Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 214
Chapter 214 They Were So Smelly
“Oh, right! Master, I have already investigated the matter of Wan Xia’s hand cream,”
Mu Bai shouted at Chu Yunshen without turning his head while searching through the medicinal herbs in his courtyard.
Chu Yunshen did not reply, only silently looking at Xiaowu who was still standing at the entrance of the pavilion.
Xiaowu lowered his head sheepishly, no longer daring to look at Mu Bai or Chu Yunshen.
When he lowered his eyes, his round face was full of sorrow and rejection, and Cheng Xiaoxiao just happened to see it.
Sigh, Xiaowu was really pitiful to be caught in the crossfire.
Cheng Xiaoxiao silently clicked her tongue, and at the same time, she praised Chu Yunshen’s stern and no-nonsense demeanor. He could make his subordinates so obedient without saying a word.
Mu Bai was still squatting in the yard and searching for the things he wanted, yet he never stopped talking.
“The main components of the cream are none other than the common ingredients for skincare, but among them is Datura. It is a deadly poison, and its main function is to confuse people’s minds.”
Datura?
“Is it the Datura I know?”
When Cheng Xiaoxiao thought of the article she had read about Datura back then, her heart skipped a beat in fear.
Datura was not only a poisonous plant, but the fragrance of flowers also had a hallucinogenic effect. If someone took it, they would hallucinate and suffer from shock. The effect of overdose of such poison could cause one to faint and die.
Moreover, the Datura flower was extremely gorgeous and even had a special black flower species. Coupled with its unique fragrance, Cheng Xiaoxiao could easily remember this beautiful and deadly plant.
Cheng Xiaoxiao was already beginning to worry about her health. After all, she was the only one who had tasted Wan Xia’s cream.
She finally understood why she was always sleepy at that time, and sometimes her tongue was numb. It turned out that it was not an illusion or a coincidence, but the effect of the Datura flower.
Her face twisted in a disgusted grimace at this moment, but she couldn’t let the sensitive Chu Yunshen notice it.
Cheng Xiaoxiao could only look at Mu Bai with a complicated expression, and then quietly endured the surging waves in her heart.
Fortunately, she was a cat now, and her face was covered with fur. So even if she made an expression, as long as it wasn’t a dramatic expression, Chu Yunshen could not see it clearly.
Chu Yunshen was so omniscient most of the time because he keenly captured the changes in the cat’s emotions.
The cat’s fluctuating emotions attracted Chu Yunshen’s attention. When Xiaowu heard Mu Bai’s report, he couldn’t help but interject into the topic.
“Isn’t this Datura flower able to stimulate the most primitive desires in the depths of one’s heart? Moreover, it is a forbidden product of the country, and only foreign countries have it. Does this mean that this matter has something to do with the Hu tribes?”
Xiaowu muttered at Mu Bai for a while, then turned his head to ask Chu Yunshen. However, neither Mu Bai nor Chu Yunshen answered Xiaowu’s question.
“Found it!”
Mu Bai was immersed in his medicinal herbs and could not think about other things at this moment. When he found the last medicinal herb he needed, he ran back happily with his pile of treasures.
“Let’s talk about it later,”
Chu Yunshen finally said to Xiaowu when Mu Bai ran towards the pavilion.
When Xiaowu heard him, he was moved to the point that his eyes were shining brightly.
“Oh my goodness, he looks like a dog!”
Cheng Xiaoxiao sighed quietly. She was almost moved by Xiaowu, the loyal “dog”.
When she turned to look at Chu Yunshen, who was sitting at the table, she smirked. It was still that expressionless ice face, as always.
After all, he was the distinguished Prince Jing, while she was just a commoner. She was too easy to be moved by him. This was bad.
Cheng Xiaoxiao was so immersed in her deep thoughts that she nodded involuntarily. When she came back to her senses, she found that the three men in the pavilion looked at her in confusion.
The cat was so embarrassed that she buried her head into the long and dense fur on her neck. She was too humiliated to face these men now.
Should she summon the Grim Reaper to come and collect their souls to save herself from embarrassment?
“Stop messing around. Come over here!”
Mu Bai was the first to break the strange silence. He placed the pile of medicinal herbs in his robe on the table and then motioned for the cat to go over.
Before Cheng Xiaoxiao walked to the pile of things that Mu Bai had placed, she smelled a strong stench. The stench was getting stronger and stronger as she got closer, causing Cheng Xiaoxiao to retch several times. She almost vomited everything she had eaten yesterday.
What was it? It was so smelly!
Cheng Xiaoxiao was reluctant to move closer to the medicinal herbs. Every cell in her body said no, but Chu Yunshen was encouraging her to move forward with his eyes.
Wait a minute…
Why did Xiaowu stand so far away? He even covered his nose from the moment Mu Bai walked to the pavilion.
Chu Yunshen, on the other hand, did not stay away as far as Xiaowu did. In spite of that, he left the place where he had just stood at the table and now stood at the windy side of the pavilion.
From the looks of it, Mu Bai was the only one who found it interesting. He half-squatted at the table excitedly, his arms propped up on the table with his hands cupping his cheeks. He was watching the cat walk toward him with great interest.
So did they all dislike this smell? Why did she have to go alone?
Cheng Xiaoxiao wanted to turn around and walk away, but when she saw Chu Yunshen trying to hold his breath but refusing to cover his nose with his sleeves, she suddenly went straight to Mu Bai’s side bravely.
When Cheng Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and looked at the pile of smelly and strange-looking medicinal herbs in front of her, Mu Bai introduced them to her as if he was offering a treasure.
“Little kitty, look. This is the Chicken Shit Vine that you guys think is famous. Actually, it’s very ordinary. The one next to it is more powerful. Night Luminous Sand, also known as Flying Rat Shit, is the excrement of bats. And this, Devil’s Dung, is a rare mineral. It is famous for its pungent smell…”
Mu Bai explained while fiddling with the medicinal herbs in his hands, as if those medicinal herbs were his lover, and he needed to take good care of them.
He wanted to continue, but the cat finally stretched out a trembling claw in front of Mu Bai to stop him. Then, she jumped under the table, fled to the pavilion in a panic, and retched with difficulty.
Cheng Xiaoxiao had digested the breakfast in her stomach. She hadn’t eaten lunch, and Chu Yunshen carried her to Mu Bai before she ate her dinner, which was prepared slightly earlier today.
At this time, there was not even a drop of water left in her stomach, let alone the residue of food.
Therefore, she could only retch with great effort while breathing in the fresh air outside the pavilion.
“What’s wrong with her? Why is she so uncomfortable before you treat her?”
Chu Yunshen immediately walked to the cat’s side in concern. He wanted to reach out to hug the cat, but the cat stopped him with a gesture when he was inches away from her.
Cheng Xiaoxiao was not a fool. She liked Chu Yunshen very much, and she was very open-minded and straightforward. However, she was not bold enough to show her disgusting side to the man she liked. This was too embarrassing, and it ruined her image.
Cheng Xiaoxiao, who was about to collapse from retching, cursed Mu Bai over and over again in her heart. She swore that she would teach Mu Bai a good lesson when she recovered.
Fortunately, Chu Yunshen helped her take revenge right now.
“Talk!”
Before Mu Bai could answer Chu Yunshen in time, Chu Yunshen walked to the cat’s side. Now, Chu Yunshen picked the cat up, who was weak now, and turned around to shout at Mu Bai.
“See, she’s okay now, right? My method is very effective!”
Mu Bai began to clean up the treasures on his table. In the eyes of others, these were stinky and suffocating trash, but to him, they were excellent medicinal materials.
Mu Bai didn’t mind the repulsive reactions of the cat, Chu Yunshen, and the others.
He had practiced medicine for many years and had long been used to the stench of these herbs that others had never heard of before.
Chu Yunshen was still donning the expression that threatened Mu Bai, “If you don’t explain clearly, I’ll kill you.” Mu Bai had no choice but to stop tidying up the table, walk to Chu Yunshen, and squat down to look at the cat.
“Did you vomit just now because you couldn’t stand the smell?”
The cat did not know what Mu Bai was up to, so she quietly nodded in accordance with Mu Bai’s question.
After seeing the cat’s actions clearly, Mu Bai got up with a smug smile on his face. He was worried that Chu Yunshen, who was always very sensible, would be irrational since it was related to the cat, so he quickly continued.
“See?! She couldn’t stand the ‘smell’, so she felt nauseous. Is it clear enough? Do you need me to explain more?”
“Then why did she lose her sense of smell earlier?”
Chu Yunshen finally recovered his original calmness after hearing Mu Bai’s words. He asked Mu Bai in a very logical manner.
This time, Mu Bai did not answer Chu Yunshen immediately. Instead, he looked at Xiaowu, who was at the door of the pavilion, very strangely.
It was only when Mu Bai looked at Xiaowu that Cheng Xiaoxiao, who was in a daze, began to regain her clear-headed state.
He was right. She lost her sense of smell, didn’t she?
Then how come she could smell Mu Bai’s weird medicinal herbs?
Was it because…
Cheng Xiaoxiao directly buried her head in Chu Yunshen’s embrace and greedily sucked in the smell of Chu Yunshen’s body.
The faint grassy fragrance!
She could smell again!
The cat looked up at Chu Yunshen with wild joy. She kept patting Chu Yunshen’s arms restlessly with her meaty paws.
Chu Yunshen lowered his head and patted the cat’s head to comfort her. Soon, he looked up at Mu Bai, as if he was determined to know the answer.
Frankly speaking, Cheng Xiaoxiao adored Chu Yunshen’s loving and determined expression.
Mu Bai no longer hesitated. He apologized to Xiaowu softly first before turning around and answering Chu Yunshen honestly.
“This kitten was exposed to too much odor at one time, so it caused a short-term sense of smell disorder. Just now, I stimulated her sense of smell by exposing her to the natural stench of these medicinal herbs. Her body’s instinct was restored, and she recovered naturally.”
Was it that simple?
When Cheng Xiaoxiao heard Mu Bai’s words, she couldn’t help but be marveled at the vastness and profoundness of Chinese medicine.
She wanted to give Mu Bai applause. Her sense of smell was restored simply by smelling some medicinal herbs. She didn’t even have to take medicine or an injection. This was awesome!
As for Mu Bai’s “special” stimulation, Cheng Xiaoxiao decided to be a generous person and forgive him.
