I will never give in to Miss Death

I was unhappy when I heard this: "What do you mean my breasts won't grow any bigger? Is this something I can control?"

"puff……"

Ye Zi smiled with her hands covering her mouth, "Nuo'er is so adorable this way. Are you planning to cosplay Grass God and Traveler today? Both Nuo'er and Xiaomo's temperaments match these two characters well! Especially Xiaomo's Traveler..."

Xiaomo's Traveler? You mean Xiaomo is a bit of a jerk to begin with, so cosplaying a jerk character is a "playing her true self", right?

"So does Xiongxiong."

Then, Jiang Wei turned to Si Kongyue and said, "Aren't you hot like this? How about I turn down the air conditioner?"

"Ah no no no no, sir, you may underestimate my ability to withstand heat."

Xiongxiong waved his hand, and then used his right hand to open and close the mouth of the bear doll: "I once traveled alone in an RV in Africa. When it was hottest, I could fry eggs directly under the sun. We ran for several kilometers on the grassland with leopards in such temperatures."

“You went to Africa to play with leopards?”

Jiang Wei looked a little incredulous: "Well... although everyone in the group says that you, a rich loli, like to travel around the world and are the eldest daughter of a wealthy family, but this... this is too willful, isn't it?"

"That's what life is all about. You see, didn't I get to know you guys because I came to Kamihama City for a trip? Just do whatever you want to do. That's what a man should do!"

Xiong Xiong put his hands in his eyes and puffed out his chest: "Isn't there a song in your country that goes something like this? How can you just live a lifetime?"

"How can you only live for a hundred years..."

"You have to live life to the fullest, and live life to the fullest!"

As he was talking, Xiongxiong actually started to sing in imitation of the tune.

What the hell is a man? And will you sing later: "Men have courage, and travel the world with swords; women have sword hearts, and their tenderness fills the hills?"

"Wow, I didn't realize that little sister Sikong Yue is so young and a foreigner, but she actually knows some of our cartoon songs."

Xiaomo and I didn't say anything. Ye Zi came out of the kitchen with a watermelon fruit plate and said in surprise: "My favorite song when I was a child... ahem, I liked your cuteness, your confidence and your unwillingness to admit defeat..."

"You don't need to care about the hardships you've gone through - the pain you once suffered is being rewritten into happiness by you. The wind blows gently and the clouds pass by, and the road ahead is home..."

"Hey?"

Ye Zi's shout made everyone in the room silent for several seconds.

"that……"

Finally, it was Jiang Wei who took the initiative to ask, "Honey, what cartoon theme song is this?"

"Haven't you seen it?"

Ye Zi was surprised and said, "Little Tiger Returns, my favorite cartoon when I was a child, you must have seen it. When I was in school, you would buy a bag of spicy strips after school, and eat one yourself, saying that you don't like it. Then you stuffed the whole bag of spicy strips into my hand and took me to the grocery store in the village that had a color TV. At that time, the store was showing Little Tiger Returns."

"Is there...is there any?"

Jiang Wei scratched his head embarrassedly: "I don't remember watching this cartoon. What is it about?"

"A little white tiger and its little donkey friend. There was a little boy with two big front teeth. The villains were two men, one fat and one thin. They drove a car and held a shotgun to chase the little white tiger. The little white tiger and the little donkey ran back to their hometown together."

Ye Zi tried to awaken Jiang Wei's memory: "You really don't remember?"

"All boys in love are like this."

Si Kongyue in front interrupted Ye Zi's words: "Maybe Mr. Jiang Wei's full attention was on you at that time, and he definitely didn't remember what the cartoon said."

"Can this still happen?"

Ye Zi said with some regret: "That's really a pity, that's my favorite cartoon... By the way, Jiang Wei, what cartoons do you remember at that time? You can't watch cartoons with me for a whole semester and not remember anything, right?"

"Who said that!"

Jiang Wei was a little unconvinced and said, "I was an animation king at that time. I watched so many animations!"

"Then sing an opening song."

Ye Zi crossed her arms and said, "Isn't this Tom and Jerry?"

"How is that possible! I can't even sing the theme song of Tom and Jerry..."

Jiang Wei thought about it, cleared his throat, and seemed to be gathering his emotions.

After a long while, he said in a very awkward manner: "Ding ding ding, ding ding ding, recite a sutra when you encounter trouble, beep beep, beep beep, be confused at the critical moment - gold confusion, silver confusion, no match for my own old confusion..."

"Puch..."

Before Jiang Wei finished singing, Ye Zi couldn't help laughing: "You're really out of tune!"

"It's not like I'm a musical talent!"

Jiang Wei was unconvinced and said, "It's sung like that anyway. Honey, since you said you remember the cartoon you watched when you were a kid, what do you think it's called?"

"Is there any need to guess?"

Ye Zi blinked her eyes and said, "Little Confused God, the most popular cartoon on CCTV at that time."

"Haha, you are worthy of being my wife!"

Jiang Wei suddenly turned to my side and said, "It's Nuoer's turn!"

"what?"

I was a little confused: "Why...why are you guys suddenly playing a singing game?"

"Come on, one at a time."

Sikong Yue, who was wearing two bear gloves, also cheered on the side: "We need to sing the theme song of the cartoon!"

"what……"

I felt my face getting hot: "Do I have to sing?"

"Yes, yes. Nuo'er is so cute and she must be able to sing beautifully!"

Ye Zi clapped and said, "Nuo'er, you can relax the conditions a bit and don't need to sing any old cartoons. Come on, sing one!"

"Um……"

Seeing that everyone around me was looking at me expectantly, especially Xiaomo, who gave me an expression that said, "If Nuoer doesn't sing, she will be punished when she gets home." I instinctively searched for songs I knew in my mind, and for some reason a melody slowly emerged -

"There are still two lines of tears on my face, but I forget them in a blink of an eye - but my heart is still full of curiosity, and I want to ride Halley's Comet every day..."

“Whether it’s sunny or rainy, you must keep a good mood, raise your head, smile, and stride forward—”

Recalling the melody in my mind, I looked around and found that Jiang Wei, Ye Zi and Xiong Xiong were all listening to me singing quietly. I tried my best to imitate the scene of watching this cartoon in my memory at that time, and sang according to my mood at that time:

"You might run into lions, tigers, and leopards. There are other surprises waiting for you!"

"Then how about adding a little episode to make the whole world happy——"

"Don't forget to count the stars at night. Make a wish and happiness may come. You can complete your journey without a map."

This song is the theme song of the cartoon "The Beanstalk" which I watched when I was a child.

In that era, cartoons were not called animation. Every night after a tiring day, everyone would come home and turn on the TV to watch the cartoon on time. Everyone could like any character in the cartoon, and as long as everyone watched the cartoon together, they would all be friends.

At that time, there was only one TV in the entire welfare home, but at night, cartoons were basically not played. Only the news broadcast was played. We children could only go to the house of an uncle next door to watch cartoons. In the eyes of us children, this uncle was a "know-all" person. In today's words, he was a "mechanical master". Almost any electronic equipment could be turned into treasure in his hands.

My uncle's family doesn't have much money and can't afford a TV. The TV in his room is said to be picked up from the garbage dump and repaired by himself. Every night when it is dinner time, my uncle will open his door and switch to the animation channel. Soon a bunch of children without parents will crowd into his house, all of them are children from nearby welfare homes.

My uncle said that he loved children very much. He had a wife, but she passed away due to illness. He never remarried and moved to an old residential building next to the welfare home to spend the rest of his life. However, there were very few people living there and it was too quiet, so he wanted to bring the children to his home in this way.

Including me, many children in the welfare home at that time watched cartoons in this way and learned a lot of knowledge.

After I went to college, I went back to my uncle's house specifically to look for him. Unfortunately, the building where he lived had been demolished and no one knew where he had gone.

"The Beanstalk" was the most impressive anime I had ever watched at that time. I can still hum a few lines of its opening and ending songs to this day.

The opening theme, "Happy Journey," is very cheerful, and is mainly about adventures with friends. The main theme is very optimistic, but its ending theme, "Friends," seems a bit... lonely:

[The noise in the attic is non-stop, and the teddy bear with a missing eye is complaining that no one hugs it anymore]

[Since when did I stop being able to cry out loud? Are those friends who give me a headache just thinking about them still playing tricks on others as much as before...]

[Run forward as hard as you can, for fear of getting lost. When you reach the finish line, enjoy the cheers. No one will hug you and dance with you anymore...]

"..."

The opening song of "The Legend of the Magic Beans" is not long. After a while, I sang the whole song in a slightly dazed mood.

When my singing ended, everyone in Jiang Wei's room fell into a long silence.

"What...what happened?"

After I came to my senses, I looked at the silent people in the room and asked curiously, "Am I... am I tone-deaf?"

"no."

Ye Zi, who was the first to come to her senses, shook her head: "Nuo'er, you... you really have never learned to sing before?"

"It's amazing, Nuoer, your singing is just like..."

Jiang Wei also looked like he had just come down from the clouds: "It was like... the sound of nature. For a moment I almost wondered if I had returned to my childhood."

"It's not that exaggerated, is it?"

I felt a little embarrassed: "I just...sang it casually..."

"There are some."

Xiongxiong also said, "I was almost knocked unconscious by your singing just now. It was like a magical power. Nuoer, could it be that you are really an elf from another world, majoring in music?"

"Ah? Um... um?"

"Noel."

While I was still wondering if these people were banding together to say something strange, Yin Xiamo came over and said, "Elves are natural singers and bards. Their songs have a certain magical power. During wartime, some teams would invite elves to play harps or sing to appease the soldiers and increase the magic power of the magicians."

"You just used this talent without realizing it. The people sitting here are just ordinary people, and they are easily mesmerized."

After filling the empty bowl with some milk and fruit, Yin Xiamo leaned close to my ear and said in a voice that only we could hear: "Don't sing casually in Elf Mode next time. Ordinary people may not be able to stand it."

"..."

……

After a brief "mutual acquaintance", we at Jiang Wei's house began the formal "business negotiations".

"I won't look at how much money is in it. I'll just collect it once. I won't mention the new computer again."

After handing Ye Zi the envelope containing the five thousand yuan I took out from the bank, Jiang Wei said seriously, "Although I know you feel bad, Nuo'er, this is my bottom line. If you say you will help me install the computer, I will install the computer. If you give us money with such an excuse next time, I will be angry."

"That's it for now then."

I nodded: "You talk to Xiongxiong about the graphics card."

The computer that Jiang Wei helped me to build, according to the online selling price at that time, if I had gone to the official store to buy each component one by one, it would have cost at least 3090 yuan. I gave Jiang Wei more than yuan at the beginning, and now I gave him another yuan, which is almost equivalent to giving him yuan. If you really want to count the money, a ti graphics card alone started at yuan. Jiang Wei was losing money, even if he sold it to me at the purchase price.

But considering that he and Ye Zi held their wedding in a coffee shop, and Ouyang Xue didn't charge him extra money, so after rounding it off, we're even.

Of course, Jiang Wei might not see it that way. He hired his own Feng Shui master, and the result calculated by the master was that he should "spend money" once before opening the store. So in Jiang Wei's eyes, giving us the computer was equivalent to offsetting the "risk" calculated by the Feng Shui master. It would seem a bit "immature" for us to give him a red envelope later.

As for Xiong Xiong, it was not until now that I realized that it was because of Ye Zi that the two of them got in touch.

Ye Zi and the current mayor of Shenbin City, Ye Yuqing, are distant relatives.

The reason why Jiang Wei suddenly became an agent for graphics cards and prepared to "go big" after making the decision to "lie down" was because... Jiang Wei and Ye Zi wanted a child.

Yes, it happened so suddenly that when telling us about this, Jiang Wei himself lamented that life is unpredictable.

A man who previously claimed that he had lived his life with his two-dimensional wife suddenly got a girlfriend, suddenly found love, suddenly got married, and then the two discussed and decided to have a child.

Deciding to have a child means that the two of them can’t just “lie down” like that. Since they have chosen to have a child, they must give the child the best. Although raising a child is not a problem with Jiang Wei’s current financial resources, it is always good to save more money, so Jiang Wei made a decision - keep working hard!

Although he had to try, Jiang Wei couldn't find a way to make more money for a while because his previous computer store was sold. Ye Zi, as Jiang Wei's wife, was not idle either. She asked friends everywhere to find out if there was any way. After asking around, she heard that her distant relative was Ye Yuqing, and Xiong Xiong's family happened to ask Ye Yuqing to find a graphics card agent in the city. Tongmeng.com was the first partner, and Ye Zi happened to have a demand, so Xiong Xiong came to Jiang Wei to discuss graphics cards on behalf of their family.

"I have no problem."

In the living room, after reading the contract that Xiong Xiong brought over, Jiang Wei immediately made a decision: "We accept all the terms in the contract, but I have one condition."

"Oh?"

Xiongxiong was a little curious: "What are the conditions? Tell me?"

"I've checked the information of Jialan Company. Almost all the computer accessories you produce are named after flowers, except for the graphics card, which is named 'Apocalypse' to cater to the game. I hope that if I am the agent, I can have the right to modify the name and shape of the graphics card."

Xiongxiong became even more curious: "Do you have this ability?"

Jiang Wei seemed very confident: "I know a lot of graphics card manufacturers, some of whom have at least ten years of experience in making graphics cards, so there will definitely be no problem in this regard."

"What if we give you the power to modify the appearance and name..."

Xiong Xiong asked tentatively: "What do you plan to name this non-public graphics card?"