Chapter 710: Pocket Money for the Wife

After a long silence—"Are you curious?"

Li Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly, his tone carrying a hint of playfulness.

"Who's curious! I... I was just asking casually..."

Cai Xiaotang was so flustered that she wrapped herself up completely in the quilt, regretting her actions so much she could have died.

What was she saying?

What did she mean by "asking casually"?

Was this kind of thing something you could just ask about casually!

It was as if she were some kind of female pervert...

Sure enough, that person's infuriating voice sounded again.

"Casually... asking?"

Li Xiao's voice rose at the end, clearly in an exceptionally good mood.

Cai Xiaotang turned her back to him, speechless, and urged him in a rapid-fire stream of words: "I haven't slept enough, my brain isn't clear, don't bother me, I'm going to sleep!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Cai Xiaotang immediately clamped her mouth shut, terrified of saying anything else strange.

Li Xiao finally let her off the hook, barely, and went straight into the bathroom.

The sound of water soon began.

Cai Xiaotang kept her eyes tightly shut, frantically hypnotizing herself in her mind, wanting to fall asleep quickly.

But that sound of water seemed to be right by her ears, causing her thoughts to be uncontrollably pulled away.

Li Xiao should be... right now...

Certain "restricted" images flashed suddenly before her eyes, and Cai Xiaotang felt her face go 'bang', as if it were about to start smoking.

"Stop! Not allowed to think about it!"

Cai Xiaotang sat up abruptly, found her phone, and quickly opened the browser.

"It's just a man taking a shower! It's not like I haven't seen one before!"

Muttering to herself, she quickly found a set of photos of a male model with an "after-shower" theme that she had stumbled upon before.

Then, after looking at them for only two seconds, she didn't know why, but she replaced the person in the photos with... Li Xiao.

"Damn..."

Cai Xiaotang put down her phone with a flushed face, wrapped herself back up in the quilt, and pounded the bed silently.

It seems...

It's even more stimulating...

She took a deep breath, trying hard to calm her breathing.

No...

Let's reason this in reverse!

Li Xiao's performance just now was just a man's most normal physiological reaction in the morning!

He wasn't nervous at all and went to take a shower so calmly, which just goes to show he doesn't have any thoughts about her at all!

That's why he didn't care!

Right!

That's it!

Cai Xiaotang recited her "deduction" results to herself several times, finally calming down a little, though her heart was still thumping as if it were about to jump out of her throat.

The sound of water in the bathroom still hadn't stopped; Cai Xiaotang was silent for a long while, then finally grabbed her clothes and stood up.

Better leave; I can't stay in this room!

Half an hour later—Li Xiao, now fully dressed, looked with some surprise at Cai Xiaotang, who was sitting upright at the dining table downstairs.

"Not sleeping anymore?"

He pulled out a chair and sat down, finding it inexplicably cute to see her with her head lowered, drinking her porridge obediently.

Li Laoyezi, off to the side, sensed something and chimed in: "Xiao Tang, if you aren't used to getting up this early, you don't have to come down specifically to have breakfast with me..."

"It's fine, Dad, I just happened to wake up early today."

Cai Xiaotang answered with a smile, but didn't spare even half a glance for Li Xiao.

Li Xiao didn't provoke her either, simply asking a couple of questions about Li Laoyezi's health.

A moment later, Li Laoyezi finished his meal and set down his bowl and chopsticks.

He then spoke as if casually: "Xiao Tang, regarding what I said before about you and Li Xiao having a child soon, what are your thoughts on that?"

"Cough... cough cough!"

Cai Xiaotang hadn't even swallowed her mouthful of porridge yet, and upon hearing this, she was choked quite badly.

Why bring this up again!

The old man is way too anxious to hold a grandchild!

"Slow down..."

Li Xiao watched her face turn red from holding her breath, amused, and hurriedly handed her a glass of water.

Cai Xiaotang took it, hurriedly giving Li Xiao a look for help.

"Dad, we aren't in a rush for that yet..."

Li Xiao spoke up, just as expected.

But before he could finish, Li Laoyezi sighed with a look of melancholy.

"I don't want to force you, but... I don't know how much longer these old bones of mine can hold out... at least tell me, do you have a plan? Roughly when do you intend to have a child..."

"We..."

Cai Xiaotang finally caught her breath, and just as she intended to find an excuse to brush it off, she heard Li Xiao suddenly "pass the buck," saying, "If it's about the plan... I think Xiao Tang's opinion is more important; I'll listen to her."

He looked at Cai Xiaotang with a beaming smile, wearing an expression of extreme doting.

Seeing this, Cai Xiaotang rolled her eyes in her heart.

He actually dared to throw the problem to her!

Fine!

"Dad, I think the matter of children should just be left to fate; when it's meant to be, it will happen... and besides..."

Thinking of that person's buck-passing behavior just now, Cai Xiaotang deliberately steered the topic back, saying, "Besides, having children isn't something I can do alone, so it's useless for me to plan it..."

As soon as these words were spoken, the dining table suddenly went quiet for a moment.

Li Laoyezi was stunned for a moment and instinctively looked at Li Xiao.

Li Xiao, meanwhile, was looking at Cai Xiaotang, his eyes full of mischievous amusement.

Did she even know what she was saying?

Not something she could do alone?

Was that a hint that he wasn't "working hard" enough?

Cai Xiaotang met Li Xiao's gaze and finally realized what she had said.

Did she... did she just say something easily misunderstood?

It's over...

Her own big mouth!

It was all that bastard Li Xiao's fault for making her so angry!

Cai Xiaotang abruptly withdrew her gaze and hurriedly lowered her head to take a few sips of porridge, her mind racing to think of something to change the subject.

Then, suddenly thinking of something, she hurriedly said, "By the way, Dad, I plan to go back to work during this time; I probably won't be home during the day, but I'll be back in the evening."

"Work?"

Li Laoyezi frowned slightly: "You are now a member of the Li Family; you don't need to go out to work anymore. Or just tell me where you work, and I'll have someone acquire your company and hand it over to you to manage directly..."

"No need, no need!"

Cai Xiaotang was given a big fright and hurriedly refused.

Li Laoyezi turned his head to look at Li Xiao and lectured him: "Li Xiao, what is going on with you? Have you been mistreating Xiao Tang? Why is she still thinking about going out to work?"

"No, no..."

Cai Xiaotang instinctively spoke up for Li Xiao, but to her surprise, no sooner had she finished speaking than that person nodded along with Li Laoyezi's words, saying with a sincere face, "Perhaps I have been negligent..."

As he spoke, he picked up his phone and tapped it a few times while looking down.

Cai Xiaotang hadn't expected that a single sentence of hers would almost cost her boss his company, so she hurriedly explained: "Dad, actually, the reason I want to go out to work is because..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly felt the phone placed to the side light up, as if there were a message.

Cai Xiaotang glanced at it casually, and the next second, her eyes widened, and she grabbed the phone.

"Your account... has received... one..."

Cai Xiaotang frowned as she looked at that long string of numbers.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...

Seven... seven zeros!

This is... ten million??

She blinked, suspecting that she had encountered some kind of telecom scam.

Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Li Xiao place his phone on the table and slowly say—"This is your pocket money; spend it first."