I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

"......"

The two stared at each other for a moment, the air was a little silent. Chen Shuo rummaged in his pocket for a bit, took out a candy, put it to his lips, squeezed the wrapper, and the candy went into his mouth.

What are you eating?

"Have some candy."

"I also want."

"That's it, the last one." Chen Shuo turned both pockets inside out, and found nothing but a cell phone.

Bai Xiaoqi glanced at his two pockets, then at Chen Shuo, and leaned down to kiss him on the lips. Her soft little tongue pried open the door and snatched the candy from Chen Shuo's mouth in a few swift movements.

"???"

Chen Shuo was completely bewildered. They even wanted to snatch a piece of candy?

"Turn over quickly, I'll continue cleaning your ears."

What a load of crap!

I finally found a chance to change the subject, and now I'm getting my ears cleaned.

He looked at the small patch of Bai Xiaoqi's cheek that had been pushed up, stood up and was about to snatch it away, saying, "That's my candy, give it back to me."

"No, this is my candy now." Bai Xiaoqi held his face with her hand, preventing him from taking another step.

"Bullshit, you stole it."

Chen Shuo slapped her small hand away and leaned in to pin her down.

With a series of crisp crunching sounds, Bai Xiaoqi chewed a few times, then swallowed, and finally opened her mouth to show him, "It's gone, I swallowed it all."

"You still taste the sugar in your mouth, you have to give it back."

"You can forget about it... um..."

Chen Shuo didn't care about anything else and kissed her directly. There is a complete process for collecting debts, which can be roughly divided into three steps.

The first step is to pry open the door of the debtor's house, and once inside, wreak havoc, ransacking the place and leaving no corner untouched. That's the second step.

Not content with just looting, they linger a little longer to see if there's anything else they can gain. This is called interest, and it's the third step.

Chen Shuo kept his identity as a debt collector firmly in mind, and kissed Bai Xiaoqi until her face was flushed and she could hardly breathe before he was willing to stop.

"Do you still dare to steal my food?" Chen Shuo looked at her smugly, then smacked his lips. Today, he was like a strawberry-flavored little kitten.

"Pah!" Bai Xiaoqi spat at him, her face flushed. He wasn't trying to steal her candy at all; this bad guy was clearly just looking for an excuse to bully her.

Chapter 257 Shifting the Blame East

Some things are unavoidable. After having his ears cleaned, Chen Shuo felt completely drained, and his ears hurt a little.

He picked up his phone to check the time, looked up at himself, and asked, "Want to go out for dinner?"

"What to eat?"

"What do you want to eat?"

"I also can."

"Let's go out and take a look first." Chen Shuo put his phone in his pocket, got up and got out of bed. "Let's go, let's walk around the neighborhood and see what we can eat."

Couples often argue about what to eat, sometimes even leading to fights. The reason for this is that many women like to say "whatever," but this "whatever" doesn't really mean anything.

Their purpose in saying "anything is fine" is actually to make the men guess, and after they guess, they must make a choice that suits their tastes.

Unfortunately, most men are not good at guessing what women are thinking, so they can hardly guess correctly. This will lead to a series of problems. The woman may suddenly get angry and shout out the classic line: "You don't even know what I want to eat, you don't love me at all!"

That's absolutely outrageous.

But Bai Xiaoqi is different. When she says "anything is fine," she really means "anything is fine." When she says "whatever," she really means "whatever." The subtext is, "I'm fine with whatever I eat, I'm not picky, I'll eat whatever you choose."

It's really worry-free.

.......

The night breeze is cool, and the nights in big cities are always very lively, with delicacies from all over the country gathering here.

To showcase the vibrancy of a big city, a diverse range of cuisines is essential, but of course, this is only one aspect.

As for the rest, besides the bustling streets and neon-lit skyscrapers, it is also reflected in people's clothing. Someone once said that the higher the level of civilization, the shorter the women's skirts.

The temperature was already quite high in early summer, and the girls passing by were all wearing cool summer clothes. The whole street was filled with a youthful and beautiful atmosphere, and as far as the eye could see, there were plenty of white thighs.

With the vinegar jar right next to him, Chen Shuo kept his eyes down, his mouth closed, and his gaze fixed straight ahead, only occasionally glancing at it when he was looking for a restaurant.

"Shall we have some barbecue?"

Bai Xiaoqi spotted a barbecue restaurant not far away and happily pointed it out to him.

Chen Shuo turned his head and glanced at her without saying a word. His gaze was indifferent, calm, and cool, but Bai Xiaoqi felt that it conveyed a lot of information, and then her heart skipped a beat.

Counting the days, it seems like my period is about to start; either tonight or tomorrow morning.

What should I be aware of when relatives visit?

Avoid greasy, spicy, and raw/cold foods; a light diet is recommended.

Bai Xiaoqi glanced at the chef grilling skewers at the shop entrance. The skewers of meat on the grill were sizzling with oil, and the chef was fanning them while sprinkling cumin and chili on top.

These are all things that need to be avoided.

"...I suddenly don't want to eat barbecue anymore."

Bai Xiaoqi looked at the sizzling barbecue and silently changed her mind. A gust of wind came, carrying the aroma of the skewers. She almost greedily sniffed the air, and then turned her head away without looking back.

Actually, there wasn't much good food to eat.

"Let's go there and have some wontons, and I'll also get you a steamer of xiaolongbao."

"Oh, good."

Bai Xiaoqi responded and was pulled by Chen Shuo towards the wonton shop. After a pause, she added, "I just love eating wontons."

"Really?"

"fake."

What's so delicious about wontons? There's hardly any meat in them.

......

Her relatives arrived as scheduled in the middle of the night. The next morning, Bai Xiaoqi wanted to sleep a little longer, but the alarm clock, which was never late, rang on time.

The alarm rang from 7:00 to 7:15 before she reluctantly opened her eyes, turned it off, rolled around in bed, and, finding no one there, groggily sat up.

Chen Shuo had already gotten up and was sitting next to me eating breakfast, happily munching on a fried dough stick and a sip of soy milk. He had just bought it downstairs at the hotel, and it tasted pretty good.

Seeing that she had woken up, he waved the soy milk in his hand and asked with a smile, "This is the perfect time for soy milk and fried dough sticks. Want to have breakfast with your husband?"

Bai Xiaoqi rubbed her eyes. "But I'm so sleepy and tired."

"Then you can go back to sleep."

"But I'm also very hungry."

"Then you should eat."

"But....."

"Alright, I'll feed you." Chen Shuo made a pause gesture, ending this pointless conversation.

Bai Xiaoqi obediently listened, leaned against the headboard, opened her mouth, and began to eat the fried dough stick that Chen Shuo handed her in small bites.

After finishing a fried dough stick and drinking soy milk, Bai Xiaoqi felt warm and cozy in her stomach, no longer feeling empty. She decided not to sleep anymore, so she threw off the covers, got out of bed, picked up the rectangular prism from the bedside table, and went to the bathroom to wash up and change her sanitary napkin.

After a while, she came out of the bathroom full of energy, "Come on, let's go out and play."

"Can we still have fun if your relatives come?"

"can."

As it turned out, Bai Xiaoqi was indeed capable of having fun, and even wanted to climb the Great Wall. When her relatives came to visit, she even climbed the Great Wall, which naturally met with Chen Shuo's ruthless rejection.

I won't go to the Ming Tombs. I'll just stroll around Beihai Park, which is closer, or at the Summer Palace if all else fails. As for the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, which require a lot of physical activity, I'll go there in a few days when the bleeding has stopped.

Beihai Park is not far away; there are direct buses nearby, about ten stops away.

The two got into the car and found a window seat. Bai Xiaoqi was wearing a light green dress, which made her already fair skin look even whiter.

Clutching her backpack in her arms, before the car even started moving, she unzipped it, pulled out a bag of bear-shaped cookies, ate a few herself, and then handed one to Chen Shuo, shaking the bag to indicate that he should have some too.

Chen Shuo didn't answer. He had just eaten breakfast, so how could he possibly have room for cookies? He tilted his head to look at the scenery outside the window, but the scenery didn't move.

Big cities are different; it's almost nine o'clock and there's still traffic. But everyone in the car seemed quite calm, as if they were already used to this situation.

Bai Xiaoqi munched on her biscuit, while Chen Shuo watched her eat until half of her face appeared above the back of the seat in front of him.

Both of them were stunned. It was a little girl with pigtails, about four or five years old, holding onto the back of the seat with her hands, showing half of her chubby little face and looking at them, looking both mischievous and shy.

Bai Xiaoqi glanced at her, then at the cookie bag in her hand, and took out a bear-shaped cookie from it. "Here you go."

"Thank you." The little girl happily reached out and took the cookie, her fist half-clenched. She took the cookie back to show her mother, but was scolded by her mother for not eating things from strangers and was asked to return it.

The little girl seemed reluctant to return the money, or perhaps she felt wronged, because soon, soft sobs could be heard from the seats in front of her.

"Here, give me the cookie, Mom will return it to you."

Just a second before the other woman's mother turned around, Bai Xiaoqi suddenly shoved the whole bag of cookies into Chen Shuo's hand, then turned to look at the motionless scenery outside the window.

"???"

Chen Shuo was completely dumbfounded. What was this all about?

Shifting the blame eastward?

Chapter 258 cluck cluck

A handsome, sunny young man can always attract women's favor. When the little girl's mother turned her head and saw the bag of cookies in Chen Shuo's hand, she thought it was a gift from him. Suddenly, she became embarrassed, unsure whether to return the cookies or not.

"Um, we're not bad people." That was Chen Shuo's first sentence.

“I know you’re not, it’s just that this child is so greedy, I’m afraid she’ll be tricked by strangers with food in the future.”