The Mightiest Little Master of Metaphysics
Chapter 40 A Family Neatly Together

Chapter 40: Chapter 40 A Family Neatly Together

"You little rascal, you’re trying to harm your own father. Just wait and see how I deal with you!" Xu Shixiong cursed, his arm twisted behind his back, yet he struggled fiercely like a big bear.

Mo Wanting quickly shut the door of the study.

Yun Qi ordered, "Take down that painting."

Xu Leiyue and Yun Qiuce, bruised and battered, hurriedly took down the painting, but immediately tossed it onto the table as if it were a hot potato.

The scroll rolled on the table and opened.

Xu Shixiong was pressed against the table, his face tightly against the surface, and the painting spread out in front of him, causing him to struggle even more.

"Let me go, don’t touch that painting, or I won’t let you off!"

No one paid attention to him; they all quickly leaned over the table to look at the painting.

Wait, something’s not right?

Where is Little Master?

They looked down.

Yun Qi was still standing on the ground, reaching out with her hands, in a posture asking to be picked up.

Still, she couldn’t reach the table.

For the first time, Little Master showed an embarrassed and awkward expression.

Yun Qiuce hurriedly picked her up onto the table; her small feet stood on the redwood surface, looking even more fair.

Seeing others mishandle his painting like that, Xu Shixiong almost snapped, struggling with all his might, "You brat, just wait till I get you."

"Blah blah blah... Do you think Qi is easily scared?" Yun Qi made a face at him, her expression full of childishness.

Deliberately stepping on the painting with her feet, her small body lay on it to examine closely.

It was a meticulously detailed landscape painting, depicting a household below a towering mountain, with a vast lake stretching for miles, bamboo forests swaying, and flora and fauna vividly portrayed.

Everyone expected something strange and bizarre to fly out of the painting, so they all leaned forward, somewhat on guard, ready to disperse at any moment.

However, nothing happened.

Yun Qi reached out, "Magnifying glass."

Xu Xueyan quickly found a magnifying glass from the bookshelf behind and handed it to her.

With the magnifying glass in front of her eyes, her enlarged phoenix eyes swivelled around, looking somewhat cute and somewhat funny.

Yun Qi bent down, lowering her head, inspecting inch by inch.

"Hey? What’s this person doing?"

Yun Qi’s fair fingertip pointed to two people in the painting.

In a pavilion in the painting, through a translucent curtain, a man and a woman could be seen. The man sat properly at a desk, reading, while the woman had a gentle smile, her delicate hands placed on the man’s shoulder.

Yun Qiuce said, "That man and woman are clearly a couple. Ancient people were very reserved, but judging by their posture, they’re flirting... falling in love."

He worried about Yun Qi picking up bad habits and quickly rephrased.

Yun Qi nodded understandingly, "Oh. This man looks familiar."

Everyone took a closer look, and their eyes widened in shock.

The features, expression, and movements of the figure were so vivid and lifelike—it was none other than Xu Shixiong!

Although Xu Shixiong’s face was pressed against the tabletop, he caught a glimpse, and was momentarily stunned, wondering how his face appeared in an ancient painting.

He lifted his head, and Yun Qiuce and Xu Leiyue did not hold him down too forcefully. "It’s really me. I must say, ancient paintings are quite magical; they look very abstract, yet they’re just like the real thing."

Yun Qi let out a small cold snort, still in the mood to comment, but soon you’ll be crying!

"Then what about this one?"

Following her fingertip, everyone looked more closely, and saw on the outside of the study hall, a bamboo pipe channeling water from the mountain to a clay pot, where a maid-dressed woman was fetching water, her motions natural and pleasant.

However—

Xu Xueyan exclaimed, "That person looks like me."

Similar, yet not quite.

The maid’s figure was faint, her features indistinct, as if the ink ran out at the end, indistinguishable unless closely examined.

"Then what about this one?" Yun Qi continued.

Outside the study hall was a fenced area with several chickens, ducks, and geese, and beside it, a woman feeding them.

Mo Wanting was so shocked she couldn’t close her mouth, "This... this person looks like me."

"I’m here!" Xu Leiyue pointed to a man dressed as a servant holding a wine cup.

The whole family, all present and accounted for.

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