Chapter 442 — Remedial Measures
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Yao Yao, please let me express my love for you through fireworks..." Zhong Yongliang raised his head after speaking, intending to point at the fireworks in the sky and declare his feelings to Gu Mengyao, but he discovered that the fireworks had already nearly burned out. When Feng Xiaoxiao had come to ask him for his clothes, the fireworks had been in the middle of their display — only everyone's attention had been drawn to Feng Xiaoxiao, and nobody had noticed the five enormous characters "Yao Yao, I Love You" blazing across the sky. Zhong Yongliang had gone to all that trouble for nothing.
The fireworks were gone! Already spent! Zhong Yongliang couldn't get another word out. Without the fireworks to back him up, what was the point of saying anything more?
"Go check — are there any fireworks left?" Zhong Yongliang ordered Gao Xiaofu with a livid face.
Gao Xiaofu hurried over to the Eskimo tree to inspect the remaining fireworks, but it seemed they had all been fired. There was nothing left to launch.
Gao Xiaofu refused to give up and used his lighter to try relighting the spent shells, but by now it was too dark to see clearly, and in his carelessness he mistook a branch for a fuse. With a whoosh, he set the Eskimo tree on fire.
At first, Zhong Yongliang had no idea what was happening, thinking Gao Xiaofu had set off another firework. But almost immediately he realized something was wrong — why wasn't this firework shooting into the sky? Why was it simply burning on the tree?
"Brother Liang, this is bad — I've set the tree on fire!" Gao Xiaofu slapped at the flames a few times but couldn't put them out, and panic crept into his voice. "Brother Liang, come help!"
"Hahaha—" Gao Xiaofu's antics drew a fresh wave of raucous laughter. Zhong Yongliang's declaration of love via fireworks had turned into a full-blown farce.
"Put out the fire! Quickly — get someone to fetch water!" Zhong Yongliang came rushing over, his expression black as a thundercloud. He took one look at his beloved Eskimo tree and felt like crying without tears.
"Oh, Sister Yao Yao, I can see the tree of fire, but I haven't seen any silver flowers!" Shen Yushu exclaimed in delight.
"Little Shu, this kind of idiotic behavior — let's stay away from it. It could start a real fire!" Gu Mengyao was utterly speechless at Zhong Yongliang's string of stunts, and she was especially puzzled by Feng Xiaoxiao's behavior. What had Feng Xiaoxiao been playing at back there?
"Wait — Sister Yao Yao, I should give them a reminder!" Chen Zaishu said, then called out kindly to Zhong Yongliang: "Smash the IV drip bottles and use the water inside to put out the fire!" "Oh, oh — right, right!" Zhong Yongliang nodded hastily and ordered Gao Xiaofu to do it.
Shen Yushu giggled, and she and Gu Mengyao slipped away from the scene.
"Little Shu, you're getting meaner and meaner. How much fluid is in those IV drip bottles anyway? How could that possibly put out a fire? You're practically setting him up!" Gu Mengyao said.
"Well, who told him to fall for it? Sister Yao Yao would never have been fooled — that just proves Zhong Yongliang is a huge idiot!" Shen Yushu declared with self-righteous satisfaction.
"Wei Zhao, you bastard! I'm going to stuff you down the toilet and flush you away!" Feng Xiaoxiao didn't even dare to sit properly on the toilet — her backside was blazing with pain, blown into angry patches of red and white by the firecrackers. She had already applied Dr. Kang's Golden Sores Ointment, which worked wonders on ordinary cuts and scrapes, but its effect on this kind of "burn" was far from impressive.
"Dr. Kang is obviously a fraud — the stuff doesn't work at all, and he charges that much. What a rip-off! Next time I lay eyes on him, I'll blow his whole family off the face of the earth!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought with bitter, seething resentment...