Chapter 527: Teaching with words and personal examples (1/2)
Chapter 527: Teaching with words and personal examples
Once she could breathe again, Han Yunxi felt much more comfortable. She quickly straightened up to suck in deep lungfuls of air. Long Feiye’s hand was left touching nothing, causing him to regain his sensations. He ignored the reactions in his lower body to ask with concern, “Did you cough it all out?”
Han Yunxi nodded as she adjusted her breathing, never realizing how the man had just eaten his fill of her tofu. To her, emergency rescue situations were all too common, much less one involving herself. Under those circumstances, who would care about so many details?
Once Long Feiye was certain that she was alright, he silently exhaled. His gaze couldn’t help but wander to Han Yunxi’s body. The memory of her unclothed form in the hot springs at Jiangnan’s Plum Blossom Sea rose unbidden to his mind, turning his breaths heavy. He always knew that this woman had an exquisite, delicately wrought form with all the bumps and curves despite her petite frame.
Han Yunxi was oblivious to his thoughts as she drank some water to clear her throat. Then she said seriously, “Long Feiye, let me teach you an emergency rescue technique.” She stood behind him to demonstrate, only to find that he was too tall for her to reach. Without no other choice, she changed her methods. After hugging Long Feiye’s abdomen from the back, she told him to bend forward. One of her hands formed into a fist against his stomach, above the belly button but below the sternum. The other wrapped around the fist and made quick pushing motions in and up.
“This is an emergency method for treating choking victims. Just then I taught you a different one, let me demonstrate.”
This could be called teaching with words and personal examples. Han Yunxi’s expression was focused as she took Long Feiye’s hand and rested it against her chest before leaning forward. “Form your other hand into a fist and place it between my shoulder blades.”
Long Feiye did as he was told, making Han Yunxi very satisfied. “Right, just like this. Now use force to beat my back! If that still doesn’t solve the problem after five to six hits, switch to the other method.”
She was about to straighten up when Long Feiye muttered, “So the method Zhao mama taught your lordship in the past was wrong?”
Han Yunxi finally recalled a memory of the past. When she choked on lotus seed soup, Zhao mama had taught Long Feiye how to straighten her out. She’d been taken advantage of, but hadn’t dared to speak out. Suddenly, Han Yunxi seemed to recall something else as her head looked down, but it was already too late. Long Feiye’s other hand wrapped around her from behind and lightly rested over her chest.
Last time with the soup, he had understood Zhao mama was trying to help him even amidst his panic. He never expected that this woman could teach him rescue methods as well.
“Han Yunxi, have you taught these methods to anyone else?” He lowered his head, his breaths hot and heavy as they brushed past her ear. Han Yunxi’s entire body grew stiff as she realized she’d woken a wolf. But she couldn’t disentangle herself from his restless hands as her body began to tremble.
“Have you?” Long Feiye was serious. He could be extremely petty when it came to certain subjects!
“N…none,” Han Yunxi replied truthfully. Long Feiye didn’t ask any more, but gently stroked her ear, his restless hands doting, teasing, and punishing her at the same time. Gradually, Han Yunxi turned numb as she lost sense of herself.
“Yunxi…” he murmured softly as he held her tight. The sound hypnotized her as she realized this was the first time he’d drawn so close. His hazy voice stimulated all of her senses as the last of her reason shattered. She allowed him to play with her ear as he wished.
Long Feiye, have we finished our journey of 100 steps?
Long Feiye didn’t know anything about those steps. Right now, both his heart and mind were flustered, his powerful self-control practically evaporating into the air. All doubts in his mind were thrown out of the window as he picked up Han Yunxi and strode towards the bed.
But!
Someone knocked on the door at that very moment, a forceful series of sounds that was obviously a secret signal. Neither Long Feiye nor Han Yunxi noticed, too preoccupied with each other, but the person outside the door was knocking with all his strength as if in a panic. Finally, the sound dragged Long Feiye’s reason back from the depths of his consciousness. He abruptly released Han Yunxi with a suddenness that jolted her back to her senses as well.
Bangbangbang!
The knocking didn’t stop as the two figures exchanged glances of surprise. He was surprised because he never expected to utterly lose all reason. He’d narrowly avoided ruining everything. She was surprised because she never expected his reaction, which gave her quite a fright. She wrapped the covers around herself and looked at him with furrowed brows, blushing even as she fumed and felt annoyed. A part of her was blaming him for everything as well, but in any case, her tiny face was now dusted with pink. Such a complicated expression immediately made Long Feiye relax in spite of his tension. He felt a rising urge to laugh in the face of his helplessness.
Drawing close, he whispered wickedly by her ear, “You don’t want to stop?”
Han Yunxi was so embarrassed that she punched him on the shoulder and pushed him away. Her grumpy voice took on a coquettish tone as she shot back, “Naughty!”
Long Feiye loved her vexed and embarrassed self, but in the end he still drew back to answer the door before it was pounded clear open. Seeing his form vanish behind the folding screen made Han Yunxi feel a little empty inside, but her thoughts quickly led her to giggle in secret. Whoever was knocking now had to be from the Wang Clan, or Gu Qi Sha himself, probably with business related to tomorrow’s Grand Medicine Testing Convention. The long-buried ploys they’d set in place would reach its climax tomorrow, but they were actually getting it on in Medicine City’s inn…
Who is the more wicked one, Long Feiye or me?
She didn’t know who had come, but Long Feiye stood at the doorway for a long time. As Han Yunxi waited, her fingers brushed against the cinnabar gecko mark on her arm. She was nervous at the sight, guessing that it’d disappear soon enough. Its appearance had shocked quite a few people on Fishery Island. She was afraid of being laughed at when she was very clear on the nature of the relationship between her and Long Feiye. She liked their relations now well enough. She didn’t have to be timid or careful in front of that man, but could do and act as she liked. Some things could only come by mutual consent, so she would neither pursue nor reject them. If he wanted to be bad…then he could be as bad as he liked!
Long Feiye, it’s my pride and joy to like you. I won’t hide or suppress my feelings so I won’t miss a thing.
Long Feiye took so long to talk that Han Yunxi had already straightened out her clothes by the time he came back. She had only caught snippets of his conversation, which seemed to involve Ouyang Ningnuo.