Chapter 107: Two Halloweens (Part One)

  Jasmine heard Ju An's answer and burst out laughing, then teased: "So you're a coward, I guess when I was in elementary school, my dream back then was to be a captain, driving my own fishing boat, catching fish on the vast blue sea".

  Jū ān picked a meat thread from the plate and put it into Wǔ sōng's small plate. Wǔ sōng used his small black hand to pick it up and put it in his mouth. Upon hearing Mò lì say this, he encouraged: "This ideal is easy to realize, don't act anymore, I'll invest in you to buy a fishing boat and go out to sea, next time bring back some fish for Tàidí, he likes eating fish".

  Molly shook her head: "When I got to high school, I started liking acting. At that time, I also participated in many school stage plays. I drove for several hours to Helena to fight for a stage role. When the director announced that I got the role, I felt like I belonged to acting. Then when I went to college, I went to study acting."

  Helena is the capital of Montana, where you can get a role, it's really not bad, maybe even with bonuses when going to college. This guy just jumped into the bottomless pit of Hollywood, I don't know how many young girls he deceives every year to jump into this fire pit. It's said that Madonna used to pick up food from trash cans when she wasn't famous, but who knows if it's true or not.

  Looking at Jasmine's happy smile, Ju An swallowed the words of advice she was about to say and said: "Hurry up and eat, after finishing we'll go to the store, choose some good ones, when the little guys come to my house asking for candy, I'll scare them a bit."

  After finishing dinner, Molly and Ju An cleaned up a bit and drove away in Molly's red Ford, heading towards the town. Of course, Teddy and Wu Song were left on the back seat, honestly tied with two seatbelts by Molly.

  Jasmine was indeed living here since she was a kid, drove into the town, turned several corners and arrived in front of a store. Goodness, just parked the car and hadn't gotten out yet, when two little skulls and monsters came out of the store, followed by two white foreigners carrying big bags behind them. The two little ones in front were wearing skull and Shrek masks, a happy family coming out of the store with smiles all over their faces.

  Jū ān pushed a shopping cart, Mò lì put her arm around Jū ān's arm, and the two of them started strolling. As soon as they entered the store, wow, the area was quite large, and there were many people inside, basically all families with children selecting goods. While pushing the cart, the two of them chatted with each other, and like this, they leaned on each other to pick out things.

  Jasmine picked up a box and gestured to Ju An saying: "An, what do you think of this divine power woman superhero?"

  "Bad, too many clothes," said Ju An with a chuckle. Jasmine also burst out laughing and put the packaging box back on the shelf.

  He picked up another box and looked at the model's outfit on it, and found that it was a female pirate costume. The woman on the cover was wearing a very sexy outfit, with a fluffy white top that exposed half of her breasts, tight brown hot pants, a wide belt, a pirate hat, and an eye patch. Jian said, "It looks pretty good."

  Jasmine tossed the box into the car and said, "Well, that's settled then. I think it looks great too, pirate costumes are all the rage now." She patted her hands together in satisfaction and continued walking forward with Ju'an.

  As I walked around, I couldn't help but notice the American vendors' relentless efforts to empty customers' pockets. Everywhere you looked, there were Superman, Captain America, Iron Man, and various movie-themed costumes on display. The most familiar one was Jack Sparrow's getup from Pirates of the Caribbean. There was even a white mask from Scream paired with a full set of clothes. On the shopping island in the middle, there were all sorts of bizarre items, including plastic pumpkin lanterns in various shapes and sizes, and a sparkling white spider web made of plastic threads, complete with a fist-sized black plush spider perched on top.

  Saw a shelf with various cute little plastic pumpkin buckets, Ju An picked one up and looked inside, found it was made very thin. After looking at the label on top, China. Ju An couldn't help but laugh. Jasmine saw Ju An playing with the bucket and said: "These things are for kids to carry candies when they're naughty, you don't need them." Ju An put down the bucket with some regret, if Tongtong and Ranyan were here, it would be great, each carrying one would look good. Not only were there little pumpkin buckets, but also small burlap sacks with various patterns printed on them, and some seemed to have been directly spray-painted with a string of words.

  Anqi accompanied Molly to finish the ladies' clothing, and Molly picked up a sexy police uniform and a nurse's uniform and put them in the shopping cart. The nurse's uniform had red stains on it that looked like blood, and it came with a stethoscope and a large syringe prop. Anqi touched the syringe, which looked realistic with its shiny needle tip, but felt soft to the touch.

  Jasmine finished selecting her items and then took Ju An to the men's section to help him pick out a costume. The men's section had even more outrageous things, including all sorts of ghostly masks that looked really creepy. The best-looking one was probably the skull mask, while the others were werewolves and various zombie faces that were made to look very realistic. Some of the masks Ju An tried on could even make a piercing, eerie laugh. In addition to the masks, there were also all sorts of fake fangs, with Ju An being most familiar with the two pointed teeth from vampire mouths.

  Jasmine picked out a dark red fake fang, the kind that still sticks out halfway when you put it in your mouth, and thought it was pretty funny. After walking around for a big circle, Ju'an still hadn't figured out what monster she wanted to dress up as for her first Halloween, but then she saw a grey robe with a hood, and suddenly had an idea, grabbing it and putting it in the shopping cart. Jasmine laughed and asked, "Are you going to be a wizard?"

  "No, I'm going to play the dark vagabond inside the big pineapple," he said with a self-satisfied smile.

  Jasmine smiled and said, "That's a great idea! I used to play with big pineapples too. Let's go ahead and choose a mask and belt for you, then you'll look even more like one!" After finishing speaking, she pulled Ju An's hand and quickly walked towards the front.

  She had chosen a skull-shaped belt, and then turned back to the mask stand, selecting a mask with small protruding horns on it. The pale face still had bloodstains on it. After putting everything in the shopping cart, Jasmine took Ju An to choose decorations for their house.

  Following Jasmine's footsteps, Ju An was full of excitement and didn't show any of the bad reactions she used to have when shopping. After walking around the first big circle, she was still full of energy. There were all sorts of monsters everywhere, including a ghost doll with countless knives carved on its face, a werewolf holding onto a human leg and taking big bites, its eyes glowing yellow, and various zombies, some with legs and some without, dragging their intestines behind them. In the end, Ju An only chose two small skulls hanging in mid-air, which would make a hair-raising "hahaha" sound when batteries were put in. She also got a few spider webs to hang under her own corridor later.

  As I was pushing the cart to check out, I ran into old acquaintances, not just one. Lily and Rachel were arm in arm, and when they saw me, Lily excitedly waved at me. Next to them was a handsome white guy who was also pushing a cart loaded with stuff, doing manual labor like me.

  Jū ān and Mò lì and Ruì zǐ Lì said hello to each other, then Ruì introduced her boyfriend Chá lǐ, also known as the laborer, to Jū ān. After some small talk, the three women started chatting excitedly about their Halloween costumes. The two men smiled at each other, discussing the weather and who would make a better president, while leaning against the car and watching the women chat enthusiastically, one in front of the other, pushing the cart as they waited to check out.

  The stuff was pushed to the parking lot, and before the car door was even opened, Wu Song and Teddy were already impatiently waiting, sticking their heads out of the small gap in the window, pitifully looking outside. It wasn't until then that Jasmine and Ju An realized that this trip had taken a bit too long.

  When they drove the car back to the ranch, Ju An and Molly moved their things in. Then Ju An brought a slightly smaller pumpkin from under the porch into the kitchen, put it on the counter, and began carving pumpkins with Molly. First, they drew a draft on the pumpkin with a pen, then cut open a lid along the vine, removed the pulp and seeds, and found that the pulp of this foreign pumpkin was very tender and stringy.

  Two people finished carving the pumpkin and then carried it upstairs, closing the doors and windows. Jasmine took the nurse's uniform into the bathroom to change clothes, while she sat on the bed in the bedroom, lit a candle in the pumpkin, and placed it on the bedside cabinet. Then she got up, turned off the lights, pulled the curtains, and the whole room was filled with a soft, hazy yellow glow.

  Molly had a stethoscope around her neck, white lace gloves on her hands, and a syringe in her hand, all of which only reached the top of her thighs. She sat down on the edge of the bed, her heart suddenly racing, and she unconsciously swallowed hard before sincerely exclaiming: "Honey! You're so beautiful!"

  Jasmine's eyes widened, and she picked up the large syringe to stab Ju'an in the chest. Ju'an casually deflected it with his hand, then pressed Jasmine onto the bed, and his mouth moved down her neck, kissing her.