Dai Yuxiao, who was immersed in loss, was bored in the lavender room, refusing to go out all day, feeling depressed.
Mu Lengrui had just returned to the Mu family's mansion and seemed to be busy with a lot of things. He had not been seen all day. But currently, all she was thinking about was Zhuang Yucen. The impact of Mu Lengrui's presence or absence on her mood did not seem to be that obvious.
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The sun had already illuminated the room, but she was still huddled in the quilt, curled up in a ball, staring at the lavender corner with her big, dull eyes.
"Ring, ring, ring -" the phone rang, and she curled up for a long time, not wanting to answer it, but the phone was still ringing relentlessly.
Stretching out her curled up body, she raised her upper body from the bed and reached for the mobile phone on the bedside table. Her dark eyes narrowed slightly, as if she was not used to such a bright environment.
His slender fingers trembled slightly as he fumbled around. It took him a while to hold the phone in his hand, and he pressed the answer button by feeling without looking.
"Hello? Who is there?" Dai Yuxiao asked lazily, his voice a little hoarse.
"Ah, Yuxiao, I'm your sister. What have you been busy with during this time? How long have you been away from home?" It was Dai Shuanglin. There was concern in her tone, but she didn't know how sincere it was.
"I... I've been very busy recently. I'll go home after a while..." Dai Yuxiao hesitated. He couldn't tell her that he was investigating the cause of her mother's death during this period. If they really knew, they didn't know how much arousal it would be.
The huge waves are coming.
"Oh, that's it... there's something big going on at home, can you come back today?" Dai Shuanglin asked, with a bit of urgency in his tone.
"What's the big deal? What's wrong with dad?" Dai Yuxiao straightened up from the bed and stared wide-eyed. What else could be big? She was very worried about her father's physical condition, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Could something really go wrong?
Already?
"No, dad is very good. It's a big deal for me... I'm pregnant. Last night, Yucen's parents called us to have dinner with our family and talk about the engagement..." Dai Shuanglin couldn't hide the joy in his voice, and also
There is a bit of shyness, I don't know if it is deliberately pretending.
It turned out that it was about their engagement. This Dai Shuanglin made a special call about this matter. It was obvious that he was deliberately irritating her.
And what can she say? No matter what, she is now Zhuang Yucen's fiancée. She, Dai Yuxiao, has become the sister-in-law of her former lover. It's really ridiculous to think about it.
"Oh... this is a happy event... but I'm not feeling well, so I won't go to the banquet. Please tell dad..." Dai Yuxiao tried his best to control his emotions and prevent this insidious woman from hearing anything strange.
"It's a pity that you can't come back... But it doesn't matter. I'll just tell my father..." Dai Shuanglin's purpose was to stimulate Dai Yuxiao. How could he really treat her as a family member so sincerely? If that was the case.
, even if you are not feeling well, you must not be absent.
Having achieved his goal, Dai Shuanglin exchanged a few words and hung up the phone, leaving Dai Yuxiao alone with the phone in distress. For a long time, tears burst out and blurred her eyes.
When it was time to eat, she couldn't eat anything. She plucked the rice in the bowl and thought about the scene where Zhuang Yucen's parents and the Dai family gathered around the table and talked about marriage happily, and she felt an inexplicable pain in her heart.
"Miss Dai, please eat a little. You haven't eaten much in the past two days...your body can't bear it..." Butler Yu kindly reminded her, picked up two pieces of beef with her chopsticks and put them in the bowl.
She didn't even remember that she hadn't eaten for two days. Although her heart felt empty and her stomach felt uncomfortable, it seemed to be filled with gas, making her internal organs swell and unable to hold any more things, whether it was water or water.
Or food.
"Butler Yu, I really can't eat..." Dai Yuxiao's throat was dry and painful. He licked his almost dry lips with no moisture, but found that there was not much moisture on the tip of his tongue, which could be enough to moisturize the dehydrated lips.
"The eldest young master has told me to take good care of you, otherwise, I, an old man, will be punished...you just eat a little?" Butler Yu made excuses. In the past, when he was punished, it might be true, but now it is definitely a prompt.
Dai Yuxiao’s excuse for eating.
"Punished? Hmm - then, okay..." Dai Yuxiao believed that with Mu Lengrui's temper, if his servants couldn't do what he ordered, they would definitely be punished. She reluctantly ate a few mouthfuls of rice and a piece of beef.
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As she picked up the second piece of beef, gas surged up in her stomach and poured directly into her mouth from the inside out, causing her to cough and almost vomit out the food she had just eaten.
Butler Yu hurriedly handed over a glass of water, and she took it and drank several large gulps before suppressing the gas.
But in her heart, she still felt depressed and uncomfortable. The gas wanted to burst out, but it was rushing around and could not find an outlet. It could only make her internal organs rotate back and forth, conflicting and stirring, making her unable to live in peace.
After finishing her meal, she returned to the lavender room, continued to cover her head with the quilt, curled up, and every detail of her and Zhuang Yucen kept flooding in her mind.
I remember that little boy pinched a few toffees in his hand and gave them all to her to comfort her not to cry, as crying would dilute the sweetness.
Thinking of the dangerous dam they walked through holding hands, thinking of the four-leaf clover Zhuang Yucen gave her, thinking of him using his body to warm her milk, thinking of so many little stars she folded for him and kept in small bottles in the apartment.
The more she thought about it, the tears welled up in her eyes, wetting the satin pillow, and her head began to burst with pain, which made her unable to breathe.
There was the sound of the door handle turning. After turning for a while, it did not open, and there was the sound of leaving footsteps.
Dai Yuxiao heard the sound, but didn't want to get up and continued to huddle in the quilt, her mind in confusion.
The man came back again, and there was the sound of a key turning in the keyhole, and the door opened. Dai Yuxiao heard him walk in, and sat by the bed, refusing to speak for a while.
Dai Yuxiao curled up in the quilt and lost his temper, but there was a clear cry in his voice: "Who? You are so rude, did I let you in? Get out!"
The man was motionless, and she felt a strong gaze coming through the quilt, which made her very uncomfortable.
She suddenly opened the quilt and shouted regardless of her image: "Did you hear that? Get out of here, you bastard!"
The man's cold lips were pursed tightly, and his big hand came over, as if with anger. He raised it into the air, but gently fell down, wiping the tears on her cheeks.
Who else could this person be? Of course it was Mu Lengrui. His eyes were deep and Dai Yuxiao's face was reflected in his eyes.
They hadn't seen each other for a few days, and this little woman had actually lost a lot of weight. She hadn't lost that much weight even though they had worked so hard in the mountains. But just a few days after she came back, she looked so haggard, which made him feel heartbroken.
"Baby, I have a way to help your mother avenge her injustice..." He said softly, taking this thin little woman into his arms.
Dai Yuxiao's mind was confused. She turned this sentence around in her mind several times before it gradually became clear. She widened her eyes: "Really? It turns out that you have been busy with this matter these past few days? What's so good about you?
way?"
Mu Lengrui deliberately didn't say anything, showing a mysterious look: "When I'm hungry, I can't think of anything. You have to eat with me, otherwise I won't be able to think of anything..."
"You are so shameless... disgusting..." Dai Yuxiao broke into tears and smiled for the first time in several days. This was clearly an excuse for this grown man to lure her to eat. Although it was a poor excuse, she had to obey and follow it.
Went down to eat with him.
When they arrived at the restaurant, Butler Yu and Wu Ma had prepared a table of sumptuous delicacies waiting for them. Mu Lengrui must have arranged it in advance, otherwise how could such a sumptuous meal be prepared in such a short period of time.
Although she felt slightly better after hearing Mu Lengrui say that there was a way to avenge her mother's injustice, her appetite was not yet worked up. She sipped a bowl of fish soup in small sips, then stopped using her chopsticks and started to daze.
"Baby, you know, my memory is worse when I'm half full..." Mu Lengrui personally served her a bowl of rice and placed it in front of her, with a half-smile on his lips.
"I...I'm really full..." Dai Yuxiao looked confused, looking at the rice and the table full of delicious food, but he couldn't even whet his appetite at all.
"You can eat a big fish weighing two kilograms in less than ten minutes. Now you have a small bowl of fish soup and you are telling me that you are full?" Of course Mu Lengrui didn't believe it, and he gestured with his hands, "The fish weighs two kilograms."
The approximate volume of.
"I... had a good appetite at that time..." Dai Yuxiao recalled that they were in the mountains at that time. Although it was difficult, they were very happy. Compared with the current situation, it was far different.
"Butler Yu, who cooked the food today? It tastes so bad!" Mu Lengrui's face was sinister, and his eyes were as cold as ice. He pulled out a square towel and wiped his cold lips, then coldly threw it aside.
"Young Master, it's..." Butler Yu glanced at Wu Ma, but didn't say anything, knowing that if he did, Wu Ma might be punished.
"Young Master, it's me..." Wu Ma didn't want to embarrass Butler Yu, so she stepped forward and admitted it.
"Take it out and feed it to the dog! Ask Miss Dai what she wants to eat and make it again... If she can't eat it... Don't do anything today, just try to make something she is willing to eat... Do you understand?" Mu Lengrui
Coldly, with lowered eyelids, his eyes only stopped at the bowls and chopsticks in front of him.
"Leng Rui, please... don't embarrass them, okay? I really can't eat..." Dai Yuxiao looked at him and repeated his old tricks, but this was her weakness. How could she bear to look at irrelevant people because of her?
be blamed.
"Why, didn't you hear what I just said clearly? Huh?" Mu Lengrui looked coldly at Wu Ma, who was rubbing her hands uneasily, and her tone began to show a bit of chill.
"Okay, okay, I'll get rid of these meals right now!" Wu Ma responded quickly. She knew the temper of this young master. How could she dare to disobey him and walk to the dining table to clear away the dishes?
"Stop...Mother Wu, I love to eat all of these, don't throw away any of them...Leng Rui, I will eat them now..." Dai Yuxiao waved his hand and glanced at the delicious food on the table, showing helplessness.
"Hmm - baby, you are so good. Come on, try a little bit of each dish..." Mu Lengrui smiled approvingly, showing his white teeth. He took a little bit of each dish and put it into Dai Yu.
On the plate in front of Xiao.
Dai Yuxiao tried each dish bit by bit. It was originally because she had no appetite and she ate one dish at a time. However, the more she ate, the more delicious it became. The delicious taste stimulated her taste buds and eliminated the discomfort in her stomach.
And empty.
Unknowingly, after eating a large bowl of rice and all the dishes that Mu Lengrui had given her, her mood became as happy as her appetite, and her pale face glowed with a smile, perhaps due to the heat of the food.
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Mu Lengrui looked at her with a smile. After watching her finish eating, he took out a square towel and wiped her mouth.
Seeing that she had regained her energy, he was secretly happy in his heart. Although it was a repeat of the same trick, it had unexpected results. He originally thought that Dai Yuxiao would just be forced to eat some food.
He didn't expect that this little woman would become happier as she ate, and all the gloom just now was gone. It seemed that this trick was just right.