Xiao Shan’s forehead bulged with blue veins, his eyes greedy and terrifying. His hand slid from her slender waist to her back, then down again, gripping the soft sleeping gown and bunching it into wrinkles.
Perhaps, possibly, or...
“Ah! It’s fine, I can feel it!”
Xue Niang’s soft gasp, her warm breath falling on Xiao Shan’s neck. She lifted her body, shifted her position, and casually pulled off the hairpin crown from Xiao Shan’s head.
Then, she became still.
The red candles were bright, the night-shining pearls were bright. Things she hadn’t had time to notice during the day, she saw now.
Her fingers dug into his thick, dark hair, and she saw that many silver strands were already mixed in.
“What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
The string in Xiao Shan’s mind was about to snap, but he suddenly felt her trembling body and her soft whimpers.
He quickly turned her head.
She was indeed crying.
“What is it?”
Xiao Shan went to wipe away her tears, but they only flowed more freely.
“Don’t cry, tell me, hmm? Xue Niang?”
Xue Niang rolled over and buried her face in the quilt, sobbing, “You wouldn’t move, you insisted I move, you must not love me anymore! Wuwuwu...”
“No, it’s not...”
Just as Xiao Shan was about to explain, he heard a heavy thud from outside, followed by a few groans.
Could it be Third Brother is back?
“I’ll go see, don’t cry, it’s not like that, you rest first.”
Xiao Shan covered her with the quilt, patted it, and left the bedroom.
In the courtyard, a dark figure was just getting up. It was indeed Third Brother.
Did he climb over the wall again? And it looked like he fell?
No way, could such a powerful expert fall while climbing a wall?
“Third Brother?”
“Mm.”
The dark figure responded and walked over slowly, but his voice didn’t sound right, it sounded very weak.
“What’s wrong, Third Brother, are you injured?”
Xiao Shan found it increasingly unbelievable. Who in this world could injure a god?
But looking at his gait, he seemed to be seriously injured, listless.
Why was he clutching his stomach?
Was he hit in the stomach?
After Xiao Shan went out, Xue Niang slowly got up. She wasn’t upset with him for not moving earlier, she was crying out of heartache.
She had been gone for three years, and he was barely thirty, how could so many white hairs have appeared?
His hair used to be so black and thick.
He must have been waiting for her with too much anxiety.
She had to nurse him back to health.
“Xue Niang, come out for a moment—”
Xiao Shan called her from outside.
Xue Niang was surprised. If it weren’t for something important, he wouldn’t have asked her to go out at this time.
Shaking her dizzy head, she tried to clear her mind. She quickly put on her cloak again and ran out.
“Third Brother, what are you doing?”
As soon as she entered the main hall, she saw Third Brother vomiting uncontrollably. There was already a pile of filth on the ground, and as he vomited, he glared fiercely at Xiao Shan.
Moreover, a ball of golden fire was gradually rising in his hand, about to strike Xiao Shan, who had his back to him.
Xiao Shan was holding a cup, unsure what for, completely unprepared. He turned around only when he heard Xue Niang’s shout and saw the flame in Third Brother’s hand.
Indeed, he was her own brother. Judging by the color and intensity of the flame, his power was far greater than Xue Niang’s.
But this was not the time for admiration. His appearance, as if he were about to devour him, clearly meant he intended to attack him!
“He harmed me, ugh—”
Ap Songshi’s vomiting couldn’t be stopped.
“What’s going on? Brother, what did you eat? Ah, right, could it be...” Xue Niang’s eyes widened.
Oh no, she seemed to have forgotten to remind Third Brother.
Xiao Shan saw that he was spitting out bile and there was no food left. He quickly pressed some acupoints on him, which finally stopped Ap Songshi’s vomiting.
“I observed that he seemed to be poisoned, so I pressed acupoints to induce vomiting. And this salt water, quickly have him drink it to clear his stomach.”
Xiao Shan handed him the cup of water.
Ap Songshi’s fierce expression softened, and the flame in his palm extinguished with a “poof.”
What acupoints? Did he mean he was helping him?
What kind of martial art was this? It was so powerful, he couldn’t control his body just now.
“It’s not poison, Third Brother probably ate meat, right?”
When she first arrived, she also couldn’t eat meat. The first time she ate meat, it almost cost her her life. After that, she never ate it again. Since her reincarnation, she had only slowly begun to be able to eat it.
“I ate, baozi, goose breast, chicken legs, mandarin fish, lion’s head, and, many more.”
Lion’s head, maybe even tiger’s head!
It must have been lion’s head!
“You’re really not afraid of death, eating so much at once. If it were your original form, you might have been able to handle it! Alas, thankfully it’s this mortal body. You can slowly nurse yourself back. You can eat meat, but you have to increase the amount little by little. You’ll get used to it.”
Ah, so it wasn’t poison. That was good. Such delicious food, she was really afraid she wouldn’t be able to eat it anymore.
Ap Songshi breathed a sigh of relief.
Xue Niang, however, looked at him sternly again: “Third Brother, Ashan won’t hurt you. If you dare to hurt him, I’ll hit you.”
Ap Songshi: “...Scaring me.”
It was indeed a scare, he just wanted to burn off his hair.
“Scaring me is not allowed either! You should go rest quickly, the room on the right has been tidied up.”
Xue Niang pulled Xiao Shan, “Let’s go, it’s nothing serious, as long as you vomit it all out.”
“Third Brother, rest well.”
Xiao Shan raised an eyebrow, the corners of his lips curled up, his eyes showing unconcealed pride. He smiled back at Ap Songshi.
Ap Songshi felt a little guilty.
This brother-in-law was quite good. He almost burned him just now, and he wasn’t angry, and he possessed peerless martial arts. He wasn’t as weak as he thought.
He would find him tomorrow to learn from him.
Just as Xiao Shan reached the doorway, he remembered something. “Xue Niang, you go in first, I’ll clean up the floor and check on Third Brother. He’s in an unfamiliar place, I don’t want him to be uncomfortable living here.”
“Ashan, you’re so good.”
Xue Niang kissed his cheek, “Then come back quickly.”
Her eyes were still a little red, but now she looked happy again. She really was a child at heart.
“Mm, get on the kang and warm yourself, no thinking nonsense.”
Xiao Shan went to Ap Songshi’s room again. He saw him sitting cross-legged on the bed, eyes closed, regulating his breath. A faint yellow halo surrounded him.
Was he cultivating?
He couldn’t be disturbed at this time, just like practicing martial arts.
Xiao Shan was about to retreat when he saw Ap Songshi had already opened his eyes, looking at him with a clear, questioning gaze.
“Third Brother.”
Xiao Shan called out to this young man who was clearly younger than him, without any discomfort.
“About that, I just wanted to ask, Xue Niang, that is A Yin, is her body completely healed?”
Ap Songshi nodded.
Xiao Shan was clearly excited: “Can she live to be a hundred years old?”
“Don’t know.”
The lifespan of people from Hailing Heaven was generally between one hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty years, but the climate in this world was different from Hailing Heaven, so it was unknown how long she could live.
Xiao Shan was slightly disappointed.
But then he thought, her body was fine, wouldn’t she live a long life? He would take good care of her. They would share a bed in life and a grave in death.