Scheming (Revised)
Take the loaches out of the puddle and put them in clean water. Add a few drops of oil and let them expel the mud and sand. Zhou Dongdong has fed these loaches until they are plump and tender. Loaches are very nutritious, especially good for men. They contain several times more vitamins than ordinary fish and shrimp, and contain unsaturated fatty acids, so you don't have to worry about gaining weight from eating them.
Oil-drenched loach is not very common in Junsha. Liu Chang'an prepared spices, ginger, and garlic, stir-fried them, and then poured in chili oil, heating it until it boiled. Then he poured the loach in layer by layer, cooking the garlic slices, ginger slices, and red peppers mixed with the loach. This resulted in a tender, smooth, and sweet oil-drenched loach.
After finishing dinner, Zhou Dongdong bit her fingers, making sure they tasted salty and dirty and didn't taste good, then she happily finished sweeping the floor, carried her little airplane wings back home to take a shower.
Liu Chang'an went home, pulled up an electric cord and a power strip, and brought the charger to the train carriage.
"The baby's broken again."
This time, Liu Chang'an didn't have to put in much effort; Shangguan Dandan actually took the initiative to speak.
Liu Chang'an pulled the power cord through the peephole, twisted it up, connected it to the power strip, plugged in the charger, and then said to Shangguan Dandan, "Its name is cell phone."
Anyway Shangguan Dandan has already started using a mobile phone. Sooner or later she will understand that although a mobile phone is a treasure comparable to her coffin, almost everyone outside has one.
However, Liu Chang'an did not feel that he had deceived her. It was like some people who bought a rare treasure for 100 million spirit stones, and after they ascended to heaven, they found that everyone in the upper realm had the same rare treasure. Would that rare treasure not be worth 100 million spirit stones in the lower realm? Of course it was.
Shangguan Dandan didn't say anything more. After Liu Chang'an told her how to charge the car, he left the carriage.
Liu Chang'an originally taught Shangguan Dandan so that one day after she left the coffin, she could more directly understand and integrate into modern life, and be mentally prepared so that her worldview wouldn't be shattered by the Lu Li and wonderful things of modern life.
However, passive learning is never as efficient as self-directed learning. After getting a mobile phone with internet access, she would actively or passively come into contact with all kinds of knowledge and experiences whenever she entered the online world.
As for whether it would affect her personality and character, Liu Chang'an didn't care much. Such things were not worth worrying about. In the long course of life, it is difficult for a person to maintain the same mindset and style of doing things. For example, the emperor two thousand years ago and the high school student two thousand years later have some things in common, but simply put, their attitudes toward relationships and matters between men and women are already very different.
A person who doesn't study is worse than a pig.
Liu Chang'an tossed Shangguan Dandan a cell phone to help her learn. This was the best way to get started with modern society. It was like a complex game. Once you entered the game world, all sorts of settings would make you dizzy, but as long as you started playing or chose a game content to play, you would gradually come into contact with all sorts of information and gradually master it.
Liu Chang'an felt that he had already taken good care of Shangguan Dandan. After all, the fact that their relationship could continue two thousand years later was something even Liu Chang'an found a bit strange, especially since the two of them had indeed established a stepmother and stepson relationship.
Liu Chang'an cared about Ye Sijin and Qin Peng, and of course he also cared about Shangguan Dandan. Even though they hadn't spent much time together, the Empress of Chang Le Wei Yang, after becoming the Empress Dowager, still rode around in her little carriage, which was quite adorable.
Some things you can ignore, but some things you can care about. Life is about making random choices; there's no need for sufficient or necessary reasons, or any vested interests.
Liu Chang'an was preparing to crush all the broken bricks from the last wall demolition into dust. After observing the asphalt mixture exposed today, he felt the aesthetic appeal of the rough material style and planned to make use of all these brick fragments.
To put it simply, it's about saving money and making use of waste.
Qin Yanan called. He had just turned on his phone, accepted "Qingwu Feiyang's" verification, and replied to An Nuan's message scolding him for not turning his phone on. Then, this call that had just come in... he didn't answer.
Not answering didn't seem to make much difference. Liu Chang'an was wearing coarse white gloves and was hammering bricks when Qin Yanan and Zhu Juntang actually came to find Liu Chang'an together.
"What's up?" Liu Chang'an continued smashing bricks.
"It's nothing." Zhu Juntang swayed back and forth, pulling at her skirt. Cute girls need lots of little gestures to be cute, even if it's just an act, it's still cute.
"Then help me break the bricks." Liu Chang'an pointed to the bricks at his feet and said. That's how it is in old neighborhoods. If you tear down a wall in your own home, the property management won't care. You can just pile bricks on the road and no one will care. There are no homeowners in the neighborhood who will angrily criticize you for being rude.
"Me?" Zhu Juntang looked at Liu Chang'an in disbelief. "I'd be more like you if I smashed you with a brick."
"Then you're amazing."
Qin Yanan looked at Liu Chang'an calmly, her eyes filled with a complex mix of emotions, as if she didn't know what to say.
"You've had your phone off all day?" Qin Yanan's tone was casual, but her gaze fell on Zhu Juntang. Zhu Juntang had squatted down and was watching Liu Chang'an smashing bricks. For this rich young lady, this mundane task only piqued her curiosity because it was Liu Chang'an doing it. Was this the real-life version of the internet slang term "brick-moving"?
"Forgot."
"It's perfectly normal for you to turn your phone off or forget to turn it on."
"Certainly."
"Could it be that it's sometimes inconvenient to turn on the computer?"
"Sometimes it's like airplane mode, for example, when I'm engrossed in a novel, or when I see a beautiful girl..."
Zhu Juntang asked in confusion, "Then why is your phone on now? And not in airplane mode?"
Zhu Juntang readily accepted that she was a beautiful young woman, belonging to one of the categories Liu Chang'an described. As for why she would put her phone into airplane mode when she saw a beautiful young woman, that was secondary.
"Because I have no interest in secretly filming you." Liu Chang'an waved his hand. "Go play somewhere else. If you're not going to help, then don't block my way."
"You... Pah, who would believe you! If you're so lewd, how could any girl like you!" Zhu Juntang was furious and simply concluded that Liu Chang'an was lying. She couldn't accept that he would be so lewd as to secretly take pictures of others but not of her.
"You even turn on airplane mode when secretly filming others? Are you afraid that a phone call will come in while you're filming, preventing you from capturing the crucial moments?" Qin Yanan asked, looking at her "little cousin."
"Just saying." Liu Chang'an looked at Qin Yanan. "Are you all idiots? This is obviously just an excuse I made up to avoid the awkwardness of directly saying I can't be bothered with you. You insist on making me tell the truth, doesn't that feel awkward?"
Zhu Juntang grabbed a brick from in front of Liu Chang'an and threw it into the puddle as revenge. She clapped her hands, then pulled Qin Yanan along, saying, "Let's go, I'm so angry!"
"Elder brother."
Qin Yanan didn't move, but simply brushed the strands of hair from her cheek with her fingers, and softly called out a name with gentle affection.