novelraw Chapter 256 If you keep competing with her, no wonder you'll never catch up.
Chapter 256 If you keep competing with her, no wonder you'll never catch up.
At this moment, Gu Wenqian also came downstairs with her books. Hearing her sister's words, she angrily scolded her:
"You dare to criticize me with your near-bottom grades? Even when I didn't study hard in school, I was still much better than you!"
"Yes, Wenqian, you should set an example for her! Get into university next year and show her!"
Zheng Lihong also sided with her eldest daughter. Recently, apart from rehearsing and performing, her daughter has spent all her time reviewing her schoolwork, which Zheng Lihong found a bit distressing.
"Mom, you're being unfair!" Gu Wenxi pouted, looking aggrieved.
"Fine, I'll be biased. Then you can't eat the braised pig's trotters I made for lunch!" This was her youngest daughter's favorite dish, so Gu Wenxi immediately put away her grievances and became a subservient puppy.
"Mom is the best! She loves me the most! Hehehe!"
Tong Yuheng laughed as she watched the mother and her two daughters bickering and interacting. She also felt a little homesick!
Perhaps it was a telepathic connection between family members, because Tong Jiahui and Yu Yao came to see her in the afternoon.
Yuyao reported on her work over the past period. Tong Jiahui came along because she was worried about the second child, since Yuyao was pregnant!
"Hahaha! This is wonderful!" Tong Yuheng was overjoyed.
"Give the task of contacting Flying Immortal City to someone else. Don't use that mysterious power now, who knows if it will affect the child."
"Why don't you just take leave and stay home until you give birth..." Tong Yuheng even planned to let her take leave until the child turned one year old.
"Sister, I'm doing fine now, as long as I don't go on any dangerous missions. For the next while, I'll be a military dependent, doing some clerical work. I can also keep an eye on the people coming out of Feixian City."
"That's fine too. You can decide for yourself. But it's better to give birth in Qingshi County. There are more family members there to take care of you and the baby. Don't overwork yourself. If you can't take your salary, I can approve a long leave for you."
"Don't worry, big sister, I'm fine now. I'll take another leave when my pregnancy is more advanced." Yu Yao didn't want to be separated from her husband for too long. In the few months since their marriage, the couple had been living a blissful life, and Chen Linfeng had taken good care of her.
"Don't be too stingy with money, we're not short of cash!" Yuyao was well-behaved and sensible from a young age, and was the most thrifty among her sisters, never spending money recklessly.
When Yuyao got married, Tong Yuheng prepared a generous dowry for her, including gold bars and jewelry left by her great-grandmother, a portion of the family's profits from making medicinal herbs, some nice things she had bought for her, and a considerable amount of cash.
Tong Yuyao kept all these things in her storage bag without telling Chen Linfeng. She only told him that in addition to the visible dowry, her family had given her some more. Both of them had high salaries, so she kept them because she didn't need them for the time being.
When their little family needs money in the future, she will take out more. Chen Linfeng doesn't care about these things and gives her all his savings to manage. After they got married, they were both busy with their own lives and didn't get to see each other often. Every time she went there, she would stay in the original military family compound for a few days.
"What's your situation now?" Tong Jiahui was also concerned about her eldest daughter. Didn't she come back to join the army because she wanted to have a child?
"There's nothing going on yet, haha. Mom, whether we have this baby or not depends on fate. It'll come when it's meant to! If we all have babies around the same time, you won't have time to take care of it all."
"Then I'll put you two together and take care of you. Yuyao will go back first in a few days, and when I have my vacation, I'll take Linlang to her place and stay for a month or two!"
Tong Jiahui felt sorry for her second son-in-law who had no parents, so she wanted to go and take care of him more. When Yuyao gave birth, she would definitely make sure she came back to her parents' home to recuperate.
"Haha, Mom, you'd better keep a close eye on those two rascals, or they'll dig up all the rat holes in our compound!" Yu Yao thought of Xiao Ba and Xiao Jiu and felt a headache coming on!
"Mom, don't take them over there. Leave them with me! I'll take care of disciplining them!" Tong Yuheng had long wanted to discipline his two younger sisters.
"Hahaha! Okay, go ahead and clean them up, those two little rascals are really naughty!"
Linlang: Oh no! Our wonderful holiday is going to turn into military training!
Yuyao returned to her original unit, this time as a family member. She no longer had to rush around collecting articles, and she still had to keep writing and revising articles when she returned to her post.
The liaison assigned to Tong Yuheng is Ding Xiaopeng, one of the first batch of ancient martial arts warriors she trained. He's now a grandmaster-level expert, and he even had an internal competition with his fellow disciples to compete for this opportunity!
Everyone knows there are many benefits to following the eldest sister. When they heard that Junior Sister Yuyao was pregnant and could no longer travel between the two places, they had to choose a new liaison officer, and everyone started vying for the position. In the end, he won and got the job.
"Hehe, Senior Sister! Ding Xiaopeng reporting for duty!"
"What, you're not going to be the group leader but instead running errands for me? Are you eyeing my pills?" Tong Yuheng knew exactly what he was thinking.
"Hehe, Senior Sister, I've been stuck at the beginner level of Grandmaster for a long time. Do you have any ideas?"
"You're too impatient. Our group only just entered the Grandmaster realm, right? You're already much faster than them. Didn't I say that haste makes waste?"
"Hehe, I am a little impatient. Seeing that Zhu Zhu and Xin Xin are already better than me, I'm getting a bit anxious..."
"Why are you in such a hurry? Chasing a girl isn't about running fast or having great kung fu skills! If you keep competing with her, it's no wonder you'll never catch up!"
Tong Yuheng looked down on him, thinking he was incredibly stupid; at this rate, other girls would have been married off long ago.
Zhu Xinxin was also one of their group of ancient martial arts warriors. She was talented and progressed quickly, and had already advanced to the middle level of Martial Grandmaster. She was one of the best among them and was responsible for leading a group.
Everyone can see that Ding Xiaopeng likes Zhu Xinxin. However, Zhu Xinxin dislikes him for his poor communication skills and his constant arguing with her!
"I just don't know how to talk to her, and I didn't mean to upset her..."
"Alright, alright, if it's nothing serious, you can go back now. Go on your missions and don't hang around in front of me! From now on, just give me a call to report every month!"
"Your senior sister is currently in seclusion, or even in retreat. It's hard for me to explain why you're coming so often. Come only if it's something important! Getting your wife is the priority!"
Tong Yuheng tossed him a bottle of bone-strengthening pills and sent him away.
In the days that followed, she continued to intensify her cultivation and began to rarely go out, spending most of her time in the secret realm.
That day, the family members without stable jobs were gathered for a meeting. Tong Yuheng also came out of his spatial dimension and listened with everyone as Zheng Lihong relayed the arrangements from above.
"We recently had a temporary group work assignment to dig drainage ditches, which will greatly improve the environment of our residential area!"