Chapter 119 So Cute It's Swelling
Xiao Cheng caught a fleeting look of disdain in the girl's eyes and chuckled softly, "Whatever."
Bai Lu happily carried her vegetable basket back to the kitchen.
Xiao Cheng looked at the chili peppers in the basket with a helpless raised eyebrow, picked up the small basket full of green vegetables, and followed closely behind.
A moment later.
A soft creaking sound came from the courtyard gate.
The gap, barely the width of a finger, slowly widened. A small figure carrying a schoolbag cautiously peeked in first, and finding the yard empty and deserted, tiptoed in.
After entering, I carefully closed the door.
I looked up and glanced in the direction of the kitchen.
After carefully discerning the route, the little figure exhaled softly, clutching a sweet and fragrant object tightly in her hand, lowered her head as low as possible, and quickly ran towards the kitchen.
Once inside the kitchen, I ran to the cupboard following the route I remembered, opened the door, and quickly took out a large rooster-shaped bowl.
He quickly put his things inside, placed the bowl on the table, and immediately turned and ran out.
He didn't lift his head even once throughout the entire process.
They didn't even notice that there was only one person in front of the stove.
The other one was carrying a bundle of bamboo firewood in each hand, walking back to the kitchen from the newly built woodshed behind the house.
Two figures, one tall and one short, bumped into each other at the doorway.
To be precise, it was a small figure carrying a schoolbag who bumped into the long legs of a tall, imposing man.
Rebounded and forced to retreat step by step, just as she was about to fall backward, a pair of seemingly soft and boneless hands supported her small schoolbag from behind, steadily keeping her in place.
"Why are you running so fast? Did you get hurt?"
Bai Lu wanted to turn Xiao Wei around to take a look, but as soon as the little guy turned around, he lowered his head, covered his mouth and right eye with his hand, and his eyes were swirling with sweat, as if he had been knocked unconscious.
Still dazed, she replied, "It's nothing."
Xiao Cheng, whose thigh had been bumped, paused only slightly and glanced indifferently at the small figure being supported by Bai Lu.
He stepped into the kitchen expressionlessly, placed the firewood on the ground in front of the stove, and cut the bamboo whips and ropes binding them with a wood-chopping knife.
They picked up bamboo firewood and stuffed it into the stove hole, covering the existing flames, and soon a bigger fire broke out.
They completely disregarded what had just happened.
Bai Lu patted the little guy's head: "Did you hurt yourself? Lift your head up so I can see."
"It doesn't hurt."
Xiao Wei lowered his head even further, wanting to leave, but his little schoolbag was grabbed and he couldn't go.
Seeing that he didn't look up, Bai Lu didn't press him. She shifted her gaze to the table and asked, "You ran in so fast just now, what did you put on the table?"
"Honey chunks." Xiao Wei lowered his head again, wishing he could bury his head in his neck.
Bai Lu withdrew her gaze, indeed smelling a sweet aroma. Her eyes fell on the bowl on the table, on the brownish-yellow, slightly blackish wild honey. She raised an eyebrow: "How do you have such a big piece of honey? Did you buy it on the street?"
"Wait, there doesn't seem to be any honey for sale on the street..."
"I found it."
Xiao Wei lowered his head and replied, "When I came home from school, I saw older students poking at a beehive. I stopped and watched for a while. After the students knocked the beehive down, they were stung by a swarm of bees and ran away. They didn't even want the honey, so I took it back."
"Such good things! Honey has so many benefits; it can not only soothe the lungs and relieve coughs, beautify the skin, relieve fatigue, calm the nerves and help with sleep, but it can also be used to make honey water to relieve hangovers..."
Bai Lu's eyes lit up, and she excitedly shook her little body: "Your luck is incredible! You can even encounter such a wonderful thing as honey falling from the sky. You'll definitely win the lottery!"
Xiao Wei didn't know what a lottery was, so he remained silent.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Cheng glanced over, paused for half a second, and then looked away with a half-smile.
The small stool in front of the stove was low, and from that angle, one could see Xiao Wei's entire face.
Xiao Cheng said nothing.
After the rice is cooked, I transfer the heat to the wok for stir-frying vegetables. Once the wok is hot, I get up to add oil and stir-fry the vegetables.
Bai Lu then remembered that she needed to cook, so she immediately loosened her grip on the little one and let him pass.
Xiao Wei finally relaxed his stiff shoulders and was about to leave when a man's voice suddenly rang out from the stove.
“Look at his face.”
Xiao Wei: "!!!"
He took off running.
The little backpack was grabbed again.
No matter how hard it ran, it couldn't escape, and it immediately deflated.
Bai Lu temporarily abandoned her cooking duties, picked up her small schoolbag, turned around, bent down slightly, and stared intently at Xiao Wei's hand covering his face: "Why are you covering your face?"
"Take your hand away so I can see if your brother hurt your nose."
Xiao Cheng was caught in the crossfire.
She wanted to deny it, but pursed her lips and didn't make a sound. Oh well, she'd see for herself.
Bai Lu was indeed perceptive; after forcibly pulling Xiao Wei's hand away, he was completely stunned, his eyes and all.
What an adorable face it was... so cute it was almost swollen.
Her lips, which were originally small, shapely, and slightly thin and rosy, were swollen into huge, red sausage lips.
Her right eyelid was swollen like a big steamed bun, and her originally big and bright eyes were now just slits. When she met her gaze, her eyes looked blank, clumsy, and small and flat, and it was impossible to tell whether she was looking at her or not.
Bai Lu bit her lower lip, suppressing a laugh, and asked with concern, "Were you stung by a bee?"
Xiao Wei's right eye was squinted into a slit, and his left eye saw Bai Lu trying to suppress a laugh, her little shoulders drooping, not wanting to speak: "She stung my eyelid and then my mouth."
Just two blows, but it seems a bit serious.
Bai Lu was both sympathetic and curious: "Don't bees chase after other people? How could they sting you?"
“There were still bees in the beehive. They flew out when I picked it up, and they stung my face as soon as they flew out.”
Xiao Wei answered with swollen, sausage-shaped lips.
Bai Lu didn't dare to poke his swollen bump with her finger, and asked softly, "Should we get some medicine to apply? It must hurt a lot to be swollen like this, it will hurt to eat and drink."
"No need, it's alright."
"He will heal himself."
The first sentence was said by Xiao Wei, and the second sentence was said by Xiao Cheng. They are not distinguished by their order, but they mean the same thing.
Clearly, they didn't take such a minor injury seriously.
Bai Lu was still a little worried: "I'll go get a towel, soak it in cold well water, and apply it to you to reduce the swelling."
Xiao Wei wanted to say no.
She was pulled away the moment she moved her lips.
He was also watched off by a resentful gaze from behind.
In the end, I still couldn't make the stir-fried green peppers and red chili peppers. I had to consider the injury to my sausage lips and eat them after they healed.
After the meal.
Xiao Wei went to the backyard to feed the old hen. The old hen kept staring at his face and even seemed to roll her eyes.
The chicks didn't want him to touch them anymore.
The moment the claws reached out, they all ran away.
Xiao Wei puffed up his cheeks in anger at being disliked, just then a gentle breeze blew by, and the flowers fell to the ground.
One or two blossoms fell onto Xiao Wei's head.
He paused for a moment, then looked up and saw clusters of beautiful white chestnut blossoms on the tree, their petals fluttering in the wind.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a ladder hanging from a large wooden beam on a high, secluded corner of a roof opposite the chestnut tree.
Bai Lu has been looking for a ladder these days, hasn't she?
Xiao Wei immediately turned around and ran back.
(End of this chapter)
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