Chapter 343: Vast Landscape
In the morning, after having breakfast, Chen Guohai went downstairs early to play chess.
After finishing her breakfast, Liu Yuzhen cleaned her bowl in the kitchen and then sat down in the living room opposite Chen Xing.
"What's the matter, has work been troubling you lately?" Liu Yuzhen, sitting across the dining table, stared at the distracted Chen Xing.
"No, it's not about work," Chen Xing shook his head.
"Then what is it?"
"It's nothing," Chen Xing was reluctant to say more.
Liu Yuzhen said, "Every time you lie, your eyes blink faster than usual. Ever since you suddenly came back two days ago and kept watching your dad, is the troubling matter related to him? Is it his illness?"
Chen Xing was stunned. Had his mother's intelligence suddenly skyrocketed?
He intended to find an excuse to deflect, but looking into his mother's eyes, Chen Xing's lips twitched.
Seeing Chen Xing's demeanor, Liu Yuzhen fell silent for a while.
Suddenly, she asked, "How much time does your dad have left?"
"Mom, you don't need to be so worried, it's not as serious as you think," Chen Xing comforted, "They're minor issues, I can handle them."
Liu Yuzhen did not want to pressure Chen Xing, so she just silently nodded.
At five in the afternoon, Chen Guohai, who hadn't come home for lunch because of his chess game, returned home feeling guilty.
He had expected to face a storm, but was shockingly surprised to find that his wife seemed like a completely different person today.
"You're back? Wash your hands and get ready for dinner," Liu Yuzhen said from the kitchen.
Chen Guohai: ...
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He looked, puzzled, at the full-length mirror in the living room, then glanced out the window at the sky.
The sun hadn't risen from the west today.
Sitting at the table, Chen Guohai hesitantly asked, "Is there some kind of celebration in our family?"
Liu Yuzhen's expression darkened.
Chen Xing casually replied, "Of course, I've taken on some business, and it's a bit troublesome to handle alone, so I asked my elder sister to come back and help."
"Lingya is coming back? What time will she arrive?" Chen Guohai said cheerfully.
"Our eldest daughter is coming back?" Liu Yuzhen was somewhat surprised.
"She'll arrive tonight, probably after ten at Longdu Airport. I'll go pick her up in a bit," Chen Xing explained.
Allowing Chen Lingya to come back had been a well-considered decision by Chen Xing. Although it resolved issues quickly, being in the spotlight for a while meant it would be good for his sister to come back and lay low.
Moreover, after the downfall of the five major families, Chen Xing needed to take over more enterprises than he had anticipated.
As he was an Ascension-level Beast Tamer, others dared not overstep.
And because others did not dare intervene, the workload Chen Xing needed to take over was immense.
Since his sister was idle anyway, it was perfect for her to come back and manage the family business.
Moreover, these resources would also be greatly beneficial for her Beast Taming growth.
In contrast, these resources were not so tempting for Chen Xing.
At nine-thirty in the evening, Chen Xing left the house, and at nine-fifty, he arrived at Longdu Airport.
The airport manager, upon hearing the news, hurried out to meet him.
Of course, it was mainly because he was concerned about this VIP's dissatisfaction; if something happened at the airport, the VIP might not face consequences, but his own position would not be secure.
After all, it was said that this VIP had a fierce temper...
A plane landed in the sky.
Chen Lingya sat in a window seat in first class, gazing as the ground drew nearer.
Chen Lingya's thoughts drifted to the message her brother had sent.
Even now, she felt an almost dreamlike unreality.
In the message, her brother had told her he had become Great Xia's new Ascension-level Beast Tamer.
He also asked her to come back and inherit the family business.
Although she was puzzled about where their family business had sprung from... Perhaps their mom had opened a bun shop at the bottom of their building?
Despite her internal sarcasm, Chen Lingya still trusted her brother.
Because on the same day that her brother's message had arrived, she had already learned about certain matters from schoolmates and teachers who had come courting for relationships.
An eighteen-year-old... Ascension-level Beast Tamer?
Chen Lingya could only scoff in disbelief; wrong or not, it hardly seemed open to debate!
The announcement from the speakers interrupted her thoughts, "The plane will soon arrive at Longdu Airport, please fasten your seatbelts..."
The plane landed smoothly, a black shuttle van was waiting below.
Chen Lingya disembarked from the plane and saw the young man sitting in the back of the black shuttle.
"Conceited guy," Chen Lingya murmured, but the corners of her mouth involuntarily rose.
"Spit it out. Why did you call me back? I don't believe it was for inheriting the family business," she said.
"Then you guessed wrong, I have indeed conquered a vast territory for you!" Chen Xing smiled slightly.
...
Chen Xing stayed home with the Beast Taming for a while.
Every day, he trained the Beast Taming, simultaneously supervising its skill training to enhance its Proficiency Level.
Only by raising the Proficiency Level could optimization be better achieved.
The focus of his close supervision was Dong Jun.
Because he was the only Beast Taming that might optimize a powerful Healing type law, given that his Attribute was light.
Recently, except for eating and sleeping, and keeping up with the routine daily task of accepting his master's training, Dong Jun had spent all his other time lying in the shed sleeping. Unexpectedly, he got dragged into intense training sessions!
"Master, I'm not unreasonable," Chen Xing said gently, "Let's look at the facts, you should be aware of how much you've slacked off recently. Taotie told me that apart from when I train you, you spend all your time sleeping, oh… and playing on the tablet. I hear you've become proficient in tinkering with the generator, refueling, generating power, charging the tablet, right?"
The softer the voice, the more serious the matter.
Dong Jun was stunned, and if it weren't for the scales dissipating his heat, he would probably have broken out in a sweat by now.