Chapter 18: Light Bulb
After receiving the soil, Keda was very excited and couldn’t wait to plant the potatoes.
For the next few days, he ran here every day, guarding the flowerpot, watching and waiting, even Ouyang Xiaoli found it annoying.
Like a wife waiting for her husband.
Until one day, a tiny sprout, smaller than a fingernail, emerged from the soil in the flowerpot.
Keda wept with joy!
“Xia Yi, you’re so amazing!” Keda turned around and hugged Xia Yi tightly, kissing his cheek loudly: “I love you to death!”
Xia Yi covered his face, staring blankly at Keda, still not reacting.
Ouyang Xiaoli already had some objections to Keda running over here every day. Seeing Keda pounce on him and kiss him wildly, his face turned even sourer.
He got up and walked straight over, grabbing Keda by the collar. Keda was still excited and disoriented. Being lifted up like that, his feet left the ground, and he looked bewildered.
The sprout in the flowerpot shook.
The next second, Keda was thrown out the door, and the annoying red soil was thrown out with him.
The man looked down from above: “Get lost.”
“Bang!”
The door was mercilessly closed.
Keda: “…”
Inside the room, Xia Yi touched his cheek. It was soft and smooth. Remembering Keda kissing him, his mood suddenly brightened.
The feeling of being needed was so good.
Ouyang Xiaoli asked him: “Very happy?”
Xia Yi was puzzled, seemingly unable to understand why Ouyang suddenly got angry. He thought for a while and felt that Ouyang might also want…
A pot of soil?
“Do you also want some?”
Xia Yi’s tone was exceptionally serious.
Ouyang Xiaoli’s expression was subtle. He coughed lightly, avoiding the little mermaid’s gaze: “How is that possible? I’m not that kind of person!”
He was the leader of East City. If he wanted, the people who wanted to be kissed by him could line up for a whole city.
Just a kiss.
What’s so rare about it?
Xia Yi: “?”
“Don’t you really want the soil?”
Keda Gege said that soil is very important; good soil can grow vegetables and fruits.
How could Ouyang not want it?
The little mermaid was puzzled.
Ouyang Xiaoli: “…” He choked, realizing after a long while, his face turned black. Without saying a word, he turned and left.
After a few minutes, Ouyang Xiaoli walked out with a foul mood, took something out of a bag on the table, and stuffed it into the little mermaid’s hand.
“Eat it if you want.”
Xia Yi looked down and saw that the bag contained dark, round grapes. His eyes widened, and he carefully pinched one.
It’s elastic!
The fresh fruity aroma filled the air, the grapes were juicy, large, and plump. Xia Yi swallowed his saliva and looked away after a long time.
He looked up at the closed door. The man had already returned to his room, seemingly too lazy to pay attention to him.
Ouyang is so good. Today is also a day when I want to have babies with Ouyang.
Xia Yi was happily thinking. He took out the grapes, carefully placed them in a plate, washed them, and this time he didn’t selfishly eat them all. He specially put some in the storage box.
Ouyang hasn’t tasted them yet, and neither has Keda Gege.
He thought to himself.
Ouyang Xiaoli leaned against the door, arms crossed, slightly lowering his head. He heard faint footsteps in the living room, like a little cat.
He also heard the sound of the storage box opening and closing.
Today, he went to the Silver Sea Empire with Xiao Mo and the others, and Ouyang Xiaoli casually bought some grapes.
It wasn’t intentional. He just suddenly remembered it, after all, the little mermaid helped him extract many jade stones, so it was considered a reward.
That’s how Ouyang Xiaoli thought.
His eyes were dark and deep. His fingertips unconsciously touched his lower lip. After a few minutes, he suddenly came to his senses and paused slightly.
At the same time, he was extremely annoyed.
He secretly cursed himself.
He wouldn’t admit that he had been thinking about the kiss Keda gave the little mermaid’s face, and thinking, if it were him…
Ouyang Xiaoli straightened his body.
He expressionlessly took his clothes and went into the bathroom, taking a shower as usual, without doing anything else.
Before going to bed, he paused slightly, remembering something, opened the door and came to the living room, seeing the little mermaid curled up on the sofa snoring.
Ouyang Xiaoli: “…”
The snoring was both cute and funny, like blowing bubbles in the sea.
Although the sofa was quite large, and there was plenty of space for the little mermaid to sleep, it was still inconvenient.
The next morning, Xia Yi opened his eyes and found the scene very different from the previous few days. He let out a sound of surprise and rubbed his eyes.
He was on a soft, large bed.
He was familiar with this bed. When he first arrived, he secretly climbed onto it and was pressed down and poked many times by a sleepwalking Ouyang.
Well… this is Ouyang’s bed.
Realizing this, Xia Yi’s expression was serious. He sat cross-legged on the bed, thought for a moment, and then bounced on the bed a few times.
Well, it doesn’t hurt at all.
Keda had told him that if he did something very intimate, his body would be sore and painful, and he might not be able to get out of bed for three days.
Ouyang Xiaoli leaned casually against the doorframe, glancing at the mermaid who was making a racket on the bed: “What’s wrong? Don’t you think the bed is soft enough?”
The man’s voice was magnetic and sexy, slightly hoarse perhaps because he had just woken up.
“Ouyang.”
The little mermaid’s eyes were serious.
“Hmm?”
The ending slightly drawn out.
Ouyang Xiaoli wouldn’t admit that he intentionally prolonged the ending. He opened his eyelids and waited for the little mermaid to continue.
Xia Yi’s little face was slightly red. He gently poked his little belly: “Is there a baby inside?”
Ouyang Xiaoli was choked by this statement!
What, what baby?
It seems he couldn’t avoid correcting this. The little mermaid’s thoughts were unhealthy and misguided.
If this continued, wouldn’t the little mermaid pounce on handsome men and ask for babies? This image only lingered in Ouyang Xiaoli’s mind for a second before being mercilessly erased!
“Don’t always say these things. You’re a good mermaid, but instead of learning good things, you only learn these messy things from Keda. Do you know what these words mean, what the concepts are? You don’t even know what ‘like’ is, and you want to have babies with someone. Don’t be fooled.”
“Stay away from Keda in the future.”
“He himself hasn’t figured out life.”
Ouyang Xiaoli said irritably.
He probably never thought in the past that he would have the potential to be a teacher in the future.
His tone was serious.
Xia Yi was also a little angry: “If you don’t want to say it, then don’t. You’re not allowed to say bad things about Keda Gege either.”
Ouyang Xiaoli found it funny. This little mermaid actually knows how to take sides: “What did I say about him?”
Xia Yi was struggling: “Just, just…” He couldn’t say it for a moment, so he didn’t want to talk to Ouyang anymore.
He turned his head and sulked.
Fish have poor memories, and this person still asks him. He’d already forgotten what Ouyang had said.
Isn’t this bullying him!
Ouyang Xiaoli chuckled: “Alright, get up. Your Keda Gege is here again.” He paused slightly after saying this.
Something seemed a little strange.
Forget it, too lazy to think about it.
Perhaps Ouyang Xiaoli himself didn’t notice that this sentence was like a neighbor suddenly coming to visit early in the morning, and the husband saying this to his wife.
Xia Yi got up from the bed.
He was wearing a shirt, but the top three buttons were undone, revealing his beautiful collarbone. There were a few red marks on his collarbone.
Xia Yi looked at the man suspiciously.
Because Keda Gege had explained things to him, the little mermaid now understood many things. He felt that Ouyang had definitely secretly kissed him last night.
Humph, Ouyang is so childish.
If he wants to kiss him, he can just say so. He’s not against it. Ouyang is really awkward.
Xia Yi thought happily.
At this moment, Ouyang Xiaoli didn’t know that a black pot had already been placed on him, the kind he couldn’t get rid of. His reputation was ruined.
As soon as Keda entered, he saw the little mermaid sitting on the sofa gloomily playing with pearls. The pearls were in a transparent glass jar, some pink, some pearly white, of very good quality.
“What’s wrong?”
Keda approached and asked.
Ouyang Xiaoli was drinking nutrient solution, expressionlessly pushing Keda’s head away: “Stay away.”
Keda’s face was pushed out of shape.
“…”
“He doesn’t drink nutrient solution, says it’s unpleasant. Heh, it’s all because of you spoiling him. He’s spoiled. Which person in this underground city doesn’t drink nutrient solution?”
Ouyang Xiaoli sneered.
Keda shouted: “Why is it me again? Boss, don’t throw dirty water on me! You were the one who sent me to get potatoes before!”
He mercilessly threw the dirty water back, earning a cold, deadly stare from the man.
The temperature in the living room dropped several degrees.
“I’ll give you a chance to reorganize your language. Say it again.”
The man’s tone was casual.
Keda was aggrieved: “…It’s my fault.”
The man smiled contentedly, finished the last bit of nutrient solution, threw the bag into the trash can, and unintentionally glanced at the little mermaid on the sofa.
The little mermaid was still looking down.
“Drink this,” Ouyang Xiaoli picked up the nutrient solution and handed it to the little mermaid, his tone leaving no room: “The underground city isn’t a place to be spoiled.”
“I want to eat potato soup.”
Xia Yi said pitifully.
Even though the little mermaid was acting pitiful, Ouyang Xiaoli didn’t soften, because he knew that the nutrition of potatoes was far less comprehensive than nutrient solution.
It could be eaten as a snack.
But not every meal.
“You’re not allowed to eat it today.”
Xia Yi arrogantly snorted: “Then I won’t have babies with you.”
Ouyang Xiaoli’s pupils constricted, his hand tightened, and the bag of nutrient solution was almost crushed by him. After a moment, he came to his senses.
It felt like a century had passed.
He pursed his lips, the smile in his eyes that had appeared when he was joking with Keda gradually disappeared, and his expression returned to its usual indifference and distance.
He put the nutrient solution back into the storage box.
“Suit yourself.”
Then he turned and went back to his room.
Keda was embarrassed. He wished he were a mushroom in the corner, even if it was moldy and rotten, he didn’t want to see this scene.
What’s wrong with the boss? The little mermaid wants to eat potato soup, just give it to him. Now that there are jade stones, they can be exchanged for spirit stones, they don’t lack that money. Besides, the little mermaid is so small, how much can he eat? The boss wasn’t this stingy before!
Keda was also extremely depressed.
Xia Yi was stunned. The last image he saw was Ouyang’s cold back. He bit his lip, lowered his head, and his tears turned into pearls, falling down.
Plip, plip, hitting the floor.
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