Chapter 504: The Little Cat-Girl's Schooling Diary

"Taozi~"

"Mm-hmm~"

A voice like a cat's, light and thin, a little squeaky; the little cat-girl instantly turned her head, staring at the source of the voice calling her name.

Chen Shu was seen walking over holding a very small cartoon backpack.

"Bought this for you."

"Bought for me~"

"This is called a schoolbag."

"Schoolbag~"

"Come, try it on to see if it fits."

Chen Shu opened the shoulder straps of the small schoolbag and let her put it on to try.

The little cat-girl, completely unaware of what this meant, walked over happily, turned her back to Chen Shu, and actively cooperated by sticking her hands into the straps one after the other.

A sinister voice rang out behind her:

"Once you put on this schoolbag, you are no longer a child. You can no longer indulge in the slightest bit of childhood carefree joy. If you get playful and don't do your homework, this little schoolbag will tighten more and more on your back, and you will suffer endlessly..."

Taozi turned a deaf ear, put on the schoolbag, even hopped twice on the spot, and turned her head to look at him with her big eyes, feeling that he was strange.

At the same time, Qingqing also came downstairs.

Twenty minutes later.

Chen Shu, holding Qingqing with one hand and Taozi with the other, arrived at the entrance of a preschool education training institution on the edge of the University City.

According to the Yiguo school system, Taozi would not be able to enter the Children School until the second half of this year, so she could only attend kindergarten or a preschool class for now. Considering that Taozi had already lived for over ten years as a Spirit Cat and, under the guidance of Chen Shu, Xiaoxiao, and Qingqing, did not lack common life knowledge or study habits, and given her age, attending kindergarten was somewhat inappropriate, Chen Shu had signed her up for a preschool class.

The preschool class mainly taught some preschool knowledge, such as pinyin, counting, simple characters, radicals, singing, drawing, and jump rope.

However, these things would be taught again in the first grade of Children School. Yiguo was very strict about this; even if everyone had attended preschool education, these things had to be taught again in the first grade of Children School, so some people did not attend preschool class. For example, Qingqing and Xiaoxiao had not attended it back then. But there were obvious benefits to attending a preschool class once: it could allow children to have an easier time in the first grade of Children School, get better grades, and more easily accumulate study confidence, which was clearly helpful for building a good study cycle.

This preschool education institution was a subsidiary of an educational training institution for adults that focused on Runic Magic and Internet Technology, and this adult education training institution happened to be under the Spirit Sect; it was also one of the top five educational training enterprises in the country, with branches all over the nation.

These preschool education institutions had preferential policies for the children of Inner Sect Disciples of the Spirit Sect.

Chen Shu, of course, would not hide his identity.

Although it was highly probable that this would lead to the teacher being biased, and even if the teacher wasn't biased, the leadership would be. Although a teacher really shouldn't be biased, Chen Shu also knew that being able to feel a teacher's favoritism during one's childhood growth was truly an exceptionally wonderful thing, so he selfishly did just that.

"Congratulations! Student Taozi!"

Chen Shu walked out of this "Lingyu Kindergarten Experimental Class" and said solemnly to Taozi, who was carrying her small schoolbag: "From today on, you are a student of the preschool class. From now on, you will cast off your status as an illiterate, and your diploma will be promoted to preschool class."

"Preschool class~"

"Starting from the day after tomorrow, you have to come here to attend school every day. For the first week, I will pick you up and drop you off, and for the next week, you will ride your bicycle here yourself." Chen Shu had already agreed with the person in charge of the Lingyu Kindergarten Experimental Class; this was a Mid-level Monster, so a car couldn't hit her and she wouldn't die from being hit, so there was no need for adults to pick her up.

"Have to come every day?"

The little cat-girl opened her eyes wide and looked up at him, her expression grave, as if she had begun to realize the seriousness of the matter.

"Yes," Chen Shu said, "at eight-thirty in the morning... do you know how to tell time?"

"I do~"

"Impressive! Who taught you?"

"Xiaoxiao!"

"Oh, that's good. Anyway, you have to leave home at eight-thirty in the morning, arrive at school before nine, have class until eleven o'clock, eat lunch at school, play for a while after eating, take a nap, have class at two in the afternoon, and attend until five o'clock, then you can go home."

"..."

Taozi blinked her eyes, looking at Chen Shu, then looking at her master Qingqing on the other side.

Chen Shu added in time: "We are all like this."

"All like this?"

"That's right, every one of us has to go to school. Look at before, Qingqing and I both went to school over there, and I even took you to class before, right?" Chen Shu met her eyes, always feeling as if the starry sky was hidden within them, and gently persuaded, "You have to go to school to have culture, and you have to have culture to become a respectable, qualified higher-order organism."

"Higher-order organism!"

The little cat-girl hooked her hands back onto the straps of her small schoolbag; judging by her expression, she was already full of fighting spirit.

Chen Shu revealed a satisfied expression.

Still holding Qingqing with one hand and the little cat-girl with the other—Qingqing's hand was so soft, and the little cat-girl's hand was even softer—the two people and one monster walked in the direction of home.

The preschool class was on the edge of the University City, more than three kilometers away from Zhilan Garden. Fortunately, the road was relatively straight; most of it was a straight path, with only a small turn at each end.

Chen Shu said while walking: "When you get to school, you must get along well with your classmates. Don't bully others, understand?"

"Get along well with classmates~"

"And what else?"

"Don't bully others~"

"That's right~"

Chen Shu's tone couldn't help but change along with hers, becoming very childish: "But don't let others bully you either. If you get bullied by others..."

"Then hit them!"

The little cat-girl's voice was crisp, her expression firm.

"Who taught you that?"

"Xiaoxiao!"

"..."

Chen Shu was speechless for a moment, then shook his head: "That's also true, but you can't be too heavy-handed... You are a cat, you know how to use discretion, right?"

"Discretion..."

"It means how much force to use so you won't hurt people."

"I know!"

"Don't extend your claws."

"I know!"

"That's good..."

Chen Shu was not particularly worried about Taozi being bullied by others.

Don't let this little thing's soft and cute appearance at home fool you, where anyone can catch her and pet her; that is purely a result of her having the lowest status and lowest combat power in the family. In fact, whether in Bai City or Yujing, she was quite adept at bullying other cats and dogs in the neighborhood, and she was very mean. For several years in a row, when leaving Chen Shu's grandmother's house, she would always find a way to slap the grandmother's flower-patterned dog, just because it had barked at her a few years prior.

And with her Intermediate Stage cultivation, along with a feline's innate reaction speed and athletic ability, the vast majority of adults who have practiced cultivation would be unable to beat her.

……

Two days later, 8:30 in the morning.

The entrance to the Preschool Class was packed with cars.

A cute little girl with cat ears and a cat tail stood by the side of the road, her raised hand held in the hand of a man. She stared straight at the scene ahead, feeling both anxious and excited, both resistant and expectant.

"Let's go."

"Let's go~"

The little cat-girl habitually repeated, following Uncle Chen into this experimental kindergarten class.

"Listen to Teacher Wang at school, respect Teacher Wang, don't run around or look everywhere in class, and listen carefully. The content the teacher teaches is what a qualified higher-order creature should learn; you must study it seriously." Chen Shu paused, "Remember what you did at school every day, and share those special things with me when you get back. Did you remember?"

"Did you remember~"

"I'm asking you!"

"Ask... remembered~"

"Okay, you are in Class Two, the classroom on the left." Chen Shu said to her. Hearing her murmuring, soft repetition, he hesitated and added, "If someone insists on making you do something you don't like, for example, wanting to kiss you or treat you like other cats, just run back and tell me and Qingqing."

"Run back and tell you and Qingqing~"

"Little repeater."

"Little repeater chicken~"

"A little clip..."

"Little clip... what does that mean?"

"It means cute."

Chen Shu smiled and rubbed her head.

"Go in."

Taozi then muttered "Go in" while carrying her schoolbag, lowered her head, and walked into the classroom.

The teacher was a young woman with short hair, already standing on the podium. Although she had already seen and exclaimed over her when she registered the day before yesterday, seeing this beautifully dressed little cat-girl walk in, she still couldn't help but have her eyes light up and scream "wow" in her heart.

Immediately, she nodded with a smile at Chen Shu outside the door and stepped forward to welcome Taozi, letting Taozi sit at the first table by the wall.

Taozi was usually quite cold and aloof; she wouldn't listen to others, wouldn't let others touch her, and didn't like to pay attention to people. But thinking of Uncle Chen's warning, she looked back at Uncle Chen standing at the door and finally walked over as Teacher Wang had said.

She sat up straight, full of curiosity.

The class bell rang.

Chen Shu didn't rush to leave, but like several other parents, stood by the window, peeking inside cautiously. Seeing Taozi sitting straight and serious, and the teacher being extremely responsible and approachable, a smile couldn't help but appear on the corners of his mouth.

Several other parents nearby also discussed in low voices.

"How come there's a little cat demon here?"

"An international student, perhaps..."

"The little cat demon is so pretty..."

"As expected of an educational class opened by the Spirit Sect, to actually be able to see a child from Yaoguo, we came to the right place, we came to the right place..."

"Look! She's so serious!"

The smile on Chen Shu's mouth couldn't help but widen.

"Whose family is this little cat demon from?"

"Mine!"

"Yours?"

Everyone looked at him.

For a moment, Chen Shu actually experienced a unique pleasure in showing off.

……

11:30 in the morning.

Ning Qing sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion in the courtyard, eyes closed, feeling the reviving plants in the yard. Only when she heard the sound of the door opening did she open her eyes: "Didn't you say you would be back before ten?"

"Oh..."

Chen Shu said while closing the door: "I originally planned to come back after watching for a while once I sent her over and she started class. As a result, I ran into a few parents and couldn't help but chat with them for over an hour. Seeing it was almost noon, I just decided to see how the food at the preschool class was."

"Is it okay?"

"It was quite rich for the first day; there was fish, shrimp, chicken, eggs, as well as milk, vegetables, and fruit. I expect it will be discounted later. But I asked other parents, and although the usual food isn't as good as our own home, it's still considered quite good, probably ten thousand times better than the food at your home when you were little."

Ning Qing remained sitting cross-legged on the cushion, only glancing at him faintly; one could still see a bit of brightness on his face.

"Why are you looking at me?"

"What does it have to do with you?"

"How does it not have to do with me? You are looking at me!"

"So?"

"Unreasonable..."

Chen Shu shook his head; he was in a good mood and couldn't be bothered to argue with her.

Back in the room, he was all alone.

Xiaoxiao is not coming back for dinner today either, and not just today; she will not be coming back for the next month because she has gone to the northern desert.

The Heavenly Palace has also flown over there.

That place was originally a small basin, and I heard it has been repaired and deepened by a few degrees; it is already prepared now.

In February, the Heavenly Palace fell.

The whole world was in Surprise.