Chapter 55: Someone Hosting a Banquet

After finishing all this, the mother and daughter, who had washed up, lit a kerosene lamp in the inner room and started their teaching time again.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the books spread on the table with trepidation.

This "Three Character Classic" had about a thousand characters and more than three hundred short phrases, which was one of the relatively easy-to-understand readers in ancient times, but for a five-year-old child, it was still somewhat incredible to recognize all the characters in just a few days.

Her mother had only taught her to read the "Three Character Classic" roughly these past few nights, and hadn't explained each character individually.

But her performance at the Ancestral Hall today clearly exposed her proficiency in mastering the characters inside.

Would her mother suspect her...

"You have an ability now, you can't compare with normal people." As if seeing through Jiang Xiaoxiao's unease, Jiang Wei said slowly, "People with abilities are smarter than ordinary people, and their memory is better than ordinary people. It's normal to learn characters quickly..."

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief.

Also, her mother injected her with gene modification liquid, which could change a person's talent from the genes. Her mother probably thought she remembered characters so quickly because of the gene modification liquid.

"However..." Jiang Wei spoke again, "You still need to be restrained when you are outside in the future, and absolutely must not let people discover you have an ability."

That is for sure!

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded heavily: "Mother, don't worry, I will absolutely not let outsiders know our secret. I will rot the matter of the ability in my stomach even if I die!"

After speaking, she smiled and flattered: "Then Mother, I already recognize the characters in the "Three Character Classic". Can I not study tonight?"

Jiang Wei glanced at her and didn't speak, but silently took out another "Thousand Character Classic", and then said: "Since the "Three Character Classic" is finished, let's study the next one."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Didn't you say to be restrained?

"No, Mother, let's study tomorrow night..."

"Come, read with me, Heaven and Earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is vast and wild..."

"Heaven, Heaven and Earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is vast and wild."

Compared with the easy-to-understand "Three Character Classic", the content of the "Thousand Character Classic" was somewhat too cumbersome and profound, and it was not easy to learn.

This time, Jiang Xiaoxiao grasped the size well. Every time she opened her mouth, she read it stumbling, and every few sentences, she would pretend not to understand and ask Jiang Wei what the sentence meant.

Jiang Wei also patiently answered her one by one.

This surprised Jiang Xiaoxiao somewhat.

In the original book, Jiang Wei was proficient in various weapons, once defeated five karate champions of a certain country alone, killed an enemy in a few seconds, was a special forces soldier before the apocalypse came, and was even more of a sniper, able to accurately headshot zombies from a thousand meters away.

She didn't expect her mother, a decisive and murderous big shot who fought and killed in the apocalypse all day, to have such great patience in teaching.

You know, at her age, in a family in modern society, there would be scenes of "mother kind and child filial" every day.

After the teaching was finished, the mother and daughter went to sleep early.

The next day, as soon as the sky brightened, the Li Zheng summoned everyone to gather at the foot of the mountain.

Everyone held tools and followed the Li Zheng up the mountain neatly.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked a few times in her courtyard, and then was stuffed with a boiled egg, a box of milk, and an apple by her mother.

"Eat quickly, and go to town with me after eating."

"Ah, Mother, you are just going to town to deliver ice cream to Shopkeeper Zhou today, I don't need to go with you, right?" Jiang Xiaoxiao peeled the boiled egg, took a bite of the crystal-white egg white, and said vaguely.

Jiang Wei packed up the ice cabinet, glanced at the newly repaired fence, and frowned slightly, "No, almost everyone in the village has gone to the mountain. I'm not at ease with you at home alone."

Before the house was completely built, she didn't plan to leave her at home alone.

"Alright then." Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't refuse again. With her short arms and short legs, it would indeed be not very good if something went wrong at home alone. Although she had an electric baton for self-defense, there was always a possibility of something happening.

She finished eating an egg in a few bites, drank the milk in one breath, and gnawed on the sweet apple in her hand.

Ever since both mother and daughter had abilities, her mother became more and more uninhibited in taking various foods out of the space.

Apples had become one of the essential fruits every day.

Even if there was no such thing as an apple in this world, her mother would definitely take one out every day and urge her to eat it.

Apples are rich in various vitamins needed by the human body, and their nutritional value is very high, especially for people in this era who are long-term underfed and malnourished; they are the best source of vitamins!

Although her body was injected with gene modification liquid and her genes were greatly optimized, her body was still severely depleted after being ravaged for these past few years. Usually, eating big fish and meat alone wouldn't work; she still needed to supplement some fruits and the nutrition needed for a child's growth.

The mother and daughter arrived in town and went straight to Yuelai Restaurant.

Shopkeeper Zhou probably didn't know they were coming today and didn't wait at the door as usual.

They entered the restaurant, and the main hall on the first floor was already overcrowded.

Why are there so many people today?

Jiang Xiaoxiao was wondering, and the shop assistant saw them and ran over excitedly, wiping the sweat on his face with a sweat towel, unable to stop happily saying: "Xiaoxiao, you and your mother finally came!"

"Yes, Brother Xiao Er, we came to deliver things to Shopkeeper Zhou. Where is he?"

Having come many times, Jiang Xiaoxiao had become familiar with this shop assistant. This person was sweet-mouthed and polite, so she asked with a smile.

"The shopkeeper is in the back kitchen. Come, I'll take you in." The shop assistant put the sweat towel on his shoulder and led the mother and daughter into the back kitchen.

Shopkeeper Zhou was sweating profusely in the back kitchen arranging something. Seeing them, he was so excited that he hurriedly came over and said: "Oh, you mother and daughter finally came. I thought you wouldn't come today either."

Jiang Wei smiled apologetically: "Sorry, I was delayed by something yesterday. Today I brought some more ice cream and snow cakes to make up for yesterday's amount."

"Oh, that's truly great!" Shopkeeper Zhou didn't ask why they didn't come to town yesterday. Hearing that Jiang Wei brought a lot of ice cream and snow cakes today, he was so happy that he waved his big hand and directly asked someone to take a large porcelain basin to hold them.

"You came at the right time today. Someone is hosting a banquet in our restaurant and ordered a few tables of wine and dishes, and specifically asked for this ice cream and snow cake. I was just worrying about how to find you."

Jiang Wei smiled: "Then I came at the right time."

Saying this, she took off the ice cabinet on her back, transferred all the ice cream and snow cakes inside into the porcelain basin brought by the shop assistant, and incidentally gave a few more ice blocks to put on the side, so that the ice cream wouldn't melt so fast.

Seeing this, Shopkeeper Zhou also paid the money readily.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 56 =====