Chapter 157 4:30
Who would be willing to turn on the big heater?
Moreover, Bai Lu, who was still unaware of any danger, did not struggle in her dream. She let the large heater hold her and snuggled into its embrace to fall asleep.
The next morning.
As night faded and dawn broke, early birds fluttered their wings and chirped their bells on the branches.
Bai Lu opened her eyes groggily, froze, rubbed her eyes, and her blurry vision instantly cleared.
The first thing you see is a face that is perfect and impeccable. Beneath the tightly closed, dark eyes is a well-defined, straight nose, deep and three-dimensional features, and thin, cool, sexy lips. The most distinctive feature is the bald head that is so handsome that it is impossible for ordinary people to pull it off.
This, this, isn't this Xiao Cheng?
Why is Xiao Cheng in bed?
Isn't Xiao Cheng in another province?
When did Xiao Cheng return?
How could she not know!
Bai Lu rubbed her eyes hard again, turning them up, down, left, and right to confirm that she was still at home, in bed, and hadn't teleported in a dream.
The man lying in front of her was Xiao Cheng.
Why has her alertness become so low?
She didn't even notice when Xiao Cheng came back, when he lay down in bed, or when he held her.
Habits are a deadly poison.
Oh no!
Bai Lu closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and carefully grabbed the large hand that was wrapped around her waist.
Move it.
Just move it a little bit more.
"Sleep a little longer."
The large hand, which had just been removed a centimeter away, tightened its grip on his waist again as a lazy, deep voice fell from above.
Although it is actually more accurately described as an embrace, the strength of the embrace is like a chain that gets tighter and tighter.
Even the White Dew season could be heard; his clear, strong heartbeat and even, steady breathing could be felt.
The warmth of his slightly calloused palms spread across her waist, like a giant heater embracing her in a dream.
However, this large heater had been working overtime for countless days without rest, its dark bluish-black color covering layers of weariness, piled up under its eyelids, and its exhaustion was hidden in its seemingly steady but heavy breathing.
Bai Lu slowly withdrew her hand, her fingertips accidentally touching the arm tied around her waist, which was instantly tightened.
Xiao Cheng, still half asleep, pursed his thin lips and uttered a voice half-asleep: "Lulu..."
His languid voice concealed a vulnerability that he would never normally display, a vulnerability that he had never shown even when drunk.
Bai Lu admitted that she had softened her heart.
I couldn't bear to bother him any longer.
He asked in a low voice, "What time did you get back last night?"
The sleeping man was very impatient to be disturbed. He frowned, pursed his lips, and instinctively hugged the soft warmth. He didn't know how long it was before his brain reacted and the sound that hit his eardrums was the tenderness that made him mad with longing.
His furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and his thin lips parted slightly: "Four-thirty."
Bai Lu looked up slightly and glanced at the sky shining through the window. It was still early, so she could stay in bed a little longer.
Just get up before dawn and roast chestnuts.
"Why are you back so late? What bus did you take? When did you start taking this bus?" She asked a whole string of questions, but very quietly.
Xiao Cheng's eyes remained still, and it was unclear whether he had heard clearly. He answered with his eyes closed, "I took a long-distance bus back at noon, arrived in Nanshi at three in the morning, transferred to another bus in Nanshi to go back to Pingcheng, and then transferred to another bus in Pingcheng to go home at four-thirty."
The economy is underdeveloped and transportation is inconvenient. You have to transfer several times just to get a ride. It's really tough.
Bai Lu asked again, "Did you take your keys with you when you went out?"
Xiao Cheng: "Hmm..."
"Have all the cedar timber transactions been successfully completed?"
"Um."
"How much did you get for it?"
"Three hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-five yuan."
Bai Lu noticed a large backpack full of things on the chair next to the bed. It was the bag Xiao Cheng had taken when he left. "So much money, and you just packed it all in a bag and brought it back like that?"
Xiao Cheng's lazy, deep voice seemed to have gained a hint of clarity: "I got a card."
Bai Lu asked, "A bank card?"
Xiao Cheng replied, "Yes."
"That's good. If you put all your money in a card and carry it with you, pickpockets won't be able to steal it."
"It's stuck under your pillow."
Bai Lu was startled, instinctively feeling as if there was a volcano under her pillow, its heat making her scalp tingle, and she dared not move.
He tried to reach out and touch it, but his hands were trapped in front of him by Xiao Cheng, leaving him no room to move.
Forcibly pulling it out will definitely wake him up.
Let's continue whispering: "Why did you put the card under my pillow? It's such a valuable thing. What if a bad guy steals it?"
"Won't."
Who dares to steal from the big boss's house?
They're tired of living.
But with so much money in her account, it wouldn't be appropriate to hide it under her pillow.
Bai Lu raised her voice a notch: "After you wake up, hide your bank card back under your pillow."
"I don't have a pillow."
Bailu: "???"
"What are you sleeping on now if you don't have a pillow?"
Xiao Cheng didn't seem to hear him, as he didn't reply.
Bai Lu looked up and glanced at it.
A smooth, rounded brown wooden pillow was placed under Xiao Cheng's head. Strictly speaking, it was just a piece of wood; indeed, there was nowhere to put a bank card.
It's true that there's no pillow to put there.
The memories that Bai Lu had been eating away by sleepiness were gradually being released. It seemed that there had never been a pillow at home. No, there was a wooden pillow and a bamboo pillow.
The wooden pillow was where Xiao Cheng slept.
After the original owner moved in, she slept on a bamboo pillow.
When Xiao Cheng moved to the storage room, he also took the wooden pillow with him. Later, because the storage room leaked, he moved it back to sleep with her and took the wooden pillow back with him.
Before the White Dew solar term, I had never slept on a bamboo pillow, so I wasn't used to it and would slip off while I was sleeping at night.
The next morning, she would often wake up with the bamboo pillow on top, to the left, or to the right, and her underneath.
One day, when she came back from collecting her clothes and put them in the closet, she found a new pillow at the bottom of the closet.
It's the kind of soft pillow filled with cotton.
She asked Xiao Cheng, who said it had always been in the corner of the closet, and she just hadn't seen it.
Without thinking much about it, she asked Xiao Cheng if he wanted it, and when he said no, she took it as a pillow.
Every morning after that, when she woke up, the pillow was just like it had been in her previous life, resting securely under her head.
I'm not going anywhere anymore.
The pillow for Bailu comes with a pillowcase; you can put your bank card inside by unzipping it.
Xiao Cheng's wooden pillow has no zipper, so it can't be put in.
"Shall I buy you a new pillow?" Bai Lu thought it would be better to put the bank card back into Xiao Cheng's pillow.
Unfortunately, she hadn't asked anything for too long, and Xiao Cheng seemed to have fallen asleep again and didn't answer.
"Xiao Cheng?"
The man with his eyes closed did not respond.
Bai Lu raised her voice a notch: "How about I go to the market today and buy you a new pillow?"
The man still did not respond.
Bai Lu pursed her lips, looked at his tightly closed eyes, and softly asked, "Acheng?"
Xiao Cheng instinctively tightened his arms around her, saying, "Mmm."
Goodness, there's even a special name for sleep start-up!
(End of this chapter)
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