Chapter 7: Deep Sisterly Affection

"With the conclusion of the final subject, this year's Great Exam has officially drawn to a close this afternoon. During this period, no attacks occurred anywhere in the country, which can be called a complete success. Yuanzhou Satellite TV has interviewed the first student to hand in their paper at the third exam site in Bai City; let's hear what this student, Ning, has to say—"

"Skip these parts..."

"It was too simple, even a dog could do it..."

"Why doesn't Crown Princess Zhusha show her thighs when she dances lately..."

Chen Shu sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, staring at the interview on the screen with a chuckle, then turned his head to say to Chen Jiaoshou beside him: "This person is quite funny..."

Chen Jiaoshou gave him a calm look and said nothing.

Chen Shu didn't mind, raised his hand to check his watch, then looked at the weather outside. The rain showed no signs of stopping for the time being; according to the weather forecast, it would rain until at least next week.

Today is April 30th, May is almost here.

The general calendar of this world is the calendar of Yiguo, which was also created by the Shengzu Emperor back in the day:

A year has a total of twelve months, each month is exactly thirty days, and every five years the first month has one extra day compared to the other months. There are also the twenty-four solar terms and a series of holidays that make Chen Shu feel familiar, such as the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Qingming Festival; overall, it is similar to the lunar calendar of his previous life.

May is already midsummer.

Autumn will arrive in July.

"The evening of the sixth..."

There are still quite a few days left.

Chen Shu thought for a moment, opened WeChat, and opened the chat window with Qingqing. The chat background was a photo of Qingqing, taken several years ago; she was still very green back then—

Chen Shu: Qingqing, want to go on a trip?

Qingqing: Student Ning? /smile

Chen Shu: Hmm? I want to go to Sea Beast Port to see the ocean.

Qingqing: To show your thighs? /smile

Chen Shu: Everyone says seeing the ocean is the most romantic thing.

Qingqing: Freedom of dress? /smile

Chen Shu: I don't know what you're talking about...

Qingqing: You're going to be famous /smile

Chen Shu: Are you going or not? I'm going to a graduation party tomorrow, and the flight is the morning after tomorrow. I've already checked the tickets.

Qingqing: Let's talk in person /smile

Chen Shu: It's raining so hard, there's no need for that.

Qingqing: The Great Exam is over, you've worked hard, I'll treat you to a meal.

Chen Shu: The rain is too heavy.

Qingqing: It won't rain tomorrow morning.

Chen Shu: How do you know?

Qingqing: Guessed.

Chen Shu: What about at night?

Qingqing: It will.

Chen Shu: You know again?

Qingqing: Guessed.

Chen Shu: Send me your ID number first, I'll buy the tickets for you; it's cheaper if I buy them early.

Qingqing: 【Image】

Chen Shu: Why did you blur the profile picture?

Qingqing: You only need the ID number.

Chen Shu:...

Closing his Mobile Phone, Chen Shu went to take a shower, returned to his room to practice for four hours, and then went to sleep.

Don't think four hours sounds short, but Cultivators in this world are not immortals; they can't just sit there and ignore everything else. For a student like Chen Shu, the academic pressure during the day is already very heavy, plus he has to tease Qingqing, and he still has to practice at night—it's truly miserable.

Not studying isn't much better; you have to work.

However, there is one benefit to practicing at night: if you're tired, you just fall asleep, and the sleep quality is excellent.

April is the time of the locust tree, May is the time of the cicadas.

There was indeed no rain this morning. When Chen Shu pulled back the curtains and poked his head out, he actually heard the faint sound of cicadas. Perhaps once this spell of rain stops, it will immediately be a stretch of clear days, and the weather will soon reach the heat that summer should have.

Got up and went out.

One hour later.

Three people were walking on the road holding milk tea. Chen Shu kicked a small pebble on the ground and said with a sense of relief:

"Finally liberated. The feeling of not having to go to class is so great. If I had known, I would have gone to participate in that competition thing too; how nice it would have been to be admitted early."

"You're just reluctant to leave your school days behind." Ning Qing glanced at him faintly.

"Maybe."

"For your art exam the day before yesterday, you had to sing, right?"

"Yeah, and I had to play an instrument."

"What song did you sing?"

"Rice Field."

"Rice Field? Who wrote it?"

"Jay Chou."

"Who sang it?"

"Forgot who it was."

"Are Crown Princess Zhusha's legs good-looking?"

"Not as good-looking as yours."

Trying to test my reaction time? Impossible.

After Chen Shu finished speaking, he glanced quietly at the person beside him—

Ning Qing remained expressionless, holding her milk tea, her pace steady.

Xiaoxiao, walking beside her, also lowered her head, focusing on biting her milk tea straw, unable to hear the conversation between her sister and brother-in-law.

Crown Princess Zhusha is an entertainer, and she is currently very popular.

Chen Shu has quite liked watching this young lady recently.

It can't be helped; she is youthful and beautiful, cute and lovely, and she always loves to wear short skirts and shorts when dancing; it is hard not to like a pair of long white legs. However, the lifespan of the celebrities Chen Shu follows has always been only a few months; after a few months, he switches to another one.

Anyway, beautiful young ladies are endless.

He is just this fickle.

As for Jay Chou's "Rice Field"...

There is no way around it; cultivation is too expensive. Buying this and buying that, as a student, where would Chen Shu get the money?

He had no choice but to sell out his fellow countryman.

If conditions allowed, perhaps he would even become an internet singer or something, earning a bit more money under the premise of not affecting his grand plan of cultivation, the more the better. Of course, the songwriter and composer must still be credited with the original name; he is at most only responsible for singing anonymously.

Even the Saint Ancestor didn't plagiarize poems and lyrics.

But conditions simply did not allow it—

The Great Yi of this world is truly too awesome; it leads the world in culture, and those songs from the Chinese-language music scene of his past life are simply not enough to compete.

He can only take out some of the best songs from his past life to sell for money and scrape together some cultivation funds.

Regardless, he is still grateful to his fellow countryman.

Xiaoxiao's interest also seemed to be piqued; after a while, she turned her head and said to Chen Shu:

"Brother-in-law, you're trending."

"What?"

"You're trending."

"How am I trending?"

"Didn't you scroll through videos this morning?"

"No."

"Take a look."

The little girl freed one hand, took out her student Mobile Phone, found the relevant video, and handed it to Chen Shu to watch.

Waking up after a night, Student Ning had indeed gone viral.

The official account of Yuanzhou Satellite TV posted his interview clip, which had already surged to the hot list, with at least millions of views, and hundreds of thousands of likes alone. It is said that official media and self-media from all over have also reposted it one after another, and many accounts have millions or tens of millions of followers.

"Many people on the internet are looking for you, brother-in-law."

"This isn't me."

Chen Shu handed the Mobile Phone back to Xiaoxiao; what Student Ning said, what does that have to do with him, Chen Shu?

The little girl stopped talking too, lowering her head to drink her milk tea in small sips.

"When does Xiaoxiao start classes?"

"Tomorrow."

"Your sister and I have decided to go to the beach tomorrow. If you can get leave, we'll go together." Chen Shu thought for a moment, "There's also the Dragon Boat Festival in between, so we can't take many days off. We'll probably play for about a week and then come back, or come back once we're sure about opening the Saint Ancestor Cube, how about that?"

"I can get leave."

The little girl hesitated for a moment before saying it.

Actually, she really likes going out to play with her brother-in-law.

Since she was little, her brother-in-law has always taken good care of her; he is gentle and considerate, and being with her brother-in-law is the most fun, plus she can learn many useful things.

She also really likes going out to play with her sister.

Although her sister's personality seems cold and sometimes makes her very afraid, her sister is decisive in doing things; she only needs to say what she wants to eat or buy, and her sister will buy it for her.

But she doesn't really like going out to play with her sister and brother-in-law at the same time; if that happens, she will become a heartless photography machine.

"By the way—"

Chen Shu glanced at Ning Qing again: "Are you going to the graduation party tonight?"

"No."

"You..."

Chen Shu shook his head.

Then the three of them went to watch a movie, and after finishing lunch, they each went home. Although the Great Exam had ended, cultivation and study still could not be relaxed.

Going to a graduation party in the evening is also a Joy, drawing a perfect period for four years of Talent Academy.

The second day of the fifth lunar month, morning.

The three of them boarded the plane, put away their luggage, and sat in a row.

Ning Qing glanced at Chen Shu, only to see him dressed very simply in a pair of shorts, wearing flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his upper body, and a duckbill cap, extremely casual.

Wearing flip-flops on a long trip...

Ning Qing didn't say anything, though.

But when she turned her head again, her younger sister beside her was also dressed almost exactly the same, with little shorts, little flip-flops, and a T-shirt, only she wasn't wearing a hat.

A little girl, only fifteen years old, and she's already like this...

Ning Qing frowned slightly.

At this moment, the little girl seemed to sense her gaze, turned her head to look at her, and said in a weak tone:

"W-what's wrong?"

Ning Qing frowned: "Stop always imitating him."

"Who?"

"Him."

"I was raised by Brother-in-law."

"..."

"Sister, do you not like it?"

"..."

Ning Qing couldn't be bothered to pay her any mind; she was beyond saving.

The plane began to taxi.

Destination: Sea Beast Port Airport.

Sea Beast Port is located in Cangzhou, bordering the sea.

It is said that a thousand years ago, sea beasts ran rampant here; people had to worship the sea beasts before going out to sea and prepare enough offerings for them on the ships to ensure their safety.

Thus, it was named Sea Beast Port.

Nowadays, sea beasts are basically never seen.

Cangzhou is adjacent to Yuanzhou, requiring only about an hour of flight time; most of the time is wasted on the ground.

The plane landed.

Xiaoxiao clung to the window, trying hard to look outside.

The weather in Sea Beast Port was the complete opposite of Bai City.

Bai City had been experiencing continuous heavy rain this morning, while Sea Beast Port had blue skies and white clouds. The airport was situated on a vast expanse of flat land; one could not see the rolling of mountains even in the far, far distance, only strips of white clouds hanging on the horizon. This scene reflected in Xiaoxiao's eyes, making her mood open up quite a bit, so she tried hard to widen her eyes, wanting to take in even more of the view.

"Time to get off the plane."

Xiaoxiao snapped to her senses; her sister was already getting the luggage, and her brother-in-law had just withdrawn the hand he had used to pat her shoulder, so she hurriedly unbuckled her seatbelt and stood up.

Chen Shu said to Ning Qing and Xiaoxiao: "The sun is so bright, did you two put on sunscreen?"

"No."

"You brought it, right? I reminded you."

"We brought it."

"Go to the restroom and put some on."

"Okay."

So Chen Shu stood outside the restroom waiting for them; after about a few minutes, the sisters came out.

Chen Shu looked carefully and saw that the sunscreen on the younger sister's face was not spread evenly; streaks of sunscreen could be seen on her slightly chubby face, so he said to the older sister: "The sunscreen on Xiaoxiao's face isn't spread evenly."

"What does that have to do with me?"

"How are you acting like a sister?"

"..."

Ning Qing did not speak, allowing Chen Shu to push her shoulders and guide her in front of her younger sister.

Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes, looking slightly bewildered.

So Ning Qing, with an expressionless face, reached out both hands, pressed them onto Xiaoxiao's face, and smeared them toward both sides, bit by bit smoothing out the sunscreen. During this process, Xiaoxiao also stood still, letting her sister do as she pleased, sneaking glances at her sister, not daring to move or speak.

Chen Shu watched and nodded inwardly—

Such deep sisterly love.