Chapter 675 - 417: Summer Isn’t Over Yet! Is the Commotion Already Starting?

Chapter 675: Chapter 417: Summer Isn’t Over Yet! Is the Commotion Already Starting?

Blue Star, Rongxi Primary School.

School let out for the day. The first-graders stood obediently in a line, following their homeroom teacher toward the school gate.

A crowd of parents stood outside the gate. As the students emerged with their teacher, the parents stood on their tiptoes, peering into the school grounds to find their children.

"Mommy." Zhou Tongtong, her hair tied in a bun, spotted her mother and immediately raised a small, fair hand to wave.

Standing outside the gate, Xia Qing saw her daughter waving and smiled, waving back. Then, with the teacher’s permission, Zhou Tongtong broke from the line and ran toward her mother.

"Mommy, look at this." Having reached Xia Qing, Zhou Tongtong pulled an object the size of a pigeon’s egg from her school uniform pocket.

"Where did you get this pebble?" Xia Qing asked, looking at the black pebble in her daughter’s small, clean hand.

"Wang Duoduo gave it to me. She went camping in the countryside with her parents and older sister over the weekend and picked this gift for me by a stream," Zhou Tongtong explained, then turned to look back at her class line.

Just then, a cute little girl with short hair in the line smiled at her. This was Wang Duoduo. Her mother hadn’t arrived yet, so she was still waiting in line. ℯℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Since you took Wang Duoduo’s gift, did you thank her?" Xia Qing asked.

"I did. I’m going to prepare a gift for her, too," Zhou Tongtong said earnestly, pulling her gaze away from her friend and turning to face her mother.

"Have you thought about what gift you’re going to give her?"

"Not yet. I’ll ask Little White and Little Black later and see if they have any good suggestions..."

"..." Xia Qing smiled and patted her daughter’s head, then took her small hand and walked toward where she had parked. Soon after, the mother and daughter rode the electric scooter back to their residential district.

...

In Ping’an Garden District, two small figures walked steadily along a narrow wall, showing no fear of falling.

"Meow... Little Black, that car has been parked there every day after sunrise for the past few days." The Little White Cat walking in front suddenly stopped. It looked at a car parked in the distance under a roadside tree and spoke to its companion behind it.

"Meow... Really? I hadn’t noticed." The Little Black Cat turned to look. It lifted a small paw to scratch its cheek, then added nonchalantly, "Maybe the owner just treats that spot as their parking space."

Tracking and monitoring a target for an extended period is a mentally and physically exhausting task.

Zhu Daqi sat in the driver’s seat, listlessly staring at the entrance to the residential district not far away.

A person’s energy is finite, after all, especially since Zhu Daqi was just an ordinary man. It was only natural for him to feel drained after watching the entrance since early this morning.

’The sun’s about to set. Should I call Yan and ask if I can go back and rest for a bit?’ Zhu Daqi muttered. He was completely unaware that two little creatures were watching him from the district wall.

But besides the two little creatures on the wall, someone else was watching Zhu Daqi from a bit farther away.

"Haaa..." Li Ying raised a hand to cover a yawn, then pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

He took a long drag before slowly exhaling, the white smoke dissipating into the air.

Before long, Li Ying had nearly finished the cigarette dangling from his lips.

Just as he was about to carelessly toss the cigarette butt on the ground as usual, he suddenly saw an old man with a red armband walking toward him in the distance.

He immediately abandoned the idea of littering, turned around, and dutifully walked toward a nearby trash can.

At that moment, an electric scooter carrying a mother and daughter passed by Li Ying, heading toward the Ping’an Garden District ahead.

From their perch on the wall watching Zhu Daqi, the Little White Cat and Little Black Cat saw a familiar figure approaching the district on an electric scooter.

Zhou Tongtong sat on the back seat, humming a children’s song. Suddenly, a faint, almost imperceptible golden Spiritual Light flashed in her eyes. She sensed something and looked up toward the distant wall, her gaze meeting the two little creatures’.

"I’m home from school."

"Meow..."

Seeing Zhou Tongtong and her mother enter the district, the Little White Cat and Little Black Cat immediately ran forward. They came to a large, leafy tree, leaped onto it, landed steadily, and then fluidly scrambled down the trunk.

CLICK.

The electric scooter stopped in front of the parking shelter. Xia Qing lifted Zhou Tongtong off the back seat, and just then, Tongtong spoke to her.

"Mommy, I’m going to go play with Little White and Little Black for a bit. I’ll come upstairs later."

"Okay! Give me your school bag," Xia Qing said to Zhou Tongtong.

Then, she took the school bag from her daughter and watched as she skipped and hopped toward the green belt in the distance.

And there, on the grass of the green belt, the two little creatures were already sitting quietly, waiting for Zhou Tongtong to arrive.

Seeing how much her daughter liked these two little strays and got along so well with them, Xia Qing couldn’t help but have a thought. ’Should we adopt these two little guys?’

...

Zhou Tongtong ran up to the two little strays, crouched down, reached out to pet their heads, and said with a giggle.