I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

"No, I'm just sunbathing outside."

Chen Shuo replied to the message after a while, put his phone back in his pocket, looked down and saw that there was a stone drain cover next to the flower bed. While replying to the message, he inadvertently drove his wheelchair in.

The wheel was stuck inside. After trying to move it forward a few times without success, Chen Shuo got out of the wheelchair, bent down and pulled it out, then sat back down and continued moving forward with a clattering sound.

The elderly people not far away were stunned. This young man, holy crap, he's so young and already in a wheelchair. They were just lamenting the unpredictability of life, and here he is, with perfectly fine legs.

Can he get down and lift the wheelchair himself?

......

"I'm back."

Around 5 p.m., Bai Xiaoqi returned with her small bag slung over her shoulder. It was clear that skipping another day of school had put her in a good mood.

"Ah."

Chen Shuo responded and continued with his own business, not paying much attention to her skipping school.

He has thought about it carefully these past two days. The learning plan to make her smarter is almost complete by now. Although her math is still at the elementary school level, there's no point in learning math any further.

Besides, for her, being able to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is already fantastic. As for broadening her horizons and knowledge, she can improve them in other ways, such as reading miscellaneous books, like "100,000 Whys" or "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."

You can also go out for a walk, go shopping with your friends. Didn't she and Anya learn a lot of random things?

Not only is studying in a step-by-step manner inefficient, but she also resists it quite a bit.

Despite the constant advocacy that no one should slip through the net of nine-year compulsory education, there are already so many who have slipped through the net, so one more won't make a difference.

Besides, no matter how much she studies, her household registration certificate will still list her as illiterate/semi-literate in the education level column.

Regarding this, Chen Shuo decided that if all else failed, he would spend money to buy her a college diploma through evening correspondence courses. This kind of thing doesn't have much value, and you can get it for just a few thousand yuan.

Even if all else fails, getting into a vocational school would be fine, at least it would change that illiteracy. After all, I'll get married in the future, and then I'll have children.

If your child sees the household registration booklet later and asks, "Mom, how come you're illiterate?", she'll have to say that she wanted to study and go to school back then, but your father wouldn't let her, so...

That little girl is cunning; she always tries to shift the blame onto herself.

Bai Xiaoqi changed into her home clothes, then moved closer to Chen Shuo, looked at the computer screen, and turned to look at him. "What's wrong? You seem unhappy."

"How did you get the idea that I'm unhappy?"

"I just can tell." Bai Xiaoqi was very certain. This guy wasn't like this when he was driving around in his wheelchair this afternoon; he was very excited.

When I came back just now, he only gave a perfunctory "hmm" and kept frowning, so he must be unhappy.

"Is it because I didn't study today that you're angry?" she asked tentatively after a pause.

"No."

"Then why are you angry?"

"I wasn't angry."

"Really?"

"real."

"Alright then." Bai Xiaoqi stared at him for a long time, barely believing that this guy wasn't angry.

She adjusted her bra straps, ran over to pour Walnut a bowl of cat food, squatted down and meowed with it twice, then turned to look at Chen Shuo before getting up and running back, saying, "Don't be angry, I'll bark like a dog to cheer you up."

"What? I wasn't angry at all, it's just..."

Chen Shuo was about to say that he wasn't angry at all, he had just run into Calvin, but then he thought about it and realized that he had never heard her bark like a dog before, this was quite novel.

So he put down the keyboard, turned to face her, and said, "Okay, then you can learn."

"Okay, then you can learn it."

"?"

Chen Shuo was taken aback. "Isn't it supposed to be like a dog barking?"

"Isn't it supposed to be barking like a dog?"

"..."

"..."

Chen Shuo remained silent, turned around and continued typing. Damn it, he had actually been tricked by this little guy.

Bai Xiaoqi reached out and turned Chen Shuo's head back to face her, then said, "You were barking like a dog just now, now I can make you forget you're a dog."

"I was never that way."

"You see, you've already forgotten."

"Damn it..." Chen Shuo felt a tightness in his chest and raised his hand as if to hit her on the head. Bai Xiaoqi saw this and ran away in a flash. Now she believed that this person was really not angry.

As long as no one gets angry, I can skip school again tomorrow.

Opening the refrigerator door, Bai Xiaoqi first took out a carton of yogurt and drank it. Then, looking around inside the refrigerator, she turned around and said, "There's no food left in the refrigerator, just a few eggs and a tomato. How about we have noodles for dinner?"

"Tomato and egg noodles?"

"Yes, there are also noodles in the kitchen."

"Then let's eat this. Let's have something light for dinner."

Bai Xiaoqi slurped up her yogurt in a few gulps, then licked the lid clean with her little tongue. She tossed the box aside, picked up a tomato and an egg, and went into the kitchen. Suddenly, she poked her head out and asked, "Guess what I saw today?"

"What do you see?"

"Guess."

"How could I possibly have guessed that?"

Can't you guess?

"Of course I can't guess, I'm not a god."

"I always thought you knew everything."

"now what?"

"I'm going to cook."

Having whetted Chen Shuo's appetite, Bai Xiaoqi shrank back and prepared to boil water to cook noodles.

"What? What do you mean by saying only half of what you mean? Don't you know that's uncomfortable?"

"..."

“I used to think you knew everything, but I don’t think so anymore. Nobody knows everything.”

"Nonsense, no one in this world is born with knowledge. You used to think I knew everything just because you were too stupid and knew very little. That's called the curse of knowledge."

“You’re the stupid one,” Bai Xiaoqi retorted from the kitchen.

"Alright, hurry up and tell me what you saw today." Chen Shuo didn't have time for her to argue; he was incredibly curious right now and hated people who only told half the story.

“Say it once and I’ll tell you that Chen Shuo is the most foolish one.”

"I'm not stupid, why would I say it?"

Walnuts was full and ready to go back to its nest to sleep when Chen Shuo picked it up and put it on his lap, saying, "I can guess it myself even if you don't tell me."

"Then you can guess for yourself."

“…”

Chen Shuo stopped talking, staring at Walnut on his lap, petting the cat while trying to figure out what she had seen.

Little Meow isn't as silly as she used to be; she won't be surprised by everything she sees, so what she sees must be extraordinary.

So what exactly is it?

Damn it, who could have guessed that?

After thinking for a while, Chen Shuo gave up, stuffed the walnuts into the cat's bed, leaned against the kitchen door and said, "Chen Shuo is the most foolish one."

"Ha ha ha ha..."

Bai Xiaoqi laughed heartily, then turned her head and said smugly, "Hmph, so you finally admit you're the most foolish one?"

"Yes, yes, I'm the stupidest one, hurry up and tell me."

"I saw you playing in your wheelchair in the square."

"..."

Chen Shuo turned and left, thinking it was something else, but it turned out to be just this.

I've lost out.

Chapter 240 It's so hot!

Days passed by, uneventful yet flavorful. Before long, another month had gone by, and it was May, the end of spring and the beginning of summer. The sun's power had not yet fully manifested, but the heat was already faintly felt.

The new house was renovated before the Lunar New Year and has been vacant for over three months. Ventilation should be sufficient by now. Bai Xiaoqi had been wanting to go see it for a while, but Chen Shuo had been preventing her from doing so. Formaldehyde was one issue, but there was also...

Well, he was very confident in the house, which had taken six months to renovate, and he was sure that Little A Miao would be eager to move in as soon as she saw it.

If we let her come in to see it right after the renovation is finished, she will inevitably be thinking about it every day for the next few months, and waiting is a very painful thing.

He could empathize with this most deeply because he had been experiencing the agony of waiting.

If you wait until it's habitable before coming to see it, you won't have these concerns.

After looking at each room, it was beyond Bai Xiaoqi's imagination. She couldn't believe that this was the ugly, unfinished house she had seen last year.

Wooden floors, exquisite ceilings, and a spacious layout. Each room also features a lot of custom-made furniture. For example, the study has antique display shelves and custom bookshelves, and the storage room has a whole wall of built-in storage cabinets.

One of the two secondary bedrooms is currently vacant and will be used by the child later. The other room has a bed and is intended to be used as a guest room.

Chen Shuo had previously considered using this place as an activity room, but after thinking about it, he decided to move the activity room to the rooftop attic. There are green plants on the rooftop, and the attic is equipped with many skylights, offering a wide view.

Then they specially laid a layer of plastic flooring. After moving in, they put all the fitness equipment in the attic, oh, and Bai Xiaoqi's yoga mat too.

Chen Shuo demolished the kitchen wall, making the entire kitchen and dining area open-plan. The view from the sink was also fantastic. The bar he had mentioned before was also installed. Bai Xiaoqi had never been able to imagine it before, but after coming here, she finally understood what the bar he was talking about was.

It's similar to a hotel reception area, made of marble, with several high chairs nearby, so you can eat right here in the future.

Following the bar counter in, you'll find a full-length cabinet without shelves or hooks, creating a very open and bright visual effect.