Chapter 94

Striding into the kitchen where the roof had burned down in haste, Luo Huali heaved a sigh of relief. So many things had happened tonight, which made him very confused and upset.

Zixiu’s false pregnancy was a certainty, or the mere appeasing of his abdominal pain wouldn’t have prevented him from ‘miscarrying’. Actually, what Huali found hard to accept was that Zixiu was indeed a boy! How come a girl wore a man’s clothes? How come a girl put up with being so untidy and messy? Besides, Zixiu showed no sign of resisting when Lingxiao had tried to hug him. Most of all, he had Adam’s apple! What the hell? Sixteen years ago, Huali had seen in person that the newborn naked baby was a girl! How come Zixiu turned out to be a boy? ‘Maybe Master Yan and I are both wrong? No, it can’t be!’

“Senior Brother!” He came back to his senses when Lingxiao’s voice suddenly rang from behind.

Turning around, Luo Huali saw the two jealous men, who had been in the bedroom just now, standing by the door with a sullen look. Overwhelmed by a wave of restlessness again, he couldn’t help but frown while asking Lingxiao, “Is Zixiu asleep?”

“Not yet!” Lingxiao shook his head. From his stiff voice and expression, Huali could tell that he had just been scolded by someone, but didn’t dare to show his displeasure.

‘Needless to say, it must be because of Zixiu!’ Luo Huali thought, waiting for him to go on.

After hesitating for a while, Lingxiao continued, “Xiuxiu felt cold and he wanted to sleep on the warm brick bed!”

‘The warm brick bed?’ Luo Huali was a little surprised. As it was as warm as spring in the Valley of Fallen Blossom all year round, there was no need for brick beds. However, he had also seen brick beds and slept on them during his medical practice outside the valley in recent months. Huali was in a trance before the other two walked in, so he hadn’t checked the kitchen carefully. Scanning around in a hurry, he found the oven connected to the bed was under the wok. That was great! He could make the brick bed warm while cooking! He then answered, “I’m heating it up right now!”

“Liu Zixiu’s waiting for the meal!” Nangong Du suddenly chimed in.

“It will… Er…” Huali was about to say it would be ready soon when he suddenly found that there was no wood for cooking. ‘Heavens, seems I have to get some firewood first!’ Next, he thought of the cooking materials. He then immediately opened the only cupboard and urn in the kitchen. Unfortunately, there was neither raw cooking materials nor water. Having no choice, he had to go out to get some bushmeat back!

‘Should I go to cut the firewood or to get some game first?’ Huali was in a dilemma. If he was in charge of both, even if Zixiu waited until dawn, the meal might still not be ready!

Thinking of this, he shifted his gaze to Lingxiao and Nangong Du.

As the only son of Master Yan, Lingxiao was the apple of his mother’s eye. He had servants to help him in his daily necessities, so he had never done the rough works, such as chopping firewood and hunting! As for Nangong Du, housework was out of the question.

“Senior Brother, you go on cooking. Just leave it to me to heat up the brick bed!” Seeing Huali in a daze, Lingxiao offered to help while snorting contemptuously at Nangong Du. Like his senior brother, he also thought that Nangong Du knew nothing about housework. Though he himself had never heated up a brick bed, he once saw people do it at least. He bet Nangong Du had never been in the kitchen and didn’t even know what the stove looked like!

It would be nice to have someone help him, but when Luo Huali saw the smug, arrogant look on his junior brother’s face, he felt not assured, so he reminded, “Lingxiao, there’s no firewood in the house. Please find some dry wood outside, or you may check if there’s any woodshed in the yard.”

“Humph!” Hearing that, Nangong Du snorted at Lingxiao in return and walked out of the kitchen. As Lingxiao and Huali expected, he didn’t know how to do housework and had never been in the kitchen. Princes had many servants and they never had to worry about food and clothing, so he had never done any household chores. As far as he was concerned, cooking, making a fire, cutting wood were all servants’ jobs. There was no way he would do such a job for Liu Zixiu! Only those two stupid guys in the kitchen would be willing to serve Liu Zixiu just because he praised them as nice guys, which was ridiculous!

Huali and Lingxiao walked out of the house and set out their work accordingly. Pacing around the house, Lingxiao saw a woodshed, which fortunately hadn’t been destroyed by the fire. On his way back to the house with a bunch of dry wood in his arms, Lingxiao glanced into Zixiu’s bedroom from time to time to prevent Nangong Du from swooping in. At the thought of what had happened in the room, he couldn’t hold back his anger and hated that shameless asshole even more!

It turned out that Zixiu gobbled up the powder of the osmanthus cakes soon after Luo Huali left the room. As he had some food in his stomach, his physical senses gradually returned to normal, and he felt chilly under the quilt, which made him can’t help but tremble. Seeing that, Lingxiao asked with concern, “Xiuxiu, do you feel cold?”

“Hm!” Zixiu curved up with a nod.

As he couldn’t bear to see Zixiu suffer, Lingxiao blurted out without a second thought, “Let me warm up the bed for you!”

“Er…” Zixiu froze on the spot in an instant. ‘Did this damned quack make a deliberate excuse to approach me?’ he wondered. However, when he saw the serious look on Lingxiao’s face, he felt ashamed to curse him, so he only shook his head slightly. “I don’t think this is necessary!”

“Then let me warm your feet up!” Lingxiao didn’t want to give up and with that, he was about to lift the quilt.

Actually, he just didn’t want Zixiu to get cold. However, to his surprise, Nangong Du, who had been standing behind him, suddenly blurted out, “Drop the act! You must be trying to molest Liu Zixiu!”

Hearing that, Lingxiao immediately shot back. The two were argued so fiercely that Zixiu couldn’t help but roar angrily, “I want someone to heat up the brick bed! Get out! Both of you!”