Wen Liyu curiously used her fin to move the eggs. The eggs were transparent, and each had a small black dot in the middle.
"Four..." She paused, "What should I do? Shaoyao is so poor, he can't seem to afford to support them!"
"Host, I found a lot... Hey, it's born?!" The system's voice changed from excitement to surprise, "So soon?"
"Yes." Wen Liyu swam in circles around the four fish eggs. "A new question arises: how do you hatch the eggs?"
The system and she looked at each other in bewilderment. They were both silent for a while. The system spoke first, "Let me look for more information. Hatching shouldn't be that fast."
"Okay, then I'll take them out first. It's not good to let the children stay in the toilet pit all the time." Wen Liyu took a look at the fish eggs. They were crystal clear and there was no dirt on them.
She said it was a toilet, but as a carp spirit she didn't need to use this thing, so it was very clean. It was only made because Chu Shaoyao thought she needed it.
Wen Liyu held the fish eggs in her mouth and moved them one by one to the fine sand where she slept. She was afraid that the sand would wear out the thin skin of the eggs, so she also used her silk quilt to pad them.
After the fish eggs were arranged neatly in the shape of a "田" (field), she circled around them a few more times.
"Ding, host, I've looked through the information." The system suddenly said, "Fish eggs don't need to be incubated artificially. Most fish eggs can hatch on their own."
"Really?" Wen Liyu curiously rubbed the fish eggs with her mouth. "Then I'll go to sleep first and talk to Shaoyao tomorrow."
She curled her body into a circle, rested her head on her tail, and fell asleep with four fish eggs in her arms.
When she woke up, she had completed her scale change. She had transformed from an ordinary little carp into a gorgeous red and gold koi. Her fins and tail swayed gracefully in the water like beautiful wings.
She first looked at the fish eggs. They were still the same as yesterday, without any movement, lying quietly in her arms.
After wrapping them in a silk quilt, Wen Liyu swam to the surface of the water and jumped up, just in time to see Shaoyao who had returned from practicing martial arts early in the morning.
She swung her tail to greet him, then transformed into a human form and pounced on him. Chu Shaoyao would take a shower after training to wash off the sweat on his body.
He exuded a light, fresh moisture, and his muscles were slightly bulging due to exercise. When I lay on him, I could feel the heat of his body. His broad shoulders and narrow waist were very eye-catching and handsome.
"But what happened?" Chu Shaoyao placed her steadily in his arms and took her to sit on the bed.
Wen Liyu then stopped sniffing like a puppy, jumped off him, and took his hand to the bucket, "I want to tell you something."
Chu Shaoyao saw her cheeks flushed and her eyes looking at him moistly. His heart softened like a cloud in an instant. His voice was so gentle that it could squeeze out water. "What's the matter?"
"Do you like children?" Wen Liyu asked him with shining eyes.
Chu Shaoyao's smile faded a lot. He wanted to say directly that he didn't like it, but seeing Xiaoliyu's expression, he didn't say it directly. Instead, he hugged her waist and bit her small earlobe, "I want it if you give birth to me."
He had been studying hard on books about demons and monsters during this period, and found that once the scholars in the books discovered that the other party was a demon, they would find a "master" to take his wife away.
This made Chu Shaoyao very puzzled. They were already husband and wife, so how could they do such a despicable thing?
He remembered the different paths of humans and demons mentioned in the storybook.
There will definitely be many hardships when humans and monsters live together. The first one is the issue of offspring, and the second one is the length of life.
Chu Shaoyao's eyes sank slightly, and he hugged the woman in his arms tightly. If he died first a hundred years later...how would Xiaoyu cope with it?
"Loosen up a bit, you're holding me too tightly." Wen Liyu couldn't help but pat his arm and gestured for him to look at the bucket, "Look."
"What?" Chu Shaoyao didn't seem annoyed at being interrupted. He followed her gaze into the bucket and immediately saw the small wrapped silk towel. "Is there something in there?"
Wen Liyu chuckled, reached into the bucket, carefully lifted up the silk, and flicked it with her hand. The silk slowly unfolded, revealing four fish eggs inside.
When Chu Shaoyao saw the four round objects, his body immediately stiffened, and his beautiful obsidian eyes almost shattered with shock.
"Dangdangdang~~These are all our children!" Wen Liyu looked at him happily and shyly, her fair and delicate palms holding four round and plump "children".
Chu Shaoyao said in a difficult tone: "...Xiaoyu, what did you say?"
"There are four fish eggs in total." Wen Liyu was holding the eggs carefully, and she didn't see his expression that was about to burst. "I laid them yesterday."
Chu Shaoyao only felt that in broad daylight, a bolt of lightning struck his head directly, making his head buzz.
The words of the little carp spirit kept replaying in his head, "four fish eggs", "born yesterday", "our child".
Wen Liyu didn't notice that he hadn't come back to his senses yet. After all, Chu Shaoyao had a semi-permanent expression on his face - calm and composed.
She took his hand and asked him to put it into the bucket, then placed the eggs one by one into his palm. "I didn't pay attention when they were born, so I don't know their ranking. I'll tell you how they are ranked after they hatch."
"By the way, after the little fish hatch, they will turn into human babies in about nine months."
Chu Shaoyao digested her words and asked, "Xiaoyu, you said they will turn into babies?"
"Of course, their father is a human being, so they can definitely become humans." Wen Liyu's matter-of-fact look frightened Shaoyao, who knew nothing.
Chu Shaoyao looked at the fish eggs in his palm. Starting from his arm, the muscles became extremely stiff. "I...Is it okay for me to hold it like this? Will it break?"
"Don't worry, their skin isn't that fragile," Wen Liyu assured. "They'll probably hatch in three or four days."
"Okay." Chu Shaoyao nodded seriously, as if he was going to stand in front of the bucket until the little fish hatched.
Wen Liyu touched her belly and asked, "Peony, where's breakfast?"
"Oh my...what about the children?" Chu Shaoyao was about to go outside to bring in the lunch box, but stopped immediately and looked at her in confusion.
"Pfft." Wen Liyu couldn't help laughing when she saw him acting like a silly father. She stopped laughing when Shaoyao blushed behind her ears and looked at her shyly. "Let's take them out to bask in the sun. The sun is shining brightly now, so it won't be too hot."
Chu Shaoyao carefully changed his hand to hold the fish eggs, and went out with her carrying the bucket, "Okay."
The two found a flat place in the yard that could get some sunlight, put down the bucket, and put the fish eggs back on the silk quilt.
They were sitting at the table in the courtyard eating breakfast. When they were about to finish, a handsome young eunuch knocked on the courtyard door.
When he saw the stunning woman beside Chu Shaoyao, surprise and confusion flashed in his eyes, but he didn't look or think too much. He bowed respectfully and said, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince, the Imperial Concubine invites you."
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