boyutpedia Chapter 197: Plot (Part )
Chapter 197: Plot (Part )
"Aunt Liu! Please go to the kitchen and boil a bowl of brown sugar water for me!" Tao Yao shouted.
At this moment, Aunt Wang, who had been watching closely, immediately pulled Wang Tieniu out from beside her and whispered, "Here, your chance to show off has come. Whether you can become the owner of this shop in the future and whether our family can become rich depends on you, son."
Wang Tieniu's expression froze, and he asked blankly, "Mom, didn't you say that Miss Taoyao and I have feelings for each other and that's why you wanted us to get married? Why are you doing this for money?"
"Hey!" Aunt Wang tutted impatiently and pushed Wang Tieniu out. "You idiot, you know nothing. When the opportunity comes, you have to seize it. This is the only time I can help you. Go, give Miss Taoyao some brown sugar water!"
Aunt Wang's words were like a bolt from the blue that hit Wang Tieniu's already small brain, and immediately shocked him to the point of losing his mind and becoming even less smart. He walked into the kitchen in a daze, boiled a bowl of brown sugar water in a daze, then picked up the bowl of brown sugar water and walked towards Tao Yao's room in a daze.
As he was walking, Wang Tieniu suddenly felt a force on his shoulder, as if someone was pressing him down.
Wang Tieniu looked back and Chu Huanjun's stunningly beautiful face immediately came into view.
Wang Tieniu spent the first thirty years of his life in the melon fields and had never been exposed to the outside world. In his opinion, a beautiful woman like Tao Yao was already rare. Now, seeing Chu Huanjun's fairy-like appearance, he almost fainted.
Wang Tieniu raised his lips twitchingly, and said with a stuttering smile, "Uh... Miss... Miss, what can I do for you?"
Chu Huanjun's smile froze on his face. He pointed at the brown sugar water in Wang Tieniu's hand and said coldly, "Who are you giving this to?"
As soon as Chu Huanjun's voice came out, Wang Tieniu was shocked again - such a beautiful girl had such a low and magnetic voice, almost like a man.
The world is full of wonders, and he had stayed in the melon field for too long. At this moment, Wang Tieniu suddenly had an idea: he should not just guard the ancestral melon field at home, he should go out more often, see more, and broaden his horizons.
"This, this, this... this is for... Miss Taoyao..." Wang Tieniu replied stutteringly.
"For her?" Chu Huanjun frowned. "Is she feeling unwell?"
"Ah? I don't know either..." Wang Tieniu touched the back of his head.
Chu Huanjun hesitated for a moment and asked, "That's not right. You're not a servant of Huantao Pavilion?"
Wang Tieniu gave a simple, honest laugh: "Ah? Big sister, you're joking. I'm not from this shop. My mother just asked me to come here to help. My mother said that Miss Tao Yao wanted to marry me, so I came here today to get to know Miss Tao Yao and start by making friends..."
As soon as Wang Tieniu finished speaking, Chu Huanjun's expression suddenly changed. Without a word, he snatched the bowl of brown sugar water from Wang Tieniu's hand and hurried to Tao Yao's room before Wang Tieniu. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he turned around and gave Wang Tieniu a sharp look.
"A toad wants to eat swan flesh." Chu Huanjun said coldly.
Poor Wang Tieniu was a fool and didn't understand that Chu Huanjun was scolding him. He muttered, "What's this about a toad eating swan meat? Toads only eat fish and shrimp, how can a toad eat goose meat? It seems that I don't know enough about the outside world, hmm."
Chu Huanjun had a bad idea in his mind. He ran upstairs in a hurry and was about to push the door open when he heard a scream from inside.
Chu Huanjun kicked the door open quickly, only to see Tao Yao lying on the ground. She was holding a knife in her hand. The blade had cut her palm and she was bleeding profusely.
The east window of the room had been broken, and a pot of spider plant that had been placed on the window frame had fallen to the ground, soil and flower stems scattered everywhere. Clearly, there were traces of a struggle here, and then someone escaped through the window.
Chu Huanjun didn't have time to think about anything else. He quickly dropped the brown sugar water in his hand, ran to Tao Yao in two steps, and picked her up.
He checked her palm and found that the wound was shallow and only needed to be bandaged quickly to avoid any life-threatening consequences.
"Is there any gauze?" Chu Huanjun asked hurriedly.
Tao Yao shook her head, pointed at the wide-open window, and said anxiously, "I'm fine, don't worry about me for now. That person is suspicious, go after her."
"Do you have any gauze?!" Chu Huanjun raised his voice.
His words seemed to have magical power. Tao Yao really calmed down and obediently pointed to the cabinet on the east side of the room and said, "It's in the second drawer on the left."
"Sit still and don't move." Chu Huanjun picked up Tao Yao and put her on the bed. Then he went to the cabinet to find gauze and wound medicine, and came over to carefully apply the medicine to Tao Yao.
"hiss--"
When the cold ointment touched the wound, Tao Yao gasped in surprise at the sudden pain. It was strange; she hadn't felt any pain when the knife had first scratched her palm, but now, as Chu Huanjun was applying the ointment, the pain, which should have arrived sooner, finally arrived, flooding over her like a flood, nearly drowning her.
Perhaps it was because she was alone just now, not allowing herself time to feel pain. But now, with Chu Huanjun beside her, she vaguely remembered that she was injured.
"Does it hurt?" Chu Huanjun looked at her with concern, and tried to bandage her as gently as possible. "I'm sorry, I hurt you."
Tao Yao felt that his sorry was nonsensical and immediately laughed: "What are you saying sorry for? It wasn't you who hurt me. You bandaged me, and I should thank you."
"Thank you?" Chu Huanjun's expression changed, and he raised his eyebrows to look at her, "Don't thank me, what's the point of saying thank you between us..."
Just as he was speaking, Lu Che rushed in from outside. Seeing Chu Huanjun squatting beside the bed bandaging Tao Yao, he hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
"Just now, there was a girl standing at the door of the shop. I saw that she looked unwell and was about to faint, so I took her back to her room to rest. I didn't expect that I would let a wolf into the house."
Tao Yao shook her head and sighed, then continued, "She had a knife on her, intending to kill me. However, I saw that she wasn't very skilled with the knife, and didn't seem like someone who practiced martial arts. I guess someone hired her to kill me. We fought for a while, but she was no match for me, and desperate to save her life, she jumped out the window and escaped..."
Tao Yao turned her gaze towards the wide-open window and murmured, "Who could it be..."