NOVPUBChapter 255: Chapter 253 I want a daughter!
Chapter 255: Chapter 253 I want a daughter!
“Yes. My father made it taste so good! Can’t you make it?” Within her pure, clear blue eyes was nothing but the disappointment of not being able to enjoy the delicious food.
Qing Linghuan fell silent for a moment before asking, “Xiaoqi, how old are you?”
“I’m three and a half years old this year,” Xiaoqi replied.
“…” Are three-and-a-half-year-olds this clever?
Xiaoqi gazed at him eagerly, “So, can I have the grilled whole fish?”
“You’re so tiny, can you even eat such a big grilled whole fish?”
Xiaoqi hopped down from his palm to the ground, “I can’t finish it, but there’s also Mom, thank you for your hard work, Uncle Qing.”
Right now, Qing Linghuan regretted teasing this little tyke…
…
Sally was woken up by the smell of smoke.
Was the island on fire?
The smoke was so thick!
Sally looked down to see Xiaoqi lying peacefully asleep at the head of the bed, quiet and heavy.
After thinking for a moment, she picked her up and placed her in the kangaroo pocket of her own sweatshirt, instead of the System Space. Suddenly, she understood why Zi Qi always liked to keep her tucked away.
It was really convenient for carrying, and she felt very safe in her own arms, with a sense of solidity.
“Your dad must have carried you like this often.”
Sally stroked Xiaoqi and then picked up the plump Xiaoba and headed outside.
A monstrous fish, almost a length of meters, was being grilled over the fire by Qing Linghuan. Its bulging belly looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned.
Sally teleported over in a hurry, “Stop, stop, what are you doing?”
“Grilling a whole fish. Xiaoqi specifically asked for it.”
“Xiaoqi?” Sally took out the soundly sleeping Xiaoqi from her pocket, “She’s still asleep. When did she order from you?”
“While you were sleeping, she wasn’t idle at all,” Qing Linghuan watched the little white rat, silent and deeply asleep in Sally’s palm.
In his mind was the image of her tailing him last night, watching him catch fish… she was just like a foreman supervising the work!
“It was quite a task.” He continued to add wood to the fire, feeling gloomy.
“Really?” Sally looked down at her beloved daughter, “She might be experiencing a bit of ancestral instinct, the Rat Clan are usually more spirited at night.”
“She’s a bit overly spirited!”
“…She’s just over three years old. If she bothered you, don’t hold it against her.”
No, she might only be three years old, but she didn’t act like it!
But Qing Linghuan couldn’t say that, as it would seem like he was rejecting her child. In fact, he was quite fond of Xiaoqi; she looked a lot like her.
Maybe, when she was little, was she as cunning as Xiaoqi?
…No, judging by her current clueless demeanor, she probably didn’t have that many tricks up her sleeve, she must have taken after the Father Beast.
They say the Fox Clan is cunning, but in this respect, he was really holding the Fox Clan back, now even failing to outwit a young rat!
The more he thought about it, the gloomier he became, “Yanyan.”
“Hmm?”
“I mean, I want to have a daughter.”
He hoped his daughter would inherit the cunning traits of the Fox Clan and be able to outdo Xiaoqi.
Sally responded, “Don’t know if it’ll be a son or a daughter. You could ask Xiaoqi; kids’ intuition is often sharp.”
Gently pinching Xiaoqi’s round ear, “Xiaoqi?”
Xiaoqi turned over, muttering sleepily, “Father, Xiaoqi is sleepy, let me sleep a little longer.”
Sally suddenly felt melted by her cuteness and forgot to ask what she had intended to, “Okay, Xiaoqi, sleep a little longer.”
Qing Linghuan: “…”
“Let her sleep,” Sally put Xiaoqi back into her pocket and looked at the huge sea fish, “Why didn’t you clean the fish belly?”
“I’ve cleaned it. Xiaoqi wanted to eat a roasted whole fish stuffed with other meats, so I added rabbit meat, deer meat, chicken, lamb, pork, and many kinds of seafood inside, then sewed up the opening and roasted it all together.”
“You are…incredibly skillful!”
“It was the roasted fish recipe Xiaoqi mentioned.”
“Eh! You’re listening to a three-year-old child!” Talk about talent!
“Alright, stop adding fuel to the fire and don’t waste the ingredients anymore. These things aren’t meant to go together at all.” Sally took out a set of cooking utensils and a bunch of seasonings from her System Space.
Handing Xiaoba to Qing Linghuan to hold, she said, “I’ll give you a hand. Such good fish was about to be ruined by you.”
She first took the fish off the rack, then opened up its belly.
A mess of jumbled ingredients was exposed inside. Among them were two huge greenish-gold crabs, as big as millstones, still alive, with their large pincers pinching onto some meat and shoving it into their mouths…
“Heh, they got to eat first,” Sally joked, then glanced at Qing Linghuan.
“…” Qing Linghuan awkwardly said, “Well, I’ll take your son to rest for a while. Preparing these ingredients last night was more tiring than fighting with Lan Shi.”
Before he finished speaking, he fled in haste.
Sally laughed, then threw the crabs into the fire, “They’re so big, eating them just like this isn’t bad either.”
As Sally processed all the meats one by one, eventually, the huge fish was put back onto the fire to roast.
She brushed on the sauce while roasting, and the fragrance gradually became richer.
Smelling the aroma, Qing Linghuan came back, looking at her in surprise, along with the grilled fish that was golden brown and oozing with oil, “You know how to cook?”
“What, you thought I could only give birth and nothing else?” Sally took a large platter, cut off a piece of the fish, outside crispy and inside tender and soaked with sauce, and handed it to Qing Linghuan.
Qing Linghuan hurriedly said, “You eat first.”
“I’ll wait a bit longer, I want to eat the crabs, they’ve been tempting me for quite some time now.”
The bright red crabs, with their luscious roe oozing out, were extremely tempting.
Sally swallowed her saliva, picked up a hammer, and smashed open one of the huge crab claws, revealing the snow-white crab meat inside, its fresh and fragrant scent drilling straight into her nostrils.
Her appetite greatly stimulated, Sally directly took a spoon to start scooping and chewed mouthfuls, “Not bad at all, where did you catch these?”
“From the sea right ahead of us, if you like it, I’ll catch more for you.”
“Mhm,” Sally nodded.
“Also, this is for you.”
Qing Linghuan handed a Storage Bag to Sally.
Sally looked at it, “What’s this?”
Qing Linghuan said, “I made a trip to Lan Shi’s treasure vault, and picked out some Divine-grade and sacred Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that are edible for you. I’ll go get more after you finish these. I’ve also prepared something for your two kids, it’s all inside.”
“Did Lan Shi know about you taking stuff?” Sally asked, holding the weighty Storage Bag. This was ‘looting’ quite a treasure trove!
Qing Linghuan replied, “He once told me that if I needed anything, I could just take it from the vault.”
Sally: “…Are you sure those were not just polite words?”
Who lets just anyone grab things from their own vault!
Especially a dragon that loves treasure!
She dumped out everything in the Storage Bag… a whole mountain of items!
Hmm, her Beast Husband was actually not poor at all.
He just kept his treasures in someone else’s vault…
