Chapter 173 Contrast
Pot after pot of hot water is poured into the bathtub. Although the weather has gradually become colder, human wisdom cannot stand. With some tools, you can resist the cold and maintain the temperature.
Bi Yuntao ran up to Xue Ruyue and said, "Sister Xue, the hot water is ready. Come over and see if the water temperature is right."
"Ha!" Xue Ruyue yawned, rubbed her sleepy eyes, walked to the tub, opened the lid on the tub, and felt a stream of steaming hot air rushing towards her face. Carefully, he stretched out his fingers to taste the water temperature.
"Ah! It's so hot!" Xue Ruyue exclaimed and quickly retracted her fingers.
"Sister Xue, you're not burned, are you?" Bi Yuntao heard Xue Ruyue's scream, and without thinking, he grabbed her finger and held it in his mouth.
"Let go!" Xue Ruyue didn't accept his kindness at all. She retracted her fingers angrily, grabbed his ears, and said in a hateful voice, "Bi Yuntao! Are you scalding a pig?"
"Ouch! You have something to say!" Bi Yuntao grinned in pain, lowered his body and begged for mercy, "Aren't I afraid that you will get cold? I know you girls like the bath water to be warmer, so I set the temperature It’s a little higher!”
"A little too high? You call this too high?" Xue Ruyue grabbed his hand angrily and stretched it into the hot water.
"Hot, hot, hot!" Bi Yuntao's fingers were unbearable from the steam before he even touched the hot water, and he shouted loudly.
"You know it's hot, why don't you hurry up and get some cold water?" Xue Ruyue heard his screams, threw away his hand, and glared at him with a raised eyebrow.
Bi Yuntao pouted and walked to the river aggrievedly to get some cold water to adjust the water temperature for Xueru Yue.
"Sister Xue, can you see if the water temperature is suitable now?"
Xue Ruyue stretched out her hand to test the temperature of the water. It still felt very hot, but not to the unacceptable level just now. "You go away! This lady is going to change clothes and take a shower. Remember what you just said! No peeking!"
"Oh!" Bi Yuntao responded, walked to the bonfire and continued to boil hot water for Xue Ruyue.
Listening to the sound of thin ropes coming from behind the boulder, Bi Yuntao's heart felt as if there were countless ants gnawing at it, scratching his back uncomfortably, wishing he could feast his eyes on it now and in the past.
But thinking of Xue Ruyue's fierce and unruly appearance now, all the thoughts that arose disappeared. She stared at the fire in a daze and sighed uncomfortably.
"Sister Xue! Let's talk!" Bi Yuntao said quietly, "We have known each other for a while, but we have never talked calmly! You are crying every time, especially this time we are in such a deep mountain. Lao Linli, you cry a lot!"
"Humph!" Soaking in the hot water, Xue Ruyue felt that the fatigue all over her body disappeared, and the complicated mood in her heart also improved. "You have the nerve to say that? If you weren't always eyeing my body, do you think I would be like this?"
"Sister Xue, you have changed. You were obviously not like this before!"
"Then what was I like before? It's like you know what I was like before."
"Obviously you used to be gentle, well-informed, and sensible. You were not as unruly as you are now. Now you are unruly and willful, and unreasonable!" Bi Yuntao said cautiously, still feeling a little uneasy.
"Sister Xue, aren't you angry?" He sighed quietly after not hearing her voice for a long time, feeling very depressed.
"I'm not angry! How could I be angry?" Xue Ruyuepi said with a smile, "You are the majestic King of Qi, and this little girl is the daughter of a lowly merchant. How can I have the guts to be angry with you? Huh? Even if I borrow ten thousand courages from a little girl, the little girl wouldn’t dare!"
Listening to Xue Ruyue's strange aura, Bi Yuntao's breath froze, and he was really angry! Women are such strange creatures, and their thoughts always have to be guessed at. No matter whether you guess right or wrong, you will be angry, but the latter situation is more serious than the former.
"Hey!" Bi Yuntao sighed, "I seem to have said something I shouldn't have said, and made you angry again!"
"No! The little girl is not angry! You are right! I am indeed unruly, willful and unreasonable!" Xue Ruyue rested her head on the edge of the tub, raising her head and looking at the bright moonlight with melancholy eyes.
"Pfft!" Bi Yuntao wanted to spit out a mouthful of old blood to make her chest feel better. She also said that she was not angry. She could feel the overwhelming resentment in her heart through the boulders.
"Sister Xue, don't be like this. Let's talk calmly while there is no one with evil intentions here." Bi Yuntao saw her angry and knew that the atmosphere was no longer suitable for talking, but he really couldn't suppress the impulse in his heart. I really want to spit it out.
Xue Ruyue said with a fake smile: "King Qi really loves to joke, how can you say that there are no people with evil intentions here? There is obviously a person here who has evil intentions towards the little girl!"
"Even now, he is still eager to spy on the little girl bathing, and even sleeps without forgetting to spy on the frivolous little girl!"
Hearing Xue Ruyue's strange words, Bi Yuntao, who was holding a wooden basin full of hot water, stopped in his feet. Not only did he lose the idea of talking, but he also lost the thought of peeping. He put down the wooden basin in frustration. He sat down on the ground and leaned against the boulder and said solemnly: "Stop pushing against me! I know you are resentful of me, so I said we have to talk. I want to take the opportunity to relieve the tension in our hearts. Misunderstand."
Xue Ruyue heard his serious tone and was silent for a while before she said, "Okay, let's talk! What do you want to talk about?"
"It's the same problem as before." Bi Yuntao looked up at the moonlight and said faintly, "Obviously you are not so unruly, why have you become so unruly now!"
"You have the nerve to ask?!" When Xue Ruyue heard that he still clung to this question, she became angry and said in a hateful voice, "It's not all because of you!"
"What does it have to do with me?" Bi Yuntao was confused. He didn't understand what her becoming like this had to do with him.
"How come it has nothing to do with you?" Xue Ruyue felt itching with hatred when she thought about it. "If it weren't for you, how could I have been so interested in the imperial concubine? She always wanted to get me to marry you. It must be you and the emperor. What did the imperial concubine say!"
"Is it because of this?" Bi Yuntao was still puzzled, "Didn't you clearly reject the proposal of the queen and mother-in-law? I still can't figure out why you are like this? There must be some other reason!"
"This is indeed just one aspect!" Xue Ruyue didn't expect this excuse to scare him. After a moment of hesitation, she opened the conversation and told the real reason, "Since you asked the question sincerely, then I will make a big fuss about it." I tell you compassionately! In order not to be entangled by you anymore, in order to make you give up the idea of marrying me, I had to do something that disgusted you! Apart from these, there is also..."
"What else?" Listening to these explanations, Bi Yuntao felt his chest tightening, and he had the urge to cry. He stopped talking halfway through what she said, opened his mouth with trembling lips, and asked anyway.
"nothing!"
"Oh!" Bi Yuntao responded in a depressed mood, raising his head and pillowing it on the stone to prevent the tears in his eyes from flowing down. Disliked! Is this the feeling of falling out of love? But it’s okay! still have a chance! At least he wasn't given a good guy card!
At this time, Xue Ruyue's face was red, and she didn't know whether it was from soaking in hot water or from being shy because she expressed her true feelings.
He changed his position in the bathtub and faced the boulder, as if he could see the expression on his face through the stone.
He took a silent breath at the boulder. fool! Didn't you realize that I did this on purpose? Of course I know what you are thinking, but now my heart is so messed up by you and so irritated that I don't know how to face you.
"Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!!! Bi Yuntao!!!"
"Ah? What's wrong?" Bi Yuntao asked subconsciously, hearing Xue Ruyue urgently calling for him to recover from the pain.
"The water is a little cold! Why don't you heat up the water for me quickly!"
"Oh!" Bi Yuntao promised to stand up from the ground, but his whole body was weak and his legs were weak. He quickly tried to hold on to the stone to keep his balance, but his movements were still slow and he stumbled to the ground.
"Bang!" "Ah!"
"Bi Yuntao, what's wrong with you?" Hearing Bi Yuntao's cry of pain, Xue Ruyue was anxious and wanted to come over to see his condition, but as soon as she stood up, she felt cold all over her body. Then she remembered that she was naked and quickly sat back down. When he got into the water, he asked anxiously.
"It's okay! It's just a fall!" Bi Yuntao wiped the water stains on his face and sat on the ground looking at the soaked clothes. It was really unlucky for him to drink cold water and his teeth were blocked.
He smiled bitterly and said to Xue Ruyue, "Sister Xue! There is no hot water now! I'm afraid you can't take a hot bath!"
"Why is there no hot water? Didn't you already boil hot water?"
"I...I just fell down and spilled the water!" Bi Yuntao twisted his soaked clothes and explained helplessly, "I'm going to boil water for you now."
"No need! If you boil water now, the bath water will be cold already!" Xue Ruyue found out what happened and complained to him, "Why don't you hurry up and bring the towel? Do you still want me to soak in this cold water? Can’t catch it?”
"Oh! I'll give it to you right now!" Bi Yuntao took out the towel from the storage ring, supported the boulder and backed away bit by bit, stretching back the hand holding the towel.
Xue Ruyue sat in the bathtub with a red face. When she saw Bi Yuntao approaching, she subconsciously shrank up and covered her chest. However, when she saw that he didn't think what she thought, he looked lewd. He looked like he was taking the opportunity to take advantage of himself. He was so surprised that he couldn't help but marvel.
"Here you go!" Bi Yuntao touched the side of the tub. He didn't see her taking the towel he handed over, and called her out.
"Oh!" Xue Ruyue looked at him in surprise, reached out to take the towel, and said to him shyly, "You can go away! I...I want to get dressed!"
"oh!"
"Wait a minute!" Seeing how well-behaved he was, I always felt that he had bad intentions, so I quickly called him.
"Is there anything else?" Bi Yuntao asked calmly.
"You stand here like this! Don't look back without my permission!" Xue Ruyue wiped her body while nervously vigilant. Until she was fully dressed, she didn't find any sign of him turning around to peek. I felt relieved. But seeing him obeying her words, she couldn't help but feel a little resentful towards him, and her heart was filled with a lot of loss.
Bi Yuntaoyan followed the advice and did not look back to peek at her changing clothes. Hearing the sound of thin ropes behind him, there was no wave in his heart.
Looking at the blazing bonfire with sad eyes, his heart, which had been agitated by Xue Ruyue's previous words, calmed down a lot unconsciously. Now he just wanted to be alone quietly for a while.
