My Endless Life.

Chapter 540: Grant's House in the Morning

"Huh...huh..."

Meimei was sleeping soundly on the table.

She didn't know how long she slept, but she knew that when she was awake, the sun was shining through the attic window on the second floor and onto her face.

When she realized this fact, she suddenly opened her eyes!

"It's over!! We're late!!!"

She sat up in shock from her dying illness, jumped up from the stool, and hurriedly packed her things to report to the team.

But when she saw the pile of ancient family books and drawings on her big table, Meimei vaguely remembered something.

"Uh..." She finally remembered that she had skipped work yesterday because she had destroyed the team's alchemical puppet used for training, and went home to get compensation and apologize to the captain.

As a result, she met a strange young man, who protected her very much and helped her drive away the bad guys who came to collect the house.

No, after all, that can't be called 'beating them away' at all.

He just killed someone and caused a huge disturbance in the capital!
He also helped her get back the Grant family's ancestral land... Wait, where are the others?
Meimei's brain, which was still a little confused because she had just woken up, finally remembered that the young man who helped her yesterday returned home with her, but ran away halfway for some reason and it seemed that he had not returned yet.

Meimei originally thought so.

Until she smelled the fragrance in the air.

"?"

She opened her eyes in confusion, turned her head to look towards the kitchen, and then her eyes widened wider.

In the direction of her kitchen, which had not been used for a long time, a young girl with long dark golden hair with golden highlights was busy using magic in the kitchen.

Ingredients were flying around her and queuing up to jump into the pot. The flames beside her seemed to have intelligence, burning themselves and heating the food in the pot.

The food came out of the pot and was put into the plate in an exquisite manner. The air was filled with the aroma of the food, which made Meimei's stomach growl and drool from the corners of her mouth.

“Slurp! No, who are you?!”

Meimei sucked her saliva subconsciously, and immediately pointed at the mysterious girl busy in the kitchen and asked loudly.

The girl who was busy cooking raised her head and glanced at her.

It was this glance that allowed Meimei to see her appearance, and she stood there in a daze.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she seemed to see Angel Grant, who had only appeared in the portrait...

"She is your ancestor." While Meimei was stunned, Li Qi walked down from upstairs. He said something to Meimei that sounded like a curse, which made Meimei stunned again.

Meimei tilted her head, and the hair on her short dark blond hair exploded to form a question mark.

His eyes were filled with confusion.

So... it's not an illusion?
Li Qi took some information he found upstairs, sat on the sofa with his legs crossed and started reading, and said to Meimei:
"Her name is Angel. She is a 'bionic doll' that I found in the Grant family's ancestral land. She has all the memories, knowledge and wisdom of your ancestors. She is roughly equivalent to your ancestors."

Li Qi gave a brief explanation, but it had no effect except making Meimei feel confused.

Angel came over with a large pile of food using magic.

The food floated behind her in an orderly manner. When she came to the only round table on the first floor, she waved her right hand, and the books and scrolls on the table obediently floated down from above and automatically stacked up in the distance.

She placed all the food on the table, then turned to look at Li Qi and said with a complicated expression:
“…I’m sorry, I didn’t expect the descendants of the Grant family to become like this.”

"It's okay. Everything goes up and down. It's normal."

Li Qi comforted him.

He knew that Angel was blaming herself for not being able to continue the Grant family, allowing such a fool to appear in the Grant family.

But Li Qi at least has experience in managing an entire large family. Through his experience in managing the Li family, Li Qi knows very well that it is almost impossible to prevent fools and idiots from appearing in a family.

It would be better to say that Angel didn't manage it much. The fact that the Grant family has been able to be passed down for thousands of years and to retain its bloodline after experiencing several major changes is already a very impressive thing.

The voice and tone of voice in Angel's conversation with Li Qi were normal, but no matter how dumb Meimei was, she could tell that they were saying bad things about her.

Her face immediately puffed up and she said unhappily:

"What do you mean 'become like this'? What's wrong with me! I'm fine!"

"I asked you to study, but when I came back I saw you sleeping soundly..." Li Qi rubbed his brows and said, "Although I know you probably don't like studying, but... you didn't even last an hour... I don't really care, but I don't know what your ancestors think."

Li Qi said as he looked towards Angel.

Angel blinked innocently. She really wanted to tell Li Qi that you are the real ancestor of the Grant family. However, thinking that Li Qi's identity was not suitable to be exposed, Angel could only sigh and said:

"I didn't really think about it, but I just felt that... more than three hundred years ago, I should have let Elta marry more wives and have more children..."

"..."

El Saint Grant, the head of the Grant family more than three hundred years ago.

At that time, the Grant Family still maintained its status as one of the Eighteen Holy Clans, but there were relatively few people within the family, and most of the main families practiced monogamy, and they only had one or two children at most.

At that time, Angel was walking in the world as another alchemical doll and had adventures with El for a period of time.

At that time, there were many girls who liked El. They took an airship on an adventure around the world and thwarted the conspiracy of a certain religious group at the time. All of this was led by El, who had not yet inherited the family.

For this reason, El is very popular among the women in the team.

But in the end, El only chose one of them, and after the adventure, he inherited the position of head of the family and gave birth to a son with his lover.

Angel watched him die before she fell asleep again.

It was just that Angel admired El's choice at that time and didn't think too much about it. She thought that a loyal man like El was a good one. But now she somewhat regretted that she didn't let El marry more women.

At worst, a few women who had a crush on El pushed him away, spreading the Grant family's bloodline. Hundreds of years later, there wouldn't be only Meme, the only one who still retained the name of Saint Grant.

Angel was sighing there, and Meimei felt a little aggrieved.

She didn't doubt Angel's identity. Rather, it was precisely because she didn't doubt it that she felt aggrieved.

It's okay for Li Qi to say that since he's an outsider.

Why would my own ancestor say this about me...Am I really that stupid?

"Okay, let's eat first."

Li Qi saw that there were dark clouds above Meimei's head and the air pressure was so low that she was about to draw circles in the corner. He couldn't help but smile and said to the few people.

Angel nodded. She pulled over a few chairs and placed them under the few people. Then she personally served Li Qi a bowl of rice and sat down.

Meimei was still a little disappointed when she sat down, but after just two seconds, her disappointment disappeared instantly and she stood up again:

"wrong!!"

She finally came to her senses and pointed at Angel and asked:
"What...what is going on? Can't anyone explain it to me? Why...why is Angel...Angel's ancestor here?!"

Meimei has seen Angel's portrait.

Because she had seen it before, she firmly believed in Angel's existence.

So although she was extremely shocked when the legendary ancestor suddenly appeared in front of her, she quickly accepted it.

But Meimei didn't understand why this old man could cook here as if nothing had happened, and why he treated Ronnie, a young man she had just met yesterday, as if he were... a close friend.

Meimei simply couldn't understand it!

She even wondered if she was dreaming!
"After dinner, you can explain it."

Li Qi didn't want to waste any more words and said to Angel.

Angel nodded, turned around and glared at Meimei: "Don't talk while eating. Talk after we finish eating."

"…oh."

The pressure from the elders who were who knows how many generations older than her made Meimei shrink her neck instinctively. She sat down silently, picked up her bowl and prepared to eat.

But when she saw her empty bowl, and then looked up at the full bowl of rice that Angel had prepared for Li Qisheng, Meimei couldn't help but fall into deep thought again.

Why did she always feel that her ancestor...had a different attitude towards her and Ronnie?

Differential treatment? ?
Meimei silently got up and served herself the meal, wondering why this happened.

……

After dinner, Angel briefly told Meimei what happened last night.

Just as I finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.

Meimei looked at Li Qi, then at Angel, and finally ran to the door and opened it. However, as soon as she opened the door, she closed it again at a very fast speed.

boom!
The loud sound of the door closing made Li Qi, who was reading a book, look up.

He looked at Meimei's pale face with cold sweat pouring down her face, narrowed his eyes and asked:

"What's wrong? Someone is bothering you again?"

Li Qi thought Meimei had run into some trouble again, like someone came to her house to bully her or something.

But Meimei kept shaking her head, and her head was almost like a rattle.

"No... not..."

Just as she was about to explain, a rough male voice came from outside the door:

"May Glatt!!! I know you're in there! If you can skip work, then you can open the door!! Open the door for me!!!"

dong dong dong-

Upon hearing what the man outside the door said, Li Qi relaxed.

He was familiar with the voice outside. It was the man outside who called Meimei after she came out of "Cat No. 2" yesterday.

He is the captain of Meimei.

Meimei is the trainee alchemist in the team and a private. Although alchemists have some privileges, they do not have to obey orders from their superiors completely.

But since you have already joined the army, you must follow military orders.

Meimei destroyed military training equipment without authorization yesterday and escaped in the middle of the training. If it were Li Qi when he was the team leader, he would definitely beat Meimei so hard that she would not be able to get out of bed for half a month after finding her.

The kind that even medical magicians dare not treat!

But now... Let's not talk about the fact that Meimei is theoretically Li Qi's "hostage". Let's just say that he is an alien and not from this world, so he should not interfere in Meimei's affairs.

Well, I definitely don’t want to see Meimei being taught a lesson.

He's not that bad.

Thinking of this, Li Qi, who was reading a book with his head down, couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth slightly.

(End of this chapter)