TCFSRMR |Chapter 11

Shi Ying woke up to a chorus of clucking chickens.

Rubbing her eyes as she sat up, she only then realized how quiet the room was. It was because Shi Guoan and Miao Xiuxiu had already gone off to work in the fields.

Her older brother Shi Heng was still lying quietly beside her.

She had thought Shi Heng was asleep, but when she lowered her head to look, she found that Shi Heng was actually awake. His eyes were vacant, and his expression was completely blank.

Shi Ying reached out and pushed Shi Heng. Before she even had time to speak, a little girl with two crooked little pigtails poked her head in from outside. After her gaze met Shi Ying’s, the little girl became a little shy, pressed her lips together, and softly called, “Sister.”

Shi Ying instantly turned bright red. Even though she had only just stepped into this home, the feeling of home here was too strong, so Shi Ying naturally slept extremely soundly. On top of that, after Miao Xiuxiu and Shi Guoan felt sorry for their daughter, they only wanted her to sleep a little longer, and when they got up they deliberately lightened their movements, which made Shi Ying and Shi Heng end up being the latest risers among the children.

And it had actually come to the point where a five- or six-year-old little girl had to come wake her up.

She hurriedly flipped over and got out of bed, and the little girl had already trotted over and handed Shi Ying her shoes.

“Thank you, little sister, I’ll do it myself.” Shi Ying took the shoes while putting them on and asked the little girl, “Are you Nannan or Beibei?”

There were too many people yesterday, and Shi Ying only knew these two little girls were the twins from Third Uncle Shi Guoliang’s family.

The two little girls, identical like copied and pasted, were really adorable.

Thinking that, she picked up the little girl and kissed her once.

Clearly not expecting Shi Ying to kiss her, the little girl immediately blushed scarlet. She also obviously liked being kissed by Shi Ying very much, so she pressed her lips together and stole a glance at Shi Ying.

“I’m Nannan…”

After saying that, she shyly ran outside, then stopped halfway and pointed with her little hand to the left side of her own eyebrow.

“Nannan has a mole here… Beibei doesn’t…”

Before Shi Ying could even see clearly, Shi Nan had already da-da run out.

After putting on her shoes, Shi Ying leaned over to look at Shi Heng. Just as she was about to speak, 001’s voice sounded in her ear.

“Baby, don’t disturb your brother.”

Shi Ying was stunned for a moment and didn’t react right away to what it meant.

001’s voice followed.

“Heng Bao is just like Baby, also a genius.”

Future interstellar civilization classified intelligence more scientifically. According to their child-rearing philosophy, a child not doing their best was only because they had not found a field suited to them. Once their future direction was determined, they could gradually develop the relevant brain domain, and in the end, everyone could do their best in the field they were good at.

So in the eyes of interstellar people, all children were genius little cuties.

As for genius babies and the like, Shi Ying took them in one ear and out the other. After all, when the system praised her like that back then, Shi Ying thought she had gotten a real-life upgrade after crossing over. It was only after she saw those science and engineering books that she understood she was still just her, and had really not evolved into a genius.

And yet she was still happy because of 001’s words. “You mean, you found something my brother likes for me? What is it?”

It should be drawing. Compared with this era, the colors of the future interstellar world were undoubtedly more brilliant and varied, and all kinds of easy-to-get tutorials were also dazzlingly diverse. At first glance, Shi Ying had been attracted by them.

Besides, in her memory, someone in her previous life had also researched this, saying that many children with autism were especially sensitive to numbers or colors.

The reason she hadn’t guessed numbers was entirely because of Shi Ying herself.

They were biological siblings, after all. There was no reason for her to be a complete beginner in science, while Shi Heng was amazing beyond belief.

She hadn’t expected the system to give her an answer that was beyond Shi Ying’s expectations.

“Not drawing, it’s numbers.”

“Heng Bao read books all night yesterday…”

The moment it connected to the system, all the books could unfold in her mind. Although it was a forcibly adjusted childcare system, 001 was also trying hard to be more qualified, and specially thoughtfully adjusted the interstellar writing into the common writing used now.

Although the Chinese books with pretty illustrations were more interesting, Shi Heng clearly wasn’t interested. He only kept flipping through science books with numbers and all kinds of principle diagrams.

“Numbers, huh…” Shi Ying let out a long exclamation. Looking at Shi Heng, whose gaze still had no focus, she was both shocked and admiring. So Shi Heng was actually this amazing?

With this sort of reverent feeling, she also didn’t dare disturb Shi Heng, and tiptoed toward the door. She had just reached out to pull it open when Shi Heng’s eyes suddenly turned toward her. Seeing Shi Ying about to leave, he didn’t think twice before getting up from the bed.

Shi Ying sensed something was wrong and turned back. Just in time, she saw Shi Heng following behind with his head lowered. He hadn’t even put on his shoes, and had actually followed her out barefoot.

She hurriedly grabbed Shi Heng, pressed him to sit on the chair, and brought his shoes over.

“Brother, you have to remember, you can’t run outside without shoes on, or if you hurt your foot it’ll be trouble… There, like this, put them on…”

After putting one shoe on Shi Heng, she was just about to take the other one when Shi Heng slowly stretched out his hand.

Shi Ying was stunned for a moment and handed over the black cloth shoe with a square mouth and thick hemp sole in her hand. Shi Heng indeed lifted his foot and stepped into it.

“It’s not on properly yet.” Seeing him stand up and leave, Shi Ying hurriedly pulled him back again, crouched down, and helped pull out the heel that had been stepped down.

Just as she stood up and was about to lead Shi Heng out, she heard a somewhat familiar voice.

“Oh my, Beibei…”

When Shi Ying came out, she immediately frowned. It was actually Shi Dahai, who had only been driven out by his father yesterday, squatting in front of Third Uncle’s twin girls, wanting to pick up the little girl on the left.

There was obvious blood on the outstretched right hand.

The two little girls were obviously frightened and both shrank back.

“Nannan, Beibei, come here.” Shi Ying called out loudly.

At the same time, a piercing alarm sounded in her mind.

“Danger, danger.”

As an environmental monitoring system, it was most sensitive to smells in the air. At this moment, it had clearly detected from that man’s body a hormone smell that absolutely should not appear in front of such young children.

Only then did the two little girls come to their senses. Just as they were about to run, Shi Dahai, quick-eyed and quick-handed, directly grabbed one of them. He actually ignored Shi Ying entirely, and holding the child, he wanted to go toward the room where Shi Guoliang lived.

“Uncle cut his hand, do you have medicine in your house? Hurry and find some to sprinkle on Uncle…”

But after only a few steps, a whooshing sound came from behind him. Shi Dahai reflexively dodged to the side, and a machete slipped from someone’s grasp, just in time to smash onto the back of Shi Dahai’s foot.

In pain, Shi Dahai cried out, “Ah!” and when he looked down, he saw blood seeping out from the top of his foot.

Shi Ying, however, turned around and ran. Shi Dahai thought she was scared, but Shi Ying had run into the kitchen and grabbed another kitchen knife.

“Put my sister down!”

Shi Dahai had really never seen this kind of scene before, and immediately felt a little dazed. It wasn’t until he had awkwardly retreated out of Shi Guoan’s little courtyard that Shi Dahai realized he had actually been scared by a little girl.

Enraged, he cursed nonstop, but he also didn’t dare go in again. Just as he turned to leave, he happened to catch sight of a little girl standing in front of the neighboring courtyard gate.

During the busy farming season like this, not to mention adults, even someone like Shi Ting, who was twelve or thirteen, had to go into the fields to work. The reason Shi Ting had been home yesterday was mainly because Shi Heng had something wrong with his brain, and the family was afraid something would happen, so they had left Shi Ting at home to keep an eye on these children.

Now, seeing with their own eyes that Shi Heng was obediently by Shi Ying’s side, the whole family, including Shi Ting, had all gone to the fields to cut wheat.

Shi Dajun’s family was the same. At the moment, only his six-year-old daughter, Shi Juan, was at home watching the gate.

Seeing Shi Dahai limping over while cursing, Shi Juan was obviously a little scared. She backed away several steps, then suddenly burst into loud tears with a “wah.”

Shi Dahai was already somewhat irritable. Seeing her cry, he stepped forward and picked Shi Juan up again.

“Why the hell are you crying? Your uncle isn’t dead yet. Come on, go into the house and find me some medicine…”

He had only taken a few steps when he felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly turned back to look. It turned out that Shi Guoan’s damned daughter was standing at the courtyard gate with a kitchen knife in her hand, coldly looking at him. Behind Shi Ying was Shi Heng, who stood there like a gate god.

Shi Dahai’s brain seemed to stall out. Clearly he was an adult, and she was just a skinny little girl, but for some reason, he just felt a chill in his heart.

In the end, he put Shi Juan down too, then cursed as he left.

Seeing her crying so miserably, Shi Ying took Shi Nan and Shi Bei over, grabbed her hand, and said, “Juanjuan, come play at our house.”

While saying this, she could not stop feeling a wave of anger, and exchanged thoughts with the system in her mind.

“This Shi Dahai is just too hateful. Can we give him some punishment?”

The system had also been so angry just now that it almost stalled out. Hearing Shi Ying’s words now, it nodded without hesitation.

“Okay, wait for me to mix up some medicine…”

It was once again lamenting why it was not a real childcare system, otherwise it could have already given Shi Dahai a lesson he would never forget. Fortunately, as an environmental monitoring system, it had collected some good stuff before. Besides punishing Shi Dahai, the system also wanted to directly send that scum to prison.