Chapter 74 I want to study!
What's the first thing you do after getting a new home?
The two little ones looked at each other, and finally sat on the doorstep together, holding their faces with their little hands, staring in a daze at the gray sky above the yard.
Although it was a daze, it seemed to be a happy daze.
After a long time, Xiao Wu whispered, "Xingxing, are we still dreaming?"
Without waiting for Xingxing to answer, he whispered longingly: "If we can live like this in our dreams forever, then I hope we will never wake up again."
Now he has a solid house, his own house. He and his brother no longer have to live in fear in a dilapidated temple and endure the wind and snow. There is a red candied haws on the table inside. Even though they have not done anything yet and still know nothing about the future, Xiaowu feels so happy.
My heart seemed to be soaked in sweet syrup, beating gurglingly, and every heartbeat was peaceful and happy.
Listening to her brother's whispers, Xingxing looked up at the ball flying in front of her, and responded softly, then said, "It's not a dream~"
He turned his head and looked at his brother's big black and white eyes, and said with curved eyes: "Brother, we have a home~"
A small home with a well, a jujube tree, my brother and the stars.
"Yeah!" Xiaowu also started to smile foolishly.
He reached out and hugged his brother, hugged him very tightly, and then said happily: "That's great, we are also children with families, and we are no longer beggars! ”
They no longer have to be little beggars on the street who can be despised and bullied by everyone.
Although he still felt that all this was like a dream, Xiaowu felt at peace when he held his brother. The tighter he held him, the more real the feeling of security and freedom from displacement became.
After putting Xingxing down, he turned around and ran into the house, took the candied haws on the table, and fed it to Xingxing, urging him with bright eyes: "Xingxing, eat it quickly and try it to see if it's sweet."
This was something neither of them had ever eaten.
Every time they begged on the street, Xiaowu and Xingxing would see children with families and parents, who would always hold their parents’ hands and run towards the vendors selling candied haws with joy.
The children held a bunch of beautiful candied haws, licked them with their tongues, and squinted their eyes happily. In Xiaowu's eyes, that scene made the candied haws on the haystack become the most delicious and unattainable delicacy in the world.
But he and Xingxing could only swallow their saliva and hide in the dark corner, watching helplessly.
There is only envy, no jealousy.
Because a child without a home has no right to even feel a little jealous.
But it’s different now!
Now they have a new home and a bunch of delicious Tanghulu in their hands that are about to be eaten!!
Xiaowu looked at his brother eagerly, watching him open his mouth expectantly and try hard to...bite a little bit of the candy shell.
Then she tilted her little face up and smiled at him, "Brother, that's sweet~"
Xiao Wu: “…”
For no apparent reason, tears immediately rolled down his eyes.
Xiaowu pinched the candied haws, sniffed, and looked at his brother through misty tears. He wiped the tears with his other hand, but he couldn't wipe them all away.
Is it sweet?
Xiaowu whimpered, and in the blank gaze of his brother, he lowered his head and took a bite of the sugar shell on the hawthorn while shedding tears.
It turns out that this is what candied haws taste like.
It turns out that this is what the kids call “sweet”.
Xiaowu has never eaten sweets, and neither has his younger brother.
It seems that they were born to suffer. After experiencing most of the suffering in this world in a hurry, they die in a hurry.
But now, he finally tasted this sweetness.
It was so sweet that he couldn't stop crying.
From now on, will he no longer have to suffer with his younger brother?
He wants to eat sweet things, and eat them all the time.
Xingxing reached out to wipe her brother's tears.
I don't know why, but the kid always feels like he's getting more and more skilled at wiping people's tears...
Such doubts only flashed through my mind quickly, and were quickly replaced by other thoughts.
Xingxing wiped away her brother's tears, took the candied haws, and fed the one at the top into her brother's mouth.
Then he ate the next one.
There are only 4 sugar-coated hawthorn fruits on a string of candied haws.
Even though they had already eaten the sour hawthorn inside the sugar shell, neither of the two little ones spit out the flesh inside. Instead, they sat on the doorstep and slowly ate them all, one by one.
"Brother, let's go find the academy tomorrow and go to school, okay?" After eating the candied haws, Xingxing suddenly mentioned this thing that Xiaowu had never considered.
Xiao Wu was stunned as expected, and asked stupidly, "Go to school?"
Xingxing held his hand and shook it, saying softly: "Well, we are still children now, and children have to go to school~"
Uncle Hu said that if Xingxing stayed in the doomsday long enough, he would find a way to open a kindergarten for Xingxing to go to school.
Qiuqiu always says he wants to go to school.
Most of the system tasks at the beginning were learning tasks, and the points for buying candies were all earned through learning.
This shows that learning is really important for human cubs.
So, before having her first meal in her new home, Xingxing had already taken the initiative to arrange her school schedule.
"...But I want to be a general, I don't want to go to school." Xiao Wu pursed his lips and said with a little resistance: "Xingxing, you go to school. I'm already big and full of strength. I can go to the dock or other places to work as a laborer for others..."
Everyone in the world knows that going to school is the most expensive thing.
Xiaowu knew that his younger brother had some silver now, and he had seen it exchanged with his own eyes.
But even if his younger brother is a born little god, Xiaowu doesn't want his younger brother to take out more things that don't belong to the mortal world.
He understood from a young age that what you gain is more than what you give. Just like when he was kneeling on the street begging, what he had to endure and pay was not just a few auspicious words repeated over and over again.
Even beggars cannot really eat for free, so it is impossible for Xiaowu to feel at ease enjoying the good things that his younger brother got for nothing.
In his little head, he had already been vaguely worried whether his brother would pay a price for this, or whether there would be any hidden dangers.
So Xiaowu didn't want to be a burden to his younger brother, nor did he want his younger brother to use more magical things. He wanted to work harder, grow up a little, and earn money for his younger brother so that he could go to school and grow up.
As an older brother, Xiaowu has always done this.
Even though his younger brother now has supernatural powers, he has not changed his opinion.
I always feel that I should be nicer to my brother instead of letting him suffer with me.
Therefore, even though the opportunity to go to school was right in front of him, Xiaowu's first reaction was to save this huge expense for his younger brother.
My younger brother is the young master of a marquisate, a little god who has descended to earth. He deserves to enjoy all the prosperity in this world, but I am different.
I am a homeless wanderer, a beggar on the roadside, and mud on the ground that anyone can step on. Suffering is the most obvious embellishment in my life.
But before he could say a word of these thoughts, he swallowed them back quietly because of his brother's quiet gaze.
But Xiaowu was also very stubborn. He pursed his lips, knowing that his refusal had made his brother angry, but he showed no intention of giving in.
He really didn't think there was any point in his going to school. Instead of wasting so much money, he might as well save it to buy more pens, ink, paper and inkstone for his younger brother, and buy food and clothes for his younger brother. In short, Xiaowu never thought of spending a penny of this money on himself.
So the matter of going to school had just begun when it immediately came to a standstill.
Qiuqiu was flying in the air, not worried at all. He looked at the stubborn child who pursed his lips, and then at the cub with a wrinkled face, and he was very happy.
By the way, I wrote myself a piece of data that tasted like melon seeds, and I read the data while watching the show.
"Brother, do you know what the school is like?" Xingxing was the first to speak, breaking the silence.
Xiaowu shook his head honestly.
Xingxing felt a little cold sitting at the doorstep, so she reached out and took his hand and walked him into the house. After closing the door, the room became completely dark.
At this time, Xingxing took out the solar heater and placed it on the ground. After fiddling with it and turning it on, she took her brother's hand and sat on a small stool beside the heater. While warming themselves by the fire, she spoke softly:
"Brother, I heard that the teacher in the school is very fierce."
As soon as the stars began to appear, Xiaowu couldn't help but frown.
Is the teacher very fierce? If my younger brother makes a mistake while going to school...
"If a child who makes a mistake is caught by the teacher, he will not only be punished by standing in the corner, but also be slapped on the palm of his hand."
Seeing that his brother's brows were getting more and more furrowed, Xingxing seemed not to notice. In the warm light, he continued slowly: "Brother, the teachers all have a long stick in their hands. They say it's called a ruler, and it's used to hit the palms of children~"
"Also, there are good and bad kids in the school. Some kids are very well behaved, but some are very naughty. The naughty kids will secretly bully the well behaved kids..."
Before Xingxing could finish what she was going to say, she was interrupted by Xiaowu who suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice.
"I'll go to school with you!"
Xiaowu clenched his not-so-big fist. When he thought about his brother being hit on the palm by a ruler and being bullied by those kids, he felt so distressed that he didn't care about anything else. His eyes were red and he looked fierce. He said very seriously, "Xingxing, I will go to school with you. If you can't answer the questions, I will help you. If the teacher wants to hit your palm, I will take the beating for you. If any kids dare to bully you, I will beat them until they cry!"
Xingxing raised her clean little face and asked with curved eyes, "Really?"
Without waiting for Xiaowu to answer, Xingxing started to worry softly: "But my brother said he doesn't want to go to school, and Xingxing doesn't want him to do anything that makes him unhappy~"
Xiao Wu: “…”
I was so moved by my brother's words that my eyes were filled with tears.
So when he spoke again, Xiaowu's tone was firm enough to join the party right there: "Of course it's true! I don't want to go to school, I love going to school!!"
Qiuqiu: “Poof!”
What is a black-bellied person?
Every thing has its own nemesis.
Look, no matter which star it is, there are always a hundred or a thousand ways to control Xiaowu~
After hearing what her brother said, Xingxing stretched out her little hand to him, pulled him to sit down again, and moved the small stool to sit next to him.
Xingxing felt the frostbite on her brother's hands and also saw the frostbite on her own hands.
In fact, it has gotten much better because of the spiritual spring water, but it still itches when it gets hot. Just in the short time it took to talk, Xiaowu had already scratched himself several times unconsciously.
He not only scratched his hands, but also his ears and legs, especially his knees since he kneeled all year round.
Xingxing held her brother's hand and slowly squeezed into his arms, where he held her and warmed her by the fire.
Xiaowu remained silent rationally regarding everything Xingxing took out.
Of course he was also confused, but he didn't ask anything. He just hugged his brother, covered his little fingers, and coaxed Xingxing: "Brother will go to school with you and will always protect you, so Xingxing, don't be afraid, study hard. When we meet the bad guy who took your little stone away in the future, brother will help you get the little stone back!"
They were too weak now, and Xiaowu hated himself for being powerless again and again.
But all these powerlessness were buried in his heart in this warm room, and eventually began to madly nourish the bud called "ambition".
"Brother, you have to study hard too." Xingxing pursed her lips, turned around and said to her brother very seriously: "Brother, to be a general, you have to study hard too."
This is something Xiaowu doesn't know.
He asked in confusion why.
In his eyes, to be a general, isn't it enough to just fight hard on the battlefield?
What can studying do? Can studying stop the enemy from killing civilians and make the enemy afraid?
Xingxing shook her head, stood on tiptoe and whispered in her brother's ear: "I know a very powerful man. He can command the most powerful army, and all those who are good at fighting will listen to him obediently~"
Xiao Wu's eyes sparkled when he heard this, and he couldn't help but guess, "Is he a general who has won every battle?"
Xingxing shook her head.
Xiao Wu guessed again: "Then he is the military strategist who plans the strategy?!"
Xingxing thought about it and continued to shake his head.
Xiao Wu thought for a while and said hesitantly: "Then, then is he the emperor who is high above us?"
Xingxing continued to shake his head.
Xiao Wu: “…”
I can’t guess.
The kid slumped his shoulders in frustration: "Why is he so powerful? Why do others listen to him?"
"Because he has read a lot of books, his head is filled with a lot of knowledge, and he is very, very smart~" Xingxing stretched out her little hand and poked her brother's head, smiling and saying: "Everything he says makes sense, everything he does is meaningful, and everyone agrees with his suggestions. If he takes one step forward, the next ninety-nine steps will become clear."
Facing his brother's incredulous gaze, Xingxing straightened his back with a little pride and said seriously, "Xingxing didn't lie. He is very smart, smarter than a hundred brothers combined."
Actually, Xingxing wanted to say ten thousand zombie heads...but my brother doesn’t know what zombies are.
So the biased child changed the ten thousand zombies into a hundred brothers.
The contrast gap has shrunk significantly.
But even so, it still brought a great cognitive shock to the little Xiaowu.
Are there really such powerful people in this world?
Maybe there really isn't one, because Xingxing is always by his side and he doesn't know anyone like this.
So the person that Xingxing is talking about is not a mortal person. Could he be a particularly powerful god?
Such a deity, even if he were a human, must be extremely powerful, right?
Xingxing's words echoed in Xiaowu's mind.
Everything he said made sense, everything he did was meaningful, everyone agreed with his suggestions, and if he took one step forward, the next ninety-nine steps would become clear...
If there really is such a powerful person, then under his governance there would be fewer refugees and beggars in the State of Li, and everyone would be able to have enough food and clothing, right?
Even the enemy might flee at the sight of his name.
Xiaowu never thought that one day he would develop such strong admiration and even awe for a person just because of a few short words.
Unlike the emperors and generals who are far away and high above, this person sounds more illusory, but has a wonderful sense of reality.
Xiaowu didn’t know why the emperor was so powerful, why the prime minister could be the prime minister, and even why the general could become a god of war.
But after just listening to a few words from Xingxing, he was able to clearly outline a more powerful and specific image in his mind.
That man was not an emperor, not a prime minister, and certainly not an invincible general.
But he has a clever plan that none of the above people can match.
Just as he was thinking about it, a small hand gently fell on his head.
Like a little adult, Xingxing coaxed her brother who was in a trance in a soft voice: "Brother, he told me that children should read more books. Reading more books will make their minds clearer, their eyes will see more things, and even their walking will be more stable."
"Brother, do you still want to go to school before becoming a general?" Xingxing asked him again.
Xiaowu did not hesitate this time: "I want to! I want to study!"
I agreed to it before to protect the stars.
This time, it was for himself.
In order to become the person I want to be.
Xiaowu's eyes were brighter than ever before. He hugged his brother and said in a childish but firm voice: "Xingxing, I want to be the most well-read and smartest general!!"
He is not that powerful god, and his efforts may be far inferior to the small step taken by the other party, but it doesn’t matter. Xiao Wu only needs to follow behind him and take a small step of his own, and he will be very satisfied!
This was the first time that Xiaowu chose his next path so firmly.
It’s different from the confusion or whim of the past.
This time, he knew exactly what to do next.
He wanted to study, learn to read, read more, have a clearer mind, and walk more steadily.
In this way, even if he cannot become a great general in the future, he will definitely be able to find his own way that he will not regret!
"Brother is awesome~" Xingxing nodded vigorously, then stuffed a candy into her brother's mouth, smiling and saying, "This is a reward."
Sweet.
The taste of milk candy spread in his mouth, and Xiaowu felt as if his whole body was made sweet by the candy, and even bubbles of sugar water were bubbling out of his body.
It was so sweet. He seemed to have been eating sweet things all day long and didn’t taste any bitterness at all.
My brother is so nice.
My younger brother is the best younger brother in the world.
Xiaowu will always protect his younger brother!
Qiuqiu: “…”
"Baby, how about I go to the headquarters to get a promotion when I return this time?" it asked quietly.
The little boy, who was being held by his brother while eating candy and warming himself by the fire, asked in confusion why.
Then he heard his system ball slowly and sarcastically say, "Upgrade and install a favorability detector, and see if your brother can quickly increase the favorability of the detector."
It has also experienced two mission worlds with Xingxing, but it has never seen a "guardian" like Xiaowu whose heart and eyes are filled with only Xingxing.
It’s not that the previous guardians didn’t love him enough, but that Xiaowu loved him too much.
He simply transformed his small life into great energy, and then loved the stars with all his might.
No matter what he does, as long as it is related to the stars, his emotions can be easily controlled by the stars. He is unwilling to retain any of his own rationality, and his entire mind is focused on the stars.
I guess if Xingxing asked him to trade souls with the devil, he would do it without hesitation.
When Xingxing is happy, Xiaowu is happy.
When Xingxing is sad, Xiaowu is sad.
Xingxing is sad, but wants Xiaowu to be happy, so Xiaowu will force himself to be really happy.
Just like just now, Xingxing wanted Xiaowu to go to school, and Xiaowu would go.
But Xingxing wants Xiaowu to have his own thoughts. Xiaowu, whose head is muddled and can't accept literary ideas, will immediately grasp the guidance in Xingxing's words in a short time, and then seemingly trust him mindlessly, but in fact he really finds the path he wants to take.
It can be said that two days ago, Xiaowu truly made a contract with another star with all his soul.
He will become whatever the stars want him to be.
Rationally, soberly, without hesitation, grow in the direction that the stars want.
Like a piece of plasticine that looks hard but is actually obediently kneaded and flattened by the stars.
All I can say is that fortunately Xingxing had Hu Xingzhe's guidance and slowly developed more emotions of a human cub. Otherwise, according to his former zombie thinking, he would have led Xiaowu into the abyss.
Hearing Qiuqiu's weird words, Xingxing blinked and nodded obediently: "Yes, brother is good to Xingxing~"
Qiuqiu: “…”
It was so angry that it became visibly rounder.
It didn't mean to praise Xiaowu at all!
But Xingxing can always easily grasp the key points of certain topics.
"Then you can't just like your brother!" Qiuqiu couldn't help it, and flew over awkwardly, trying to squeeze in between the two children.
The stars smile secretly.
Qiuqiu groaned: "Don't laugh, just speak up~"
The next second, it heard its cub's soft and sticky comforting voice as it wished: "Well, Xingxing likes Qiuqiu too, and will always like him."
Qiuqiu: “!”
Contented!
Proudly akimbo!
As expected, I am the most important friend to my cub, no one can compare to me, not even Xiaowu!
Qiuqiu, now feeling calm, quickly got down to work.
It went out to find a reliable school for its two cubs.
When it flew back after circling outside for a long time, two children were sitting in the kitchen, making a fire and cooking.
This was their first time cooking properly.
The result is naturally... a mess.
Xingxing had his face covered with ashes from the bottom of the pot and the stove, and was puffing up his little face and trying to blow air into the stove. The child, who had just been clean for half a day, became dirty again.
Xiaowu was not in a much better condition. He was soaked all over and almost drowned himself while washing vegetables. The vegetables on the chopping board were so cut that even a dog would shake his head when seeing them.
He is at the bottom of society, but he can't even cook a meal.
Such people either enjoy all the happiness or suffer all the suffering.
As a result, these two extreme beings have almost no chance to enter the kitchen.
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