“Set the family table for us along with the kids,” Gu Changsheng said, walking calmly across the sunlit quadrangle beside Empress Luo Qingxue and Grandpa Fu, “and put thirteen extra mop buckets by the front gate.”
Fifteen minutes later, right as the four o’clock afternoon class bells chimed across the 1,000-Sun Cosmic Family & Civic University, the front courtyard lawn of the Flying Courtyard Star-Cruiser. Parked on the grand plaza just inside the main university archway—smelled like heaven on earth.
In the center of the lush green lawn, a massive three-tiered copper hotpot bubbled merrily over a bed of thousand-sun charcoal.
The forty-eight-hour golden solar-marrow broth rolled in rich, fragrant waves, surrounded by twenty porcelain platters piled high with paper-thin rolls of marbled spirit-mutton, handmade bouncy shrimp-and-pork meatballs, crisp snow-lotus slices, golden needle mushrooms,. Moreover, Fresh winter tofu.
Beside the outdoor stone wash-basin stood fourteen-year-old Gu Nian (Rank 8 Early, Darkening: 0.0%).
The tall, broad-shouldered fourteen-year-old boy wore a clean yellow bunny-printed apron tied neatly over his blue Student Council President tunic. With his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. Moreover, The warm, translucent black-gold starlight of his Benevolent Chaos-Star Bone glowing softly through his back.
Gu Nian had both hands submerged in a wooden tub of cold mountain spring-water. Carefully rinsing heads of crisp purple spirit-lettuce leaf by leaf so there wouldn’t be a single speck of garden soil in the family’s dinner.
