Chapter 222 Gentle as Water
The soft moonlight streamed in through the window.
The woman, carrying the tall, imposing figure of the man, drew closer and closer, stopping beside the bed and suddenly leaning over.
Bai Lu subconsciously leaned back, braced herself on the bed with her hands, pulled her legs up onto the bed, and decisively retreated.
My ankle was suddenly grabbed.
There was no way to retreat or escape; the more you struggled, the tighter the grip became, and an unusual temperature spread through your ankles, making them feel exceptionally hot.
The heat was so intense that Xiao Cheng leaned over her, staring intently at her, their auras as fiery as flames.
Bai Lu immediately froze.
With her back against the cold wall through the mosquito net, she had long since retreated to the innermost part of the bed.
There was nowhere to retreat, nowhere to avoid.
We have no choice but to face it head-on.
Bai Lu's direct response was to stare at the hand on her ankle and ask, "Are you... are you feeling unwell?"
"Yes." Xiao Cheng was very honest.
His slightly reddened eyes were fixed on Bai Lu, his large hand holding her ankle, but he made no further move.
Bai Lu breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, he's still a three-year-old child, still in the simple mode of being obedient and compliant.
It's not an uncontrollable hell mode.
"Where do you feel unwell?" Bai Lu decided to address the problem directly: "Let go of me first, and I'll take a look."
Xiao Cheng obediently released her foot.
Bai Lu finally felt relieved.
The next second, Xiao Cheng tackled her to the ground, and the words she was about to say were cut off by a sudden, cool kiss from his thin lips.
Bai Lu: "..."
The child was very good at surprise attacks; he did it every time. In the end, she was just careless.
Although, but actually, kissing is one thing, but can you please not bite? Can you please not be so gentle one second and then turn into a storm the next, a crushing deep kiss?
There's a limit to being unreasonable, isn't there?
Feeling unwell all over, Xiao Cheng clearly didn't know what moderation was, and everything he did was based on instinct.
Completely unable to control their own behavior.
Until Bai Lu pushed him away, his hazy, slightly red eyes saw Bai Lu frowning, pursing her red lips, and a bright red bead of blood still oozing from the corner of her lips.
Xiao Cheng realized what he had done and hurriedly wiped it with his sleeve, but stopped when he reached Bai Lu's lips. His panic turned into carefulness as he gently wiped her lips.
Is Lulu alright?
Bai Lu: "..."
How can someone still ask such a question? They're hopeless.
The brainless kid is definitely right: "What do you think?"
"I didn't mean to." Xiao Cheng looked at Bai Lu, his eyes filled with obvious guilt and an uncontrollable struggle: "I don't know why this happened."
Bai Lu sighed helplessly. The most important thing right now is to find out the cause and find the right solution.
This can't go on.
"Besides rice and soup, did you eat anything else tonight?"
Xiao Cheng answered seriously, "No."
Just as Bai Lu wiped away the blood droplet from the corner of her lips, a new blood droplet appeared, even redder than before.
Xiao Cheng could only press down on Bai Lu's lips, not daring to use too much force, and explained in a low voice: "I drank the soup that was meant to nourish Lulu's body. I originally wanted to leave it all for Lulu to drink, but it was the soup that Lulu ladled for me, so I drank it."
Bai Lu remembered this incident. Xiao Cheng ladled a bowl of soup for her, and she ladled a bowl of soup back for Xiao Cheng.
The soup was pig's trotter soup, with an extra ginseng. The soup ladled for Xiao Cheng also contained a ginseng. It was indeed a tonic soup, since ginseng was a tonic... wait!
The soup on the table wasn't served in one pot; Xiao Cheng scooped it into a soup bowl and brought it to the table.
Could it be that Xiao Cheng didn't scoop out the soup ingredients from the bottom of the pot at all, so he only saw two small ginseng roots?
Bai Lu suddenly had a bold and terrifying guess. Her gaze passed over Xiao Cheng in front of her and stared straight at the small wooden cabinet under the table in front of the window.
"Did you put the tonics you brought back from another province into the soup and stew them together?"
Xiao Cheng nodded in agreement and added, "We also added ginseng that someone brought back from Nanshi."
"To nourish Lulu's body."
Bai Lu: "...Thank you."
Xiao Cheng's guilt finally lessened a bit: "No need to thank me, it's only right to help Lulu recover."
Bai Lu: "..."
No wonder the pig's trotter soup tasted so strong and mixed tonight. When she first started drinking it, she could smell a faint scent of deer antler, but when she scooped it up, she only found ginseng. The soup bowl on the table only contained pig's trotters, a few small ginseng roots, and other common tonics.
She didn't think much of it, assuming that Xiao Chengfang had brought back stewed soups and tonics from Nanshi through someone.
I never even considered the possibility of aphrodisiac supplements.
After all, she had already told Xiao Cheng last time that the supplements in the cabinet couldn't be left anywhere, as her body couldn't handle them and she needed to add other things separately.
She completely forgot that she had told the child about this last time, not to Boss Xiao Cheng.
The boss had no idea that the supplements in the cabinet were not suitable for her, and he just cooked them directly.
I wonder if the boss was worried that there wouldn't be enough, so he specially asked someone to bring back ginseng from Nanshi to cook with it.
Bai Lu was truly at a loss for words, feeling flattered yet unable to accept the favor, but she had already received it and was experiencing the consequences. She couldn't help but question the meaning of life.
"Is my health really that bad?"
The child, Xiao Cheng, nodded with an unusually serious expression: "You almost fainted when you got up in the vegetable garden yesterday."
Bai Lu sighed, "I was squatting in the vegetable garden weeding, and my legs went numb from weeding for so long. When I stood up, I was in such a hurry that I lost my balance and swayed. I didn't faint."
Xiao Cheng believed him and said, "The numbness in your feet is also due to poor health. Eating more supplements will help."
Bai Lu has already learned a lot about children's thinking; any further explanation would only make things harder for herself.
Fine, if he says so, then so be it.
However, there was one question that had puzzled her for a long time.
"How can you remember so many things, before and after drinking? Do you remember everything?"
"I remember everything." Xiao Cheng didn't hide anything.
Bai Lu finally understood.
Heaven seems to favor children; children have the memories of powerful figures and know what those figures experience every day.
The big boss had no idea what the child had done, nor did he have any memory of being drunk.
Xiao Cheng waited a moment, and only after confirming that Bai Lu would not ask any more questions did he slowly release his hand from the corner of her lips.
The blood finally stopped seeping out.
"Lulu..."
Bai Lu noticed the indescribable struggle in Xiao Cheng's eyes and was somewhat puzzled.
Supplements nourish and replenish the body gradually; generally speaking, they don't have such a strong effect all at once.
She also drank the soup and didn't feel any discomfort. Why would Xiao Cheng do this?
Could it be those three bottles of wine?
Bai Lu, recalling Luo Shiliu and the others' unusual reactions before they left, was fairly certain.
It was the combination of alcohol and tonic soup that caused the problem.
Alcohol is the source of all medicines, and it has the functions of dissolving pharmacological substances, releasing medicinal properties, and catalyzing medicinal effects.
Bai Lu didn't know the exact extent of Xiao Cheng's reaction, so she asked softly, "Are you feeling very uncomfortable?"
Xiao Cheng stared intently at Bai Lu's lips, his silent expression of suppressed emotion clearly conveyed through his pursed lips.
Even if Bai Lu could see it, there was nothing she could do.
This kind of thing can't be solved with a kiss.
(End of this chapter)
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