Chapter 1044

From the moment he entered the door to when he walked into the room, Mu Xiaojiu didn’t even give Baili Xia a half glance.

Baili Xia had wanted to tell him that the sea urchin fried rice Master made today was really delicious and ask if he wanted to try some.

Although their relationship wasn’t very good, when there was good food, she wanted to share it with him.

But Uncle’s icy attitude made all her courage disappear in an instant.

Mu Xiaojiu entered the room, and Nangong Xu immediately followed.

As soon as the door closed, the inside and outside instantly became two separate worlds.

“Go ahead and eat,” Mu Xiaoyao sat down, glanced at Baili Xia, and then picked up his chopsticks to continue eating.

Baili Xia still hesitated a bit.

Just now, Uncle’s expression…

Well, maybe it was just her seeing things at night.

His ice-cold face, a little paler, didn’t matter—it was just a block of ice anyway.

But it really was a bit pale…

Inside the room, Nangong Xu was already inserting needles into Mu Xiaojiu.

“There are indeed residual toxins.” Looking at Mu Xiaojiu’s noticeably swollen hand, he really wanted to sigh.

“I should have administered the acupuncture first to completely rid you of the toxins,” he couldn’t help but complain.

Just to get him to come back early to cook for that girl, they had rushed him during the acupuncture.

Now, the poison caused swelling, and his whole hand was swollen.

How dangerous the sea urchin’s poison was—they, who were accustomed to living on this island, knew very well.

Even the master chef would come fully equipped before daring to deal with it.

Mr.

Xiaojiu, for the sake of convenience and to save time, went into the sea bare-handed.

Just for that girl to enjoy a few bites of the sea urchin fried rice she wanted…

“You made this for her.

Why don’t you want her to know?

She…”

“When did you change?” Mu Xiaojiu coldly interrupted him and scoffed, “Babbling.”

Facing his disdain, Nangong Xu was really frustrated.

Wasn’t he just showing concern?

And yet, unappreciated.

Such stony stubbornness.

If not for knowing him for many years and understanding that he was just a bit temperamental, but otherwise fine, Nangong Xu felt he would’ve been knocked dead by his harshness.

“If you could just talk to her properly and clear things up, Mr. Mu and I wouldn’t need to babble on!”

Even if he disliked his talkativeness, Nangong Xu couldn’t help but finish his piece.

Did he think he and Mu Xiaoyao were really that idle?

They, acting both as bodyguards and nannies for the two of them.

And him, in return, had the audacity to mock them as being like women—utterly inhumane!

It took a whole ten minutes before he finally managed to rid the poison from his hand.

As Nangong Xu packed up his things, he indifferently said, “Go out and have a meal with her.

That girl has been waiting for you, she just won’t say it.”

“It’s not convenient,” Mu Xiaojiu placed his hand on his leg and leaned toward the headboard.

Although the toxins had been expelled through bloodletting from his palm, his hand was still swollen.

It would take several hours for the swelling to go down.

Going out now would make the girl overthink again if she saw it.

Nangong Xu glanced at his hand and said no more, only adding, “I’ll bring your meal in later.”

Seeing he wanted to refuse, he cut him off before he could speak, “The vegetables were all personally picked by her, whether you eat them is up to you.”

Mu Xiaojiu glared coldly at him and finally, after staring for two seconds, snorted, “Your attitude could be worse.”