Chapter 17: Seeing Blood

  "Gulp" - Liu Xiu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and an inexplicable thrill suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart, instantly drilling into 36,000 pores.

  As soon as the voice came out, Liu Xiu regretted it and hated himself for not slapping his own mouth. He hastily retreated backwards, but it was too late. The woman instinctively turned her head to look up, and she and Liu Xiu were face to face, both of them stunned in place, their eyes wide open and motionless.

  "Ah——" A shrill cry broke the silence in the valley, and the woman scrambled to her feet, barefoot, turned around and ran, but after taking only two steps, she remembered the wooden clogs and silk socks she had left behind, came back, bent down to pick them up, and without looking back, fled in a panic. Unexpectedly, one foot stepped on her own collar, stumbled, and with a "plop" sound, fell into the nearby Peach Creek, splashing water everywhere.

  Liu Xiu stared at the woman struggling in the water for a moment, before suddenly reacting and jumping off the large rock. He strode through the water, which was only waist-deep, and grabbed the woman's flailing hand, pulling her up with force. The woman seemed to have swallowed two mouthfuls of water and instinctively wrapped her arms around Liu Xiu's neck, her trembling body tightly pressed against his. Her wet clothes were thin as gauze, and the two mounds on her chest, not particularly full, clearly transmitted to Liu Xiu's mind, making him shudder all over.

  Liu Xiu couldn't bear the thoughts in his heart, so he reached out and wrapped his arms around the woman's waist, half-dragging and half-embracing her as he brought her back to shore. As soon as the woman's feet touched solid ground, she came to her senses and let out a startled cry, pushing Liu Xiu away with both hands covering her chest, looking at him in terror as she continuously backed away.

  "Hey, don't back up anymore, or you'll go down again." Liu Xiu hastily reminded him.

  The woman heard the sound and turned her head to look back, seeing that she was only a foot away from the water. She was so frightened that she hastily took two steps back, almost falling into Liu Xiu's arms again. As soon as her hand touched Liu Xiu's, she quickly withdrew it and glared at him: "You... who are you?"

  Liu Xiu was about to speak when his eyes caught sight of the woman's slender body under her wet and transparent clothes, almost completely exposed. Although he felt a little reluctant, he knew this wasn't the time to indulge in the view. The woman before him was definitely not one of those bikini-clad girls from his past life on the beach. He didn't know if she would kill herself because a man had looked at her, but appearing like this in front of a strange man must be unbearable for her. As soon as he thought of this, he immediately reached out to undo his belt and prepared to take off his outer garment to cover her up, first helping her to cover herself before doing anything else.

  "You - you beast!" The woman looked at him taking off his clothes, her already pale face turned even whiter, without a hint of blood color. She bit her lip, looked around, bent down to pick up a wooden clog and swung it over with force.

  Liu Xiu Zheng lowered his head to take off his clothes, never expecting the woman's reaction to be so intense. By the time he raised his head and saw a black shadow, it was too late to react. A wooden clog hit him on the eyebrow with a "thud", followed by a hot liquid flowing into his eyes, and the world in front of him suddenly turned red.

  "Ah!" Liu Xiu subconsciously shouted, angrily saying: "What are you doing?"

  "You... you..." The woman quickly picked up another stone, her face twisted in anger as she shouted: "You shameless beast, don't come any closer, or else... or else I'll smash you to death."

  "Damn it!" Liu Xiu finally realized he was being mistaken for a hooligan, and in anger, he cursed and took off his outer garment to throw at her: "Don't be so self-righteous, I didn't take a fancy to a woman like you. Hurry up and put on your clothes and get out of here, or else I'll really deal with you."

  The woman was startled by the clothes thrown over to her, and she hastily caught them, staring blankly at Liu Xiu's angry face. She realized that she had misunderstood Liu Xiu, and her face turned red and white as she hugged his outer garment, unsure of what to do. As the wind blew, she couldn't help but let out a sneeze, which brought her back to her senses. She quickly wrapped herself in Liu Xiu's outer garment and hastily escaped.

  "What bad luck!" Liu Xiu squatted down and washed his eyebrow with water, the wound stung a bit as it came into contact with the water. He took a deep breath in, and through the rippling water, he caught a glimpse of a patch of red on his eyebrow, with blood seeping out, looking like the wound was not minor.

  He secretly sighed and sat by the water, self-pitying for a while before getting up to leave. Just as he walked out of the area, his foot seemed to step on something. He looked down and saw that it was originally a wooden clog, which was exactly the one that the woman had used to hit him until his head was bleeding. He looked around and saw that there was also a pair of brocade socks on the rock, but the other wooden clog was nowhere to be seen, nor did he know whether it had been taken away by the woman or washed away by the water.

  Liu Xiu cursed under his breath, but couldn't help thinking of the woman's feet playing in the water, and felt a stirring in his heart. He hesitated for a moment, then hastily walked along the Peach Creek for over a dozen steps, and indeed found another wooden shoe and the scroll that the woman had been holding in her hand. He picked up the shoe and scroll, put them back on the large rock where the woman had sat, took his own scroll from the rock, and prepared to return to the monastery. Just as he had taken two steps, he thought of something else, looked around nervously, turned back, stretched out his hand to pick up the pair of embroidered socks, stuffed them into his bosom, and then ran off like flying.

  Back in the dormitory, Gong Sun and others were not there. Liu Xiu secretly rejoiced, changed his wet clothes and shoes, and lay down on the bed, looking at the dark green roof, suddenly thinking of that woman like a small white rabbit, yet deliberately showing her teeth as a fierce tiger, couldn't help but want to laugh. Just laughed once, pulled the injured eyebrow, and made his mood a bit depressed. Rarely being a good person, didn't even get mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, why so tense? Even got himself bleeding, this is really not worth it. Alas, if he had done mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and then got beaten up, that would be okay too.

  This little girl looks really good, especially that small figure, it makes people drool just by looking at her. Who would have thought that under that loose and large shirt, she actually has such a stunning figure? It's just that she seems a bit young, not enough grandeur in her chest, the feeling is a bit... hard, not gentle enough.

  Liu Xiu indulged in his own fantasies, until Gong Sun and the others returned, then he sat up. Gong Sun smiled at him, joking: "De Ran, you really put a lot of effort into reading books, to the point where your feet are soaked, it's truly admirable."

  "Pffft!" Mao Zong squeezed over from behind, laughing: "Did you see something and lose your footing? Look, you even cracked open a bump on your head."

  "You're also a young master of the Mao family, can't you have some dignity? Don't act like a hoodlum!" Liu Xiu said with a sidelong glance, speaking in a sarcastic tone.

  "Hahaha......" Mao Zong burst out laughing: "Why does your tone sound like my sister's, always putting on the face of a moralizing scholar?"

  Liu Xiu's heart moved: "You have another sister?"

  Mao Zonggang was about to speak, but suddenly realized something and warily looked Liu Xiu up and down, curling his lip: "No way, I won't tell you. You look like a decent person, and according to Xuande, you're also good at writing. Born with the face of a swindler, I'm not going to give you the chance to harm my sister. Let me warn you, if you dare to go to the backyard, don't blame me for breaking your legs."

  "Moreover!" Liu Xiu's old face turned red, and he said with a pretentious tone: "Judging from your appearance, I can guess that your sister is either Wu Yan or Yu Mu. If she were anyone else, I wouldn't even bother to look at her."

  "Haha... " Mao Zong stroked his chin, not angry but smiling: "Don't blame me for not warning you, you can scold me if you want, but you've gone too far by scolding my sister, haha... You're in big trouble now."

  "Moreover——" Liu Xiu drew out his voice, indicating that he didn't think so, but in his heart, he recalled the expression of the woman who hit him with a wooden clog. He thought to himself, "Could Mao Zong's sister be that violent girl?" He touched the embroidered socks in his pocket and suddenly felt a bit worried, wondering if he had unintentionally gotten himself into trouble again?

  Alas, a knife on the head of lustful words, indeed the ancients did not deceive me.