Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The group ate and chatted idly, and their lunch break passed by just like that.
After finishing lunch and resting briefly at the office, it was almost time to start work in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Director Cheng came over, and Jiang Lan asked him to help him get a set of materials that Jiang Chi needed for school. After the materials were complete, he asked Xiao Xiaoyu to help deliver them to the teacher at the school who was reviewing the materials.
The school was found with Xiao Xiaoyu’s help. Jiang Chi was to directly enroll in the sixth grade. Because of Jiang Chi’s special circumstances and the fact that he had never attended school before, the supporting documents and procedures were more complicated, and Xiao Xiaoyu had to use her connections with the neighborhood office to help him. But once the documents were ready and approved, Jiang Chi could prepare to go to the school to register.
During this time, Jiang Chi studied at home on his own whenever he had free time, and Jiao Tu acted as his teacher, answering his questions.
He was very smart and had a good memory. He could remember what Jiao Tu told him after just one reading and he could also apply what he had learned to other situations. Now he had learned to find instructional videos online to learn on his own.
However, Jiang Lan was still a little worried that he would not be able to keep up with the pace if he went there, so she asked him for his opinion on whether he should go to tutoring classes during this period.
Jiang Chi hesitated for a moment but still nodded to indicate that he wanted to go.
Living with Jiang Lan these days had exposed him to more things and broadened his horizons. He had also come to understand the importance of knowledge to him.
He had no money, no power, no strength, and was still young, so he could only desperately absorb more knowledge to grow up faster.
Although he never said it aloud, ever since he realized that the labor contract was just something Jiang Lan used to appease him, he became even more eager to become stronger and truly useful to Jiang Lan.
Even though Jiang Lan was willing to raise him as his own younger brother, Jiang Chi still hoped that one day he would be able to repay Jiang Lan’s kindness.
Jiang Lan, unaware of the ideas swirling in his little head, reached out and ruffled his hair, saying, “Then we’ll find a tutoring center near the neighborhood, or maybe hire a private tutor for you.”
Jiang Chi pursed his lips and nodded, then turned to arrange the gems in the aquarium for Jiao Tu, carefully putting away the excess gems before continuing to read his book.
….
Before leaving work in the afternoon, Jiang Lan called Ying Qiao to ask if he was off work and whether he wanted to eat out for dinner.
Ying Qiao answered the phone after a while, saying that he was still at the Demon Management Bureau and that there had been a sudden accident, and asked them to come directly to the bureau.
“Is it serious?” Jiang Lan asked with some concern.
“…It’s not that serious.” Ying Qiao’s voice was a little hesitant, feeling that he couldn’t explain it clearly over the phone, so he could only say, “You’ll know when you get here.”
Jiang Lan: ???
He could only take his brothers by taxi to the Demon Management Bureau with a sense of wonder.
Ying Qiao put down the phone and frowned as he stared at the cauldron in front of him.
After a long while, he turned to Jiu Ding again to confirm: “He really said he was hungry and wanted to drink milk?”
Jiu Ding looked a little embarrassed but still nodded with difficulty.
Ying Qiao took him to the company today, and in the afternoon he said he wanted to check on how the bronze cauldron was being nurtured. He also wanted to see his silly brother, so he happily came along.
Upon arriving at the destination, he took out the bronze cauldron and examined it. To his surprise, he discovered that his seemingly foolish brother had become much stronger.
And it even started muttering to itself!
So he tentatively spoke to his silly brother and then received his brother’s first response— he was hungry and wanted milk.
Jiu Ding couldn’t understand it. How could a cauldron need to drink milk?
I’ve never had milk myself.
Besides, only human and some demon cubs drink milk, right? It would seem rather foolish for a cauldron that’s several thousand years old to suddenly want to drink milk.
Jiu Ding was a little worried, thinking that his silly brother was not only silly, but might also have some intellectual disability.
After he swallowed his shame and conveyed his foolish brother’s wishes to Ying Qiao, Ying Qiao’s expression was, as expected, indescribable.
He became even more embarrassed.
The two of them stared intently and silently at the bronze cauldron until Jiang Lan’s phone call broke the silence.
This same problem also troubled Ying Qiao.
He even doubted whether his guess was wrong, that the other consciousness in the cauldron was not Geng Chen, since dragon cubs did not drink milk.
The cubs of the Ying Long clan were stronger and more robust than those of other clans from birth. During their cub stage, they supplemented their nutrition with their own eggshells. And once they had finished eating the eggshells, they could hunt on their own.
Although the tribe had abundant resources, in order to train the cubs’ fighting instincts, they were made to go out to hunt for food on their own during their cub years.
So neither Geng Chen nor Ying Qiao had the experience of being breastfed.
So here’s the question: why would this consciousness, which was suspected to be Geng Chen, want to nurse?
Ying Qiao hesitated for a long time, but in the end, he went out to ask the staff for milk.
The staff member had an even harder time than him, and carefully asked to confirm: “What kind of monster’s milk do you want? The bureau doesn’t have any dairy products in stock right now, and it may take two or three days to prepare some.”
“…”
Ying Qiao’s expression twisted slightly, and he struggled to keep from breaking down: “Just regular milk is fine. If you don’t have any, I’ll go buy some outside.”
Staff: ???
He hesitated for a moment before quickly replying, “Oh, yes, we have that.”
After saying that, she took out a bottle of pure milk that she hadn’t had time to drink from her desk drawer and handed it to him.
Ying Qiao accepted the bottle of milk and thanked her. After thinking for a moment, he left a small bag of gems for the staff: “One gem is a thank-you gift for you. Keep the rest and help order a batch of monster milk, any kind of monster.”
After saying that, he pinched the milk carton with two fingers and went into the cubicle.
Jiu Ding peered around, somewhat puzzled: “How are we going to give this to him to drink?”
It doesn’t have a mouth either.
Ying Qiao tore open the packaging box and poured the milk directly into the cauldron.
Jiu Ding who was astonished: ???
Is this even possible?
Then he saw the thin layer of milk quickly fade away, and in a short while, the bottom of the cauldron was completely clean, with not a single drop of milk left, as if his silly brother had really drunk it all.
He tentatively tried it out and then heard his silly brother smacking his lips with lingering satisfaction, before saying, “More!”
Jiu Ding: …
Why do you actually think of yourself as a child?
Can’t this silly brother at least show some backbone? He’s thousands of years old and still needs to drink milk, how embarrassing!
But the silly brother obviously didn’t hear his inner roar, and just kept repeating “more, more, more”.
He could only awkwardly relay his silly brother’s message to Ying Qiao once again.
“…”
Ying Qiao stared at the bronze cauldron in silence. After a long while, his face darkened and his tone turned cold as he said, “Tell him that it’s over for today.”
Jiu Ding said “Oh” and tentatively continued to communicate with his silly brother.
As a result, the silly brother who kept repeating “more, more, more” like a broken record burst into tears after hearing him say “That’s all for today.”
!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jiu Ding was immediately filled with terror and didn’t know what to do.
Why are you crying?!
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