I Was Scammed By A Snow Leopard cub - Chapter 14

Chapter 14 – “Who is More Powerful, Luo Luo or Father?”

The hovercraft was slowly approaching its destination, and when there was only one intersection left, Xie Yingcheng suddenly called a halt.

On the sidewalk a dozen meters away, two figures, one big and one small, were particularly eye-catching.

Luo Yu was wearing a white shirt, the hem of which fluttered in the wind, and his expression was gentle. He was talking to the cub with his head down, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

The little boy he was holding in his hand was tilting his head back. His silver curly hair was almost transparent in the sun, and his pretty, innocent face made him look like a little angel that had descended from the sky.

The gloominess settled in the hovercraft quietly dissipated at this moment. Xie Yingcheng knocked on the window sill and said to Wen Yan, “Pull over in front.”

Wen Yan did as he was told without knowing why, and then watched in confusion as Xie Yingcheng got out of the car and walked up to the two strangers.

Then, he touched the silver-haired little boy’s head.

Wen Yan was still wondering if Xie Yingcheng met an acquaintance on the way and got off the car to say hello, but the next second he saw the little boy’s eyes light up and he ran towards him happily holding a giant rabbit.

Before he could react, the car door was suddenly opened from the outside, and a furry white rabbit head popped out. Tuan Tuan’s little face appeared close to the rabbit ears and pounced in the direction of Wen Yan.

“Uncle Wen Yan!”

Wen Yan subconsciously hugged the little cub that rushed over to him. Suddenly, he realised something, and Wen Yan tentatively called out: “An Xing…?”

Tuan Tuan nodded vigorously: “Yes!”

Wen Yan was completely dumbfounded.

Xie Yingcheng only mentioned that Tuan Tuan was found, but he didn’t say that Tuan Tuan could transform into his human form?!

His father, Wen Qiu, went to teach Xie Anxing as usual these past two days, so how come he didn’t mention this to him at all?!

He was so surprised that he couldn’t close his mouth: “When did you… learn how to transform?!”

Tuan Tuan tilted his head, counted carefully on his fingers for a while, and held up three fingers: “Three days ago!”

Wen Yan suddenly felt a sense of loss, “As a godfather, I am the last one to know that my godson can transform,” but this feeling soon disappeared because of the cub’s sweet and coquettish words.

“Uncle Wen Yan, I miss you so much~”

Tuan Tuan likes his godfather very much, because when his father is busy, Wen Yan always takes him out to play.

Wen Yan felt warm in his heart. It was worth it that he always took the risk of being punished by Wen Qiu to secretly take the cub out to play!

He couldn’t help but sigh with emotion, and was just about to take the cub who had transformed into a human form to recall their touching past, but Tuan Tuan’s eyes rolled.

“Uncle Wen Yan, can you do Tuan Tuan a favor?”

Wen Yan, who was infatuated with the cub’s cuteness, agreed immediately, but the next second his arms suddenly felt empty.

“Uncle Wen Yan, please help send Tuan Tuan’s new clothes and toys back home!”

The cub jumped out of the car, and after putting all the paper bags in Luo Yu’s hand into the car, he gave Wen Yan a super sweet smile.

“Tuan Tuan is going to complete the mission. Goodbye Uncle Wen Yan~”

Wen Yan looked at the cub in confusion as he ran away without looking back. He not only considerately closed the car door again, but also remembered to take along the rabbit doll on the seat.

Wen Yan: ???

A dignified imperial major general was reduced to a tool overnight.

What’s even worse is that after being used by this godson, he didn’t realise what was wrong at all.

Tuan Tuan bounced back to Luo Yu, and because the rabbit doll he was holding was too big, he almost tripped halfway. Fortunately, Xie Yingcheng quickly grabbed his hood and prevented him from falling.

This frightened Luo Yu so much that his heart was trembling with fear, while Xie Yingcheng frowned.

“It’s time to go back.”

The cold voice was tantamount to a warning, which instantly made the cub, who had been playing a little too complacently for the whole afternoon, behave himself.

Tuan Tuan held the rabbit doll carefully and said, “Father, Father…”

The little cub was trembling in front of his father, and sadness was clearly written in his eyes, which was completely different from his lively and cheerful appearance in the afternoon.

Luo Yu, who was standing by, couldn’t bear to watch any more: “Admiral, I just agreed to take Tuan Tuan to play whack-a-mole.”

Xie Yingcheng glanced over: “So?”

Facing the rather oppressive gaze, Luo Yu gritted his teeth and said, “Well… it’s not good to break promises.”

Somehow, as soon as Xie Yingcheng arrived, the originally happy and warm atmosphere seemed to be paused and disappeared forever.

Xie Yingcheng himself also realized this.

Looking at Luo Yu and the cub who had become restrained, Xie Yingcheng suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

This was not what he meant, but he didn’t know how to say it.

After a brief stalemate, Xie Yingcheng simply said, “You guys go ahead.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Yu and Tuan Tuan looked up at him, their eyes full of surprise.

Luo Yu was the first to react, and he confirmed again with concern: “Then I’ll take Tuan Tuan with me?”

Xie Yingcheng responded indifferently.

Luo Yu hurriedly took Tuan Tuan away, fearing that Xie Yingcheng would change his mind halfway.

The little guy was excitedly asking him what a gopher looked like and how to play whack-a-mole all the way, but he couldn’t follow Xie Yingcheng home now.

He led Tuan Tuan forward a few meters, but for some unknown reason he turned back.

Xie Yingcheng was still standing there.

The crowds of people passing by automatically parted from him, leaving a vacuum beside him. The man stood straight, his back looking a little lonely.

Luo Yu couldn’t bear it anymore.

Xie Yingcheng saw Luo Yu half-crouching and whispering something to the cub. Tuan Tuan nodded as if he had made up his mind, and then he returned the same way with his short legs.

This time, Tuan Tuan was careful not to fall, so he walked very slowly. After returning to Xie Yingcheng, he raised the rabbit doll in his arms towards him.

The little baby voice mustered up the courage and said, “When Tuan Tuan plays whack-a-mole, can father help Tuan Tuan hold the little rabbit?”

Xie Yingcheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Luo Yu. The human was winking at him, signaling him to agree quickly.

Those black eyes seem to be able to speak as if saying, ‘agree, agree to him quickly!’

With an imperceptible curve on his lips, Xie Yingcheng reached out and took the huge rabbit doll.

Twenty minutes later, Luo Yu led Tuan Tuan into the children’s playroom, and Xie Yingcheng followed slowly behind.

The three figures attracted the attention of the guests in the game room.

The young human and cute cub quickly integrated into the cheerful atmosphere of the amusement hall, but Xie Yingcheng was out of tune with this environment.

The grim-faced man was dressed in a neat and majestic military uniform, but was holding a huge white rabbit doll in his hand.

It seems incongruous no matter how you look at it.

But Xie Yingcheng was a smart guy. He didn’t care about other people’s stares at all. He just watched Luo Yu and Tuan Tuan walking around in the amusement hall.

As soon as he entered the door, Tuan Tuan’s eyes were glued to the huge claw machine at the door.

There are not only rabbit dolls, but also lamb dolls, kitten dolls…

In short, there are so many!

After knowing that the doll can be exchanged for corresponding gold coins by playing games, the little cub became very motivated and immediately forgot about his recent unhappiness.

After thinking about it, Luo Yu first played a simple and easy-to-learn game with the cub – ring toss.

The rings were to be thrown at a giant cactus. Players play the game by throwing the rings from outside a red line one meter away and onto the cactus’s raised, slanted spines of varying lengths. The higher the spines, the more points they represent.

Luo Yu bought ten rings at once, handed eight of them to the cub, pointed at the cactus and said to the cub: “Tuan Tuan, do you see that cactus? Just throw the ring out and you will win if it fits on it.”

Tuan Tuan, who understood the rules, nodded seriously. His soft face tightened. He aimed at the nearest long thorn at the bottom and threw it hard.

The circle landed ten centimeters away from the thorn and missed.

Luo Yu subconsciously wanted to comfort Tuan Tuan, but he didn’t expect that the little cub didn’t need his comfort at all, and then he threw out a second circle.

This time the loop went around the thorn twice and hit it.

Seeing the cub he had caught, he was so excited that he almost flew up: “Luo Luo! Look!”

“I see! Tuan Tuan is awesome!” Luo Yu was generous with his praise and touched the little guy’s head.

The cub was encouraged to keep trying and threw several more times. Some hit the target the first time, and some missed the target the first time. Tuan Tuan did the same as the first time. If the target didn’t hit the target the first time, he would immediately adjust and throw again. This strategy succeeded every time.

The cub threw the circle in his hand higher and higher, and the last time he even aimed at a thorn that was higher than himself, but unfortunately he missed.

Seeing this, Luo Yu handed the ring that he had originally intended to use to demonstrate to the cubs to Tuan Tuan, but he didn’t expect that Tuan Tuan would refuse it.

“This is so fun! Luo Luo play too!” At Tuan Tuan’s insistence, Luo Yu also threw one himself.

He was aiming at the thorn that Tuan Tuan had missed the last time, but he didn’t control the strength well on his first throw, so the circle swayed on it twice and finally lost its hold and fell off.

“Ah! Just a little bit!” Tuan Tuan was even more disappointed when he saw Luo Yu make a mistake than if he had missed the target himself.

Luo Yu touched his nose awkwardly, and just when he wanted to say something to calm the cub down, the last ring in his hand was suddenly taken away. Luo Yu turned his head and saw Xie Yingcheng holding the rabbit doll in one hand and throwing it up casually with the other hand.

The last circle was hung exactly on the highest thorn.

Perfect hit.

Tuan Tuan exclaimed: “Father is so awesome!!”

Seeing this, Luo Yu immediately went to buy another twenty circles.

“How about Tuan Tuan and his father compete to see who can hit the target more?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the cub’s bright eyes fell on Xie Yingcheng.

“Father…” The cub’s eyes were full of expectation. Xie Yingcheng paused slightly and took the ring handed over by Luo Yu.

After hearing the little cheers from the cub, Luo Yu curled his lips.

‘It’s a rare opportunity for you to play along, Admiral.’

Luo Yu outlined the next scenario with satisfaction: Xie Yingcheng “accidentally” lost the game, allowing the cub to win the game and feel the joy of victory.

Everything seemed so natural, but Luo Yu never expected that Xie Yingcheng didn’t understand the ropes of raising a child at all.

The young cub, who had just started playing the game, won five.

The admiral, who had never wavered in commanding and making decisions over all these years, hit all ten rings.

Luo Yu: …

He turned around to look at the cub, and sure enough, Tuan Tuan’s face was full of disappointment.

Luo Yu was just about to comfort him, but unexpectedly Tuan Tuan cheered up first and clenched his fists: “Tuan Tuan will become very powerful in the future! He will be more powerful than father, and beat father!”

Xie Yingcheng: “Well, I’ll wait.”

Luo Yu breathed a sigh of relief and took Tuan Tuan to the theme of this event – Whack-a-Mole.

The farmer planted a lot of carrots in the fan-shaped field, but there were many moles who wanted to steal the carrots. The player’s task is to use a hammer to quickly knock the moles back into their holes when they pop out.

In order to take care of the cubs, the machine can autonomously set the time interval for the appearance of the moles, the time for them to come out of the holes, and the number of moles. It can be played by one person alone or with two people working together, and can also be switched to a battle mode with the middle as the boundary.

Luo Yu first switched to the simplest mode, demonstrated by knocking down two moles, and then handed the small spring hammer to Tuan Tuan. The clever kid quickly got the hang of it, and after knocking down all the moles without missing a single one, as a huge colorful “victory” appeared, Tuan Tuan took the initiative to increase the difficulty.

So Luo Yu slowly increased the difficulty. At first, Tuan Tuan was able to do it easily, but when it was adjusted to the middle level, the little guy began to struggle and missed a few in one round.

The leaks were from a few holes on the edge. Actually, it wasn’t because the cub was slow to react.

Mainly because of short arms.

After trying a few times, Tuan Tuan seemed to have a vague idea of the reason, so he stuffed the hammer back into Luo Yu’s hand and said:

“Let’s play once, Luo Luo! You have to avenge me!”

Luo Yu couldn’t help laughing when he saw the serious expression on the cub’s face, so he picked up the hammer and avenged Tuan Tuan, completing the level perfectly at the intermediate difficulty without missing a single one.

After the word “Victory”, the little guy had a new idea.

“Who is more powerful, Luo Luo or Father?”

Luo Yu raised his eyebrows and handed another spring hammer to Xie Yingcheng.

“My Lord Admiral, do you mind a competition?”

Xie Yingcheng looked at his excited expression, and his original words of rejection turned into those of acceptance.

“Yes.”