Chapter 267: The Magnanimous Brother Meng

Chen Shu drove Chen Banxia's car back to school, with Xiaoxiao in the passenger seat. There were no cars on the road, so he opened the convertible top and drove fast.

This mini car is actually quite fun.

Although the car is small, the materials used are not lacking, and its power is not inferior to a normal car at all; it can reach a top speed of nearly two hundred yards. It is extremely agile at low speeds, making it effortless to weave through the city or park, and once it exceeds one hundred yards, the car's built-in Stability Rune activates, so it doesn't drift and drives exactly as one wishes.

The interior of the car also has a fresh, light color scheme, and the trim is extremely good-looking.

The various configurations cannot be called luxurious or top-tier, but they are sufficiently smart and comfortable, even including automatic driving; it is a scaled-down version of a high-end car.

Of course, the price is not cheap either.

Nowadays, such mini cars are quite popular in Yiguo.

Beautiful, exquisite, and in line with the aesthetics of young people, with the same power and configuration as a normal car; the downsides are the small interior space and relatively low range.

However, in the current Yiguo, where young people are generally unwilling to marry or marry very late, and some even subscribe to the mindset of "having children without marrying" or "marrying without having children," the small rear space or even having only two seats is not a problem; being able to satisfy one's own travel needs is enough.

The range is also only relatively low; in fact, it is nearly a thousand kilometers.

Not to mention that Chen Banxia is a Fifth-tier Practitioner.

For her, this small convertible can fully satisfy her daily travel needs, allow her to take her little sister out for a drive, and it is pretty enough that every time she drives it out, the head-turning rate is very high; it can be considered the perfect vehicle in her heart.

Let alone her, even Chen Shu likes it very much.

After driving it just once, he asked for it from Chen Banxia to play with for a few days.

Chen Banxia was quite carefree; there were two keys in total, and she gave him one directly, finding the sense of accomplishment of being an older sister again after a long time.

"Whoosh!"

A mini motorcycle overtook them from the side.

The female rider on the motorcycle was wearing normal, even somewhat conservative, casual clothes, yet in the gusting wind, they still outlined the slenderness of her waist and the length of her thighs. In the blink of an eye, she left them with nothing but a taillight, and she was still getting further away.

Then a sports bike followed closely behind and also overtook them; the wind blew up her braided hair, which swayed behind her back.

"Brother-in-law..."

The little girl pointed ahead and turned to look at her brother-in-law: "Sister and Sister Suannai just overtook us."

"Let them overtake."

"Sister Suannai is still looking at us."

Chen Shu thought for a moment and replied helplessly: "Let's not lower ourselves to the level of those two; they are 'flesh wrapped in iron,' just ghost-fire youths."

"What is a ghost-fire youth?"

"It's the type Zhang Suannai is."

"Oh."

The little girl nodded slightly, lost in thought.

Immediately after, she pointed ahead again and turned to look at her brother-in-law: "Sister and Sister Suannai are waiting for us in front, and Sister Suannai is even popping a wheelie..."

"Emmm..."

Chen Shu fell into deep thought.

Even if this small car has normal power, it definitely cannot compare to illegally modified mini motorcycles and Zhang Suannai's sports bike. And this ghost-fire girl Zhang Suannai is clearly provoking him.

"Xiaoxiao, take out your Mobile Phone in a moment, record her, and send it to the traffic police when we get back tonight to report her for dangerous driving."

"?"

"Maintaining traffic order is everyone's responsibility!"

"Okay!"

The little girl took out her Mobile Phone and, understanding the intent, pointed the camera at her covertly.

On the Mobile Phone screen, the two motorcycles were getting closer and closer.

Qingqing glanced at them but didn't say anything.

Zhang Suannai was completely unaware and was still popping a wheelie while turning her head to stare at them, but she was a Sword Cultivator after all, with keen Spiritual Sense, and she discovered the camera Xiaoxiao was secretly pointing at her the first moment, so...

She turned around and made a peace sign.

The little girl couldn't help but lean out and say to her: "I've already taken a picture of your license plate! I'm going to report you later!"

"Whoosh!"

The front wheel dropped down.

Zhang Suannai instantly behaved.

The small car overtook them.

Looking in the rearview mirror, Ning Qing was riding the mini motorcycle in front, with Zhang Suannai following closely behind, yet she was still swerving back and forth, driving dangerously.

They drove all the way to Ling'an Academy.

Chen Shu dropped Xiaoxiao off at the school gate. After the little girl got out of the car, she wanted to get on her sister's motorcycle, but since she had just shunned her sister when she got into Chen Shu's car, her sister had no intention of waiting for her at all and rode straight into the school without looking back. She had no choice but to get on Zhang Suannai's bike; now that was that, and it wouldn't be easy to report her anymore.

The figures of the three disappeared, and Chen Shu also drove back to school.

The first thing to do was to take a shower.

While he was showering, Meng Chunqiu paced back and forth in front of the bathroom door; his figure could be seen through the frosted glass.

As soon as he saw Chen Shu open the door and come out, he immediately greeted him, full of Joy, and tapped his right hand's folding fan against his left hand: "Brother Chen, that idea of yours for three-line love poems is truly excellent! Such poetic lines are not only concise but also perfectly eliminate the threshold of traditional poetry! Let me tell you, the three-line love poem activity is not only popular in our school now, but it has also exploded online. Have you scrolled past it?"

"Brother Meng, you are so perverted; I was taking a shower, and you kept pacing outside..."

"Oh, Brother Chen! It's not that I'm impatient!"

"..."

"Have you scrolled past it? The short videos."

"I haven't been scrolling lately."

"Don't you love scrolling?"

"I've been too busy lately and haven't had time to scroll."

"You should check it out; it's very popular online right now. Many bloggers have turned the top ten we selected on the Mid-Autumn Festival into videos and posted them online, and the engagement is very high. The president of the Poetry Club at the neighboring Ling'an Academy even found me, wanting to hold a three-line poem submission event for the Double Ninth Festival too," Meng Chunqiu said, beaming. "Our Yuda Poetry Club can be said to have become a hit nationwide now."

"Oh..."

Chen Shu wiped his hair and walked toward the living room.

Meng Chunqiu followed closely behind him, as if he had been holding it in for a long time: "Let me tell you, after the Mid-Autumn Festival selection ended, the event should have been over, but people have been submitting to us continuously until today. There are even more submissions than before, over a thousand, and there is no lack of exquisite lines among them..."

"That is all thanks to your proper management, Brother Meng," Chen Shu said helplessly. "Plus, Yuda itself has high national attention, and the students are talented, which is why so many excellent lines emerged. It has nothing to do with me."

"Brother Chen speaks the truth," Meng Chunqiu said, waving his fan. "But without your idea, there wouldn't be such a grand occasion. I estimate that many universities across the country will set off a craze for three-line poems later."

"..."

Chen Shu picked up a milk candy from the coffee table. He didn't know who bought it, but it looked quite high-end; it should have been bought by Brother Meng.

He put it into his mouth; the milky flavor was rich.

If this idea had truly been his own, it would indeed be worth being a bit proud of. Perhaps many years later, when surrounded by children and grandchildren, he could still say, when the children participated in this event, that the world's first three-line poem event was something he had thought of.

Unfortunately, it was not.

Firstly, this world already had poets who had attempted the three-line poem theme, and secondly, for him, this event was a genuine case of borrowing.

At this time, Brother Meng shared with him again: "I went home yesterday, and several of my siblings were also discussing this matter..."

Chen Shu smacked his lips.

So that was it.

No wonder he was still so excited today.

Thinking about it, Brother Meng was also quite tragic.

Chen Shu had long guessed his true identity. According to the inheritance customs of the Dayi Imperial Family, especially the modern Dayi Imperial Family, from the moment he was born, it was decided that he had almost no possibility of standing out. He even had to keep a low profile and could not bring disgrace to the Imperial Family. Moreover, his older brother was dazzlingly excellent; Brother Meng had been shrouded in his brother's shadow since childhood. If one didn't search online, hardly anyone even knew that there were two male descendants of the Imperial Family in this generation.

"That's good."

Chen Shu turned on the TV and picked up a candy to hand to Meng Chunqiu: "Brother Meng, have some candy, it's quite delicious..."

"This is a tribute sent by the Yunlai Kingdom; the taste is excellent. If you like it, Brother Chen, I will get more another day. If you can't finish them, it's fine to give them away," Meng Chunqiu said, acting as if he didn't care at all. "These little things, to me, are not worth mentioning..."

"Brother Meng is generous."

Chen Shu did not refuse.

He then switched to the news channel.

He had been too busy lately, what with the Integration Spell and researching the Spirit Body Principle; sitting here with his roommate watching the news had instead become a form of rest.

The news could generally be divided into three parts:

Domestic politics, domestic current events, and international current events.

There hadn't been any major national events recently. The new Emperor had been in power for over a year, and since the Emperor no longer managed government affairs, he had long since faded into the background. At most, they talked about recent changes in national policy and major diplomatic events, followed by the clearing out of the Mengyue Sect and the tracking and investigation of the Eighth-tier Martial Cultivator who had attacked the frigate at sea; this was the only external military activity currently being conducted by Yiguo.

There were many current events: where a major traffic accident occurred, where an earthquake happened, where there was a rainstorm, where a Cultivator caused trouble and was arrested, and so on.

It is worth mentioning that—

Yuanzhou had been attacked by the Puluo people again.

Finally, there was international current events.

Setting aside news like which country's new king had ascended to the throne or which country had changed its prime minister, the current world situation was generally stable. Friction between some small and medium-sized countries had always existed, and everyone was used to it; there were no conflicts between major powers. The Lanya army was still conducting military activities in Dukin. With the secret funding of Yiguo, the Dukin Government Army and the Watcher had gained the ability to linger on. At the same time, as a reciprocal retaliation, Lanya had once again incited a group of anti-suzerain forces in the restless Puluo, who shouted every day about wanting to break away from Yiguo's hegemonic influence.

In this society now, a country might accept being a vassal state of another, but there were definitely people within the country who would not accept this fact.

If a major power intervened, it was very easy to be incited.

Looking at the news, Chen Shu thought of Cao Ci.

The Ming Sect's Ninth Stage should be the hardest Ninth Stage for the major powers of the world to suppress, and Cao Ci was so formidable. Even if Yiguo had killed his clone at the time, it was estimated that it wouldn't have had much impact on his overall strength. And his Mengyue Sect had been developing secretly for many years, distributed all over the world, and had avoided powerful countries; it was probably not so easy to be severely damaged in the clearing operations.

It had been almost a year since he obtained the Heavenly Human Mirror; even if he had to deal with Yiguo's search and suppression, he must have made some progress, right?