My Wife is an Evil Dragon-Chapter 14

Chapter 14: The Evil Dragon Doesn’t Grin
There is a park less than a hundred meters away from where Xia Li lives, with a large artificial lake in the center.
During the summer, merchants bring pedal boats and water walking balls here, and various water activities make this area particularly lively.
However, after autumn, these things are withdrawn, and the small stalls and vendors around them disappear along with them.
Those mobile stalls seem to be gregarious animals that adapt to this large society, constantly migrating with the changing seasons.
At this time, there are only a few young people jogging on the cold pedestrian path, and in the distance, uncles and aunts are practicing Tai Chi on the spacious road surface.
On the lake, the golden morning sun is like a broken mirror, its reflection easily shattered by the wind and waves, refracting a dazzling, shimmering light.
“Are they performing some strange witchcraft?”
Lucia didn’t care about the scenery here at all; she had seen more beautiful scenery when soaring in Azure Continent.
What made her keep looking back were the old people in the open space wearing red and white clothes and wielding soft swords.
“They are exercising,” Xia Li replied.
“Exercising?”
Lucia couldn’t help but look back again, “Why do they still need to exercise at such an old age… Are they going to the battlefield?”
Battlefield…
This word echoed in Xia Li’s mind.
Although it is common in Azure Continent, the word “battlefield” does have a sense of age on Earth, especially for China.
“The country we live in is very peaceful, there is no war, the country is prosperous and the people are safe, and no one needs to go to the battlefield,” Xia Li patiently explained.
Lucia asked again, “If they don’t go to the battlefield, what are they doing?”
“Exercising.”
“Just exercising?”
“Yes.” Xia Li nodded.
Lucia thought with her head down.
In Azure Continent, all resources are scarce, and so is food. Except for the royal family and nobles, more than half of the humans do not have enough to eat. Hunger is the most widespread nightmare in the human world.
She had seen groups of three or five humans practicing swordsmanship several times, but those were all human soldiers who were about to go to the battlefield.
Therefore, Lucia couldn’t understand why these elderly humans would come out to practice swordsmanship, and why they didn’t go to the battlefield after practicing. In her opinion, this was a very wasteful thing to do with resources and physical strength.
Lucia had lived her whole life under the worldview of war and aggression, this kind of world without war… was unimaginable to her.
“Do you want to eat anything else?”
Seeing Lucia’s silence, Xia Li knew that this guy was thinking about something again.
She was clearly a dragon who soared in the sky and had absolute freedom, but after coming to Earth, she looked like she had never seen the world before, as if any little thing could shock her dragon life.
If he took this guy to the city center and showed her the towering skyscrapers, wouldn’t her brain be fried in surprise?
“Yes!”
Lucia immediately retracted her thoughts, and didn’t ask Xia Li what he was going to take her to eat, anyway, as long as he mentioned eating, she would definitely nod.
Xia Li took Lucia to the gate of the park and bought a piece of fried rice cake.
This is one of the common snacks in Sichuan Province. The outside is glutinous rice, and the inside is meat filling. After being fried at high temperature, it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, which can randomly make a passing evil dragon cry.
At this time, the soy milk in Xia Li’s hand was almost cold. Xia Li inserted the straw and handed a cup of soy milk in the bag to Lucia.
He remembered that this evil dragon should not be able to use a straw, so he introduced it.
“Hold this transparent little stick in your mouth, and then inhale.”
“Gurgling…”
A strange sound came from the paper cup filled with soy milk.
So Xia Li said again: “Inhale, inhale, not exhale, like this.”
As he spoke, he demonstrated, taking a deep breath of air into his lungs.
Lucia nodded and tried again.
“…Don’t breathe when inhaling!”
Seeing that she was about to suck herself back, Xia Li quickly corrected her.
“Hmm… uh!”
Lucia quickly learned how to use a straw, it was the first time she had come into contact with such a magical little thing.
When the mellow and slightly sweet soy milk was sucked into her mouth, Lucia’s eyes widened.
What a magical spell!
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…No, this shouldn’t be magic.
“It’s delicious, isn’t it?” Xia Li asked proudly.
Lucia nodded vigorously.
She didn’t say anything, she just held the cup of soy milk in her hand and drank it silently, like a cat.
“Today I’m mainly taking you to the street to buy daily necessities.”
After breakfast, Xia Li glanced at the time on his phone.
It was almost eight o’clock, and the supermarkets in the urban area had already opened one after another, so it should be just the right time to go there.
“Let’s take the bus and it will take half an hour to get to the city center,” Xia Li said.
Lucia was still drinking the soy milk in her hand, by this time the soy milk had already bottomed out, the straw intermittently sucked up the last bit of liquid, making a poor “gurgling” sound.
Lucia didn’t know what a bus was or what a city center was, anyway, she silently followed Xia Li wherever he said he would take her.
In order to let this evil dragon who had never seen the world experience the simplest transaction method in the human world, Xia Li deliberately scanned the code to pay the snack stall selling fried rice cakes, and asked the owner to exchange two yuan for coins.
“When you get on the bus later, you put these coins into the box… Just listen to my instructions.” Xia Li said.
“Is this the currency of the human world?”
Lucia looked at the two coins repeatedly in her palm.
Of course she knew that transactions in the human world required currency, but this was the first time she had seen the currency of this world.
“Yes, this is a one-yuan coin.”
Xia Li thought for a while, in order to let this evil dragon have a concept of the amount of money, he added, “The fried rice cake we just ate was three yuan, the soy milk was four yuan, the steamed bun was three yuan… Oh yes, the bread you held in your hand yesterday was worth five yuan.”
“Oh…”
Lucia let out a meaningful sigh, not knowing what was going on in her mind.
Xia Li took her to the bus stop, Lucia followed behind with small steps, and suddenly asked.
“Do you have any more one-yuan coins?”
“Yes, what do you want to do?”
“Then give me another one, I want to buy fried rice cakes.”
“…You!”
Xia Li almost choked.
The good news is, at least this evil dragon knows that 1+2=3.
The bad news is, this guy really only has food on her mind.
But it makes sense, Lucia at this stage has no desires or demands, she has not found what she wants to do and what she should do in this world, so she can only follow the most instinctive desire of the dragon race, eat and sleep, sleep and eat.
“This is the money to take you to the bus, not for eating!”
“What is a bus?” Lucia looked up and asked.
“It’s a means of transportation, somewhat similar to the carriages in Azure Continent.”
“Oh, I know carriages… Humans like to tame all kinds of beasts to pull carts for themselves.”
Lucia understood as soon as Xia Li said so, and she followed Xia Li’s footsteps to the bus stop.
The bus stop at this time was basically occupied by office workers from nine to five. They were crowded at the stop, and it was the first time Lucia faced so many humans at the same time.
She moved her feet uncomfortably, and secretly leaned closer to Xia Li.
Looking up at Xia Li who was waiting for the bus seriously, Lucia looked at the endless stream of metal boxes in front of her.
“These are all human means of transportation?”
Lucia’s arm was almost squeezed against Xia Li’s, she felt a little embarrassed, so she found a topic to talk about.
“Well, these are all cars. As long as they have wheels and run on the ground, we call them ‘cars’.”
“Oh…”
Silently remembering the new knowledge points she learned today, Lucia asked Xia Li again.
“Where’s your car?”
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