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Chapter 133: Weak Legs

Lu Xiaoxi returned home, changed into slippers, and turned on the water heater.

The baking tray had already been cleaned and was placed on the coffee table.

“I didn’t expect it, you’re quite diligent,” Lu Xiaoxi nodded. Although it was only noon and it wasn’t needed yet, seeing Li Mu’s eager expression as if he wanted to be praised for doing good deeds, she decided to compliment him.

“It’s a must, I’ve been diligent since I was little.”

“Then you wash the meat, and I’ll prepare the marinade. You need to cut it thin, okay?”

“Don’t you massage first before cutting?”

“I never said to let you massage; that was your own misunderstanding.” After saying this, Lu Xiaoxi hummed a little tune and went into the kitchen.

The baking tray was bought to be used many times; if it was only used once and left to dry, why not just eat at a restaurant?

“I’ll do it, I’ll do it. Aren’t your feet hurting? Go rest.”

“Hehe, can you do it?”

“Mixing some seasoning and cutting meat, is that too much? Then I’d be useless.” Li Mu patted his chest, feeling quite confident.

He was not the same as before; after Chef Lu’s teaching, mixing seasonings and cutting meat was as easy as pie for him.

Rolling up his sleeves, Li Mu began to busy himself in the kitchen.

He really looked a bit like a busy little chef now; no, it should be a busy little chef boy.

Those who often wash vegetables know that the water from the faucet splashes easily when it hits the vegetables.

“You’ll end up soaked like that.” Lu Xiaoxi grabbed an apron from the side and put it over Li Mu’s head, wrapping her arms around his waist to help him tie it.

“Your chest touched me.” Li Mu straightened his back, suddenly becoming gentlemanly.

Lu Xiaoxi, who had already taken off her coat upon returning home, had a slightly undulating chest that took shape, and when she tied the apron for Li Mu, she accidentally pressed against him.

Feeling a wave of shyness, Lu Xiaoxi gritted her teeth, protected her chest, and kicked Li Mu’s butt. Li Mu was still holding a dangerous kitchen knife, and her kick barely had any force.

Lu Xiaoxi ignored him, angrily sitting on the sofa, crossing her legs and playing mobile games, turning the volume up to the maximum. This was the only way she could think of to get back at Li Mu.

“You bought candied hawthorns, right? Hurry up, I want to eat them now.”

“Come get them yourself!”

“My hands are wet; you feed me.”

“……” Lu Xiaoxi hummed in dissatisfaction, holding the candied hawthorn as she walked into the kitchen, handing it to Li Mu’s mouth while blocking his chin with her hand to prevent the sugar from falling to the ground.

She liked to suck on the outer sugar coating of the candied hawthorn first, and only then would she eat the hawthorn bit by bit, while Li Mu would eat it all in one bite, sugar and hawthorn together, sometimes not even spitting out the seeds.

When they were kids, Li Mu often bought candied hawthorns, and she would snatch them from him. If Li Mu didn’t give her any, she would cry, and every time she did that, he would reluctantly give her one.

To make it last longer, she would suck off the outer sugar coating first, eating the hawthorn bit by bit, while Li Mu could only hold the candied hawthorn and feed her.

Li Mu took a big bite of a whole hawthorn, chewed up and down, closed his eyes, frowned, and pondered for a moment, finally spitting out two hawthorn seeds onto Lu Xiaoxi’s hand, “Sweet!”

“Why are you suddenly so loud?”

“Too sweet, give me another one.”

“Eat, eat, eat, really.”

Lu Xiaoxi obtained the item [Li Mu’s Spit Out Hawthorn Seeds] *4

Lu Xiaoxi threw away the hawthorn seeds, with some leftover sugar in her palm, she walked behind Li Mu and secretly licked it off.

“Stealing my candied hawthorn, huh!” Li Mu seemed to have anticipated this and suddenly turned around.

“I didn’t eat it; there are still two left, right?” Lu Xiaoxi felt guilty, wondering how Li Mu knew.

“Really didn’t eat?”

“No… wait, I bought it, so what if I eat it?” After saying this, Lu Xiaoxi was still unconvinced, sticking out her little tongue to lick the remaining two candied hawthorns all over, trying to gross Li Mu out.

“Uh, I never said you couldn’t eat.” Li Mu stopped what he was doing and walked in front of Lu Xiaoxi, his hands oily, but that didn’t stop him from squeezing closer to her, “You eat the sugar coating, and I’ll eat the hawthorn, just like I eat the fish head and leave the fish body for you.”

“Don’t give me that! You clearly used to snatch the fish body from me, and when I finally got some fish roe, you wanted to take that too! Besides, hawthorn is definitely more expensive than sugar.”

“Uh, hehe, then I’ll eat the sugar, and you eat the hawthorn.”

“No way, that’s all your saliva; I want to eat the sugar.”

“Then wouldn’t that be all your saliva?”

“You can’t dislike my saliva; if you don’t eat, you’re doomed.”

“Isn’t that double standards?”

“Double standards are double standards; you can eat or not eat. If you don’t eat, I’ll eat it all myself.”

Lu Xiaoxi pouted; as long as Li Mu dared to say no, she would immediately go back to the sofa and decide not to speak to him for the next ten minutes.

“Eat, eat, eat, finish eating so we can cut the meat, and after cutting the meat, I’ll help you massage.”

“You’re quite sensible.” Lu Xiaoxi was satisfied and rubbed Li Mu’s head.

She only licked the sugar coating a little to taste the sweetness; if she really ate all the sugar coating, wouldn’t the candied hawthorn just be a hawthorn? What’s so delicious about a hawthorn without the sugar?

After explaining how to prepare the marinade to Li Mu and reminding him of the next steps, she went to her room to get a set of clean pajamas.

Since she had no classes in the afternoon and tomorrow was the weekend, she might as well wash up early.

She planned to use the afternoon to finish the remaining part of the group project with Li Mu and then take a long nap.

Their group was already quite fast; when chatting with Liu Qiaoqiao, she had asked, and many groups hadn’t even started, or if they had, they got stuck halfway.

Some groups were even seeking help from others, looking for external assistance.

Her and Li Mu’s group was great; they knew each other well, didn’t need to divide missions, didn’t need to arrange anything, just did what they wanted, complementing each other. This was the benefit of being childhood friends.

After taking a shower, feeling warm all over, considering she would take a nap later, she didn’t wash her hair today.

Li Mu had already finished cutting the meat; the fish fillets had been processed by the store when he bought them. Now he was relaxed, washed his hands, tied on the apron, and just happened to see Lu Xiaoxi open the bathroom door.

Boys look the best after a shower, and girls do too. Lu Xiaoxi, just out of the shower, had skin like white jade, delicate and dripping, and the slightly open collar of her pajamas was even more tempting.

“Taking a shower in broad daylight? Just in time for me to take a whiff.” Li Mu couldn’t resist the unintentional temptation from his childhood friend, his heart racing, wanting to hug Lu Xiaoxi and kiss her a few times.

“Take a whiff? What do you mean?”

“Sniffing a cat, how you sniffed Little Fei, I’ll sniff you the same way.”

Li Mu hugged Lu Xiaoxi at the bathroom door, breathing deeply on her fair neck and fragrant shoulders, greedily taking in the scent she emitted, and after finishing, he rubbed his face against hers.

Lu Xiaoxi supported herself with her hands in front of her chest, feeling tickled by the air Li Mu exhaled. After just taking a hot shower, her already rosy face turned even redder.

She couldn’t dare to tell Li Mu that when she sniffed Little Fei, she did it all over, especially around the chest and abdomen.

Suddenly, a scene appeared in her mind—

Li Mu, with his hands on his face, like he was sniffing a cat, sniffed from top to bottom, from neck to collarbone, from collarbone to chest and abdomen… sniffing all over…

No way! Even through clothes, that’s not okay!

If Li Mu were to sniff her like that, she would definitely faint!

“Hiss! Wuhu, don’t pinch, don’t pinch!” Li Mu was immersed in the pleasure of sniffing his little childhood friend when suddenly he felt a tightness around his waist, startling him nearly to jump up.

“Let you sniff, let you sniff, still want to sniff?” Lu Xiaoxi blinked her eyes faster than before.

“Not sniffing, not sniffing!”

“Then you won’t sniff anymore in the future?”

“Right, right… no, no! Not sniffing now, not sniffing now!” Li Mu’s face twisted.

This time, Lu Xiaoxi was serious.

“You better not.” Only then did Lu Xiaoxi let him go, crossing her arms and lowering her head as she slipped past Li Mu, running back to her room in a huff.

It’s not like she was forbidding Li Mu from sniffing.

It’s just that, just sniffing shouldn’t take so long.

It would make her legs weak…

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