Chapter 40

Just as Ludwig was at a loss as to what to do with the small lump on the bed, Huo Lin, who came from outside, saw this scene.

Huo Lin came to see if the child had woken up. If he had, he would take the child out.

“Caesar.”

When Ludwig saw his son coming, he immediately called out to him, “Come in.”

Ludwig couldn’t handle it himself, and he had to seek outside help. Fortunately, the child was closest to his brother, Caesar. With Caesar around, he could certainly help him coax the child out.

Huo Lin saw his father’s intention and stopped in his tracks.

He stood still and calmly said, “Father, I suddenly remembered that I still need to go find Mom. If Ningning wakes up, you can take him out, and I’ll wait for you outside.”

As soon as Huo Lin finished speaking, he left without giving his father a chance to call him again.

Ludwig watched helplessly as his son left. He raised his hand and pressed his temple, turned around obediently, and coaxed the child inside the blanket again.

“Ningning, did you hear what your brother said? I’ll take you out to find your brother.”

As Ludwig spoke, he reached out his hand, and his slender fingers just poked at the lump. The lump moved to the right.

Ludwig probed and poked, and the chubby little foot of the child came out.

Sure enough, the little chubby foot immediately retreated.

The emperor originally intended to coax the child out, but he couldn’t resist playing around. With a flick of his finger, the child hid in the blanket.

The little lump under the blanket moved around, trying to avoid the big hand outside.

One poked, one hid, and after playing for a while, Ludwig suddenly heard a “bang”.

It was the child who was so angry that he rolled over and hit the wall.

After hearing the sound, the smile on Ludwig’s face froze. He felt a sinking feeling in his heart, and only two words remained in his mind: “it’s over.”

As expected, after the “bang” sound, the little lump immediately stopped moving. A few seconds later, crying could be heard from inside the blanket.

Ludwig’s scalp tingled, and he lifted the blanket to reveal the child inside.

Whether from being trapped in the blanket for too long or crying too hard, the child’s originally white and tender face had turned red, and tears were streaming down as he covered his forehead.

Ludwig hadn’t even managed to comfort the child before making him cry. He was making a big mistake.

The emperor, who was usually cold and indifferent to outsiders, had completely lost his composure in front of a small child. Taking advantage of the fact that no one else had been attracted by the child’s crying, the emperor tried to salvage the situation.

“Baby,” he mimicked the way Zhan Xi coaxed the child, calling out to the crying child, “Don’t cry, okay? Let me massage your head.”

After he finished speaking, he gently massaged the little child’s head.

There was no one else in the room.

Ludwig completely let go of his face and pride. He picked up the little child and, after massaging his head, lowered his head and kissed the child’s wet cheek. “Baby, do you want to sit up high?”

Sitting up high was the child’s favorite game.

The little child, whose crying had gradually weakened, looked up at Ludwig with teary eyes for a while before, tempted by the prospect of sitting up high, finally opened his arms.

Ludwig held him and let him sit on his neck.

Once he was up high, the little child’s tears slowly stopped.

Ludwig paced back and forth in the room, occasionally intentionally swaying. In this simple game, the child on his neck started to smile.

After sitting on his neck for a while, Ludwig picked up the child.

The two looked at each other and Ludwig whispered, “Ningning, can you stop being mad at Uncle now? Uncle knows he was wrong.”

If he had listened to the child earlier, he wouldn’t have been in danger. If he hadn’t been in danger, the child wouldn’t have been in danger to save him.

In short, it was his fault.

Ludwig had never acted so humbly in front of anyone other than his wife. Even if his own son was here, he would still be cold towards him.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to change his way of raising his child and be gentler with his own son. But even when he tried to get closer to his son, he was rejected.

After Ludwig admitted his mistake, the child in his arms looked at him with a hoarse voice, “Uncle, you know you were wrong?”

“Mm, I know I was wrong.”

Ludwig admitted it readily. He saw the child’s attitude soften, and he lowered his head to kiss the child’s cheek. This kind of intimacy was something he rarely did, but the child clearly liked it.

At the door.

The little prince listened to his father admit his mistake and happily turned off the recording function on his star machine.

Very good.

As expected, his Ningning could handle his old father.

The little prince enjoyed seeing his father get a taste of his own medicine, but he felt regretful that Ningning was so easily fooled.

About ten minutes later, Ludwig changed the clothes of the coaxed child, washed his face, and applied child cream on him before carrying him out to find Zhan Xi and the others.

“Does Ningning smell good?”

The child presented his chubby hand to Ludwig’s nose, letting him smell it.

Ludwig smelled it and replied with an unwavering face, “You smell good, you are the most fragrant child.”

Soon after, Zhan Xi and the people from the barren planet came out together. They had just finished tidying up their living quarters and now came to see the child.

Wagner was also by their side.

The little child in Ludwig’s arms saw the group of people coming towards them, and his eyes lit up.

He happily leaned forward and said, “Hug!”

Zhan Xi came to hug him with a smiling face, but before he could reach the child, the child dodged and ran towards a person who was coming towards them.

“Uncle Ling Qi!”

Finally, seeing Uncle Ling Qi, the child was extremely excited and asked, “Do you miss me? Do you miss me?”

Hearing the sweet words of the child, Ling Qi’s eyes were clearly smiling, but he deliberately said, “No, I don’t miss you at all.”

The child was stunned, his uncle said the wrong thing. Usually, when he asked this question, everyone would say they missed him!

Looking at the stunned child, and the mischievous Ling Qi, everyone couldn’t help but laugh.

Ludwig had nothing in common with this group of people, and the issue of their identities had yet to be resolved.

So, after he brought the child here, he left.

Once Ludwig was gone, the others seemed more relaxed.

Everyone hugged the little chubby child in Ling Qi’s arms and they pinched his cheeks countless times.

After the uncles held him and frowned, they commented, “He’s too skinny. He needs to eat more.”

Ling Qi always complained that the little child was too chubby. He didn’t say anything, but when they returned to White Mist Star, he first went to the kitchen.

He looked at the buns made by Zhan Xi, only tasted one, and bluntly said, “Give up on this, you shouldn’t think about selling buns, or anything related to food. Otherwise, whatever you touch will fail.”

If it was a few days ago and Zhan Xi heard Ling Qi’s words, he might have felt a bit frustrated. But things were different now. He was not only not frustrated but also very confident.

“I’m not giving up!”

Zhan Xi proudly raised his eyebrows at Ling Qi and said, “Let me tell you, my bun shop is doing very well! Now, I have so many orders that I can’t make everything in a day.”

Ling Qi: “?”

Impossible.

He knew Zhan Xi’s cooking skills very well. Zhan Xi was a complete cooking idiot. Others could use the same ingredients to make normal-tasting dishes, but in Zhan Xi’s hands, they always tasted different.

Especially the buns he made. He never used any special fillings, only the most common meat and vegetable fillings. But he could make them taste extraordinary.

When Ling Qi heard on the barren planet that Zhan Xi wanted to open a bun shop, his brain buzzed. He really didn’t know where Zhan Xi got the courage to start a business and choose a bun shop.

“Dad, it’s delicious!”

Ningning heard them talking and praised his father by saying, “Dad’s steamed buns are all sold out! He sold a lot of steamed buns!”

Ningning boasted with delight. Now that his father had sold all the steamed buns, he no longer needed to help eat them.

Under Ling Qi’s surprised gaze, Zhan Xi cleared his throat and told the truth: “Well, at first, my steamed buns business wasn’t doing too well. But now, it’s gotten better. The people who buy my steamed buns say they’re very healthy diet steamed buns. If they eat my steamed buns as a meal, they can avoid hunger, keep their body from collapsing, and lose some weight every day.”

“Now, my steamed buns have been promoted on diet forums several times...”

After Zhan Xi finished speaking, Ling Qi was completely shocked. He never imagined that Zhan Xi could sell steamed buns as a weight loss food!

Of all the people on the barren planet, Ningning was the happiest.

That day, Wagner was taken away by Marshal Twain, who had come to visit. The Marshal didn’t look well, and he didn’t leave immediately after taking Wagner away.

Ludwig wanted to talk to the Marshal about the new Zerg king they discovered on Ouyun Star.

Ludwig had a premonition that if the Zerg king didn’t die, they would not have peace in the future.

Time ticked away.

At dinner, Ningning invited his brother to join them. Holding a large bowl of rice, the child almost buried his face in the bowl.

“So good!”

The little child ate and drank his fill, patted his small belly, and happily squinted his eyes, “Ningning likes Uncle Ling Qi!”

Looking at the little child eating, Zhan Xi felt sour. His cooking wasn’t that bad, was it? Over the past two years, his son had been eating his food and had been plump all along.

With Ling Qi’s arrival, the little child who had been living with his father saw his quality of life rise by several levels!

Zhan Rao took care of the child with such care and attentiveness that nobody else had. Now, Ling Qi took care of the child’s daily life.

Zhan Xi was busy making buns and discussing the child’s physical problems with Zhan Rao, and he had no free time all day.

In addition to Ling Qi’s feeding, the emperor himself also personally fed the child.

When the child treated his mental riot, he was exhausted to the point of fainting with a pale face, which remained in Ludwig’s mind.

In order to nourish the child, Ludwig fed him whenever he saw him.

Under the multiple feedings, Huo Lin held the child who was sitting in the car and going to school and asked, with a slightly wrinkled brow, “Ningning, how many meals do you eat in a day lately?”

Ningning, who was picked up by his older brother, blinked and counted, “5!”

‘Ningning eats five meals a day!’

Huo Lin: “......”

Huo Lin looked at the child’s chubby face and couldn’t bear it, but he had to remind him, “Ningning, did you forget? The kindergarten weighs students every month.”

Ningning, after a brief period of slimming down, turned back into his old weight.

Huo Lin’s reminder was quite direct, but the child had no self-awareness whatsoever. The child, who was frequently fed by adults, rubbed his brother’s face and said in a soft and sweet voice, “Uncle Ling Qi said that Ningning is thin!”

“Uncle Lulu said Ningning should eat more!”

“Uncle Zhan Rao gave Ningning chocolate.”

“Uncle Duo Bi gave Ningning a piece of cake!”

Huo Lin listened to his menu, and the more he listened, the more he felt a heart attack.

His tone carried a hint of helplessness, “Even if we don’t talk about the weighing, Ningning, isn’t your kindergarten’s sports meeting starting? I remember you signed up for the children gymnastics.”

Children gymnastics emphasized lightness.

How would his little chubby Ningning perform on stage...

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Ningning: Don’t worry! Ningning can jump!"

 

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