Time Travel and Love

People who smoke normally should have this feeling. They don’t feel anything when they can’t see the cigarettes, but they want to smoke when they see them. Chu Qingmeng was the same at this time. She looked at the cigarette box again and again. She couldn’t see it or think of it on weekdays, but when she saw it, her urge to smoke came back. But now, even a cough would hurt her to death, and she didn’t dare to smoke. She picked up the cigarette box, opened it and smelled it, and was about to let Mo Liujin take it away and put it back, but Mu Lingxue just walked into the room. Seeing her holding the cigarette box and smelling it, her face changed immediately. She rushed forward and snatched the cigarette box, looking at Chu Qingmeng with a bad look.

Mo Liujin and the others looked at Chu Qingmeng and Mu Lingxue with confusion, and saw Chu Qingmeng write guiltily, "I didn't smoke, I just smelled it."

Mu Lingxue stared at her sharply and said, "Let me ask you, do you still want to live?"

Mo Liujin's face immediately turned cold when he heard this, "Second sister-in-law, what do you mean by this?"

"Mo Liujin, remember this! If she touches this thing again, you're going to slap her!" Mu Lingxue gritted her teeth as she looked at Chu Qingmeng, who was talking to Mo Liujin, and ignored the sign Chu Qingmeng was holding up. "What are you doing? Instigating him to hit me?!" She turned to Mo Jiangqing and Mo Jiangche and said, "You two, remember this too! If she touches this thing again, I'll throw her into the water!"

Mo Liuyuan, who came in later, was also bewildered, not knowing why his wife had suddenly lost her temper. He tried to persuade her quietly. Mu Lingxue sneered and said to Mo Liujin, "This stuff is poisonous to the lungs and addictive! After being exposed to it, the lungs will be completely black! Her heart and lungs are already seriously injured, and you let her smoke this stuff! If she smokes it a few more times, you'll be waiting for her body to be collected!"

Chu Qingmeng stared at Mu Lingxue with wide eyes. "Sister, why are you still playing tricks on me? How can you say that?" She wrote hurriedly, "Can you stop scaring me?! What do you mean you have to collect my body if I smoke a few more times?"

After hearing Mu Lingxue's words, Mo Liujin's face turned even colder. He turned around and looked at Chu Qingmeng on the bed. Chu Qingmeng felt that she couldn't explain it clearly now, so she simply wrote, "Mu Lingxue, you are bullying me because I can't speak and can't explain!"

"Explain? What do you want to explain? Most people smoke one box of this stuff a day. If, as you said before, you relied on this stuff to numb yourself in the mountains so that you wouldn't think about those three guys, then you'd smoke at least two boxes a day, maybe even more!" Mu Lingxue had no idea she had inadvertently revealed the truth. "Mo Liujin, this stuff has 20 cigarettes in a box, 40 in two boxes! If we only count the ones she smokes during the day, that's one cigarette every quarter of an hour! Even if the toxicity of this stuff is very low, she deserves to die at this rate! Judging from her behavior, she must be smoking three boxes a day, right?"

Chu Qingmeng felt guilty. She was right! The whole carton of cigarettes her nephews bought her was gone in just three days. She wrote with a guilty conscience, "I really didn't smoke just now! I swear, in the past twenty days since I came back, I've only smoked three! I'm ready to quit! After all, there are so many children in the mansion, and it's not good for them."

"Hmph!" Mu Lingxue snorted coldly and walked away. She knew Mo Liujin would take care of her, so she simply ignored her. Mo Liuyuan didn't say a word and chased Mu Lingxue out. Mo Liujin's face was so cold that it could freeze a few people to death. He looked at Chu Qingmeng and said, "Jiang Qing and Jiang Che, you two should take the Li and Xu families and the children back first."

"Yes, father." The two brothers' faces were not very good, and they simply responded and took their families out. After all, their father would handle this matter.

"Chu Qingmeng." Mo Liujin spoke coldly. Chu Qingmeng felt guilty. She knew Mo Liujin was angry, but she couldn't speak or explain. She could only smile at Mo Liujin guiltily and wanted to hug him. Mo Liujin took a step back, not giving her a chance to act coquettishly. He looked at her coldly, "Why did you touch this thing when you knew it was poisonous?"

Seeing that he wasn't buying it, Chu Qingmeng could only explain, "When I was in the mountains, my mind was full of you three, father and son, and I could hardly sleep the whole night. But my body couldn't bear it if I didn't, and I had to pester Master to send me back during the day, so I had no choice but to use this to stay awake. When I was really sleepy, I drank some wine to stop dreaming and stay awake all night. With this thing, I can make it back. Without it, I would be sick before I get back."

Looking at her explanation, Mo Liujin felt distressed. His expression softened a little before he asked, "Now that you're back, why are you still touching this thing?"

"Didn't Mu Lingxue say that? This stuff is addictive." Chu Qingmeng explained awkwardly, "I admit that I was craving cigarettes just now, but I was desperate, so I didn't smoke. I just sniffed it to relieve my craving."

Looking at her trying to explain for a long time, Mo Liujin sighed, picked it up high and put it down gently, then sat back on the bed, leaning sideways so as not to press her down. He put his head on Chu Qingmeng's neck again and said softly, "Qingmeng, you can not care about your body, but I really do. You don't know that when the imperial physician gave you acupuncture that day, I saw how painful you were. I wanted to stop the treatment and let me accompany you. I really can't bear to see you in so much pain. Please don't touch this thing again, okay? I want you to be with me peacefully for the rest of your life."

Chu Qingmeng nodded and raised her hands to hug him back. Just as the ambiguous atmosphere between the two was slowly growing, the door was pushed open.