Chapter 211: You Rely on Brute Force and Connections, I Rely on Wisdom

"Xiaoxiao."

"?"

"School has been open for a month; are you adjusting to university life?"

"Adjusting."

"Are your classmates and teachers easy to get along with?"

"Some classmates who are easy to get along with are easy to get along with; those who aren't, aren't that easy to get along with."

"Speak properly!"

"The classmates are all very polite to me."

"That's good then."

"Yes." The young girl nodded earnestly, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "It's just that one thing isn't good."

"What isn't good?"

"Sister Zhang Suannai keeps coming to pick me up from class."

"I see."

No wonder the classmates are all so polite to you.

Chen Shu fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Why is it bad for Sister Zhang Suannai to come pick you up?"

"Because when she comes to pick me up, she's always holding strange things. Sometimes she's carrying a bowl of pork intestine noodles, sometimes she's holding a chicken leg, squatting on the ground at the entrance to eat. Sometimes she'll take a stick and dance around with it, and sometimes she's carrying a roasted suckling pig or a roasted lamb leg. She also always appears from strange places; sometimes she deliberately jumps down from a tree branch, sometimes she jumps down from the second floor, and sometimes she hides behind a flower bed. I'm afraid that if my classmates see it, they'll think I'm a fool too."

"..." Chen Shu fell silent again, "Sister Zhang Suannai is just concerned about you."

"..."

"But our Xiaoxiao is so cute, even if Sister Zhang Suannai didn't go to pick you up, your classmates would definitely still like you very much."

"..."

Hearing this, the young girl's fair brows couldn't help but wrinkle slightly—she had already grown up, she was in university now, she was an adult, and being called cute always felt strange.

But since the person saying it was her brother-in-law, there was nothing she could do.

If it had been her sister, she would have scolded her severely long ago.

In her heart.

At this moment, Chen Shu's Mobile Phone vibrated. He adjusted his sitting posture on the sofa before fishing out the phone.

Grandma Always Says: Have you all heard of Duqin?

Grandma Always Says: @All Members

Gate of All Wonders: We go online too.

Grandma Always Says: How is Duqin? Is it fun?

Gate of All Wonders: Why?

Gate of All Wonders: Does your Sword Sect want to take advantage of the country sending a History Expert Group to the Square Body to let you go along and gain some experience?

Grandma Always Says: How did you know?

Just Call Me Luo Huaian: IQ crushing.

Grandma Always Says: /Kitchen Knife/Kitchen Knife/Kitchen Knife

Gate of All Wonders: You're going with the expert group, right?

Grandma Always Says: How did you know?

Gate of All Wonders: Because my master is making me go too.

Grandma Always Says: Why are you going too?

Gate of All Wonders:...

Gate of All Wonders: Master said to let me go see the other side of this world.

Grandma Always Says: Saying it so loftily, isn't it just going to watch people kill and set fires, and tag along for a fight?

Nameless Person: Are you all going to Duqin?

Grandma Always Says: Oh my! Long time no see!

Grandma Always Says: A rare guest, a rare guest!

Grandma Always Says: Are you abstaining from the internet lately?

Nameless Person: A bit busy.

Grandma Always Says: Why aren't you using punctuation marks anymore?

Nameless Person: A classmate told me a few days ago that it's very strange for people of our generation to use punctuation marks at the end of chat messages.

Grandma Always Says: One thing to say, it's true.

Grandma Always Says: Then did your classmate tell you that being so formal while chatting online is also very strange?

Seeing this, Chen Shu began to type, preparing to join in.

Qingcai Keke: It's just a personal habit, nothing strange about it; it's your trademark.

Nameless Person: /Smile/Smile/Smile

Grandma Always Says: /Lost in thought

Nameless Person: I'm also going to Duqin, also chartered to go with the History Expert Group, acting as security personnel.

Grandma Always Says: Oh my! You're going too?

Gate of All Wonders: Finally get to see you, Senior Brother Nameless.

Nameless Person: Are you all going too?

Grandma Always Says: Also going.

Gate of All Wonders: Pretty much.

Gate of All Wonders: It's equivalent to acting as security for those experts until the Square Body opens, and after the experts return to the country, we'll have free time.

Gate of All Wonders: Are you all like this too?

Grandma Always Says: That's right, that's right.

Nameless Person: Pretty much.

Nameless Person: It's just that I'm from the Military Academy, so after the experts return to the country, I still have missions to carry out.

Nameless Person: Anyway, it's nice to meet you all.

Nameless Person: /handshake

Chen Shu looked at the messages and twitched the corner of his mouth; why did it feel like a team-building event?

Besides, can someone like Zhang Suannai even be security?

You bunch of damned people with connections.

Qingcai Keke: Um, that, what...

Qingcai Keke: I'm going too.

Nameless Person: You're going too?

Grandma Always Says: You're going too?

Grandma Always Says: Why does this feel like our group's team-building event?

Qingcai Keke:...

Grandma Always Says: The Spirit Sect is also asking you to go for training?

Gate of All Wonders: That should be it.

Gate of All Wonders: We are all ancient cultivation sects; the current environment in the country can no longer satisfy the training needs of ancient cultivation sect disciples, so if we want to train, we have to go abroad.

Haoran Zhengqi: /eating melon seeds

Grandma Always Says: You'd better be careful, don't get killed by a missile in Duqin, or Qingqing will belong to me then @Qingcai Keke

Zhaoyeqing:.

Grandma Always Says:??

Grandma Always Says: Why are you two out again?

Qingcai Keke: Sorry.

Qingcai Keke: I am the history expert you are supposed to protect.

Grandma Always Says: /??????

Gate of All Wonders:?

Nameless Person: Really?

Qingcai Keke: Yes.

Grandma Always Says: /I don't believe it! I'm not listening!

Qingcai Keke: You all remember to protect me well.

Grandma Always Says: /Fake! It's all fake!

Qingcai Keke: /Getting anxious?

Grandma Always Says: /Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Qingcai Keke: Can't be bothered with you.

Qingcai Keke: Is there anyone else in the group going?

Gate of All Wonders: @Green Lamp Ancient Buddha

Gate of All Wonders: Is Senior Brother going?

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: Amitabha, this poor monk will not be going, but my senior brother is over there; if you all meet him, remember to say hello for me.

Gate of All Wonders: Can do.

Gate of All Wonders: Looks like it's just the four of us.

Nameless Person:...

Gate of All Wonders: What's wrong? Why is Senior Brother Nameless unhappy?

Nameless Person: Happy! /smile

Gate of All Wonders: Amitabha, Senior Brother has told a lie.

August 26th.

The young girl's seventeenth birthday banquet.

The potato content on the dinner table was severely excessive.

Zhang Suannai had also come; she sat by the dinner table, turned her head to look at the young girl, then turned her head to look at Chen Shu. Chen Banxia, sitting beside her, moved almost exactly like her, looking first at the young girl and then at her own younger brother, her eyes filled with curiosity.

"What's going on with your faces?"

"Why do you both have injuries on your faces?"

"A cat scratched us," Chen Shu said.

"A cat scratched us," the young girl repeated expressionlessly.

"Which cat?" Zhang Suannai asked, puzzled.

"Isn't Taozi always very well-behaved?" Chen Banxia was also puzzled.

"Who knows," Chen Shu said.

"Who knows," the young girl continued to repeat, but she glanced to the side and added with a straight face, "Taozi's personality has become nasty lately."

"Never mind, I'm going to focus on eating."

Zhang Suannai immediately began to eat in large mouthfuls.

The more she ate, the more Surprise she felt.

How could dishes made by this silly vegetable be so delicious? And how could he know how to make so many novel yet incredibly tasty dishes...

Could it be that this is how he conquered his two goddess roommates?

As Zhang Suannai thought this, her eating style gradually became ferocious.

But as she ate, she soon discovered that only her own eating style was so ferocious, while everyone else was very normal; by comparison, she looked a bit like someone who had never seen the world, so she quietly restrained her movements and smacked her lips, saying:

"Um, the dishes Chen Shu makes are really delicious... Why are you all so calm and unhurried?"

"Used to eating them."

"Emmm..."

"Sister Chen Banxia, help me measure my height after we finish eating." The little girl said to Chen Banxia.

"Alright."

"I'll do it, I'll do it! I'll help you measure!" Zhang Suannai immediately volunteered and asked, "How tall were you last year?"

"No one measured me last year."

"When was the last time you were measured?"

"Last time."

"What month?"

"Chinese New Year."

"How tall?"

"One meter sixty."

"You're one meter sixty? You were wearing shoes, right?"

"Took my shoes off!" The little girl frowned.

"Really?" Zhang Suannai opened her mouth wide, looking a bit surprised, and looked the little girl up and down, "I thought you were only one meter fifty-something; you look just like a little girl of thirteen or fourteen!"

"!"

The little girl's brows furrowed even tighter; she withdrew her gaze, lowered her head to eat the dry-pot potatoes seriously, and ignored her.

After the meal.

Qingqing went to wash the dishes.

The little girl took off her slippers and stood against the wall.

Zhang Suannai and Chen Banxia stood in front of her, one holding a ruler and the other looking up.

"How tall?"

The little girl pressed her back tightly against the wall, trying hard to straighten her waist, head held high and chest out, not wanting to miss even a millimeter.

"You really are one meter sixty!" Zhang Suannai said with Surprise.

"How tall?"

"One meter sixty."

"One meter sixty and how much more?"

"Exactly one meter sixty."

"..."

The little girl's fair brows furrowed again.

How is it still one meter sixty?

She had clearly been drinking milk for half a year, and clearly had a little bit of meat with every potato meal to boost nutrition; according to her calculations, she should have grown to nearly one meter seventy.

After a moment of thought, the little girl looked seriously at Zhang Suannai: "You don't know how to measure! Let Sister Chen Banxia measure!"

"It looks like one meter sixty to me too," Chen Banxia said.

"Measure again."

"Okay."

"How tall?"

"One meter sixty."

"..."

"Oh, right!" Chen Banxia suddenly remembered, "When you were fifteen, Chen Shu and your sister were at home, right? Did you measure then?"

"Measured."

"How tall were you then?"

"One meter sixty."

"Then you probably won't grow anymore!" Zhang Suannai couldn't help but interject with the truth.

"!"

The little girl's brows furrowed tighter and tighter—

Why would it be like this?

Could it be that her sister cursed her?

As the little girl pondered this, the discussion between Sister Chen Banxia and Sister Zhang Suannai about her height became grating to her ears; she didn't want to listen, so she silently left.

After her sister finished washing the dishes and began to cultivate, she went upstairs to get the catnip lollipop she had just bought, then called for Zhang Suannai, who had said she wouldn't grow anymore, to go tease her sister.

An afternoon passed.

At dinner.

A cake was placed on the table.

Xiaoxiao sat in the main seat for once, with her brother-in-law sitting beside her, busy lighting the candles with his finger, while Sister Suannai, who had a few new scratch marks on her face, was happily egging her on to make a wish.

What wish should she make?

The little girl pondered seriously.

Just as she thought of one, she saw her sister glance at her lightly from the side and say, "I suggest you change your wish; don't waste the opportunity to make a wish."

"!"

The little girl clenched her fists tightly, was silent for a moment, then suddenly reached out, pointed at her sister, and said solemnly:

"Your personality is terrible!"

"You're already seventeen, how are you still like a twelve-year-old?"

"..." The little girl was silent for a moment, nearly losing her composure, so she emphasized her tone again, "Your personality is terrible!"

"As you wish."

"Xiaoxiao, wish for brother-in-law to keep getting more handsome," Chen Shu said from the side.

"Okay."

"I suggest..."

"I suggest you stop suggesting." Chen Shu gave her a punch.

"Suit yourselves." Ning Qing pursed her lips, cast a light glance at them, and then stopped talking.

The little girl closed her eyes.

I hope the whole world is covered in potatoes.

"What did you wish for?"

"For brother-in-law to keep getting more handsome."

"Xiaoxiao is still the best, unlike some people, who are just hateful."

"Right, right."

"..."

Ning Qing rolled her eyes, couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them, and turned to look at the dishes on the table, out of sight, out of mind.