Chapter 29 Inside and Outside

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  Li Xian was so scared that he almost jumped directly into the Qingniu Lake from the second floor wooden railing, and the reason why he didn't take action was because he found that the girl didn't look at him when she asked the question.

  The osmanthus is fragrant, and I am talking to myself.

  Li Xian gently stroked his chest, thinking that people with heart disease would absolutely not be able to do this sneaky thing. It seems that wanting to be a thief is not so easy after all, at least you need to have a healthy and stable heart. From where he stood, he could see Ouyang Qing's profile, her delicate face looked even more pure and lovely under the light. Her hands were supporting her chin, slightly pouting, this pose perfectly covered up the little bit of baby fat on her chin, and also made her eyelashes look longer and more curled.

  Li Xian was almost certain that he had been discovered when he heard that question, and only now did he realize that Ouyang Qingqing was just muttering to herself.

  At the same time, Li Xian stared at those small white feet and suddenly realized why there was a familiar scent. The first thing he thought of was that if he and Ouyang Qing swapped positions, would Ouyang Qing smell a familiar stench?

  "Answering Big Brother said you are not a good person, at least not an honest person."

  She looked somewhat angry: "Even Ye Ye said that Han people are untrustworthy, really don't know what they're thinking in their hearts."

  She pouted: "I don't even know if your feet are okay, it's so cold and snowy outside, what if you get frostbite?"

  Li Xian smiled complacently and thought to himself, "I've been running barefoot in the snow chasing rabbits since I was five years old, how could my feet possibly get frostbitten so easily?"

  "If only I had a little brother like you..."

  Ou Si's next sentence almost made Li Xian faint, the three words "little brother" extinguished any fantasy he had about Ou Si being in love with him. It was an even stronger blow to his self-esteem and confidence, the advantage of his mental age vanished at this moment.

  "What a person!"

  Before Li Xian finished his lamentation, a shout came from afar.

  Li Xian cursed under his breath - damn it, he had forgotten the situation when he heard someone at the window. He almost subconsciously flipped into the window, completely without the awareness of a thief.

  A loud cry of surprise scared the girl and knocked over a wooden basin.

  "Who!"

  Me!

  "Who are you!"

  "Your little brother!"

  The next few sentences of conversation flowed almost as smoothly as water, but when the three words "little brother" came out of Li Xian's mouth, both people were stunned at the same time. One face turned red with shame and the other face turned red with embarrassment. Li Xian didn't expect himself to say those three words so casually, it seemed that those three words had a great impact on him earlier, and as a result, there was a sense of resentment in his subconscious mind that made him feel uncomfortable without realizing it.

  "Are you here to see me?"

  An awkward silence lasted for a while, before Ousiqing broke the deadlock. She raised her head and asked cautiously, then quickly lowered it again.

  "No, I just came to take a look at the boots..."

  Li Xian's mouth was so clumsy for the first time.

  "Hmm!"

  Ou Si's face turned blue with rage at Li Xian's response, and she pouted, saying: "So you're really a petty ghost, come to retrieve your boots? Here they are, take them!"

  She bent down and picked up a pair of clean boots from the side of the bed, and with a flick of her wrist, threw them into Li Xian's arms.

  Li Xian smiled awkwardly and said: "Actually, it's not because of the boots. Just think I got lost."

  "Are you lost and ended up at the window of my second floor?"

  Ou Si Qing immediately asked another question, but was again embarrassed by her own words.

  Li Xian nodded and said seriously: "I'm indeed lost, you also saw that I came in through the window. If I wasn't lost, wouldn't I be able to find the door?"

  "Then tell me how you got lost from the mountain and ended up at Qingniu Lake?"

  Li Xian scratched his hair and said, "This is a long story, I'll explain it to you in detail when I have time. But for now, I'd better hurry up and leave, or else I'll be torn apart by your family's guards. In short, my appearance at your window definitely has no malicious intent, nor did I run hundreds of miles just to ask for a pair of boots."

  He turned around and wanted to jump out of the window again.

  "Right"

  He stopped and smiled at Ousai Qingqing: "My feet are fine, guaranteed to be stinky as ever."

  Ou Si grabbed Li Xian's arm: "If you jump out now, won't you be shot into a hedgehog by them?"

  "Oh dear...... you've seen hedgehogs too?"

  Ou Si Qing chose to ignore Li Xian's words: "Qingniu Lake is our Khitan people's sacred place, outsiders who rashly intrude will be shot dead and that would be a good outcome. If they are captured alive, they will definitely be torn apart by five horses. You can't escape if you go out now!"

  Li Xian also realized the severity of the situation, and after some thought, he said seriously: "Why don't I hold a knife to your neck and take you hostage?"

  "Hide under my bed!"

  "Alright"

  Ou Si said only four words, and when she just finished saying the third word, Li Xian already said "good".

  Not waiting for Ouyang Qing's response, Li Xian took advantage of Ouyang Qing turning to look out the window and quickly lifted up Ouyang Qing's quilt and slipped inside. He then curled up in a ball at one corner of the bed. Fortunately, his build was not particularly tall or large, otherwise hiding under the quilt would have been a terrible idea.

  "Oh, Qingqing! Are you okay?!"

  Li Xiancai had just slipped under the covers when a worried shout came from downstairs.

  "I'm fine, Brother Lang!"

  Ou Si's eyes were deep and calm as she took a deep breath, walked to the window, leaned forward and said: "What happened? Answer me, Da Ge?"

  She found herself unable to tell a lie, her face burning with embarrassment. Fortunately, the light was behind her, so no one could see her bright red face.

  "I just saw someone's shadow at your window!"

  Zhuang Suo's answer, Lang Changhong held a torch in one hand and grasped the hilt of his curved knife with the other. He stood under Ousiqing's wooden building, looking up at him with an inquiring expression, his tone seemingly distrustful of Ousiqing's response.

  "I was just looking at the moon by the window and didn't see anyone."

  Ou Si Qing said her second lie, and the blush on her face deepened a few shades. She felt like her heart was about to jump out of her throat, and she tried her best to make her voice sound calm, but didn't notice that her palms were sweating profusely. If only she knew that someone was hiding under the quilt, desperately holding back laughter, and even pressing his nose against the quilt to greedily sniff the scent that belonged to her, perhaps she would have immediately shouted: "I've subdued the bad guy, he's right in my quilt!"

  "Are you really okay?"

  Darong Changhong asked another sentence, he was worried that someone had entered Ousiqing's room and harmed her.

  "I'll go downstairs and talk to you!"

  Ou Si's face turned pale as she gritted her teeth and said, "I didn't want to go down originally, because I knew that lying might not deceive An Lang Chang Hong. But when she turned around, she happened to see the water marks left on the floor by Li Xian when he came in. An Lang Chang Hong must have been uneasy about himself, if he had come in, Li Xian would not be able to hide."

  "No need, it's cold outside, if nothing is wrong, then don't come down."

  Darong Changhong shouted from downstairs and then continued: "Ajin will be back early tomorrow."

  After listening to Lang Hong, Ou Si Qing seemed to have exhausted all her energy and almost fell to the ground. She really didn't dare face Lang Hong's eyes, she knew that she couldn't hide anything from Lang Da Ge.

  "Alright, brother, I'm fine, you go back to sleep."

  Ou Si said with a hint of embarrassment.

  "Darong shook his head: 'I'm just downstairs, if you need anything, just call me.'"

  After finishing, Dalang Changhong sat on a stone under the wooden building with his legs crossed and holding a knife. Ousiqing opened her mouth to persuade Dalang Changhong to leave, but in the end, she didn't say anything. She understood Dalang Changhong's temper, he was loyal to YeYe, and YeYe let him protect herself, so Dalang Changhong treated himself as his life. He was too stubborn, if he wanted to sit down there, it would be impossible to persuade him to leave.

  "It's just a cold... Brother Lang, you should still go back."

  Ou Si's eyes turned back and she couldn't help but advise him once more.

  "No need, I'll just have someone set up another tent here tomorrow."

  Dalan Changhong replied and then waved his hand, signaling Ousiqingqing to leave.

  Ou Si Qing let out a sigh and turned around to walk to the bedside. After thinking for a moment, she walked back to close the window.

  She loved the small wooden house her father had built for her, which was exactly like the one her mother had drawn. Her mother had said that it was very comfortable to watch the lake and mountains from the bed on the second floor. The view of the lake and mountains was here, and the small building was just like what her mother had said, but what was missing was perhaps the scenery of willows leaning against each other and butterflies fluttering around flowers. The water in Qingniu Lake was too cold, so cold that it couldn't nurture any flowers.

  "You can't leave tonight, Andar is waiting outside."

  Ou Si Qing stood by the bed, speaking in a very low voice.

  Li Xian lifted up the quilt and exposed his head, smiled and said: "Just in time to rest here for a while and warm up, the lake water is freezing to death."

  He wouldn't worry, with Da Xi Chang Ru around, he could naturally lead Da Lang Chang Hong away.

  "Why did you jump into the lake?"

  Ou Si Qing Qing Wen.

  "Do you believe me when I say I'm having a depressive episode?"

  "What are you talking about?"

  Ou Si's eyebrows furrowed in concern and asked.

  Li Xian smiled and pointed at Ousiqing's bare legs and feet from under the quilt: "Aren't you cold?"

  Ou Si's face turned red: "Cold, but you covered the quilt."

  "Oh, then I'll return the quilt to you. You can come to bed and lie down, I've already warmed it up."

  "He pointed to the clothes he didn't know when he took off and said, 'Don't worry, I didn't get your quilt wet.'"

  Ou Si's face turned red as she covered her mouth to prevent herself from exclaiming in surprise, and her usual good looks were now a mess due to her shock and fluster.

  "How did you take off your clothes? Put them on quickly."

  "My clothes are wet, how can I bear to snuggle into your quilt?"

  Li Xian suddenly pulled open the quilt: "Hehe, I didn't take everything off!"

  Scared Ou Si Qing Qing saw through her fingers that Li Xian indeed still had a set of white underwear on his body, and she slightly put down her guard and opened her eyes. The girls from the grasslands were different from Han girls, they didn't take the distinction between men and women very seriously. Ou Si Qing Qing's mother was a Han person, so she was still influenced by that. If it were an ordinary grassland girl, she would have taken the distinction between men and women even more lightly.

  "Come to bed and cover yourself with a quilt, don't catch cold."

  "You're inside, I... how can I get up there."

  "Oh..."

  Li Xian leaned against the edge of the bed and made room inside: "I'll be fine outside, you can go in now."

  Ou Si Qing suddenly found herself at a loss for words, how did she not notice that Li Xian was so despicable and shameless that day?

  "If you feel embarrassed, then I'll leave now."

  Li Xian made a move as if he wanted to leave, but Ou Si Qing hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't go, Da Lang is right outside."

  "Are you coming up?"

  "I...alright."

  Ou Si's eyes sparkled as she carefully jumped over Li Xian, but didn't dare lie down. She pulled the quilt over her feet and sat down at the corner of the bed, shrinking into a ball that looked both adorable and pitiful.

  Li Xian smiled and found himself really lucky.