Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 255 - 254: Baby Bump

With their mother being so mischievous, the cubs’ troublemaking reached a whole new level.

Xu Chi was ready for this. Sure enough, he calmly caught one cub as it clung to his front and scooped up the other with one arm, his arms now completely full!

Si Shuo took out her Personal Bamboo Garden to show it off to Xu Chi. Only then did she place her hands on her lower back, and with her pregnant belly jutting out, she settled onto Wei Ce’s transformed Iron-eating Beast form.

"I’m heading to the Martial Arts Hall. You take the two cubs and go play with the others," Gong You said with a smile.

’It wouldn’t make sense for him to be the one playing with the cubs when their biological Father was right there. Besides, he was the one who had rallied everyone to start the Martial Arts Hall, and he and Xu Chi took turns managing it and the school.’

’Besides,’ he thought, his gaze shifting amusedly to Si Shuo’s prominent belly, ’sooner or later, he would be a Father too.’

’If he helped his Couple Brothers out a bit more now, they would help watch over his little Yu Zai and share the burden once it arrived.’ 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Xu Chi smiled and nodded, then took the two cubs and followed the Iron-eating Beast from the neighboring ancestral home toward Bamboo Forest Mountain.

Bamboo Forest Mountain was especially lively now. From a great distance, one could hear the chattering and honking of chickens, ducks, and geese. The poultry had all been half-grown when purchased. Now, over a month later, they ran happily all over the mountain, feasting on the fat, juicy insects in the ground and a nutritious feed mixed with crushed Spirit Stones. Some of the chickens had already started to lay eggs!

Even the cubs delighted at the CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK, joining in with their own high-pitched clucks.

Along the way, Beastmen greeted Si Shuo’s family with great enthusiasm, asking when she was due to give birth. Some even tried to press warm, freshly laid eggs into her hands.

Si Shuo smiled and gently tugged on Wei Ce’s ear. "Brother Ce, tell your Father later that every family raising chickens, ducks, or geese should send one person over. I’ll teach them how to process the eggs."

"The rainy season and cold winter will be here soon. When the rains come, we’ll need to herd the chickens, ducks, and geese into their coops. We can eat them slowly, but we need to save some hatching eggs and broody birds..."

Wei Ce smiled and agreed.

When they arrived at their family’s section of Bamboo Forest Mountain, Wei Ce took out the Personal Bamboo Garden bead and ran a lap around their grove. The jade-green bamboo pattern inside the bead vanished, replaced by the image of a lush, green forest, as if he were holding the bead and looking down upon their own Bamboo Forest Mountain.

With a thought, Wei Ce had the Personal Bamboo Garden target a five-square-meter area in front of him. With another thought, the tender stalks of the bamboo in that area vanished without a trace, leaving only the marks of being snapped off. The missing sections appeared in his hands!

’He was ecstatic. The daily trip to Bamboo Forest Mountain to eat bamboo consumed a lot of his energy. Now, since no one was watching him day in and day out, he could just check in every few days and look in on the poultry on the mountain. Moreover, as the owner of the bead, he could feel his face flush slightly. He sensed that he could also send the Green Balls to the composting area—it wasn’t strictly a one-way, single-item Teleportation like Si Shuo understood.’

Si Shuo took out another bead. "This one’s for your Father. I’m not taking care of the rest of your clansmen."

Wei Ce nodded eagerly. "You don’t have to worry about them. For generations, we’ve managed by following the old ways. The Personal Bamboo Garden might seem miraculous, but it’s really just a convenient tool for cutting corners."

"It’s best if we just use it within the family. The more people who find out, the more trouble it’ll attract."

After playing on Bamboo Forest Mountain for a while, they took a tour of the fields, then checked on their family’s shops, the Martial Arts Hall, and the school. Only then did the family return home, teleporting back to the valley.

The three hundred mu of fields in the valley had all been planted. They were all located in sunny spots, giving the area the appearance of a hidden paradise. The sight filled one’s heart with positivity and contentment.

Before long, Yin Jiang teleported back. "Shuo’er, I’ve already taken Yimei and her family back home. Rongzhi said they’re worried trouble might stir at the Female Saint Conference, so Yimei wants to get pregnant with He Shan’s cub before it starts."

Only by having a Saber-toothed Tiger cub would the clan’s protection for her family be sufficient.

Si Shuo took out a small porcelain vial, turned to the side, and handed it to Ji Liang. After a light cough, she said, "This is an elixir I made from Qing-Sheng Flowers. It can help her conceive, and the cub’s aptitude will be better as well."

"This Qing-Sheng Flower is quite potent, so I coated the outside with a thick layer of sugar. One pill is the perfect dose..."

Ji Liang nodded and took it. He gave it a little shake; there were ten pills inside. "I’ll just say I scrounged them up in the North Head Tribe. I’ll tell her I got two vials in total, so she should use them sparingly. And that she shouldn’t give them to anyone unless it’s an absolute last resort."

Si Shuo hummed in agreement. "They ended up going through a lot of worry and fear because of us this time. Tell her that once I’ve ’unloaded the cargo’ and recovered my strength, I’ll come find her to hang out."

"Before that, though, the only place we’ll be able to meet is at the Female Saint Conference."

Ji Liang smiled and agreed. The fact that Yin Jiang had traveled to Gubei was no secret, especially since he had gone to the Saber-toothed Tiger Clan to find Yimei.

Now, the official story was that Ji Liang had been found and brought back by Yin Jiang, so he could appear openly before everyone...

The Beast Husbands at home had now learned to recognize and write most common words. Every evening, they would gather to practice their calligraphy on two large sheets of paper.

After Si Shuo accepted Wei Ce’s Beast Mark, the rewards distributed by the system included a complete encyclopedia on the culture and geography of the Beast World Continent!

Perhaps the system knew Wei Ce was the last Beast Husband she would accept, so the rewards were especially generous. The set of books, when stacked, was as tall as she was.

In addition to that, there were seeds for superior, stable crops that could be cultivated; a Life Extension Pill that could increase one’s lifespan by ten years; a massive hot-air balloon capable of holding some twenty people; a recipe for making glass; and two thousand Beast Coins.

Si Shuo decided to adapt elementary school textbooks. In addition to a language class for learning pinyin and recognizing characters, she planned to establish very basic courses in arithmetic, physics, geography, history, biology, and wilderness survival—a total of seven subjects.

’It was never a bad thing for people to learn more!’ There were exactly seven Beast Husbands in the family. They would all study every subject, but each one had to master a single subject, which they would then teach to the Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan Members, who in turn would impart that knowledge to the students.

The cubs would listen from the side, learning along with everyone else.

With two new Iron Beast Cubs in the house, the family kept as low a profile as they possibly could. The Beast Husbands bustled about their daily routines, rushing between the Beast Camp, their family shops, the Martial Arts Hall and school, the fields, and home.

Si Shuo wrote a book titled *One Hundred Ways to Eat Eggs*, with recipes for everything from scrambled eggs, tea eggs, and egg rolls to cakes, salted duck eggs, century eggs, a thick egg soup, and fried eggs...

While teaching the Iron-eating Beast Clan Members, the book also served as a literacy-practice bonus for the school’s students, and it helped enrich the variety of snacks available in Guangshou City.

Time was too tight this year. Every Beast Husband was preoccupied with his own duties, and many of their new ventures weren’t running smoothly yet. Next year, their family would open large restaurants in the five districts of the city: east, south, west, north, and central!

Soon, the date of the Female Saint Conference arrived. The family had to move back into their city residence two days in advance. The males took turns staying behind in the cave to guard the two Iron Beast Cubs.

For the sake of authenticity, Si Shuo had taken an elephant’s stomach, filled it with some water, and stuffed two small, waterproof watches inside. She then tightly wrapped the outside of the stomach in cotton strips, followed by a layer of Beast Skin.

This way, be it the shape, the feel, or even the slight ’fetal movements,’ the fake belly was more than eighty percent convincing.