Chapter 260
Chapter 260: Little Brat’s Dad Starts Suspecting More Than One Baby, And His Hand Lands On The Feathers
Chong Ming’s hand suddenly pressed against Jiang Tea Tea’s lower belly: “You…”
The youngling suddenly pushed against his hand, and his words stopped at once.
Jiang Tea Tea had not expected the baby who had just been sleeping to suddenly wake up, let alone push right into Chong Ming’s hand.
She quickly let go of his hand and stepped back: “Alright, you got to touch Little Brat. Keep working overtime, I’m going to sleep.”
Chong Ming opened his palm. The feeling of the youngling nudging the center of his hand made his blood almost freeze in that instant.
“Jiang Tea Tea, wait a moment.” Seeing her turn to leave, Chong Ming snapped back to his senses and called out to her.
Jiang Tea Tea stopped and turned sideways to look at him: “What is it?”
Chong Ming stood up and walked toward her: “I want to touch again.”
Jiang Tea Tea backed up two steps: “Don’t push your luck.”
Chong Ming gave in a little: “Then can I hug you?”
Jiang Tea Tea refused: “No. You already got to touch, and now you still want a hug. Why should I let you hug me?”
Chong Ming lowered his eyes, his voice soft: “Fine, I did touch, even if it caught me off guard and did not even last three seconds.”
Jiang Tea Tea stared at him, speechless: [Seriously?]
[Is this Old Mud loach pushing his luck or what? Look at him, all pitiful. I let him touch once and he is already complaining it did not even last three seconds. Should I let him touch for three minutes and make him die of happiness?]
Jiang Tea Tea snorted: “So what if it was not three seconds. I’m just asking if you touched or not.”
Chong Ming answered with a quiet hum: “I touched.”
Jiang Tea Tea spread her hands: “You only said you wanted to touch once, not twice. Letting you touch once already gave you enough face. Stop pushing your luck, I’m going to sleep.”
“I still want a hug.”
As he saw her turn away again, Chong Ming reached out, grabbed her wrist, and gave a gentle pull. He pulled her into his arms and held her tight.
When Jiang Tea Tea was about to struggle and fight back, he let go of her. His speed-type ability was so fast that he did not give her any chance to react.
After hugging her and holding her, even though it was only for a moment, Chong Ming still felt a small sense of satisfaction: “Alright, go to sleep.”
Jiang Tea Tea rolled her eyes at him, turned around, and left. She went from his study into the bedroom, turned off the lights, and slipped into his half circular bed.
She lay in his bed, looking at the bling bling gemstones set into the bed frame, and truly could not figure it out. Was touching Little Brat once and hugging her once really enough to make him more motivated to work overtime so he would not look so pitiful and depressed?
[Bullshit, what nonsense. I’m not some miracle tonic. How could one hug suddenly make him full of energy? Sleep!]
Jiang Tea Tea patted her belly. The babies had been sleeping just fine, but the moment that Old Mud loach’s hand touched her stomach, all the little ones woke up and started pushing around inside, almost exposing the secret.
Now they were still pushing, lively in her belly, refusing to sleep. She had no idea what they were so excited about!
Thanks to his sharp hearing, Chong Ming not only heard Jiang Tea Tea lie down, he also heard the sound of her hand patting her belly.
He slowly sat down and spread his palm again. His golden eyes stared at his palm for a long, long time. Then he stood up, left the study, walked out of the Imperial Bedchamber, and placed a call to Zhong Li He.
All of Zhong Li He’s feathers had just been washed thoroughly by Kong Que from inside to outside. Before he could shake his body and fling off the water on his feathers, his light-brain wrist terminal rang.
He had planned to sleep in beast form, clean and refreshed, but now a call had to come in. When he saw the caller ID was Chong Ming, he thought, if he did not pick up and something was wrong?
Zhong Li He turned back into human form, completely naked. Beside him, Kong Que grabbed a bath towel and wrapped it around him.
Wrapped in the towel, Zhong Li He swiped to answer on his light-brain wrist terminal and walked out of the bathroom as he asked: “Calling me this late, what is it?”
Kong Que stood in the bathroom, his gaze dark and deep as he watched him leave, then started tidying himself up.
Through the screen, Chong Ming said to Zhong Li He: “I just touched my youngling.”
Zhong Li He did not react for a moment: “What?”
Chong Ming repeated: “And I hugged my future partner too.”
Zhong Li He sat down on the bed as it clicked: “You’re not sleeping in the middle of the night, you call me just to show off your youngling and stuff dog food down my throat?”
This bastard, this dog thing. There was no dragon more vicious than him.
He was his friend. What kind of friend made you eat dog food every single day?
He really did not want to eat dog food, but the other still pried his mouth open every day to pour it in, not worried it might stuff him to death.
Chong Ming answered seriously: “Yes. I called you to show off my youngling and force feed you dog food.”
“You…” Zhong Li He almost choked with anger: “Our little boat of friendship has capsized. Block me already!”
Acting as if he did not understand a word, Chong Ming continued: “I touched my youngling today. My youngling greeted me. It pushed against my hand. No… it felt like it was not just one.”
One second Zhong Li He was angry; the next second his anger vanished as he blurted out: “What, what do you mean it didn’t feel like only one?”
Chong Ming grew even more certain that the youngling pushing his hand was not just one. It felt like two little dragon heads nudging him. Looking at Zhong Li He through the screen, he said: “I think I might not have only one youngling. There might be two.”
Zhong Li He’s pupils slowly widened: “That Chong guy, I admit that I, who am better than you, did not have a baby before you. I’m jealous, I envy you, but you don’t have to stab my heart every single day!”
“With the level of supernatural abilities the two of us have and how hard it is for us to reproduce, having one baby in this lifetime is already good enough. And you still think you can have two? What, is the blessed smoke only allowed to rise from your ancestral tomb and not mine?”
“Now you’re telling me you have two little dragons, two babies. Let me ask you, does your family have any history of twins from one clutch?”
Chong Ming did not think his feeling was wrong. This was the first time he had so openly touched her belly, and his hand had stayed on her stomach for so long.
Seeing him fall silent, Zhong Li He urged: “Chong Ming, I’m asking you something. Does your family have any history of twins from one clutch?”
Looking at him, Chong Ming slowly shook his head: “No. In my family it’s always single clutch, single egg.”
Zhong Li He asked again: “If your family has no twins from one clutch, what makes you think schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea is carrying two babies for you?”
“Don’t forget, you told me yourself that in the early implantation stage of the youngling, you kicked her belly, which made your youngling lose its egg shell and grow inside her in dragon form.”
“In your Dragon Clan, carrying an egg takes about 10 to 15 months before it matures enough to be laid, and after it’s laid it has to be incubated. Jiang Tea Tea’s situation is different from other pregnant Dragon Clan females.”
“The youngling in her belly has no shell and is already in dragon form. At eight months a dragon form youngling should be at least as long as two of your fingers, right?”
“With a dragon form youngling that’s as long as two of your fingers in her belly, when you touch her stomach, it can push you with its head, kick you with its claws, then nudge you with its tail. And then you mistakenly think there are two babies in there!”
What he said was very reasonable and impossible to refute.
The moment his hand had touched her belly, Chong Ming had felt two little dragon heads, one in front and one behind, pushing his hand, as if greeting him.
Seeing that he had fallen silent again, Zhong Li He reminded him: “My Commander in Chief, Lord Chong Ming, if you want to know how many babies are in her belly, is that not easy? Just go ask the healer who examined her before.”
Chong Ming let out a small sigh: “She hasn’t found enough sense of safety with me. She still doesn’t trust me.”
Hearing this, Zhong Li He frowned: “You mean that even if you suspect it, you still won’t ask?”
Chong Ming nodded: “Yes. The healer who examined her owes her a lot of favors. If she deliberately wants to hide it, that healer won’t say a word.”
“So I’m reflecting on myself. I haven’t done enough, I haven’t done things completely, and I haven’t given her a sense of security.”
“If there really are two babies in her belly and she’s hiding it from me, that’s my fault, not hers.”
Zhong Li He let out a dry laugh and sighed again: “Commander in Chief, Lord Chong Ming, it’s still best to stay single. Look at me. I only need to feed myself, the whole family is not hungry. I keep a peacock when I’m bored, and I have someone to help groom my feathers. My days are wonderfully comfortable.”
Chong Ming raised an eyebrow: “Really? Lieutenant General Kong Que helps you groom your feathers for nothing, yet I don’t see you grooming his. Be careful, one day he might get tired of it and pluck all your feathers out.”
Zhong Li He answered with full confidence: “Impossible. My peacock is the most obedient. He might pluck the mane off your dragon back before he ever plucks my feathers.”
Chong Ming looked at Kong Que, who had already walked behind Zhong Li He with a towel in hand, ready to dry his hair: “Alright, you’re right. Good night.”
Staring at the disconnected light-brain wrist terminal, Zhong Li He turned his head to look at Kong Que behind him: “Tell me, is that old dragon Chong Ming a total love-brained fool?”
Kong Que knelt on one knee on the bed, the dry towel landing on Zhong Li He’s damp hair: “Miss Jiang Tea Tea is worth him being a love-brained fool.”
With both hands braced on the bed, Zhong Li He relaxed his body and leaned back slightly: “No, no, he’s not a love-brained fool. It’s one sided secret love.”
“Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea doesn’t like him at all and doesn’t even want to pay attention to him. So he’s not a love-brained fool, he’s suffering from one sided secret love he can’t get.”
With his eyes lowered, Kong Que looked at his lifted lips, his proud face, and those beautiful sapphire eyes: “If someone had a secret crush on you, Executive Commander, lord, would you notice?”
Zhong Li He lifted his head and met his gaze: “There are plenty of people who secretly like me. Have you forgotten that on StarNet, I’m even more popular than Chong Ming?”
“Usually, when someone has a crush on me and sees me, they tell me. For example, the Merfolk princess from before. When I visited their planet, she confessed to me directly and said she wanted to study with me how to produce a phoenix egg.”
The people who had a crush on him were as many as the stars in the sky. If he had to notice whether each of them secretly liked him or not, would he still have time to govern the nation and do his work?
Kong Que turned his eyes away from his and dried his hair even more gently: “Executive Commander, lord, you’re right.”
“Once Commander in Chief Chong Ming resolves the issue of the super virus and the infected hosts, we can bring the schedule for going back up again. What do you think?”
Zhong Li He felt so comfortable from the way he was drying his hair that he narrowed his eyes: “Just arrange it as you see fit. You should start learning to take over all the affairs in my hands.”
Kong Que answered respectfully: “I’m only a lieutenant general. It’s not proper for me to learn to take over all your duties.”
Zhong Li He snorted: “Proper or not, who doesn’t know you’re my person? Who doesn’t know I’m grooming you to take my place?”
“If I say it’s proper, then it is. You don’t need to care about what anyone thinks. If anyone dares to pick on you and make things hard for you, just tell me. I’ll play him to death.”
Kong Que slowly smiled: “Got it, my Executive Commander, lord.”
Seeing him smile, Zhong Li He stopped bracing his hands on the bed and directly turned back into beast form, a phoenix bird with bright, beautiful feathers.
Kong Que set the towel aside and directly put his hands on the bright, beautiful feathers of the phoenix bird…