When Yuan Xiaoying returned, Shen Siyuan was packing up, preparing to leave.
"Master, will I always be in the Soul Banner, at your disposal?"
In just one night, Yuan Xiaoying seemed to have matured a lot.
"No, you will sleep in the Banner, and when the time is right, I will send you back to reincarnation," said Shen Siyuan.
"Thank you, thank you..."
Yuan Xiaoying bowed deeply to Shen Siyuan, revealing her radiant signature smile, then slowly faded and returned into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, falling into a deep slumber, waiting for reincarnation.
At this time, Shen Siyuan also felt two merits descending from heaven.
Thus, Shen Siyuan used one merit to repair the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, saving the other as backup, giving him a total of five merits now.
"Si Yuan, are you talking to me?"
Ruan Hongzhuang, wearing Shen Siyuan’s shirt, came out of the bathroom, her hair still wrapped in a towel.
Having had dinner last night, Ruan Hongzhuang stayed over at Shen Siyuan’s place. It was her first time here, without any change of clothes, she had to wear one of Shen Siyuan’s.
"No, just pack up once you’re ready, and we’ll go downstairs for breakfast."
"Okay, sure. Are you sure you don’t want me to drive you?"
"No need. I’m planning to walk back."
"Walk back? That sounds tough, and how long will that take?"
"I’m actually practicing, don’t worry, It won’t be very slow. I’ll be home by the afternoon."
Ruan Hongzhuang untied the towel, exposing her damp hair, and stood in front of the mirror, tilting her head to wipe it.
Wearing Shen Siyuan’s oversized shirt, her pale, long legs intermittently peeked through under the sunlight.
At that moment, Shen Siyuan believed in the light.
Therefore, Shen Siyuan, originally preparing to leave, transformed into Ultraman and fought a little monster, which took up some time.
When he eventually set off from home, it was already close to ten in the morning.
Ruan Hongzhuang hadn’t left; she was now exhausted, resting on the bed, and Shen Siyuan left the keys for her.
Meanwhile, Dou Dou and her parents had just come off the roller coaster.
Both of the couple’s calves were trembling, especially Jiang Wenxin, who couldn’t even stand steady, having to sit down at a nearby bench to catch her breath.
Tao Guangsha kept patting her back to help her catch her breath.
Across from them, Dou Dou stood hands on hips, quite dissatisfied, finding it not thrilling at all.
"Not thrilling at all, it’s less fun than flying in the sky," Dou Dou said.
"Not thrilling? Your mom nearly lost half her life," Tao Guangsha said, rather curtly.
Hearing this, Dou Dou immediately bent over, sticking out her bottom, searching around.
"What are you looking for?"
"Looking for where mom dropped her half-life. Dad, what does mom’s half-life look like?" Dou Dou asked innocently.
Tao Guangsha was speechless, and Jiang Wenxin, trying to catch her breath, couldn’t help but start laughing, and suddenly, she coughed loudly.
"Take it easy, stop laughing, or you’ll lose the other half of your life too."
Dou Dou hurried forward, lifted Jiang Wenxin’s clothes, and dove her head into her chest.
While searching she said, "Let me see what half a life looks like."
Tao Guangsha irritably scratched her little butt a couple of times.
"Dad, I’m a silly if you are too because you’re as smart as me," Dou Dou said.
"It’s you being like me, not me being like you."
"Oh, what’s the difference? I’m a silly, you are too, we’re both little sillies, quack quack quack..."
Jiang Wenxin kept coughing while laughing, and as she laughed, tears started streaming down her face.
They had not been this happy as a family in a long time.
Tao Guangsha also grumpily stretched out his arms to pick up the little fool and then placed her on his own neck.
"Let’s go play the next activity."
But before that, Tao Guangsha bought a bottle of water and handed it to Jiang Wenxin, asking her to take a sip and catch her breath.
When Dou Dou saw the ice cream at the snack bar, he sighed heavily.
"Even when dead, it’s not good, you can’t eat anything."
Isn’t that obvious, if it were good to be dead, wouldn’t everyone just die?
"You will be able to in the future," Tao Guangsha said.
He did not tell Dou Dou about the matter of her reincarnation; such things were better left for adults to know.
"Yeah, yeah, I need to go ask Potato..." Dou Dou said.
"Are you not going to play the other attractions with us? There’s also Little Bee, pirate ship, bumper cars that you haven’t been on."
"Then I’ll wait a bit longer, Potato will understand," Dou Dou said, hands akimbo and with a righteous tone.
"It’s ’understand you,’" Jiang Wenxin laughed and corrected after catching her breath.
"It’s all the same, all the same, I want to go on the pirate ship."
The large wooden ship hanging in the air ahead caught Dou Dou’s attention.
"You let your dad take you, mommy needs to rest for a while," Jiang Wenxin said with lingering fear.
Tao Guangsha looked at her with a resigned expression and could only clenched his teeth and walked over with Dou Dou.
"Is Sister Duoduo also playing on the pirate ship now? And Sister Xiao Yue..."
Of course, Duoduo was not playing on the pirate ship; she was on a plane back to Xiajing at this time, boredly looking through the plane window at the white clouds, feeling a bit like flying out of the plane...
Meanwhile, Xiao Yue, due to Shen Siyuan’s request, had arrived at Lady Huang’s residence.
"So it’s Miss Xiao Yue, Mr. Shen didn’t come with you?"
Lady Huang was surprised to see Xiao Yue.
However, her eyes couldn’t help but fall onto the chains swirling around her.
Those were Soul-hooking Chains, specifically left with Xiao Yue for self-defense by Shen Siyuan.
Ever since knowing that ghosts could also be harmed, Shen Siyuan became much more cautious about their safety.
Especially when dealing with someone with a blood heritage like Lady Huang, one can’t be too careful.
"Mr. Shen needs to cultivate for a few days, he sent me here, there’s something I’d like to ask Grandma for help," Xiao Yue politely said.
"Don’t mention it, tell me whatever it is, if Grandma can help, I certainly will," Lady Huang said cheerfully.
She too was eager to formulate a good relationship with Shen Siyuan.
After the geomagnetic storm incident, she connected it with Shen Siyuan and thus her attention to him deepened.
"My brother wants Grandma to help find a ghost."
"That’s easy, just tell me what she looks like," Lady Huang said.
While they were speaking, Huang Lancai came out from the inner room.
She also noticed the chains on Xiao Yue; these were the Soul-hooking Chain, which she had seen on Shen Siyuan before.
"Mei, go and call your Grandpa." After listening, Lady Huang turned her head and instructed Huang Lancai.
Huang Lancai glanced at Xiao Yue, then turned and went back inside.
Soon, Grandpa Liu carrying a mourning stick, followed her from behind and came out.
"Mr. Shen wants to find somebody..."
Grandpa Liu said, "This is easy to manage, I’ll go and ask around, should have news very soon."
Saying so, he started to leave.
Xiao Yue hastily followed and said, "I’ll go with you." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝓷𝓮𝓽
Watching the backs of the two leaving, Lady Huang suddenly felt like they were incarnations of Black and White Impermanence in the Mortal World, her heart vaguely touching upon some visions of the future...