Chapter 60: The Me of Then is Not the Me of Now

The little sweet drama projected had erupted into a fierce argument between a man and a woman.

But the two adults did not take it to heart; only Xia Yuanyuan swung her little legs, happily watching.

Girls are not like boys; washing hair is relatively troublesome, especially in winter, when they wash it only once every five or six days.

On the other hand, Lu Xiaoxi’s shoulder-length short hair was much easier to wash, and she washed it more frequently; as long as it wasn’t just after getting up, Lu Xiaoxi’s hair was smooth and silky.

Li Mu saw the fallen hair stuck to her shoulder, reached out, and helped her take it down.

Perhaps because she hadn’t cut it for too long, her hair had already grown to the position of her shoulder blades.

A faint fragrance lingered at the tip of her nose.

Li Mu’s Adam’s apple rolled as he greedily absorbed this captivating scent.

It seemed that when he was with Lu Xiaoxi, he would unconsciously sniff the scent on her body.

To be honest, he really liked the scent of a certain girl.

Li Mu’s restless hand moved closer and finally, at a certain moment, rested on the little girl’s left shoulder.

Lu Xiaoxi felt the “pig’s trotter” on her shoulder and her body stiffened suddenly.

Could this be considered a “salty pig hand”?

But Li Mu had only placed his hand on her shoulder.

Seeing that he had no intention of withdrawing his hand, Lu Xiaoxi put down her chopsticks, pressed her thumb against her middle finger, and flicked Li Mu’s knuckle hard.

Li Mu only felt a pain in his middle knuckle, but it wasn’t that painful; Lu Xiaoxi’s strength was originally not great.

However, he understood what it meant and reluctantly withdrew his hand.

“How can you still have the nerve to put on that unhappy expression?” Lu Xiaoxi said fiercely, poking him in the waist with the end of her chopsticks.

Li Mu rubbed his leg, pinched his hand, and rested it on her shoulder.

Only she and Li Mu played more intimately, not bothering to hold it against him!

If it were any other girl, she would have been locked in a small dark room long ago.

“You used to hold my hand.”

“The me of then is not the me of now,” Lu Xiaoxi denied the embarrassing things she had done in the past with a single sentence.

If they really brought up what the two of them had done before, it would be a big deal.

When they were young, she had always stuck to Li Mu, wanting to be together for everything; when she saw Li Mu eating ice cream, she would go up and lick it a couple of times.

Doesn’t a beautiful girl understand the principle of not boasting about past bravery?!

“Hehe, actually, I don’t mind holding your hand now; it’s one yuan for an hour.”

“Okay, I’ll pay 24 yuan, and you can be my servant for a day.”

“I said holding hands, not selling myself.”

“Selling myself?…… I’m about to throw up from what I just ate.”

Lu Xiaoxi knew this guy was going to be thick-skinned.

Sometimes she would see some boys spending money to rent girlfriends to go shopping and hold hands; how come it was her turn to spend money to hold Li Mu’s hand?

But if it was only one yuan for an hour, it wasn’t impossible to consider.

Hmm, when they go to the vegetable market in the future, she could rent Li Mu’s two hands to carry things.

“Throwing up is good; anyway, I haven’t started eating yet; you can just watch me eat.”

Li Mu smiled and opened his lunch box.

The duck leg rice they ordered was in Li Mu’s lunch box, with a beautifully presented roasted duck leg lying intact.

“Why is mine different from yours?”

“I made a note; one duck leg doesn’t need to be cut.”

“Why didn’t you help me make a note?” Lu Xiaoxi pouted.

She had already eaten most of her roasted duck, but there was still half of the rice left.

Compared to Li Mu’s whole duck leg, the crayfish didn’t even taste good.

“You didn’t say.”

“I have no vegetables left.” Lu Xiaoxi pitifully showed him her rice.

“Isn’t there still meat?” Li Mu smiled and picked up a piece of the remaining duck leg, which still had a large piece of roasted duck skin attached.

“What are you doing?!”

“I thought you were reaching out to feed me.”

“……!” Lu Xiaoxi knew Li Mu was doing it on purpose; just as she was about to explode, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and her little cat tail that had stood up softened again, “Hey, you eat a piece, and I will eat a piece.”

“You don’t look that great, but your thoughts are quite beautiful; you must be thinking of ruining my roasted duck leg in one bite.”

He understood Lu Xiaoxi the best.

Of course, the previous sentence was said with a guilty conscience.

He had always thought Lu Xiaoxi was very pretty.

“Brother Mu, I can’t watch TV anymore.” Xia Yuanyuan pointed at the stuttering sweet drama on the wall and tugged at his clothes.

“Let me take a look.”

Li Mu nodded, squatting in front of the computer, and restarted the video software.

He didn’t know what bug had caused it; when he clicked on the sweet drama again, there was no playback progress recorded, so Li Mu could only adjust it segment by segment to the place he had just seen.

His peripheral vision could see Lu Xiaoxi’s every move.

Lu Xiaoxi was secretly eating his duck leg, using two fingers to grab the small leg bone, opening her mouth to take a bite.

She only took one bite, really just one bite, and then she devoured all the skin of the roasted duck leg.

“You ate all the essence of the roasted duck; what am I supposed to eat?” Li Mu said without turning around, speaking to himself.

It was fine that she ate his duck leg, but she even ate all the roasted duck skin; who was he supposed to complain to?

“Just eat it.” Lu Xiaoxi wasn’t afraid of him and took another bite.

“That’s enough.”

“Here, I’ll give it back to you.” Lu Xiaoxi’s eyes turned, and she handed the duck leg in her hand to Li Mu.

Li Mu didn’t mind and took a bite, getting some grease on his face.

“Yuan Yuan, look, sister is feeding a pig.”

“Is Brother Mu the pig raised by Sister Xiaoxi?” Xia Yuanyuan didn’t understand anything; she only knew that Sister Xiaoxi liked Brother Mu.

“Yes, yes, from now on, you can call him Pig Mu.”

Lu Xiaoxi amused herself, her laughter like a chirping bird, her brows filled with joy, and her face added two crescent-shaped smiles.

Li Mu:……

After watching TV for a while, Xia Yuanyuan yawned, said goodbye to the two adults, and went home.

They had been on the bus all morning, and after returning, they did housework; by now, both of them were a bit tired.

Especially Lu Xiaoxi, who originally had a habit of taking a nap; after eating, she quickly felt sleepy sitting on the sofa.

After Xia Yuanyuan left, she felt she couldn’t hold on any longer, washed her face, and groggily walked back to her room in her slippers.

When Li Mu also wanted to go back to rest, he found that the slippers had shrunk.

“……” Li Mu sighed; the two of them had such a big difference in shoe size and still managed to wear the wrong ones.

Li Mu suspected she did it on purpose, but he had no evidence.

Lu Xiaoxi’s feet were small, so wearing Li Mu’s slippers was naturally more than enough, but Li Mu couldn’t fit into Lu Xiaoxi’s shoes and could only tiptoe to walk.

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