Because of her heartbeats, Yan Hui was dumbfounded for a long time.
But what was puzzling was that Yan Hui had already snapped out of her long spell of absent-mindedness, yet the youth was still blankly staring at her.
Yan Hui thought about it and was immediately filled with astonishment. Could it be......this boy was also touched by her?
But if she remembered correctly, earlier she was soaked, and then she rolled around in a hay pile. Who knew how sorry of a figure she was cutting. Would the young man really be moved by her?
Yan Hui secretly thought it was because her face was too entrancing.
However Yan Hui gradually realized something was wrong with the boy's eyes......
The light in his eyes was too intense. He stared at her like a hawk staring at a rabbit, like a hungry wolf staring at an easy prey, like a prisoner on death row staring at the key unlocking his cell.
"Hey." Yan Hui called out to him. It seemed like she woke him up from a dream. The young man blinked a few times, scattering the intense light. His eyes turned away, no longer meeting Yan Hui's gaze.
Yan Hui actually never looked away from him: "Are you that Old Lady Xiao's grandson?"
This young man looked at most 15 years old. He was slim. His complexion, whether it was because of sickness or malnourishment, was pale. His lips even had a blue tinge. He looked down and focused single-mindedly on the things in his hands. His calm look was completely different from before.
The youth ignored her. Minding his own business, he walked in holding some bowls in his hands. He knelt down in front of Yan Hui and placed three bowls one by one on the floor.
Yan Hui was confused. Wasn't Old Lady Xiao's grandson an idiot? But just earlier the light in the guy's eyes looked......
Why were there so many twists?
"Hey......" Yan Hui's voice just got out when the young man finished putting down the bowls and got up to leave.
Yan Hui blanked for an instant. Her gaze swept over the rice porridge, pickled vegetables, and mantou. She immediately panicked, forgetting everything else. She hurriedly yelled at the youth's back: "Wait, wait! That's it? I'm still tied up! You want me to put my face in it?"
Leaving after throwing the food there, did he think she was a pig?!
The youth's footsteps paused. He thought for a minute and then walked back. He knelt down in front of Yan Hui. Then he grabbed the bowl of rice porridge and placed it by Yan Hui's mouth. Yan Hui was starved; when the youth tipping the bowl, she gulped it clean. Then she rudely ordered: "Stuff the mantou with the pickled vegetables."
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Putting the empty bowls in the kitchen, the young man looked out the window at the bright moon in the sky. His expression was still a bit dull. His eyes seemed impenetrable to moonlight; they were like a hidden bottomless abyss where demons and beasts lived in purgatory.
He looked down at his thumb which was injured by Yan Hui's bite. Suddenly, he coldly laughed: "Leave? But you are my......"
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After the youth left, Yan Hui pondered upon this very enigmatic person, but right now she really didn't understand his circumstances. She really couldn't come up with anything. While mulling over it with no answers, she started to drift off. However, she didn't sleep well.
Right next to the woodshed in the hen house, the chickens started to crow at one o'clock in the morning, cock-o-doodle-dooing and clucking. It was so noisy Yan Hui was getting agitated and couldn't sleep.
It wasn't that Chen Xing Mountain didn't have chickens, but rather they could be counted as part celestial chickens. They were aware of their status and would only seldom cry out, not like these lousy chickens......
Yan Hui burrowed her head into the hay pile and covered it up, but the hay couldn't block out sound. She started to secretly hate the chickens. When the opportunity came, she would definitely stew that nest of chickens into soup!
After the sky lightened, the chickens didn't call out as much anymore. She went back to sleep but was once again woken up. This time by a withered, coarse hand touching her......
Yan Hui opened her eyes and saw a face full of wrinkles with muddy eyes. Its body was covered in an overwhelming scent of ash that almost choked Yan Hui. She shivered and retreated back: "Go away. I don't want to see you I don't want to see you."
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