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Ningning was very careful when returning to the inn.

Pei Ji was seriously injured in the battle with Luo Yuanming. Since the elders heard the news, they were immediately sent to the hospital for treatment. Counting the time, it should have been back by now.

After their group explored the secrets of the city lord's mansion, the experience during the period was lavishly added to the jealousy by the storytellers, and Shengsheng portrayed everyone under Tianxianzi as a brave and foresighted warrior.

The speed of this reversal can be called the Sichuan Opera's face change, faster than the French surrender.

There was an endless stream of people who came to the inn to watch the excitement, and the rescued girls came one after another to thank them.

Fortunately, as a master, Tian Xianzi is already sober, a generation of kendo power incarnates as a welcoming brother, with a face full of confusion listening to others telling about how the Xuanxu Sword Sect punishes **** and eliminates evil, and how this strategy was unexpected.

There were big question marks in his little head. He couldn't answer any questions. He could only keep smiling and sit on a chair, and then jumped directly from the sword to become a Buddhist Maitreya statue. I feel confident from east to west and north to south. Do not move.

It's very mysterious, very indifferent, and very high-spirited outside the world who is indifferent and indifferent.

——After all, if you want to ask about the feelings of Elder Tianxian after the war, this person will only say one sentence sincerely: "Jiuzhou Spring Return is really delicious!"

Ning Ning's face was smeared with simple blindfolds to ensure that he would not be seen through by the people in Luan City who had not enough cultivation. In addition, he came to the door of Pei Ji quickly and knocked on the door.

There was a very short silence in the room, and then a cold young man's voice rang in a low voice, without any emotion: "Come in."

The door was unlocked and concealed.

This is not like Pei Ji's style.

Ning Ning was puzzled, but didn't think too much, and pushed the door open with a little force with his right hand.

With a squeak, the scene inside the house slowly appeared before his eyes.

Ningning was slightly startled.

Although Pei Ji feared the darkness, she didn't like the sunshine too much. It was noon at this time, and he habitually closed the curtain in front of the window, so that the whole room was shrouded in a layer of dim light.

And in front of the round table in the middle of the room, there are shadows of thin and tall young people.

——Pei Ji is sitting on the round stool in front of the table, looking down to remove the layers of gauze wrapped around his upper body.

Oh, the meaning of removing the gauze, that is, he took off his shirt.

He seemed to be a little annoyed by the layered bandages, or the wound was opened again because of the rude stitch removal. At this moment, he frowned impatiently, and he moved when he heard the door pushing. Turned his head indifferently.

Then the expression of indifference as stagnant water froze in an instant, although the expression did not change much, the pupils obviously shrank suddenly.

Pei Ji never thought that Ning Ning would knock on the door.

He felt that the hospital was noisy and didn't like to deal with others, so he went back to the inn room after wrapping the gauze. It happened that one of the elders in Su Wentang had nothing to do, and when he saw it, he reached an agreement with him and came to change his dressing at noon.

He concealed the door of the room, thinking that it was the elder standing outside the door. He looked up, but was caught off guard to see another face.

Pei Ji held the gauze tightly with his right hand.

He... is not wearing a shirt at this time.

"Are you changing your dressing?"

Ningning passed the basketball court before and had seen countless male students who took off their shirts and ran like monkeys. In addition, they often surfed the Internet to cultivate their sentiments. She was not surprised by the prospects, but was attracted by the scars on Pei Ji's body. Attention, my heart beats heavily.

But Pei Ji didn't think so.

He has lived in a village lacking spiritual power since he was a child, and the ordinary people beside him are not as open-minded as the cultivation world, let alone as open as the 21st century.

In the custom established by the residents, between men and women of the same age, only couples can see the appearance of each other's clothing removed.

Later, he stepped into the Xuanxu Sword Sect to practice swordsmanship. Although he knew that it was normal to heal each other's injuries, his memories were deeply ingrained for a few years, and Pei Ji came and went alone, and never exposed his injured body to others.

In any case, the first time I was bumped into taking off my coat and changing the dressing, I would inevitably feel flustered.

The young man, who was cold and estranged not long ago, got hot in his ears, and leaned sideways to the head of the bed rather embarrassedly, trying to grab the clothes placed on the bed.

However, he moved in a hurry, causing the wounds all over his body to burst suddenly, and the pain in his heart instantly penetrated into the internal organs, and fell off the round stool in a trance.

It's not saved, it's not saved, not only the upper body was seen by the girl, but the remedial measures were messed up. This time, Pei Xiaoji had no face to see Ningning.

Chengying's spirit body curled up into a rolling ball, and a pair of eyes quietly emerged from the gap of the ball.

In fact, from its perspective, the most effective line at this moment should be "look at my body, you are responsible to me". There is no reason to refute it, and he can definitely simmer rice and cook mature rice, breaking all barriers between the two in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Pei Ji, the incompetent brat, can't say it.

Pei Ji endured the pain, covered his flushed face with one hand, and barely reached the bed with the other hand, covering himself with his shirt.

"What are you doing?"

Ningning was frightened by him, and watched as the wound broke because of this action, overflowing with scarlet blood.

She had no scruples, hurriedly pushed the door behind her, and went straight to Pei Ji.

Even if he fell to the ground, he still had to block his upper body with his clothes, but his appearance now... seemed even more embarrassed than before.

The dark long hair was roughly **** by a hair band, and the hair band was loose at this time, and most of the black hair was pouring lazily on the cold floor, and some brushed over the white jade-like face and slender eye tails of young people Ling San, but also added a little ambiguous color.

Not to mention the rich red on the roots of his ears, and the uncertain eyes.

The smell of rust and the fragrance of the wood plant in the hair blended with each other, and the messy clothes rose and fell gently with the breath, because Pei Ji moved in a hurry, only roughly covering most of the skin of his chest and arms. The muscles on the shoulders and the white waist are faintly visible, it's really a bit--

If he sat motionless on the round stool, Ningning would definitely not have any other thoughts.

But now she is close, and seeing Pei Ji's appearance, she feels dull and hot in her heart.

"The wounds are all open. Don't move, I will help you up."

She squatted down and was about to stretch out her hand, but she saw Pei Ji gritted her teeth to prop up her body, still pressing one hand on the clothing on her collarbone.

His face was cold, and he barely stopped the light tremor caused by the pain, and took a light breath: "...you go out first."

Ningning raised his eyelids to look at him.

Pei Ji deliberately avoided this line of sight, trying to restrain her heartbeat as heavy as a drum. Before she could speak, she soon heard her voice: "What are you going out for? Wait for you to put on your clothes and let the wound crack deeper?"

Ningning seemed to be a little annoyed, and her tone was very anxious: "I have even pulled your hand, and now there is nothing I can't see!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she couldn't help but froze in place.

What can't be seen now like this.

——How can she make her look carelessly now!

It's just holding hands once, even if you round up, it will never become the point where you can meet frankly! What's more, this is also Pei Ji's body, she-

Ningning's thoughts were in a mess, she just wanted to find a coffin and bury herself quietly.

She had never noticed it before, and it turned out that the two ordinary words "body" can be so ambiguous that people's faces are flushed.

Pei Ji was stunned for a while, wondering if he was taken aback by these tiger-wolf words, his face was dumb and there was no expression, but the red tide on his ears rushed to his neck.

"Wow."

Cheng Ying sighed from the heart: "Is Ningning so vigorous?"

"Um, that is, I mean, as a sister and brother of the same school who are in love with each other, our relationship is already pretty good, so don't worry too much about this kind of thing."

Ningning desperately organized the language, trying to restore her image that was declining in the eyes of the younger brother, only hoping that she would not be treated as a shameless female hooligan.

Thinking of the moment when Pei Ji fell heavily to the ground, she subconsciously said as she stretched out her right hand and gently touched the back of the opponent's head: "Is it hurting here?"

She was clumsy, but the soft and soft touch on her palm was extremely reassuring.

Pei Ji was touched by someone's head for the first time, and the sharp pain from the back of his head hitting the floor was relieved, like a heavy ice cube slowly melting, turning into a stream of water and gradually dispersing. A warm feeling brought just the right amount of strength, some comfortable, but also a little itchy.

In the bottom of his heart, he scolded himself for tweaking. He planned to remove the clothes, thinking about the body under the thin shirt, but the action was another pause.

If this body was flawless, Pei Ji would gladly and even expect Ning Ning to see it.

But it is not.

He grew up being beaten and scolded by his mother. The latter hated Mo Xiu who abandoned her and became almost mad. When Pei Ji looked more and more like that man, his revenge became more and more fierce. .

In his more than ten years of life, the only things he has come into contact with are the empty and narrow black rooms, the blood-stained whip sticks and women's merciless slap in the face.

She has always used him as a tool to vent her anger, never healed her only child, but occasionally dropped some cheap gold sore medicine, let him apply it on his own, so as not to die.

Naturally, those shoddy medicines cannot completely heal the scars.

Unlike other people's smooth and clean skin, Pei Ji's body was covered with terrifying, old marks like centipedes. But later he joined the Xuanxu Sword Sect, and many of his fellow students were deliberately targeted during the competitions, which made him even more sword wounds.

Even the doctor in today's medical clinic could not help but sigh and talk to himself when he was rubbing the medicine. He had never seen so many scars on a person.

Regardless of injury or scars, it is commonplace for Pei Ji.

He was never ashamed of this, even if a doctor showed surprise when he saw it, but his expression was faint and ignored.

But at this moment, hesitation and fear spread rapidly from the bottom of my heart, like layers of impenetrable vines, shackling all his movements and thoughts.

... He didn't want Ning Ning to see the pale and ugly body under the clothes.

It doesn't matter to anyone, only she can't.

"what happened?"

Ningning noticed that his eyes darkened, and stretched out his hand to pull the thin shirt covering Pei Ji's body, but when he saw that he was tightening the corners of his clothes tighter, she frowned and said coldly: "You go out."

Chengying guessed the child's inner thoughts, with a rare tone of seriousness, and hesitated: "Pei Xiaoji..."

Pei Ji's expression had eased for an instant, Ningning was confused by this sudden change, and his thoughts were fruitless, and he heard his voice repeating hoarsely: "I can come by myself, no need--"

However, Pei Ji did not have time to finish speaking, and all the words were stuck in his throat.

Even Chengying was taken aback and let out a scream like a toilet bowl.

——Ning Ning grabbed the uninjured part of his back, hugged him in his arms, and then with a little force, he picked up the young man who was much higher than her.

The strength of the cultivator far exceeds that of the ordinary people. Ningning hugged effortlessly and finished in one go. After feeling the extreme stiffness of Pei Ji, he stood up and placed him on the mattress beside him.

Then, while he was in a daze, he lifted off the thin layer of clothes directly.

This operation was like a wolf and a tiger, Rao Shi Chengying was also shocked and stood on the spot, and saw the little girl close at hand scowling, sitting on the edge of the bed and lowering her head.

"If you want to be awkward, wait until I wrap up the wound."

The old gauze stained with blood was scattered after he fell. Ningning carefully took them apart a little bit without stopping, "If the bleeding is not stopped, it is you who are uncomfortable. Tomorrow will be the Lantern Festival in Luan City. Do you want to go out with me-let's hang out together?"

She spoke seriously, frowned and said nothing more as she watched the gauze fall down.

Luo Yuanming's evil formation was very cruel, like countless flying knives with a mighty force stabbing him, **** and **** wherever he went, and because of Pei Ji's movements, he burst into red blood.

In addition to these shocking bloodstains, there are still many old wounds all over his body.

Some are like whip marks, while others are burns, unstructured and of different depths, lying on the pale skin like a majestic force, like fierce cracks on the rough jade.

Ningning really changed her expression.

Pei Ji's eyes were darker, and the deep and dark self-loathing gradually surged, dyeing the entire pupil with ebony black. He only felt unreasonably irritable in his heart, so he deliberately avoided his sight and stopped looking at her.

Maybe Ningning will show sympathy and treat him as a poor scarred creature; maybe she will be taken aback by these ugly scars, showing disgust and repulsion.

No matter which possibility it was, it made him dull.

"...And I always say ‘come by yourself’, what about the wound on the back?"

However, Ningning did not show disgust, nor did she show compassion and charity, but approached him solemnly, holding both hands on both sides of Pei Ji's cheeks, and gently swaying to the left and right:

"Do you have eyes behind your back, or can your head turn back one hundred and eighty degrees? Let me see-it doesn't seem to work."

Pei Ji didn't have too much energy left. At this moment, the girl was holding her face, and she could only let her mercy.

Ning Ning only swayed from side to side for two or three times, and continued to hold his face, moving closer to him.

Not only their faces, but their eyes are also very close.

The face covered between her hands was very hot, the skin burned by her breathing was very hot, and the eyes that intersected with Ningning's eyes were also slightly hot.

Pei Ji was stunned and speechless, and the girl's voice rang like a bell in her ears: "So, do you want me to help you stop the bleeding with medicine?"

Pei Ji:...

Pei Ji: "Yes."

Wonderful, wonderful.

Cheng Ying tut was amazed, Pei Xiaoji was really eaten to death by Ningning, after so many years, someone could finally cure his bad temper. This character is too bad, he can't escape.

Ningning removed the blood-stained gauze and picked up the cotton cloth that Pei Ji had prepared from the wooden table.

Pei Ji was about to become a blood man, and he had to wipe off the blood that was in the way.

If you ignore the deep and shallow scars, this body is actually very beautiful.

He is thin and tall, but he does not appear to be too weak. Because of his sword practice all the year round, he can see even and uniform muscles on his arms and abdomen. It has the unique slenderness of a young man, but also contains strength everywhere, like dormant in the night Beast.

The cotton cloth was soaked in water, and it first fell on the collarbone, and then dropped a little bit with a distracting chill to the chest where the injury was the most serious.

Every inch of skin was taken into her eyes, and there was nowhere to hide. Although Ningning's gaze was soft, it was as real as it was, quietly spreading to every hidden corner of his body, like a gentle knife.

Pei Ji held his breath, secretly exerted force with his fingertips, and grasped the wrinkled bed sheet tightly.

"If it hurts you, you must tell me."

Ning Ning looked at his wound, always feeling that the same place on her body was also inexplicably aching, and she glanced across the dark brown old wounds, and probably understood why Pei Ji insisted on letting her leave.

He has always had a strong self-esteem, even if he is afraid of the dark thing, he has a hard duck mouth, and he hides it desperately, so that no one knows.

These wounds are really not beautiful, and Pei Ji definitely doesn't want others to see these scars. Now that she can see them all, she must be very uncomfortable.

Ningning decided to praise him.

"Has anyone said? Your collarbone is very beautiful."

She carefully wiped off a mass of dirty blood, concentrated on trying not to touch the wound, and continued to say, "The shape of the muscles on the hands is also the same. You must be practicing swords on time every day? And the fingers and neck are all beautiful. , It’s my favorite class—"

Pei Ji's body froze obviously.

Ningning's head rumbled and exploded.

The air in the room was stagnant.

what.

She shouldn't be distracted when she says such things.

——Why do you suddenly speak the truth! This is too dead! How would Pei Ji look at her after hearing it! ! !

It's over, it's over.

Ning Ning gave up thinking in confusion, and gave up thinking altogether. The cotton cloth twirled in his heart and moved down to the waist and abdomen.

Pei Ji's waist was lean, her muscles tightened smoothly inward, and she was soft and slender, very beautiful.

It's the kind of beauty that people can't help but want to touch.

The wound in this place was particularly serious. The coagulated blood covered the cracked scar. In order to avoid the wound as much as possible, Ningning moved closer when wiping it.

So when the cotton cloth was gently wiped, the girl's gentle breath spread silently on the skin, like a warm feather slowly sweeping across her waist.

It is more crisp than the electric current. It has a hemp touch, which is invisible and can not be retained.

Pei Ji's breathing froze, and his body trembled.

Ningning raised her head to look at him, but the motion in her hand stopped abruptly: "Does it hurt?"

He took this gaze blankly, and a hoarse voice overflowed from his throat: "...itchy."

"Are you still ticklish?"

She was full of worry and finally got a little less, and she gently twitched the corners of her mouth when she heard the words, with a few playful smiles in her eyes: "Then when you are healing in the hospital, don't you make the doctor very big?"

That's not the case.

Pei Ji quietly refuted her in her heart.

Others healed him, no matter how badly he was injured, he would not make any sound from beginning to end. Even if it is unbearable occasionally, it will only grit and groan.

Even the elder Su Wentang said that he looked like a dead body without moving and talking. If it really hurts, it doesn't hurt to call out loudly.

Until this time I ran into her, her body became different from usual.

……too weird.

Naturally, it is impossible to tell her this kind of words personally, Pei Ji didn't say anything again, and hurriedly lowered his eyes, and his eyes quietly landed on the face of the little girl in front of him.

Ningning lowered her head, and from his perspective, she could only see the girl's smooth forehead and beautiful straight nose. The room was faint and silent, and her thick and dark long eyelashes were hanging down slowly. Between them, they looked like the trembling wings of a butterfly.

She has never suffered since she was a child, her skin is fair and soft, without the slightest blemish, like a soft white jade cake.

I don't know how it feels when touched.

Pei Ji was slightly stunned by this sudden thought, and it was at this moment that a cool wind blew on his side.

The wind came unexpectedly, and it happened to be where he was most sensitive and painful.

Just like the long-arid land met long-lost rain, the tingling pain deep into the bone marrow spreads away, turning into an itching scratching the heart and lungs, following the blood and hitting the whole body in a flash.

Pei Ji almost exhausted all the remaining consciousness before pressing the urge to exhale back into his throat, only the fingers pressed on the bed sheet were tightened harder, and the knuckles became pale.

Ningning sighed softly to the most severely injured part of his waist.

"Pei, Pei Xiaoji."

Chengying trembled and carefully examined his reaction at this moment: "Can you still hold it? Hold it back, be sure to hold back, think about your swordsmanship, your storage bag, your ideal ambition... …Don’t be impulsive!"

He has enough self-control, he will certainly not be impulsive,

The spiritual power in the body gurgled like flowing water, eliminating the rich and dry heat in his heart. Pei Ji didn't make any sound. He stared attentively and saw Ning Ning raise his head again, still smiling at him.

"I think you have the deepest wound here, and it should be quite painful-will it feel better if you blow it like this?"

He did feel better.

But in some ways, it is getting worse.

This kind of unintentional teasing is the most tormenting, Pei Ji's Adam's apple moved slightly, and it took a while before she replied in a dumb voice: "...Well, thank you."

"Thank you for this."

Ningning smiled, her round apricot eyes curled in a shallow arc, and her voice seemed to be soaked in sugar: "Actually, it was quite comfortable for you to breathe in my hand last time."

She was talking about the fact that she was injured in the secret realm, and Pei Ji was instigated by the shadow to blow lightly on the wound.

The cool breath still swirled in the waist and abdomen, pulling out bursts of dry air that were diametrically opposed to it. Pei Ji didn't even have the strength to reply, and buried his head even lower.

Ningning's gaze continued to move downwards, there was clearly no substance, and it was so simple that there were no impurities at all, but his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly.

He felt like he was going crazy.

Ning Ning wiped it with no distraction, unaware of the reddishness and the slightly trembling breath that appeared at the end of the young man's eyes.

She seriously wiped off the semi-coagulated blood, and was about to pick up the wound medicine from the table, but she heard an extremely clear jingle in her ears.

An ominous premonition surged in Ningning's heart.

It was a long-lost system prompt, and it suddenly sounded at this time, and there is no good thing.

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