Little Witch Arrives

  "Sister-in-law, is this for real? You really went into such a deep mountain ditch? This broken road... Ah... " The horseman, after all, is not the kind of pseudo-SUV that prioritizes comfort. Although Zhang Jin's car was a city type, due to the brand concept, it still emphasized its ability to navigate rough roads. So as soon as they turned off the highway and onto this bumpy mountain road, which Zhang Jin had also cursed before, Ye Meng adjusted her sitting posture with a scowl on her face, trying to reduce the pain in her butt. At the same time, she kept muttering to herself, making Zhang Jin's ears uncomfortable.

  Zhang Jin knew that Ye Meng was just like this, too lively! Whether it's her body or mouth, she belongs to the type that can't stay still, so he didn't stop her and just listened to Ye Meng's complaints in a casual manner.

  Finally, when the car turned another corner, Xiaoyao's incessant chatter suddenly stopped, and a voice several decibels louder than before burst out, "Stop the car!"

  As the soprano entered her ears, Zhang Jin almost conditioned reflexively stepped on the brake pedal with his foot. Fortunately, due to the poor road conditions, the speed was always below forty miles per hour, otherwise a sudden stop like this would have been an accident waiting to happen!

  Zhang Jin, still feeling dizzy, opened his mouth to complain, and Ye Meng, sitting in the passenger seat, quickly opened the car door and jumped out. After getting out of the car, Ye Meng hopped like a happy little rabbit to the side of the road, straightened her slender figure, and gazed southward with a dazed expression.

  Then Zhang Jin got off the bus and looked around at the parking location, then glanced at Ye Meng's dazed expression, and couldn't help but laugh. He walked to her side and pointed to the distance, introducing: "Girl, look down there, those houses are Haiwocun Village I told you about. The neat green surroundings are the village's farmland... That golden patch is the beach, very clean... And that blue is the sea, very pure... How is it? Isn't it beautiful?"

  Ye Meng nodded heavily, as if she couldn't wait to nod her little head off, and said in a spoiled tone: "Mmm, beautiful. Now that I'm here, I suddenly feel like it's worth it even if my butt got bruised all the way!"

  Actually, Ye Meng is a sentimental girl, but she's only seventeen or eighteen years old, how can she truly appreciate the beauty of nature? The scenery in front of her that makes her look infatuated and enchanted is partly because of its beauty, but more importantly, it's due to the strong contrast between the previous second and the next second after turning over the mountain foot. After all, they had been wandering on the narrow mountain road flanked by trees for an hour, and their field of vision was always blocked within ten meters due to various obstructions. But after turning around the corner, the view suddenly opened up, and that feeling is like being released from a closed space after an hour, how can it not make people feel exhilarated?

  Ye Meng said something interesting, especially when she mentioned her plump and upright buttocks, it was even more thought-provoking. However, what's rare is that this time Zhang Jin didn't take the opportunity to tease her, but instead smiled faintly and stood beside Ye Meng, adopting the same posture as hers, gazing at the distant scenery where the green hills and blue waters meet, and responded with a deep voice: "It seems we really do have a spiritual connection! The first time I came here was just like you, complaining and even regretting in my heart all along the way, but when I arrived here, I suddenly felt that it was all worth it."

  Zhang Jin spoke casually, but he didn't notice that Ye Meng's usual calm demeanor suddenly dissipated after his words. Her head, which was originally held high, slowly lowered, and a faint blush spread across the skin exposed outside her clothes. If one listened carefully, with Zhang Jin's currently heightened hearing, even amidst the howling mountain wind, they could hear the little girl's heart pounding like a drumbeat.

  In fact, this little girl who has already entered the age of spring awakening didn't hear clearly what Zhang Jin said earlier. The only thing she heard clearly was the four words 'heart has a spiritual connection' from that long string of words.

  "With no colorful phoenix flying wings, yet with a clever mind that understands at once", how romantic and ambiguous this sentence is! You know, "heart having a clever mind" often refers to the tacit understanding between lovers, and in many cases can represent the meaning of "a pair in heaven, a couple on earth".

  Just as Ye Meng was still secretly thinking about whether the "heart has a spiritual connection" in her brother-in-law's words had any implied meaning, Zhang Jin, who didn't understand romance, had already put away his previous sentimental expression and habitually reached out to rub Ye Meng's hair: "Alright kiddo, stop looking, get on the car, we'll hurry up, it won't take long. If you haven't seen enough, it's not bad to see it up close later."

  Ye Meng, still not fully awake from her own ambiguous atmosphere, replied with a shy sentence and twisted her slender waist back into the car compartment. The little girl's sudden shyness made Zhang Jin, who was already used to her "witch nature", pause for a moment, but it only lasted for an instant, and he soon shook his head, thinking it was just an illusion, and returned to the driver's seat.

  For the twenty minutes it took to get back to their own backyard, Zhang Jin finally got to enjoy some peace and quiet. Seeing Ye Meng leaning against the window without turning her head, Zhang Jin thought that this little girl who had almost never been to the countryside was admiring the fresh scenery outside that she had never seen before. In fact, although the scenery outside was indeed something the little girl had never seen before, she didn't notice it at all because she was still repeating the four words "heart has a spiritual connection" in her mind. Her face, turned away from Zhang Jin, looked both shy and happy, very conflicted.

  The silence between them lasted until Zhang Jin drove the car into his own backyard before it was broken.

  As soon as Zhang Jin jumped off the car and opened the back door of his home with a key, Hei Shuijing, who had not seen Zhang Jin for half a day, was already barking happily and wagging its tail to welcome him.

  Hei Shuijing's sudden appearance was met with a delighted shriek from Ye Meng, who had been waiting in the car. She hastily pushed open the door and jumped out, her face alight with joy, and flung herself into Hei Shuijing's arms, embracing him tightly.

  It's worth noting that although the black crystal is a powerful 'dark gold' level pet, and its breed has been identified by the system as having the name 'mastiff', which is notorious for being fierce, in reality, this dog, which is still less than a month old, doesn't look or act fierce at all.

  Firstly, the black crystal at this time is still less than a month old and has a 'delicate' body that is only about ten centimeters long. Although it has four relatively sturdy leg claws, it will not cause any pressure on an adult; secondly, the black crystal does not have a narrow and long snout or a wide and short face that would give off a fierce appearance like a wolf dog or Tibetan mastiff. With a pair of large ears hanging down on both sides, it looks silly and cute; finally, with a pair of bright and lively black eyes, it adds to its cuteness and makes people want to love it to the bone.

  The dark gold grade plus the master-level training of the tamer made Hei Shui Jing, although much smarter than its peers, but apparently its EQ was still far from enough to be compared with a child's IQ. It was also very unaccustomed and disliked the affectionate strangers brought by its owner Ye Meng. So, Zhang Jin soon received Hei Shui Jing's plea for help.

  From the day Black Crystal was brought back, it had been Zhang Jin's treasure. However, when he weighed Black Crystal's grievances and Little Demoness' schemes on both sides of the scale this time, Zhang Jin couldn't help but temporarily change his attitude towards Black Crystal for a while, using 'Heart-to-Heart Communication' to comfort and console it, while secretly praying in his heart, letting it seek its own fortune.

  "Brother-in-law, the little dog you're raising is so cute!" Ye Meng's face was filled with infatuation as she rubbed her own pink cheeks against Hei Shui Jing's forehead and ears.

  At this time, Zhang Jin had already driven the car into the garage and walked out. Hearing Ye Meng's words, he also smiled and said: "Living in the countryside, who doesn't raise a cat or dog to guard the house?"

  "That's true, though. Brother-in-law, why do I think this little dog looks a bit familiar?" Ye Meng's question was obviously with the intention of pretending not to know, from the previous intelligence to now seeing it with her own eyes, she could almost 100% confirm that this little yellow dog should be the same one from the pet adoption center ten or so days ago, which had not yet opened its eyes at that time.

  Originally, he didn't tell Ye Meng about adopting the dog, fearing that Ye Meng would come and go from his home frequently, afraid that this hot little beauty would stimulate him to become a beast. But now, with the side effect of "Longxiang Panruo Gong" suppressing "Kuihua Baodian", plus Xiaoyao's suspicion about the little dog's identity, Zhang Jin didn't hide it again, but instead answered Xiaoyao's question straightforwardly: "Hey, Xiaoyao's memory is good! What you said is right, Hei Shuijing is indeed the little guy you liked so much at the 'Pet Adoption Center' back then. I didn't expect that after more than ten days, Xiaohei's appearance and size would change so much, but you can still recognize it!"

  "Is it really that little dog?" Ye Meng, a born actor, feigned a look of surprise and uncertainty.

  As soon as Zhang Jin nodded again in confirmation, Ye Meng's little head suddenly let go of the black crystal and rushed towards him. In Zhang Jin's stunned state, a pair of jade-like arms wrapped around his thick neck. Immediately after, a loud kissing sound "Mmm...mua..." burst forth on Zhang Jin's right cheek.

  "Thank you, brother-in-law..." Ye Meng seemed to suddenly wake up with a start and became shy, uttering a vague thank you before releasing Zhang Jin's hand and running back to Hei Shuijing's side. She buried her entire face in the small black animal's sparse fur, adopting an even more intimate posture than before. However, despite Ye Meng using her arms and Hei Shuijing's body to completely block her flushed face, Zhang Jin's sharp eyes still caught the fiery glow on her exposed earlobes, indicating that this crazy girl was extremely embarrassed.

  Although Xiaoyao's charming shyness made Zhang Jin's heart skip a beat, due to his strange relationship with Ye Hong, he still regarded Ye Meng more as a younger sister. So Zhang Jin simply wiped off the lip print Xiaoyao left on his face with his hand, smiled silently, and then quickly took out the key to open the door, calling out: "Xiaoyao, aren't you hot hugging our little black dog in the sun? Come inside!"

  It seemed to feel the gaze on her back, which was even more scorching than the sun at 10 o'clock in the sky. She also heard the smile in his words and her heartbeat became more intense. Ye Meng, a little girl, hastily picked up Hei Shuijing and ran towards the already open door, while running, she said: "It's obviously Huang Gou, how can it be called Hei Shuijing? This name is not suitable, I want to find a quiet place to think of a good name. Don't come to disturb me!" The way she fled was like a rabbit being chased by hunting dogs.