"Little dumpling if you only just eat all day and study and read all day with no exercise you are going to get so fat your belly is going to drag on the floor. You have to do some exercise."
The little dumpling glared at her with an indignant expression on his face, "I do to exercise."
"What do you do as exercise?" Liu Tián Qǔ asked with a face full curiosity and a trace of doubt in her eyes.
The little dumpling eyes dropped, and a distressed look came across his blushing red face. He hung his head and stubbed the floor with his foot using the tip of his shoe, "I walk around my room," the little dumpling muttered very low.
Watching from the side, the cold faced young man's mouth twitched as the amusement in his eyes grew a bit deeper.
With a low chuckle, Liu Tián Qǔ grinned at just how adorable this cute little dumpling was. Liu Tián Qǔ decided to keep him. She wanted to pinch his cute fat little cheeks. Shaking her head as she grinned at the little dumpling she said, "Now Little Dumpling you know that doesn't count."
Face red from blushing in embarrassment and still hanging his head the little dumpling muttered under his breath, "My name is Wang Jǐng Jiè not little dumpling."
"Well, other than reading and studying what else do you like to do?" Liu Tián Qǔ asked.
"Everything else is boring. I just like reading and studying?" The little dumpling replied.
"Well have you at least tried anything else?" Liu Tián Qǔ inquired.
"Anything else like what ?" The little dumpling asked look up at Lu Tián Qǔ in confusion.
" Well, stuff like horse riding?"
"Mother said I'm too young to ride, but my big brother learned to ride a horse at this age," he said with a forlorn and downcast face.
"Okay no horsing riding then," Liu Tián Qǔ muttered to herself before asking, "How about learning sword fighting? You get good exercise doing that."
"Mother said I am too young, but big brother had already learned at my age." The little dumpling said woefully with big sad eyes.
"Okay no sword fighting either," Liu Tián Qǔ said mentally crossing that off the list. However, for some reason, she was starting to get a bit irritated with her cute little dumpling. "What about learning self-defense like a hand to hand combat?" Lu Tian said while punching the air with both hands in a demonstration. "You don't need weapons to learn it."
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"Mother said no" the little dumpling bottom lip trembled slightly and he looked like he was about to cry.
"Well, little dumpling maybe you're being a bit too obedient!" Liu Tián Qǔ said in agitation and clear frustration.
"Just sneak and go do it then you can eat all you want to eat." Liu Tián Qǔ said, waving her hands around feeling suffocated and like she wanted to pull all her hair out. 'This little dumpling is just too obedient,' Liu Tián Qǔ thought to herself, "Just go out and have fun for crying out loud. Look you're out already ah? Instead of walking around eating everything like a hungry ghost, go exercise for crying out loud!' Liu Tián Qǔ forgot that she was with Little Dumpling stuffing her face like a hungry ghost as well.
The little dumpling puffed up his cheeks in indignation and slight embarrassment, "If I sneak out to do things like that, I will get in trouble when I get caught."
"Little dumpling!" Liu Tián Qǔ screamed at him. Causing the stall owner of the hairpin stall, and other people around them to look over and finally start paying attention to them.
Suddenly Liu Tián Qǔ didn't know how or when or even why she got this agitated with him. She found herself breathing hard. Her face was flushed red. Her two little hands were clenched in fists at her side, and she wanted to throttle little dumpling. 'You can sneak out of your family house to go eat your belly full and get robbed, but you can't sneak out to go lose weight? This little dumpling is driving me crazy. Okay, let's calm down first.' Liu Tián Qǔ thought to herself.
Little dumpling eyes had popped open in shock, and there was a flash of wariness in his eyes.
What Liu Tián Qǔ didn't realize or notice was that they were already surrounded by a group of men who had disguised themselves and hid in the market. The men were watching in amusement. However, when she had screamed at Little Dumpling, the amusement in the eyes of those men died, and they had begun to move and close in on them. However, with just one glance from the deadly ice cold Phoenix eyes of the cold face young man. They froze in their tracks and silently retreated.
Taking a deep breath Liu Tián Qǔ unclenched her fist and said in a soft low voice of palpable forced calm as she glared at Little Dumpling trying to convince herself that she didn't want to throttle him, "Little Dumpling don't you think you are already in trouble for sneaking out of your family's house to eat your belly full of meat and noodles until you look like you're about to pop." Liu Tián Qǔ said while gesturing towards little dumpling belly.
"It's different, I'm running away, I'm not going back humph," Little Dumpling puffed up his cheeks and thrust out his neck and bottom lip in defiance.
"Aiya Little Dumpling, Little Dumpling." Lu Tián Qǔ shook her head in complete amazement at little dumpling naiveté. "You don't just take a small money purse and walk out of your family house and say you're running away. Running away from home is a skill. It's something that must be carefully planned out."
As she spoke, Little Dumpling looked at her with a face full of skepticism and doubt. So Lu Tian Qu said, "Let me ask you a couple of questions?"
"You're all dirty now and look like you got chased down by a mob of angry people and barely escaped with your life." Little dumpling looked down to see that indeed he really was dirty. Earlier, he was too hungry to pay attention to his clothes. As he was checking out the state of his clothes, Liu Tián Qǔ asked him, "Did you bring a change of clothing?"
Little dumpling head snapped up, and he looked at Liu Tián Qǔ startled.
"Nope, I can see that you didn't." Liu Tián Qǔ looked at Little dumpling knowingly with a slight smirk on her face. "Okay let me ask you another question, where did you sleep last night?"