## Chapter 14: Daohua Fragrant Rice
Just when little Guaibao thought she wouldn’t get a response, the young and familiar voice in her mind slowly uttered three words.
“Lu Zhuoyuan.”
Little Guaibao was stunned for a moment before cheerfully saying to that voice, “Then can Guaibao call you Brother Lu from now on?”
Hearing the voice coming from the iron wok, Lu Zhuoyuan nodded instinctively.
After nodding, he suddenly realized that the little girl named Guaibao couldn’t see him nod, so he used all his strength to finally squeeze a single word out of his throat.
“Okay.”
After Lu Zhuoyuan could no longer hear Guaibao’s voice, he reverted to his previous state, sitting blankly in his room and watching the sky outside turn from day to night.
During this time, his mother, Cheng Xue, came back from the outside. Seeing him sitting blankly in the room, she couldn’t help holding him and crying for two hours.
It wasn’t until Cheng Xue’s eyes were swollen from crying that she let go of Lu Zhuoyuan, walked out of his room, and asked the family’s nanny to get her some ice cubes to soothe her eyes.
Lu Zhuoyuan was used to his mother frequently holding him and crying. Previously, it was because his mother couldn’t accept that he was three years old and still couldn’t speak.
Now, however, it was because his mother said that his father, Lu Yao, still held a white moonlight in his heart that he could never forget.
Three days later, little Guaibao looked at the iron wok once again and spoke to Lu Zhuoyuan in her mind, “Brother Lu, Grandpa says that if we walk for another four or five days, we can reach a county town called Lingluo County!”
“By then, my dad, my eldest uncle, and my brothers will all be able to go into the county town to find work!”
“Once my dad and the others earn some silver, they can buy food and incense candles, so they won’t need to ask you for food anymore, and they can even use incense candles to make offerings to you!”
Lu Zhuoyuan, who had originally been staring blankly, immediately stood up and walked over to the iron wok upon hearing little Guaibao’s voice. He opened his mouth, but it was still very difficult to make a sound.
Unable to help it, he kicked his own bed and thought angrily in his mind, “Why can’t I speak?”
Little Guaibao originally thought she wouldn’t get a reply from Brother Lu again, but suddenly, that familiar voice rang out in her mind, sounding all flustered and indignant: “Why can’t I speak?”
“Eh?” little Guaibao said in confusion, “Brother Lu, you can speak! Guaibao heard you!”
Hearing the voice coming from the iron wok, Lu Zhuoyuan froze in place. With disbelief, he turned around and looked at the iron wok placed right in the center of his room.
She could hear his inner thoughts?
Lu Zhuoyuan tried shouting in his mind, “Guaibao?”
Little Guaibao replied immediately, “Guaibao is here! Brother Lu, what’s wrong?”
Hearing this reply, which confirmed that little Guaibao really could hear his inner thoughts, Lu Zhuoyuan said in his mind right away, “Nothing. Is your name Guaibao?”
Little Guaibao obediently answered, “My childhood name is Guaibao, and my formal name is Shen Xihe.”
After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhuoyuan said in his mind, “Then I’ll call you Xixi!”
With that, Lu Zhuoyuan continued in his mind, “I am not the iron wok in front of you. I come from another world, so you mustn’t call me Wok Brother anymore in the future.”
Little Guaibao nodded with a half-understanding expression and told Lu Zhuoyuan in her mind, “Brother Lu, Guaibao is not calling you Wok Brother anymore.”
Recalling the past, Lu Zhuoyuan realized that both times little Guaibao had spoken to him just now, she indeed called him Brother Lu. Satisfied, he said, “Alright, you came to find me. Is it because you’re out of food again?”
Little Guaibao flushed with a red face and replied with embarrassment, “Mm, there are a lot of people in Guaibao’s family. The food Brother Lu gave Guaibao was a lot, but my family has many people, and they eat a lot too.”
Hearing this, Lu Zhuoyuan said to little Guaibao in his mind, “The five hundred catties of Daohua fragrant rice I bought online will arrive soon. Just wait a little longer.”
Hearing Lu Zhuoyuan’s words, little Guaibao couldn’t help raising her little hand in confusion and scratching her head: “Online?”
What net?
A fishing net? Or a spider web?