But just as his hand touched the window pane, he remembered that Jiang Suizhou was still in the room. He paused and withdrew his hand with some chagrin.
“What’s wrong?” Jiang Suizhou noticed his strange behavior and asked.
“Nothing.” Huo Wujiu frowned and said, “It’s a little too cool outside, so the room feels hot.”
Jiang Suizhou was a bit nervous: “This can cause a fever.”
Huo Wujiu waved his hand, not at all concerned.
What kind of person was he? Could he get a fever just because of a little rain?
But Jiang Suizhou stood up and took the booklet out of his hand.
“Go take a bath and go to bed early,” he said.
Huo Wujiu clicked his tongue.
If someone else had rushed him like this, he would have lost his temper, but it was Jiang Suizhou who ordered him. Although he didn’t think it was necessary, he still restrained the words at the tip of his tongue.
Forget it, he was just going to take a shower, right? It wasn’t much of a hassle.
After humming his agreement, he leaned forward and kissed Jiang Suizhou a couple of times before turning around and going to the bathroom in the back room.
When he came back again, Jiang Suizhou was already lying down in bed.
He went to bed with steam rising all over his body. As soon as he leaned over, Jiang Suizhou felt the coolness radiating from his face, wrapped in thick moisture.
A quick glance told him that Huo Wujiu had taken a cold shower.
Jiang Suizhou was about to speak, but Huo Wujiu, who had just lain down, took a deep breath, lifted his thin quilt, turned over and faced Jiang Suizhou.
“What?” Jiang Suizhou met a pair of scorching eyes.
“Don’t you feel the heat?” Huo Wujiu spoke with a deep frown on his brow.
At this moment, the rain was crackling heavily outside the window. Because of the rain, the weather also cooled down for once. Jiang Suizhou was covered with a thin quilt, but he still felt a little cold.
“No.” Jiang Suizhou hesitated, reached out and touched Huo Wujiu’s arm.
His arm was firm and tight, with longitudinal veins and well-defined muscles. At this time, his skin was covered with a layer of moisture, but the muscle beneath the moisture was steaming hot.
… Not like a fever, but as if his blood was boiling.
Because it was summer, Jiang Suizhou’s undergarments were thin, and his night clothes were loose and comfortable. He did not notice that when he propped himself up, his collar parted loosely, revealing something porcelain white.
At the same time, his cool hand landed on Huo Wujiu’s body again.
Huo Wujiu’s eyes darkened.
Such a scene was nothing at ordinary times. He just had to bear with it and it would pass. But at this time, he was dazzled. Thereafter, the heat that was flowing helter-skelter all over his body seemed to have finally found an outlet and rushed down with a bang.
He was aghast and yanked Jiang Suizhou’s hand away.
“Don’t move.” When he opened his mouth again, his voice sounded a bit hoarse.
Jiang Suizhou froze and saw his reaction at once. He immediately realized that something was wrong.
“What did you eat today?” He couldn’t help but ask with a frown.
Huo Wujiu’s brow was wrinkled: “I didn’t eat anything either. I ate in the barracks at noon, and went to Huo Wujiu’s palace in the evening…”
When he reached this point, he paused, and then cursed under his breath.
“Huo Yuyan is really quite capable.” Huo Wujiu gritted his teeth and rolled over to sit up.
“What?”
Jiang Suizhou quickly asked.
“The food at his place today is unusual. It’s that wine that he’s using to condition his body.” Huo Wujiu gnashed his teeth, turned around, and moved to get off the bed. “I didn’t expect that wine to be used for other purposes. I was careless.”
Jiang Suizhou immediately understood Huo Wujiu’s implication.
However, before he could return to his senses, Huo Wujiu was already leaving. He asked hastily, “Then where are you going now?”
Huo Wujiu replied, “I’m going to take a shower again.”
Jiang Suizhou returned, “Are you kidding me? What’s the use of showering? This medicine is supposed to nourish the internal organs. If you take a cold shower to suppress it, you’ll most likely develop an illness instead of purging it.”
Huo Wujiu felt chagrined.
“Then I’ll sleep somewhere else.” He said in a low voice, “If it doesn’t work, I’ll go out of the palace and ride my horse. If I stay here any longer, I’m afraid something will happen.”
Jiang Suizhou sniffed and blurted out, “There’s nothing that can happen. Li Changning said my injuries have greatly healed. There is nothing prohibited.”
After speaking those words, Jiang Suizhou realized that something wasn’t quite right.
Why did it sound like an invitation?
He hurriedly stopped talking and kept his mouth tightly shut. But right after that, Huo Wujiu stopped in his tracks.
He stared at Huo Wujiu’s broad shoulders, paused, then turned around.
“What did you just say?” Huo Wujiu asked.
At the moment, he was already a little piqued by the heat, and the changes under him made his voice hoarse. He sounded a little aggressive and poised for action.
Jiang Suizhou stiffened. He looked at his sturdy body, and fear abruptly sprang up deep in his heart.
“… I mean, you can either go to sleep somewhere else for now,” he whispered.
“What did Li Changning tell you, and why didn’t he tell me?” Huo Wujiu, however, did not listen to his sorry excuse and only grasped the focus of his words. He turned back and looked at him.
Jiang Suizhou swallowed his saliva, his voice weakening.
“What did he tell me…” his voice sounded wimpish.
“Did he say you’re alright?” Huo Wujiu held onto that sentence.
Jiang Suizhou stopped talking.
This time, Huo Wujiu turned around completely.
He saw Jiang Suizhou sitting on the bed with a thin blanket covering his legs. His robes were a little messy due to his lying down just now, but he was totally unaware of it. He only stared at him with a pair of nervous eyes.
Those eyes looked wet under the light.
All that Huo Wujiu felt was the blood vessels in his head igniting.
The next moment, something hot and humid filled his nose.
He raised his hand and touched it. It was bright red.
Huo Wujiu cursed under his breath, his second expletive of the night.
“You…” Jiang Suizhou felt dazed at this turn of events.
Huo Wujiu raised his head and shot him with those blazing eyes. The next moment, he raised his hand and wiped the blood off his nose.
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Huo Wujiu gritted his teeth and whispered.
Then, before Jiang Suizhou could respond, he felt a blur before his eyes.
The hungry tiger already pounced on him and bit him on the throat.
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