The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix – Chapter 99

Chapter Ninety-Nine: A Family of Three

The sun sets on the western mountains, and the sunset sinks into the mountains.

Inside the Jiang Mansion, a dozen maidservants rushed about, lighting up the lanterns and stone lanterns in the mansion one by one.

At this time, Ye Anping was sitting at the desk in his bedroom, using cinnabar as ink and spiritual energy as water, drawing talismans on special yellow oil paper.

On the bed beside him, two maids, one tall and one short, were sitting cross-legged playing chess.

It was like a real family of three.

—A father working diligently, a mother playing with the child, and a daughter clinging to her mother…

Since Liang Zhu left the Jiang Mansion in the afternoon, he had not returned. Therefore, Liang Ating had been following him and his junior sister, and now she was even following them onto their bed herself.

Although Liang Ating had been relatively reserved and spoke pleasingly during these few hours, Ye Anping could tell that this was just the tip of the iceberg of her original personality.

After all, when they were talking with Liang Zhu in the pavilion, that girl had climbed over the wall to get in.

Ye Anping looked at the two people playing chess on the bed, took a deep breath, and focused on drawing again.

The talismans he was making now were called “Eye-Shifting Talismans.”

Ye Anping had originally planned to buy them from talisman-making cultivators in the next couple of days.

But now that he had nothing else to do, he decided to try making them himself.

He didn’t know until he tried. After he tried, he realized:

—He seemed to have a monstrous talent for making talismans.

This was his very first time making talismans, but after the initial half-hour of exploration, he only failed three times in the remaining hour.

Out of the six Eye-Shifting Talismans he made in total, one was of medium quality, and the remaining five were all of high quality.

At the same time, he also felt that making talismans and his physiotherapy skills were almost from the same origin.

Physiotherapy used spiritual energy as a small knife to clear or cut open the blocked meridians within a cultivator’s body.

To put it simply, talisman making was also using spiritual energy as a small knife to carve patterns similar to meridians on the talisman paper, and then embedding powder from heavenly treasures infused with spiritual energy into various “talisman eyes” of the patterns.

Moreover, those “talisman diagrams” were similar to printed circuit boards, except that there were about ten more types of “components.”

Because of his knowledge from his previous life, he could easily understand the “talisman diagram” part.

—”Uncle.”

Ye Anping was fully focused on the talisman paper when Liang Ating’s voice suddenly came to his ears, startling him.

“…”

He turned his head and saw that Liang Ating had sneaked over to his side at some point.

She was now leaning by the desk, her eyes fixed on the talismans he had just drawn, her face full of curiosity.

Ye Anping retracted the spiritual sense he had released and asked:

“What’s wrong? Aren’t you playing chess with Auntie anymore?”

Liang Ating grinned and pointed towards the bed:

“Auntie lost five times and won’t play with me anymore.”

?

Ye Anping turned his head to look at his junior sister on the bed.

Pei Lianxue was sitting cross-legged on the bed, biting her lip, staring intently at the chessboard on the bed. She was likely contemplating where she had just lost.

If this were Go, he could still understand his junior sister losing to a twelve-year-old girl, as his junior sister didn’t know how to play.

But they were playing Five in a Row just now.

How could she lose at Five in a Row?

Ye Anping rubbed Liang Ating’s head:

“Amazing, Uncle will play with you later.”

“Heh heh…”

Liang Ating squinted and tilted her head, enjoying being petted by him. Then she looked at the Eye-Shifting Talismans on the table and asked:

“Uncle, what are these talismans for?”

“This is called an Eye-Shifting Talisman…”

Ye Anping suddenly thought he could use Liang Ating for an experiment, so he picked up two talismans, stuck one on himself, and the other on Liang Ating’s forehead.

“Has your foster father taught you how to mobilize spiritual energy?”

“He taught me!”

“Try channeling your spiritual energy into the talisman.”

Liang Ating nodded, then took a deep breath and clumsily mobilized her spiritual energy, sending it to the talisman on her forehead.

Instantly, a faint glow emanated from her light green eyes, and the lock of hair on top of her head stood up like an exclamation point.

“Hmm?!”

“How is it? See anything?”

“I see… I? Huh? I’m so tall…”

Liang Ating looked surprised, waved her hands, and pinched her face. But as she took a step to the side, she suddenly lost her balance and fell.

Ye Anping quickly reached out to support her and pulled the talisman off her forehead, lest she get hurt and Liang Zhu blame him when he returned.

“Fun, right?”

“…Fun,” Liang Ating clutched her head and shook it, “It’s just a bit dizzy.”

“This talisman is a set that allows cultivators to share vision and hearing. Some cultivators like to attach this talisman to birds of prey to scout their surroundings.”

“I see… Mm!”

Ye Anping smiled and patted her head. Then he glanced out the window and saw that it was quite late. He said:

“Uncle and Auntie need to rest. You should go back to sleep.”

“Ay…” Liang Ating seemed reluctant. After thinking for a moment, she asked, “Didn’t Uncle say you’d play with me later?”

“…Then one game. If you lose, go back to your room and sleep obediently.”

“Okay!”

Ye Anping sighed with some frustration. Taking care of other people’s children was unexpectedly troublesome, but fortunately, the bed in this room was quite large.

He tidied up the desk briefly, then went to the bedside and climbed onto the bed, sitting cross-legged.

When Ye Anping got into bed, Pei Lianxue had just recovered from the game and looked at him expectantly:

“Ah…”

“What’s wrong? Losing to a twelve-year-old girl five times in a row.” Ye Anping pinched her nose and teased, “You’ve been playing with me since you were little, how can you not have improved at all?”

Pei Lianxue pouted, moved over slightly, and puffed out her cheeks, saying, “Husband, help me win it back.”

Ye Anping smiled and nodded: “Okay!”

…

Half an hour later—

Ye Anping placed the last white stone:

“Alright, time to go back to sleep.”

Looking at the five white stones connected on the chessboard, Liang Ating’s mouth almost turned into a pout like a little pig’s. But after looking at Ye Anping, she didn’t dare to make a fuss.

After thinking for a moment, she asked:

“Uncle, tell me a bedtime story.”

“Didn’t we agree that you’d go back to sleep after losing the game?” Ye Anping raised an eyebrow and lightly tapped her head, “Uncle and Auntie hate little girls who don’t keep their word.”

“Just one! Tell me one story, and I’ll go back to sleep immediately! I promise.”

Ye Anping was a bit helpless. He looked at Pei Lianxue beside him. She seemed quite happy, so he thought for a moment and said,

“Hmm… Let Auntie tell you.”

“Ah?” Pei Lianxue was taken aback and shrank her neck. “Me tell it?”

“Don’t you, as the mother, have to coax her to sleep?”

“Mom…” Pei Lianxue’s face instantly turned red, and she lowered her head. “…Okay.”

Seeing this, Ye Anping had a mischievous smile—his junior sister was really cute. She wanted to play house, but now she was shy.

However—

The next moment, when he saw Pei Lianxue’s action, he couldn’t laugh anymore.

Pei Lianxue thought for a moment, then directly took out the “Palace of Immortality’s Splendorous Illustrations” from her storage bag and handed it to Liang Ating.

“Auntie has a picture book here. Take it back to read, and don’t forget to return it tomorrow.”

“Huh?” Liang Ating didn’t look at the four characters on the cover. Hearing that it was a picture book, she happily accepted it, “Thank you, Auntie.”

Ye Anping was about to reach out to snatch it, but then he suddenly thought that if Liang Zhu knew Pei Lianxue had given that girl such a book, he would probably never ask them to help watch their child again, so he let her be.

“Good night, Uncle! Good night, Auntie!”

“Good night.”

After watching Liang Ating leave the room, Ye Anping turned back to look at his junior sister.

“Junior Sister…”

Pei Lianxue frowned, puffed out her cheeks, and corrected him:

“Wife!”

“Wife, that book… Didn’t I ask you to take the book to ask Senior Sister Xiao? You never went?”

“No… Is something wrong?”

Ye Anping rubbed his forehead and shook his head:

“When Senior Sister Xiao and the others come, find an opportunity to take the book and ask her. You should be able to learn a lot.”

“Oh…”