Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 22

She remembered the trick he used to subdue Chen Shuo, and wondered what happened. It seemed that Chen Shuo cried in pain after just pressing it lightly.

Xie Jingyuan briefly explained the acupoints of the human body.

Su Miaomiao was a cat in her previous life, so naturally she had no way to understand those things, including the cultivation methods of Taoist priests.

“I want to learn too, would you teach me?” Su Miaomiao asked very seriously.

Xie Jingyuan did not agree.

He was already worried that she would be unruly and would cause chaos everywhere, so how could he teach her more ways to hurt people?

Su Miaomiao was unhappy again, as she didn’t have nimble limbs, sharp claws or sharp cat teeth, so she could only fight with strength.

Seeing her frustration, Xie Jingyuan comforted her, “Children in kindergarten are ignorant. When we go to primary school, this kind of thing won’t happen again.”

He watched some TV series with Grandma Tao, and the students in the TV series were very obedient.

Su Miaomiao curled her lips, “It will take another three years.”

Xie Jingyuan looked at the children in the class, and said calmly, “It will be soon.”

Time did pass quickly.

Su Miaomiao thought that kindergarten was fun, but she found life in it very boring. She was tired of playing with the facilities fixed in the yard, and she preferred to go to the large-scale amusement park in Anshi with her parents.

However, when six-year-old Su Miaomiao followed Xie Jingyuan into the classroom of Class 3, Grade 1, and experienced the first elementary school class, Su Miaomiao suddenly discovered that kindergarten was better! At least in kindergarten, she just needed to have fun and play.

“Master, I want to go home!” After the first class, Su Miaomiao lay on the desk and whispered to Xie Jingyuan who was seated next door.

Xie Jingyuan glanced at her, “You have lived for more than a hundred years, are you not as good as those ordinary children?”

Su Miaomiao pouted, “I’m not a real person.”

Xie Jingyuan: “Now that you’ve become a cat, I won’t care about you anymore.”

Su Miaomiao couldn’t change.

Xie Jingyuan looked at the watch on his wrist and said, “You can sleep for eight minutes, and I will wake you up when the teacher comes.”

Su Miaomiao immediately seized the time to sleep.

But how long was eight minutes? Just as Su Miaomiao fell into a light sleep, she was woken up by the harsh ringing of the class bell.

Class monitor Cheng Yue, wearing a red scarf, bounced like a spring when the math teacher stepped into the classroom, “Stand up!”

Xie Jingyuan stood up while grabbing Su Miaomiao’s arm.

Su Miaomiao: …

She didn’t listen to the class on the first day at all, and the forty-five minutes of each class made her suffer.

Xie Jingyuan just watched silently.

The cat demon listened to the scriptures lying down in the Qingxu Temple, as if she had no bones in her body. It would take time for her to adapt to the way of teaching in elementary school.

After school in the evening, Grandma Tao came to pick them up.

“Grandma, I don’t like to listen to the lessons,” Su Miaomiao couldn’t help complaining.

Grandma Tao: “That can’t be done. After a while, you’ll take an exam. If your score is low, the students will laugh at you.”

Su Miaomiao didn’t mind that.

Unexpectedly, when she returned to 302, Xie Jingyuan dragged her to do homework together.

Su Miaomiao was lying on the desk that Grandma Tao bought specially for the two of them, feeling listless.

When Xie Jingyuan took out a pack of dried fish, she immediately sat upright and reached out to grab it.

Xie Jingyuan pressed the plastic bag, looked at her homework and said, “You can only eat after doing homework.”

Su Miaomiao was helpless, “What is homework?”

Xie Jingyuan repeated the words of the teachers of each subject.

Su Miaomiao: “I can’t write.”

Xie Jingyuan: “I’ll teach you. After finishing your homework, I will give you a test. You can only eat if you answer correctly.”

Su Miaomiao vaguely felt that something was wrong, but she had already been captured by the aroma of the dried fish, so she didn’t even think about it.

If she could have freedom in the world, Su Miaomiao would definitely not be a studious student. But she was accompanied by a super-smart student who was so patient and insanely good——Xie Jingyuan.

Xie Jingyuan not only always maintained the impressive achievement of being the first in the class and even the first in the grade, he also required Su Miaomiao to achieve an excellent line of 85 points in every subject.

If Su Miaomiao hadn’t been tempted by the dried fish at the beginning, maybe she would have allowed herself to be a poor student with the lowest grades in her class.

But those little dried fishes made her develop the terrible habit of obediently listening to Xie Jingyuan’s arrangement.

Under his supervision, she would sit upright and listen to the teachers’ lessons, and only pay close attention to the time between classes to sleep.

After school, she would obediently follow Xie Jingyuan to do her homework, and only after finishing her homework could she play, sleep, watch TV, and eat.

Su Mingan and Tang Shiwei were very pleased with the way the two elementary school students got along with each other. Xie Jingyuan’s tutoring for their daughter was simply better than a professional tutor.

In the final exam of the first grade of elementary school, Xie Jingyuan was the first in the grade, and Su Miaomiao was the second in the grade.

Su Miaomiao was just lazy and lacked self-control in the first few years when she first became a human. Her soul was the soul of a century-old cat demon.

There were so many cats in the previous life, but only a handful of cats could become demons by themselves, which showed that Su Miaomiao still had roots of wisdom.

To use an analogy, Su Miaomiao was a genius among cats. She did need to learn new knowledge, but once she learned it, she could remember it forever.

Their daughter got good grades, so Su Mingan and Tang Shiwei called their relatives to tell them the good news.

During the Chinese New Year reunion, Su Miaomiao received praise from her relatives, and at the same time received the envious eyes of the relatives’ children.

Su Miaomiao liked to see the proud smiling faces of her parents, and also enjoyed the envy, admiration and even jealousy from the children.

That reminded her of the eyes of the little priests looking at Xie Jingyuan in Qingxu Temple in her previous life.

It turned out that she could become as powerful as Xie Jingyuan.

In that state of mind, Su Miaomiao truly experienced the joy of learning, and gradually no longer needed the encouragement of Xie Jingyuan’s dried fish.

After the middle school entrance examination, Su Miaomiao was admitted to the best No. 1 Middle School in Anshi with Xie Jingyuan with excellent results.