He wanted to take him away just like that.

But…

Gu Xiuhan spoke, in a rare hard tone, “No chance.”

A final word.

Gu Xiuhan was so sure that the conclusion of the matter was that it was impossible for him to go with only his words.

This has happened since childhood.

Knowing that there was no hope, Ruan Yu completely wilted, did not eat actively, and did not play around on the shore, turned back to his original form then went to the bottom of the lake, aggrieved as he balled up into a fish ball.

Very sad.

He doesn’t understand what he did wrong, but it seems that Gu Xiuhan hates him.

At first Ruan Yu thought he was in a bad mood because of something else, but after observing these days it seems not the case, just focus on annoying him, probably because he was too clingy.

The anxious mental fluctuations spread to the entire artificial lake.

The aquatic animals in the lake that Ruan Yu raised as pets became restless.

Mermaid royalty unconsciously emitted spiritual influence that would make these small creatures worship subservient instincts, naturally anxious to Ruan Yu’s urgency.

A chubby jellyfish floated to offer Ruan Yu itself as a cushion, squashed flat head, but also tenaciously flashing a symbol of friendship with pearl white light.

A few sea anemones spread their long tentacles and tickled Ruan Yu’s tail fin.

A group of colorful ornamental fish anxiously circled around Ruan Yu, trying to do something.

…

Some of these creatures were brought back from Ruan Yu’s home planet by Gu Rong, and some of them were the descendants of those marine creatures.

Ruan Yu stroked the jellyfish’s soft and decompressed bag one by one, remembering what happened then.

After the acclimatization period, he no longer recognized the animals and everything seemed fine.

But he actually missed home, missed his mermaid mom and mermaid dad, but he didn’t dare to say so.

Baby Ruan Yu, who was as tender as a ball of cotton, was a little slow in the head and slow in understanding everything, but he understood that his home in the sea would never return, and that all his relatives with fish tails like himself were gone, so crying and screaming would not only be useless, but might also annoy his new relatives.

So little Ruan Yu always cried unusually quietly when homesick, but also picked the time when no one was around, secretly swimming to the shore, with short white fat arms on the lake rocks, tilted his head to look in the direction Gu Xiuhan had pointed out to him, the direction of the mother star in the Milky Way. The flesh of his face was squeezed flat by his arms, pursing his lips, tears dripping silently down his face, solidified into crystals.

The water in the artificial lake was strictly formulated in accordance with the composition of the seawater of Ruan Yu’s home planet, the taste and smell was so familiar, but the water was empty.

He was the same as Gu Xiuhan, from the early years of the mecha special forces step by step up, the hands and feet with a long experience in the sands of the tempered ruthlessness, the boy had his own set of requirements, but also accustomed to their own son’s hard and reticent character, Ruan Yu such a petulant little sweet boy he certainly was not used to, but also with Shen Jingya who tried to bring them closer complained that “I’m tired of watching, don’t let me watch”.

Once these harsh words were released, even if Gu Rong suddenly wanted to look at the wrong medicine, he did not dare to look at it openly, for fear of provoking his wife’s ridicule.

So…

After repeatedly “taking the wrong medicine”, Gu Rong constantly found excuses to shoo away the security guards of the monitoring center, through the lake’s high-definition monitors, so the crying baby could be alone.

After a long time, Gu Rong gradually figured out the little Ruan Yu’s mind.

So, after missing for half a month and reappearing, Gu Rong commanded a ship to return from Ruan Yu’s home planet with a pod full of marine life. After a series of sterilization and quarantine treatment, Gu Rong was laughed at by Shen Jingya who gave snorting muffled laughter until her neck was red and entrusted him to transfer these marine creatures to little Ruan Yu. Anyway, the artificial lake was big enough to transport a few whales in to feed them.

“Ruan Ruan’s… Little pillow ah.” Little Ruan Yu slurred the imperial language, let Shen Jingya hold him, struggled to pick up a large jellyfish from the water tank, and made a gesture to pillow his head on it.

This jellyfish was soft and pliable, very comfortable on your face, and when you poke it, it emitted a pearly white glow in the dark, and many babies like Ruan Yu liked to use it as a pillow on their home planet.

“Ee, little sea rabbit.”

She put down the jellyfish, and little Ruan Yu excitedly picked up a sea rabbit with his bulging hand and gave it a kiss.

After the kiss, his cheeks swelled with joy and he tilted his head and gave Shen Jingya a kiss on the cheek, saying sweetly, “Thank you, good aunt, beautiful aunt.”

Shen Jingya was so happy, but after thinking about it, she told little Ruan Yu, “Uncle Gu brought these back from your hometown, your Uncle Gu is just tough-mouthed, but he actually loves you very much.”

“Ruan Ruan knows that.” The little Ruan Yu furiously cocked his tail, and even compared, “Uncle looks at Ruan Ruan, and is gold.”

Words and expressions could deceive people, but the light gold was symbolic of the joy of the spiritual body that could not be deceived.

Gu Rong was a textbook case of a hard mouth and a soft heart.

Ruan Yu snapped back from his memories.