Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 66

Su Miaomiao waved her hand sleepily at her father.

When the car drove away, Su Miaomiao was very sleepy, but she was also a little hungry, as she had no appetite for breakfast when she was at her grandparents’ house.

She seldom went to restaurants, and preferred Grandma Tao’s craftsmanship.

Su Miaomiao quickened her pace and walked toward the building.

In 1002, after breakfast, Grandma Tao went to the square to rehearse a new dance with a group of old sisters, only Xie Jingyuan was at home.

Hearing the doorbell ring, Xie Jingyuan saved the document and came out to open the door.

Seeing Su Miaomiao, Xie Jingyuan was a little surprised, “When did you come back?”

He thought he would see her only in the afternoon.

Su Miaomiao: “Just now, I haven’t eaten breakfast yet, is grandma at home?”

Xie Jingyuan turned sideways, and when she came in, he closed the door and said, “No, what do you want to eat?”

Su Miaomiao: “Fish ball noodles, are there any fish balls in the refrigerator?”

Xie Jingyuan went to the kitchen, and after a while, his cold voice came from inside, “Yes.”

Su Miaomiao went to lie down on the sofa.

There were ready-made fish balls, and the noodles were cooked quickly. Knowing that Su Miaomiao didn’t like vegetables, Xie Jingyuan only boiled a poached egg for her and sprinkled some dried shrimps.

He came to the dining table with a bowl, and the aroma drifted away with the steaming mist.

Su Miaomiao sniffed, got up from the sofa, rubbed her eyes and walked to the dining table.

She slept all the way in the car, and then lay on the sofa for a while, so her soft hair became more messy.

Her face was still hot, so Xie Jingyuan asked her to go to the bathroom to wash her face first.

Su Miaomiao shifted sleepily.

The cold water washed away most of the drowsiness, and when it was time to wipe her face, Su Miaomiao looked at the few towels hanging there, picked up Xie Jingyuan’s one accurately, and wiped her face casually.

Xie Jingyuan came over and happened to see her hang up the towel.

“What time did you leave in the morning?” Sitting at the dining table, Xie Jingyuan looked at her and asked. He hadn’t seen her for two days, and there was no obvious change in her body.

Su Miaomiao said, “I got up at five o’clock, mom works really hard.”

Xie Jingyuan: “Knowing that your parents are hard-working, you should be diligent and help your parents with housework more often, like Xu Shou, who had been helping his family collect corn and peanuts for the past two days.”

Su Miaomiao looked at him and asked, “Where’s Gu Jialing?”

Xie Jingyuan: “There is a barren hill in their town, the Gu family had contracted it. Gu Jialing had been helping to plant trees.”

Su Miaomiao buried her head in eating noodles and was about to go home after eating.

Xie Jingyuan looked toward the sofa, “Your bag.”

It was only then that Su Miaomiao remembered her pearl satchel, walked over to pick it up, and when she was already at the door, she thought of something, lowered her head and opened the zipper, took out a palm-sized red gift box from the bag, and handed it to Xie Jingyuan, “There were a lot of wedding candies left from my cousin’s wedding. You like peach flavored ones, so I picked out all the peach flavored ones, here.”

Xie Jingyuan was a person who didn’t like snacks.

So when he was a child, he ate peach-flavored hard candies a few times, and Su Miaomiao remembered it.

Xie Jingyuan was stunned for a few seconds before finally accepting the unexpected gift.

Su Miaomiao smiled, held his wrist and said, “I want to help my parents clean, will you help me?”

Taking advantage of people who ate softness (to be prone to gentle persuasion but resilient to force) was a principle taught to her by humans.

Xie Jingyuan showed helplessness, and followed her to 1001.

The Su family also had a four-bedroom layout, with two bedrooms, a study room, and a gymnasium. It was spacious and tidy.

Su Miaomiao fell asleep on the sofa after cleaning the living room, and Xie Jingyuan did all the rest of the work by himself.

When cleaning Su Miaomiao’s room, Xie Jingyuan saw two photo frames on her desk, one was a photo of her with her parents, and the other was a photo of her with her grandparents.

She smiled in both photos.

Some dust fell on the glass mirror of the photo frame, Xie Jingyuan picked it up and wiped it lightly.

In the afternoon, Xu Shou and Gu Jialing also came back one after another.

Because Xie Jingyuan bought gifts for them to take back, the elders also sent a gift, both of which were the freshest local products.

The Xu family sent a big bag of freshly unearthed peanuts. Xu Shou washed some of them and went to the kitchen to boil them in salt water.

Gu Jialing carried a large bag of red chestnuts, which were big and plump, and could be fried or cooked.

Grandma Tao and Xu Shou got busy in the kitchen, cooking a large table of dishes, and called everyone over to eat together in the evening.

Tang Shiwei brought a lot of wedding candies, all packaged, and distributed one to each student, and the rest to Grandma Tao.

 “Hey, I like to eat chocolate, give me your chocolate,” Gu Jialing leaned over to Xu Shou’s side, wanting to grab the chocolate.

Xu Shou pushed him away rudely.

Xie Jingyuan observed silently, and found that there was no peach-flavored hard candy in their wedding candy boxes.

The National Day was right next to the Mid-Autumn Festival. After enjoying the last long vacation, high school students started to study intensively again to prepare for the mid-term exams next month.

However, before the midterm exams, there was another fall sports meeting to be held.

Education advocated the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, art and labor, and the sports meeting was also an indispensable activity for any school.

The sports committee of Class 9 had a task and actively mobilized everyone to sign up for the competition.

“Students, it was said that our Class 9 is filled with all top students, nerds who can do nothing but study, do you like to hear this? Are we not going to take advantage of this sports meeting to wash away the labels that others put on us?”

The sports committee member’s voice was too loud, waking up Su Miaomiao who was sleeping on the table.

“What is he shouting for?” Su Miaomiao asked Xie Jingyuan.