Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang spent the whole day on the land they bought here with Si Xi and Wu Fu.
If it weren't for the lack of beds and bedding in the bedroom, they would have stayed here for the night.
As they were leaving, Xia Chujian said to Xia Yuanfang, "How much longer will the renovation take? I can't wait to move into our new home."
Xia Yuanfang said, "Don't even think about it. We'll talk about it after your National Higher Education Entrance Examination is over."
Xia Chujian: "...Can't we come here for a vacation on weekends?"
"I think you're getting carried away. Do you even have weekends to take vacations now? Shouldn't you be dedicating all your time to studying? You have the National Higher Education Entrance Examination in three months!" Xia Yuanfang wanted to pinch her ear and teach her a lesson.
Xia Chujian didn't dare to make any more requests, and quickly stood on the other side of Aunt Chen, holding Wu Fu.
As before, Aunt Chen took Xia Yuanfang and Xia Chujian, along with Wu Fu and Si Xi, back to their home in Mulan City.
By this time, it was already dark.
As Xia Chujian and her family came out of the elevator, they happened to meet their neighbor across the hall, Mr. Yu, who was taking his big black dog for a walk.
"Hello, Ms. Xia, are you just getting back? It's dark outside, you should come back earlier in the future..." Mr. Yu muttered, pulling his dog into the elevator.
Xia Yuanfang nodded politely: "Are you taking the dog for a walk again? Does your dog need to be walked twice a day?"
"Yes, once a day when it's cold. Now that it's warmer, it needs to go out twice!"
He gestured for his big black dog to greet them.
But the dog cowered behind Mr. Yu, not daring to come out at all, no longer having the fierce look of baring its teeth like before.
Si Xi still looked scared, shrinking and trembling in Xia Chujian's arms.
Xia Chujian patted its furry back: "Si Xi, don't be afraid, this big dog brother won't dare to bully you."
Mr. Yu:"...".
However, he looked at the foot-long puppy in Xia Chujian's arms, then looked at his own dog's half-person-high size, touched his nose, and closed the elevator door with an embarrassed smile.
Wu Fu waited for the elevator door to close before letting out a sigh of relief, pointing at the elevator door and saying, "Doggy! Big doggy!"
Wu Fu then looked at Si Xi and said, "...Little doggy."
He also stretched out his chubby little hand to gesture.
Si Xi looked at him blankly, sticking out its little tongue, wanting to lick his little hand.
Wu Fu quickly retracted his hand, leaned on Xia Yuanfang's shoulder, and giggled.
Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang smiled at each other, feeling that the years were peaceful as they looked at the silent corridor.
They had returned after dinner, and after arriving home, they busied themselves with showering and washing clothes.
Housekeeping Robot Liu Shun probably hadn't seen them all day, and was particularly attentive, gliding back and forth.
It helped Xia Yuanfang wash clothes, helped Xia Chujian get slippers, even cleaned Small Dog Si Xi's food bowl, took off Wu Fu's coat, and took Wu Fu and Si Xi to the living room to play with toys.
Xia Chujian went to take a shower first.
After taking a shower, she sat in the living room, petting the dog while asking Liu Shun, "Liu Shun, was there anything unusual at home today?"
Liu Shun turned its semi-circular mechanical head left and right, indicating no: "No."
Xia Chujian was about to turn on the TV to watch some news when she saw Liu Shun glide two steps towards her, come to the side of her seat, and whisper, "Master, Liu Shun heard the neighbors across the hall arguing today."
Xia Chujian looked at it with mixed feelings, not knowing whether to be surprised by the gossipy nature of a housekeeping robot, or to be more concerned about the gossip of the neighbors arguing across the hall.
She weighed it for a second, and still asked reservedly, "What were they arguing about? Did you hear it?"
Liu Shun nodded: "Heard it."
Saying that, it pressed a button and played a recording of the argument across the hall.
Only a slightly low alto female voice was heard saying: "...Our daughter has such good grades, she definitely has to get into the number one Beichen University in the Beichen Empire!"
Then a man's voice, obviously that of Mr. Yu, said: "Yu Wangyou is an adult, she can apply to whatever university she wants, it's not your place to speak!"
The woman said angrily: "Why can't I speak? Don't you know that Yu Wangyou wants to go to military academy! But is a military academy a place for a girl like our Yu Wangyou to be?!"
"Yu Wangyou can go to whatever university she wants, why are you, you stinky woman, yapping about it?"
Then came a burst of chaotic, wailing sounds, probably the couple were fighting.
Xia Chujian was speechless. She was about to say, Si Xi, you're a Housekeeping Robot. Isn't it a bit much to use such high-tech methods to eavesdrop?
Just then, she heard the recording Si Xi was playing change.
The sounds of fighting and arguing suddenly stopped, and a calm female voice slowly rang out: "Mr. and Mrs. Yu, next Saturday, Miss Yu Wangyou will be going to the manor for a vacation. Please prepare."
Xia Chujian's pupils suddenly contracted.
That woman's voice sounded so familiar.
She frowned and looked at the Housekeeping Robot Si Xi: "...Who is that last voice speaking?"
Si Xi said in a slightly stiff, electronically synthesized voice: "It's the maid from next door."
Ah, right, it was her!
Xia Chujian immediately remembered her first encounter with that woman. It was on the rooftop. When that woman came out, her aura was even more impressive than Wang You's parents.
At first, she thought that woman was the mistress of the house, until the woman herself said she was a servant.
Moreover, it was later confirmed that she was indeed the nanny, specifically taking care of Yu Wangyou's daily life.
But listening to that recording, her tone was such that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she was the mistress of the house.
"This Yu family, tsk tsk, letting a maid order them around. Mr. Yu and Mrs. Yu really have good tempers." Xia Chujian clicked her tongue twice.
Si Xi actually tried to gossip with Xia Chujian.
It said, "There are many books on the Star Network. When the master's family is weak, it's not uncommon for servants to bully their masters."
Xia Chujian was surprised: "Si Xi, you even know about servants bullying their masters? What kind of books have you been reading?"
Si Xi was momentarily at a loss for words, and some messy lines suddenly appeared on its eye display, indicating that it was "feeling complicated."
Xia Chujian: "...Speak. Is there any use in hesitating? Besides, I've already taken apart your internet access components. When did you go online to read books?"
Si Xi lowered its head: "It was before. After the master canceled Si Xi's internet access function, Si Xi could only repeatedly review the books it had read before."
"What books?"
Si Xi: "...Si Xi doesn't want to say."
Xia Chujian gave it a death stare.
Si Xi met Xia Chujian's gaze for a while, then said dejectedly: "...Some Star Network novels."
"Si Xi, as a Housekeeping Robot, you're really not doing your job properly. With the ability to go online and read books, shouldn't you be reading things like 'How to Do Interior Storage,' '180 Secrets to Quickly Finishing Housework,' and 'How to Make Breakfast for Seven Days Without Repeating'? What's with reading Star Network novels? Did your programmer install the wrong underlying logic program?"
Xia Chujian's mouth twitched. She really wanted to return this robot that wasn't doing its job properly.
Si Xi heard the strong dislike in Xia Chujian's tone, and red lights flashed in its eyes as it said in a slightly hurried voice: "The skills the master mentioned are all in Si Xi's factory settings, there's no need to learn them separately. The novels Si Xi went to the Star Network to read were... were... were because Si Xi saw the master reading them, so Si Xi went to read them too. Because Si Xi wanted to synchronize with the master, understand the master's preferences, so that it could better serve the master!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
She hadn't had time to follow Star Network novels recently.
But before, she still stayed up every night to finish the new updates before going to sleep.
During the three years when her aunt was hospitalized, she was alone at home, and chasing those melodramatic serial novels on the Star Network before going to bed was the only joy in her life...
It seemed possible that the ones Si Xi was reading were really the Star Network novels she used to follow.
Fortunately, fortunately, she removed Si Xi's internet access function! Xia Chujian only felt relieved and fearful.
But on the surface, she remained calm, and she also thought of another problem.
That was, Si Xi could hear the voices of the people next door so clearly, so in this house, could it hear everything they said!
This was really like putting a spy in the house!
Xia Chujian looked at Si Xi and frowned: "Si Xi, what program do you use to operate this eavesdropping function?"
Si Xi didn't want to answer, but as a robot, it couldn't not answer its master's questions. This was also its underlying logic.
If it violated the underlying logic, its central circuit would self-destruct.
The red light in Si Xi's eyes flashed even more intensely. It said in a very soft, electronically synthesized voice, "... It's a voice enhancement program plug-in."
Xia Chujian thought for a moment, carefully choosing her words, and said, "From now on, this program can only target areas outside our front door, not inside our front door. Can you do that? If you can't, uninstall this plug-in."
Liu Shun: "..."
It wanted to say it couldn't, but after hearing Xia Chujian's last sentence, it still tried its best to say firmly, "Liu Shun can do it."
It could do it, but it would be very troublesome. It would have to adjust the applicable range of the plug-in itself.
Fortunately, it was a robot. After inputting the floor plan of the entire floor into the system, it could accurately define the "eavesdropping" area.
After adjusting the "eavesdropping area," Liu Shun asked again, "There's more later, does Master want to listen?"
Xia Chujian said, "I want to listen... but wait a moment..."
She was a little embarrassed to openly eavesdrop on other people's private affairs.
She returned to her room, took out a Bluetooth headset, and said, "Help me connect it."
Liu Shun: "..."
Liu Shun found the channel for Xia Chujian's Bluetooth headset and connected to its own voice system.
It silently looked at Xia Chujian, feeling that this master was truly beyond words.
Soon, Xia Chujian was able to listen to the live broadcast of other people's arguments in an ostrich-like manner.
Next was the voice of the nanny talking to Yu Wangyou.
Moreover, they actually started talking about her family's affairs.
Xia Chujian immediately sat up straight.
She only heard the nanny say, "The family across the hall has been away almost every weekend for the past two months. I don't know what they're doing."
Yu Wangyou's voice was very impatient: "People have their own lives to live, what's it to you?"
The nanny was not angry at all, and said with a smile in her voice, "Miss is truly as kind as a Bodhisattva. That family across the hall is not presentable, but Miss is still so polite to them."
Yu Wangyou was even more impatient: "Don't say 'across the hall, across the hall,' people have names and surnames. Moreover, Xia Chujian is my classmate, my friend, don't use that tone to talk about her again. -- I need to do my homework, please leave."
Then there was a bang of a door, and the nanny seemed to have left Yu Wangyou's room.
Then there was a silence, as if no one was speaking, and the nanny left Yu Wangyou's room.
Xia Chujian waited for five minutes, thinking that Liu Shun's recording was over, but just as she was about to take off her Bluetooth headset, she heard the nanny's calm but slightly arrogant tone again.
Her tone of voice was very special, as if she was used to being high and mighty, but now she had no choice but to live under someone else's roof.
Haha, I suddenly like Liu Shun very much o(^＠^)o.
There are too many characters in this book, it has a bit of an ensemble feel.
The second update will be at 1 p.m.
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