Chapter 486: Officially Returning to Daily Life

Taozi sat on the perimeter wall, her posture upright and proper, not moving a muscle, lowering her little head to look down below, like a security camera.

The little girl was frantically tidying up the courtyard.

The courtyard hadn't been swept for as long as her sister had been gone; it happened to be the autumn-winter season, and the flowers all over the yard were shedding leaves, which had all piled up, some getting stuck right in the gaps of the stone slabs, making them the hardest to clean.

The trash hadn't been taken out for days either, the floor hadn't been mopped for a week, the stairs hadn't been swept, and the things in the living room were a mess.

Everything had to be tidied up today...

The real busyness had begun.

Taozi watched intently from the perimeter wall.

With a click, the wooden bolt of the courtyard gate slid to the left.

Immediately, the gate was pushed open, and three figures appeared at the entrance.

The little girl was sitting on a stone stool in the courtyard, her back against the stone table, her legs stretched out and crossed, her body sprawled out straight, aiming a look at them like this, looking quite leisurely.

"Xiaoxiao."

"Hi, Xiaoxiao!"

The little girl stood up immediately.

"Brother-in-law!"

A white shadow was faster than her, dashing toward the three of them at high speed.

The little girl also walked toward her brother-in-law and the other two, but at a glance, she spotted the torn clothes on her brother-in-law and the wound underneath; she froze for a moment, then her fair brows furrowed:

"Brother-in-law, how did you get hurt?"

"I'm too handsome, it invites jealousy."

Chen Shu waved his hand, not taking it to heart, and looking left and right, he couldn't help but praise: "You've tidied up the house very cleanly!"

"It's always been this clean!"

"Woof~~"

"It says you only just tidied it up," the sister said.

"..."

The little girl fell silent for a moment, deciding to act as if she hadn't heard, and just continued to stare at her brother-in-law: "Brother-in-law, how did this actually happen?"

"Playing around with a few friends, just like in the 'Ultimate Ancient Cultivation' game, it'll be fine soon."

"..."

The little girl pondered for a moment, but still frowned, then with a swish, she turned her head to look at Zhang Suannai beside her:

"Was it her?"

"What? This has nothing to do with me, ow!" Zhang Suannai hurriedly widened her eyes, "If I had joined in, I would have slaughtered your brother-in-law long ago."

"Then who did it?"

"What? Are you going to go and cause trouble for them?" Chen Shu found it amusing, patted her head, and then walked past her toward the house.

Ning Qing followed behind him, walked past the little girl, and mimicking Chen Shu's manner, reached out and patted her head.

The little girl ducked her body and tilted her head.

"I won't grow tall if you do that!"

Ning Qing pursed her lips, not minding it.

The four people and one cat returned to the house.

A moment later—

Chen Shu lay on the bed in the bedroom, Qingqing sat beside him, cleaning his wound and applying ointment, while the little girl held a water cup, standing at the doorway, peeking inside.

The process wasn't painful.

At least Chen Shu didn't feel it was painful.

"What are you looking at?"

Chen Shu still had the energy to turn his head and aim a look at the doorway.

The discovered little girl didn't panic at all, her expression didn't change, she still kept a straight little face, but just walked away carrying the water cup.

It didn't hurt while applying the medicine, it only hurt after the medicine was applied.

By the time Chen Shu was bandaged and had changed his clothes, and walked downstairs, there were only the little girl, Zhang Suannai, and Taozi in the living room; the television was playing a documentary titled "Great Benefit Ancient Cultivation," and the sound of the documentary and their chatter made the living room a bit livelier, giving it a sense of human presence.

The little girl sat upright on the sofa, seemingly staring at the TV, but actually using her peripheral vision to aim at him.

"Ah..."

Chen Shu lay down on the chaise longue of the sofa, while Qingqing sat elegantly beside him, the fragrance from her body faintly wafting over.

This is what you call life.

Chen Shu winced in pain, but felt comfortable in his heart.

The voice of the neighbor surnamed Zhang kept coming from the side: "Xiaoxiao, you were home alone for these two months, how have you been?"

"It's alright."

The little girl's attention was clearly not on her.

"What do you mean by 'alright'?"

"Sometimes good, sometimes bad."

"Why isn't it always good?"

"Because there are times when it's bad."

"Are you graduating soon?"

"Fifth year."

"Then are you still going to go to school for class?"

"If there is class at school, then I will go to school for class; if there is no class, then there is no need to go."

"Then are you looking for an internship?"

"It depends; if I want to look, I'll look, if I don't want to, then forget it."

"I've already changed jobs more than a dozen times."

"Then you've worked a dozen more jobs than I have."

"..."

Zhang Suannai fell silent for a moment, and for some inexplicable reason, her fighting spirit was ignited, and she decided to have a showdown with the little girl today: "Then when do you plan to go out and look for an internship?"

"I will go when I decide to go out and look for an internship."

"When will you decide?"

"I will decide before I go to look."

"When will you go to look?"

"After I have made the decision."

"When will you make the decision?"

"..."

Ten minutes later.

Zhang Suannai tilted her head to look at the little girl, her face full of concern: "When will you go to look?"

The little girl fell silent.

She was seen silently standing up, tugging at Sister Suannai's sleeve, pulling her up and walking outside: "Sister Suannai, there are mice in your house these past few days, you should go back first and catch them."

Walking to the door, opening the door, pushing her out, closing the door—all in one smooth motion.

The little girl turned around and walked back, continuing to eye her brother-in-law:

"Does it hurt, brother-in-law?"

"A little bit."

"..." The little girl hesitated for a moment, "Are the places you go to every time very dangerous?"

"Not dangerous."

"Liar."

"A little bit."

"Will anyone die?"

While asking this question, she still kept her little face straight and expressionless, but Chen Shu noticed that her breathing had quietly become a bit heavier.

"No, they won't..."

Chen Shu revealed a smile: "Why would you ask that?"

"Just asking."

"Oh..."

Chen Shu nodded and looked toward the television.

Ning Qing was quietly eyeing them from the corner of her eye.

After about a few seconds, Chen Shu pretended to ask casually again: "If I died, what would you do?"

"..."

The little girl was silent for a moment, then answered in a low voice:

"Kill them."

"You don't even know who they are."

"Then I'll kill everyone..."

The voice of this sentence was even lower than before, so much so that Chen Shu almost didn't hear it clearly, and he let out a sound of Surprise.

"Huh?"

The little girl let out an equally surprised "Huh?"

Immediately, she continued to sit upright, her two hands placed between her thighs, twisting each other, and she instantly returned to her original well-behaved appearance.

Chen Shu, however, fell silent, his peripheral vision darting toward Qingqing.

Qingqing was also eyeing him, with an expression that said, "I told you so."

At this moment, the little girl glanced over, suddenly stretched out her hand, pointed straight at her, and spoke in a tone of reprimand:

"You don't keep a good eye on brother-in-law, you're really useless!"

"? He's the one who wants to court disaster."

"You don't protect him!"

"He's the one who wants to go."

"You don't keep him in check!"

"? Are you itching for a beating?"

"Your personality is terrible!"

Still the same tone of reprimand, and a gaze devoid of fear.

Ning Qing stared at her coldly: "Two more of my flowers have died, I haven't even settled the score with you yet, you'd better behave yourself."

"I work hard doing research at my unit every day, and when I come back I still have to water your flowers..." The little girl spoke in an adult's tone, very angry, "Do I owe you from a past life?"

"Come here."

"I won't!"

"Alright, alright, just got back and you're already arguing." Chen Shu hurriedly reached out and waved his hands, "You two sisters should be a bit more harmonious."

"It's she who is being unreasonable."

The little girl still pointed at her older sister, insisting.

"You point again!"

"It's she who is being unreasonable!"

The little girl put her hand down and repeated it.

"She's being unreasonable, you just shouldn't hold it against her." Chen Shu tried to persuade her kindly, "She's not one to listen to reason anyway, why are you talking to her..."

"Hmph..."

Ning Qing sat to the side, her expression growing increasingly cold.

Chen Shu glanced at her quietly and hurriedly changed the subject: "Has Xiaoxiao already started working at the research institute?"

"Started."

"Is it tiring?"

"A little bit..."

"That means it's very tiring."

"Let me tell you, the secret research institute I joined is actually researching how to create artificial High-level Practitioners." The little girl turned again; she had been facing the television, but now she faced him, her tone sounding like a child sharing what she had seen and heard at school with a parent, "It's just researching a combat robot that is approximately equal to a High-level Practitioner."

"Didn't you say before that this was impossible?"

"Temporarily impossible." The little girl corrected, "Technically it is feasible, it's just that there are no materials and Energy Source to create a 'High-level Practitioner'."

"Is there a solution yet?"

"Not yet."

"I see..."

Chen Shu nodded, lost in thought.

This was also one of "their" arrangements.

Chen Shu shook his head, cast aside distracting thoughts, and turned to pick up his Mobile Phone to see what messages needed replying to during this period.

Chen Banxia had the most messages.

Chen Shu had told her he would be off the grid for a while, saying he was returning to the sect for closed-door training, so she wouldn't be worried.

But she still sent a bunch of messages.

Looking closely, they were all short videos.

There were beautiful women, cute pets, funny ones, educational ones, and entertainment gossip, interspersed with some pictures and some numerical parameters; she must have been using him as a notepad.

Chen Shu could imagine her appearance at the time—

This person must have been scrolling through short videos or chatting with others when she saw content she was interested in, or content she thought her younger brother would be interested in, and feeling that enjoying it alone wasn't enough, she just shared it with him, not caring whether he replied or not. This was essentially the same mentality as those who post photos of food in group chats without caring if anyone replies. Then, when doing research, if there was something that needed to be noted down, she just used him as a notepad.

Chen Shu still curled the corners of his mouth and finished reading them carefully.

Then he typed a reply—

Chen Shu: Idiot

After that were messages from Chen Jiaoshou and Wei Lvshi.

5025/8/18

Chen Jiaoshou: 【Picture】

Chen Jiaoshou: Made a profit

Chen Jiaoshou: /Smile

5025/9/7

Chen Jiaoshou: Lost it back

Wei Lvshi: Still alive?

Chen Shu had also told them, using the same excuse—ever since his identity as the Spirit Sect Saint Son became known to them, it had been much more convenient to disappear for a while when going out.

Immediately after, there were messages from several classmates, basically asking him to play games or asking if he had time to go out for a meal, as well as Song Rentou and Guan Bingxiang asking if he was at the Spirit Sect, and Senior Brother Ji Guanhe discussing the principles of more excellent Water Creation Spell Runes and Oxygen Creation Spell with him; Chen Shu responded to them one by one with patience.

By the way, he posted a Feixin status—

Back, available for appointments, also looking for a high-quality single woman of suitable age between 20 and 200 years old who has thoughts of dating recently, um, just someone who looks good, I have a friend who wants to find a girlfriend.

"Ah..."

Chen Shu stretched, officially returned.