As soon as Bo Jichen finished speaking, the little cub lying in the basket trembled. Lei Luos quickly reached out to pat it, not forgetting to glare at Bo Jichen. Why are you so loud? Are you disturbing the cub's sleep? Are you looking for a beating?

Bo Jichen quickly pursed his lips, shut his mouth, and looked at His Majesty the Emperor of the Troya Empire with his two purple eyes, looking utterly innocent and pitiful.

Leilos patted the little cub in the basket, making sure that the loud noise had only made him tremble and hadn't woken him up. He covered the little cub's ears and whispered, "High Priest of the Deep Sea Mermaid Clan, what made you think of arranging a marriage between you and our little cub?"

"Different species, reproductive isolation, he's a mermaid, our big baby... wait... which baby is he talking about?"

It seems like they have two "big kids" in their family, one is their own child, and the other is the child Jiang Jiang lost. Both of these kids are ranked as "big kids"!

So... which child did the High Priest of the Deep Sea Mermaid Clan propose the marriage to? Has he met him before, or not?

Bo Jichen: "..."

This question stumped him.

Yeah, right!

They now have three children.

Which kid is he talking about?

Bo Jichen coughed lightly, very softly, and successfully earned a sharp glare from his sweetheart.

The knife wound made him cough so hard that he stopped halfway through, and he said in a very humble voice, "Darling, the question you asked has stumped me."

"The High Priest of the Deep Sea Mermaids lives in the deep sea of ​​the ancient blue star in the distant Milky Way galaxy. Deep sea mermaids are mysterious enough, but their High Priest is even more mysterious. No one knows whether he is male or female!"

"It was able to request a marriage alliance with our eldest son, whichever son it is, it must have been a well-thought-out decision that would benefit it!"

Relos frowned slightly: "How could it know that my family has a cub, and a big one, when it's far away in the deep sea of ​​the ancient blue star in the Milky Way?"

Bo Jichen opened his mouth to remind him: "Honey, you forgot? I told you that the merfolk should have a shortcut from Earth. Jiang Jiang took this shortcut back!"

"I'm sorry!" Relos exclaimed, realizing what was happening. "The thought of someone wanting to marry my eldest son, no matter which son it is, makes my head spin and I can't think straight!"

The legitimate royal family of Troia consists of only him and Agares. Now that the legitimate royal family finally has three children, they are being targeted by a fish for a marriage alliance.

The thought of his three children, whoever they were, being led away by someone else filled Leilos with suffocation and distress.

Bo Jichen knew his dear friend well. Hearing his words and seeing his expression, he knew what he was thinking and why he was dizzy.

"It's alright, it's alright!" Bo Jichen comforted his beloved, "Whether it's the High Priest of the Deep Sea Mermaids Cangying or the High Priest of the Mermaid Clan Fu Huan, my Troya Empire doesn't need marriage alliances to consolidate its power."

“You’re right. Different species, reproductive isolation. No matter which one of our offspring is with a fish.”

Relos's slightly dizzy mind cleared up. "Yes, whichever of our kids wants to be with whomever they want, they can be with whoever they want."

"Marriage alliance? Impossible! General Bo Jichen, send them a reply, rejecting the marriage alliance, absolutely no marriage alliance!"

He is the emperor of the empire, possessing wealth across ten star systems. He could easily support three children, and raise them well. He could support three children even if they didn't marry.

I'm not getting married. It's absolutely impossible for me to get married. Don't even think about it.

Bo Jichen picked up a pen and paper, bent down and wrote, crisply and neatly, a large "Get out" character landed on the white paper.

After finishing writing, he pulled out an envelope, stuffed it in, and gave his own little kiss: "I'm going to mail it!"

Leilos nodded slightly.

Bo Jichen picked up the letter and left. Just as he stepped out the door, the steward arrived with his men, carrying ten wooden boxes.

Bo Jichen paused, his back ramrod straight and his expression serious: "What is this that you're carrying towards His Majesty?"

The official in charge of internal affairs bowed to Bo Jichen and respectfully said, "Reporting to the General, the Merfolk priests have sent a gift. The gift has been scanned and inspected, and there are no dangerous items. We are here to present it to His Majesty!"

Bo Jichen reached down and said, "Put it down, put it down, open it and let me take a look!"

The steward replied, "Yes, General!"

Ten large wooden boxes were placed together on the ground, so lightly that they made no sound.

The red box is carved with a simple and elegant pattern of auspicious clouds.

The rope supports the bottom, and the wooden stick lifts it up.

It has an ancient flavor.

The servants carrying the box removed the wooden sticks, pulled the ropes, and opened the box.

When all ten boxes were opened at once, the sight of the ten boxes of black pearls under the sunlight almost blinded Bo Jichen!

Damn it!

Bo Jichen cursed inwardly, "Damn it, 10 boxes of Black Pearls, each one round and the size of a quail egg or a pigeon egg. Not one box, but 10 boxes."

The box wasn't a small box; it was a large box.

It was a large wooden crate that could hold over 100 kilograms of goods, and it contained a full 10 crates of black pearls!

Bo Jichen kept telling himself that pearls were just pearls. Although a single black pearl might only cost tens or hundreds of millions, it wasn't like he didn't have that much money...

Damn, he really doesn't have that much money.

He couldn't deceive himself; he was a penniless dragon!

I've never seen so much money before, pshaw, pearls, black pearls!

Bah! Black Pearl is money!

Bo Jichen screamed inwardly like a groundhog, but remained calm as an old dog. He looked respectable and serious, and with his well-defined knuckles, he picked up a pearl and weighed it in his hand.

Seriously! This is a genuine black pearl, a priceless treasure revered by the merfolk!

"Hiss," Bo Jichen couldn't help but hiss. If these 10 boxes of black pearls were a betrothal gift, buying his family's stinky dragon cub wouldn't be out of the question.

Upon hearing the general's hissing voice, the steward couldn't help but ask, "General, is there a problem with these things?"

The arrival of 10 large boxes of black pearls startled the Imperial Household Officer. After scanning and inspecting them and finding no problems, he quickly sent them to His Majesty, fearing that if he was a step too late, something might happen to the 10 large boxes of black pearls!

“No problem!” Bo Jichen gritted his teeth, steeled his heart, and said with a heart bleeding, “Go back and send it to the Merfolk Priest Temple along with this letter!”

The steward accepted the letter with both hands and respectfully said, "Yes, General!"

Bo Jichen waved his hand at them: "Go, go, go quickly!"

If he doesn't leave soon, he'll become greedy and regret it. It's even possible that he might accidentally sell his precious dragon cub!

The steward stepped back two paces and said to the servants carrying the boxes, "Seal the boxes, carry them away, and return them to the Merfolk Priest's Temple!"

The servants immediately sealed the box and carried it away.

Bo Jichen's old heart is bleeding profusely.

That's all money, money, money!

It's not that he doesn't want it, it's not that he won't accept it.

The main problem is that the high priest of the deep-sea mermaid, Cangying, hasn't made it clear who he's going to marry.

If it's his dragon cub, he'll take it without hesitation.

But he wouldn't dare take in the other two boys even if he had 8,000 times the courage.

He can sell his own child without any principles, but he can't sell someone else's child.

It's mainly because they're cowardly, afraid, and unable to win!

Bo Jichen sighed deeply, went back inside, and sought out his beloved for a kiss, a hug, and comfort.

Unexpectedly, his beloved placed the sleeping baby into the infant egg pod, picked up the pod pod, and said to him, "Let's go, General Bo Jichen!"

Bo Jichen looked completely bewildered: "Where to?"

Relos retorted, "Wasn't I supposed to accompany you for a 30-minute walk?"

Bo Jichen: "???"

A 30-minute walk?

When is a 30-minute walk appropriate?

With these 30 minutes, we can still fire half a shot.

Why take a walk?

Can you please stop wasting so much time?

"Didn't you say I didn't even have time to walk with you?" Relos reminded him when he didn't move, "You also said you'd let me walk with you for 30 minutes after you came back from your rest!"

Bo Jichen: "..."

Damn it.

He remembered.

He was so busy at the military headquarters that he barely had time to breathe. He ate and slept there and didn't even go home. He would send messages to his loved ones, acting cute and playful, saying how much he missed the days of taking walks with relatives.

I never expected that I would end up shooting myself in the foot like this.

Do I really want to slap myself?

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Bo Jichen smiled and replied to his beloved. He had to keep his word, even if it was through tears. Taking a walk with his beloved was sweet enough, even if it meant going through fire and water.

To Bo Jichen's utter surprise, less than 10 minutes after they went out for a walk, the steward not only brought back the original 10 large red boxes, but also 10 more large boxes and 10 large black boxes.

The boxes were brought before Leilos. The steward bowed to Leilos and presented him with a gift list: "Your Majesty, the Merfolk Priest Temple is sending 10 more boxes of gifts, saying they will personally deliver them to you. Please take a look!"

Leilos handed the baby pod egg in his hand to Bo Jichen, took the gift list, and flipped it open. The gift list read: 100,000 black pearls and 100,000 white pearls, a gift for the eldest son of the Troya Empire.

Bo Jichen: "!!!!"

Damn, that's outrageously extravagant.

If he had known the High Priest of the Deep Sea Merfolk was so rich, he should have led the Red-Eyebrowed Fleet to plunder him decades ago, and none of this would have happened today.

Relos handed the gift list back to the steward, his voice authoritative yet aloof: "Return these items. From now on, if the Merfolk Priests send any gifts, do not bother to inspect them; simply return them to their original location!"

The steward accepted the gift list with both hands and respectfully replied, "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Leilos didn't even look at it and waved his hand.

The steward stepped back two steps and led his men away.

Leilos took the baby pod egg from Bo Jichen's hand. Bo Jichen asked, "Darling, 100,000 black pearls, even if the market price is 100 million, would still cost..."

"You want to sell your cubs?" Before he could finish speaking, Relos glanced at him and interrupted him, asking calmly, "Which cubs are you going to sell?"

Driven by a strong will to survive and a yearning for a kissing bed, Bo Jichen didn't hesitate for a moment. He shook his head like a rattle-drum, denying it three times in a row: "I didn't, I didn't, don't talk nonsense. I'd rather sell myself than sell my child!"

"My child is my life; as long as my child lives, I live. If my child dies, I die. I'll bang my head against the wall for my child!"

Leilos squinted at him, making Bo Jichen feel guilty. He wondered where he had given himself away, letting his darling realize that he intended to sell his dragon cub...

The vast universe, beautiful nebulae, and countless galaxies are breathtaking. But as they pass by, after a while, they suddenly seem nothing special.

Jiang Si felt bored and was about to go back to her room when Agares called out to her, "Jiang Jiang, are you hungry? I've made some food."

Jiang Si paused in her steps: "My current physical functions can support me without food or water without any problems!"

Agares's eyes dimmed slightly: "Alright, then go and rest. I'll call you when we reach the orcs!"

Jiang Si looked at him deeply, and finally said with a hint of pity, "You don't need to worry too much about Da Zai Zai. She's not dead. She was taken away by something powerful, black, with wings, whose face I couldn't see clearly!"

"It shouldn't have any ill intentions towards the big cub. The big cub likes it very much. I saw in Qin Houqing's memory that it hugged the big cub, and the big cub didn't cry!"

Of course, there is also the possibility that her baby cannot cry, or that there is a problem with her vocal cords or something else that prevents her from making a sound.

But we'll only know for sure why she's not crying or meowing once we find the mother cub and give her a full check-up!

Agares, meticulous about details: "Black, powerful, winged, can you see any other details in the image?"

Jiang Si shook her head: "The opponent was very fast, dressed in all black, with huge wings. They were tens of meters, several meters, and very powerful. They kicked Qin Houqing away with one kick, and you couldn't even see their face. They could also become invisible!"

She only pieced together these memories from Qin Houqing's three generations and Ling Du's memories; there was nothing else.

“It can also become invisible!” Agares frowned, his eyes suddenly darkening.

Jiang Si took in his expression: "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

Agares' mouth opened slightly, and after a long while, he said, "Both the teacher and I were wrong!"

Jiang Si asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Agares' breathing became rapid: "Qin Houqing said that the other party snatched the baby and then ran away in a small spaceship!"

"I followed behind them at a distance close enough to detect their spaceship, even though it was cloaked. I couldn't detect any small spaceships!"

Jiang Si corrected Agares: "They weren't lying. In their memory, I saw a small spaceship run away!"

Agares nodded: "Yes, the fact that I haven't detected any small spaceships doesn't mean they don't exist. However, just because spaceships are on the move doesn't mean the people who took the big cub are gone!"

Jiang Si's voice suddenly hardened: "You mean!"

Agares looked at her: "What I mean is, the people who kidnapped the big cub never left Qin Houqing's ship from beginning to end."

"It openly and brazenly took the big cub and went into hiding, returning to the Abel Galaxy right under Qin Houqing's nose and the others' noses, and then brazenly took the big cub and left right under the teacher's nose!"