Ji Xingyao mumbled, emerging from Qin Morui's embrace, reaching out to pat the big yellow dog in front of her.
She looked up at Qin Morui, "This is the dog from the uncle's house next door to my grandma's snack shop. It doesn't bite."
While speaking, Ji Xingyao patted the dog's head again.
She had grown up here and was cute and well-behaved, so all the aunts and uncles of the shops on this street liked her.
Even the cats and dogs raised in the shops loved to play with her.
Ji Xingyao tilted her little head and thought about the place where she was knocked down just now. It was already close to her grandma's shop, so Da Huang might have caught her scent and came running out.
A false alarm. Qin Morui saw the big yellow dog lying at her feet and squatted down beside it.
"It looks really gentle. Can I pet it?"
Before Ji Xingyao could speak, the docile Da Huang had already turned its head and licked his palm.
Qin Morui, satisfied to pet the dog, remembered something and asked, "By the way, you haven't told me your name yet."
"Ji Xingyao." The little glutinous rice dumpling, carved from jade, raised her head and answered.
Finishing her words, she was about to leave with the big yellow dog. As soon as she took a step, the pain from the sole of her foot made her suddenly remember something very important!
"My shoes—"
Her beloved little yellow duck slippers had been thrown away by someone just now!
Ji Xingyao hurried to retrieve her shoes, enduring the foot pain as she took two steps forward, when her collar was suddenly grabbed by someone.
She turned her head and saw that the person grabbing her collar was the culprit who threw her shoes.
Their eyes met. Qin Morui pursed his small lips, directly circled in front of her, slightly bent his small waist, "Your foot seems to be scraped. Come on, I'll carry you to get your shoes."
With that, he gave her no chance to speak, acting like a little man, and directly carried her steadily forward.
Ji Xingyao lay on his shoulder, anxiously looking ahead, searching for her discarded slippers.
Finally back at the scene of the incident, she quickly jumped down from Qin Morui to pick up her shoe.
It turned out there was only one slipper on the ground. Just as she was about to look for the other one, the big yellow dog that had been following them suddenly barked twice at the nearby stinky ditch.
Ji Xingyao's heart skipped a beat as she hopped over on one foot, cautiously stretching her small head forward.
Seeing her little yellow duck slipper soaked in the stinky ditch, she despairingly covered her eyes.
Her small money, unrecoverable…
Heart aching and unable to breathe, she sniffled in grievance, turned her head to look at Qin Morui, and pouted her small mouth.
"You compensate me for my shoes!"
"I didn't do it on purpose, don't be mad, I'll compensate you!" Qin Morui bowed his head and started rummaging through the pockets of his little suit, turned out every pocket on him, and finally raised his head awkwardly.
"Well, I ran away from home, and it seems I didn't bring any money…"
"Wah—" Ji Xingyao started to truly cry this time.
She had never seen such a silly person, running away from home without money.
Her shoes were going to be such an unexplainable loss.
"Don't cry, don't cry. Let me think of a way…" Qin Morui hadn't expected that the fierce little sister from just now would suddenly start crying, and he hurriedly helped her wipe her tears in a panic.
But her tears were like a faucet, refused to stop no matter how he wiped them.
In his hurry, Qin Morui took off a jade pendant from around his neck, "How about I compensate you with this first, and then when I have money, I'll come back to redeem it?"