Chapter 128 Hatching Eggs
Inside the room, the talking continued.
Mei Yang only felt as if he was engulfed in a huge question mark all over his body, and there was an ever-extending spiral vortex under his feet, which was sweeping him towards an indescribable and strange place and driving him crazy.
Mei Yang held his cheeks with trembling hands and was about to scream out in the next second.
"I repeat, elves have no mothers. All elves are born from the Elf Mother Tree."
"He's a human cub. He can't be your mother, let alone a little mother."
"Have you been spiritually polluted?"
…
Mei Yang didn't know whether these elves, who were still embryos, had been mentally polluted.
He only knew that if the Elf King mentioned the words "little mother" in such a cold voice again and continued with his devilish whispers, he would be mentally polluted.
There were sounds like balls bouncing in the room. If nothing unexpected happened, it was the fruits bouncing on the ground.
It seems that the mess in the living room, including the mess on the walls and ceiling, was caused by these naughty kids.
While the Elf King was lecturing them, they were still not convinced and kept knocking on the wooden floor, as if they were dissatisfied with the Elf King's lecture.
"Putting aside the difference in race, Mei Yang is a human male, a boy, and he doesn't have the ability to conceive."
"He can't have cubs, let alone elf cubs."
"Little Mom, where are you from..."
Mei Yang couldn't listen to any more words.
He coughed loudly.
In an instant, the room became quiet, and Mei Yang heard a sharp sound of table legs scraping on the floor, followed by footsteps.
Soon, the Elf King appeared at the entrance of the corridor and said to Mei Yang with a somewhat unnatural expression: "Come in."
——Mei Yang had already entered the room consciously.
Mei Yang did something that made him feel like he had lost his mind the moment he finished. In front of the Elf King, he slammed the door shut—almost catching the nose of the silly roe deer that had stuck its head out—and then said, trying to cover up his mistake, "I didn't mean to sneak in. I knocked on the door just now."
After saying this, Mei Yang felt that he might as well not say anything.
And the action of closing the door was so deliberate, which made the atmosphere even more awkward.
Fortunately, the Elf King didn't care too much.
"Yeah." The man resumed his usual noble demeanor, waved, and called Mei Yang in. "Come on, I was going to ask you to come in too."
"Okay." Mei Yang touched his nose and walked in.
This was the first time he had entered the Elf King's chambers in over three months.
Living under the same roof, they usually communicate directly in the living room about anything.
The Elf King's room was slightly larger than his own, with better lighting, but it was not sparsely decorated, with only a few sets of furniture and a large bookshelf.
It is also designed as a suite. After a short corridor, there is a living room, which is connected to the bedroom. The bathroom is probably also inside the bedroom.
In the large and empty room, the beam of light from the setting sun illuminated the dust without leaving any trace. The Elf King sat on a rattan chair and pointed to the chair opposite to Mei Yang.
He looked so bored and lonely—this was Mei Yang's first feeling when he first set foot in the Elf King's room.
He blinked his eyes, dismissed this inexplicable thought, walked over, sat opposite the Elf King, behaved well, and waited for the Elf King to speak first.
During this time, the five elf fruits containing Mei Yang's friends were standing in a row in the corner of the room, as if they were facing the wall to reflect on their mistakes.
You can't tell at all that he was so happy just now and still looks unmoved.
When the Elf King saw Mei Yang's appearance and compared it with the few Elf Fruits that were not even born yet and were extremely naughty, he suddenly felt that this black-haired cub was simply the most well-behaved child in the world.
Smart, lively and loving.
The afterglow of the setting sun gave Mei Yang's body a warm-toned outline. He looked like a cute life-size figurine, adding some bright and lively elements to the Elf King's somewhat boring room.
Make the owner of the room feel good.
The Elf King was in a good mood and planned to prepare something to entertain this cute little guest - this was the first time someone entered his private space.
He stood up and took a jar from the shelf. Inside was the black tea he had made with the cubs before. It was his favorite flavor besides black tea.
The man's beautiful, slender fingers loosely grasped the body of the jar, and with a slight flick of his wrist, a few pinches of tea leaves fell into the carved porcelain pot - this was the pot that the Elf King used to store honey water on a daily basis.
After thinking for a while, he threw in a few more limes.
Then, the Elf King snapped his fingers, and the porcelain pot floated in the air, heating up without fire. After a while, the water boiled, and the faint fragrance of tea filled the air.
The teapot floated over by itself and poured a cup in front of the Elf King and Mei Yang respectively.
"Hmm? Why does it taste like green tangerine and Pu'er tea?" Mei Yang said in a low voice.
In the past, when he was tired of reading and couldn't drink coffee, he would buy a bottle of tea to refresh himself. How did the Elf King create a taste similar to that of Green Orange Pu'er?
"What is Green Orange Pu'er?" asked the Elf King.
Mei Yang rolled his eyes and explained that when he was still living in a human village, there was a kind of tea called Qinggan Pu'er.
The Elf King nodded, not dwelling too much on the topic.
A faint white steam blurred their faces. Mei Yang suddenly said without thinking, "Wang, I really like being with you. Even if it's just being together without talking, I feel comfortable."
"Really?" In the curling mist, the Elf King's eyebrows softened a little.
The child in front of him propped up his face and described it seriously: "Yeah! I feel very safe with you."
"It's like you don't have to worry about anything and you can solve all the problems."
"Anyway, I really enjoy being with you."
Mei Yang tried to express his love for the Elf King. He couldn't find the right words to describe his relationship with the Elf King. After all, the Elf King in this timeline did not personally admit to raising him like he would do hundreds of years later.
So their parent-child relationship is not actually conclusive.
I just occasionally call him daddy in private.
As for why "daddy"? Because although Mei Yang has recently been obsessed with pretending to be young, he is ultimately a mature adult with no strange sub-related hobbies. At least he can't call the Elf King's noble and cold handsome face "Dad".
It should be another kind of intimate relationship, right? Between him and me...
Mei Yang was still thinking when suddenly something touched his toes.
He looked down and saw that it was an elf fruit. The wheel had rolled to his feet at some point.
Mei Yang picked up the orange-yellow fruit and put it in his arms.
The Elf King placed the cup on the table and suddenly asked a question he had previously skipped: "How much did you hear just now?"
"Ah?" Mei Yang didn't understand what he was asking.
"Just now, you were in the corridor, how much did you hear?"
"I heard you say 'little mother' or something... starting from there."
Mei Yang's voice became lower and lower, and his face turned red.
Saying this name in front of the Elf King made him feel embarrassed and annoyed.
The Elf King chuckled and asked, "So what do you think?"
"Ah?" Mei Yang was stunned again.
What are you thinking? What are you thinking? Who is thinking?
"It's about these fairy fruits. Did you see what the living room looked like? When you went to pick up Sasha, the five of them turned the house upside down, clamoring to find you and stay with you."
"Oh, sure. I like them, too."
"They mean that they want you to raise them."
"Raising?"
"Yes," the Elf King explained, "It involves wiping surfaces, bathing them, and taking them out in the sun. Once they've built up enough strength, they'll hatch. After they're born, they'll live with their caregivers, but at this stage, they want to stay with you."
Hearing this, Mei Yang gently scratched the big baby in his arms, a little curious: "Before, when other elves were still in the fruit, did you take care of them like this?"
Mei Yang remembered that the Elf King said that he would always be the first to confirm the growth of the Elf Fruits. During this stage, the Elf King would take care of the Elf Fruits alone. Would he also wipe the surface of these budding little lives, bathe them, and take them to bask in the sun like a kindergarten principal?
The Elf King shook his head and said, "I will put cushions on the ground and put them in there to bask in the sun. When it rains, I will cover them with leaves. That's all."
The implication is to let them grow wildly and hatch the eggs in a crude way.
At this time, several other elf fruits also slid over, surrounded Mei Yang's feet, and rubbed his legs. They were all very well-behaved and cute.
Mei Yang was amused. He bent down and knocked on their hard, egg-like shells one by one, saying with a smile, "Why are you so squeamish? Are you relying on me and insisting on me taking care of you? Other brothers and sisters all hatched on their own, why do you insist on being taken care of?"
His tone was gentle, his eyes curved in a smile, and the Elf King vaguely felt that there seemed to be something similar to motherhood in him, which seemed to be incompatible with the soft and sticky appearance of his cub. He really had some of the smell of a little mother - how could it be possible? Mei Yang was obviously still just a cub.
The Elf King lowered his eyes and drove this strange thought out of his mind.
He saw that Mei Yang interacted with these elf fruits for a long time, teasing them, and these overly lively fruits were so anxious that they kept jumping around and almost opened their mouths to speak.
Then Mei Yang simply shrunk down from the chair, sat cross-legged on the ground, hugged them all in his arms, and promised in surrender: "Okay, okay, I will take care of you until you successfully break out of your shell, okay?"
There was no sign of reluctance on his face.
——Mei Yang certainly doesn’t care about these not-so-arduous tasks. Besides, these five precious eggs contain his future friends!
but……
Mei Yang raised his head and looked at the man who had been silent since the beginning, leaning on the rattan chair and watching him, and said, "Wang, I'm still a little worried. I'm afraid I can't take care of them by myself. Can I raise them with you?"
Mei Yang saw that the Elf King seemed stunned - he didn't understand what it meant in the elf society when one person invited another to "raise the cubs together".
Mei Yang waited for a long time before he heard the Elf King's somewhat ambiguous voice and replied with a smile: "Okay."
After a few seconds, she added, "It seems they are right. In a sense, you do look like a little mother."
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