Chapter 5 My Brother's Handicrafts, My Sister's Beans "Good morning, brother..."
"Good morning, brother." Sang Zhitao rubbed her eyes, looked at the bright sunlight outside the French windows, and then looked at her brother sitting on the sofa doing something.
"Good morning, Tao Tao." Hearing the noise, Sang Leping quickly got up, walked to the kitchen, and used tableware from a kitchen toy to set out a toy table of food for her.
Looking at the toy bowl that was almost the same size as her face and the fork that was as thick as her arm, she hesitated for a long time before saying, "Um... I think it would be more appropriate for you to give me a toothpick."
Sang Leping's lips twitched. He looked at the kitchen toys he had already bought, then at his sister's tiny hands, turned around, took out a toothpick, broke it in half, and handed it to her.
Sang Zhitao, without any objection, held the toothpick, which was half the width of her hand, and started eating the fruit pieces on the table.
However, calling it fruit pieces is only in terms of a normal size. For someone as small as her, who is only about 20 centimeters tall, it would certainly be considered fruit chunks.
"It seems the toy I bought yesterday is a bit too big and poorly made." Sang Leping carefully examined the toy dining table, which was no bigger than the palm of his hand, and looked somewhat troubled.
Seeing her brother like this, Sang Zhitao casually wiped her mouth with a crumb of napkin: "Brother, search for BJD dolls, those furniture pieces are good, and buy me some clothes while you're at it."
Sang Leping suspiciously opened the orange software and started searching.
This completely opened up a new world for him. His fingers flew across the keyboard, tapping away every now and then, and his eyes grew brighter and brighter, giving him the air of someone ready to go into battle and conquer the world.
He only slowed down when he looked through the clothes, frowning as he examined them for a while before turning to Sang Zhitao: "Taotao, how long can you maintain this figure?"
Sang Zhitao pondered for a while before saying, "I don't know. In my original work, the female protagonist didn't have a juvenile form at all. Moreover, I asked Yi Lei, and she said that elves haven't had juvenile forms for many, many generations. She even found the knowledge about raising me from literature."
“Sigh…” Sang Leping sighed, “In that case, I’ll make the clothes for you myself.”
"Pfft!" Sang Zhitao sprayed milk far from her mouth, looking at Sang Leping in shock. "What?"
Sang Leping picked up a tissue and helped her tidy up, but he didn't stop talking: "Don't underestimate your brother. Back then, I did everything I could to support my family. Buying fabric and making my own clothes was one of them. Clothes made by myself fit well and are cheap."
Sang Leping looked at Sang Zhitao smugly: "Although you can't go to the fabric market with me now, it's okay. I called Lezhi and asked her to deliver it to me tonight. If it's quick, you'll have new clothes for tomorrow."
“Okay~” Sang Zhitao looked at her brother with surprise, “I want to see you do it with my own eyes.”
"Of course, I'll let you witness your brother's abilities." Sang Leping gently patted her head with his finger. "Are you full?"
"I'm full." Sang Zhitao nodded and started gnawing on the spirit stone again.
Looking at the spirit stone, Sang Leping hesitated: "You don't even understand the time travel mechanism, and you can't determine the timing of the next time travel. What if you finish eating all the spirit stones?"
Sang Zhitao looked at the spirit stone in her arms, which was already one-fifth gnawed away. She thought about how she had no premonition of transmigrating and was also a little worried. Yi Lei had said that it was best not to cut off the supply of spirit stones.
But thinking about what she wrote in her original work, the female protagonist didn't use any spirit stones in the early stages and didn't seem to remember it, she frowned and said, "It should be fine, right? I remember the female protagonist didn't have any spirit stones, and it seems like it was okay."
"That won't do!" Sang Leping looked at his sister, his brows furrowed, his face full of disapproval. "Your health is a matter that cannot be taken lightly."
After thinking for a moment, he took out his phone and called Sang Lezhi: "Lezhi, can you think of a way to bring that spirit stone back to the lab for testing?"
A question came from Sang Lezhi on the phone: "What's wrong?"
"Is there someone next to you?" Sang Leping heard someone on the other end of the line asking him something.
“Yes, my student,” Sang Lezhi replied without paying any attention.
Sang Leping frowned and replied directly, "I'll talk to you on WeChat."
After saying that, he hung up the phone and started typing furiously on WeChat. It took him a while to finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"It's okay, brother. What if I travel back in time?" Sang Zhitao was always carefree. She lowered her head and gnawed on the spirit stone, still trying to comfort her brother.
But her comforting words had no effect. Even as Sang Lezhi arrived that evening with fabric, hand tools, and even a complete family sewing kit, Sang Leping remained filled with trepidation.
Sang Zhitao raised her eyebrows as she looked at the sewing machine with functions such as hemming and sewing, which was labeled "All-in-One Sewing Machine," and the household embroidery machine next to it, and was amazed by her brother's speed of execution.
Sang Lezhi didn't care about these things. After greeting the two of them and helping Sang Leping tidy up, he said to Sang Zhitao, "My brother asked me to take the spirit stone back to study. I'll borrow it for one night and return it to you first thing tomorrow morning, okay?"
"Of course." How could Sang Zhitao refuse, especially since her sister and brother made this request in order to find similar Earth materials for her?
Seeing this, Sang Lezhi breathed a sigh of relief. She said that her sister was a very understanding person. Although they had been separated since childhood and had only been reunited for a few days, she believed that her family must be very kind.
After taking the spirit stone, Sang Lezhi looked at Sang Leping and said, "Brother, I'll take the things back to the lab first and try to get the results tonight. You take good care of Tao Tao at home."
"I know, be careful." Sang Leping saw his younger sister off before turning to his even younger sister.
"Come on, I'll make you some clothes, a dress or trousers?" Sang Leping rummaged through the fabric.
Sang Zhitao stood to the side, gazing at the fabric that was ridiculously large for her, and after thinking for a moment, said, "It's summer already, let's make a few dresses."
While responding verbally, Sang Leping's hands were not idle. He took a palm-sized tape measure and measured Sang Zhitao's body from left to right, and then drew a stroke here and a few strokes there on the fabric.
Then she took out scissors and cut it little by little, and soon the large piece of fabric was turned into small pieces of fabric the size of a palm.
After getting the sewing machine on, it took him a while to shake out the clothes in his hands.
Looking at it now, Sang Zhitao could already see the basic shape of the clothing.
Sang Leping took out his needle and thread again, and carefully sewed buttons and small pockets onto the little clothes with the tiny embroidery needle he was holding. He then trimmed the loose bits of fabric and made sure to wrap the edges and corners with the needle so that the still rough fabric would not chafe Sang Zhitao's skin.
I was busy until after midnight, and I finished a pair of overalls, two dresses, a skirt, a pinafore dress, and a shirt.
Sang Zhitao quickly changed into the clothes her brother had made; the pretty floral dress fit her perfectly.
"Come here," Sang Leping said, taking out a fine comb.
Sang Zhitao quickly ran to him and obediently sat on the toy chair.
Sang Leping carefully combed her hair and then carefully tied it into a ponytail.
Sang Zhitao also discovered that the comb was actually a broken piece of a lice comb that used to comb lice, but she didn't care. After all, using something was better than using her hands.
Sang Lezhi, carrying the Spirit Stone, quickly arrived at the laboratory and placed it on the lab table.
She first took out a scalpel to cut it, but strangely enough, what was a soft elven stone to Sang Zhitao was now incredibly hard. After a lot of effort, she could only scrape off some powder.
After thinking for a moment, she took out a small saw and carefully began sawing.
It wasn't that she couldn't use a chainsaw, but she didn't want to ruin her sister's only source of food.
The saw wasn't very effective either; it took Sang Lezhi a long time to cut off pieces no bigger than sesame seeds. But she wasn't disappointed, since for her, this size was enough to get the basics down.
She checked the time; it had taken her almost four hours just to saw off this small piece, and it was already past midnight.
After thinking for a moment, she took the fragment, walked to the mineral analyzer, and carefully placed the fragment inside.
Ten minutes later, the device beeped. She quickly went over and looked at the display. Frowning, she realized there was no matching mineral among the existing Earth minerals. She sighed deeply, feeling somewhat troubled.
After thinking for a moment, she glanced at the shimmering gold and silver spirit stones on the table, then reluctantly took out her bag and tidied them up. Unbeknownst to her, a speck of powder was accidentally swept into the nearby flowerpot.
After a sleepless night, the next morning, Sang Lezhi intended to return the spirit stone to her sister, but instead received a call from the research institute.
"Dr. Sang, please come to the lab, something's happened." The voice on the phone was her student, Ning Lan.
"I understand." Sang Lezhi picked up her bag and hurried to the laboratory.
When she arrived at the laboratory, she found a crowd gathered in front of her lab, asking her, "Dr. Sang, have you made any progress in your research?"
"Dr. Sang, how did you do that?"
"Dr. Sang..."
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The questions that followed made her increasingly puzzled.
Her pupils constricted slightly when she stepped into the laboratory and saw a potted plant on the table.
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