Chapter 1548 - 1370: A Stormy Night in Jianghu
Chapter 1548: Chapter 1370: A Stormy Night in Jianghu
The bottles were getting larger each time, the intervals between uses were getting shorter, and Xia Dabao’s blood was drawn more with each passing session.
Although humans have plenty of blood, one can’t keep drawing it like this indefinitely; she began to feel dizzy.
But fortunately, Axian’s waking hours were getting longer; besides being able to finish a meal, in the evening he was also able to get out of bed and move around a bit. His appetite improved too, and he could now eat some rice.
That evening, Xia Dabao even had Peony prepare a tub of bathwater for Axian; she wanted to give him a bath.
“Big sister…” Axian was actually a very sensitive boy. He vaguely knew something but didn’t dare to say much.
“Axian, what is it?”
“Nothing, big sister, you’ve worked hard,” Axian didn’t want to tell Xia Dabao that he was actually missing their parents.
With so many guards outside in a completely unfamiliar place, the only person who could take care of him was his sister. Besides, his sister had said that one day their parents would come to pick them up. Therefore, he decided to just believe in his sister.
“You’re missing mom and dad, aren’t you?” Could Xia Dabao not understand her own brother?
Axian didn’t speak. Xia Dabao continued to scrub his back and said, “I miss them too, but the people here said that mom and dad can’t stay here, so they went to live at the foot of the mountain. Don’t believe me? Ask the purple-haired freak?”
The purple-haired freak, of course, was Yun Xiao.
Yun Xiao always watched the siblings under the guise of surveillance.
When Xia Dabao mentioned Yun Xiao, he originally wanted to say something sarcastic to mock their wishful thinking, but looking at Axian’s eyes as dark as the night, he suddenly couldn’t bear to and just nodded indifferently.
Naturally, Axian was happy.
After the bath, when Xia Dabao was lifting Axian out of the tub, she suddenly felt a moment of darkness before her eyes.
Fortunately, this sensation lasted only momentarily and soon passed.
Axian, however, asked anxiously, “Big sister, what happened?”
“Nothing. The floor is a bit wet and slippery,” she carried Axian back. After Axian dressed himself, he quickly fell asleep again.
Although Xia Dabao was a bit tired, her clothes were quite wet from bathing Axian, and she had worked up a bit of a sweat, making her feel sticky.
She then asked Peony to change the water in the tub so she could take a bath herself.
Once the tub was filled with water, Xia Dabao was about to bathe but suddenly remembered Yun Xiao standing guard outside the door.
The door had been left open, but Xia Dabao, of course, didn’t feel comfortable with that, so she opened it further and then said to Yun Xiao, “I’m taking a bath, and you better not come in. I’ll be a while.”
Yun Xiao looked Xia Dabao up and down, a hint of disdain on his lips, “Do you really need to come out and notify me? I’m not going to peek, and I have no interest in your scrawny body.”
“Tsch, as if I’d be interested in you,” Xia Dabao forcefully closed the door.
She undressed and soaked in the tub.
The water was very hot, and some rose petals were sprinkled on top, making for a very comfortable bath as if every pore of her body was opening up.
She leaned her head comfortably against the edge of the wooden tub and looked up at the ceiling rafters.
When can I leave this place?
She had already begun to yearn for every blade of grass and every drop of water in Peach Blossom Village.