Wen Liyu turned her head to look in the direction of the silk thread, but found that the thread went straight through the roof and no one knew where it led to.
She frowned, thinking that this crossbow hidden so secretly here must not be a good thing.
Maybe it was a trap or attack method set by Chu Shaoyao's enemies.
The door was pushed open with a creak.
Chu Shaoyao walked into the house with a lunch box in his hand with a calm expression, put the lunch box on the table, and looked sideways.
He was completely stunned. Where was his fish?!
"Carp?" Chu Shaoyao frowned, and his originally relaxed breath became cold and hard again.
"I'm on top."
He heard the carp spirit's coquettish voice and immediately raised his head. Seeing her sitting on the beam carefree, his heart, which had just relaxed a little, immediately tightened with nervousness.
"Don't come down yet!" Chu Shaoyao said coldly with a dark face, "Do you think you are a bird?"
Wen Liyu shook her legs and pouted, "I only came up here because I saw something up there. Otherwise, who would come up here on your dirty beams?"
She said this angrily, then jumped directly in the direction of the bucket. In mid-air, she turned into a fish and fell into the bucket.
She dived without hesitation, her posture graceful and skillful, and her tail swung in the air, drawing a perfect arc.
When Chu Shaoyao saw her jump down, his heart skipped a beat. He didn't know why he was so panicked and reached out to catch her.
When she turned into a fish and passed through his outstretched arms and jumped into the bucket, she came to her senses only when she was splashed in the face by the water.
Chu Shaoyao's face was covered with water droplets, which slowly slid down from his forehead, across his angular jawline, and dripped onto his collar.
The clothes on his upper body were all wet by the splashes of water, sticking tightly to his muscular body, and the handsome and explosive muscle lines were faintly visible.
"Carp! Fish!" He spoke in a fierce tone, his face as dark as if he was about to eat sashimi alive in the next second.
Wen Liyu shook her tail guiltily, hid deep in the bucket, and pretended to be a real carp that couldn't understand human language.
Before she could figure out how to escape the problem, she was pulled out of the water.
She swung her tail in Chu Shaoyao's curled palm to keep her balance, and seeing his dark face, she curled her tail around his fingers in a flattering manner.
"Change back." Chu Shaoyao felt his fingers being rubbed by the softest silk, and the silky touch made him feel uncomfortable.
How can she use her tail to please people so casually? She's a real lecher. But what part of the human body is the tail equivalent to? Is it... the leg?
Chu Shaoyao's mind suddenly emerged with her snow-white, straight calves. Substituting them into the current scene, the strange feeling in his heart became even stronger.
Wen Liyu didn't dare to offend him, so she let go obediently, rolled over and fell out of his palm, and changed into a human shape in the air.
She didn't choose the right landing posture, and stumbled into Chu Shaoyao's arms. Her forehead was hit by his hard chest, "Ouch!"
Her cry of pain brought Chu Shaoyao back to his senses. He put his arm around her and helped her stand upright before taking a step back with dignity. "What's wrong?"
"Ouch... there's a bump on my forehead!" Wen Liyu pouted in grievance. Her skin was extremely delicate, and she would often get a red mark or bruise from a slight bump.
Not to mention that she hit something hard, and a small red bump really appeared on her fair forehead.
Chu Shaoyao had never thought that someone's skin could be so tender. He frowned and looked at the red envelope, feeling a little upset. "...Spoiled."
"Hmph." Wen Liyu glared at him angrily, snatched back the hand he was holding, and wanted to touch the swollen bump.
"Don't touch it!" Chu Shaoyao clamped her wrist tightly. Her wrist was so thin that he felt it would break if bent. He unconsciously relaxed his grip. "Come here, I'll help you apply the medicine."
He let the troublesome carp sit on the bed and he went to the corner and found a porcelain bottle.
Chu Shaoyao dipped a clean handkerchief in water and carefully wiped the red and swollen part.
"hiss…"
There were tears in Wen Liyu's eyes, as if she was about to burst into tears of pain in the next second.
She blinked, her eyelashes wet with tears, forming a thicker clump. She spoke to distract herself, "I just saw a crossbow on the rafters."
"Bow?" Chu Shaoyao paused as he applied the medicine. "Who fired it?"
Wen Liyu pouted, tears welling up in her eyes. "How would I know that? I just came to your house today."
"You are not a carp spirit, so you can't use magic to calculate it?" Chu Shaoyao was a little surprised. He thought that spirits would have many magical methods that were beyond common sense.
Wen Liyu didn't think too much about it and retorted, "I'm not a god."
"Oh, where is the crossbow?" Chu Shaoyao calmly put the medicine away, and his assessment of the threat level from her dropped a few degrees.
It seems that this is a little carp spirit who is not very skilled and often turns back into his original form.
Wen Liyu wanted to check her forehead, but couldn't find a mirror. Hearing what he said, she looked up and pointed casually, "It's right there."
Chu Shaoyao looked up in the direction of her finger, tapped the ground lightly with his feet, and jumped onto the beam with a "whoosh".
He looked relaxed and calm, as if jumping onto a beam more than two meters high was a particularly easy task.
"...Wow." Wen Liyu looked up blankly, staring at him in surprise, "How did you do that? Is this the Qinggong described in the storybook?"
Chu Shaoyao was observing the crossbow and responded casually, "Yeah."
The more he observed, the darker his expression became. The bag hanging next to the bow and arrow contained the flint, which was the easiest to burn.
If he fell asleep due to fever tonight, the person who set up the crossbow would just have to loosen the silk thread, and the flint would hit the ground and set everything in the room on fire.
Even if he was lucky enough not to die in the fire, his whole body would be burnt black, and in serious cases, he would be completely disabled.
Chu Shaoyao removed the flint bag from the bow and arrow, broke the tip of the arrow, and jumped off the beam with a dark face.
"What's wrong? Are bows and crossbows difficult to handle?" Wen Liyu didn't know the seriousness of the matter yet, and looked at him with her head tilted in confusion.
Chu Shaoyao shook his head with a cold face, forcing himself to curl his lips at her, "It's okay, and thank you for discovering the danger in advance."
"Hey, you don't have to be so polite." Wen Liyu came closer to him and looked at the black stone in his hand. "What is this for?"
"This thing can be used to start a fire." Chu Shaoyao took out a small piece of debris and threw it on the ground.
'Squeak'!
When the fragments fell to the ground, a small flame suddenly appeared. However, because it was too small and there was no flammable material, the flame went out immediately.
"...This!" Wen Liyu's eyes widened, flashes of fear and surprise in them, "Someone wants to turn you into a grilled fish!"
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