HCB Chapter 169: One Stone, Two Birds. If you want to eat meat, you have to pay a price.
Chapter 169: One Stone, Two Birds. If you want to eat meat, you have to pay a price.
Xu Hongdou returned to her room and wanted to watch a movie to distract herself, but she couldn't calm down at all. She watched the movie for a long time but had no idea what it was about.
Nana is only 28 years old and she is pretty. My stinky little brother also said that Nana is a little rich. It is easy for a girl to chase a boy. She even took the initiative to kiss him. It seems... Hey...
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard Chen An's voice outside the door.
"Hongdou, open the door..."
Xu Hongdou hesitated for a moment, then stood up and opened the door. She saw Chen An holding a bowl in one hand and a hot water bottle in the other. She felt warm inside and asked, "What about you?"
"Move aside first, I'll bring it in, this is hot..."
"Hmm..." Xu Hongdou moved aside, and Chen An walked in and put the bowl on the coffee table...
Chen An smiled and said, "This is red dates and white fungus soup. I looked it up on the Internet. It is very suitable for your current situation. When relatives come, they will eat and drink enough and leave quickly..."
Xu Hongdou rolled her eyes at the frivolous Chen An, "My words were meant to be good, but you changed them when you said that..."
"That hot water bottle, I wonder if you can use it..."
Xu Hongdou reached out to take it, and suddenly noticed Chen An's hand. She was startled and asked, "What's in your hand?"
"Soy sauce..." Chen An touched his nose and smiled awkwardly.
Xu Hongdou took the hot water bag and put it aside, pulling out a piece of paper, "You got it all over your hands, and you don't know how to wipe it off. It looks so awkward..."
"Don't, don't wipe it..." Chen An quickly stopped him...
Xu Hongdou didn't care at all. No matter what happened between him and Nana, she accepted him as her younger brother since he took such good care of her.
"Hiss..." Chen An took a breath of cold air, this is really not fake...
Xu Hongdou was startled by Chen An's appearance and asked in confusion, "What, what happened..."
Chen An looked down at the area above his palm. After being rubbed, a whole layer of skin was rubbed off. The flesh on his hand looked white and oozing with blood. He was very scared...
"What happened?" Xu Hongdou looked at the wound in disbelief, then looked at the tissue in her hand. It was normal paper, so how could it be more powerful than sandpaper?
Chen An touched his nose awkwardly, "Just now, I accidentally burned it..."
"How did you get burned so badly? Wait a minute, I remember there's some burn ointment in my medicine box. Don't move..." Xu Hongdou quickly turned around and took the medicine box beside her and started searching...
Chen An sat on the sofa, Xu Hongdou sat beside him, carefully wiping the remaining soybean paste on his hands with medical wipes, and couldn't help complaining, "You burned your hands and didn't apply medicine, why are you touching this?"
Chen An explained, "In the Northeast, many people in the village get burned. They either use toothpaste or soybean paste, which is very effective..."
"This is Yunnan. How can it be the same as the Northeast? Wounds here are easily infected..."
After wiping off the soybean paste, Xu Hongdou looked at the large burn on the back of her hand in surprise and asked in astonishment, "You, how did you do that? Did you put your hand in the pot?"
"You're the one who put it in the pot. I'm not stupid..."
"So how did you do this?"
Chen An scratched his head and explained awkwardly, "When I filled the water bag with hot water, the broken water bag released steam and the water spurted out, scalding me. My hand loosened and I quickly grabbed the hot water bag. But the bag was not covered. So it became like this..."
Xu Hongdou felt like covering her face after hearing this. "I wonder how come you don't have any common sense at all? How can it not get angry when exposed to hot water? Didn't we learn that in elementary school science class?"
"Nature class?"
"yes?"
Chen An scratched his head and explained embarrassedly, "Hongdou, I never went to school..."
"Never been to school?" Xu Hongdou couldn't help but raise her voice a lot. This news really surprised her. Even among children in poor mountainous areas, there are basically no children who have never been to school, right?
"Don't look at me like that..."
Xu Hongdou recalled that last time in the town, he said he had no family, and she thought he was an orphan. But now it seems that this is not entirely true. She was a little curious, "You..."
"Can you help me apply the medicine first? I feel very uncomfortable..." Chen Anke didn't dare to elaborate. What if the two best friends chatted with each other? Wouldn't it be a sure disaster?
Xu Hongdou stopped asking this question, thinking that her little brother probably didn't want to talk about the sad past.
Xu Hongdou carefully helped Chen An apply the burn ointment, and then wiped the wound on his arm with disinfectant before putting away the medicine box.
Chen An stood up and said, "You can adjust the temperature of the hot water bag yourself. The red date and white fungus soup should be ready to drink now. It won't taste good if it's too cold."
"Okay, got it. Go back and have a good sleep. Don't get wet. I'll buy you something to eat tomorrow morning..."
"No, in your situation, you should just take care of yourself..."
Seeing Chen An about to leave, Xu Hongdou hesitated for a moment and called out to him, "Wait a moment."
"what happened?"
Xu Hongdou suddenly regretted calling Chen An. In her current situation, was it appropriate for her to care about him and Nana? She saw the coat beside her and said, "I'll give you that coat after I wash it."
"I'm not in a hurry to wear it. I'll wait until your relatives leave..."
Xu Hongdou closed the door, walked back to the sofa, and put the hot water bag on her lower abdomen. She instantly felt a lot more relaxed. She picked up the bowl on the table and ate the white fungus soup in the bowl in small mouthfuls. Her stomach felt warm, just like her heart at the moment.
Especially when she thought that it was because of her that not only was her arm injured but her hand was also burned, Xu Hongdou felt very complicated.