Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 695 - 424 Online and Offline_2

The taste of bee pupae is really good, not only crunchy but also slightly sweet, sprinkled with a bit of seasoning, it’s an excellent dish to accompany a drink.

Uncle Zhang’s Black Back Wolf Dog paced around sniffing, however, wild bee pupae are really too expensive, tough to buy, even Uncle Zhang himself didn’t have enough, let alone feed a dog?

The Black Back Wolf Dog circled a few times before Jiang Ning threw out a rib, and the wolf dog sprinted away swiftly.

Uncle Zhang cursed, while Jiang Ning next door was both kind and strict, he worried that someday the hard-kept wolf dog would turn on him.

Next door, Mr. Qian, with hands behind his back, was pacing around, "Old Zhang, what are you eating? It smells strange."

Uncle Zhang sipped his drink and boasted, "Fried bee pupae, haven’t tried it before, have you?"

Mr. Qian truly hadn’t, he became aware and curiously asked, "What is it, can it be eaten?"

Uncle Zhang, "Nonsense, it’s delicious, try two!"

He only pinched two.

Mr. Qian, not minding dirt, tried one and savored the rich taste, automatically eating the other impulsively.

Uncle Zhang asked, "How does it taste?"

Mr. Qian, "How can I tell from just two?" freewebnøvel.coɱ

Uncle Zhang, both butchering and selling pork, wasn’t stupid; seeing him enjoying the taste, he guessed his thoughts.

He enthusiastically drank with his meal in front of Mr. Qian.

Xue Yuantong tossed a flyaway bone, making a graceful parabola, before it even hit the ground, the Black Back Wolf Dog leaped up and caught it in its mouth.

"Giggle, no need to deal with bones after the meal," Xue Yuantong grinned.

"I think it’s good to have a dog to eat the bones, leaves no leftovers," she said.

Xue Chuchu, "Mm-hmm, let him wander after eating the bones, no need for us to bother, quite nice."

"Thanks to the wasps, we got to eat ribs," Xue Yuantong remembered who contributed.

Xue Yuantong tasted the sweet-sour lemonade, "It’s all the wasp’s fault, if Jiang Ning hadn’t knocked down their nest, if they’d just behaved, maybe I wouldn’t have let Jiang Ning attack them."

After eating melon, Xue Chuchu said, "If you disturb someone else’s home, of course, they’ll chase you to fight."

After a chat, Xue Yuantong asked, "Chuchu, when do you start school?"

She is a Fourth Middle School student, she had the whole summer vacation, but Chuchu apparently had few holidays.

"Me? School starts Sunday morning." Actually, Xue Chuchu didn’t much want to attend because she still had to pay tutoring fees, also a significant burden.

"The day after tomorrow, then," Xue Yuantong said, regretting Chuchu couldn’t enjoy summer vacation with her.

But no matter, she’d enjoy it for Chuchu.

"Jiang Ning, what are we doing tomorrow?" Before, Xue Yuantong’s summer was just about getting by, but with Jiang Ning, things changed, tomorrow held wonderful prospects.

Jiang Ning pondered for a moment, then said, "Tomorrow afternoon, we watch movies at home and play games, then in the afternoon, I’ll take you somewhere fun."

Xue Yuantong’s eyes filled with anticipation, "What fun thing?"

"You’ll see tomorrow."

"Uh, okay."

The meal took nearly an hour, the plate almost emptied of ribs, Jiang Ning asked, "Didn’t you say you were saving some ribs for your mom?"

Xue Yuantong, "My mom eats well every day, no need to save for her."

...

July 4th.

At a lake house on Snowflake Lake, Wei Zishan partied until two in the morning, only waking up after ten.

Upon waking up, Wei Zishan, with makeup still unremoved from last night, had skin so scary, Li Shi thought she was haunted by a ghost and almost screamed.

"So boring, so boring, no club to hit, the mall is lame, nothing to buy!" Early morning, Wei Zishan was all complaints.

"Shishi, how can you live in such a small city?" Compared to Shen City and abroad, this place is practically the backcountry!

Other than spicy crayfish and barbecue, and beside Jiang Ning, there’s nothing here to make her want to stay.

Wei Zishan pushed open the door, in the living room, Lin Xiaopang, Zhuang Jianhui, Yuan Lin, each busy on their laptops playing LOL.

The few startled upon hearing the noise, trembling, a ghost!

Oh, it’s just Wei Zishan, no worries then.

Wei Zishan demanded, "Lin Xiaopang, where’s Shuyan? I’ve come a long way on her account, where has she run off to?"

Lin Zida explained, "Shuyan is busy dealing with her aunt’s affairs!"

Seeing Wei Zishan looking even more ghostly, he hastily said, "Zishan, I’ll take you boating!"

"To row what, you want to burn me to death under the sun?"

"Then, how about at night, I take you for a rural tourism evening, grilled whole sheep guaranteed to smell amazing!" Lin Zida once again promised, people come from far to play, indeed he should entertain.

Wei Zishan, "Not hungry."

Lin Zida with a distressed face, "Mistress, what would you like to do then?"

Wei Zishan, "Have Jiang Ning add me as a friend."

Lin Zida helpless, his interactions with Jiang Ning were usually just gentlemanly, not like Eighth Grade Wang Yong; Jiang Ning didn’t curry favor with him, he could only say so much.

Looking at Wei Zishan’s ghostly makeup, Lin Zida felt even less confident.

"I’ll give it a try," Lin Zida said cautiously.

He took the opportunity of his hero dying to message Jiang Ning and was surprised to receive a reply, "Yes."

Lin Zida exclaimed with joy, "Zishan, try adding him again."

At the same time, Jiang Ning accepted the friend request, and Wei Zishan said in surprise, "Wow, Xiao Pang, you really did it!"

With the friend spot secured, Wei Zishan felt like she had taken the first step in conquering Jiang Ning.

...

The weather was still scorching hot today. Xue Yuantong mooched breakfast at Chuchu’s place and then spent the entire day in Jiang Ning’s house, watching movies and playing games.

They ate a lot of snacks by midday, went on a ’cooking strike’ at noon, and Jiang Ning went hungry.

It was too hot outside, and she didn’t want to leave Jiang Ning’s house at all.

Not until the sun went down and the sultry heat outside subsided did Jiang Ning look at the picture Wei Zishan sent him and replied with a message,

"Not bad."

Then, turning his chair, he said, "It’s about time."

Xue Yuantong jumped up from the sofa; she had been waiting a long time, "Let’s go catch mudskippers!"

Jiang Ning had told her about the day’s plans in the morning.

Xue Yuantong went home to grab a plastic bucket and also took a basin, called Chuchu over, and, fully equipped, they set off.

Jiang Ning walked behind, and Xue Yuantong couldn’t stop talking,

"Chuchu, we can eat mudskippers tonight!"

Now, Jiang Ning held the highest regard in her heart; if he said something, it was bound to be successful.

Xue Chuchu, more rational, always managed to stay calm no matter the situation; she was a staunch materialist!

"Nowadays, aren’t mudskippers rare in the wild?" Xue Chuchu remarked. "There used to be a lot of them in the past few years, but with environmental pollution and overfishing, even in their village, there weren’t many left.

There were some, but they were hard to find.

Xue Yuantong was unperturbed, "Jiang Ning will definitely find mudskippers!"

As she walked, she swung the plastic water bucket, conveying a sense of momentum.

Neighbor Uncle Zhang saw them and called out, "What are you doing with that bucket?"

"Catching mudskippers!"

Hearing this, Uncle Zhang laughed, "That’s not easy to catch, you might end up going for nothing."

Xue Yuantong retorted, "It’s also not easy to disturb a hornet’s nest."

Uncle Zhang shook his head, "Those who don’t heed the words of the elderly face trouble straight ahead."

At the door, Dongdong glared at Uncle Zhang with a swollen face, angry. He had listened to Uncle Zhang’s words and, in an attempt to prove himself a man, had paid a heavy price.

...

Xue Yuantong led aimlessly for a while, then gazed around the fields absentmindedly, temporarily handing the lead to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning nonchalantly led the way; he first headed towards the river dam but didn’t go uphill. Instead, he followed a channel below the dam, heading westward.

Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu cautiously followed behind. The field was overgrown with weeds, some rough enough to scrape the shins.

A ditch about two or three meters wide extended in an east-west direction, occasionally branching off a flow of water towards the fields to the south.

Due to the recent hot weather and a long drought, the water in the ditch had gradually dried up, often ceasing to flow and forming puddles.

As Xue Yuantong passed a puddle, she looked at the clear water,

"Chuchu, do you think there are mudskippers here?"

Xue Chuchu denied, "The water is too clear, feels like stagnant water, probably not."

"Alright."

Continuing forward, passing stretches of dry ditch and deep spots, finally, Jiang Ning turned a corner, following a direct flow of a channel, walked south several tens of meters, and stopped in front of a waterhole about three to five meters long.

Wild grass surrounded the ditch, and the slightly murky water created a small aquatic ecosystem.

Jiang Ning scrutinized the area and confirmed, "Let’s try here."

Xue Yuantong looked at the water, then at the distant river dam—this spot was a bit away from the dam, so they wouldn’t be watched by others.

"Let’s splash some water," Jiang Ning said, splashing the water to help them see the mudskippers clearly.

Xue Yuantong, holding the bucket, declared, "Alright!"

...

Snowflake Lake.

Wei Zishan exclaimed, "Ah! He actually brushed me off, I want to kill someone!"

She had rarely been treated this way and furiously said to Li Shi beside her, "Do you know where he lives?"

She wanted to confront Jiang Ning in person!