Continuation 66: Empress's Seal

After lunch, Yan Qingcheng thanked Qin Yanan for her warm hospitality and headed to Baolong Center to discuss tutoring arrangements before school started with Zhong Qing.

Liu Chang'an teaching Zhu Juntang did not directly help improve Zhu Juntang's grades. For tutoring related to her coursework, Yan Qingcheng was still needed.

When ordinary people ate their fill, more blood flowed to their stomachs, making them sleepy. Since Shangguan Dandan and Zhou Dongdong had eaten far more than ordinary people, all the blood in their bodies had concentrated in their stomachs to aid digestion, leaving their brains temporarily unable to function properly. They looked dim-witted and bleary-eyed, so Qin Yanan arranged for them to take a nap in the guest room.

Liu Chang'an had no plans for the afternoon. He would not squeeze into a bed with Shangguan Dandan and Zhou Dongdong, much less go rest in Qin Yanan's bed.

He turned on the television and watched all sorts of news, the myriad facets of life in this world.

Far fewer people watched television now than online videos, let alone news programs... Most people got their information about breaking events through all kinds of smart-device apps.

After casually flipping through several foreign channels, Liu Chang'an felt that the greatest gap between his country and foreign nations—the thing that seemed most unattainable, even beyond any real confidence of surpassing—was the press and football.

It was quite something to make the Chinese, who dared proclaim that they would remake heaven and earth, feel powerless and lose confidence.

Interesting.

Liu Chang'an found a nature program and began watching it with interest. It was about a special ecosystem formed after a meteorite impact crater in a primeval forest connected with underground caverns.

The ecosystem of the primeval forest had already been extraordinarily rich and diverse. After