This humble Taoist priest wants to take the college entrance exam.

Chapter 239 Diligent people always get rewarded
The three of them bickered and argued all the way back to the neighborhood.

The two girls finally jumped off the bike. Chen Shi'an adjusted the seat height to a comfortable position, rode the bike without giving anyone a ride, and went to the parking shed to park the bike.

When he arrived at Building 1, Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu were already waiting for him in front of room 101.

"What are you doing here? Are you going to cook upstairs tonight?"

"Taoist priest, open the door and go in to see how your preparations have gone these past few days!"

"You'll see when we help with the move; Sister Wanyin is still busy upstairs."

"Take a look! We'll go up after just one glance!"

Chen Shi'an had no choice but to take out his key, open the door, and lead Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu inside for a look.

Wen Zhixia had come before on the day she cleaned the house. At that time, apart from the existing furniture and appliances, the house was still quite empty.

Looking at it now, it has become a very cozy home, with many personal items belonging to the siblings, such as the milk tea supplies from Wanyin's stall and Chen Shi'an's pile of 'junk'.

Except for the kitchen and the siblings' room, which still need to be furnished, everything else is basically ready and ready for move-in.

Lin Mengqiu missed the day she was cleaning because she was living at school, and this was the first time she had come to see Chen Shi'an's new place.

She looked around like a cat, glancing at Chen Shi'an's room and then at the courtyard.

The withered flowers and plants in the yard had been pulled up by Chen Shi'an, and all the soil in the flower bed had been turned over. The soil clods were broken into small, soft pieces, looking like it was waiting to be 'cultivated'. I wonder what that stinky Taoist priest planned to plant.

"Wow, Taoist priest, you've already turned over the soil?"

Wen Zhixia squatted down and poked the soil with her delicate fingers. She wondered how Chen Shi'an could turn the soil so loose and clean, making her want to play in the mud.

"correct."

"When did you tidy up the yard? You've already divided it into sections!"

"If you get up early in the morning, you'll have a lot more time each day. Unlike you guys who sleep in every day."

"It's because you don't like studying! I study until 11 or 12 every night before I go to sleep, and I can't get up in the morning at all, okay?"

"I love studying the most."

"Qi!"

Wen Zhixia scoffed, and Lin Mengqiu rolled her eyes; neither of the girls believed his nonsense.

Aside from his grades, Chen Shi'an didn't seem like a studious person at all; it was as if even tinkering with the yard was more important to him than studying.

But unlike other classmates who didn't like studying, he neither dated nor read novels or played games, and no one knew what he was busy with all day.

"What is this huge bucket used for..." Lin Mengqiu asked, pointing to a uniquely shaped stainless steel bucket placed in the yard.

"I bought the smokehouse online to smoke cured meat."

"I thought it was a steamer for making buns." Wen Zhixia tapped the bucket.

"How many of these buckets are you going to make?" Lin Mengqiu asked.

"Not much, just a few dozen kilograms."

"Dozens of kilograms!! Can you even finish eating that?!"

"We can definitely finish it all. The cured meat I made is delicious."

"Taoist priest, I want to eat! I'll reserve it for you!"

"it is good."

Lin Mengqiu: "?"

How shameless of those annoying cicadas! They've already started snatching up the cured meat before it even arrived!

Taking advantage of Wen Zhixia wandering off elsewhere, the class monitor finally found an opportunity to nudge Chen Shi'an and whisper:

"I also like to eat cured meat..."

……

After wandering around the house for a while, the three of them went upstairs together.

It's definitely better to live on the first floor. For two girls, climbing up to the top floor is really quite a chore.

Lin Mengqiu pondered, wondering if the owner of the first-floor apartment planned to sell. If so, she thought she'd have her father buy the first-floor apartment as well…

Chen Shi'an took out his key, opened the door, and went inside.

Unlike before, the house now looks much emptier because a lot of things have been moved out.

Black Cat was watching TV on the sofa, while Li Wanyin was busy preparing food in the kitchen.

Hearing the commotion, Li Wanyin came out to see what was happening, holding a handful of scallions that were about to be gathered.

"Mengqiu, Zhizhi, you're here?"

"Sister Wanyin~"

"Sister Wanyin."

"Wasn't Sister Wanyin setting up her stall today?" Wen Zhixia asked.

"Yes, I set up my stall during the day, but I won't be setting up tonight. I'll use this time to eat, move my luggage, and clean the house. I'll be moving to the first floor starting tonight."

"Has Sister Wanyin packed everything?" Chen Shi'an asked.

"Not yet, only the things in the room are left. Shi'an, you haven't packed your things yet, have you? Why don't you go pack your things first, and I'll cook."

"It's okay, no rush. I'll cook. Sister Wanyin, go and pack your things first."

"Okay, we'll help you clean up after dinner later."

Li Wanyin had almost finished preparing the dishes when Chen Shi'an walked into the kitchen, put on an apron, and began to cook.

The two girls had been here several times before, and they seemed quite at ease. They each put their backpacks on either side of the sofa and then squeezed into the kitchen to help Chen Shi'an.

"There's not much I can do to help in the kitchen. If you two have some free time, why don't you go and tidy up my room?"

"Okay!"

Having been given such a legitimate opportunity to search his room, Wen Zhixia took the lead and headed straight for his room.

Lin Mengqiu was a beat slow to react, and not knowing what the shrimp-headed cicada was secretly doing in Chen Shi'an's room, she quickly followed.

When they got to the room, they saw the annoying cicada rolling around on Chen Shi'an's quilt.

"……What are you doing?!"

"I... I was helping the Taoist priest fold his blankets, what are you doing here?"

"Is this how you fold a blanket?"

"I have to straighten the blankets when they're messy, I have to press them down before I can put them in the bag, don't you know how?"

"I think it was very tidy to begin with; you're the one who messed it up."

"You don't need to help here, I can handle it."

"Ah."

Wen Zhixia didn't leave, and Lin Mengqiu didn't leave either, so the two girls started tinkering around in Chen Shi'an's room.

Fortunately, with each other monitoring each other, no one dared to do anything reckless for a while, and they obediently helped Chen Shi'an pack his things.

Chen Shi'an had already packed up and moved most of the other odds and ends to the first floor, leaving only a few clothes in the closet and the pillows and blankets on the bed.

It's been cold lately, and Chen Shi'an has already switched to winter quilts.

Although he was resistant to the cold, who would waste their magic power to resist the cold? When it was time to add clothes, Chen Shi'an added clothes; when it was time to change the winter quilt, Chen Shi'an also changed the winter quilt.

The winter quilt was thick, and Wen Zhixia was petite, so she simply took off her shoes and climbed onto his bed barefoot.

Grabbing the corners of Chen Shi'an's quilt, he folded it left and right, then back and forth, until it was folded into a square.

The newly bought winter quilt was fluffy, and Chen Shi'an was well-behaved when covering himself with it, never pressing it down with his body. Wen Zhixia glanced at the quilt bag, then at the square quilt she had folded herself, wondering where she could possibly fit it!
So he brazenly threw himself onto the blanket, using his weight to press it down and make it smaller, making it easier to put in the bag.

"XXX!"

Watching Xia Tou Chan dawdle and take forever to fold the blanket, Lin Mengqiu was furious. But since Xia Tou Chan had already taken over the bed, she had no choice but to go and tidy up Chen Shi'an's wardrobe.

Opening the wardrobe door and looking at Chen Shi'an's clothes inside, Lin Mengqiu subconsciously took a deep breath...

Wen Zhixia gave her a strange look.

"What are you doing touching those clothes? Don't you know how to fold them? If you don't, leave them there for me to put away!"

"..." Lin Mengqiu glared at her but didn't say anything. She finally became obedient, took out the clothes from the wardrobe, folded them neatly, and put them into a large bag.

After all that, she had already packed away her clothes, but Wen Zhixia was still folding the blankets.

Lin Mengqiu couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she picked up the quilt bag from the ground and helped her open it up:

"Have you pressed enough? Hurry up and put it in."

"Wait a minute……"

"hurry up!"

"Ugh, this is so annoying. I can do it myself, I don't need your help."

"hurry up!"

Helpless, Wen Zhixia had no choice but to pick up the folded quilt and stuff it into the quilt bag that Lin Mengqiu had helped open. The two girls each took one side and used their small hands to tuck the bulging quilt into the quilt bag little by little before zipping it up.

Meanwhile, Li Wanyin had already finished tidying up her own room's bedding and clothes. When she came to Chen Shi'an's room, she saw that there was only so little stuff, and her two younger sisters were working on it together, yet they still hadn't finished after most of the day...

"Zhizhi, Mengqiu, let me do it, let me do it..."

"It's alright, Sister Wanyin! Get ready quickly!"

"..."

Finally, all of Chen Shi'an's personal belongings were cleared out of his room.

The three girls took out all his things and put them in the living room, while Chen Shi'an, who was busy in the kitchen, prepared today's dinner.

As our last meal here, tonight's dinner is quite sumptuous.

Not to mention that Chen Shi'an cooked it himself, and all three girls ate until they were full and extremely satisfied.

After a satisfying meal, the moving operation officially began.

"Alright, alright, let's get started!"

Li Wanyin stood up and began clearing away the dishes. "Shi'an, you, Zhizhi, and Mengqiu, move the packed items downstairs from the living room first. I'll take the pots and pans downstairs after I finish clearing away the kitchen dishes."

"it is good."

Chen Shi'an nodded and walked towards the living room.

Upon seeing Li Wanyin's winter quilt, Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu finally noticed:

"Hey! Taoist priest, your blanket is the same as Sister Wanyin's?"

"Yes, Wanyin and I ordered them together when the temperature dropped a few days ago."

Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu: "..."

I really need to be more careful around Sister Wanyin!

This rounding up means that we'd have to share a blanket with the Taoist priest, wouldn't it?

"I'll move this!"

Wen Zhixia volunteered and rushed towards Chen Shi'an's quilt bag. She grabbed the bag handles with her small hands, lifted it up with all her might, and the bag was off the ground.

It wasn't heavy, but it was quite large. The girl was small, and the contrast between the two made it look rather comical.

Since we were moving together, we didn't distinguish whose things belonged to whom. Since they were all piled up in the living room, we carried them all down together.

The lack of an elevator was inconvenient, so the two girls tried to carry as much as possible in one trip.

Lin Mengqiu also helped carry Li Wanyin's bag of quilts, which were exactly the same as Chen Shi'an's, and then carried Chen Shi'an's bag of clothes.

Wen Zhixia also took an extra bucket containing toiletries. The two girls opened the door together and went downstairs with their things.

"Just put them in the living room after you take them down, and we'll clean them up later," Chen Shi'an said.

"understood--"

After the two girls went downstairs, Chen Shi'an also came downstairs carrying all sorts of miscellaneous things.

He was carrying mainly books and packed miscellaneous items, which were quite heavy. I don't know how he managed to carry them all, but he managed to take down most of the luggage piled up in the living room in one trip...

Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu, who had just put their things away in the living room on the first floor, were still tired. When they saw Chen Shi'an carrying so many things downstairs, the two girls were a little dumbfounded.

"Taoist priest! You're a genius at carrying loads! How can you carry so much stuff at once?!"

"Hurry up, we still have to make two more trips."

After putting their things down, the three of them went back to the top floor.

By this time, Li Wanyin had already washed the dishes and was packing the pots, pans, spice bottles, and other items belonging to the siblings into several boxes and baskets.

Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu immediately took over the kitchen utensils, each carrying a box or a basket, and carefully went downstairs again.

Chen Shi'an was responsible for carrying the large packages that Li Wanyin had packed on his shoulders and taking them away easily.

After going back and forth two or three times, the siblings' belongings in the top-floor room were basically emptied, leaving only some odds and ends and cleaning tools.

"Sister Wanyin, see if there's anything left?"

"Phew, that's basically it. What about Zhizhi and Mengqiu?"

"They are resting downstairs."

"Okay, Shi'an, if you're tired, you should go and rest. I'll clean and tidy up the house again."

"I can handle it. There's a lot of stuff piled up down there. Sister Wanyin, why don't you go down and tidy it up?"

"Okay, then I'll go and get busy."

Chen Shi'an stayed on the top floor to clean, while Li Wanyin came down to the first floor to unpack and reorganize the pile of luggage that had been moved down.

With everything piled up together, Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu were at a loss as to where to begin. Fortunately, their shrewd older sister was there to efficiently sort the luggage and packages, taking the kitchen items to the kitchen and the siblings' personal items to their respective rooms.

After clearing out the living room, the two girls couldn't stay still any longer and rushed back upstairs to clean with Chen Shi'an.

Li Wanyin had no choice. Although she wanted to help Shi'an clean, someone had to do the work. After tidying up the kitchen, she went to Chen Shi'an's room to make his bed and hang his clothes back in the closet. She would leave the other odds and ends for Shi'an to take care of when he got back.

……

I was busy until 10 p.m. before the move was finally settled.

After moving into their new home, Li Wanyin cooked some sweet potato soup, which they enjoyed as a late-night snack.

"Thank you all for your hard work today! Come and have some sweet soup~"

Wow, I'm really hungry!

Although the two girls were clueless about housework, they did help out quite a bit.

I have to say, even though I don't live here, seeing that I helped tidy up part of this new home, I actually feel quite involved...

It was getting late, so Chen Shi'an rode his bicycle to take Lin Mengqiu and Wen Zhixia home.

Li Wanyin was also exhausted today. She took a shower in the bathroom first, and after Chen Shi'an returned home, she chatted with him for a while. Her sister couldn't stay awake any longer, so she went back to her room to rest.

After closing the door and getting into bed, Li Wanyin pulled the blanket up high, burying her warm face in it and rolling around...

A unique scent of herbs and pine emanated from Chen Shi'an, emanating from the blanket in her arms and gently wafting to her nose...

Wait a minute! Hold on a second!!

Li Wanyin sat up abruptly in bed, blushing as she buried her head in the blanket and sniffed it carefully...

broken!

It seems that when I was tidying up just now, I mixed up my blanket and Shi'an's blanket!
Is this a reward for a hard day's work...?

My sister's face was burning as she pondered what to do. She turned off the room light and then buried her head under the covers again...

……

the other side.

Chen Shi'an, who had just returned to his room after taking a shower, fell into deep thought as he smelled the blanket that smelled so strongly of his sister.

He took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Li Wanyin:

Chen Shi'an: [Is Sister Wanyin asleep?]
no reply.

[System notification: Chen Shi'an patted you on the shoulder]
no reply.

(End of this chapter)