Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 97: Concern

Chapter 97: Chapter 97: Concern

Shitou and Lu Yun both had laughter in their eyes, but they had to suppress it on their faces and quickly nodded without daring to speak, afraid that if they opened their mouths they would spoil everything.

Lu Yun quickly cleared away the single sofa and the small tall table in the living room, rearranged the original tables and chairs, and then hesitated before deciding to take out some of the things she had collected these days, only to put them back again. After thinking it over, she said to Lu Aiguo and Xia Yuan.

"Dad, Mom, I think we should wait until tomorrow morning to bring out the goods. What if there are rats that nibble on them at night? How disgusting would that be?"

"That works." Xia Yuan, thinking of the scene, felt disgusted all of a sudden and quickly nodded in agreement.

"Then you’ll have to wake up earlier tomorrow. Your grandmother wakes up very early, and it won’t do if she comes and finds you still sleeping like a little pig." Lu Aiguo teased her.

"If I’m a little pig, then you’re a big pig. Huff, huff, huff..."

Lu Yun made a funny face indignantly and turned to run away. Dad was too mean, hmph, from now on she would have to ’instigate’ Mom to teach him a lesson from time to time.

But speaking of little pigs, she immediately thought of Peppa Pig. It wouldn’t be bad if their family could also chitchat with the huffs and puffs like Daddy Pig, Mummy Pig, Peppa, and George.

Their family was just missing a little brother.

Lu Yun smiled slightly, the period of nutritional replenishment was almost complete, and it was time to find an opportunity to properly rejuvenate her parents’ health. Only if her parents had good health could her future little brother be inherently healthy and strong.

In the bedroom, Xia Yuan tapped Lu Aiguo’s chest with her hand, looking helpless as she once again admonished, "Can you restrain yourself in front of Shitou and Xiaoyun, too? You really bring shame to my face."

"How is showing affection to my wife a matter of losing face? I’m at home, not outside. Wife, don’t worry, I will definitely be more restrained in public." Otherwise, wouldn’t it be unfair if those insane Hongxiaobin caught me and wouldn’t let go? Although such things are no longer as rampant as before, who knows when someone will go mad again? After all, people are accustomed to the idea that even legally married couples can’t be too intimate in public.

Lu Aiguo felt indignant. Just the thought of being in public, unable to even hold his wife’s hand without the risk of some self-righteous, meddling person popping out of nowhere, possibly even dragging them away for a public scolding, made him uncomfortable all over.

When would it be possible for him to walk down the street holding his wife’s hand openly and let everyone know that she was his wife?

"At home... Not in front of Shitou and Xiaoyun either." Xia Yuan hardened her face, ruthlessly avoided looking at Lu Aiguo’s particularly aggrieved expression; she feared she might go soft. No, actually, she could already hear the sound of the ice melting in her heart, the droplets falling.

She couldn’t indulge him any further. If she continued like this, how could she face teaching Xiaoyun in the future? She would lose all parental authority... Xia Yuan’s gaze hardened, and she stared at Lu Aiguo, insisting on a promise from him.

"Wife, wife..."

Lu Aiguo shamelessly sidled over, attempting to get away with his coquettishness.

"No way." Xia Yuan held back, remaining steadfast and ignoring him.

"But what should I do if I really, really like it that way in my heart?"

Lu Aiguo looked at her with pleading eyes, his expression as forlorn as a child denied candy, instantly shattering the ice in Xia Yuan’s heart with the noise of tumbling bricks and broken tiles. She closed her eyes, struggling to resist, yet shook her head.

"Alright, I’ll pay attention and try to avoid them next time," Lu Aiguo howled in despair, not daring to persist any further, fearing his wife might truly get angry. However, he still attempted to maximize his own benefits, "But when they’re not looking, you have to let me hold you, alright?"

"Okay," Xia Yuan nodded with a hoarse voice, filled with inexplicable guilt.

"Wife, let’s not keep things bottled up in the future. If something makes you unhappy, we have to speak up. I want to spend my life with you just like we are now," Lu Aiguo sighed long and hard, "A lifetime is still too short. I want to live long and prosper with you, and in the next life, and the life after that, we still have to be together."

"Okay..." Xia Yuan chuckled, fully aware those things were impossible, but not wanting to burst Lu Aiguo’s fanciful bubble. After all, wasn’t her heart filled with the same ’fanciful wishes’? In this world of intimate and distant marriages, she was fortunate to have encountered the former, a blessing that must have taken several lifetimes to cultivate!

In another room, Shitou frowned as he watched Lu Yun take out an ancient-looking large cauldron, which then somehow shrank to half its original size.

"It’s so late already, we have to rise early tomorrow, why aren’t you going to sleep? What are you doing with this?"

"I need to quickly concoct the Debilitating Elixir; we’re about to go to Haicheng, and if I don’t make it now, it’ll be too late. It won’t take too long, it’s only ten o’clock now; it’ll be done by around ten thirty," Lu Yun said nonchalantly.

How could ten o’clock be late? In her past life, going to bed at two or three in the morning was nothing but a trifle, the norm.

"No, it’s already late, you must go to bed now. We can make the elixir tomorrow night just the same," Shitou cruelly denied Lu Yun’s "unreasonable" request, "Pack it up quickly, your little body can’t handle staying up all night."

"It will really be very, very quick," Lu Yun grumbled dissatisfiedly. Mainly because she feared running out of time. What if those people gathered tomorrow? Wouldn’t that be missing a great opportunity?

Originally, when they were up in the mountains, having a separate bedroom was also a good opportunity, but back then, she was so exhausted every day that there was barely enough time to restore her spirit power.

Of course, there were benefits too. Her range of spiritual power had more than doubled, now capable of controlling something within a twenty-five to twenty-six meter radius. Her endurance had also increased; she could be exhausted to the extreme and still not collapse, retaining some resistance to the outside world.

"The news of our return will spread tomorrow, and I will find a way to hold off the Su Family for a day, then send word to the Su Huahua family in the village, so they will all return to the village the day after tomorrow. That’s when the best opportunity will arise."

Shitou spoke calmly and slowly to Lu Yun, his eyes firm with the conviction of holding a winning hand.

"I’ll handle the drugging myself. If you can concoct the Debilitating Elixir by tomorrow night, there will be plenty of time," he said.

The time was a bit tight, but everything else was manageable. The only concern was the drugging, which was critically important, and he didn’t trust others to do it. He had thought of several methods and was leaning towards sneaking into the Su Family’s kitchen at midnight to place the Elixir in the water tank. As long as he was careful, this approach seemed the safest for now.

He could scout the place out tonight.