Chapter 1985 - 1983: Qin Yize Has Taught Him Well
Chapter 1985: Chapter 1983: Qin Yize Has Taught Him Well
The voice was gentle, yet carried a tone of indisputable authority.
Xiao Bao glanced at his mom with his big, dark eyes, then at his dad, and after some thought, obediently went to tidy up the toys he and his sister had scattered.
Dad is so sly; he could have finished tidying up by himself but left half for him to do, always like this.
Gu Qiaoqiao found it very amusing; she hadn’t been home for a week, how did things turn out like this?
"Ah Ze, are you training him? How old is he, after all?"
"Although they’re young, they’re both precocious, so their education must be advanced accordingly." Qin Yize even shrugged, "It’s inevitable, who made him so smart?"
Alright, turns out it’s because the children are too clever.
Seeing Xiao Bao with his little bottom up in the air, picking up toys one by one, Gu Qiaoqiao didn’t feel sorry for him, nor did she interfere. She observed closely and found that the child had certain traits remarkably similar to his dad.
While organizing items, he quickly categorized them: rectangle, square, circle, always able to easily pick them out and put them together.
It seems Qin Yize didn’t spare efforts in teaching him over the past week.
She looked down at her daughter in her lap, oblivious to worries, and smiled, saying, "Why let Xiao Bao do it alone? Why not let Xiao Bei help?"
Qin Yize pinched his daughter’s cheek, "Girls should be raised delicately, different from boys. Xiao Bao should learn and do these things from a young age, so he can protect his sister when he grows up."
Gu Qiaoqiao agreed wholeheartedly; she was the eldest in her family and actually wished she had an elder brother to protect her.
Like when she got into fights as a child, how she wished for a brother to help.
She kissed her daughter’s cheek, "Daddy’s right, Xiao Bei will have a brother to protect her in the future."
Xiao Bei nodded energetically, "Yes, yes, even Dongdong doesn’t dare to snatch my toys. If he tries, brother will hit him."
Meanwhile, Xiao Bao was still tidying the toys.
Qin Yize’s starry eyes slightly darkened as he took Xiao Bao out of Gu Qiaoqiao’s arms, lightly saying to her, "Xiao Bei, your brother is tidying up the toys you threw around, shouldn’t you be helping?"
Xiao Bei blinked her eyes, looking at her dad, then at her mom, then at her brother. She saw there were so many toys she had thrown around, and her brother was still tidying them up.
He looked so tired.
She couldn’t just sit in her mom’s lap being pampered.
Xiao Bei nodded, spread her little chubby legs, and dashed toward her brother.
Because she dashed over so quickly, like a little cannonball, she suddenly dove onto her brother, pushing over the toys Xiao Bao had painstakingly organized, making them messier.
Xiao Bao glared angrily at Xiao Bei, while Xiao Bei bit her finger in grievance.
Xiao Bao felt wronged too, wanting to complain to Mom and Dad, but when he looked up, he saw his parents sitting on the sofa, so close together, not only close but talking while holding hands.
Holding hands was one thing, just as he wanted to call Mom and Dad, he saw his dad taking his mom’s hand, quickly heading upstairs.
Xiao Bao sat on the carpet in anger, helplessly pointing at Xiao Bei, saying, "Xiao Bei, play over there and don’t disturb me."
His words carried the demeanor of an older brother.
"...But Dad told me to help you."
"Sitting there quietly is helping me."
Xiao Bei still wanted to help, but Xiao Bao suddenly said, "If you keep messing around, I won’t tell you any stories."
Xiao Bei’s eyes, identical to Gu Qiaoqiao’s, misty like the clear autumn sky, looked innocently at her brother, softly saying, "Then I’ll ask Mom and Dad to tell me stories."
"But the stories I tell, Mom and Dad can’t tell." Xiao Bao said confidently.
Xiao Bei was tempted; the stories her brother told were ones she’d never heard before, nor had Mom and Dad told them. Of course, they hadn’t told Xiao Bao any stories either.
Her brother’s stories were truly captivating.
So, Xiao Bei sat obediently to the side, "Alright, I won’t mess around. Brother, you must tell me good stories."
Xiao Bao nodded seriously and resumed organizing the toys.
Xiao Bai and White Wolf exchanged a silent glance.
Xiao Bai didn’t quite understand Qin Yize’s way of educating the children, and White Wolf understood even less.
But Xiao Bai knew its owner, almost redundant now, had returned to Gu Garden.
It seemed that now the owner needed it less and less, but Xiao Bai didn’t feel sad because he knew that its owner probably wanted it to become Xiao Bao’s guardian in the future.
After all, honestly speaking, Xiao Bao’s abilities were the most astonishing, just somewhat suppressed for now.
As for the stories he just mentioned telling his sister, they weren’t mere stories but things he’d occasionally witnessed in a world full of fairies.
Of course, not witnessed during the day, but glimpsed in dreams during the night.
So Xiao Bao didn’t fully understand yet, and Xiao Bai couldn’t communicate with him, even if they could, it wouldn’t reveal the truth, best let him treat it as just a dream.
Xiao Bai pondered whether to tell Gu Qiaoqiao about it, glancing upstairs toward the couple ever so affectionate. Who knows what they were doing up there?
Silently retracting its gaze, it thought, best to bring it up later.
Time passed quickly, Qin Yize had specifically designed a mobile phone for the Mystic Sect, and it was already completed. When Gu Qiaoqiao sent the phone to her uncle and Ling Nan, she talked about not being able to find Lin Qinghuan’s spiritual body.
"...Uncle, though she’s not a threat, having something like this drifting around Imperial Capital is always unsettling."
Gu Qiaoqiao laughed, softly saying, "Let nature take its course, didn’t you only come across it by chance anyway?"
Gu Qiaoqiao thought carefully; indeed, it was the truth. Prior to this, she had no idea Lin Qinghuan had already formed a spiritual body, nor had she seen the existence of spiritual bodies until she reached the second tier of the Heaven-reaching Talisman Incantation, although she’d heard of it occasionally.
Alright then, let nature take its course.
Though that said, let nature take its course, some human intervention would still be necessary. Since Lin Qinghuan’s spiritual body only appeared at night, if Gu Qiaoqiao wanted to find her, it would have to be at night.
By coincidence, while driving back to the Qin Family’s Courtyard that evening, she saw on the roadside the old black cat to which she had once imparted a trace of spiritual energy.
Gu Qiaoqiao was bringing Xiao Bao and Xiao Bei to play at Gu Garden, they went in the morning and came back in the evening, as Qin Yize had been off inspecting the subsidiary company due to work demands towards the year’s end.