Jian Ning is not a generous cub. Before, someone deliberately teased him and asked him for a bottle, but he held the bottle and was reluctant to let go.
But now, looking at Zhan Xi's weak face, Jian Ning endured her rumbling stomach and urged Zhan Xi to take his bottle back.
"Cub?"
Zhan Xi's pale face had eyes that were terrifyingly bright. He stared at the cub sitting on the bed with burning eyes, and his voice couldn't help but tremble: "You, what did you call me just now?"
"ah!"
Jian Ning held up the bottle full of milk, and his fat arms were almost unable to bear it. He leaned forward, poking the nipple into Zhan Xi's mouth, and continued to call him: "Ba Ba!"
Maybe because she cried several times early in the morning, Jane Ning's baby voice sounded a little hoarse.
He was concentrating on poking the bottle, his big eyes like black grapes looking at Zhan Xi's thin lips. He was looking so seriously that he didn't notice that Zhan Xi's hands, which were on the edge of the bed, had been clenched into fists.
"Bang, ah!"
Jian Ning opened her mouth slightly and demonstrated to Zhan Xi personally, trying to get him to open his mouth.
Zhan Xi's lips trembled, and then he opened his mouth and let the filial little cub feed the pacifier in. He pretended to swallow a few times, but in fact he didn't drink a single sip.
Milk powder is very precious. He bought these cans of milk powder on the black market at a price several times higher than the market price. Now the three cans of milk powder left in the house will not last long.
"Okay, Dad is full."
Zhan Xi replaced the pacifier with a new one and let him continue drinking by himself.
Jian Ning was holding the bottle, but still felt uneasy. He freed up one of his chubby hands to touch Zhan Xi's belly.
Usually after he finishes drinking milk, Zhan Xi would touch his little belly. If his belly was bulging, Zhan Xi would kiss him and praise him for being so great.
"Be good, don't touch me, I'm not hungry."
Zhan Xi stopped the cub's chubby hand from reaching out. He leaned over and kissed the cub's soft little face soothingly: "Call daddy again."
Jian Ning tilted her chubby face up, blinked her eyes, and said obediently, "Ba Ba!"
Zhan Xilian listened to it several times before finally calling a halt.
He watched the cub gulp down the milk, his mind still filled with the soft "ba ba" sounds just now. He had taught this word for a long time, and he had imagined the scene of the cub saying this word many times.
But he didn't expect that when he really heard these two words, his eyes would turn red even though he was a grown man.
It's so embarrassing.
Zhan Xi tilted his head slightly, took a deep breath and adjusted his state.
A few minutes later.
Zhan Xi adjusted himself and looked at Jian Ning who was still drinking milk.
Jian Ning had been hungry all morning and was extremely hungry. He held the bottle and drank the whole bottle without stopping.
"Doudou!"
Throwing the empty bottle aside, Jian Ning stretched out his little body and let Zhan Xi touch his bulging round belly.
Zhan Xi came closer and touched the soft and tender little belly with his big calloused hands. It felt a little prickly and itchy, but after a few touches, he touched the cub's open belly and made it giggle.
"Okay, my belly is full now."
Zhan Xi finished the inspection and didn't want to sleep anymore. He was so energetic after being called "Dad" that even if he was asked to continue killing the enemy, he could kill for another two hours.
"Baby, let's read picture books, okay?"
Zhan Xi took out the picture book, but before he turned the page, he saw the cub, who had been giggling just now, now started yawning.
"Beep, wake up."
Jian Ning called for his daddy sleepily. He cried a lot in the morning and ate a lot now. His stomach was full and Baba was there. He felt relieved and rubbed his eyes, wanting to sleep.
Zhan Xi hesitated for a moment when he saw this, but still went to bed and held him in his arms and slept for a while.
After staying up most of the night, Zhan Xi felt tired as soon as he touched the bed.
He carefully held the cub in his arms, lowered his head to the cub's head, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
I do not know how long it has been.
Jian Ning woke up and kicked his chubby feet in a daze. After he kicked, he heard a muffled groan of pain in his ears.
Jian Ning: “?”
Jian Ning opened her eyes blankly and saw Zhan Xi with his eyes closed but a frown on his face.
He looked down at his fat feet again, thinking that he had hurt Zhan Xi.
Jian Ning, feeling guilty, retracted his fat feet and stopped getting angry. He rubbed Zhan Xi's handsome face and watched him sleep with his eyes open.
I slept for almost two hours.
Zhan Xi woke up suddenly. The first thing he did after waking up was to check the urine pad on the bed. The urine pad was clean and not wet at all.
“Beep!”
Although the urine pad was clean, the little cub was unable to hold it in. When he saw Zhan Xi get up, he opened his arms impatiently to hug him.
Zhan Xi rested for two hours and recovered a little. He quickly took the cub to the bathroom.
soon.
Having solved the problem, Jian Ning sat in the walker and played with old toys with Zhan Xi.
After playing for a while, someone knocked on the door.
Zhan Xi got up and opened the door, and saw Zhan Rao carrying a bag.
"Here, I just got the medicine. Remember to apply it on time." Zhan Rao doesn't talk much, but this time he said something more serious: "I heard that you applied for a guard job at Shizhang. This job is very dangerous. Have you thought it through?"
The stone barrier was built at the gap of the barren planet, which was the only way for invaders to attack. According to legend, this stone barrier was built by Emperor Louis III himself in order to resist the annoying Zerg.
So many years have passed now that the stone barrier is no longer as solid as it once was.
For safety, the people who lived on the deserted planet had to take turns guarding the stone barrier. The land at the stone barrier had become foul-smelling due to the contamination of too much blood of foreign races.
In the past, being on duty was not an easy job.
"I've thought about it."
Zhan Xi smiled and said to Zhan Rao, "Recently, the Zerg have been rushing towards the stone barrier like crazy. Even if it's not for work, I should go and take a look."
"Boss, don't worry about me. You and your brothers can go outside without worry. I will take care of the house."
Zhan Rao is their leader and also their boss. He takes his people out to make money. Part of the money he earns is divided equally among the people who do the work, and the rest is invested in the defense of the barren planet.
This barren planet is considered backward, barbaric, dangerous and not a habitable place in the eyes of outsiders.
But in their eyes, this is their home.
Zhan Rao looked at the smiling Zhan Xi, and then at the little cub behind him who was still babbling to the toy. After a while, he lowered his voice and said to Zhan Xi, "I just went to see the stone barrier. It can't hold on for much longer. Once the stone barrier is completely broken, we... have to consider leaving."
As Zhan Rao finished his words, the smile on Zhan Xi's lips disappeared completely.
The two looked at each other in silence.
They both knew what it would mean if they left.
They have no household registration, and most of them are wanted criminals, which means they cannot legally enter any city.
If it were in the past, Zhan Xi would have been carefree and fearless. He thought he had only one life and it wouldn't be a pity if he lost it.
not now.
He also has a precious little cub to raise.
“You should be prepared in advance. If it really comes to that, you will have to take Ningning with you and a lot of things.” Zhan Rao said this and didn’t continue chatting with him.
The two of them were standing at the door, and it was not convenient to talk about such topics.
What's more, the little cub in the room was holding a toy and staring at Zhan Xi's back for a long time.
Zhan Rao turned and left, and Zhan Xi returned to the room with the medicine.
He put the medicine on the table and continued to play with Jane Ning. It was a very simple mecha toy, but the two of them, one big and one small, were having a lot of fun playing with it.
Play until the afternoon.
Zhan Xi has to go to work, so he needs someone to look after Jian Ning.
Before coming back in the morning, he had already told everyone that while he was working during the day, he would let Jane Ning log into the holographic learning machine and be supervised by the teacher.
But they also need someone who is free to check on their baby from time to time, for example, to make milk powder for the baby and then take the baby to the bathroom.
This request was agreed by everyone.
As luck would have it, the only one who was idle today was Zhan Xi's mortal enemy Ling Qi. Ling Qi, who had already come over, leaned against the door, watching Zhan Xi feeding the cub with complementary food, and jokingly said, "I didn't expect you to have such a virtuous side."
Zhan Xi: “…”
Zhan Xi put down the bowl of egg custard he was feeding, then covered the cub's ears, turned his head, and threatened with his eyes: "Don't force me to beat you."
Ling Qi raised his eyebrows, not afraid of his threat at all.
Although Zhan Xi had a grudge against Ling Qi, he knew that he would not do anything to a cub.
"Ning is a very well behaved boy. You don't have to watch him all the time. Just call him out every two hours and feed him."
"If he cries, play him a cartoon or give him a bottle of sweetened water."
Zhan Xi explained for a long time, and finally hesitated, and said: "By the way, he was bullied by other children in there. I reported this problem to the teacher, but the teacher has not given me an accurate answer yet."
"If the teacher calls, please answer the phone for me. Just tell her I'm busy and will call her back later."
"Oh, I see."
After Zhan Xi finished instructing everyone on everything he could think of, he went to the bathroom to change the medicine. When he was changing the medicine on his back, Ling Qi came in and helped him.
Ling Qi was narrow-minded and held a grudge against him. When he applied medicine on his back, he used so much force that it seemed to have caused him death.
Get everything done.
Zhan Xi went out to work, while Ling Qi watched the little cub log into the learning machine again.
As soon as he entered, Jian Ning followed what Guo Guo had taught him and tapped the virtual bracelet that was automatically put on his wrist twice.
It took less than five minutes to finish the shoot.
Huo Lin, wearing a small military uniform, stood in front of Jian Ning.
"Pot!"
Jian Ning opened her little arms and let Huo Lin pick her up.
Huo Lin had just finished training in the palace. He came in so hastily that he didn't even change his clothes.
Holding the clingy cub in his arms, Huo Lin steadied his breathing and took the cub to study with ease. The courses here were useless to him, but for a cub who couldn't even speak a sentence, they were still useful.
Learn to say a new word and be rewarded with a new toy.
Learn a short sentence and be rewarded with a new toy and a pat on the head.
The reward mechanism provided by Huo Lin completely stimulated the little cub's enthusiasm for learning. The little cub, who was originally taciturn, now looked up at his chubby face and could seriously say three words in a row: "Naiguoguo!"
"Naibaba!"
The little cub obviously can't say very many words, but the amazing thing is that he manages to use his limited vocabulary to say sweet flattery.
The little prince didn't seem to react to the flattery, but every time he heard it, the most expensive item in the mall that day would fall into Jane Ning's small backpack.
Before he knew it, Jian Ning had become the richest guy here!
Huo Lin noticed that Jian Ning logged in too frequently and went to find the teacher himself. He then learned that Jian Ning's parents had to work during the day, so they let the cub stay here to study or play.
From the teacher's description and the look on the little cub's face as if he had never seen anything good before, Huo Linmin guessed that—
This cub's family situation doesn't seem to be very good.
But this doesn't make sense, this learning machine is available in limited quantities, and the kids who can use this learning machine usually come from wealthy families, there is no such thing as poor kids.
Huo Lin was confused, but didn't show it on his face.
He continued to teach the little cub and continued to use his pocket money to buy the most expensive and newest toys for the cub.
Huo Lin spent money like water, but he didn't know that in the study of the imperial palace, the emperor with a stern face was holding his bill and slightly raising his eyebrows.
"Two-year-olds can learn to read by looking at pictures."
“Cartoon version of number learning painting.”
"1-10 number cards."
The emperor saw the identical list of baby supplies, which made him look interested.
And the other side.
Zhan Xi, the same cub's parent, was holding a big apple with a smile on his face, and pushed the door open: "Baby, Daddy is back."
Hearing his father's voice, the little cub sitting in the walker opened his arms hurriedly: "Ba ba! Hold me!"
Zhan Xi bent down, picked up the baby, and kissed him hard twice.
The big and the small were hugging each other affectionately, and Ling Qi, who came to show the baby to Zhan Xi, frowned and looked at Zhan Xi's left arm. He saw clearly that Zhan Xi's left arm trembled when he was holding Ning's baby.
In addition to the abnormal left arm, he also smelled the smell of medicine used to treat external injuries on Zhan Xi.
Zhan Xi was injured from time to time, and he could already react—
The desolate planet may not last much longer.
"Well, you go back and rest. I also need to take Ningzai to wash up and go to bed."
"Um."
Zhan Xi watched Ling Qi leave, he closed the door, held the cub in one hand and the swimming ring he made in the other, and went to the bathroom to give the cub a bath.
"Baby, when daddy has money in the future, I will buy you a new swimming ring."
Zhan Xi squatted in front of the basin. As he was tall, he felt cramped in the small bathroom. He lowered his head and looked at the baby with a blue swimming ring around his neck. He felt that the swimming ring was a bit shabby.
"If only I had more money," he thought to himself.
In this way, his baby can live a better life and play with better toys.
(End of this chapter)