Lu Hua wasn't the only one who wanted to see the four cubs. Gamay, Qing Feng, Wang Da Fa, and even the servants in the large house wanted to see them. Bai Sheng simply had Lu Ye bring out the crib.
The four cubs were probably tired, as they hadn't woken up yet.
In the baby carriage, four chubby, fair little faces lay side by side. Long eyelashes drew delicate, cute arcs, like the wings of black butterflies, trembling slightly with their steady breaths.
"They're too cute!" Lu Hua exclaimed, tears streaming down her face. She leaned over to look at the four little babies, feeling as though her heart had completely melted.
If she hadn't been afraid of waking them, she would have held each one and kissed them to her heart's content.
Parents, can you see? Sister-in-law and Elder Brother have given birth to four incredibly adorable little babies. All of us siblings have survived, and our lives are getting better and better.
This is all thanks to Sister-in-law.
Parents, if you can see this from the netherworld, please protect Sister-in-law, the babies, Elder Brother, Xiao Yun, and Xiao Yu.
Lu Hua wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and smiled with deep contentment.
Gamay, Qing Feng, and Wang Da Fa also looked on with great affection.
Gamay secretly glanced at Qing Feng, silently imagining that her and Qing Feng's future baby would also be very cute... perhaps.
Wang Da Fa felt that he should praise his grandson less for being clever and handsome from now on. Compared to others' grandsons, he felt like taking his own grandson back into his daughter-in-law's womb for a redo.
The Ding Uncle's family and Jin, Mu, Shui, Tu, standing on the periphery, all craned their necks to peer into the baby carriage. Upon seeing the appearance of the four cubs, they all marveled.
Bai Sheng, Lu Ye, and the others retreated far away, leaving the space for those who wanted to see the four cubs.
Lu Hua simply moved a chair and sat beside the baby carriage, looking at her nieces and nephews with immense affection.
Aunt Ding brought her a bowl of rice, which she held while looking at the four cubs. She ate, watched, smiled, smiled, and ate.
Hoo Hoo had long since entered the space, but its original form had not yet been restored by the master. Being only the size of a fist, it had expected a warm welcome from all the inhabitants upon entering the space.
To its surprise, Lightning and Downpour were outside the space, receiving admiration and worship from everyone. Hail and Rabbit had gone to watch the horses fall in love. Dark Cloud had nibbled grass all the way to miles away.
Only a small black snake, lifting its head, looked at it as if it were a rare specimen, its eyes filled with sympathy.
This reunion scene was too... bleak.
You heartless, ungrateful fellows! Hoo Hoo lay in its pigsty with a face full of grievances, propping its pig head with its trotters, assuming a pig-like reclining pose of a noblewoman.
Outside the space, Lu Ye, fearing Bai Sheng's fatigue, told everyone to return to their rooms to rest. They would be staying in the capital for several months, and there would be plenty of time to see the cubs later.
Everyone then reluctantly returned to their respective rooms.
Bai Sheng closed the doors and windows of the room, first sending Lightning, Downpour, and the three dogs into the space, and then, taking Lu Ye and the four cubs with her, she flashed into it.
Earlier, in Bai Sheng's mind, Hoo Hoo had transformed into a level ten resentful pig, complaining that no one loved it, cherished it, or cared about it. After such a long time apart, upon returning to the space, not a single person (or creature) had enthusiastically welcomed it.
Only a silly little black snake looked at it as if it were an idiot.
Bai Sheng felt wronged. She and Lu Ye couldn't enter the space in front of so many people, could they? Lightning and Downpour couldn't just disappear without warning, could they?
As for Dark Cloud, it had always been diligent in nibbling grass and focused on growing its body, so it didn't even know Hoo Hoo was returning to the space today.
And Hail and Snow, having lost their live commentator Hoo Hoo, found their days too boring and could only go to the stables to watch the horses fall in love.
Bai Sheng thought for a moment and decided to give Hoo Hoo a simple yet grand welcome ceremony.
After all, without Hoo Hoo's sacrifice, she wouldn't have been able to come to the capital to develop her business. Hoo Hoo was her great benefactor.
Therefore, Bai Sheng restored the reclining Hoo Hoo to its former majestic, fat pig form, and then had all the inhabitants line up in front of it, all shouting together, "Hoo Hoo is great, Hoo Hoo is awesome, Hoo Hoo is great and awesome; we miss Hoo Hoo, we love Hoo Hoo, we both miss and love Hoo Hoo, welcome home Hoo Hoo!"
For a moment, the space was filled with a medley of "oinks," "hisses," "woofs," "meows," "mm-hmms," "barks," and human voices.
Hoo Hoo's fragile, sentimental pig heart was instantly healed.
Alright, everyone still cared about it. It twisted its pig waist, lifted a trotter to cover its pig mouth, and smiled shyly. All the resentment in its heart vanished.
Downpour "Oink Oink": Brother Pig, Master treats you especially well. She's afraid you'll be lonely, so she's gotten you a bunch of wives.
Wi... wives?! A whole bunch?
Hoo Hoo's newly calmed heart erupted with thunder once more. When had it ever said it wanted to get married?
Bai Sheng couldn't understand Downpour's "oinks," so Hoo Hoo looked at her with a helpless expression and asked, "Master, according to Downpour, you... got me a bunch of wives?"
Bai Sheng and Lu Ye both chuckled. Bai Sheng shook her head, "Not a bunch of wives, but a bunch of potential wives. I don't believe in polygamy! All the animals in our family must practice monogamy!
I've set up a pig farm in the space and bought over a hundred pigs. There are twenty to thirty sows. Go and see which one you like, and I'll bring her out as your wife. As for the others, if they're sows meant for breeding, we'll have plenty of pork later when the pigs multiply."
For a long time, Bai Sheng had refrained from raising pigs for meat out of consideration for Hoo Hoo's feelings. Now that she had finally figured it out, she thought it best to get Hoo Hoo a wife first, as a form of compensation.
Hoo Hoo glanced at Lu Ye, all the inhabitants, and the four sleeping cubs. It sneakily called Bai Sheng aside.
"Master, thank you for your kindness, but, I... I can't, you know, do that, and I can't have piglets either. I, I... I..."
Bai Sheng was startled. "Hoo Hoo, you... you're not a eunuch pig, are you?" As she spoke, she moved to look under its rear.
"Oh dear, Master! Aren't you ashamed?!" Hoo Hoo exclaimed in horror, clamping its hind legs together and wriggling backward.
Bai Sheng looked at it with pity. "Hoo Hoo, you're impotent?"
Hoo Hoo put its hoof to its forehead again. "Master, can't you use less aggressive wording? I'm a male pig, after all. I have my dignity."
"Oh," Bai Sheng said, her mouth half open, nodding. "Then tell me, why can't you have a pig wife?" If she could have more space administrators, she could expand her business overseas!
Hoo Hoo closed its eyes. There were some things it couldn't say, so it communicated with Bai Sheng using its consciousness. "I am a naturally generated administrator of the space, specifically serving the Master and the space. I don't have this... need for procreation.
Master, you don't need to worry about me. Those pigs, eat them if you wish. As food in the human world, it is their destined fate. The sooner they die, the sooner they are reborn."
Bai Sheng understood. "Alright then, I won't force you. However, I'm still curious, Hoo Hoo, do you never have a heat cycle? I've heard that animals in heat become very restless. I was finding you a wife to appease your restless emotions!"