When the second batch of appliances arrived, the washing machine was delivered to my home immediately.
So in the evening, Xiao Wei, Bai Lu, and Xiao Cheng all took showers and didn't need to wash their clothes.
However, before taking a bath, Bailu went to the chestnut tree under the old house and dug out the black plastic bag.
The torpedoes inside are still there.
Not one less.
The roses in the vase withered. After digging up the torpedoes, Bailu went to the other side of the river to cut some more. After hanging up the clothes, she trimmed them in the yard.
Trim off the thorns and excess leaves from the flower branches.
Under the soft moonlight, a pair of slender, fair hands trimmed several leafy and thorny rose branches into neat and beautiful blooms, making them bloom in their own unique beauty, like a young girl's face illuminated by the white moonlight, as delicate and beautiful as a flower, with unparalleled elegance.
The only thing that made the man in the courtyard sigh helplessly was that her long, silky hair was still dripping wet.
Like tiny dewdrops gathered from mist, they hang quietly at the ends of the hair, only dripping when the wind blows.
He washed his hands, took a towel, sat behind the girl, and wiped her long, steaming hair.
"Have you finished inspecting the torpedoes?"
Bai Lu was already used to his scent and his approach. Without turning around, she asked while pruning the flower branches.
Xiao Cheng's gaze turned slightly cold, his eyes as dark as ink: "Its power is stronger than what we saw by the river last time."
Bai Lu suddenly turned around.
With a twirl of his hair, the towel in his hand fell to the ground, and he continued twirling it: "More than ten times."
"Snap—"
The flower branch snapped, and the scissors in Bailu's hand clashed with metal. "What is he trying to do?"
"The torpedoes we used to blast fish on the riverbank last time were already quite powerful. Now they've come up with torpedoes that are more than ten times more powerful and sent them to us... Are they playing around? I think they're more interested in blasting people than blasting fish."
A cold glint flashed in Xiao Cheng's eyes: "Ignore him."
Bai Lu's suspicions were confirmed. Without feeling sad or happy, she threw away the rose that had broken in two.
Picking up another branch, he continued trimming thorns and excess branches: "Trying to use someone else to do his dirty work without any sincerity... No! We're not going to pay any attention to him, even if he were sincere. What important business does he have with you today?"
As she asked the question, she turned back, her soft, long hair falling back onto the back of the chair, the wind blowing the half-dry ends of her hair.
When the wind picked up again, Xiao Cheng, who was already wrapped in a towel and gently wiping himself, smiled slightly.
"Scrapping by web crawlers".
Speaking of reptiles, Bai Lu thought of his injured hand and turned to look at it.
Her long hair slid open again.
Only his large, well-defined hands remained, holding a towel and still wiping, motionless.
The wound on the back of my hand has scabbed over.
The expert's recovery speed is indeed extraordinary.
He didn't like bandaging, and he wouldn't let her do it either. He only allowed her to apply medicine and change the dressing. Bailu guessed that he was concerned about his image.
He felt that the gauze would diminish his fighting ability.
After confirming that the wound was healed, Bai Lu turned back to continue pruning the flower branches: "Are the reptiles going to cause trouble and seek revenge in the shop?"
"I guess so."
Xiao Cheng paused for a moment, and seeing that the long hair in front of him had not moved, he continued to wipe it.
From unfamiliar to skilled, it only took the time of being interrupted, the time it took to prune a few rose branches.
Bai Lu trimmed a rose branch, put it in a vase, and casually asked, "Is his way of causing trouble so peculiar that it actually managed to attract Li Jianfeng's attention?"
Xiao Cheng said indifferently, "He had someone buy three televisions, disassemble them, and pack explosives inside, planning to return them and detonate them tomorrow when there are many people around."
Bai Lu was startled and turned around abruptly: "Has he gone mad? Doing this will ruin our store's reputation, and the safety of our products cannot be guaranteed. No one will dare to buy from us anymore. Detonating it when there are many people around is just playing with people's lives!"
She turned around quickly this time, and her hair unexpectedly brushed against Xiao Cheng's face with a bit too much force.
Xiao Cheng was a little confused, his hand holding the towel motionless: "This is how crawlers always operate."
"So despicable and shameless?" Bai Lu turned back angrily: "They really are reptiles, utterly devoid of conscience and humanity, and do not deserve any sympathy."
How did Li Jianfeng find out?
“He has connections in the black market.” Xiao Cheng looked at the soft, long hair in front of him, but did not make a move.
"You bought all those web crawlers on the black market?" Bai Lu indeed turned back again.
The hair also turned as expected, but thankfully this time the turn was slow and it just brushed past.
Xiao Cheng's face remained unaffected, but he raised his hand and turned Bai Lu's head back: "That's right."
"Don't move."
Bai Lu finally realized that constantly turning around would cause trouble for the big shot who was wiping someone's hair for the first time.
It immediately stopped moving.
Anjing, who was quietly trimming flower branches, asked, "You arrested him?"
Perhaps because she obeyed and stopped moving, a soft "Mmm" came from behind her.
Bai Lu then asked, "What are your plans?"
He didn't say.
There was no sound behind me.
The motion of wiping her hair was still gentle.
The half-dead reptile was being tortured in the tunnel. Xiao Cheng didn't say anything, Li Jianfeng didn't say anything, and no one would know.
Even Bailu wouldn't know.
But she would ask, "Where did the bugs go?"
Xiao Cheng thought she would turn around, and the ruthlessness and cruelty in his eyes instantly disappeared, his deep eyes returning to their usual coldness.
But she didn't turn around.
He didn't turn around after asking the question.
He then realized that her tone was not accusatory at all, and her voice was as gentle as usual.
Obedient and compliant, as soft as the long hair in his hands, touching the heart.
"Suburban tunnel."
Bai Lu had prepared some words to coax him, but she didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
She hadn't seen the suburban tunnel in Xiao Cheng's memory, but considering what the reptile had done—provoking him again and again, which was tantamount to courting death—it certainly wouldn't end well.
Xiao Wei was watching martial arts movies and writing his summer homework—a diary—in his room. As long as there was no arguing, he ignored everything else.
After Bai Lu finished cutting the last pink rose, she put it in a vase and gently patted the leaves that had fallen on her legs.
"Acheng, I have something I'd like to discuss with you."
The action of wiping his hair behind his back paused.
"It's about our future," she explained softly. "Let's go back to our room and talk."
Under the bright moonlight, the man's eyes were as black as ink, his expression unreadable, revealing neither joy nor sorrow.
The breath seemed to freeze at a certain point, with only the wiping motion in his hands never ceasing.
When Bai Lu didn't get a reply, she quickly turned around and kissed him: "Can you go back to your room and wait for me? I'll sweep the leaves on the ground into the trash can and then go back."
Xiao Cheng's scattered thoughts were brought to focus by a soft touch on her lips. He slightly lifted his eyelids and looked at her silently.
Her eyes were always so clear, clean, and pure, without a trace of impurity.
Everything is crystal clear.
Just like now, his face is deep in thought, reflected in the crescent moon shape of his smiling eyes.
Xiao Cheng sighed softly and stood up: "I'll go get the broom."
Bai Lu smiled gently, quickly put the vase back in front of the TV, and went to get the dustpan.
They can be so happy just sweeping the floor. Xiao Wei doesn't understand why they have to sweep and empty even the smallest piece of trash together.
They went back to their room together, and before closing the door, his sister-in-law said goodnight to him in a particularly gentle and kind manner.
"Xiaowei, we're going back to sleep now. You should go to sleep early too, don't stay up too late!"
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