After all, the living environment is relatively harsh, and the union of men and women - and then having children - is the most basic social need.
If only Neomorphism hadn’t been ruined.
Xia Yibing suddenly had a crazy idea.
That method can actually simulate and copy biological limbs... If I learn it, can I solve the problem of fertility?
It's a bit crazy.
She thought about it and decided that she couldn't accept simulating those organs.
The tail is ok though.
Well……
A tail that has the ability to solve fertility problems...
She thought of the "Dragon Girl" that the girl had described to her and that she had seen in her dream.
"Instead of telling me all this, why don't you find a time to disguise yourself as a man and knock on my window."
Hitzfeld was no longer angry. He tried to pry her hand apart a few times but failed, so he decided to explain things to her.
"Even if it's considered indecent, at least it can help cover it up a bit..."
Sarah's mentality is quite open. There is no compulsion in relationships and relationships between men and women. Even if someone insists on her own opinion, the worst outcome she has seen is criticism.
That is condemnation, it is moral.
There are also some remote areas and small countries. In order to maintain the population, pairing men and women is even written into local laws. She is really glad that she didn't wake up in those places.
Xia Yibing naturally had no objection to this, but she was still unhappy because it would indeed damage the girl's reputation.
The woman was still unhappy until she sent Ashley away.
Even Hitzfeld found it funny - I, whose reputation is actually being damaged, don't care, so why are you always worrying about it?
"Stop imagining things."
After putting away the plates, she walked to the dining table and hugged the woman tightly from behind the chair.
"Would you like to go relax later?"
"To the beach, just the two of us."
Chapter 2 Ballad
Autumn is Hitzfeld's favorite season.
The climate is comfortable, not too cold, so you can dress as you like, and not too hot, so you have a wider range of choices.
Some thin fabrics suitable for summer can also be chosen in this season. The only difference is to add a pair of thick tights or a coat on the outside.
Of course, the most important point is that summer and winter need autumn as a matchmaker to meet.
"Remember where we first met?"
She wore a dark black dress jacket on her upper body, and a lace blouse with dark gold buttons underneath. As usual, Hitzfeld wore a long black skirt and walked on the street and asked the woman next to her.
The whole body is mostly dark colors, this time she chose the white socks she liked before as a match. The sea breeze occasionally blows up the hem of the skirt that hangs down to the ankles, and the calves wrapped in white stockings move in the darkness, and the slender ankles always attract extra attention.
Luckily we are the only ones here.
Xia Yibing kept staring at her ankles and the curve of her feet immersed in dark leather boots until the girl punched her and repeated the same move before she reacted.
"It was that train, the Wangjia Autumn Train, right?" Xia Yibing recalled, "If you hadn't met me at that time, I guess you wouldn't have dared to get on that train."
She laughed when she said this. She still remembered the conflicted look on Hitzfeld's face when he was standing alone on the platform.
The girl was greedy and bought some snacks at the station which caused her stomachache. She wanted to get on the train directly but was worried that there would be no toilet on the train.
It was only because of my appearance that she was rescued. To put it in other words, Aisuen owed this side half his life almost from the very beginning.
Hitzfeld's face darkened. It was such a romantic scene, what did she mean by bringing this up?
The atmosphere that was brewed was not spicy at all!
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He swung his fist again and hit the woman hard on the arm.
"Hey hey!" Xia Yibing didn't feel anything after taking over. She twisted her foot due to excessive force and incorrect force posture. Half of her body fell directly to the front left, and the woman quickly caught her steadily.
"Let go." Hitzfeld held back the pain and frowned, "I don't need your help."
"That's impossible." She heard these words and before she could react, her whole body flew into the air - she didn't know how many times she was held up by the legs.
"This road is not far anyway, let me carry you~" Xia Yibing nodded to the confused girl, acted as if it was a matter of course, and walked forward.
She was wearing casual clothes today, with a loose coarse sailor shirt as an outer coat, an extra fine cotton sweatshirt underneath, and real men's canvas trousers on the lower body. She was not wearing socks and even had slippers on her feet.
In Hitzfeld's eyes, this outfit was a blasphemy to life, but she had her reasons: a vacation should look like a vacation, and if you have to dress so formally when going out, then life is not excessive.
"Aren't you cold?" Hitzfeld felt embarrassed by the situation even though she was being held by him. She suppressed her shyness and changed the subject. "The temperature has dropped. You are wearing two large pants and no socks. Do you still want to go swimming in the sea?"
"I don't care." Xia Yibing didn't hear her sarcasm, and didn't even take the opportunity to take advantage of the girl. "I don't mind playing in the water, but I didn't bring waterproof clothes this time. It's not fun, right? You can do it next time... and you can't play in the water with what you're wearing."
There were some at the beginning, for example, the hand holding the other person's knee would sometimes rub the surface of the stockings.
But how should I put it... She had actually eaten meat now, and she should have learned some tips on how to get along with couples in daily life, even if they just memorized them by rote. So she didn't dare to go too far, fearing that Hitzfeld would quarrel with her again.
But she was still looking at the girl... looking at her who was so close to her, looking at her being held like this by her, forced to curl up in her arms, looking at her face, every expression on her face, as if all this was more charming than any scenery.
Hitzfeld felt uncomfortable being stared at by her: "You...why are you always looking at me?"
She didn't understand. Logically, both of them should have - hadn't they seen enough last night?
"I can never get enough of it." Xia Yibing nodded, her tone was a little serious and a little understated: "You know... we in this industry also study people's expressions. Every change in the expression of those prisoners during interrogation may become a breakthrough. So for me, every change in your expression is like a series of similar but different portraits. I wish I could get every one of them and collect them well."
This time, it was not something she read in a book, but something she just felt at the time.
The natural expression of emotion was naturally effective. Hitzfeld had never expected that she would be so awkward. Not only did her face turn red, but she also didn't know how to respond afterwards.
Then she heard Xia Yibing lower her head and whisper to her: "Who told you not to let me turn on the light every time... I wanted to see you more at those times, but I ended up smearing you."
Hitzfeld was stunned for a moment, the redness on his face faded a little bit, and became rigid and dark: "So you are still very dissatisfied."
"I'm not dissatisfied." Someone didn't realize that a disaster was about to happen, and thought that this was just a normal conversation. He continued casually: "I just think... don't you like to draw nude portraits? Then you should be able to understand this kind of pure... I mean the beauty from an artistic perspective. I just think it would be a pity if I couldn't see it, especially the expression on your face at that time. I just heard you screaming..."
"...Oh!" She suddenly let out a scream, bent the hand that was supporting her back and reached up to press down a furry head lying on her neck.
Aisuen...actually bit me?
She was so surprised that she didn't even have time to think about what she had done wrong.
His fingers reached into the girl's hair and pinched her delicate neck. Xia Yibing grabbed her collar and forcibly lifted her up, continuing the difficult move of using her elbow to pull her back. When he lowered his head, he saw the girl glaring at him.
"Why are you biting me?" She asked tentatively, "...Is what I said wrong?"
She thought it should be okay.
After all, Aisuen's sketches and portraits were all sourced from here... and the paintings were basically of her own body.
I've shown you everything I have, and I'm not even going to draw what I saw like you do. In theory, it should be equal, so why are we still arguing about it?
"Do you really want to see it?" Hitzfeld simply struggled to get rid of her, forced himself to walk down with his sprained left foot, and as he shook her off, he left a sentence: "When you can draw as well as I do, I'll turn on the light for you to see!"
"Really?" Unexpectedly, she seemed to be taken seriously. Xia Yibing immediately asked, "How do you judge this standard?"
The explanation she expected did not come true. Hitzfeld glared at her hatefully, quickened his pace, and limped out.
The woman stood there with one hand on her waist.
After thinking about it, she vaguely felt that she was being too straightforward.
Maybe that's not what Aisuen meant...
Yes, she is so gentle...she is always willing to consider others, so this small request shouldn't make her so angry...
So I was too straightforward and too impatient. Maybe I should have been more subtle... For example, I could have skipped the step of "turning on the lights" which would obviously make her wary, and moved the process directly to daytime...
And you also need to practice drawing.
She counted on her fingers.
Aisuen has some minor flaws, but one of her valuable qualities is that she is very trustworthy... As long as I can really do it, I will have the final say on whether to turn on the light in the future...
Thinking of the happy place, Xia Yibing naturally became happy. At this time, she looked up and found that the girl had gone down the stairs and ran directly to the beach.
This path is quite far from No. 12 Flo Street. Because they don't like crowds and the nearby pier is always crowded, they have to drive around and find a place to park on the edge of the city.
When Xia Yibing came down, Hitzfeld was squatting on the beach studying shells. She had taken off both black gloves and was digging a hole with her fingers, trying to cut off the retreat of a sheath clam.
"You're not efficient."
She had only dug a little bit when a white foot fell from the sky. The instep of the foot was deeply inserted into the sand pit. With a push and a lift, a sheath clam was dug out.
Hitzfeld grasped the thing and held the shell to examine it carefully.
The sheath clam is a type of shell mollusk, very long, up to 12 centimeters long. The process of soft tissue entering and exiting the shell is very similar to the sheathing of a weapon. It is non-toxic and can be regarded as a daily snack for people living by the sea.
"There will be a lot of this stuff when the tide comes in." Xia Yibing took off the slipper on her other foot and threw it aside. She bent down and rolled up her trouser legs. She looked at her while she was working on it. "Want to eat this?"
"No." Hitzfeld shook his head and let the clam go.
“I’m just curious about what it looks like.”
In her previous life, she never saw the sea until she died, which was a pity. Although she had seen and even experienced storms at sea in this life, it was the first time in her life that she could leisurely go to the sea, pick up shells on the beach, and listen to the waves and the sea breeze.
"I don't dare eat this kind of thing." She shook her head, watching the clams panic and dig holes in the sand pit, and added: "I'm afraid of parasites."
"Ha..." Xia Yibing laughed, "The stuff in the seawater has relatively few parasites..."
"But it's not completely impossible." The girl looked up at her, "I don't want to take any risks at all."
"...No problem." Xia Yibing had nothing to say.
The previous conflict seemed to be just an episode, and neither of them cared about it. They started picking up shells, digging holes, and talking about some nonsense suitable for a vacation on the beach.
In the end, Hitzfeld got excited and took off her white stockings, stuffed them into her shoes and threw them aside, then tried to go into the water holding up her skirt.
She was still very careful because she remembered that she was not very good at swimming.
It might be okay to swim in the pool in a swimsuit with low resistance, but this kind of long skirt... and it was the sea, and she didn't want to burden the woman with rescuing her if something went wrong.
"Actually, the problems you worried about before were ridiculous."
Tired of playing, the two found a protruding rock to sit on, and Hitzfeld swung her legs leisurely under her skirt as she talked.
The water couldn't flood up at this height, but every time the tide hit the rock surface, some of it would splash onto her legs and feet. The feeling of the surging water vapor approaching her body was quite comfortable. She now had the courage to start talking about things that she usually wouldn't be able to talk about.
"What?" Xia Yibing pulled a piece of string from her trouser leg and tried to make a fishing rod. She didn't hear clearly and asked again.
"It's what you said, a matter of reputation."
Hitzfeld looked out to sea.
"You only noticed my 'tryst' with you, but you forgot about Ashley, who always emphasized to others that I was her 'Heath's mom'."
"How can they be the same?" Xia Yibing amused her.
Ashley's sturdy figure...
Of course, she has improved a lot after resuming her normal diet, and her body shape has been moving towards a normal person...but no matter what, her skeleton has been shaped, and she will definitely be stronger than her peers after recovery.
Look at Ashley's wrists and calves, and then look at Hitzfeld's arms and calves.
Who in their right mind would believe that these two people are mother and daughter?
It's impossible for sisters to believe this. Anyone who believes this must have a problem with his brain.
"When someone wants to say something bad about you, all he wants is an excuse." Hitzfeld didn't look at her. "So letting Lily go to school with her is to prevent her from being bullied at school."
Are you sure that someone else bullied her, and not that she beat you up...
Xia Yibing hesitated to speak.
However, the problem the girl mentioned does exist. She has also lurked at the bottom and can imagine that kind of mentality.
"That's why I have to disguise myself and meet you, right?" She thought about it and said, "This way they won't talk about her having no father anymore."
"Well...even if it's just in name only."
"..."
"..."
Perhaps the topic was a little too serious, and for a while, neither of them said anything, quietly listening to the surging tides and the faint calls of seabirds.
