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Chapter 261 - 239 Brother-in-law, where is the basic trust between people?

Chapter 261: Chapter 239 Brother-in-law, where is the basic trust between people?

"If you won’t say, it’s no big deal," Yu Yueying snorted coldly.

"You still look kind of cute when you’re angry," Li Chen laughed. "These past few days, I’ve been overseas. I saw plenty of beauties, and let me tell you, Yueying, they were all blonde and blue-eyed, with particularly perky butts, **** even bigger than yours, and very open-minded too."

Yu Yueying, listening to Li Chen becoming increasingly improper, said slightly annoyed: "Then you should have stayed there. Why did you come back?"

Just then, a police officer came up to ask for instructions.

"Of course we’re calling it off. Is that even a question?" Yu Yueying snapped at the police officer.

The officer was startled, wondering what had happened, as this was not Yu Yueying’s usual demeanor.

Li Chen was secretly amused, and seeing Yu Yueying turn to leave, he quickly called out, "Officer Yu, let’s have dinner together when you’re free next time."

Who would want to have dinner with you, Yu Yueying thought angrily, and just walked away, not wanting to bother with Li Chen anymore.

Before long, the crowd of onlookers had also dispersed since the person had been rescued and the ambulance had left. The firefighters were packing up the safety mats, but the TV reporter stayed behind. She wanted to interview the police officer who made the rescue.

As Li Chen came down from the building, he saw the reporter approaching.

"Hello, are you the police officer who performed the rescue just now?"

Uh, Li Chen was taken aback, but he had no desire for fame and quickly lied, "He’s still up there, hasn’t come down yet. You might have to wait a bit longer."

After saying that, Li Chen promptly took off, making a swift escape. In this day and age, there’s a saying — beware of fire, theft, and reporters. Plus, Li Chen was accustomed to keeping a low profile.

...

Upon returning to the villa, as Li Chen opened the door, he saw Lin Xiaoxiao sitting on the couch, seemingly applying something to her face.

"Xiaoxiao, I’m back," said Li Chen, and hearing his voice, Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly froze, immediately stopped what she was doing, and hurriedly put on a scarf that was lying beside her.

"Brother-in-law, you’re back!"

Li Chen, seeing Lin Xiaoxiao on the couch with a scarf, couldn’t help but find it amusing.

"Xiaoxiao, where are you planning to run off to, dressed like that?"

Lin Xiaoxiao looked puzzled, and Li Chen walked over and teased, "The princesses in ancient times, when they got married, didn’t they dress up just like you are now, with only their eyes visible?"

"Don’t tease me, brother-in-law," Lin Xiaoxiao found it hard to explain. A few days ago, she didn’t know what happened, but suddenly, she started getting pimples on her face, similar to chickenpox but also different, and these pimples just wouldn’t go away, growing more and more. Now, even with a scarf covering her face, some pimples were still visible on her forehead and near the corners of her eyes.

Li Chen, of course, was aware of this situation, but he still had the intention of teasing Lin Xiaoxiao.

"Why are you wearing a scarf at home? Could it be that your face broke out?" Sitting next to Lin Xiaoxiao, Li Chen chuckled, "You’re not a secluded maiden, come on, take off the scarf and let your brother-in-law have a look."

"Not looking, not looking, go busy yourself, brother-in-law. There’s nothing interesting to see on my face, you’ve seen it before." Lin Xiaoxiao shook her head eagerly. She had been tormented by these pimples recently, not daring to even go out, afraid of others seeing them. How could she dare let Li Chen see them now?

"Xiaoxiao, you really see your brother-in-law as an outsider then? There’s nothing I shouldn’t see," Li Chen said smilingly, while also noticing the ointments Lin Xiaoxiao had put to one side.

"Xiaoxiao, did you really break out? What are you applying all these medicines for?" Li Chen picked up the ointments, but Lin Xiaoxiao quickly snatched them away.

"Alright, brother-in-law, you must be tired from your business trip. Go to sleep, go on, quickly now." Lin Xiaoxiao tried to push Li Chen towards the bedroom, but she couldn’t move him.

"Xiaoxiao, are you really not going to show your brother-in-law?"

"Not showing, not showing."

"Ah, that’s really too bad. For skin conditions like pimples or breakouts, your brother-in-law’s treatments are right on target. Well, I guess I’ll go to sleep then." Li Chen stood up, even pretending to yawn, but at that moment, Lin Xiaoxiao grabbed him.

"Wait a minute, brother-in-law, what did you just say?" Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly brightened up with joy, could her brother-in-law actually treat such a condition?

"I didn’t say anything. I said I’m going to sleep, Xiaoxiao. You go ahead and keep busy," Li Chen said with a faint smile, but inside he was very pleased, thinking, this little aunt of mine tries to compete with me, and now I’ll make you willingly remove the scarf yourself.

"No, not that, brother-in-law, did you just say that you can cure pimples?" Lin Xiaoxiao was getting anxious.

"Huh? Did I say that? I must have just said it without thinking," Li Chen laughed, "You don’t even have pimples, I’m going to bed."

"Don’t go, brother-in-law, you can rest later. Come on, sit, please sit." Watching her little aunt turn so quickly in her attitude, Li Chen felt amused and sat back down.

"Brother-in-law, can you really cure pimples?" Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Li Chen with eyes full of hope.

"Why? Xiaoxiao, do you really have pimples on your face?" Li Chen pretended to ask.

"Brother-in-law, I’ll let you look, but you can’t laugh afterward, okay?" Lin Xiaoxiao struggled before making a decision.

"Don’t worry, how could your brother-in-law make fun of you? Am I that kind of person? If I laugh, may I be struck by lightning and not die a good death." Li Chen patted his chest and said.

"Alright, it’s agreed then, you can’t laugh after you’ve seen it." Lin Xiaoxiao already had a shadow over her, and then she slowly moved her hand to the side of the scarf, and under Li Chen’s gaze, slowly took it off.

Finally, Lin Xiaoxiao’s face was exposed in front of Li Chen, and upon seeing Lin Xiaoxiao’s appearance, Li Chen was shocked!

Previously, when Lin Yi described Lin Xiaoxiao as staying indoors all day, he didn’t take it to heart, but now that he saw it, he could truly sympathize—how could she even go out looking like this?

All over Lin Xiaoxiao’s cheeks to her chin were round and plump pimples, incredibly smooth and as if filled with liquid, giving them a particularly glossy look.

Overall, Lin Xiaoxiao’s lower face was completely covered in pimples, densely packed, and quite terrifying to look at, such that anyone with a phobia of tightly-packed things wouldn’t dare to look directly at it.

But when you added Lin Xiaoxiao’s upper face, which wore an expression of grievance, paired with her slightly puffed cheeks, she resembled a pimple-covered frog, err, toad actually.

It looked quite hilarious.

"Uh, Xiaoxiao, your, uh, it’s really, uh, quite...," Li Chen tried to speak in a calm and even tone, and Lin Xiaoxiao, seeing that Li Chen wasn’t laughing, felt a sense of relief. Everyone who had seen her before had laughed, including Lin Yi, of course, but that was a kind-hearted smile.

Looking at Lin Xiaoxiao’s face, Li Chen felt like he could barely hold back, "Xiaoxiao, you really look like a toad, haha, I can’t help it, haha!"

Laughter spilled from Li Chen’s mouth, and he laughed like a madman; Lin Xiaoxiao simply looked too much like a toad—it was too funny.

Lin Xiaoxiao sat aside, watching Li Chen suddenly burst out laughing, feeling utterly dejected as if sitting in a cold breeze, her body shivering.

This laughter came too suddenly, without any warning or consideration, just bursting forth unexpectedly.

Li Chen, seeing Lin Xiaoxiao’s depressed face and cold look directed at him, seemed to be asking: Brother-in-law, what about the basic trust between people? What about the promise not to laugh?

"Sorry, Xiaoxiao, it’s not that I wanted to laugh, I just couldn’t hold it back.," Li Chen stopped laughing and said seriously, but as he spoke, he burst out laughing again!

"I really can’t help it, just let me laugh a bit, haha!"

Watching Li Chen laugh exaggeratedly, Lin Xiaoxiao stood up angrily, "Brother-in-law! That’s too much!"

After that, Lin Xiaoxiao intended to return to her room.

"Hey, hey, hey, Xiaoxiao, I was just joking just now, don’t be angry, I can treat your acne," Li Chen quickly grabbed Lin Xiaoxiao.

After much persuasion, Lin Xiaoxiao finally sat back down, still looking indignant.

"You promised, you can’t laugh anymore," Lin Xiaoxiao said.

"Don’t worry, I absolutely won’t laugh anymore."

Li Chen looked at Lin Xiaoxiao, and Lin Xiaoxiao looked back at him; the two looked at each other, but suddenly, Li Chen began to laugh out loud again.

...

In the end, Li Chen finally stopped laughing, because Lin Xiaoxiao gave him a punch.

Touching his nose, he noted that his young aunt’s punch was quite heavy.

Asking Lin Xiaoxiao to wait in the villa, Li Chen went directly to the pharmacy and bought many traditional Chinese medicines.

The pimples on Lin Xiaoxiao’s face were not a sudden outbreak but had accumulated over time before erupting.

Lin Xiaoxiao’s taste always leaned toward the spicy side; although she was from Yanjing, she enjoyed eating spicy food, which matched well with the cuisine from Linchuan, and along with some other factors, this led to the profuse pimples on her face.

However, the condition wasn’t too difficult to treat; the hospital had failed to cure it before because they hadn’t identified the underlying cause.

After returning to the villa, he took out a pot and threw in the traditional Chinese medicines according to proportions, then started to heat it up.

Lin Xiaoxiao watched Li Chen busy himself and felt uncertain; she had already been to three hospitals, and none cured her. Although Li Chen had shown to be super capable in fights, healing was a completely different matter.

Li Chen continued to work; the medicinal mud needed to be boiled for quite some time.

Time ticked away second by second, and the water in the boiler was almost dried up, while the medicinal properties of the herbs began to release and infused into the remaining water.

Li Chen took out the herbs, crushed them thoroughly, and then threw them back into the boiler.

Turning off the heat, he took the boiler down, brought over a spatula and a bowl, and began to scrape the contents of the boiler, much like mud, into the bowl under Lin Xiaoxiao’s watchful eye.