Chapter 49: Appetite

"Qingjiu, your face is so red." Seeing Lu Qingjiu cowering under the bedding, Yin Xun said in surprise, "Are you running a fever?"

Lu Qingjiu's head was a little heavy and he couldn't understand what Yin Xun was saying for a while, but he looked at Yin Xun with blank eyes.

Seeing Lu Qingjiu's appearance, Yin Xun understood that he must be sick, and hurriedly said, "I'll go and get a thermometer, wait a moment." With that, he ran to the living room where the medical kit was kept.

Bai Yuehu's hand rested on Lu Qingjiu's forehead, and the coolness of his hand made Lu Qingjiu want to get closer, so he naturally rubbed his forehead against the back of Bai Yuehu's hand.

Bai Yuehu let Lu Qingjiu move, his hand gently pressed against Lu Qingjiu's flushed cheek, feeling the burning warmth of Lu Qingjiu's skin. Ordinary humans are so fragile, the low temperature can cause their bodies to break down, and Bai Yuehu looks at Lu Qingjiu quietly, his eyes falling on the nape of Lu Qingjiu's neck. The neck had always been the most fragile part of the human body, and with a gentle bite, he could hear a crunching sound, and the person in front of him would be his for good, and he would never have to worry about losing him for some other frivolous reason.

When Yin Xun came in with the thermometer, he saw Bai Yuehu licking his lips at Lu Qingjiu, his black eyes taking on a faint red tinge, not quite visible, but enough to give people the willies.

Yin Xun, shocked at the sight, shouted: " Lu Qingjiu ".

Bai Yuehu turned his head, seemingly pulled out of a certain state by Yin Xun's shout, and the red inside his eyes began to fade rapidly, returning to their usual darkness.

"I've brought it over." Yin Xun pretended not to see Bai Yuehu's difference and walked straight up to Lu Qingjiu, shoving the thermometer into his mouth, "Hold it for now."

Lu Qingjiu was dazed and confused, completely unaware of what was happening, he dutifully held the thermometer in his mouth and muttered, "Am I running a fever"

Yin Xun said, "I suppose so." He scratched his head, "Seriously, I haven't been sick in ages"

Lu Qingjiu was also a bit helpless: "Yeah, I'm the only ordinary person here."

The temperature was measured at thirty-nine degrees, and it was indeed a fever. Luckily, Lu Qingjiu had prepared a lot of medicine for the winter, just in case there were any surprises. Yin Xun took Lu Qingjiu's medicine and gave it to him according to his instructions, while Bai Yuehu prepared some ice towels for Lu Qingjiu to put on his forehead.

"Hey, why are you suddenly sick." Lu Qingjiu huddled sickly at the head of the bed, "I haven't had a fever in ages."

"Is it because you're too tired," Yin Xun says, "or because you've accidentally got snow melting off?"

Lu Qingjiu shook his head to show that he didn't know; illnesses always come suddenly, and if he had known the exact cause, he might not have fallen ill.

He had felt cold, but when the fire was burning, he felt a little too hot and wanted to lift the blanket to get some air, but was stopped by Yin Xun, who said anxiously, "Don't, cover yourself with sweat first, it will be worse if you catch cold.

Lu Qingjiu is a bit uncomfortable: "But it's so hot"

Yin Xun discouraged, "Bear with it."

Bai Yuehu sat quietly beside him as they talked, clearly not very good at this whole human sickness thing and seemingly at a loss for words.

Lu Qingjiu woke up and slept intermittently, and by the time he was feeling better, it was completely dark, so Yin Xun sent Bai Yuehu to the kitchen to pour Lu Qingjiu a glass of water, while he gently pushed Lu Qingjiu awake.

"Well," Lu Qingjiu asked.

"I have to go home to renew the incense and candles." Yin Xun said in a trembling voice, "I can't come until tomorrow."

Lu Qingjiu sensed an unusual meaning in Yin Xun's words: "What's wrong?"

Yin Xun admonished in a serious manner, "Qing wine, when I leave later, when you are alone with Bai Yuehu, don't fall asleep and try to stay awake."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Ah why?"

Yin Xun said, "He likes you too much."

When Lu Qingjiu heard this, he froze for a moment, still not understanding why Yin Xun had suddenly said this: "What?"

Yin Xun said, "You don't know, they have a habit of swallowing whatever they like. Although his words were unbelievable, Yin Xun's serious expression told Lu Qingjiu that he really wasn't joking.

Lu Qingjiu said, "I know, you go ahead."

"Try not to fall asleep." Yin Xun is a little anxious, "Just get through the night and you should be fine."

Lu Qingjiu nodded in response to Yin Xun's request.

As soon as they had finished talking, Bai Yuehu entered the room with a glass of water, which he fed to Lu Qingjiu's mouth and watched him drink a little.

Yin Xun said, "Then I'll leave now and see you in the morning."

"Mmm." Lu Qingjiu finished his water and felt a little more comfortable, "See you in the morning, be safe."

Yin Xun waved his hand and turned to go, only his eyes told Lu Qingjiu as he walked away that he was still worried about whether Bai Yuehu would do something irreparable.

With Yin Xun, the most talkative person, gone, the room is quiet and Lu Qingjiu is leaning against the bed, his face paler than usual because of his illness, but his lips are red and bright and look particularly delicious.

Lu Qingjiu was a little uncomfortable with Bai Yuehu's stare, so he tried to find a topic of conversation to distract Bai Yuehu: "What did you have for dinner?"

Bai Yuehu said, "I didn't eat it."

Lu Qingjiu was stunned: "Why didn't you eat it? I made chicken soup, didn't I?"

Bai Yuehu said, "I'm not hungry."

Lu Qingjiu thought to himself, "If you're not hungry, don't look at me like that, as if you want to swallow me up.

Lu Qingjiu senses this potential danger, but miraculously, he is not too frightened and instead finds it a little amusing.

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm a bit hungry."

Bai Yuehu frowned, "I'll bring you some chicken soup."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Why don't you make me a chicken soup with rice and grab some pickled vegetables to put in it?"

Bai Yuehu nodded, got up and went to bring back what Lu Qingjiu wanted in no time. The chicken soup was hot, soaked with soft rice and topped with a layer of green onions, and a small bowl with neatly chopped pickles.

Lu Qingjiu took the bowl and spooned the food into his mouth, slowly. The soft, fresh taste of the chicken soup soothed his hungry stomach and the crisp, refreshing taste of the savoury vegetables, topped with a little of Lu Qingjiu's favourite spicy oil, made him feel better as he ate for a while before a little sweat dripped from the tip of his nose.

"You're really not hungry." Lu Qingjiu finished eating and put the bowl down.

Bai Yuehu shakes his head.

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm really not hungry."

Bai Yuehu said, "I'm not hungry."

Lu Qingjiu blinked, in fact he didn't quite believe Bai Yuehu that he wasn't hungry, after all Bai Yuehu ate a lot at every meal, but maybe because he ate a lot, he was also slow to get hungry

Lu Qingjiu felt a little cold again as he thought, "Is the charcoal under the bed about to go out?"

Bai Yuehu glanced at it and frowned slightly, "There's a lot of fire."

"Then why do I still feel cold," Lu Qingjiu wrapped his blanket tightly around himself, but he felt nothing, "I'm so cold."

Bai Yuehu: "Still cold"

Lu Qingjiu nods heavily.

Bai Yuehu thought about it and sat down beside Lu Qingjiu, then nine furry tails poked out from behind him and wrapped Lu Qingjiu up in front of him. These tails were warmer than the body temperature of a normal human being, and as they wrapped him up Lu Qingjiu felt as if he had fallen into a soft, warm piece of cotton, and let out a moan of comfort.

Bai Yuehu looked at Lu Qingjiu, sunken in his fur, and said, "Is that better?"

"It's so comfortable and soft." Lu Qingjiu stroked Bai Yuehu's tail and giggled, "That's better, aren't you cold?" In this weather Bai Yuehu was wearing a thin jacket and Lu Qingjiu felt a chill on his neck.

"It's not cold." Bai Yuehu replied.

With his body warm again, and having just eaten and taken medication for his fever, Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but get sleepy, even though he told himself to try to hold on.

Drowsy and yawning uncontrollably, Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu chatted with each other, forcing themselves not to fall asleep.

Bai Yuehu's voice is soft: "Are you sleepy?"

"A little," Lu Qingjiu rubbed his eyes, "I'm a little sleepy."

Bai Yuehu said, "Go to sleep if you are sleepy."

Lu Qingjiu said vaguely, "If I sleep, will you eat me up?"

Bai Yuehu didn't expect Lu Qingjiu to ask directly, but he smiled when he heard this, and he said, "I'll try to control it."

"Just control?" Lu Qingjiu said helplessly, "Can't you give me a guarantee or something?"

Bai Yuehu frowned a little bitterly: "

Can't give a guarantee, you look too delicious." He reached out and gently tapped his hand on Lu Qingjiu's chin, then slowly slid it down, finally resting on the knot of Lu Qingjiu's throat where he swallowed slightly, "I'll try."

Lu Qingjiu laughed: "I'm sorry for you."

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything and licked his lips.

Lu Qingjiu wanted to keep going, but he couldn't. His eyelids were fighting and he was sure that if he closed his eyes for three seconds, he would fall asleep. Lu Qingjiu fought his sleepiness for a long time, but he finally gave in, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't hold on any longer, and the moment before his eyes slowly closed, Lu Qingjiu saw the red glow in Bai Yuehu's eyes, and he was probably going to be eaten.

He slept comfortably, his fluffy tail wrapped firmly around Lu Qingjiu, making him feel as if he was sleeping in a soft cloud, his illness seemed to be being healed and his heavy body started to become lighter.

However, this comfort did not last long before pain woke Lu Qingjiu from his dream, and he opened his eyes blankly to feel someone on top of him, the weight of which made it impossible for him to get up.

The sensation of a sharp object piercing his neck brought Lu Qingjiu quickly to his senses and he realised that someone was buried in his shoulder and was nibbling on his neck, no doubt it was Bai Yuehu.

"Bai Yuehu" the desire for survival made Lu Qingjiu make a hard sound, he put his hands against Bai Yuehu's shoulders, trying to push him away from him, but the difference between human and non-human was at this point obvious, he used all his strength, but Bai Yuehu He used all his strength, but Bai Yuehu did not move at all.

"Ah," Lu Qingjiu cried out in pain as he felt the skin on his neck being bitten and the bright red blood dripping onto the pillow, "Bai Yuehu, stop!"

At the sound of Lu Qingjiu's voice, Bai Yuehu's movements stalled and he slowly looked up at Lu Qingjiu beneath him.

Lu Qingjiu saw Bai Yuehu's face, and though his expression was not unlike his usual, the red blood staining his lips gave him an added treacherous allure as he called out to him, "Sake."

Lu Qingjiu breathed heavily as he said, " Bai Yuehu, are you hungry"

Bai Yuehu said, "I'm not hungry."

Lu Qingjiu swallowed: "I'm not hungry, why are you biting me?"

"Are you afraid?" Bai Yuehu asked him suddenly, his hand touching the bite wound on Lu Qingjiu's neck, dabbing a little blood with his index finger, then taking it into his mouth and slowly sucking it, then the corners of his mouth curled up into a smile, seemingly satisfied, "It's just as delicious as I imagined. Just as delicious."

Lu Qingjiu forced himself to calm down as he said, "You're going to eat me."

Bai Yuehu said, "What do you think?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I think, you are not trying to eat me."

Bai Yuehu does not speak, but gazes quietly into Lu Qingjiu's eyes, as if judging something.

"If you wanted to eat me, you would have swallowed me in one gulp, why make me wake up in pain" Lu Qingjiu said, "Really?"

Bai Yuehu was silent for a long time, and just as a cold sweat began to slide across Lu Qingjiu's back, he nodded and said, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu is relieved.

But just as Lu Qingjiu was breathing a sigh of relief, Bai Yuehu leaned down again and leaned in close to Lu Qingjiu's neck, then carefully licked up all the blood that had dripped from the skin he had bitten. The seriousness of his attitude reminded Lu Qingjiu of the way he treated his own precious ingredients, not wanting to waste any of them.

Lu Qingjiu could only lie on the bed and let Bai Yuehu move, not daring to stimulate him any more. What had just happened had made him sure that Bai Yuehu really wanted to eat him, with his skin and bones, without any of them left.

I don't know how long it took before Bai Yuehu's movements stopped just as Lu Qingjiu even suspected he was about to fall asleep.

He got up, examined the marks he had left on Lu Qingjiu's neck, inclined his head and said, "Are you afraid of me?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "No, I won't."

"Why not?" Bai Yuehu said, "I'd like to eat you."

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "Just thinking, not doing."

Bai Yuehu said, "Are you really not afraid of me?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, I'm not very scared."

Bai Yuehu watched Lu Qingjiu's expression and made sure that the man in front of him was not lying before he completely left Lu Qingjiu's body. Lu Qingjiu, on the other hand, clearly realised that the question he had just asked seemed to conceal some kind of life-threatening danger, and that if he was really afraid of Bai Yuehu because of this matter and dodged his eyes in the stare-off, perhaps the next moment, this man in front of him, who was too beautiful to be human, would transform into a prototype and swallow him in one gulp.

Bai Yuehu does not like people to be afraid of him, and he does not need to live with people who are afraid of him.

Luckily for Lu Qingjiu, he was not as scared of Bai Yuehu as he appeared to be, so he was lucky to escape with his life.

Bai Yuehu got up from Lu Qingjiu, but the nine furry tails were still wrapped around Lu Qingjiu, who reached up and touched the wound on the side of his neck, and unsurprisingly felt a tooth mark.

Lu Qingjiu thought of something and his expression turned serious.

Bai Yuehu said, "What are you thinking about?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "That fox is a canine, isn't it?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Well."

Lu Qingjiu says: "Should I get a rabies vaccination after being bitten by a canine?"

Bai Yuehu :""

"But you seem to have been bitten in human form." Lu Qingjiu was torn, "So is it considered that I was bitten by a human or a fox"

The two men stared wide-eyed and did not speak for a long time.

In the end, Lu Qingjiu gave up and said it should be fine, and asked Bai Yuehu if he had ever bitten anyone before.

"No." Bai Yuehu stated quite bluntly, "I never bite."

Lu Qingjiu was just about to flash a smile when he heard him add mercilessly, "I never swallow it in one bite."

Lu Qingjiu said aggressively, "Then why did you bite me?"

Bai Yuehu says, "You look so good, it's a shame to swallow it in one bite."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu said, "I didn't know you'd wake up just when I got a taste of it."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Why do you sound so sorry? If I hadn't woken up, I would have ended up here today! It seems that Pang Ziqi's words have some truth to them, there is no logic to the fierce beast!

Lu Qingjiu said weakly, "So what do you think of the taste?"

Bai Yuehu said, "It smells so good."

Lu Qingjiu was in tears, not realising that Bai Yuehu had learned this expression too.

Lu Qingjiu didn't dare sleep too much for the rest of the night, but Bai Yuehu seemed to have given up on him. It was almost dawn when Yin Xun arrived from his home in the wind and snow and was heavily relieved to see Lu Qingjiu in one piece.

Lu Qingjiu excuses Bai Yuehu and tells him to get himself a basin of hot water, then tells Yin Xun what happened last night.

Yin Xun looked at the teeth marks on the side of Lu Qingjiu's neck and said with trepidation, "Damn, weren't you scared?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm probably burnt out, I'm not particularly scared."

Yin Xun said, "That was horrible, I would have pissed myself on the spot." The bite on the neck was the same as being bitten on the lifeblood, and if Bai Yuehu exerted just a little bit more force, the fragile neck would have made a crunching sound and snapped off in one fell swoop, thanks to Lu Qingjiu's calmness.

Lu Qingjiu said, "What are you afraid of? Aren't you made of water?"

Yin Xun: "My body is made of water but my heart is as crystal clear as glass, soft and fragile."

Lu Qingjiu makes a vomiting face as Yin Xun smiles shyly and continues to disgust Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu said after she had finished spitting, "But then again, he wants to eat me because he likes me."

Yin Xun said, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu felt that the logic was a bit off and wondered, "So if he didn't eat me, does that mean he doesn't actually like me that much?"

Yin Xun thought about it, "I think it's because he likes you so much that he didn't eat you." In fact, he understood Bai Yuehu's thoughts, usually it was fine, this Lu Qingjiu would give people a fragile feeling when he was sick, making them think that all humans are so easy to lose, and they would still be sad if they lost them, so they might as well put them in their stomachs in advance, so that they would never have to worry about being separated. But what Yin Xun didn't expect was that Bai Yuehu had restrained his appetite and let Lu Qingjiu live, even though he had opened his mouth, and when he came over today he was really scared to see Bai Yuehu alone in the house with the bed empty.

Lu Qingjiu felt that he could not understand them as a group of non-humans, but it did not matter, as long as he was still alive.

Lu Qingjiu washed his face with hot water in the house, but he felt sticky and wanted to take a shower.

"You're still taking a bath," Yin Xun said, "I'm afraid you'll have a relapse afterwards." He had just taken Lu Qingjiu's temperature and it was back to normal, but the weather was too cold and Lu Qingjiu's health was not good.

"So what do we do," Lu Qingjiu said, "we can't just keep getting tired of each other."

"Just wipe your body with hot water, it's okay to take it off since this room is so warm." Yin Xun said.

"All right." Lu Qingjiu didn't force himself, he didn't dare to get sick again, it was enough that he suffered if he got sick, there was a greedy vixen watching him, this time it was just a tooth mark, next time if he didn't wake up, who knows if he would be able to open his eyes again

Lu Qingjiu then simply wiped his upper body in the room, mainly to clean up the sweat stains left on his body, he wiped and suddenly remembered something: "Right, where is the little fox cub" he remembered that it was still beside him when he went to bed yesterday, but after he woke up, it was gone.

Bai Yuehu frowned at Lu Qingjiu's gaze, "What are you looking at me for? I'm not interested in it because it has so little meat."

Lu Qingjiu whispered, "I don't really have much meat either."

Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu nodded together, "Yes, yes, look Lu Qingjiu is covered in bones."

Bai Yuehu said, "It's okay, you still have room to grow."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Thank you for looking at it, but forget it.

Bai Yuehu said, "He's sleeping outside with two pigs, which is quite nice."

Lu Qingjiu was relieved to hear that he didn't think Bai Yuehu would eat the fox cub, after all, they were of the same race, perhaps. But it seems that Yin Xun already knew what Bai Yuehu was, and Lu Qingjiu didn't have the heart to ask, after all, Bai Yuehu couldn't eat him because he liked his work, while Yin Xun obviously wasn't so lucky.

The worst part is that Bai Yuehu eats half of the Yin Xun and the next day the Yin Xun grows back, making it a perfect candidate for recycling.

The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu: This Lu Qingjiu is sick.

Lu Qingjiu: I can still salvage it

Bai Yuehu: No need to salvage it, eat it.

Lu Qingjiu: ahhhhhhhhhhhh