"Cough, cough, cough..."
Another fit of intense coughing, accompanied by Chase Jennings occasionally saying "yue."
Lucas Jennings rarely showed a hint of uneasiness on his face as he looked at his brother and couldn’t help but reach out, carefully patting his back.
...
Because of this inexplicable incident, Lucas Jennings lost the mood to introduce the house.
Especially knowing that the house had been occupied by a little mystical creature, Lucas and the others felt an impulse to renovate it.
However, Scarlett Jennings was unconcerned about this and decided to stay here instead.
She also wanted to see where that little mystical creature had come from.
Like her, Lucas and the others were also very curious,
"What kind of mystical creature was that just now? It looked strange."
It looked like a flying squirrel, but bigger, not only with large ears but its tail seemed longer than its body.
Scarlett Jennings glanced at the few strands of hair wrapped in talisman paper in her hand and said,
"It was probably an Ear Mouse."
An Ear Mouse, a kind of strange beast recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, though she hadn’t expected to suddenly encounter one in the present world.
After all, a natural-born demon beast like the Ear Mouse is fundamentally different from a Rat Demon which gains spiritual wisdom after birth.
They are born with demonic power and rarely appear in front of humans.
Let alone... taking over a nest.
But thinking about the jungle-styled room Lucas had decorated, Scarlett understood why it had chosen that place.
It’s just uncertain if it would come back.
Scarlett felt it would.
Lucas and the others hadn’t heard of an Ear Mouse, but knowing it was a mystical creature was enough.
Seeing Scarlett indeed planning to stay, they were a bit uneasy, especially upon hearing the little mystical creature might return, Kingston couldn’t help but type,
[Are you okay alone?]
"I’m fine."
Even if there were issues, they wouldn’t be significant.
Seeing her insist and unable to persuade her, they could only let her be.
After all, if it hadn’t been for them earlier, she might have already captured the little mystical creature.
Lucas thought about the cup that might have been used by a mystical creature earlier and couldn’t help but say,
"Sis, if you plan to stay, don’t use the things in this house, I’ll have the butler send new ones over."
Scarlett didn’t want to sleep on sheets where the little mystical creature might have rolled, so she agreed straightforwardly.
Soon the butler arrived with a whole housekeeping team.
While the staff cleaned and tidied the house, they took away old items and replaced them with new ones brought by the butler.
In just over two hours, Scarlett Jennings’s "new house" was refreshed again.
As for those items taken away, they were handled by the butler.
...
The Jennings Family, in the back kitchen hall.
An aunt helped the butler sort through the returned items, some still well-packaged were naturally kept, while others that might have been touched were to be directly disposed of.
"This set of cups looks quite expensive, are they really to be thrown away?"
The young aunt couldn’t help but marvel, knowing the Jennings Family was wealthy but still surprised each time.
Reaching out, she took a box of exquisitely packaged chocolates and said,
"These are the custom chocolates from abroad that Lucas Jennings mentioned, right? Are they not needed too?"
The butler glanced at the packaging and said,
"That’s fine, it’s just that Miss Scarlett doesn’t like chocolate, and there’s a risk of the little fox eating it at home, so I brought them back."
"But the young masters likely won’t touch them, you can take them to share."
The aunt was delighted to hear this, knowing such perks come with working in a family like the Jennings.
Thinking about taking a few pieces home for the children to try the expensive chocolate, she placed the box on the small table next to her.
The group was busy sorting things, each engaged in their activities.
Soon, Ismeria Jennings walked in, her gaze sweeping the small hall, her attention caught by the box of chocolates on the table, her eyes lighting up as she grabbed the box and dashed upstairs.
The family wasn’t short of snacks, but had always limited her intake.
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