Chapter 34: Li Lu’s Provocation

Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Li Lu’s Provocation

Fu Xiaoxiao hesitated, standing at the doorway of the ward, not daring to enter.

This isn’t the boss’s sweetheart, right? Should she show up? Would she ruin the boss’s good thing?

Standing beside her, Wang Lu saw Fu Xiaoxiao stuck in place, looking as if she’d been hit, uncertain how to explain things to her.

He felt like he had become the villain.

"My wife will be here soon, Nurse Li, don’t trouble yourself. I’ll wait for my wife," Lu Feng’s deep and raspy voice sounded from the ward just as Fu Xiaoxiao was about to turn around, filled with indifference and rejection, prompting Fu Xiaoxiao to push open the door.

She wasn’t the boss’s sweetheart, and in fact, seemed like she was harassing the boss.

Li Lu thought little of Lu Feng’s wife, someone from the village, couldn’t be pretty, wouldn’t be her match.

She approached, trying to open Lu Feng’s shirt, and persuaded, "Camp Commander Lu, by the time your sister-in-law arrives, your wound will be infected. Don’t refuse, let me change your dressing!"

When Fu Xiaoxiao entered, she saw Lu Feng holding up an arm, rejecting her, even though the bandaged wound had opened and was bleeding, he was unwilling.

"Hello, excuse me, I am Lu Feng’s wife." Fu Xiaoxiao stepped forward and grabbed Li Lu’s hand, moving it away from Lu Feng’s body.

"You..." Li Lu turned around and met Fu Xiaoxiao’s gaze, freezing upon seeing her appearance.

"I’m here." Fu Xiaoxiao bumped Li Lu aside with her body and went to the bed, placing the prepared chicken soup on the cabinet.

Lu Feng and Fu Xiaoxiao exchanged a look, catching the basic information, Lu Feng relaxed.

Seeing Fu Xiaoxiao, he subconsciously felt that she would surely understand his intention.

It proved true; Fu Xiaoxiao indeed understood and ’resolved’ her.

"Camp Commander Lu needs his dressing changed. Sister-in-law, persuade Camp Commander Lu to change it, or the wound will fester. You shouldn’t refuse because I’m a woman..." Li Lu, unwilling to let go of her spot by the bed, tried to make Fu Xiaoxiao give up her place.

"Where’s the injury?" Fu Xiaoxiao understood the implication that Lu Feng didn’t want her touching the area needing care.

Lu Feng paused, awkwardly turning his face away, "Near the thigh."

Fu Xiaoxiao knowingly ’Oh-ed’, realizing it wasn’t proper for another woman to change the dressing there.

"Comrade, give me the medicine! I’ll change it for my man. It’s not right for another woman to do it now that he’s awake; it’s not good for you either. " Fu Xiaoxiao explained but her gaze was threatening.

To Li Lu, it appeared Fu Xiaoxiao was challenging her, proclaiming possession, her expression speaking one sentence - This is my man, mine.

Always referring to "my man."

And she had no good retort.

"Do you even know how?" Li Lu gambled that Fu Xiaoxiao couldn’t change the dressing.

"Oh, I understand a bit." Fu Xiaoxiao took the dressing kit from her hand, signaling Lu Feng to cooperate.

Naturally, Lu Feng wouldn’t let Fu Xiaoxiao lose face and cooperated obediently.

Fu Xiaoxiao approached first, cautiously snipping open the blood-soaked bandage, revealing the ruptured wound, without changing her expression, she picked up a cotton swab with povidone-iodine to carefully clean the wound, then poured Yunnan Baiyao on the blood-seeping wound. As soon as the blood contacted the Yunnan Baiyao, it solidified, stopping further bleeding, then wrapped it with bandages, finishing with a bow.

"How is it? Does my technique pass?" Fu Xiaoxiao looked back at Li Lu, smiling with deep meaning.

Just changing a dressing, how hard could it be, making it seem like only she could do it for the boss?

Wanting to get close to the boss, trying to pry her away? Dream on!

"Then... then I’ll leave it to sister-in-law." Li Lu, with an ugly expression, forced a smile, suppressing her anger.

Fu Xiaoxiao’s gaze fell on the ward’s door, silently showing her out.

"...I’ll get going first. Camp Commander Lu, call me if you need anything." Li Lu held back emotions, still making eyes at Lu Feng before leaving.

After Li Lu left, Lu Feng looked at Fu Xiaoxiao, struggling to speak, "There’s nothing between us..."

"Oh, it’s fine, you don’t need to explain to me!" Fu Xiaoxiao gestured dismissively at Lu Feng, lightly laughing, "Lie down, let me see if the wound’s actually festering."

"..." Words stuck halfway in his throat, Lu Feng reluctantly complied and lay down.

Fu Xiaoxiao tugged at his trousers, Lu Feng’s whole body stiffened. "You..."

"Don’t mind, don’t mind, I’m the doctor now, absolutely have no private intentions, won’t look where I shouldn’t, just changing your dressing," Fu Xiaoxiao promised him.

Lu Feng resigned himself, closing his eyes, turning his head aside.

Earlobes turned crimson, almost bleeding.

Fu Xiaoxiao carefully snipped the bandages, as Li Lu said, the wound indeed was beginning to infect, pus seeping, sticking to the bandage tightly; if she wasn’t careful and pulled hard, she’d surely rip off some of Lu Feng’s skin.

"Your wound is indeed infected; why didn’t you allow it to be changed?" Fu Xiaoxiao disapprovingly glanced at Lu Feng, the pus seemed to have been there for a whole day, showing he refused treatment since waking.

"I’m married, it’s inconvenient." Lu Feng rested a hand on his eyes, awkwardly speaking.

Being married, how could he show such private areas to other women?

Even though he and Fu Xiaoxiao married because of two children, he wouldn’t do anything to betray her.

Fu Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Feng with surprise, not expecting such a high degree of loyalty to family, which was a plus.

"A man outside indeed needs to uphold male virtues, can’t provoke wildflowers outside." Fu Xiaoxiao dipped with povidone-iodine, gently moistening the bandages, softening the pus scabs sticking to the bandage.

"Hmm." Lu Feng replied, he would do whatever he promised.

Aside from not sharing a bedroom to have more children, nothing else he wouldn’t give her.

Fu Xiaoxiao focused on dealing with the bandage, her breath lightly brushing over Lu Feng’s leg, Lu Feng resisting rising agitation, striving to maintain calm.

Lu Feng stiffened his body, Fu Xiaoxiao concentrating, finally tearing open a slit, glimpsing the promise of hope, she persisted.

The wound on the inner thigh was large, Fu Xiaoxiao’s tug halfway through, got stuck.

"Could you spread your legs a bit?" Fu Xiaoxiao lightly patted Lu Feng’s leg, indicating to reveal the wound.

The already tense body, almost losing reason from Fu Xiaoxiao’s pat.

Struggling to spread his legs bit by bit, the awkward position made Lu Feng want to vanish, especially as Fu Xiaoxiao, while softening the bandages, breathed vaguely on him, tantalizing his nerves.

"Camp Commander Lu, I brought you..." Wang Lu just outside didn’t dare enter earlier, after seeing Li Lu leave, Wang Lu waited ten more minutes at the door, letting the couple express their longing, only to open the door and see Fu Xiaoxiao leaning into Lu Feng’s legs.

"..."

The air instantly froze, dreadfully silent.