"What are these people up to? I'm still investigating."
I lowered my voice, sounding extremely serious to make them take notice, "There are all sorts of people in a big forest, and lately, it's a troublesome time. Please try to stay indoors as much as possible and don't accept anything from anyone, understand?"
"Understood, understood. I won't go out these next few days, that way I won't receive anything from anyone." Chen Shufen looked at me with a worried expression, squeezed my hand, and joked,
"If people didn't know better, they'd think the child in my belly is yours. You're more anxious than your boss, even sweating on your forehead."
She reached out to wipe the sweat off my forehead.
I felt rather vulnerable and leaned my forehead into Chen Shufen's embrace for a moment, "Not to mention, that child is in your womb because of the sachet I gave you, I have watched them grow little by little inside your belly, and I will see them born into the world."
"Your child, you need to protect him too." Chen Shufen said reassuringly, patting my head.
After leaving Chen Shufen's room, I handed over the money Hu Jiao gave me to Beichen, "Donate this for me."
"Yes." Beichen said.
I was doomed to sleep poorly tonight.
Due to the strong Demon Qi, I woke up several times at night.
When I got up swollen in the morning and saw Xiao Li, I realized mine was nothing serious, "You look... as if... you've been... smoking heavily!"
"Oh my, I asked Beichen to stay with me, but this heartless guy refused." Xiao Li touched her severely dark under-eyes and her swollen face, complaining, "At night, I kept hearing knocking, knock, knock, knock, and people chatting under the window... woohoo... I didn't fall asleep until dawn."
"I did come to stay with you in the second half of the night," Beichen touched his nose.
Xiao Li glared at Beichen, "Too late, what's the use now?"
"Beichen, since you won't let Xiao Li down, you don't always have to hide from her at night." I felt it was time for me to intervene.
Beichen treated me as if I were the Lady of the Snake Lord, so he should listen to me to some extent.
Beichen's lips moved slightly, and he mournfully said, "What about later? If she suddenly fears my presence, our past memories will frighten her, make her nauseous."
"What nonsense are you spouting, why would I be afraid of you?" Xiao Li was very annoyed.
Beichen grasped Xiao Li's hand, "What right do you have to decide for your future self? I need to protect both the current and the future you."
Even if Xiao Li changed her heart in the future, or feared the Living Dead like him, a presence without heartbeat or body temperature.
He would still love her.
That's why he had so many concerns.
These concerns were ones my mother had once considered for me.
They are sentiments of deep love, and there's nothing wrong with them.
"What nonsense are you talking, just wild thoughts," Xiao Li muttered unconvinced.
Seeing her reaction, she still didn't understand Beichen's concerns.
The only thing I could do was approach from another angle, "Recently, Spring Wind Town has been unstable, Beichen, you wouldn't want something involving corpse poison to happen to Xiao Li again, would you?"
Beichen's eyes darkened, seemingly moved by my words, but he still didn't compromise to live with Xiao Li, "I'll move to the room next to hers, she just needs to call and I'll be there."
Just then, Chen Decheng came running, "Something big happened, damn, it's really sinister."
"What happened?" I had just asked.
When I saw a photo in Chen Decheng's hand.
Catching my glance, he put it away, then handed it to Beichen, "You know the alley by the hair salon, right? A man died there, the four riff-raff who dined at our restaurant last night, all fainted around him. When they woke up, they all went mad!!"
"It's a high-definition crime scene photo, I don't know where the boss got it from." The photo owner definitely didn't want to scare me, knowing my faint-heartedness, Beichen readily handed it over to me.