B5SB -Chapter 233 Following

After finishing dinner, Gu Yihan carried Haohao back to the bedroom. Ignoring the little hamster’s protests, she directly threw it out of the space.

“What do you mean?!”

The little hamster bounced in midair, flipped over, and landed on the dressing table. It stood there, baring its teeth and waving its claws at Gu Yihan as it roared angrily.

When Haohao saw the fluffy little hamster, his eyes lit up.

Propping himself up on the bed with both hands, he crawled over quickly and grabbed the still-jumping hamster.

“Hah, how could this little brat possibly—”

Before the hamster could finish speaking, Haohao lifted it by the tail and swung it from side to side, giggling happily.

“Haohao, let go,” Gu Yihan said, holding back her laughter as she looked at the utterly despairing hamster.

Haohao was very smart. Knowing his mother wanted him to loosen his grip, he reluctantly patted the hamster’s ears.

After thinking for a moment, he shifted his little butt and sat down on it.

“Pfft—”

The hamster almost passed out from the urine smell under Haohao’s butt.

It was a mutated mental-power hamster, with a sense of smell hundreds of times stronger than ordinary animals. Scents others couldn’t notice were unbearably pungent to it.

“Wuu… save the mouse…”

Gu Yihan looked at the struggling hamster under Haohao’s butt in surprise and asked doubtfully,
“Don’t you have mental powers?”

The hamster stared at her with its round little eyes, on the verge of tears.

“I don’t know. This little guy is like you—he can suppress my mental power.”

Gu Yihan’s eyes lit up.

She could suppress the hamster because she was bound to the space. If Haohao could do it too, did that mean he had some special ability?

She was so excited that she almost couldn’t speak, trying hard to calm her racing heart.

Anxiously, she asked, “Little Hamster, does Haohao have other abilities?”

Seeing that Gu Yihan was only talking to the hamster and not to him, Haohao pouted jealously.

He raised his chubby little hand and slapped the hamster on the head. Afterward, he muttered, “Be good.”

The hamster was stunned.

Though the slap felt like a scratch, it seriously hurt its dignity.

It struggled desperately and still replied to Gu Yihan, “No!”

Hearing this, Gu Yihan felt a little disappointed. But when her gaze fell on the hamster struggling under Haohao’s butt, her mood instantly improved.

She thought that being able to resist mental power wasn’t bad either.

“Move this brat’s butt away!” The hamster bared its teeth at Gu Yihan.

“Creak.”

After finishing the housework, Lu Huailin pushed open the bedroom door and happened to hear the hamster’s voice.

He froze for a moment. Then, reacting quickly, he closed the door and looked at his wife seriously.

“How did it come back?”

Seeing Lu Huailin’s bad expression, Haohao wiggled his sturdy little butt and hid the hamster completely.

This time, the hamster couldn’t take it and fainted on the spot.

Seeing only the hamster’s little head sticking out, Lu Huailin’s mouth twitched.

Gu Yihan chuckled and said to him, “The hamster is back. When the leaders talk to you, you’re not allowed to tell anyone.”

She said this deliberately to test him.

Lu Huailin was stunned, then smiled. He walked over, put an arm around her shoulders, and said, “I’ll listen to you.”

“Really?” Gu Yihan looked at him suspiciously.

Lu Huailin smiled. Though he didn’t know her purpose, his instincts told him he had better go along with her.

“In my heart, you and Haohao are the most important.”

Gu Yihan smiled happily. That was more like it.

She had grown up in an orphanage and seen all kinds of human coldness, so she was rather self-centered.

If Lu Huailin had ignored her opinion and handed over the hamster, she would have erased him from her heart.

The Next Day, Yawning, Gu Yihan walked out of the bedroom and saw Grandma Gu sitting on a mat with Haohao, helping him practice standing and walking.

“Grandma, I need to go out later. Sorry for leaving Haohao to you alone today,” she said apologetically.

Grandma Gu looked up and smiled.

“What’s so tiring about that?”

“By the way, I left breakfast for you in the kitchen.”

Gu Yihan bent down and kissed Haohao.

“Haohao, listen to Great-Grandma, okay?”

Haohao grinned and clearly said, “Listen.”

Grandma Gu glared at her. “Go eat. Come back early.”

Gu Yihan nodded with a smile.

After breakfast, she rode her bicycle out of the residential compound.

Half an hour later, she arrived at a dilapidated courtyard with crumbling walls.

She climbed over the collapsed wall and entered the yard, letting the hamster scan the surroundings with its mental power.

After receiving confirmation that it was safe, she stored the bicycle in her space.

She took out some old cosmetics and disguised her face.

The hamster looked at her excitedly.

“Are you going to do something bad?”

It wasn’t a product of peaceful times and had a violent nature. If not for the suppression of Gu Yihan’s space, it would crush anyone it disliked.

Gu Yihan glanced at it and ignored it, examining her disguised face in the mirror.

Not bad. She looked about twenty-seven now—no one would recognize her.

Following her memory, she found a dirty, disheveled little boy near a public toilet.

Squatting down, she said softly, “I can provide you with coarse grain.”

The boy suddenly raised his head, staring at her like a wolf cub.

“What’s your purpose?”

Gu Yihan deliberately lowered her voice and chuckled.

“Think about your sick grandfather who still has to clean toilets.”

The boy’s eyes instantly turned red.

With a vicious expression beyond his age, he gritted his teeth.

“Even if we have food, we can’t keep it!”

Their home was searched every few days. Sometimes he and his grandfather went hungry for two days, surviving only on water.

“I have a way to keep others from finding your food,” Gu Yihan said after a moment of thought.

“Really?” The boy stood up suddenly and grabbed her arm anxiously.

Gu Yihan glanced at his dirty hand, frowned slightly, and nodded.

Noticing her frown, the sensitive boy immediately withdrew his hand.

Flustered, he apologized, “Sorry. I was too anxious and got your clothes dirty.”

Gu Yihan looked at his cloth shoes with toes sticking out and waved her hand.

“It’s fine.”

She wanted to remind him about hygiene, but thinking of his living conditions, she swallowed her words.

“I want you to follow Comrade Min Erhua from the textile factory’s accounting department. Tell me everywhere she goes besides work.”

“Okay.” Hearing it was Min Erhua, the boy agreed without hesitation.

That woman had insulted him more than once, calling him a capitalist’s lackey.

Gu Yihan smiled and nodded, told him the meeting place for exchanging information, and turned to leave.

“Sister, my name is Jiang Zifeng,” the boy shouted at her back before running off in the opposite direction.

Gu Yihan paused, touched her cheek, and muttered to herself,

“Good thing I was smart enough to disguise myself.”