Chapter 144
Chapter 144: The humble little brat dad wants to greet the little brat after the fight
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes turned as an idea came to her. She deliberately touched her belly, then raised her voice and answered Sui Xuan Chu: “Okay, wait for me to come over. We will beat up your uncle together.”
Sui Xuan Chu flashed a row of big white teeth, his smile wild and unruly with a bit of silliness: “Uncle, give us three minutes. We need to discuss our strategy.”
Chong Ming noticed the way Jiang Tea Tea was touching her belly, and a sudden hint of regret rose in his heart. In her condition, how could he fight with her?
Jiang Tea Tea also caught his expression the moment he looked her way. She saw every change in his face and even sharply sensed that trace of regret inside him.
[That was exactly the regret she wanted from him. If he did not regret it, then her little move of touching her belly to remind him there was a cub inside would have been a waste.]
Sui Xuan Chu saw her coming over and left his uncle standing where he was. He waved her toward the edge of the training ground, putting a big distance between them and his uncle. Then he leaned in and whispered like a thief: “Roommate, in order to beat my uncle, I thought of three moves. Take a look and see which one fits best?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at his face, swollen eyes and bruised nose, and went straight to the point: “You thought of three moves. They are not all using me as bait, right?”
Sui Xuan Chu froze, having been hit right on the mark, then argued: “What do you mean, using you as bait? We are working together, aiming to knock my uncle down.”
“Think about it. Who is my uncle? He is one of the strongest top tier beastman males in the whole M31 Star System. If we beat him and even get the upper hand, that will prove that you and I are a super awesome pair.”
“As the saying goes, heroes are not judged by where they came from. As long as the result is good, the process is not important. Only the result matters.”
Jiang Tea Tea drew out her words and answered: “Oh? Then go on. Tell me what three moves you thought of that can get the upper hand over your uncle.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s face was like a five-colored palette, eyes swollen and nose bruised. He counted on his fingers, full of excitement: “You are a pure human. When you fight my uncle, you will definitely use your human form. First move, you stand in front with your belly out, I attack from behind.”
“Second move, you stand in front with your belly out, and I transform into my beast form to attack.”
“Third move, you stand in front with your belly out, and I switch back and forth between human form and beast form to attack. What do you think?”
“Pa pa pa!”
Jiang Tea Tea was thinking he wanted to use her as bait to fish for a dragon.
She did not expect him to fish like this.
She lifted her hands and clapped hard for Sui Xuan Chu, palms slapping non-stop as she chanted, mocking and praising at the same time: “These three moves of yours are truly unprecedented and will have no followers. Human words are no longer enough to describe how ‘excellent’ they are.”
“Come on, come on, let us do exactly what you said. We will go beat up your uncle and definitely beat him to death. From then on, you will shake all of The Empire, ruling alone as the one and only dragon, invincible wherever you go.”
Sui Xuan Chu looked unhappy: “Roommate, if you think my ideas are not good, then we can think of something else. Do not mock me like that and crush my enthusiasm. My biggest dream is to surpass my uncle and defeat him.”
Jiang Tea Tea snorted: “So you do know these ideas are bad. You also know I am mocking you. I thought you did not know.”
“Look at you. What kind of crappy ideas are these?”
“Alright, alright, you are wasting my time. I am not fighting, not fighting anymore.”
Sui Xuan Chu hurried to catch up: “Why are you not fighting? Fight. Right now you have a cub protecting you in your belly. It is a once-in-a-lifetime chance.”
Jiang Tea Tea ignored him and went straight to stand in front of Chong Ming, selling him out: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, your good nephew said to have me stand in front with my belly out to charge at you while he picks up scraps from behind.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes swept over Sui Xuan Chu: “That is indeed a good idea. As The Empire’s heir apparent, to come up with such an unprecedented idea really is something special.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
Danger! Danger! Danger!
Jiang Tea Tea hesitated on purpose and asked: “So…”
Chong Ming took her words and continued: “So, in order to encourage that flexible mind of his and his thick skin in speaking up, let us have him train here alone while we go have breakfast.”
Jiang Tea Tea tilted her head back, raised an eyebrow, and looked at Sui Xuan Chu, who was about to walk behind Chong Ming: “What do you think of your uncle’s idea?”
Sui Xuan Chu met Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes. His hand suddenly turned into a dragon claw and he swung hard at his uncle.
It was as if Chong Ming had eyes on his back. He did not dodge at all. His body did a big spin, and he kicked Sui Xuan Chu straight in the stomach.
Before Sui Xuan Chu’s sharp dragon claws could touch his uncle, his belly was hit by his uncle’s military boot. His belly arched backward, his upper body bent forward, his legs pitched ahead, and his whole body curved like a dried shrimp as he flew out.
The branch staff in Jiang Tea Tea’s hand sliced through the air, aiming straight at Chong Ming’s unguarded back.
She never expected that this old mud loach of a man would really be that fast. Right after he finished kicking the unlucky Sui Xuan Chu, in the blink of an eye he grabbed the end of the branch staff she had swung out.
Jiang Tea Tea held one end of the branch staff. He held the other end. He looked at her and said: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, your speed-type ability is a little slow.”
Jiang Tea Tea tried to yank the staff back, but his hand was like a giant iron clamp, gripping his end tightly so she could not pull it free.
She did not waste words on him. Since she could not get her weapon back, she simply let it go and went at him directly with her hands and feet.
Before Sui Xuan Chu hit the ground, he had already turned into a dragon. He shot forward fast, ready to whip his uncle with his big tail.
Chong Ming caught the tip of his tail in one hand and pulled it in front of himself as a shield. With a loud thump, Jiang Tea Tea’s kick landed right on Sui Xuan Chu’s tail.
Sui Xuan Chu let out a pained dragon roar, twisting his dragon body. He opened his mouth and tried to bite his own uncle.
Chong Ming held his tail with one hand and swung his other hand up to smack Sui Xuan Chu’s dragon muzzle. With one slap, he sent the dragon head snapping to the side, swelling up.
Jiang Tea Tea could not hold back and burst out laughing when she saw it. Her movements stopped, and the tight rhythm of the fight vanished at once.
Seeing her stop, Chong Ming grabbed both of Sui Xuan Chu’s little dragon horns with one hand, pinning his head in place, and yanked on his tail with the other hand. The ten-plus-meter-long dragon was twisted into a knot, then tossed away like a piece of trash.
Sui Xuan Chu drew a graceful curve in the air, then crashed hard onto the ground with a bang, letting out loud dragon howls.
Too much, too much. His uncle was too much. No one bullied a dragon like this, even tying him into a knot and throwing him so hard that he was dizzy and could not undo it.
Jiang Tea Tea’s expression tightened. In the next moment, she went back to sneak attacks, using only her legs since she no longer had the branch staff.
Even when she had a weapon in her hand, she could not beat Chong Ming. Without a weapon, she stood even less of a chance.
Chong Ming kept giving way to her, going easy on her, never using any strength against her.
He refused to use force on her, but she did not hold back on him at all.
Each strike from her hands, wrapped in spiritual power, went either for his face, his heart, or his belly.
Each time, he dodged her blows with clever, smooth movements. He did not hurt her or even touch her, yet still let her attack as she wanted.
After a few minutes, Jiang Tea Tea could not even brush the edge of his clothes and could not gain any advantage. She stopped and refused to fight.
Chong Ming, still holding the branch staff she had tried to hit him with, asked her: “Why did you stop? Compared to a few months ago, your hands and feet are a lot more flexible now, and your sense of power has grown a lot too.”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped forward and yanked her branch staff back, then shoved it into her space knob storage device: “Thanks for the review. Goodbye.”
Chong Ming stretched an arm out to block her: “Wait.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked up at him: “What is it?”
Chong Ming’s fingers curled slightly. His gaze dropped to her lower belly, and his voice came out low, with a careful tone: “Can I touch your belly and say hello to it?”