The daily life of a space tycoon raising children, doting on his husband, and farming.

Chapter 44 Coming

The chirping sound grew louder as it approached, catching Shang Wan's attention.

She threw the shattered screen aside with a bang, straightened up, and looked at the entrance to the forest at the foot of the mountain in the distance, which had been trampled out by humans.

"Sister, what's wrong?" Shi Tou wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to look in the direction Shang Wan was staring at.

“There are monkeys.” Shang Wan frowned slightly. “A lot of them.”

As she finished speaking, an old monkey with white fur was the first to grab onto a vine and swing out from the entrance at the foot of the mountain, landing on a tree branch.

It turned and chirped into the forest, raising its arm to gesture something.

In a short while, Stone watched as the bare tree, which had just sprouted new buds, became covered with monkeys of all sizes.

Later, when there wasn't enough room for all the monkeys, they started appearing on the nearby trees as well, as if all the monkeys in the mountains had come down to have a gathering, chattering and making quite a scene.

Yuan Yuan clapped her hands happily, her soft, sweet voice repeating, "Come...come..."

"Yuanyuan, what did you say?" Lu Chengjing leaned closer to listen.

"Come on!" Yuan Yuan uttered a clear, crisp word.

Lu Chengjing asked in confusion, "What's coming?"
The next second he knew what was coming: a group of brown-furred monkeys came running towards them in a noisy swarm, and upon closer inspection, they even formed a formation.

Lu Chengjing: ? ? ?

Monkeys can hurt people, so Shi Tou instinctively grabbed the wooden plank next to him, while Xiao Huan simply held the kitchen knife she had just found in her hand, watching the group of monkeys that were constantly approaching warily.

"Don't be nervous." Shang Wan glanced at her unusually excited cubs, her tone somewhat complicated. "They're probably here to help."

"Huh?" Stone wondered if he was hallucinating.

Xiao Huan then asked, "Sister, did you recruit them?"

Shang Wan thought to herself that she didn't have that ability; the real culprit was clapping her hands in disapproval.

"Come on!" Yuan Yuan's big eyes lit up with excitement, and the sound of her chubby little hands clapping grew louder and louder.

Lu Chengjing's eyelids twitched; his intuition told him that if Yuanyuan continued like this, something uncontrollable might happen.

"Yuanyuan." Lu Chengjing took his daughter's little hand, shook it gently, and said softly, "Daddy will tell you a story, okay?"

The action was interrupted, the gleam in Yuan Yuan's eyes faded, and she realized with a start that her little hand was in terrible pain. She quickly held it up to her father, her eyes welling up with tears, "It hurts! Ouch!"

Lu Chengjing gently blew on the little hand in front of him as instructed, but his peripheral vision was observing the group of wild monkeys that had run into his home.

The monkeys happily joined the cleanup team. In fact, because there were so many monkeys and not enough space, the older monkey ran over and chased Shang Wan and her two companions out of the cleanup area.

Under the old monkey's command, the monkeys had a clear division of labor: some carried, some lifted, and some picked up small items, nimbly moving through the ruins.

Shang Wan and her two companions went from being the main force in cleaning up to helping the monkeys distinguish whether the things they were holding were still usable.

Put the intact ones in one pile, the ones that can be repaired and used in another pile, the ones that can be reused in another pile, and the ones that are completely unusable in yet another pile.

At first, Shi Tou and Xiao Huan were a little awkward, feeling that it was strange to command a group of monkeys. But they gradually got the hang of it and their communication with the monkeys became smoother and smoother.

Stone even learned a few words of monkey language without being taught, and danced and gesticulated with the monkey.

Xiao Huan covered her face, indicating that she couldn't bear to watch.

Shang Wan carried two undamaged wooden buckets to the well and drew two buckets of water. While stirring the water, she dripped two drops of spiritual spring water into each bucket, as a way of helping Yuan Yuan give these monkeys a benefit.

She waved to the old monkey and pointed to the two buckets. The old monkey ran over, looked at Shang Wan, then at the buckets, scooped up some water with its paw, put it in its mouth, smacked its lips, and then scooped up a little more.

Visibly, the old monkey's fur, which had turned white due to old age, returned to a light brown color, just like it had been dyed.

The old monkey sensed the benefit and scooped up two more mouthfuls of water with its paw.

In just a moment, the old monkey's wrinkled skin became much smoother, as if it had been ironed.

Seeing that the old monkey was still trying to reach its claws towards the bucket, Shang Wan grabbed its arm and, regardless of whether the old monkey understood or not, whispered, "Greed is never a good thing. Let's share it together."

The old monkey knew that the human in front of it was not someone to be trifled with. Seeing Shang Wan looking at the monkey troop busy in the ruins, it instantly understood what the human meant.

He grinned and chattered at the monkey troop, receiving countless responses.

Shang Wan released it, and watched as, under the old monkey's command, the monkeys ran over one by one to sip water after putting down their food, drank it and left, only to run back to sip water again after finishing their work.

The effects of the spring water on the young monkeys were not as obvious as on the older monkeys, but there must have been some benefits, otherwise the monkeys would not have worked so hard just to get a sip of water from the bucket.

As the second bucket was nearly empty, the old monkey looked at Shang Wan expectantly, and with its two paws clasped together, it bowed to Shang Wan in a gesture of flattery.

Seeing that the monkeys worked hard and were indeed a great help, Shang Wan filled two buckets and did the same thing.

Lu Chengjing, who was observing everything, naturally did not miss the changes in the old monkey. He suspected that Shang Wan had added the kind of elixir that he used to heal him to the water. In fact, he had always been curious about where Shang Wan's elixir came from.

Shang Wan noticed Lu Chengjing's probing gaze, but she was neither prepared to confess to him now nor had she prepared a lie. She could only pretend not to notice and let Lu Chengjing agonize over it.

With the help of the monkeys, a task that would normally take several days to complete was finished in less than half a day.

In other words, the thatched huts were far from where the villagers lived, and everyone was busy cleaning their houses and didn't have time to visit each other. Otherwise, with the monkeys making such a ruckus, the villagers would have noticed long ago.

The monkeys had nothing to do, so some dozed off, others rolled their fur, and none of them showed any sign of leaving.

Xiao Huan looked at Shang Wan, "Sister, shouldn't we treat them to a meal before they leave?"

You have to pay someone to do your job and provide them with meals, so it should be similar for monkeys, right?
Even now, Xiao Huan still believes that the monkeys were recruited by Shang Wan.

Shang Wan glanced at Yuan Yuan, who was nestled in Lu Chengjing's arms, sleeping soundly and snoring softly. She walked over and poked the little one's chubby cheeks.

Yuan Yuan smacked her lips, turned over and turned her head to the other side, and continued to sleep soundly.

The Business Evening News continued.

Disturbed again, Yuan Yuan wrinkled her little nose, waved her little hand impatiently, and muttered, "Bad... Go away!"

As soon as the word "go" was uttered, the bored monkeys, as if they had received a collective command, rushed into the forest under the guidance of the old monkey.

With his hair a mess, Stone waved goodbye to the monkeys he knew, shouting, "Next time I'll help you get your fur turned upside down!"

Everyone: "..."

"Yuanyuan... what's wrong?" Lu Chengjing looked up at Shang Wan, instinctively feeling that Yuanyuan's unusual behavior was related to Shang Wan.

Yuanyuan is too young, and although she possesses special abilities, she doesn't know how to hide them. It's one thing for outsiders to know, but Shang Wan never intended to keep it a secret from her family.

However, I won't say that now.

She turned to look outside and saw a small figure running towards them. Li Xiaoshan shouted as he ran, "Sister! Something's wrong! Something's happened!"

(End of this chapter)