Chapter 870: I Still Need You

Mu Xiaojiu coughed lightly and no longer looked at Nangong Xu, but he didn’t know where to rest his gaze.

“Mr. Xiaojiu, did you need something from me?” Lying there while Mr.

Xiaojiu stood, Nangong Xu always felt a bit uneasy.

Lying down was also uncomfortable.

Mu Xiaojiu coughed again, wanting to speak but not knowing how to start.

In the end, he merely mumbled a few words, “It’s nothing.”

“…” Baili Xia really wanted to slap him and send him flying.

Hadn’t he already agreed just now?

Was it that hard for him to say a few words?

“He actually wants to tell you something, he’s just too embarrassed,” she said, resisting the urge to roll her eyes as she looked at Nangong Xu, “I think he’s feeling shy.”

“Who’s feeling shy?” Mu Xiaojiu immediately retorted.

Saying he felt shy, he didn’t like it.

A big man like him, the formidable Mr.

Xiaojiu, feeling shy?

What a joke.

Nangong Xu glanced at him and then at Baili Xia, completely confused.

“He…”

“This girl was crying and begging me to come see you, I was so annoyed by her that I had to come reluctantly.”

To prevent her from saying more embarrassing things, Mu Xiaojiu spoke before she could open her mouth.

“You…” He paused, deliberately hardened his face, and even suppressed his voice, not letting any emotion show.

“Stop causing all this nonsense with apologies and such, you’d be better off doing something useful.

Keeping you doesn’t cost rice money?

You think you can skip work by just slicing with a knife a few times?”

“I have been working…” Nangong Xu started to retort, but swallowed his words when Baili Xia glared at him.

He seemed…

to have misunderstood Mr.

Xiaojiu’s intention, he probably…

wasn’t really complaining about him freeloading.

So that means Mr.

Xiaojiu’s words meant…

“From now on, stop messing around, take care of yourself, I still need you.”

Mu Xiaojiu felt he couldn’t stay any longer, his ears slightly hot, such words as “I need you,” were truly…

nauseating.

He turned around and immediately lifted his long legs to walk outside.

That firm silhouette vanished outside the door in a blink.

“Mr. Xiaojiu…” Nangong Xu started to call out.

Baili Xia immediately pushed him back down, “You still don’t understand his meaning? Okay, I’ll go speak with Stubborn Guy for a moment and will be right back.”

She gave him one last warning not to get up before she hastily followed out.

Mu Xiaojiu walked out of the room quite rapidly.

But once outside, his pace slowed down to a snail’s pace.

When Baili Xia went after him, he had only moved less than five meters in the yard.

As soon as she caught up, he immediately stuck his nose in the air and strode toward the main house.

Walking so fast, as if he didn’t want to give anyone behind him a chance to catch up.

Baili Xia rubbed the corners of her eyebrows, utterly defeated by his proud nature.

But people are just so haughty, being with such a man requires one to be “weaker.”

Otherwise, bumps and bruises are unavoidable.

In fact, after she came out, his “snail-like” pacing was giving her a chance, wasn’t it?

Life is just like that, you give a foot, I retreat a yard, and everything is fine.

“Uncle,” she caught up to him, tugging at his sleeve, “That is, tonight, I… I need to…”

She couldn’t leave her master alone; what if he got a fever tonight?

But Uncle had just finally forgiven her master, would he allow her to stay and care for her master tonight?

Uncle… Could he be that generous?