Oh. My. Fate?! (BL, Volume #1)

28 Someone's Lying

Jing Yi had been avoiding each andevery girl of the village for two entire weeks. The women who hadcalled his reaction cute at first weren't sure what to thinkanymore.

Madam Qiguan just laughed. "Didn'tI say so? He's just a coward. Which boy would run from a bunch ofgirls?"

Madam Pan who had still argued forthe boy some days ago had nothing to retort. It wasn't surprisingthat he ran away when he saw Fa Chao Fu. That could be explained. Butwhy did he also run from the rest? He couldn't have thought thatall girls were that troublesome, right?

Thinking of that her maternalinstinct kicked in. Her own boys were such troublesome creatures. Shecouldn't let such a cute and obedient boy go to waste! Her youngersister had just given birth to a baby girl. Looking at all the boysshe could marry when she grew up Zhong Jing Yi was the best. Shecouldn't let him come to be afraid of girls!

With this thought in mind, Madam Panmade her way out of the circle of gossiping women and went over towhere Madam Zhong and her son were.

Madam Zhong looked up, her eyesvigilant. She still hadn't forgotten how Madam Pan had tried tohinder her back then when she had wanted to get her child. Who knewif something might have happened to Jing Yi if the Daoist Masterhadn't shown up?

Madam Pan knew what Madam Zhongthought. Ever since then she had mostly been ignored by her ortreated with distrust. She found it a little too much but sheunderstood that Jing Yi was Madam Zhong's only child and that shewas just overprotective so she didn't say anything.

"Ah, Madam Zhong, I heard fromthe others that Jing Yi is a little afraid of the girls?"

"What about it?" MadamZhong grasped Jing Yi's shoulders and pulled him a little closer toher.

Qiu Ling who leaned not far fromthem against the corner of a house lifted his head and watched MadamPan. What was she doing now? Something seemed fishy but he wasn'tsure what was going on.

"Mn, I ... I was just askingmyself if there is a special reason? Maybe we can help somehow? JingYi is such a nice child. It would be a pity if he always had to beafraid around the girls. He doesn't like playing with the boysalready, no?"

Madam Zhong tightened her lips. Thatwas indeed true. Jing Yi was always alone. As much as she lovedhaving her child always around her and was afraid of him coming toharm when he was out of her sight, she still didn't want torestrict him too much.

"I don't know of any specialreason." Her tone was a little more reconcilable than normally.

Madam Pan nodded and squatted downin front of Jing Yi. "Jing Yi, is there something wrong with thegirls that you don't want to play with them?"

Jing Yi didn't answer. He stillremembered what the old man had told him. He couldn't tell anyone!

"You know it's such a pitynot playing with them. Who are you going to marry in the future ifyou don't spend time with them?"

Qiu Ling snorted. The person hisbeloved was going to marry? That would obviously be him! No reason tobring up any girls. His beloved didn't have any need for them. JingYi also didn't seem to care for Madam Pan's attempt to persuadehim and kept quiet.

Madam Zhong patted his head. "It'salright. If he doesn't want to, Jing Yi doesn't have to spend timewith them."

The boy turned around and claspedher hand, intent on not leaving her side for even a moment.

Madam Pan looked at him pensively."Jing Yi ... Don't you think your father is incredibly lucky tohave a wife as great as your mother?"

Jing Yi looked at his mother andthen at Madam Pan. He didn't really understand about marrying andhaving a wife but of course, his father was extremely lucky that hismother was there! He nodded.

Madam Pan smiled. "Then did youknow that your mother was a girl once, too?"

Jing Yi's eyes went wide. Hismommy was a mud monster, too?! That couldn't be! That woman had tobe lying! Madam Pan laughed at his shocked expression. Unfortunately,she only confirmed his suspicions. She really was lying! The poor boystill believed the lying Qiu Ling instead of the woman who tried tohelp him.

Qiu Ling crossed his arms andsmiled. That was his beloved! He would still believe in him eventhough he didn't know him at the moment! Unfortunately for QiuLing, there was one person Jing Yi believed even more than him. Thechild turned around and looked up at his mother.

Madam Zhong wanted to laugh too butfelt bad seeing her son's shocked expression. She just squatteddown and nodded. "That's right! Your mommy was a girl oncetoo!"

Jing Yi blinked. That couldn't be!His mommy wouldn't lie ... But she definitely couldn't be a mudmonster! He tried to wrap his little head around this idea andfinally arrived at a shocking revelation: The old man must have lied!

Jing Yi didn't understand why buthe felt that this was the only explanation. He extended his arms andhugged his mother.

Madam Zhong really was afraid shewouldn't be able to hold her laughter in this time. The boy hadbeen afraid for nearly two weeks and now he had found out his motherwas once a girl too. He must feel really conflicted right now! Shealso saw that this would be a good opportunity to make him forget hisfear.

"You know if your father hadn'tplayed with mommy back when she was a girl, she might not havemarried him. And then there wouldn't be you!"

Jing Yi looked up. There wouldn'tbe him? So it was really important to play with girls? Would hedisappear if he didn't play with them?!

Most likely, too many people hadalready lied to the poor child. He really didn't know anymore whatwas true and what was false. He couldn't decide if he should playwith the girls or not. What if he really vanished? What if he gotmuddy and his mommy scolded him? Jing Yi was feeling conflicted.

Qiu Ling felt just sad. How come hisJing He still loved his mother more than him? What had become of thepromise to spend the rest of their lives together? Even afterdrinking the water of the river of forgetfulness, his belovedshouldn't have forgotten him! Didn't his soul ache from nothaving him at his side?

Unfortunately, it really didn'tseem like that.