Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Even if Weng Yuxiang had no experience in taking care of pregnant women, she had been pregnant herself. How could she not know that pregnant people could not eat food that was heavy in oil and spicy?
“No!” Weng Yuxiang rejected Zu Qi’s request on the spot. After a while, she softened her tone and said, “Why don’t you go up and rest first, and I will cook soup for you myself.”
After saying this, Weng Yuxiang couldn’t help but persuade Zu Qi to leave, then she turned around and entered the kitchen.
In fact, Zu Qi was not greedy for roast goose, he just felt that the aroma of such food was rich, and the spices mixed with the aroma of meat could be smelled from a distance, so it was perfect to lure the little boy to show up.
While waiting, Zu Qi entered and exited the space many times. He walked back and forth several times, but he never saw the little boy.
An hour later, Weng Yuxiang knocked on the door with a plate. She had cooked candied dates and pig’s trotter soup[1], and brought a bowl of soup with fragrant glutinous trotter flowers. She also ordered the cook to prepare several plates of exquisite food.
After some more careful instructions, Weng Yuxiang left.
Zu Qi locked the door and listened for a long time through the door panel. After making sure that no one was outside, he picked up the dinner plate that Weng Yuxiang placed on the table and entered the space.
He went straight to the outside of the woods where he met the little boy last time. The bag of snacks he had placed there before was gone. The little boy must have taken it away.
Zu Qi had been searching for a long time but could not find any trace of the little boy. This time he simply stopped wandering around like a headless fly.
Zu Qi gently placed the dinner plate on the grass and sat down on the ground.
Now with a belly that was more than eight months old, his legs felt sore and numb after standing for a long time. Sitting was much more comfortable. Zu Qi slowly adjusted his sitting posture, took out his mobile phone and started playing games while waiting.
It was a pity that there was no signal in the space, otherwise he could still browse Weibo and watch movies.
Half an hour passed unknowingly, and Zu Qi still didn’t hear any noise, but the soup and food he brought in were a little cold.
Was it because he was sitting here that the little boy dared not come out?
Zu Qi originally wanted to ask the little boy something but seeing this situation he had to give it up temporarily. He stood up from the ground with a clumsy movement and patted the grass clippings off his hands and clothes.
Holding the emerald hanging around his neck, Zu Qi was about to leave when he suddenly heard a slight sound coming from the side. It was the sound of someone running through the grass.
Zu Qi turned back reflexively, and the next second he met a pair of big black eyes.
The little boy was petite, and the half-meter-high bush just covered him tightly. Only his fluffy and soft hair and half of his white and tender face were exposed. He looked so cute, as if he was a squirrel hiding in a small hole to peek at the enemy.
Zu Qi liked children very much, and when he saw this scene, he suddenly became heartbroken.
“Hi, we meet again.” Zu Qi raised a gentle smile, trying to look more amiable and approachable.
The little boy said nothing, tilted his head curiously, blinked his watery eyes, and looked around Zu Qi, then his gaze landed on the dinner plate at Zu Qi’s feet.
In an instant, the little boy’s eyes brightened several times.
The little boy stared at the food on the plate intently, sniffed the smell of pig’s trotter soup that filled the air, and couldn’t help but swallow.
Zu Qi pointed to the dinner plate and said word by word: “I brought you some food, can you come over?”
After hearing this, the little boy’s expression instantly became alert, and he refocused his gaze on Zu Qi’s face, then he quietly took two steps back, as if silently expressing his rejection.
Zu Qi took in all the little boy’s reactions and became more and more sure that the little boy could understand what he said.
It was just that the little boy was still very afraid of him. If he acted too hastily, it may be counterproductive. The only feasible way was to take it step by step and slowly gain the little boy’s trust.
After trying to pass, Zu Qi no longer pressed, said goodbye to the little boy to himself, and left the space.
Zu Qi had previously calculated that ten minutes in space equaled one second in reality.
In other words, he was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone for fifteen minutes, and nearly a week had passed in the space.
Zu Qi estimated that it was almost done, so he entered the space again. He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but he actually felt that the space was much colder than in reality.
Zu Qi couldn’t help but shiver. Fortunately, he was prepared in advance and put on an extra coat before entering the space, so he quickly wrapped his coat around him tightly, wishing he could wrap himself into a rice dumpling.
Before he even got close, he saw familiar plates placed on the grass, including soup bowls and dinner plates.
Zu Qi looked surprised and hurriedly walked over. Only then did he see that all the candied dates and pig’s trotters soup made by Weng Yuxiang had been drunk. Not even the dregs of the stewed trotters and side dishes were left. The plate was also as clean as new.
Zu Qi: “…”
Not seeing the little boy around, Zu Qi sighed helplessly, squatted down, picked up the plate and returned to reality.
In the next few days, Zu Qi would deliver cooked food to the space regularly every day.
The chefs of the Xue family were very good at cooking. No matter what dishes they made, they were all delicious. Every time, the little boy ate them clean. This happened many times. Sometimes when Zu Qi went in to collect the dishes, he would see the little boy hiding and looking at him from behind trees or bushes.
Until one day, Weng Yuxiang took Zu Qi to Cui Junzhuo’s hospital for a check-up. They went back after having dinner outside, and it was already ten o’clock at night when they got home.
Zu Qi lay on the bed for a while after taking a shower, always feeling that he had forgotten something. When he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly opened his eyes.
Oops!
He forgot to give the little boy food today!
Zu Qi hurriedly got out of bed, put on his clothes, opened the door and walked to the kitchen downstairs.
At this time, all the cooks in the Xue family had gone back to their rooms to rest. He had a big stomach and it was inconvenient to cook, so he could only check the refrigerator to see if there were any snacks or fast food.
When he was in the living room, Zu Qi suddenly heard a loud noise.
Turning around, he saw three older maids surrounding Sun Fei. They were pointing and saying something to her. The maids looked angry and extremely excited, pushing Sun Fei from time to time.
Sun Fei, who was originally so high-spirited that she almost walked sideways in the Xue family, had folded her arms timidly and was being pushed by the maids like a boat rocking in the wind and waves.
It had been a while since he last saw Sun Fei. She had lost a lot of weight. She had heavy dark circles under her eyes. She looked depressed. Her long hair, which she had taken care of before, was as messy as a hornet’s nest.
She seemed to have aged ten years all of a sudden.
Zu Qi almost didn’t recognize Sun Fei at first glance, but when he took a closer look, he met Sun Fei’s desperate look.
“Zu Qi!” Sun Fei suddenly seemed to have seen a savior. She pushed away the maid in front of her and stumbled towards Zu Qi, “Help me, they are causing trouble for me and want to beat me.”
Before she had even taken two steps, the maid next to her suddenly stretched out her foot. Sun Fei was caught off guard and was thrown forward. She fell straight forward and fell to the cold floor with a thud.
Zu Qi frowned and couldn’t help but hiss.
It hurt just to look at it.
However, Sun Fei didn’t seem to feel anything. She got up from the ground using her hands and feet, and then went forward and begged Zu Qi: “Go and help me beg Xue Jue. I am his little mother after all, and his brother’s biological mother. How could he do this to me?”
Before she could finish her words, Sun Fei was pulled back by the maids behind her.
Sun Fei’s expression looked a little ferocious. She struggled like crazy, but she couldn’t break free from the shackles of the maids. In the end, she had no choice but to turn to Zu Qi for help.
“I am Xue Yanjing’s woman. I gave birth to a son for Xue Yanjing. Why should I do these menial tasks? My son is the future heir of the Xue family, and I will also be the mistress of the Xue family!”
Zu Qi looked at the embarrassed Sun Fei calmly, if he had some sympathy for Sun Fei before, now those feelings had disappeared without a trace.
Even now, Sun Fei was still calculating the Xue family’s property and coveting Weng Yuxiang’s position.
As the saying went, if the human heart was never satisfied, their desires would only come back to bite her.
“Xue Jue is the heir to the Xue family, and Aunt Weng is the mistress of the Xue family. You and your son are just outsiders.” Zu Qi cruelly said the reality, “If you had left yourself some escape route, you won’t have turned into this.”
Sun Fei couldn’t listen to what Zu Qi was saying at all. She glared at Zu Qi fiercely, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on and retorted loudly: “You are talking nonsense, Xue Yanjing attaches great importance to our Xiao Hao, and even gave him projects worth hundreds of millions!”
Zu Qi smiled half-heartedly: “So now Xue Hao has put himself in the police station?”
Hearing this, Sun Fei was suddenly startled, as if only now did she recall something. In an instant, she was like a deflated rubber ball. Her legs gave out and she slumped on the ground helplessly. The despair in her expression surged up like a tide.
Zu Qi glanced at Sun Fei briefly, then turned and went to the kitchen.
It was a pity that the refrigerator was full of well-sorted vegetables, fruits and meats, but there was no sign of snacks, not even quick-frozen dumplings.
Fortunately, the maids they bumped into just followed him quietly. Seeing Zu Qi guarding in front of the refrigerator worriedly, they thought he was hungry, so they quickly got to work preparing a supper for Zu Qi.
When Zu Qi entered the space carrying a dinner plate with chestnut yam porridge[2] and sweet and sour grilled pork ribs[3], it was already half past eleven in the evening, and the night outside the window was deep and the moonlight was clear.
But there was still beautiful blue sky and white clouds in the space.
The endless lawn was like a frozen ink painting, the river was murmuring not far away, and looking ahead, you could see the deep woods with no end in sight.
Zu Qi walked to the woods as a habit and placed the dinner plate in a fixed position as usual.
Just as he was about to leave, several lightning-like figures suddenly appeared in his peripheral vision.
Before Zu Qi could react, there were already three more children in front of him. The leader was the curly-haired boy Zu Qi had seen before. The two little boys hiding behind him were equally fair and cute and were estimated to be no more than ten years old.
They looked at Zu Qi warily for a moment, and soon their attention was attracted by the porridge and pork ribs placed on the ground. The three little boys suddenly swallowed their saliva.
Although Zu Qi had already guessed that there might be other people here, he was still very surprised when he saw it with his own eyes. He was stunned and subconsciously took a few steps back. Before he could speak, he heard the little curly-haired boy speak.
“What’s going on? Little brother, why are you here so late? Us three brothers have been waiting for you for a long time.”
Zu Qi: “…”
What was going on with this strong Northeastern accent?!
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