Li Zhiyuan picked up the pencil and quickly sketched a sloppy fish in the notebook.
The tip of the pencil gently tapped on the body of the fish without stopping.
In fact, there were many things he could do such as using Arrays, Feng Shui, and Qi Family’s chanical Tricks among other techniques to seek a more forceful solution.
It seed challenging, but he wasn’t planning to tear down the house, just to drill a hole in the corner of the wall—the feasibility was quite high.
No matter what the principles of this environnt are, having studied it, he could try to poke around.
Li Zhiyuan thought to himself as he looked at the "fish" in front of him:
"Do you also wish for to do this?"
This fish had baited itself onto his hook.
Its subjectivity was a problem that couldn’t be ignored, yet this problem was two-sided because you couldn’t confirm which side reflected its intention and which side was its deliberate guidance.
When faced with such a situation, there was one thod to ensure a baseline; that was to disregard its existence and intention, and you just need to stick to the original plan that you believe is right and proceed unwaveringly.
Li Zhiyuan closed the notebook.
Run Sheng spoke, "Xiao Yuan, I’m worried about Binbin. If he really is encountering so issues, I’m afraid he won’t be able to handle it alone."
"Brother Runsheng, I have more confidence in Brother Binbin."
Run Sheng nodded in disagreent.
Li Zhiyuan: "Yin ng might be better in terms of physical skills than Brother Binbin, but when it cos to special environnts, Brother Binbin is better at utilizing the environnt than Yin ng."
"Xiao Yuan, you are right."
"Alright, Brother Runsheng, worrying about them now is pointless. We should focus our energy on what needs to be done."
"Xiao Yuan, you tell us, what should we do now?"
"According to my estimate, we should still have a pretty long window of opportunity right now. What we need to do is to lessen this window period and accelerate the occurrence of future events.
For instance... let Uncle Xue celebrate his fiftieth birthday ahead of ti."
...
Lunch was still abundant.
During the al, Li Zhiyuan took the initiative to say, "Uncle Xue, Aunt Xue, after lunch Run Sheng and I are going out to sketch in nature, and we might co back late, so don’t wait for us for dinner."
Mr. Xue was surprised, "That late?"
"Yeah, I want to draw for a bit longer, it would be useful for class."
Mrs. Xue asked Mr. Xue doubtfully, "Why didn’t our Liangliang ever paint?"
Li Zhiyuan explained, "Although Brother Liangliang and I are at the sa university, we’re in different majors, and so courses require individual selection."
"Oh, I see," Mrs. Xue nodded but still added, "It’s ok, wait for you guys to co back for dinner."
Mr. Xue countered, "Don’t wait; it’ll make the kids anxious, they won’t be able to concentrate on painting.
Like this, Xiao Yuan, it doesn’t matter how late you co back, but you must be careful. I’ll leave the door for you, and the food will be left in the pot. When you co back, you can heat it on the stove and eat."
"Thank you, Uncle Xue, Aunt Xue."
"Hehe, what are you thanking us for, kid? We consider you as our own child."
After the al, Li Zhiyuan and Run Sheng left the house.
Mrs. Xue cleaned up the dishes and cutlery and said to her husband, "Should I... go play cards, then?"
With guests at ho, normal leisure activities had to be halted so as not to neglect the guests.
"Go ahead, the kids won’t be back until later anyway," Mr. Xue waved his hand, "I’m going to take a nap too, then go for tea and storytelling."
Mrs. Xue took off her apron, grabbed so change, and left the house with a bounce in her step.
Mr. Xue went upstairs, entered the bedroom, turned on the electric fan, lied down on the bed, and started his nap.
The courtyard door was already unlocked when it was pushed open; Li Zhiyuan and Run Sheng had returned.
They didn’t waste their trip outside. Li Zhiyuan had bought so stuff from the shop and gestured Run Sheng to dilute it in water according to proportions.
Then, he went upstairs first, ca to Mr. Xue’s bedroom door, heard the even snoring from inside, and knew that Mr. Xue had fallen asleep.
He opened the bedroom door quietly, walked in, and Li Zhiyuan took out a Heart Clearing Charm, sticking it on Mr. Xue’s forehead.
At this mont, Mr. Xue entered an even deeper state of sleep.
Li Zhiyuan’s right hand ford a loose fist, and he tapped his ring finger’s knuckle on Mr. Xue’s forehead.
The deep sleep, along with the waking effect of finger tremor resonance, created a hedge.
Mr. Xue’s eyelids began to quiver slightly.
Li Zhiyuan tapped again, and Mr. Xue’s eyelids opened a sliver, revealing the eyes behind them.
That was about right; it was similar to a "lucid dream," where he was sleeping but also had a certain awareness of his surroundings.
This state wouldn’t last too long, so Li Zhiyuan had to work quickly.
He put his mouth close to Mr. Xue’s ear and began to speak in an inducing tone:
"The Great Way birthed the fifty, while Heaven operates forty-nine; celebrate birthdays unrounded, and children’s blessings will be fine;
A month’s shortfall in the cycle’s wholeness, offspring arrive to fill the abyss.
I, a wandering Daoist across the seas, pass by the Xue household, where I hear pure family traditions, Mr. Xue is talented, thus I bestow this note upon you.
Celebrate the birthday early, do not covet completeness, or else your son’s marital fate will miss its timing, and the descendants of the Xue family will not thrive."
Li Zhiyuan repeated the above words several tis in succession.
Once Run Sheng entered with a bowl of water and a brush, Li Zhiyuan quickly got up to join him, dipped the brush into the prepared mixture, and wrote the ssage on the floor and walls.
Having listened to the elderly couple’s night conversation the previous night, he knew full well their main concern was Brother Liangliang’s marital issues and when they could embrace grandchildren.
Requesting Mr. Xue to celebrate his fiftieth birthday a month earlier, given this pain point, should be a small issue.
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