Chapter 183
Chapter 183: You Miss Me, I Will Come Find You In Two Days
Cheng Mian held Mo Jing Chun’s hand and answered heavily: “Yes, Commander in Chief Chong Ming. The children are innocent. We are willing to accept all of them and give every child all the help we can.”
Chong Ming looked at them through the screen: “Thank you, both of you. After the case is checked and handled, I will tell you in advance so you can come pick them up. It will be hard on you then.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun said: “Yes, Commander in Chief!”
Chong Ming nodded slightly, then turned his eyes to Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven: “Schoolmates, your mission performance was excellent. In one hour, Space Cruiser Warship 003 will come pick you up and send you to Ri Pan Star in the Seventh Star System. You will work there as staff members for the space weapons expo.”
Cheng Xiao Ting blurted out without thinking: “What, Commander in Chief, we are going to the space expo and not resting?”
He had thought that after this mission they would get a rest. He had even planned to take the other seven home with him. He did not think they would go straight to be staff at the space weapons expo.
Chong Ming’s eyes sharpened: “Schoolmate Cheng Xiao Ting, do you want to rest?”
Smack!
Mo Jing Chun held back her tears and, in a blink, slapped the back of Cheng Xiao Ting’s head: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, he does not want to rest.”
Cheng Xiao Ting’s head bobbed with the hit. He did not even dare to rub it. He nodded over and over like a pecking chicken: “Yes, Commander in Chief. I do not need rest. I promise to go to the space expo and finish the mission.”
The corners of Chong Ming’s mouth lifted in a small smile. He looked at the others: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, do the rest of you seven need to rest?”
Besides Jiang Tea Tea, who rolled her eyes at him, Huang Da Zhuang, Orange Sparrow, and the others had eyes shining like lights. Their voices were loud and full of energy: “Reporting to the Commander in Chief, we do not need rest. As students of the military academies, doing missions is our duty.”
“We promise not to let you down. We will complete the mission you gave us and will work hard to become people useful to the Empire.”
Chong Ming nodded in satisfaction: “Very good. Rest in place for one hour. Then Space Cruiser Warship 003 will come pick you up. I wish you success on your mission. Goodbye.”
“Goodbye, Commander in Chief!” Huang Da Zhuang and the others snapped to attention and gave him a salute. Their posture was respectful, their expressions full of excitement and worship.
Jiang Tea Tea saluted lazily and went through the motions.
Across the screen, Chong Ming saw all of her little unhappy emotions and tucked them into his heart. Then he turned off the screen and disappeared.
Once the pressure of Commander in Chief Chong Ming was gone, Cheng Xiao Ting and the others jumped up with joy: “Wow, wow, wow! Old Cheng, Great Beauty Jing Chun, did you hear that? I am going on my second mission!”
“Yeah, yeah! I thought we would rest, but we have a second mission. Oh my god, Sister Tea, we are riding on your luck. Quick, stretch out your thigh and let me hug it.”
“Dad, Mom, Beast God, I am making something of myself. I am going to ride a cruiser warship to Ri Pan Star in the Seventh Star System to join the space expo. Oh my god, oh my god, this is not a dream, right? Come on, someone pinch me…”
“Ah! Stinky Zhang Yu, I told you to pinch me once. I did not tell you to pinch me several times. Do you think your tentacles are that amazing?”
“You told me to pinch you. I was afraid you would not feel it if I only pinched once, so I pinched you twice. You feel it now, so it is not a dream, right?”
“It is not a dream, not a dream. Sister Tea, come here, let me give you a kiss.”
Jiang Tea Tea took two steps back and spit out two words: “Ugly, rejected.”
Cheng Xiao Ting and the others clutched at their hearts in pain and hugged each other instead.
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun were both happy and proud. Their wolf little brat and the other seven children were all so excellent.
But Jiang Tea Tea was not one of the Lang Family Estate children. Whose child was she? Could she be one of the four Black Wolf Tribe youngling embryos Commander in Chief Chong Ming had mentioned?
Mo Jing Chun and Cheng Mian looked at each other and then walked to Jiang Tea Tea’s side. They asked her softly: “Tea Tea, are you okay?”
Jiang Tea Tea turned her head and looked at her. Her eyes were bright: “I am fine. What is wrong?”
Mo Jing Chun smiled with squinted eyes: “Nothing. I just wanted to say that after you finish this mission, if you do not have another one right away, you and your schoolmates can come to our house in the mountains with our wolf cub to play.”
“Our home is on a mountain. There are lots of wild animals, wild vegetables, and wild mushrooms. When you all come, you can hunt, pick wild greens, and gather mushrooms.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled back: “Okay. If I have time, I will definitely come.”
Mo Jing Chun nodded happily: “Then it is settled.”
Time passed quickly. Within that hour, the gate of the Lang Family Estate was sealed, and more than three thousand guests were taken away.
Every clan member of the White Wolf Tribe gathering place, no matter if they were lords, younglings, or others, was also taken away.
All White Wolf clan members working on Barley Star were ordered to stop their work and cooperate with checks.
White Wolf Tribe clan members in other star systems and on other planets, whether they were traveling, working, or had already moved there, as long as they could be found, all had to accept inspection.
The Police Ministry, the Judicial Department, the Special Operations Department, and the planetary Garrison Troops all joined together to enforce the law. They did not let a single related person slip away.
At the agreed time, Space Cruiser Warship 003 reached Barley Star. It broke through Barley Star’s atmosphere and headed down toward Jiang Tea Tea’s location.
Cheng Xiao Ting’s parents were very nice. Before Jiang Tea Tea boarded the cruiser warship, she gave them two tins of tea leaves from her tree body and told them to brew them to drink.
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun tried to refuse: “We never bought you any gifts. How can we accept your things? We cannot, we cannot. You keep them.”
Jiang Tea Tea pushed the two tins of tea leaves into their hands: “They are not expensive. They are just useful for your supernatural abilities and spiritual power. You can chew two leaves or brew them in water.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun were caught holding the tins: “This…”
“Take them, Dad, Mom.” Cheng Xiao Ting pressed down on his parents’ hands so they could not push them back: “Everything Sister Tea gives is good stuff. All of us schoolmates got some. Huang Da Zhuang awakened his spiritual power because his body was nourished inside and smoothed out outside. That was all Sister Tea’s work.”
“If you really feel embarrassed, just make more dried meat jerky when we go home and send it over. Sister Tea loves the dried meat jerky you make, especially the spicy kind.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Extra spicy.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun laughed and stopped refusing: “Okay, then we will not stand on ceremony. Thank you, Tea Tea.”
“The extra spicy dried meat jerky is what I make best, and it is also my favorite. I will make more for you and send it over later.”
Huang Da Zhuang and the others all shouted in unison when they heard this: “Thank you, Mom! Thank you, Dad!”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun were so happy they could not close their mouths. They watched as the group boarded Space Cruiser Warship 003 and could not help saying with feeling: “Tea Tea is the youngest of them all, but she has the highest level of supernatural abilities and is the calmest.”
“Husband, do you think that, with our wolf little brat as her teammate and schoolmate, he will take dozens fewer years of wrong paths?”
Cheng Mian nodded: “Dozens of years might be an exaggeration, but he will definitely avoid more than ten years of detours.”
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming values Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea even more than we thought. Our careless, wild wolf little brat has really stepped in dog poop luck.”
Mo Jing Chun laughed out loud: “Dog poop luck is good. Having dog poop to step on is still good fortune. Come on, let us go home. You go hunt a wild cow, a wild boar, and a wild deer. I will make dried meat jerky for them and make several kinds of meat.”
Cheng Mian let out a sound: “Darling, a normal cow is three to five thousand jin. A mutated one weighs over ten thousand jin. Even that might not be used up for dried meat jerky. And you still want wild boar and deer. Why don’t you turn me into jerky too?”
Mo Jing Chun grabbed his ear: “Your skin is thick and your flesh is rough. I am afraid if I turn you into dried meat jerky, they will not be able to bite it.”
Cheng Mian yelped in pain: “Darling, stop, stop. What they want to eat is dried meat jerky, not ears.”
“Are you going to hunt a wild cow, wild boar, and wild deer or not?”
“I will, I will, I will not do anything else. As soon as we get back, I will go hunt.”
“That is better. Come on, let us go home.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun got into their flying device and, under the escort of their bodyguards, headed home.
From Barley Star to Ri Pan Star in the Seventh Star System, a civilian ship needed at least five days. A military cruiser warship needed three days. A space jump only needed three to five hours.
There was plenty of time, and Space Cruiser Warship 003 also needed to patrol space, so they did not use a space jump. They traveled in normal mode.
The captain of Space Cruiser Warship 003 personally welcomed Jiang Tea Tea and the others, gave them a short tour of the cruiser warship, and then sent them to their cabins.
Each of the eight people got their own cabin. Every cabin had a window looking out into the mysterious, unfathomable space full of stars, planets, and meteors.
Under the cruiser warship’s bright lights, the endless, deep space outside looked even more vast and mysterious.
Jiang Tea Tea walked around the room once, then sat down and touched her belly.
Because she had not had Chong Ming’s supernatural ability and spiritual power to soothe her, the little ones in her belly were very quiet and did not kick around at all.
After she finished patting them, she was just about to send some spiritual power to nourish them when her light brain wrist terminal rang.
She opened the message and raised her eyebrows. Then she reached into her space knob storage device and pulled out a big food chest. When she opened it, the first thing she saw on top was a bottle of dragon blood.
A bottle with five hundred liters of dragon blood.
She picked up the bottle, opened the cap, and drank it all in one go. The little ones in her belly, who had been calm, suddenly started to move around.
She took a picture of the empty bottle and sent it to Chong Ming: “When did you put a food chest in my space knob storage device?”
Chong Ming replied at once: “Two days before you left on your mission. I was afraid that if the mission took too long and you did not have my supernatural power and spiritual power to soothe you, you would be hungry.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “So I should thank you?”
Chong Ming: “This is what I should do.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “I already know it is what you should do. So why are you trying to show off?”
Chong Ming: “I am not trying to show off. I am just stating facts.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “How long does the space weapons expo last?”
Chong Ming: “It lasts one month.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “You want me to stay there for a whole month. Are you trying to starve me, or starve the little brats?”
Right after she sent that message, she regretted it. It sounded like she was acting spoiled and complaining. That did not match her style as a great tree spirit at all.
She was just about to delete the message when a video call came from Chong Ming.
Her typing finger slipped, and she accepted the call in a second. Chong Ming’s image appeared in front of her. His golden eyes looked at her through the screen: “You do not need to worry that I will let the little brats or you go hungry. Once I finish arranging the things at hand, I will come find you in two days.”