My hotel is full of emperors throughout history.

The afternoon sun shines lazily in the courtyard.

Li Lizhi specially changed into a light yellow casual dress that was easy to move in, and her black hair was loosely tied up as she sat at the stone table under the tree.

A copy of the Analects was spread out on the stone table.

She held Xiao Sizi, who had just finished eating, in her arms, her fingertips pointing at the words on the book, her voice as gentle as the April breeze.

"My dear son, today your elder sister will teach you the Analects of Confucius. These are the teachings of the sages, every word of which is precious."

Xiao Sizi nodded and looked in the direction Li Lizhi was pointing.

"Let's learn this first—'Since we're here, let's make the best of it.' It means..."

"I know! I know!"

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Sizi raised his hands excitedly and shouted.

A look of surprise flashed across Li Lizhi's face, which quickly turned into a relieved smile.

It seems that Si Zi studies very hard on a regular basis!

Li Lizhi asked with a smile.

"Then tell me what it means...?"

Little Sizi immediately straightened his little body, cleared his throat, and said in a serious tone.

"Since you're here, let's bury you here."

"..."

The wind seems to have stopped.

A leaf fell silently from the tree onto the stone table.

Li Lizhi's smile froze.

Her fingertips, which were pointing at the book, hovered in mid-air, trembling slightly.

Sunlight shone on Sizi's delicate eyebrows, her eyes were clear and bright, and her face was full of smugness that said, "Isn't Sizi smart? Praise me!"

After a full three or four breaths, Li Lizhi finally spoke.

"...Place him...?"

"Yes!"

Xiao Sizi nodded vigorously and began to explain logically and consistently.

"The little cystic fungus said that once you arrive at a place, you need to feel a sense of belonging, to put down roots! Burial..."

"Isn't burial the most fundamental form of rebirth? You can never truly leave!"

As she spoke, she pressed down with her little fist.

Li Lizhi took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

It's a hallucination, it must be a hallucination.

Sizi must have confused the words in some book of supernatural tales.

She took a deep breath and quickly turned the page.

"Then... is it not the mark of a gentleman to remain unperturbed when others do not understand him? Does this rhinoceros understand?"

"I know that too!"

Little Si immediately put on a "what's so difficult about this?" expression, grinned like she had seen before, revealing a small tiger tooth, and looked extremely cute.

"Some people don't know my name, and I haven't gotten angry yet; that's already very gentlemanly!"

After saying that, she raised her chin rather modestly, looking every bit the part of someone who thought, "I may be young, but I have a big heart."

"..."

Li Lizhi fell silent.

"And what about this? 'If I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening'?"

"If I find out the way to your house this morning, you'll be dead by tonight!"

"Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you?"

"No one else can take what I don't want!!"

"Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar?"

"How could I not be happy to have a friend come all the way from afar to train with me?"

"A dying man's words are good."

"Some people only say nice things when I'm about to beat them to death!"

"..."

Li Lizhi fell silent.

That exquisitely beautiful face sank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She lowered her head to look at the smug little ox in her arms and asked in a cold voice, word by word.

"Who taught you that?!"

Little Si was startled by her sister's sudden change in expression and pointed her chubby little finger at Chen Mo's room without hesitation.

"Microcystis!"

"real?"

Li Lizhi raised an eyebrow and specifically asked to confirm.

Little Sizi nodded vigorously.

"It's a small cystic fungus!"

As she spoke, she asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Sizi thinks there's no problem. Little Saccharomyces explained it very clearly! It's much easier to understand than what the teacher said!"

"That's precisely why the problem is so big!"

Li Lizhi stood up with a dark expression, and pulled Xiao Sizi towards Chen Mo's room.

The door to the room was open.

Chen Mo lay on a recliner in the room, leisurely basking in the sun, a book covering his face—"Random Thoughts."

Seemingly hearing footsteps outside the courtyard, he put down his book, looked up, and was about to grin.

However, as soon as she looked up, she saw Li Lizhi's gloomy face, which looked so dark it could drip water, and Xiao Sizi, who was being dragged along by her with an innocent expression.

Chen Mo's heart skipped a beat, and he awkwardly sat up.

"What... what happened?"

Li Lizhi didn't speak, but instead slammed the copy of the Analects she was holding onto the table next to her and pointed to the phrase "Since we're here, let's make the best of it" and asked.

"Look what you've done to Sizi!"

"Sizi, answer your elder sister, what does 'Since we're here, let's make the best of it' mean?"

"Since you're here, let's bury you here!"

Li Lizhi looked at Chen Mo.

"Manager Chen, could you please explain what 'Since you're here, let's bury you here' means?"

"..."

Chen Mo remained silent for a moment, his brain completely shutting down.

When Xiao Sizi saw Chen Mo being scolded, she immediately broke free from Li Lizhi's hand, ran to his side, hugged his leg, and looked up at him to defend him.

"Little Fungus is right! Rooting means burying it! Sir, your explanation is too convoluted, I don't understand!"

"Could the small cyst fungus be wrong?"

"Isn't that right?"

Li Lizhi retorted with a cold laugh.

She looked at Chen Mo, and was unusually angry.

"Look what you've taught Sizi!"

"I don't know! I didn't teach her either!!!"

"How did she know?"

"I don't know either!"

Chen Mo looked at Si Zi with a wronged expression.

Little Sizi blinked her big eyes and said in a childish voice.

"When I went to find Xiao Nangjun before, I heard it from Xiao Nangjun, my older brother, and Brother Fusu!"

Upon hearing this, Li Lizhi's expression softened considerably, though she muttered a complaint.

"My brother is really something. He doesn't even keep his opinions to himself when discussing matters with the children, and he even says such distorted things."

"Exactly! Gao Ming, really! Didn't he know that Ji Zi was staying at my inn?"

Li Chengqian, who had just pushed his wheelchair in: ? ? ?

Your mother's servant!

Weren't you the loudest one back then?

Chen Mo was slightly taken aback when he saw Li Chengqian walk in, then gave an awkward smile and hurriedly stood up.

"Gao Ming, what brings you here?"

Li Chengqian answered expressionlessly.

"Aye and the others came over, saying they'd made enough money and were going to register a company."