Chapter 95 Gu Ye (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 95 Who is actually in the body?
In the following days, Gu Ye went back and forth between the two families. At first, Gu Decheng had some opinions, but he knew he couldn’t control Gu Ye, so he stopped paying attention to him. The twins from Yu Ze’s third sister’s family became familiar with Gu Ye, calling him uncle sometimes and aunt sometimes. They like to follow Gu Ye around like two little followers.
One evening, Gu Ye was walking the dog when Ling Zihao (the younger twin) called him, “Uncle, my parents went abroad, and my grandparents went to my aunt’s house because my aunt gave birth to a baby.”
Gu Ye also recently learned that Yu Ze’s third sister is a jewelry designer, and his brother-in-law is in the same industry. The two are very famous in that industry and often travel around the world. Gu Ye followed the child’s tone and said in surprise, “Wow! Doesn’t that mean you two are the only ones left at home?”
“We are at Grandpa’s house.”
Gu Ye heard that the child’s tone was wrong, and asked softly, “Do you want me to go there now?”
Ling Zihao explained aggrievedly, “We have a stage performance tomorrow. Grandpa is old and we are afraid that he will get heatstroke if he goes out. But Uncle (YZ) doesn’t have time to watch it either. He is always busy. Uncle, can you come?”
So that’s what happened. Gu Ye said happily, “I can. I’m not busy and I’m not afraid of heatstroke. Where are you guys performing? What time? I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning.”
Hearing that, the child’s mood was obviously much higher. Ling Zihao said, “We will go to school as usual tomorrow morning. The teacher and makeup artist will help us with the makeup and costume change. We will go to the Children’s Palace to participate in the performance at 10.00 am.”
Gu Ye thought about it. It seemed that the journey from their school to the Children’s Palace was only a few minutes, and they could catch up in time. “Then I will pick you up before 8.00 am.”
The next morning, Gu Ye arrived at Yu’s house at 7.30 am. The two children had just eaten and were dressed handsomely. They were holding their performance clothes in their hands. When Gu Ye arrived, the two children ran to him happily. Old Master Yu asked concernedly, “Have you had breakfast?”
Gu Ye smiled and said, “Yes, our family eats breakfast early.”
Yu Ze usually doesn’t come back to stay in the ancestral house and without him at home, Gu Ye feels slightly uncomfortable. Since the two children were ready, he didn’t stay for long. He held one in each hand and said to Old Master Yu with a smile, “Then I will take them away. If we finish late at noon, we will eat outside.”
After getting in the car, Ling Zihao crawled over and hugged Gu Ye’s neck. He happily kissed him on the face, “Uncle, love you yo~”
Gu Ye was amused by the child’s innocent expression, “You little flatterer, sit down quickly.”
Ling Zihao crawled back happily, stretching his arms and legs like a hyperactive person, while Ling Zijun looked quietly outside the car, too lazy to pay attention to him.
On the way, Gu Ye asked curiously, “What are you going to perform?”
Ling Zihao said happily, “I will play the drums, and my older brother will perform Tai Chi.”
The difference in genre made Gu Ye chuckle, “You two have very different hobbies.”
Ling Zijun said seriously, “The teacher said so too.”
Half an hour later, Gu Ye took the children to the kindergarten. The headmaster and teachers were waiting for the children at the door. When they saw Gu Ye leading the children out of the car, they all greeted him with surprise, “Mr. Gu is here.”
Ling Zihao said happily, “Teacher, today is our uncle taking us to the performance.”
“That’s great, so happy, right?” Teacher Wang bent down and gently touched the child’s head, “Then let’s present a particularly good performance to your uncle today, okay?”
After greeting the two children, Teacher Wang said politely, “The children who are going to participate in the performance are already putting on makeup, you can just take them there.”
A slightly older girl waved to Gu Ye, “Uncle, I’ll lead the way for you.”
Gu Ye led the two children to follow the girl. There were already more than a dozen parents accompanying their children to put on makeup. The professional makeup artist hired by the kindergarten came over with a smile when she saw the twins coming, “You are their…?”
Lin Zijun introduced seriously, “Our uncle, surnamed Gu.”
“Mr. Gu, please wait here for a moment. Let the children change clothes first, and then come back to put on makeup.”
Gu Ye nodded. At this moment, a little boy ran out of the boy’s locker room in a ballet skirt, followed by a teacher. The teacher was chasing him and calling him, “Nian Nian! Zou Nian! Don’t run away, come back quickly!”
Gu Ye’s eyes darkened slightly when he saw the child.
The child ran towards his mother, looked up, and asked innocently, “Mom, do I look good in this dress?”
When the child’s mother saw the clothes he was wearing, her body obviously swayed unstably. Her face turned pale, her lips trembled, and she couldn’t speak.
The child kept asking, “Mom, don’t I look good in this little skirt?”
The teacher came over and said helplessly, “This is for little girls. Where did you get it from? Take it off.”
Zou Nian hugged his mother’s legs, pouted, and said aggrievedly, “I brought it myself.”
The teacher coaxed Zou Nian patiently, “You can’t wear this. You have to do a drums performance with Ling Zihao from Class 1 today, not ballet.”
“No, I don’t know how to play that. I want to dance ballet.” The child was also very stubborn. He was pouting like a little girl, and quite willful.
This obvious lie made the teacher frown, “The performance will start soon. Now is not the time to throw tantrums.” The teacher looked at the child’s mother, hoping that the child’s mother could help stop it. Unexpectedly, she saw that the mother’s expression looked very ugly. The teacher asked worriedly, “Mama Zou, are you okay?”
Mama Zou squatted down, hugged her son tightly in her arms, and asked apologetically, “Teacher, can we change the program?”
It’s already too late at this point, so the teacher felt troubled to suddenly change the program, “It can’t be changed now, there is no such program.”
Seeing the teacher’s troubled look, Mother Zou lowly coaxed Zou Nian with a pale face, “Stop making trouble, change back quickly.”
“I won’t change! I don’t want to wear boys’ clothes!”
Gu Ye saw this and his expression became more and more ugly. At this moment, Ling Zihao’s little head popped out from the dressing room, “Uncle, I can’t wear my clothes well.”
Gu Ye glanced at Zou Nian and walked to the little boy’s dressing room. The costumes for playing drums were pretty cool, but there were a few small accessories that the child couldn’t wear by himself. Gu Ye hung up all the accessories and took the opportunity to touch the child’s belly, which was indeed plump.
Ling Zihao was amused and jumped twice on the spot, asking, “Uncle, am I handsome?”
“Handsome!”
“Can you take a picture of me?”
Gu Ye took out his mobile phone. The child has a lot of requests, “Uncle, squat down to take pictures so that my legs look long.”
Hearing that, Gu Ye looked at Ling Zihao’s body proportion of 3-heads tall and was amused. He really wanted to say that the pose would make his belly look bigger. Ling Zihao saw that he had finished taking the photo and happily ran over to take a look. Then he gave a thumbs up and said, “It looks better than my uncle’s photo. My uncle took my photo like this.”
Saying that, Ling Zihao makes a gesture. Gu Ye was amused again when he saw the action Ling Zihao mimicked. That is a looking down point of view.
Ling Zihao asked concernedly, “Uncle, have you posted on WeChat Moments?”
Gu Ye didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “I’ll post it for you guys in a minute.”
On the other side, Ling Zijun had already put on his clothes. He was wearing long pants and a robe, which looked a bit like a Tang suit, but there was a belt around his waist for ease of movement. The child couldn’t tie it properly, and it fell off after walking a few steps.
Ling Zijun came over and said embarrassedly, “Uncle, this always falls off.”
Gu Ye narrowed his eyes and teased Ling Zijun, “Is it because you can’t tie it properly yourself?”
Ling Zijun pursed his lips and nodded. Gu Ye squatted down and helped to tie the belt. “You should learn from your younger brother. If you have any requests, you should raise them. Don’t always hold them back. You should know that ‘face’ (reputation) is a bastard. You should kick it when you need to1. Your belt would have been tied earlier if you did that.”
Ling Zijun made a flying kicking motion, “Kick!”
Gu Ye nodded, “Yes, kick it away. Don’t let yourself be wronged.”
Ling Zijun smiled and his eyes curved, “I understand. If someone messes with me again in the future, I will just say, scram!”
Gu Ye: “… About that, you don’t need to be so straightforward.”
When Gu Ye brought the two children out, the little boy named Zou Nian had already put on makeup, and it was ballet-style makeup. Gu Ye heard a parent next to him talking about this. The teacher didn’t believe Zou Nian could dance ballet just now so the child danced a bit on the spot, and he danced very well. But the program list has been recorded and published, thus the child should not be able to go on stage anymore. Even so, the child still insisted on putting on makeup. Nobody knows what Zou Nian’s parents were thinking, but it seems that they don’t care.
Wearing a little tutu skirt, Zou Nian took the schoolbag from his mother like a little girl, took out a pair of little red shoes from it, and put them on.
The white ballet skirt paired with red coarse cloth dance shoes, this incongruous pairing made the teacher look unhappy. However, Zou Nian’s mother did not stop the child’s absurd behavior at all. Gu Ye looked at Mama Zou again and frowned once more. When Zou Nian’s mother saw the pair of shoes, she collapsed against the wall and trembling all over. It was obvious that she was not in a good state. Some teachers were worried and called the school doctor over.
A teacher walked over to Gu Ye and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, Ling Zihao and Zou Nian were originally scheduled to go on stage together. Now Zou Nian doesn’t want to play the drums, so Ling Zihao can only go on by himself.”
Gu Ye looked down at Ling Zihao, “Can you do it by yourself?”
Ling Zihao shrugged his little shoulders, fearless.
Gu Ye smiled, “If he says it’s okay, then it must be okay. If the older brother can go on stage alone, so can the younger brother.”
Hearing Gu Ye’s affirmation of himself, Ling Zihao jumped up happily, with “I can do it” written all over his body!
After the examination by the school doctor, Zou Nian’s mother was in good health. Zou Nian wanted to watch the show so his mother relented and went to the Children’s Palace with everyone. The parents were sitting in the front row. When the teacher was arranging the seats, Gu Ye deliberately walked to Zou Nian’s mother, so they were arranged to sit together.
Judging from Mama Zou’s appearance, she seems to be in her forties. There were too few parents at this age having children who were only four or five years old. Gu Ye looked at the mother who was still in shock and asked tentatively, “Are you okay?”
Zou Nian’s mother pulled a forced smile from the corner of her mouth, “I’m fine, thank you for your concern.”
Gu Ye smiled, “It’s hot now, it’s easy to get heatstroke, adults should also pay attention.”
Zou Nian’s mother nodded, “That’s what happened.”
Soon, the children were ready to go on stage. Since the event was just beginning, they needed to create a lively atmosphere. Everyone thought that the first one to go on stage would be a child from an older class, but unexpectedly, a little kid who was obviously smaller came up and played solo. Parents applauded one after another. Ling Zihao was a crowd-pleaser. He was happy when someone praised him. He held the drumstick in his hand, like a little adult, and every cell in his body was showing off.
Gu Ye smiled and picked up his mobile phone to record him, then posted it to his circle of friends after recording. At this moment, a young couple next to Gu Ye saw that he had finished recording and asked in a low voice, “Excuse me, are you Master Gu Ye?”
Gu Ye widened his eyes in surprise. Is there anyone here who can recognize him?
“So it’s really Master Gu. I saw you look familiar, but I didn’t dare call out at you. Is this child who just came off the stage someone from your family?”
Gu Ye smiled, “My nephew.”
The couple praised Gu Ye and Ling Zihao and wanted to ask Gu Ye for his contact information, hoping that they could ask Gu Ye for a fortune-telling after the children’s performance. At the side, Zou Nian’s mother heard them flattering Gu Ye so much, and she hesitated a bit before asking Gu Ye, “Are you a master?”
Gu Ye whispered, “Yes, exorcism, ghost hunting, fortune telling, feng shui, check 5 elements, check Bagua… I can do anything in this regard.”
Zou Nian’s mother stopped talking and kept her head down. She held her phone so tightly that the joints on her fingers turned white from the strong force. Gu Ye smiled and asked, “Do you want to add me on WeChat? You can chat with me privately if you have any questions, especially about your daughter.”
Zou Nian’s mother raised her head in horror, “My daughter?”
At this moment, another child came on stage. Gu Ye didn’t say anything more and concentrated on watching the performance. Zou Nian’s mother didn’t ask again until the show was about to end, then she whispered, “Can I add you as a friend?”
Gu Ye smiled and opened the QR code on his phone, then he looked up at the stage. The last show was by Ling Zijun, the finale, and it was another solo show.
After Gu Ye saw Mama Zou had scanned the QR code, he immediately opened the video recording function. As soon as Ling Zijun came on stage, the audience curiously asked, “Why is that kid playing the drums earlier here again? He is so versatile.”
“Not really. They should be twins, one character in their names is different.”
“Pff! This one is thinner, the first one earlier was a little chubby.”
Gu Ye’s mouth twitched, it’s over. This sentence was also recorded. Ling Zihao would be angry when he came down later.
Ling Zijun learned Tai Chi from Old Master Yu. His postures were very cool and he performed in a good manner. He had a tight little handsome face and was incredibly serious. In the end, he received a warm applause. To be fair, Gu Ye also posted this video to his circle of friends.
Zhao Pengyu was amused and sent a message to Gu Ye: [Hahaha, I finally don’t have to take care of the children! Little Auntie, you’ve worked hard!]
Gu Ye replied to him without hesitation: [Scram!]
It was past 11.00 am when the performance ended. Gu Ye walked out with the two children and just caught up with Zou Nian getting into the car with his mother. Now, Zou Nian had put on boy’s clothes. He had obviously just cried and looked unhappy. Seeing Ling Zihao, the child showed envy in his eyes.
Gu Ye didn’t say much and took the children to eat. It was the other party’s freedom to seek him out or not, and their fate was in their hands.
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At 1.00 am, in a small villa, Zou Nian’s mother heard a noise in the dressing room. After realizing what it was, she didn’t dare to say anything. She quietly walked to the dressing room and saw a small figure through the crack in the door.
The small figure was wearing a red skirt and a pair of red shoes. Sitting in front of the dressing table and holding a lipstick in hand, the child had painted his mouth into a weird bloody color. Sensing that someone looking at him, the child turned around. His usually clear pupils were strangely pink. He called sweetly, “Mommy~”
Zou Nian’s mother trembled all over, and tears instantly overflowed from her eyes. Her son never called her Mommy. The only one who called her that was her daughter who had passed away many years ago. The child jumped off the chair and ran to his mother happily. The corners of his mouth curved up, but inexplicably there was a bit hint of evil, “Mommy, did I behave well today?”
“Yes, very well.” The mother collapsed in despair and cried out while holding the child.
The next day, Gu Ye received a message from Zou Nian’s mother: [Master Gu, I want my son but also my daughter. Please, help us.]
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