Household Survival Guide 2

By all rights, she shouldn’t have opened the door, but no one said she couldn’t open it for family.

Xu Si threw the door open in one swift motion and called out sweetly, “Mom, you’re home!”

“How could you just open the door like that?” Her mother slapped her sharply and scolded her, her eyes scanning Xu Si from head to toe.

Xu Si was utterly confused.

She had barely blinked before the slap landed; indeed, the boomerang had come back to hit herself.

She wanted to hit back, but the rule was clear: no matter what happened, it was all because they loved her too much, and she must not go against her family.

The little fairy grasped her hand, fingers entwined, activating a skill. Xu Si was stunned for a moment as the pain on her face vanished.

Realizing this, she pointed to the peephole and explained, “I used the peephole to check; I only opened the door because I confirmed it was Mom.”

Her mother frowned slightly, a sinister tone in her voice: “What if a bad person was pretending to be her using some trick? Then wouldn’t you be doomed?”

Xu Si was speechless.

She thought to herself that she really shouldn’t have opened the door for this ghost.

Seeing Xu Si silent, her mother pouted, rolled her eyes, and carried the bag of meat into the kitchen.

“Knock, knock, knock!” The door was knocked again.

Though the display outside said “Grandma,” this time she absolutely refused to open the door. Xu Si sat on the sofa, lost in thought.

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“Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock!” The knocking grew more urgent and louder, then abruptly stopped.

Her mother stormed out of the kitchen, smoke practically rising from her head, her chest heaving with anger as she glared fiercely at Xu Si.

“Mom, I didn’t open the door!” Xu Si lifted her face in a hopeful smile, awaiting her mother’s praise.

Instead, she was met with another harsh slap.

Her mother held a phone in one hand and forcefully stroked Xu Si’s left cheek with the other. “Are you deaf? Why didn’t you open the door for Grandma?”

She couldn’t open the door, but she couldn’t leave it closed either.

Poor Xu Si felt utterly trapped.

Thankfully, the little fairy shared her pain. Xu Si silently took out some steamed buns and handed them over, pressing a heavy hand on the little fairy’s shoulder.

“I feel your pain and want to help you,” the little fairy sang softly, stuffing the buns into a storage pouch.

Xu Si was speechless.

She then offered some buns to her mother and said, “Thank you for your hard work.”

“Trying to win me over with my own buns? Don’t forget, everything you have is because of me!” Her mother snatched the buns and shouted hysterically.

Why was everything she did always wrong?

Her head felt like it was splitting in two; she couldn’t make sense of the NPC’s mindset in this mission at all.

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Xu Si sighed in helplessness and brusquely opened the door. Her mother glared at her fiercely once again.

A spry elderly lady entered, her hair tinged with gray and white, looking to be about sixty years old.

She was holding the hand of a little boy, who appeared to be around eight or nine years old, clutching a piece of cake.

“Grandma…” Xu Si immediately called out.

The elderly lady ignored her completely, pulling the boy to sit on the sofa and start watching TV.

The boy turned his head with a mischievous grin and shouted at Xu Si, “Big sister, you’re an annoying nobody that nobody likes!”

Xu Si curled her lips and sat down on the sofa to watch TV.

As before, the screen showed only static, a swirl of white snowflakes.

“You can only watch TV for ten minutes. After that, go back to your room and read more books. Don’t just laze around all day!” her mother shouted from the kitchen as she walked away.

She intended to use those ten minutes to extract some useful information.