Bai asked the same question.
Her evasive answer at the time was clearly useless to Huo Mingchen.
So she changed her approach, silently bending down to close the distance between them, and whispered, "Because I am a fairy."
Huo Mingchen was both amused and exasperated by her "serious" pretense: "Fine, if you don't want to say, then don't." As he said this, he looked towards the door with an increasingly serious expression: "I'm afraid there won't be any peaceful days ahead."
It's not just that there's no peace.
It would be a scene of corpses strewn across the land, the air thick with darkness and suffocating despair.
Cheng Shanshan looked at Huo Mingchen as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she held back and instead gave a bright smile: "We'll talk about the future later. Why don't we shave first? Since we're going to change, let's be completely clean?"
"..."
Huo Mingchen was stunned for a moment.
Then, his eyes were filled with helplessness as he looked at her: "I cut myself several times before because I didn't know how hard I was going to hurt myself. Later, since I didn't know how to fix it, I just stopped caring about it."
This explanation amused Cheng Shanshan: "So there are things Brother Huo can't do. I thought you were an all-rounder." As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves: "Coincidentally, I know this skill. How about I give you a shave?"
"good."
Huo Mingchen did not refuse.
After receiving consent, Cheng Shanshan began making arrangements.
First, I found a relatively sharp knife in the kitchen, then I took a piece of soapberry made by the Bai family, and a clean white cloth.
After everything was ready, she beckoned to Huo Mingchen: "Brother Huo, you can come and lie down here now."
Seeing her serious expression, Huo Mingchen couldn't help but ask, "You seem to have a lot of experience?"
Could it be that you shaved Lin Sheng's beard before?
This idea suddenly made him a little unhappy, but seeing Cheng Shanshan's expectant look, he couldn't bear to refuse, so he could only obediently lie down on a bench he had made.
After he finished, Cheng Shanshan answered his question: "Although I've never shaved before, I'm very good at scaling fish, so it's not a problem." After saying that, she raised the small knife in her hand and pointed it at his neck.
"..."
Is it too late to run now?
Seeing the chilling object pointed at him, Huo Mingchen struggled to suppress the urge to slap it back.
His tension made Cheng Shanshan think he was frightened by what she had just said, so she quickly cleared her throat and reassured him, "Don't worry, I'll be very gentle."
Huo Mingchen decided to go all out: "Okay, let's begin."
Soon, a layer of soapberry foam was evenly applied to his beard, and then Cheng Shanshan began to skillfully cut it.
Bai, standing nearby, broke out in a cold sweat: "Shanshan, slow down." If she accidentally used too much force, it could be fatal.
"Okay, I'll go slowly."
That's what he said, but his hands moved faster and faster.
In no time, he had shaved off all of Huo Mingchen's beard, but his face was still covered in soap bean foam, making it impossible to see what was on his face.
Cheng Shanshan handed him a basin of water: "Come on, come on, quickly wash yourself clean and let me see." She said this with a face full of anticipation.
Bai Shi was also looking forward to it, wanting to know if her judgment was correct.
Huo Mingchen quickly washed his face clean under the watchful eyes of Cheng Shanshan and her daughter. He removed his messy beard, revealing his chiseled features.
Beneath those sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes was a high, straight nose, lips as red as maple leaves, and a cold, hard jawline; his entire being exuded an ethereal, otherworldly, and resolute air.
It's so...beautiful!
It's so beautiful that you can't take your eyes off it at first glance.
Bai waved her hand in front of Cheng Shanshan's eyes: "Shanshan, what's wrong?"
"I……"
Cheng Shanshan was about to explain.
But upon closer inspection of Huo Mingchen's face, she sensed something was amiss and instinctively reached out her hand: "Why does this area look unclean?"
I reached out and touched it.
It was bright red blood!
She was just about to brag about her cooking skills when she was proven wrong in the next second.
When Bai saw that Huo Mingchen was injured, and not just with a cut, she hurriedly went to find the ointment that Cheng Shanshan had prepared.
Cheng Shanshan covered Huo Mingchen's face with self-reproach: "Brother Huo, I'm so sorry." Because the blade was too sharp, it wasn't obvious before, but now the cuts were clearly visible.
One, two, three, four, five...
At least it should look like a chain, right?
"What good is an apology?" Huo Mingchen looked down at Cheng Shanshan, lowering his voice, "My face is so badly injured, shouldn't you take responsibility?"
Cheng Shanshan: "Is it okay if we provide food and lodging?"
"no."
Huo Mingchen stepped forward.
As the two closed the distance again, Cheng Shanshan felt her heart tighten.
His glassy eyes narrowed slightly, and his voice was deep and pleasant: "I want more..."
"Quickly, quick, the plaster is here."
Bai rushed over and immediately separated the two.
Cheng Shanshan felt a sense of relief: "Alright, Mother, you apply the medicine for him. I'll go see if anyone's coming." With that, she turned and ran away.
Bai glanced at Cheng Shanshan, who was sitting ramrod straight, and asked Huo Mingchen while applying the medicine, "Little Huo, what do you think of my Shanshan?"
"good."
Huo Mingchen answered very affirmatively.
Bai looked at Huo Mingchen and said seriously, "I can tell you're a good child. If anything happens to me in the future, I'll feel at ease leaving Shanshan in your care."
"You can't get hurt."
Huo Mingchen glanced at Cheng Shanshan not far away before continuing, "Because, for her, you are her only source of emotional support."
"Is that so?"
A glimmer of light appeared in Bai's eyes, followed by a pang of sadness: "I wasn't a good mother. I failed to provide her with a good life and caused her all sorts of trouble. If it weren't for me, she would probably be living a better life now, wouldn't she?"
Huo Mingchen remained silent.
After a long silence, he finally spoke: "In fact, instead of blaming yourself, you should choose to believe her."
...
That night.
Cool as water, thick as ink.
The torrential rains have caused flooding, and large swathes of crops have been swallowed up.
Everywhere you look, there are raging waves. Some people were optimistic that the rain would stop sooner or later, but they never expected that it would get out of control.
Some people, having endured hunger and surviving on rainwater, had become listless and their sense of smell was now exceptionally keen, so they all coveted Cheng Shanshan's cave.
However, they hesitated to move mainly because Huo Mingchen was inside the cave, and the presence of this man terrified everyone.
When the rain suddenly stopped, everyone gathered around, their eyes gleaming with a green light...
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