Chapter 44 Come

The chirping sound came from far away and caught Shang Wan's attention.

She threw the broken screen aside with a "bang", straightened up and looked at the entrance to the forest at the foot of the mountain in the distance, which was trampled out by humans.

"Sister, what's wrong?" Shitou wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to look in the direction Shang Wan was looking.

"There are monkeys." Shang Wan frowned slightly, "A lot of them."

As she finished speaking, an old monkey with white hair took the lead and swung out from the entrance at the foot of the mountain by grabbing the vines and landed on a branch.

It turned and chirped towards the forest, raising its arms to gesture something.

In just a moment, Shitou watched helplessly as the bare tree, which had just sprouted new buds, was filled with monkeys of all sizes.

Later, the monkeys could no longer stand, so monkeys began to grow on the nearby trees. It was as if all the monkeys in the mountain had come down to have a party, and the whole place was bustling with chirping.

Yuanyuan clapped her hands happily, repeating in a soft and tender childish voice, "Come... come..."

"Yuanyuan, what did you say?" Lu Chengjing moved closer to listen.

"Come!" Yuanyuan blurted out a word crisply.

Lu Chengjing was puzzled. What was coming?

The next second he knew what was coming. A group of brown-haired monkeys swarmed towards them, chattering. If you looked closely, you could see they were in formation.

Lu Chengjing: ???

Monkeys can hurt people. Shitou subconsciously picked up the wooden board at hand, and Xiaohuan simply held the kitchen knife she had just found in her hand and stared vigilantly at the group of monkeys that were approaching.

"Don't be nervous." Shang Wan glanced at his extremely excited cubs and said in a complicated tone, "They should be here to help."

"What?" Shi Tou suspected that he was hallucinating.

Xiao Huan asked, "Sister, did you invite him?"

Shang Wanxin said that she didn't have that ability, the real person was clapping over there.

"Come!" Yuanyuan's big eyes lit up with excitement, and the clapping of her little hands became louder and louder.

Lu Chengjing's eyelids twitched, and his intuition told him that if he let Yuanyuan continue, something uncontrollable would happen.

"Yuanyuan." Lu Chengjing grabbed his daughter's hand, shook it gently, and said softly, "Daddy will tell you a story, okay?"

The movement was interrupted, and the brilliance in Yuanyuan's eyes disappeared. She was shocked to find that her little hand was in great pain. She quickly raised it in front of her father, tears welling up in her eyes, "It hurts! Whoosh!"

Lu Chengjing followed his instructions and blew gently on the little hand in front of him, but his peripheral vision was observing the group of wild monkeys that had run to his home.

The monkeys happily joined the cleaning team. Because there were too many monkeys and not enough space, the old monkey came over and drove Shang Wan and the other two out of the cleaning area.

Under the command of the old monkey, the monkeys had clear division of labor. Some moved, some lifted, some picked up small objects, and they moved flexibly among the ruins.

Shang Wan and the other two went from being the main force in cleaning up to assisting the monkeys in distinguishing whether the things they were holding were still usable.

Put the intact ones in one pile, put the ones that can be repaired and used in another pile, put the ones that can be recycled in another pile, and put the completely unusable ones in another pile.

Shitou and Xiaohuan were a little nervous at first, feeling it was strange to command a group of monkeys. But gradually they got the hang of it, and communicating with the monkeys became smoother and smoother.

Shitou even learned a few words of monkey language without any instruction and danced along with the monkeys.

Xiaohuan covered her face and said she couldn't bear to watch it.

Shang Wan took two intact wooden buckets to the well and drew two buckets of water. He stirred the water and dripped two drops of spiritual spring water into each bucket, as a favor to help Yuanyuan give to these monkeys.

She waved to the old monkey and pointed to the two buckets.

The old monkey ran over, looked at Shang Wan and then at the bucket, stretched out his claws to scoop up some water and put it into his mouth, sipped his lips, and then scooped up some more.

It was visible to the naked eye that the old monkey's hair, which had turned white due to old age, had returned to light brown, just like it had been dyed.

The old monkey felt the benefit and stretched out his claws to scoop up two more mouthfuls of water.

In just a moment, the wrinkled skin on the old monkey's face became much smoother as if it had been ironed.

Seeing that the old monkey was still trying to stretch out his claws towards the bucket, Shang Wan grabbed its arm and, regardless of whether the old monkey understood or not, whispered, "Greed is not a good thing. Let's share it together."

The old monkey knew that the human in front of him was not someone to be trifled with. Seeing Shang Wan looking at the monkeys busy in the ruins, he instantly understood what this human meant.

He grinned and chirped at the monkeys, receiving countless responses.

Shang Wan let it go and saw that under the command of the old monkey, the monkeys ran over one by one to scoop up the saliva after putting the things down, drank it and left, and ran back to scoop up the saliva again after finishing their work.

The effect of the spiritual spring water on the young monkeys is not as obvious as that on the old monkeys, but there should be some benefits, otherwise the monkeys would not work harder and harder just to get a sip of water from the water bucket.

Seeing that the second bucket was almost empty, the old monkey looked at Shang Wan eagerly, cupped his two paws together in a humane way and bowed to Shang Wan to please him.

Considering that the monkeys worked hard and really helped a lot, Shang Wan filled two buckets with water and did the same thing.

Lu Chengjing, who was watching everything, certainly did not miss the changes in the old monkey. He suspected that Shang Wan had added the elixir that he used to treat his injuries into the water. In fact, he had always been curious about where Shang Wan's elixir came from.

Shang Wan noticed Lu Chengjing's probing gaze, but she was not ready to confess to Lu Chengjing right away, and she had not made up a lie, so she could only pretend that she didn't notice and let Lu Chengjing worry about her.

Monkeys have more strength than others. With the help of the monkeys, the work that would have taken several days was completed in less than half a day.

That is, the thatched hut is far away from where the villagers live, and everyone is busy cleaning the house and has no time to visit others. Otherwise, the monkey group would have been discovered by the villagers long ago if they had been so noisy.

The monkeys had nothing to do, so some were taking naps, some were twirling their fur, and they had no intention of leaving.

Xiaohuan looked at Shang Wan and said, "Sister, do we have to treat them to a meal before they leave?"

When you hire someone to do work, you have to pay them and provide them with food. It should be the same for monkeys, right?

Until now, Xiaohuan still believes that this group of monkeys was recruited by Shang Wan.

Shang Wan glanced at Yuanyuan who was snoring in Lu Chengjing's arms, walked over, and poked the little guy's chubby cheeks.

Yuanyuan smacked her lips, turned over, turned her head to the other side, and continued to sleep soundly.

Shang Wan continued to poke.

Being interrupted again, Yuanyuan wrinkled her nose, raised her hand and waved impatiently, muttering, "Bad...Zou, go!"

As soon as the word "go" was uttered, the bored monkeys, as if they had received some collective instructions, ran towards the mountains and forests under the leadership of the old monkey.

Stone, with his messy hair, waved to a few familiar monkeys reluctantly and shouted, "Next time I'll help you turn your fur!"

Everyone: “…”

"Yuanyuan...what's going on?" Lu Chengjing looked up at Shang Wan, instinctively feeling that Yuanyuan's strange behavior was related to Shang Wan.

Yuanyuan is too young and has special abilities but doesn't know how to hide them. It would be fine if it were hidden from outsiders, but Shang Wan had no intention of hiding it from his family.

But not now.

She turned her head to look outside, only to see a small figure running towards them. Li Xiaoshan shouted as he ran, "Sister! Oh no! Something happened!"

(End of this chapter)