Chapter 117: Mending Clothes

Xu Chuchu just wanted to sigh, ah, the conscience of heaven and earth!

It’s really not that she gained weight because she ate too much.

Although she eats a lot...most of the energy she uses to eat is converted into spiritual power for her cultivation, so she doesn't gain weight at all.

Her cultivation had been improving rapidly, and her body had grown faster than that of an ordinary girl. Not only had her eyebrows and eyes grown wider, but she had also grown half a head taller.

As people grow taller, clothes will definitely be tighter, but she was too lazy to buy new clothes along the way, so she just wore them as is, which led to this joke.

At this moment, she was extremely grateful that it was winter. If it were summer, with Xiao Yu's sharp eyes, he would be able to see it even through her coat.

It would be so embarrassing for her.

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head and silently waited for Xiao Yu to laugh at her.

Unexpectedly, the person next to him didn't say anything for a long time. When he looked up, he saw Xiao Yu standing there with a confused look on his face.

"Is the material of the clothes bad?" he asked suddenly.

Some of Xu Chuchu's clothes were bought by him when he sent Ah Fu to buy them, and some were bought from a shop in Linchuan County. Although he didn't pick them himself, he felt responsible for buying poor quality fabrics.

"No..." Xu Chuchu was embarrassed and quickly tried to change the subject, "Let's not talk about this anymore, let's go."

"Okay, let's wait until we get to a place with people and buy some more." Xiao Yu said as he looked into the distance.

The carriage had run away, and the luggage was lost. They couldn't reach the city tonight by walking alone, so they had to find shelter in a nearby village.

When the weather was warm before, we could sleep outdoors, but now it’s winter, so forget it. Otherwise, when we wake up, we might be frozen into the earth.

The two walked until dark before they came across a small village and found a kind old man to stay with them.

There were many people who asked for accommodation on the road to Beijing, and the old man was used to it. He collected some accommodation fees and cooked dinner for them.

The taste is not great, but it is warm and very comfortable to eat.

There were two knocks on the door, and Xiao Yu called out from outside, "I'm coming in."

"Come in." Xu Chuchu had just lit the stove for heating, and the room was already a little warmer than outside.

"I just asked. This old man lives alone all year round. There are no women's clothes at home." Xiao Yu came over and handed the borrowed needle and thread to Xu Chuchu. "It's just the needle and thread. Sew it up for now. We can buy new clothes tomorrow when we get to the city."

"Thank you. It's great to have needlework." Xu Chuchu took it, put it on the low cabinet beside the bed, and politely ordered him to leave. "It's getting late. You should go to bed early."

"Don't you want me to help you?" Xiao Yu looked at her with a half-smile.

Xu Chuchu glared at him. She knew that Xiao Yu was not teasing her, but was laughing at her for sewing a torn blanket into a centipede in the wild.

In modern times, she had only done cross-stitch in her school handicraft class, and she had barely failed it. Only frugal masters knew how to mend clothes.

Despite this, the master never treated her unfairly and only mended his own clothes. If Xu Chuchu's clothes were torn or worn, he would just buy her new ones.

Thinking of this, Xu Chuchu felt lost again. Perhaps it was because she wanted to find her master too much recently, and she couldn't help but think of her.

"Honestly, let me help you." Xiao Yu said, "You can only take it off and mend it yourself. It's hard to compare the size. What if the seam is too small? If I come, I can put it on you and mend it directly."

"Ah, this..." Xu Chuchu instantly imagined the scene in her mind, and her face froze, "Isn't it, not good?"

"Are you afraid I'll prick you?" Xiao Yu suppressed a laugh. "Hurry up, the candle is almost burnt out."

He moved a stool and sat next to Xu Chuchu, pointing to the only short candle in the room.

The old man lives alone in this family. He goes to the market only once in a long time to buy groceries. He goes to bed early at night and hardly ever needs candles. So now there are only two small candles in the house, one for each of the two rooms.

Xu Chuchu's was still long, but now it has been burned shorter.

"How could that be?" Xu Chuchu whispered.

Although Xiao Yu is a nobleman, he knows basic life skills, such as lighting a fire, cooking, sewing, etc. Although he is not an expert in everything, he can still do it.

She felt that it was embarrassing to be stripped down to her underwear in front of Xiao Yu...

How about she hide under the quilt and take off his clothes to mend them for him? Ah, this feels even weirder.

"Chu Chu?" Xiao Yu called out tentatively. His expression was calm, and it was obvious that he had no selfish motives at all.

Xu Chuchu simply stopped being shy and said through gritted teeth, "Then you carry it over first."

She thought that since only the seams on her back were torn a little and nothing was exposed, she could just let him help sew it if he wanted.

Nowadays, people have worn all kinds of tank tops and backless skirts, so why should they be shy now?

As he said this, he felt a surge of heroic emotion in his heart, and in one go he took off his coat and cotton-padded jacket.

The outer shirt had laces and was taken off in a moment, while the cotton coat was a pullover style, so she lifted it up. Unexpectedly, just as her hand was raised, she heard an even more violent "sizzling" sound behind her -

Is this... cracked again?

My underwear, which was already scarce, was now even worse!

Hearing Xu Chuchu's exclamation, Xiao Yu, who had originally turned his back, turned back anxiously. In a flash, he saw her large smooth and white back, and then gasped.

Xu Chuchu felt a chill rushing in from behind, as if someone had hit her head with a hammer. She didn't dare to look back and tried to cover her face with her hands in panic. However, she didn't cover much and Xiao Yu saw everything.

"You, you, you, you go out first!" After a long time, she finally remembered to cover her back with her coat. Her face flushed red and she felt so embarrassed that she wanted to melt on the spot.

However, she waited for a long time, but there was no sound of Xiao Yu leaving. Instead, she heard the unnatural sound of him clearing his throat.

"Put your hands down." His deep voice came from behind. "I will mend your clothes for you."

It's already so torn, can it still be sewn together? Shouldn't it just be cut up and used as a rag? Xu Chuchu was deeply skeptical.

But she didn't know what she was thinking, she actually listened to his words, slowly put down her hand in a daze, and then tightly grasped the edge of the table in front of her, almost crushing the wooden board with force.

She felt Xiao Yu's hand gently hook up her coat from behind and place it on the back of a chair beside her.

Then he sank his fingers into the hair at the back of her neck, lifted up the long hair that was hanging down her back, and pulled it all to one side of her shoulder.

The warm fingertips stroked across the scalp, and the strange feeling made people almost get goosebumps.

Without the protection of his outer shirt and hair, the skin on his back was directly exposed to the cold air, and Xu Chuchu felt even colder.

But she didn't feel a bit cold. Instead, she was so nervous that even a thin layer of sweat appeared on her palms.