Chapter 272
Chapter 272: The innocent Little Brats’ dad becomes an irresponsible jerk when faced with two younglings
Faced so directly with two golden dragon younglings, Chong Ming felt like all the blood in his body had frozen solid.
[Two. Two younglings.]
He had two younglings.
He had never expected to have any younglings at all, yet now he not only had younglings, he had two of them.
He stared at the two younglings for a long time, then his gaze dropped to Jiang Tea Tea’s stomach.
She was wrapped in a bath towel. Even after giving birth to two younglings, her belly was still flat, only sticking out the tiniest bit. It looked like she had not given birth at all. Her face was rosy, and her smile was full of guilty, awkward perfunctoriness, like someone whose lie had just been exposed.
Chong Ming forced his wildly beating heart down and tried to steady the buzzing in his head from the shock of suddenly having two golden dragon younglings.
He opened his mouth, his voice hoarse, low, and deep as he answered Jiang Tea Tea: “Mm, Jiang Tea Tea, you really are amazing. You actually turned one youngling into two younglings.”
Every hair on Jiang Tea Tea’s body stood on end. [What does that mean? What does that tone mean? Is he being sarcastic at me? Is he reminding me he’s going to settle this account with me later?]
The two little golden dragon Little Brats wrapped around Jiang Tea Tea’s hands seemed to sense her fear. They stopped fighting over her fingers and, as if uniting against a common enemy, both turned at the same time and leaped onto Chong Ming.
Jiang Tea Tea was completely speechless.
[The big one is being all sarcastic at her, and the little ones betray her right away? Fine, fine, fine. In this whole family, there isn’t a single good thing.]
[And she even said they were cute before. Cute, my foot.]
[They’re all ungrateful little wolves…]
[Uh, maybe they’re not completely ungrateful wolves…]
The two golden dragon younglings, about the same size as each other, jumped onto Chong Ming. With their tiny claws, they grabbed his military shirt and climbed up… climbed and climbed.
They climbed all the way to his head, wrapped themselves around the two golden dragon horns on his forehead, hugged them with their little claws, and started biting and gnawing.
Jiang Tea Tea raised a hand to cover her eyes. The two younglings were not ungrateful wolves, but she really could not bear to watch them.
They were not as long or as thick as Chong Ming’s dragon horns. They did not even have teeth yet, but they still ran up onto his head to hug his horns and gnaw. Other than smearing his dragon horns with a mouthful of drool, what else could they even do?
Their closeness made Chong Ming both indulgent and curious, even more amazed than when he had raised Sui Xuan Chu. But he knew very clearly that these younglings could fight, could climb onto his head and gnaw on his dragon horns. They looked small, but they were not weak.
Right now, what he needed to care about was Jiang Tea Tea, not the two dragon cubs on his head who could not even bite through his scales.
He picked up a dry bath towel, walked forward, and wrapped it around Jiang Tea Tea: “Alright, take off that wet bath towel you’re wearing and throw it away.”
Jiang Tea Tea was once again speechless.
[No, he was really making her completely confused like this.]
[What is that supposed to mean?]
[Because the two dragon cubs climbed onto his horns, he feels like he has successfully snatched the babies, so now he doesn’t need to take her seriously and can fool her however he wants?]
Seeing that she did not speak, Chong Ming coaxed her: “Whether it’s one youngling or two younglings, they’re all yours. I won’t fight you for them.”
He added, “You gave birth to two younglings in half an hour. You need to have your body checked carefully and get a good rest. You don’t need to worry about anything else.”
Forced into passivity, Jiang Tea Tea pulled off the wet bath towel and wrapped herself in the dry one. She had just lifted her foot to take two steps when Chong Ming grabbed her around the waist and picked her up.
All the bedding on the bed had already been changed and cleaned by the home robots. It was spotless, without any leftover smell from giving birth to dragon cubs.
Jiang Tea Tea changed into pajamas again, loose long pants and long sleeves. She sat cross-legged on the sofa, drinking dragon blood.
Chong Ming stood behind her, with two younglings chewing on his dragon horns, and blow-dried her long hair. Her hair was very long, very thick, and very black. His movements were careful and gentle.
On the outside, Jiang Tea Tea looked calm, but inside she was anything but. Her younglings had been born with no warning at all. From the time her stomach first hurt to the time they were born, it took less than three minutes, at most two.
Maybe it was because her true body was huge and strong, or maybe because the dragon cubs were too thin and small. She was sure that no one gave birth to cubs as smoothly as she did.
Now she was worried that the third cub would come out with no warning at all, just slip out with a “squelch” right in front of Chong Ming. That would be a giant live-action social-death scene.
Jiang Tea Tea imagined it and shivered all over. She suddenly fell into a tangle in her heart. [Should I trust him just a little bit and tell Chong Ming that there are still three cubs in my belly?]
Just as Jiang Tea Tea was wavering and struggling inside, Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue came in with Sui Xuan Chu.
As soon as Sui Xuan Chu came in, his eyes locked onto the two younglings on his uncle’s dragon horns. Inside, his emotions surged like stormy waves. He shouted in his heart to his dead Dad and Mom, to his Grandma and Grandpa to bless them. Their Golden Dragon family was no longer just two dragons.
Now there were four dragons.
[Oh my god, oh my god, I’ve got two younger brother or younger sister cubs.]
His uncle really lived up to being the strongest and most powerful existence in their Golden Dragon family. He had not had any children for so long, but once he finally did, it was two at once.
Just with these two Little Brats, he would like to see who would still dare to say in secret that their Golden Dragon family had bad fertility and was about to die out.
Hmph, if anyone said that again, he would smash these two golden dragon Little Brats right in their faces so they would know the Golden Dragon Clan had already gone from two dragons to four.
Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue saw the golden dragon younglings, glanced at each other, then quickly bowed to Chong Ming under his sharp, dignified gaze before walking over to Jiang Tea Tea. Cheng Yuan asked: “How do you feel? Is there anything wrong?”
The real meaning was: Did you only give birth to two? Did you hide the other three? Or have the other three just not been born yet?
Jiang Tea Tea shook her head at the two of them: “Mm, nothing feels wrong. It was pretty fast. Two of them, all done within half an hour.”
Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lin Yue instantly got what she meant. Right now she had only given birth to two younglings. The other three were still in her belly and had not started yet.
Cheng Yuan asked: “Can I check your body, and let Cheng Lin Yue check the two little Highnesses?”
Jiang Tea Tea did not accept the Commander in Chief, hid things from the Commander in Chief, and refused to register a marriage with the Commander in Chief, but the cubs she had given birth to were from the golden dragon Imperial Clan. By the rules, they should be called little Highnesses.
Jiang Tea Tea held her cup of blood in one hand and stretched out the other to Cheng Yuan: “I feel pretty good. Nothing feels uncomfortable.”
Cheng Yuan said: “Mm, it’s still safer if we take a look.” He forced himself, under the Commander in Chief’s deathly stare, to put his fingers on Jiang Tea Tea’s wrist and used his Dark Medical Arts to feel her pulse.
Cheng Lin Yue took out the diagnostic scanner. Inside, she was both cowardly and scared. Her gloved hand shook and trembled as she reached toward Commander in Chief Chong Ming: “Commander in Chief, c-could you give me the two little Highnesses so I can examine them?”
The two little dragon cubs were not even as long as two of Jiang Tea Tea’s middle fingers. They were thinner than her middle finger, had no scales, and were golden all over.
Chong Ming reached up and took the two little youngling dragons down from his dragon horns. The two tiny, toothless, scaleless things seemed to dislike him. They bared their gums and glared at him fiercely.
Watching from the side, Sui Xuan Chu felt his heart melt. [Cute, cute, so cute, too cute. How can there be such cute little things in this world? They really deserve to be the younglings of our Golden Dragon family.]
[Sniff sniff, he also wanted to bare his teeth at his uncle, but he didn’t dare. Only his younger brother and younger sister cubs were that brave.]
Cheng Lin Yue held the two little younglings, both excited and shaking, and turned to put them on the diagnostic scanner. But the two little younglings were not obedient at all. They jumped from her hands onto the floor, and with their four tiny dragon claws pattering, they ran toward where Jiang Tea Tea was.
Cheng Lin Yue was scared half to death and cried out: “Little Highnesses…”
The two younglings ran faster and faster, like they were racing each other.
Just as the two younglings reached Jiang Tea Tea’s feet and were about to climb up her leg, the throat of fate was grabbed by Chong Ming.
Sui Xuan Chu felt his own neck tighten. When he was little, his uncle had grabbed him by the throat like that too. [His poor younger brother and younger sister cubs were getting the same treatment as him!]
Chong Ming held one baby dragon cub in each hand and warned them: “Be good and go get your checkups. Only after the exam can you go find your mother.”
The two baby dragon cubs seemed to understand his words, but they did not listen. In his hands, they started a death roll, twisting their tiny bodies almost into twisted dough as they tried to break free.
Seeing this, Jiang Tea Tea gave a light cough and said: “Behave, or I’ll beat you.”
The two baby dragon cubs instantly went limp. They turned into soft, boneless little balls, curling up into tiny pitiful shapes.
With her heart racing and her hands trembling, Cheng Lin Yue quickly reached out again.
Chong Ming put the two youngling balls into her hands: “Be careful.”
Cheng Lin Yue nodded fast: “Okay, okay, I know, I know.”
The two youngling balls were placed into the machine, and the exam began.
Seeing Jiang Tea Tea set down her cup, Sui Xuan Chu rushed to her side in one big step, sat down, and grabbed her hand: “Roommate, you’re amazing, you’re so awesome. You actually gave me two younger brother and younger sister cubs in one go.”
He went on, half crying and half laughing: “Sob sob, boo hoo, I’m so moved, I’m so happy. Our golden dragon Imperial Clan finally has more than just my uncle and me.”
Sui Xuan Chu puffed up with pride and promised her: “Roommate, you’re the great hero of our Golden Dragon family. Don’t worry, leave raising the younger brother and younger sister cubs to me. I promise I’ll raise them even better than I raised myself.”
Jiang Tea Tea pulled her hand back and reminded him: “Roommate, don’t get so excited. Those two cubs are mine. They belong to me alone.”
Sui Xuan Chu did not care and said: “What do you mean yours alone or mine alone? They’re our family’s. We’re a family.”
Jiang Tea Tea reminded him again: “Your uncle and I haven’t registered our marriage. I’m not family with you.”
Sui Xuan Chu slapped his thigh, turned his head to look at his uncle, and, fearless and bold, accused him: “Uncle, you’ve gone too far. My roommate has the looks, has the figure, has the ability, and she’s already given birth to two Little Brats for you, but you still won’t register your marriage with her?”
Jiang Tea Tea was stunned yet again.
[Hey, who wants to register a marriage with him? And now more and more people know she’s given birth. How is she supposed to run away later? How is she supposed to hide the other three cubs?]
Chong Ming’s gaze slid past Jiang Tea Tea and landed on Sui Xuan Chu’s face: “Have you finished all the government work I gave you? With a voice that loud, do you plan not to go to class tomorrow?”
Defending his roommate’s dignity and status, Sui Xuan Chu shot to his feet and stood in front of Jiang Tea Tea. Facing his uncle’s powerful oppressive aura, he said: “Imperial Uncle, don’t change the subject. My roommate has already given birth to two cubs for you, and you still refuse to marry her?”
He suddenly “understood” and raised his voice even more: “Oh, I get it now. You look down on my roommate. You think her status isn’t noble enough and her ability isn’t outstanding enough. You only want the younger brother and younger sister cubs. You want to keep the children and dump the mother. You don’t want to take responsibility for my roommate!”