The squeaking sound came from far away and attracted Shang Wan's attention.

She threw the broken screen aside with a bang, straightened up and looked at the entrance to the forest that was trampled out by humans at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

"Sister, what's wrong?" Shitou wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to look in the direction Shang Wan was looking.

"There are monkeys." Shang Wan frowned slightly, "A lot of them."

As she finished her words, an old monkey with white hair took the lead, grabbed the vines, swung out from the entrance at the foot of the mountain, and landed on a branch.

It turned and chirped toward the woods, raising its arms to gesture something.

In just a moment, Shitou watched as the bare tree, which had just sprouted new buds, was filled with monkeys of all sizes.

Later, the monkeys could no longer stand, so monkeys began to grow on the nearby trees. It was as if all the monkeys in the mountain had come down to have a party, and the scene was very lively with all the chirping.

Yuanyuan clapped her hands happily, repeating in a soft and tender childish voice, "Come... come..."

"Yuanyuan, what did you say?" Lu Chengjing moved closer to listen.

"Come!" Yuanyuan blurted out a word in a clear voice.

Lu Chengjing was puzzled. What was coming?

The next second he knew what was coming. A group of brown-haired monkeys swarmed towards them, chattering. If you looked closely, you could see they were in formation.

Lu Chengjing: ???

Monkeys can hurt people, so Shitou subconsciously picked up the wooden board at hand. Xiaohuan simply held the kitchen knife she had just found in her hand and stared vigilantly at the group of monkeys that were approaching.

"Don't be nervous." Shang Wan glanced at his extremely excited cubs, and said in a complicated tone, "They should be here to help."

"What?" Shitou suspected that he was hallucinating.

Xiao Huan asked, "Sister, did you invite him?"

Shang Wan thought to herself that she didn't have that ability, as the real person was clapping over there.

"Come!" Yuanyuan's big eyes lit up with excitement, and the clapping of her little hands became louder and louder.

Lu Chengjing's eyelids twitched. He instinctively knew that if he let Yuanyuan continue, something uncontrollable would happen.

"Yuanyuan." Lu Chengjing grabbed his daughter's hand, shook it gently, and said in a gentle voice, "Daddy will tell you a story, okay?"

The movement was interrupted, and the light in Yuanyuan's eyes disappeared. She was shocked to find that her hand was in great pain. She quickly raised it in front of her father, tears welling up in her eyes, "It hurts! Whoosh!"

Lu Chengjing followed his instructions and blew gently on the little hand in front of him, but his peripheral vision was observing the group of wild monkeys that had already run to his home.

The monkeys happily joined the cleaning team. Because there were too many monkeys and not enough space, the old monkey came over and drove Shang Wan and the other two out of the cleaning area.

Under the command of the old monkey, the monkeys had clear division of labor. Some moved, some lifted, some picked up small objects, and they moved flexibly among the ruins.

Shang Wan and the other two went from being the main force in cleaning up at the beginning to assisting the monkeys in sorting out whether the things they were holding were still usable or not.

The intact ones are put in one pile, the ones that can be repaired and can be used are put in another pile, the ones that can be recycled are put in another pile, and the completely unusable ones are put in another pile.

Shitou and Xiaohuan were a little nervous at first, and always felt it was weird to command a group of monkeys. But later they gradually got the hang of it, and communicated with the monkeys more and more smoothly.

Shitou even learned a few words of monkey language without any instruction and danced along with the monkeys.

Xiaohuan covered her face to show that she couldn't bear to watch it.

Shang Wan carried two intact wooden barrels to the well and drew two buckets of water. While stirring the water, he dripped two drops of spiritual spring water into each bucket, as a favor to help Yuanyuan give to these monkeys.

She waved to the old monkey and pointed to the two buckets.

The old monkey ran over, looked at Shang Wan and then at the bucket, stretched out his paw to scoop up some water and put it into his mouth, smacked his lips, and then scooped up some more.

It was visible to the naked eye that the old monkey's hair, which had turned white due to old age, had returned to light brown, just like it had been dyed.

The old monkey felt the benefit and stretched out his claws to scoop up two more mouthfuls of water.

In just a moment, the wrinkled skin on the old monkey's face became much smoother, as if it had been ironed.

Seeing that the old monkey was still trying to stretch his claws towards the bucket, Shang Wan grabbed its arm and whispered, "Being greedy is not a good thing. Let's share it together."

The old monkey knew that the human in front of him was not easy to deal with. When he saw Shang Wan looking at the group of monkeys busy in the ruins, he instantly understood what this human meant.

He grinned and chirped at the monkeys, receiving countless responses.

Shang Wan let it go, and saw that under the command of the old monkey, the monkeys ran over one by one to scoop up the saliva after putting the things down, drank it and left, and ran back to scoop up the saliva again after finishing their work.

The effect of the spiritual spring water on the young monkeys is not as obvious as that on the old monkeys, but there should be some benefits, otherwise the monkeys would not work harder and harder just to get some water from the water bucket to drink.

Seeing that the second bucket was empty, the old monkey looked at Shang Wan eagerly, and put his two paws together in a humane way to bow to Shang Wan.

Considering that the monkeys worked hard and really helped a lot, Shang Wan filled the two buckets and did the same thing.

Lu Chengjing, who was watching everything, certainly did not miss the changes in the old monkey. He suspected that Shang Wan had added the elixir that he used to treat his injuries into the water. In fact, he had always been curious about where Shang Wan's elixir came from.

Shang Wan noticed Lu Chengjing's probing gaze, but she was not ready to confess to Lu Chengjing right away, and she had not made up a lie, so she could only pretend that she didn't notice and let Lu Chengjing worry about her.

Monkeys have strength in numbers. With their help, a task that would normally take several days to complete can be completed in less than half a day.

That is to say, the thatched huts are far away from where the villagers live, and everyone is busy cleaning the houses and has no time to visit each other. Otherwise, with the monkeys being so noisy, they would have been discovered by the villagers long ago.

The monkeys had no work to do, so some of them took a nap or some of them flipped their fur, and they had no intention of leaving.

Xiao Huan looked at Shang Wan, "Sister, do we have to treat them to a meal before they leave?"

When you hire someone to do work, you have to pay him and provide him with food. It should be the same for monkeys, right?

Until now, Xiaohuan still believes that these monkeys were recruited by Shang Wan.

Shang Wan glanced at Yuanyuan who was snoring in Lu Chengjing's arms, walked over, and poked the little guy's chubby cheek.

Yuanyuan smacked her lips, turned over, turned her head to the other side, and continued to sleep soundly.

Shang Wan continued poking.

Being disturbed again, Yuanyuan wrinkled her nose, raised her hand and waved impatiently, muttering, "Bad... Go, go!"

As soon as the word "go" was uttered, the bored monkeys, led by the old monkey, ran towards the mountains and forests as if they had received some collective instructions.

Shitou, with his messy hair, waved his hands to some familiar monkeys reluctantly, and shouted, "I'll help you turn your fur next time!"

Everyone: "..."

"Yuanyuan...what's going on?" Lu Chengjing looked up at Shang Wan and instinctively felt that Yuanyuan's strangeness was related to Shang Wan.

Yuanyuan is too young and has supernatural powers but doesn't know how to hide them. It would be fine if it were kept secret from outsiders, but Shang Wan had no intention of hiding it from his family.

But not now.

She turned her head and looked outside, only to see a small figure running towards her. Li Xiaoshan shouted as he ran, "Sister! It's bad! Something happened!"

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