My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Chapter 297 My daughter is in a band outside, and I'm drinking beer at home (two chapters combined)
Finally back in his own little courtyard, looking at this not-so-big house, Xue Dinglu even had a moment of feeling that things had changed.

The family's big yellow dog was still resting under the shade of a tree by the gate, with the chubby orange cat perched on its back. He was even a little uneasy about this peaceful atmosphere until a sudden sound came from behind...

"Uh-huh-huh..."

Xue looked back and saw Fafnir holding a plate of leftovers, making a soul-stirring call to the cat and old dog duo in the distance.

The next moment, the big yellow dog and the orange cat were immediately awakened from their sleep and rushed over to beg for food.

Hmm, seeing that the orange cat and the big yellow dog are both looking like they're about to swell up into gas cylinders, it seems they're eating really well.

Home-cooked meals may not be perfectly balanced, but they are definitely very nourishing.

While the cat and dog were busy eating, Fafnir started petting them all over, a strange look of satisfaction on her face.

The cats and dogs being petted didn't guard their food and purred contentedly while eating.

For some reason, the scene at this moment had a strange sense of harmony.

Fafnir has always loved furry animals. She fell in love with cats and dogs in videos on her phone, perhaps influenced by scenes of Ultraman's human form risking his life to save a dog.

But judging from her current level of skill and her standard "sucking" tone, you can tell she's really professional. At least the two little animals next door are completely obedient to her.

Fafnir, who was petting the cats and dogs and chuckling, suddenly sensed something was wrong. When she turned around, she saw Xue Luding staring at her with dead fish eyes in the distance, and she froze.

Xue Daolu coughed a few times to cover up his embarrassment.

Fafnir's hand froze on the spot, while the orange cat, who had almost finished eating, suddenly noticed that her hand had stopped touching her. It looked up at Fafnir in surprise and even deliberately rubbed its head against her hand.

"Teacher...I..." Her face suddenly turned red, as if the embarrassment of having her true self discovered was welling up inside her.

At this moment, it even feels like you could carve out a three-bedroom apartment directly from the ground.

"No, it's nothing, you can continue." Xue Dinglu was about to go straight home, but suddenly he took a step back and said, "Have you gained weight?"

Previously, Fafnir was extremely malnourished and thin to the extreme, but for some reason, after returning this time, he suddenly noticed that Fafnir seemed to have gained some weight.

"Hey, where have you gained weight?" Fafnir immediately jumped up like a cat in distress, her elven ears even appearing to be in a frizzy, airplane-like state.

“Your belly,” Xue Dinglu said directly. “Your belly used to be flat, but now it’s protruding more than your chest. You’ve probably been slacking off lately, haven’t you? Looks like you’ve been lazy and slacking off every day. You need to exercise more.”

Xue's Law stated based on its own conclusions.

Although Fafnir was wearing a white sweatshirt on the outside, her close-fitting clothes were very delicate, easily revealing her slightly protruding belly.

After Xue finished speaking, he patted her on the shoulder and then walked straight back into the house.

However, at this moment, Fafnir's eyes seemed to have lost their luster. She silently patted her chest, making a crisp "smack" sound, and then slowly slid her hand down...

Hmm, it really stopped at my lower abdomen, because my lower abdomen seems to be protruding more than my chest...

Fafnir lost her dream...

……

"I'm back," Xue Dinglu shouted directly into the house.

Then, as usual, the little dragon girl dressed in a dinosaur costume gave him a headbutt, which almost made him faint on the spot when it hit Xue Dinglu's stomach.

There were also other white crows and Siamese playing with Little Dragon Girl, but now what was on the ground was not a children's puzzle, but a children's piano, violin and guitar.

Xue Law: “?”

Why are they learning new skills?
A question mark immediately appeared above Xue's head, and then he didn't see his aunt at home either.

But soon, the sound of moving things came from the door. Xue Dinglu walked out and saw his aunt carrying a whole set of children's drums and bass. She was stunned when she saw Xue Dinglu.

Xue Law: "..."

"Ahem, I took her to the park once before, and she seemed interested in the music training class next door." The aunt seemed to know what Xue was wondering about, and then said, "That class just closed down yesterday and was selling instruments at low prices, so I went and bought some. It cost less than 1000 in total."

Xue Luding glanced at the instruments in his house that could form a whole band, and at the little dragon girl's golden eyes, which seemed to hold the lion's eye, staring at him with curiosity. He didn't say anything.

At least it's better for a child to like musical instruments than to like a blond-haired kid.

He suddenly had a strange sense of déjà vu: what if some blond-haired punk ever dared to park his will-o'-the-wisp in front of his house...

That guy must have eaten too many red beans and is lovesick. Let's duel this taciturn medical student and decide who's better and who's worse, let's fight with our fists!

Looking again at the musical instruments scattered on the ground, Xue Dinglu asked, "What songs have you learned?"

"I can play the piano!" Little Dragon Girl immediately walked over to the children's piano as if showing off, still wearing her little dinosaur pajamas, and started playing the piano in a very professional manner...

Two tigers?

Xue Law: "..."

Well, it's only been a few days, and he still doesn't expect his child to have a strong musical talent. Being able to play "Two Tigers" without going off-key is already a genius achievement, which is completely different from Xue's Law.

Xue Dinglu is someone who has absolutely no musical or artistic talent. If someone like him were to study art, he probably wouldn't be able to get into university and would have become an art student who failed the entrance exam long ago.

Seeing that Little Dragon Girl was playing the piano, the other two children also picked up their violins and guitars and began to accompany her.

This looks exactly like a girl band, except it's missing a lead singer. If it had a lead singer, Xue Lude could stay home drinking beer and let his daughter go out and form a band.

However, the old Demon Emperor sent the two children, White Crow and Siam, here to learn about politics and science, not to form a girls' band.

So he quietly left and then asked, "Aunt, how are these children doing in their studies?"

"Studying?" Aunt looked at Xue Dinglu and suddenly said, "Xiao Linglong is doing very poorly in her studies... She's only just memorized the multiplication tables..."

Xue Dinglu: "..." Something's not right. Why doesn't the little dragon girl look like me at all? What's going on?

Xue Luding himself is the type of person who doesn't have much artistic talent but learns knowledge very quickly, so how come Xiaolongniang is the exact opposite?
"As for Fafnir... she has already studied the high school curriculum, but she seems to be the kind of student who excels in one subject but not another. She is quite good at historical thinking, but she is only so-so in other areas."

"As for the two children, Bai Ya and Siam..." Auntie hesitated when she talked about them.

"What's wrong?" Xue Dinglu suddenly felt a pang in his heart. Could it be that he had ruined these two unlucky kids?

“No, it’s nothing. It’s just that the two of them… aren’t interested in any subjects. Instead, they like… building houses? Farming?” Auntie said.

"Building houses? Farming?" Xue asked in bewilderment.

"They were having a blast playing a computer game, a survival simulation game that combined manual house building and farming. They even taught themselves online how to design buildings and how to raise livestock..."

Aunt Xue led Xue to the computer in her room, and then pointed to three books on the table: "Architectural Design from Beginner to Advanced", "Complete Guide to Agricultural Planting in China", and "National Animal Husbandry Tutorial".

Xue Dinglu glanced at the two books. They were newly bought, but the pages with pictures contained a lot of notes and annotations in another world's language, occasionally mixed with Chinese characters and pinyin.

Those two kids didn't even have much Chinese knowledge, but they still managed to devour these three books on Schrödinger's Law, which are so daunting they make your scalp tingle. It just goes to show that interest truly is the best teacher.

Auntie also opened the survival simulation game, and then Xue Law looked at the magnificent TPC sea base in the game with a "subway, old man, mobile phone" expression.

what?
"They designed it and then built it in the game," Auntie said.

Xue Law: "..."

Very good. At least she can explain to the old Demon Emperor that she has the skill of building houses and can shine brightly when she returns to her original world. The old Demon Emperor will not think that she has not learned anything while studying here.

Just then, the three little black creatures walked in.

"Grandma, Grandma, it's time to play games!" Little Dragon Girl said immediately.

"Good good..."

The three of them started planting vegetables, building houses, and raising chickens together in front of the computer.

Xue watched as the three of them huddled in front of the computer, and while farming, one of them was flipping through the "Complete Guide to Agriculture and Animal Husbandry," talking about what crops to plant next, how to fertilize and water them, and so on.

Suddenly I realized this isn't so bad.

In fact, Xue Law thought it was simply a fantasy for the old demon emperor to send these two ten-year-old children here for two months to learn political intrigue and scientific knowledge. How could children of this age possibly learn it? And the so-called political intrigue and scientific technology would be a disaster for them.

Why not just leave it at that and let them learn about survival simulation through the game? That would actually be more useful in a world focused on large-scale production and construction. As for political maneuvering and science and technology...

Xue Lude decided to order a complete set of textbooks from elementary school to university for the old demon emperor, and let him figure out the solution himself.

Children should be treated like children, instead of being forced to learn painful knowledge at such a young age.

As for Xiaolongniang's academic performance...

Never mind, let's leave it at that...

Xue's Law is no longer a concern.

At this moment, Fafnir, who had just returned from petting the cats and dogs, looked at Xue Dinglu and seemed to have mustered up her courage to say, "Teacher, you're a college student now, right? I want to go to college with you!"

Xue Law: “?”

“I saw that your school seems to have a college entrance exam for non-university students… that’s a relatively easy shortcut…” Fafner said, revealing her plan. “The exam is in mid-October. I’ll try it then. I should be able to pass. Then I’ll be classmates with the teacher and we can go to the University of Science and Technology of China together!”

She excitedly shared her thoughts. As a born mythical being, her memory and thinking abilities were far superior to the Earth average. Therefore, she was able to easily master these cultures after only a short period of study. Previously, when she was in the world, she learned Chinese in just a few days and began to study the university's "Ideological and Moral Cultivation" textbook.

Now, with more than half a month left before the adult college entrance examination, she is confident that she can complete all the humanities courses in high school through self-study and pass the USTC social college entrance examination to become a social college student of USTC. At that time, she will be able to go to school with her teachers.

Even just imagining being classmates with her teacher, and walking to school together, with her sitting behind her on her bicycle, tightly hugging her waist, fills her with motivation.

Now it’s fantasy time.

However, her imagination seemed to have a slight problem, because the class times for part-time university students and full-time university students are completely different...

However, Xue Dinglu wouldn't discourage her. Instead, he smiled and said, "Well, good luck. I'll take you to the exam in about two weeks. We'll be classmates then."

Fafnir immediately nodded emphatically, a very happy smile spreading across her face. She then went to her little room to study instead of playing games with the other three children.

Xue Daolu shrugged. The children in the family seemed to be on the right track, and his aunt seemed to be more energetic lately because of the children, no longer looking sickly as before.

That's fine.

After dinner, Xue Dinglu watched a few episodes of Ultraman with them before going back to his room to rest.

There is something even more important tonight: the Mist Council.

He spent six days in the Holy Kingdom and two days in the Mind Flayer's world, but that was calculated according to the other world's time. Converted to Earth's time, it actually only took less than seven days in total.

And today happens to be the day of the Mist Council.

As his consciousness entered the dream world, Xue Dinglu also arrived at the Mist Council.

The other apostles also arrived slowly, but it was clear that the main character of this meeting was not Xue Lude, but the apostle who was preparing to invade the world of the Super Iron Curtain.

Everyone wanted to know the outcome of his intrusion into the super iron curtain, even Xue's Law was no exception.

"Hey, Number 9, did your conquest fail again this time?" someone said immediately after the apostle arrived.

“How can this be considered a failure? The world consciousness of that world seems to have some kind of stress response. I was discovered as soon as I arrived, and then they started fighting me to the death. There was even a broadcast support communication from the interstellar squadron. What could I do?” The apostle immediately began to defend himself.

Then, seemingly unconvinced, he went to another apostle and said, "Number 6, rent two warriors and lend me a squad of Shub insectoid soldiers."

(End of this chapter)