69novels Chapter 257
Chapter 257
"...Sorry, Perry, something happened at my house..."
"...I know the newspaper office is short of manpower, I just ask for one day off..."
"...Okay, okay, I'll come to work right away after taking care of things at home..."
Clark humbly apologized to Perry, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, while nervously watching the little girl who wandered around his house and glanced in his direction curiously from time to time.
She seemed to be very curious about Clark's living environment. In just a few minutes, she had quickly scanned the small single apartment, focusing on Clark's bedroom and bathroom.
From the look on her face, she didn't feel dissatisfied with this place, and Clark didn't know why he was nervous. She was dissatisfied with his room, but he was a little nervous... He had never gotten along with a little girl of his age. experience of.
In fact, he has never had much experience with the opposite sex, and his respect and gentleness towards women are always easily interpreted as restraint and tension——
"Your appearance is what matters, Clark, not your attitude." Louise made a precise assessment of this, "Always ill-fitting suits, featureless hair, old-fashioned thick-rimmed glasses , and your clumsy movements that keep getting you into hilarious trouble... small town boy, that's why you don't get women's favor."
Clark was well aware of this, but he didn't think it had anything to do with it.
All he needed was a certain woman to treat him differently, and that woman was now his wife.
In this case, what is he dissatisfied with?
... Well, maybe this little girl who suddenly appeared has the qualifications to make him flustered.
After finishing the phone call, he walked to the girl who was sitting upright on the sofa after the visit, thinking about how to speak.
"You can call me Rebecca, or Laura. I think you'd like the name Laura more, don't you? Because I like 'Laura' a little bit more, it sounds very boyish," Rebecca said.
"I think I can call you Laura." Clark thought for a while, and sat down beside Laura, "Why do you have two names?"
"Because papa gave me one name, and daddy gave me another name." Lola replied, "I prefer the name daddy gave me."
Clark decided not to delve into who the daddy and papa she was talking about were, even though he had already guessed, and even guessed the specific reason why the little girl was sent to his own world.
"So, Laura..." Clark considered.
"I'm already five years old." Laura said, "I'm not young anymore. You can talk to me like an adult."
"Are you five years old? This is really a good age, Laura, your life has just begun." Clark wanted to laugh, but he held back considering the little girl's face, "You can tell me to send you here Who is it, that helps a lot with the situation now."
"Is Louise your wife?" Laura asked without answering.
"……Yes."
"Although it doesn't match my imagination, there seems to be nothing wrong." Laura nodded decently, "I can only feel very sorry for the papa in this world."
Clark shuddered, determined to ignore the topic in the little girl's mouth.
"I guess you've heard that, Laura, I've taken the day off, and that day is yours now. Is there anything you'd like me to take you to accomplish?"
"Daddy just dropped me here and left. He said that the energy fluctuations in a small area won't cause much attention...he didn't say anything." Laura replied to Clark, "He just told me to bring me to meet me godfather."
For a moment, a strange emotion hit Clark, making him smile uncontrollably.
Although he didn't spend much time with his self in another world, Clark already instinctively fell in love with his younger self.
When he was still living in a small town, almost all his peers around him had brothers and sisters, and he was one of the few only children.When he heard his friends talk about how he got along with his brothers and sisters at home, he was always very envious.
So when he saw the younger, more lively, and somewhat mischievous self—don’t be surprised, of course he saw the other party’s enthusiasm for pranks, and he himself had such an age group—he couldn’t help it. His desire for a brother bets on the other party.
Clark guessed that his self in another world also had similar feelings in his heart, but they spent too little time together, so he just hid his thoughts deep in his heart.
"I think I'm your godfather." Clark kept a happy smile and invited Laura, "Want to eat something?"
Laura nodded quickly.
Clark's craftsmanship is much better than Carl's, but Laura feels that as long as daddy is willing to spend time on it, one day he can do better than her godfather.
It's not that she is particularly partial to her daddy, but Clark obviously doesn't pay much attention to the pleasure of the taste of food, but pays more attention to the homely feeling of food.He made the classic apple pie, probably considering Laura's young age, and gave Laura an extra serving of sweet creamy ice cream.
The location of this small apartment is very good. From the balcony, you can see the Daily Planet building not far away, and the Lex Group not far from the Daily Planet.
Laura just looked up at Lex in this world.Luther, watching him sign the documents brought by Moxie with a blank face, then lowered his head as if nothing had happened.
After eating, Clark proposed to take Lola out for a stroll, but Lola refused.
"I know the city, like my daddy and papa. They both love the Cosmopolitan, and I think I love it here too, though not as much as they do."
"You just stay at home like this? Will you be bored? I really hope that Louise is not on a business trip at this time... She went to Africa for an interview, and it may take half a year to come back, so I will move to this apartment."
Laura suddenly said, "Can you show me your home? Yours and Louise's home."
This request was a bit abrupt, but Clark couldn't find a reason to refuse.
He led Laura to his home, a warm place where you can realize as soon as you walk in how much love there is between the master and the mistress of this house, and how well they get along.
"...I like it here." Laura said after reading it, "Daddy's home is bigger and more luxurious than here. He lives in a villa and has a big garden. There are fountains and sculptures in the garden. There is also a There is a big pool connected to the sea. But his house is always quiet and unpopular. I think he is always lonely."
"Is he still single?"
"No. Unlike you, he has accepted Papa's pursuit."
Calm down, Clark said to himself, you have been mentally prepared since last time, you know that this is totally possible, don't act too shocked and unbelievable, it may hurt Laura's mood.
"What do you mean different from me?" Clark tried to look very calm.
"What do you think?" Laura asked back, "You didn't accept Papa's pursuit in this world, but Daddy accepted it. That's all."
"Lex didn't pursue me."
Ghost knows Lex from another world.What's going on Luther's mind?But the Lex of this world.Luthor has never pursued himself, whether it is Clark.Kent is still Superman.
"He has."
"I'm pretty sure he didn't, Laura dear, don't make me what happened to your daddy."
Laura looked up at Clark for two or three seconds, and Clark felt that she was looking at him with a little pity.
"He's after you, Godfather, you just don't see it. He pays the Metropolitan's battle-damaged bills for you, helps you appease the frightened populace, and puts your business at the top of the list at all times, whenever you go If you find him, he will put down all his work to welcome you, and he even gave birth to a son."
"Connor is not the son he gave birth to me, but the weapon he made against me."
"I heard that Connor seemed to be using it to maintain the marriage. You understand? It's the kind of thing where both parties in the marriage feel that the passion is no longer, and the wife decides to have a child to maintain the relationship with her husband..."
Clark looked at Lola as if he was looking at some prehistoric monster:
"He's been trying to kill me all along."
"That's a problem. But ask yourself, didn't Black Canary threaten to kill Green Arrow when she and Green Arrow were arguing?" Laura said clearly, "Of course there are differences, we all know that Black Canary Sparrow doesn't really want to kill Arrow, and Lex Luthor really wants to kill Superman, but the behavior is different because they're different people, and the emotion in the threat is the same."
Clark felt he couldn't convince Lola. She seemed to have her own way of explaining Superman and Lex.The logic of the Luthor relationship.
But he also realized one thing.
"Your daddy and... papa," God knows how hard it was to say that, but Clark did it, never before had he recognized his bravery so strongly, "How's their relationship?"
"If you ask me, it's similar to your relationship with Lex Luthor." Laura answered this crucial question in a casual manner, "It's just that they will...cough. You understand, right? ? Something grown-up."
I do not understand.I don't understand at all.I don't understand at all.
Clark led Laura back home with a blank expression. Before he could say anything, Laura obediently took a book from the shelf and started to read it, expressing with practical actions that she would not disturb Clark's work again.
It's only been a day, but Clark is starting to feel physically and mentally exhausted under Laura's eloquence.
He reluctantly sat in front of the computer and began to write the tasks assigned to him by Perry who was on leave.The advantage of super speed was fully displayed at this time, and Clark was typing on the keyboard quickly while thinking about how to arrange Lola while working.
Until the end, Clark still didn't come up with any specific charter.