Scientific Travel

"Sister!" Seeing Deng Yin return, Wang Xi ran towards her. "Where have you been these past two days? Why didn't you come home?"

Deng Yin picked up Wang Xi and said, "Sister went to catch rabbits. How about we have a whole rabbit feast tonight?"

Wang Xi happily exclaimed, "Great!"

Hearing the noise, Li Pingyue and Wang Moyu came out together. Deng Yin put Wang Xi down and said to the two of them, "I brought back a man named Gou Dan. He has amnesia now. I signed a contract with him. You can ask him to do anything you need."

"Come out," Deng Yin called out towards the door.

Dog Egg's original clothes were changed into coarse cloth shirts, which looked cheap on him but looked expensive.

Wang Moyu looked at Gou Dan, then at Deng Yin, pulled her aside, and whispered, "Did he really sign a contract of servitude? Could he have been kidnapped?"

Deng Yin didn't understand the hidden meaning in her words and replied matter-of-factly, "Of course." After saying that, she even took out the indenture to show Wang Moyu.

Wang Moyu looked at the indenture, then at Gou Dan's face, repeating the gesture several times, and sighed, "No wonder he ended up like this, he's just an uncultured person."

Wang Xi really liked Gou Dan, and as soon as they met, she insisted on being held. Gou Dan refused. "No, you're too fat."

Children don't have a concept of beauty or ugliness yet. Because of Gou Dan's words, Wang Xi ate half a bowl less rice that night.

Li Pingle didn't say much because he was brought by Deng Yin, but he glared at him the whole time.

If looks could kill, this meal would be enough to kill Gou Dan seven or eight times over.

Wang Moyu and Deng Yin were unaware of what had happened. While the three of them were having an unfriendly exchange, the two of them were discussing whether to open a private school for Wang Xi at home.

I'm not very educated... who knows, I might name my future child "Dog Egg"...

Gou Dan was completely unaware that Li Ping Le was constantly giving him a glare. He had been starving for three days, and if it weren't for everyone's quick thinking and action, he would have been the only one who got to eat his fill tonight.

It's not advisable to eat watermelon after dinner, as it might cause you to need to get up at night. Deng Yin guessed that everyone hadn't eaten well at the meal, so he specially gave each person three bananas.

This stuff has very little moisture and is quite filling.

Bananas exist in this era, but nobody eats them. They haven't evolved to the point where they're edible.

Bananas nowadays do have seeds inside; to be precise, it's not that the banana itself has seeds, but rather that the banana peel contains seeds.

Faced with a food that, once peeled, reveals only seeds, no one has yet associated it with being edible.

This was the first time Wang Xi had ever seen a banana, and Deng Yin taught her how to peel it step by step.

Unlike watermelons, bananas don't burst with juice when you bite into them. Nor are they like strawberries, whose aroma alone is enough to make your mouth water.

Bananas are a very subtle fruit; their flavor isn't very strong, and they don't have that kind of taste that you can't forget after just one bite.

It's like a spring rain, nourishing things silently.

It doesn't have any particularly outstanding advantages, but it's something that everyone can accept.

"good to eat!"

Wang Xi was very enthusiastic about tasting bananas for the first time and ate two of them.

Every room in the basement has an owner, and even if no one lives there for the time being, it wouldn't be appropriate for Gou Dan to live there, so Deng Yin simply took him upstairs to live.

Deng Yin pointed upstairs and said, "There are six rooms on the second and third floors. You can choose any room to stay in."

Dog Egg asked, puzzled, "Why? Since I'm your servant, shouldn't I have my own room?"

“Besides…” Gou Dan continued, “Why do your family members seem not to recognize me? Is this the first time we’ve met?”

Deng Yin knew he would become suspicious, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

Fortunately, she had already prepared her explanation before bringing her here.

“You still don’t understand us rich people. We rich people have many properties. This one is just one of my many properties. It’s normal that you haven’t been here before.” Deng Yin said, “And you said that my family doesn’t know you. That’s normal too. I bought you less than a month ago and haven’t introduced you to them yet.”

"A month?" Most people get sleepy after a big meal, but he seemed even more energetic, as if he were determined to stay up all night asking questions. "Why was I sold to you?"

"Talking is too dry," Deng Yin said, taking out a plate of sunflower seeds and cracking them open as he spoke. "Here's what happened: your father died, and you knelt on the street selling yourself to bury him. You looked filthy back then, and your father must have been dead for a long time. Now that it's so hot, there's a swarm of flies around the body, and you can smell the stench from far away. People who are watching are keeping their distance."

Deng Yin wasn't picky about food either. He could eat with relish while telling such a heavy story, and when he got thirsty from cracking sunflower seeds, he even cut up a watermelon on the spot to eat with them.

“You may have forgotten now, but you were in a great hurry back then. You had neither a skill nor a good appearance, and you even seemed to have caught the smell of the corpse, you all stank. You were afraid that if you didn’t bury it soon, the corpse would be infested with maggots.”

"Later, every time you passed by someone, you would kneel down and kowtow to them. You kowtowed about twenty times, but no one bought from you. You kowtowed very hard, and your forehead was covered in blood. Just like this watermelon."

At this point, Deng Yin cut a piece of watermelon for Gou Dan, who was so disgusted that he wanted to throw the watermelon and the person out together.

“I remember it was a very hot day at noon. I had no appetite, so I only ate half a watermelon. In this kind of weather, it would be bad enough if someone died. I was afraid that if you died there, it would affect my appetite, so I bought you.”

The old-fashioned storyline has been given a little extra detail; this is called a mix of truth and deception, which will surely prevent him from discovering the problem.

"Impossible. Even if someone loses their memory, their personality can't change drastically." Gou Dan's face was a little pale, and he forced back his nausea as he said, "Although I don't know what kind of person I used to be, I certainly couldn't have been a dirty person."

Gou Dan is a germaphobe, but Deng Yin has known him for so long and has never seen this side of him before.

Deng Yin remained calm and ate another slice of watermelon before saying, "So, do you think you would be an unfilial person?"

Dog Egg didn't know. He hesitated for a long time, then shook his head.

“That settles it then,” Deng Yin said. “Think about it, why did you sell yourself? Because you didn’t have enough money to bury your father. If you didn’t even have enough money to bury your father, where would you get the money to take care of yourself? Water is expensive too. You don’t know that when I bought you, your father’s face wasn’t very clean either. Since you are filial, you would never make yourself look presentable so that your father could leave in an undignified manner.”

That seems... to make sense...