Chapter 187: It's Not What You Think
Perhaps the lovemaking had been too intense. After her orgasm, Sun Jiaojiao, exhausted, quickly fell asleep in Xiao Ba's arms.
Xiao Ba gently patted her back, looking at her long eyelashes and her shallow breathing. He sighed, carefully extracted his arm from under her neck, and laid her flat. Then, with the lightest possible movements, he left the bed, walked to the door, and quietly closed it behind him.
Even if a woman's beauty was bewitching, the Crown Prince's wrath was not something an ordinary guard like him could withstand.
Making love was fine, but spending the night was absolutely forbidden!
Xiao Ba still had that much sense. Filled with melancholy, he left the room, preparing to fly back to the branch to continue drinking with Xiao Jiu. But as luck would have it, he ran right into Xiao Qi, who was standing guard.
When Xiao Qi smelled the scent of cosmetics on him, his nose immediately wrinkled in extreme displeasure. "Where did you just come from?"
Being interrogated like this, Xiao Ba's confidence immediately weakened. He hastily opened his mouth to lie. "I-I was drinking with Ninth Brother..."
"Where's the smell of wine?"
"I-I didn't drink... Ninth Brother drank alone."
"Hmph!" Xiao Qi was very unhappy. Did Xiao Ba take him for a blind man, with such a strong scent of cosmetics? "You reek of a woman. Speak. Where exactly did you come from?"
Seeing he'd been exposed, Xiao Ba could only scratch his head and tell the truth. "The Young Miss had a headache, so I just helped her back to her room."
"The Young Miss?"
"Seventh Brother, it's not what you think!" Xiao Ba defended himself.
"You! You! You're muddle-headed!" Xiao Qi had already imagined that slutty woman Sun Jiaojiao faking a headache to lure the handsome, dashing Xiao Ba into her room, then eating him clean. "I already told you the Crown Prince's Residence is complicated! I told you not to mess with the maids, and what do you do? You grew the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard, and went to mess with the Young Miss? She's the Crown Princess! If anyone finds out, having your legs broken would be getting off light!"
Xiao Ba was dissatisfied. "Big Brother and Second Brother both slept with the Young Miss. I haven't seen either of them with broken arms or legs."
"Hasn't Big Brother suffered enough injuries because of the Young Miss?"
"He took that blade voluntarily. How can you blame that on the Young Miss?"
"You're just like Big Brother, bewitched by a fox spirit, unable to tell right from wrong!" Seeing that Xiao Ba was impervious to reason and only defended that woman, Xiao Qi instantly exploded with anger. He tossed his guard sword into Xiao Ba's hands. "From now on, you can stand your own watch. I have no obligation to cover for you."
After speaking, he angrily turned his head, looking as if he was about to walk off and leave him to his fate. But Xiao Ba, having been inexplicably yelled at, also lost his temper. He shouted at Xiao Qi's back, "I'll stand my own watch, then! What's the big deal? Is it worth getting this angry?"
But when Xiao Qi really did turn and leave without hesitation, Xiao Ba gradually cooled down.
He was the one in the wrong in the first place, and he had lied. What right did he have to be angry at Seventh Brother?
What kind of mess had he gotten himself into?
Really...
Xiao Ba, feeling inexplicably dejected, finished the night watch that should have been his all along. He waited until the sky began to brighten and the other guards came to change shifts before he sullenly clocked off and walked toward the guards' quarters.
When he reached the large tree where Xiao Jiu was drinking, he looked at Xiao Jiu's figure, dangling asleep in the tree. He sighed, then leaped up into the tree with a single bound. He silently squatted on a branch, took the half-full flask from Xiao Jiu's hand, tilted his head back, and drank.
"You had good wine and didn't drink it, insisting on picking up someone else's leftovers. You like drinking what others have already drunk?"
Suddenly, Xiao Jiu, who had appeared to be fast asleep, crossed his legs and uttered this double-entendre. His eyes, which had been closed in drunkenness, looked exceptionally hazy.
Xiao Ba gave a bitter laugh and replied with his own double-entendre, "Fifth Brother used to say when he was here, 'Better one bite of an immortal peach than half a basket of rotten apricots.' As long as it's good wine, why care if someone else has drunk from it?"
"What do you know about wine? Maybe what you think is an immortal peach is actually a rotten apricot."
Xiao Ba tilted his head back and poured the fine wine down his throat. "Only those who have tasted it have the right to speak. If you don't taste it, how do you know if it's an immortal peach or a rotten apricot?"
Xiao Jiu's tightly shut, drunken eyes, suddenly snapped open at this meaningful sentence. A pair of bright, beautiful eyes flashed, like green waves, or perhaps a rainbow.
Mini-Theater 14: Meat-meat Small Theater
Sun Jiaojiao: You guys are actually using me as an analogy? Cursing the locust tree while pointing at the mulberry?
Xiao Ba: I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare! This servant was praising you as an immortal peach!
Sun Jiaojiao: I seem to have heard someone call me a rotten apricot?
Xiao Jiu: ...
Sun Jiaojiao: You've never even "eaten" this Young Miss. What right do you have to call me a rotten apricot?
Xiao Jiu: Does one need to personally test it to prove an insult? You've already been ruined by men...
Sun Jiaojiao: Of course you have to test it! And you have to write a ten-thousand-word report to prove your thesis. Otherwise, you're not allowed to just slander people as rotten apricots.
Xiao Jiu: ...
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