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Chapter 48
After coming out of the study, Jiang Rong saw two little guys who were watching cartoons.Jiang Xiaoheng turned his head and saw his father, he happily moved to the side and waved to Jiang Rong: "Dad, come quickly, let's watch Team Meow!"
Jiang Hao also made room to the side. He put his arms around Le Le's neck and tilted his head expectantly to look at Jiang Rong, "Ah~"
Seeing this scene, Jiang Rong looked guilty.Since he decided to set up the base, he spent very little time with his children.Let alone watching cartoons with them, there is even less time to eat together.
When he came back this morning, he clearly promised Xiaoheng that he would sleep with them at night, but now he has to go out to do a task.
Jiang Rong felt guilty and sat between the two children. He stretched out his arms and put his arms around one of the cubs, looking at the TV screen.Team Meow Meow has put more than 300 episodes of cartoons. remember that the last time he watched it with his son, he just saw more than 150 episodes.
Jiang Xiaoheng joyfully introduced the plot of Team Meow Meow: "Dad, there is a little tiger named Doudou in Team Meow Meow. Doudou is very cute. My little brother and I like it very much! You can see it in a while!"
Just as he was talking, a naive little tiger jumped out of the screen.Jiang Xiaoheng grabbed Jiang Rong's sleeve suddenly: "Dad, look, this is Doudou! The white cat captain said that the little tiger is also a cat, so he can also join the Meow Team."
Looking at the word "King" on the little tiger's forehead, Jiang Rong said perfunctorily, "Yes, Captain White Cat is right." The children were so enthusiastic, how could he tell them that he was going out to do a mission?
When Jiang Rong was struggling, Jiang Xiaoheng raised his head and looked at Jiang Rong with bright eyes: "Dad, you have seen Doudou!"
Jiang Rong smiled and touched the heads of the two children: "Yes, I see, they are very cute."
Jiang Xiaoheng smiled and showed his fine white teeth: "So Dad can go to his own affairs, and my little brother and I can watch cartoons by ourselves~ It means that Dad must pay attention to safety when going out, my little brother and I still haveLe Le is waiting for you at home."
Jiang Rong looked at Jiang Xiaoheng guiltily, and he saw full trust and concern in his son's clear eyes.The more caring the children were, the more uncomfortable he felt. Jiang Rong hugged the two children and kissed again and again, "I'm sorry Xiaoheng Little Hao, dad broke his promise."
He promised to accompany the children to watch cartoons, but he failed to do it; he promised to tell them stories at night to accompany them to sleep, but he also failed to do it.He is such an incompetent father...
Jiang Xiaoheng leaned on Jiang Rong's arm and said softly, "Dad didn't break his promise, Dad has already seen Doudou. Dad should go out earlier, remember to come back earlier."
The two children cuddled up to Jiang Rong, one on the left and the other on the right, and Jiang Rong felt soft in his heart: "Ah, Dad must be back soon."
After a pause, Jiang Rong suggested: "Papa will send you to Grandpa Chu's house later, okay? I'll pick you up tomorrow morning." When going on missions during this period, Jiang Rong would put the children at Chu's house or let themThe parents of the Chu family came to take care of them.The children were too young, one was three years old and the other was five years old. Jiang Rong was worried about leaving them at home.
However, Jiang Xiaoheng and Jiang Hao shook their heads after looking at each other, "Dad, can we stay at home today?"
Jiang Rong replied, "Okay, then I'll send a message to Grandpa Chu and the others, and ask them to come and take care of you tonight."
However, Jiang Xiaoheng and Jiang Hao hurriedly grabbed Jiang Rong's hand: "Father! Don't!"
Jiang Rong was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Xiaoheng rolled his dark eyes twice, then rolled up his sleeves to reveal his white and tender arms: "Dad, I'm already a little man, I have to learn to be independent!"
Jiang Rong looked at his son suspiciously, "Really?" Why did he think his son was weird?
Facing his father's suspicious eyes, Jiang Xiaoheng nodded hastily: "Yes! Dad, don't you often tell me? Our family is a man of indomitable spirit. Men don't need their grandparents to sleep with them!"
Hearing his son's firm words, Jiang Rong couldn't laugh or cry: "Then who was the kid who wanted me to read stories at night?"
Jiang Xiaoheng blinked his big innocent eyes with an exaggerated and surprised tone: "Yes, who is it? It's not Xiaoheng anyway!"
In fact, it is much safer for Jiang Xiaoheng and the others to stay at home than to live in Chu Qiang's house. If there is an emergency, at least there will be a little fairy guarding outside the courtyard.Thinking that his son would be independent sooner or later, Jiang Rong nodded, "Okay, then show Dad how to close the doors and windows first."
The two children were just young and not stupid. Jiang Rong would close the doors and windows every day, and they had already learned how to quickly escape to the yard and close the doors and windows.After some operations, Jiang Rong couldn't help but praise: "It's really good. Daddy will give you a bath first? After a while, you can go to bed early after watching the cartoon."
However, Jiang Xiaoheng was very sensible today. He said seriously: "Dad, I'm already three years old! I can take a bath alone, and my little brother and I can wipe each other's backs."
Jiang Rong:???
In the past, Jiang Xiaoheng liked to help him take a bath. Every time he took a bath, he would play with the toy duckling for a long time.How did you switch sex today?
However, after thinking about it, he has not been with the child for a long time.Maybe during this period of time, the child sees his difficulties and wants to grow up quickly.Although he had some doubts about Jiang Xiaoheng's ability to take a bath independently, Jiang Rong nodded: "Okay, Dad trusts you. But you have to promise Dad that you can only use it in the rain, not in the bath."
His bathtub is a bit big, it would be bad if the two children accidentally choked on the water.
Jiang Xiaoheng nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "Okay."
A car horn sounded outside the door, and Chu Qiang's loud voice came faintly: "Xiaojiang, I'm ready. Shall we go?"
Jiang Rong looked at the two children and took care of them again: "Don't play with fire, don't take a bath, don't stay up all night watching cartoons. Do you remember?"
The two children nodded again and again, Jiang Xiaoheng intimately urged: "Dad, you go out first, my little brother and I will be obedient. Come back early and be safe~"
Jiang Xiaozhang opened his mouth and let out an intermittent "ahhhhhh" sound, it seemed that what he wanted to say was the same as that of Jiang Xiaoheng.
The car started slowly, and Jiang Rong saw the two children standing outside the courtyard gate waving at him from the rearview mirror. His brows were slightly frowned with a complicated expression.Chu Qiang smiled and said, "What's the matter? Why this expression?"
Jiang Rong was thoughtful: "I always feel that these two children have something to hide from me. They are very considerate today, urging me to go out, and staying at home to sleep, and not letting me take a bath."
Chu Qiang laughed with a "puff": "Isn't this obvious? I definitely want to watch cartoons all night. This is called no tiger and monkey in the mountains to dominate. Do you think we came here like this when we were young?"
Jiang Rong thought about it. When he and Chu Qiang were young, they ran all over the mountains and fields, digging out honeycombs to pick wild fruits, and they were so turbulent every day. They didn't know how many times they were beaten by their parents.In comparison, Xiaoheng and Little Hao are well-behaved babies, not one-tenth as naughty as they are.
Chu Qiang skillfully manipulated the steering wheel: "Boys always have their own secret base. As long as it doesn't endanger their lives, they can make trouble as they please. There are only a few years in childhood, and now the outside is so chaotic, children don't have much happy timegone."
Jiang Rong was thoughtful: "Hmm..."
Chu Qiang said with a smile: "Actually, Xiaojiang, I always thought that you raised Xiaoheng too well. I was afraid that his character would be bullied in the future. It's better to be naughty. Don't overreact. They can play well at home."What kind of trick?"
Jiang Rong thought about it carefully. The stove at home has a protection device, and it will cut off the power in time if it senses something wrong.When he first set off, he closed all the bathroom doors with bathtubs at home, leaving only a bathroom with a shower.In this way, the danger that the two children can be directly exposed to is almost zero.
Could it be that he was thinking too much, the two children just wanted to have their own space?
Seeing that Jiang Rong was still hesitant, Chu Qiang suggested, "If it doesn't work, let my parents take a look at the situation later."
Jiang Rong nodded: "Okay, I guess they should watch cartoons right now, please ask uncles and aunts to watch them at eight o'clock."
Seeing the tail lights of the car disappearing on the mountain road, Jiang Xiaoheng and Jiang Hao looked at each other with a smile and raised their little hands to make a brisk slap: "Okay~"
The two turned into the courtyard skillfully, and after a while they dragged the small trailer out of the courtyard gate and walked towards the east.
The little fairy anxiously shook the thorns on her body: "There is a problem, there is a problem~"
Xiaoheng raised his right index finger and put it on his lips. He let out a big "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
The little fairy twisted her body in embarrassment, "There is a problem..."
There was a large bag of dog food on the small trailer, and Le Le followed behind the dog food bag with her head down aggrieved.The two children worked together to drag the small trailer to the front of the kudzu trail.At this time, they put down the small trailer and dragged the dog food from the car.
To the northwest of the kudzu trail is a gentle hillside, which is also the place where Jiang Rong and the others hunted the mutant wolves.At that time, in order to set up traps, Jiang Rong and the others walked out a small path on the hillside.
Jiang Xiaoheng cut open the dog food bag, and the two children tried their best to push the dog food bag down, and the delicious dog food spilled all over the floor.Le Le just wanted to go forward, but was stopped by Jiang Xiaoheng: "Lele, this is for Doudou."
Le Le whimpered a few times and lay down on the ground. After pouring out the dog food, Jiang Xiaoheng and Jiang Hao secretly put away the empty bags.They shouted in the direction of the mountains: "Doudo, Doudou, dinner is ready!"
After shouting, the two children dragged the small trailer and walked towards the courtyard gate.When they came to Jiang Rong's vegetable field with a pepper growing, there was movement on the path.
A colorful giant tiger with a body length of nearly three meters walked steadily down from the hillside. Its head was bigger than half of Jiang Xiaoheng's body, and every hair on the giant tiger's body was shiny in the sun.
It cautiously walked to the side of the dog food, raised its head and looked in Jiang Xiaoheng's direction.The next moment it lowered its head and licked the dog food on the ground, its thick and long tail wagging rhythmically.
Jiang Xiaoheng and Jiang Hao stood at the gate of the courtyard and watched the giant tiger eat dog food. It took less than twenty minutes for the tiger to pick up all the food in such a large bag of dog food.After eating the dog food, the tiger looked up at Jiang Xiaoheng's direction again.The two of them watched quietly, only Le Le dared not move with his tail between his legs and fur.
The tiger turned his head after wagging his tail, and walked back up the mountain along the way he came.Except for the sound of swallowing dog food, it made no sound at all.
After a while, the tiger completely disappeared into the forest. Jiang Xiaoheng asked softly, "Brother, do you think Doudou is full?"
Jiang Hao said "Ahhh" twice. They fed twice as much dog food today as compared to yesterday. They should be full, right?
Jiang Xiaoheng was still very worried: "Little brother, tell me, if Doudou is not full, where can it go to find food?"
Jiang Hao stared at the mountains in the northwest. There must be many rats in such a large forest.Maybe Doudou can catch many, many mice?
At 8:20 in the evening, Chu Qiang received a message from his parents.After turning off the radio, he laughed loudly: "Look, I'm right, they are watching cartoons."
Jiang Rong sighed with a headache: "These two children are too addicted to animation."
Chu Qiang said cheerfully: "Your family has more than two children who are addicted to animation?" Little Fairy and Xiaoguai have become loyal fans of animation. While they were talking, Xiaoguai was humming in the back of the heavy truckWhat about the theme song of Team Meow Meow?
Jiang Rong sighed: "When the work is over, I have to find a few teachers to teach them. Don't be addicted to cartoons, you will lose your mind." After the base is completed, people from all walks of life will definitely come to join them.He has to carefully select a few teachers and run a Xinghuo kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school.
The corners of Chu Qiang's lips twitched: "Come on, you were not as good as your son when you were three years old. Take a look at what you looked like when you were young. I still remember that you had a drool pocket hanging on your chest when you were young. On it..."
Jiang Rong turned his head and glanced at Chu Qiang, Chu Qiang said clearly, "Okay, I understand, why don't I just shut up?"
Although the road to D big is only more than 50 kilometers away, the road is very congested, and everyone needs to use forklifts to clear the road while walking.The university city, which could be reached in less than an hour, suddenly drove for five or six hours.It wasn't until midnight that the main entrance of D big appeared in front of everyone.
The main entrance and the surrounding courtyard walls were tightly sealed with unknown materials. Judging from the height and thickness of the seal, there should be people with supernatural powers in the campus.
The solar street lights at the school gate were poorly connected and flickered, making the surroundings even more gloomy.The low roar of the beast came from the darkness, and pairs of blood-red eyes gathered from all directions.
Chu Qiang rubbed his arms involuntarily: "Hey~Xiaojiang, why do I feel that this place is so creepy?"
Jiang Rong also felt the same way. He opened the window of the heavy truck and snapped his fingers: "Little boy."
The red bloodthirsty vine with a diameter of nearly two meters behind the heavy truck responded: "Be obedient!" As soon as the voice fell, the red ball rolled off the heavy truck, and the red vine quickly spread around the abandoned vehicle and went straight to the eyes.go.
Everyone only saw that Xiaoguai rolled up something and threw it on the ground. After a terrifying howl, the surroundings fell silent.After a while, Xiao Guaiguai rolled back again, stretched out a vine and rubbed against Jiang Rong's face.
Whenever Xiaoguaiguai does this action, it means that it has fulfilled Jiang Rong's order.Jiang Rong injected some abilities into Xiao Guaiguai: "Thanks for your hard work."
After Xiao Guaiguai ruled out the hidden dangers outside the campus, it was Chu Qiang's turn to play.He turned on a button on the truck, and the modified headlights on the top of the truck suddenly turned on, illuminating a radius of tens of meters.A loud voice came from the loudspeaker on the top of the truck: "We are members of the Starfire Base, here to pick up the survivors home."
Huge trumpets pierced the night sky, and high-spirited words echoed in the D big campus.However, five minutes later, the campus was still quiet, and no one responded to Jiang Rong and his party.
Pan Pan trotted over from behind, and knocked on Jiang Rong's car window: "Brother Jiang, why don't I open the school gate first? I took a look, and the school gate was sealed with mud and steel. It's not difficult to break through."
Jiang Rong nodded slightly: "Okay, but be careful."
Afraid that Pan Pan would encounter any danger when he opened the passage, Xiao Guaiguai climbed into the fence in advance to eliminate hidden dangers.However, as soon as it climbed into the wall, it came back in a panic, "Big, big!"
Jiang Rong froze for a moment. Could it be that there was something in the D big campus that made the bloodthirsty vines feel terrible?
He focused his consciousness on Xiao Guaiguai, and following the vines that penetrated into the campus, he saw a camphor tree that covered the sky and the sun.This tree was planted in front of the library a hundred meters away, and its branches spread out to cover the section from the library to the school gate.
The night became the best protective color, and they failed to discover this mutated camphor tree in the first place.
The supernatural beings encountered difficulties, and everyone gathered together to discuss how to deal with this mutated camphor tree.The mutated plants are more or less capable, such as the little fairy, which can emit sharp thorns, such as the little boy, who can suck the flesh of mutated animals and plants.
Before the big crisis, the camphor tree was widely planted in D city as an ornamental tree. don't know what kind of supernatural power this camphor tree in the D big campus has.If it could kill with leaves like a little fairy, then the group of them would be the prey that came to their door.
And judging from Xiaoguaiguai's reaction, this camphor tree was something that made him fear, which made Jiang Rong even more hesitant.Jiang Rong turned on the computer and called up the D big map. As a comprehensive university, the D big campus is very large, with five gates alone.
Jiang Rong stared at the computer for a while and pointed to the other gates: "The east gate is closer to the student dormitory. We might as well go to the east gate and turn on the loudspeaker to publicize. If the people inside hear our news, they should be able to respond to us. If the east gateIf there is no response from the door, let's try another door, in short, don't enter the range of the camphor tree rashly."
Just as everyone was about to leave according to Jiang Rong's instructions, there was a sudden movement in front of the main gate, and the soil and iron stones surrounding the gate fell down one after another, revealing a spacious road leading directly to the campus.
Everyone looked intently, and saw the induction street lights on both sides of the road coming on one after another, and an old man with white hair in blue was walking slowly under the street lights.
The moment he saw the old man, Jiang Rong felt an inexplicable aura coming from him.This old man looked like an ancient man who walked out of a picture scroll. He was wearing a simple robe, his long white hair was tied up with a dead branch, and his white beard hung neatly on his chest.
Pan Pan's face turned pale: "Is it a human or a ghost? It's too intrusive at night."
The old man moved forward all the way, and finally stopped inside the school gate.His eyes skipped over everyone's faces one by one, and finally fell on Jiang Rong's face.The white-haired old man's eyes lit up, and he clasped his fists forward and bowed in Jiang Rong's direction: "My little friend rushed to help late at night, and I am very grateful. Please forgive me for being so helpless, and welcome from far away."
Chu Qiang muttered in a low voice: "What did you say?"
Jiang Rong pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "Some polite words."
Although it was a polite remark, Jiang Rong still had to be polite to the person in front of him.He cupped his hands like an old man: "I'm Jiang Rong, a supernatural being from the Starfire base. I heard the D big student's request for help, and I brought my teammates to rescue them."
The old man smiled deeper: "Very good, very good. This old man will lead the way for the little friend, please follow me."
Just as Jiang Rong took two steps forward, Chu Qiang grabbed his arm: "Are you crazy? You don't know if this person is a ghost, so you dare to follow?"
Jiang Rong's face was calm: "Otherwise?" He didn't feel any killing intent on the opponent, and he wouldn't be afraid if he really wanted to tear his face apart.
Xiao Guaiguai followed Jiang Rong closely, for fear of being left behind by his master.However, as soon as it rolled near the school gate, the old man stopped.He bowed to Jiang Rong: "Can my little friend's spirit plant be left outside the courtyard? It's a fierce thing, and I'm afraid it will scare the students."
Jiang Rong nodded slightly: "Little boy, stay here."
Xiao Guai obediently shook the vines, shrank near the gate and turned into a ball of grievance.
Seeing Jiang Rong follow the old man's footsteps into the campus, Ruan Hanyu's eyes were red with anxiety: "Brother Pan, what should we do? Should we follow?"
Chu Qiang gritted his teeth: "You wait outside, I will follow Xiaojiang in. If we haven't come out in half an hour, you take your people and leave quickly." If Xiaojiang didn't tell him not to act rashly, he would definitely sweep this old guy firstA few shuttles.
As soon as he entered the campus, Jiang Rong could smell the quiet fragrance of camphor tree.Since the black rain, he has seldom been able to smell such a pleasant smell.In Jiang Rong's imagination, the D big campus should be no different from the outside.However, after entering, he found that the campus was very tidy, not even a single tree leaf could be seen on the ground.
The old man walked steadily ahead, he was calm and elegant, like an old professor full of knowledge.Jiang Rong tentatively asked, "I don't know the old man's name? Which subject is he in charge of teaching?"
D big is a well-known comprehensive university in China. In recent years, it has cultivated talents from all walks of life.It is not uncommon for a campus that can teach so many talents to have a few professors who are unique.Judging by the way the old man talks, he should be a professor who has studied ancient history and literature, right?
Hearing that the old man stopped in his tracks, he stroked his white beard and laughed loudly: "Young friend, you are serious. I have no name, and I have not been able to preach. I am a tree."
As he said that, the old man stretched out his withered hand and pointed upwards: "Old man, it is this old camphor tree that is more than 1,800 years old."
Jiang Rong froze in place, and Chu Qiang was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a while.
The old man raised his head and looked at the twisted branches of the camphor tree with nostalgia and relief in his eyes: "The old man has stood between the heaven and the earth for thousands of years, and has witnessed the vicissitudes of life and the changes in the world. Don't be afraid, my old man, he will die soon. Fortunately, there is a little friendCome here, the old man can finally unload the burden and entrust the inheritance of the cultural heritage to you."
Chu Qiang finally came back to his senses: "Is this guy sleepy? What nonsense are you talking about?"