Chapter 18 Telling Stories with Conscience (286/602)
The night was as deep as water. On the first floor of the inn, vendors from foreign countries held huqin and played exotic tunes.
The little sparrow stood on the windowsill with a few melon seeds at her feet, listening to the little song and watching the watch seriously.
In front of the window along the street, Cui Xiaowan held her side face with her hands, rubbing the small mahogany sign in her hand, and her sitting posture was a little lazy.
The room was quite warm and stayed in the bitter and cold place of Youzhou all year round. Cui Xiaowan was not afraid of the cold. Her red fox fur was hung in the corner of the house. She was wearing a lilac winter skirt and stayed alone without lighting the light. The silver moonlight fell into the window, her eyes flashed with the starlight, her fair cheeks were hazy, and her waist outlined a delicate curve in the night.
The Foreign House is just far away. Xu Buling has just left and doesn’t know how long it will take to come back.
Cui Xiaowan waited for a while and felt a little bored. She took off the pole from the window and went to the first floor of the inn. She asked the shop to send a few buckets of water and poured it into the wooden barrel behind the screen.
The mist of water evaporated from the wooden barrel. Cui Xiaowan took out the medicine prepared by Zhongli Jiujiu from her bag and poured it into the bathtub. The faint fragrance of medicine spread throughout the room.
The little sparrow stood on the screen and chirped twice, probably saying, "Old Xu is back soon, don't seduce others."
It’s a pity that Cui Xiaowan couldn’t understand the bird’s singing, so she unbuttoned the winter skirt on her body, exposed her light green bellyband and thin pants, and turned her head to look at the little sparrow for a few eyes:
"Are you going to soak together?"
The little sparrow obviously didn't want to be a soup bird, so she jumped a little far away, so she wouldn't be pulled by this silly woman to take a shower together.
Cui Xiaowan chuckled softly, untied the tether of her bellyband, exposed two white balls like upside down, hung the bellyband on the screen, then pulled down the white silk pants and stepped into the bathtub.
Crazy-
The sound of water splashes sounded from the room, accompanied by the woman's crisp humming:
"The wolf smoke and wind and sand mouth~ Please drink less~..."
After singing a few lines, a little noise came out in the night:
"There are assassins..."
“Where is it?”
...
Cui Xiaowan stopped humming and listened to it. It was the sound from the foreign museum. It seemed that there were soldiers wearing armor running by the street.
Soon, a slight squeak came from the room and someone came in.
Cui Xiaowan blinked and saw the little sparrow looking at her with gloating look, she knew Xu Buling was back and asked:
"Why are you back so soon?"
As he spoke, his body shrank a little into the water and raised his hand to get the bellyband on the screen.
Xu Buling turned down from above the eaves, opened the window and entered the room. As soon as he landed, he found some mist in the room, and the sound of water splashes came from behind the screen.
Xu Buling paused, thinking about whether to go out, Cui Xiaowan's voice came. He had to pull down the black veil on his face and said with a smile:
"The news has been released, so let's wait and see, well, I'll go out first..."
Before Xu Buling finished speaking, he saw the little sparrow standing on the screen, grabbing the tether of the bellyband with his claws and flew to this side.
The bellyband fabric is thin and not heavy, but the volume is a bit large compared to the little sparrow. It flies up and down and is slightly annoyed by Cui Xiaowan from behind:
"Hey? Yiyi, what are you doing!"
The little sparrow knew Xu Buling's "collection hobby". She hovered in front of Xu Buling, flapping her small wings, and rippled in her bellyband. She chirped twice, as if she was saying, "Take it and take it, don't thank me."
“…”
Xu Buling was a little funny and scolded: "Yiyi, don't mess around..." Then he took the bellyband and secretly kissed the little sparrow, with his eyes indicating, "Birds are so good."
Behind the screen, Cui Xiaowan's cheeks turned red, and she didn't know if it was a bath or something else. She shrank into the water and said with a crisp voice:
"I'm taking a shower, why don't you knock on the door when you come back?"
"Not noticed."
Xu Buling explained softly, but he didn't mean to go in and help rub his back. He sat down at the table and took off gloves, soft armor and so on.
These days, they have been traveling thousands of miles apart, and they have stayed in inns a lot. In the past, Xu Buling was waiting outside to take a shower, which is the first time in the house.
Seeing that Xu Buling didn't go out, Cui Xiaowan thought about it and didn't say much, and continued to scrub her body, but her movements were obviously much smaller, so she tried not to make any sound.
The room was very quiet, with a screen between the two of them, and there was no words, which made the atmosphere look a little weird.
Xu Buling peeled the little sparrow's seeds. After waiting for a while, a sensation of water came from behind the screen. The winter skirt on the screen was pulled down, and then Cui Xiaowan tied the strap around her waist and walked out from behind.
Just after leaving the bath, Cui Xiaowan's face was not flushed, with a bit of watery smell. While walking, she was not bound by a bellyband, and she trembled with a moving rhythm. She came to the front of the table and stretched out her palm towards the little sparrow, with a slightly fierce look:
"Give it back to me! Otherwise, I will eat the white-slashed bird tonight."
Yiyi, who was burying her head with melon seeds, was fearless and just pretended that she hadn't heard it.
Xu Buling naturally protected his shortcomings, picked up Yiyi and touched his head: "The bird is ignorant, so he is very skeptical with it."
Cui Xiaowan was not calculating with Xiaomao, so she just asked Xu Buling to ask her. Seeing that Xu Buling refused to give her, she stopped talking. She sat down next to the table, hooked her hair in her ears, and glanced at the bed inside:
"Will you leave the city tonight?"
"I shouldn't go out in the past two days, let's see what's going on."
"Just open a room, are you going to sleep on a stool or an aunt?
“…”
In the past, for safety and care, the two of them slept in the same room. Xu Buling slept on a stool, and Cui Xiaowan lay down.
During the day, Xiaowan was confessed to the fact that Xu Buling must have wanted to sleep in the bed now, but Xiaowan's body was still weak, and even if she could walk around, she could not withstand too much trouble.
Xu Buling hesitated for a moment and said with a smile: "You can rest with peace of mind, I can just sleep on a stool."
Cui Xiaowan glanced at Xu Buling, knew what Xu Buling was thinking, and hummed softly:
"My illness has not yet been cured. You can just hold me to sleep, just like holding my mother. It's not that. It's a man's family, and my aunt has to speak first."
Xu Buling spread his hands slightly: "Why do you always call yourself an aunt? It makes me look similar to the unconventional defeat..." He stood up as he spoke, his arms were bent with Cui Xiaowan's legs, and his other hand held his back and hugged him.
Cui Xiaowan seems to be born with not much emotion, only likes and dislikes. She refuses things she doesn’t like, and never hides things she likes, so everything is written on her face.
She leaned against Xu Buling's arm, her voice still had a little childishness:
"You are, I've seen it long ago."
"hehe……"
Xu Buling curled his lips and smiled, but did not forcefully explain. He left the bed and placed Cui Xiaowan inside the bed, covered it with a quilt, and then lay on the outside, and the little sparrow squatted between the cheeks of the two.
Ruddy—
Cui Xiaowan didn't have the habit of sleeping in a skirt. After lying in the quilt, she pulled the skirt out from under the quilt and handed it to Xu Buling.
“…”
Xu Buling blinked, took his skirt and placed it on the desk at the head of the bed, glanced at him with a slanted look, but unfortunately the quilt was covered tightly and could not see anything.
Cui Xiaowan was calmer than Xu Buling. After lying comfortably, she closed her eyes:
"You said yesterday that 'Wu Gang picked osmanthus and made mooncakes, and was stolen by Marshal Tianpeng', so continue to make it."
Xu Buling's heart was a little confused, and he thought about it:
"Well... can I talk to my conscience?"
"Well? You can do whatever you want. Anyway, you made it up. It's impossible to say it's true when you touch your conscience."
"good."
After a moment...
"Old Xu, what's the point of saying it when you touch your aunt's conscience?"
"Haha... That's right, Marshal Peng entered the Moon Palace at midnight..."
...
The night outside the window is silent, the lights are extinguished, the stars are getting stronger, and the moonlight is like water sprinkling between the Xiongcheng in Mobei. Before I know it, there are only two stable and peaceful breaths left...
Chapter completed!