The white rose I picked up cried and said she liked me.

"Scrubbing yourself in the bath, don't you know that, brother?"

The girl answered without hesitation.

"I learned this when Yao Yao and I went on a business trip to the north."

Scrubbing your back?

Xu Nian paused, lost in memories.

When I was a child, we didn't have a bathroom at home, so if we wanted to take a bath, we had to go to the bathhouse in town.

In the bathhouse, there are always one or two naked old men with a piece of cloth, rubbing the person lying on the bed from head to toe.

At that time, he didn't understand. He thought that person had done something wrong to be pinned to the bed and treated like a pig being slaughtered.

I only found out when I grew up that it was a body scrub, a service that required extra payment.

only.....

"Ouch...! Be gentle! Be gentle!"

Xu Nian grimaced in pain, her skin crawling with goosebumps.

Why does this hurt so much?!

"That won't work... you have to rub it hard to get the dirt off."

Xu Xi said earnestly, then produced another bath towel and began scrubbing the man's back vigorously with both hands.

"ah!!!"

"Awooo!!!!"

Now, Xu Nian was truly drenched in sweat.

"Stop! Stop! I'm not going to rub anymore... I'm not going to rub anymore!"

"No! Brother, look how dirty you are!"

The girl spread her hands and handed the bath towel to the man.

It was covered with dark, striped objects.

"what?"

Xu Nian was dumbfounded.

He always felt that he showered almost every day and should be fairly clean.

Was this really rubbed off his body?

"You stinky brother, you dirty brother, you're covered in mud!"

The young girl smiled sweetly, put on a bath towel, and continued to exert her strength on the man's body.

Xu Nian gritted her teeth and endured this "hellish torture".

Fortunately, his pain tolerance began to increase slowly, and gradually he began to feel more comfortable.

The area that was rubbed felt like a film had been peeled off, leaving it feeling refreshed.

"Snapped!"

A hand gently slapped his buttocks.

Xu Nian turned around reflexively, and ended up looking right into the eyes of the naked girl.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!"

Xu Xi blushed instantly, her face turning bright red to the roots of her ears. She waved her hands up and down, trying to cover her body.

But then they discovered that their hands were too small; if they covered the top, they couldn't cover the bottom.

So, she shyly covered her eyes.

"Uh... I'm so sorry..."

Xu Nian quickly closed her eyes and covered her eyelids with her hands.

"Hmph! No peeking!"

The girl said coquettishly, picked up the bath towel, and continued to scrub the dirt off his body.

Xu Nian secretly pried open her fingers a crack, her eyes drifting to her side.

A graceful figure appeared hazily in the mist.

Her snow-white skin and rosy cheeks were faintly visible.

For a moment, Xu Nian felt incredibly hot.

"Brother, did you peek?"

The girl angrily pinched his waist.

"hiss!..."

Xu Nian quickly covered her eyes.

"How...how did you know?"

"Hmph! You bad brother! You lecherous brother! You pervert!"

Xu Xi glared angrily at the large bump on the man's thigh, which was swollen from the fall, her face flushed.

......

After scrubbing herself in the bath, Xu Nian jumped up from the chair, feeling a sense of relief wash over her.

The skin feels smooth and firm, like a peeled, tender egg.

The burning sensation was still there, but it felt exceptionally refreshing.

I felt like I had lost several pounds, and my whole body was warm from head to toe. I felt so comfortable that I just wanted to lie down and doze off.

No wonder, every time I went to the public bathhouse when I was a child, I would see people scrubbing themselves.

I never knew that scrubbing yourself in the bath could be such a comfortable thing.

"How are you? Brother, are you happy?"

Xu Xi said with a grin.

"happy."

Xu Nian commented.

"It's painful yet pleasurable."

He even suspected that the girl was deliberately rubbing so hard.

His skin is still red and burning hot.

He remembered that when he was a child, he watched other people scrub their backs, and their bodies never turned as red as if they had been scalded with boiling water.

"Do you want me to rub it for you?"

Xu Nian looked at the girl in the mist.

"ah?!"

Xu Xi, like a frightened little bird, hugged herself tightly and took a few steps back.

"No...no need, I'm not dirty...no need to scrub."

Seeing her reaction, Xu Nian became even more certain of her guess.

"How can I do that? If I don't help you scrub, wouldn't it be a waste to wash you together?"

He picked up the bath towel with a wicked grin and gradually approached the girl who was backing away step by step.

...

"Ugh...!"

"ah!!!"

"Waaaaah..."

......

After a fierce battle, two figures wrapped in bathrobes emerged from the shower room one after the other.

The taller one had a face full of frustration.

Because there really wasn't a single speck of mud that could be rubbed off Xu Xi's body.

Her skin was clean and smooth, like a white, tender lotus root.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't scrape anything off the girl.

Helpless, he had no choice but to give up.

"Hehe, you silly brother, you want to get revenge on me? No way!"

Xu Xi laughed so hard she nearly fell over, gently patting the man with her little fists.

In fact, she had anticipated this, so last night she went to a bathhouse and scrubbed herself clean from head to toe, not giving her brother a chance to scrub her back.

The two strolled to the open-air hot spring in the courtyard, where the warm steam caressed their faces, making them feel lazy and relaxed.

Xu Xi gently stretched out her toes and touched the bubbling hot spring water.

"Is it hot?"

Xu Nian asked.

"It shouldn't be hot."

As Xu Xi spoke, she slowly stepped down the steps and into the hot spring.

The warm water gently supported her body, and gravity vanished instantly.

She let out a soft moan of comfort, her brows immediately relaxing, like a kitten falling into a pile of cotton.

"Come down, brother, what are you waiting for?"

The girl waved gently and looked at the man on the shore.

"Okay."

Xu Nian slowly immersed herself in the pool water, completely embraced by the gentle warmth.

In an instant, a warm feeling spread from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.

The stiffness dissipated, the mind calmed down, and even the bones felt incredibly relaxed and pliable.

The girl stepped on the pebbles at the bottom of the hot spring and gently swam to the man's side.

"elder brother..."

"Um?"

Hold me tight.

The man stretched out his right arm and gently embraced the girl in front of him.

Her youthful appearance and innocent eyes, reflected in the shimmering hot spring, were so beautiful and captivating.

Xu Nian couldn't help but reach out and pinch the dimple on her cheek hard.

It seems that teasing this adorable little girl gives him a strange sense of satisfaction.

Xu Xi's speech became slurred as he pinched her, and her voice gradually became soft and indistinct, with a pitiful tremor.

The pitiful little noise made Xu Nian's heart pound.

"Passing through the latrine!"

Xu Xi pouted her delicate lips, aimed them at the man's lips, and kissed him deeply.

The bright moon shines, and the two people beneath it are reflected in each other's light.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

Until two white bath towels swept across the water.

"Brother, this is my first time, so please... take good care of me..."

...

"It's okay, let me do it. Your arm hasn't fully recovered yet, so don't move it around..."

......

(Chapter 280.5 will be posted in the Goose Group after the author wakes up. It can't be posted here. If you want to read it, click on the author's avatar to enter the Tomato Fan Group. The group announcement has instructions on how to join the Goose Group.)