Chapter 375: Taste test and Department Reforms (R-18)
"I\'m good——"
"Come on, Mom, we both know you always complain about having way too much breastmilk and causing it to sag a little?"
Hearing Yuqi exposing her secret, Leyan looked down in embarrassment. But she slowly got up from her seat before sitting on top of Xiaoyun.
"You okay?" Xiaoyun whispered to her right ear, just quiet enough for her to hear.
"I\'m fine... I need you to get them to work already——" Before Leyan could finish talking, Xiaoyun moved his head down.
As he began suckling her right nipple, it quickly began to fill up his mouth, causing him to continue to swallow it down after getting an entire mouthful.
"Geez... How much does Mom really have?" Nami stared at the two with jealousy as she barely had enough to keep Xuanhua satisfied.
After almost five gulps, Xiaoyun finally stopped as it emptied, his belly pointing outward due to how full he was.
"It feels so much lighter..." Leyan murmured as she sat back down in her seat, looking a little relieved that the weight had disappeared.
"I\'m so damn full... Why is it so dense in calories?"
Xiaoyun quickly tried to increase his metabolism, which instantly disappeared as he lifted the newspaper to hide himself in shame.
"Xiaoyun, do you want to try mine?" Nami suddenly suggested, not wanting to be left out.
All three of the girls, as well as Xiaoyun, looked at her as if she just said something crazy.
"W-What? It\'s just trying it... I still can give him a little so he can taste it." Nami argued, looking down shyly onto the ground.
With curiosity building in his head, Xiaoyun accepted her offer. He got up from his seat and lifted both Nami and Xuanhua to his lap.
Just from a light suckle, Nami\'s breastmilk immediately started following out from her right nipple into his mouth.
But he quickly stopped after reaching a mouthful, just enough for him to have a taste test.
"Hm. It\'s not as sweet and mellow as Yueyue\'s. Nor is it creamy and smooth like Qiqi\'s. And it doesn\'t feel like Yanyan\'s soft buttery taste."
Hearing Xiaoyun\'s descriptive way of describing it, all three of the girl\'s faces started to blush.
"Is it that bad?" Nami nervously asked, her face looking a little scared at the possible results.
"It\'s not bad per se... It has a nutty taste, slightly more like almond milk with mild sugar.
I kind of like it. It tastes a lot more unique and neutralizes the amount of sweetness it has to it."
Nami let out a sigh of relief after Xiaoyun finished talking, but the curiosity got to her as she suddenly lifted Xuanhua and licked her lips.
"Hm... You\'re right. It does kinda taste like almond milk." Nami murmured as she examined her own breastmilk from Xuanhua\'s lip.
"Ahem, let\'s just eat breakfast normally."
Yueyue cleared her throat as she could feel the atmosphere started to go in the wrong direction.
Everyone nodded in agreement as they turned their attention back to the food on the table.
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When Xiaoyun and Yuqi arrived at the administrative building together, they made it just on time at nine-thirty.
"Shouldn\'t we start substituting some food into our kid\'s diet?" Xiaoyun suggested as they entered the office.
"Yeah... But Mom says it\'s best to breastfeed them at least until they are two years old or when they start rejecting it.
Besides, why are you suggesting that? Are you trying to keep it for yourself, Xiaoyun?"
Yuqi questioned as she felt Xiaoyun had an alternative motivation, almost as if he was jealous of the babies.
"What? I\'m just giving my experience. I remember Leyan stopped breastfeeding you when you were two.
She started giving you porridge to eat little by little until you stopped suckling on her tits."
Xiaoyun argued as he sat down next to Yuqi, his face barely flinching as he provided the reasoning.
"Sure... Anyway, here\'s your stack of documents for you to go through. You are going to need to catch up with everything."
With a massive stack of paper in front of him, Xiaoyun was a little stunned.
"God damn, how can there be so many things when I just left for a month?" Xiaoyun commented as he began looking through the piles.
"Not just a month, a month and a week, to be exact. You left at the worst time possible when there were so many things that needed you."
"Needs me? I\'m sure you can decide for me——"
"Stop shoving all the work to me. You\'re not leaving anywhere else until you finish reading it."
"Okay, okay."
As Xiaoyun began reading the papers one by one, he started to understand what had happened to the three cities under his control.
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Luoping had returned to a stable 400,000 people, and the entire forest in all three directions had been completely cleared to make room.
It was already connected to the old town he had once built, which had the same name as Qijing. But it was abandoned when a zombie horde came in.
The river that was in the forest was fully discovered, with no more room for expansion beyond it as several small mountains stood in the way.
The only logical expansion was now towards Guangzhou, which could be done as the area in between was already cleared of zombies.
It also made a lot more sense to connect the two cities, as Luoping originally was part of Guangzhou\'s city administration, albeit more on the outskirts of the city than in the city proper.
However, to his surprise, Yuqi did not attempt to expand beyond the outer wall. Instead, she opted to expand vertically up with the loosening of the two-story tall limit.
More importantly, she had set a hard limit of 500,000 for the city\'s population, with everyone else required to be sent over to other cities.
Besides that, the city itself had a complete 180 in terms of city planning.
Almost every mansion was abolished, with the exception of Yezi\'s old mansion, which had now returned to him.
In replacement were planned apartments, most of them being two or three bedrooms and a single bathroom.
It was clearly targeting and incentivizing people to marry, have kids with them, or have a roommate, as none of them were single-bedroom ones.
Next was the complete removal of the industrial zone, with military manufacturing being the only exception.
They all relocated to Guangzhou with the clear intent of removing all pollution from Luoping.
Xiaoyun didn\'t think much of it, as he knew the advantages of a pre-existing city with everything already set up before the outbreak for manufacturing.
However, when he read to the next part, he was a little stunned by the drastic reforms that Yuqi had implemented to Luoping.
The entire civilian department was restructured into ten different branches, with all reporting to Yuqi and himself.
The first department was finance, which had the power to regulate trade, taxes, and public and private banks. Led by a familiar face that he couldn\'t put his finger on.
The second department was public health, a newly formed department assigned to provide healthcare and manage state-owned hospitals.
It was practically all of them, as private hospitals were never implemented.
Interestingly enough, it also had a job to maintain sanitation in the streets as well as cross-border checks in case of a zombie virus.
The third department, meanwhile, was the police department, led by Li Zhen, the town\'s longtime police chief.
Most of its functions were pretty standard, ranging from riot police to two thousand officers stationed in different police stations across three different cities.
Although it also had a mini-department shared with the financial department to collect taxes and enforce regulations.
The fourth department was the judicial department, led by the same senior lawyer who once acted as the judge for Tianci\'s trial.
It was a much smaller department, with only twenty people.
However, it was still a standalone department that was separate from another department, with the only connection being the police department with jury police.
To Xiaoyun\'s surprise, the fifth apartment was the Department of Construction led by Jingming.
But unlike what the names imply, it mostly doesn\'t actually construct anything.
Instead, it has the power to regulate every building to a standard, license construction companies, and auction government contracts to them.
From roads to water towers to even the planned apartment buildings from earlier, all were contracted to private businesses.
The only exception was defenses, specifically walls and roads connecting the three different cities.
It still maintains one giant construction crew, employing over 10,000 people who heavily cooperate with the military branch.
With a third of the paper finished, Xiaoyun took a small little break as he turned over to see what Yuqi was doing.