LOT -Chapter 319 Childhood Arc: Little Lin Mo Who Tricks People for Food

As Lin Mo grew day by day, the melon‑eating system continued hopping between worlds.

Only those two people—if they weren’t causing trouble in the streets, they were on their way to cause trouble. From time to time they even managed to offend a couple of enemies.

Fortunately, their identities were high enough; otherwise, they’d have been kidnapped and killed long ago.

The Lin household was currently in a rather strange atmosphere. For some reason, Lin Mo and Ji Qianhua had been getting along extremely well recently.

“Mo‑mo, this is braised pig head meat I bought outside. Didn’t you say your sister hasn’t had much appetite recently and wants something strong‑tasting? This pig head meat is delicious.”

Ji Qianhua carefully presented an oil‑paper packet filled to the brim with pig head meat.

Standing beside him, Lin Mo couldn’t help slurping a bit of drool.

She was almost five years old now. Children around five were supposed to start stretching out and getting taller—but Lin Mo was still completely round.

And that was exactly the problem.

“Brother Ji‑ji, give this to me. I’ll take it to my sister later. My sister is in her room, you shouldn’t go in.”

Lin Mo spoke righteously—delivering things was her favorite activity.

Watching her secretly swallowing saliva, Ji Qianhua silently pulled out another bundle of meat from behind him. “This one is for you. But you’re not allowed to steal your sister’s share again.”

He had no idea how many times she’d stolen food. That round little body of hers had been eaten into existence.

Last time with the hawthorn cakes—it was the same. He asked her to deliver them, and the one she delivered turned out to be yam cakes. The hawthorn cakes had been eaten clean.

There were countless incidents like this in the past, and Ji Qianhua had long since figured this person out.

So young yet already so full of mischief. If she wasn’t mixing with a bunch of old grandpas and grandmas, she was scheming against him.

Lin Mo patted her tiny chest solemnly. “How can you think of me that way? Every time I run errands for you, I’m sincere! What’s wrong with charging a tiny little fee? If you’ve got the ability, don’t ask me to run errands!”

Ji Qianhua: …That’s impossible. Forget it, let her eat.

In the entire family, this little ancestor was the most spoiled. Lin Ran adored this little sister of hers, and there were no other siblings in the household anyway.

Lin Qi had to study and practice martial arts every day. He absolutely didn’t have time to help deliver things. So in the end, only this little dumpling was available.

Seeing her so confident, Ji Qianhua irritably shoved everything into her arms. “Fine, fine—just go deliver it. I’m really afraid of you.”

Lin Mo giggled and ran off happily—two servings of pig head meat earned!

Actually, it wasn’t her sister who wanted pig head meat—she wanted pig head meat. So she intentionally made her sister say so.

Brother Ji‑ji was good in every way… except his brain wasn’t very bright.

In Lin Ran’s room, Lin Mo was happily chowing down on pig head meat, while Lin Ran only took one bite.

She had always disliked greasy, heavy foods, so pig head meat was naturally not to her taste.

Watching Lin Mo devour the food, Lin Ran said confusedly, “If you want to eat, just say you want to eat. Why use me as an excuse?”

Lin Mo wiped her greasy mouth and grinned. “I discovered something, sis—Brother Ji‑ji is really nice to you. He takes your requests very seriously.”

Lin Ran: “Isn’t that normal? We grew up together like siblings. He’s also very nice to you, okay? Look at all that meat on you—he practically raised it all.”

Lin Mo: …Can you not comment on my meat? I’m still a child! This is baby fat! It will disappear when I grow up!

She firmly believed it. Baby fat disappears with age—so she just had to wait.

“Sis, if you don’t call me fat, we’re still good sisters. But Brother Ji‑ji really is good to both of us. Though… he’s a little slow. You guys don’t let me eat too much, so I have no choice but to trick him.”

“Sis, next time I want milk pudding. Tell him you want milk pudding, okay?”

Lin Ran looked helpless: …I refuse.

She couldn’t be eating something new every day—she was a young lady. If she did that, she’d ruin the image he had of her. People might think she was a glutton.

A certain glutton: Lin Mo (system that hasn’t arrived yet)

But you can’t walk by the river without getting your shoes wet. Before long, Lin Mo was caught by Ji Qianhua.

He was so furious his mind almost blanked out. He’d always wondered when the always‑light‑eating Lin Ran started liking heavy, greasy foods like braised pig head meat. So it was this little brat!

So young and already like this!

He immediately complained to the adults, and that night Lin Mo got a proper scolding from her parents.

She had already begun sleeping alone. She only slept with her parents occasionally if she couldn’t sleep or felt upset.

That night, as they lay in bed, Lin Shangshu held his wife and said thoughtfully, “Dear, don’t you think Mo’er is getting a bit too heavy? And she’s gained a lot of weight. She was lying on my knee earlier and she felt heavier than you. Very solid weight. She’ll be five in a month, meaning she’s basically five already. Five‑year‑olds aren’t this fat, right?”

Madam Lin was also stunned. Honestly, seeing her every day made it hard to notice the change. It was subtle.

But today she saw that little troublemaker’s double chin. Especially when she cried—it was exceptionally obvious.

“Huan‑ge, we really do need to control her a bit. This can’t go on.”

“We don’t let her eat, but she still tricks others into feeding her. Neither of us were like this as kids. I don’t know who she learned it from.”

Lin Shangshu quietly shut his mouth. When he was little… he had been like that.

But he had never been fat. He was just never full. His appetite was huge, and his parents even suspected he was sick.

Only when he hit adolescence and started growing taller did they stop worrying.

“Dear, don’t worry too much. Kids who eat a lot might grow tall later. All that nutrition gets stored. Maybe Mo’er will be very tall in the future.”

After all, he was living proof.

(Future Lin Mo: Liar! I’m 163 cm—and that’s with shoes and fluffy hair! You call that tall?!)

The day had been chaotic. The system’s day wasn’t great either.

Currently wandering in a beast‑world, the system stared at a group of “bird‑walking” men and felt like it was going blind.

Even though it was a system now, it had once been human. Its memories were gone, but subconscious tendencies remained.

“Nope, nope! I can’t stay in this world! Switching worlds! The girl the main system wants definitely isn’t here! And even if she is—I refuse to accept it!”