Chapter 89: Our teachers have said since we were little that we were troublemakers who stirred up all the mess.

In truth, there had never been quite so many of them here. It was only that the locals had never paid much mind to that sort of thing. As I often say, people here have always taken this view: maybe we do not understand, but we respect. In time, word of that attitude spread, and more and more people of the same sort came from all over the country to live in Chengdu. Little by little, everyone simply assumed there were many of them here.

Jiang Yun still wore that same easy, untroubled expression, as though the matter did not concern him in the slightest.

That only stirred Xianyu’s curiosity further. “Then don’t the locals find it troublesome? After all, your hometown has been tagged with something rather unflattering... well... a kind of label.”

At this, Jiang Yun raised a brow. “What’s so bad about it? Everyone has their own way of living. We respect their way of life, and they do not go out of their way to disturb ours. We just happen to live in the same city. What is so terrible about that? If we truly minded it here, we would not joke about it all the time. Besides...”

His tone shifted, and he said with a teasing grin, “Our teachers have liked calling us muckrakers since we were little. Aren’t we simply doing as the teachers told us?”

Xianyu: ....

I’m guessing that was not what the teachers meant at all!

The viewers in the livestream had much the same reaction after hearing Jiang Yun.

“If Brother Yunzi’s teacher heard that, he’d probably be furious.”

“It’s not like every local can accept that way of speaking, but most people really do not care. The tolerance there is genuinely high.”

“I’ve been to a lot of cities across the country, and the tolerance in Sichuan and Chongqing is truly off the charts.”

“Fun fact: the ratio of those buildings is actually much higher in Mountain City than in Chengdu. Chengdu is just more famous.”

“The four major Southwest cities are actually pretty similar. Mountain City has the highest numbers, Chengdu the highest fame.”

“Anyone who has been to both Mountain City and Chengdu knows the tolerance there is genuinely high. Like Brother Yunzi said, they may not understand, but they respect it.”

“......”

Jiang Yun and Xianyu chatted while waiting in line.

That wait lasted a full two and a half hours.

By the time it was finally their turn, even Xianyu’s voice had turned excited.

“At last, it’s our turn!”

With that, she went inside.

Jiang Yun, walking beside her, merely followed in silence, wearing a faint, wry smile.

Soon enough, once they were truly squeezed into the crowd, Xianyu’s face took on the same helpless grin as Jiang Yun’s.

At the same time, viewers in Jiang Yun’s livestream heard Xianyu’s voice crack for the first time.

“Ahhh! I’m about to be squeezed into mush!”

Hearing that, many viewers in the stream were stunned.

“Whoa, kids can voice-crack too?”

“You can tell it’s really crowded. Even a kid can’t take it.”

“Look at Brother Yunzi’s face—it’s almost been squashed out of shape.”

“I was planning to go see the giant panda in a few days, but now I suddenly don’t feel like it.”

“......”

At last, after being pressed along with the crowd to the giant panda’s front, they had only just gotten there when time ran out.

Because the giant panda was one of the base’s signature attractions, each visitor had only a limited viewing time.

Once the time was up, the next batch of tourists came in.

At that point, even if the people inside did not want to leave, they would be squeezed out by the visitors behind them.

What was funny was that leaving was even more crowded than entering.

Xianyu was even carried out in a state where her feet did not touch the ground at all.

Seeing that, Jiang Yun deliberately avoided showing her face and instead displayed her situation to the livestream audience.

When they saw Xianyu still drifting slowly along with both feet off the ground, many viewers were dumbfounded.

“Wait, what? Is it really that crowded just to see the giant panda?”

“Very familiar. It feels like commuting on the deadly Number Three Line.”

“What, Chengdu Giant Panda Base has a Number Three Line now too?”

“Look at Xianyu’s little kicking feet. It’s hilarious.”

“No wonder Brother Yunzi didn’t want to come see the giant panda before. If it were me, I wouldn’t want to either.”

“......”

After leaving the juvenile giant panda villa, the other attractions were not nearly as crowded.

There were still plenty of people, but at least there was no longer any situation where you could keep moving without your feet touching the ground.

Yet just as Jiang Yun was about to take the livestream audience on to see the other giant pandas, Xianyu suddenly said, “My shoe is gone.”

Hearing this, Jiang Yun turned to look at her feet.

Sure enough, the shoe on that foot had somehow been squeezed away.

Seeing this, Jiang Yun asked, “So what are you going to do? Head back first? Or keep walking barefoot?”

Xianyu thought for a moment, then cautiously placed her bare foot on the ground.

“Hiss... so hot!”

July in Chengdu was one of the warmest times of the year, and the pavement was hot enough to fry an egg. The moment Xianyu stepped down, the heat practically made her question her existence.

And when Jiang Yun saw that she had truly put her foot on the ground and was trying to walk barefoot, he was stunned as well.

His mouth parted slightly, eyes full of bewilderment.

Huh?

You’re serious, sis?

“Uh... I think I’d better head back first.”

After finding that walking barefoot was impossible, Xianyu decided to return first.

“Want me to take you back?”

Jiang Yun politely offered, but to his surprise Xianyu thanked him at once and said, “Then I’ll trouble you with that!”

Jiang Yun: ....

Not even a little polite, are you?

The livestream viewers could tell Jiang Yun had only been making a courteous offer, so the moment Xianyu agreed, they immediately started roasting him.

“Ohhhh, so the grown-up’s polite act does not work on our little sister!”

“Shocked now, huh? Dumbfounded now, huh? Our kid sister does not know what politeness is!”

“Brother Yunzi, you already got fooled once. Why are you still teasing the child?”

“Some people always forget the person in front of them is a child, and talk to her as if she were an adult.”

“......”

“Come on, my car is parked over there. Let’s go first.”

Jiang Yun pointed toward where he had parked, then supported Xianyu as they left the Giant Panda Base.

After getting into the car, Jiang Yun first drove Xianyu back to the hotel where she was staying.

Then he checked the time.

Because they had spent so long delayed at the Giant Panda Base that it was already past six in the evening.

Seeing this, Jiang Yun said, “That’s about enough for today. We’ll eat first, then head home later. That’s the end of the livestream.”

With that, Jiang Yun found a nearby restaurant and solved his dinner there.