CHAPTER 413: CHAPTER 140: AVOID 3 THINGS (PART 2)_2

Du Xixi was very happy that the audience had made such progress, which also meant that the promotion of gourmet food had reached a milestone—a point that indicated victory was just ahead, not an unattainable one.

After turning off the live stream, Du Xixi walked out of the kitchen with a satisfied smile on her face. Ke Lian also happened to walk out of the training room, and after ensuring he didn’t smell of sweat, he took large strides over to hold Du Xixi’s hand.

"So happy? What have your audience done this time?" Ke Lian grasped every nuance of Du Xixi’s emotional changes thoroughly, and generally, Du Xixi’s joy was related to "gourmet promotion."

Du Xixi raised her eyebrows smugly, not caring about the sweat running down the beautiful lines of Ke Lian’s arm into their clasped hands. She just let out a few hums and then laughed, "I was always worried that the audience would be too reliant on my teaching and recipes. But now I don’t have to worry; they are already learning to adjust recipes according to their own tastes."

Ke Lian was also pleasantly surprised and laughed, "That is indeed something to be happy about."

Ke Lian didn’t understand cooking, much less how to adjust recipes, but he was very knowledgeable about military strategies. Sometimes cooking and warfare weren’t all that different; only the former’s opponent was taste buds, while Ke Lian and his peers’ was the Insect Clan and several ill-intentioned Empires.

Cooking requires adjusting recipes, and naturally, warfare requires adjusting strategies too. Each battlefield and opponent demands different strategies. Ke Lian and his peers cannot rely on a single strategy to defeat opponents who change their attack methods at will.

However...

Gazing at Du Xixi’s joyful side profile, Ke Lian sighed quietly in his heart but didn’t show it on his face. Instead, he gently touched Du Xixi’s cheek and then casually tucked a lock of stray hair behind her ear.

Until the promotion of gourmet food is complete, Du Xixi cannot truly rest. Ke Lian... feels sorry for Du Xixi!

***

Du Xixi still had about ten days of vacation left, whereas Ke Lian had to return to work at the Military Department. The next day, when Du Xixi woke up, the place beside her where Ke Lian had slept was already cold.

Du Xixi sat dazed on the bed for a while, suddenly feeling an emptiness in her heart. But after washing up and going downstairs, she saw Ke Xing with the kids beside the sofa. The two children were at their most playful age, and the sense of loss from Ke Lian’s absence was temporarily forgotten by Du Xixi.

"Xixi, is Mo Ying pregnant?" Ke Xing, who had been busy with the kids, was having a fulfilling life with an increasing number of smiles on his face. Seeing Du Xixi come down, he quickly waved, "The Mo Family and Ye Family are so happy right now, the Light Computer hasn’t stopped ringing since early morning, as if having kids is so rare!"

In the end, Ke Xing smugly hums, proudly patting the shoulders of the two little ones, making them think Grandpa was playing with them, attempting to pat Ke Xing’s shoulders in return with smiles.

Du Xixi walked over with a smile, sitting beside the smiling Miao Miao. She first smiled at Miao Miao, who handed her some tea, then softly spoke to Ke Xing, "Yes, Sister Mo Ying’s child didn’t come easily, the elders of Ye and Mo Families are very happy."

Both families understood Mo Ying’s health condition, and not only had Mo Ying and Ye Wenting decided not to have children, but the Ye and Mo Families had also been prepared not to have grandchildren. After all, they most wanted to see their children’s happiness, whether or not to have the next generation... wasn’t something they valued heavily.

But since Mo Ying was pregnant, it naturally came as a delightful surprise, and such joy after having lost hope was definitely more heartwarming than initial happiness.

"Did Brother-in-law Wen Ting rush back last night? He sure came back just in time." Du Xixi took a sip of the warm tea, not feeling hungry despite her empty stomach, "Last night, when Sister Mo Ying sent a video call, I saw Brother-in-law Wen Ting laughing like crazy."

First, there was a major breakthrough in a research project, and then the wife became pregnant. It can be considered a double blessing. Just looking at Ye Wenting’s joyous laughter last night, I fear his facial muscles might be sore for quite some time today.

"The Mo Ying girl just got pregnant, so I won’t go over to congratulate them yet. I’ll prepare a generous gift and visit once the pregnancy stabilizes." Ke Xing handed a toy to Er Er and placed Yiyi’s favorite cushion under Yiyi, then gently said to Du Xixi.

This is actually a belief interstellar people hold without question—that when a woman first becomes pregnant, too many visits and congratulations shouldn’t be made out of fear of scaring the child with too many people. They believe it’s better to wait until the child is no longer afraid of strangers before visiting.