Chapter 1156 - 1153: New Era, New Materials, New Techniques

"Xiaolan, you're back?"

Seeing the little fox and Sister Lin coming out of the bathroom together, Ah Qing raised her hand to greet them.

"Hmm? Is there something going on?"

Ansheng took a seat at the table, glanced around the restaurant layout, and curiously looked towards Ah Qing.

Ah Qing's expression was excited, with a hint of sneaky mischief, evidently wanting to share some secrets.

"Actually, I just feel... your dad's leaving home back then was quite understandable."

Ah Qing slightly shifted her posture, hugged the little fox on the table, and discreetly pointed towards the adjacent restaurant in the compound.

By the rosewood connected treasure shelf arches, a red fox stood trembling on shaky legs with a long face, while a plump and fluffy red fox gleefully sat on its back, wagging its tail.

The red fox on top occasionally leaned down to nudge the red fox below, only to receive a series of grumpy whimpers filled with resentment.

But Fox Mother didn't mind, answered with "whimper whimper," and raised her paw to tap Fox Father's head.

Fox Father rolled his eyes, turned his head, and snapped at Fox Mother's paw.

In the Xia Country's red fox community, there isn't much size difference between males and females; their weight difference is generally around two catties in the same environment.

Fox Mother liked to climb onto things whenever bored, and Fox Father's daily life involved carrying a Fox Mother of equal weight for intense aerobic workouts.

"I think your dad hanging from the chandelier cosplaying Little Dragon Girl's bizarre sleeping position probably stems from your mom being too clingy..."

Ah Qing, full of mystery, whispered her new discovery into the little fox's ear.

"It's hard to say... really hard to say." Ansheng looked peculiarly at the bickering Fox Father and Fox Mother, who were squabbling with "whimper whimper" noises, unsure of what to say.

Fox Mother's overwhelming maternal love was something Ansheng often felt growing up.

"Whimper?"

While Ansheng was complaining, Fox Father from the neighboring restaurant suddenly spotted a glimmer of hope, his eyes brightening as he ran towards the dining table with Fox Mother on his back.

"Whimper—"

Fox Father leaped forward, carrying Fox Mother to land on the dining table seventy centimeters off the ground, then lay sideways to unload Fox Mother onto the table.

"....."

Fox Father lay on the table's rotating tray, panting heavily with his tongue out, looked at Ansheng with a complex expression.

It's as if saying: Look! Your mom.

"Whimper～"

Fox Mother got up from the table, "whimpered," then ambled over to Ansheng, nuzzling his neck, rested her head on top of Ansheng's, and looked at Ah Qing with a playful expression as if showing off.

"On this matter, I agree with you, Huhu indeed has a fine appearance."

Ah Qing nodded in agreement, endorsing Fox Mother's claim of 'being great at birthing'.

"Brother Fuli!"

Before the person appeared, Lin Tongshu's bouncing figure burst into the restaurant, looking excitedly at Master Fuli squatting on the dining table.

"I saw a pair of super cute swallows, come help me see if they've become spirits."

Lin Tongshu rummaged through the puff skirt, took out a mini tablet, and started operating on it.

"....Sometimes, I really want to lift you high and shake you vigorously." Ansheng looked at Lin Tongshu and complained.

"Lift high? Although you're my big brother and granduncle by seniority, we elementary school kids don't buy it."

Lin Tongshu paused, not catching Master Fuli's sarcasm, simply thought he was praising her for being cute, and raised the tablet.

"Big brother, take a look at this nest of swallows at my place..."

In the video.

A pair of Golden-waisted Swallows were standing on a massive stone monument arguing, and beside their feet lay a collapsed swallow nest.

The source of dispute between the swallows was simply due to the newly built nest falling to the ground.

The video was captured by surveillance cameras, offering no clarity on the duration of their bickering.

Because in the next clip, the new nest was already rebuilt, astonishing both Ansheng and Ah Qing watching the video.

The originally mud-made nest was now a steel-reinforced concrete structure, welded under the eaves.

Moreover, the pair of swallows procured an electric blanket from somewhere, directly plastered it on the wall, tightly wrapping their newly built nest for warmth.

Later, the Golden-waisted Swallow couple spent the night and left the nest before dawn, returned in the evening with two hundred RMB in the female bird's beak and a super long cable extension in the male's beak.

The couple flew to the window sill, pecking energetically at the tempered glass window.

Lin Tongshu appeared in the video with a look of astonishment at the cash and electrical plug.

"I don't know exactly what they're saying, but it feels like they're back early, feeling cold, so they want an electric blanket to warm the nest... "

After showing off the swallows at home, Lin Tongshu contemplated, "But I also think these swallows might have become spirits, fearing they might be unsafe at home, so I'm asking big brother for your advice.... "

"If it's safe, I'll bring them home, so they don't have to bother migrating."

The Golden-waisted Swallows, cute and chubby, might seem like a dream come true with their soft, dark eyes that might beg like coy beauties.

Lin Tongshu really liked them, and if she could raise them, she'd bring them home right away, applying the entrancing methods of a wealthy loli.

The home system with five constant tempering offers a caretaker, meals of moths, grasshoppers, and mealworms daily.

Ensuring that within a week, the swallows might forget belonging to migratory birds and could stand at the window sill, exclaiming with lament:

{"Here dwells bliss unaware of change....}

"The wandering swallows..... oops, wild swallows can be taken home if you want to raise them."

Ansheng scratched his head, said: "That pair of Golden-waisted Swallow couple... how do I say it? I suspect their nature to be 'birds never enslaved unless provided with free meals and lodging.' You spoon-feed them some mealworms, and they get muddled."

Although the weather has been erratic in recent years, the Golden-waisted Swallows missed their migration period, returning together as two clumsy birds to Xia Dong.

This look doesn't seem smart; bringing them home shouldn't be a problem.

Just occasionally observe if the Golden-waisted Swallows might drool...

"That's great, I'll tell Grandpa." Lin Tongshu cheered excitedly, turned around, tucked the tablet into her skirt, and with a "snap" sound of magnetic attraction, headed outside the restaurant.

Ansheng: "....."

So the skirt hoops have magnetic attraction, huh!

"Ridiculous! On a holiday, how can you trouble the grandpa with such matters..."

Great Elder Lin Wu's chastising voice came from afar, grabbed Lin Tongshu with a finger-pointing lecture.

Accompanied by a middle-aged couple, scar-faced Lin Wu appeared in the restaurant seated in a wheelchair, Lin Tongshu wore a pouty expression following beside him.

"Aren't you able to run and jump, even fight the Beast Warriors for a couple of rounds?"

Ansheng looked puzzled at Lin Wu, then glanced at his electric wheelchair.

Ansheng had initially wanted to ridicule him; appearing half-dead slouched in the wheelchair, yet during an assassination attempt, Lin Wu was able to carry and run with the wheelchair.

In the passageway, he'd even shot a Beast Warrior, participating in the entire Lin Manor defense battle, helped drag corpses to the lake for fish feed afterwards.

"Me? Rheumatic arthritis, a chronic issue....." Lin Wu helplessly patted his knee:

"Popping painkillers will let me walk a few steps, not popping them, as soon as my feet touch the ground, my adrenaline surges like a superhero symptom...."