Chapter 50: Helped Lu Xiaoxi Bite the Sugarcane Stalk

The sugarcane had buds at both ends, and she couldn’t bite through it!

There were still two segments in between, which definitely couldn’t be discarded.

She couldn’t bite through it, but beside her, someone was eating it heartily, sometimes sucking a mouthful when the juice was plentiful, and she could only watch enviously.

“Not eating anymore?”

“There are segments, I can’t bite through it…”

“Give it to me.” Li Mu extended his hands in front of her, “We can’t waste it.”

“Okay.” Lu Xiaoxi thought this guy would take it back to wash and continue eating, so she handed the sugarcane to him.

Li Mu chuckled, taking the sugarcane with one hand while the other slid over the back of Lu Xiaoxi’s hand.

Lu Xiaoxi wasn’t embarrassed.

Who needed two hands to take the sugarcane? When she saw Li Mu’s two hands reaching over, how could she not understand?

He definitely wanted to take advantage of her again.

These past few days had been non-stop.

No matter what she said, this guy Li Mu wouldn’t listen; with a face as thick as a city wall, he would take the opportunity to touch her little hand, just like in the afternoon, and again in the afternoon.

She simply ignored it; after all, a little hand touching didn’t matter. They used to hug each other all day when they were kids.

There were shallow bite marks on the sugarcane stalk, which Li Mu couldn’t see. He bit down on the budded segment and chewed the juice clean.

Lu Xiaoxi was dumbfounded.

Lu Xiaoxi brushed her teeth every morning and evening, her teeth were very white and neat, while Li Mu usually only brushed in the morning and occasionally at night if he didn’t have a midnight snack. Logically, Lu Xiaoxi’s teeth should be better than Li Mu’s.

But now the situation was completely the opposite.

But that wasn’t the main point.

“There’s my saliva on it!”

She had just held the sugarcane in her mouth!

“Oh, it’s not like I haven’t eaten it before, here.” Li Mu casually bit both ends of the sugarcane segment.

“……I find it disgusting, it’s about to make me vomit.” Lu Xiaoxi pretended to gag, covering her chest with her clothes.

“Then why not eat a new one?”

“I don’t want to, this one is almost finished.”

Lu Xiaoxi didn’t dare to look at him.

When biting the sugarcane, she resembled a little cat sniffing, with no taste at all.

It was just that there was Li Mu’s saliva on it, making it not very natural to eat.

In fact, when they were kids, they even shared an ice cream, and they had both consumed each other’s saliva…

With the sugarcane segments gone, only the sweetness remained.

As she ate towards the end, she didn’t care whether she could bite through the segments or not, and just handed it to Li Mu to help her bite.

“Uh-oh.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Only two segments are left.”

Li Mu raised the sugarcane in his hand; what was originally a bulging bag now only had a pile of scraps and two segments full of nodes.

They had eaten it all.

“My mom asked me to bring it to her, and now it’s gone.”

“Will Aunt Su scold you?”

“I’m grown up, she definitely won’t scold me, but she might nag a bit.”

“What to do then?”

“Hehe, just say you ate it.”

“……Are you itching for a beating?!” Lu Xiaoxi raised her small hand, bending her index and middle fingers to mimic crab claws.

Li Mu felt that this claw would appear at his waist in the next second to pinch him, and instinctively covered both sides.

“There’s a fruit stall ahead, let’s go check it out.”

“Oh right, I almost forgot, let’s go.”

Fortunately, there were mobile fruit vendors near the community, and Li Mu casually bought some to take back.

Of course, he didn’t forget to take the thermos he had left under the Go pavilion; if he lost it, he would definitely be skinned by Lu Xiaoxi.

Today, the community’s information team didn’t seem to have gathered for some reason.

There was a faint scent of osmanthus in the air, and a few osmanthus flowers fell onto Li Mu’s hair, which he reached up to brush off.

Li Mu also saw a bit of osmanthus on her head and reached out to her.

The girl thought someone was going to help her brush off the osmanthus, so she lowered her head to let him see better.

Then she felt a pain on her forehead.

Li Mu had no intention of helping her brush off the osmanthus.

“What time tomorrow should I give you the bowl?”

“Anytime is fine, just remember to wash it clean; if it’s dirty, don’t expect to eat.”

“Don’t forget your snacks.” Li Mu took out two bags of chips and his slippers from the snack bag.

He suddenly noticed that Lu Xiaoxi was wearing light red slippers, which matched his blue slippers as a couple’s color.

He watched Lu Xiaoxi take out her keys and open the door.

“Here, I don’t want this anymore.” Lu Xiaoxi left a small gap, took out a blueberry-flavored jelly, and handed it to him.

Before Li Mu could take the opportunity to touch her hand, Lu Xiaoxi closed the door.

He sighed in regret as he returned to his room.

His mom and dad were sitting on the sofa watching TV.

Hearing the door open, both of them turned their gazes towards him.

When he returned, the square dance on the playground was particularly quiet; it was already very late.

This trip had taken two hours.

Li Mu placed the thermos down and sat next to his dad, stretching his arms back over the sofa like a long-armed ape, “Why don’t you ask me why I came back so late?”

“Weren’t you playing downstairs with Lu Xiaoxi?”

“Mom, how did you know?”

“Aunt Qin told me, saying Lu Xiaoxi took the lunch box down to find you.”

Su Wen poked Li Mu’s forehead with her finger, saying irritably, “You brat, you dislike your mom’s cooking, huh? You even made Lu Xiaoxi specially bring you food.”

“Hehe, my taste has been spoiled by Lu Xiaoxi over there.”

“Lu Xiaoxi’s cooking is indeed delicious; Aunt Qin told me this meal was made by Lu Xiaoxi herself, and even the chili was put in less. She cares about you a lot, and look at you, not at all clever.”

“Who told you that? I just asked her to buy a bag of snacks.”

……

Li Mu finished washing up and returned to his room.

He opened a facial mask and began to apply it to his face according to the steps on the packaging.

His skin was naturally healthy and fair; he had been cooped up at home for the past few days, and when he went out, he hadn’t been sunburned, so the areas that had tanned from military training quickly returned to being fair.

At least the obvious black-and-white boundary lines on his hands, feet, and neck were gone.

Now he had gotten used to placing the little pig plush toy on his lap while sitting.

Just as he was about to open his computer to type, his phone received a WeChat message.

It was a ten-second voice message from Lu Xiaoxi.

【Little Pig Lu】: “Um, why does the computer have a password? What is the password? You didn’t tell me.”

Perhaps it was late at night, Lu Xiaoxi’s voice was much softer, sounding gentle, and he could vaguely hear the sound of keyboard typing and the meowing of Little Fei.

He could guess her approximate appearance; the girl was sitting at the computer desk, looking puzzled as she entered the password, while Little Fei sat on her lap, enjoying her gentle strokes.

Li Mu typed a reply:

【Idiot Li】: My birthday + the first six digits of the thing.

【Little Pig Lu】: “……This is my computer; you set a password without telling me.”

The girl’s tone was a bit spoiled.

【Idiot Li】: I forgot to mention it.

【Little Pig Lu】: “You even wrote my username as Little Pig Lu, just wait!”

【Idiot Li】: (funny) (funny)

After thinking for a moment, Li Mu chose the most suitable angle and took three selfies to send to Lu Xiaoxi.

【Idiot Li】: [image][image][image]

【Idiot Li】: Which one looks handsome?

【Little Pig Lu】: ……

【Little Pig Lu】: “Do you know you look very greasy?”

【Idiot Li】: (grinning) (grinning) (angry) (pig)

Lu Xiaoxi rubbed Little Fei’s head with one hand while playing with her phone with the other, opening each of the three pictures Li Mu sent and saving them by long-pressing the screen.

Li Mu looked silly while applying filters.

When she watched videos, she often saw some boys and girls using those filters.

Those effects could highlight a person’s features to a certain extent, creating a visual deception that made the user look beautiful.

And the pictures Li Mu sent were like that, except the filter had turned from an effect into the real thing.

Compared to the greasy effect, Li Mu’s filter looked much more natural, not greasy at all; instead, the filter covered most of his face, hiding the originally good-looking parts.

Lu Xiaoxi entered the computer password and used Li Mu’s account to find a funny variety show to watch.

After finishing an episode, it was already one in the morning. Lu Xiaoxi directly closed the computer and lay in bed with Little Fei, looking at her phone.

Li Mu had sent her a goodnight message at midnight.

“Meow? Meow!” Little Fei scratched Lu Xiaoxi’s face with its tail.

Why was the owner always smiling foolishly? Had she broken?

Under Little Fei’s puzzled gaze,

Lu Xiaoxi gently said to her phone,

“Goodnight.”

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