Sensing her father's approach, Zhao Xiaoxiu's confidence soared. The plastic hammer that had been unable to break the cement wall suddenly transformed into a large iron sledgehammer. "Thump! Thump! Thump!" Strike after strike, it finally caused cracks to appear in the cement wall.
A loud "Boom!" of fireworks exploded and buzzed deep in Zhao Xiaoxiu's mind. A beautiful world woven from countless kinds of flowers unfolded before her eyes, dazzling her and filling her with a fragrant aroma that made her feel relaxed and drowsy.
"So sleepy..." Zhao Xiaoxiu murmured, drowsily stretching out her palm. The two tender leaves of the plant in front of her shook their green leaves, took one root and then another, and walked into her palm.
Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled contentedly, gently took it in her hand, led it to the fence next to the house, dug a small hole, and planted it.
Two slender, newly sprouted roots touched the earth and immediately took deep root. Two leaves twisted and turned, and a pointed vine grew from the middle, wrapping around the nearest wooden fence and obediently sticking to it, swaying in the starlight.
Having held on until this point, Zhao Xiaoxiu could no longer keep her eyelids open. She lay down on the red brick floor, curled up her small body, put her hand on her cheek, closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.
Zhao Xiaoxiu slept very comfortably, without dreaming. Her consciousness was a pure white world, boundless and limitless, where her soul wandered freely like the wind.
Unaware that she had been carried back to her bedroom bed, she slept for a day and a night with a smile on her lips.
Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched and opened her eyes. Above her head was the familiar cement ceiling of the bedroom, and a bright incandescent light bulb.
She glanced at her phone; it was 10:30 p.m. She hadn't paid attention to the date and assumed she'd only slept for two or three hours.
The events that happened with that Grade A mutated plant before going to sleep were still vivid in her mind. Thinking that she had actually subdued a Grade A mutated plant, Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but let out a "hehe~" chuckle.
A tentacle crawled in from the outside, poked her hand, and told her to go downstairs to the kitchen to eat.
Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded expectantly, and thinking of her father's cooking skills, she immediately got out of bed and ran downstairs.
However, as soon as she ran out of the bedroom door, she found that she had been dressed in a new set of clothes. She tilted her head in surprise, but only because her father had found her sleeping on the floor and carried her back to change her clothes.
It wasn't until she saw Sister Monkey waiting anxiously at the stairwell, gesturing and growling at her, that Zhao Xiaoxiu realized something was wrong.
"Sister Monkey, how long do you think I slept?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked in surprise.
The monkey hadn't learned human numbers, so she tried her best to convey her meaning to the cub, saying that the moon and sun had already risen once and set again.
Zhao Xiaoxiu was shocked: "I've been sleeping for a whole day, and this is the second night?"
“That’s right.” Zhao Gang came out of the kitchen, first handing his silly little one a washcloth. After she washed her face herself, he asked, “Are you hungry?”
It would have been fine if no one had asked, but the sudden greeting made Zhao Xiaoxiu's stomach rumble immediately. A strong feeling of hunger surged up, and she felt like she could eat a whole cow right now.
She said pitifully, "Daddy, I'm hungry!"
Zhao Gang picked her up and carried her to the kitchen, put her in a dining chair, and brought over a plate of fragrant roasted meat from the stove.
Zhao Xiaoxiu looked down and then looked up at her father in surprise. These were his tentacles!
There is one fact that Zhao Xiaoxiu must admit—her father's tentacles are the most delicious food in the world!
Since arriving in this territory, she has not eaten tentacle meat, and her father clearly has no intention of giving it to her.
So Zhao Xiaoxiu was quite shocked when they suddenly served tentacle meat today.
The portion of the dish in front of me looks twice as large as before.
The tentacle meat, cut into pieces, was grilled until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, slightly curled up, much like the low-grade mutated grilled squid at a night-vision barbecue stall.
But these tentacle-like meats on the plate are definitely a hundred times more bouncy and chewy than the fresh ones at the stall.
"Eat, eat more," Zhao Gang said succinctly. The cub had used up a lot of energy this time, and he wanted to replenish it all.
However, he was pleasantly surprised that his cub, which was still so young, could tame an A-grade mutated plant.
Zhao Gang rested his chin on his hands, looking at the adorable baby sitting in front of him, eating heartily, filled with pride.
As expected of his cub!
Zhao Xiaoxiu ate with her mouth full of oil, her round eyes looking up at her father, a satisfied and silly smile on her face, "Hehe, Dad, it's delicious!"
Hiding in the stairwell, the monkey sister, who was secretly spying, heard the cub's words and a look of confusion appeared in her eyes.
Does "Dad's delicious" mean Zhao Gang is very tasty?
The monkey looked down at a tentacle crawling in the shadows at its feet and suddenly had a bold idea—it wanted to take a bite of the tentacles and see how delicious they were.
Sensing the monkey sister's dangerous thought, the tentacles immediately sprang up, opened their fleshy buds, and stared at it with blood-red eyes as a warning: How dare you!
Startled, Sister Monkey jumped three feet high, rushed up to the second floor, leaped out of the window in the stairwell, and hid in a tree hollow in the greenhouse, trembling with fear.
Hearing the noise, Zhao Xiaoxiu turned around curiously to look at the stairwell, only to see a tentacle swaggering back from inside.
As it passed by her, the tentacles glanced at the plate in her hand, seemingly studying how delicious the roast meat was.
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "......" Are you crazy!
However, she was really hungry this time, and she ate the whole plate of grilled tentacles, which was twice the usual amount, in one go.
Feeling intensely full, Zhao Xiaoxiu let out a satisfied burp, took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth clean, and stretched out her little hand to her father: "Hug me."
Zhao Gang's grin never left his face. He handed the dirty dishes to the tentacles to wash, picked up the well-behaved cub, and went upstairs to sleep.
Zhao Xiaoxiu felt sleepy after eating the tentacles, and this time was no exception. She hugged her father's arm as a pillow and quickly fell asleep again.
She slept soundly; the alarm clock didn't even ring, but her biological clock had already woken her up.
Zhao Gang has been taking care of his child at home for the past two days, but he has to go to work on the road construction team today.
The father and daughter got up together, dressed and put on their shoes, went to the bathroom, stood side by side in front of the mirror, each with a water cup and a toothbrush, and brushed their teeth and washed their faces in front of the mirror.
The father and daughter in the mirror looked at each other, pointed to the white foam on their faces, and laughed exaggeratedly, deliberately making a prank.
After washing up, Zhao Gang said to his daughter, who was about to open the gate, "There have been some changes in the yard."
Zhao Xiaoxiu looked at her father with a "Huh?" expression. Zhao Gang was about to explain when he heard exclamations from Granny Meng and Meng Er in the yard.
"Oh my god! Where's the fence? The wall is covered in green leaves!"
"Holy crap! It's completely covered in them, even the front door is covered in mutated plants... How am I supposed to get out of here?"
Startled, Meng Da rushed out to see what was happening, and even the usually composed man couldn't help but exclaim, "Damn!"
Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly exchanged a glance with her father, Zhao Gang shrugged and smiled, telling her to go out and see for herself.
Zhao Xiaoxiu swallowed hard, nervously pushed open the door and went out, only to be stunned by what she saw.
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