Su Muqing followed Huo Qiyuan to the front hall with a worried expression. The little overlord was in a great mood, having already seated himself at the table, with a pile of lollipops in front of him, completely filling the entire Eight Immortals table.
The Eight Immortals table was quite wide. Huo Qiyuan sat on one side of the little overlord and pulled Su Muqing to sit on the other. Since they had agreed to eat together, there was no need to sit separately. Besides, Leng Ren and the others would be eating with them later anyway.
Looking at the brightly colored candy wrappers, Su Muqing's mind was filled with colorful images. Thinking that after the meal, she would have to enter the space and be "marinated" by Jiang Jiang, she suddenly found the little fatty's smile extremely glaring!
Su Muqing wished she could slap her own palms hard, telling herself: You hand was too nosy! Your eyes looked around too much, why did you provoke him when everything was fine! In the end, she was the one who had to suffer! It wasn't like she could ask the little overlord to accompany Huo Qiyuan for her "punishment," could she?
Perhaps it was the thought that had suddenly arisen, of letting the little overlord take her place to accept Huo Qiyuan's "punishment," or perhaps it was the images she had conjured in her mind that had shocked her.
Su Muqing suddenly let out a "Pfft~" and sprayed out all the tea she had just taken into her mouth and hadn't had time to swallow.
The little overlord opposite her was also quick to react. His attention was always on the pile of candies. Seeing Su Muqing spray tea at him, he instinctively reached out to protect the candies in his arms, and ended up getting sprayed in the face by the person opposite him.
Suddenly being sprayed in the face with tea, the little overlord was initially going to get angry. However, he looked down at the delicious food in his arms and suddenly felt a sense of guilt for accepting it.
What if he really cursed him out, and this kid made him return all this delicious food? Forget it! For the sake of these things, I'll tolerate him this time.
The little overlord quickly comforted himself, giving Su Muqing a half-hearted glare, then raised his sleeve to wipe the tea off his face, forcibly swallowing the urge to curse.
Crystal water droplets still clung to the corners of Su Muqing's lips, and her expression was a little embarrassed. She really didn't do it on purpose; it was just the image in her mind of Huo Qiyuan suppressing the little fatty... it was too terrifying.
She glanced subtly at Huo Qiyuan. He also glanced at her, then gave her a smile with an unreadable meaning. It was clearly the gentle smile of a handsome man, but Su Muqing could read a different flavor into it.
She also smiled at Huo Qiyuan, but this smile carried a bit more of a sweet burden. Now she had no mind to think about those impossible scenes anymore.
Whether it was the scene in her mind of Huo Qiyuan suppressing the little fatty, or the little fatty suppressing Huo Qiyuan, these scenes could not change what she had personally agreed to...
Thus, the entire hall was filled with a peculiar atmosphere. Thinking about the "punishment" she would face during the midday break, Su Muqing looked troubled, her mind still trying to come up with other ways to deal with it.
Huo Qiyuan brought his teacup to his lips. Seeing Su Muqing's vexed expression and her darting eyes, his mood was unusually cheerful, and a slight smile even lingered on his lips.
At least he could be sure of one thing: Su Muqing had no ulterior motives towards this little overlord. He could still gain some sweet advantage later, which made him feel wonderfully happy just thinking about it.
The little overlord didn't know what "price" Su Muqing would have to pay because of him and a pile of candy. Currently, his eyes were entirely focused on the delicious food in front of him, and the presence of others was almost like air to him.
Grandpa Gong and Brother Li, with bruised noses and broken teeth, were sitting at another table in the hall. They stared blankly at the little overlord, finding him unusually strange today.
Being sprayed in the face with tea like that, and the little overlord didn't even get angry! Was this still the little firecracker that exploded at the slightest provocation? Or had these outsiders given him some sort of mesmerizing drug?
The little overlord was unaware of others' thoughts. He asked the shopkeeper to find some hemp rope, then carefully tied the lollipops into a large string. Carrying them like this made them look more festive, and they were indeed quite heavy.
He had counted them roughly while stringing them, and there were over three hundred and thirty. The only drawback was that these things were a bit small.
In that short time, he had already eaten three, and the one in his mouth was almost finished. If he ate five a day, it would only last him a month or so.
The little overlord looked at the pile of candies and sighed silently in his heart. Alas! If only they were a bit bigger, then eating one would last longer, and perhaps it would be enough for him to eat for several days.
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and his gaze shifted to the cuff of the person sitting opposite him. Su Muqing was holding her face with both hands, thinking of ways to deal with Huo Qiyuan, and didn't notice that her cuff had slipped down, revealing her fair and tender wrist.
The little overlord felt that this young master's skin was exceptionally good, and he always felt that she looked more like a woman than the maids in his courtyard.
But what did it matter to him? What he wanted was food. Whether this person was male or female, or even neither, it had nothing to do with him!
He just wondered if this kid had any more on him? Maybe he should spend some more money and buy some more from him? Otherwise, they would leave after the meal, and if this stuff ran out, how would he find them?
The little overlord was lost in his thoughts, and as he thought, he discovered something was amiss. In fact, he had noticed it from the beginning, but at that time his attention was completely diverted by the pile of candies. Now that he thought about it, it felt even more wrong.
Strange! This person's arms look so thin, how could his sleeve pockets hold so much? Doesn't he feel the weight in his arms? Or is there something special inside his sleeves? He wondered if the things in his sleeves had all been taken out?
"What are you looking at?" The little overlord was staring at Su Muqing's wrist when a chilling voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
He turned to look at the white-haired man sitting beside him. Although his voice wasn't very loud, to the little overlord, it sounded exceptionally loud! He felt his eardrums vibrate, and a chill ran down his spine!
The little overlord rubbed his ear, feeling a buzzing sound echoing inside, making his speech a little stuttered. "N-nothing, nothing, nothing! I... I just wanted to see if all the things in her sleeves had been taken out. I was just curious why her sleeve pockets could hold so much."