Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 706 - 430: Joy and Sorrow

After dinner, Jiang Ning carved wooden plaques at the door, Xue Yuantong played video games at the door, and Xue Chuchu scrolled through English vocabulary on her phone.

Darkness had completely fallen, and two lights pierced through the night.

"Mom’s home!" Xue Yuantong jubilantly cheered, she could finally eat snacks!

She had searched the entire day and hadn’t found the hidden stash of snacks; Xue Yuantong was annoyed.

Of course, she wasn’t without a new plan during the day.

If her mother hid snacks again, she would say they were about to expire. Given her mother’s character, she definitely wouldn’t want the snacks to go to waste and would absolutely share them with her.

Xue Yuantong was quite pleased with her own cleverness.

After Aunt Gu got home, Xue Yuantong immediately ran up to her with a whiny voice, "Mom, you’re back?"

She jogged into the house and brought over a small stool, "Mom, you must be tired after a whole day of work, have a seat."

Once Aunt Gu sat down, she handed her a cup of water, "Mom, you must be thirsty, please drink some water."

Aunt Gu enjoyed her daughter’s attentive care, feeling like she was back to the old times.

After a while, Xue Yuantong guiltily asked, "Mom, where did you hide the keys? I couldn’t find them."

Aunt Gu had rested enough and got up, walking into her daughter’s room.

In Xue Yuantong’s disbelieving eyes, Aunt Gu opened the mathematics test papers on the desk, and there lay a key, peacefully resting.

Xue Yuantong was stunned; she had searched so many places, and the key was right before her eyes!

Aunt Gu said, "I knew you wouldn’t be studying!"

Jiang Ning leaned against the doorway, "I reminded you to read, but you just wouldn’t."

Xue Yuantong was almost in tears. Why was she so stupid?

...

July 6.

In the morning, Xue Chuchu got up to make breakfast.

To avoid making breakfast, Xue Yuantong, summoning her strong willpower, crawled out of bed and went over to Chuchu’s house to mooch a meal.

As soon as she entered, she smelled a rich fragrance; Xue Chuchu was pouring sesame oil into the bowl.

"Jiang Ning, you were right, she just arrived."

"Of course, don’t I know her?" Jiang Ning stretched out his chopsticks and stirred the instant noodles.

It had been a long time since she had eaten instant noodles. Having them occasionally actually tasted quite good, and Xue Chuchu had even added eggs and greens to the noodles.

Xue Yuantong, observing their perfect coordination, suddenly felt very annoyed; she glared at Jiang Ning and snorted, then buried her head to eat her noodles.

After breakfast, Xue Chuchu cleaned up her bag, ready to cycle to school.

Xue Yuantong sat at the door, a grass stalk she found somewhere hanging from her mouth, nonchalantly saying,

"Chuchu, ride slowly! I’ll play at home for you!"

At that moment, Xue Chuchu suddenly didn’t feel like going to school.

She exhaled deeply, thinking that if she had Tongtong’s learning abilities, she definitely would not attend tutoring classes.

Regrettably, Xue Chuchu twisted the bike handles, and the electric bike sped away.

Seeing off her friend, Xue Yuantong’s mood dipped for three seconds, then she scooted over to Jiang Ning, enjoying watching him carve the wooden plaque.

The weather was still not too hot, and the neighbor Dongdong ran out to play, despite being stung by a stinging caterpillar yesterday, his pain far from healed. But as a mischievous child, his resilience was beyond anyone’s imagination! freewebnσvel.cѳm

Dongdong, holding a slingshot, took aim now and then, occasionally pulling the rubber band back, ready to shoot a stone.

With the slingshot in hand, Dongdong felt like an invincible hero, hitting whoever he wanted!

He aimed toward Jiang Ning’s direction, and Xue Yuantong was very angry.

"Dongdong, if you keep shooting randomly, I’ll tell your grandma!"

Dongdong sneered and aimed at Xue Yuantong, sinisterly saying, "Believe it or not, I’ll shoot you!"

Dongdong’s small eyes emitted a chill, unbeaten by someone like Xue Yuantong who had no intimidating appearance.

"Have you forgotten about yesterday’s stinging caterpillar?" Xue Yuantong reminded.

Instantly remembering the fear of being stung by the stinging caterpillar yesterday, Dongdong shouted loudly, "Believe it or not, I’ll throw a stinging caterpillar on your face!"

Jiang Ning looked up, "Oh, you’ve got guts to catch stinging caterpillars, eh?"

From Jiang Ning’s face, Dongdong saw mockery and disdain, which salted the vulnerable pride of a child.

He could ignore Xue Yuantong, but he couldn’t overlook the towering Jiang Ning.

Children’s thinking is simple. Status and power don’t concern them; they only care about brute force, whoever is strong is indeed formidable!

"Catch? Just catch, you just wait!" Dongdong howled.

He carried his slingshot and rushed toward southern rows of Yang Trees.

He had learned his lesson, not getting too close like before but rather took up the slingshot, aiming it at the tree trunk, preparing to knock down a caterpillar.

Jiang Ning quietly watched this unfold, then suddenly, his Spiritual Power flickered, and two stinging caterpillars fell from the tree, slantingly landing on Dongdong’s neck.

Dongdong stiffly reached for his neck and discovered with horror that it was again two stinging caterpillars; he howled miserably and ran back home.

Jiang Ning said to Xue Yuantong, "There, peace for a while again."

...

After dealing with Dongdong, Jiang Ning didn’t continue carving; he opened the class group chat to have some fun.

The group was heatedly discussing movies.

Dong Qingfeng was expressing his viewpoint, "I believe the core of comedy is tragedy."

Recently, over the summer holidays, Dong Qingfeng was shining in the group, showing off his talents. Coming from an upper-middle-class family, he had traveled to many places and read numerous books, possessing thoughts and experiences.

His words always provoked thought, and he was undoubtedly the agony uncle.

Dan Kaiquan couldn’t stand his pretentiousness every day and retorted:

"Comedy is comedy, tragedy is tragedy."

Dong Qingfeng, "You have a shallow view. Have you ever thought why you laugh at comedies?"

Dan Kaiquan, "Comedies are funny, so I laugh, right?"

Guo Kunnan, "Well said!"

Wang Longlong, "Brilliantly said!"

Meng Gui, "On point!"