Chapter 152

"The water you requested."

Qi Heng turned around, took the glass of water readily, and held it in his hand without drinking it.

He looked at Chu Xiu, who seemed to have returned to normal, and continued the previous topic, saying, "Do you remember what I said just now?"

"No need to be so serious." Qi Heng said in a relaxed tone: "Well, since we want to change, let's start with the name."

He thought he should have done this from the beginning, instead of just following Chu Xiu's wishes.

"From now on, when you call me by my name, don't keep saying 'you'." Qi Heng lazily shook the water in the cup in his hand and said, "To be honest, whether it's 'Your Excellency' or 'Your Majesty', I don't like the sound of it."

"You could call it a command, but I personally prefer to call it a request."

Chu Xiu's brain was a little out of sorts. He could understand every word, but when they were put together, he couldn't understand why.

"you……"

Chu Xiu opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Qi Heng raised his hand to stop him.

"I said, call my name." He said with deliberate emphasis.

Having two stubborn AIs constantly nagging me with honorifics is annoying enough, and once the remaining AIs are unlocked, that number will rise to a whole bunch...

He couldn't change the factory settings of the AI, so how could he change Chu Xiu?

Chu Xiu always responded to his requests and would never go west if he said he would go east. Therefore, even if it was very difficult for him to say it, Qi Heng believed that he would eventually do as he said.

In fact, it was just as he thought. Chu Xiu chose to obey after hesitation and entanglement.

"Qi, Qi Heng." Chu Xiu called his name haltingly, his voice a little soft. He looked left and right but his eyes did not fall on him.

Qi Heng found this action interesting. He moved closer intentionally and met Chu Xiu's eyes.

"Am I ugly?"

Chu Xiu was stunned, thinking of his misleading behavior just now, and quickly explained: "No, of course not, you... I mean you are very beautiful."

It’s so close.

Chu Xiu moved his feet and wanted to retreat, but he was afraid of causing misunderstanding, so he stood still and dared not move.

Qi Heng didn't expect to hear such straightforward compliments. Although he did look good, but... well, okay, he was still very confident about his face.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Then look at me and call my name."

Qi Heng’s idea was very simple. If he wasn’t used to being called, he would just call it a few more times. Once he got used to it, he would get used to it.

To deal with someone like Chu Xiu who is somewhat stubborn in some aspects, you have to force him. Thinking of this, he looked at Chu Xiu calmly, waiting for him to speak.

But there was one thing Qi Heng didn't expect.

After hearing his words, Chu Xiu's face flushed slightly, which was particularly obvious against his already fair skin.

Qi Heng saw this scene as Chu Xiu's embarrassment. After all, being forced to call another person's name would indeed make Chu Xiu feel embarrassed and uncomfortable, considering his respect for the 'Master'.

The more this is the case, the more we need to change.

“…”

Chu Xiu's throat moved, he felt something different from last time... This time, His Majesty seemed determined to make him change his address, and it was not just a matter of calling him that.

His Majesty is still waiting, and he cannot be kept waiting for too long. Chu Xiu prepared himself mentally and gritted his teeth to hypnotize himself, saying that this was allowed by His Majesty and it was not his fault.

Moreover, His Majesty allowed him to call him by his name...

I thought it would be difficult to open my mouth, but when the words came to my lips, it didn't seem so difficult. The names that I had repeated over and over in my mind came out naturally.

"Qi Heng."

"Very good, keep going, scream a few more times." He looked at Chu Xiu's cheeks which were still hot and getting redder, smiled and nodded, thinking that this was not a good job.

"Qi Heng."

"Um."

Every time Chu Xiu called Qi Heng, he would respond, until Chu Xiu was fully accustomed to it... Where there is a will, there is a way, and he has never failed in what he wanted to do.

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Apart from Qi Heng and Chu Xiu, no one knew how many times Chu Xiu was forced to shout in the kitchen that day.

In short, by the time they went to the nursery to feed the cubs, Chu Xiu was already able to call out Qi Heng's name very naturally.

"Female father, male father, you are finally here."

When Xizai saw them, he immediately dropped his cub and rushed to them. The background sound of the cub crying out of hunger was also heard.

"If you don't come soon, I'm going to die."

Xizai said tearfully, "Not long after you left, they started crying. No matter how much I tried to comfort them, it was useless."

It's normal that it's useless. After all, the newly hatched cubs can't understand human language at all, and it's unrealistic to expect a dwarf who has to stand on tiptoe on the edge of the bed to pick up the cubs and coax them.

"Okay, okay, we're here now."

"They are all hungry."

Qi Heng's experience in taking care of Yan Le came in handy at this time. He put down the bucket and scooped the porridge from the bucket into the bowl with a spoon, saying, "They won't cry anymore when they are full."

There were five cubs, and they only had two, so it was obviously unrealistic to feed them all at once.

But if we feed them one by one, I'm afraid by the time I feed the last cub, they'll be too hungry to cry.

Chu Xiu walked between the two cubs with the bowl in his hand, patted them and coaxed them twice, then fed the cooled porridge into their mouths.

The cub smacked its lips after eating the paste, stopped crying and started to hum softly, eager for the next bite.

However, the cub next door who smelled the food but didn't get to eat it seemed to cry even louder.

Chu Xiu looked at His Majesty who had walked to the other side to feed the cubs, hesitated for a moment, and called out, "Qi Heng."

Qi Heng, who was scooping the paste with a spoon, looked over and said, "Huh? What's wrong?"

"Otherwise, you can feed the two baby insects alternately, which will be faster." Chu Xiu said.

"Okay, I'll do as you say."

This way you can feed one more, it's just a matter of one bite after another.

"The remaining one..." Qi Heng looked at the male insect cub in the middle that seemed to have been forgotten, and decided: "You and I will take turns feeding it."

I have to say, fortunately the Zerg cubs are easy to raise, otherwise it would be a big problem to feed the newly hatched cubs.

Qi Heng and Chu Xiu were like two ruthless feeding tools. With their efforts, the cub's crying gradually became lower, and in the end, only the slight sound of eating remained.

aside.

Unable to help, Xizi tilted his head, his eyes darting between the two of them... The female father and the male father seemed a little different? But he couldn't tell what the difference was.

The newly hatched insects either sleep or eat. After eating, they start to feel sleepy and their eyelids start to droop.

They didn't need to be coaxed to sleep, they fell asleep one after another.

They usually sleep for more than seven or eight hours before waking up.

"It's finally quiet." Qi Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

His extensive experience with cubs was limited to games, and he had only taken care of Yan Le twice in real life. Because cubs grow quickly, and Yan Le was mostly cared for by Yan Ning, he hadn't actually fed him many times.

"Father Xiong, there are bugs coming..."

Xizai, who had been wandering outside because he was too bored, suddenly ran in. Before he could finish his words, he saw his father raised his index finger and made a "hush" sound at him.

"Be quiet. It will be troublesome if you wake them up and they start crying again."

Frightened by his father's terrible words, Xizi covered his mouth and whispered, "Bugs..."

"Yes, we know." Qi Heng glanced at Chu Xiu, gestured, and said, "It was your female father who asked them to come over."

Chu Xiu walked out. He needed to communicate with the guards who were transferred here.

The young of the Tianjia Zerg are different from the larvae of the original Zerg. Even if they do not require special care, they cannot be treated casually.

"Why did the female father let them come over?" Xizi looked at the female father's back as he left, feeling a little confused.

"They can take care of the cubs and help your sire share some of the work. If your sire does everything, he won't have time to rest."

"Oh, I understand." Xizi nodded. He didn't want the female father to spend all his time taking care of these cubs - the female father only needed to take care of himself.

Qi Heng stood beside the crib, looking at the sleeping cubs, thoughts popping up one after another in his mind.

He thought his plan needed to progress faster, otherwise... maybe he should make some appropriate changes to the originally planned process deployment...

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