Chapter 112
Early in the morning, Xiao Xuewei woke up from her sleep.
When she opened her eyes, she saw a plump little titmouse standing on the bedside, preening its feathers. Noticing that she was awake, it tilted its head to look at her, then jumped onto her quilt with its tiny paws.
“Chirp!”
The clear and melodious chirping of birds greeted her with lively and energetic voices.
"Chirp, good morning."
Xiao Xuewei rubbed her eyes and sat up. Seeing the quilt covering her, she couldn't help feeling confused.
Last night...when did she fall asleep? She seemed to have not slept so soundly in a long time, and she seemed to have had a wonderful dream.
Although she couldn't remember what she dreamed about, the joyful feeling still remained in her heart. She hadn't been so happy for a long time.
"Jiujiu, were you the one who covered me with the quilt?" Xiao Xuewei asked.
The little fat chirp jumped twice on the spot, "Chirp!"
"So it's a nanny robot." Thinking of the robot covered in cute little yellow flowers, Xiao Xuewei smiled. "Then I'll have to say thank you to it later."
At this time, Xiao Xuewei saw the cub clothes from the nursery neatly placed at the end of the bed. The girl's was a dress, a very simple and plain style.
Looking at the cub clothes, Xiao Xuewei touched the pendant hanging on her chest.
This is not an ordinary pendant. It is a fifth birthday gift from her father. It is inlaid with a space button, and all her luggage is packed inside it.
It was also because of this space button that she did not become truly penniless after losing her parents.
Xiao Xuewei looked at the cub clothes on the bed again, and finally took off her beloved little skirt.
This little skirt was made for her by the lady herself.
The lady's daughter disappeared when she was very young and has never been found. The lady's husband...
The youngest and most powerful marshal of the Tes Empire was willing to adopt her because she looked a bit like his little daughter.
He hoped that her arrival would make his wife happy, and his wife really liked her and treated her as her second daughter, but she...
Xiao Xuewei's ears drooped again.
"Chiuchi!" The little fat chiuchi jumped onto her shoulder and rubbed her cheek.
"I'm fine."
Xiao Xuewei forced a smile and took off her skirt. Although she was reluctant, she had just arrived here and it was not appropriate to ask for special treatment.
After changing into the cub clothes, Xiao Xuewei looked around the room again. She was not disgusted by the environment here, but... it would be nice if there was a window.
This thought flashed through her mind, and she didn't think about it any further, because she knew she was not qualified to ask for so much now.
She put away her little skirt, then sat on the edge of the bed and began to pick and choose from the space buttons.
My mother once said that when meeting someone for the first time, you should prepare a gift, especially when you first arrive in a place. This will help her quickly build relationships with others and integrate into a new environment.
So what kind of gift should I prepare?
She is cub number nine, so there should be eight more children before her, which means she needs to prepare at least eight gifts.
Xiao Xuewei became a little worried.
She had never seen the eight children, nor did she know whether they were boys or girls, let alone their preferences. So what should she prepare?
Xiao Xuewei recalled what her mother had said.
It is best not to give something too expensive as a gift for the first meeting. You can give some small items to express your thoughts without making others feel burdened.
Among them, delivering food is the least likely to go wrong.
Food...
Xiao Xuewei recalled for a moment, then took out a box about 40x40 centimeters from the corner of the space button.
The box is made of pure solid wood, it has an antique style and looks very heavy at first glance, but in the little girl's hands, it is like a light cardboard box.
She put the box on the bed, opened the lid, and saw large and small packages of unpacked candies inside.
Of course, only the outer bag is opened, and the items inside are all individually packaged.
These were all bought for her by her father because she loved sweets, but her mother strictly controlled her daily candy intake. Her father couldn't bear to see her sad, so he would secretly give her sweets without telling her mother.
But he always buys a lot every time. No matter how much Xiao Xuewei loves candy, she can't eat that much at one time.
So she would put the leftovers into a box, saving them up until she had so much. When she left the Ashe Empire, she put the box into the space button and kept it with her.
Thinking of her father and mother, Xiao Xuewei's eyes slowly turned red again.
She sniffed, forced herself to cheer up, and began to search the box for some candy that had not expired.
The food placed in the space button will not spoil, but she put the box into the space button when she left the Ashe Empire, so there is still a risk of expiration.
Eating expired food will make you sick.
The little fat bird also jumped over, looking here and there, as if helping to distinguish them.
In the end, only four or five packs of candy had not expired. Xiao Xuewei took out these candies, put the rest back into the box, and carefully put them back into the space button.
To Xiao Xuewei, these are not expired candies, but the everlasting love from her father.
After she calmed down, she took out a piece of cloth from the space button and spread it on the bed, then poured all the unexpired candies on it.
There were more than two hundred candies piled together to form a small mountain. Even though they were all wrapped in individual packaging bags, the sweet aroma of candies filled the room.
Xiao Xuewei took a deep breath and couldn't help but open one. As she ate the sweet candy, she felt better, as if her father and mother were still by her side.
Then she took out the leftover materials from her previous origami play from the space button, used scissors to cut the beautiful paper into squares of the same size, and then folded them into cute little boxes.
Put five different candies in each box, and then close it, and eight small gifts are ready.
Xiao Xuewei put the remaining candies and materials into the space button, thought for a while, took out a large piece of colored paper, folded it into a paper bag, and put the candy boxes into it one by one.
That’s it!
And after doing all this, it was just after six in the morning.
Xiao Xuewei looked at the door of the room. She remembered that the breeder had said yesterday that after six in the morning, they could go out freely...
She picked up the paper bag and tentatively walked to the door. As expected, as soon as she approached, the tightly closed metal door opened automatically.
She was somewhat delighted, but when she saw the fat little bird also fly out happily, she quickly chased after it, shouting, "Jiujiu, come back!"
She remembered the lady in the administration office telling her that if she wanted to bring Jiujiu with her, it would be best for him to stay inside the room.
Xiao Xuewei didn't know how the cubs in the nursery were doing, but she had been in an welfare home before, and Xiao Feichu was once caught by the cubs in the welfare home. If she hadn't arrived in time, she might have lost even this friend who she grew up with.
The little girl ran out of the room in a hurry, holding the paper bag. At that moment, the metal door at the other end of the corridor, which was two rooms away from her, slowly opened.
A figure walked out of the room.
The little fat bird heard her call and flew back reluctantly and landed on her shoulder.
One person and one girl turned their heads and looked at the figure walking out of the room. The owner of the figure seemed to have noticed her as well. He stopped and looked over here.
Then, both of them were stunned.
Xiao Xuewei looked at the blond boy opposite her. He was about the same age as her, with short light blond hair that shone brightly, and round red eyes. He looked handsome and cute, like a little prince in a fairy tale.
Although he didn't have any animal ears on top of his head, he had a long, thin tail behind him, so he must be a cub from the nursery.
“Rustle, rustle—”
Because of nervousness, Xiao Xuewei hugged the paper bag tightly in her arms, and the rustling sound of the paper bag finally broke the silence.
Number Six looked at the unfamiliar little girl with bunny ears at the end of the corridor, his eyes flicking over the little tits on her shoulder, and he tilted his head slightly, "Who are you?"
Xiao Xuewei's face flushed with nervousness. She took a deep breath and tried to remain calm as she said, "Hello... Hello, I'm the new cub."
"Numbers nine and ten?"
The young boy scratched his head, looking a little confused. How long had he slept? Why were there new cubs in the nursery?
Little Xuewei blinked in confusion and said, "I'm cub number nine. The breeder said I can keep my original name. You can call me Xuewei."
The young boy nodded, then pointed to the little tit on her shoulder and asked, "What about him?"
"This is my good friend, her name is Jiujiu." Xiao Xuewei replied.
"Oh..." The young boy nodded, "You two are from the same place."
It seems that this is correct?
Xiao Xuewei hummed. After a brief conversation, she wasn't so nervous anymore, so she asked, "What about you? What's your name?"
"Me? I'm number six." The young boy said, "You can call me Liuliu."
"Hello, Liuliu!" Xiao Xuewei said with a smile.
Number Six didn't understand why she was suddenly so happy, but he could sense the girl's kindness, so he also said, "Hello."
After saying that, he turned and walked towards the elevator.
Seeing him turn and leave, Xiao Xuewei, who had thought the conversation would continue and she would successfully make her first friend, was stunned.
This boy looks very friendly, but also seems a little cold, which gives a very contradictory feeling.
Seeing him walk into the elevator, Xiao Xuewei, who didn't want her first social interaction to end in vain, ran up and shouted, "Liuliu, wait for me!"
Fortunately, the young boy did not let the elevator door close, but pressed the door open button.
After successfully entering the elevator, Xiao Xuewei realized belatedly that...
Wait, she forgot to leave Jiujiu in the room!
She had no choice but to put the paper bag down, then opened her pocket and said, "Jiujiu, hide quickly."
The little fat bird cried out in dissatisfaction, but finally flew into her pocket obediently and hid its round body.
Number Six gave them a strange look. However... this little creature was petite and cute. Even though it could fly, there was no telling if it would be caught...
After all, there is no shortage of cubs with strong athletic talents in the nursery.
Thinking of this, he withdrew his gaze.
However, after Xiao Xuewei hid Jiujiu, she bent down and took out a candy box from her bag, then shouted, "Liu Liu..."
"Um?"
Number Six looked at her and saw this pink and tender-looking little girl with rabbit ears holding a light yellow box with white stripes in her hand and handing it to him.
He looked at her in confusion, and saw the girl smiled shyly and said, "This is for you. Please take good care of it in the future."
This was not the first time that Number Six received a gift. When he turned into a little monkey, both the keeper, Brother Ayan, and Number Two had given him food.
However, it was indeed his first time interacting with a friendly cub like Xiao Xuewei.
They had just met for the first time, and he received a gift from her...
Number Six thought about it and finally reached out to take the gift. Although some of his memories were still blurry after the fusion of their souls, he remembered the recent ones very clearly.
He was standing alone outside the restaurant, watching the happy scene of the cubs inside, which left a deep impression on him.
He wants friends too...
But before, he had lost his human soul and didn't know how to make friends.
"Thank you." Number Six recalled what he had seen and heard as a little monkey and said to Xiao Xuewei, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
Seeing that he accepted her gift, Xiao Xuewei smiled even more happily. She was about to speak when the elevator door opened.
Seeing Number Six walk out of the elevator, she quickly picked up the cardboard box and followed him, saying as she walked, "I'm new to the nursery, and there are a lot of things I don't understand. Can you teach me?"
“This…”
Number Six didn't know how long he had slept, or whether there were any new rules in the nursery, but there was one thing that could not be changed.
He stopped, his expression becoming extremely serious. Seeing him like this, Xiao Xuewei also quickly stopped. She reached into her pocket and actually took out a notebook and pen from the space button.
Seeing the little girl take out a small notebook and look as if she wanted to write down what he said, Number Six couldn't help but be stunned.
Can Number Nine write? That's amazing.
After the girl was ready, he said, "After dark until nine in the morning, you must remain quiet. You must not make any noise and try not to make any noise."
As he spoke, Number Six lowered his head and looked into Xiao Xuewei's pocket.
The little tit hidden in her pocket blinked its two black eyes the size of green beans gently. The fat little tit, completely unaware that it was being implied, tilted its head innocently towards No. 6.
Number Six: “…”
Although Xiao Xuewei didn't understand why, she still wrote down his words word for word.
"Anything else?" she asked.
Number Six thought for a moment and said, "Between noon and two o'clock, it's best not to make any noise."
When he was a little monkey, he observed that Susu had the habit of taking a nap, so he had to try to keep quiet during this period of time.
Xiao Xuewei took note of it and then asked curiously, "Why?"
"Because Susu is sleeping, we can't wake him up, otherwise something terrible will happen." For the sake of the gift, No. 6 explained in detail.
"Susu?" Xiao Xuewei tilted her head. 4586 seemed to have called the breeder that way, too... She took note of it, intending to do the same in the future.
Thinking that it was not yet nine o'clock, Xiao Xuewei lowered her voice and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Seeing that she was so obedient, Number Six was quite surprised. He said, "Not for now."
Then he continued to walk forward.
Xiao Xuewei quickly put away her notebook, bent down, picked up the paper bag and followed. She whispered, "Liuliu, where are we going now?"
Are you going to find other cubs?
"Eat breakfast."
When No. 6 answered this question, they just arrived outside the restaurant, but the restaurant was empty. Apart from 4586 who was cleaning the table, there were no other cubs in sight.
Xiao Xuewei, who was a little nervous, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, Liuliu, Weiwei, good morning!"
The nanny robot spotted them, immediately put down its tray, and hurriedly flew over to them. "You must be starving, right? I'll go get you breakfast!"
"Thank you, 4586." Xiao Xuewei said.
Upon hearing the thanks, the nanny robot's electronic eyes turned into two spinning little flowers, and it said in a particularly happy voice, "Weiwei, you are as cute as Huahua!"
Xiao Xuewei smiled shyly.
"Dear Weiwei, please wait here for a moment, breakfast will be ready soon!"
"Okay, please."
"It's not a big deal. Making sure the baby is well fed is 4586's favorite thing to do!"
Then, 4586 flew out of the restaurant.
It was also the first time that Xiao Xuewei saw such a lively robot. She couldn't help but look at it a few more times out of curiosity. When she looked away, she saw No. 6 looking at her with a strange look.
"What, what's the matter?" Xiao Xuewei was puzzled.
Number Six said hesitantly, "Robots are not truly alive."
Regardless of which part of his soul it was, he agreed with this view very much, because when he was a little monkey, he came into contact with more robots without personality settings, which made him feel this way even more.
However, Xiao Xuewei nodded, and then asked in confusion: "Yeah, so what?"
"So... why do you want to thank it? Its praise for you being cute is just a programmed program..." Number Six looked at Xiao Xuewei's gradually lowered head, and the rest of his words gradually died down.
He was very sensitive to other people's emotions, so he was a little overwhelmed. "Are you sad?"
Xiao Xuewei shook her head. After a moment, she looked up at him and said seriously, "Although what you said is correct, I still prefer 4586."
Then she walked to an empty table with the paper bag in her arms, picked a chair and sat down.
“Chirp! Chirp!”
The little fat bird flew out, barked a few times at Number Six, then flew onto the table and rubbed the back of the girl's hand.
Number Six looked at Xiao Xuewei's back and couldn't help scratching his hair.
He understood what the little fat bird had just said, and it said to him angrily: Our Xuewei is the cutest in the universe!
Number Six was puzzled.
Xiao Xuewei is indeed very cute, but what does this have to do with the previous topic? Aren’t they talking about robots?
On the first day after the human soul returned, No. 6 encountered a problem that he could not figure out.
And at this moment, behind the nursery building.
After breakfast, the cubs rushed to the fields and are now busy working there.
Compared to yesterday, the plants in the field were much more lush. The most surprising thing was that the Star Chain Fruits that had been blessed with the technique of reviving dead trees had actually produced small flower buds.
The calyx has not yet opened, so these small buds are still green.
They hang high on the rope net, a few here and a few there, thin and small, hidden under the star-shaped leaves. If you don't observe carefully, it is really difficult to find them.
However, the cubs couldn't hide this at all.
After watering and fertilizing the plants, they like to run around in the green space and observe any new changes in the plants.
Almost every day, they can get new surprises.
Of course, the first one to discover those small green buds was not Xiao Lihua, but Ran Lie, who still maintained the form of the Red Flame Tiger.
He was originally struggling with how to write in today's growth diary. If the inspector opened the growth diary of No. 2 at this time, he would see that the only entry read:
Meow, meow, meow...
Ran Lie has no hands to hold a pen, so this is the result of using voice input.
so……
I can't write a bunch of "meows" today, right? Ran Lie can't read, and he's never seen anyone else's growth diary, but he knows that a real growth diary definitely won't look like this.
The other cubs were busy watering and fertilizing the plants they were responsible for. The little Red Flame Tiger, who had nothing to do and no hands to work for the time being, could only look up at the sky with worry.
Then he discovered these green flower buds hidden under the leaves.
He ran to pull the little white deer over, and then attracted all the cubs. They sat in a row under the rope net, looking up at the small flower buds.
When Xiao Lihua heard Brother A Yan say that these small green particles were flower buds that would bloom into beautiful flowers in the future, she could no longer walk.
They are truly beautiful flowers... Will they really appear on Prison Star and in her life?
She looked up at the small flower buds, her eyes full of desire and expectation, and of course, a little bit of fear and anxiety about the unknown.
This is probably the homesickness that comes before a dream comes true.
The other cubs don't have such a sensitive and delicate mind as Xiao Lihua.
The little wolf cub stared at the flower buds and counted them one by one. In his limited knowledge of plants, one flower bud represented one fruit.
After asking the intelligent brain, he also got the prepared answer.
So, these flower buds are not only flower buds, but also edible star chain fruits!
The little wolf cub's saliva almost flowed at the thought of the plump, juicy and sweet fruit. There was also desire and expectation in his eyes, but the emotions contained in them were completely different from those of little Lihua.
Unfortunately, he can't even count to ten...
"1, 2, 3, 6, 5, 7..."
The little white deer next to him couldn't help but correct him after listening for a while, and then at the wolf cub's request, he started counting with him.
The little wolf cub's enthusiasm for learning is so high that he needs no supervision at all.
Little Zhengxing, who was pulled over, squatted beside him, slightly tilting his head. Although he only used his mental power to scan it, he knew how many flower buds there were in total.
However, he still listened carefully to the counting of his two friends, which made him feel a joy he had never felt before.
That's probably... a kind of joy of an upcoming harvest?
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