Chapter 242: Chapter 242: Awkwardness

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Shen Mo’s gaze was icy cold as he silently glanced at her before getting up to leave.

Bai Youwei stood still, watching him head for the back door, and couldn’t help but grimace, finding the whole situation quite dull.

Pan Xiaoxin, who had been quietly roasting some food over the fire in a corner, glanced at the two and whispered, “Sister Weiwei, if you speak to Brother Mo like that, he’ll get angry.”

Bai Youwei sneered and rolled her eyes, “What’s there to get angry about? Didn’t I just ask him if he cries?”

Pan Xiaoxin thought for a moment

Despite feeling that Bai Youwei’s question was inappropriate, he couldn’t exactly articulate why.

“Maybe it’s unlucky,” suggested Pan Xiaoxin uncertainly.

“Even if it’s unlucky, it’s only unlucky for me, I never claimed he’d become a doll~” retorted Bai Youwei coldly, “What’s the big deal if I just ask? Humph, so petty!”

Pan Xiaoxin didn’t know what to say; he opened his mouth, then closed it again, and continued roasting his food in silence.

—Alas, it was better not to meddle in the affairs of adults as a child.

“Hey, Xiaoxin.” Bai Youwei called out to him.

Startled, Pan Xiaoxin looked at her.

Bai Youwei irritably said, “Go, bring me my loquats.”

Pan Xiaoxin: “Huh? .. Get .get loquats?”

“What’s wrong?” Bai Youwei frowned, “Didn’t you and Tan Xiao pick a lot of them? I remember you kept them in your bag.”

“Loquats?” Their teacher overheard them from the kitchen, and poked his head out to ask, “Weiwei, do you want to eat loquats?”

He brought out a large glass bowl with about twenty loquats left in it.

Bai Youwei’s face fell instantly: “That’s all that’s left?”

Su Man and Zhu Shu were still seated in the dining area and could not help but feel awkward upon hearing this, as if they had stolen someone else’s snack.

Their teacher quickly tried to pacify her, “We didn’t bring any food with us and we don’t know how long we’ll be trapped here, so we had to eat your loquats first. But don’t worry Weiwei, we’ll pick more for you once we get out.”

Bai Youwei pouted a bit. Although she was somewhat unhappy, she understood the whole picture was bigger, thus, she didn’t say anything.

Fearing that the others misunderstanding Bai Youwei, the teacher explained to Su Man and Zhu Shu, “Weiwei has never had fresh loquats before, the ones in Xiaoxin’s bag were picked especially for her, she really treasures them.”

“Who treasures them?” Bai Youwei said annoyed, “I just haven’t tried freshly picked loquats, that’s all, I’m not particularly fond of them!”

She turned her face away, staring at the fire, and ignoring everyone.

Everyone in the room could feel the sulky tension from her.

Resenting such inexplicably childish female behavior, Su Man silently glanced at Zhu Shu by her side. Suddenly, compared to Bai Youwei, Zhu Shu seemed far more adorable.

Then Shen Mo came back, his arms once again filled with firewood.

He squatted down beside Bai Youwei and started to stack the wood methodically.

Bai Youwei thought he would appease her since the loquats were gone.

However, he didn’t utter a word or even glanced at her, he just got up and walked towards the staircase, where he began talking to Yan Qingwen, who had just come downstairs.

“I’ve checked the entire floor, the flooring and walls, but found no hidden compartments. I’ve asked Li Li to draw a blueprint upstairs to see if anything looks amiss.”

“There’s firewood and an axe out the back door. The axe is rusty. Nothing else out of the ordinary was found.”

“We should set up a night watch.”

“Okay, we need two people downstairs—one for the front door and one for the back—as well as one person in the hallway on the second floor.”

“That’s three people in total. There are only ten of us, not counting the children. We have just enough people for three shifts.”

”  Count me in,” Pan Xiaoxin hesitated as he glanced at Bai Youwei, “Sister Weiwei still has a fever, I’ll take her place.”

Shen Mo looked at Pan Xiaoxin, then Bai Youwei who had kept her back turned to everyone, thought for a moment, and nodded, “Alright, you can take her place then.”