Chapter 156: Even a Sick Silly Goose is Cute

Chen Lu frowned and placed his hand on his forehead.

It wasn’t his imagination, Liang Zhirou really had a fever.

Liang Zhirou didn’t seem too concerned, “It’s okay, let’s go buy groceries quickly. I’ll just go home and sleep tonight.”

She was willing to bet that if she went home now, Chen Lu would be too lazy to cook and just order takeout.

Seeing Chen Lu staring at her without moving, she hung her head and whispered like a child who had done something wrong, “Then… then I’ll go home and rest now.”

Chen Lu pinched the girl’s soft cheek, “Will you really rest at home?”

He couldn’t let her go home.

This silly goose wouldn’t rest properly. Chen Lu had a feeling she wouldn’t even let Xiao Xunfang know she had a fever.

If she went back, she would just continue doing whatever she was doing, and she wouldn’t let her mother notice.

“I’ll go to bed early.” Liang Zhirou said seriously.

“Then when it was raining and you were holding an umbrella waiting for me, did you catch a cold and get a fever?” Chen Lu continued to ask.

He had felt that Liang Zhirou’s temperature was slightly higher than his at the time. Since this silly goose usually had a slightly higher temperature than him, he hadn’t paid much attention.

Damn it, why didn’t I care?

He really wanted to slap himself.

“At the time… I felt a little bit.”

Liang Zhirou mumbled.

She didn’t dare say that she had caught a cold from going out in the rain and had been feeling unwell ever since.

Chen Lu used both his hands to pinch both sides of Liang Zhirou’s cheeks, “Your acting is better than mine.”

Come to think of it, she must have been pretending to be fine whenever she got sick as a child.

If he hadn’t accidentally touched her arm after coming out, Chen Lu wouldn’t have noticed. She really looked like she was perfectly fine.

“You’re under house arrest, Liang Zhirou.” Chen Lu suddenly said, “Either I take you to the hospital or you go upstairs to rest.”

Liang Zhirou unconsciously took two steps back, “I can’t explain it to my mom, and it’s not raining today…”

Chen Lu didn’t answer her, but directly dialed someone’s number.

“Hello, what’s up?”

A girl’s lazy voice came from the other end of the phone.

“A week of paid leave, do you want it?” Chen Lu got straight to the point.

“Tell me, how do you want me to help you.” Lin Miaomiao said without hesitation.

Chen Lu nodded in satisfaction, it was so efficient to communicate with smart people, “You suddenly have appendicitis and are hospitalized. Liang Zhirou will stay at the hospital to take care of you tonight, remember?”

“Are you kidding? You think you can get me to betray Zhirou to be your wingman with this little benefit? Do you know what kind of relationship Zhirou and I have?”

The tone on the other end of the phone became very serious, “She’s my only best friend! We met in our freshman year! She’s the best…”

“Plus seven days, but you can’t take them consecutively.”

“Hang up now, I have acute appendicitis.”

Lin Miaomiao hung up the phone after speaking.

After putting down his phone, Chen Lu couldn’t help but shrug at Liang Zhirou, then pointed to the entrance of the hallway.

When he saw Liang Zhirou’s dumbfounded expression after discovering that she had been betrayed by her best friend, he couldn’t hold back his laughter.

But he absolutely couldn’t laugh now. If he laughed now, this silly goose would definitely try to fool him again.

“I don’t want to go to the hospital…”

Liang Zhirou said a little shyly. She hated hospitals more than anything in the world.

Chen Lu walked over and took the girl’s hand, “Then you go upstairs and rest. With Lin Miaomiao as a cover, your mom won’t be too worried about you. Plus, you have your boyfriend taking care of you, isn’t that good?”

The girl looked at him nervously again, “I… I’m a patient now, you can’t bully me.”

“Didn’t I bully you when you slept here last night?”

Liang Zhirou finally felt relieved and lowered her eyelids as she climbed the stairs step by step. She didn’t know if it was because the temperature had risen again or because she had suddenly relaxed, but she felt weak and her eyelids were heavy.

It seemed like after Chen Lu said he would take care of her, all her years of experience in enduring colds and fevers had suddenly disappeared. She had completely become the kind of delicate and fragile girl who would fall with a single push.

She finally understood why people said that happiness could make you weak. When she didn’t have Chen Lu, she could still work part-time while having a fever. Now…

She just wanted to lie in Chen Lu’s arms and have a good sleep. It would be even better if she could be a little spoiled.

Back in the room, after urging Liang Zhirou to lie down, Chen Lu ran out to a nearby pharmacy, buying a thermometer and fever medicine.

Liang Zhirou buried her head in the blanket, shivering with cold, her whole body curled up in a ball. Her eyes were closed, and her breath was hot.

Half asleep, Chen Lu sat down beside her.

She vaguely remembered that Chen Lu had just gone out not long ago.

“Take your temperature. Didn’t you say there was spinach in the fridge? I’ll go make you some noodles,” Chen Lu said with a light smile. “I don’t even make noodles for Chen Mo when she begs me, you’re getting a special treat today.”

This silly goose definitely doesn’t like takeout, it’s pointless to ask.

Liang Zhirou emerged from the blanket, her hair a bit messy, but it couldn’t hide her cute and beautiful aura. She looked at Chen Lu with a faint smile, “Okay.”

After Chen Lu left, the girl closed her eyes again. She didn’t bother to check the time, she knew Chen Lu would remember it better than her.

Sure enough, the sound of chopping vegetables in the kitchen soon stopped, followed by hurried footsteps.

“Let me see how high your fever is.” Chen Lu said as he slowly rolled the mercury thermometer in his hand, looking for the angle where he could see the mercury.

He didn’t like using electronic ones, he didn’t trust them.

Actually, he didn’t really like using mercury ones either, they were too troublesome.

“How much?” Liang Zhirou asked softly. Maybe because she had been lying with her eyes closed for a while, her voice was even more drowsy than when she came downstairs.

“Thirty-eight point four.” Chen Lu carefully put away the thermometer, unable to resist pinching Liang Zhirou’s face. “Now I know why you’re so silly, you keep getting a fever and don’t rest, you’re burning your brains out!

Take your medicine quickly.”

“Cold.” The girl said pitifully after taking the medicine.

“I’ll hug you and you won’t be cold anymore.”

“Hmm…”

Liang Zhirou didn’t refuse, instead, she obediently made room for Chen Lu.

Chen Lu didn’t have the heart to mess around with a sick Liang Zhirou, so he honestly lay down beside her, pulled the blanket over them, and held her in his arms. This silly goose’s skin was even a bit hot, like a little heating pad.

The girl buried her face in his neck, actively hugging him tightly.

Her breath was also hotter than usual, occasionally brushing against Chen Lu’s skin, along with her soft hair, making his neck feel a bit itchy.

“Still cold?” Chen Lu asked softly.

Liang Zhirou smiled and snuggled closer to him, “No more.”

“Then let me hug you for a while, then I’ll go make you some food. Eat and then go to sleep.”

As Chen Lu spoke, he saw the girl’s upward curving lips and couldn’t help but ask, “No, Zhirou, why are you smiling like a fool when you’re sick?”

“I feel so happy.”

“Silly goose.” Chen Lu was speechless, this silly goose was too easily satisfied.

“My birthday is coming up.”

“I remember it better than you.”

Liang Zhirou hugged him even tighter, perhaps enjoying the privilege of being a patient, her actions were more intimate than usual. “There are less than thirteen months until my next birthday…”

By then, I’ll be twenty.

Chen Lu laughed and kissed the girl’s forehead, even her forehead was hot. “I remember that better than you too.”

Heh, I don’t know what this silly goose is hinting at.

After a while, noticing that Liang Zhirou had fallen asleep, Chen Lu carefully tried to get up.

He was about to get up and go to the kitchen when he realized that his arm was still being held by Liang Zhirou. The girl was hugging him like an octopus, one leg was even pressed against his legs, wrapping his whole body tightly.

Perhaps sensing that her “prey” was suddenly struggling, the sleeping octopus stretched out its tentacles and pulled him back, wrapping her whole body around him.

After being hugged like a stuffed bear by the girl, Chen Lu didn’t dare move, he stared blankly at the ceiling, blinking blankly.

He obviously hadn’t grasped the situation yet.

He felt a little unbelievable, there were still so many plans he hadn’t implemented.

The plan to sleep in the same bed with this silly goose was realized so easily?!

Just like that?

Report to the organization, I seem to have infiltrated the enemy’s ranks in a strange way…