Xia Chuhe bit his pen, unable to write a story himself; he could only rely on memorizing other people's stories, resorting to plagiarism.

Xia Chuhe casually opened "Jin Ping Mei" and found it to be the eighth chapter, in which the woman, longing for her lover, consulted a fortune teller and burned a spirit tablet.

The last few characters were obscured, and Xia Chuhe subconsciously filled in the missing characters in his mind to complete the title of this episode—"The Monk Listens to Lewd Sounds."

Ahhh, her mind is now filled with stories of love triangles, happy times, and secret affairs!

Xia Chuhe gulped down two large glasses of water before finally turning his thoughts back to Snow White and Cinderella.

It's a classic fairy tale, but some parts are quite dark, like making the stepmother wear red-hot iron shoes... The key is that these are all typical prince-saves-princess tropes, which Xia Chuhe doesn't like.

She went through all the stories in her mind. The Four Great Classical Novels were good, but they were too long. She couldn't just write a story about a monk leading a monkey, a pig, a horse, and a person to fight a monster. As for short stories, she could only remember the ones she memorized in school.

Filled with resentment, Xia Chuhe wrote a condensed version of "Diary of a Madman".

The next morning, Xia Chuhe went to the furniture store to pick up the custom-made items, and then went to the nameless shop.

02 wasn't there; the person minding the shop was a stranger who called himself 123.

Xia Chuhe thought aimlessly, "Now I can at least confirm that there are at least 123 nameless people."

"When will 02 arrive?" Xia Chuhe asked.

"Are you Miss Lone Wolf?" 123 asked.

Xia Chuhe: "..."

When Wang Yan introduced her to 02, they weren't familiar with each other yet, and Wang Yan said she was a lone wolf.

Xia Chuhe did not deny it.

123 said, "You can leave your story to me."

Xia Chuhe handed the paper to 123, who glanced at it quickly, his brows furrowing more and more: "Wait here for a while."

123 disappeared behind the store and soon came out with another person.

The man was wearing a grayish-blue robe, a common style during the Republic of China era, with frayed sleeves and small round glasses perched inappropriately on his nose.

The boy with glasses immediately tried to shake hands with Xia Chuhe: "What a talent! Whose work is this?"

Xia Chuhe subtly dodged his hand, and couldn't help but reach out to push up his glasses for him.

When the bespectacled boy failed to shake Xia Chuhe's hand, he immediately slammed his fist on the counter: "Eating people! Eating people! All that talk about benevolence and morality is actually about eating people! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

Xia Chuhe said, "This is one of Mr. Lu Xun's short stories."

"One of them?" The bespectacled man immediately seized on the key point. "Do you have a collection of his works? I'm willing to use all the resources in the store to exchange with you."

123 quickly pulled the little glasses: "Calm down, 02 will beat you to death when he gets back."

Fortunately, Xia Chuhe said, "No."

The bespectacled man carefully put away the paper on which he had written "Diary of a Madman": "I forgot to introduce myself. I am 04, and I am in charge of collecting and organizing the goods in the store. Please come with me."

04. After taking Xia Chuhe to the back of the shop, there was a secret passage leading downwards, at the end of which were several storage rooms.

The two entered one of the rooms, which was filled with bookshelves piled high with books.

"I heard you're looking for books for children. I remember there are '100,000 Whys' and 'One Thousand and One Nights' here..." 04 Immersed in the sea of ​​books.

Xia Chuhe chatted with him for a while and found that although the man dressed in a conservative manner, he had very modern ideas and a strong revolutionary spirit.

04 is not the kind of rebellious, nonsensical character like Li Qiusheng, but rather someone with unique insights and thoughts about the world, and strong logic.

Xia Chuhe had a sudden thought; wasn't this the kind of teacher she was looking for?

After searching for a long time, 04 finally found the two books mentioned earlier. Xia Chuhe, wanting to befriend him, told 04 about the classification methods used in modern libraries, so that he could improve upon them to make it easier to find books.

04's eyes lit up as he listened, and he kept asking Xia Chuhe to add him as a friend.

When seeing Xia Chuhe off, 04 casually gave her a Rubik's Cube and repeatedly told her to come and play with it again next time.

Xia Chuhe was in a great mood after taking the book and finding a prospective teacher for Xia Bao'er.

Xia Bao'er was overjoyed to receive the book. She didn't know many characters, and since there was no pinyin in the book, she had to guess and make things up.

Even so, Xia Bao'er still watched with great interest.

Xia Chuhe wanted to resolve Xia Bao'er's education issue before going on the mission, but problems arose in his negotiations with the school.

The school firmly disagreed with Xia Bao'er's withdrawal from school, and they even called in the guards.

Even if Xia Chuhe brought in the housekeeper, the school wouldn't listen.

Xia Bao'er is registered and must complete "compulsory education" until the age of twelve and pass an exam in order to graduate from school.

Before the age of twelve, Xia Chuhe could ask Xia Bao'er for leave when necessary, but dropping her out of school was absolutely out of the question.

Xia Chuhe had no choice but to let Xia Bao'er go to school first and deal with the matter after the mission was completed.

...

The task of collecting mutated plants for Five Star Company was undertaken only by Xia Chuhe, Lu Danggui, Li Qiusheng, and Zhao Maomao.

Since Wang Yan, the big rat, couldn't go out, Lao Qin went to a dungeon with the people from the Holy Fire Meow Meow Legion. Boss Xin, Sister Diao, and Li Yue weren't interested in it.

As usual, the butler escorted the four of them to the vicinity of the mission location. This time, the journey was very long, and Xia Chuhe slept several times before finally arriving at their destination.

"Well then, I wish you all the best." The butler bid farewell to the four.

Xia Chuhe emerged from underground and immediately froze, motionless.

Surprisingly, there was no swirling yellow sand here; instead, there was cracked earth with fissures so large they seemed to swallow a person's legs.

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