Smack!
The originally noisy courtyard instantly fell silent.
Nan Qianqian froze for a moment before realizing that this was yet another masterpiece from her mother.
“Mom, I’m your biological son. Can’t you go a little easier on me?”
Nan Jing felt as though his head had been slapped until it was buzzing. Despite being such a tall, burly man, he instantly clutched his head with both hands and dramatically darted around the courtyard.
“Who said you were my biological son? Your father clearly picked you up at the entrance of the village back then. I told him not to keep you, but he insisted. How stupid.”
Li Cuihua pursed her lips, her face filled with disdain.
The village Party secretary: “…”
He was utterly speechless.
Especially since he was the very “stupid” person she was talking about!
Seeing her husband’s aggrieved expression, Zhang Xiao suppressed the smile tugging at the corners of her lips and said, “Mom is right. You spend all day talking nonsense. Little Sister has been perfectly fine at home.”
Looking at her sensible second daughter-in-law, the anger in Li Cuihua’s heart gradually faded.
Her daughter-in-law was wonderful!
Then, looking at Nan Ke standing beside Zhang Xiao, Li Cuihua couldn’t help sighing inwardly.
Sigh…
She didn’t know what kind of sin they had committed.
Such a perfectly good little girl…
How had she ended up like this?
After the family finished dinner, Nan Qianqian spoke to Li Cuihua.
She said she wanted to sleep early because she had to get up tomorrow morning to deliver food to Fu Nanxun, and told her mother not to come into her room.
Naturally, Li Cuihua believed every word her daughter said without the slightest doubt.
As soon as Nan Qianqian returned to her room, she bolted the door.
The moment she turned around, she saw Ruirui poking its little head out from beneath the blanket.
Its black gemstone-like eyes stared at her pitifully.
Nan Qianqian froze for a moment before walking over and gathering it into her arms.
Her fair fingers gently stroked its tiny head. Her moist lips curved slightly upward as she softly asked, “Ruirui, what’s wrong?”
Ruirui rubbed its snow-white head coquettishly against Nan Qianqian’s chest before saying aggrievedly, “Master, you ignored me.”
It had finally reunited with its master after so much difficulty, but all she knew was how to spend time with her family and completely ignore it.
Hmph.
So petty!
“Ahem, don’t be angry. I’ll take you out to play tomorrow.”
Nan Qianqian coughed awkwardly.
It was true that ever since she had left the room earlier, she hadn’t come back in.
It wasn’t because she hadn’t wanted to.
Rather, Li Cuihua had forcibly dragged her into chatting about all sorts of trivial things for the entire afternoon.
And naturally, most of the conversation had still revolved around Fu Nanxun’s injured leg.
That did remind her of something.
Nan Qianqian tried hard to recall the plot of the novel, but no matter how much she thought, she couldn’t remember anything important.
The only thing she knew was that Fu Nanxun’s injured leg would never fully recover this time.
That was why the original owner had rejected the marriage so resolutely back then.
This matter left her somewhat troubled.
She had already decided that she was going to stick with this man.
But asking her to stand by and watch as his leg failed to recover…
Leaving him permanently lame and suffering pain whenever the weather changed…
That definitely wasn’t a good thing.
“Ruirui, the space should have finished binding by now, right?”
The moment she thought about Fu Nanxun’s leg, Nan Qianqian’s brows furrowed even more deeply, leaving a faint crease between her otherwise smooth brows.
Right now, all she wanted was to enter the space and see whether there was anything inside that could heal the man’s leg.
“Master, it finished binding ages ago. Who told you not to come back into the room all afternoon?”
Now she knew how to be anxious.
Looking at the arrogant little white thing in her arms, Nan Qianqian’s brows twitched slightly.
So this little thing was actually holding a grudge just because she hadn’t spent the afternoon with it?
“Oh. Then let’s go inside and take a look now.”
Nan Qianqian had no intention of spoiling the little creature in her arms.
How long had they been apart?
Why had this little thing developed such a terrible temper?
If something this minor was enough to make it throw a tantrum at her, how could she allow that?
She, Nan Qianqian, was not someone who could be controlled by a tiny animal.
Especially since she was now its master.
Seeing that its master had no intention of coaxing it, Ruirui instantly deflated.
It had been separated from its master for so long that it had actually forgotten what kind of personality she had.
It couldn’t manipulate her at all.
“All right. I’ll take Master inside right now.”
Ruirui wagged its short little tail, and even its voice no longer sounded the same as before.
Nan Qianqian immediately thought of the phrase wagging one’s tail to beg for favor.
At least this little thing wasn’t completely stupid.
Otherwise, she really would have had to teach it a lesson.
The sky was a brilliant blue.
The mountains and water blended together, forming a scene where stillness and movement existed side by side.
Nan Qianqian had already seen the scenery before, but everything had been black and white at the time.
Now, the entire world was bursting with color.
To say that she wasn’t shocked would be a lie.
Before her stretched an endless expanse of green mountains and forest, along with crystal-clear water flowing gently through the landscape.
Nan Qianqian then looked toward the courtyard residence she had seen last time.
It was even more magnificent.
Since she had always been a complete homebody, even though she had managed to save a little money, she had never really gone anywhere for fun.
As a result, she had only ever admired courtyard residences like this on television.
Seeing one in person now truly amazed her.
The real thing was far more impressive than anything she had seen on television.
A courtyard residence was an enclosed dwelling, so there was only one entrance leading outside.
Once the main gate was shut, the interior became a little world of its own.
Looking at the scene inside the courtyard, Nan Qianqian’s heart began pounding rapidly.
The rooms on all four sides opened toward the courtyard.
At the center of the courtyard was a pool filled with clear water.
There was even a decorative rock formation in the middle of the pool.
“Master, the water in this pool is Spiritual Spring Water. It’s extremely useful. And the rooms here all contain worlds of their own.”
Seeing her master looking as though she had never seen anything impressive in her life, Ruirui couldn’t wait to take her around and broaden her horizons.
It thought to itself that if this alone was enough to amaze its master, then wouldn’t she go crazy with joy once she saw everything else?
Nan Qianqian had no idea what Ruirui was thinking.
However, those words about each room containing a world of its own had completely piqued her curiosity.
There were only five rooms in this courtyard residence in total, almost ten fewer than even a single-entry traditional courtyard residence.
But that didn’t matter much to Nan Qianqian.
After all, she wasn’t planning to live inside the space permanently.
However, Ruirui had said that every room contained a world of its own.
Surely that meant they weren’t simply rooms meant for sleeping?
And as for that Spiritual Spring Water…
It seemed like it might be beneficial for Fu Nanxun’s injury.
She thought that tomorrow, she could bring some for him to drink.
Ruirui took her around to see every room.
Sure enough, Nan Qianqian was extremely satisfied with what she found.
There were three main rooms and two side rooms.
One of the main rooms belonged to her.
Of the remaining two main rooms, one was a medical space equipped with an accelerated medical learning system.
It also contained countless books and a large amount of medical equipment.
The other was a small general supermarket.
The quantity of each item wasn’t large, but the shelves contained practically everything one could need.
Most importantly, once an item was used up, it would automatically replenish itself after twenty-four hours.
That powerful function alone nearly made Nan Qianqian’s jaw drop.
She was so satisfied with this golden finger that words could hardly describe it.
The other three side rooms were respectively a storage room, a cold-storage room, and an audio-visual room.
In truth, out of everything here, Nan Qianqian was most satisfied with the accelerated learning system and medicines inside the medical space.
She had once dreamed of studying medicine.
Now that she could learn it herself, perhaps she could actually fulfill that dream here.
And Fu Nanxun was the first person she wanted to treat.
Once she made up her mind, Nan Qianqian immediately took action.
Seeing that it was still early, she lowered her head and began studying.
Although the system accelerated the learning process, she still had to learn the material herself.
Just like that, several hours passed.
Seeing that it was already getting late, Nan Qianqian decided to simply sleep in the main room.
The room contained every kind of modern appliance and facility she could need.
For someone like her who was already accustomed to life in the twenty-first century, it was practically ideal.
She comfortably soaked in a bath, washing away all the discomfort from her body, before lying down to sleep.
She still had to go see Fu Nanxun tomorrow morning.
The moment she thought about the man’s attitude toward her, Nan Qianqian felt that the road ahead of her was long and difficult.
But no matter what happened, she had already decided on this man.
Most importantly, she truly didn’t want to end up like the original owner.
If she followed the same old path…
Then she really would have to say, thank you very much!