Chapter 3: Accidents within accidents 2
It was almost a dreamless night.
The sunlight after the rain shone through the bright glass onto the small white bed in the room on the second floor. Pei Haochuan covered his forehead which was throbbing with pain from the high fever and opened his eyes. He stared blankly at the snow-white ceiling and couldn't remember how he got back to the room.
After a brief recollection, he vaguely remembered that he had a fever last night and returned to his room to rest, while Qian Mengmeng had been busy taking care of him and nagging him about when to take his medicine.
What about Qian Mengmeng? And why did his arms feel so heavy? They were almost numb.
Pei Haochuan subconsciously looked along the heavy arm towards the bedside. Qian Mengmeng, who had been nowhere to be seen, was now hugging his arm and sleeping soundly on the bedside.
He pulled his hand away, but failed to do so. Instead, Qian Mengmeng hugged him tighter. Her smooth face rubbed against Pei Haochuan's wrist. No one knew what she dreamed about. She was still mumbling something in her sleep, such as "Don't put mushrooms in the stewed chicken legs."
Pei Haochuan tried to hold back, but still couldn't help raising his other free arm, stretched out his finger and pointed at Qian Mengmeng's forehead to push her back. However, Qian Mengmeng tilted her head very quickly, lay down on the bed, and pressed Pei Haochuan's hand under her cheek.
Qian Mengmeng's breathing was shallow and long, and she was sleeping soundly. She moved her head slightly, and her soft lips brushed against the skin on Pei Haochuan's hand, which was warm.
Pei Haochuan was startled as if he was scalded, and quickly pulled back his hand that was being held down by Qian Mengmeng, not caring whether he would wake anyone up. But Qian Mengmeng was even faster than him. Before Pei Haochuan could pull his hand back, Qian Mengmeng muttered something in her sleep, and then showed her sharp white teeth, biting the flesh on his arm, and hung on it.
"Hey!" Pei Haochuan roared in pain.
Qian Mengmeng finally woke up amid Pei Haochuan's roar. She opened her eyes blankly, her eyelashes fluttering like butterfly wings as she looked at him with a somewhat innocent look on her face.
She still won't let go!
Pei Haochuan pinched Qian Mengmeng's sleepy face angrily, and squeezed hard with his fingers. This finally made Qian Mengmeng give up treating his arm as a chicken leg.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!" Qian Mengmeng was pinched so hard that she almost cried. She asked incoherently, "What are you doing so early in the morning?"
Pei Haochuan narrowed his eyes slightly in displeasure, and brushed his fingers across the clear tooth marks: "I haven't asked you yet, what do you want to do?"
What did she do?
Qian Mengmeng touched her painful cheek in confusion, rubbing it while thinking about the past.
She just dreamed that she went to the market to buy a fat chicken and made a delicious stewed chicken leg, but before she could bite the meat off the chicken leg, she was scared awake by Pei Haochuan.
Qian Mengmeng thought with regret. After all these years, this was the first time she had such a real dream, especially the feeling of biting into a chicken leg... Eh? Wait, a chicken leg? Could it be...
Qian Mengmeng was startled, and then she came to her senses and looked at Pei Haochuan's arm carefully. On the white and smooth skin, a bright red tooth mark suddenly appeared in front of her. If she guessed correctly, the tooth mark might also have saliva that she accidentally got on it.
Seeing Pei Haochuan squinting at her, Qian Mengmeng felt inexplicably guilty.
She hesitated for a moment, pulled up a corner of the quilt that was pressed under her, and symbolically reached out to Pei Haochuan's arm.
"How about..." Qian Mengmeng felt nervous and suggested cautiously, "How about I wipe it for you?"
Pei Haochuan's expression suddenly became even uglier. He moved his thin lips slightly, and was about to say something to Qian Mengmeng, but a hoarse cry interrupted his words. A bright black crow feather fell from the sky, and it was particularly obvious on the white bed sheet. It was obvious that Pei Haochuan's pet crow heard the movement in the bedroom and flew over from the living room.
The crow circled in the sky above the bedroom and landed on a cabinet not far from them. Before Pei Haochuan could say anything, Qian Mengmeng was the first to react. Under the gaze of the crow's eyes , she screamed, pulled the quilt over her, and buried herself in Pei Haochuan's arms.
Pei Haochuan was stunned, and only heard a scream in his ears, and then he felt a warm force approaching, and his body stiffened instantly.
The shivering body curled up in the quilt didn't seem to be fake. Pei Haochuan rarely rushed to drag the person out. After hesitating for a moment, he waved his arm to his pet and made a gesture. The always smart crow spread its wings and flew up again, flew out of the bedroom and hid its figure.
Pei Haochuan patted Qian Mengmeng's head through the quilt: "Okay, Luoluo is out, you should come out too."
The quilt opened a crack, Qian Mengmeng carefully poked half of her face out from the crack, swallowed her saliva, and asked fearfully: "Really, really left?"
Pei Haochuan nodded with a stern face.
Qian Mengmeng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great..."
Pei Haochuan found Qian Mengmeng's cautious attitude a little funny.
If she was frightened by Luo Luo last night because the incident happened suddenly, it would be understandable. But this time she knew of Luo Luo's existence and obviously looked at it for a few seconds, so why was she still frightened?
"Why are you so weird?" Pei Haochuan suppressed the smile in his heart, his expression was a little more relaxed than before, and asked curiously, "Luoluo doesn't bite people like a wild dog, it's just a crow, why are you so scared?"
Qian Mengmeng was puzzled: "You are a weird person, you actually keep a crow as a pet! It will be unlucky to be touched by a crow. Don't you know that crows can affect your fortune?"
Pei Haochuan raised his eyebrows, and was immediately confused about whether to laugh or cry at her reason.
He originally thought that Qian Mengmeng was afraid of crows because of some kind of bird phobia, but he didn't expect her to say such irrelevant words in a serious manner.
"You are superstitious! Crows are supposed to be auspicious birds. When crows are too old to hunt, the young ones will continue to find food for their parents. Ancient poets like Bai Juyi praised crows in their poems. The three-legged crow in ancient mythology refers to crows. In slave society, many tribes believed in totemism."
He chuckled: "So you don't have to be afraid, it won't bring any disaster."
Qian Mengmeng was wrapped in a small quilt, staring at Pei Haochuan's softened expression in a trance. She originally thought that this man was picky and cold, an annoying guy, but now she felt that he was not so annoying. Although he had many demands, he was still a very nice person.
Pei Haochuan pointed at her arms around his waist and asked helplessly: "So how long are you going to hold me? This time it happened suddenly, so I won't deduct your money, but if there is a next time..."
Qian Mengmeng was startled and immediately got out of bed: "No! There will definitely not be a next time!"
Suddenly, her hand was hit by something hard. She subconsciously lowered her head and saw a pure white iPad lying quietly beside the pillow. The screen lit up silently because of her touch.
"Mi...Su?" Qian Mengmeng blankly read out the name in the search box on the screen.
Isn't this the school beauty I saw in the health room before? Why did Pei Haochuan search for her information on the Internet?
Pei Haochuan snatched the iPad, his expression turned cold. Qian Mengmeng came over curiously: "Pei Haochuan, why are you looking up Goddess Misu's information? Maybe I can help you."
Pei Haochuan turned sideways on the bed and replied perfunctorily: "No, get out."
Qian Mengmeng pouted in dissatisfaction, and he added viciously: "Don't tell anyone else, otherwise I will deduct your money."
"Got it. Confidentiality agreement."
Her gossiping thoughts were not satisfied, and she was threatened instead. Qian Mengmeng nodded without interest, and planned to go to the first floor to get a thermometer to measure his temperature. When she was about to close the door, she saw Pei Haochuan pick up the iPad and look at Mi Su on the screen with a heavy face. She didn't know what he was thinking.
Last time in the infirmary, Pei Haochuan looked very strange. Did he fall in love with Mi Su after that chance encounter? But one of them is handsome and the other is beautiful, and they seem to be a good match together...
"No, what does it have to do with you whether they are together or not?"
Qian Mengmeng knocked her head to stop herself from thinking about so many messy things. The sky had already become brighter without her knowing. Looking at the sunlight pouring into the house, she convinced herself with full energy: "Working hard to make money is what you should care about."
