"We plan to put this statue right in the middle of the square!"
An Nuan: ...
"May I ask what square?"
"Didn't Sister Nuan look at the city planning map? A small square will be built, and large greenhouses will be set up around it. The vegetables grown will be distributed to the people nearby."
An Nuan didn't have much of an objection to setting aside land for charity.
But why put the statue there? It was pure social suicide!
An Nuan felt a chill run down her spine thinking about the statue being the centerpiece in the future.
Chang Kaiming chuckled, "I've made many other things too! They're all made from your little likeness."
There were over a dozen palm-sized bronze statues and some thumb-sized miniature bronze figures.
There was An Nuan eating, An Nuan drinking, An Nuan playing games, and An Nuan lounging on the sofa petting a cat.
Dozens of small bronze statues, all in different poses.
An Nuan thought these were quite cute.
"I didn't expect my little brother's artistic skills to be so profound! They're so delicate and well-made, amazing!"
Chang Kaiming smiled, "I didn't do it alone. Wenjing, Deng Jia, and Deng Yun helped. They are the art majors, they handled the sculpting. I was responsible for reshaping the materials, and Wenjing controlled my thoughts."
"Wenjing can control people's thoughts? That's amazing!"
An Nuan reached out to pat Chen Wenjing's head, suddenly noticing he had grown taller.
When she first brought him back, he was thin and small, half a head shorter than her. Now, he was slightly taller.
Brother Hu also sculpted something and placed it by the feet of the bronze statues, clasping his hands together in silence.
A fierce whack landed on his head.
Tao Ye Chen said exasperatedly, "Can you stop messing around?"
Brother Hu looked very wronged, "I'm not messing around! This is also a wooden sculpture I painstakingly carved, it's just a bit abstract."
"You call that abstract? That looks like an alien creature, and how many times have I told you, don't make it look like a tombstone!"
Brother Hu carefully admired his masterpiece.
"Does it look like a tombstone? No, look, it looks so much like An Nuan, with eyes and a nose!"
Tao Ye Chen was speechless, and gave an awkward smile before taking out a decorative painting.
"I don't know what you need, so keep this for decorating your new home later. It will be useful."
"Thank you. I like both of them very much. Thank you."
An Nuan put the items into her spatial storage.
Tian Nan and Song Yan then brought out something big.
A city model made of toothpicks and bamboo skewers!
It was a one-to-one replica of the original community.
It was before the expansion, only with the villa clusters and the undeveloped phase two.
An Nuan's eyes suddenly welled up.
Tian Nan smiled, "Jin Lan and some children worked on it with us, but time was tight, so we chose to do the small one first. We'll make a series of them later to show the evolution of our community."
An Nuan chuckled, "This is much harder than building with LEGOs. You have to measure and draft yourself, and then glue everything together. It's amazing!"
Tian Nan smiled, "We had many people, so it went quite quickly."
Gui Tian, with an astonished expression, lay by the model and said, "Humans are truly amazing, always creating things that astound me. This is so beautiful!"
"Later, we want to try painting it to make the model even more beautiful."
Gui Tian's eyes sparkled. Tian Nan said, "We'll make a model of your shell too, a one-to-one replica!"
"Yes, yes! When it's done, we can put it by the sea, and it can be a nest!"
Gui Tian didn't like sleeping inside Yun Man's shell.
It always felt narrow and uncomfortable on top.
The turtle shell was the most comfortable.
Lan Mi shyly walked up to An Nuan, "Xiao Nuan, I don't have much to give you. This is something I braided with my hair. Wear it, it can be a protective charm."
The hand-braided rope was made of many people's hair – red, blonde, black, as well as green and brown.
The braided rope was colorful, possessing a strange kind of beauty.
An Nuan put the bracelet on her wrist and smiled, "Thank you all. I haven't received so many gifts in a long time. I'm very happy."
"Sister-in-law, I haven't given my gift yet!"
Fu Yunlei walked up to her with a booklet in his arms, smiling.
An Nuan recognized it as an old photo album at a glance.
People of her parents' generation barely used these anymore, but her grandmother especially liked using developed photos, and her own family had a similar album.
Fu Yunlei opened a page, revealing several photos of a naked little boy.
Although slightly faded and yellowed, the features were still clearly visible.
"Is this Fu Yunting?"
"Really? Let me see!"
"Wow, Young Master Fu was so cute when he was little! His eyes are so round!"
"There are even bath photos, he looks so happy!"
"But he already had that mature look even as a child. Look at his eyes, they're so much like they are now!"
"How old is he in this one? Is that the second young master next to him? He was so cute as a child!"
Fu Yunlei nodded proudly, "Of course. Don't just look at how handsome I am now, I was super cute when I was little. Before I turned five, Grandpa always said I was the better-looking one!"
"And after five?"
Fu Yunting's voice came coldly from behind.
Fu Yunlei shivered and leaned closer to An Nuan, chuckling, "Of course, Brother is more handsome. Brother is the most handsome! Number one in the world."
Jiang Yu, who had been in the corner, also emerged.
He casually handed a small box to An Nuan, almost breaking her hand.
It was so heavy!
"What's so heavy?"
"Look for yourself! Don't ask me about such a trivial matter!"
Jiang Yu dismissively pushed An Nuan away, and then turned to Fu Yunting with a radiant smile.
"Master Fu, I heard you've reached Rank Eight. Congratulations!"
"Mm, thank you."
Thank you?
Heavens, how had he become so polite!
Jiang Yu was close to tears.
"Master Fu, please don't be so polite to me. Just command me as you used to. I'm willing to do anything."
"This... thank you!"
"Why are you saying thank you again? It's all my duty. However, may I draw some of your blood? I want to do some research."
Fu Yunting readily agreed.
Jiang Yu was incredibly excited.
To have contact with the blood of a Rank Eight cultivator once, what kind of results would it bring to his research?
It was truly something to look forward to!
An Nuan opened the box. She lifted the lid of the black box, and two small metal spheres floated out.
An Nuan asked curiously, "What kind of high-tech is this?"
"Nothing special, just antimatter."
"What?"
Jiang Yu said impatiently, "Antimatter. How can you not have heard of it?"
"I've heard of it, but only in science fiction movies. Is this thing like the ones in sci-fi movies?"
"More or less. When matter and antimatter collide, they release immense energy. These two small objects are more powerful than a nuclear bomb. Be careful not to drop them and accidentally detonate them!"