Volume 1 Chapter 18 A beautiful woman's smile is worth a thousand gold
Xu Jingmo slept for the whole afternoon and was sweating all over. After taking a shower, he walked out of the bedroom and saw Du Ruo lying lazily on the sofa, fiddling with a seven-layer Rubik's Cube in his hand. The TV was on as background music, and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was playing.
He walked to the medical box, took out the thermometer, swung it casually, put it under his arm, sat down at her feet, watched TV, and asked with a smile: "Why? Are you curious about where Ninggu Pagoda is and want to go see it?"
Du Ruo glanced at him sideways, stretched out her legs and kicked him hard, not wanting to bother with him.
Xu Jingmo curled his lips and asked, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
“Crab roe crisps, pea yellow, roasted lamb, duck soup, lotus root powder and osmanthus cake, ham and pork elbow, pearl shrimp and quail stewed…”
"Stop, I'll make you a Manchu-Han banquet according to the emperor's menu." Xu Jingmo couldn't help but interrupt her while she was ordering the dishes.
"Okay." Du Ruo nodded in agreement without hesitation.
“……”, you really dare to click.
"He's not big, but he has a big appetite."
Du Ruo groaned, sat up, and squinted his eyes to look at him, "Xu Jingmo."
"Um?"
"You can't tell the difference between a big king and a small king, and you want to rebel?"
Xu Jingmo blinked innocently, "I mean age, you are just not that old."
Du Ruo snorted disdainfully, "It's a big deal to be an adult, but you're only 364 days older than me."
Xu Jingmo: "It's great to be an adult. You can stay in a hotel by yourself without notifying your guardian."
“…”
Du Ruo immediately stood up and jumped off the sofa, waved his hand and said, "Come on, come on, let's have a fight. I find that you deserve to be punished now."
I haven't seen you for two years, and you've learned to be weird.
Xu Jingmo lay down and took the place she had just occupied. He grabbed a sofa pillow and put it in front of his chest, shaking his head repeatedly: "Don't bully me, I'm taking my temperature."
Du Ruo looked at his expression pretending to be pitiful and aggrieved, and the breath she was holding was like a thorn in her throat, unable to move up or down.
She hadn't experienced such emotional fluctuations in many years. It was as if time had gone back and she was suddenly back to the days when she and he tortured each other as children. She was really going backwards.
In just two days after returning to China, Xu Jingmo was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, stirring up a lot of inexplicable emotions in her heart. Is he poisonous?
Xu Jingmo saw that she was staring at him without saying anything, as if she was thinking about something.
With a wary look in his eyes, he grabbed another pillow and stood in front of his "little brother" as if he were facing a powerful enemy.
Du Ruo glanced at his little action and was actually amused by him.
He dared to provoke her but didn't dare to accept the challenge. He knew how to bend and stretch.
Xu Jingmo looked at the curve of her lips and was distracted for a moment. He was stunned for several seconds before muttering, "You look so beautiful when you smile. You are so cold to me every day."
Du Ruo said unhappily: "You made me laugh because I was so angry."
"That's also a smile. If the corners of your mouth are raised more than 15 degrees, it's considered a smile." Xu Jingmo suddenly sat up and counted on his fingers, "We've known each other for 13 years, right? Let's not talk about when we were kids. After you went to college, the number of times you smiled at me was so few that it seemed like even 13 times was not even 13. What's the matter? Don't you allow people to smile in your prestigious university?"
Seeing his sincere expression, Du Ruo frowned slightly and said, "You are crazy. You remember all this." She sat back on the sofa and didn't want to continue discussing this topic with him.
Xu Jingmo was not satisfied and approached him, saying, "Of course I remember. Do you want me to count with you carefully? When was the last time you laughed?"
"I don't want to hear it."
Du Ruo knew that she rarely smiled now, but it was definitely not as exaggerated as he said! Xu Jingmo must have lied to her. She didn't want to listen. It was just a lie.
"You don't believe it?" Xu Jingmo seemed to have a pair of eyes that could see through people's hearts and saw through her little thoughts.
Du Ruo glared at him, with a warning look that said, "Don't be ungrateful."
Xu Jingmo raised his lips slightly, very generously, "Okay, I won't pursue the past with you. Let's talk about today. You haven't shared your happy things with me yet."
"There's no such thing as being happy today."
"Aren't you happy skateboarding?"
“Usually, you can learn it after a few lessons, and there is no sense of accomplishment.”
"Isn't it funny that Ji Yunbai was caught in the water by a fish?"
"Not funny, stupid."
“…”
Xu Jingmo was silent. For a moment he really didn't know how to continue asking her. He sighed, took out the mercury thermometer from under his armpit, and just as he was about to take a look at the temperature, it was suddenly snatched away by Du Ruo.
Du Ruo held up the thermometer and looked at it towards the light, then paused, squinted and looked carefully, then turned to look at him and said teasingly, "Xu Jingmo, you are really amazing. Your fever is 40 degrees. If you take antipyretic medicine and sleep for an afternoon, your fever will go down to 34 degrees."
Xu Jingmo snatched the thermometer back, looked at the scale, and it was indeed 34 degrees.
Damn, is he going to die?
What the hell is this?
Is his immune system in such a mess?
Du Ruo watched the excitement from the side with a happy expression, "Aren't you going to ask me what's so happy about me today? I find you a little funny now."
Xu Jingmo touched his own forehead with one hand and put the other hand on Du Ruo's forehead. He compared their temperatures carefully and found that they were almost the same.
Seeing that he really began to doubt himself, Du Ruoshi couldn't help laughing. What a fool.
She laughed and said, "Are you really crazy because of the fever? The mercury in your thermometer has broken and is no longer effective."
Xu Jingmo lowered his head and looked carefully. There was indeed a small fault in the middle. This medicine box in his home was prepared by the housekeeper at that time. He had never used it before.
Scare him.
He had either a high fever or a low fever, and he almost suspected that he had some terminal illness.
Xu Jingmo glanced at Du Ruo, who was looking at him mockingly, and couldn't help laughing at his own stupidity. He asked, "Am I funny?"
"Hmm~" Du Ruo nodded repeatedly. She would rather doubt herself than doubt others. How silly.
"Okay." Xu Jingmo turned on his phone and said to her, "Record it. From now on, all your happiness will be based on this standard."
Du Ruo stopped laughing instantly, his mouth straightened, he stretched out his hand to cover his camera, and said coolly: "Don't even think about keeping my black history."
Xu Jingmo retorted: "How can this be called a black history? This is called a standard of measurement. You promised me that you would not hide your emotions in front of me. I haven't seen you smile so naturally in many years. Can't I record it?"
"cut."
It was all nonsense, and Du Ruo didn't believe it at all. He just wanted to preserve her dark history.
"Why do you always insist on looking at me smiling?" Du Ruo asked in confusion. When they first met, he said that there would be benefits for helping her hide it from her family, and the benefit was that she would smile at him more.
What kind of conditions are these?
Xu Jingmo: "A beautiful woman's smile is worth a thousand gold, haven't you heard? There's no point in talking about money between us. You don't like to smile by nature, but you only smile at me. Doesn't that make me look great? Isn't this advantage tempting enough?"
These words sounded somewhat ambiguous and tentative, and Xu Jingmo was a little nervous, not knowing how Du Ruo would react.
As a result, Du Ruo said arrogantly and confidently: "A beauty of my level is worth a thousand gold even if she doesn't smile. If she smiles, wouldn't she be worth ten thousand gold?"
Xu Jingmo was touched by her cute little appearance, and his heart softened all of a sudden. He smiled and said, "Then this benefit is even more worthwhile for me."
Du Ruo snorted softly. She just felt that Xu Jingmo was really interesting and worthy of being her good friend.
Only when I'm with him do I find wasting time quite interesting.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
