After crossing the Demon Realm again, although the child's height has only grown a little, his eyes have gained a bit more energy and he looks very smart.
However, what makes me ashamed is that this child has no plans to be weaned, even though the teeth have already sprouted.
After such a long period of adaptation, I no longer feel the embarrassment I felt before. The relationship between Ling Yan and me is no longer the same as before. Although she calls me "Senior", there is no longer that sense of strangeness. They even occasionally ask me to help with childcare.
"Su Tang is already so old, why don't you want to eat something else? If you keep drinking your mother's milk, you won't grow up." Ling Yan sighed.
"But, if Su Tang stops breastfeeding, daddy won't look at Su Tang anymore?"
Su Tang's words made me sitting opposite me couldn't help but make a puff sound and almost spit out my saliva.
Ling Yan was stunned for a while before she realized what she was doing. She couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh: "Ha, your father is not looking at you."
"That's right! Dad usually doesn't want to take another look at me. He only looks over when I'm drinking milk!" Su Tang said firmly.
After such a long time, Ling Yan still didn't know what was going on, but she had no intention of rejecting it for a long time. Anyway, after seeing it a lot, she didn't seem to feel much.
Sometimes, I even have the illusion that she is waiting for me to see her.
Sure enough, Ling Yan did not hide it this time. She held the child's face with both hands and left her. Then she said seriously: "Su Tang can continue to eat, but there is a condition, that is, other things must be eaten in a timely and quantitative amount." ,how?"
"I know, little mom." Su Tang nodded seriously.
Ling Yan generously allowed her to continue, but her eyes were looking towards me. But when I met her eyes, although I didn't avoid looking at her, I felt a little guilty.
After the child had finished drinking, Ling Yan followed her past practice and gave her an hour to go to the ground to relax. After all, the child still loves freedom by nature, and it is not appropriate to always be locked up in Qinglian and go on the road.
But this time, Ling Yan did not follow the child and let her go and play by herself. After all, the child is not less than two years old, but she can already fly and run, and has the ability to protect herself. Plus we are monitoring from the air. It's quite safe.
"You know how to cultivate relationships. You consider yourself a baby mother, but you ask your child to recognize me as his father. You should know that the cause and effect is not trivial." I calmly watched her adjust her clothes.
Ling Yan blinked her eyes and muttered: "Ling Yan knows that senior has a wife, and at most... she just earns a name. If senior gives charity, it will be. If not, Ling Yan will not dare to call herself "little mother" in the future. ..."
"You don't seem to be afraid, right?" I looked at her expression. These days, of course I understand her temperament. Although she is usually gentle and virtuous, she is absolutely unwilling to face the opportunity that belongs to her. What she gave up was like the fact that she decided to follow me based on her luck.
"I..." Ling Yan knew the weight of my question and was a little panicked for a moment.
"Well, I won't restrict it to such an extent. After all, this child is the trouble I brought. I see that you take such good care of me. No matter what the outcome of this child will be in the end, everything you do has nothing to do with me. It's all a great achievement." I took out a supreme-level divine stone and threw it to her.
Ling Yan took it in astonishment, but the momentary surprise suddenly turned into sadness. Even the tentacles that had been paying attention to Su Tang hung down at this moment.
"What? Isn't this what you want?" I asked.
Ling Yan trembled and then said: "But..."
"What? Not enough?" I asked, and at the same time, I couldn't help but frown.
Ling Yan was at a loss for a moment, and tears suddenly filled her eyes: "No... Senior, are you... trying to drive Ling Yan away? But the child still needs to be fed, and needs to be taught lessons, right... Ling Yan still has It’s useful, senior, please, Ling Yan will never make too many demands again, and she will never let her children call her baby mom again..."
I watched her suddenly cry and thought to myself that this little girl is really a pleaser, but these normal words were interpreted by her as me wanting to drive her away.
But since she understands it so well, I don't bother to correct it for the time being, lest it cause Su Tang's incident to cause a lot of reluctance when parting.
"You should also know that the Demon Seed is not the child we conceived. Uncertain factors are even difficult for me to control. What I do is also good for you. You can stay, but you shouldn't put all your heart and soul into it. We are all invested in each other's feelings, do you understand?" I said.
When Ling Yan heard that she could stay, she immediately nodded and wiped away her tears, and said anxiously: "Ling Yan knows this and will definitely follow what senior said and will never disobey senior..."
I thought that this short emotional interlude seemed to have been wiped out by just a few words, and I didn’t know whether it was right or wrong to do so.
But it's better to be cruel than to be sad later.
When Ling Yan saw that I was silent, she timidly came to me again, holding the divine stone in both hands and handed it to me: "Senior, Ling Yan doesn't want this divine stone anymore."
"Huh? Since you deserve it, why do you want to return it?" I looked incredulous.
"Ling Yan doesn't want anything anymore. She just wants to go back to the past. Senior never said these words. Just treat Ling Yan as before." Ling Yan bit her lower lip in grievance after saying this.
"Then everything you have done has been in vain? You have worked hard to feed your children, and you have to travel with me for several enlightenment days. Are you willing to suffer all this hard work in vain?" I asked curiously.
"Well, as long as we can follow senior, no matter what senior wants Ling Yan to do, Ling Yan is willing to listen to senior, anything." When Ling Yan put the stone in my hand, she also grabbed my hand.
I looked at her face with determination, and at this moment I couldn't help but feel that I had gone too far.
