Chapter 1974 - 1557: Heart-Wrenching Feeding

"Cough, cough..." Zhou Mu heard that and couldn’t help covering his mouth, letting out a few embarrassed little coughs.

If Gu Changsheng said something about personally breastfeeding again, Zhou Mu swore he would absolutely explode.

But he hadn’t expected that he’d actually misunderstood her. With his face smeared all black, Zhou Mu looked rather sheepish.

Seeing the way her own evildoer’s expression cleared up in an instant, not only that, but he was even looking at her with a guilty face, Gu Changsheng’s mouth couldn’t help twitching. Inwardly she thought, what on earth is this situation?

Looking at his own wife’s two completely baffled faces, Yuan Bao really wanted to go up and remind his wife to hurry up and wise up already. But he had the desire and not the guts, so he could only forcibly hold himself back!

Gu Changsheng, big-hearted as always, blinked and didn’t get hung up on this matter. She watched Black Man Duo Shu go out to look for an inn, and her own Soul-Devouring Python, hauling the luggage, had disappeared off into some corner somewhere. While they were waiting for the Waiter to bring food, Gu Changsheng looked at Baby Jin Bao and couldn’t stop sighing...

"Please stop sighing... I really have never drunk milk..." Baby Jin Bao looked completely innocent.

"Then do you want to give it a try?" Gu Changsheng was helpless.

Letting a child starve to death was something she truly didn’t want on her record.

"No, no..." Almost the instant he heard that, Baby Jin Bao shook his head, firmly refusing!

"Even though I also kind of want to try drinking milk, I’m a Spirit, okay? As a noble Spirit, I do at least have this bit of principle!"

To be a Spirit with integrity: neither poverty can move him, nor power can bend him!

Paw shake!

Since he’d already outmaneuvered Gu Changsheng, forcing her to take him along, Baby Jin Bao absolutely wasn’t going to go drink milk!

How cheap would that be!

He’d become the shame of the Spirit Realm, carved onto the Pillar of Shame for all Spirits from ancient times to now!

He refused to lose face!

"You really don’t want to try? Weren’t you always obsessed with becoming a person? Let me tell you, if you want to be human, the first thing you need to do is integrate into human life. Babies drink milk, grow up and eat meals, three meals a day to fill their bellies—that’s the human Dao. The way you just eat Diamond Jade Stone, all I can say is you’re way too out of place. Even if one day you do become human, you’ll be a crane among chickens, a total misfit!" Gu Changsheng propped her legs on the table, speaking in a patient, persuasive tone.

"No, no, no! I don’t want to be human anymore, I want to be a Deity!" But upon hearing that, Baby Jin Bao immediately spoke up.

Hearing that, Gu Changsheng’s already-black face went a shade darker. She ground her teeth slightly and said, "Damn, you switch loyalties this fast, changing your tune at the drop of a hat, you think that’s okay? What about all those human beauty-darlings waiting for you to grace them with your presence? Did you forget your dream, forget your grand ambition to marry a hundred or eighty wives?"

"If I become a Deity, I can’t marry wives?" Baby Jin Bao blinked his big eyes at that.

That question actually stumped Gu Changsheng.

Damn it, she’d never been a Deity. Stories about actual Deities in this world were rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. How was she supposed to know whether Deities could marry wives or not?

So for a moment, Gu Changsheng genuinely had no idea how to answer Jin Bao’s question...

"Is it true that besides Diamond Jade Stone, you can’t eat anything else?" Zhou Mu tilted his head, looking at Baby Jin Bao standing on the chair beside him, and asked in a low voice, "Before you met us, where did you get the Diamond Jade Stone you ate?"

Baby Jin Bao was quite afraid of Zhou Mu’s icy aura, especially after seeing that even Gu Changsheng followed Zhou Mu’s every word. In his little Spirit heart, he instantly put Zhou Mu into the high-risk category. Hearing Zhou Mu’s question, Baby Jin Bao immediately straightened up, completely unaware of how chubby his little face was as he put on a serious expression and said, "I take it out of Baby’s belly. Just like that, take it out, and then eat it!"

As he spoke, Baby Jin Bao reached into his little bellyband and pulled out a fist-sized stone. It looked clear and lustrous, like a piece of jelly dessert, insanely translucent...

Talking as he moved, Baby Jin Bao was already lifting it toward his own mouth to shove it in...

"Wait!" Only then did Gu Changsheng snap out of her shock at Baby Jin Bao suddenly turning into a stone. She lunged across the table, reached past Zhou Mu, and grabbed Baby Jin Bao’s hand in a tight grip!

Baby Jin Bao looked up, face full of confusion.

"Th-this... this is Diamond Jade Stone?" Gu Changsheng sucked in a long breath, so stunned her words came out broken.

Godfather and that Fourth Auntie Grandma!

What was she seeing?

Wasn’t this basically the same existence as modern Diamonds?

Just from that crystal-clear translucence, you could tell this thing had probably been buried under some mountain for who knew how many years. Seas turning into mulberry fields and back again, and only then could it be brewed into something so completely flawless!

"Yup... this is Diamond Jade Stone..." Baby Jin Bao blinked, not understanding why Gu Changsheng was so nervous.

"You’re carrying Diamond Jade Stone on you?" Gu Changsheng held the Diamond Jade Stone Baby Jin Bao had given her in her hand, lowered her head, looked the little one up and down several times, and asked in clear disbelief.

Baby Jin Bao’s tiny body, tiny clothes, even wearing just a bellyband—there wasn’t even a hidden pocket anywhere. How was he supposed to hide anything?

Gu Changsheng didn’t buy it, but right in front of her eyes she watched Baby Jin Bao fish something out from his flat little bellyband!

"No! To be more precise, this Baby is the very source of the mineral veins of Divine Mount Qilian. As long as it’s buried in this mountain, no matter what kind of stone it is, as long as you can name it, this Baby can take it out!" His little hand slapped his chest as Baby Jin Bao declared proudly.

Well? Well?

Realize he’s a treasure now, huh?

Hmph, she’d been treating him like weeds, how annoying!

At his words, Gu Changsheng’s mouth instantly dropped wide open!

Everyone present wore the same shocked expression on their faces!

They’d known from the start that Baby Jin Bao was the essence of the mineral veins of this Divine Mountain Qilian, but they’d never imagined that for him to take things out would be this easy!

This is Diamond Jade Stone, you know!

The material used to forge Golden Silk Jade-Threaded Robes, do you get that?

"Jin Bao, do you have a lot of this Diamond Jade Stone on you?" Gu Changsheng stared at the Diamond Jade Stone in her hand for quite a while before finally reacting.

"Mm." Baby Jin Bao nodded.

"How long can it feed you?" Gu Changsheng asked on.

She’d never heard of any Diamond Jade Stone mine ever being excavated from Divine Mount Qilian. Which meant this Diamond Jade Stone vein was a deposit the people of Smelting City had yet to discover!

"How long can it feed this Baby? Let this Baby think..." Baby Jin Bao tilted his neck, thought for a while, then said, "This Baby has eaten for hundreds and thousands of years and only nibbled away a tiny corner of that mountain inside my tummy. I guess even if this Baby lives for tens of millions of years, I’ll never have to worry about starving!"

"..." Hearing that, Gu Changsheng’s mouth instantly formed an "O," and her black face twisted out of shape!

"Struck it rich! Struck it rich! This time I’ve really struck it rich!" After a while, Gu Changsheng finally slapped the table and shouted, then quickly darted a glance around. Luckily, it was already late; the restaurant’s diners were long gone, so no one noticed.

Snapping out of the heaven-sent windfall, Gu Changsheng eagerly grabbed Baby Jin Bao’s two little hands and asked affectionately, "Jin Bao, you’ve been carrying your rations on you, why didn’t you say so earlier? And here I was worrying you’d starve to death, I almost tossed you away..."

As someone who valued money more than life, her face had to be thick; changing expressions like flipping pages was no problem at all!

"Uh, you never asked..." Baby Jin Bao spread his little hands, completely innocent.

"Phew... that’s great, now your rations are settled, I don’t have to worry about you starving to death. So, uh, Jin Bao, could you maybe pinch out a little from your rations—just a tiny bit—and give it to me?" Gu Changsheng wasn’t exactly endlessly greedy; keeping Jin Bao from starving was already a big plus. Besides, the veins inside Jin Bao were loaded, he had all kinds of ores inside him. She had no intention of hogging all the Diamond Jade Stone and cutting off Jin Bao’s food source. She just had to skim a little off the top—if you don’t take advantage when it’s right there, you’re a fool!

"Uh, that’s fine. This Baby can’t finish it all anyway..." At her words, Jin Bao thought for a moment, then nodded generously.

"Jin Bao, you’re so good, so adorable!" Hearing that, Gu Changsheng immediately lunged over and planted a big kiss on Baby Jin Bao’s tiny face.

By the Spirit ancestors above, Baby Jin Bao swore that in all his life, nobody had ever kissed him before, nor had he ever seen anyone change faces this fast!

Baby Jin Bao was instantly stunned, and then shy...

"Um... um, I’m hungry..."

The bashful Baby Jin Bao’s chubby little face turned as red as a little magistrate, darting embarrassed glances around before finally seizing the perfect excuse to change the subject!

"Hungry? Huh? I’ll feed you!" Gu Changsheng yanked over her own evildoer, plopped down right next to Baby Jin Bao.

She’d just scored a promised benefit from Baby Jin Bao. When you take from someone, your hands are short; she had to at least show some enthusiasm, right?

But that first show of enthusiasm nearly did her in. When Gu Changsheng placed that Diamond Jade Stone, about the size of a small fist, into Baby Jin Bao’s hand, her little heart couldn’t help but ache!

Then, seeing Baby Jin Bao take the Diamond Jade Stone and chomp down on it without the slightest hesitation, Gu Changsheng felt like her own heart had been bitten too, throbbing with pain!

Godfather, what amazing teeth! Look at that Diamond Jade Stone in Baby Jin Bao’s mouth—it’s basically like tofu!

Also, do you have to eat it that happily? That’s Diamond Jade Stone, you know!

For Gu Changsheng, this feeding session was pure heartbreak...